Tingtui's wind came quickly and violently, but it also went as quickly as a meteor. In a sense, this matter belongs to 'long-term construction', and there is no need to make a decision lightly. And a bigger and more violent wave has arrived.

Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, the entire city of Nanjing has entered the preparatory work to attract the Empress Dowager's 77-year-old 'happy life'.

In the southwest corner of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, near Xuanwu Lake, that is, on the former site of the eunuchs in the inner palace of the Ming Imperial Palace, I don't know when a large garden has been rebuilt. Of course, that garden did not occupy all the territory of the inner palace eunuchs, and the military camp next to the palace was there.

This re-established garden is the current residence of the Empress Dowager.

It turned out that they were in the West Palace of the Imperial Palace, but it was too narrow.

The Emperor Taishang still has so many concubines and princesses, and they live in the West Palace, so let's make a big one again. Anyway, there is a large open space next to the palace, and the inner palace treasury has been picked up, but the inner palace eunuchs in the history of the Ming Dynasty will never appear.

And Chen Ming also thought about his future, he didn't want to do it until he died. Or does he want to set a rule, the ministers can still beg for bones when they are old, and return to their hometowns, why does the emperor have to die on the dragon chair?

Emperor Qianlong, who will no longer appear in history, is a good example, and Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, lived to be eighty-six years old, and still starved to death in the Jingju Hall of the Taicheng Imperial Palace, if there is no Hou Jing's rebellion, he will definitely live longer. And since Xiao Yan has devoutly believed in Buddhism, and has been a monk several times, and asked the court to pay for him to redeem him, then simply pass the throne to his son, is it really impossible for him to become a monk?

After all, it's still a power trouble.

Looking at Chinese history, there are not a few emperors who are wise and martial in their prime, but they are suspicious of treachery in old age, so if Li Longji retires at the age of 65, maybe he will not be able to give birth to the Anshi Rebellion.

Chen Ming didn't know if he was willing to let go of power in his old age, but at least that's what he thought when he was building this garden - he felt that he could lay down the throne. He built that garden as his future dwelling.

After returning from Lushan, the Emperor Taishang lived in this newly completed garden, which was also officially named Yanshou Palace. The emperor came every three days to say goodbye, and the queen came once a day.

It's just that this one-year trip to Lushan seems to have consumed too much vitality of Chen Hui, he is not only worshipping his ancestors in Lushan, seeing the old people, but also letting the accompanying officials of Qintianjian choose a place for him to be buried in Funiu Mountain, and then climb the mountain and cross the ridge by himself, and see it with his own eyes.

Chen Hui's mausoleum was originally in Zhongshan, but Chen Ming was unwilling, he liked Lushan's hometown. That Chen Ming was as good as he wanted.

After returning to Nanjing from Lushan, Chen Hui's body and bones were a little weak, and it was obvious that Lushan and his party had consumed a lot of his vitality.

Now Chen Hui is crooked on the couch, and the clothes on his body are empty as if they are hanging on a shelf. He clutched his chest, his face flushed. A small cyan porcelain bottle on the couch rolled to the ground, and the vermilion pills inside scattered all over the ground.

Zhao Erxi was about to cry when he looked at the emaciated Chen Huiren, if it weren't for the fact that the emperor was still more energetic, he would have wiped his neck. Carefully picked up the celadon vial, "Emperor Taishang, do you want to pass on the imperial doctor?" ”

Chen Hui shook his head, it is not a good sign that the imperial doctor frequently enters and leaves the Yanshou Palace, and the birthday of the Empress Dowager is being prepared, this year is the happy birthday of the old lady who is seventy-seven years old, and she has to make a big deal. And this longevity palace is also the first year of opening, and it often comes to the imperial doctor, which is too unlucky.

A few days after the establishment of the new dynasty, there was a long-lived old man in the royal family, which meant auspiciousness. You can't mess up the arrangement because of his chest tightness and coughing. Yesterday, the emperor personally came to Yanshou Palace to ask for peace, and talked about the clues of the investigation and punishment of the Military Command Bureau in the northeast, which means that there are also very likely Tartar eyeliner and nails in Nanjing City, and if they also move like the person caught in the northeast, they will definitely not let go of the possibility of adding a block to the new dynasty. Although the danger is very small, Chen Hui can't help but think about it in detail.

Zhao Erxi helped him move the pillow behind him, and Chen Hui pointed to Duobao Pavilion: "Take another bottle." ”

After swallowing the pill, Chen Huicai felt much better in his stuffy chest.

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In the palace, Chen Ming was still instructing the new Shuntian Mansion Yin Xiaolou and Guoan Chen Guang, asking them to maintain the stability of the market and the city during the Empress Dowager's birthday, and maintain order in the city. In particular, although there was no Korea this time, Japan, the Ryukyus, Annam, Siam, Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Malay Sultanates, etc., plus the British, Swedish, Dutch, etc., the city of Nanjing was very lively.

