My Daming New Empire

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"Could it be that now that the counties have increased, they are not the descendants of King Jin and King Han?"

Su Liang thought about it carefully, and it is true that today's Ming Dynasty is completely different from the original Han Dynasty, even the Tweet Order cannot achieve the purpose of the court.

In the Han Dynasty, the fiefdom of a royal family was only one state and one county.After successive generations of enfeoffment, the last family even had only one village.

However, the territories of Jinwangfu and Hanwangfu continued to increase, and their descendants were divided into feudal titles. Each family of the county king had [-] guards and [-] personal guards. Now dozens of families have come out, and the money spent by the court on them is not counted. There are nearly [-] additional guards alone.

The territory increased, the population increased, and their strength also increased.

Even if there is no rebellion now, what if His Majesty is a thousand years from now, or a hundred years from now?

Therefore, weakening the strength of each royal palace in a disguised form is the perfect strategy.

However, he still felt embarrassed to help his enemy directly like this. "Since you have been ordered to come here, do you have a secretary from the Secretary of General Administration?"

Hu Yuansheng knew that he would help. After all, the old head of the Su family was still there, and the Marquis of Yecheng was a first-generation Ming hero, so there was no need to doubt his loyalty to His Majesty.

He took out another document from his arms and said: "This matter should not be publicized at the beginning. It will not be publicized until Bachelor Xie arrives in Xizhou. Therefore, even in the Su family, it is not appropriate to let too many people know about it."

Su Liang nodded, took the sealed letter and stuffed it into his arms without opening it. "The business is over, let's eat quickly. Get out after eating."

Hu Yuansheng was furious again, if it wasn't for the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, he would have wished to beat him up, and leave without eating.

Su Liang obviously saw through this point, so he said this.

Hu Yuansheng picked up the chopsticks, pointed at Su Liang and said, "I am the one who suffers from our grievances! Do you know how I got here these years?"

Calling a friend is beating someone, four of them beat one, but my friend was beaten into a cripple by the counterattack.

Because he was young and frivolous, Hu Yuansheng fell miserably this time, it was too horrible to look at.

Don't mention how much he regrets these years, but things have already happened, and it's too late for him to regret.

Su Liang said: "If you marry Ms. Yuan, I admit that you are the one who suffers. But just because I gave me a sachet, I don't even know what she looks like, so you should cancel the engagement with Ms. Yuan, and let her have nothing to do with it." Seeing people with face, what qualifications do you have to be called a sufferer?"

After saying this, Hu Yuansheng was speechless again.

At the beginning, the lawsuit was so big that even the emperor was alarmed.The cause of the matter is naturally known to everyone.

Miss Yuan's family was just admiring Su Liang's heroic appearance on the court and asked the maid to send a sachet, but it caused such a big dispute.

At that time, the civil and military disputes made the officials of the Manchu Dynasty irresponsible, and a young man was seriously injured and paralyzed.

Hu's family resigned, and Miss Yuan's family committed suicide twice without success. The Shaofu Yuan Ke loved her daughter as much as she wanted, and took care of her in every possible way. She even resigned from office and returned to her hometown for her daughter.

Although Zhu Zhanji did not approve Yuan Ke's resignation, he also allowed him to bring his daughter back to his hometown, and re-arranged a marriage for his daughter in his hometown, away from the vortex of Ying Tianfu.

Times have changed, and thinking of the mistakes they made when they were young, both of them sighed. They didn't eat much food, but they both drank a pot of wine.

The two of them are very clear that even if they drink together today, but their personalities are not compatible, there is no possibility of reconciliation in this lifetime.

In the 43rd year of the orthodox Spring Festival, Xie Yun spent it in Bursa, the capital of the Ottomans.

In this time and space, Osman is much harder than in another time and space.

First of all, because of Ming's support for the Mamluk dynasty, they dare not develop southward, let alone eastward, and can only go northward all the way.

A few decades ago, they had an absolute advantage, and the Christian countries they fought were miserable.

