Since it was proposed by the immortal master, of course everyone supported it......

Including Zhu Yuanzhang.

He doesn't support it, he has to support it, he has no qualifications to oppose it at all, not to mention that this thing is not harmful to him, at least he can make his monarchical authority clear through words, if the emperor said that the monarchy was just talking to himself, but this covenant under the auspices of the immortal master can turn the monarch's heavenly grant into an iron law that has been passed down from generation to generation.

It's good for his descendants.

In this way, the immortal master quickly came up with the main program of this covenant.

First of all, it is determined at the beginning that everyone in China is equal.

There is no distinction between high and low among the people of China.

Regardless of the princes and nobles, peddlers and pawns, regardless of men and women, all are equal, of course, the scope of the Chinese people is more flexible, and the specific explanation of this is decided by the discussion of each family, but as long as it is included in the scope of the Chinese people, then everyone is equal. It is no longer allowed to use the people of China as slaves, even if they are servants and maids, they can only be hired, this problem is not a big step, the Song Dynasty is already like this, the Ming Dynasty inherited from the Great Song Dynasty, of course, it must inherit this, the slavery system itself is the poison of foreign invasion, which can only be said to be the restoration of the old system. Including the emperor and the common people are also equal, the reason why the emperor is the emperor is only because he is authorized by the god Haotian, but in essence he is no different from the common people, this is nothing, China is originally the prime minister Hou Ning has a kind of.

However, this article still makes many people, including Zhu Yuanzhang, a little entangled.

After all, they are all slaves.

However, they were helpless, after all, this was proposed by the immortal master, no one dared to disagree, Zhu Yuanzhang dared to disagree with the retraction of your destiny, and the king of Han asked for the throne, so Zhang Dingbian's army immediately went down the river to Yingtian.

What's more, at this time, the consequences of Goryeo's heavenly punishment have already spread.

Kaegyo disappeared entirely, not to mention the people in the city, even the buildings were completely erased, and even the city walls were wiped out, and the original location of the Goryeo royal palace became a large pit, which was completely black and charred for several miles around the big pit, and the periphery was full of ruins, even the mountains and forests were burned to ashes, and even the stones were burned to glass. There was a black rain in the sky, and the place where the black rain fell became a place of death, and everyone died in all kinds of horrific ways, not only that, but the people who entered this area to check on them also quickly contracted a strange disease and died in agony in the decay of their whole bodies.

This heavenly punishment killed at least 200,000 Goryeo people, and the most prosperous city of the era disappeared along with their kings and ministers.

With the corpses and ashes of 200,000 Koreans as a lesson from the past, who would dare to disobey the will of the immortal master?

Whatever he says is what it is!

So equality was written into the covenant.

Of course, it's just that the people of China are all equal, and those others are not, so slavery will still exist, in fact, slavery will still be very prosperous in the future, anyway, as long as it is not the people of China, such as those who were arrested at this time, they are definitely not the people of China, and they can be enslaved to their heart's content. In the future, if it is not enough, you can continue to go outside to catch it, the Wa Kingdom is definitely not the people of China, and those in Nanyang except for Annan are definitely not counted, but those who fled to Nanyang at the end of the Song Dynasty must be counted, and in a few days the Ming fleet will cruise in Nanyang to tell them this, less than a hundred years have passed, and these people have not fully integrated into the natives, and their identities are easy to identify.

In the same way, everyone is equal, there is no difference in the hierarchy of farmers, businessmen and businessmen, and occupations can be different, but there is no difference between high and low status.

Otherwise, not everyone is equal.

Of course, there can be no difference in the rights enjoyed.

For example, you can be an official.

And also......

In short, with the principle of equality for all, there will be countless new things by extension, and this sentence is basically the basis of the entire covenant.

There are also systems.

This is not something that Yang Feng proposed.

This is the unanimous request of those ministers, the future system of the Ming Dynasty must be written, they have to prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from doing things in the future, as for this system, it must not be a three-province and six-ministry system, just come directly to the cabinet system, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties, especially the late Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, in fact, there is already a prototype of the cabinet system, what is the difference between the political hall and the cabinet? It's just that under Zhu Yuanzhang's strong request, there is no prime minister, but the emperor is directly in charge of various ministries.

