Daming 1805

Chapter 38
The old emperor waved his hand gently and asked Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Jianfeng's uncle and nephew to go back and sit down.

Then he looked at the surrounding ministers and took the initiative to ask a new question:
"How is the progress of other yamen's tasks? How is the plan for the withdrawal of the clan? What about the people from the household department?"

If the old emperor took the initiative to inquire about the progress of the work when he first entered the imperial court, there may be other people who would take the initiative to report.

But now that there is a precedent for Zhu Jianfeng, even the yamen who have made some progress are not afraid to stand up and show their merits, and are ready to go back and think about it.

At the very least, in theory, you should consult Zhu Jingyuan, you have to ask Zhu Jingyuan first.

Not only to avoid mistakes in the next report, but also to expect Zhu Jingyuan to give really useful suggestions.

It's just that those who are called have no chance to escape.

Wang Niansun, Minister of the Household Department, is 61 years old, but he looks younger, with gray beard and hair, and more flexible legs and feet.

Hearing the call of His Majesty the Emperor, Wang Shangshu stood up with mixed feelings, and carefully reported the words carefully:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household and the relevant government offices have not yet made a clear conclusion on the matter of withdrawing the feudal vassal, and it is necessary to continue to study and decide."

Old Wang Shangshu tried to be sloppy, but the old emperor held on to it and continued to ask:
"Then there should be a general direction for the discussion, right? What kind of vassal state is the easiest to revoke? The Ministry of Household should have screened and discussed by itself, right?
"In order to appease the people of the vassal states, the imperial court should come up with a model for withdrawing the vassal states as soon as possible. Let's find a few vassal states that can quickly withdraw the vassal states."

However, Wang Shangshu can only start to explain the detailed ideas:

"Among the vassal states, the easiest ones to withdraw are the West Sea Kingdom (Sinai Peninsula) and the countries along the southwest coast of the Persian Gulf.

"There are vassals in the West Sea but no kings, and the court has never named the kings of the West Sea vassals, in fact, it is no different from the chief envoy.

"The locality is at the crossroads of traffic between the East and the West, and Daming and Xiyi have fought here for many years.

"The local natives are relatively rare, and they have fled to neighboring countries because of the war, and now there are few survivors.

"The people in the vassal state, or the imperial soldiers, or the consortium partners, or the river workers, but they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty.

"The West Sea Canal is one of the most important projects set by Emperor Shizu, and the laborers who opened the river did not use the local natives and Tianzhu people, all of them were people who migrated from the Ming Dynasty.

"These people are both laborers and immigrants. After the river was opened, they settled in the West Sea directly, and continued to maintain and ensure the smooth flow of the canal, and also used the benefits of the canal to support it.

"Therefore, the West Sea Kingdom should be able to directly set up the chief envoy, and there should not be too complicated problems.

"The countries in the southwest of the Persian Gulf have a country but no people. There is a barren land, hundreds of miles inland without people, and there are only desolate deserts.

"Since the day when the vassal was established, successive vassal kings have repeatedly petitioned to withdraw and move the vassal, and said that they could leave the vassal and return to the capital at any time.

"However, its vassal state is sparsely populated, and although it is relatively easy to withdraw the vassal, it is quite difficult to set up a governor and select officials.

"Even people in neighboring vassal states may not be willing to go there, let alone local officials in Daming."

Wang Lao Shangshu said that this is a temporary end, waiting for the emperor to continue to inquire or make a decision directly.

Then Zhu Jingyuan stood up again abruptly:
"Grandpa Huang, Sun Chen please lead the vassal kings in the southwest of the Persian Gulf from afar."

This time Wang Lao Shangshu was stunned, the surrounding ministers were also stunned, and the old emperor's eyes widened.

What's the matter with this kid?

Daming has not appointed a vassal king for nearly a hundred years. The existing vassal states and vassal kings are basically descendants of the vassal kings conferred by Emperor Shizu.

In a place like the West Sea, which was occupied for a relatively short period of time, although vassal states were also set up, they were only to avoid local treatment. In fact, no vassal kings were arranged, and they were managed by the governors arranged by the imperial court.

The point is, you originally mentioned the withdrawal of the vassal, and now you want to be the king of the vassal?Don't you feel conflicted?

Moreover, Wang Shangshu said just now that the inland of that place is a large desert, and you can't see a single person after running for hundreds of miles.

