Chapter 1113 Unification of the World (Final Chapter)
It was the sixth day of the tenth lunar month in the seventh year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty.
Early in the morning that day, there was a killing spree inside and outside the capital. Zhu Hao led troops into the city to accept the defense of the capital, and the troops stationed in the Ming Dynasty were immediately disarmed.
Zhu Si, in his capacity as Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, led hundreds of officials out of the capital from Zhengyang Gate to pay homage to the Emperor of the Chinese Empire.
Civil servants knelt on both sides of the road, lamenting the decline of the Ming Dynasty, but almost everyone present was secretly grateful that they had saved their lives in the war.
The Ming Emperor personally went out of the city to surrender, but unfortunately he did not see Zhu Hao himself.
Then Zhu Si was led by Guan Jing personally and escorted him back to the inner garden of the palace.
"When will you kill me?"
Fengtian Temple.
Zhu Si sat back on the dragon chair, but the people around him were no longer the Imperial Guards, the personal soldiers of the Great Tomorrow, but the "Javanese soldiers" with loaded guns and live ammunition.
The civil servants and generals still stood in two queues. They faced the guns of a group of heavily armed soldiers. They still don't know where the enemies who captured the Ming capital came from.
Guan Jing appeared at the entrance of the palace, walked quickly to Zhu Si, took out an edict, and said loudly: "Edict of the Emperor of the Chinese Empire!"
The civil servants and officials present, Wu Xun, looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know whether everyone would have to kneel down next, or whether only Zhu Si would have to kneel down.
"Emperor of Ming Dynasty."
Guan Jingdao said, "From now on, you will still be the emperor, but you will change the Yuan Dynasty to Xinhe, and this year will be the first year of Xinhe. You will be transferred to a newly built city between Beijing and Tianjin, where you will live your daily life.
There, you have access to all government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, but all the armies are no longer under your control!"
It can be said that such an imperial edict written in almost vernacular language has never been heard of by the civil servants and generals present.
Zhu Si asked: "What do you mean by this?"
Guan Jing did not answer Zhu Si's question and continued: "I issued an edict in your name to recruit civilian men from all over the country, a total of 500,000, to move overseas. From now on, 500,000 people will be moved out every year... This five-year cycle is a cycle.
, that is, after going to sea for five years, you can choose to stay overseas or return to the Ming Dynasty according to your heart. People in the Ming Dynasty are exempt from taxes for three years."
"ah?"
The ministers present were dumbfounded.
From what I hear, it is not that a new emperor has ascended the throne, but that someone is blackmailing the emperor to order the princes to first exempt them from three years of money and food. No one can understand it.
Without taxes, how would the Ming Dynasty support itself?
What does the northwest town rely on to survive?
"Emperor Ming Dynasty, the edict has been drafted for you. You can sign it yourself and post it to make it known to the world!"
After Guan Jing finished speaking, he handed an edict to Zhu Si.
Zhu Si asked with a dark face: "General Guan, who are you serving now?"
Guan Jing continued to remain silent in response.
After Zhu Si picked up the ink pen, signed his name on the edict, and printed it, Guan Jing took the edict over, turned around and went down the jade steps, came to the chief assistant Liu Chun at the front of the civil service queue, and said:
"Just do it!"
Liu Chun's sense of presence was very low recently. He looked up at the emperor and saw Zhu Si's face was ashen, and he seemed to understand something.
"After the order is issued, the six ministries and officials at all levels will implement it."
After Liu Chun finished speaking, he took the edict with both hands.
Zhang Cong on the side asked: "Will the country's name remain unchanged?"
Guan Jingdao: "The name of the Ming Dynasty will not change, but the Ming Dynasty is only a part of the Chinese Empire. If there is any violation, you will be punished without mercy!"
Just as he was talking, his generals brought a battle report to Guan Jing. After reading it, Guan Jing said: "The city of Nanjing has been captured, and all the civil servants and military officials in Nanjing have surrendered to the Chinese Empire."
The incident occurred two days before the capture of the capital.