However, after the Europeans learned the steelmaking method of the Ming Dynasty, Europe had reliable muskets. At this time, the European coalition forces rose again.

In the original history, Constantinople would have been occupied by the Ottomans more than ten years ago.

But in this time and space, they have now lost most of Ottoman's territory in Europe, and even the former capital Edirne has been lost.

Constantinople has received the support of the Europeans and is still struggling to support it, while Ottoman has lost the best time to capture it.

After losing Edirne, Ottoman moved the capital back to Bursa, and now they are also surveying iron ore everywhere, trying to regain the territory in Europe.

However, the Timurids who were driven to Europe by Ming had already occupied the lowlands of Thrace.

They cooperated with the native Bulgarians to resist the invasion of the Ottomans, on the condition that they were allowed to survive in the lowlands of Thrace.

As muskets became more powerful, it became increasingly difficult for the Ottomans to dominate Europe with their scimitars.

Therefore, they had seen the reality clearly a long time ago, and like all the ethnic groups in the East, they took the initiative to recognize Ming as the suzerain state in exchange for Ming's non-expropriation.

In Crete, they are also Daming's biggest customers. Compared with the poor and white Europeans, they are much richer.

From the west, Daming wants to support France, so from the east, Ming now also needs to support Ottoman.

Of course, Ming did not want the Ottomans to directly capture Constantinople and conquer half of Europe. That was not in Ming's interests.

Now the Caspian Sea has become the inland sea of ​​Ming Dynasty, and Ukraine in the northern part of the Black Sea has also become the territory of Ming Dynasty. A Bosporus Strait that no one can monopolize is in the best interests of Ming Dynasty.

In this way, no one can set up a card here, and Ming's warships can always pass through without hindrance.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji doesn't like the fact that the Green Sect is too powerful, and the fanaticism of this religion is too strong.

However, we should not suppress them too much, let them put some pressure on Europe at all times, and don't let Europeans live too comfortably.

Although Xie Yun's official position is not high, but this time he came to Europe as Zhu Zhanji's special envoy, so no matter where he went, he was warmly welcomed.

He also readily agreed to Ottoman's request to buy gunpowder. Of course, on the surface, it would not be said that it was to deal with the Europeans, but to let them deal with Timur's legacy, Ulugh Beg.

Ulugh Beg has now fled thousands of miles from Asia to Europe. Although Da Ming would not beat him directly, it is still reasonable to let the Ottomans contribute.

And the Ottomans are also willing to be this knife.Because the current Ottoman governor, Mehmed II, still remembers the history of his great-grandfather being captured alive, humiliated, and finally killed by Ulugh Beg's grandfather.

For Ottoman as a whole, this was an unforgettable humiliation.

Xie Yun and Mehmed II jointly participated in the foundation stone laying ceremony of the two banks in Daming, and jointly determined the money model specially made for Ottoman.

Of course, gold, silver and copper coins will not be minted in Ottoman. At present, all the currencies in circulation in Ming Dynasty are all minted in Crete, and then shipped to every country.

The sea transportation is in charge of by Daming itself, but the land transportation is jointly in charge of by the Ming army and the army of the local country.

Daming’s local banks are responsible for exchanging currency and controlling the amount of currency based on local resource conditions.

All the nations rejoiced, because of the shortage of gold, silver and copper, they never considered that this inedible and inedible metal would take away their food, their wool, their livestock, and their labor.

In fact, not to mention them, even many ministers of Ming Dynasty couldn't understand why they should be sent gold, silver and copper coins, so that they should die of poverty.

Only a few ministers understand that it is these metals that cannot be eaten or drunk, and that Ming has no shortage at all, so that all countries can volunteer to serve Ming.

All Daming needs to pay is for some people to dig out these metals from the ground.

After the Spring Festival, Xie Yun set foot on the land of Europe. He first arrived at the heart of Europe that no minister of the Ming Dynasty had ever reached before: Hungary.