After dealing with the government.

Emperor Zhu left in a hurry and went to the Tai Hospital on his bicycle to visit his newborn son.

The Korean Confucian scholar Chung Min Si is right about one thing.

That is, the current Ming court is different from the Ming and Qing dynasties in history.

The way of Confucius and Mencius is now somewhat marginalized.

Moreover, in terms of political system, the Ming court governed the country with etiquette.

At this time, the East and the West exchanged and collided.

Of course, the Confucian scholars of the East also had some understanding of the political system of the West.

It was not long before it was pointed out.

Emperor Zhu's so-called study of the Zhou Dynasty rituals.

In fact, he was reforming the Togu system, and what he really learned was somewhat similar to the constitutional system of the British Empire in the West.

It's just a name change.

What is called the Ming Xiu plank road darkness Chen Cang.

Therefore, the political system of the current Ming Dynasty is actually very different from the previous Qing Dynasty.

The administrative and legislative systems of the Ming Dynasty have the shadow of European Britain.

The Ming Dynasty was a parliamentary chamber and an executive chamber with a clear system.

The House of Representatives has the power to legislate, and has the power to supervise and impeach the executive.

The Executive Yuan is in charge of the executive under the leadership of the Prime Ministers.

The emperor, on the other hand, is above the two houses and dictates government affairs.

It is already a system very similar to the constitutional government of the monarchy.

The prime minister of the Ming Dynasty was also similar to the prime minister of Britain and Prussia, which were constitutional countries.

Other than that.

The House of Parliament was also under the name of assisting the emperor in legislation.

It has obtained certain legislative and supervisory powers.

Although the passage of any law ultimately requires the signature of the emperor.

But the influence of the House of Representatives on the letter of the law is real.

This parliament is not a parliament that only applauds and raises hands.

And predictable.

Once Emperor Zhu, the founding emperor, is gone, the actual power of the parliament will be even greater.

However, this was all intentional by Emperor Zhu.

He can be a monarchy.

Because he believed that he was pointing in the right direction.

But he can't guarantee that future generations will be as wise as he is.

Therefore.

The dictatorial power of the monarch is restrained and restricted.

It's the trend of the times.

Emperor Zhu didn't want to affect this general trend.

He even intends to promote - if he can improve the political system of the Ming Dynasty up and down during his tenure, and establish a system that can operate effectively and steadily.

Besides.

Another problem that plagued successive dynasties.

It is a question of how the descendants of the royal family will arrange.

If this matter is not solved well, it may also become the reason for the collapse of a dynasty.

Now the royal family of the Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger.

The prince who was just given birth to Concubine Li is the 14th son of Emperor Zhu, counting those who have been born and those who are still in the womb.

Emperor Zhu already had 27 children.

Among them, 22 have been born, have 14 sons, 8 daughters, and 5 are in the belly of the concubines - Emperor Zhu In addition to the three concubines of the first queen, there are 8 concubines such as princesses and county lords from various subject countries such as the lord of the Korean state, and there are also national concubines in the Ming Empire, and some local clans also send women to the palace, as well as the harmony of the Mongolian steppe tribes.

Emperor Zhu is really hard alone.

There are 26 wives alone.

But this is not surprising.

Moreover, Emperor Zhu's woman must be difficult to rank in the top 20 in the ranking of the number of emperor women in history.

But there is one thing that Emperor Zhu must have beaten the emperors of previous dynasties - that is, the survival rate of his heirs.

Thanks to medical advances.

Emperor Zhu's more than 20 children are all healthy and alive.

Moreover, Emperor Zhu is still very young, only thirty-two this year, and attaches great importance to physical exercise.

I would jog five or six kilometers in the morning, and I usually rode a bicycle to work, and I rode a horse when I could when I went out, and I usually didn't take a carriage.

And because there is a bicameral system.

Emperor Zhu doesn't need to be a workaholic like his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Generally nothing particularly significant.

He will deal with the government in the morning, and after lunch at noon and after the lunch break, Emperor Zhu will meet with the ministers according to the situation, or catch up with the old brothers, or go to climb the mountain, play ball, etc.

In addition, in terms of diet, Emperor Zhu also paid attention to it.

After all, I used to be a doctor.

That's why the body is still very good.

At night, there is no nightlife in this era, so you can only hold hands.

