On the night when Chen Dexing arrived in Hebian Mansion, in the flower hall of the palace in Hebian Mansion, a family banquet was the time for father and son to enjoy themselves.

Only father and son eat! Chen Huaiqing and Chen Dexing, and the British prince Chen Defang were still sitting in Delhi and did not come to Riverside Mansion. As for Chen Huaiqing's bunch of concubines, they are all children, so naturally they are not qualified to participate in the conversation between the father and son.

So now those sitting at the table to eat are Chen Huaiqing and Chen Dexing. Father and son, both foxes who have become spirits, are smirking at each other. Pick up the wine glass and toast boldly, but the contents of the glass have not decreased much.

The person serving in the flower hall is now only a Yang Po'er in her forties. There was no singing and dancing, and no hordes of servants shuttling back and forth. There really isn't much of an atmosphere at the emperor's family banquet, and it can even be described as deserted.

However, the people at the table didn't care about this deserted scene at all. Chen Dexing drank half a cup of tea with a glass of wine. I couldn't drag it anymore before I put down the cup. looked at Chen Huaiqing with a smile, and slowly took out a sheepskin box from his arms, "My lord, the child has come from thousands of miles and has not brought you any good things, this is a little heart, please accept it." ”

Chen Huaiqing also put down the cup and looked at Chen Dexing's face smiling like a spring breeze. I didn't politely take the box and opened it to take a look. It is a yellow scroll with the sun and moon markings embroidered on the surface of the scroll. Apparently a holy decree.

Chen Huaiqing immediately took out the holy decree and looked at it, was stunned, and after a long while, he got up solemnly and bowed to Chen Dexing: "The minister of the British king Chen Huaiqing and the courtier Deshi are grateful." ”

Chen Dexing beckoned and asked Chen Huaiqing to sit down. smiled and said: "Thank you, it's just a name." It's not worth anything, child, I'm just writing a holy decree. ”

It turned out to be a canonized decree. Chen Huaiqing's son, Chen Deshi, who became a monk, was the Great Treasure Heavenly Sage Dharma King, and the chief leader of Tianzhu Buddhism.

It has been Chen Huaiqing's consistent policy to raise a Great Treasure Heavenly Holy Dharma King as the leader of Buddhism throughout the world. At first, he wanted to be the Dharma King himself, and then pass on the throne to Chen Deshi in the future. However, because of the opposition of Chen Defang and Chen Dexing, he could only take a step back and let his son Chen Deshi become a monk, preparing to wait for him to grow up, and then officially support him to be the king. But he was preempted by Chen Dexing. A direct decree. Sealed a Great Treasure Heavenly Saint Dharma King to a seven-year-old little monk......

Of course, this matter has its deep meaning. Because the Great Treasure Heavenly Sage Dharma King is at least the head of Tianzhu Buddhism, this position was sealed by the Ming Emperor Chen Dexing...... Is it really suitable? And Chen Dexing is not a secular monarch in the general sense, he is the leader of the Heavenly Taoism, the king of the Ming Dynasty!

The Heavenly Taoist Sect King to be crowned the Great Dharma King of Buddhism, doesn't this put the Heavenly Taoism above Buddhism? And this matter of canonizing the Great Treasure Heavenly Holy Dharma King by the Holy Order of the Ming Emperor will become a common practice? Will the future Dharma kings all be sealed by Chen Dexing's descendants?

How could the thoughtful Chen Huaiqing not think of these things? But he didn't say anything against it. Just take away the decree. sat back in his chair quietly, and then looked at Chen Dexing with a smile.

Seeing Chen Huaiqing's gaze, Chen Dexing smiled again: "My lord's expedition to the south and the west in the past few years has been really hard. Now it's finally done...... The founding of the country was thousands of miles. They are all prosperous and wealthy places. Such feats are comparable to Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo during the Qin and Han dynasties. Now it's time to take care of your life, and you can surpass the Nanyue Martial King in terms of longevity. ”

Zhao Tuo is not only a military strategist and politician. And it's an old birthday star. According to historical records, he reigned for more than 60 years. He died in the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty at the age of one hundred and three! Probably the longest-lived emperor in Chinese history.

However, Chen Huai has to live to be more than 100 years old. Chen Dexing's eldest brother Chen Defang is about to cry to death. Historically, Zhao Tuo's sons have all died, and the throne was taken by his grandson Zhao Hu.

