Zhu Zhanji had ten brothers, but only five had a queen, and the remaining five either died unmarried or had no children after death.

The original five brothers divided Nanzhou, so that all nine brothers were sealed again, and now there is still an empty place.

The vacant space is the northwest of Australia, which was originally given to Zhu Zhanyong, the king of Yue, where the environment is harsh and arable land is scarce, and the iron ore, which was originally the engine of the economy, has not yet been excavated.

The main reason for this is that real steel freighters have not yet been built, and the transportation volume of cargo ships is limited, and the cost of pulling iron ore from Australia is much higher than the cost of the mainland.

Only when the actual 100,000-ton freighter ship is built, can the iron ore there really play a role.

Because that land was desolate, after Zhu Zhanyong passed away, it was emptied.

At the beginning, the fourth Zhu Zhanyin was drawn to the fertile area around Melbourne, but unfortunately, he died of illness before he reached Nanzhou. This place was later given to the seventh child, Huai King Zhu Zhanqi.

Zhu Zhanqi also died in the twenty-third year of orthodoxy, and his eldest son Zhu Qiquan succeeded him as King Huai.

Zhu Qiquan was born in the twelfth year of orthodoxy, grew up in Yingtianfu, and was sent by Zhu Zhanji to Huaizhou Mansion in Nanzhou when he was twenty-eight years old and sixteen years old.

Maybe it was because Zhu Zhanji was too strict at the beginning, or maybe the gap between Huaizhou Mansion and Ying Tianfu was too big. After arriving in Huaizhou Mansion, he began to like luxury, except that he did not dare to exceed the rules, and became a gentleman.

Huaizhou Prefecture, later known as Melbourne, was rich in rivers and fertile land, as well as small gold mines.

But there's a huge weather disaster there, and that's hurricanes.

Hurricanes there are not as well-known as Wellington and Chicago, but the gales are more violent.

Especially in the summer of each year, there are winds for eight out of ten days, and there are often hurricanes. This year, the area has been hit by several storms, and the seedlings planted in the area have been uprooted by the hurricane.

What's more, the local rainstorm after the beginning of summer, flooding everywhere, in addition to the pasture harvest a lot of benefits, almost all the farmland suffered.

Zhu Qiquanyin ate the grain, and now that the accounts can't be made up, he starts to get anxious.

Zhu Zhanji didn't have the heart to wipe his buttocks, even if such a thing happened to his own son, he wouldn't take care of it, let alone this nephew.

But it should be taken care of, and the image of the royal family should not be damaged.

In this era, it is not advisable to talk about democracy, and without the existence of classes, the common people themselves do not follow.

Climbing from the bottom to the top is the inner desire and pursuit of every common man to develop, the goal of every minister, and the driving force for every craftsman to improve technology.

If you really want to make all people equal, it will only cause chaos in society. Because everyone is equal, what are you fighting for?

Freedom and democracy are the honey that the upper echelons of Western society give to the common people after occupying the top of the food chain.

They occupy most of the resources of society, and then pretend to be generous, saying that they give the people freedom and democracy, but in fact they are just replacing power and class with capital.

For example, the United States and Saudi Arabia, which are the most distinctive of Western countries in the future, advocate freedom and democracy, but in fact the minority leads the majority, and the majority is represented.

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is a typical big government, with clear hierarchies, and the royal family has the right to distribute all resources.

Is there real freedom and democracy? Of course not!

When the composition of society is hierarchical, and dissatisfaction is the source of power for the development of the whole society.

It's like the so-called communism, it's all communist, I'm still a fart, why don't I enjoy happiness every day?

So, these are just idealism and will never turn into realism.

Xie Yun's voice sounded again: "On the South Continent of Dongzhou, His Royal Highness King Qin and His Royal Highness King Su have been facing each other for more than half a year now because of the silver mines discovered at the border. The Governor Donghai Gong failed to mediate, so he could only wait for His Majesty's holy ruling. ”

Dongzhou now has one governor's palace and two admirals' palaces.

The Governor's Palace, later in Panama, encompassed all the ports, as well as the vast expanses of the Caribbean Sea south of Mexico City, north of the Amazon forest.

