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Chapter 148 Zhu Jianshen, "Zhao ah, I found a few mothers for you in this world, no need to thank me!"

Zhu Houzhao, "Who can support me with a batch of turkeys and feed? I need tens of millions of turkeys. Who can provide me with some?"

Zhu Houzhao asked for support in the chat group, hoping that someone could give him some support.

Ying Zheng, "Don't think about it. I'm still dealing with these problems here. Haven't you already started industrialization there? Why do you still need others to support Turkey?"

Qin Shi Huang and all the ancient dynasties raised turkeys on a large scale. Although turkey is disliked in the modern world for its tough meat, it was high-quality meat in ancient times.

An adult turkey can weigh up to 25 pounds, equivalent to 11 kilograms, which is several times larger than an ordinary domestic chicken.

Turkeys grow quickly and do not require much care to get abundant food. Under suitable breeding conditions, turkeys grow very fast, reaching a weight of 6 to 4 kilograms in just less than 5 months, and can reach adulthood and be slaughtered in 6 to 8 months.

Turkey was an extremely high-quality meat for ancient societies.

So in the historical world, every family raised a large number of turkeys because this thing is easy to raise.

Therefore, in Ying Zheng's view, Zhu Houzhao should not ask him for help, as he should have a lot of these things.

Zhu Houzhao developed the industrial strength of his dynasty to the point where he could produce Hanyang-made teapots.

With this level of development, some common fertilizers should be able to be produced.

Therefore, there was no shortage of food for Zhu Houzhao. Since there was no shortage of food, there should be extra food that could be used to feed livestock.

At least in Ying Zheng's place, every household would raise a few chickens, and even the entire village would collectively raise some pigs, cattle and sheep.

Ying Zheng directly changed his Qin law's system of collective responsibility into a joint breeding system. After this system came out, it directly made many people accept Qin law.

Because the new system of collective responsibility was turned into a commune system by the Qin officials, Ying Zheng had not expected this. However, the joint responsibility system of the local poverty law was indeed turned into a commune system of joint planting and joint breeding. After this technology was developed, the support rate for the criminal law suddenly became extremely high, and many people even forgot the country they were in before, because the Warring States Period was really not a good time.

So on Ying Zheng's side, there was no shortage of livestock and food, but what was lacking was the population needed for the industrialized system.

Ying Zheng had always been envious of the population of the Ming Dynasty, because the population of the Ming Dynasty had always been around 200 million. Even in the last years of the dynasty during the Chongzhen period, the population did not decline much.

Because smallpox and plague had not yet appeared during Chongzhen's reign, and there had not been any massacres by the Qing army, the population of Chongzhen during this period could be said to be the largest among the five Ming dynasties.

There are nearly 300 million people, and the literacy rate of these people is extremely high. Therefore, Ying Zheng never felt that there was any problem with the Ming Dynasty. Besides, the three emperors were passed down from generation to generation.

Zhu Houzhao, "I can't help it. There were some strategic planning problems on my side. I originally wanted to let Prince Ning in Jiangnan rebel and use this as a way to carry out a major purge of Jiangnan. But Prince Ning backed down. This has caused me a lot of trouble. You know, in order to get Prince Ning to rebel, I spent several years teasing him. In the end, I don't know what happened, he backed down!"

Zhu Jianshen, "Ning Wang's faction, have they not calmed down yet? What do they want to do? They only have a few hundred guards left. Do they really think they can start an army with 800 people like Taizong did? Taizong was lucky. Emperor Hui was stupid and turned the reduction of vassal states into the destruction of the country. All the princes chose to help Taizong, but why did Ning Wang choose to help?"

Zhu Jianshen really thought that it was impossible for Prince Ning to rebel, because he had no money, no soldiers, and no support. How could he rebel?

Zhu Houzhao, "I gave it to him. His troops were all bandits and pirates that I sent people to recruit for him. I even had people help him connect with the civil and military officials of the aristocratic families in Jiangnan, so that they were on the same line of interest. I thought that as long as Prince Ning rebelled, I could directly deal with them all along this line, but now Prince Ning is scared! Why should he be scared? He has nearly 30 bandits and pirates under his command! In addition, the armaments in the south have been completely lax. The guys there can't even wipe out the rioters. Moreover, I haven't sent anyone to repair the city defense of Jinling City for two years, and no one has repaired it for decades before. So I don't understand why Prince Ning is scared? Is it because he knows what the craftsmen produce? But I can sell those things to him!"

