Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 194 Looking at the world (4k)

"In Yang Qing's opinion, how should we arrange the clan issues more appropriately?" Zhu Biao asked.

Yang Xian pointed to the rice in the main hall and said, "As the Emperor and His Highness can see, after seven or eight generations, the clan's population will reach an astonishing level."

"The emperor has considered this issue, but it is not comprehensive. I believe that after becoming a lieutenant in the country, only the eldest son can inherit the title. The imperial court will no longer be responsible for supporting the other sons. These clan children must be found by themselves. A way out.”

After listening to Yang Xian's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression immediately became complicated, and he kept pacing back and forth, obviously still a little hesitant.

Yang Xian looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and could only continue to reason, and said: "Your Majesty, I once heard a saying that parents love their children, so they have far-reaching plans. In order to make the clan system run smoothly, in order to be able to take care of More royal relatives.”

"I personally believe that the royal family can no longer just pay salaries and do nothing. If this continues, it will definitely not be a good thing for the children of the clan!"

"Just giving them salaries will only breed inertia in them. Think about it, these clan members were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and huge salaries, and they don't have to do anything. Think about it from their perspective, how many people will there be by then? I will continue to work hard.”

Yang Xian's countermeasure, to put it simply, is not to let these royal family members sit idle and do nothing.

Even princes and grandsons have to work.

If you don’t work, there will be no salary.

This time, Zhu Yuanzhang finally listened.

Because Yang Xian considered the problem from his perspective, especially the sentence "Parents love their children, they have far-reaching plans", which was deafening in Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want his descendants to live a miserable life, but he also didn't want them to become pigs who knew nothing but ate imperial rice.

Hope that your child will become a dragon has been the common wish of all parents in China for 5000 years.

Zhu Yuanzhang is no exception.

But it is true as Yang Xian said, if the current clan system is not changed, there will be many more unscrupulous descendants who only want to eat and wait to die.

Seeing that the topic had reached this point, Yang Xian changed the topic and brought it back to the main topic he wanted to talk about.

Yang Xian said: "Therefore, I was the first to agree with His Majesty's proposal to enfeoff the kings. However, Wei Chen suggested that the fiefdoms of the kings should be located outside the current Ming Dynasty territory."

"We, the sons and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty, should not just guard the country's borders, but should open up territory for the Ming Dynasty."

Since Zhu Yuanzhang can no longer change the matter of dividing the kings, what Yang Xian has to do is to lead this matter in a good direction.

These days, Yang Xian has been thinking about this matter.

The final conclusion is that sometimes bad things can turn into good things, and the evil enfeoffment system can also become the most effective means to expand the Chinese nation's voice in the entire world.

The ultimate goal that Yang Xian wanted to achieve was to let Zhu Yuanzhang seize more territory by dividing the princes.

In the end, as long as the Chinese nation takes over the whole world, even if these areas eventually break away from central rule as time goes by, at least these areas will form countries with the Chinese nation as the main body.

This is better than allowing those Westerners to occupy those territories and have the say in the world in the original time and space.

How to manage it later is a matter for later.

What Yang Xian is thinking about now is just to seize as much territory as possible.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flickered, he was obviously moved, and now all that was missing was the last finishing touch.

Yang Xian seized the opportunity to take out a scroll from his arms, and then slowly unfolded it under the curious eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.

And with one move, it will be a sure kill.

"This, this is?!"

As the scroll slowly unfolded, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao had extremely shocked expressions on their faces, and they could no longer take their eyes away from it.

After a while.

Zhu Biao was the first to ask: "Yang Qing, is this a map you drew on this?"

Because he saw the words Ming Dynasty on it, although the map was very rough.

Zhu Yuanzhang also turned to look at Yang Xian.

Yang Xian nodded and replied: "Yes, this is the map of the entire world today."

"You said this is a map of the whole world, and our Ming Dynasty only occupies such a small piece of it?" Zhu Yuanzhang said in disbelief.

