Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

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When Zhu Youqiu went out, his whole body was trembling.

Emperor Hongzhi talked a lot with his half brother, all about Chen Ce's achievements.

Such as the opening of trade between the southwest and Turpan, the beginning of salt permits, the introduction of Sino-French law, the change of aboriginal system to Han system, the fiefdom of royal family in the southwest, the change from agriculture to commerce, and the Jiazi disaster in Korea.

The speed of change in the Ming Dynasty in recent years has been too fast. The pace of development has been getting faster and faster, the economy has been improving significantly, and the foreign policy has become increasingly tough. The living standards of the people have improved significantly.

All of this was actually done by Chen Ce!

At first, Zhu Youqiu naively thought that Chen Ce was just a businessman with some intelligence and unique vision, but he never expected that this man actually did so many things in secret.

At that time, the introduction of the Salt Permit and the Kaizhong Policy harmed the interests of a large number of vassal states. At that time, they all thought that it was Jiao Fang's doing, so they mobilized their forces and killed Jiao Fang.

But only now did Zhu Youqiu suddenly react.

It wasn't Jiao Fang! It turned out that the person who did all these things was not Jiao Fang at all. They were dealing with the wrong person. The real implementer was Chen Ce! That little-known person.

Zhu Youqiu suddenly understood. No wonder Chen Ce was qualified to travel on the same ship with Emperor Hongzhi and even bring his family to the Wo Island.

He did so many things secretly for Emperor Hongzhi and the Ming Dynasty, so it is no surprise that Emperor Hongzhi relied on him so much.

But now it's all useless. Even though he knows all this, what can he do? He is powerless!
This group of vassal states who come to Wadao will basically live on Wadao in the future. If nothing unexpected happens, when Emperor Hongzhi returns to Beijing this time, he will send all the families of these vassal states to Wadao.

In the next two days, Emperor Hongzhi designated fiefs on the Wa Island for these vassal states and granted them subjects in the fiefs. These subjects were all Wa people, who assisted the vassal states in opening up wasteland.

As for how this group of people would enslave the Japanese people in the vassal states, Emperor Hongzhi did not ask.

Xie Qian also completed the reform of the official system of the entire Wa Island, a ruling model headed by the Three Officials and with the army in charge!

The three governors of Wadao were directly responsible to the imperial court. The feudal lords here still had no real political power and were basically sidelined.

After this trip, the problems of vassal population and bloated finances that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years were finally put to a perfect end.

On July 16, the 15th year of the Hongzhi reign, Emperor Hongzhi had been traveling for nearly a month, and then he returned to the inland of the Ming Dynasty on a triumphant ship!
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Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching.

After traveling for two months, Emperor Hongzhi's convoy finally arrived in the capital on August 12.

After a long journey, Chen Ce returned home and rested for two days.

Emperor Hongzhi also had a lot of things to deal with, so he started working the next day after returning.

Zhu Houzhao returned all political power to his father. In fact, he didn't want to govern at all. He was too tired in the past two months, and the civil servants did not take him seriously at all, which made Zhu Houzhao very angry.

There have been many letters in the Chen Mansion recently, most of which were sent by Fu Yuan from Liaodong.

Chen Ce saw Fu Yuan's complaint and shook his head helplessly. He just picked up the pen and replied to Fu Yuan with a few words, "If you are not capable enough, find a way to improve your strategy, don't complain about the external environment."

Chen Ce read Fu Yuan's plan to divide the little prince. He didn't think it was inappropriate, but he felt that Fu Yuan's consideration was not perfect.

We cannot just focus on Liaodong, the northern border and the nine borders. What we really need to consider is not the factors there, but the imperial court.

But what Fu Yuan least considered was the imperial court.

After all, Zhu Houzhao was only the crown prince and regent, not the emperor. Even if he were the emperor, he would still be constrained by the civil officials. You are making it too difficult for him.

However, it is undeniable that Fu Yuan has the ability and the plan is good. If it doesn't work this time, then just wait for the next time. In short, Chen Ce felt that his arrangement was correct. Fu Yuan had only been in Liaodong for a few months, but he had already achieved such a level. This efficiency surprised Chen Ce.

Since returning to the palace, Emperor Hongzhi has frequently summoned the six ministries of the cabinet to discuss the subsequent governance of the Japanese islands.

Chen Ce has already planned the general direction for Emperor Hongzhi, and the rest of the matters will be completed by Emperor Hongzhi and his trusted ministers. After all, there are few losers among those who can reach the top of the court. They are very good at handling these internal affairs, so Chen Ce does not need to worry about it.

"Cough cough cough."

Late at night, Chen Ce started coughing up blood in his study alone again. Now there was one more thing that Chen Ce thought he could do for Zhu Houzhao.

Open sea.

Before this, Chen Ce had repeatedly proposed the plan of opening a Maritime Customs Office, but at that time his main purpose was not to open the sea, but to strengthen the maritime ban in the southeast and allow the Japanese to cause chaos in the southeast.

But this does not mean that Chen Ce really does not want to open the sea. Now that the Ming Dynasty is at its peak, it is not impossible to repeat the feat of Yongle's seven voyages to the West!
Chen Ce did not go out during this Mid-Autumn Festival. When he was on the Japanese island, Chen Ce's health condition began to deteriorate, but he just didn't let Liu Wentai tell him.

On the sixteenth, Zhu Houzhao finally brought Gu Dayong to find Chen Ce.

Chen Ce looked at Gu Dayong strangely. When he went out to sea again, he found that Liu Jin was not serving Zhu Houzhao, but Gu Dayong had taken his place.

Chen Ce didn't think much about it at the time, but now it seems that Gu Dayong has replaced Liu Jin in favor.

Chen Ce didn't care too much, it would be good to put some pressure on Liu Jin.

"Little brother, you are finally back!"

After not seeing him for many days, Zhu Houzhao still looked as carefree as before. It seemed that his two months as regent had been in vain.

Chen Ce smiled and said, "Your Highness, how have you been these past two months? How do you feel about being the regent?"

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said with a gloomy face: "Little brother! Don't mention it, you have predicted it!"

"The group of civil servants in the cabinet don't take me seriously at all. They threaten me at every turn, as if the country will be destroyed if I don't do what they want."

"I guess one day, they will kill me, and I won't even know how."

Chen Ce was speechless and said, "Nonsense, you are the crown prince, the future emperor, how dare they harm..."

Chen Ce suddenly stopped talking halfway!

They may not really dare to do so. They may not dare to harm you openly, but they may plan some accidents in private.

There are still many speculations about this kid's death, but it set a precedent for Ming Dynasty emperors to be easily dissolved in water.

It seems that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are not good at swimming. It seems that I have to train this kid to learn swimming in the future.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know that Chen Ce had thought so much, he excitedly said to Chen Ce: "Little brother! I have done a great thing during this period of time!"

Chen Ce smiled and said, "What's the big deal?"

Zhu Houzhao said: "You may be saved!"

Ok?
Chen Ce was slightly stunned.

(End of this chapter)