After the train had been turned around again, Emperor Chongzhen ignored the eunuchs getting out of the car and leaving, but said to his ministers on the car: "This train is placed in the Imperial Garden for my beloved concubines to play. But you should also see that once the train is built between the cities of the Ming Dynasty and the prosperous places, if the steam engine has a strong power, how many people can be pulled at one time, from one place to another? If it is replaced with goods, how many can it be from one place to another? Think about it, how much can it be compared with the current transportation?"

After saying so much in one breath, it was not over yet. Looking at the civil servants and ministers in contemplation, Emperor Chongzhen continued to add: "And there is another advantage of this train, which is that it can travel day and night without delay. How about it?"

These senior officials of the Ming Dynasty were not fools. Emperor Chongzhen had already explained the advantages of trains so clearly that they could naturally know from it how much change this would bring to the Ming Dynasty!

At this time, when they heard the emperor ask, they all replied sincerely and respectfully: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help laughing when he saw them like this. He also felt accomplished. After fiddling for so long, he had at least made things out in advance hundreds of years. As for the shortcomings of the train, of course there were a lot of them, but these were not important. As Wen Tiren said, if there were any problems, you could overcome them.

Thinking of this, he looked at Wen Tiren, with a smile on his eyes and said, "Wen Qing was right on the road just now. As long as the steam carriage continues to improve, one day it will bring earth-shaking changes to the Ming Dynasty..."

After hearing what he said, Wen Tiren's face turned red. The emperor did hear it. Is it praising himself or harming himself when he said it in public?

Without the response of Isotine Tiren, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "When the steam engine is improved in the future, or simply say that a new power will appear that can replace the steam engine to drive the carriage forward. Without these shortcomings of the steam engine, the cost is not high, so the carriages now will inevitably be eliminated. At that time, the streets were full of those new carriages..."

When he said this, Emperor Chongzhen silently added the word "car!" in his heart.

Then, his voice rose a lot, and he no longer had a smile, but said seriously: "...I said when I was in Yingtian Mansion that there is nothing I can't do, only unexpected things! As long as I have been promoting scientific and technological knowledge in the Ming Dynasty, I believe that the intelligent and talented people of the Ming Dynasty will surely do all the things we think of one day in the future!"

Taking this opportunity, Emperor Chongzhen once again instilled the importance of scientific and technological knowledge in these ministers! He really did it. As long as he had the opportunity, he would constantly instill it, and he was considered a qualified salesman with scientific and technological knowledge!

"Your Majesty's wise!" Everyone responded in unison, and the facts were there, and it was impossible to say anything else.

After returning to Wenhua Hall, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers below and said, "When I reviewed the road planning for the Luqiao Company before, I actually left a place to lay the railway tracks. Therefore, this train matter was also assigned to Daming Luqiao Company..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly felt that this statement seemed inappropriate, so he changed his words: "The train is injected into Daming Road and Bridge Company as an asset. Of course, this requires additional shares. For specific matters, Bi Qing and Liu Qing of Road and Bridge Company, they will be submitted to the cabinet and the Lishu for review!"

This is all money again! Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, happily hurriedly stepped out to receive the order.

If these things are promoted only by the state, to be honest, they are very expensive and involve many things, such as corruption. It is better to operate them with commercial means under the control of the court and under the supervision of their own. This is the easiest and lowest-cost promotion method.

After Bi Ziyan retreated to the queue, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers below and brought the topic back to the original topic, which was a little forgotten by them, and said: "The grassland cannot be independent of the pass, including Tianshan Mountains, Mobei, or Guihua City, etc. It must be closely linked to the pass, and transportation is the top priority. The train's transportation volume is very large, so it can become a good link between the pass and the pass. Therefore, I decided that the prisoners of the Khalkha tribe will use it to build roads after building a city on the Tianshan Mountains! No matter how long it takes or how many generations, these roads must be built!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Wen Tiren and others heard this and replied together.

At the same time, they also sighed in their hearts that the same things that the emperor invented were actually linked to the current or future situation! I don’t know how many good things there are in the emperor’s mind?

