My Daming New Empire

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The commander-in-chief here is Yang Zhihe, he and his father Yang Dao are both highly valued coaches by nobles, and Yang Dao is now the governor of Dongzhou.

And Yang Zhihe's wife is the 32nd Princess Yongheng, so after Zhang Han arrived here, he brought his younger sisters to visit Yang Zhihe's family as nephews.

Today, His Majesty has many children, 140 nine children, and when it comes to grandchildren, the number is even more numerous.

Most of the princes married honorable daughters, and most princesses also married honorable daughters.Therefore, in the current Ming court, almost as long as they have a little reputation, they all have some relationship with the royal family.

Although Zhang Han is the emperor's grandson, this identity is not valued by the real nobles. On the contrary, his grandfather Zhang Wu's title of Duke of Liang and the position of admiral of Dongzhou Southern Continent are more important.

In the admiral's mansion, he also heard the news for the first time that the white coalition army was defeated and nearly 30 people were killed by Tang Sai'er and Guo Ang.

"30!" Zhang Han was stunned. After decades of development, Nanhua City now has less than 30 people, but Tang Sai'er and the others killed 30 people in one go. "I'm afraid this move will harm the peace of heaven..."

Yang Zhihe shook his head and smiled, "As long as it's not my Ming people, the more people die, the better. My nephew is so compassionate, I'm afraid he may be the wrong person to sympathize with."

"Uncle Shi? Are white people not human?"

"Of course they are human beings, but as long as they don't have the same heart as Da Ming, they will die. They even tried to form a coalition army to fight against Da Ming. It's a pity that Miss Tang San couldn't kill them all at once."

Zhang Han remained silent, because he knew very well that there were many generals like Yang Zhihe in Ming Dynasty, but there were very few people who had sympathy for white people like him.

He is the other.

Seeing that he was silent, Yang Zhihe reminded him: "Now the whole north of Europa is mourning, and many small countries hate me and Ming people to the bone. I have no objection if you want to travel to Europe, but don't go to the north, otherwise your safety will not be guaranteed."

Zhang Han also knew that Daming had just killed 30 people in Europe, so he wanted to look around and hope.

However, in the southern coastal area, these countries were threatened by Ming Dynasty and did not join the coalition forces. Traveling in these places is not a big problem.

He nodded, but heard Yang Zhihe say again: "By the way, if you want to travel in Europe, you can go with your uncle. If you go with him, you can go to most places."

"Uncle?"

Chapter 22 The Princess' Mission

In the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, there were countless marriages among nobles, and the relationship between relatives was quite complicated.From the Central Continent of the Ming Dynasty, to the Southern Continent, to the Eastern Continent, and then to the Western Continent, almost all nobles have close relatives.

When Zhang Han heard Yang Zhihe's uncle, he didn't think of who it was at the first moment.In his memory, there was no uncle who had such a big face.

Yang Zhihe said with a smile: "You are late in Dongzhou, and you don't know that Lord Monte is now Earl Monte. A few months ago, Monte led a trade fleet and sailed directly into the Rhine River for the first time, creating the Ming Dynasty. Direct trade with the countries of Northern Europe."

Monte is the younger brother of Zhang Han's grandmother Sophia, and in terms of kinship, he is indeed an uncle.

However, in Zhang Han's heart, this uncle is just a businessman who failed in his studies and gradually started to rely on the Zhang family's business.

In his heart, that uncle Enke is stronger than Monte.As a foreigner, Enke was able to assume the position of principal in the officialdom of Daming, and became a famous bridge and architectural expert of Daming, so his image in Zhang Han's heart was even better.

So when he heard that this little uncle could become an earl, it still had a great impact on him.

Today, the world is peaceful and there are few opportunities to make contributions, so there are fewer and fewer titles.

Being able to be canonized as an earl is a great achievement.

Taking Zhang Han as an example, although he is the son of the duke's mansion and the nephew of the emperor, he is not the eldest son, and he will only have the title of honorary earl at most in the future. manor.

He asked in amazement: "What contribution has my uncle made to be named an earl?"

Although Yang Zhihe knew that there was another mystery behind this, but speaking to the outside world, he naturally used the credit announced by the court to promote it.

