Speaking of the strength of the Spanish fleet is not as good as the Portuguese, the Ming can defeat the powerful Portuguese fleet, and naturally can also defeat the Spanish fleet, not to mention that the Pacific Fleet is still the elite of the Ming navy.

However, the Spaniards who fought for the first time were not discouraged, and the country was organizing a second fleet to go out, and it seemed that the Ming would be driven back anyway, but at this time, the Ming had occupied a port in North America and Central America as their own stronghold, and began to colonize the Americas, during which the Spaniards also thought about fighting with the Ming from the land, but after several contact wars, the Spaniards found that they did not have any advantage, and the army of the Ming Dynasty was not those who did not even have iron weapons Americans, Rather, it was a powerful army with muskets and artillery, so after suffering a few losses, they could only choose to silently endure and wait for the arrival of the domestic fleet.

In the next few years, Daming and Spain launched countless wars in the Americas, both sides invested a large number of land and sea troops, the entire west coast of the Americas was in flames, and even the land war also involved the local Americans, which was mainly the massacre of the Spaniards against the Americans, which aroused the dissatisfaction of these people, and now seeing the arrival of the Ming, in line with the idea that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, began to cooperate with the Ming, and the Ming was also willing to find some trouble for the Spaniards, so he gave these Americans a lot of help, for example, in terms of weapons, which greatly increased the fighting power of the Americans, and began to form small units to harass the rear of the Spaniards.

However, the Spaniards were not stupid, and they immediately changed their strategy after feeling that the Ming and the Americans were united. He began to support some Americans as his helpers. As a result, the whole of Central and South America is in chaos. War is everywhere, both at sea and on land.

The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, a large population, and very developed industry and commerce, which makes the Ming Dynasty extremely strong and can support overseas armies to fight for many years, but Spain does not have this advantage, so after a few years of fierce war with the Ming Dynasty, the national strength has declined significantly. In addition, Europe is not very peaceful, and they must maintain enough strength to defend themselves, so in this case, this colonial battle between Spain and the Ming Dynasty ended with Spain taking the initiative to sue for peace.

The Ming Dynasty signed a treaty with Spain to divide their respective spheres of influence in the Americas, in which the Ming Dynasty occupied the west coast of the Americas, while Spain occupied the east coast of the Americas. As for the division on land. There is no very clear treaty, but a general provision that "whoever discovers first belongs to whom". Moreover, both sides must exercise restraint and refrain from conflicts without authorization, etc., mainly because the region of the Americas is too large, and the two countries should not have too much conflict of interests in the short term.

Of course, this kind of peace is actually very short-lived, because the war between the Ming and Spain did not decide the winner, to be precise, both sides did not admit defeat, Spain only because of the national strength, so the war was suspended, and the Ming Dynasty needed time to seize the territory of the Americas, so such a treaty was reached.

But just a few years later, the Ming and Spain clashed again, and then there was a war that seemed to have no end, this war called the "Americas War" by later generations lasted for hundreds of years, and finally ended with the decline of Spain, and the Ming took the opportunity to take over Spain's territory in the Americas, successfully occupying most of Central and South America.

For these overseas expansions, Zhou Chong actually didn't pay much attention to it a few years ago, firstly, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is already huge enough, and the population growth has been somewhat unable to keep up, and secondly, there are some problems in the management of too large territories, such as Nanyang, there are people who want to divide the land as the king, but unfortunately before they launched, they were noticed by Jinyiwei, and then the army was cleared, and for such a separatist force, Zhou Chong has always been ruthless, every time it is a river of blood, which also greatly deters those careerists.

With the growth of his son Zhu Zaiyuan, Zhou Zhong is also slowly delegating power, after all, in contrast, his eldest son is the legitimate heir of the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't want his son to resent him because of the throne, and even the tragedy of father and son cannibalism. However, although Zhou Zhong was delegating power, he finally did one more thing, that is, to limit the imperial power.

Imperial power is a very dangerous thing, especially for a huge country like the Ming Dynasty, the safety of the whole country is tied to the emperor alone, if you meet a wise or mediocre emperor, it is a good thing for the empire, and even a fat emperor will make the empire more prosperous, but if you meet a misbehaving or mediocre emperor, it is simply a disaster for the whole country, countless lessons in history tell us that the emperor is too important for an empire.

If you want to change the emperor's influence on the empire, you must weaken the imperial power, only the power in the emperor's hands has become smaller, then his influence on the empire has become much smaller, even if he encounters a mediocre emperor, the damage caused to the Ming Dynasty is limited, and if he wants to limit the emperor's power, Zhou Chong's first thought is the cabinet.

When Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the position of prime minister, he took over all the big and small government affairs to himself at once, but unfortunately the emperor is not a superman, he also needs some people to share his own government affairs, so in this case, the cabinet appeared, and slowly formed a complete cabinet system, it can be said that the cabinet has completely replaced the position of the original prime minister.

