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Volume 2 The Northern and Southern Empire Chapter 222 The New Emperor Ascends the Throne

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.    Chapter 222 The new emperor ascends the throne

    The news about the birth of the little prince spread throughout Liberty City overnight. Regardless of the people with different ideas, at least in appearance, everyone was in a happy scene.

    The next day, a large number of courtiers went to the palace to see Zhu Ming and congratulate him.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Many old people in the boat village, such as Mr. Wang. As time goes by, their bodies are getting worse day by day, and they rarely move around outside. This time, they all went out to the palace to congratulate Zhu Ming.

    Their joy comes from their hearts and cannot be faked.  They watched Zhu Ming grow up step by step back then, and Zhu Ming did not let their support fail. Now, there is nothing that Zhu Ming did not bring about the generous life of the Han people overseas.

    And along with the birth of Zhu Ming¡¯s first prince, the vision of the prince¡¯s birth also spread.

    Legend has it that a golden light shone into the delivery room, and the queen gave birth to the prince at that time. According to the descriptions of several women who delivered the baby that day, there was a strange fragrance in the room at that time, and the newborn prince seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light, which was different from the outside world.  The golden light in the delivery room echoed each other.

    Nowadays, the storytellers on the streets have new things to talk about. Many people quote scriptures and tell the various visions of the emperors in the past. The final conclusion is that this little prince will also be an emperor in the future.

    Who can guarantee that a child who is still in his infancy can become an emperor in the future?  Unless, unless his father is the emperor.

    Suddenly, the issue of persuading Jin to ascend the throne of emperor, which had been agitated for two or three months, was like a spoonful of boiling oil being sprinkled on a slowly simmering pot, and the crackling could no longer stop.

    All the ministers in the court jointly signed a letter requesting Zhu Ming to be crowned emperor immediately, and the public voice was not small.

    This unexpected situation caught Zhu Ming off guard. Although he had already relaxed his attitude and was ready to ascend to the throne of emperor, the incident of the golden light in his arms was really not instigated and planned. Everything can only be said to be a coincidence.

    And under this coincidence, the infinite power of the people is fully revealed, so the people should not be insulted lightly. Anyone who treats the people as fools will eventually feel the infinite power of the people.

    Putting aside these for now, although the news from Ming Dynasty is not clear yet, Zhu Ming is not afraid of him. If you use all the strength of the country to attack, the worst is that I will retreat to Zhanzhou. Is it possible that you can still follow behind Zhanzhou?  What?

    Finding several of the largest business houses in the Free City, Zhu Ming gave a large number of gems plundered from Ceylon to several large business houses. Since the enthronement was to be done, it was natural that it should be done beautifully.

    Whether it¡¯s a coronation ceremony, awards to ministers, or tax exemptions, none of this can be done without money, so Zhu Ming still has to find ways to get some money from various channels.

    Not only Zhu Ming, but also all the ministers will be different once they ascend the throne and proclaim themselves emperor. At least the official salary of each bureaucrat will have to be increased. Those who have made meritorious service need to be knighted, and those who deserve to be promoted.  Want to be promoted.

    And do those soldiers need to be rewarded, or can the army live stably?  The army cannot stabilize the world?

    All of these, the ministers and even the king are trying to sell off to subsidize the national treasury, not to mention those with vested interests.

    Ma Sal, the chief minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was the first to bear the brunt. He contacted Zhu Dacheng and immediately came up with the idea of ??contacting domestic merchants to sell the development rights and mineral mining rights in various areas of Zhanzhou, which was gradually becoming popular.

    There are historical reasons why this matter can be brought to the table now.

    Previously, it was because there were too many uncertainties in the development of Zhanzhou, and there were indigenous people in the area. How strong the indigenous people were, and whether they would cause difficulties in seizing the land, were all issues that needed to be considered.

    And as Zhanzhou has gone through more than half a year of development, the outline of the entire Zhanzhou continent has now been drawn. It is really vast. Some people have even suggested that the capital can be moved to the Zhanzhou continent.