No one wants to go as an official, but you actually took the initiative to go there. Isn't this self-invited exile?Are you out of your mind?
Of course, Zhu Jingyuan's brain wasn't broken. He knew that there were treasures under the desert!

There are several vassal states there, including the whole of Qatar and Bahrain, most of the United Arab Emirates, and the eastern Saudi Arabian oil production area, where Saudi Arabia's largest oil field is located.

The oil here is not only very large in reserves, but also in very good condition. The key is that the extraction cost is still very low, and it is still in the coastal area, and the transportation cost is also very low.

This place, together with Kuwait in the north, is the best gold producing area in the world.

This must have been specially instructed by the transmigrators to occupy it.

The descendants of later generations and ordinary vassal kings have no idea what is under this place, and they just want to run away when they look at the great desert.

When Zhu Jingyuan heard Wang Shangshu talking about this place, he thought of running into these great deserts.

Because after the match with his ninth uncle ended, Zhu Jingyuan sat back to his position and quickly calmed down.

Then I was a little scared, and a little regretful.

I was talking to the future emperor of the empire before, I shouldn't have been so tough at that time, what if he held revenge?
When the old emperor was there, he could cover himself even if he abdicated, but what should he do after the old emperor passed away?
Moreover, the general direction of the reform he proposed, although there are corresponding compromises in various aspects, the reform will ultimately offend people.

You should be safe before the negotiation, but maybe after the peace negotiation is over.

To be safe, it is better to take the initiative to run away. It is better to go abroad to negotiate. After the negotiation is over, you will not return to China and go to the Persian Gulf to dig oil.

On his own initiative, he exiled tens of thousands of miles to eat sand in the desert.

The emperor's uncle, and the person who went bankrupt because of him, should let him go, right?
The purpose of withdrawing feudal vassal states is to give the imperial civil rights of the vassal states, not to directly administer those remote wastelands, so not all vassal states must be withdrawn.

In such an uninhabited place inside the Persian Gulf, it is meaningless to withdraw the feudal lords now, and no one will care.

At least until the oil shows great value, until the oil extraction here shows great advantages, no one will care.

After the oil industry here shows a huge advantage, I can follow the trend and actively request to withdraw the vassal, and I can sell the favor of the court and the emperor at that time.

Before that, there shouldn't be any major problems if I have been a big dog here for 30 to [-] years.

At the same time, the way the old emperor looked at Zhu Jingyuan was different from that of the princes and ministers.

What the old emperor cared about most was not the fact that there was oil in the ground, but the safety issue that Zhu Jingyuan was also aware of.

Leading the king of the desert vassal country from afar is equivalent to making a statement in advance that he will ask for exile after finishing his work, so that those whose interests are damaged should not hate him.

Of course, the old emperor would not let Zhu Jingyuan eat sand, but after careful consideration, he decided to cooperate with him verbally.

Now releasing this kind of news can make him more secure.

As for these vassal states in the desert, it's just a matter of turning back and withdrawing, anyway, no one cares at all, including the original vassal king.

"It is proposed to withdraw the vassal state of the West Sea, set up the Secretary of the Political Envoys of the West Sea, the Office of the Prisoners of the West Sea, and the Secretary of the Command and Envoys of the West Sea, and the Governor of the West Sea and its subordinate offices.

"It is proposed that the vassals in the southwest of the Persian Gulf be withdrawn, the vassal kings will return to Beijing immediately, and the Dashi vassal state will be established.

After the two imperial decrees came down, all the princes and ministers were stunned again, and the emperor agreed so directly?

This is after nearly 100 years, the court once again canonized the new vassal king, and the established practice is broken like this?

Are there any other conventions that will continue to be broken after that?Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Zhu Jingyuan himself was equally surprised. He didn't expect that the old emperor didn't give any discount at all and sealed all the land to himself.

But Zhu Jingyuan didn't know yet that the old emperor was not going to let him go at all, he was just pretending to be mysterious.

On the other hand, Zhu Jianfeng quickly cheered up after being shocked.

The child Zhu Jingyuan was going to run away by himself. The key is that the royal father agreed directly!

Could it be that the father doesn't like him at all?Just continue to use his Tong Yan Wuji as a person who reforms and resists thunder?

At the same time, this may also be for the real heir, that is, the person who went through the thunder by himself?

So, is the heir chosen and identified by the royal father always himself?

Have you really been worried and panicked for nothing before?

(End of this chapter)