After the train turned around again, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about the attendants getting off the train and leaving, but said to his courtiers on the car: "This train, I put it in the imperial garden, is for my concubines to play. However, Zhu Qing should also be able to see that once this train is built between the cities and prosperous places of the Ming Dynasty, if the power of this steam engine is large enough, how many people can be pulled at one time, from one place to another? If it is exchanged for goods, how many can go from one place to another, Zhu Qing think about it, how does this compare with today's traffic? ”

Having said so much in one breath, this is not over, looking at these civil ministers in contemplation, Emperor Chongzhen continued to add: "And this train has another advantage, that is, it can travel day and night without delay." How is it? ”

These high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty are not fools, Emperor Chongzhen has already explained the advantages of the train so clearly, they can naturally know from it, how much change this will bring to the Ming Dynasty!

At this time, I heard the emperor ask how? One by one, they sincerely replied: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but laugh when he saw them like this. He also has a sense of accomplishment, and after tinkering with it for so long, he has finally figured out things hundreds of years later in advance. As for the shortcomings of the train, of course, there are a lot of them, but these are not important, as Wen Tiren said, there are problems, to overcome them.

Thinking so, he looked at Wen Tiren, and said with a smile in the corner of his eyes: "Wen Qing was right on the road just now, the steam carriage, as long as it continues to improve, one day, it can bring earth-shaking changes to Daming......"

Hearing him say this, Wen Tiren's face turned red. The emperor did hear it, so if he said it in public, would this be a praise or a loss to himself?

Without waiting for Wen Tiren to respond, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "In the future, this steam engine will be improved, or simply, a new power will appear, which can replace the steam engine to drive the carriage forward. Without these shortcomings of the steam engine and the low cost, the current carriage will inevitably be eliminated. At that time, the streets were full of those new carriages......"

When he said this, Emperor Chongzhen silently added a word in his heart: "Auto!" ”。

Then, his voice raised a lot, and he no longer smiled, but said solemnly: "...... I said when I was in Yingtianfu that there is nothing that cannot be done, only unthinkable! As long as I have been promoting scientific and technological knowledge, I believe that my Ming wisdom will definitely make all these things we think of one day in the future! ”

Taking this opportunity, Emperor Chongzhen once again instilled in his courtiers the importance of scientific and technological knowledge! I really did it, as long as I had the opportunity, I would continue to inculcate it, and I could be regarded as a qualified salesman of scientific and technical knowledge!

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Everyone responded in unison, the facts were there, and it was impossible to say anything else.

After returning to the Wenhua Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the courtiers below and said, "When I approved the road plan for the Road and Bridge Company before, I actually left a place for laying railroad tracks. Therefore, the matter of this train is also assigned to the Daming Road and Bridge Company......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly felt that this statement seemed inappropriate, so he changed his words again: "The train will be injected into the Daming Road and Bridge Company as an asset, of course, this has to issue additional shares, and the specific matters will be negotiated by Bi Qing and Liu Qing of the Road and Bridge Company, and then submitted to the cabinet and the celebrant for review!" ”

It's all money! Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, happily hurriedly issued a list of orders.

These things, if only relied on the state to promote, to be honest, are very costly, and they also involve many things, such as corruption. It is better to operate under the control of the imperial court and under its own supervision, which is the easiest and lowest cost means of promotion.

After Bi Ziyan retreated from the queue, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the courtiers below and pulled the topic back to the beginning, which had been somewhat forgotten by them, and said: "The grassland cannot be independent of the Guannei, including the Tianshan Mountains, Mobei, or the Naturalization City, etc., it must establish close ties with the Guannei, and transportation is the top priority." The train capacity is very large, and it can be a good link between the grassland and the Kannai. Therefore, I decided that those captives of the Khalkha tribe would be used to build roads after building a city on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains! No matter how long it takes, how many generations it takes, these roads must be built! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Wen Tiren and the others listened and echoed together.

At the same time, they also sighed in their hearts that the same things invented by the emperor are actually interlocking with the current or future situation! I don't know how many good things are in the emperor's mind?

