Chapter 498

Cheng Shijie's appetite is naturally not something Catherine from the Republic of Venice can imagine, in fact, when Cheng Shijie became the regent of Daming, he began to consider the establishment of the Ming Dynasty's Sun Never Sets Empire.

In contrast, the policy in Daming is far from being as simple and crude as that of the director of Europa Colonization, and it is not the only model adopted in the world.

At present, Daming's overseas territories include Luzon, Indochina Peninsula, Zhanzhou (Australia), Xinming (La Plata), Sumatra and Coconut City, but these six overseas territories have adopted different policies and development models.

In Luzon and Indochina, the strategy of vacating cages for birds is adopted, but the Indochina Peninsula and Luzon are also different, in Luzon are mainly people and rogues who migrate from the interior, while Indochina Peninsula is the migration of Tusi tribes and armies, but relatively speaking, the situation in Indochina Peninsula is more complicated.

Cheng Shijie has a favor to the Tusi in various places, if the Tusi where they are located voluntarily migrate, they can be given surnames and Han status. The situation in the Ming Dynasty is different from that of later generations.,The current identity of the Ming Dynasty,More noble than the identity of the beautiful country in later generations.,With the promulgation of this decree,Tusi everywhere have led the implementation of sinicization within their own tribes.。

Practicing Chinese customs, speaking Chinese, wearing Hanfu, and knowing Chinese characters.

In order to strengthen the process of sinicization, the Tusi tribe in addition to the imperial court to support the past teachers, but also spend their own money to hire teachers, you must know that the current Tusi troops, swept the southern monkeys in the Indochina Peninsula, they robbed countless southern monkey cities, what temples, and even graves were dug up.

After the Tusi army, there is no trace of belonging to the Southern Monkey People, they are more barbaric and cruel than the Luzon Army, Cheng Shijie prefers to believe that in the future, there will be a rebellion within the Ming Dynasty, but the Tusi of the Indochina Peninsula will not, because they care more about this identity.

Just like the countries of the Western Regions, the Tang Dynasty governed the Western Regions as the Governorate of Anxi, and after the fall of the four towns of Anxi, Khotan has always insisted on serving the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, even after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, they are loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, precisely because they can obtain the recognition, they cherish this identity very much.

As for the semi-cooperative state in Zhanzhou, if the natives don't come to find trouble, they will be safe and can trade, while the Xinming side is completely equal and cooperative, as for Sumatra Wax and Coconut City, it is a faction to fight one faction.

The tribes that were willing to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty not only wanted to be vassals to the Ming Dynasty, but also provided them with weapons and equipment and helped them train their armies, of course, they had no autonomy and were completely reduced to vassals.

Catherine looked at Cheng Shijie and asked, "Then next, are you going to deal with the Mughals?" ”

"It's so easy!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Now a total of eleven Mughal kings have sent envoys to contact me, expressing their willingness to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, I plan to arm these eleven earth kings and let them wage war against other land kings and states to occupy new lands, we Ming will not interfere in their internal affairs, just provide some weapons and equipment in the back." ”

Catherine was slightly stunned: "Your Majesty, you are really insidious!" ”

"If you want to be insidious, can you be insidious?"

In the face of Cheng Shijie's accusation, Catherine did not refute, she came from Batavia this time, just to create a contradiction between Daming and the Netherlands, it doesn't matter what you talk about, it's enough to make this gesture, and the rest will wait for time to ferment.

Although Catherine's Princess sails very fast, it can reach fourteen to fifteen knots in a tailwind, but the problem is that what she doesn't know is that Daming already has a radio station, although Cheng Shijie can't purchase an advanced military radio station, however, Jiang Wenhua's scrap collection station has purchased a large number of waste electronic components, which he has taken out.

Of course, Cheng Shijie did not treat Jiang Wenhua badly, not only bought a mansion covering an area of more than 500 square meters for Jiang Wenhua in Hanhai City, but also transferred a business vehicle and an off-road vehicle under Cheng Shijie's name to Jiang Wenhua.