There were also tribes in Mongolia and Qinghai that were actively moving closer to the central Chen and Han dynasties, and they also entered Nanjing at this time.

It's not good to have a terrorist incident.

Xiao Lou and Chen Guang were under great pressure to come in, this kind of large-scale birthday celebration, the preparation time was too long, and it was enough time to hear the news that the enemy came out of any corner and came to Nanjing. Now the only traffic that can stop this is the saboteur's own thoughts.

And in addition to the convenience of the Tartars, there are also four big characters written on the red list of the Ministry of State Security: 'extremists'.

Since the emperor was bombed to the present, these people have made several attacks in China, and although the damage caused is not large, the influence is very sensational.

However, what makes Guoan very strange is that the latter seems to have super professional anti-investigation methods, and after several crimes, he cleaned up his hands and tails, leaving no traces. And what makes Guoan most curious is Nanyang, the time influence of several extreme attacks in China is not small, but Nanyang, as the main concentration of Tianfang cultists in China, has not had much fluctuation because of this. Malaya, in particular, is much more stable than Luzon.

They are simply a flock of obedient sheep.

Chen Guang thinks that this may be the essence of the power class, although most of the Malays are shrouded in China, but the Malay sultans, as the original ruling class, have not suffered too direct interests, they just need to dedicate their previous deference to the Dutch to China, and all the conditions for treating the Dutch are imposed on the Chinese. Those Chinese businessmen who flocked to the market instead allowed their personal interests to be better developed.

These people are completely different from the people who play with the horror bombs.

Unfortunately, they rarely have access to the Sultans and more to the bombers.

Chen Guang sighed and sighed at Chen Ming. Chen Ming didn't have the position of these Malay sultans in his mind, but after listening to Chen Guang's emotion, he thought about it, and there was definitely a certain value of interests in these heavenly aristocratic classes.

Just like the Manchus did with Mongolia.

Jiaen gave these heavenly nobles, enveloped them well, and then let them rule and bind the people at the bottom, there was a Qing Dynasty, after Qianlong destroyed the Dzungar Khanate, Mongolia never caused any trouble to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

And even in the middle and early stages of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Junggar Mongols and Qinghai Mongols successively gave the Manchus a lot of trouble, but at least the six alliances of Inner Mongolia were still quite loyal, and there was no frontier battle in Shanxi and Zhili, and there was no battle that was not there.

If Chen Ming did not want to completely integrate Malay, Luzon, Annam and other places into China, and use the Manchu Qing to entrap them in the way of the Mongols, he would not be able to live in peace for one or two hundred years......

The three families of Annam were like Korqin, the nobles of the Malay sultans were the Urat, and the Luzon and the future East Indies were the other Mongol tribes.

If Chen Ming really plays like this, those interest classes will definitely become dogs in Nanjing. But it is also difficult for China to completely annex the Nanyang region and completely 'eat' all the people there. Because of this practice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Mongolia remained Mongolia until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Because doing so is simply a loud reminder to them that you are not Han and you are not Chinese. You are Malays, you are Luzon, you are Javanese, you are Sumatra......

Chen Ming doesn't want to see the collapse of the 'colonial' empire in China a hundred or two hundred years from now.

"Someone, go and bring me the Sultan of Johor."

Chen Ming's heart was jumping, the Manchu Qing Dynasty couldn't play the Mongolian game, but he also learned a little bit from it that could be used in the South Seas. This little method gave Chen Ming a lot of inspiration, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not regard Mongolia as one, and they themselves could not see Nanyang as one.

There are a few 'exceptions' to be picked out.

Special treatment of special objects, so that they are divided internally, and they look at each other unpleasantly, which will also greatly restrain their energy.

Chen Ming was a little too heavily influenced by his previous life, in his eyes, Vietnam was full of white-eyed wolves, and Nanyang was full of slow monkeys. The ministers of Chen Han, on the other hand, were not at all dismissive of Malay and Luzon.

Whether it is the local garrison or the civil administrator, the methods of action are a bit neglectful of the aristocratic power there. Because elephants don't put ants in their eyes.

Now China has always been proudly called by its own insiders - the heavens, the kingdom of the heavens.

They looked at Luzon and Malay, who believed in the Heavenly Religion, and it was similar to watching the sticky hairs and drinking blood. The most direct impression that many people have of Luzon and the Malays is that they are weak, otherwise how could they be conquered by a handful of Europeans who came from far away?

And this feeling involves the ease of Chen Han's army when they captured these two places, because the victory came too easily, so they didn't cherish it. Unlike North Korea, there was an army that fought with the Manchus for several years, and then invested a lot of effort, and Korea also had close ties with China in history. Therefore, 'North Korea' is a person in the subconscious of many Chen Han ministers, while Luzon and Malay are undoubtedly animals. They also believe in the deviant Tianfang Sect in the minds of Chen Han Chongchen.