    And although we continue to explore inland from Xinlan City, the mountains are too high and the forests are too dense to make the journey. However, judging from the news brought back by the ships that circled the Zhanzhou continent to draw maps, at least along the coast, the land of Zhanzhou is rich in water and grass, and is highly developed.  Possibility of growing fields.

    Not to mention the indigenous people, the indigenous people around Xinlan City have been eliminated, and many hunting teams have even gone deep into the mainland to find these indigenous people to capture as labor.

    These primitive and backward indigenous people will never have any adverse impact on the development of Zhanzhou Continent.

    So the conditions for large-scale development of Zhanzhou are now in place, but the government's attitude is ambiguous and they have never spoken about it. Now, it is Ma Sal and Zhu Dacheng who asked Zhu Ming for instructions.?, ready to sell Zhanzhou development privileges.

    Temporary land development, into fields or forest land, is permanently owned by individuals, and mineral development rights are divided into ten and twenty years.

    It seems that it is more cost-effective to purchase the development rights of fields or forest land, but the process of transforming the land in an unfamiliar territory to be suitable for growing the food crops you need is difficult to say, not to mention the need to migrate a large number of laborers to cultivate and harvest.  You have to rely on the weather to make a living. Although the income is rich, it is also hard money.

    But minerals are different. I heard that many iron mines in Zhanzhou are exposed on the surface. As long as you can choose a good mine, you can make a lot of money after digging for a few years. And if you have a unique vision and choose a good place,  Subcontracting out at various levels can bring in a huge amount of income. Although it can only be earned for ten or twenty years, the gains are definitely not equivalent to purchasing the land development rights.

    Everyone has their own thoughts and considerations, but the auction finally started. Because the territory is huge, only the northwest corner of Zhanzhou Continent will be auctioned in advance.

    Naturally, the minerals that have been mined by Niu Xin are not included, which have become an important source of income for the Blackwater Ming Kingdom.

    There are also a large number of mountains nearby that have not had time to conduct mineral exploration. This time they were put up for sale.

    ??The fields are spread along Xinlan City. If the majority of buyers are interested, then naturally they can sell more. If the response is mediocre, maybe some land parcels around Xinlan City will be sold.

    Sales of mineral rights, while robust, are far from booming.  Only those big businessmen who are powerful and think they have access to both sea and land will be interested in mineral mining that can make huge profits.

    Although it is profitable, it is not something ordinary people can do. Therefore, although the price has been soaring, the scene is still far from popular.

    In the end, in addition to the Wang Business Association, Zelia¡¯s Hua Mian family also gained a lot of shares.  Among the business associations outside Zhu Ming's official system, the Lin Business Association of Lin Huanzhi's family is considered the largest. However, perhaps to avoid suspicion for this mineral sale, the Lin family has kept a very low profile.

    Thinking about it, the Lin family is still powerful enough in Sumatra, not to mention the previous coal mine excavation in Borneo, the Lin family also occupied a lot of it. If they are no longer desperate at this time, the newly emerging iron mines overseas will also come to get involved.  , that¡¯s really too confusing.

    After the development of technology in the past few years, the craftsmen of the Blackwater Ming Dynasty have understood that in order to make good steel, the first is the quality of coal or carbon, and the second is the quality of the iron ore itself.

    The Lin family has already gained a foothold in this high-quality coal, and now they really don¡¯t dare to interfere in the iron ore matter.  Therefore, it is cheaper than the other two companies.

    ?? These mountains with unproven mineral reserves are shown in several large circles on the map, and a total of 1.7 million silver coins were sold.

    This is a huge amount of income, but it is only 200,000 or 300,000 silver coins when it is apportioned to each family. In this area, if there are one or two large-scale rich mines in the mountains hundreds of miles away, everyone will be mobilized every year to make money first.  Not to mention, just having such important military supplies in hand will give you a lot of room for advancement and retreat. Anyway, if the leader of the country is jealous, the tall Lin family will be there to protect him.

    The sale of land development rights is much more lively. As long as the Chinese people are registered in the Blackwater Ming Dynasty government, they have the authority to enter the auction house.

