The Republic of Venice was founded in 687, three years after the Tang Dynasty, and was subordinate to the Eastern Roman Empire in the early days of the founding of the country. At the end of the 10th century, it became independent and became a wealthy commercial state.

But the problem is that Venice is too small a country, although rich, in the eyes of the whole of Europe, the Venetian can almost be equated with vampires, and under this deep-rooted concept, the Venetian in Europe, in the world, has never been respected.

Until now, they have now become the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and in Francesco Erizzo's understanding, there is no concept of vassal states in Europe, even if they are colonies, they are also territories. After the signing of the "Supplementary Agreement between the Ming Dynasty and Venice", Francesco Erizzo naturally believed that they were now a colony of the Ming Dynasty, and he, the governor, was also an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he was an official of the second grade, at the same level as the directors of the provincial management committees.

Although Francesco Erizzo is not wearing his Ming official uniform, he still insists that those robbers in Western Europe should maintain enough respect for the Ming people.

Now the Ming people, not like the later generations, for these foreigners, from top to bottom, did not get enough respect, looking at this side seems to have caused a dispute, not far away in black uniforms of the chengguan, carrying a rubber stick and walked over.

In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, these foreigners quickly apologized and ran away immediately.

And Francesco Erizzo, like a general who has won a big victory, triumphant: "Catherine, did you see that? This is the advantage and benefit of us to become a Ming person. In the old days, as the consul of the Republic of Venice, the viceroy, those damned France, never looked at me with normal eyes......"

Catherine was a little speechless, in fact, she knew the Ming better, in the eyes of the Ming people, except for the Ming people, the others were barbarians, whether they were Spaniards or Portuguese, they were all considered barbarians, and they were all barbarians.

However, Catherine still understands the most basic principles of human life, and she did not pour cold water on Francesco Erizzo.

The new emperor ascends the throne, which is generally divided into three types, the founding of the country, the succession and the usurpation of power. Due to the fact that the old emperor had just died, the ceremony could not be too festive, and the ceremonial music team would generally be arranged, but the music would not really be played according to the system at that time.

The usurpation of power requires justification, and the process will be very cumbersome, and the more grand, grand, and dignified, the better.

As for the founding of the country, it's over when you're happy, and you mainly highlight a universal celebration!

At present, Cheng Shijie is concerned, he belongs to the second or third type, to be precise, Cheng Shijie is only the regent of the Ming Dynasty, and it is officially promulgated by the queen after the former queen has mercy on the regent, which has legitimate legitimacy and has been recognized by people from all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Cheng Shijie is not surnamed Zhu, nor is he the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, his succession belongs to the position of usurping power, the Ministry of Rites thought about it, or found Emperor Chongzhen, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to give Cheng Shijie a Zen edict as the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The specific process is to first pass the throne to the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and then, Zhu Cihong will give the throne to Cheng Shijie on the grounds of young age, so as to show the legitimacy of Cheng Shijie's accession to the throne.

From the emperor to the subjects, they are careful to bypass this minefield, and they dare not touch it, because in the eyes of careerists, a abolished emperor and a deposed prince can do too many articles!

This kind of thing must be covered to the death, if you can't cover it, if it is light, there will be a great chaos in the world, and if it is heavy, the society will be in danger of collapse! But in Cheng Shijie's opinion, this is a fart, he can control an army of millions, and at the same time let the people of the world live a good life, not to mention Emperor Chongzhen, even if Zhu Yuanzhang is brought back to life, he will not be able to take back the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, if it weren't for Cheng Shijie to protect Emperor Chongzhen in every way, Emperor Chongzhen would have died a long time ago, in a grange located in Jinzhou, Liaodong, this grange is no different from other small villages, but there is a company stationed here under the Jinzhou garrison brigade.

Nearly 300 soldiers are responsible for protecting Emperor Chongzhen, and they are also responsible for monitoring Emperor Chongzhen, of course, Cheng Shijie is still quite good to Emperor Chongzhen, giving Emperor Chongzhen more than 300 acres of fertile land, plus this courtyard covering an area of more than ten acres. A yard of ten acres of land, for ordinary people, this is a mansion.

