Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Of course, that is a record in history, because of Zhu Youjian's problem, the course of history has been changed, and so many Daming people will not be massacred.

Even so, Zhu Youjian still adopted many methods to restore the population of Daming. If you want to develop, you must have the support of the population, otherwise you will be exhausted and rely on development.

After hearing the emperor's question about population, Ni Yuanlu reported again:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the population of the Ming Dynasty was around 9000 million in the early days. Later, many women were brought back from Mengyuan, and you distributed them to the soldiers to pass on. Now almost all of them have two children.

At present, the population of Ming Dynasty is close to 1.1 million. Because the food problem has been solved, the population growth is very fast, and it should return to the original level in two years. "

Zhu Youjian nodded in satisfaction:

"In the future, there will be more overseas territories in the Ming Dynasty. We must ensure rapid population growth. While increasing the import of troops, we must also ensure the smooth progress of immigration."

"According to the purpose"

After Ni Yuanlu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, received the order, he returned to his class in a proper manner.

Meng Zhaoxiang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, went out to report:

"Your Majesty, the construction of streets in Daming City is proceeding step by step, almost all the roads between major cities have been connected, cement roads have been built for official roads in various provinces, and more than a dozen trains have passed.

Weichen suggested that during the war, more prisoners can be captured to build roads. Daming is currently in short supply of road workers. It would be best if there are free ones.

In addition, there are almost problems with the inland waterway when transporting grain from the south this time, and the speed cannot keep up. It is recommended to increase the dredging of canals to strengthen inland waterway transportation. "

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly:

"There is no problem with this. Didn't the Minister of the Ministry of Households exaggerate the amount of money in Ming Dynasty just now? The construction of roads and rivers requires more investment. Workers' wages cannot be deducted harshly. Workers' wages must be paid in full and on time."

Ni Yuanlu hastily bowed and saluted:

"According to the order."

When it comes to dredging the canal, Zhu Youjian thought of Zhu Dadian, governor of water transport.

This man used to be a big corrupt man, but because of his loyalty to Daming, Zhu Youjian exempted him from death and fined him 300 million taels of silver. Now he is very honest and dare not embezzle even a penny.

Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Dadian:

"Zhu Dadian, as the governor of Water Transport, tell me about the situation of Water Transport."

Zhu Dadian hastily stepped forward and played:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the canal water transportation is still normal, because the dry weather in the north also affects the water level of the canal, which does have some impact on the transportation. I have already applied to the Ministry of Households for the cost of dredging the canal."

Zhu Youjian is very satisfied with Zhu Dadian's performance during this period:

"Okay, we must increase the transportation capacity of the canal. It is very convenient to transport materials by water from the south. There should be no problems with this transportation route. The river should be dredged as soon as possible to make it unimpeded. In terms of funds, the Ministry of Household Affairs must fully support it, but it cannot waste."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 650 Protest