Chen Huaiqing listened to his son's words, and naturally laughed: "I don't dare to think that I will live for a hundred years as a father, and I will be satisfied to live for another twenty years, and I will be satisfied to see that my sons have grown up and can govern their own fiefdoms." ”

Let the son govern the fiefdom...... That's a lot of meaning! Chen Dexing gently turned the wine glass, but his face was still full of spring breeze: "I have dozens of brothers, everyone will have a fief?" ”

Chen Dexing's own plan was only to give each of his sixteen sons a feudal state, and if he had more sons, he could also crown one or two more kings in southern Africa. The rest can only stay in Daming and be a prince without a fief.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty does not engage in "eternal royalty". According to "Chen Li", a royal man who is not knighted can only maintain the status of the royal family for one generation (that is, his own generation), and then the common people.

"Naturally, everyone has a fief!" Chen Huaiqing gently turned his wine glass, "Great Britain has its own national conditions here, which is different from the Ming Dynasty, and it is different from the Sixteen Kingdoms of Northern Mingzhou and the Southern Countries. Tianzhu is an ancient country, and its history seems to be longer than that of China. Culture is prosperous, all industries are prosperous, the situation in various places is very complicated, and the people's hearts are also very complicated. Moreover, Tianzhu has never been unified. Even a large country like Britain rarely appeared in the history of Tianzhu, and it did not last long...... Therefore, it is actually very difficult to govern a big country in Tianzhu. ”

Since the Qin Dynasty in China, reunification has been the mainstream, and division means troubled times, which is not popular with the people of the world. And here in Tianzhu, division is the mainstream, and reunification has basically never appeared. So the centrifugal tendencies in the place are very serious!

Moreover, Chen Huaiqing's method of governing Tianzhu was not to change customs but to follow the customs of the locals. did not take Tianzhu's traditional culture...... Tianzhu's traditional culture is too servile, and it is simply tailor-made for foreign conquerors. Therefore, the immigrants who conquered India throughout history, whether from Central Asia or Western Europe, all retained the traditional caste system of India without exception. Even the Celestial Religion, which emphasizes equality, has a caste system in India.

And even if Chen Huaiqing wants to exterminate the Tianzhu culture, there is really nothing better to replace. This traditional Chinese Confucian skin bone, but pay attention to "princes and generals, rather have a kind". If it is instilled in the Shudra and Dartley of Tianzhu. Isn't that encouraging them to rebel against the revolution?

After Chen Huaiqing had an in-depth understanding of Brahmanical culture, he admired the Aryan ancestors of Dharmapolo a little. How did you come up with such a good solution?

However, preserving the traditional culture of Tianzhu does not mean giving up one's own culture. Rather, it is necessary to absorb and transform the traditional culture of Tianzhu.

Unlike the policy adopted by the Sixteen Kingdoms of Mingzhou and the Southern Fan States to become great powers and gradually reduce the number of savages, Chen Huaiqing's national policy was ethnic integration—to let the Han conquerors and the descendants of the upper Aryans of Tianzhu merge and enslave the middle and lower classes of untouchables.

And to integrate, there must naturally be a process of mutual contact and transformation. It was not only the Han conquerors who had to abandon their concept of equality (relative, of course) that they had insisted on for more than a thousand years, and become a powerful Brahmin master. The noble class of Tianzhu also had to accept the Han Chinese Confucianism and the concept of being an official by examination - of course, not that everyone was equal before the examination papers, but that only men from the Brahmin and Kshatriya castes could participate in Confucianism, Buddhism, and martial arts, and men from the Vaishyas caste could participate in miscellaneous examinations. Poor people of the lowest rank will not be able to participate in the imperial examination......

Chen Dexing just looked at Chen Huaiqing, groaned and didn't speak.

Chen Huaiqing said again: "...... Therefore, the place where Tianzhu is governed cannot only use liuguan, and the liuguan alone is not enough to educate the locality. And the politics of the Chinese people cannot be used for Tianzhu. Tianzhu has too many people, and there are 30 million people in the old man's Britain alone! If you want to govern with your people, you need three million people, and we don't have that many people now. Therefore, the rule of Tianzhu can only be used with both grace and grace, and the vulgar and the vulgar can be used at the same time. These towns were also used to spread Confucianism and educate the Brahmins and Kshatriyas of Tianzhu. At the same time, the government will also be responsible for monitoring the Buddhist temples in various places, and Buddhism will be the state religion of Tianzhu. Naturally, Buddhism is no longer pure. It has to be tightly controlled! ”

The concept of pure Buddhism is probably only found in China, and in other places, Buddhism is deeply involved in politics, so naturally there is no possibility of purity. It's the same here in Tianzhu. Buddhism is the state religion, and at the same time, it must be integrated with Confucianism and follow the path of the Confucian family. And. The temple will also be a base for the promotion of Chinese characters. The importance of this is self-evident!

