Daming: Distribution of Lingnan, you develop the Pearl River Delta?

Chapter 207: Wedding, return to China, and a new journey!

【Chapter 208】

[The previous chapter was accidentally repeated, and now it has been revised, everyone can read it again! 】

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When Zhu Xi came to the hall where the coronation ceremony was being held, many people looked over.

Even Sophia walked down the steps to greet Zhu Xi.

"Meet the Regent!"

"Thank you Regent!"

"With a regent, Byzantium will be saved!"

"..."

The ministers paid their respects one after another.

Even rushing to send flattering words.

Not that they have no bones.

In fact, Byzantium is now riddled with holes.

Now even the army and the defense of the entire country are on Zhu Ping's shoulders.

Moreover, this time Zhu Xi traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to come to Byzantium, firstly to marry Sophia, and secondly to inherit Byzantium.

Everyone knows that.

If there is no benefit, why would Zhu Ping travel such a long distance?
Almost all those "with lofty ideals" who opposed Zhu Xi and believed that the Ming Dynasty was annexing Byzantium were killed in the past few days.

Zhu Xi doesn't care about notoriety.

because……

History books are always written by the victors.

As long as the methods are appropriate, this generation can be assimilated and completely integrated into the Ming Dynasty.

So……

Ten or 20 years from now, who will still talk about Byzantium?
As for Sophia, there is no need to worry about her.

This girl is a love brain.

In fact, without Zhu Ping, she would not be able to govern the country even if she ascended the throne and became the queen.

At this time, she, this tall, beautiful, noble and sacred queen in the hearts of the entire Byzantine people, fell into Zhu Xi's arms like a baby swallow, kissed Zhu Xi's cheek in front of everyone, and then said to him. Everyone announced: "I, Sophia I, will marry His Highness King Qin of the Ming Dynasty in three days! By then, His Highness King Qin will be my husband and the actual controller of the entire empire."

This meaning is very straightforward.

However, there is still one sentence missing.

"Who agrees and who opposes?"

Zhu Xi spoke.

No one objected.

All bowed their heads and offered words of blessing.

Zhu Xi added: "After the king and the queen get married, he will take her to live in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Mr. Luo Hang will also serve as the regent of Byzantium, fully representing the king and the queen in handling imperial government affairs. In addition, he will replace I, the king, will implement a reform system. Today is Byzantium, surrounded by powerful enemies on all sides. If we do not reform the system, we will be waiting for death! But don’t worry, reforming the system does not mean changing your beliefs. "

"Qin Wang Shengming!"

The crowd cheered.

Zhu Xi knew it very well.

These people don't care who is the master of Byzantium.

I don't care where the Byzantine Empire ends up.

However, they care about their beliefs very much, fearing that the gods in their hearts will be tarnished.

Because of this, Zhu Xi was so stupid that he didn't touch this part.

However, how could Zhu Xi not take action in this area?

Belief is something that can be changed.

How to change it?
There is more than one means.

The most common one is tough tactics.

For example, directly use force to suppress and force changes.

Even kill them all.

But in that case, Byzantium would simply disappear.

Therefore, Zhu Xi took a relatively mild approach.

Boil frogs in warm water.

Use the environment to slowly change.

In the future, these people will all move out and be scattered all over the place. After several generations, who will remember those ancient beliefs?
Three days later, the wedding took place.

In the past few days, Sophia was almost frantically asking for Zhu Ming, which made her very happy. She could finally marry him. On the wedding day, she was happier than anyone else, and even opened the treasury.

Give away treasures to the people.

To show the queen's nobility.

The people of Byzantium burst into tears of gratitude.

Zhu Ping didn't object to him doing this.

Because Sophia is leaving soon, her actions now will at least make the people of Byzantium remember her for a long time. Even if they encounter something unpleasant in the future, they will think of the Queen's kindness and endure it if they can.

It's really unbearable, and the Queen can be regarded as hope.

In this way, Zhu Xi could make Luo Hang bolder to implement restructuring.

As for the treasures, it doesn't matter.

What Zhu Ping covets is not just gold and silver.

What's more, in the future, these things will eventually flow into the Ming Dynasty... Zhu Ping is very confident in his ability to make money.

After finishing all this, we waited until Luo Hang came back to resume his life.

Now he was the regent of Byzantium.

It was Zhu Xi who outsourced Byzantium to him again.