This request was met by Yang Feng.

Anyway, it is his business that he loves to endure hardships and suffering, and if there is no prime minister, his children and grandchildren will have to get Shoufu out in the future, and he can't expect his descendants to be as diligent as him.

And the military system.

The military household system will definitely not work.

This system is actually very backward, even far inferior to the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers, the conscription system plus the new version of the reserve system of the guard system, although the conscription system in the later period of the dynasty often has the problem of low combat effectiveness of the army, but the root cause is not in the system, but in the imperial court's suppression of the generals and basically no training, and another important point is that the people have no sense of national identity and are not interested in fighting for the emperor. But in the era of firearms, these have become trivial things, and all the cannon fodder in the era of firearms needs is industrial strength plus the ability to mobilize, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers almost does not matter, and the most important thing is to be able to mobilize at the fastest speed. What kind of training do the cannon fodder who line up to shoot need, it is enough to collect and issue a gun to teach them how to line up to load and shoot, and at most there is time to teach them to fight bayonets, as for the question of the will to fight, this can be stimulated by external plunder.

And, of course, religion.

As the lord of the Mandate of Heaven, the emperor is actually a symbol of religious beliefs, spreading the power of the emperor all over the world, preaching to all nations, and letting the light of Haotian God shine in all dark corners.

That's enough.

Could it be that their enemies are better in this regard?

Then the cannon fodder collected through the reserve system can shout slogans, attracted by the gold and women's light of foreign plunder, and go to sweep the whole world with their heads held high.

As for the stale ideas of Confucianism......

That can't stop this torrent, they don't have the ability, don't think they are strong, their thinking is like their discipline, they will turn around in front of any powerful force, in fact, the Confucianism in the late Ming Dynasty has been defeated in the face of the tide of capitalism, and those neo-Confucians based on Wang Yangming's psychology are the signs.

They do say they are Confucian.

But are they really Confucians? They are just developing a new idea that adapts to the times in the name of Confucianism, and it happens that the study of mind is beneficial to them, after all, the science of science represents immutability, and the study of mind is an open system, and anyone can develop under this sign. Even if the results of their development have little to do with Xinxue, but with the signboard of Xinxue, with the banner of Wang Yangming, they are still Confucianism, who dares to say that they are not Confucianism, then you go and push Wang Yangming down first, otherwise shut up, and Wang Yangming is sure that no one dares to push down, and whoever dares to push down will make himself uncomfortable. If they continue to develop, they will definitely become a doctrine that completely serves capitalism, and they have all developed to Li Zhen, He Xinyin, and Gu Yanwu, who knows if these guys will develop the sages of the end of the Japanese Kingdom in another hundred years?

Although it is likely that they will continue to say that they are Confucians.

It was our Qing Dynasty who knocked these more and more apostasy guys to death, interrupted the process of change, and then re-raised the science to maintain the purity of Confucianism and avoid the pollution of Confucianism by heretics.

So Yang Feng never worries about this.

When the benefits of expansion are enough to drive everyone crazy, Confucianism will not hesitate to reinterpret the words of the sages, just as they originally turned Confucianism into a slave family in history, turning Confucianism into something that would vomit blood when he came to life, and Confucius would cut people when he came to life.

Absolutely.

After all, no one will get along with interests.

In short, this epoch-making covenant, or constitution, took a whole month to complete quickly with the help of Yang Feng's outline, and all parties had no opinions, and then Zhu Yuanzhang's enthronement ceremony began. Under the personal auspices of the immortal master, on the altar of worshipping the sky, Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the canonization of Haotian God, and since then has become the master of the destiny of heaven to govern this planet on behalf of Haotian God, and led the ministers and vassals to Haotian God to abide by this common covenant, and by the immortal master himself, a huge stone tablet was erected on this altar, and then the content of the covenant was engraved on the stone tablet and inlaid with gold.

In this way, the Ming Empire was officially established.

The territory of the empire stretched from the Arctic Ocean in the north, the islands of the South Seas in the south, the mountains and Himalayas and the Amu Darya River west of Burma, Hawaii in the east, and the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea in the west.

Others are vassals.

