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Chapter 369 Returning to China and the New Era of Ming Dynasty

British farmer Gassi has now developed the habit of bowing to the portrait of Emperor Zhu Houzhao in the morning and evening every day.

Nowadays, in England, many farmers have begun to worship Zhu Houzhao's portraits at their own homes.

The slightly richer farmer family even builds churches to worship Zhu Houzhao's portrait.

After all, Zhu Houzhao is now the God in their eyes, the real God, and the God who brings them wealth and status.

Thomas and Roger added contents of the Holy Clan of the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the King Zhu Zai-kun in the new doctrine.

Maintaining absolute loyalty to the Supreme Emperor Zhu Houzhao has become the most correct value among the people of England at this time, and it is their only way to give back to the Supreme Emperor's love.

"The Supreme Emperor is here, I'll visit the Supreme Emperor!"

As soon as Zhu Houzhao appeared in London, she attracted countless Londoners to worship.

"Let me meet the Supreme Emperor, I want to meet the Supreme Emperor!"

"The Supreme Emperor is indeed like a god, his smile is kind and kind!"

The people were talking about Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao's every move attracted everyone's cheers.

"I am very glad that you are so loyal, and I hope you can continue to be loyal, and continue to love this world with my expectations and warm this world. I will give you happiness!

However, I will also punish sins and bullying! Scotland and France's aggression against England is guilty and needs to be punished. They are unwilling to respect me and believe in me. This is the reason for their ignorance and barbarity. Now, I want you to fight back against them, save them, and let them bid farewell to ignorance and barbarity!"

Zhu Houzhao's purpose was to turn the entire Great Britain into a country of agricultural civilization, so he would not let Scotland go.

Now England has completed the transformation from a marine trading country to a small-scale peasant economy country. Its more centralized central court and more dependent economic model naturally makes England urgently need to expand now.

It can be said that at this time, England was the same as when the Qin and Han dynasties were first established in China. The small population and the development of agricultural production technology made it overeat in agricultural production. The excess agricultural output will naturally be transformed into treasury income. The treasury income is more food. If it cannot be used for trade replacement, the things that the kingdom needs can only be used to expand the army. Expanding the army will naturally have to go to war and expand the territory.

This is the demand of the people of the upper and lower classes of England today, not to mention the emotional factors of Scotland and France invading England.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao's criticism of Scotland and France naturally resonated with all the people of England, hoping that the Kingdom of England would send troops to punish Scotland and France.

Zhu Houzhao can be said to be still following the trend and never went against the will of the English peasants. Now, he still follows the will of the English people and promotes England to eliminate its own bourgeoisie while eliminating the bourgeoisie in Scotland until the entire Great Britain becomes a closed-door agricultural country.

Of course, France in the south is no exception, and Zhu Houzhao didn't know how his second prince Zhu Zai's war against France is now going on.

But Zhu Houzhao believed that with the current strength of the Ming Empire, even his own vassal states could win the compensation for the city of France. Moreover, under his guidance, England secretly aroused the desire to retaliate against France.

Time passed by like a flash of time. In the blink of an eye, Zhu Houzhao had been in England for three years.

On this day, the first good news of sending troops from England to Scotland was introduced to the palace. Less than three months after Zhu Houzhao lived in the new Buckingham Palace, Zhu Houzhao set out to return home.

On the day when Zhu Houzhao left England, nearly one million people gathered in England to see each other, and tears almost flooded the city of London. Zhu Houzhao was also very moved by this, thinking that he had blocked England's capitalist path, but instead gained the love of the people of the whole England because of this.

This made Zhu Houzhao sigh and thought, perhaps even if someone tells these people the truth, these people would not think that they were the emperor from the East who harmed them. Perhaps only they thought that they were malicious in doing so. Perhaps they wanted to live in a world of farming and reading, rather than a world full of utilitarianism and exploitation and exploitation.

Zhu Houzhao went directly to the capital after returning to the Ming Dynasty.

In Zhu Houzhao's memory, he had not returned to Beijing for five years.

The entire capital naturally underwent changes that he could not imagine.

Electrical research at the Ming Academy of Sciences has undergone rapid progress. Trams have been opened from Yongding Gate in the capital to Daming Gate, but Zhu Houzhao did not take the tram, but the internal combustion locomotive he took entered the city.