But for Emperor Chongzhen, this place was too small.

This courtyard adopts the architectural style of Wubao, sitting squarely and facing south, five in front and back, three cross-courtyards on the left and right, more than 200 houses of all sizes, a garden in the yard, and a small pond of more than five acres.

Emperor Chongzhen was busy learning to do woodwork during this time, not only built a lot of tables and chairs, but also some doors and windows, pavilions and the like, Wang Chengen and in history, Emperor Chongzhen never gave up, when Emperor Chongzhen farmed, he was under the scorching sun, picking up the hoe.

When Emperor Chongzhen was making tables and chairs, he followed suit, however, after more than four years of hard work, Emperor Chongzhen's body is much better than before, in addition to his slightly darker skin, his body has also become stronger, and more importantly, he now has fifteen daughters and nine sons, of which six daughters and five sons have been born in the last four years.

Queen Zhou alone is four years old, there is almost no time to rest, there is no way, there is no contraception in this era.

Now he is not needed for major national affairs, and the former ministers do not come to see him, and even many people have forgotten the existence of Emperor Chongzhen.

Of course, Empress Zhou is more satisfied with the life in front of her, in addition to Concubine Yuan marrying Shen Mingyu, her eldest sister-in-law Empress Zhang also came over, working in the field, or weaving, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't have to do anything, he can also eat and drink without worry, although Cheng Shijie doesn't often come to see Emperor Chongzhen, but every autumn, all kinds of crops in Liaodong, Northwest, and Jiangnan will be sent over.

Dozens of truckloads of grain and dozens of cattle and sheep were enough for their family to live a life without worry, but this peaceful day was finally the most broken.

On this day, the sound of horses' hooves sounded.

Emperor Chongzhen listened to the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, he knew that this was someone from outside, although the village has convenient transportation, but on various traffic roads, there are signs of military restricted areas, and there are usually no outsiders coming in, in fact, in the past four years, Emperor Chongzhen, except for Cheng Shijie, has not seen other outsiders.

"It's over!"

Emperor Chongzhen's face was extremely ugly, he looked at Princess Kunxing, Zhu Cihong and other children beside him, and tears flowed unconsciously.

As the former king of a country in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen naturally knew very well that Cheng Shijie would like to be the emperor sooner or later, even if Cheng Shijie didn't want to be the emperor, those people below him would push Cheng Shijie to become the emperor.

Empress Zhou looked at Emperor Chongzhen with tears streaming down her face, and she didn't know what to say.

At this time, although Empress Zhou was dressed in a cotton cloth skirt and dressed ordinary, the problem was that she had an indescribable graceful and luxurious temperament, and she was holding the newborn Nine Emperor Sons in her arms, this child was not yet full-term, this carefree child, stretched out her hand to Emperor Chongzhen, as if she wanted Emperor Chongzhen to hug him.

"Is it finally coming?"

"It's coming!"

Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand to stroke the newborn child, and choked up: "You really shouldn't have come to our house......"

The baby didn't know that it was about to come now, but thought that Chongzhen was playing with him, and he babbled and didn't know what to say, but his mood seemed very happy.

At this moment, a group of officials came to the courtyard of Emperor Chongzhen, there were fifty or sixty people, but most of them were petty officials in cyan or green official uniforms, and the leader was an official in his forties and fifties.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

The current Ministry of Rites Shangshu Huang Jin can be said to be a lifetime of extremely unsmooth official luck, he is the second year of the Apocalypse, entered the Hanlin Academy for further study, and participated in the compilation of the "Mingshen Sect Records". In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the eunuch Wei Zhongxian planned to build a shrine on the west side of the Chinese Academy of Studies.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Huang Jincai returned to the Hanlin Academy. He has successively served as a lecturer, a branch school, and a li. During his tenure, he personally revised the school volume of the "Thirteen Classics" and "Twenty-one History" of Haohan's scriptures, which is an official who will not pat himself on the back, nor will he tie up with his boss and form a party.

