Chapter Forty-Nine: Stirring the Ninefold

Nanjing, among the imperial palaces.

Zhu Xiongying hugged the prince and He Xi in the back lake.

The relationship between Zhu Xiongying and He Xi is confirmed, and the relationship between the two sides has become more and more natural.

Zhu Xiongying said, "Uncle, I don't know where I want to go overseas in the future?"

As soon as He Xi heard it, he knew that what Zhu Xiongying was talking about was the war in Nanyang.

He Xi has a very complicated feeling about the matter of overseas vassals.

He knew very well that Zhu Xiongying was his fief, which was fundamentally equivalent to an overseas vassal state, and this was also a ransom for the power in his hands.

When the Zhou Dynasty was feudal, Qi was the greatest, and the Qi State was the fief of Jiang Taigong. He Xi's current power is not the Ming Dynasty's Jiang Taigong, but if it is said to be the Zhou Gong of the Ming Dynasty, it is appropriate.

It's just that He Xi's overseas feudal domain seems to be just a change of place.

What's it?

He never wanted to be the lord of a land, hereditary and replaceable.

But the situation has come step by step, and now that he does not go overseas to become a vassal himself, not only him, but also his cronies and subordinates, I am afraid that it will not end well.

It's already an established fact.

He Xi didn't care much about it.

After all, in his opinion, many places overseas can be very prosperous. Today, although the degree of industrialization of the Ming Dynasty is low, Nanyang is already the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty. And this time the Nanyang strategy was successful, and within more than ten years, the Bay of Bengal was also the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.

With the support of the industrial capacity of the Ming Dynasty, you can make contributions anywhere. Even the strength of a battalion may not be impossible to sweep through a country. What the Spaniards can do, it is naturally impossible for Daming not to do.

The problem is that the Americas are too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the South Seas are just around the corner.

He Xi said, "Listen to Your Majesty's orders."

Zhu Xiongying said, "How is Tianzhu?"

He Xi was stunned for a moment and said, "This is a little too far."

Zhu Xiongying said, "It's not far away. Uncle has made a contribution to the reinvention of the world. I am hindered by the ancestral system, and I cannot be crowned king. However, if you can let my uncle raise a brigade to go west, and stand on his own in the land of Tianzhu, what does my uncle think?"

Zhu Xiongying's biggest worry has never been that He Xi will not quit Daming.

Between Zhu Xiongying and He Xi, the two are afraid of each other.

Zhu Xiongying was afraid that He Xi would think wrongly. Although he knew, He Xi probably didn't. But the problem is, He Xi has this ability. This is one of them. Second, he is afraid of He Xi's ability, he doesn't know how many times he has planned in his heart to oppose He Xi's coup.

But in the end, they all gave up.

I'm just worried, once things don't work out, how will it end in the future?

Therefore, he painted a big cake for He Xi. On the one hand, it is to appease He Xi. On the one hand, it is done for others to see.

In a political struggle, there are always those who are firmly on someone's side. Most of them are centrist factions, and no matter what time it is, winning over the centrist faction is the most important job.

This is also the meaning of making friends more and enemies less.

And now it is the same, the most important faction of Guozijian in He Xi's faction, in the final analysis, is a scholar, and it is one thing for them to support He Xi, and it is another thing to support He Xi to usurp the throne. How Zhu Xiongying was in too much of a hurry and insisted on taking He Xi, many people were worried that they would be implicated. I can't say that I want to be with He Xi.

But now Zhu Xiongying is vigorously giving He Xi good conditions and treatment, and giving overseas vassal countries, as soon as he makes a move, he is not inferior to the Central Plains of the big country. Whoever watched it also felt that the emperor was doing the right thing, and if He Xi did something, he would be unpopular.

In the end, it was naturally to pack up the core strength of He Xi's faction and take it away.

Tianzhu is a big country, and there are fewer people He Xi brings. How can it be pacified? Naturally, people have to be drawn from the Ming Dynasty. And those who are willing to follow him to Tianzhu are naturally his core strength, these people are in Daming, and Zhu Xiongying also feels that it is in the way.

Kill, can't kill.

He is a man of merit.

Yes, it can't be used.

Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

As for the fact that He Xi is sitting in Tianzhu, Zhu Xiongying is not worried.

Because he has already determined one thing, from today onwards, the Ming Emperor, dealing with overseas vassal states, will be an important matter. Now there is already a Yan country in the north, and there is also an India in the west.

Speaking of which, the threat of Yan to the Central Plains is far above India.

Even if he made a move against the vassal king, he didn't deal with He Xi first.

That's in the future, not even in the future, it's for future generations. It doesn't matter to Zhu Xiongying now.

He Xi didn't see what Zhu Xiongying meant at first, but Zhu Xiongying's words were almost clear. Where else can He Xi not know.

He Xi had no objection to this.

Before He Xi entered the palace, he had already been mentally prepared for the matter of Zhengnan.

