My Daming New Empire

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It is possible to conquer the world immediately, but it is not possible to rule the world immediately, and nothing can be solved by force.

Politics is an art of compromise. Cutting through the mess with a sharp knife will only make things worse.

According to Zhu Zhanji's intention, each overseas territory is divided into one piece.Then these clans were all sealed off, and in each place, a military guard, or two military guards were arranged to maintain law and order.

The vassals manage the civil affairs, the army manages the military administration, and then use gold mines and land to maintain basic survival, and use trade to revitalize the connection between each fiefdom.

A military guard in Ming Dynasty has about 500 people, and a local guard, or guard, has about 3000 people.There are about 2 people including their family members, officials and entourage brought by the feudal king.

So many people can maintain basic rule no matter where they start to develop, coupled with the help from the local Ming Dynasty.

But in front of great Confucians like Xie Jin and Jin Chun, this matter cannot be done at all.

The thing is still the same thing, but to implement it, it needs to be done in a different way.

For example, even if the royal family wanted to entrust the vassal princes overseas, it must not be proposed by the royal family.

Today is still a clan society, the power of the clan is an important part of society, and its social influence cannot be compared with that of later generations.

For example, each family has its own laws, its own family rules.The imperial court recognized the clan's rewards or punishments for clan disciples.

Below the county government, the management of the clan is an effective supplement to the management of the imperial court.

The laws of this era are not perfect, and people pay more attention to human feelings.

If the ministers of the imperial court want to retire and return to their hometowns, they need to resign three times, and the emperor has to persuade them to stay twice before agreeing the third time.Otherwise, it means that the emperor is very dissatisfied with this minister and has great opinions.

Even for the emperor to usurp the throne, ministers had to persuade him three times, and the emperor "reluctantly" ascended the throne because he "couldn't give in".

In such a social environment, because if such a plan is proposed by the royal family, it will make people feel that the royal family is heartless.

Can't even take care of their own relatives, who would believe that they can take care of the people?

Therefore, even if Zhu Zhanji wants to entrust the clan overseas, this matter cannot be settled by him now. He must first mature this matter in society, and then "reluctantly" agree.

What they said made sense, of course Zhu Zhanji was willing to listen.He knows his own weaknesses and shortcomings, and he is willing to act according to the current set of rules as long as it does not affect the overall situation.

Therefore, he wants to hype it up first, to stir up this matter.

Anyway, enfeoffment is not something that can be carried out in the past two years, and it will not be done until he goes to sea and returns to Daming at the earliest.

If it doesn't go well, it will have to wait until after he ascends the throne before this matter can be implemented.

So now he doesn't express his opinion at all, and he doesn't mention enfeoffment.It's just on the military side first, to prepare for the future.

From Turtle Island to South Island, this journey is very boring.

Because it is traveling against the wind, the fleet's current sailing speed is only four or five knots per hour, which is only a little faster than a person's walking speed.

At this speed, in the vast sea, it is almost like a turtle crawling.

The soldiers of various armies can learn to read and play cards every day to pass the time, but the stuffy environment of the cabin still makes many people's mood gradually become depressed.

Zhu Zhanji has also been studying recently. He originally disliked Confucianism the least, and always believed that the decline of the ancient eastern countries had a very close relationship with Confucianism.

But after staying in this era for a long time, I became a person of this era.He gradually realized that even though Confucianism had various deficiencies, it had very obvious advantages in formulating social rules, maintaining the rule of the imperial court, and establishing the centripetal force of the nation.

So recently, he also set aside an hour or two every day to listen to Xie Jin and Jin Chun explain Confucian classics to him.

He is not trying to be a Confucian scholar, he just needs to understand the role that Confucianism can play in social development, and then make better use of this power.

His eagerness to learn made Jin Chun very happy. Every day when he gave lectures to Zhu Zhanji, he was always full of energy.

Although life on board is boring, the spirit of the old fellow is getting better and better.

But Xie Jin has a deeper understanding of Zhu Zhanji. He has been teaching Zhu Zhanji since he was a child, and he knows exactly what kind of person Zhu Zhanji is.

Especially since Zhu Zhanji started to promote Gewu, he has actively promoted the study of numbers, letters, and geometry, and also led to understand Jin, including Xie Zhenqi, Xie Zhenliang and the others to study these together.

They are more aware that utilitarian people like Zhu Zhanji learn Confucianism not to become Confucianists, but to disintegrate Confucianism.

Because for Zhu Zhanji, obvious learning and practical learning are what Zhu Zhanji really likes.

When the time entered May, the Nanyang region entered the dry season.Occasionally, it will rain for an hour in the sky, and then there will be the suffocating heat and humidity.

Throughout June, it didn't rain a few times, and it didn't rain again until they arrived at Turtle Island.

After the fleet bypassed the Torres Strait, they carefully traveled south along the outer periphery of the Great Barrier Reef.

In the past, people saw the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Most of the time, the sun hung in the south.

But now, the sun is in the north, and the sun's trajectory that used to be from left to right is now from right to left.

Everyone will feel a sense of depression subverted by time and space. There is almost no land in sight. The beautiful ocean scenery now makes everyone feel tired.

Occasionally passing through a few small islands, apart from making the navigator feel nervous and afraid of hitting the rocks, it can no longer attract the attention of others.

Because starting from the north, the coastline of Nanzhou is about to be surveyed, and the fleet is also scattered. Even the Chinese army where Zhu Zhanji is located currently has only more than 100 ships.

The soldiers who were sent out received a pamphlet, which recorded in detail some natural environments in the northern part of Nanzhou, and the prevention and control of poisonous insects and snakes.

Especially those surveyors of Habayashi School of Health, each of them is worth a thousand gold in Zhu Zhanji's heart.

Almost every soldier today is an all-rounder.Although most of them are illiterate, or only know some simple characters.

But all of them are field soldiers, engineering soldiers, and they can farm the land. They work hard and tirelessly.

And these students of Habayashi Guard School have received cultural courses, geography courses, astronomy courses, etc., each of which has received two or three years of professional course education and special forces education.

These seeds can be said to be the most powerful technical soldiers in the world.

When the time entered July, the main fleet finally sailed out of the equatorial windless zone, feeling the cool sea breeze, and the spirits of the fleet became excited.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji became nervous.Because July is a hot summer for the Ming people, but the Nanzhou they have come to is now in winter.

Although it is not far from the equator and the temperature has not dropped yet, it is necessary to take precautions against the flu caused by this climate change.

In later generations, influenza was only a minor illness, but now, it is very likely to kill people.

Every doctor accompanying the fleet was mobilized, and almost every ship had a doctor assigned to do a good job of protection.

The further south the boat goes, the temperature is getting lower and lower, especially in the morning and evening, it is already necessary to wear thick clothes.

However, this drop in temperature has greatly increased the comfort during the voyage.

The morale of the soldiers has been raised again, because everyone knows that they are about to reach their destination.

The destination of their first stop was a bay on the east coast near the Tropic of Capricornus, which is also known as Brisbane in later generations.