Huang Jin's greatest luck is to meet Cheng Shijie, when Cheng Shijie liquidated the officials of Beijing City, Huang Jin, an official with almost no bad deeds, is almost a rarity of Ming officials, Cheng Shijie still didn't believe it, after repeated investigations, it was found that Huang Jin's real problem.

This is a stupid official who reads books, has one thing to say, and two to say, and belongs to a rare honest person, but the problem is that the honest person in the officialdom is mixed up more miserably.

However, Huang Jin was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, responsible for presiding over the work of the splitting of the rites, and then after the splitting of the Ministry of Rites, in fact, there was only one ancestral department left, so Huang Jin was promoted to the Ministry of Rites in November of the first year of Dingxin.

"Huang Qing, is that you?"

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said: "It doesn't matter who it is, my limit has come, I am the emperor, there should be an emperor's death, I want a whole corpse ......"

Huang Jin smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, on the orders of the regent, please go to Beijing to participate in the new emperor's enthronement ceremony!" ”

Empress Zhou said: "Cheng Qing is also vulgar, has he finally come to this point?" ”

"This ...... The new emperor ascends the throne, this is what everyone is looking forward to! ”

Huang Jindao: "Please Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and all the princes, pack up and go to Beijing with your ministers!" ”

This sentence fell in the ears of Emperor Chongzhen, this was the final ultimatum given to him by Cheng Shijie, and it was also for their family to go on the road neatly.

Princess Burying Xing and Zhu Zihong are already sensible, and they also feel that the sky is about to fall.

But the problem is that now they don't have the ability and opportunity to resist at all, Huang Jin brought a full three or four hundred members of the Jinyi Guard, and there are soldiers from the Jinzhou Garrison Brigade outside, with the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy, even if someone can mobilize a few thousand people, I'm afraid there is no chance to take them out.

Under the reception of Huang Jin, Emperor Chongzhen's family began to set off, and they met Zhu Weiyuan, Xiang Hui, Cheng Jialong and others in Jinzhou City, and then took a boat in Jinzhou Port and began to go to the capital.

When he was in the military port, Cheng Jialong, as the current crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, spoke at the port with the queen Xiang Hui.

Under the joy of tens of thousands of people, Cheng Jialong boarded the battleship, this new type of battleship is the Whale Shark-class battleship that has not yet been officially put into service in the Ming Dynasty.

Whale shark, as the largest fish, is also the largest shark in the sea, the Ming named this whale shark as a new type of warship, which is more than a battleship with five decks, can carry three thousand fully armed soldiers, and at the same time, this battleship, arranged with one hundred and nine guns, is the largest tonnage of the Ming Dynasty so far, the largest number of artillery battleships.

Emperor Chongzhen watched Cheng Jialong and Xiang Hui both board this new type of battleship of Chang'an, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if he arranged a ship for them casually, it was estimated that on the way to the capital, the ship would sink, and Emperor Chongzhen and his whole family would also die due to an accident.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen thought too much, Cheng Shijie didn't want to kill him at all, this time he went to the capital to participate in the enthronement ceremony, and he really participated in this enthronement ceremony, and there was no other meaning.

Not only Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie even found 19 living Ming vassal kings, including the King of the Ryukyus, the King of Joseon, and the Governor of Venice, from all over the country to watch the ceremony together.

At the same time, the European banquet also included the Spanish Empire and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Kingdom of Portugal, Great Britain, France, the Holy Roman Empire, and more than 20 countries.

Of course, Tsarist Russia was also invited for the first time, and Cheng Shijie is ready to make their enthronement ceremony a world summit.

When it comes to making money, Cheng Shijie must be professional, and this is not a business to accompany the capital.

Cheng Shijie was ready to take advantage of this opportunity to show the world the industrial products and technological products of the Ming Dynasty, just when Emperor Chongzhen was nervous and went to Beijing City, envoys from various countries also came to the capital, and Beijing City was more lively at this time, making people feel that the city was full of people.

Cheng Jialong saw through Cheng Shijie's meaning, this enthronement ceremony was a huge investment conference, and the advertising fee alone sold more than 3 million taels, I have to admit that the current Daming is really rich.

This also made the delegates of various countries feel a great shock. (End of chapter)