Their entire naval fleet in Dongzhou, including coastal ports, is responsible for the maritime trade of the entire Dongzhou, but does not participate in the internal management of Dongzhou.

Governor Yang Dao was an old man trusted by Zhu Zhanji, and he spent most of his time in Dongzhou presiding over the overall situation, except for a period of time when he returned to Daming to serve between the tenth and fifteenth years of orthodoxy.

Forty years have passed, and he has gone from being a thousand presidents to becoming the Duke of the East China Sea of the Ming Dynasty, and his power is tilted to one side.

The remaining two Admiralty Governors are in charge of the government system of the north and south continents of Dongzhou, including the army, minerals, post roads and other affairs, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty.

Although they are in charge of these, they do not participate in the internal management of the more than 70 feudal states on the Dongzhou Continent, and they cannot control Zhu Zhanji's sons, and they are mainly responsible for coordination.

Today's admiral of the Northern Continent is Yang Zhangde, who commanded the Jinyi Guard and is now the current Zhangde Gong, who is in charge of most of the land in later generations, including the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

However, because each feudal state had its own army, although his jurisdiction was large and his administrative authority was wide, he was actually subject to great restrictions.

The seat of the Admiralty is in Dongji Province, which is where the future Norfolk Naval Base of the United States is located.

Although there are many minerals in Dongzhou, the vast land there is still the most attractive for long-term development.

Although Norfolk is not as prosperous as New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., it is in a better location. It is very suitable as a trade center that radiates the entire northern continent of Dongzhou.

And Yang Zhangde stayed here, and there was another important purpose, that is, to prevent Europeans from going to Dongzhou.

The admiral of the Southern Continent was Zhu Zhanji's cousin Zhang Wu, who went to Nanzhou in the first year of orthodoxy, and because of his exploits in the Western Expedition, he served as the commander of the navy at the beginning.

In the twentieth year of orthodoxy, he was promoted to the Duke of Liang by Zhu Zhanji and sent to the southern continent of Dongzhou.

The Admiralty of the Southern Continent was the area south of the Amazon Forest, and was based in what was later Rio de Janeiro.

The Governor's Office was only in charge of the navy and trade, and the Admiralty was only in charge of commerce on land, and the coordination between the various feudal states, and the power within the feudal states was controlled by Zhu Zhanji's sons themselves.

For the sake of profit, his sons are now also fighting, but everything is within the scope of control.

Because there were not many Ming troops under their direct control, only 6,000 people each. The size of their power depends more on the number of local natives.

King Qin is the thirty-fourth son of Zhu Zhanji, and King Su is the sixty-seventh son of Zhu Zhanji, and their fief is in the area of Bolivia in the later generations, and on the border line of their fiefdom is the city of Potosi in the later generations.

There are three world-class gold and silver mines, as well as several very rich gold and silver mines.

Because of the conflict of interests, the two sons have been fighting openly and secretly, but no one dares to really start a war.

Hearing Xie Yun's report, Zhu Zhanji pondered for a while and said, "I ordered them to return to Tianfu to report on their work, and I personally mediated." ”

One by one, the affairs were handled under the joint discretion of everyone, and when it was time for lunch, the affairs of the day were completed.

The afternoon time belongs to Zhu Zhanji's free time, and it is not a big deal, and the ministers generally do not come to harass Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji played with Zhu Youzhu for a while, and when he took a nap, he talked with a few concubines and read books, and time passed.

In the evening, the train entered Yingtianfu. No one came to welcome them, only to see the train with the royal sign into Yingtianfu, and those ordinary people knew that their Emperor Majesty had returned.

Today, Yingtianfu has a population of more than four million, and the city has more than tripled in size.

Originally, Jiajiang Industrial Zone was the largest industrial zone in Daming, but now, it is more like a research base than an industrial base.

Most of the factories have been relocated to Wuchang Mansion upstream, and the factories that remain today, except for a few factories that supply Yingtianfu, are mainly research bases.

The relocation of the factory was started by Zhu Zhanji ten years ago, and the purpose was to adjust the imbalance of the Ming economy.

Because of the importance of maritime trade, the economic imbalance of the Ming Dynasty has become more and more serious in recent years.

