The meeting ended, and the ministers began to leave. However, Fang Congzhe, Wen Tiren, and Yuan Keli stayed.

"Huh? Are the three elders still busy?"

"Your Majesty." Wen Tiren took a step forward and said, "Can you please step back and let me tell you something confidential?"

"...Okay, Fang Zhenghua, take your people out."

After the venue was cleared, the three elders bowed to the end: "Your Majesty, please make the eldest son of the Emperor the Crown Prince!"

"What?" This sudden request really surprised Zhu Youdong: "What do the three pavilion elders mean? I am only eighteen years old this year, and the emperor's eldest son is still in his infancy."

"Your Majesty." Yuan Keli also took a step forward: "My intention is not to worry about the Emperor's health and longevity, but to put an end to Xiao Zong's thoughts. Determining the reserve position as soon as possible will be beneficial to Xiao Zong and some ministers.

It’s protection and kindness.”

Yuan Keli's words were short but rich in content. But after all, after having stood at the pinnacle of power for so many years, Zhu Youdong still understood.

As for people, since they enter the officialdom, most of them are thinking about how to climb up and obtain a larger official position. But today's Ming Dynasty officialdom is very obvious: the Imperial Master Party is the fastest, followed by the Fangshan Party.

Favored by the emperor. For officials outside these two parties, they must either find a way to rely on the past or start a new one.

What better way to start over than to turn to Zhu Youxiao, who is in charge of supervising the country?

If the emperor does not appoint a prince early, it will give His Highness the Supervisory Authority unrealistic illusions. It will also give some officials unrealistic illusions. Once the two are combined to a certain extent, I am afraid someone will get into trouble that they shouldn't have.

Thoughts - It's not necessarily Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, but the people around him who push him in a bad direction.

But I am a time traveler, and I am locked by the Prime Minister. Unfortunately, I cannot say this clearly.

"...I understand that the three elders are concerned about the country and the people. However, it is still too early to decide on the position of prince."

"emperor?"

"Three elders, please listen to what I have to say." Zhu Youdong stood up: "I am the emperor who is destined to bring about complete changes in the Ming Dynasty. The vassal policy that the dynasty has practiced for more than two hundred years has been destroyed.

I will change it in one fell swoop. Of course, the royal family’s successor policy will also be changed.”

"What does the Emperor mean?"

"First, the position of the prince should not be determined at this time. I know what you want to say. Well, in the future, the number of times I will go on personal expeditions will not be too many or too few. These soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and if they are killed in battle,

It's hard for you to talk about it, but I know it in my heart. But now that I already have a prince, I'm actually not too worried about the inheritance of the royal family.

Secondly, I have always been very interested in the Ottoman heir selection system. Of course, the Ottoman Canon inheritance law is indeed too bloody. But letting the prince hold important positions in various departments can train the prince's ability and provide the prince with

Cultivate your own team. This idea is correct. Therefore, in the future, my princes and grandsons will serve as officials and generals. After I have fully observed them, they will secretly write a will and determine the successor. A hundred years from now, I will have my own

The elder of the pavilion, the ceremonial supervisor, the eunuch in charge, and the military representatives will open the edict together and jointly assist the people named in the edict to succeed to the throne. The other princes and grandsons will be granted the title of king outside."

"...The Emperor's new ideas are always endless."

"Hahaha, this is nothing new. It's just a slight improvement on someone else's existing policy. Speaking of which, the South China, thousands of miles away, is about to implement the new policy at this time."

…

When Zhu Youdong revealed a little bit about his education methods for future royal children in Beijing, a group of guests were also welcomed in Singapore, thousands of miles away.

"Hahaha, bosses, I am Li Jia, the new governor of Singapore. This is Peng Xiaodong, the president of the state court. This is Du Youning, the commander of my Singapore state police area. This is Qu Shiqi, whose courtesy name is Qitian. He is from our state.

The Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. This is Huang Zunsu, with a Chinese character of Zhenlong, who is the academic administrator of this state. According to the emperor's decree, the five of us are the persons in charge of the civil affairs, justice, military, supervision and education of this state of Singapore. In short, welcome

The bosses chose our state of Singapore for inspection.”

What Li Jia, a favorite disciple of Zhu Youdong, led all the bigwigs of the state government to come out to greet was a scene that was impossible to imagine in the mainland: all five bigwigs in the state, all Jinshi in 1616, came out together.

Greeting a group of businessmen?

But there is no other way. The current state of Singapore has more than 4,000 square kilometers of land (four times the size of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region), but its population is only more than 37,000 people: this includes the people stationed here.

There are only such a small number of New Army soldiers and their families from an association, as well as sailors and their families from a small Nanyang Squadron. If we really count the local indigenous people, it is estimated that there are only two to three thousand people at most.

As a traveler, Zhu Youdong is well aware of the importance of Singapore's geographical strategic location. He also knows that if this place is built in the future, just collecting tolls will make a fortune. Therefore, officials in other places in the five new states use traditional methods.

The majority were imperial examination officials, and students from Fang Shan were mainly responsible for supervision. Only in Singapore, he had three students from Fang Shan here at one time.

Of course, according to the emperor's mentality, even if he is a student of Fang Shan, he will not let all the administrative officials of this overseas state thousands of miles away from Beijing be Fang Shan's students. Therefore, there are two people responsible for supervision and education.

Donglin Party.

As the Donglin Party, which was severely damaged by Zhu Youdong three times in a row, the largest representative of this party in the government is actually Sun Shenxing, a fringe member who could not enter the core area at the beginning. And Qu Shishu and Huang Zunsu... Well, actually within the Donglin Party

There are two types of people. One type talks all about morality and deceives people. The other type really believes what the former says, and then charges into battle. These two people, Qu and Huang, basically belong to the latter group.

Regarding the fact that domestic wealthy businessmen came to the state to inspect investment, and the state's five big guys came together to welcome them, Qu and Huang were unwilling at first: businessmen are so despicable, how can I bend my knees to cater to these bitches?

But Li Zhizhou spread his hands and said: The people in the state are either soldiers or natives, so they can't collect taxes at all. If the merchants don't come to us, we will starve to death. And now that Siam has been destroyed, countless ships are coming from

We pass here. If we don't build the port quickly, won't we watch tens of thousands of silver dollars fly away in front of us every day?

What's more, Du Youning, a good scholar, did not become a good scholar, but became a Qiu Ba. Even if he became a Qiu Ba, he also shaved his cheek with a dagger and grew a beard. The gentle man suddenly turned into a bandit. Then Li

Here, Jia patiently persuaded two Donglin young men to attend the so-called investment promotion meeting. Du Youning was beside him with a big knife peeling fruit...
Chapter completed!