Moreover, Emperor Zhu is the richest man, and he is not worried about not being able to afford it, the school district is still in the Zhongdu Palace, and he is not worried about the schooling of children at all.

Therefore, in the foreseeable future, even if Emperor Zhu's harem does not continue to expand.

The number of princes and princesses in the Ming Dynasty will definitely increase.

And how to arrange, or make good use of these royal bloodlines, is a problem that Emperor Zhu has to consider, after all, they are all his children.

As a royal bloodline.

The best arrangement, of course, is to inherit the throne.

But there is only one emperor throne of the Ming Dynasty.

There are already 14 princes.

It is definitely impossible to split the Ming Empire into 14 parts, so that each of the 14 brothers can take a copy.

The equal division of family property is also not supported in the Ming Li.

In accordance with the provisions of the inheritance system for family property in [Ming Li].

The eldest son guards the house, and the sons open up.

Of course.

This is just a suggestion, and it is not up to the Ming court to control how ordinary families distribute their property.

But the Ming royal family must follow this.

Other words.

The crown prince became emperor.

The rest of the sons will have to do something else.

Among the other princes, the best is of course to inherit the throne of the subject country.

It was impossible for the Ming Empire to occupy all the land.

It would be good to take the land that originally belonged to the Manchu Empire, and to add several large islands in Eastern Siberia and Southeast Asia.

This area is about 20 million square kilometers.

It is slightly smaller than the historical Tsarist Russia, but it is definitely a very vast territory.

And unlike what Tsarist Russia took was some tundra.

Among the territories won by the Ming Empire, the amount of arable land and the carrying capacity of the population were several times that of the Tsarist Russian Empire, which had expanded to the most extreme in history.

Therefore, before digesting these territories, it is a little difficult for the Ming Empire to expand the territory under its direct rule.

In addition to the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty - that is, the territory of the provincial, government, county, town, and township government agencies has been established.

The places directly controlled by the Ming court were the governor's palaces of the two colonies.

That is, the two governors' offices of the Australian colonies and the New World colonies.

The Governor's Office is a temporary institution.

The future of a colony generally has two scenarios.

One is like Borneo and Java, which are directly incorporated into the rule.

Another kind.

It is the model of the future Australia and the New World.

The sons are divided!

Divide the princes of Emperor Zhu into Australia and the New World, and carry out the policy of Xia Jun and razing the people.

Other words.

In places like Australia and the New World, the cost of direct rule by the Ming court was too great.

Therefore, considering the cost problem, the sub-envelope system is worth learning.

Although Emperor Zhu came from a later generation.

But he is a nationalist.

He didn't agree much with the great unity of many nationalities.

At least.

This idea was hardly feasible in the 18th century world.

There is no multi-ethnic power in the world now.

We are all nation-states, no exceptions.

As for the United States. The United States is not a great power now.

So.

What Zhu Daohua wants to establish in the Ming Empire is also a nation-state - all citizens of the Ming Empire need to identify with a nation, a country, a language, and a culture.

Therefore, the current household registration management system of the Ming Dynasty does not have the project of nationality.

Emperor Zhu thinks.

In the Ming Empire, taking the nation is to make trouble for yourself.

Because among the more than 40,000 people in the Ming Dynasty.

Han Chinese account for 99 per cent.

As long as Chinese language and sinicization education are promoted.

Decades later.

All nationalities have merged.

And around the core of the Ming Empire.

Zhu Daohua also intended to establish a series of vassal states.

These subject countries are either too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, they are not very easy to directly annex the territory.

For example, Central Asia, India, etc.

These places are closed to some domestic forces that are not easy to control.

For example, the Pingxi Domain, as well as the Indian Domain.

There is also a place where the land is narrow and there are many people, and the local national consciousness has been generated.

Where the population is large, the land is barren, there is no oil and water, the cost of swallowing is higher, and the resources digested are still small.

For example, Annam, North Korea, Japan.

to these places.

Emperor Zhu's plan was to find a way to let his son become the king of these countries.

Now the sixth child has become the king of Japan.

There are two regimes on Annan's side, but he and Annan's two concubines Zheng have heirs, and they can be arranged when the time comes.

On the North Korean side, if there is no accident, the newborn fourteenth does not know if he can be the king of North Korea.

"The concubine congratulates the emperor on adding another noble son."

Standing at the door of the delivery room of the Tai Hospital was Queen Luo Fangmei.