Zhu Houzhao had never thought that Prince Ning, who wanted to rebel, would be so cowardly. According to his idea, Prince Ning should launch a rebellion as in history. At that time, he only needed to transfer Wang Mingyang and others back in advance to shock the whole Jiangnan region. He even arranged to remove and kidnap the chief defense officer of Nanjing City so that Prince Ning could take Nanjing and confront him from the north to the south. But who could have thought that Prince Ning would be so cowardly.

Gao Wenfeng, "You are really good at playing games. However, the Ning Wang rebellion did not actually cause any trouble. In history, Wang Mingyang directly killed him. You even planned to release Ning Wang and fight him a second time. However, it might be because of this remark that you fell into the water in Qingjiangpu. That incident was a bit too obvious!"

Zhu Houzhao was also obsessed with lawsuits. He couldn't understand why in history he was so stupid as to let Prince Ning go and fight him a second time.

As soon as these words were spoken, all the smart people in the court immediately understood what they meant. It was no wonder why he fell into the water, because the civil officials hoped that something would happen to him.

It's just that the death was most likely an accident.

Zhu Houzhao did not think that his teacher Yang Tinghe wanted to kill him. It was very likely that the idiot really thought that the imperial physician was ineffective. He also did not expect that Zhu Houzhao, who was so strong that he could fight tigers and leopards, would die of illness after falling into the water.

Zhu Houzhao never resented Yang Tinghe this time. In his opinion, this was a complete accident. Of course, it could also be a real political assassination, but such things could not be explained, because once it was revealed, the Ming Dynasty would be gone.

In the chat group, Zhu Houzhao also insisted that it was an accident and that Yang Tinghe had not been diagnosed by the imperial physician, so he didn't know what the imperial physician's methods were.

Li Shimin (Liu Chan), "The emperor fell into the water and died of illness. This is a joke, right? Can the emperor drown in the water? Is there no guard around the emperor to save him? What are the imperial doctors in the palace doing? Don't they know that if the emperor dies of illness, all the imperial doctors will be buried with him?"

Gao Wenfeng, "The imperial physicians of the Ming Dynasty did not have this rule. Not to mention the emperor's death, even if they cured the emperor to death, nothing would happen. You should know that Zhu Jianshen and his son Zhu Youtang, Zhu Houzhao's father and grandfather, were all killed by the same imperial physician, but that imperial physician was fine! Even Zhu Houzhao did not punish the imperial physician who killed his father. From this you should understand that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have centralized power, but in fact they had begun to lose their safety. The Ming cabinet had replaced the power of the prime minister and began to encroach on the imperial power!"

Ying Zheng, "Yes, I also studied the Ming Dynasty's Cabinet and the Qing Dynasty's Military Affairs Office, and found that the power of these two departments is not at the same level. The Ming Dynasty Cabinet is for powerful ministers to enter, while the Qing Dynasty Military Affairs Office takes away the power of some powerful ministers before letting them in. So those ministers in the Military Affairs Office can be removed at will, but some ministers in the Cabinet have the right to reject the emperor's orders. This is not the same concept at all. The Qing Dynasty's Military Affairs Office found a group of secretaries for itself, while the Ming Dynasty's Cabinet found a group of living fathers for itself. If you are not capable enough, you can't suppress them. If you are capable enough, you may be played to death because of your own strength." Zhu Youjian, "Who said it's not? In addition, there are other problems, that is, the wives married by the emperor are all from small families, and there is no way to provide any support from relatives. The emperor has no room for operation in the court without relatives."

Zhu Youjian was really touched by these things. His wife came from a small family with no power, so his father-in-law was so greedy.

If they were born into a noble family, they should understand that if they really want to live a good life, they should let their grandson become the emperor. As long as their grandson becomes the emperor, their wealth will be much greater than it is now. However, those people do not have this idea, and each one is more greedy than the other.

Zhu Youjian married the daughter of a Mongolian Khan as his concubine. She brought 20,000 Mongolian cavalry as her dowry. In addition, she also brought 50,000 cattle, sheep, and thousands of camels, which made Zhu Youjian rich overnight.