The emperor's imperial conquest lasted almost half a year, and he went to court when he came back.This made the ministers feel that the diligent Emperor Chongzhen had returned.The emperor worked tirelessly, and the ministers dared not be negligent, and various departments reported to Zhu Youjian about important matters in the yamen.Zhu Youjian was very satisfied after the hearing. Now the officials of Ming Dynasty are doing their duty.So far, except for the drought, there have been no major events in Daming.The Ming cabinet headed by Sun Chuanting did a good job of completing what Zhu Youjian did when he was in power.At this time, Zhou Lishun, the Minister of Honglu Temple, came out of the class holding an ivory board and began to play: "Your Majesty, Honglu Temple has received many protest letters from foreign countries. The Spanish envoy to Ming Dynasty protested Ming's occupation of Manila. The Dutch envoy protested Ming Dynasty. They sent troops to attack and occupy Batavia. The Portuguese envoys protested against Ming’s blockade of the Strait of Malacca, which posed a huge threat to their merchant ships. They demanded that Ming withdraw its troops, return the occupied land to Zhao, and threatened to cut off trade between Ming and Europe. Ignoring this, they will unite with other countries to besiege Daming. The Wa Kingdom wrote to ask Daming to let go of the import of Wa country goods and to cancel the tariffs. There is also the Ryukyu Prince Shangxian who quietly entered Daming again, and they asked for Miansheng. I wanted to send someone to ask His Majesty for instructions. , but considering that His Majesty is leading the army in Nanyang, I can only temporarily put their protest letter on hold, please give instructions from Your Majesty." Zhou Lishun, Minister of Honglu Temple, has been very busy during this time, and has been receiving submissions from foreign envoys letter of protest.Today I finally waited for the emperor to come back, and immediately found a gap to play to Zhu Youjian.The fact that foreign envoys protested against this matter had already been expected by Zhu Youjian.Some time ago they were kicked out of Daming. After the Ming army captured Batavia and Luzon, they were ordered to enter the territory of Daming again and jointly protested to Daming Honglu Temple.Hearing the report of Honglu Siqing, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but think of the situation of Huaxia in later generations.This is not the case when the overall national strength is not yet strong.But now Ming has changed, and those bandits who like to use strong ships and guns to pry open the gates of other countries can only continue to protest at this time.The Prince of Ryukyu had already visited Daming last year and asked Daming to help them repel Satsuma.In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ryukyu was quietly occupied by Satsuma.Shangxian has been the eldest son for several years, but he has never had the opportunity to be conferred in Daming.Now the Satsuma clan doesn't dare to openly fight with Daming, but just quietly controls Ryukyu.Shangxian had no choice but to pay tribute to both Daming and Satsuma.His personal freedom was also controlled by the Satsuma clan, the purpose was to worry that he would sneak to Daming to sue.This time, the troops were divided into three groups to have the opportunity to enter Daming. They have been here for more than two months.Since His Majesty the Ming Emperor was not in the country, Shangxian could only wait patiently.Zhu Youjian's face gradually became serious. When Shangxian came last time, the Ming Navy was still very weak and could not manage Ryukyu for the time being.Today is different, it seems that it is time to teach Little Japan a lesson. "Zhou Aiqing, let Shangxian come to court with me tomorrow. As for the other foreign envoys, let them go. If they dare to join forces to besiege Daming, then Daming will destroy the country one by one." Ruthless, really ruthless. At that time, the only opinion of their emperor.So many Western powers are not afraid of besieging them, but they still want to destroy them. Is Ming Dynasty so powerful?However, while the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were slandering, they were also very proud.With such a tyrannical emperor, the people of Ming Dynasty will no longer be oppressed by foreigners.Does Zhu Youjian have this ability?Of course, as the emperor with the Golden Finger system, if