Although since Zhu Gaochi deprived him of the crown prince and abolished him as the king of Jiangxi, the emperor did not appoint King Qi as the crown prince.

But King Qi can be appointed as the supervisor again, in fact, there is only a thin line between him and the crown prince, except for the nominal gap, the actual power of King Qi is no less than the prince in his heyday, or even better.

And the reason why Zhu Di did not make King Qi the crown prince was because he didn't want things to be too embarrassing.

After all, in order to give Zhu Gaochi a dignified resignation, the process of abolishing the crown prince was not to directly depose him, but to let Zhu Gaochi "resign due to illness", and only after three resignations and three stays did Zhu Gaochi step down.

And since he resigned due to illness, if King Qi ascends the throne directly, it will be too ugly.

Whether there is the title of "prince" or not, in fact, it makes no difference to Zhu Gaoxian, and besides, it is only a matter of time before the prince is re-established.

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His Majesty the Emperor set up a grand banquet in the Fengtian Hall in order to celebrate the overseas Weizhen Huanyu of the Great Ming Water Master. According to the Ming system, it can be divided into large banquets, medium banquets, regular banquets, and small banquets, and generally only festivals, such as the beginning of spring, Lantern Festival, April 8, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang Festival, Laba Day, or when the suburbs or temples and palaces are built, there is a chance to perform the "big banquet".

At the beginning, Zhu Gaoxian and Zhang Fu pacified the rebellion in the southwest, went on an expedition to Mobei to defeat Wara, and established Jianzhou Province in the northeast...... It's all a feast.

Shang Baosi was responsible for the preparation of the grand banquet, first set up the throne on the palace, spread the yellow man, and set up twenty-four guards to serve the Jinwu guard. The teaching workshop department set up nine music songs in the hall, set up big music outside the hall, and the dance team waited outside the hall. Guanglu Temple has a wine pavilion in the west of the throne, a dining pavilion in the east of the throne, a treasure and a delicious pavilion, and a wine pavilion on the east and west sides.

The throne is placed on the east and west sides of the throne, and according to the rules, the crown prince's seat is located in the east and west of the throne, and the kings are seated in the south and east and west. The ministers above the fourth grade are in the palace, and the fifth grade or less are entertained outside the palace, and a group of people such as the master pot, Shangjiu, and Shangshi are arranged to wait.

However, now there is no crown prince in the capital, only King Qi and King Gan, the prince is closed in the East Palace, and Zhu Gaoxian, who has the status of a prisoner, naturally sits on the east side of the throne, which is the position of the original prince, which is reasonable.

After the nine rounds of great gifts, the rites and music were melodious, and the envoys from various countries who went to Beijing with Zheng He visited in turn, and within the four seas, they were all Ming courtiers, and it was a prosperous Yongle era where all countries came to the court.

"What do you think, fourth?" Zhu Di played with the golden bottle, and waited for a long time without waiting for the sound of answering.

He looked at King Qi beside him, but found that this guy was eating nonsense, showing off the delicacies on the table in his mouth, and it was really embarrassing.

"Stinky boy!" Zhu Di scolded with a smile, "Look at your appearance, how come it looks like you haven't eaten in eight lifetimes!"

Zhu Gaoxian casually took out a napkin, wiped the corners of his mouth, and muttered: "I didn't hold back for a while, I didn't hold back, when I was fighting in Jianzhou before, I climbed the ice and snow on the black soil and ate for dinner, and I, the commander, always had to lead by example, sharing weal and woe with the sergeants, eating hard buckwheat cakes, which were worse than the soldiers ate, and I was hungry and thin, so I couldn't make up for it after returning to the capital."

"Jianzhou, how's it going?" Zhu Di asked.

When it comes to business, Zhu Gaoxian said seriously: "The manpower we invested in Jianzhou is mainly used in farming, infrastructure project development, mining excavation, etc., from the effect of the first half of this year, Jianzhou has been carried out very smoothly in farming, and the naturalization envoy has been insisting on turning the Han into Han, with the Han Academy as the core, assimilating the Jurchens, and the first batch of Han household registration issued in the first half of this year, a total of more than 5,000 people. The troops were stationed to prevent the Jurchens from jumping over the wall to mutiny, and the four divisions of Jianzhou and the Han Academy were used to turn the people into Han, and the progress was very smooth."

Zhu Di asked, "How many years do you think it will take to completely tame Jianzhou Province and let the Han civilization replace the Jurchen mentality?"

Zhu Gaoxian thought for a while and said, "If you want to tame Jianzhou Province, it will only take a year or two. If they want to completely tame the Jurchens, it will take five years for them to get used to being Han Chinese. If you want to replace the Jurchen ideology with Han civilization, it will take at least ten years, and after the death of this generation of Jurchens, the new generation of Jurchens will accept Han Chinese thought

It is only then that the real domestication is the one who is educated and raised."

