"Long live the Ming King! Long live! Long live..."

The carriage slowly sailed towards Zhaoming Palace, surrounded by steel-armored cavalry, amid the sound of people shouting along the streets.

Chen Dexing looked out through the open car window. The guards on both sides of the street were very strict. Steel-armored warriors holding spears lined up from the city gate to Zhaoming Palace. They used spears to isolate the people on the street. All the windows of houses along the street were closed and not allowed to open. There were soldiers holding spears and crossbows on the commanding heights everywhere.

However, this kind of alert as if facing a great enemy did not reduce the enthusiasm of the people of Yanjing at all. The wide Yanjing Imperial Street was crowded with people, and the cheers were shaking the earth. It seemed that it was from the heart. Anyway, Chen Dexing had never heard of Yanjing Mansion paying money to hire someone to go out to shout long live.

"King, the people support you very much!" Mo Yingniang's pretty face came over and said happily. She had never seen such a scene in Lin'an before!

"There are many fields, light taxes, clear administration, and strong military strength, which is enough to resist the Tartars and allow the people to live and work in peace... How can the people not support them?"

Chen Dexing's tone was calm and there was not much joy. He just said lightly: "When all dynasties founded and first developed, most of them were like this... In a round of conquests in troubled times, people were almost killed. There were fewer people and more fields, so many fields naturally became hungry. Moreover, when the country was in its early rise, the kings and heroes had experienced the troubled times, and some of them started from the last few days. Knowing that the country was hard to come by, they had to maintain it carefully and had some concerns when making money. As for the army, they were even more powerful troops obtained through battles, and there were also fields to reward soldiers, so they were naturally not afraid of the Tartars.

It is actually very easy to achieve this level now. Any founding king who unified the world can do it as long as he wants to do it! But what the Lone King wants to do...more!"

In Chinese history, except for the early Western Han Dynasty, due to the large population loss and the Huns were too strong. They could only trade peace for peace, the Chuxing Dynasty was generally prosperous and the people were safe and the military was strong. Oh. The Song Dynasty was an exception. It was prosperous and the people were safe and the military was weak. Of course, it was weak. That was what the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wanted to weaken, and there was nothing to say. In the early years of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Da and Zhao Er were willing to retain Wu Rui of the Song Dynasty's generals and supplemented with the system of government soldiers. With the upper side and the lower side, it was definitely the situation in the early Tang Dynasty. With twenty years of rest and recuperation, the Khitan could be beaten all over the ground...

Now Chen Dexing also has a good deck of cards. The north is small and the land is large, and the south is prosperous in industry and commerce, and there are also small military aristocrats and merchants with hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands as the foundation. There is no need to worry about the military. The force of the first generation of sir and the second generation of sir is definitely not weak. The root of the sir is the military rich class, not too rich, but just a small and medium-sized landlord and large rich peasants.

Generally speaking, before the arrival of an industrial society, farmers were more capable than citizens, and were more powerful than poor, lower-middle peasants. If the country intends to guide the rich and powerful, it is easy to develop a military rich class. Knights, warriors, Hippay, Junker, Cossack, etc. are all of them, with some money and some land. They can afford the cost of children's learning of literature and martial arts, and then the eldest son stays at home, and the other sons go out to fight in the army, take civil servants, or be a teacher to do academic research.

The only exception is probably the three countries where the imperial examinations are prevalent, including China, Vietnam and North Korea, and the country has guided landlords, rich peasants to become weakened in culture for hundreds of years, and they do not practice martial arts and only read books. Then, they use civil officials to master mercenaries or serf soldiers. After a long time, mercenaries have become hereditary and urbanized, and they have become small citizens who live at home, and they are completely corrupt and unable to fight. The serf soldiers are completely bankrupt and unable to serve. In the end, they have a country but no defense. Any Tartar or imperialism can be like entering a state of no one.

Chen Dexing has not only rectified the situation and rebuilt a military rich class, but also introduced the future bourgeoisie and the current merchant class into the ruling class, implementing the co-governance of sir and gentry, and also copied aristocratic democracy from the evil democratic countries in later generations.

In fact, most successful democratic countries follow the route of aristocratic democracy and elite democracy-universal democracy. When it comes to universal democracy at the beginning, one person and one vote will probably be bad.

In addition, Chen Dexing also made a Tiandaoism, adding some sacred color to his regime. He also opened the era of great navigation, preparing to establish a large number of overseas Chinese countries to form competition and pressure on the Chinese mainland, so as not to take the old path of closing the door and rotting again without any external pressure...

It can be said that the great framework of Chen Ming's world empire has been established completely according to Chen Dexing's intentions. The next step is to work fine, to turn these large frameworks into specific systems and regulations, and to establish a society where democracy and the rule of law complement each other. It is necessary to slowly grow the noble class of the sages and gentry class so that it can completely replace the scholar-officials who study hard as the foundation of the country. It is also necessary to establish one local autonomous regime after another, so that the Chinese who are accustomed to centralization can learn autonomy. This is probably a lot of detours...