At this point, this court meeting is over. However, although the other courtiers retreated, the first assistant Wen Tiren and the eunuch Cao Huachun, who was the master of ceremonies, were retained.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the two of them and said, "Those clans have already rushed to the capital and have been hung by me for a long time. Now that the Prairie War is over, it's time for me to meet them! What do you think? ”

Hearing this, Wen Tiren first smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you have been avoiding it, the door of the old minister's house is almost crowded with the people of the vassal king!" If you don't summon them again, the old minister won't dare to reply! ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help laughing. This situation has already been reported to him by the factory guard. Those vassal kings were in a hurry, not only did they ask about the situation in Shoufu, but they even gave gifts to the eunuch who was in charge of the palm seal of the celebrant to inquire, but Cao Huachun was a good person, so he made a statement to himself.

"Your Majesty, they are indeed in a hurry!" Cao Huachun also said respectfully.

Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard this, and he himself felt that the time had come, so he ordered to go down, and two days later, a global spoils distribution conference would be held.

The Ming Dynasty had a total of 65 feudal kings, 22 feudal kings, and when it came to the Chongzhen Dynasty, due to various reasons, such as the feudal king's absolute heir, he was abolished and removed, and there were 34 feudal kings in total; In addition, except for the eldest son, who is hereditary as the vassal king, the other sons of the vassal king are all to be crowned county kings, and they are also hereditary. The county kings of the Ming Dynasty had a total of 924 county kings.

Of course, in this clan conference, only the vassal king is qualified to participate, otherwise, it is estimated that the Wenhua Hall will not be able to stand.

The vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, according to the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is to divide all places and have the right to soldiers, which is similar to the vassal king at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, which is equivalent to leading a country by himself, but it is a country within a country.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he was not afraid of his sons rebelling, it didn't matter. But when his grandson Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he was afraid. Because most of those uncles and vassal kings followed his grandfather to fight the world together. It is not an exaggeration to say that the soldiers have enough food, and he himself is just the successor to the throne in the legal system, and he can't suppress those uncles at all.

There is also an example of the rebellion of the Seven Feudatories of the Western Han Dynasty, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty also supported the cutting of the feudal domain, so they cut out a Chengzu, and Emperor Jianwen himself lost the throne and his whereabouts are unknown;

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he was not polite to other vassal kings, and it was for this reason that the clan system of the Ming Dynasty was finally formed: dividing the feudal system without tin soil, ranking the lords but not the people, and eating Lu without governing things. It is commonly known as the captivity of pig breeding. There is no shortage of glory and wealth, but you can only stay in your own palace, and it is difficult to even go out to worship your ancestors.

The Ming Dynasty's vassal system, during the time of the Ming God Sect, because the clan was too huge, the age was reduced and the inheritance was restricted. There have been some restrictions on titles at all levels, such as vassal kings, county kings, and town generals, but in general, the big system remains the same, and the clan problem is still one of the biggest problems in the Ming Dynasty!

Finally, by the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, there was a fundamental change in the vassal system.

At the beginning, there was the Tang King Feng Dongwu, and the Tang King and his lineage all moved to the new Tang Kingdom. Since then, he has had military and political power, and once again became a real vassal king. As for the Ming Dynasty itself, from now on, the imperial court does not have to pay the Tang Dynasty's family, and the Tang Dynasty is responsible for his own profits and losses. And the fiefdoms of the Tang King in the country, etc., no longer belong to the Tang King after being auctioned, which is equivalent to packing the rights and obligations of the Tang King in the country and throwing them to Dongwu.

For the Ming Domain, this was of course risky. First, if you go abroad, you have to fight it down first, right? What if I run out of money and can't beat it?

However, this problem, Emperor Chongzhen at least in the first three vassal kings, is arranged for them, guaranteed to be able to become a vassal king, the vassal king's money is not enough, the court can subsidize, and the future income of the vassal king can be mortgaged.

Second, the feudal kings were sealed overseas, and for the feudal kings, they were all places where birds didn't, at least they were not as rich as the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of situation was also unhappy for some feudal kings.

