I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

History often has striking similarities. In history, after Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself from a tree on the Crooked Neck in Meishan, Great Britain, which was in the process of prosperity, also fell into a national civil war. Three years later, Charles I was guillotined. He was the first A king of Great Britain who was beheaded.

Although Cheng Shijie has never made any mistakes, and Sun Zhiman also has natural trust in Cheng Shijie, the problem is that there are not always monarchs who were wise in the first half of their lives but mediocre and incompetent in the second half of their lives.

And there are quite a few, just like Duke Huan of Qi, Emperor Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of Han in history. Let’s not talk about Duke Huan of Qi. No one can deny the achievements of Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of Han. But the problem is that the two of them also made a lot of achievements in their later years. It's a ridiculous move. If Prince Wei successfully succeeds to the throne, it is absolutely impossible for Huo Guangxing to abolish the throne.

Although Huo Guang found a relatively outstanding emperor Liu Xun from the people, the turmoil and exhaustion did great harm to the Han Dynasty.

Sun Zhidan had reservations about Cheng Shijie's desire to intervene in European affairs. Europe was now shrouded in mystery to the Ming Dynasty. China had known for a long time that such a continent existed, but no one had ever known it. Been there.

“Our ancestors glimpsed the European situation from the mouths of European merchants who crossed the deserts of the Middle East, crossed the Pamir Plateau to the Western Regions, and then arrived in Chang’an via the Western Regions. They watched the Roman Empire turn from prosperity to decline, and watched the Byzantine empire that lasted for thousands of years finally end. Disappear in the wind under the cold blade of the full moon scimitar!"

Sun Zhiman continued: "We watched the Vikings ravage Europe, watched the Germans and Gauls fight against each other, and watched the Anglo-Saxons turn from weak to strong... But the distance is too far, and all of this is difficult for the Ming Dynasty. It seems to be something on another planet. We can learn a thing or two from the words and travelers’ stories, but we have no way of contacting it.”

Sun Zhiyi actually had another worry, which was different from garrisoning in Venice. The garrison in Venice only had a size of more than 6,000 troops. This number of troops was enough for Venice, and it was also a problem for Europe. A force that cannot be ignored.

But more than 6,000 troops are nothing to the Ming Dynasty. If restrictions are relaxed, a 6,000-strong army can be raised in any town in the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has come forward for the Republic of Venice and is at odds with the powerful Ottoman Empire, it should not interfere in Great Britain's affairs now.

Cheng Shijie said: "This is really a good opportunity!"

"Da Ming's steps are too fast, he needs to be steady!"

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, we are currently entangled with Bolo and the others in the Ural Mountains. They are too far away from our Ming Dynasty, and the material consumption is very large. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Anbei Army are also very tired, and they also need to rest! "

"This problem is easy to solve. The Military Department and the General Staff Department already have a complete plan!"

Cheng Shijie said: "In three months at the latest, the two brigades of the Anton Army will be transferred to the Anbei Army. They will deliver the Anbei Army and be stationed on the Ural side."

"The same problem exists in Indochina!"

Sun Zhibo said: "Admiral Shen asked for help from the cabinet and the General Staff, which required a large amount of medicinal materials and rotation of sergeants. Only the Anxi Army is still functioning normally, but the Anxi Army has been out for nearly two years. We must be stable, at least until the Indo-China Peninsula or the Anxi Army Corps stabilizes!"

"There is only so much land that can be developed. We are not the only ones who will develop it. The Europeans are already one step ahead of us. If you have time, you may wish to visit the southern coastal cities or the northeastern border. The Europeans have already expanded into our territory. The border is coming! Now that we are still strong, they dare not do anything to us. Once we weaken, they will immediately pounce on us like a pack of hungry wolves, bite us severely, and trample us into the mire!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You have all understood in the past few years. They have huge potential. They are just better than us in many places. What they are worse than us is just their size. If such a dangerous opponent allows them to continue to develop, you can't sleep." Sleeping?"

"Your Majesty, you are thinking too much!"

Sun Zhidan said: "You want to believe in the soldiers of Ming Dynasty and the subjects of Ming Dynasty. Once European countries dare to reach out to Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty will explode with powerful power. We are currently in Jinzhou, Lushun, Haizhou, Dengzhou, Binzhou, A total of sixteen large shipyards have been established in Quanzhou, Shanghai, Changshan and other places from south to north. Once fully liberalized, we can build at least 108 whale shark-class warships at the same time. We can build a fleet in half a year. The Spanish Armada, as long as your majesty gives the order, the Ming Dynasty's five capitals and twenty-six provinces can recruit at least three million troops!"