After the process of Shijie's transportation, although Cheng Shijie is unable to achieve global simultaneous communication, he can realize the communication between the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Office, the Annan Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the four major Metropolitan Governors of Anxi and Anbei, as well as the communication between the four major fleet stations of Lushun, Dayuan, Luzon and Coconut City.

At present, the biggest problem is not that there are not enough radio stations, but that there are too few telecommunications personnel to train them, and they are very slow.

Just when Anthony had just invited representatives of various countries to a meeting in Batavia, Cheng Shijie had already learned about Batavia through the radio, which Catherine did not know.

Of course, Cheng Shijie learned through the Ming mission in Venice that the Ottoman Empire had recently fought like chicken blood, and the war between it and Venice had more wins and fewer defeats, and the situation in Venice was very bad.

Cheng Shijie sighed a little, all history is contemporary history, Catherine and Cheng Shijie have a good personal relationship, and it seems that it also brings the most important news and intelligence of the Ming Dynasty, but the problem is that this is only part of the information, not the core issue of this intelligence.

Cheng Shijie also understands Catherine's difficulties, after all, she is not a Ming person, but a Venetian, and her position makes her have to consider the interests of the Venice city-state republic.

Understanding is understanding, but it does not mean that Cheng Shijie will be a knife in Venice.

In fact, Anthony convened the missions of various European countries and held a meeting, although he intended to form an alliance against the Ming Dynasty, but this proposal was vetoed by the Dutch East India Company just at the beginning. Now the Netherlands does not pay attention to the huge overseas colonies at all, they urgently need a large number of materials from the Ming Dynasty, as long as they can obtain the right to trade with the Ming Dynasty, they can get several times the benefits of the colonies.

Antony and the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company put forward another opinion, that is, to support the Ottoman Empire After all, in the face of the aggressive Ming, the Dutch wanted to fight the Ming, but they had no chance of winning and did not have the courage to resist. The current Ming Dynasty is a sharp sword hanging over the head of the Dutch East Indies.

First of all, they strengthened their cooperation with the Ottoman Empire, with the naval strength of the Dutch and the huge number of people in the Ottoman Empire, now the advantage of the Venetian city-state republic at sea is no longer there.

In Antony's view, Venice is a dog in captivity of the Ming Dynasty, when this dog bites with the Ottoman Empire, it has the upper hand, and the Ming will definitely not make a move, if this dog can't beat the Ottomans, then maybe the Ming will end.

Once the Ming decided to fight the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean, the Dutch would be able to take a breath and at the same time delay the Ming Dynasty's expansion.

Catherine and Anthony thought the same, she actually wanted the Ming to fight with the Dutch, once there was no support from the Dutch, with the strength of Venice, she could easily deal with the threat of the Ottoman Empire.

There is no eternal friendship between countries, and there are only interests.

Catherine is unwilling to tell the truth, and Cheng Shijie naturally won't force her. He is a Venetian, but not a Ming man.

However, Catherine is right in one sentence, Cheng Shijie is really insidious, not only supporting eleven agents within the Mughals, but also sending people to contact Niber.

Nipol is adjacent to the Mughals and separated from Bengal by the narrow Siliguri corridor, and the Ming army invaded the Mughal and broke through the city of Delhi, and Nepal certainly cannot be ignorant of such a big thing.

The Mughal tossed Nepal enough to occupy a lot of land in Nipor, and now the Mughals are unlucky, and the Mughals will naturally not be polite to them, and the king of Nipol expressed his willingness to be a vassal to the Ming army as quickly as possible, as long as the Ming can help him recapture the land occupied by the Mughals.

More than 20,000 Mughal youths took wooden shields and scimitars to harvest rice on the battlefield, washing Mughal settlements one by one like a strong wind blowing through a wheat field, and tens of thousands of Mughals died in their hands!

Cheng Shijie is naturally happy to see this kind of thing, he can instruct his younger brother to beat his opponent, and he eats melons on the side and watches, why not!

