I am the king of the dead

The number of paths His Majesty has taken seems to be open and close, but in many cases, any small government order should be thought twice before acting.

When Yang Hong and Jin Lian left, they both expressed the same point of view, that is, Daming was lucky to have such a monarch.

Think twice before acting is a problem that must be considered at the beginning and when any government order is implemented.

Yu Qian is very good at the system of the country, and he immediately said: "Renew every day, go out every day, and renew every day."

"It is impossible for any decree to remain unchanged. In the process of exploration, continuous correction is what a decree should look like."

"Your Majesty's money method, from the silver coin at the beginning, to the Jingtai Tongbao later, to the Baoyuan Bureau to accept storage, and now to the establishment of a silver court, to control the Bingzhan Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau and Baochao Bureau. Government orders are constantly changing."

"His Majesty's farm law has not remained unchanged since the beginning of collective farms. Instead, it has formed a situation in which official land is the main body of the farm law and private land is supplemented."

"The same is true for official factories."

"It is necessary to formulate detailed standards to prohibit extravagance. This standard should be strict at the beginning of formulation, and it can be relaxed when the atmosphere is better."

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "Then leave this matter to Yu Shaobao to make the decision."

"The minister leads the order." Yu Qian bowed his head and took the order. He is the head of all officials and the leader, so naturally he will formulate this standard.

Yu Qian didn't intend to use his own standards to restrain all the ministers and workers, that would be too strict.

A system that is so strict that no one follows it means that there is no system in place, and Yu Qian knows this very well.

The extravagance restriction order is one of the historical lessons of the first case.

Zhu Qiyu fell into a busy day again, he was dealing with many memorials.

For example, Fan Guang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, said that the Tatars who had fled were resettled;

For example, drought and locust plagues have occurred in parts of Shaanxi and Shanxi, and food needs to be allocated for relief;

For example, there was a famine in the granary of the Ming Dynasty in the Huguang area, and it was necessary to send governors and tiqi to inspect and so on.

This was Zhu Qiyu's day, it was like this every day, when it was time to rest, Xing'an carefully reminded His Majesty that he was going to the Palace of Compassion.

His Majesty must personally handle the worship of the Buddha in the Compassionate Palace to prevent misjudgment.

Only then did Zhu Qiyu head towards the Palace of Compassion and Ning.

Empress Dowager Sun had heard that the emperor was coming in the morning, and before noon, she asked the palace servants to clean up and down the Compassionate Ning Palace, even the ashes on the beams, which was never done before Chinese New Year.

Empress Dowager Sun specially changed into a court dress. Although she didn't know why the emperor came, she had to be more dignified as the Empress Dowager.

"Your Majesty went to the outer gate of the Compassionate Ning Palace. Before entering the Compassionate Ning Gate, he went to the Great Buddha Hall first." A small yellow gate reported His Majesty's whereabouts.

"Understood." Empress Dowager Sun was a little nervous. She was holding an inkstone in her hand. It was a congratulatory gift from the emperor and his officials when she, the empress dowager, celebrated the Longevity Festival. There were four words on it, Debi Zhuanxu.

Of course, Queen Mother Sun knew that the four characters were engraved by His Majesty, because Su Shi's monarch was Song Shenzong Zhao Xu.

These four words are a kind of tacit understanding between the emperor and Queen Mother Sun after the battle of the capital.

But now the Queen Mother Sun's palms are sweating, and when the state affairs are precarious, the emperor can tolerate her as the empress dowager for the sake of the situation. Now that the state affairs are safe and peaceful, if the emperor hangs high, can he still tolerate her?

No one cares about the life and death of her queen mother.

Zhu Qiyu walked into the Compassionate Ning Palace, Tiqi and Dongchang's fans had already turned the Compassionate Ning Palace inside and out, to ensure that there would be no weird incidents like knives and axes.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the Great Buddha Hall for a long time before walking into the Ci Ning Gate and heading towards the Compassion Ning Palace.

"Your Majesty is here." Xing'an sang loudly before Zhu Qiyu walked in.