The coastal area of Daming is now very prosperous. However, the interior and the north, although also moving forward, are developing slowly.

Today's economy in the east and south accounts for more than seventy percent of the entire Ming economy.

That is to say, from the Central Plains to the west, occupying more than eighty percent of the land in the Ming Dynasty, forty percent of the population of the area, the economic income accounted for only thirty percent.

The economic prosperity of the southeast region has already begun to affect the situation in the DPRK. Zhu Zhanji began to consider moving the capital, but because he still had to control Dongzhou and Nanzhou, he had never made up his mind.

The outer territories of Nanzhou and Dongzhou are very huge to promote the economy of the Ming Dynasty, grain, rubber, oil, minerals, wool, etc., are the raw materials for the take-off of the Ming industry.

And the move of the capital involves a very big problem.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji did not think carefully about where it would be appropriate to move the capital.

Today's Daming is not only a continental country, but also a maritime country. The capital must not consider Chang'an, a city like Beiping, there must be convenient shipping.

From this point of view, Wuchang Mansion in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is very suitable, where it is the hinterland area and has better radiation.

However, today's Yangtze River is not the Yangtze River that has been governed for many years in later generations, and Yunmeng Lake is still moving southward, and floods continue every year.

Although a huge amount of money is spent on river management every year, it is only tinkering and cannot solve the fundamental problem.

And more importantly, there is no dragon vein in Wuchang Mansion, and almost all the ministers will not support moving the capital to Wuchang Mansion.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji is only preparing to build Wuchang Mansion into the largest industrial center in the Ming Dynasty, relying on the convenient transportation conditions there, and selling industrial products throughout the country.

Over the years, four bridges have been built over the Yellow River, but on the Yangtze River, only the Wuchang Yangtze River Bridge has been built.

After the completion of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in later generations, the 10,000-ton giant ship could no longer enter the Yangtze River, causing a huge economic embolism.

At a time when there is no strength to build bridges with higher spans, building bridges on the Yangtze River is not conducive to the development of future generations.

Therefore, the north-south traffic of the train in Daming, at present, only the Wuchang Yangtze River Bridge can be directly crossed, and it has also become a real traffic throat.

Nowadays, the development of Wuchang Mansion is very rapid, and Hankou has surpassed Yingtianfu and become the fastest growing place in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Zhanji still has a long way to go in his plan to develop the central and western regions by relying on this policy inclination.

The train passed through Yingtianfu and stopped directly at the entrance of the Royal Hospital outside the Donghua Gate.

Zhu Zhanji got out of the car and was welcomed into the hospital by Yu Qian, who was waiting there. "The old prime minister is in a very bad situation, and he has not woken up from yesterday until now."

Zhu Zhanji sighed and said: "Qianjiu has worked hard for Da Ming, and I feel guilty for him. ”

Yu Qian said: "The old prime minister begged for benevolence, and the minister thought that he had no regrets. ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at Yu Qian, who had gray hair, and said with a smile: "I remember that Tingyi and I have the same life, and this year is also sixty-five. ”

Yu Qian nodded and said, "The minister has seen his old state, but His Majesty is still powerful......

Indeed, the sixty-five-year-old Zhu Zhanji is still like a prime of life, except for a slight reduction in the amount of food, he can still control the two daughters at night.

This is all because of long-term practice, but unfortunately, although the royal family still vigorously promotes Taoist health exercises, there are very few people who can practice them.

Surrounded by everyone and entering the hospital, Zhu Zhanji waved his hand, and the others stopped, only Yu Qian and Li Liang followed him into the corridor here in the rescue room.

When Princess Dongping saw her father, she walked up to Zhu Zhanji in small steps, blessed him, took his arm and said coquettishly: "Father, now that the family is seriously ill, can you send a telegram to the British Gazette and ask them to inform Shen Zhi and let him come back early?" ”

Because of the cost, the telegraph lines of the Ming Dynasty are relatively dense in the east, but there are only a few in the southwest and northwest.

The British government guarded the eastern part of India and was stationed in Yingyang, which was later Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Although it is not the farthest area of the Ming Dynasty, it is the farthest place in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, and there is a telegraph line.

