Chapter 825 The Constitution
The world was divided up by them.
Zhang Shicheng went to Bengal to spend his old age in peace, and by the way laid the foundation for his descendants so that they could conquer the entire South Asian subcontinent, and Zhu Yuanzhang generously said that he and his descendants would not worry about the south of Tibet and west of Burma, as long as the king of Chu ......
He made Zhang Shicheng the king of Chu.
Originally, this title was planned, once Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, Zhang Shicheng was renamed the king of Chu and then assigned him a piece of land in Huainan, but now since the king of Chu does not want the mainland, then it will be changed to the South Asian subcontinent, the entire south of the Himalayas, west of the Rakhine and other mountain ranges, and east of Afghanistan and Iran, which is equivalent to the territory of the entire British India in the original history.
As long as the king of Chu still claims to the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty and the Chu State will always remain as close as brothers.
In addition, he also booked a daughter of Zhang Shicheng for his son Zhu Biao to be regarded as the future crown princess, and if she doesn't get it, she will become the future queen of Daming, so even if she is really like a brother, I have to say that Lao Zhu is also very cunning, Zhang Shicheng and these people can only rely on Daming as a backing after they go out, they fight in front of them to grab gold and silver treasures, and then come to Daming to purchase various materials, and even recruit mercenaries, and finally these riches still have to flow into his hands.
Such a good person, of course, should be treated preferentially.
And Chen Youliang is still the king of Han, and his Han kingdom has also moved to the Middle East and West Asia, from the south of the Amu Darya River to the west of the Chu State, Egypt, west to the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, equivalent to Afghanistan, Iran, the entire Arabian Peninsula, Asia Minor Peninsula, Egypt, these territories are all Han.
Of course, he had to take it himself.
But in the official Ming Dynasty, these places are directly regarded as the Han State, and no longer accept the tribute of those states in this area, they are already subjects of the Han King, as long as the Han King keeps the tribute, as for the Han King's interest in expanding to other places in the future, it is his own business, and His Majesty the Emperor will not care.
The Ural River, the Ural Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea, Europe and Africa west of the western boundary of the Han Kingdom are all listed as places of indoctrination.
That is, the land of barbarians.
For the barbarians, everyone can ask for it casually, and whoever lays down the territory belongs to whom.
The two of them are clear vassal states, and Chen Youding and Fang Guozhen were originally just county kings, Zhu Yuanzhang also promoted them by one level, Fang Guozhen became the king of Yue, Chen Youding became the king of Fujian, anyway, the two empty kings, at most guaranteed their property in Daming. And the fiefdom of the Yue Kingdom was moved to Australia, and the entire Australia and New Zealand and the island of New Guinea are all counted as the Yue Kingdom, but the Nanyang Islands are considered to be the Ming Dynasty, and the Fujian Kingdom of course cannot be the entire Americas, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the map and knew that this place could not be given to a family, if such a vast territory was developed and the Ming Dynasty was across the sea, it would be a natural enemy. So Fujian only got part of North America, in fact, to be precise, west of the Rocky Mountains and north of the Mojave Desert, outside of this range is still everyone's share, that is to say, south of Mexico and the eastern United States and Canada, everyone can grab it, but the United States is counted as Fujian from the west of the Rocky Mountains.
Actually, it's mostly California.
Of course, this is just Zhu Yuanzhang's careful thinking, but in fact, the whole United States can't run, as long as this goes there to take root, the rest is nothing more than pushing from west to east, you can't underestimate the migration ability of those Fujian mountain people under Chen Youding, as long as they cross the Rocky Mountains and enter the Mississippi River Valley, no one can resist the temptation of thousands of miles of fertile plains!
So Ming Yuzhen couldn't help it.
He also has to grab a place to prevent his descendants from being killed by Zhu Yuanzhang!
Everybody's smart!
Although there are also people like the Dou family in history, after the Qian family hands over the territory, it can still ensure that the descendants are rich and long, but the vast majority of them are cleaned up within the first or second generations, and the Dou family has not lasted for several generations, and the Qian family is a turtle with a shrunken head.
He couldn't.
Go out to grab a colony to settle your descendants, run a world overseas, and then place some of the clansmen there, which can be regarded as leaving a way back for your family, to avoid being ended one day in the future, not to mention that this is also a way to make a fortune, so he went out to colonize and added the king of Shu, he didn't want any feudal country, he already had a feudal country, even if he was the king of the Ming Dynasty, since he was a vassal king, of course, he also had the right to participate in the colonization of the Americas, and the territory he grabbed naturally belonged to Shu, he was the commander in his homeland, The clansmen are grabbing territory in the colony, and this layout is perfectly fine.