"See Your Majesty, Your Majesty bows to you." The servants of the Palace of Compassion and Ning saluted, and Zhu Qiyu and Empress Dowager Sun also greeted each other.

"I came here today because I have something to talk about." Zhu Qiyu went straight to the point, telling Empress Dowager Sun some details of the recent case and the court's handling, explaining the cause and effect clearly.

Only then did Zhu Qiyu open his mouth and said: "I plan to demolish the Great Buddha Hall, but I don't say anything strange. There is such a Great Buddha Hall in the palace, and the foreign ministers will laugh at it."

Empress Dowager Sun didn't know why the emperor came here, she was a little strange, it stands to reason that this is a trivial matter, only a visit to Xing'an, why did the emperor come here in person?

Empress Dowager Sun was shocked and she took a sip of tea to hide her nervousness. She already fully understood what happened.

As a small expert in palace fighting, Empress Dowager Sun overthrew Hu Shanxiang and became the queen. She immediately realized that some people were planning to fight for the emperor.

The time has come. As the only unstable factor in the Ming Dynasty, no matter whether it is the courtiers or the servants, the Empress Dowager Sun will definitely die.

But it seemed that the emperor didn't intend to kill her, and saying such a small matter in person was a signal in itself.

Empress Dowager Sun's hands were trembling. When things came to an end, she could only trust the bastard emperor she thought was a concubine in the past.

"Demolition is enough, state affairs are the most important thing." Empress Dowager Sun put down her teacup, and said calmly with a smile on her face: "Whether the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous, I am a woman, and I must not hinder the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Qiyu stood up and said: "If you need anything, just tell Xing'an, I still have something to do, so I'll go first."

"By the way, both Ji'er and Ru'er have done well in their studies, so don't worry about it, the Queen Mother."

Ru'er is Zhu Jianshen's nickname. In fact, the Empress Dowager Sun never wanted to see Zhu Jianshen, the eldest grandson, but Zhu Qizhen died, so the Empress Dowager Sun could only recognize this eldest grandson.

Empress Dowager Sun knew that she had to live, she lived, and the Prince Ji's Mansion lived, if she died, no one in the Prince Ji's Mansion could live, not even Zhu Jianshen's biological mother, the Zhou family in Baiyi Nunnery, could escape.

"That's good." Empress Dowager Sun stood up and sent the emperor off. When Her Majesty walked out of the Gate of Compassion, Empress Dowager Sun supported the door frame, took a few breaths, and seemed to relax.

Zhu Qiyu walked on the gold bricks of the palace, because Zhu Qiyu, the emperor, did not live in the palace, and the repair and maintenance of the palace was not done according to the highest standard, and it was a bit dilapidated.

Not far away, the mottled vermilion palace wall was cracked inch by inch, with moss growing under the wall, and no one cleaned it up; It's a bit bleak.

Zhu Qiyu walked out of the outer gate of the Compassionate Ning Palace and stopped.

Until now, Prince Ji's Mansion still exists, and the Empress Dowager Sun is still alive because of Zhu Jianshen.

After Yu Qian was beheaded by Ming Yingzong at Caishikou for seeking glory and humiliation, and Ming Yingzong disbanded the Beijing camp formed by Yu Qian, the Ming Dynasty had been tossed and tossed for eight years.

It was Zhu Jianshen who rehabilitated Yu Qian and the Ming Dynasty Zong, established the Beijing Camp, swept the court and plowed the Jiannu, and revived the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

Only when Zhu Qiyu sat in this seat did he realize how difficult this matter was.

"Let's go." Zhu Qiyu stepped on the gold bricks and headed towards Donghuamen. It took him less than a quarter of an hour to get there from Donghuamen out of the palace to Qingqingfang.

"Did Wang Fu hear any memorials these days?" Zhu Qiyu asked Wang Fu the first thing he said after returning to the imperial study.

He never doubted Wang Fu's loyalty to Daming, as for Wang Fu's attitude towards him, the emperor, he really didn't care.

As long as Wang Fu doesn't do anything that damages Daming's interests, then Zhu Qiyu will regard Wang Fu as a courtier of Daming.

