Just as he told Liu Bowen at the beginning, Zhu Zhen was confident of persuading his elder brothers to join the camp for enfeoffment overseas.
Because they are both good at fighting and able to endure hardships, and most importantly, they are all full of wild ambitions that would rather be the head of a chicken than the queen of an ox... oh no, ambition.
Therefore, whenever possible, they will definitely choose to expand their territory and establish their own kingdom, instead of being sealed in the country, restricted everywhere, subject to suspicion, wary and prone to trouble.
For a real man, being upright and free is more important than anything else!
Sure enough, the brothers swept away the gloom in their hearts and started thinking about it with great interest.
"Although Goryeo is a poor place with a population of only one million, it is said that it had a population of up to six million in the Song Dynasty, which shows that the potential is still great." Lao Si said eagerly: "If I can be sealed there, after ten years of cultivation, ten years of cultivation will be achieved.
I will start attacking Japan when I am young, and sooner or later I will conquer Japan too! Surpass Kublai Khan!"
"How come you are the only one who has been granted the title of Goryeo? The elders and younger ones are in order, and I was granted the title of Goryeo." The third child quit at that time. Chang thought:
"If Goryeo returns to my king, I will first try my best to 'convert the barbarians with Xia', and it will take up to twenty years to completely Chineseize them! This is the most important thing."
"You just want to sleep with all the ladies of Goryeo..." Lao Si said disdainfully: "When you become the king, you will definitely become a mutant horse."
"That, that's so happy." The second child was fascinated.
"It's a pity that there is only one in Korea." Fifth Brother, who had been listening with rapt attention, suddenly said quietly.
"Haha, fifth brother, don't worry, there is indeed only one Korea, but there is not only one Korea." Lao Liu said while playing with the beef on the plate.
"Yes, Liaodong is also possible." The fourth child smiled and said, "The third child wants to go to Liaodong."
"Liaodong is indeed possible, but it is too cold to be selected. Moreover, we hope to expand our own territory. When the time comes, our brothers will each live in a country, attack and defend each other, and work together to expand the territory of China. This will be a life worth living.
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While Zhu Zhen was talking, he placed a map of the world with beef on a white porcelain plate.
"Look, you guys!"
"What is this?" The brothers looked at the plate of meat arranged in strange shapes.
"This is the whole world." Zhu Zhen picked up his chopsticks, pointed at one of the upper brains and said, "My Daming is this upper brain."
"So young?" The brothers asked in disbelief.
"Yes, that is one-twentieth of the entire land." Zhu Zhen nodded, pointing to the five beef tenderloins and said: "The Mongols once conquered one-fifth of the entire land. This was also the largest empire in human history.
The Yuan Dynasty was only part of it, and there were four other great khanates, but they were all probably in decline."
"Is it so big?" The brothers were shocked.
"So, it is not enough to expel the Tartars and restore China. We also need to build a great empire that far surpasses Mongolia. There is a long way to go, brothers!" Zhu Zhen said solemnly.
"Hmm." The brothers' eyes lit up. This cake, Lao Liu's, is really to your liking.
They knew the Mongols, the number one enemy, and had heard about the four great khanates for a long time. They knew that Mongke Khan died suddenly when he attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, and a fight broke out between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge for the throne of Khan.
of civil war.
Later, although Kublai Khan was the orthodox emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, the kings who had been entrusted by Genghis Khan also established the Kipchak Khanate and Chagatai Khanate, known as the "Four Great Khanates", on the vast territory captured by the Western Expedition.
, Ili Khanate and Ogedai Khanate. The rulers of these khanates were all from the "Golden Family" in blood and were connected by blood. Therefore, they jointly regarded the Yuan Dynasty, which conquered the Central Plains, as their suzerainty.
But they are only a unified whole in name, but in fact they have strong independence. This model is simply to the liking of the brothers.
If this seed goes away, even if Zhu Zhen doesn't intervene, they will try their best to move closer in this direction.
However, the third child was extremely careful, and when the brothers were busy patronizing and getting excited, he had already discovered a problem. "But in these places conquered by the Mongols, I'm afraid they can only do nomadic farming, right?"
"No, it doesn't matter. I'm quite happy as a nomad." The second child didn't care.
"No, no, it's very important." Zhu Zhen shook his head decisively and said: "The form of civilization is determined by the mode of production. We are an agricultural civilization and cannot become a nomadic civilization. Once we become a nomadic civilization, we will become barbaric."
"Our goal is not to become king and hegemony ourselves, but to once again expand the territory of Chinese civilization. Just like when the Western Zhou Dynasty was established, the territory that could be controlled was only part of Shaanxi and Henan. It was the 'Zhou Gong Enfeoffment' that allowed Chinese civilization to
Rapidly expanding to the entire Central Plains, it laid the foundation of our Chinese civilization!"
Lao Liu stood up excitedly, pointed to the earth under his feet and said:
"The Qi County where we are located is where the Shang Dynasty was destroyed by the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is God's will for my brothers to discuss "re-promoting China" here today!"
"It's true!" Lao San patted his head and said: "Back then, King Wu defeated Zhou and Emperor Xin burned himself on Lutai, which started the eight hundred years of 'building princes and splitting the earth for the people'. Today we, brothers, defeated
The rebels, eating hot pot and participating in the grand event together, will definitely start a great tomorrow of 'enfranchising overseas and promoting China' for thousands of years! It's time to realize!"
"Do it!" The brothers' faces turned red and they clinked their glasses and drank the liquor.
"But Lao Liu, if we don't attack the Mongolian territory, where can we open up the border?" Lao Si put down his wine cup and asked.
"There are too many. For example, recovering Yunnan and Annan, conquering Siam, Burma, and Japan. Those places are high in the sky and far away from the emperor. They are suitable for farming and can support a large population. In short, this line can go south!
"Lao Liu said, using chopsticks to draw a '400 mm equal precipitation line' on the beef on the plate, and encouraged the brothers to say:
"And the further south you go, the warmer and humid it becomes, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. There is no winter there, rice is harvested three times a year, there is no famine every year, and there is plenty every year! Just like Chu and Yue in the Han Dynasty, and Fujian and Guangdong in the Tang and Song Dynasties, they are what God has given us in China.
This is a treasured land! God cannot take it from you, so you must suffer the consequences!"
As soon as the third and fourth sons heard about Chu and Yue in the Han Dynasty and Fujian and Guangdong in the Tang and Song Dynasties, they immediately had a clear understanding of these places mentioned by the sixth.
"If this is really the case, we should take it for the Ming Dynasty and keep it." The third child nodded slowly.
"Okay, no one will say 'it's too extravagant to enfeoff' the territory we have won, right?" The fourth child also said proudly:
"In the future, our sons will also keep the business, and the other princes will have to expand their own territory if they want to fiefdom. Generations of generations have opened up territory for the Ming Dynasty. Sooner or later, one day, we will eat all this meat!"
Zhu Zhen couldn't help but give a thumbs up after hearing this. The fourth brother is different, and the emperors throughout the ages are also the same. He should be sent overseas and let him open up territories for the Ming Dynasty!