In fact, even Zhao Lin'er joined later.
He also had to be careful about that.
What's more, as a disciple of the immortal master, his vision is even broader than that of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also knows a lot of things that others don't know, such as the saltpeter mines in Chile, as well as various new crops in South America, which he knows very well, so he also joined the ranks of colonizing America to grab territory for the Song Kingdom.
In the following half century, these guys were organized by the Ming Dynasty itself, plus Zhu Yuanzhang's sons......
Zhu Yuanzhang's sons were also vassal kings.
Moreover, the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty also changed.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who is not unified by force, must take care of all forces, these people obviously will not bear too many obligations for the children and grandchildren of the Zhu family, so under the opposition of the overwhelming majority of the non-Wu system propaganda envoys, the original Zhu Yuanzhang designed the vassal system was overthrown. Since the new vassal king has a fief, then the court will not pay a penny, the Song Domain, the Shu Domain, and Zhu Yuanzhang's sons have to do the same, and since the vassal king has built a domain, then their children and grandchildren are also supported by themselves, and they cannot be burdened by the court, which is actually the Tui En system. Originally, in history, the vassal king could increase his income by adding a child, but under the new system, adding a child to share a family property, since a vassal king was established, his fief was fixed, and the descendants who branched out from him could only divide the territory from his fiefdom, which was the case with the Tui'en Decree of the Han Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a little dissatisfied, and it was useless.
After all, he is not unification by force, his unification is just for everyone to give face to the immortal master, if he really provokes these warlords, it is a big deal that people continue to divide or incite the people to make trouble, and even let the troops of their system mutiny on the front line.
As long as the immortal master does not interfere, Chen Youliang can now let Zhang Dingbian gather men and horses to raid Yingtian, but now Yingtian has no defenders, if the soldiers are in the city, Zhu Yuanzhang does not even have the ability to resist, and Zhang Shicheng can also send fifty catties of giant cannons to Yingtian City, and Chen Youding, Fang Guozhen, Ming Yuzhen and even the warlords in Yunnan and Guizhou can also no longer buy Zhu Yuanzhang's account.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang must respect the opinions of all localities.
And he named his son as the vassal king, others have no opinion, but if he wants to treat the vassal king as a parasite of the court as in the original history, then everyone will definitely not agree, they are not fools, you old Zhu family to add a descendant is to increase a Yulu, after two hundred years, the descendants of your Zhu family may have more Yulu than all civil and military officials, this money has to be paid by us to pay taxes.
We're stupid!
You have a few vassal kings on a few pieces of land, and there are Song and Shu domains as the standard, your son must not surpass them, they are all on an equal footing with you, what qualifications does your son have to surpass them? In addition, since they are opening a feudal domain, they can no longer receive the imperial court, unless they are officials of the imperial court.
Otherwise, what is the opening of the domain?
To open a feudal domain is to be a country alone, you are all a country alone, why do you still let the Ming court pay you a salary? In short, Zhu Yuanzhang's vassal system has completely changed, so these vassal kings can only support themselves in the future, and when Minyue, Song and Shu and other feudal domains obtain a steady stream of wealth in the colony, Zhu Yuanzhang's sons will definitely follow to the colony to make a fortune. And after they all brought back a steady stream of wealth from the colony, of course the imperial court could not bear it, and then the imperial court's fleet set sail, in fact, in the end, these guys even fought in order to compete for interests in the colony, and even dared to do things like pirates to attack the imperial fleet.
Of course, it was fought in the colony.
And they are not only still talking and laughing in their hometown, but many of them are even married to each other!
In short, they divided almost all the colonies.
Not to mention all parts of the Americas, even Africa was divided by them, especially the black slaves, of course, they must be eunuchs, black slaves can also be seen in the Ming Dynasty in this era, and they are all eunuchs brought by Arab merchants, this good tradition must be inherited. After the prosperity of this evil trade, even the Han and Chu kingdoms joined the colonial frenzy, and in order to compete for control of the black slave trade, the two families also declared war on each other and engaged in battleship bombardment at sea, and in the end no one took any advantage, so they had to be brought down by peace talks under the auspices of His Majesty the Ming Emperor.