Cheng Shijie first explained the necessity of using troops in Europe in terms of potential threats. In his view, Europe was the only region capable of invading the Ming Dynasty. Instead of waiting for them to invade, it was better to strike first and defeat them.

Cheng Shijie said: "The benefits that can be gained by attacking Europe now are that there are a bunch of poor people around Asia, so India is worth grabbing, and there is nothing to do in other places. But Europe is different. They are colonizing more than two hundred people in America. Countless gold and silver have been plundered over the years, and as long as Europe can be conquered, the war reparations alone will be enough for the Ming Dynasty to squander it for decades!"

Sun Zhiman said: "Your Majesty, what I mean is not not to fight, but to fight now. The northern part of the country has been severely affected this year. Although we have adopted the principle of overseas blood transfusions and we have avoided famine everywhere, the problem still exists. It is not the case right now." It’s time to start the war, you’re still young and have a chance to conquer Europe!”

Seeing that Cheng Shijie was unable to convince the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, he did not force Sun Zhiman to carry out his orders. If the Cabinet did not have its own consciousness and was just a yes-man, it would not necessarily be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie actually understood that he was indeed a little anxious.

After Sun Zhidao watched Cheng Shijie leave, he looked at Song Xiance and said, "Our Majesty seems to be a little angry recently?"

Song Xiance said: "His Majesty has not admitted any newcomers to the harem for a while. Is this a draft for His Majesty?"

"It's best not to reach the Queen's ears with your words!"

Sun Zhiwan knew very well that Cheng Shijie was severely henpecked. He really couldn't figure out what was so scary about Xiang Hui, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie couldn't describe Xiang Hui in words.

Song Xiance smiled and said, "You can just go and worry about this. I'm going home first!"

Song Xiance had just gotten married, and his wife was Concubine Fan Hui, who gave birth to a son and a daughter to Emperor Tianqi. Concubine Fan Hui was named Concubine Hui because she gave birth to the eldest daughter of the Emperor Xizong, Princess Yongning Zhu Shu'e. In the third year of Tianqi, she gave birth to the mourning prince Zhu Cizhan, who was the crown prince of Jin Dynasty. The title of imperial concubine. However, one son and one daughter both died young, and the Fan family was ridiculed by the Hakka family and fell out of favor.

Later, Concubine Fan Hui stayed in the palace and lived as an existence that no one noticed. Until Cheng Shijie entered Beijing, these former imperial concubines gave them a sum of money to send them out of the palace.

Song Xiance served as a cabinet member and the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. By chance, he met Fan Huifei who was washing clothes for others. It was a coincidence that Fan Huifei poured a basin of water on the ground, and Song Xiance was soaked. Song Xiance's entourage was furious. , wanted to deal with Concubine Fan Hui, but after questioning Concubine Fan Hui, she found out that she was actually the imperial concubine of the previous dynasty.

Song Xiance saw that Concubine Fan Hui was pitiful and took her back to the mansion to settle her. After a while, the two became a couple. Song Xiance did not hold a grand wedding, but only invited Sun Zhiwan, Cheng Shijie and others to set up a few tables.

Although Fan Huifei had been in the palace for many years, she was actually not very old. She entered the palace at the age of fourteen and was now only twenty-nine. After getting married, Fan Huifei became pregnant again.

Now she is pregnant, but Fan Huifei is a virtuous woman. She usually washes her own clothes and sews her own clothes. Even the garden in the mansion has been turned into farmland by Fan Huifei, who planted more than an acre of corn and two acres of sweet potatoes. , an acre of potatoes.

For Ning Admiral like Song Xiance, who was older and unmarried, Cheng Shijie specially asked the Ministry of Rites to arrange marriages and recruited matchmakers from all over the city to match them. Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers are no longer the kind of era where good men should not be soldiers, and good men should not make nails. Not to mention officers, even ordinary soldiers are very in demand.

As for the disabled soldiers who are missing arms and legs, as long as they are still in business, they are even more popular because they eat the royal food. Regardless of drought or flood, they can receive it until they die of old age. If they are sick, the court will send someone to treat them, and they can receive it every month. Seventy-and-a-half percent of the original military pay. This kind of treatment is so attractive to those older girls and younger wives.

Song Xiance's neighbor was a disabled veteran of the Ning Navy named Wu Er. When fighting against the Jiannu in Fengtai, his thigh was trampled by a war horse, causing a comminuted fracture. In later generations, this kind of injury can still be operated on. There was really no way to cure him in the Ming Dynasty. He became a cripple.     But it does not prevent him from having children.

