Chapter 252: United Pacific Rim.
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This is because the ceremony of the founding of the United Pacific Rim Empire will be held in a few days. Boss Huang even took time out of his way to act as a façade from the ninety-six time and space after 380 years, after all, the nominal emperor of this united empire is still him, and the crossing group he created is not yet something that Suning can master. Especially the four King Kongs under his command, it is impossible to treat Suning like him. So Suning can only use his prestige to suppress and command everyone. What he has to do next is to rise rapidly within the group, grasp more actual power as soon as possible, and create internal public opinion that Boss Huang gave him.
It's just that he needs to manage all this carefully, even Boss Huang is willing to teach him this throne Zen, and stay in the ninety-six time and space to enjoy the blessings. He couldn't help but beware of other careerists disposing of it in the name of Qing Jun, after all, there had been cases where his deeds had been leaked by others before, and no one could guarantee that there would be no potential betrayers in this crossing group.
Fortunately, the beginning of all this went relatively smoothly, and Suning single-handedly created the political system of this empire. And, with this merit, he successfully entered the top decision-making body.
The political system of the United Empire was modeled after that of the Northern Song Dynasty. Although there were many drawbacks in the bureaucratic system of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially the characteristics of the official position setting of stacked roofs and beds, which caused a serious problem of redundant officials and redundant personnel. But in this special period for Corning, attracting talent is his most important thing, and the new talent needs to be placed in a small official position, so as not to let them leave in dissatisfaction. However, they are suddenly placed in positions of real power, and they are worried that they will not be able to do it, or they will steal the core secrets of the state, so there must be a few official positions that seem to be very important, but do not hold a lot of power, to place the talents who come to take refuge.
As a result, the Northern Song Dynasty, which had an extremely rich set of officials, became a model for Kangning to learn.
Under the United Emperor, Suning established the Eastern and Western Governments according to the system of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, the Privy Council and the Political Affairs Hall. The Privy Council is in charge of military deployment, while the Cabinet is in charge of civil affairs.
The highest prefect of the Privy Council is called the Privy Councillor, which is the same as in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is the highest prefect of the Tang Dynasty who is the prime minister of civil affairs, which is not the same as that of the Northern Song Dynasty, because the Northern Song Dynasty is their highest prefect is Pingzhangshi, that is, the so-called first-level substantive prime minister, and there is also a governor under it, that is, the so-called second-level substantive prime minister. However, Suning's attention is to put them all under the prime minister's civil affairs, and it is usually very likely that he will be sent to an important territory of the empire to take on the post of a feudal official. For example, Suning has just established the Heizhang Samoan Military and Political Affairs, as well as the Japanese Shishima Heizhang Affairs.
At the same time, basic political power has also been established at the local level, mainly including the provincial, road, county, township and natural village levels. Speaking of which, this point is mainly similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, except that the Ming Dynasty paid attention to imperial power and did not go to the countryside, while Kang Ning advocated that the political power should be grasped from the grassroots level.
At the same time, various functional departments of the central and local governments have also been established one after another, and this is their actual power, which has not yet been clearly defined from each other. Corning knew that they still needed time to run in, and it happened that in the next few years, they didn't have any major actions, mainly focusing on self-cultivation.
Of course, the pilgrimage of the Ming Dynasty should still be regarded as a major event, so Kang Ning personally led a fleet of more than 30 large ships to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.
The fleet carries many creatures that are unique to Australia, but Suning doesn't expect them to win the favor of the Wanli Emperor. You must know that the guy of that force, only money can really touch his heart.
It's a pity that Suning didn't have the ability to snatch enough gold from the Spanish colonizers. Although he named this empire the Pacific Rim Empire, the East China Sea of the Pacific Ocean was still in the hands of the Spanish colonists, even on the west coast, there were places like the Philippines, which were not under his control, and in the next period of time, he would gradually occupy various islands in the Pacific Ocean and expand his naval power in time. However, if you want to compete with the Spaniards, I am afraid that now is not the time.
Therefore, the support of the Ming Dynasty is indispensable, first, he needs to get more skilled workers from the Ming Dynasty, and secondly, on the entire west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty is still a deterrent, which can help him reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.
This Hajj is all the more historic. Emperor Wanli had just had to accept the fact that the Jurchens in the Northeast had rebelled, and at this moment he heard that there was an overseas vassal country that had come from thousands of miles to pay tribute, and he was naturally overwhelmed with joy in his heart.
And the situation of this Fan country has long been made by the deputy commander of Jinyiwei Li Duo is afraid of that reality, after all, he was already lurking in Huang Xing's Black Clothes Society, so he knows this overseas branch established on the basis of black very well.
Although Emperor Wanli was shocked by the huge energy of the Little Black Clothes Society, at this time he was more anxious to prove his appeal to the courtiers and the people of the world. Therefore, he gave a high courtesy to Kang Ning, who came to the Hajj, and even broke the perennial practice of not being ordinary all the year round, and personally received the noble envoy who came from afar.
Kang Ning presented his credentials to His Majesty the Emperor in person, and put forward a request for trade, and at the same time, he also hoped that His Majesty the Wanli Emperor would recognize the United Pacific Empire, of course, it was written on the United Kingdom, becoming the first vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
Previously, the Ming Dynasty did not have the concept of the first vassal state at all, in fact, this role was played by the Korean Kingdom, but after Kangning put forward this point, he made it clear that after the death of Korea, he could not call himself the first Shu State of the Ming Dynasty today.
This is a very loud Pacific sycophant. If you think about it, you can know that the Ming Dynasty not only has thousands of Shu countries, but also Shu countries are still quarreling over the ranking issue. This made the suzerainty look very face-saving, so Emperor Wanli agreed to Kang Ning's request without saying a word.
As for things like commerce, since the opening of the sea in Longqing, the Ming Dynasty no longer has too many strict controls on the people, and this period is also the beginning of the first time that the East and the West are gradually learning, so the Wanli Emperor did not set too many difficulties in this matter.
It's just that the immigration issue mentioned by Kangning in the national credentials, the Wanli Emperor still failed to allow it because of his conservative concept. Although Suning repeatedly asked about the vast and rich land, Emperor Wanli insisted on refusing to let his people leave his land.
This indirectly led to Corning's determination to launch his plan for an attack on Korea.