Obviously, Empress Dowager Zhang is a little unkind to see her youngest son Zhu Houwei, and there are many reasons why she doesn't want to see her.

For example, although the eldest son Zhu Houzhao likes to mess around, he is indeed unreliable, but he is straightforward and never hides, but Zhu Houwei is different, Zhu Houwei has not liked words since he was a child, and he likes to be wrapped with craftsmen all day long, and he may not be able to make a sullen fart for three days.

For example, Empress Dowager Zhang also knew that her youngest son would become a vassal once he became an adult, so she might not have the opportunity to reunite with her youngest son for the rest of her life, so she was subconsciously alienated.

For example, Zhu Houwei and Zhu Houzhao conspired, but she didn't even know the slightest rumor, although the possibility of Zhu Houzhao being the mastermind of this matter was more than ninety out of five, but it was Zhu Houwei who benefited, so she naturally deducted the responsibility on her youngest son.

Another example is the refusal to marry Zhang Shaohua, such as the judgment of the two after ascending the throne, etc......

But now I don't bother to care.

"The mourning family has always persuaded the emperor to accept women into the palace, but the emperor always turns a deaf ear and shirks it for various reasons, so why does the emperor agree to choose a concubine now?"

"Weigh ......" Zhu Houwei spit out two words neatly.

Empress Dowager Zhang frowned and said: "The mourning family doesn't understand political affairs, and they don't know what to weigh and don't trade-offs, but since the emperor promised to draft a foreign court, has he ever chosen it this day?"

"No, I didn't."

"Why is the affairs of the foreign dynasty so procrastinated, the mourning family has seen it for the emperor, the sixteenth of next month is a good day, what does the emperor think?"

"It's up to the queen mother."

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded with satisfaction and said: "The mourning family asks you, Houzhao has been overseas for two or three years, when does he plan to come back to visit the mourning family, and the emperor's two uncles, why has the mourning family never heard from them, the mourning family heard that the emperor has taken back the two waiting houses, is it possible that they plan not to return to Daming in this life, or does the emperor not plan to let them come back?"

Zhu Houwei was depressed, the most important reason why he was reluctant to come to Cining Palace was this, some words were not asked once, but he was still asked again and again, to be honest, he was really tired.

"Brother Huang estimates that it is unlikely to come back within ten years......"

"Ten years!"

"The royal brother opened up the territory in Western Europe, just experienced the Battle of Andorra a year ago, annihilated the main force of the Western European coalition army, and now it is necessary to stabilize the rear, resettle immigrants, and temper the new army, these things are complicated, and they can not be completed overnight, and the imperial brother wants to complete the grand plan and hegemony in Western Europe......"

"Alright, alright." Empress Dowager Zhang said impatiently: "The mourning family is a woman, I don't like to hear this, and I don't care about any grand ambitions, the mourning family only cares about when their son can come back to his side to fulfill his filial piety!"

Zhu Houwei sighed: "The next time Gu Hou returns, the son will ask him to tell the imperial brother about the queen's thoughts, urging him to take care of the affairs of Western Europe earlier, follow the fleet back to the Ming Dynasty, and greet the queen mother."

Empress Dowager Zhang hummed, she was not uninformed, and even she knew that with Zhu Houzhao's temperament, she let her put aside the war in Western Europe and the great cause of Wang Ba, and it was not realistic to come back to Daming all the way just to say hello, unless she was seriously ill and dying, but she still said this, in fact, to express her dissatisfaction with the various measures between the two brothers to her younger son......

"As for the two uncles...... Zhu Houwei smiled bitterly: "The two uncles can only be described as happy now...... They occupied 30,000 acres of fertile land in Portugal, which is now the Portuguese state of the Dawu Dynasty, and also occupied the original Portuguese royal palace and changed it to Houfu.

Now there are 300 Western European slaves in the mansion, and a silver mine is occupied, and thousands of slaves are requisitioned to open mines for them.

As for why Erchen wanted to take back the two Houfu, it was because the two uncles themselves asked Erchen to sell the mansion in the capital and bring them the cash......

The queen mother also knew that the two waiting mansions were given to the uncle by the first emperor to live, and it stands to reason that the uncle actually only has the right to live and does not have the right to dispose of it, but the uncle considers the mansion to be private, and the sons and daughters don't have much to say. ”

"Really?" Empress Dowager Zhang was a little skeptical, she knew that her two sons didn't want to see her two younger brothers, but now that the younger son said it so well, she had no reason not to believe it.

"How can Erchen lie to the queen mother, if the queen mother doesn't believe it, when Gu Hou comes back next time, Erchen will let him personally report to the queen mother."

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded, and said with a relieved smile on her face: "In this case, the queen mother will be relieved......"

Zhu Houwei smiled knowingly.

And at this moment, the Zhang brothers want to cry......

With the third batch of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty sent to the Western European continent by Lieutenant Gu Hou Shen Geng, there are now more than 1.5 million Han people in Western Europe!

One and a half million Han people is not much for the vast land of Western Europe, which is not smaller than China, but it has allowed Zhu Houzhao to control the territory he now occupies.

The original population of Portugal and Spain was only six or seven million, and the war of annihilation, the suppression of the aristocratic forces, the elimination of those old, weak, sick and disabled, plus the elite population who were escorted back to the Ming Dynasty, and those who fled, now the Dawu Dynasty's Portugal and Banzhou, Yazhou (the Dawu Dynasty divided the Spanish administrative plan into two), the total number of aborigines in the three states is less than two million.

Of these two million, 780,000 of the able-bodied people were enslaved and used by the army as labor for mining, road and bridge building, shipbuilding, and so on.

However, after the next arrival of Shen Gengzhong's fleet, these two million people will also be relocated one after another, and the strong will be sent to Daming, and the rest of the old and weak will be transported to Australia or the Americas to fend for themselves according to Zhu Houwei's wishes.

In general, the current Dawu Dynasty is on the right track, and it has ushered in a period of peace with Western European countries that is not short.

However, this peace is only a façade, the Holy See knows very well that the Dawu Dynasty cannot stop, as long as the time comes, Dawu will definitely continue to launch a war of aggression, and the next one to bear the brunt is France!

War can break out anytime and anywhere, so at the urging of the Holy See, European countries have begun to fight hard and frantically build swords, guns and armor, whether it is to recapture Portugal or Spain or simply to protect themselves, the Holy See has spared no effort.

And Dawu is the same, the 100,000 troops brought back from the Ming Dynasty, Andorra lost more than 10,000 in the first war, and the remaining more than 80,000 troops must be divided at least more than half to maintain the defense of the states, so the forces that can attack are stretched.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao can only select the elite and strong from the immigrants to join the army, and make full preparations for the next Western European war!

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