he couldn't deal with a few small countries in those days, he might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill him.The big deal is to exchange all the gold, silver and dragon coins in the treasury, internal funds, and banks into weapons.If it doesn't work, just call a modern army directly, which country can block the bombardment of aircraft and tanks.But only when he was forced into a desperate situation, what he would do in order to survive.Under normal circumstances, it is still king to vigorously develop Daming's technology.If everything depends on the system, all the money will be swallowed up by then, and if the system disappears, wouldn't Da Ming soon perish again.Seeing that there were no ministers to report again, Xia Wanchun came out of the class and started to play: "Your Majesty, the construction of the Daming Customs has been completed. With the cooperation of the Coast Guard, the crackdown on smuggling has been a complete success." It can be said that there is no smuggling in the provinces and coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. space.Several small countries dared to offend Da Ming's prestige, and the minister suggested cutting off Da Ming's trade with several arrogant Western countries, and they will soon collapse. What Xia Wanchun said is very reasonable, but Zhu Youjian knows it is difficult. Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries also have colonies in India in Asia. They also have colonies in Africa and America. If you want to To put them to death completely, the only way is to destroy all their colonies. Now Ming Dynasty still has a lot of things to do, the country of Wa, Annan, Burma and several small countries in the northwest have not yet been resolved. There is also a Raksha country that is also eyeing Daming, At this time, it is impossible for Ming Dynasty to rashly send troops to Africa and America. Although Xia Wanchun was smart and knew a lot, he could not fully understand the history of the world during the Ming Dynasty. If Zhu Youjian was not a time traveler, he would not Knowing how many colonies these two colonial countries have, Zhu Youjian smiled slightly at Xia Wanchun and said, "What Aiqing said is very true, but now Daming must first solve the drought in various places, and I don't want to touch them yet. "My emperor is holy!" "Xia Wanchun stopped talking, and bowed back to the court. Zhu Youjian looked at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and saw that there were no officials to play. He waved his hand, and the little eunuch immediately shouted: "If you have an early performance, you will retreat to the court without it!" "Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing originally wanted to talk to the emperor about the new firearms. Thinking that the emperor had just returned from his expedition, they couldn't bear to delay the emperor's time, so they decided to wait for the emperor to rest for two days. In order to let the emperor rest early, the two chose to close the Mouth, followed other civil and military officials to retreat to the imperial court. After not coming back for so long, Zhu Youjian was still a little excited when he entered the harem. Looking back at the little eunuch Erxi who was following closely behind him: "Erxi, I want to go by myself Go, you back off! "Zunzhi" Erxi is also Wang Chengen's adoptive son. The little eunuch is very smart and knew what the emperor meant, so he stepped back immediately. Ninggong. There are very few eunuchs and maids in the harem now, and there are no more than 50 eunuchs and eunuchs in the huge harem. You must know that there were thousands of court ladies and eunuchs in the past. They were mainly responsible for serving the emperor, queen and concubines, and many of them were handymen. Most of the eunuchs and maids were kicked out of the palace by Queen Zhou, and she was allowed to make a living freely. When Zhu Youjian came across, there were only five or six court ladies and three or five loyal eunuchs in Qianqing Palace. Later, Princess Kunxing Zhu Wei recruited They gathered a group of court ladies and eunuchs, but the number was less than one hundred. Zhu Youjian went all the way to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, and only saw two court ladies at the door. Seeing the emperor’s sudden return, the court ladies hurried forward to pay homage. Zhu Youjian First make a silent gesture to them, and then wave them to back off.