Moreover, Luo Hang was not an official of the Ming Dynasty, which was just appropriate.

But Luo Hang can't be in power forever.

It just so happened that Luo Xu also wanted to exercise.

He also appointed Luo Xu as the governor of Constantinople, and led his soldiers to sit in Byzantium.

Of course, as long as Luo Hang went to Zhenxi City, he would also come to Byzantium to inspect the situation and implement policies according to Zhu Xi's wishes.

This is not difficult.

Under the powerful firepower of the Ming army, it can be guaranteed that only Byzantium can bully others.

Moreover, nothing can go wrong.

unless……

Luo Hang or Luo Xu has evil intentions.

However, the entire Luo family in Panyu Prefecture is in Lingnan.

Moreover, Luo Hang was still a businessman in the Ming Dynasty.

Agricultural business.

If Luo Hang was executing Zhu Xi's orders, then someone would listen to him.

However, if Luo Hang has a different intention, trying to proclaim himself emperor or defecting from the Ming Dynasty, absolutely no one will follow him.

why?
Because there is no righteousness.

A country founded by merchants?
In the Ming Dynasty, this was not feasible.

After the wedding, carrying the entire Byzantine people and blessing the Queen and her husband, King Qin, Zhu Xi took Sophia, Princess Xin Ying, and Princess Xilin, boarded the ship and left Byzantium.

When we were leaving, we met Princess Valois who had been waiting on the bus.

Katrin.

She wanted to invite Zhu Xi to visit Valois.

But Zhu Xing refused.

"The king is busy with official duties, and I have to deal with matters all over the world. I will not go to Valois for the time being... Unless you can win the war against the Kingdom of England, then I will come to Valois in person to congratulate you. !”

Zhu Xi expressed a certain degree of goodwill.In fact, these words were intended to encourage the Valois dynasty to use all their strength to attack the English royal family.

this battle.

Zhu Fang did not want Valois to lose.

Moreover, he also hoped that Valois would kill and maim the Kingdom of England.

He likes to reap the benefits of being a fisherman.

Once the purpose is achieved.

Then, Zhu Ping will completely embark on a journey to conquer the continent of feature films.

This is a very important part of Zhu Ping's great plan!

But now that Zhu Xi has returned to China, he has to do one more thing...

It's almost time for Zhu Di, the supervising prince, to be replaced.

Don't let him sit for too long!

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In Jinling City.

Zhu Di has been in prison for more than three months.

He should be familiar with the affairs of the DPRK, and he is already familiar with them.

However, in terms of party members, Zhu Di's performance can only be described as very poor.

At this time in Jinling, Zhu Di was also troubled by this.

Because he found that in this capital, his qualifications are so shallow...Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't started killing heroes and veterans at this time, and the prince Zhu Biao was still there.

Zhu Di really has no qualifications in front of these nobles.

What about civil servants?

In front of Zhu Di, there is a big mountain...

Hu Weiyong!
When the prime minister.

Zhu Di tried several times to win over some courtiers.

Then, the result was that Hu Weiyong actually claimed that he could not afford to be ill.

He just quit.

This is also a signal.

It shows that Prime Minister Zuo seems to be dissatisfied with the fourth prince's governance.

Otherwise, Hu Weiyong should have worked conscientiously to help King Yan overcome the current difficulties, instead of pretending to be sick and staying at home all day long.

As a result, many courtiers did not dare to get too close to King Yan's power.

What Zhu Di was able to win over were only some young people who were new to the court, and even these people were quickly pushed out of the capital, and all of them went to other places.

But it just so happened that it was the end of August again.

Autumn taxes are paid.

Zhu Di was overjoyed.

The national treasury, which has been in deficit, finally has an opportunity to be replenished.

However, when the accounts were handed over, Zhu Di was dumbfounded.

He immediately got furious, knocked over the desk, shook the account book in his hand, and shouted angrily: "What the hell is going on? Humph! The Lingnan area is so rich, but the autumn tax only amounts to 30 taels of silver? Okay, even if Lingnan has already paid taxes to the court once before, so what's going on in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? In previous autumns, didn't there be more than 100 million tax dollars? Why is there only 53 taels left this year? Come on, tell me. When the chief envoy from Zhejiang comes to Beijing, I will ask him personally!"

"Yes!"

The people below immediately ran to the official department.

To summon the chief envoy of a province to Beijing, the procedures must not be careless.