On the sixth day of Catherine's arrival in Golden State, Xiang Hui invited Catherine to a banquet, and at the banquet, Xiang Hui officially recognized Catherine as her sister, and Catherine was naturally very happy.

Xiang Hui is actually a little dissatisfied in her heart, this Catherine has a fight with the foreign devils of later generations, and she doesn't care about anything at all, and regards the Regent's Mansion as her own backyard, so to speak, she can leave if she wants.

It's just that Xiang Hui is different from most people, she doesn't like Catherine, and she doesn't want Catherine to enter the Cheng family's house.

For some people, marrying a foreigner and giving birth to a mixed-race child is something to be proud of, but for Xiang Hui, if a mixed-race child is born, it will form a trend, and this matter must be resolutely rejected.

Just when Xiang Hui was holding Catherine's hand, she suddenly felt her abdomen sagging, it hurt very much, and she couldn't help but scream, "It hurts......"

Although Cheng Shijie doesn't know medical skills, he is a human being in two lives, and he knows that he has met the due date as soon as he counts the days, so he hurriedly said: "Go to the imperial doctor, I'm afraid I'm going to give birth!" ”

Cheng Shijie helped Xiang Hui to go to the inner hall, and he was in a hurry, and the demeanor of General Cheng, who commanded Ruoding and was brave and fearless on the battlefield, made him lose to his grandmother's house.

Labor is a woman's life and death, as a father of two children, Cheng Shijie is extremely nervous now, after all, Da Ming is not a later generation, the later generations have developed medical technology, even if they encounter dystocia, they can also have a caesarean section, and there is basically no risk.

At present, the level of medical technology is far less than that of later generations.

Cheng Shijie not only made the medical school and the imperial doctors in the Daming Yuantai Hospital prepared, but also responded in time if there was a problem.

Just made Cheng Shijiebai worried, starting from Xiang Hui feeling his abdomen sagging, and waiting for the child to be born, it only took ten minutes before and after, the child gave birth smoothly, and Xiang Hui gave birth to another daughter, a son, a dragon and phoenix fetus. Among them, the third is a daughter, weighing three pounds and seven taels. The fourth is a son, weighing three pounds and two taels.

Cheng Shijie hugged the two babies and said excitedly: "Wife, we have two more children, you are amazing!" ”

Zhu Weiyuan and Yang Yunniang are now subconsciously stroking their lower abdomen, the two of them are almost eight months pregnant, and they should give birth in more than a month at most.

However, Xiang Hui now has two sons and two daughters, and they are relieved.

Xiang Hui said: "What is the name of the third child?" ”

"Jiayu, Cheng Jiayu!"

"It's not good, let's call it Jiayi!"

"Yiling!"

Xiang Hui said: "What's the name of my son?" ”

"Knorr!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Cheng Jiale! ”

"That's fine!"

Xiang Hui looked at the two newborn children, they felt too ugly, their skin was wrinkled, and they were very ugly, of course, she also knew that newborn babies were like this, and it would be good to raise them for a while.

Cheng Shijie had two newborn children, this is a big happy event, after the cabinet received the news, Sun Zhili hurriedly came to the regent palace and asked for Cheng Jiale and Cheng Jiayi to be titled!

The title is actually for the sake of the country, and the name is determined first.

Now Cheng Jialong is the prince, and in the future, Cheng Shijie will ascend the throne, he will be the crown prince, in order to avoid repetition, then give Cheng Jiale a prince.

Cheng Shijie asked rhetorically: "What does Yongyan think?" ”

Sun Zhilan said: "From the Jin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the names of the pro-kingdoms of the past dynasties are the most noble in the names of Qin, Jin, Qi and Chu, and the country represented by these four titles is the most powerful in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, followed by Lu, Zhao, Wei, Liang, Yan, Dai, Chen, Han, Song, Wu, Yue, etc., and the ministers think that the two princes can be knighted King Qi!" ”

Of course, Sun Zhili knew that King Qin's name was the most noble, but the problem was that King Qin had Li Shimin, if Cheng Shijie favored Cheng Jiale in the future, then King Qin would be a hint!