From Ying Tianfu, they met the envoy's fleet, and they could inform Huang Ting to come back early.

But Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said, "Dongping, you are simple-minded, don't worry about these things." Serving the old lady in the house and taking care of the children made me happy. How is the Duchess of Fuguo lately? ”

The latter sentence was asked by Huang Yuan's wife Yun Niang, Huang Yuan, as the Duke of Fuguo, a super master, and older than Zhu Zhanji, his wife can also afford to be a lady.

Yun Niang blessed Zhu Zhanji and said: "Thank you Your Majesty for your inquiry, everything is fine with the old body, but Qianjiu's illness is uncertain, life and death are uncertain, and I am uneasy." ”

"Fuguo Gong is all for the Ming Dynasty, for more than 40 years, he has done his best, and I remember it in my heart."

Yun Niang lowered her head and said: "This is the duty of a courtier, and your majesty should not be worried." ”

Zhu Zhanji looked at his grandson Huang Xuan again and said: "Your grandfather is seriously ill, your father is away, and you are also older, this family has to be supported now." ”

It's not a formal occasion, and Huang Xuan didn't call himself a minister, so he bowed his head.

Since this grandson grew up in Yingtianfu and saw more on weekdays, Zhu Zhanji also knew that because his mother was honest and straightforward, he was mature since he was a child, and he was still reliable.

It's just that he is a little pampered and has a softer personality.

Entering the rescue room, Huang Yuan was lying on the hospital bed, just a small lump.

Zhu Zhanji looked at his old face with an oxygen tube inserted, and sighed in his heart.

It has been forty-eight years since the thirteenth year of Yongle. Huang Yuan, a once high-spirited man, has now become a thin old man.

His life's work was all dedicated to the Ming Dynasty and he deserves to be the pillar of the country.

After muttering for a long time, Zhu Zhanji retracted his mind and asked the head of the hospital, the imperial doctor Cao Su Huang Yuan's condition, so he could only comfort Yun Niang dryly.

Huang Yuan is a very smart person, and it is precisely because of his intelligence that he has exhausted his energy and used his brain excessively, which has led to the drying up of his heart and blood after entering old age.

After the age of fifty, he was riddled with all kinds of diseases, and it was beyond everyone's expectations to survive until now.

Now that he is seventy years old, this time he is afraid that it will be more than lucky.

Everyone is also mentally prepared, and now they only hope that he can wake up and say goodbye to his relatives.

After coming out of the hospital, Zhu Zhanji sent Yu Qian back to rest, and called Li Zifeng, who rushed to hear the news, into his car.

Although Li Zifeng was born in the last few years, because of his fate with Zhu Zhanji since he was a child, he began to receive elite education at the age of eleven.

This man is affectionate and decisive. Because of his old feelings, he gave up becoming a naval general and entered Jinyiwei, because of his heavy affection, when Zhu Zhanji's sister Jiaxing died of illness, he did not marry for 20 years. It wasn't until Li Yuan was older and married that he accepted two concubines to take care of his own life, and he was no longer lonely.

Because of his decisiveness, today's Jinyiwei has become the most powerful law enforcement agency in the Ming Dynasty under his management, whether it is the prince or grandson, or the son of a gentleman, he does not dare to play privileges in front of Jinyiwei.

And the civil and military officials, because of the existence of Jinyiwei, did not dare to bend the law for bribes.

Responsible for the internal Jinyi Guard, stabilizing the hearts of the people, and responsible for the external general affairs department, which makes people fearful. These two major agencies are the FBI and the CIA of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the theft of the School of Chemistry of the Polytechnic Institute last month has been ascertained by the DPRK. It's just that it hasn't been found out yet, whether it belongs to Li Yao's group or Li Hongwei's group. Now the minister has handed over the case to the General Administration Department for them to investigate. ”

Joseon Sejong Yi Yongle succeeded to the throne in the sixteenth year and died in the twenty-seventh year of orthodoxy. His eldest son, Li Jue, died two years after succeeding to the throne and passed the throne to the eleven-year-old Li Hongwei.

At this time, the power of the Korean government was controlled by Li Yan's younger brother Li Jin.

