Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

The reason why he attacked the land in America was naturally because Zhu Youjian became more confident after the invention of the new musket.

Even though the Ming Dynasty had not yet restored Zheng He's fleet's ocean-going deployment capability, Zhu Youjian was confident that he could send a few thousand soldiers to defeat the enemy on land.

Let’s not talk about the native peoples of America. The Spanish went around South America to the western part of North America, which was actually a long way. Otherwise, they would not have failed to build a stronghold after exploring the San Francisco area.

Now Zhu Youjian took advantage of the fact that they hadn't taken action and occupied this place first, even if it meant a conflict with the Spaniards.

After arranging for King Zhou to go to California, Zhu Youjian looked at the land around Seattle and planned to arrange another vassal king to establish sufficient supply points along the coast of North America.

At the same time, it was also a restriction on the King of Zhou, preventing the Zhou vassal state from expanding northward.

Zhu Youjian thought this piece of land was a good place, so he planned to arrange a close relative and said to King Rui:
"Uncle Wang's Hanzhong has also suffered disasters in recent years. I plan to have Uncle Wang move here and take the people of Shaanxi with him."

"In addition to the one million square miles directly under your jurisdiction, you can occupy an additional one million square miles for the purpose of enfeoffment of your descendants."

This condition seemed very generous to him, but Prince Rui Zhu Changhao despised it.

In his opinion, the emperor was simply making trouble for these vassal kings. He only went to Hanzhong to be his vassal in the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, and was called back by the current emperor the following year.

If they were called back, they would stay in the capital. The emperor didn't want them to stay in the capital forever. He had to banish them all overseas and drive them to the wild lands.

He barely lived in the Prince Rui's Mansion, which he had built with great difficulty, for a few days. He had been traveling all these years.

After hearing the emperor's words, Zhu Changhao said tactfully:

"My Hanzhong Prefecture was not seriously affected by the disaster, and Hanzhong is an important place that needs to be guarded by the vassal king."

"I am willing to guard Hanzhong for Your Majesty and prevent bandits from entering Sichuan."

This made Zhu Youjian ponder whether he should send him back.

Shaanxi may not be very stable in the next ten years or so. Having a vassal king to keep it in place will prevent some generals from having any disloyal ideas.

But that would require Prince Rui to lead the troops, which made him more uneasy than having a civilian official lead the troops.

So he insisted:
"Hanzhong does not need a vassal king to guard it. Uncle Rui is more needed here."

"If Uncle Rui agrees, I will allow the Concubine to go to the vassal state with Uncle."

This made Prince Rui's heart beat fast, because he also wanted to bring his mother out.

The reason why he didn't want to go to America before was that he was worried that he would never be able to come back after he went there.

But if the mother goes with me, what does it matter whether she comes back or not?
Anyway, he didn't have any ancestral tombs in Hanzhong, unlike other princes who had to come back to worship their ancestors.

So after thinking about it, he said to the emperor:

"I would like to move my fiefdom here, but it is too remote. Please allow me more time to prepare, Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian nodded in agreement and allowed Prince Rui to continue staying in the capital to make preparations.

Next, he wanted to ask King Hui and King Gui to go, but these two uncles were already preparing to go to Southeast Asia to establish fiefdoms and rejected the emperor's proposal to let them go to America.

It’s such a far place, anyone who wants to go can go.

They would rather go to Myanmar to establish a fiefdom than go there.

The mother of these two people, Concubine Li, had passed away, and Zhu Youjian could not use this reason to seduce them.

He also didn't want people to think that he was mistreating his uncle, so he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​asking them to move their fiefdom.

However, even if these two people wanted to establish a fiefdom in Myanmar, they had to wait until the imperial court pacified the Jianlu and had time to spare.

Burma is not an easy place to fight. The Battle of Luchuan was fought four times, which was also one of the reasons for the Change of Tumu.

