Zhang Chao actually felt that his second son Zhang Hui was not suitable to be a king, he was too ambitious, but he was too reckless, and his ability and ambition did not match.
Originally, it is a good thing to have ambition and inability, after all, he is the second son, and his ambition is too great, if he is strong, it is equivalent to another Li Shimin.
Only ambition, but no ability to match, maybe he can still be preserved.
If Zhang Hui can give up these ambitions and turn to business or become a carefree marquis, Zhang Chao will definitely support him.
After all, the crown prince is already so good, and having a very good second son is sometimes not necessarily a good thing.
And Zhang Hui's performance made Zhang Chao feel that this son was not Li Shimin, he was only Li Yuanji at best.
He originally wanted him to be an honest commoner, regardless of whether he went to business or farming, anyway, he would no longer give him the opportunity to kill himself.
But Queen Cui Yingying persuaded him to give him another chance, saying that he was still young.
And Zhang Hui's uncles, those of the Cui family, as well as other relatives such as the Zheng family, also asked to give Zhang Hui another chance.
After thinking about it again, Zhang Chao still planned to give him another chance, but he would not directly give him a fief, but would give him the qualification to form an independent regiment of 3,000 people, let him be the head of the regiment, and then let him take these 3,000 people to Tianzhu to fight.
Nominally, these 3,000 people belonged to the 7th Marine Division, but in reality these 3,000 people were completely independent, and when they arrived in Tianzhu and landed in the port of Bengal, they could only rely on themselves.
Whether they can gain a foothold there, whether they can survive there, or even whether they can carve out a territory depends on their own ability.
In fact, Zhang Chao actually gave Zhang Hui a colonial license and demarcated a colonial boundary for him, the east coast of the South Asian subcontinent, where there were still vassal states of the Ring of the Japanese Dynasty, and Zhang Cong had the ability to build his own territory.
But it wasn't all his own, Zhang Chao's promise was to give him one-tenth of the territory.
Lay a hundred miles, give ten miles, lay a thousand miles and give a hundred miles.
In addition, the territory that has been laid down, whether it is a hundred miles or a thousand miles, will be given priority to his management.
If it is a hundred miles, then he can become the governor of a state, if it is a thousand miles, he can become a provincial governor, and if he can lay a larger territory, he can become a governor and governor.
Since Zhang Hui is so ambitious and always restless, let him face those alien southern barbarians, let him rely on his own blood and ambition, take a knife and sword, and fight with Ah San.
Maybe one day, Zhang Hui can really build thousands of miles of land in the South Asian subcontinent, and then Zhang Chao will make him a king as promised and make him a governor.
As long as he has enough ability, he can be respected, and of course, in the distant South Asian subcontinent, Zhang Chao is not too worried that he can threaten the central court in the future.
When Zhang Hui left Beijing, he looked gray on the surface, but in fact, the night before, Zhang Chao rarely summoned this prince who was not treated by him, and talked all night, and even slept in the same bed with his son at night and chatted until dawn.
For the first time, the emperor talked to him so much and talked so deeply, Zhang Hui's heart was very complicated and warm.
At dawn, the emperor sent him out of the palace, in addition to giving him armor and swords, he also gave Zhang Hui a lot of ordnance.
A batch of weapons capable of arming three thousand people, the emperor paid out of his own pocket for this son.
Those high-quality weapons are very elite, and can even be called the most advanced weapons, including the most advanced flintlock musket of the Ordnance Fire Supervision Bureau, which no longer needs arquebuses, but relies on flintlock machines to fire.
Although it is still a breech musket, and the smoothbore gun is not a rifled gun, this improvement alone makes the musket much more powerful.
In addition, Zhang Chao also prepared an artillery battalion with 100 large and small artillery pieces for his son, including experienced gunners.
Coupled with several armed transport ships equipped with artillery, Zhang Hui's independent regiment has immediately become a powerful force.
He himself has a 300-member companion knight order, plus he still holds a large amount of money from the queen in his hand, and some of them can recruit a large number of excellent veterans and veterans with high salaries.
An independent regiment of 3,000 people, mounted rifle artillery, and even sea and river transportation are complete.
Zhang Chao even allowed Zhang Hui to set up a logistics support force of no more than 5,000 people, saying that it was a logistics support force, in fact, it was equivalent to an auxiliary army, and the sappers, baggage soldiers, and medical soldiers could also go into battle when necessary.
This means that as long as Zhang Hui can maintain himself, he can actually have 8,000 people.
Eight thousand people, this is already the number of troops supported by a county king, and now a small regiment commander with no lord and no fief actually has eight thousand soldiers, this is the biggest special treatment that Emperor Zhang Chao gave to his son.
Money was given, equipment was given.
Eight thousand soldiers were also given, and even a bright future may have been promised.