Zhu Yuanzhang's unintentional move to share the power with several ministers of the cabinet, so that there is no need to worry about the appearance of powerful ministers in the court, and the cabinet can undertake more government affairs, which also divides more power from the hands of the emperor.

So in this case, Zhou Zhong began to formulate a supreme law, which made a clear division between imperial power and relative power, in fact, this is a constitution, and after the status of the Inspectorate was promoted. The judiciary of the Ming Dynasty has become independent from the administration. Hence the emergence of this constitution. It not only limited the imperial power, but also gave the Inspectorate a formal tool to limit the power of the cabinet, but at the same time, the Inspectorate was subject to the dual constraints of the imperial power and the cabinet, and under the tripartite checks and balances, a triangular stable relationship was formed.

With this constitution, it was possible to limit imperial power to a certain extent, and the cabinet had the power to dismiss orders when the emperor wanted to violate the constitution. This is also the old method of the cabinet to deal with the imperial power, but now it is officially written into the constitution, so that the cabinet can have laws to follow, as for the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it can supervise the emperor's use of his power, if it violates the Constitution, it will also be admonished by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even limit the imperial power.

In order for the constitution to be authoritative, especially to limit the imperial power, it was not enough to rely on the cabinet and the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Yuan. The most important thing is to get the support of the army, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. The emperor is the supreme commander of the army, and all the armies of the Ming Dynasty are under the command of the Ming Emperor, but all this is under the premise that the emperor has not violated the constitution, if the emperor violates the constitution to command the army, especially when threatening the cabinet and the Imperial Court with force, the army will be temporarily out of the emperor's command, which is also rewritten by Zhou in the military academy motto, every officer must study the regulations of the army in the constitution, so that they understand under what circumstances they should behave.

In addition, although the emperor had the supreme command of the army, the army was still under the management of the military department in peacetime, and the emperor had the right to mobilize the army only in the event of a foreign war or internal rebellion.

Compared with the military restrictions, the emperor had greater power over the administrative and judicial aspects, because the emperor had the right to put forward his own opinions on the administrative and judicial affairs, and even had considerable decision-making power, which was a right from the imperial throne itself, and the cabinet and the imperial court could not restrict it.

Zhou Chong's restriction of imperial power was criticized by many people at first, especially a considerable number of people believe that Zhou Chong's restriction of imperial power is because he is worried that after his son ascends the throne, he will weaken the power of the prison country, so he will restrict the imperial power, this statement is not only reasonable, but also has a strong agitation, even Zhou Chong's son Zhu Zaiyuan is a little confused, and later Zhou Chong called him to the study, and completely explained his plans for the Ming Dynasty. This made Zhu Zaiyuan understand his father's hard work.

In the 30th year of Zhengde, Zhengde, who was already forty-five years old, was unwilling to be lonely, and sent an army to attack the Uzbeks again, hoping to seize the original territory of the entire Timurid Khanate before the Ottoman Empire.

The death of Zhengde, marking the end of the old era of the Ming Dynasty, but also marked the end of the Ming Dynasty's expansion in Central Asia, when the news of Zhengde's death reached Beijing, Zhou Zhong locked himself in the study and cried bitterly, and when he walked out of the study, he immediately asked people to prepare for the enthronement ceremony of his son Zhu Zaiyuan, after all, the country can not be without a king for a day.

After Zhu Zaiyuan ascended the throne, Zhou Zhong completely let go of the government, Zhengde's body was not transported back to the imperial mausoleum next to Beijing for burial, but was buried in the southern part of Central Asia, that is, the border area between Afghanistan and Palestine in the future, where Zhengde died in battle, and this is also Zhengde's last life, because as long as his mausoleum is here for a day, the Ming Dynasty will not give up its rule over Central Asia.

Zhou Chong came all the way to Central Asia to participate in the funeral of Zhengde, this funeral is not the emperor's state funeral, but in accordance with Zhengde's will to hold a military funeral, around the mausoleum of Zhengde, is the mausoleum of all the soldiers who died in Central Asia, they will continue to guard the emperor of the Ming Dynasty with their bodies.

Zhou Zhong cried again in front of the tomb of Zhengde, and then suddenly disappeared from the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time disappeared his wives and concubines and children, and only Zhu Zaiyuan, the eldest son, was left as the emperor in the entire Ming Dynasty, and whenever others asked about Zhou Chong's whereabouts, Zhu Zaiyuan just smiled bitterly, because he couldn't tell others that his parents and brothers and sisters went to play, but he threw himself down to be the emperor.

Many years later, a new means of transportation suddenly appeared in the Ming Dynasty, this means of transportation is called train, which can travel thousands of miles a day on the tracks, and only consumes coal and water, running up and puffing black smoke, very interesting, and what is even more interesting is that the new invention of the train was not invented by the native people of the Ming Dynasty, but came from Australia in the south of the South Seas, where there have been many Han people settled, and the development is very rapid, especially the southeast coast of Australia, it is the settlement of the Han people, it is said that the lobster there is bigger than people, In addition, there are delicacies such as sea cucumbers, which is a good place for leisure. (End of book)

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