Although Zhu Youjian also provided a large amount of grain to the grassland, what was carried out between the two sides was not a free gift, but a grain trade, so Zhou Youjian made a lot of money, and the Mongolian Khan who married his daughter also made a lot of money.

This made Zhu Youjian realize that the original decision that Crown Prince Zhu Ming was to marry a commoner girl was completely incorrect, and this was a move that would cause them to lose significant power.

After Zhu Youjian told these things again, Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Jianshen were both tempted. They felt that they could also do these things.

Zhu Jianshen, "Relatives by marriage? They are indeed very important. I do need suitable relatives by marriage here, but will Mongolia marry its daughters?"

Zhu Youjian said, "I married a Mongolian princess, and my son also married a Mongolian princess. Although she is not the crown princess, she is also the crown prince's concubine. In addition, I have traded grain with the Mongolian tribe I married into. How could they not agree? Old Ancestor, you should know that there is not much difference between being good at war and being good at singing and dancing. As long as you have a knife in one hand and grain in the other, if you want them to be good at war, they can be good at war, and if you want them to be good at singing and dancing, they can be good at singing and dancing!"

Zhu Youjian has also systematically studied the knowledge in the chat group, so he is no longer the incompetent person in governing the country. Although he is still as suspicious, he knows how to strike a balance and when to kill.

The operations towards Mongolia are also supporting and even instigating war within Mongolia.

Zhu Jianshen and Zhu Houzhao saw through these tactics at a glance. Only the Mongolian tribes that had married into the alliance could obtain the privilege of buying and selling grain, which would cause several problems.

The first is the rapid growth of the marriage tribe, which is not a good thing. The growth of one tribe will weaken the power of other tribes. On the grassland, this is the beginning of war.

The second is that all tribes hope that their daughters will marry the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and this is true for the more ambitious tribes.

The third is the war between these marriage tribes. Since there is definitely more than one tribe involved in the marriage, disputes will break out between them.

There is also the conflict between the previous generation of marriage-making tribes and the later generation of marriage-making tribes.

These are the beginnings of war.

On Zhu Youjian's side, another problem would arise, that is, whether to be pro-Ming or pro-Qing, so a war would break out on the grassland sooner or later.

Once a war breaks out, the Ming Dynasty will mediate and gain the greatest benefits.

This is a really good thing!
Ying Zheng, "Marriage? Aren't you afraid of the emergence of harem politics?"

Ying Zheng was also very familiar with marriage alliances, because during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were countless marriage alliances between countries, and these marriages also affected the political situation of the previous dynasty.

This is also the reason why the Warring States period lasted for two hundred years.

This is also the reason why South Korea is still a great power because it only has one city left that has not been destroyed.

This is all because of the problems that have arisen from years of marriage alliances between countries.

In other words, it was because of the internal strife that all the forces in the Qin harem disappeared, and the Qin was able to get rid of these problems and unify the world.

Otherwise, Qin Shihuang would not have been able to unify the world.

Zhu Jianshen, "Harem politics? That's a problem in your era. In your era, the people you marry are princesses from countries of the same level as you. Your marriage is actually a combination of the political forces of two countries. But it's not like that for us. We have already used Confucian ideas to complete some operations. Although the woman will still get along well with her own family, that's because the son is honored by the mother. But in the royal family, the mother is honored by the son. These are two different concepts!"

At this time, Zhu Jianshen already wanted to arrange a Mongolian concubine for his crown prince, Zhu Youtang, Zhu Houzhao's father. Perhaps he could also arrange for the daughter of a noble to be a concubine. In short, he could manipulate both his own harem and the crown prince's harem.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty needed to marry a commoner woman as his queen, but that didn't mean he couldn't marry a powerful woman as his concubine, so as long as you think it through, there are still many ways to do this.

So Zhu Jianshen asked Yu Huatian to go to Mongolia to find a large tribe that was not the most powerful, and choose a suitable princess to marry the crown prince Zhu Youtang. At the same time, he selected several capable ministers with families in the court and established marriage relationships with their families. All of these were arranged for the crown prince.

After doing all these things, Zhu Jianshen told Zhu Houzhao about them.

Zhu Jianshen, "Zhao, I found a few mothers for you in this world, no need to thank me!"

(End of this chapter)