Zhu Di was still the supervisor of the country, not the prince or the emperor.

Even the prince does not have such power.

It had to go through the officials first, and then the emperor made the decision.

The official department was quite generous to Zhu Ping.

why?
Because, everyone knows that the autumn tax is coming.

This time the gap was huge.

It's not certain whether Zhu Di can survive it.

When the time comes, the prince who oversees the country will not be able to do it, but Zhu Di is still the king of Yan.

There is no need to offend him again during the last period of his imprisonment.

This is how vicious these veterans are.

Playing tricks with them, Zhu Di will only be able to bully Huang Zicheng and his ignorant nephew Zhu Yunzhen in the future. In front of people like Li Shanchang, Lan Yu, and Hu Weiyong, Zhu Di can't talk about playing tricks. Not their opponent.

At least, this is the case for Zhu Di, who is only sixteen or seventeen years old now.

Soon, the note summoning the chief envoy of Zhejiang arrived in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Your Majesty, how should we restore King Yan?"

Soup and ask.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, picked up the note and made a big cross, then threw it to Tang He, waved and said: "Go and tell King Yan that three counties in Zhejiang were affected by the disaster in August this year, and the tax revenue has dropped sharply, and even more The national treasury allocates funds for disaster relief, and the memorial jointly signed by Zhejiang officials is still with me... Just take it with me to show him!"

"Just show it to him?" Tang He asked again.

"Tell him that since he is in charge of this country now, he should be in charge of it well for me. If anything goes wrong, let him go back and forth wherever he wants!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

My son is incompetent, so of course I won’t be happy!

Soon, Tang He arrived at Prince Yan's Mansion.

"Father, did you agree to summon the chief envoy of Zhejiang?" Zhu Di asked.

Tang He shook his head and replied: "Your Majesty, please take a look at this."

Then, the memorial was handed to Zhu Ping.

After reading it, Zhu Xi felt that his energy and blood were rising...

what happened?

Not to mention the sharp drop in tax revenue, but also the need to allocate funds for disaster relief?

"Where did these Japanese pirates come from?" Zhu Di was about to cry.

The memorandum stated that although the weather in Zhejiang was smooth and there were no natural disasters this year, there were man-made disasters... A group of pirates came out of nowhere, burned, killed and looted everywhere, persecuted the people, and robbed the food, causing the people in the three counties to avoid these pirates The Japanese pirates were displaced and hoped that the imperial court would quickly allocate funds to calm the people and send troops to guard the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Similar memorials have also been reported in Fujian. However, the Fujian general soldiers repelled the Japanese pirates, but they are still convinced. They are worried that the Japanese pirates will come back again, even more powerful than now, so they have to increase military expenditures." Tang He said lightly. With.

Military spending in two provinces.

Can this be added?

Must add!

Otherwise, wouldn’t the people along the coast have no way of living?
But where to add it?
Now Zhu Di only has the tax money he just collected, a total of 460 million taels.

Then, the previous debts owed to the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Works, etc. can be divided among them.

Not even enough.

You know, the Ministry of Personnel is in charge of the official salaries of the entire Ming Dynasty.

How many officials in the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, including Kyoto, relied on the imperial court to support them?
If they can't even pay their salaries, what will these officials do?
Thinking about it can make people shudder.

However, the Ministry of Industry also wants money.

If you don’t have money, not only do you have to help with the palace repairs every year, but also the maintenance of river embankments in various places, the repair and construction of city buildings in various places, etc. Which one is not an expense?

There is also the Ministry of Etiquette.

If you don't give me money, then do you have to offer sacrifices, sue heaven, or hold various ceremonies?
Then, the rest of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Punishment also want money.

But the one who needs the most money is the Ministry of War!

The gap in military spending is too big.

And now, we need to increase military spending in Zhejiang and Fujian?
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PS: Sorry, when I pasted it before, I also posted the previous chapter. I found out about it the next day, and then I wanted to change it, but I couldn’t change the title. Then I thought of a way, write a new chapter, and add it at the end. , so it passes.

I haven't been in good health recently. I think it's the sequelae of having sex. I have back pain and my sense of smell is still a little bit problematic, so I'm writing slowly. Please forgive me, alas!

Strangely enough, I am not the only one in my family who has been diagnosed with masculinity, but I have always had some side effects, and I don’t know why.

(End of this chapter)