Chapter 290 The king is crazy, just get a new one!
When Liu Jinzhong was foolishly deceived by Eunuch Pang, Zhu Heji had just led a group of Chaozhou Zhu clan men to pay homage to Zhu Yuanzhang's memorial tablet, and together they left their names on a brand new genealogy.
There is only one tablet, that of Ming Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang!
The reason for this is that starting from today, the descendants of Zhu Ming who have officially taken root in Chaozhou have only Zhu Yuanzhang as a common ancestor! These people are descendants of Zhu Ming from many vassal palaces. Now everyone has settled in Chaozhou together.
They founded the Chaozhou Zhu family together. Therefore, the only ancestor they can worship together is Zhu Yuanzhang.
After paying homage to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Heji took out the imperial edict issued in the name of the third prince Zhu and declared that he was ordered to become the patriarch of the Zhu family in Chaozhou!
King Zhu Tian is the head of the Zhu Ming clan in the world...Although I don’t know where the Zhu Ming clan is scattered in the world, and I don’t know how many are left, but we can’t pretend that they don’t exist.
According to the plan, every time the Ming Dynasty conquered a province, it would find some of Zhu Yuanzhang's troubled descendants to allocate a large piece of land there to establish a clan and spread its branches.
Although these Zhu Ming clans will receive some support from the royal family - mainly educational support, they will no longer have hard-core salaries and hereditary official positions, and they will not even have any loopholes in tax exemptions.
Theoretically, they are just ordinary people...with just a little background. As for whether they will rise to great heights, plow the countryside, or be reduced to weaving mats and selling shoes, it all depends on their fate.
The Zhu clan in each province will have a clan leader.
After announcing that he had become the head of the Zhu family in Chaozhou, Guangdong (all the descendants of Zhu Ming in Guangdong have now gathered in Chaozhou), Zhu Heji spent some time reasoning with everyone and drawing a big picture. Of course, the truest family love in the world is also indispensable.
——Big red envelope!
Fortunately, all the descendants of Zhu Ming in this generation have experienced great hardships. The glory and wealth of their ancestors have become distant memories. Being able to live peacefully and peacefully as ordinary citizens without being chased by the lackeys of the Qing court has become a luxury.
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Moreover, the parents and ancestors of these people were not big sects - not many of the sects had died long ago, and the rest were small fish and shrimps. Even if the Ming Dynasty was still there, they would not be able to lose a few benefits.
It is extremely difficult to obtain a hard-core salary and an ancestral official title... Although in theory you can be granted the title of Lieutenant of Fengguo, you can't stand up to the superiors not acting in accordance with the "theory"!
Now not only have their extravagant wishes come true, but they also have houses and land, many people have become officials, and the young men in the clan also have a place to go to school... Those hard-working men who have been bachelors for many years, overnight
The relationship became so popular that people who wanted to propose marriage almost broke through the gate of the surrounding building.
This life is much better than that of the small sects who were so poor that they were almost begging for food in the late Ming Dynasty, and they are getting more and more hopeful.
Life is like this, you can still win, what else is there to be dissatisfied about?
Moreover, the saying "a rice is a good thing, a rice is a enemy" is also reasonable. The benefits that Zhu Heji gave to these poor relatives are equivalent to "the rice is raised"... That is really a rebirth of kindness!
In addition, Zhu Heji still has a lot of "rice" in his hands. It depends on who performs well and is willing to work hard!
Therefore, all the Zhu family clan members worked hard to perform, which really gave Zhu Heji enough face that he just had to "kneel down and lick him".
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"Your Majesty, I have no great ambitions and no great abilities. I have no control over the affairs of Fujian Province... I just want to restore my ancestral business and become a wealthy businessman with titles and titles like my grandfather."
I am completely satisfied.”
In a main room in the largest gated building in the center of Zhucuo Village, the man who said that he had no ambition was a thin, middle-aged man with slightly bulging cheekbones on his face.
This man is the man whom Batulu Aobai Ao Shaobao, the first of the Qing Dynasty, is most afraid of - Zheng Jing, the king of Yanping County in the Ming Dynasty!
Well, because Ao Bai was afraid of Zheng Jing's invasion, he instituted a self-inflicted maritime ban, which devastated the coasts of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places.
Fortunately, Zheng Jingzhen didn't have much ability, and the conflict with his father, Zheng Chenggong, severely damaged the Zheng family's vitality.