Whether he can make a career depends on Zhang Hui himself.
And Zhang Chao also said when he was separated from his son, if Zhang Hui didn't make any progress within a year, and even folded all the capital, then he would come back honestly, and don't think about these things in the future, just be a rich idler.
At this time, Zhang Hui naturally understood that this was his last chance.
Well done, he still has a chance to make a comeback, a chance to build a country in Tianzhu, and even a chance to be a governor.
If he can't grasp this opportunity again, then no matter how much the emperor cares about him, this time will definitely be the last chance.
Compared with the crown prince Zhang Jing, the resources he got are indeed not comparable, but the two have a huge difference in identity after all.
The crown prince is a prince and can get the support of the government and the opposition, but he is just a prince, and now he is still a prince without a title.
Aware of this, Zhang Hui actually really regretted it in his heart.
Think about the once feudal Suiyuan, that is the best fief among the children of the royal family, and even among all the Dahua vassals, there is no better fief.
But he didn't cherish it, and for a while, he crossed the line and killed a group of Hu people who robbed his caravan, and as a result, he lost his fiefdom and was demoted.
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In exchange for Yiwu, he is still a county king and has a fief.
It's a pity that he was only dissatisfied in his heart, and he didn't cherish it, and he died again, completely giving up the title and fief.
And now, he has to rely on this last capital in his hand to earn a future for himself.
It's a donkey or a horse, you have to pull it out for a walk, my father is right.
He has always thought that he is very capable, but he lacks opportunities, and now the emperor has given him a chance, and whether he is capable or not depends on his own performance.
If he can lay down a hundred miles of land, he can get ten miles of fiefdom, and if he lays a thousand miles of land, he can get a hundred miles of fiefdom.
It's all up to you.
He now understands that he is fortunate to be born in the emperor's family, and fortunately his mother is the queen, otherwise, how could he still get opportunities again and again.
Even now, he still has such a large amount of capital.
Ordinary people, how can they have such good starting conditions, even if they are the children of princes, they don't have such capital.
When he left Hanjing, he said to himself very seriously that if he couldn't mix up again this time, he would never return to Hanjing.
With his sword, he will lay down thousands of miles of territory for Dahua in Tianzhu, and establish his kingdom in that foreign land.
Zhang Hui is gone, he wants to go back to Yiwu first, where he will make the final handover, he will take his partner knights there, and he also plans to recruit a group of soldiers and horses there.
Although the Western Regions are not as rich as the Central Plains, the people there are fierce and have many natural warriors.
Zhang Chao is still continuing to live.
During this time, the imperial court was still busy with the reform of administrative divisions, and several places such as Fusang had begun to pilot, but it was fully implemented before the end of the year.
The maple leaves on the mountain are already red, and Zhang Chao often rides a horse to the mountain to see the red leaves, occasionally bringing the grandson, and sometimes the queen.
Xu Hui is about to give birth, and now she has begun to recuperate.
Prime Minister Ma Zhou and University Scholar Fang Xuanling were so busy that they had no free time to drink tea and chat with the emperor, let alone walk the dog with him.
Even Wei Zheng was busy preparing for the House Assembly at the end of the year.
The envoys from all over the country began to prepare to enter the Beijing court again, and this year the crown prince will return to Beijing to face the saint, which can be regarded as a report on the work in Fuso.
Zhang Chao did not interfere much in the work of the cabinet, the Hanlin Academy, the parliament, etc., but the emperor was the one who made the decision on major matters.
Just like the reform of administrative divisions, the cabinet also consulted the emperor, and only after obtaining the emperor's consent did it begin to carry out the reform in an all-round way.
What bills the parliament wants to enact, basically have to ask the emperor first, or sometimes some new bills, which are simply the ideas that the emperor put forward to Wei Zheng and them.
The emperor said that sometimes they have to be busy for a long time.
Zhang Chao is often like this, checking major matters, occasionally making a few important suggestions, and then when it comes to specific matters, he simply ignores them, because he only looks at the results.
The specific process is naturally stared at.
The decision-making of the cabinet is watched by the Hanlin Academy.
The administration of the six temples and prefectures is watched by the parliament and the imperial history platform.
The affairs of the imperial court are managed both in terms of rules and regulations.
The Dahua Empire has become more and more stable, and after several years of running-in, it is now very tacit.
This system, in fact, has been running in since Zhenguan, but at that time it had not been run-in, and the interests of all parties had not been agreed, so there were many conflicts and contradictions, and even the final outbreak.
Dahua is unanimous inside and outside the world, and the soldiers open up the territory and conquer the outside world.
Merchants sailed and traded, constantly transporting wealth back to the Central Plains.
Under this general trend, there are internal contradictions, but they are all hidden under this prosperity, which is not obvious or serious. t1706231537: