Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1944 The Court Returns to Japan (卌二) The Cabinet Has an Audience
Just after Zhu Yijun and Liu Ping finished discussing some matters in Nanyang Huangzhuang, it was reported that the elders of the cabinet had met.It may be that the good news of [-] hectares of fertile land brought a good mood, Zhu Yijun received all the ministers in Xinuange with a smile on his face.

The elders in the cabinet came here for nothing else, but for the two things that caused a lot of quarrels in the cabinet just now: whether to withdraw the troops now; whether to accept North Korea's internal attachment.

These two questions can actually be further refined.For example, whether to withdraw the troops now, if the answer is to withdraw the troops, then it is easy to handle, but if the answer is not to withdraw, then you have to ask again: What is the army planning to stay in North Korea?Do you want to continue to attack the Japanese mainland, or do you want to garrison North Korea from now on?

If you want to continue to attack the Japanese mainland, you have to ask whether the original logistics transportation line needs to be adjusted, and how to adjust it?Is the existing force sufficient for the expedition to the Wa Kingdom, and if not, where should it be allocated?Does the army need to be rotated after a long battle, when will it be rotated, and where will the soldiers be used for the rotation?Is the reward for victory to be "knotted" now, or to be "knotted" after defeating the Japanese mainland?
If it is not to attack the Japanese mainland, but to stay in North Korea, then you have to ask, how many troops are needed to help defend North Korea?Or in other words, in the future, a squad army system will be established in North Korea, and troops will be recruited from all over the country to take turns guarding the dynasty?
Another example is the issue of North Korea.If North Korea does not agree with it, then that’s all. There are probably two options.One is to completely let go, that is, the army will withdraw to the country, and North Korea will continue as usual; the other is to retain some military forces, which can refer to the above arrangement.

If it is agreed to North Korea's internal annexation, this issue will be more complicated, including at least the following items:

First, how to build the administrative system of North Korea.This includes whether to set up a chief envoy in North Korea, whether to set up a capital or a capital, and whether to set up a separate governor or governor-speaking of it, it seems that the governor should be set up separately, but should the governor be concurrently held by the governor of Jiliao?

Second, how should Joseon King Li Yan make arrangements.Although the king of North Korea is the king of a country, according to the etiquette system of Ming Dynasty, his status in Ming Dynasty is not analogous to a prince, but analogous to a county king.The descendants of princes and county kings all have "first rank" or "second rank", but they are all super rank and must be grown up. [Note: In the country, go to the fief. ]
Li Yan is of course an adult, which means that he must find a country of places, in other words, he must first find a fief at the level of a county king.

North Korea has three thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and in exchange for Daming’s most one mansion, this deal is of course a good deal for Daming, not to mention that the princes of Daming do not have real fiefdom management right now, which means that Daming only needs to find a corresponding land for Li Yan. Shiyi.Then, where is the fief to be arranged, the cabinet needs to make suggestions, and the emperor needs a holy order.

Third, what should the North Korean courtiers do after they are attached.North Korea's two squads, military generals are fine, the civil servants and Ming Dynasty seem to have the same selection rules, but in fact they are not the same at all.

It is really difficult for Daming to take the Jinshi exam, because even if your father is a elder, since the Jinshi exam papers will be released to the whole world, it is difficult to cheat - to a certain extent, all the scholars in the world are supervisors.Unless you got the exam questions in advance, there is an opportunity to prepare the essay in advance.

However, according to the regulations, the examiners of the general examination are temporarily appointed by the emperor. After accepting the appointment, these examiners will immediately enter the place designated by the Ministry of Rites to isolate themselves from the world, and then discuss the topic and submit it to the emperor.

Next, anyone involved in deciding the questions and printing and distributing examination papers, except the emperor himself, should theoretically be isolated from the world until the examination begins... In short, there are a lot of corresponding regulations that make it difficult to cheat.

Moreover, on this basis, the imperial court also attached great importance to the possible imperial examination fraud cases. Like Zhang Juzheng in the original history, it is almost unique to arrange the top three places for his son-after all, he himself said, "I am not a phase, but a photograph."

However, the civil servants in the two classes of North Korea are different. Although they all seem to come from the imperial examination, there are actually various ways to make it easy for them to pass the exam.These things have been mentioned before, so I won't repeat them.

Such civil servants are naturally not desirable in the eyes of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, but considering that North Korea has just been attached to it, for the sake of stability, these people must be used first for a while.Then, how to appoint and when to appoint need to be carefully discussed.

Fourth, although most of the upper classes in North Korea are proficient in Chinese, the lower class people are not. This point must be changed, but how to change it is a difficult problem. It also needs to discuss a charter.

