Nowadays, it is a prosperous place, but after his death, can these be maintained? Or, in other words, are these systems still suitable for decades?

Under the feudal system, will the royal family and the princes of the opposite sex continue to guard the court? Will Dahua eventually become another Zhou Dynasty and start a new Warring States Period?

Or, under the current parliamentary system, under this constitutional monarchy, will the industrial and commercial capitalists, these increasingly powerful classes of power, eventually set off a revolution?

Zhang Chao didn't know either.

Sometimes, he feels that he is thinking too much, but sometimes, he feels that these problems seem to be imminent.

Zhang Chao also made a lot of arrangements for these thought-provoked questions, but he couldn't guarantee that these arrangements would be useful after his death.

After all, things are not constant.

Jinshan Bay, far from Poyang Lake.

On the dock in the harbor, Li Shimin was a little unwilling and angry, and eventually became helpless. His northwest expedition failed in just half a year. The more he went north, the more difficult it was. The fewer and fewer tribes there were, the more deserted, and the colder it became. The more difficult it was to marching, the more difficult it was to replenish supplies, and it was difficult to maintain on-site supplies.

Finally, Xu Ji asked Li Shimin to suspend the Western Expedition. After considering it for three days and three nights, Li Shimin was forced to agree to the request.

Today, Xu Ji's expeditionary army returned to Jinshan Harbor by boat. When he went there, he organized 8,000 people. Xu Ji also attacked and conquered many Yin tribes along the way. The expeditionary army once reached more than 10,000 people. But now there are less than 5,000 people returning to the harbor, and more than half of them have been lost.

This is a heavy blow to Li Shimin today.

The failure of the Western Expedition was also a painful blow to his ambitions, and it even affected his prestige, the overlord of the Western North American region.

"Your Majesty, I apologize."

Xu Ji had a big beard and thin face. Before the Western Expedition, he had some expectations of difficulties, but it was still underestimated when he really started the Western Expedition. The Western Expedition was even more terrifying than the expedition to the north of the desert when he was in the Central Plains.

What I fear most is not the Yin tribes that are becoming more fierce as they go north, but the fewer people are going north, the colder the weather is getting colder, and the more they march, the more they go, it makes people despair, as if there is no end at all.

In particular, they were infected with a cold and many people in the expeditionary army were infected and thousands of people died.

In the end, there was insufficient food, so Xu Ji even had to kill the remaining Yin prisoners, and relied on eating their meat to bring the five thousand people back.

After eating human jerky for more than a month, Xu Ji and his five thousand people had already eaten their eyes and their eyes were green.

"It's because I'm not thinking carefully, it's not your fault. Get up, I have a new plan."

More than 5,000 people came ashore and felt like they had survived the disaster. Some people even picked up Wei Jun’s wine and meat and started eating it.

Looking at these people, Li Shimin couldn't help but shake his head. He was afraid that the Western Expedition would be impossible. Even if he wanted to continue the Western Expedition, no one would be willing to take risks again.

Back at the castle, Li Shimin said to Xu Ji, "This Western Expedition was my poor consideration, which led to this major loss. We have been preparing for so long and so much, but we have completely failed. Our situation is very bad now, and we are not in stock. We are even dissatisfied with us. There are also more and more colonies next to us. To this day, there are twenty-three Central Plains colonies on the west coast of North America."

Li Shimin never believed that Zhang Chao would be really kind to him and let him go.

Now more and more colonies are, in his opinion, Zhang Chao's conspiracy, a rope that is step by step on his neck.

"During the time when you led your troops to expedition the west, another Central Plains ship came over. They took the imperial court's approval, saying that they would mine gold on our Jinshan Peninsula. After building the gold mine, they only gave us 30% of the mineral tax. The Jinshan Peninsula is my fiefdom, but Zhang Chao asked someone to mine my gold without my consent. Do you still take me seriously?"

Xu Ji was chewing a steamed bun and listening while chewing.

"This does not comply with the Constitution and the Magna Carta. Your Majesty can appeal to the nobles. The Kingsoft Peninsula is His Majesty's fiefdom. Even if you want to mine gold, then this gold mine belongs to Your Majesty. Those merchants have to pay the contract mining fee to Your Majesty and pay taxes."

"The court belongs to Zhang Chao, and the parliament is just a stage for him to play with power. Appeal? Haha. I will not look for this insult. Since Zhang Chao wants to play, I will play with him." Li Shimin sneered a few times. The failure of this Western Expedition hit him a big blow.

But he did not suffer any frustration. On the contrary, he aroused his fighting spirit even more.

Since the Western Expedition is no longer possible, there is no other choice.

