It is already the middle of September of the 109th year of the Heavenly Dao, and even in the warm Shengjing Mansion, the leaves of the trees are beginning to turn yellow, and the heavens and the earth are filled with autumn slaughter.

After Zhu Chongba finished handling government affairs, he was just about to go to the harem to find Ma Niangniang, when suddenly someone came to report: Xu Da asked to see him.

"Hurry up and announce his arrival!" Zhu Chongba paused, and then ordered the black eunuch beside him, "Announce the queen and Prime Minister Zuo together." ”

The queen is naturally Ma Niangniang Ma Xiuying, and the left prime minister of the Qing Dynasty is Li Shanchang, not a native of the Qing Dynasty, but a "guest qing" from the Ming Dynasty, and the ancestor is also an old minister of the Ming Dynasty Taizu Longxing, and he was named an earl. However, Li Shanchang's lineage is not a son-in-law, so naturally there is no title to inherit, and Li Shanchang's generation has already declined into a commoner. Fortunately, Li Shanchang was a student and was admitted to the law department of Jiangdu Tiandao University - a good place known as the cradle of politicians. After graduation, Li Shanchang first worked as a lawyer for ten years, got acquainted with many dignitaries and dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty, and became brothers with Zhu Chonglou, the Marquis of Huaiyin of the Ming Dynasty (a relative of Zhu Chongba and a descendant of Zhu Sijiu). Later, he was recommended to Zhu Chongba by the Marquis of Huaiyin. Because he has many acquaintances in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, and he also has some scheming, he quickly won Zhu Chongba's trust. Now he has sat on the throne of Prime Minister Zuo.

The Qing Cabinet Office was on the edge of the palace, and Li Shanchang soon arrived at Zhu Chongba's study, and Queen Ma Xiuying was one step ahead of him and was already sitting firmly beside King Zhu. I was listening to Xu Da introduce the progress of the civil war in Dayuan.

Seeing Li Shanchang come in, Zhu Chongba smiled and beckoned him to sit down, and then smiled again: "Prime Minister, good news!" Old Lady Liang's three strategies for the death of the Yuan have come true this time...... What a million heavenly soldiers. All are corrupted and useless. Tens of thousands of Essen miners have swept through most of the country, and now the eastern capital of Krakow has been conquered. Since the beginning of the army, it has been almost invincible, and this Great Yuan Kingdom is coming to an end! ”

listened to Zhu Chongba's words. Li Shanchang's brows tightened: "King, this Dayuan is coming to an end, why are you so happy?" ”

"Oh," Zhu Chongba smiled slightly, "that Jesus of the Kingdom of Heaven has already signed a treaty with us to crusade against the Great Yuan Kingdom together, and has also promised to give us Bulgaria and southern Hungary." These two pieces of land together are bigger than the existing territory of our Great Qing Kingdom! ”

It's always a good thing to have a big territory, right? But Li Shanchang still shook his head, and his complexion became even more solemn. As if what was heard was not good news. And what bad news.

"Prime Minister," the smile on Zhu Chongba's face disappeared, "What?" Isn't that a good thing? ”

Li Shanchang nodded, and shook his head again: "Great King, before the rebellion of Jesus' heavenly kingdom arises, we naturally hope that there will be chaos in the Great Yuan country day and night. But now...... The kingdom of Jesus is like this, whether it is a good thing or not is really hard to say! ”

Zhu Chongba was stunned, as if he had thought of something, but he couldn't figure it out for a while. Ma Niangniang beside him asked, "How do you say this?" Isn't it good to take Bulgaria and half of Hungary? ”

Li Shanchang shook his head. He frowned and said, "Not really. It's just that...... It would be bad if the Great Yuan Kingdom really destroyed the Kingdom of Heaven for Jesus. ”

"Why?" Ma Niangniang asked.

Li Shanchang pointed to his face, of course this is a purebred Han face! Not only is he a pure-blooded Han, Ma Niangniang and Zhu Chongba are also pure-blooded! Although the majority of the Han Chinese in the Great Qing Kingdom were mixed-race, the kings and queens of the Qing Dynasty were all pure-blooded Han Chinese.

"Because of the race!" Zhu Chongba asked in a deep voice. "Prime Minister, is it because of race?"

Li Shanchang nodded heavily and said in a deep voice: "The minister has seen many Great Yuan Banner people. They are not much different from us Qing Banner people in appearance. And the heavenly kingdom of Jesus who rebelled this time were all white fans of Europa......"

Ma Niangniang also understands now. slapped his face and said, "Oh, it's still the prime minister who thinks thoughtfully." If this Kingdom of Jesus Heaven destroys Dayuan, it will be Bai Fan's victory over our Shenzhou people! ”

Chen Dexing called Asia Shenzhou, and the East Asian race Shenzhou people - of course, including the Mongols, who after all were yellow-skinned and black-haired, and looked not much different from the Han Chinese. At least to Europeans, it's about the same...... Moreover, now the Europa people call the people of Shenzhou in Europe and West Asia "flag people". Because the Great Yuan, the Great Qing, the Two Persias, the Great Stone Kingdom and the Great Kang Kingdom all implemented the Eight Banners System, and organized the Shenzhou people in the country to oppress the whites.