In the 30th year of orthodoxy, Li Yao wanted to usurp power, Zhu Zhanji sent Kong Li, the general soldier of Liaodong, to lead 20,000 troops into Korea.

Li Hongwei, an orphan and widow, was so frightened by his uncle that he wanted the whole country to join him, but Zhu Zhanji refused.

He did not let Li Yao usurp the throne in order to ensure the succession of his descendants and maintain orthodoxy.

But he deliberately spared Li Yao's life, also because he wanted his uncle and nephew to fight, and he didn't want North Korea to have a better life.

But North Korea is a burden to the Ming Dynasty, where there are many mountains and little land, and the population is large, which will drag down the Ming Dynasty after it is wanted.

It is far better to use them as a population resource than to incorporate them into the Ming Dynasty.

Although Li Hongwei is now twenty-one years old, Li Yao is more powerful, and the two sides are fighting happily.

Zhu Zhanji pondered for a while and instructed Li Liang to say: "Send one car of nine meters each to Li Yao and Li Hongwei, and then ask them to send 30,000 people to Sumatra Island to extract oil." ”

"In what name? How many years of hard labor have these people served? How much does it cost? Can I be naturalized? ”

"According to the ordinary conscription, only Koreans who can speak and write Daming characters can be naturalized in the old Hong Kong government."

The island of Sumatra and Borneo are now also among the fastest growing regions in the Ming Dynasty, where they are the main producers of rubber and oil.

Because the local natives are lazy, it is also a popular area for Dongying and Koreans to immigrate.

However, they could not marry a Korean woman, but could only marry a Han Chinese woman or an indigenous woman locally.

A large number of the remaining Korean women and Han women were sent to the Ming Dynasty and became the wives and concubines of the Ming people.

This population policy has been in place for decades and will continue to be implemented. After a few generations, they will become real Ming people.

Inside the Donghua Gate, Zhu Zhanji asked Li Yuan to leave with his father.

Zhu Jianshen took Zhu Youzhu and prepared to return to Wenhua Palace, and when he saw the palace maid coming to greet him, he asked, "Is my father in good health?" ”

The female official replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not been sick in the past few days, but his appetite is still not very good. ”

Zhu Jianshen saluted Zhu Zhanji and said: "Imperial ancestor, please forgive your grandson for stepping down first, my father's illness will make my grandson worried." ”

Zhu Qizhen lived less than forty years old in history, and he has been practicing since he was a child in this life, and now he has lived to be forty-seven years old.

But unlike Zhu Zhanji, his kung fu has reached supernatural perfection, so although his physique is better, it is also limited. In the past few years, I have spent more time in the hospital than in the palace.

Zhu Zhanji sighed: "I'll go see him too...... this line of filial piety is not on the surface." ”

In the summer, Sun Xian died. She is the Empress of the Ming Dynasty and was deeply loved by the people during her lifetime. She gave birth to three sons to Zhu Zhanji, in addition to Zhu Qizhen, two others were also sent to Dongzhou. All three of them have to keep filial piety for 27 months, and Zhu Jianshen and they also have to keep filial piety for one year.

Filial piety in this era is very abrasive, and good people can be tortured and miserable, let alone Zhu Qizhen.

It is also because of Sun Xian's death and Zhu Qizhen's filial piety that this year's illness will worsen.

When he came to the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Qizhen, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, was greeted outside the hall, and was blown by the cold wind, and coughed nonstop.

Zhu Zhanji stared at him for a while before he instructed left and right: "In the future, add a can of ginseng and chicken soup to the prince every day, don't keep filial piety and keep yourself." ”

Everyone responded, and Zhu Qizhen wanted to refute, but he could only sigh. He already felt that his body was not as good as before, weak, and if he continued like this, his life would not be long.

Zhu Zhanji's heart is even more dazed, is this world really destined? Could it be that this Ming Dynasty is really the prince who has always been the prince?

Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Biao; Zhu Di to Zhu Gaochi.

Now it's his turn to follow Zhu Qizhen, looking at this, he has to go by himself first.

(The old demon has sciatica these days, I dare not sit, and the update is not effective, please forgive me.) Alas...... ）