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Although he refuted it, when he left the academy and returned to the inn, Zhu Mingzhong's heart seemed to be burning with flames there.

For a long time, the government and the people have been controversial about how to deal with the issue of vassals.

While establishing the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang formally established the system of feudal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal corpses, and asked them to lead elite troops to station in fortresses across the country, establish a military center directly controlled by imperial power. On the one hand, it was used to consolidate border defense, and on the other hand, it was used to weaken the military power of the meritorious generals, monitor civil and military officials from all over the country, and use powerful relatives as guards to ensure the consolidation of the Zhu family's imperial throne. However, starting from Emperor Jianwen, all dynasties In order to ensure the monopoly of power, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty continued to reduce the vassals. They repeatedly strengthened the surveillance, constraints and restrictions on the vassals, and gradually formed the "vassal ban" system, which became increasingly strict and dense, aiming to sanction and suppress them from all aspects. The "vassal ban" in the Ming Dynasty was the most harsh and harsh among the dynasties of Chinese feudal society. Those royal families who were "native nobles" and "dragons and sons and phoenixes" actually became some unconvicted prisoners who were kept in a city.

And what was the final result?

However, there were dozens of vassal kings with false reputations and rich fortunes. When the bandits were rampant and the Qing robbers invaded, those vassal kings were banned in the palace like prisoners, and were killed and slaughtered like pigs. They were useless at all, let alone "the royal family of auxiliary families".

Of course, it is not without any use. Compared with the isolation of the royal family in the Song Dynasty and the sluggish royal family, although the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty continued to become the banner of the anti-Qing forces, there was at least a little use. They would not be uprooted like the Song Dynasty.

It is also because of this that in the court and the country, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Lu Liuliang all supported the system of feudal vassals and even advocated that the vassal kings lead troops and belonged to the people. After all, the reality of the invasion of the Qing vassals and the slaughter of billions of people was clearly realized that if the vassal kings in the Jiashen year still led troops like in the early Ming Dynasty, they might not be able to "accompany the royal family", but at least they could save the creatures in the world from being damaged.

Zhu Mingzhong, who advocated "great unification", naturally resisted them without hesitation, and even began to learn from the Qing Dynasty's titles to the princes, trying to place all the royal families in Nanjing and Beijing.

But Zhu Mingzhong still seemed extremely hesitant on this issue.

After all, on the one hand, the Song Dynasty's royal family was isolated and the royal family was sluggish. On the other hand, the many vassals allowed the Ming Dynasty to have a banner of using vassal kings as a resistance to foreign races. In my heart, of course, I also thought about the helplessness of the Qing royal family in the year of 1911, facing the revolution.

After all, how should those vassal kings be dealt with?

Of course, Zhu Mingzhong was considering not only the vassals such as King Gui and King Lu. Those vassals were just nominal "relatives". What he had to consider was his own sons. Now he already had five sons, and in the future, there would be more sons who would implement "vassal bans" like the Ming Dynasty and be imprisoned in the royal palace like a prisoner? Or like the Qing Dynasty, he would make them ministers in the court. Or, like now, they would be divided into the north and south capitals, just as a special group of food and wealth? Of course, their descendants would not always be the vassal family. After all, the vassal was reduced in order according to the lineage, and even to "idle royal family" who did not enter the ranks. Except for the ability to receive education in public schools, the punishment needed to be handed over to the priest house, and there was no difference between them and the common people.

However, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties or the Yuan and Qing dynasties, when they faced a crisis, the royal family was weak. The reason was that no one defended the royal family at critical moments, relying on ministers, Zhu Wen, or "princes" like themselves. If they want to maintain the world for a long time, they must rely on the power of clans to achieve the goal of defending the central government.

At least at this point, Zhu Yuanzhang's choice cannot be said to be wrong. What is the only mistake? I'm afraid it is the place where the enfeoffment is enfeoffed!

Of course, there is also the form of enfeoffment!

Whether it was the pre-Qin period, the Han Dynasty, or the Jin Dynasty, they all had their own shortcomings. Even the Ming Dynasty created the "only titles but not the people, and the vassals but not the land" system of feudals was created by the Ming Dynasty in absorbing the gains and losses of the vassals and the division of vassals without giving them land" in order to strengthen the central authority, Zhu Yunwen could only choose to reduce the vassals. Zhu Di, who started his business with the Jingnan Dynasty, also chose to reduce the vassals.

So what to do now?