"Ten years...... Zhu Di's eyes were dark.

Ten years is too long, and he doesn't have that much time.

In the simulated life, Zhu Di remembers very clearly that he died of illness in the 22nd year of Yongle in Yumuchuan, where he was returning from the Northern Expedition.

It would take ten years to turn Jianju Province into Han, and then there would be Korea, the Wa Kingdom, and the more distant West, and he would not see that day.

Zhu Di died at the age of sixty-three, counting the emperors of the Central Plains, this age can not be said to be a long life, but he is still unwilling, he still has a lot to do, however......

Time waits for no one.

Zhu Di opens his eyes every morning, and there is a huge sense of emptiness in his heart, another day has passed, and his remaining time has passed a little bit, how much time do he have left to save Daming?

"Father?" Zhu Gaoxian couldn't help but feel a little strange when he saw the old man wandering.

"Well, it's fine." Zhu Di came back to his senses and beckoned to Zheng He on the other side, "Zheng He, come here."

Zheng He heard the voice of His Majesty the Emperor and walked over to salute: "Your Majesty, but do you have something to order?"

"Zheng He, I want to ask you something." Zhu Di said, "When do you plan to go to the West again?"

Zheng He replied, "Obey Your Majesty's orders."

"I'm asking you, not asking you to ask me."

"This ...... It should be to wait for the envoys of Guli and other countries to return to China, set off with a fleet, send back the envoys and visit the countries, and finally set off from Changle Port." Zheng He said, "If you want to know the specific time, it should be the year after tomorrow."

"Let's let these things go." Zhu Di shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that in the past few years, it will be difficult for you to go to the West again."

Zheng He was struck by lightning: "Your Majesty, why is this?"

He also thought that the emperor felt that it was too expensive to go to the West and planned to stop exploring the West.

Zheng He was not actually a descendant of the Han Chinese, he was born in the Western Regions, an Arab nobleman, and later moved to Kunyang Prefecture in Yunnan.

He had an ideal, hidden deep in his heart.

- Pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.

The holy city of Mecca is located in the Kingdom of Heaven, which is later Saudi Arabia, tens of thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, if it is a normal situation, Zheng He's wish to go on a pilgrimage is estimated to be only a wish, and the easiest way to realize this wish is to be reincarnated in the Arabian Peninsula in the next life.

What's more, although Zheng He was an Arab nobleman in his ancestors, his childhood was not very good.

His childhood was spent in Yunnan, originally had a good time, and then there were two people, on the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to expedition to Yunnan, and recovered Yunnan in less than a year, these two people, one is called Fu Youde, and the other is called Lan Yu.

After this war, the eleven-year-old "Ma Sanbao" inexplicably became a prisoner of war, and was inexplicably become a small eunuch.

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Now Zhu Di's words made Zheng He fall from heaven to hell.

Don't go to the West anymore?

What's the trouble?

"No, I still have to go to sea, but it's a little different from the previous sea." Zhu Di also knew that Zheng He had misunderstood what he meant, so he explained it to appease the other party.

"What does Your Majesty mean?" Zheng He still didn't understand.

Zhu Di said: "This time it is not you who will be the chief envoy, but someone else."

"I see, I understand." Zheng He's heart was comforted, but he was a little aggrieved, "Who does Your Majesty plan to make the envoy?"

He really couldn't figure it out, in terms of qualifications, experience, and status, who could be more suitable to be a chief envoy than himself?

The reason why the Ming Dynasty can have such prestige overseas is that Zheng He has contributed a lot, he is the most outstanding diplomat of the Ming Dynasty, and the most outstanding navigator of the Ming Dynasty.

He was always asked to serve as the chief envoy before, why is he going to be an adjutant for others now, even though Zheng He has always been loyal to Zhu Di, he is still a little uncomfortable.

Zhu Di slowly said the name: "King Qi."

"King Qi?"

Zheng He froze in place, "Your Majesty is joking?"

He looked at Zhu Gaoxian with a complicated look in his eyes.

Good for you, King Qi! I treat you as a small boss, but you want to rob me of my job?

Zhu Gaoxian said happily: "Zheng He, don't look at this king with such eyes, this king doesn't want to steal your job, it's just a cooperative relationship?"

"Cooperation?" Zheng He felt that he was being played by this father and son, and he was a little unclear, "What does the prince want to do when he goes to sea this time?"

It's just a sea, why did you send out the prince of the prison country, what is this for?

Zhu Gaoxian's eyes were calm and said, "Destroy the country!"