"Yes, here." Xing'an took out a memorial and put it on the desk. The matter of Wang Fu and Wang Yue was extremely confidential, so Xing'an was naturally careful.

"Elena wanted to write a letter to her father and uncle, and now she can write. Constantine XI, the emperor in purple, has settled down in Saraibah." Zhu Qiyu finished reading Wang Fu's memorial, Constantine was captured by Wang Yue and placed in Sarai Batu, and the letter could be sent to Sarai Batu.

Zhu Qiyu handed the memorandum to Xing'an for filing and said: "Fatih dug three feet in the Junbao massacre for three days, and killed a thousand-year-old city without any people. The city wall was blown up and the farmland was turned into a pasture."

It has never been a rare thing for barbarism and backwardness to destroy civilization and advancement.

Zhu Qiyu just sighed that after the two-headed eagle flag of Junbao fell, the Junbao surrounded by the crescent flag did not usher in life, but became more desolate.

"It's normal. If Farah wasn't like this, wouldn't they be Roman Zhengshuo?" Xing'an replied.

Roma is not Rome because Roma is just Roma.

Xing'an took the memorial and told Elena about Constantine XI and her father.

Elena finally received the news from her uncle and father after a long absence, she was overjoyed, she blinked her big eyes and said, "In other words, can I write to my father and uncle?"

"Yes." Xing'an said with a smile: "After finishing writing, leave it to the minister."

Elena ran to her dressing table, rummaged through the box and took out a letter that had been written a long time ago and said, "I've already written it."

Elena didn't seal the envelope. She knew that His Majesty would have to review this letter. Although it was a family letter, she was already married to Daming.

Zhu Qiyu got the letter from Elena and opened it slowly. The letter was written in Chinese, and the words were not very correct, but he could understand it.

Compared with Tuotuobuhuaguifu, which only Yu Qian can understand, Elena's handwriting is at least graduated from elementary school.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the letter with relish, and there was nothing hidden in it.

"Daming is a monarchy like Rome. There is also a senate here. The emperor usually discusses a matter with the elders of the senate for a long time before it is enacted."

"I found that Ming has a very complete way of governing the country. Governor Nikolaoz said that this system is called a bureaucratic bureaucracy. No religious organizational structure can compare with Ming's system."

"The people here are very knowledgeable. They are very precise and enthusiastic about medicine, science, mathematics, and astronomy. My husband is like this. He also likes equipment very much and often does it himself."

"The products here are rich, the sugar is whiter than Taixi, the cloth is more beautiful than Taixi, and the clothes and accessories are gorgeous. The people here are very elegant and polite. They are very hygienic. Everything is fine here."

"But people in this country always boast that their country is the whole world, but I have walked those roads clearly, and I know that the world is very big."

Seeing this, Zhu Qiyu stopped and looked at the slightly immature words.

This is the real purpose of Elena writing Chinese. This letter is not only a letter from home, but also written for him, the great Ming monarch.

Now Da Ming is the hope of Rome's lightning return, and Elena has discovered that Da Ming doesn't seem to have such a vigorous expansion.

Nikolaoz made Elena's life easier, but unfortunately, Elena couldn't do it.

Zhu Qiyu knocked on the table, savoring Elena's words.

Has Daming really lost its pioneering spirit?

5Chapter 17 The kindness of Ming people

There is some truth to this statement, but it is not.

There are silver mines in Wa country, and there are a lot of them. The Confucian government has already set up camp in Shijian. I never forget the money shortage.

It’s not that Ming is not pioneering. It’s because Da Ming has obtained most of the areas that can be ruled stably, and some areas that cannot be ruled stably have also been occupied first. Due to the limited conditions, it is impossible to rule stably now, but that does not mean that it will not be possible in the future.

For example, in the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, places such as Sichuan, Tibet, and Miaojiang in Guizhou, which could not be effectively ruled, are now being reformed step by step.

The two post roads in Sichuan and Tibet are also proof.