It's not just the feudal system that has changed.
In fact, after the birth of the Lord of Destiny, the main pleasure of all forces is to besiege this new monarch in various ways, whether it is these warlords, or those officials who defend the territory, and even some of Zhu Yuanzhang's own people, they all take it as fun to besiege him. After all, everyone understands that a new unified empire is about to be established, and the most important thing before the official establishment of this empire is to establish various systems, especially the system of limiting imperial power. The army wants more autonomy, the localities want more interests, the merchants want rights, the literati want the imperial examinations, the peasants want to reduce the taxes, everyone has what they want, and the premise of all this is that the emperor cannot be too arbitrary.
Zhu Yuanzhang must be given a halter.
This paddle is a variety of systems, and it must be a system that cannot be changed.
"How about you make a covenant?"
Yang Feng said.
"The Covenant?"
A bunch of warlords, big and small, were at a loss.
These are all here to participate in the enthronement ceremony, including He Zhen, Gao Mingshou, Yang Keng, and even Chen Shuming, Han, and Wu Yue from Annan, the Xuanfu envoys appointed by themselves during the Northern Expedition, and Zhang Liangbi and Kong Xing, who had just surrendered under the pressure and deterrence of Xu Da's army, they were one level lower than the previous ones, but they were still worried about fighting for their own interests.
"Yes, a covenant, a covenant that was jointly established under the witness of this immortal, including Yuan Zhang and his descendants, must also be obeyed by the whole world, and all systems and laws in the future must follow this covenant, and violating this covenant is shown to be against the will of heaven. If Yuanzhang and his descendants broke the covenant, then it would mean that they would go against the will of heaven, and their mandate would be lost, and then other capable Chinese people could overthrow him and rebuild a new empire. I will draft this covenant and then you will see if there is anything that needs to be added, and sit down with Yuan Zhang and the vassal kings to discuss it together, and if the majority agrees, then I will also write it into the covenant, and at the enthronement ceremony, we will jointly swear to the heavens with this covenant, and the new monarch must also swear by this covenant to succeed to the throne in the future. ”
Yang Feng said.
In fact, this is constitutionalism.
This is also necessary, it is almost the fifteenth century, and if you don't hurry up with the constitution, it will be purely looking for something, and while the vast majority of the people who are now controlling the situation are not Confucians, or even the vast majority of them are from poor backgrounds, they should quickly establish a constitution that is beneficial to the common people.
This was the time when the gentry was at its weakest.
Zhu Yuanzhang is a tenant, Chen Youliang is a low-level official, Zhang Shicheng is a private salt dealer, Ming Yuzhen is a yeoman farmer, Fang Guozhen is a pirate, even Li Siqi, who has just surrendered, is also a small official, he is from the county canon, Chen Youding is also a yeoman farmer and a soldier, and there is only one landlord among the giants, but none of them are real Confucian scholars, and even most of them are originally illiterate. These people were very little influenced by Confucianism, and their origins included all walks of life, they were all on the battlefield to fight the world, Yang Feng was responsible for drafting the program, they sat down to discuss the details, and finally formulated a constitution with the least Confucian color and then determined by the banner of heaven, so that the Ming Dynasty directly entered the constitutional era.
The Emperor is still the supreme ruler.
But the monarch is granted by God, and he must abide by this constitution of the oath to heaven, and if he dares to oppose it, those careerists will jump out immediately, and even if he provokes the people, the people can go overseas to welcome those vassal kings back, just as the English like to welcome foreigners as kings.
Whether the Chen family or the Zhang family or the Zhang family, they were all candidates for the Lord of Destiny, and the jade book in their hands could not be returned, if the Zhu family lost the Mandate of Heaven, of course they were qualified to take over, Yang Feng threw them outside to make this kind of preparation, if the common people could not stand the rule of the Zhu family, it was a big deal to raise troops and then go to meet them and then join forces to seize the Zhu family, and even one day Chen Youliang Zhang Shicheng The descendants of these people have developed enough strength overseas, and under their threat, the descendants of the Zhu family must also restrain themselves to unite the people, Otherwise, these people will use the covenant to find fault with him, and he will have nothing to do.
As for the fact that such a civil war really occurred......
Then it's good to fight.
Anyway, they are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and they don't dare to convert to other beliefs anyway, if they really dare to believe in other religions, they don't even have the qualifications to rule their own territory, let alone compete with the Zhu family for the Mandate of Heaven!