But on the map, the countries surrounding the Ming Dynasty are all there, including Korea in the northeast, Japan in the southeast, and Ceylon and Java in the south.
These make this map extremely real.

But Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao had never even heard of most of the places on this map.

Such as America, Europe, Africa.
Where are these places?

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao had puzzled looks on their faces.

Zhu Biao swallowed his saliva and said: "Yang Qing, it's not that I don't want to believe you. It's just that this map of the world you have is really shocking. Can I ask where you got this map from?" Come."

Yang Xian has already prepared his words for this.

His expression remained unchanged as he said, "I wonder if Your Majesty and Your Majesty, can you still remember where potatoes and other crops come from?"

"Yang Qing said it was overseas before." Zhu Biao replied.

Yang Xian nodded, and then said: "Actually, before Uncle Chengyi, I had a teacher when I was a child. That teacher was a Westerner from overseas. His name was Magellan, and he was a navigator. "

"The first draft of this world map was drawn by him after half a lifetime of sailing experience, and then improved by me. At that time, he also left me a sailing log, which recorded his travels around the world. Knowledge. A lot of the knowledge I have now comes from my teacher’s journal.”

After hearing Yang Xian's words, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were greatly surprised.

They did not expect that when they were only focusing on the Central Plains, there would be people from the West who would also set their sights on Jiuzhou.

Yang Xian saw the expressions of Zhu Yuanzhang and the others in his eyes, and then said: "The Western Yi people started sailing a long time ago and began to invade and occupy territories everywhere. They divided the entire world and even began to name the continents they discovered!"

As Yang Xian spoke, he pointed at the Ming Dynasty, drew a circle, and said, "It's like the land where our Ming Dynasty is located was named Asia by them."

"what?!"

After hearing what Yang Xian said, Zhu Yuanzhang became furious and said: "How dare these barbarians do this!"

You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang had strong Han nationalism in his heart.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's consciousness, there was always a sense of superiority of the Celestial Kingdom.

This can be seen from the names given to foreign tribes in the Ming Dynasty: Dongyi, Nanman, Xirong, and Beidi.

These are actually derogatory terms, meaning barbarians.

It’s similar to calling black people nigger, Korean people stick, and Japanese little devils now.

Yang Xian did this just to completely arouse Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition and make him look further ahead and stop just guarding his small broken family.

Yang Xian wanted to dilute the deep-rooted thoughts of family and world in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind by opening his horizons.

In fact, it will not be until 100 years later that the Age of Discovery comes.

The cheap foreign teacher Magellan mentioned by Yang Xian may not have been reincarnated at this time.

And Yang Xian's words really had an effect.

Let a group of barbarians name their territory.

This was a great shame and humiliation for Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.No matter how strong these Yi people are, can they be as strong as the Beiyuan people?
The Beiyuan people's invincible iron cavalry and bow horses are no match for us now.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang endure this?

Zhu Biao, who was standing aside, also looked livid and said: "Since ancient times, we have been China, the central country, located in the center of the Nine Continents."

"This map of Jiuzhou can also prove this. Therefore, the land under our feet should be called Zhongzhou."

"Weichen thinks so too."

Yang Xian said: "But words are always weak. What we say here can't change what they call us in the West. Only when our horses' hooves and our soldiers truly arrive on their land. We must use reality Actions tell them what this land is called.”

"Dignity is only on the edge of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon!"

Yang Xian's words made Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao excited.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the world map in front of him and thought to himself, if the whole world was under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, then his descendants would no longer have to worry.

If Yang Xian knew what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking at this time, he might be so angry that he would vomit blood.

Fortunately, no matter what the purpose was, they finally reached an agreement on the enfeoffment of the kings.

Day two.

Fifth watch, early morning.

In front of Fengtian Temple.

The ministers lined up according to their rank. Chen Huaiyi stood in the queue with a look of determination on his face and a will to die in his heart.

After he went back yesterday, he thought about it all night.

In the end, he only prepared a coffin for himself.

Chen Huaiyi believed that this was his duty as a censor.