"Da Sikong is also worried that you are not used to riding this car, after all, there is no reason why the coachman sits in front of you. However, the academicians of the Academy of Engineering invented the internal combustion engine can't think of a way to let the coachman operate the steering wheel behind to drive the car. I have to ask the coachman for instructions on you first, but I didn't expect that the emperor wouldn't mind! Now, I'm still letting the old slave stay in front of me, and the old slave really dare not act rashly."

Chen Hong, the eunuch of the Silijian, was a local eunuch who was responsible for picking up and dropping off Zhu Houzhao. At this time, Zhu Houzhao was also allowed to sit in the co-pilot and explain to Zhu Houzhao the changes in the capital over the years.

The prince Zhu Yijian sat beside Zhu Houzhao. Seeing Chen Hong say this, he smiled and said, "Old thing, now everyone in the world advocates equality for everyone, and he still sips of old slaves. The Supreme Emperor had already raised the idea of ​​equality for all people as soon as he ascended the throne. Now he is just a seat behind. Could it be that you think the Supreme Emperor would care?"

Zhu Yijian said that, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Houzhao: "Grandpa, I wonder if my grandson has told you the right thing."

"Yes, yes, very right. The Ming Dynasty is not as good as the vassal state. There is no distinction between high and low. When I was in charge of national education, I expected that there would be such a day when the world would become scholars. Naturally, no one wants to be a servant. Perhaps the profession is different, and wealth is different from the rich and poor, but the people of the Ming Dynasty should be like a family!"

Zhu Houzhao said and looked out the car window. A girl from Tianzu began to appear on the widening asphalt road. Various people stopped or continued walking with the red and green signs in the hands of the traffic administrator. There were many clothing shops in the streets, and even so-called models. The emperor, the emperor, did not prohibit the people from traveling. They all seemed to tell him that the capital of the Ming Dynasty was really different from sixty years ago. It seemed that there was no level or no Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

"Warm welcome!"

"Warm welcome!"

"Warm welcome!"

...

The crowd outside the car window began to make messy sounds, but the powerful officials responsible for picking up and dropping off Zhu Houzhao were not as panicked as if they were facing a great enemy. The prince Zhu Yijian even laughed: "Although Grandpa Huang has not returned to Beijing for so many years, the old and young men in the capital still remember you."

Zhu Houzhao was a little surprised and thought to himself that if this had been decades ago, the top royal family members like him returned to Beijing, if someone dared to make such a noise, he would have been caught and imprisoned by the Jinyiwei. No matter what, he would have beaten and killed him first. Now it seems that there is indeed a lot of distrust and estrangement between the officials and the people.

While he was thinking about it, Zhu Houzhao saw banners suddenly falling out of the street on the left, with large rows of simplified Chinese characters that emerged after being arranged and promoted in the 20th year of Zhengde.

The content of the simplified Chinese characters is "Hello, Mr. Zhu Houzhao! Welcome home!"

Are you a traitor?

Are you disrespectful?

Zhu Houzhao didn't feel these things. He just felt friendly and couldn't help but touch his long beard under his jaw: "I didn't expect that I can afford to be called an old man one day!"

Zhu Houzhao opened the window and waved the long sleeves of the purple Hanfu embroidered with dragon patterns.

The young and old people on both sides of the street cheered. Some of them were both seventy and eighty-year-olds secretly wiping their tears, but they couldn't help but bend down and kowtow. However, the young scholars no longer knew what they were kneeling and jumped up to cheer.

Zhu Houzhao felt very glad that he did not insist on being the largest slave owner of the empire. Otherwise, he thought that even if he could see young people kneeling down and bowing to him at this moment, he would probably not hear the cheers from the bottom of his heart.

When Zhu Houzhao returned to Beijing, a grand parade was held throughout the capital. Millions of Han people from all walks of life celebrated the return of him, an old man in his seventies, in various ways. Even the merchants also launched an advertisement for sale at 50% off for three consecutive days to celebrate the return of the Supreme Emperor.

"I should have come back early. After all, not only you are the people in the capital, but also so many lovely people!"

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "He would rather travel across the ocean before, and took a lot of effort to transform England completely than return to Beijing. He just simply did not want to intensify the conflict with his emperor's son. But what he did not expect was that in the capital of the empire, there were actually people who really miss him, and there were many.