Chapter 651 Apology

The Compassionate Ning Palace was originally the residence of Empress Zhou. After Empress Zhou left, no one lived there, and Liu Ruyan lived here temporarily.Zhu Youjian waved his hand to make the maid quietly retreat, and he raised his leg to enter the Palace of Compassion and Ning.As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw a graceful figure squatting in front of a flower pot, concentrating on pruning flower branches.Zhu Youjian walked all the way behind her, but she didn't notice anyone coming.Suddenly, I felt a tight waist, and a pair of strong arms hugged her directly. "Who? Let go now." Liu Ruyan's face turned pale from fright, and she hastily let go.But Zhu Youjian didn't pay attention to her at all, and of course he didn't let go, he directly carried her into the room, smelling the fragrance of her hair, he felt elated and a little intoxicated for a while.Because he hugged Ruyan tightly from behind, and his head was stuck tightly behind Ruyan's head, Ruyan couldn't see who was hugging her at all.Struggling hard for a few times without breaking free, Ruyan was completely impatient. Although martial arts no longer existed, she was once a master after all, so her reaction was still fast, and she raised her foot and stepped hard on Zhu Youjian's instep.Zhu Youjian really didn't expect Ruyan's move, feeling some pain in his toes, Zhu Youjian loosened his arm and Ruyan broke free.Ruyan, who was extremely angry, just broke free from Zhu Youjian's embrace, and slapped him with his backhand.How could Zhu Youjian be slapped by her, he reached out and easily grabbed Ruyanyu's hand, and with a pull in Wang's arms, Ruyan was embraced by him again.Zhu Youjian has already become the emperor of Ming Dynasty, no matter whether it is Ah Qing or Si Xiaohua, whoever dares to resist him, as long as he wants, they will all obediently serve him.Today was the first time that a beauty resisted, Zhu Youjian not only did not blame Ruyan, but became interested.Just when she was about to throw her on top of Longta, a bully and bully bowed hard, but Ruyan had already discovered his true face.At that time, he trembled and stopped struggling, and his eyes showed surprise. "Your Majesty, when did you come back? I don't know it's Your Majesty, please punish me." Zhu Youjian smiled slightly, holding Shan Feng in his hand, and said, "I just returned to Beijing not long ago, you sisters are all right!" Ru Yanqiao Blushing, she nodded obediently: "Thank you for your concern, all the sisters are well, but I miss you all the time." "Haha... I miss you very much too, let me see if there is any change." Zhu Youjian said To do something, Ruyan shook her head slightly, and then stretched out her jade hand: "Your Majesty, don't worry, you see that my body is covered with mud, let me wash it before serving Your Majesty well." Zhu Youjian looked at Ruyan's pair Sure enough, the tender jade hand found some mud on it, it must have been dirty from pruning flower branches just now, so she nodded and let Liu Ruyan go.Ruyan bowed to Zhu Youjian, and then went to wash up.It took about half a stick of incense to come, but Ruyan still didn't come back, Zhu Youjian was a little anxious, got up and walked to the place where Ruyan washed.There was a faint fragrance of flowers, and I saw Ruyan lying in the pool covered with petals, more charming than flowers, without saying a word, Zhu Youjian directly unarmed and entered the pool... Since Zhu Youjian's personal conquest, it has been half a year I only met a princess from a small country.Zhu Youjian didn't touch the girls arranged for him by the four major families when he came back, and later asked Zheng Chenggong to send a boat to send them back.Reunited after a long absence, his fighting power exploded, and he raised his gun and mounted his horse to start a frantic fight.In a big battle, the sky was dim and the earth was dark, and Ruyan, who was killed, dropped his helmet and armor and raised his hands to surrender.But Zhu Youjian refused to accept the surrender, and still urged the horse to raise his gun and continue to charge... "Sister, just now the little eunuch said that His Majesty is back..." Just when Ruyan was really unable to resist, the four little flowers received the report from the little eunuch, and came forward Come to Ruyan to announce the good news.Sure enough, it was discovered that the emperor had returned and was performing a martial arts movie with Ruyan.Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Ruyan was overjoyed and hurriedly called for help: "Four sisters, help me..." Seeing that the eldest sister was defeated, of course the four little flowers would not stand idly by. ...It was already lunch time when we returned from the Palace of Compassion and Ning to the Palace of Qianqing.As soon as he sat down on the dragon chair, Erxi came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the princess and the prince are here." After walking for so long, Zhu Cihong missed his three precious daughters very much.Hearing the arrival of Princess Kunxing and others, Zhu Youjian immediately said: "Quick, let them in." Not long after the little eunuch "Zunzhi" withdrew, Zhu Cihong and the three princesses walked into the Qianqing Palace. "See Father." The four of them knelt down to see Father respectfully.Zhu Youjian smiled and looked at the four children kindly. "Hurry up and get down!" "Thank you, father!" Zhu Cihong and Jianwen Ziwei got up and stood respectfully aside.Princess Kunxing Zhu Weiyi threw herself into Zhu Youjian's arms and sobbed. "Father, why did you come back after half a year? My son misses you so much..." Seeing Wei Xi's tears streaming down his face, Zhu Cihong and Ziwei Jianwen were also infected, with tears in their eyes.Zhu Youjian lovingly patted Zhu Wei's head: "My lord, my father also misses you very much. For the prosperity of Ming Dynasty, the emperor's personal conquest will happen again. In a few days, my father will find a son-in-law for the emperor. Then At that time, the emperor will be accompanied by someone, haha..." Hearing that the father wanted to find him a son-in-law, Wei Xi blushed, and hurriedly stuck her head into Zhu Youjian's arms: "Don't...don't, Huang'er Don't get married, the emperor's son will be with his father for the rest of his life..." Zhu Cihong almost laughed out loud, he remembered that his father loved his children very much in the past.But he never joked with princesses and princes, today the father actually teased the princess.Zhu Cihong was moved by such a father and felt more cordial, he liked such a father.When Princess Kunxing Zhu Wei got up from her father's arms with a blushing face, Zhu Cihong knelt in front of her father again: "My father, my son has done something wrong during this period, please punish me!" Zhu Cihong's performance made Zhu You Jian was taken aback: "What's wrong? What's wrong, let's talk about it." Zhu Cihong didn't get up, he wanted to finish speaking, and waited for his father to deal with it.If he got up now, his father would ask him to kneel down and lecture him later. "Father, my son entered the Royal Military Academy to study without your permission. If you broke the rules, please punish him." No matter which dynasty he is in, the prince is not allowed to leave the palace at will, let alone contact him in private. Minister of the DPRK and China.Not to mention that the prince directly entered the military academy, which is a place to train military generals.Zhu Weixi was also surprised when she heard that her eldest brother had entered the Royal Military Academy.This was a serious crime in the past, and there was suspicion of forming a clique to establish a princeling. If the father was furious, he might abolish his position as prince.Princess Kunxing Zhu Wei hurriedly knelt beside Zhu Cihong: "Father, my brother has been away from the Forbidden City for too long, and he may have forgotten the rules for a while, please forgive him this time." "Father..." Princess Jianwen and Princess Ziwei saw The eldest sister interceded for the eldest brother, and they also knelt in front of Zhu Youjian together.