    And because there were so many people, we had to temporarily limit the number of people. In the end, a village or a clan sent several representatives to the auction house to bid for land.

    There is still a lot of land in the Blackwater Kingdom, and many of the wastelands on the islands have not yet been developed. However, people without long-term concerns must have immediate worries. Those ordinary people may not understand this sentence, but they all understand the meaning contained in it.

    Regardless of the era, buying land and property is an eternal truth, which is why the value of land on Zhanzhou Continent has been triggered.

    The land development rights purchased are not calculated in terms of acres, but in terms of hectares. The starting price for a hectare of land is only three coins. This price is really jaw-dropping.

    Expanding along the outer edge of Xinlan City, the initial prices would be as high as five or six cents, but neither of them was a particularly wealthy family, and the kind of feud that often occurs in auctions did not appear, and as the distance increased,  As the distance from Xinlan City grew further and further, the prices gradually dropped. However, after several pieces of land were sold at the lowest price of three cents of silver, Liu Shixun, who was in charge of the auction, also announced that the auction was over.

    A total of more than 600,000 silver coins were auctioned for the land development project. The two items combined brought in a total of more than 2.3 million silver coins, which greatly eased the financial situation of the Black Water Ming Kingdom. Although this cost  A lot of land use rights were paid as a price, but isn't it still a wasteland there? We can't let the hard-working king's enthronement ceremony be spared.?Spend your money.

    So everything was settled, and the New Year was only a month away. This time, I had been working on it intermittently for more than three months, and now I have entered the specific handling process.

    In any case, the Ming Dynasty in Heishui does not even have an ancestral temple, and there are no officials to manage the corresponding procedures, so they selected a highly respected person from the old masters of the Free School to handle this matter. He was so happy that he was over five years old.  The thirty-year-old master's hands and feet were trembling with excitement. He was so virtuous and capable.

    As for the memorial tablets in the Ancestral Temple, Zhu Ming had no choice but to put the memorial tablet of his grandfather that he missed deeply, and there was no other place to decorate.

    It passed very quickly. Although Zhu Ming had to worry about many things during this period, the state affairs had been decided, and the enthronement was just a formality.

    The renovation of the palace is also in progress. A large area has been expanded from the back. The government palace has also been renovated. This time it is not completed so quickly, so recent discussions can only be carried out in the side hall.

    According to news from Ceylon, the situation has been settled. The port of Belori has been roughly completed, and the requisitioned labor force has begun to be released in batches. This has also eased the situation in Ceylon a lot, so Chen Sanfu will also  Many warships were dispatched back to the mainland.

    The ministers' discussions were gradually settled. Needless to say, Wang Tong and Lumi, the heroes who assisted the government, and the city guards from various places also had their own enfeoffments. This time it was the real founding of the country and the proclaiming of the emperor. Naturally, they could not be as shabby as before.  Even a county man is reluctant to enfeoff.

    This time Zhu Ming has already set the rules for the subordinates. Civil and military officials will be treated equally. There will be three dukes each, and there will be ten marquises and uncles each. This is based on seniority. Each system needs to be balanced. In the end  If a list is drawn or a more reasonable list cannot be drawn, it must be sent to Zhu Ming's desk for evaluation.

    It will be the New Year in three days. As early as when the throne was confirmed, the new year's title for next year was announced. That is to say, there will not be another eight years of Zehan. Next year's title will be changed to the first year of Guiyuan, which is  AD 1410.

    The day that the subjects of the Blackwater Ming Dynasty have been waiting for for a long time has finally arrived. For the common people, it doesn't matter whether a king or an emperor rules them. What is important is that these people feel that this person rules them.  The leader is a qualified and competent leader, and they are willing to live peacefully under such a ruler.

    Combining the joy of the New Year and the joy of the new emperor's upcoming enthronement, the market in Heishui Mingguo is particularly lively this year.

    It has long been known that various taxes will be greatly reduced and reduced next year, so people with a little extra money in their pockets are preparing to have a good year before the king ascends the throne as emperor.