After the establishment of the Toungoo Dynasty during the Jiajing period, it invaded Yunnan during the Wanli period but was repelled by Liu Jing and Deng Zilong.

Myanmar is now becoming stronger. In Zhu Youjian's opinion, in order to conquer it, he needs to advance by both land and sea.

Therefore, he strictly prohibited any discussion of the matter to prevent the Burmese from finding out and causing trouble in Yunnan.

But Burma will definitely be attacked in the future. The revenge of Emperor Yongli and others in history must be avenged.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youjian agreed to let the Gui clan go to Myanmar and establish a fiefdom there.

Even if Zhu Youlang didn't know, Zhu Youjian wanted him to be proud.
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After letting King Hui and King Gui go, Zhu Youjian set his sights on King Jin.

Compared with the newly appointed princes such as Prince Rui, Prince Hui and Prince Gui, Prince Jin, as the prince second only to Prince Qin, was the one that Zhu Youjian treated with caution.

Moreover, compared to the Qin vassal state, which has a small population, the Jin vassal state has 28 counties and kingdoms, and now there are still 12. There are still many high-level clans, and the clan salary is several times more than that of the Han vassal state with a large population.

Among all the vassal kings, the Jin vassal had the highest clan salary after it was set as a permanent amount, close to 230,000 taels, accounting for 15% of the total clan salary.

The Dai vassal state, which was adjacent to the Jin vassal state, also had a large amount of royal salary, totaling 175,000 taels.

After Zhu Youjian decided to relocate the Qin vassal states, the two vassal states he wanted to relocate the most were Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youjian could save the 400,000 taels of silver.

However, the two vassal states were located in border towns, and it was very risky to relocate them. Not to mention the rebellion of the Anhua King, there was also the Dai vassal clan Zhu Chongzhuo who colluded with the White Lotus Sect to lead the Tatars to invade the border during the Jiajing period.

Because of this incident, the prestige of the Dai Palace among the Dai clan members was completely destroyed.

Especially when King Dai passed away last year, the Crown Prince of Dai was still in mourning and did not inherit the throne.

If you want to move Dai Fan, you must not only take care of Dai Wangfu, but also send capable officials to Datong to preside over it, so as to prevent the royal family of Dai Fan from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian temporarily ignored the Dai vassal state and focused only on the Jin vassal state. He said to the Prince of Jin:

"Shanxi has also suffered disasters in the past two years, and the area is quite unstable."

"Does the Prince of Jin have any idea of ​​moving his fiefdom? Where do you want to move to?" Zhu Shenxuan, the Prince of Jin, looked bitter and said to the emperor with a sad face:
"My father is deeply worried about this and is now seriously ill."

"Your Majesty, please allow me to return to Taiyuan and fulfill my filial duties to my father."

This startled Zhu Youjian, and he hurriedly expressed his concern.

As for the matter of moving the fiefdom, that cannot be mentioned. Otherwise, if the Prince of Jin dies suddenly, wouldn't people all over the world criticize me for forcing my clan relative to death?

As a result, Prince Zhu Shenxuan of Jin was also allowed to return to Taiyuan.
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Because of this incident, Zhu Youjian paid attention to the situation of the kings again and found that except for the King of Dai, the King of Min and the King of Zhao also died in the past two years and left no offspring.

There was also the Prince of Huai, Zhu Changqing. Because his father Zhu Yiju made mistakes in plotting to change the heir, he was not given a posthumous title after his death in the 44th year of Wanli, and no conclusion was made, so the succession to the title was delayed.

Zhu Hengjia, the eldest son of Prince Jingjiang, was also unable to inherit the title after his father Zhu Luyou passed away in the 40th year of Wanli because he was too young.

This made Zhu Youjian ponder, and then he said to the Prince of Huai:
"Zhu Hengjia, the eldest son of Prince Jingjiang, has gone to Champa to establish a vassal state. After the establishment of the vassal state is successful, he will be able to inherit the title of Prince Jingjiang."

"Does the prince want to establish a fiefdom and inherit the throne of King Huai?"

When Zhu Changqing heard this, he knew that this was a condition set by the emperor.

If he wanted to inherit the title smoothly, he had to establish a vassal state.

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Otherwise, even if there was no dispute about his succession to the title, the emperor could have delayed the process.

He was very young and still had some vigor. He thought that Zhu Hengjia dared to establish a fiefdom at such a young age, and he could do it too.

He immediately said to the emperor:
"I am willing to establish a fiefdom. Please grant me the fiefdom, Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian was quite impressed with him, pointing to the area of ​​Oregon in later times and saying:

"Please ask Uncle Wang to accompany Uncle Wang Rui and start a fiefdom here together."

"King Zhou should also help out so that King Huai can gain a foothold."

King Zhou Zhu Gongyao listened with a wry smile, knowing that the emperor was warning him not to expand into this area.

If he wanted to expand his fiefdom, he could only go east and south.

Thinking of the Spanish strongholds in the south, he knew that he faced the greatest pressure.

The task of competing with the Spaniards in the future will be left to him.

This gave him the opportunity to ask the emperor for conditions:

"Your Majesty, after the royal families outside of Shenzhou become independent, the area of ​​their territories will not be counted as part of the vassal states."

"Does the military strength they have not be taken into account as well?"

Zhu Youjian thought about it and nodded. He thought that restrictions should be relaxed for those distant vassal states to prevent them from losing to the Westerners.

But thinking of the more than 40 princes of the Zhou clan, he made another restriction:

"The troops can be counted separately, but the mobilization of ten guards, or more than 50,000 troops, requires the consent of the governor sent by the court."

"In the future, when the vassal states are stable, the imperial court will send a governor to coordinate the affairs of the vassal states."

Pointing to Vancouver, north of Seattle, he planned to place the Governor's Palace of North America in this area.

There are also gold mines here, which can maintain the Governor's Office.

When the King of Zhou, the King of Huai, and the King of Rui heard that a governor was going to be sent, they were not worried but delighted.

Because this means that the emperor really intends to run this place instead of exiling them there.

In the future, if they encounter a powerful enemy, they can ask the Governor's Office for help instead of facing it alone.

After making this decision, Zhu Youjian looked at the royal family members of Min and Zhao and said to them:
"Since the King of Min and the King of Zhao have no heirs, the throne should be inherited by the royal family of Zhao who is willing to establish a vassal state."

"The first one in line will give up, and the second one will take over, until someone is willing to establish a fiefdom, then they can inherit the title."

This was a method of competing for the title suggested by the ministers. Unlike the Chu vassal state where all members of the royal family competed for it, they competed for the title according to their rank.

Only after the previous heir explicitly gives up can the next heir compete for it.

It can not only select talents who are willing to establish fiefdoms, but also avoid the serious damage to the inheritance of etiquette and laws.

This was the case with the Min and Zhao vassal kings. Although the two vassal kings left no offspring after their death, they still had close uncles.

In order to uphold etiquette, Zhu Youjian could not bypass them at will.

This made Prince Changning Zhu Qiji and Prince Chenggao Zhu Chang immediately delighted.

As the most qualified persons to inherit the throne, they must of course obey the emperor's will to establish their own fiefdoms in order to inherit the throne.

The areas further north of Vancouver were given to them.

However, Zhu Youjian did not grant fiefdom to the Alaska area.

One reason is that this place is too cold, and being enfeoffed there would be like being exiled.

Second, he knew there was a gold mine here and planned to send people to mine it.

Therefore, this place is temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General's Office and is the first stop for Ming Dynasty to expand into North America.

Shang Kexi, who helped King Qing explore the route, was also sent out again to explore North America.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to seize all the places that the Spanish had not yet set foot in. (End of this chapter)