All in all, there are many things to do, and each of them needs to be discussed carefully.After all, Ming Dynasty did not have a tradition of ruling colonies. Once North Korea was attached, it would definitely be treated according to the mainland, and various rules and regulations had to be implemented carefully.

Thanks to Zhu Yijun, he was in a good mood at the moment, so he patiently listened to the cabinet led by Wang Jiaping tell him these problems one by one.

After listening, Zhu Yijun made the first sacred judgment: "After this battle, it can be seen that the hearts of the Korean people and the army are extremely dispirited, and they have no power to fight back against the invasion of Japanese pirates. From what I have seen, the Japanese pirates are still gone and come back. In other words, even if the Japanese pirates do not come, once there are unruly people in the country conspiring to rebel, I am afraid that the King of Joseon will be helpless.

In view of this, if North Korea sincerely surrenders, our Celestial Dynasty should consider the protection of parents for their children and the nourishment of all things in the world, and make an exception to allow their requests, so as to avoid the loss of life in the country that respects my name. "

Although Wang Jiaping broke up with those officials today, and most of them opposed North Korea's internal attachment, but as Yuanfu, he couldn't do things based on his likes and dislikes.Therefore, Wang Jiaping reminded: "Your Majesty, this is a big matter. Are you allowed to discuss it with all the ministers and workers before making a decision?"

Zhu Yijun waved his hand: "If Mr. Wang thinks it is necessary, let them discuss it. In general, the cabinet must know that my decision has been made, and all related matters should be done in accordance with the approval of North Korea."

It seems that Zhu Yijun is indeed a mature emperor now, and he knows that the right to discuss should be released, and it will be troublesome if he doesn't let it go. Their right to discuss politics is the lone husband and the people's thieves...

This kind of thing Zhu Yijun is annoying to watch, but these civil servants cannot be scolded, so let them discuss it, anyway, no matter how they discuss it, it will always be the emperor's holy judgment that counts in the end.

In fact, the five elders had long known that the emperor would agree to North Korea's enclave. The reason is not difficult to find: North Korea's reintroduction of enclave after the Imchen year happened after Gao Yushi went to North Korea in person.

And there is evidence for this, such as the so-called "Yu Chenglong and Quan Li's rebellion case" in North Korea. These two were originally the top of Korean literature and martial arts. Wouldn't it be weird to plot rebellion while gathering in North Korea?

Therefore, the elders in the cabinet are as clear as a mirror. The North Korea’s request to attach it this time is most likely promoted by Gao Pragmatism, or even manipulated by him.

Since it was done in a highly pragmatic manner, how could the emperor disagree?Even if there was no news beforehand, considering the relationship between the monarch and his ministers, this matter must have been settled early in the morning.

Because of this, when the emperor finished speaking, all the elders didn't bother to object even if they disagreed in their hearts.Seeing this, Wang Jiaping wanted to talk about North Korea's future arrangements, but Zhu Yijun interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "The details of these matters will not be discussed until Rixin returns to North Korea. Now there is another matter that needs to be discussed." Discuss."

Wang Jiaping had no choice but to say: "The emperor please give me instructions."

"Before Rixin went to war, I had a discussion with me about when to give up this battle." Zhu Yijun glanced around at the five elders, and said, "What Rixin means is that we can't stop at driving the Japanese pirates back, we have to do it once and for all. , completely surrendered to the country of Wa, so he proposed to go across the sea to conquer the land of the country of Wa. What are your opinions on this matter?"

Wang Jiaping saw that the other four cabinet members did not intend to speak first, so he said: "Just now, dozens of officials from the cabinet came to see, and there happened to be a dispute over this matter. Many officials thought that the war should be over. And the army should be withdrawn as soon as possible, so as not to spend a lot of money and waste national power.

In particular, the ministers complained about the increase in commercial taxes in the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and many of them spoke exaggeratedly and fiercely.I am afraid that if the imperial court not only refuses to stop the army, but continues to march against the Wa Kingdom, these officials will be greatly disappointed, and it is inevitable that they will speak rudely..."

Zhu Yijun didn't know whether it was due to his nature or too much influenced by high pragmatism. One of his most annoying situations was that some people searched their brains to find various reasons for refusing to pay taxes.

Gao Wu has already emphasized the importance of taxation countless times in various essays in the past, and Zhu Yijun has always recognized his views.

However, there is another saying of Gao Yushi that has been widely spread, that is, "the taxpayer, take from the people and use it to the people", this sentence has now been widely recognized.