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "King Qi can also change Jeju Island to Qi State, and use it as a fief!" ”

"The king is wise!"

Sun Zhilan said: "The eldest princess (Cheng Jiayue) should also be titled!" ”

Cheng Shijie did not object to this: "Why do you think it is good to seal it?" ”

"It's better to be named the princess of Chang'an!"

Sun Zhili said: "The second princess can be named Princess Yong'an!" ”

Cheng Shijie had no objections, the cabinet quickly drafted a decree and announced it to the public, Cheng Shijie, the regent of the Ming Dynasty, added a new dragon and phoenix fetus, the eldest daughter of the emperor Cheng Jiayue was awarded the title of Princess Chang'an, the second daughter Cheng Jiayi was named Princess Yong'an, and the second son Cheng Jiale was named the king of Qi.

With the news coming out, the officials, cabinet ministers, and generals of the Ming Dynasty were relieved, there have been too many accidents this year, although Cheng Shijie has such a son as Cheng Jialong, in case of an accident, the key is that Cheng Shijie has no clan, and he can't do it if he wants to succeed a son of the same clan.

Since ancient times, the Chinese people have attached great importance to inheritance, and it is a thousand-year-old tradition for sons to inherit their father's business, and a person with an heir is slightly better than a person without a son, but the problem is that just like Emperor Zhengde, the most stable prince of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how outstanding his ability is, it is difficult to make his subordinates really feel at ease, and the territory will not be stable, and when no one can take over the torch in his hand after this strongman falls, his future will be over.

Not only in the East, but also in the West, for those in power, inheritance is extremely important.

Now that Cheng Shijie has two sons and two daughters, especially Zhu Weiyuan, Yang Yunniang, Jin Qiaoer, and Yang Wan'er are still pregnant, Cheng Shijie's efforts during this time are not in vain.

Officials from all over the country have come to congratulate and bring gifts, with Qin Liangyu, director of the Lin'an (Annan) Management Committee, being the most active, but her gift is also unique, which is two short swords sheathed with shark skin and inlaid with precious stones, the sword is about one and a half feet long, and the hilt is inlaid with gold.

Qin Liangyu was able to catch up with it, or because she had already gone to Jinzhou to meet Cheng Shijie, and when she had just arrived in Jinzhou, she received the news and made a temporary move.

Qin Liangyu gave a gift, and others didn't dare to slack off, Sun Chengzong asked people to create a pair of jade pendants, made of good Nanyang Dushan jade, of course, in this era, Hetian jade has not yet been hyped up, what makes Cheng Shijie speechless the most is that even if it is Dushan jade, it is also the most expensive jasper.

Everyone, you are the same as me, and soon, the gifts sent over are piled up into a small mountain. Cheng Shijie also did not refuse, he accepted them one by one, he is not a saint, everyone really gave him gifts, every gift is expected of him and his children, why didn't he accept it?

"Catherine, Rear Admiral and Count of the Republic of Venice, congratulated His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the congratulations were ...... 10,000 ducats, a Cretan castle, and 30 horses......"

"Anthony, Governor of the Dutch East India Company, congratulated His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty on 100,000 guilders and 120 warm-blooded Dutch horses......"

"Guy on behalf of the Portuguese Far East Trade Group congratulates His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty......"

"Spanish Ambassador to Daming Francisco congratulates His Majesty the Emperor Daming on ......"

"On behalf of the French Far East Trading Company, Ilminster congratulates His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty......"

"Davis, Governor of the Great British East India Company, congratulated His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty......

"...... of the Far Eastern Trade Representative of the Holy Roman Empire"

Cheng Shijie had a son, and as a result, more than a dozen countries in Europa sent representatives, and at the same time, North Korea, Xiaori, including the Donghu Dynasty, which was beaten into a grandson by the Ming Dynasty, and even some Mughal kings, Nipol and other countries, sent people to congratulate the Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie looked at the endless stream of envoys from various countries, a little speechless, he gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, which actually caused a worldwide sensation.

(End of chapter)