A group of clan vassal kings looked at Zhu Houzhao expectantly, they came to Western Europe far away from their homeland, with dreams, but also because they were too aggrieved in the Ming Dynasty, they were aggrieved before, and now they are even more aggrieved under the rule of Emperor Jiajing, so they want to find hope in Zhu Houzhao and regain the royal glory that has been lost since the Taizong Dynasty.

No one spoke up, there was no need, they were not as miserable as the clan, and they belonged to Western Europe that was forced by Jiajing, so they were waiting one by one to see how Zhu Houzhao planned to solve the politics of the clan.

"I understand what Hou Wei means." After Zhu Houzhao asked Wei Bin to return the holy decree to the four princes, he said: "Brothers work together, their strength is gold, since Hou Wei said so, I naturally will not object."

The kings immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and sure enough, Zhu Houzhao still has a face, which is hundreds of times stronger than his shameless younger brother.

"But there are some things that I must make clear to my clansmen, and presumably the clan also knows that Hou Wei wants to emigrate to Western Europe, and these immigrants are the people of my Great Martial Dynasty, and they are also the foundation of my foothold here.

For me, any Han people are my most valuable treasure, and without enough immigrants, even if I have a vast territory beyond the Ming Dynasty, it is meaningless, because I can't occupy the land that I have conquered.

It's as if in more than a year, I have led a large army to conquer Portugal and Spain, but there are only 100,000 Han people, so I can only gather Han people here in Sponne...... Here within the state.

Then circle a hundred miles of land for farming, and prohibit the aborigines from entering, otherwise they will be killed!

Because I know that if I allow the aborigines and Han people to live together, and play the assimilation method that Hou Wei and I said, I don't know how many Han people will be killed!

All the Han people are seeds, and I can't afford to lose them, and I don't want to see the Han people die in this foreign land, so I accept Hou Wei's suggestion, and if you want to expand the territory, I have no opinion.

The kings can recruit the aborigines on their own and then train into an army to conquer other countries, and the kings of the territories they have defeated can also set their own country names to establish vassal states, I have no opinion, but I can't recruit Han people! This is my bottom line! ”

The kings were dumbfounded......

Don't recruit Han soldiers to recruit barbarians?

Just rely on the dozens or hundreds of families each of them to recruit barbarians as soldiers?

It is estimated that they will not even be left with bones and slag after being swallowed!

"How ridiculous is Your Majesty's words!" King Qin stood up and said: "Your Majesty has attacked Western Europe, exterminated its two countries, killing is not counted, the soldiers of foreign races are afraid that they hate our Han people, and they are eager to eat our flesh and sleep on our skin, Your Majesty let the kings recruit foreign races as soldiers on their own, isn't it to drive sheep into the mouth of the tiger and bury the lives of the kings!" What's more, according to Your Majesty's intentions, presumably even if we lay down the territory, Your Majesty will not give the kings and the Han people to rule, and use the foreign race as the foundation country in the land of the alien race, Your Majesty thinks that the kingdom of the kings can be stable? ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head and said: "That's not what I said, the Han people brought by the kings themselves are still your own, and the immigrants sent by Hou Wei are themselves the people of the Jiajing Dynasty, and he gave them to me, so naturally they are also my people, if I have tens of millions of Han people under my rule, it naturally doesn't matter, but ......

However, I defeated the two countries, but I could only trap two cities, and now these hundreds of thousands of Han people are not even satisfied with this Portugal, how can they still have manpower for the kings?

There are hundreds of elite families in the hands of the kings, and I give them swords, guns and armor to the kings, why worry about not being able to suppress some foreign races, and then domesticate them, the three thousand battalions of the Ming Dynasty are not all made of foreign races, and they are not loyal to my Ming Dynasty! ”

Kings want to curse!

Can the 3,000 battalions be compared to this Western Europe?

You must know that 3,000 battalions are only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and they dare to rebel in Han land?

I'm afraid that if I just want to rebel, I will be chopped up and fed to the dogs!

But this Western Europe, with a population of tens of thousands, if there is no strong army here, they are lambs to the slaughter, and they will never fight back!

"Swords, guns and armor?" King Jin reacted and asked, "What about firearms?"

"Firearms?" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Return the firearms, my current muskets still rely on Hou Wei's supply, the artillery is removed from the warship, I don't have enough firearms myself, where are the extra firearms allocated to you?"

Speaking of which, if the kings didn't know that they had given Zhu Houzhao and the brothers a pit, they would have really lived in vain......

"General Shen." The King of Qin ignored Zhu Houzhao, turned his head to Shen Gengzhong and said: "Western Europe is not a place where the kings have been staying for a long time, and this king is afraid that he will have to trouble General Shen to send the kings back to the Ming Dynasty."

Shen Gengzhong said with a very embarrassed look on his face: "King Qin doesn't know, the Ming Dynasty needs labor everywhere now, in the eyes of Your Majesty, the life of the Han people is precious, and the life of the alien race is not valuable, so Your Majesty asked Ben to turn around this time, and be sure to bring back 500,000 alien races in order to invest in dozens of large infrastructure projects.

The faces of all the kings were extremely ugly, and this kind of lame excuse could be said, obviously, Zhu Houwei didn't plan to let them go back!

"Do you want to go back?" Zhu Houwei sneered.

The kings looked at Zhu Houzhao with their eyes.

"Da Ming is about to implement the knighthood system, this is what Hou Wei told me."

"What do you mean?" King Qin asked in a deep voice.

"What else could it be like?" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "It's to cut the knights from generation to generation, Hou Wei once said that the Ming Dynasty and even the future Ming brothers' country does not need the existence of clans and nobles, and those who have made meritorious contributions will give enough respect and status but have nothing to do with the title."

And what he doesn't like the most is the aristocracy that doesn't have the slightest ability, but can rely on the remnants of his ancestors to enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth, which naturally includes the clan and nobles, so he wants to reform. ”

The word reform, the Ming Dynasty has long been numb in the Jiajing Dynasty, but now Zhu Houzhao said the word reform still gave the nobles present an incomparably huge shock!

King Qin laughed and said, "Presumably, Emperor Jiajing and His Majesty seem to have forgotten that the reason why you can become the emperor of the world is also because of the shadow of your ancestors."

"yes, so what?" Zhu Houzhao said: "But you can only be a king by relying on your ancestors, but our brother is a king, do you have an opinion?" Want to rebel? ”

These words almost suffocated the kings again, and now Zhu Houzhao is shamelessly explaining a fact to the kings, that is, their fists are bigger than yours, what can you do?

"So, Your Majesty intends to introduce a knighthood system in Western Europe as well?"

"No, no, no." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Didn't Hou Wei give you a will?" You recruit foreign races as soldiers, and the territory you go to conquer is the vassal state of Dawu, how can you be cut down? ”

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