That is to fight.

Not only did the imperial court fight, but it also had to lead the troops of the Nanyang countries to send troops.

This battle is not only to expand the territory, but also to integrate the South Seas. In He Xi's heart, Nanyang is actually not far from Daming, and the steam engine ship is already not far in the future. Although the mature steam engine ship, it will probably take a few decades. However, it is inevitable that the core ruling area of the Ming Dynasty will include Nanyang.

The Battle of the North and South. As a result, the Ming Dynasty's control over the South Seas declined, and it must be known that in the regulations of the vassal state formulated by He Xi, the Ming Dynasty also had many powers over the vassal state, including the right to expropriate and transfer.

When necessary, recruit the *** team of the clan to serve the Ming Dynasty.

Let the Nanyang Domain's *** team work for the Ming Dynasty, which is not only to pass on the cost of the war, but also to deter Nanyang.

Let the Nanyang Domain see what the Great Tomorrow soldiers are like, and naturally there will be no thoughts that should not be had. The Ming Dynasty's overseas management, before wireless telegraphy, was estimated to be in feudal form, which was the best and most cost-effective way. But it does not mean that the Ming Dynasty has no control over the vassal state at all.

Colonies can only be semi-independent, and they can never be independent.

In addition, it is to pass on the internal contradictions of the Ming Dynasty.

The affairs in Guangdong told He Xi that it is not so easy to change the law and go deep into the localities and the people. Many people really don't cry when they don't see the coffin. Talking to these people about the central policy, the way out given to him by the imperial court is simply unreasonable.

For the powerful people who are entrenched in the local area, some of them have been moved by He Xi's words, such as the He family in Guangdong. The other part, most of them, is very ignorant. They are entrenched in the corners of the Ming Dynasty, and they don't know anything about the outside world at all. I don't want to know either. Look at the book

I think that's how the ancestors did things, whether it was Song or Yuan, it was like this. Now you tell us that they don't care, they don't care, they think that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake.

Don't listen to these people at all.

He Xi had already given up a lot of benefits and wanted to make these people nod, but He Xi calculated an account and suddenly found that this would not work.

Although He Xi has worked hard to make the cake bigger. But the benefits are still limited.

He Xi's change. It is beneficial to the people, and with the interests of the development of productive forces, he bought the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty, and he is attacking the middle level. I want to bring the Ming court from the government to the officials, or the gentry, patriarchs and other middle classes, and then to the common people. Becoming a government is directly related to the people.

The suppression of the interests of the middle class is inevitable.

There are some local heroes who were raised by He Xi and became members of the National Assembly, from local heroes to political families, although in the eyes of many people in Nanjing, they are still mud legs. But it's not the same anymore. But compared to most of the other places where the powerful middle class.

The benefits He Xi gave them could not be compared to their original interests.

Even if some people support He Xi's change, it is a last resort. It's just that the arms can't twist the thighs.

It is impossible for He Xi to offer other interests to buy these people.

Since, if the soft one is not good, the hard one will come.

what

Xi is going to be ruthless at this moment.

It's just that how to be ruthless is also particular. Killing is also an art.

Killing without guilt is wrong from any point of view. And convicting people is also an art. Law is a tool for the ruling class to rule the country, and the use of tools is also an art. A purge like the one in the USSR would be too simple and crude, and there would be no beauty.

He Xi naturally can't play like this, and he can't convict the people below just because they are against the new law.

If people in the world don't recognize it, maybe some people will redefine it as a hero in the future.

In He Xi's opinion, the best way is that the people below who implement the new law are all capable ministers and officials, and they will deal with these people's affairs silently. He Xi doesn't have to worry.

But it's a pity that no matter what time it is, the most lacking thing in the world is talent. If you can carry out the new law, and the top and bottom are as calm as before, as if nothing has happened, such a person is either perfunctory or a genius.

He Xi couldn't expect the people below to be all the best in Zaifu.

He had to figure out a way for these people.

And Tie Xuan's practice in Guangdong can be regarded as a reminder of He Xi. Immigration has always been the way to fight the powerful.

On the whole, the implementation of the new law in the north has been relatively fast and smooth. There was no such thing, just because the northern society was broken at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. There is no clan power entrenched at all, even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there are all kinds of incense halls in the north, and there are more Taoist sects.

And not the clan forces.

And this time, the local heroes who resisted were mostly in the south. After all, first, the southern peace has been very long, and even the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty did not have much impact on the south, and second, the Ming regime was essentially born in the southern regime and conquered the whole country.

Naturally, there is a situation in Henan and Nanyang that cannot be asked. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang kills on a killing spree, some things cannot be avoided.

This is no longer the case.

The war between the north and the south, although it was a civil war, but the Ming court changed from a southern regime to a northern regime. Now everyone in the imperial court, including Zhu Xiongying, has their roots in the north, not the south.