If the whites in the Great Yuan rose up and rebelled and overthrew the rule of the banner people, then the power of the white people in Europa would increase and the power of the banner people would weaken. Moreover, the myth of the invincibility of the flag man will be completely shattered, and the fear of the Europeans for the flag man will also be gone. There is a good chance that it will set off a chain reaction!

Li Shanchang stroked his beard and accentuated his tone: "If the Kingdom of Jesus Heaven replaces the Great Yuan Kingdom, then Bai Fanke will have another big country!" ”

In terms of race, the independent states now owned by whites are the Holy Roman Empire, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Kingdom of Marin (Morocco), the Kingdom of England (including Ireland, Wales and Scotland, at this moment the lame Edward destroyed Scotland with the H medicine weapons provided by the Ming Dynasty), the United Kingdom of Northern Europe (consisting of Sweden, Norway, Finland). If you look at the map, you can see that they are all leftovers of Europa, and a large amount of good territory is occupied by the Great Yuan Kingdom.

Li Shanchang's brows furrowed more and more: "As far as the minister knows, the population of the land where Christianity is now occupied by Europa is only more than 30 million, but there are 60 million people in the country of Dayuan. If you add the two, it will soon be a million. How many flag men do I have in the Qing Dynasty? How many bannermen are there in two Persia? How many flag people are there in Dashiguo? King, now in the war, you are queuing up to shoot, and there are more people and more guns! How many guns can this 100 million euros make? How many more guns can we shoot? If we fight in the future, relying on our millions of banner people, can we fight more than 100 million Europeans? ”

A few million to a hundred million? Zhu Chongba shook his head, if a hundred years ago, when smoothbore guns were not popular, the population base was not a problem. How many people were there in Mongolia at that time? Didn't you conquer a large area of land in the same way? But now this is no longer the case, and the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of England, and the Mamluk Sultanate have all imitated the Ming Dynasty and established a "Ming-style army". Equipped with a large number of smoothbore guns, the tactics of lining up to shoot were played. It's just a desperate life. How can millions of people fight against 100 million people?

Zhu Chongba, who has led the army for many years, knows that this Ming-style army is fighting the Ming-style army. The number of casualties between the winners and losers will not be particularly disparity. Basically, it is to kill 10,000 enemies and lose 5,000 self-inflicted. If the 60 million whites of the Great Yuan Kingdom are turned over, the Great Qing Kingdom, which has only more than 3 million banner people, will be finished sooner or later!

Zhu Chongba patted his forehead. Almost made a big mistake! The kingdom of Jesus can't support it!

Ma Niangniang looked entangled and looked at Li Shanchang, "Prime Minister, did you give up such a good opportunity like this?" Bulgaria and Southern Hungary are great places to visit! Now the population of the country is already 4 million, and in a few decades, it will be possible to reach 10 million, and I am afraid it will not be easy to resettle......

The territory of the Great Qing Kingdom is not small from the map, and Turkey and Georgia in later generations are all Zhu Chongba. However, most of this territory is highlands, mountains and grasslands. There are many places suitable for grazing, but there are not many places where land can be cultivated and cultivated. At present, the placement of about 2.5 million banner people (and 500,000 people are urban residents) and 1 million basically sinicized white fans is not crowded. Everyone's life is quite relaxed, and they also support Zhu Chongba, the king.

However, Ma Niangniang, who assisted Zhu Chongba in ruling the government, knew very well that the land of the Great Qing Dynasty was not large, there was not much land that could be cultivated and pastured, and there could not be too many banner farms -- in order to encourage the banner people to give birth, the Great Qing Dynasty had always implemented the system of granting land to the banner people. Any banner man who is not the head of the family, once he starts a family, must set up a household on his own, and the state will grant land free of charge. A household has at least 100 acres. This system was implemented for a hundred years, and although the population of the Qing Banner increased to 3 million, it also basically exhausted the state-controlled official land.

If the population of the Qiren continued to grow in this way, the Qing Dynasty would have to expand externally. Bulgaria and southern Hungary are good targets.

Zhu Chongba nodded. seemed to approve of Ma Niangniang, and then looked at Li Shanchang again.

Li Shanchang smiled and said, "King, have you ever thought about replacing Meng Yuan?" ”

"What?" Zhu Chongba took a breath. His brow furrowed tightly. Replacing Meng Yuan, this is the last wish of Zhu Sijiu, the Taizu of the Qing Dynasty. How could Zhu Chongba not have such an idea? But the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny. For the Qing Dynasty. The annexation of Dayuan was not intended to snake swallow elephants. It's an impossible task! So Zhu Chongba's current plan is to encroach, this time to take Bulgaria and half of Hungary first. Drive out the whites there, and then use the land there to settle the bannermen of the Qing Dynasty. The task of his life is completed. Then it will take a hundred years to increase the population of the Great Qing Banner to more than 15 million, and then find a way to continue to expand.