Otherwise, Obai's self-inflicted sea ban might become an opportunity for Zheng Ming to rise!
And listening to the words of Zheng Jing, who had "never had any great ambitions", it was Zhu Heji who was a little bit dumbfounded - he had never had any great ambitions. Don't you, Zheng Jing, know who your grandfather Zheng Zhilong was?
That’s the richest man in the world!
Does the richest man know? And he is world-class.
The business he did was similar to that of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company... They were all good deals of "overseas purchase for zero dollars", and he also received the protection fee from the Dutch East India Company.
But having said that, Zheng Jing’s current request can really be met by Zhu Heji. Because Zhu Heji happens to have the core competitiveness of the “overseas zero-dollar purchase” industry!
"King Yanping, we Ming people don't speak secretly." Zhu Heji said with a smile: "First, Gujia will give you the military, political and financial power of the Yanping Palace of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua and Taiwan. The specific method is to establish
The post of General Manager of Southern Fujian is responsible for the military, political and financial power of the four prefectures of Zhangzhou, Quan, Xing and Taiwan. From now on, this position will be recommended by the Yanping Palace and will take office immediately after approval by the meeting of bachelors.
Second, I have granted your family a license to establish a Nanyang Trading Company... Please refer to the East India Trading Company for various regulations of this Nanyang Trading Company. Any business that the Dutch and British East India Trading Companies can do, your family's
Nanyang Trading Company can do it, and you can do it freely. The imperial court will support you!"
Let’s talk for a while. Zheng Jing has been “surprised”. He doesn’t have such big ambitions! The “ancestry” he mentioned is actually the Fujian General Soldier (the only General Soldier in Fujian) plus Taiwan Island, plus
Some sites and industries along the coast of Fujian.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Heji was so interesting that he directly gave him the title of General Manager of the Fourth House, and also said that he would support him in setting up a Nanyang Trading Company to compete with the Dutch and English... But now the Zheng family can compete with others.
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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Seeing Zheng Jing in a daze, Zhu Heji knew that this "unambitious" King Yanping was a little afraid of imperialism, and he did not want to win the "zero yuan" in Nanyang.
"Buying market" is not sure.
So he smiled and said: "King Yanping, don't worry... The support of the imperial court is not something you just talk about casually. The Gu family is currently developing a rocket specifically designed to hit warships, which is to put the rocket in a cast iron pipe and launch it
, so that you can aim and shoot horizontally, and you can even make a joint installation. That is to connect six or nine cast iron pipes in parallel, and fire out six to nine rockets at the same time. The wooden ships of the Westerners cannot withstand such weapons at all.
, so Nanyang can definitely be captured."
The weapon Zhu Heji mentioned is almost his ultimate golden finger - the original version of the Type 63 rocket launcher! Install sugar rockets in parallel cast iron tubes, and it is best to equip the sugar rockets with mercury fulminate fuzes.
...This thing has to drag dozens of them onto the battlefield and bombard them squarely. Even the Eight Banners soldiers can't stop them!
It should be first-rate for anti-ship use. The wooden-hulled ships of these days simply cannot withstand the bombardment of an explosive bomb filled with sugar!
Of course, Zhu Heji has given a concept now. Samples will not be available for three to five years, and mass production will be even further away.
But this concept alone has already made Zheng Jing and Chen Yonghua very excited.
The two of them looked at each other, and Zheng Jing suddenly stood up and bowed to Zhu Heji: "The prince, who has entrusted me with the border, regards our Zheng family as my confidant. If I betray my gratitude to the Zheng family,
, not only shameless in the world, but also disdainful of his father and ancestors (Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Zhilong are looking at Zheng Jing coldly in the sky).
I have nothing to repay, so I am willing to dedicate my cousin Jiaxin to serve the prince... Please do not refuse, prince!"
Zheng Jing's requirements are really "not high"... He even proposed marriage!
However, the woman he brought out for marriage seemed to have "returned" to Zhu Heji long ago.
"Okay!" Zhu Heji nodded lightly, "Jiaxin is a beauty in the world. I love Gu very much, and I have long wanted to take her in. Then let her follow the Gu family in the name of Princess Yanping's palace!"
Zheng Jing was overjoyed when he heard this: "My lord, don't worry, I will handle this matter smoothly for you."
Zhu Heji waved his hand, "This matter is not urgent... The most urgent task now is how to trick Geng Jingzhong on the road!"
Chapter completed!