Chen Dexing leaned back on the chair and looked directly into Chen Huaiqing's eyes. Nodding slowly: "What do you mean, is it a day when these princes have not become grand dukes?" ”

If the prince does not become a grand duke. Even if there are a hundred, they will only be co-ruled with the British royal court, and will not cause the division of the British kingdom...... At least in the lifetime of brothers Chen Dexing and Chen Defang, such a thing will not happen!

A father and son, who were happy just now, now look at each other quietly with serious expressions. Yang Po'er next to her also held her breath, turned her head to look around, and found that there were no characters that shouldn't appear, so she sighed softly.

Now it's time for a father-son showdown! If there is any quarrel, it is not appropriate for the fourth person to hear it......

There was a crackle, but it was the candle flowers in the main hall that burst.

Chen Huaiqing smiled and shook his hand: "The Duke of the Kingdom is the Duke of the Kingdom, how can he become the Grand Duke?" Even if the old man agrees to this, Wu'er Defang will not agree. Once the old man returns to heaven, I'm afraid there will be some brothers turning against him! ”

Chen Dexing listened to this statement, but sighed in his heart: Even if he is not crowned the Grand Duke, so many national dukes are enough for Chen Defang to worry. O prince of the capital who rules the people! Moreover, they also have their own army, and they are also responsible for the indoctrination of a place. After a long time, it is inevitable that it will be difficult to treat. As far as Chen Defang's belly is concerned, once he is in power, he will definitely find ways to restrict his own brothers. Maybe it's just a high wall, and these grandfathers are enclosed in the city as rich prisoners.

But this matter has nothing to do with me, these cheap brothers, let them go. There are so many things to worry about, but I can't manage so much.

Chen Dexing laughed: "Mother-in-law, bring a pen and paper!" ”

Yang Po'er promised to go, but Chen Huaiqing stopped her: "What are you doing with pen and paper?" ”

"Naturally, I wrote an edict to my brothers, hereditary recklessness, even if there is a big mistake except for rebellion, I will not be guilty......"

Chen Huaiqing smiled lightly: "Then thank you." However, the old man's children and grandchildren, the old man has his own way to protect the ...... Even without these edicts, nothing would have happened in the future. ”

……

On this night, Chen Huaiqing's eldest son, Chen Dexing's eldest brother Chen Defang, was still in the Delhi Palace, but he had some insomnia, got up from his clothes, and looked at the moonlight in the sky in the courtyard. I don't know when, there was a sound of soft footsteps around me, and then there was a "female black slave" Goodit. Solomon's voice: "Your Highness, why don't you rest?" ”

Chen Defang didn't reply: "My brother should go to the Riverside Mansion today, if it weren't for the many things, I should go to the Riverside Mansion to greet the ......."

Goodit. Solomon's voice was soft: "If Your Highness misses your brother, you can go to the mouth of the Xindu River." The Ming sage will definitely stay there and meet with Li Tingzhi, the prime minister of the Western Song Dynasty, and the land rover of the Western army of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Chen Defang sighed softly: "How about meeting?" This time, he sealed three more kings in Tianzhu, Dong Wenwei, the king of Pingnan, Wang Dechen, the king of Zhennan, and Yu Xing, the king of Dingnan...... Now Tianzhu is no longer the Eight Kingdoms, but the Twelve Kingdoms (including the vassal state of Ahong, a British vassal state)! ”

The kings of Pingnan, Zhennan, and Dingnan all have the word "south" in their names, which is naturally related to Nantianzhu. The appearance of these three kings will definitely compress the space for the British Kingdom to go south. Although it will not make it impossible for the British Kingdom to expand, Chen Dexing's attitude has been very clear......

Goodit. Solomon reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness, in fact, Britain is not small today, when it comes to population and wealth, I am afraid that it is only second to the Ming Dynasty, and it is the second largest country in the world, right?" ”

A dilemma since ancient times! Even if Chen Dexing and Chen Defang are brothers, they will not be unrestricted.

"However, in Goodit's opinion, His Highness should still go to the mouth of the Xindu River, and he should go to see the Ming Sage anyway." Goodit. Solomon said, "Actually, the saint wants to restrict only England, not Your Highness!" ”

"Oh?" Chen Defang turned around and looked at his "pet slave", "Goodit, what do you mean ......?"

"Does Your Highness remember what the slave maid told you about El Dorado in West Africa?"

"El Dorado of West Africa...... That Mali Empire? ”

Goodit. Solomon's eyes flashed with a hint of brilliance, "Does Your Highness want our children to become the rulers of El Dorado in West Africa?" There's never been a better time to do it! The Ming Empire has obviously eaten too much, and has no interest in the distant and wild Africa at all, this land may be the home country left by God to our descendants! (To be continued.) )