Therefore, the need to garrison troops due to the attachment of North Korea, or the further attack on the Japanese mainland and the inability to withdraw troops from North Korea, both of these things need to be supported by the "Hundred and Three Merchant Taxes" imposed on Jiangnan, then we must face a Question: Is this money considered "used for the people".

In other words, how to explain such an approach is not a great success, but a real need.To put it more bluntly, is it good for the "people" to do so, and is it good enough?

Gao Yushi had communicated with the emperor before, but at that time the two monarchs and ministers mainly talked about North Korea, and less about Japan.Regarding the issue of North Korea’s internal attachment, the two discussed at that time two key points. One was the significance of the Korean peninsula at the strategic level of the Central Plains Dynasty—or in the words of later generations, it was called the “geopolitical” level; the other was the economic layer meaning.

On the geopolitical level, Gao Pragmatism convinced Zhu Yijun that the Korean peninsula is an important cornerstone for stabilizing the Northeast.

According to a highly pragmatic analysis, since the unification of the Central Plains by the Qin Dynasty, in any era of great unification, at least two problems must be faced: one is how to maintain the unity of each plate internally; the other is how to ensure the advantage over the northern nomads.

Although China has laid the foundation for great unification since the Qin Dynasty, the plates of North China, Northeast China, Northwest China, Qinghai-Tibet, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Jiangnan are naturally at risk of being torn apart due to their very different geographical environments.

In order to ensure the control of each plate, the Central Plains Dynasty, in addition to garrisoning troops, enfeoffment and other means, also carried out reforms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places to subtly enhance the control of the empire.And the choice of the capital is an important manifestation of the will of the ruler.

Since the Qin Dynasty, Qinchuan, which is [-] miles away in the world, has become the first choice for the capital of the unified empire.Then, with the deterioration of the geographical environment, the political center of the empire began to gradually move eastward.In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the birth of the Grand Canal also provided the possibility for the southward shift of the economic center of gravity and the continued eastward and northward shift of the political center.

The fundamental reason why Beijing has always been the capital of a unified empire since the Yuan Dynasty is that it is the intersection of the three major plates of North China, Northeast China and Northwest China.Later generations said that Beijing is "at the key position of the chicken's neck", in fact, to put it bluntly, it refers to its key geographical location at the intersection of the three major plates.

Of course, the current map of Daming is not in the shape of a rooster, so Gao Pragmatic must use Daming as an example to explain to Zhu Yijun.According to Gao Pragmatic's explanation, North China is the barrier to the South, and Northeast China is the horn of North China. Only by controlling North China and Northeast China at the same time can we form an advantage over the ethnic minorities in the Northwest.

Once there are changes in the Northeast, such as the original abolition of the Nuer Gandu Division by the Ming Dynasty, the result is that the imperial court's advantage over the Northwest, especially the Mongolian Plateau, will soon disappear.

In fact, for the Yuan and Qing dynasties that incorporated the Mongolian Plateau into their territory, the Northeast, Northwest, and North China were each other’s horns. Once one of them changed, for example, the Ming Dynasty seized North China, and the Yuan Dynasty, which fled back to the Mongolian Plateau, quickly lost the Northeast. , and then completely collapsed.

The situation in the late Qing Dynasty was similar. When Mobei Mongolia was invaded by Tsarist Russia, the Northeast was no longer a safe hometown, and the Qing Dynasty soon became precarious.Of course, when Gao Pragmatically explained, he could only give examples of the Yuan Dynasty, but this is enough.

All in all, because the three sectors are indispensable, although Beijing is located in the north, from the perspective of building a capital, the climate conditions are not favorable, and it even needs the south to supply important strategic materials such as food, but it has always been favored.

In fact, Gao Pragmatism sees a little further in his heart, because he knows that in the original history, after Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union tore Mongolia apart, Stalin wanted to use Mongolia as a buffer between the two countries, but this situation has created a modern version of "the emperor guards the gate". .

Because of this, while the Mongolian issue is a done deal, keeping the Northeast has become the most important issue for the security of the North and even the whole country.

And North Korea is the factor that can most affect the security of Northeast China.Because the overall terrain of the Northeast slopes from northwest to southeast, the southeast part close to North Korea has a better climate and more dense population than the northwest part, and is the center of gravity of the Northeast.

As for possible Japanese aggression, to be honest, it is not the focus of high-level practical considerations, because according to his plan, there is no possibility that Japan will invade the Korean Peninsula in the future and then invade Ming Dynasty.

What about more external aggression?For example, the Western colonists, Gao Yushi was not too worried, after all, the southern Xinjiang system was his response to this.
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