Although the discussions of those young students did not fundamentally solve the problem, Zhu Mingzhong saw another possibility. Although it was refuted on the surface, when Zhu Mingzhong returned to the inn, he asked Luo Encheng to find a map of Nanyang. This map was easy to find in the capital, but it was difficult to find in Kaifeng. Finally, Luo Sicheng took a long time to find it from the academy, and it was a large map that was two-span wide. Then Zhu Mingzhong spread the map on the ground and carefully studied it.

Although the map reads "The Map of the South Ocean Territory", there are not many places that belong to the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the establishment of the Chameng Administration and the General Administration and the General Administration and the General Administration and established after the abolition of Myanmar, two places were located in the Nantianmen and the Pingnan Administration and the General Administration and Administration established after the abolition of Myanmar. Although through negotiations two years ago, tens of thousands of square miles of land at the mouth of the Mekong River were purchased from King Zhenla and the Governor of Guangnan was established, in addition, there were only a few port strongholds located in the Pingnan Peninsula (Malay Peninsula).

In other words, the Ming Dynasty did not have much territory in the Southeast Asian Sea. However, even so, in order to promote immigration, in the past three years, a group of colonial explorations have been published through newspapers. The routine is very simple, and it is nothing more than how children from poor families seek a livelihood to make a living, and then how to overcome obstacles overseas, achieve success and achieve success.

This kind of thing was even written by Zhu Mingzhong, just to let people know that there are more prosperous existences outside the Ming Dynasty. As long as they are willing, they can open ten thousand acres of manors there and obtain huge wealth.

There is a beauty in the book, not necessarily, but there must be a beauty in the overseas world. There is a golden house in the book, which is not reliable, but there must be a Huangshanhai overseas.

It is precisely because of these agitation that a small number of Ming people took the initiative to join the overseas colonization ranks. Of course, more Ming people knew that there was a broader world besides the Ming Dynasty. They may not know how vast overseas is, but they knew that it was not as barren as they imagined, and even richer. Those who taught people to take risks and make money were incompetent, but their contribution was significant. It popularized a lot of knowledge to the people of the world through a special channel.

This is the most important thing.

It is precisely because of this that a large map that is almost three-span and two-span high is hung in the library. The purpose is to tell the world how many islands, many foreign countries, and many unknown places there are. And every unknown place is full of various opportunities.

Although the map of Nanyang placed in front of Zhu Mingzhong is not accurate or perfect compared to later generations, it basically depicts the shape of Nanyang. There are hundreds of islands of large and small on the map, and hundreds of ports marked.

Of course, there is also something inaccurate about this map, that is, Batavia has now become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which is Xuannan Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Mingzhong has long decided to pay attention to the fact that he wanted to enfeoff the vassal of King Gui. In addition to being far enough, there is another reason that King Gui believes in Catholicism, and Catholicism is the natural enemy of the local natives who believe in religion. In any case, he will never convert to his religion. Therefore, no one is more suitable to go there than him.

Besides Batavia, what other places are suitable for fiefdoms?

"His Majesty."

Zhu Mingzhong, who was lying on the map, was concentrating on studying the map, and responded with a sound, then pointed at Sumadala Island and said as if he was talking to himself.

"I remember it was the Navy Intelligence Agency that both the Dutch and the English set up strongholds here, and there were also Acehs in the north. The English also established a shopping mall in Aceh in Sumatra, Zhanbei... It's here..."

Pointing to Suma Dala on the map, Zhu Mingzhong said to himself.

"It's a good place to be here, well, there's also here..."

My fingers were a little bit in Borneo. It is still a virgin land. Apart from a few local states such as Brunei and Machen, there is no other force. At most, there are commercial strongholds in England or the Netherlands, just like these small ports.

"His Majesty……"

Once again, Luo Sicheng called out the second time, and Zhu Mingzhong raised his head and looked at him. However, he saw that he was looking at him with a silence, and Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but ask.

"Is there anything?"

Luo Sicheng nodded, hesitated for a while before whispering.

"Your Majesty, Henan Governor Lu Liuliang knows that you are in Kaifeng, so he comes here to ask for your Majesty."

"oh?"

Zhu Mingzhong was stunned and asked back.

"How did Lu Liuliang know that I am here?"

"this……"

Luo Sicheng thought about the words and explained.

"Your Majesty, it's all my fault for not considering this matter. When I was looking for a map for Your Majesty, I had to borrow the government and borrow this map because it was only in the library."

"Oh, that's right."

Zhu Mingzhong turned his attention back to the map disapprovingly. At this time, he found the Nanyang map in Kaifeng. Without the government's presence, the library would never open. If you want to find a map at this point, you must have the government's presence. No wonder the map is so big. If you guessed correctly, this map may even be the only Nanyang map in Kaifeng. It seems that the popularization of geographical knowledge is still a long way to go.
Chapter completed!