Taking Zhang Han to the front of the globe, he pointed to the Andaman Islands and said: "Now this place has been named Xichang Island by the imperial court, and your uncle is also named Xichangbo."

Zhang Han shook his head and said, "In the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, even if we persuade the natives to join us, it's not enough to confer the title of earl. I'm afraid that His Majesty intends to use me as an uncle to achieve such a result. Could it be that His Majesty intends to develop private trade?"

Knowing that Zhang Han was smart, Yang Zhihe was not surprised that he could guess the reason.He said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense if you guess, everything is subject to the imperial court's will. Your uncle has already arrived in Crete. If you want to, you can wait for him to come here."

Zhang Han was greatly moved. European countries were very wary of the Ming people. Although they could not do without the trade with Ming, they only opened a few ports as treaty ports.

Such as Rotterdam, London, Marseille, Rome.In the northern part of Europa, many cities did not directly trade with Ming Dynasty.

They need Ming's products, but they are even more afraid that Ming's products will impact Europa's already weak business.

As the first businessman to break into northern Europe, Monte followed him to northern Europe, where he could enjoy the Nordic style.

However, in order to take this route, he made a lot of promises with his younger sisters, including the promise to take them to Rome and live in Crete for a period of time.

Speaking of this, Yang Zhihe said with a smile: "Your aunt was invited by Mrs. Admiral Xu of Crete, and she was planning to go to Crete for a while. You can let her take a few nieces there, as long as you It would be nice to be back before July."

When Zhang Han was overjoyed, he immediately cupped his fists and said, "Nephew thanked Uncle."

During dinner, Zhang Han told his younger sisters about the upcoming schedule, and the younger sisters were also quite happy.It must be more fun to have a princess and aunt take her out to play than a man like Zhang Han.

The matter was arranged, and Zhang Han waited for Monte and the others here in Gibraltar.

But what Zhang Han didn't know was that when he was traveling in Gibraltar, Zhang Song, the housekeeper who came with him, had made many arrangements with Yang Zhihe on how to change his personality flaws.

Zhang Han's character flaws had already been revealed during his time.As the eldest son of a family of generals, his nature is sentimental and indecisive, causing the whole family a headache.

For a woman, he lived in depression and even exiled himself.

But this is not a problem for Liang Guogong's house, even if it is to support him for a lifetime, it is not a burden for Liang Guogong's house.

But in the family fief, he showed a philanthropic mentality, treated Daming people and other aboriginals equally, and also had an undue sympathy for foreign races, which made Zhang Feng and the others a little worried.

In today's world, the Ming people are the upper class, and everyone else is the lower class. This is the basic national policy, and it is also the unswerving line of the entire empire.

Any tendency to violate this aspect is considered dangerous behavior.

Since Zhang Han sympathizes with foreigners and harbors unreliable ideas of great harmony in the world, the Zhang family intends to change his mentality from the source.

Zhang Han thinks that no one knows what is on his mind, but in fact, in the development of any family, there is a complete set of evaluation mechanisms for each descendant's ability, mentality and other aspects.

If you can't grasp the depth of each descendant's ability, how can the family dare to entrust family affairs to them?

The Yang family and the Zhang family have a good relationship. Both of them developed in Dongzhou, and the relationship has been very close over the years.

Both Zhang Feng and Yang Zhihe married princesses, so their relationship is naturally different.Therefore, Zhang Feng specially arranged for the housekeeper to negotiate with Yang Zhihe, and planned to use some means to correct Zhang Han's mentality.

Yang Zhihe still admires Zhang Han, but this appreciation is limited to his kindness.The children of a big family should have more excellent qualities besides kindness, so in general, Zhang Han is currently unqualified.

As a woman, Princess Yongheng actually admired this nephew very much.

However, the imperial family order of the Ming Dynasty stipulated again that immediate family members within three generations were not allowed to marry, so they had no idea of ​​betrotting their daughter to Zhang Han.

When Monte and Mengzheng arrived in Crete, although Europe was devastated by the defeat.

But it can be clearly seen that the business of Crete is more prosperous.

This is mainly because Daming has now loosened steel controls and allowed the sale of steel to countries such as Europe and Ottomans.