The monarchs and ministers present naturally felt that the officials and generals in Nanjing were spineless. After all, the Ming Emperor was still there at the time, and the Nanjing officials submitted... Aren't they afraid that the emperor would settle accounts in the future?
Guan Jingdao: "Officials from each yamen perform their duties! The troops and horses in the nine-border important town were immediately replaced, and all the generals met with the Emperor of the Chinese Empire in the afternoon."
Zhu Si asked again: "Who is he?"
Guan Jing still did not answer, but said loudly to the civil and military officials: "Let the court disperse."
Then heavily armed soldiers came forward, and all the civil and military officials were escorted back to their respective yamen.
Zhu Si was the only one left in the huge Fengtian Hall.
Even Zhang Zuo was not allowed inside.
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Zhu Si was frightened and uneasy.
He just heard that he was going to be escorted to live in a newly built city outside the city, and he lamented in his heart. His life was saved, and the throne seemed to be saved, but his freedom was gone.
Just as he was thinking about his thoughts, the door of the hall that had just been closed was opened again from the outside, and then a person walked in under the sunlight. Zhu Si took a closer look and saw that it was Zhu Hao who was wearing ordinary clothes.
"Respect...ah, that's not right..."
When Zhu Si saw Zhu Hao, his eyes showed enthusiasm at first, and then he understood something. He stared at Zhu Hao and asked in a trembling voice, "You...it's you..."
Zhu Hao did not go over, but stood at the door and looked at Zhu Si, as if he were a pitiful creature. He smiled and said: "Since ancient times, you have become a king and lost a bandit. I spared your life because I am a friend of mine."
"Why?"
Zhu Si almost burst into tears. He felt that he had been shamefully betrayed and seemed particularly aggrieved. "I have given you so much, and I am even willing to share the world with you, let you be the chief minister, and even make you the prime minister.
I am willing to listen to all your suggestions, but you actually rebelled?"
Zhu Hao shook his head: "You and I are born equal. If you still think that this world is yours, then let's show our strength. Your wife, children, and children will live with you in the new city. You will meet the people I have prepared for you. They
I will tell you all aspects of the Ming Dynasty. If you can be a diligent emperor in the next twenty years, I will even let you return to the Forbidden City and be a decent emperor, and the country of the Ming Dynasty will still be yours. But if you do not repent,
I won’t kill you either, you will be imprisoned for the rest of your life.”
Zhu Hao was very polite.
He did not kill Zhu Si. In addition to using the name of Emperor Zhu Si to control the Ming Dynasty, he actually gave Zhu Si a chance to "reform his mistakes."
It's just that Ming's army can no longer be handed over to Zhu Si.
As for civil affairs, Zhu Hao will hand over limited power to Zhu Si to understand.
The soldiers and horses brought by Zhu Hao will ensure the safety of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually make the subjects of the Ming Dynasty accustomed to being subjects of the Chinese Empire instead of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Hao said this, he turned around and went out.
Zhu Si refused to give up and came down from the jade steps. He chased him a few steps and asked, "Why on earth?"
Zhu Hao said coldly: "It's not impossible to help you achieve great things, but your vision is too narrow. If you had no reservations and asked me to develop science and technology and promote the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty, I would naturally go all out. Unfortunately, in the end, you just want to
As your emperor, you are obsessed with pleasure and have failed to live up to my expectations for you. Instead, you have become a stumbling block to the progress of the times. Then I can only fulfill the ideals I planned for you when I was a child.
"At least Daming is still yours now, and I have not betrayed you."
After saying that, Zhu Hao went out and ignored Zhu Si who was yelling behind him.
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The capital of the Ming Dynasty was captured by Zhu Hao's army.
Zhu Hao met with the civil servants and generals in the city. At this time, Zhu Hao's identity was revealed little by little. The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty finally knew that Zhu Hao was the initiator of everything.
Originally they were still immersed in the fear of being ruled by foreign barbarians, but as Zhu Hao's identity was exposed, they realized that the so-called foreign barbarians were just pawns controlled by Zhu Hao. After the Ming Dynasty, it would still be the Ming Dynasty, and China would tolerate the world.