But now it's not too late for Chen Ming to realize this.

He only needed to pick one or two exceptions from them, and then he could smoothly split the nobles of the Nanyang Celestial Side. Because the latter does not have a unified regime, there is no superiority between each other.

The Sultan of Johor is one of Chen Ming's favorites.

He was the first Nanyang Celestial Sect aristocrat to deal with China, and the Sultanate of Johor has always faced strong external pressure since its decline, and it is no different. And at the same time, within them, the power of the sultan was also compressed to the extreme.

The so-called Sultanate of Johor was a remnant of the original Sultanate of Malacca, which was destroyed by Portugal in the early 16th century, and its Sultan fled to the Riau Islands, sending his Celestial Warrior to rule its territory on the mainland, which is now Johor and Singapore. By the middle of the 18th century, on the eve of Chen Han's entry into the South Seas, the Celestial Warrior became the de facto ruler of the region as a vassal of the Sultan of Johor.

The agreement that Chen Han originally obtained for the land in Singapore was an agreement signed with the current Prince of Tenmon, Abdullahman, but according to the treaty between the Sultan of Johor and the Netherlands, the Sultan of Johor could not represent the Sultan in a treaty with a foreign country. Chen Ming later asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to go through another procedure and get another piece of paper from the current Sultan of Johor, so that Singapore could be regarded as Chen Han's.

The original Sultan of Johor has now died of illness and has been succeeded by his eldest son, Ibrahim.

Ibrahim is now completely a puppet, Abdullaman, the Heavenly Fierce Prince, does not dick him at all, and there is still a vice king in the only land.

So what is a vice-king?

This starts with Ibrahim's ancestors.

In 1699, the Sultan of Johor, Mamad II, was assassinated by his subordinates when he went out in a sedan chair one day due to excessive brutality, and died at the age of 24. The lineage of the Sultan of Malacca in Johor was officially severed, and the incumbent prime minister succeeded to the throne, creating the Johor Prime Minister's dynasty.

However, due to the issue of blood, the prime minister's dynasty was soon attacked by the prince of Xi (a small Sumatra) who claimed to be the widow of Sultan Mammad II, and later the Bugis from Makassar, Sulawesi, were involved in a power struggle. With the final victory of the Bugis, the Bugis chief was appointed vice-king, taking control of the power and competing with the Dutch in Malacca for economic benefits in the Straits of Malacca and the tin trade. And the Sultan was completely reduced to a puppet.

Decades later, although the Sultanate family still existed, the power of the entire Sultanate was completely divided between the Celestial Warrior and the Vice-King.

This is also the most important reason why Chen Ming is optimistic about Sudan. He had nothing left to lose. Any support that Chen Ming gives him now is the biggest capital of his entire family.

As for the things that are sold in order to get these, those do not belong to them.

"Minister Ibrahim to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live!" Ibrahim knelt in front of Chen Ming in a regular manner, and bowed three times and nine bows very humbly with courtiers.

He has the title of Johor on his head. Whether it is nominally or in fact, he is now a vassal of Chen Han.

When he was first named the Earl of Johor, although Ibrahim knew that it would not be good for the whole of Johor, he was still very excited in his heart, and since then he has been the Earl of Shangguo, and the life of the Sultan's royal family has been guaranteed.

The Malay and the Celestial nobles on the island of Sumatra across the Malay Sect were aware of the strength of China. Singapore is just around the corner, and Penang is not far from them, and since the Chinese government poured into the South Seas, the desolate islands have changed dramatically.

The fortresses and cities that the Europeans took decades to build, the Chinese built them in three or five years.

Chinese merchants placed salt, iron, tea, wine, cloth, silk, candles, and other materials in the market in exchange for timber, tin, gold, silver, and copper mines within their borders.

Then, two or three years later, the Chinese immigrants who poured in swung their hoes and developed all the land that could be developed in the surrounding area.

They brought in boats of necessities, handicrafts, luxury ornaments, and those exquisite utensils made people maddened. They set up huge lumber mills on the docks, and they also collected pepper and coffee in large quantities. The Spaniards, who had occupied Luzon for hundreds of years, were easily defeated by them, and the noble whites of the past became slaves on the plantations, and they were called labor prisoners by the Chinese.

The arrogant Dutch turned into a weak ****, and when the Chinese made a big move on the claw, they didn't dare to giggle.

This is truly the king who rules everything, the master of the world.

Ibrahim knelt at Chen Ming's feet without a trace of resistance. "O our Lord! Reward us with your favors, that I may receive the protection of His Majesty the Emperor in the mortal world; Please give me good luck and make my career go well. ”