Including those vassal states included in the territory directly under the empire, these are called internal vassals, and Han Chu and other vassals are outer vassals, and the outer vassals are clearly listed as non-expropriated countries, and the inner vassals are not counted, that is to say, the Ming Dynasty will not do anything to the external vassals, but the internal vassals depend on the situation, so after some hesitation, the king of Annam still made a decision to donate the land, but in exchange, he was renamed King Gui and obtained a large fief in Guangxi.

The Annan Kingdom was abolished, and the Annan Road Propaganda and Restoration Envoy were established.

However, at this time, Polo Timur also set up another Yuan emperor in the northwest, and the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty recognized this emperor, and they also controlled the northeast, the Mongolian Plateau, northern Shaanxi and Longyou, so the Northern Expedition continued. Of course, it was only a matter of time before they were swept away, Polo Timur had already fled to Gansu with that emperor at this time, ready to flee west at any time, the Mongols in the northeast were actually in their own right, and the Ming army had already landed on the Liaodong Peninsula. In addition, it also landed in Goryeo, at this time Goryeo was divided, and those local officials were scrambling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty in the face of the deterrence of heavenly punishment and the strong strength of the Ming army, and even the new Goryeo Xuanfu envoy was appointed, and Zhu Yuanzhang was not ready to set up any more Goryeo kings, just take this opportunity to take it directly.

The fleet led by Liao Yongzhong went south to cruise the Nanyang countries to declare their suzerainty.

The main thing is to prepare for the drop-off.

The war of the Northern Expedition was not worth mentioning to Zhu Yuanzhang at all, at this time the army of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun had exceeded 200,000, and the Ming army of 200,000 Napoleonic war level was completely destroyed, the only restriction was logistics, in order to ensure that logistics Zhu Yuanzhang was constantly immigrating to the north, it can be said that as long as the logistics supply can be met, Xu Da's army can bulldoze anyone who dares to resist.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, the most important thing now is to send Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng away.

And the premise of sending it away is that there must be enough warships.

And, of course, roads.

Therefore, all the shipyards that can be used along the coast of the Ming Dynasty are all building ocean-going ships at full capacity, just like his son went to the Western Ocean in the original history, but the ship he wants to build is not at the level of his son, if you want to transport an army of 20,000 people, together with the required combat materials, to thousands of miles away, it must be a real big ship, at least a 500-ton displacement cruiser.

That's all this was built in this batch.

At the same time as the construction of ships, the Ming army also began to attack Burma through Yunnan.

It is possible to transport supplies on the transport line from Guangzhou, but it is still too far to transport soldiers, and the 20,000-mile sea route will cause a large number of soldiers to die, even after such a voyage in the European Age of Discovery, it is not a big deal to die a third, so the transportation distance must be minimized. The best option was to set up a foothold in Yangon by opening up the Irrawaddy River water transport line, and the men traveled overland to Yunnan along the Irrawaddy River, where they boarded ships to begin their journey.

Send Zhang Shicheng to Bangladesh first.

This distance can be said to be not worth mentioning, and the voyage is not far from Zhejiang to Tianjin!

Even at this time, Liao Yongzhong's fleet was enough to complete, the Ming army on this land route opened the shipping line of the Irrawaddy River to escort Zhang Shicheng's army, and then Liao Yongzhong's fleet carried them to Bengal, and helped them complete the landing, and at the same time helped Zhang Shicheng build his own navy, using Bangladesh as a base to seize the coastal ports of Ceylon such as Colombo in the south, and establish a stronghold there, anyway, it is also Zhang Shicheng's, and the whole process is expected to be completed within three years.

Three years later, the fleet was built.

Then Chen Youliang's army set out, still boarding ships in Burma to Ceylon, waiting for the southwest monsoon to move north to Muscat, establish a stronghold in Muscat, and from here into the Persian Gulf to Basra.

This process will not be very short, it is expected that Chen Youliang will land in Basra five years later, in fact, if there are not too many enemies along the way, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not able to guarantee logistics, it is best for his army to take the land route, but in this case, Zhu Yuanzhang will have to kill Dong Chagatai and the lame Timur for him first, although these two are indeed on the list of conquests, but it will be at least ten years later, so Chen Youliang can only take the sea route.