Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 350 New Tang Kingdom Mansion
South Zhili, Taicang Port.

On the flagship of the Eastern Navy Fleet.

Tang Wang Zhu Yujian looked at the buildings, boats and gunboats lined up like city towers, the excitement on his face was beyond words.

Daming is finally strong again!

This kind of high-rise ship and gunboat is already quite astonishing in combat power, and the Dongyang Navy has equipped thirty of them!

I heard that the same is true of the Beiyang Navy Fleet, which is also equipped with thirty such buildings and gunboats!

These buildings and gunboats alone surpassed the fleet of Zheng He's voyages to the West at that time. What's more, the Eastern Navy and Beiyang Navy were also equipped with an astonishing number of Spike warships.

With this strength, who in the world can match it?

He was looking through the binoculars excitedly. Zhang Yuanfang, the commander of the Dongyang Navy, suddenly came up behind him and cupped his hands respectfully: "His Royal Highness Tang, we are about to set off. It is a little windy at sea today, and it may be a little cold. Would you like Come in and take a rest?"

Zhu Yujian hastily put down the binoculars and said kindly: "General Zhang, you are welcome. You can just do your own work and don't worry about me. It's much warmer here than Nanyang. A little wind is nothing."

Okay.

Zhang Yuanfang immediately waved without hesitation and said: "Order, all the Longya battleships put up the cables and hanging ladders and set off."

As soon as the command flag was waved, the sailors on the pier quickly untied the cables, and then quickly climbed up the hanging ladder.

In a short while, thirty dragon tooth warships left the dock one after another and came to the sea outside the port.

At this time, the surface of the sea was already densely covered with chariots and warships, so densely packed that you couldn't see the end at a glance.

Zhang Yuanfang raised the binoculars and scanned for a while, then waved decisively: "Order, all ships keep their distance and sail at full speed."

After waving the flag, the Dongyang Navy fleet began to speed up, and hundreds of ships quickly left the coastline and sailed into the vast sea.

There are so many ships cutting through the waves and sailing in the boundless sea. This scene is really spectacular.

Zhang Yuanfang and the other sailors were already used to this scene, so there was no emotion on their faces.

Zhu Yujian was very excited, because this was his first time going out to sea by boat!

This was also the first time he saw the magnificent sea and the amazing formation of the Daming Navy fleet.

Moreover, he knew very well why the emperor recruited him to Japan.

He still clearly remembered what the emperor said.

"If I lay down Dongpu and let you take care of it, can you take care of it?"

At that time, he thought it was a distant dream.

Who knows, it's only been a few years, the emperor really led the army to fight to Dongpu!
Dongying, that is a place bigger than the whole of Henan!
The Dongyang Navy Fleet sailed at sea for two full days and one night. The next day, towards evening, they finally arrived at Dongyang Port.

As soon as Zhu Yujian boarded the pier, a group of Jinyi guards stepped forward respectfully and led him to the majestic Zhenwa City.

At this moment, the battle command room of the Governor-General's Mansion is still brightly lit, and Taichang is leading a group of generals there to discuss the next battle plan.

In the next step, he plans to fool the Tokugawa shogunate again, and fight for another forty days or so.

Then, he took the entire Kyushu Island in one fell swoop, and raided Honshu Island with lightning speed, taking as many territories as he could!
At that time, it will be the real war.

Therefore, before that, they had to try their best to plan well.

Zhu Yujian really didn't expect that what he saw would be such a scene.

The emperor actually stood with a bunch of generals, pointing around a sand table model!

He was stunned for a moment, and then stepped forward and bowed respectfully: "Xiao Wang sees the emperor."

All the generals saw that it was Nanyang Tang Wang who came, and hurriedly bowed their hands to say hello, but Taichang took Zhu Yujian's arm and said kindly: "Come on, Yujian, take a look, this Kyushu Island will be Daming's Tang Kingdom in the future. How about agreeing to your change of feudal domain, is this new Tang Dynasty mansion big enough?"

Tang Guofu?
Hearing this, Zhu Yujian couldn't help being taken aback.

His vassal state used to be called Tang State!
Why do you need to add the word "Fu" at the end?

Seeing this, Taichang smiled and explained: "I feel that the previous vassal state system was not very good, so I decided to change it. From now on, all your vassal states will be changed into mansions, but you will be responsible for the military and civilian affairs in the vassal state. You are also responsible for collecting taxes. You are still the kings of the vassal state, but this vassal state cannot be completely separated from the control of the imperial court like before."