Seeing Song Xiance come back, Wu Er stepped forward and said, "Sir Song, you came back early today!"

"Everything is fine!"

Song Xiance also had no airs. Being an official in the Dingxin Dynasty was different from that in the Chongzhen Dynasty. Officials at any level should not think about blowing gongs to clear the way. Even Sun Zhiwan, the prime minister, only had one groom and two guards. Song Xiance, the governor of Shuntian, was also two guards.

These two guards were registered in the Guards Department, but as officials, they must be scrutinized by their neighbors, and there are not so many fights in Ming Dynasty, because as long as there is a fight, if it is serious, they will be sent to Xinming or Zhanzhou, and if they are minor, they will be sent to Xinming or Zhanzhou. Then they will be assigned to Telin, Hanhai, Tianshan, or Xijiang Province.

Wu Er is a chatty person and a Bai Xiaosheng around. He usually talks to Song Xiance when he has nothing to do.

"Mr. Song, have you heard?"

"what?"

Wu Er said: "Something happened over there in Nanyang!"

"What happened?"

Song Xiance asked doubtfully: "Is there nothing major happening at the court?"

Wu Erdao: "You don't know that the natives from Nanyang attacked a village here. I heard that more than 20 people were killed, the women were raped, and even the children were not spared!"

Song Xiance was about to enter the door when there was a rush of footsteps behind him.

"Master Song, Your Majesty has convened a temporary cabinet meeting, please attend!"

"understood!"

Song Xiance hurriedly boarded the carriage.

Cheng Shijie thought he could be free, but he didn't expect that something happened again. The place where the accident happened this time was the Boni Kingdom, which was currently a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty in name, and this vassal state had been colonized by the Dutch.

The incident happened three and a half months ago on the small island of Hinatu in the Bo Ni Kingdom. This small island is small in size and has a permanent population of only four to five hundred people.

Among them, there are less than fifty Chinese as an ethnic minority. These Chinese are actually the families of pirates. As the Ming Dynasty wiped out pirates on a large scale in Southeast Asia, these pirates had no choice but to be good.

After the massacre, the surviving Chinese fled Hinatu Island and headed for Luzon. They did not know what the Ming Dynasty's attitude was, and they did not make any announcement. They just asked Luzon to accept it. After the surviving Chinese settled in Luzon, they began to tell the outside world about the incident.

As a result, there were a lot of rumors among the people, but the official news was actually half a beat late.

Cheng Shijie looked at the map for a long time, but he didn't figure out what kind of island Hinatu was in later generations. He just roughly knew that it was in the southern part of Mindanao. The Philippines is not yet a country. The north belongs to the Kingdom of Luzon and the south belongs to the Kingdom of Bo Ni.

Cheng Shijie pushed back and said: "No matter, since this is a Dutch colony, let the Dutch be responsible!"

Sun Zhiman asked: "What are you going to do, Your Majesty?"

"First, Bo Ni has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times. The Dutch insulted the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and instigated the Dutch to massacre the people of the Ming Dynasty. We must strictly investigate, find out the murderer, and impose the death penalty!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Second, Bo Ni Kingdom must send an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to become a vassal, and the payment of two hundred thousand taels per year is required!"

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly and said: "Bo Ni is a small country with few people. I'm afraid I won't be able to collect 200,000 taels of silver in taxes a year. I'm afraid they won't agree!"

Cheng Shijie said: "What I want is that they don't agree! If they agree, I have no excuses. The General Staff ordered the Luzon Fleet and the Coconut City Fleet to add two bases of ammunition and organize joint exercises! From the Dutch Counting from the receipt of the note, within half a month, if the Dutch cannot satisfy me, they will attack Batavia, and we will discuss it after the battle."

Cheng Shijie is falling in love with this era more and more now, because he has big fists and can be unscrupulous. He can bully whoever he wants, and beat him until he doesn't accept it.

Song Xiance could see that Cheng Shijie was using the topic as an excuse. However, the cabinet had already rejected Cheng Shijie's proposal to directly intervene in Great Britain. There was really no way to refuse this proposal.

The Ming Dynasty protects all Ming Dynasty people in the world, whether they are nobles or civilians, whether they are free people or criminals. The Ming Dynasty people have no one else's turn to fight and kill.

Sun Zhibao said: "The Dutch are not weak. Isn't the ammunition supply of the two bases a little short?"

"What do you think?"

"At least five bases!"

Sun Zhiman said: "That is King Zheng's fiefdom. We should draw a clear line with the Dutch and take advantage of the opportunity to solve it together!"

"So good!"

Cheng Shijie reluctantly agreed. (End of chapter)