    Every household is plastered with new door-god couplets, and everyone buys a lot of pork, beef, and mutton candies. Now there is also a small black background sun and moon flag decoration of the Ming Dynasty on the market.

    No one has ever made such a palm-sized flag and put it on the market before, so when many children walked around the market with such small flags in their backpacks, everyone was confused.  Extremely curious.

    The price is very cheap, but it only costs a piece of copper. After buying it, it is hung on the door, swaying in the wind, adding a different meaning to this festive day.

    It soon became popular, and every house in Liberty City hung a small flag. On this festive day, no one thought that hanging a small black flag would be bad luck. On the contrary, after this became popular, not only the houses of civilians,  Moreover, small flags were hung on the fronts of various merchants, and even on the carts of deliverymen pushing carts to deliver goods. This was a heartfelt recognition of Heishui Mingguo, and the country's  The concept gradually penetrated into everyone's heart at this moment.

    The New Year Festival did not disturb the leisure time of the common people after a busy year. Zhu Ming placed the day of the enthronement ceremony on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. According to the research of several old scholars of the Free School, everything was suitable for that day.

    After the New Year, everyone has begun to devote themselves to work with full energy. After two days of work, the highly anticipated day finally came.

    There are no decent mountains in the Malay Peninsula, so on Zhu Ming's idea, he led a hundred ministers to the port of Chuancun to worship the God of the Sea and pray to God to thank the God of the Sea for his tolerance and to lead the people of the Black Water Ming Kingdom.  There was a steady stream of food, and it also helped all the sailors reach the other side safely during the long voyage.

    ??The Ming Kingdom of Heishui has a vast territory, abundant products, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Today, King Zhu Ming declares to heaven that he has ascended to the throne and will lead the people of the world to expand the territory and spread the glory of China to every corner of the world.

    This aggressive prayer to heaven is unprecedented, but everyone present from Heishui MingguoThe minister did not show any surprised expression at all. Instead, many people nodded slightly in their hearts, fully agreeing with these words. This expressed everyone's feelings.

    After the worship, he returned to the main hall. Representative Wang Tong read out the edict of enthronement. Then, led by the golden-armored guards holding twelve weapons, Zhu Ming slowly walked into the main hall, under the attention of the ministers.  The splendid dragon chair has been decorated on the stage. Because Jinzhu had just been born, as the new queen, she did not appear on this stage. As a noble concubine, in such a very cautious and etiquette occasion, Zelia was  Not qualified to appear.

    After the ministers chanted long live the ceremony and paid homage, Zhu Ming officially used the title "I" and said a few words to encourage the ministers, and then there were the following activities.

    Everyone went out from the Grand Hall and went directly to the Temple Temple, which was just built to comfort the ancestors.

    God and the ancestors were concerned, and then Zhu Ming went to the Zhengyang Gate, the main entrance of the palace, to meet his subjects and accept the cheers of the people. This enthronement ceremony was complete.

    There was already a crowd outside the Zhengyang Gate. Soldiers were all wearing the latest armor and standing under the Zhengyang Gate. Behind them were many civilians. People from all walks of life in the Free City were there, whether they were rich or well-dressed people.  Businessmen, or smelter craftsmen whose clothes were covered with smoke and dust, there was no obvious class distinction between them at this time. They were very close to each other, but no one noticed this. They were looking forward to the new emperor under the scorching sun.  's appearance.

    Finally, Zhu Ming slowly walked up to the Zhengyang Gate Tower. As soon as Zhu Ming's head wearing a nine-pointed crown appeared on the tower, he aroused cheers from the people below.

    Zhu Ming did not do any face-saving projects, nor did he invite envoys from all over the world to watch the ceremony. He just called his two younger brothers from Siam, and later gave them official kingships.

    But looking at the high-spirited civilians below, Zhu Ming felt that what this emperor had done was not considered a failure.

    Emperor Guiyuan officially ascended the throne.

    Chapter 222 The new emperor ascends the throne

    Chapter 222 The new emperor ascends the throne
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