The car stopped in front of the gate of the Royal West Garden, and when he arrived here, Zhu Houzhao met the core personnel of the current leadership of the Ming Empire.

Perhaps influenced by the new era and new ideas, Zhu Houzhao found that the system of ministers he had established had changed.

Because, he found that his emperor's son, who was older than him, was standing in a row with these ministers of government wearing beams and jade belts, to welcome the most respected old man in his empire back to Beijing, but his emperor's son stood in the middle.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at the top officials and found that on the left and right of his son Zhu Zailei were Xu Jie and Yang Bo, then Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong, Tan Lun and Zhang Han.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask Zhu Zailei: "Peng Jin, where is the Zhifu?"

"Return to Father, all the lords you asked have passed away." Zhu Zailei personally answered Zhu Houzhao, with a gloomy look in his eyes. He couldn't tell me in detail what kind of struggle there had happened between him and Xia Yan, and he couldn't say that he finally began to ask the vassal states to pay the silver from the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty and adopt Yan Song's advice to the vassal states and borrow money from the vassal states. Naturally, he did not mention the incident that led to many naval battles between the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states.

Zhu Houzhao didn't want to ask more about politics, but sighed: "It's a pity that I didn't meet again. Fortunately, I am full of talents in the Ming Dynasty. I know these people wearing python patriarchs. You can also be considered as a employed person. But you have to remember that, between countries, whoever is close or alienated, you still have to consider the differences and differences of civilizations."

Zhu Houzhao said this naturally reminded Zhu Zailei that although Zhu Zailei did not take the initiative to mention the military and political affairs of the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty over the years, he also heard about some important events and knew that the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty had fought several wars with some royal family and noble vassal states over the years.

It is inevitable that Zhu Houzhao's such a thing is. After all, the resources on the earth are constant. If the central empire of the Ming Dynasty is more prosperous, it is inevitable that it will deprive other countries of the interests of other countries. However, Zhu Houzhao does not want countries with the same Chinese cultural circle to have internal strife and friction earlier.

"After all, there are some barbarians in the Western Regions and the north that are different from us. The Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty itself has the most interests and wealth, so it is obliged to maintain and expand our own civilization! This time I went to England and helped your forty brother transform, the effect is still very obvious. You can study and study it. In the future, the Central Empire of the Ming Dynasty will have to do this. I decided to give you the military power of the Marine Corps first, and you will be responsible for using this army to attack forces that are not in the Chinese cultural circle!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard that he wanted to pay some of the military power to him, Zhu Zailei was naturally happy and hurriedly bowed: "Abide by the father's instructions! The father was exhausted all the way, so it was time to rest early. Knowing that the father liked the Japanese daughters, the son had already ordered people to go to Japan to find General Ashikaga Yoshihiro to ask for 100. Now he is in the Royal West Garden, and the father can enjoy it with all his heart."

Zhu Houzhao waved her hand and laughed: "Did you expect your father to be exhausted sooner? I don't know what you have to do with the shogun in Japan, but I must get the Japanese!"

Zhu Houzhao said that, and then hurriedly entered the Royal West Garden.

It is impossible to sleep well for a hundred days.

In the late winter, Zhu Houzhao, who was overly tired, got sick again. Fortunately, the medical technology of Daming has improved a lot, such as the discovery of antibiotics. Because he had a good foundation when he was young, and was in a good mood in recent years, he had to give appropriate guidance on the arts in the room, and he got better after the first month.

People say that Lao Jian is cold in spring and hot in autumn, but Zhu Houzhao is getting stronger and brighter. At this point, he can still walk thousands of steps every day. Chen Hong also needs to send someone to teach him how to drive a new Ming car.

However, just when Zhu Houzhao was energetic, the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei reported a news to him, a news about the assassination of Japanese shogunate Yoshihiro Ashikaga, which made Zhu Houzhao very happy because it meant that Japan would fall into Japanese chaos again, and this was undoubtedly the best time for the Ming Dynasty to destroy Japan.

Otherwise, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, the Ming Dynasty would pay a greater price to destroy Japan.

But now he is no longer the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although he has military power in hand, this kind of war of destruction of the country naturally involves not only military affairs. Therefore, as the Supreme Emperor, Zhu Houzhao also has to find a way to make his emperor's son agree to start the war of destruction of the country against Japanese pirates as soon as possible.
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