Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 260 The Throne and the Constitutional Monarchy

Yingtian Mansion, since Chengzu, was another capital city of Ming Dynasty. After Shuntian Mansion was breached, it became the military and political center of Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, the new army's recovery of Yingtian Mansion is of great significance. For all Daming people, it seems to have injected a booster. This is an unprecedented victory.

However, after regaining Yingtian Mansion, they faced an urgent problem.

A country cannot be without a king for a day. Since the demise of the Hongguang regime, the remaining half of the Ming Dynasty has had no new king for a month.

Naturally, this situation must be resolved as soon as possible, and it cannot continue forever, otherwise it will not be conducive to the integration of the power of the Ming Dynasty, and it will not be conducive to the operation of various provincial government agencies, and it will not be able to stabilize the hearts of the people.

Everyone now knows who the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be in the hands of one person. Everyone knows that this person is the one chosen by heaven: Tang Ning.

Naturally, Tangning had thought about this issue a long time ago.

There are only two possibilities, either he, Tangning, will become the emperor himself, or he will support a Zhu family heir to succeed him as the new emperor.

Faced with this problem, Tangning herself struggled with it for a long time.

He is very clear that with the strength and prestige he has now, although there will be some obstacles in becoming the emperor, the success rate is still very high.

No matter how bad it is, half of the country can be completely controlled.

As for borrowing Chengzu's name when starting the family, and now taking over Zhu's family, what criticism will be left, that's not a big problem.

After all, no one had ever met Chengzu, and Tangning had the final say on Chengzu's thoughts.

Even if some people don't believe it, so what?

The entire world has seen the stupidity of the emperor of the Zhu family. The whole world has seen the Guangdong and Fujian that Tang Ning managed, and the new army he brought out has also been seen by the whole world.

Now, half of the country in the world has not been taken away by the Qing court, and most of it is due to Tang Ning and the new army.

He didn't believe how many people were willing to turn against him, Tangning, for the sake of the so-called Zhu family.

This world has been rotten for so many years, and people are determined, and no one wants to live a stable life.

The common people can accept the murderous Man Qing, so why can't they accept Tangning, right?
As for the few diehards, what if they oppose it?The real uprising was nothing but a mob without the slightest threat.

So the question facing Tangning now was not whether he could be the emperor, but whether he was willing to be the emperor.

There is no one who doesn't like power, and Tangning likes it too. She once fantasized about being above tens of thousands of people, sitting in the Sangong and Liuyuan.

But one thing, Tang Ning knew better than anyone else, was that sooner or later the feudal system would be replaced by a more advanced system.

In another four or fifty years, the first constitutional monarchy, the Kingdom of England, will be born.

This more advanced system also made this country the first industrialized country in the world.

As a result, it became the most powerful country in the world, with colonies all over the world, and all feudal countries were plundered wildly under its powerful influence.

As a result, he became more and more powerful, while the plundered countries and nations became more and more dilapidated, and the people were in dire straits.

This is an era of cannibalism and no international order at all. Whoever is strong will be a slave owner, and whoever is weak will be a slave. Only being enslaved, no one will sympathize.

So, as a future person, Tang Ning had to seriously consider this issue.

He thought about what he would do if he became an emperor, whether to continue the dictatorship and maintain the feudal autocratic rule, or to implement a constitutional monarchy that would replace the feudal system sooner or later.

If he chose the first path, he would choose selfishness, because Tang Ning could imagine that without him to promote the constitutional monarchy, after a hundred years of him, the feudal system would continue to be practiced in this land for at least several hundred years.

And countries with a feudal system, whether it is the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, or another dynasty established by another strongman, will not change at all.

As long as the ideology and system do not change at all, this dynasty will only be distanced by the Western world, and will eventually become the object of plunder.

Tang Ning is not the kind of person who is extremely selfish, so maintaining feudal autocracy is not what he wants.

Therefore, promoting a constitutional monarchy is the only way to go.

The core content of a constitutional monarchy is to limit the power of the monarch, so that the emperor or king will gradually become a mascot with little real power.

In this way, the whole country will not fall into decline because of the sudden appearance of one or a few faint kings.

Tang Ning thought, if she became the emperor and promoted a constitutional monarchy, wouldn't that be limiting her own rights?

It is really not something that a few people can do for a person with the highest power to take the initiative to delegate power step by step and limit his own power.

Therefore, Tangning didn't have much confidence in herself.

Besides, going to be an emperor destined to be restricted in power, what is the difference between that and now?Maybe even worse.

Because the "Bill of Rights" promulgated by the English in 1689 stipulates that the king has no right to abolish the law, shall not infringe on the taxation power of the parliament, and shall not organize a standing army without the consent of the parliament.

The king shall not interfere with the freedom of speech of the parliament, shall not arrest subjects without following legal procedures, and must convene parliament regularly.

It can be seen from the bill that the restrictions on the king's rights are huge, and some major rights have been deprived.

But Tang Ning knew that this was the correct system, and it allowed the parliament to play a greater role.

But if he follows this approach, Tang Ning will hand over the leadership of the new army and be restrained everywhere, then becoming the emperor is not much different from entering a high-end nursing home.

So upon thinking of this, Tangning immediately lost interest in the title of Emperor who had no name at all.

Apart from the ownership of the throne and the system, Tangning also thought about a lot, such as the future direction of the country's development.

He is very clear that now is an important juncture in the age of great voyages, if he does not catch this express train in time, he will definitely be left behind by others in the future.

In fact, Daming has been left behind by the Westerners a lot.

The footprints of Westerners have almost traveled all over the world, and there are their colonial strongholds all over the world.

As for the Ming people, the main scope of activities was only in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and they only carried out some simple trades, and they were even bullied by Western colonists.

Tangning had long wanted to change this situation. As a modern person, he also had great ambitions in his heart, and he wanted to lead his army across the world.

He is very clear that in this era, in the huge Ming Dynasty, no one has his vision, nor does he have this kind of awareness.

Therefore, in order to realize such an ambition, he must personally participate and promote it personally, centering on Dayuan and the coast, and radiating to the whole world.

And if he himself became the emperor, he was far away in the capital, and had to deal with various things, which would inevitably distract his energy.

As for the imperial conquest, that is even more unrealistic.

Based on these considerations, Tangning felt that she was not suitable to be the emperor, so she gritted her teeth and stopped coveting the position of emperor.

Since he himself no longer coveted the throne, he must help someone up.

(End of this chapter)