The old emperor waved his hand lightly and asked Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Jianfeng's uncle and nephew to go back and sit down.

Then he looked at the surrounding ministers and took the initiative to ask a new question:

"How is the progress of the other yamen's tasks? How was the plan for the withdrawal of the feudal domain? What about the people in the household? ”

If it was just when he was in the court, the old emperor took the initiative to ask about the progress of the work, and maybe someone else would take the initiative to report.

But now that there is a precedent of Zhu Jianfeng, even if it is a yamen with some progress, he does not dare to stand up and show his merits, and is ready to go back and ponder again.

At the very least, in theory, Zhu Jingyuan should be consulted, and Zhu Jingyuan must be asked first.

Not only to avoid mistakes in the next report, but also to expect Zhu Jingyuan to give really useful suggestions.

It's just that those who are named have no chance to escape.

Wang Niansun, the head of the household, is sixty-one years old, but he looks younger, his hair is only gray, and his legs and feet are more flexible.

Hearing the call of His Majesty the Emperor, Wang Shangshu stood up in a complicated mood, and carefully reported after considering the language:

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the relevant government offices have not yet made a clear decision on the matter of withdrawing the feudal domain, and they still need to continue to study and decide."

Lao Wang Shangshu tried to be sloppy, but the old emperor grabbed it and continued to ask:

"Then there should always be a general direction for the discussion, right? What kind of vassal states are the easiest to revoke? The household department should have screened and discussed it on its own, right?

"In order to appease the people of the vassal state, the imperial court should come up with a model for withdrawing the vassal as soon as possible, and first find a few vassal states that can quickly withdraw the vassal state."

Wang Shangshu couldn't shirk it, so he could only begin to explain the detailed ideas:

"Among the vassal states, the most relocated were the countries of the West Sea (Sinai Peninsula) and the states along the southwest coast of the Persian Gulf.

"The Xihai country has a vassal but no king, and the imperial court has never canonized the king of the Xihai domain, in fact, it is no different from the political envoy.

"The local area is at the key point of east-west transportation, and the Ming and Xiyi have been fighting here for many years.

"The local natives are relatively scarce, and they have fled to neighboring countries due to war, and now there are few survivors.

"The people in the vassal kingdom are either imperial soldiers, or financial gangs, or river workers, but they are all Ming people.

"The Xihai Canal is one of the most important projects set by Emperor Shizu, and the laborers of the river did not use the local natives and Tianzhu people, but all the people who migrated from the Ming Dynasty.

These people, both laborers and immigrants, settled directly in the West Sea after the river was opened, continued to maintain and ensure the smooth flow of the canal, and also used the benefits of the canal to support it.

"Therefore, the Xihai State can directly change the political envoy department, and there should not be too complicated problems.

"The southwestern countries of the Persian Gulf have countries but no people, and they are barren land, uninhabited for hundreds of miles inland, and there is a desolate desert as far as the eye can see.

"Since the establishment of the feudal domain, the feudal kings of successive dynasties have repeatedly requested the withdrawal and relocation of the feudal domain, and said that they could directly leave the feudal domain and return to Beijing at any time.

However, although it was relatively easy to remove the feudal domain, it was quite difficult to set up a political envoy and select officials.

"Even the people of the neighboring feudal kingdoms may not be willing to go over, let alone the local officials of the Ming Dynasty."

Wang Laoshangshu said that this is the end for the time being, waiting for the emperor to continue to inquire or make a decision directly.

Then Zhu Jingyuan stood up again very abruptly:

"Grandpa Huang, Sun Chen, please lead the vassal kings of the southwest of the Persian Gulf."

At this moment, the prince Lao Shangshu was stunned, the surrounding ministers were also stunned, and the old emperor's eyes widened.

What the hell is going on with this kid?

The Ming Dynasty has not been crowned a vassal king for nearly a hundred years, and the existing vassal states and vassal kings are basically the descendants of the vassal kings canonized by Emperor Shizu.

In a place like Xihai, which occupied for a relatively short time, although a vassal state was also set up, it was only to avoid the treatment of the locals, and in fact there was no arrangement for the vassal king, and it was all managed by the governor arranged by the imperial court.

The point is, you originally proposed the withdrawal of the domain, and now you want to be the king of the domain? Don't you feel contradictory?

And Wang Shangshu said just now, the inland of that place is a big desert, and you can't see a single figure for hundreds of miles, and the existing vassal kings ask to withdraw from the vassal and return to Beijing every once in a while.