But now after listening to Li Shanchang's analysis, Zhu Chongba also feels that this encroachment method may not work. After taking Bulgaria and Southern Hungary, the Qing Kingdom will face the attack of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Jesus in the Balkans! That's three or four million against more than 80 million.

Even if the Ming Empire, tens of thousands of miles away, is willing to support the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Qing Dynasty to fight against so many Europa whites for a long time.

Therefore, the encroachment method is not feasible, but it seems that it is not easy to swallow an elephant with a snake......

"Prime Minister, if you have any way, just say it!" Zhu Chongba looked at Li Shanchang, who was smiling, as if he had a good plan, and hurriedly humbly asked for advice.

Li Shanchang nodded, and then said slowly word by word: "Great King, the minister does have a way to make the Great Qing Kingdom replace the Great Yuan Kingdom. There are three ways for the minister: the first is to help the Yuan to destroy the thief, the second is the banner family, and the third is to follow the Yuan rules. ”

"How so? Prime Minister, tell the widow in detail. Zhu Chongba raised his eyebrows and asked repeatedly.

Li Shanchang smiled, crossed his fingers and said: "The so-called helping Yuan to destroy the thief, literally speaking, is to help the Great Yuan Kingdom destroy the Kingdom of Jesus!" Now Jesus has a great kingdom in heaven, and a great soldier. If you help Jesus to destroy the Great Yuan, the Great Yuan will perish, and Jesus will rise. My Great Qing Dynasty will soon fall into the attack of 80 million white fans. If I go the other way, will the land of Bulgaria and Southern Hungary be ceded by the Great Yuan Kingdom? ”

"Reasonable!" Zhu Chongba nodded heavily. "Bulgaria and Southern Hungary are both vassals of the Great Yuan, and they are not fundamental lands, so how can they not be ceded?"

Li Shanchang said: "The so-called Eight Banners is the Yuan Eight Banners, the Qing Eight Banners, the Persian Eight Banners, the Dashi Eight Banners and the Dakang Eight Banners are all of the same language and species, all from Shenzhou, and they should be members of the family. If Da Yuan wants us to send troops to help, we must admit this! You must comb your hair in a bun, wear a Han-style crown and hat, and convert to Heavenly Taoism. The king and the lord will also marry brothers with different surnames, and the lord will also make peace with the holy faction and marry the noble daughter of the divine faction. ”

Zhu Chongba asked: "Why is this?" Aren't we going to replace the Great Yuan Kingdom? ”

Li Shanchang said with a smile: "Acting like this is naturally to facilitate the collection of the Yuan Eight Banners for your own use in the future." The minister's idea of taking the Yuan dynasty is to let the king replace the Yuan monarch. For the various systems of the Eight Banners of the Great Yuan and the Great Yuan Kingdom, should we still use them...... After all, the Great Yuan Kingdom has ruled the Europeans for more than 100 years, which shows that their methods still have some effect. ”

Outnumbering the crowd has always been a problem. The Great Yuan Kingdom actually handled it quite well, there was Yuan-style Christianity, there was the road to the rise of the imperial examination, there were eight banner soldiers, and there were new annexed troops. In the past hundred years, the population growth rate of the Great Yuan Kingdom has been higher than that of the Ming Empire (the agricultural capitalism and urbanization of the Ming Empire and a large number of foreign colonizations have lowered the population growth rate, but counting the countrymen of the various Chinese vassal states that accepted the Ming immigrants, the Han population has grown far more than the Great Yuan in the past 100 years), which has already shown that the governance of the Great Yuan is still good.

Li Shanchang paused and said seriously: "And there are about 2 million banner people in the Great Yuan Kingdom, and their appearance is similar to that of our banner people here, they also speak Chinese, they also recognize Chinese characters, and they also read the "Four Books and Five Classics", so they can completely merge with us." In this way, we have 5 million banner people, enough to suppress 60 million white people. In addition, there are still twenty or thirty thousand white officials in the Great Yuan Kingdom, most of whom are from the imperial examination, and there are hundreds of thousands of local squires, all of whom are famous. These officials and squires of the Great Yuan are the basis of rule. We should also receive as much as possible. ”

Zhu Chongba frowned deeply: "But the system of the Great Yuan Kingdom has weakened it, how powerful was the Great Yuan Iron Cavalry in the past?" The battle of the Vistula River terrified the Europeans. And today, the Yuan soldiers are so vulnerable that they can't even beat a group of miners who picked up muskets! If the Yuan rules are followed, a hundred years later, wouldn't it be another Great Yuan Kingdom? (To be continued.) )