The soldiers and horses of King Qin from all over the country gathered near the capital one after another.
Zhu Hao also sent out troops to use a combination of force and softness to show his kindness first. If the other party did not listen, he would use heavy firepower to teach them a lesson.
As the Ming Emperor was captured, officials and generals from all over the country lost their goals. In addition, Zhu Hao's identity was revealed, and soldiers and horses from all over the place surrendered one after another.
Between Tianjin and the capital, a new city rose from the ground and was completed in just one month.
This is a defensive city. Zhu Hao sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to stay in it. At the same time, such cities will be built near major cities such as Nanjing, Xi'an, and Guangzhou.
Ming soldiers and horses will be stationed in the city, but they will only use ordinary cold weapons. As for the nine-sided important town, Zhu Hao will send 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison each. Coupled with mining and garrisoning all over the country, Zhu Hao's 100,000-strong army does not seem to be enough.
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Fortunately, Zhu Hao has a wide network of contacts in Ming Dynasty.
When the officials and people of Xishan City and Taiping Palace heard that Zhu Hao had returned and successfully rebelled, they put the emperor under house arrest and cheered.
Coupled with the influence of the soldiers who went to sea, as well as Lu Wan's surrender, Zhu Hao brought the support of at least 500,000 young and middle-aged men. These men will be trained into recruits who know how to use firearms in a short period of time.
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March, the second year of Xinhe.
Zhu Hao sent an army of up to 30,000 people to the grasslands. In just four months, Monan, Mobei and Liaodong were completely wiped out, and even North Korea was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
The expeditionary troops went all the way west and north, reaching the Ural Mountains in the west and the Arctic Ocean in the north. The entire Central Asia and North Asia were brought under the jurisdiction of China.
Mines in various places were reopened, and the Daming veins were all used by Zhu Hao.
Corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes were promoted and planted in the Ming Dynasty in the shortest time, and the first batch of overseas immigrants who followed Zhu Hao to sea began to come back in turn, and their homes and relatives were preserved to the greatest extent.
At the end of the second year of Xinhe.
The entire land of China, including all land and islands in Southeast Asia and Australia, were captured by Zhu Hao's troops.
The civil servants who once felt that Zhu Hao had let down the Ming Dynasty had changed their attitudes. Even Zhu Hao often received requests to persuade him to ascend the throne, especially those who were loyal ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty, let alone those who had stood on the throne.
The members of the Yili faction who were waving flags and shouting behind Zhu Hao.
Liu Chun is still the chief assistant, but his body is no longer capable.
Zhu Hao planned to let Lou Suzhen return to the Ming Dynasty and use Lou Suzhen to help him govern the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he would use many people he knew from the Xingwang Palace, as well as those civil servants who had been proven to be talented in history but could not be reused at this time.
While the Ming Dynasty's national power was booming, Zhu Hao was about to go to sea again.
Before he went to sea, he had moved two groups of about one million people to the American continent, and his conquests there never stopped.
On behalf of the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Si went to Tianjin Port to see Zhu Hao off.
After more than a year... Zhu Si has truly been diligent and self-denial. The environment forced him to be an effective emperor. He also wanted to be pardoned by Zhu Hao and return to the Forbidden City. He finally figured it out now.
Hao didn't kill him just for the sake of being a friend.
Because with Zhu Hao's current strength, it would be easy to capture the entire Ming Dynasty by force.
It's the same with or without him.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, may I ask when you will return?"
Zhang Cong, who had just taken over the position of chief assistant from Liu Chun, asked.
Zhu Hao looked back at Zhang Cong, as if looking at a dead person.
With Lou Suzhen returning to the Ming Dynasty, the purge of the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats will soon begin, and Zhu Hao does not need to do this himself.
"It may be a year, it may be three or four years. When I come back next time, I hope to see that the entire Ming Dynasty is different from the past. Please remember, whoever creates trouble for me is causing trouble for himself."
Zhu Hao said, looking up at the blue sea and sky, "I will let the dragon flag of China fill the whole world. When the world is unified, the Ming Dynasty will be the bright pearl of this world, and the Chinese people will be the masters of this world!"