"Mr. Mao, I plan to use troops to the colonies. The Yin people have nothing to rob. The Mayans can rob, but they are too far away and our ships are still too few. When we go to China and the United States to start a war, we really cannot send troops. However, the Central Plains colonies are not far from us and are relatively scattered. The most important thing is that the colonies have everything we urgently need, including Han immigrants from the Central Plains, various craftsmen from the Central Plains, and even many materials and commodities transported from the Central Plains in various colonies.

, These are all what we need. If we can capture these twenty or so colonies and incorporate them into our rule, we will have stronger strength in North America. At that time, we will have more ships, more soldiers, and more weapons, and we will attack Mayaco city-states in China and the United States, capture their cities, capture their population, seize their food and money, and then build more ships and train more troops. At that time, I will lead a huge expeditionary fleet to fight back to the Central Plains and regain the world!”

Xu Ji was shocked when he heard this.

"Attack the colony?" He took a breath of cold air, and the steamed buns in his mouth almost choked him. Yuchi Gong poured him a glass of water. He snatched it and drank it quickly. He finally swallowed it. "But, Your Majesty, if we attack the colony now, then the other colonies will surely unite to resist us immediately. The strength of these colonies is not weak, especially when they join forces, they will definitely be stronger than ours. The most important thing is that once we attack the colony, the Central Plains may regard us as a rebellion and send a fleet to conquer us at that time. What should we do?"

It is definitely okay to fight one or two colonies, but there are more than 20 colonies here, not to mention that if the colonies are attacked, it will attract the Dahua army in the Central Plains to conquer.

Li Shimin smiled dismissively, "I have thought about it. The Central Plains is tens of thousands of miles away. Even if Zhang Chao gets the news, it will take at least half a year to send the army. Before his army arrives, at least one year, can't we still conquer these colonies in this year? Although there are many colonies and many militia guards, these people are just militias, especially those who command them are just greedy merchants. How can they fight us?"

Not to mention Yuchi Gong and Xu Maogong, two top generals, even Li Shimin himself is now lame, but commanding wars is not comparable to a group of colonial merchants.

One year is enough for him to break through these colonies and then integrate their resources. Even if Zhang Chao really sends an expeditionary force, what if he?

Forever, how many soldiers can Zhang Chao send at a time?

In this America, he was fighting in the local area, and he could even form an alliance with the Mayans to fight against Zhang Chao's expeditionary force.

"Since the Central Plains cannot go back for the time being, then this America will take him off first." Li Shimin said fiercely.

Xu Ji was surprised and didn't know how to speak. He always felt that the emperor was getting crazier now, and he really dared to think about anything and do anything.

Last time I wanted to go out to fight the West, but now I want to send troops to fight the colony.

Xu Ji looked at Yuchi Gong, and he found that the black charcoal head was silent, obviously not very supportive of the emperor's bold plan.

But judging from the emperor's appearance, he had decided and had no room for negotiation.

"Your Majesty, have you thought about it again and again?"

"I've thought about it a long time ago."

The atmosphere was a bit awkward. Xu Ji didn't want to come to America at the beginning, but he came here helplessly. After coming, of course, he didn't think about returning to the Central Plains, and he didn't think about making a comeback with the Supreme Emperor. Even though he later learned that Chengqian's throne in Zhongyuan was usurped by Zhang Chao and the Tang Dynasty had become Dahua, he was not surprised. This was originally expected.

He was satisfied knowing that everything was fine in the Xu family.

It would be fine if he was a British Duke in America in this life. Although he always called Li Shimin His Majesty, it was just a matter of a monarch and minister in the past, but I never thought that he would go against the will of heaven.

But now Li Shimin is not a joke. If the Western Expedition failed, he would attack the colonial area. This is not an ordinary act. If you have to do this, it would definitely be a provocation of the court and a rebellion.

No matter how tolerant Zhang Chao is, he will not tolerate it.

Wu lifted the curtain from behind.

"Duke of Britain and Germany, do you have other concerns? Are you worried about the family in the Central Plains?"

Yuchi Gong and Xu Ji didn't say anything.

It is fake to say that you don’t worry. Treason for rebellion is a sin that will inevitably implicate your family. Think about Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian and others, they just supported Chengqian. After Zhang Chao seized the throne, he exiled them to Africa. Not only exiled them personally, but exiled their entire family, and threw them away for several generations, uprooted them.

If they followed Li Shimin to colonize the colony, the consequences would be unpredictable.

"Your Majesty, think twice."

Li Shimin lowered his face and stared at the faces of the two of them like a knife.

"Forget it, since you don't want to, then I won't force you. You guys can retreat!"

Xu Ji and Yuchi Gong retreated.

Li Shimin slapped the table with a heavy palm, "Hmph!"
Chapter completed!