As the queen, she has to sit in person when each concubine gives birth.

Zhu Daohua said with a smile: "There are twenty-two children in the blink of an eye, I am really capable of giving birth, queen...... Your credit is not small, so many children, not one of them died, this is all your credit. ”

"No, this is the emperor's credit, if the emperor didn't invent medicine and treatment, the concubine would have the heart and power."

"Haha, it's troublesome to have more children."

"What's the trouble?"

"You have to find a way to arrange it, right? It's not okay to do what Emperor Taizu did, my descendants can't all rely on the state to support them, they have to be left to fend for themselves. ”

"Where are you talking about that? You're the richest man in the world. ”

"Don't the richest man's children support themselves? Do you want them to be playboys? It's not good for them or for the country. Queen, I heard that you are a little doting on children, which is not good! ”

Queen Luo was criticized inexplicably, and her face showed a look of grievance.

Of course, she is "doting" on other princes and princesses.

Actually, it's just not easy to manage.

People have their own mothers.

It's not good to be a villain, so it's all a smiling face, and those who come to ask for peace can receive red envelopes every day.

But to their three sons.

The eldest Zhu Yichi, the third Zhu Yimian, and the seventh Zhu Yijian are quite strict.

Especially the boss Zhu Yichi.

After all, it's the crown prince.

So it's even more severe.

Prince Daming, who is only six years old this year, has not only gone to primary school, but also wants to complete his primary school studies.

Back at the palace, I have to take extracurricular tutorial classes.

It was some of the great Confucians that Queen Luo invited him.

Learn the Confucian classics.

The palms of his hands were often swollen and swollen, and Emperor Zhu was distressed.

However, it is said that Zhu Yichi, the six-year-old prince of the Ming Dynasty, can already write beautiful calligraphy.

It seems that the baby is still quite useful.

Emperor Zhu and Empress Luo entered the delivery room together and picked up a newborn, ugly and cute baby.

"Your Majesty, the fourteenth prince is crying loudly, and he weighs 7 pounds."

The female doctor on the side smiled.

"Yes, eye-catching. The old fourteen is called Zhu Yiluan. ”

Emperor Zhu didn't bother at all with his name.

Anyway, just follow the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang.

"In the future. The old fourteen is the king of Joseon! ”

Emperor Zhu said loudly.

Concubine Li, who was lying on the bed, was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly sat up with excitement on her face.

"Concubine, Emperor Xie."

Emperor Zhu Jinkou Yuyan.

He said that the old man would be the king of Korea in the 14th day, and no one in Korea would dare to oppose it!

And

There is a precedent for the sixth child to be the king of Japan.

Let the old fourteen be the king of Joseon, even if it is to arrange a great future for Zhu Yiluan, who is still in infancy.

Empress Luo frowned slightly when she heard this.

The king of Japan and the king of Korea were all sealed.

The second child went to be the king of the golden mountain.

And what about her son?

The third and seventh have not been arranged yet.

seemed to see Queen Luo's worries.

Emperor Zhu said with a smile: "The other princes also have their own arrangements, my sons, they must not be rice worms raised in the deep palace, they want to become the king of the Ming Dynasty to guard the world!" The pioneer of Chinese civilization! ”

Emperor Zhu looked at Luo Fangmei.

"The third child will go to Australia, I think this Australia will also have to change its name, and it will be called Nanhua in the future, and the third child will be the king of South China!"

"The seventh is still young, let's talk about it later. But there are local arrangements in North and South America! ”

Emperor Zhu said with a smile.

"So, the queen, our sons, we can't keep them in abolition, we have to let them go to school and go to military school! Go to the army to train, and only then can you be independent in the New World. ”

"When the sons grow up, will the war in this new world be over?"

Luo Fangmei paused for a moment.

"Nope! Not so fast! ”

Emperor Zhu held the old fourteen in his arms and looked to the east.

"Now whether it is us or the Europeans, the power in the New World is very weak, and the New World is empty, and there are too many territories to fight for, so the war will not break out in full force until more than ten years later!"

"And at that time. That's a war between two worlds! ”

"World War."

Luo Fangmei was stunned.

There was some reluctance and panic in his eyes.

Will her sons be pushed into the face of a brutal world war?

"Queen, this is the responsibility of my prince, the children of the common people can go to the battlefield, my son, how can I not go to the battlefield?"

Emperor Zhu said.

(End of chapter)