Of course, one Chinese ban after another should be established. It would be better to turn the whole world yellow, which seems to be a bit self-inflicted. These Chinese bans will sooner or later become independent countries and will compete with the Ming Dynasty for world leadership.

But Chen Dexing knew very well that competition was the only way to maintain a nation, a country, and a world that continued vitality and upward momentum.

The reason why the Chinese civilization after the Song Dynasty weakened was not because of competition, but because the king was afraid of competition from within the Chinese civilization, so he nipped all his competitors in the bud.

But they can only kill competitors from the inside of Chinese civilization, but they can't do anything to the outside enemies...

"King, we have arrived." When Mo Yingniang's voice sounded again in Chen Dexing's ears, the carriage had already entered Zhaoming Palace and stopped in front of the newly built main hall, Guangming Hall.

Huang Zhishen, Ren Yijiang, Zhao Fu, Liu Monk Shang, Lu Hu, Zhang Shijie and other important civil and military officials lined up outside the hall to greet them. Seeing Chen Dexing get off the carriage, they all bowed to one knee.

Zhao Lin'er supported Guo Fu'er and brought a group of bellweets in the harem of Queen Chen Ming. They were all smiling like flowers. Several of them were holding dolls in their arms, and they all wanted to pounce on them. Li Cuixian, the eldest wife in the harem, was waiting for delivery and did not appear among the people who were greeting.

Chen Dexing smiled and nodded to his civil and military ministers, saying, "Get up! These days, the Lonely King is not in Yanjing. Thanks to your hard work, Yanyun's geography is well organized." He bowed, "The Lonely King thanked me here... But the Lonely King is a little tired now, and I want to rest earlier. Please come back first. The Lonely King will hold a banquet in Zhaoming Palace tomorrow, and our monarch and ministers will gather again. How about it?"

After saying that, he turned his head and smiled at Guo Fu'er, "Mom, how is Xian'er like? When will she be able to give birth?"

...

Of course, Li Cuixian is not better. She has developed a body that she practices martial arts when she is young. She has a figure similar to that of the female coaches in the gym in later generations, and may be better. Now she is young, and giving birth to a baby is not like playing with her?

When Chen Dexing hurried to the dripping eaves of the outer courtyard of Li Cuixian's bedroom, he saw Li Cuixian standing in the place with a big belly with a smile, and he didn't need anyone to support him. When he saw Chen Dexing, he came up like a gust of wind and was about to squat down to perform his blessings. Chen Dexing hurriedly grabbed her, but looked at her face that had become round again and asked with concern: "How is it?"

"Okay," Li Cuixian looked happy and reached out to touch her belly. "I have already touched her with the midwife. The fetus is very positive. The fetus is moving and it seems that she is a kid again!"

"Then the relationship is good, you have two legitimate sons." Chen Dexing took Li Cuixian's hand and walked into her palace, "I have to listen to your belly carefully."

Guo Fu'er also followed in with a smile. The other women wanted to go in, but Yang Po'er was blocked outside. She looked serious and whispered: "The king has something to ask, princesses, please come back."

In Li Cuixian's Xixiu Pavilion, Chen Dexing did not listen to the fetal movement, but sat opposite Li Cuixian and Guo Fu'er, and his face became solemn.

"Xian'er, what are you going to do?"

Li Cuixian just smiled: "I am the king's person, so I will naturally plan for the king." She gently stroked her belly, "When I give birth to the child, I will go to Yidu."

"Go to Yidu?" Chen Dexing was stunned, "Isn't it Taiyuan?"

Li Cuixian shook his head gently and said, "It's useless to go to Taiyuan. My father won't listen to me, and... he can't do anything. The soldiers he brought to Hedong were completely lost. The soldiers of the Shi family, Zhang family, and Wang family were just bribed. The real danger was the 80,000 soldiers of Yidu!"

The Yidu mentioned by Li Cuixian did not only refer to Yidu City, but to the territory controlled by Li Yanguo, the King of Zhao of the Tang Dynasty, roughly including Shandong Province, Xuzhou City, Huaian City and other places in later generations. It far exceeded the territory directly controlled by Li Yanguo. Moreover, the troops controlled by Li Yanguo were also very powerful. In addition to the tens of thousands of government soldiers who were originally left in Yidu by Li Yanguo, the tens of thousands of people under Li Xiong's troops also retreated to Yidu. In the past few months, Li Yanguo has expanded his army based on this. Now, the number of government soldiers directly controlled by Li Yanguo alone has reached 80,000, of which at least 50% of them are experienced veterans, and their combat effectiveness is quite considerable.

Moreover, the military supplies that Li Yanguo had accumulated over the past 30 years were also controlled by Li Yanguo, and the food collected from Baoyingzhou can now be considered sufficient military food!
Chapter completed!