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Chapter 802 Changes in going to sea

The will to reduce the royal titles quickly spread throughout the world. This incident had no impact on ordinary people and even most officials, but for the royal family, it was related to their vital interests. Therefore, when the news was received, the royal family who remained in the Ming Dynasty was in a panic.

For example, represented by Shu King Zhu Chun, wrote letters to Zhu Yunyu, and some people even clamored to go to Beijing to ask for an explanation.

However, although these princes and royal families were very clamoring, Old Zhu had already set rules and they did not dare to leave the fiefdom easily, so Zhu Yunxiu simply pretended not to see it. Anyway, the government orders had been issued, and the royal family's enthronement also needed to pass through the clan mansion. Now the clan mansion is completely controlled by Zhu Yunxiu, so he did not dare to make any trouble with these royal families.

Speaking of which, these princes are quite unlucky. The group with the strongest and most ambitious has gone to sea, leaving behind some who want to live a peaceful life. As a result, Zhu Yunyu gave them such a move. Now they are weak and have already handed over the military power in their hands. There is no bargaining chip to bargain with Zhu Yunyu at all.

In addition, this time the matter only concerns the interests of the royal family and has no impact on the people and the court. Even for officials, restricting the title of the royal family is a good thing. You should know that there are too many royal families in the local area, which will have a great impact on the management of local officials, so many officials are very welcome to this matter.

In addition, the number of royal families is not too large. You should know that in later generations, the number of royal families reached an astonishing over 150,000 in the Wanli period alone. Although there was no statistics at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number was definitely even more astonishing. Of course, the Ming Dynasty in history also discovered this problem, so it also reduced part of it as much as possible, but the number of royal families still put a heavy burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances.

So in this case, the royal family within the Ming Dynasty made no mistakes, but there was no substantial effect, so in the end they could only accept this fact helplessly.

Reforms like the above have been almost always being staged during this period. After eliminating domestic unstable factors such as the vassal kings, Zhu Yunyu was finally able to carry out drastic reforms in the country. Of course, this is also because the Ming Dynasty has changed too much. If the court does not take the initiative to carry out reforms, social changes will probably force the upper class to reform, and the turmoil will only be greater at that time.

Early that morning, Li Jie was summoned to the palace by Zhu Yunxie. He thought he was discussing some reform matters, but he didn't expect that Zhu Yunxie smiled and handed him a piece of information and said, "Look, what Wuzhu and Dier performed in Oceania is really unexpected!"

Li Jie took the information and opened it, but he saw that Zhu Youzun and his friends had recorded in detail all the actions of Zhu Youzun and others to Oceania.

Li Jie has long been accustomed to this situation. Although Zhu Yunyu supports the princes to go to sea, he will also put some detailed works around them. It is not that Zhu Yunyu has any bad intentions, but an inevitable preparation. After all, these princes have soldiers and food when going to sea. What if they are uneasy to develop overseas after going to sea and want to fight back to the Ming Dynasty?

So from the beginning of Zhu Di to the end of Zhu Youdun, they were all placed in fine works by Jinyiwei. Zhu Di and others knew this very well, but as long as they had no unfair intentions, these fine works would not affect them. It was a tacit understanding between the two sides.

Li Jie read this information in detail, which recorded Zhu Youzun and his team building ports at the landing site, and also recorded the difficulties, such as the emphasis on insufficient manpower. In fact, Li Jie had long anticipated this. After all, there were so many princes in Nanyang, all of them needed manpower to build ports and cities, so of course there would be manpower shortage.

Zhu Youshuo was in remote Oceania, and the problem of insufficient staff was only worse. In this case, they finally became poor and thought of changing, and began to send fleets to loot the natives as slaves.

Originally, many people were doing things like looting natives in the Nanyang area, but they were mainly businessmen, while Zhu Youshuo was the first royal family to end in person.

Moreover, compared with those merchants, Zhu Youshuo was obviously more capable. He rarely brought people to capture the natives himself, but instead allowed people to instigate internal struggles between natives. In fact, the native tribes are also full of conflicts, and many are feuds, so as long as there is a slight conflict, the two sides will immediately break out of conflict.

When there is conflict, there will be war, and when there will be prisoners in war, Zhu Youshuo will acquire these prisoners of war from both sides. He only needs to pay some cloth or porcelain, and the natives will happily send the prisoners of war.

"A good idea. If he can't even solve this problem, it's better to come back early!" After reading this information, Li Jie smiled and nodded.

He had no sympathy for those natives in Southeast Asia, especially when he was close to Oceania, Li Jieke remembered several massacres in later generations. Now he was just collecting some interest for future generations.

"A man who was looking at Siswen was forced to be a human trafficker. I don't know what to say now." Zhu Yunxiu shook his head helplessly at this time.

"People will change, not to mention that they are helpless overseas and can only rely on themselves. In addition, I suspect that this idea might have been made by Dier for him." Li Jie said again. As the saying goes, his elder brother is like his father, Dier grew up even more, so he knew Dier's temperament very well.

"Di'er? Can she do such a thing?" Zhu Yunxiu also showed an incredible look when he heard Li Jie's words. In his impression, Di'er was just a greedy little girl. Although she learned a lot from Li Jie later, there was no big change in essence.

"Your Majesty, don't underestimate women, and don't forget that Dier is still a mother. Her biggest wish now is to build a stronghold in Oceania as soon as possible so that she can take her son to reunite her family. In order to achieve this goal, it is not surprising that she will do anything." Li Jie replied again.

"After you say this, I understand Di'er. After all, when Wenqi went to Dengzhou with you last time, the queen was worried and waited until you came back." Zhu Yunsheng smiled again when he heard this.

In fact, Zhu Yunxi also knew that after going to sea, whether it was Zhu Yunxi or Zhu Di, there would be great changes. For example, Zhu Di now imprisoned Zhu Su and Zhu Quan and seized the military power of the two. When this incident reached the Ming Dynasty, many people could not believe it.
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