At this point, this court discussion was over. However, although the other ministers retreated, the chief minister Wen Tiren and the eunuch Cao Huachun, the chief eunuch, were kept.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at them and said, "Those royal families have arrived in the capital and have been left untouched by me for a long time. Now that the grassland war is over, I should meet them! What do you think?"

Hearing this, Wen Tiren said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, you have been avoiding me. The doorstep of the old minister's house is almost filled with people from the vassal kings! If you don't summon them again, the old minister will not dare to return!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but laugh. The factory guards had already reported to him. The vassal kings were anxious. Not only did they find connections and ask about the situation from the chief minister, but they even gave gifts to the eunuchs in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor. However, Cao Huachun was a good person, so he reported to himself.

"Your Majesty, they are indeed waiting in a hurry!" Cao Huachun also spoke respectfully.

Emperor Chongzhen nodded when he heard this. He felt that the time had come, so he ordered that a global spoils be divided will be held in two days. No, it is a global spoils and vassal meeting!

The Ming Dynasty actually conferred 65 vassal kings and 22 vassal kings. During the Chongzhen Dynasty, for various reasons, such as the vassal kings who had their descendants were eliminated and were abolished for the sake of affairs. In addition, in addition to the eldest son, the vassal kings, the other sons were all to be conferred vassal kings, and they were also hereditary. There were a total of 924 vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the only one who is qualified to attend this royal meeting is the vassal king. Otherwise, the Wenhua Hall would probably not be able to stand.

According to the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, were to divide the country into various places and have military power. They were similar to the vassal kings that began the Western Han Dynasty. They were equivalent to the ruler who led one country, but they were a country in the country.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he was not afraid of his sons' rebellion, so it didn't matter. But when his grandson Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he was afraid. Because most of the uncles and vassal kings followed his grandfather to conquer the world. It was not an exaggeration to say that the army was good and the food was enough, but he himself was just a successor to the throne and could not suppress those uncles at all.

There are also examples of the Seven Vocational Rebellion of the Western Han Dynasty. Officials of the Ming Dynasty also supported the reduction of the vassals, so Chengzu was cut off, and Emperor Jianwen himself lost the throne and his whereabouts were unknown;

After Zhu Di took office, he was rude to other vassal kings. It was also for this reason that the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty was eventually formed: to divide the feudal system without tinning the soil, to place titles without placing people, to eat wealth without ruling affairs. This is commonly known as the ban and raise pigs. There is no shortage of wealth and honor, but it can only be in his own palace, and it is difficult to even go out to worship his ancestors.

The Ming Dynasty's vassal system was in the Ming Dynasty during the reproduction of the royal family, because the royal family had too many reproduction, so the annual salary was reduced and the inheritance was restricted. There were some restrictions on titles at all levels, such as vassal kings, county kings, and generals of the state. However, overall, the overall system remained unchanged, and the issue of the royal family was still one of the biggest problems of the Ming Dynasty!

Finally, during the Chongzhen Dynasty, the vassal system underwent fundamental changes.

At first, the King of Tang was conferred Dongwu and the King of Tang, all moved to the new Tang Kingdom. From then on, they had military and political power and became a real vassal king again. For the Ming Dynasty itself, from then on, the court did not have to pay the salary of the King of Tang, and the King of Tang was responsible for the profit and loss. Moreover, the fiefs of the King of Tang in China, etc., were no longer part of the King of Tang after auction, which was equivalent to throwing the King of Tang in China into Dongwu.

For the Ming Dynasty vassal kings, this is of course risky. First, if you divide the feud abroad, you must first fight it, right? What if you run out of money and can't fight it?

However, Emperor Chongzhen took care of this problem at least for the first three vassal kings, and guaranteed that he could get a vassal king. The vassal kings' money was not enough, and the court could subsidize them, and the future income of the vassal kings could be mortgaged.

Second, the vassal kings were granted overseas, and for the vassal kings, they were all places where birds could not shit, at least they were not as wealthy as the Ming Dynasty. Such a situation was not happy for some vassal kings.