During the reign of Hongwu, the Ganzang post road was built, and in the fifth year of Yongle, the Uszang post road in Yazhou began to be built. The two post roads set up 26 large water horse stations and nearly 70 small post stations.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qiyu asked Peng Sui to take the steles on the boat and buried them on various islands.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not lose its pioneering spirit, and even for the sake of pioneering and stabilizing its rule, even the mighty Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty suffered a lot of grievances.

During the Hongwu period, the north-south division was so serious that it became a major case in the north-south list. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the northern land was lost. Since then, the division between the north and the south has become the norm in this land.

Zhu Yuanzhang could only pinch his nose and recognize Kublai Khan as a real person in the grassland. It was also based on political needs and territorial needs.

Zhu Qiyu didn't think Elena's words were correct, he could only say that there was no way to expand, and that Daming had stretched his hands and feet to the edge of being able to stabilize his rule.

"Actually, Hu Shangshu and Nikolaos should be chattered more to see if there is anything Ming can learn from Rome's colonial model." Zhu Qiyu looked at Xing'an and said.

The development pattern of the world is roughly the Roman colonial model, and the Central Plains dynasty. In the world, is it the king's subjects, the land of the land, or the king's land. Occupying a land and a city is a real territory for a land and a city.

Xing'an said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Hu Shangshu has been debating scriptures with Nikolaoz all day long, and these matters seem to have been discussed."

"It's just that Hu Shangshu is quite disdainful of this kind of bone-sucking ruling method. He often tells people: his way is short-sighted, there is no long-term governance, and there is no long-term peace."

Zhu Qiyu leaned on the wicker chair and said strangely: "The way is short-sighted, there is no long-term governance and there is no long-term peace. Hu Shangshu really hits the nail on the head."

Hu Wei is really a master of etiquette. These few short words fully explain the limitations of the development of the Roman model.

This path only focuses on immediate interests, and inhumanely governs and deprives the people of the colonies. In the end, fierce conflicts between the colonies and the suzerain country break out. It cannot be governed for a long time, let alone long-term stability.

For example, Scotland with the back garden of the British Empire.

Zhu Qiyu put forward a possibility and said: "The colony does not seek long-term peace and stability, but to make money. According to the debate between Hua and Barbarians, the barbarians must be different if they are not my race. Why should they be peaceful?"

Xing'an thought for a while and asked, "Your Majesty, is Guizhou also going to be a colony? We will exhaust the people of Guizhou until they are exhausted, and then throw them away like shoestrings."

"Liaodong, Sichuan-Tibet, Western Regions, Monan, Mobei, Jiaozhi, Champa, Qiongzhou?"

The places Xing'an asked about are all places where Daming is reforming the land and returning to the people. In Daming's words, this is called Wang Hua.

Zhu Qiyu immediately shook his head and said: "That must be impossible! That is my territory, and the people on it are all my subjects!"

"Even right now, my Master Wang is temporarily unable to go due to various reasons, but one day, I will go!"

"It's all mine!"

Xing'an continued to be busy with a smile on his face, and didn't speak anymore, His Majesty already understood completely.

Xing'an's question is asking His Majesty, can he accept the appearance of such a purgatory on earth under the Ming Dynasty?The emperor's answer is of course impossible.

This is the problem. In the eyes of His Majesty today, the Xuanwei Department of the Old Port is the emperor's back garden.

So here comes the problem, the emperor's desire to rule has no limit, so the colonial model is simply impossible for Ming.

In the political thinking of the Ming Dynasty or the Central Plains Dynasty, the core area must be held firmly in the hands. The Three Kingdoms, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Southern Song Dynasty, in traditional values, are not regarded as unified dynasties and must be cast aside.

As for the frontier areas or areas that are unable to effectively rule, they are ruled by military restraints, setting up a propaganda department, and dispatching princes and princes to stabilize and rule one side.

In the fringe areas, even if it is impossible to set up a consolation department, they must be made to surrender, force them to pay tribute, and appoint their kings and rulers.

King Hami, King Gongshun of Wala, Joseon Lee of Korea, and the Muromachi Shogunate of Wa were all based on this.