No one wants to go as an official, and you actually took the initiative to go over, isn't this asking for exile? Are you sick of the brain?

Of course, Zhu Jingyuan's brain is not bad, he knows that there is a treasure under that desert!

There are several vassal states that include all of Qatar and Bahrain, most of the United Arab Emirates, and the eastern oil-producing region of Saudi Arabia, where the country's largest oil fields are located.

The oil here is not only very large in reserves, but also very good in condition, the key is that the extraction cost is still very low, and it is also on the coast, and the transportation cost is also extremely low.

This, together with Kuwait in the north, is one of the best gold producers in the world.

This must have been specially instructed by the seniors of the traverser to occupy it.

Later generations and ordinary vassal kings don't know what's down here, and they just want to run away when they look at the desert.

When Zhu Jingyuan heard Wang Shangshu talk about this, he thought about running into these big deserts.

Because after the end of the line with his ninth uncle, Zhu Jingyuan sat back in his position and quickly calmed down.

Then I was a little scared, and I regretted it a little.

He was talking to the future emperor before, he shouldn't have been so tough at that time, what if he held a grudge?

When the old emperor was there, even if he abdicated, he could cover himself, but what should he do after the old emperor died?

Moreover, although there are corresponding compromises in various aspects of the general direction of reform that I have proposed, reform will eventually offend people.

You should be safe before the negotiations, but you may not be able to say after the peace talks.

It is better to be cautious or take the initiative to run away, it is better to go abroad to negotiate, and after the negotiations are over, you will not return to China and go to the Persian Gulf to dig for oil.

He took the initiative to exile tens of thousands of miles and went to eat sand in the desert.

I, the emperor's uncle, and the person who went bankrupt because of myself, should let himself go, right?

The purpose of withdrawing the feudal states was to give the imperial citizenship rights of the feudal states, not to direct the remote wastelands, so not all feudal states had to be withdrawn.

In such an uninhabited place in the Persian Gulf, it makes no sense to withdraw the feudal domain now, and no one cares.

At the very least, no one will care until oil is shown to be of great value, and until oil extraction here shows its great advantages.

After the oil industry here showed great advantages, he would follow the trend and take the initiative to request the withdrawal of the feudal domain, and he could sell the favor of the court and the emperor at that time.

Before this, I had been a big dog here for twenty or thirty years, so there should be no big problem.

At the same time, the old emperor's eyes when he looked at Zhu Jingyuan were different from those of the princes and ministers.

The thing that the old emperor cared about most was not the fact that there was oil in the ground, but the safety problem that Zhu Jingyuan was also aware of.

The king of the desert domain is equivalent to issuing a statement in advance, and he will ask for exile after finishing his work, so that those whose interests are damaged will not hold a grudge against him.

Of course, the old emperor would not let Zhu Jingyuan eat sand, but after careful consideration, he still decided to cooperate with him verbally.

Releasing this kind of news now can make him safer.

As for these feudal states in the desert, now they can go back and retreat, and no one cares about them anyway, including the original vassal king.

"It is proposed to withdraw the Xihai Domain, set up the Xihai Political Envoy Division, the Xihai Punishment Prosecution Division, the Xihai Command Envoy Division, and set up the Xihai Governor and his subordinate offices.

"Proposed decree, withdraw the southwestern feudal domains of the Persian Gulf, the vassal king will return to Beijing immediately, set up a large food domain, and the prince Jingyuan will lead the vassal king, and choose the opportunity to take the domain."

After the two holy decrees came down, all the princes and ministers were stunned again, and the emperor agreed directly?

This is after nearly a hundred years, the imperial court once again canonized the new vassal king, and the convention that has been formed has been broken like this?

Will there be any conventions that will continue to be broken after that? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Zhu Jingyuan himself was just as surprised, he didn't expect that the old emperor didn't discount at all and gave him all the land.

But Zhu Jingyuan didn't know that the old emperor was not ready to let him go at all, he was just playing tricks.

It was Zhu Jianfeng who quickly cheered up after being stunned.

Zhu Jingyuan, the kid, was ready to run away by himself, but the key was that his father agreed directly!

Could it be that his father didn't like him at all? Just continue to use his childlike words as a person who reforms and fights thunder?

At the same time, this could also be for the real heir, that is, the one who wades through the thunder himself?

So, is the heir chosen and recognized by the father always himself?

Was I really worried and panicked and anxious in vain?