However, from the examples of the three vassal kings above, Emperor Chongzhen allowed the vassal kings to take away as many people as the people could voluntarily, including civil officials and generals, who would be allowed to go with the vassal kings. Not only that, he would also strongly support the construction of the vassal kings, planning and mortgage loans, encouraging domestic merchants to exchange their vassal states for their vassal states, and even sent troops to station in some more dangerous places, such as neighboring countries or near the sea, where the court will govern them to resist risks.

Judging from the current situation, Emperor Chongzhen attached great importance to and supported the feudal affairs of the vassal kings overseas, and showed great sincerity. It is precisely because of this reason that the vassal kings who do nothing every day and can only stay in their own vassal king's mansion were moved.

Even if some of them were willing to live a life of silence, the royal family of his lineage was unwilling. The Ming royal family not only had the vassal kings in captivity, but other princes, generals of the state, generals of the state, generals of the state, generals of the state, generals of the state, lieutenants of the state, and lieutenants of the state, were not allowed to participate in the affairs of the four people (i.e. scholars, farmers, industry and commerce). In this way, for the princes and generals, they could still live a comfortable life, but for those lieutenants, it was miserable.

The royal family has too many people, so it is not enough to use all the taxes for the year to pay the royal family's salary. Therefore, the imperial court simply makes various excuses to default, and even does not register you with Yudie, does not admit that you are a member of the royal family, and they cannot participate in scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and have no source of income. That's a miserable situation. Some people live worse than beggars.

Especially the lieutenant of Fengguo, according to the court's laws, the sons of Fengguo lieutenant were all granted the title of Fengguo lieutenant. Even all the sons of Fengguo lieutenant were hereditary lieutenant of Fengguo, regardless of the eldest son or the younger son. There were many lieutenant of Fengguo, and it was the most miserable.

Although during the Jiajing period, their policies were loosened and they could participate in scholars, farmers, industry and commerce under certain conditions, their foundation was too poor and it was difficult to compete with others, and their life was still very hard.

So, when they heard that the imperial royal family policy had changed greatly and heard that they could go to the vassal state, they would naturally not live such a hard life again, at least they could be a small official? No matter how bad they were, they could still engage in legitimate careers, right? Therefore, they supported the court's latest feudal overseas strategies for feudal kings.

If the vassal kings of their own lineage are not active in feudal overseas affairs, and even do not want to be enfeoffed, they will go to the vassal king's mansion to make trouble, crying, making trouble, and hang themselves. So many people are descendants of the vassal king's mansion, and the vassal king's mansion can be filled with them.

In this case, local officials of the Ming Dynasty naturally intentionally indulged it. If your vassal king does not want to be feudal overseas, your life will be difficult!

The royal family of the vassal kings who were more active in overseas feudalism were not idle, so they naturally began to actively prepare for overseas feudal affairs. Human resources, material resources, financial resources and other things began to be planned. In the places where many vassal kings were located, they spontaneously went to win over the villagers and tempted them to go to the vassal states and other things together.

It was against this background that the first large-scale meeting of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty was held in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City, the capital.

What everyone unexpectedly thought was that King Tang, King Fu and King Yi were also present.

These three vassal kings, the Tang king had been vassal for about two years, and the Fu king had just been vassal for a few months, while the Yi king had not even gone to Luzon, his fiefdom. The three of them represented the three states of the vassal kings, and had three mentalities, and were a good consulting object for the other vassal kings who had not been enfeoffed.

Therefore, at this meeting of the royal family meeting of the vassal kings, Emperor Chongzhen did not make any long comments, and Wen Tiren and Cao Huachun were just spectators, and the protagonists became King Tang, King Fu and King Yi. The three of them respectively talked about their experiences in vassals overseas, and then other vassal kings, if they had any questions, they could ask these three vassal kings.

It can be said that this time the meeting of the royal family of the vassal kings was very lively.

At the beginning, the vassal kings in various places were still in control, but later, the three vassal kings were surrounded by other vassal kings. They said everything and said one word, and they had to deal with at least ten mouths, which made the three vassal kings feel pain and happiness.

If it weren't for the overseas vassal period, it wouldn't be so popular!

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen also explained in advance that the three vassal kings would not say something bad about being under Emperor Chongzhen's nose. Otherwise, Emperor Chongzhen would have many ways to make his vassal state wear small shoes in minutes.
Chapter completed!