However, judging from the examples of the previous three vassal kings, Emperor Chongzhen allowed the vassal king to take as many Ming people as he could on the premise that the people were willing, including civil officials and military generals, as long as they were willing to go with the vassal king, they would be released. Not only that, but they will also vigorously support the construction of the vassal state, give it planning, mortgages, encourage domestic merchants to go to the vassal state to communicate with each other, and even send troops to garrison some more dangerous places, such as places adjacent to neighboring countries, or places near the sea, which will be governed by the imperial court to resist risks.

Judging from the current situation, Emperor Chongzhen attaches great importance to the feudal overseas affairs of the vassal king, supports it very much, and shows great sincerity. It is precisely for this reason that the vassal kings who have nothing to do every day and can only stay in their own vassal palaces are excited.

Even if there are a few people who are still willing to eat and wait for death, but the clan of his vein is unwilling. In the Ming clan, not only the vassal kings were kept in captivity, but the other county kings, the generals of the Zhenguo, the auxiliary state and the Fengguo, as well as the lieutenants of the Zhenguo, the auxiliary state and the Fengguo, were not allowed to participate in the business of the four people (that is, Shinong industry and commerce). That's it, for the county kings and generals, maybe they can live a comfortable life, but for those lieutenants, it's miserable.

The population of the clan is too large, and it is not enough to use all the taxes for a year to pay for the clan, so the imperial court simply finds all kinds of excuses to be in arrears, and even does not register Yudie for you, and does not recognize you as a member of the clan, and they cannot participate in the farming, industrial and commercial enterprises, and have no source of income, which is called a miserable, and some of them are worse than beggars.

Especially the lieutenant of Fengguo, according to the law of the imperial court, the sons of the lieutenant of Fengguo are all named lieutenants of Fengguo, that is, all the sons of the lieutenant of Fengguo are hereditary lieutenants of Fengguo, regardless of the eldest son and the remaining sons, there are many lieutenants in Fengguo, and they are also the most bitter.

Although by the Jiajing period, their policies had been loosened and they could participate in Shinong industry and commerce under certain conditions, their foundation was too poor, and it was difficult for them to compete with others, and their lives were still very hard.

So, when they heard that the imperial court's clan policy had changed dramatically, and they heard that they could go to the vassal country, they naturally wouldn't live such a hard life again, at least they could be petty officials, right? No matter how bad you are, you can still have a legitimate job, right? Therefore, they were the most supportive of the imperial court's latest feudal overseas policy.

If the vassal kings of their own veins are not active in feudal overseas affairs, and even don't want to be sealed, they will go to the vassal king's mansion to make trouble, crying, making trouble and hanging themselves, so many people are the descendants of the vassal king's line, and the vassal king's mansion can be filled.

For such a situation, the local officials of Daming naturally deliberately connived. If you don't want to be a feudal lord overseas, your life will not be easy!

And those vassal kings who were more active in overseas feudalism, his clan was not idle, and naturally began to actively prepare for overseas feudalism. Human, material, and financial resources have all begun to be planned. In many places where the feudal princes' mansions were located, they spontaneously went to woo those villagers and tempted them to go to the feudal kingdom together.

It was in this context that the first large-scale meeting of the vassal clans of the Ming Dynasty was held in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City of Beijing.

To everyone's surprise, King Tang, King Fu, and King Yi were also present.

Of these three vassal kings, King Tang has been a vassal for about two years, King Fu has just been a vassal for a few months, and King Yi has not even gone to his fiefdom Luzon; The three of them, respectively, represent the three states of the vassal king, have three mentalities, and are a good consultation object for the rest of the undivided vassal kings.

So, at this vassal king's clan conference, Emperor Chongzhen did not make a long speech, Wen Tiren and Cao Huachun were just spectators, and the protagonists became King Tang, King Fu and King Yi. The three of them will talk about their experiences with overseas feudal lords, and then the other feudal lords can ask the three feudal lords any questions.

It can be said that this meeting of the vassal clan was very warm.

At the beginning, the feudal kings in various places still had moderation, but later, the three feudal kings were surrounded and killed by other feudal kings.

If it weren't for the fact that it was overseas, how could it be so popular!

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen had also explained in advance that the three vassal kings would naturally not say something bad under the nose of Emperor Chongzhen, otherwise, Emperor Chongzhen would have many ways to make his vassal kingdom wear small shoes in minutes.