Chapter 652 Powerful Diplomat

Zhu Youjian looked at the four children kneeling in front of him, his expression gradually became serious.

"Wei Xi, father asked you: Which dynasty princess can show her face and do business outside the palace?"

Zhu Youjian's words directly stunned the three princesses.

yes!It is simply a disgrace to the royal family that the princess of any dynasty can do this.

However, it was the emperor's father's initiative to let them learn business, and let Zhu Weixi be the head of the Royal Chamber of Commerce.

Why would this question be raised suddenly now, is it possible that the father wants to settle accounts after the fall?

Princess Kunxing Zhu Wei looked at her father suspiciously and said:

"Father, didn't you let your son do this?"

Zhu Youjian nodded:

"That's right, the royal father can even let the princess leave the palace, so why would he restrict the crown prince's freedom? As long as what he did did not harm Daming or the people, why did the royal father punish him.

As my prince of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong should often go out of the palace to understand the situation in the world and understand the sufferings of the people, so that he can be a good emperor.

If the crown prince stayed in Bauhinia City all the time and didn't know anything about the outside world, he would definitely be fooled by ministers with ulterior motives. How could he be a qualified successor of Ming Dynasty?All flat! "

"Thank you father..."

When the four of them heard what their father said, they were all excited with tears in their eyes.

Princess Kunxing kowtowed to her father and stood up without forgetting to compliment her:

"Father, you are too sensible, you are really a saint."

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly, reached out and scratched her nose:

"Stop flattering, if Zhu Cihong doesn't tell Father about this matter today, it will be absolutely unforgivable.

Remember, father is not the old-fashioned emperor, but before you do anything, you'd better ask me for instructions, sit down! "

"Understood, thank you father..."

The four got up and sat down beside Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Cihong and asked:

"Zhu Cihong, which class are you in at the Royal Military Academy, Army or Navy?"

"Reporting to my father, my son is in the army class."

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly:

"Well, how do you feel?"

Zhu Cilang cupped his hands and said:

"Reporting to my father, the instructor is very powerful. The theoretical knowledge taught to us is something I have never seen before. Once a war breaks out, it should be very practical."

"Study hard, one day in the future you may lead the army as the chief general."