If you don’t remonstrate because you are afraid of death, then why should you be an official?
Chen Huaiyi raised his head and glanced in Yang Xian's direction, with a look of disdain on his face.

In his opinion, Yang Xian was simply a disgrace to scholars.

Before this incident happened, Chen Huaiyi was still the number one supporter of Yang Xian.

We must know that when Yang Xian mobilized Liaodong soldiers and horses without authorization, Chen Huaiyi wrote a letter stating his position, and Yang Xian was not guilty of this move.

Chen Huaiyi took another look at Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong at the front of the team, with a look of disappointment on his face.

He originally expected that Yang Xian would enter Zhongshu Province in the future and completely defeat the Huaixi Party headed by Li Shanchang. In Chen Huaiyi's heart, these Huaixi nobles were the cancer of the imperial court.

But now the people he hoped for were already as willing to fall as those he was ashamed of.

How could this prevent him from being angry? This was also an important reason why Chen Huaiyi behaved so radically in Chengyi's Mansion.

"Open the morning!"

The eunuch's high-pitched singing voice interrupted Chen Huaiyi's thoughts.

As the sound of singing and drinking rang out, the gate of Fengtian Hall slowly opened.

Chen Huaiyi lowered his head and followed the team of ministers into the main hall.

Above the main hall, Zhu Yuanzhang was already high on the dragon throne, looking down at the ministers.

Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's early arrival, no one showed any strange expressions on their faces, as if they were already used to it.

In terms of diligence, there are few emperors in history who are better than Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Tianfu is virtuous!"

"Haiyu Xianning!"

"Holy blessings!"

The ministers shouted three times.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand slightly.

"Zhu Qing is flat!"

"Thank you!"

After the simple ceremony.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the ministers of His Highness and said: "In recent days, there have been various rumors circulating in the capital. Taking advantage of the opportunity of this morning's court meeting, I want to make it clear. Otherwise, all of you, dear friends, will have to guess. Yes, this one thing often turns into several things, isn’t this causing trouble for yourself?”

"All the princes have grown up, and it's time for them to take on important responsibilities and serve the country. After repeated advice from Prime Minister Li and other ministers, we have decided to ennoble them with princes."

The voice fell.

The entire Fengtian Hall immediately became silent.

The faces of the Huaixi generals became a little ugly, because in their view, Zhu Yuanzhang's enfeoffment of kings was a disguised reduction of military power in their hands.

Although they had expected this scene.

But when reality came, it was still a little hard to accept.

At this time, Li Shanchang was the only one who reacted first and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I would like to congratulate you."

With him taking the lead.

The other ministers in the hall could only shout: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, I congratulate you."

As for whether they sincerely congratulate, only they themselves know in their hearts.

In the midst of the congratulations of the ministers, an inappropriate voice suddenly sounded.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must not arbitrarily enfeoff!"

Among the ministers, Chen Huaiyi came out, knelt in the hall, kowtowed and shouted loudly: "This is often not possible, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Upon seeing this, Liu Bowen immediately stood up and yelled: "Chen Huaiyi, you are talking nonsense, why don't you get out of here!"

When Li Shanchang saw this scene, a meaningful smile appeared on his face.

Li Shanchang thought to himself, Liu Bowen, Liu Bowen, I want to see how your East Zhejiang Party fights me in the future.

You must know that Chen Huaiyi is a censor who came from the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is a subordinate of Liu Zhongcheng, so he will be labeled as Liu Bowen by nature.

Others will wonder whether Chen Huaiyi's words not only represent his personal opinions, but also represent the opinions of Liu Bowen.

Based on Li Shanchang's understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely think so.

Thinking of this, Li Shanchang raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and looked at Yang Xian who was standing not far away without any trace. Seeing Yang Xian's calm face, as if it didn't matter to him, he shook his head in his heart.

Although he is talented, he is still too young after all.

Does he think that if something happens to Chen Huaiyi, it will eventually affect him?
Even if Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't think so by then, the ministers of the Huaixi Party will find ways to make Zhu Yuanzhang think in his direction.

(End of this chapter)