Uh, this.

It seems a bit complicated!
Zhu Yujian thought for a while, and then asked carefully: "Your Majesty, what do you mean, we will be equivalent to the governor or governor appointed by you in the future, don't you?"

This is indeed a bit like it.

Taichang nodded approvingly and said: "Yes, your duties and powers will indeed be similar to those of governors or governors in the future, but half of the taxes in the vassal state will belong to you. Half of it goes to the imperial court."

This means that the overseas vassal states have to collect taxes twice as much as that of the Ming Dynasty. Half of this tax goes to the vassal king and half goes to the court.

In this way, for the Ming court, the territory of this vassal state is basically the same as that of other places. They are all taxed at [-] yuan. Anyway, so much is handed over to the court.

Of course, it is different for the common people here, because they have to pay twice as much tax to support the vassal king of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yujian finally understands that they will be equivalent to hereditary governors or governors in the future, but their salary will be much higher than that of governors and governors.

There are probably two Nanyang mansions in Kyushu Island. If there is a tax of 10, there should be [-] taels a year.

However, the 10 taels is not fixed.

It's like Daming's tax revenue.

In the past, the land in a province was only 50 million taels a year at most, but now it has risen to almost 100 million taels, and with the development of Ming Dynasty, it may double!

It seems that the emperor wants them to manage their own vassal state well.

If the governance is good, the tax revenue will naturally increase.

If the governance is not good, the tax revenue will be less and less.

Thinking of this, he quickly cupped his hands and said: "Thank you for your kindness, Xiao Wang will definitely do his best to manage this Tang State Mansion well."

As for what the emperor said at the beginning to let him rule the entire Dongpu, the emperor didn't say anything, so forget it, it is already very good to have the land of Kyushu.

If greed is insufficient, it may backfire.

When the time comes, the emperor will deal with him like other vassal kings, then there will be no place to cry.

Well, this kid is smarter than other feudal lords, and he knows everything.

Not bad.

Taichang nodded approvingly, then pointed to the place names on the sand table and said: "Look, this Kyushu Island is divided into nine countries according to the original division method of the Dongying people, so we will directly change these nine countries into nine states." For example, the Satsuma country is called Satsuma Prefecture, and the counties below are directly changed to counties, and the prefects and prefectures of these prefectures and counties are the same as ordinary prefectures and counties. If you take bribes and break the law and do anything wrong, you can report to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to punish and replace you."

Well, these are actually similar to the powers of governors and governors.

Your majesty, there is one more important thing you didn't say!
Zhu Yujian hesitated for a moment, and then asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what about the guards of the Tang State Mansion? After all, this is a newly conquered territory. If there are no guards, there may be troubles!"

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, you've got the point. Naturally, Tang Guofu must have Tang Guowei. I will call in nine guards from the thousand-household station. Each state will arrange a thousand-household guard. These guards will You can also mobilize, just one thing, you can't lead them to rebel!"

How could it be!
Zhu Yujian shook his head again and again and said: "No, no, don't worry, Your Majesty, Xiao Wang has no second thoughts about Daming."

Isn't this an ugly remark.

By the way, there is another ugly thing to say.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then solemnly said: "One more thing is the issue of succession. In the future, there will be no county kings or generals under the vassal kings. A vassal king is a vassal king, and there is only one of your descendants who can do it." Inheriting the title of vassal king, the others will have no titles."

He didn't want these vassal kings to reproduce a lot of county kings and town generals.

Zhu Yujian didn't care much about this, because his uncle and cousins ​​killed their father and son miserably in order to seize the throne. He really didn't like a bunch of county kings and town generals making trouble, so he didn't hesitate He cupped his hands and said, "Xiao Wang understands."

Taichang then solemnly warned: "You have to remember that Dongying women can only be concubines, they cannot have titles, let alone be princesses, and their descendants have no right to inherit. Your descendants have to choose concubines. You can only go back to Daming to choose, this can't be messed up."

Of course, Zhu Yujian cupped his hands without hesitation and said, "Xiao Wang understands."

In fact, these Taichang explanations were not only explained to Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, but also explained to the generals present.

The reason why he didn't pull Zhu Yujian to speak alone was because he hoped that these generals would understand that the territories they conquered were not entrusted to feudal princes.

These territories are only handed over to the vassal kings for management.

(End of this chapter)