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Chapter 142 Enfeoffment and counties in parallel?
"After I regained Hetao in the Ming Dynasty, I will farm the fields for five years to recharge my batteries."

"At that time, from the east of Hetao, we can sweep Monan!"

"We probably won't see that day, grandson, you must inherit our will, clear the grasslands, and incorporate them into our Great Ming territory!"

Emperor Hongwu looked at his grandson with meaningful eyes, and said to him very straightforwardly: "If the grassland can be in your hands and be included in my territory of Ming Dynasty, your achievements will reach Hanwu!"

"When the time comes, move your uncles to the new frontier, and King Sai will guard the frontier!"

"At this point, my Great Ming Dynasty will be solid forever!"

In Hong Wudi's opinion.

His policy of defending the border of the king of Sai is a very clever method.

Looking through the history of ancient and modern times, in the past dynasties of China, places far away from the center for more than three months have been difficult to be governed by the center.

Even now that Daming has the telegraph, he also has the train.

But if all the grasslands are taken, it will be more than 4000 miles from Yingtianfu to Mobei!
Even from Beiping to Mobei, there are more than 2000 miles!

With such a long distance, even if the railway is built, it will take more than ten years of construction before it can be opened to traffic.

It also took years to lay the telegraph wires.

Even with the telegraph and railway, it is not easy for the center to dispatch the army in Mobei.

If the same system of prefectures and counties as in the hinterland of the Central Plains is adopted, the officials will be far away from the emperor, and the central government will not be able to control them at all, and the efficiency will be very low.

In addition, officials always want to climb to the central core, and in remote border areas, they will not do anything at all.

In order to prevent these new soils that are very far away from the center from being effectively controlled, Emperor Hongwu remembered that the enfeoffment system had already been swept into the historical garbage dump!
He's not trying to turn history back.

But from a historical point of view, the enfeoffment system also has its advantages over the county system.

Especially in places far away from the central ruling area, where government orders are not easy to arrive quickly, and where they are close to foreign enemies, enfeoffment is more suitable for guarding the land than the county system!

Whether it is the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty, or the later Western Han Dynasty.

The princes and kings who came out of the enfeoffment are almost all developing their own feudal state with heart, turning the feudal state into an inseparable part of the Central Plains dynasty.

And in the case of resisting other places, the princes and kings are much more determined than the county officials.

Because for the princes and kings, they are protecting their own country, their own land, and their own people!

As far as the county officials are concerned, they are guarding the land for the emperor, not working for themselves.

This is also the charm of enfeoffment.

In the Western Han Dynasty, if Emperor Wu of the Han conquered North Korea, in a place so far away from the center, instead of choosing to establish prefectures and counties, he chose to designate a son as King of Joseon.

I am afraid that even today, North Korea has become an inseparable part of China.

From ancient times to the present, as long as it is a kingdom sealed off by the central government, the fiefdom will eventually become an inseparable part of China.

And the territories lost after the establishment of prefectures and counties and the Protectorate's Mansion are innumerable.

Where are the Protectorate of the Western Regions and the four counties of North Korea in the Han Dynasty?
On the contrary, the Nanyue Kingdom, which was originally not entrusted by the Central Plains, but the princes and kings who raised their own banners, could not avoid being merged into the Central Plains Dynasty and became an inseparable part of the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty.

The territory of the ancient Nanyue Kingdom is now the core area of ​​Ming Dynasty!

There will be such a result, mainly because the Chinese people have a "unified" blood in their bones.

The princes and kings who were entrusted out never thought of living a small life alone, but only wanted to become the emperor who ruled the world and sit on the throne of the emperor!
And the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty did not allow any princes and kings who dared to disobey the central government to jump around!
Although it is said that there are too many entrustments, there is a risk of chaos among the kings.

However, Emperor Hongwu was confident that the central government would have the advantage of crushing the princes in the remote frontiers. After all, Mo Academy was in the central government, in Yingtianfu!

In this way, the princes and kings can only serve the central government!

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the princes and kings entrusted to the frontier have ambitions, there will be a chaos of several kings.

The worst outcome is that a descendant of the surname Zhu will continue to sit on the throne!
And if a rebellious minister like Wang Mang appeared in the court, at least the old Zhu's family would still have a chance to produce Liu Xiu!
In Emperor Hongwu's view, the coexistence of enfeoffment and prefectures and counties was the most suitable system for Ming Dynasty.

The central government uses the system of prefectures and counties to rule the largest area that can be effectively ruled by centralized power at this stage.

Further outside, a limited remote control is ruled by the enfeoffment system!

Although Emperor Hongwu had already weakened the rights of the kings of Yan, Ning, Liao and other Sai kings.

But this is because of the emergence of the railway, Yan, Ning, Liao and other places are not very far away from the center. It takes less than a day to arrive from Yingtianfu by train, and there is no need for King Sai to guard the border.

He still intends to continue to seal the kings of Yan and Liao in the future!
"Grandson, after the Ming Dynasty occupies Monan and Mobei, Monan can be divided into counties and governed."

"However, the land of Mobei, which is separated by a vast desert, can move the kings of Sai and allow them to establish princely states."

"In the land of Mobei, the center is beyond reach, and the government orders cannot be reached quickly. It is suitable to seal the land with the blood of the royal family."

"Princes and kings, educate the people on the spot, develop the land, and make the books with the same language and the cars with the same track!"

"After so many decades, the land of Huawai Mobei will all be Chinese people who wear my Chinese clothes and read the works of the sages."

"At that time, if the traffic is more convenient, then the train can reach Mobei in one day, and then turn the countries in Mobei into counties, and continue to seal the kings of Sai."

"This world is too big. To the west of the Far West, there is a group of blond and blue-eyed barbarians, occupying a vast and fertile land."

"Don't worry about having no place to entrust the kings!"

The more Emperor Hongwu said, the brighter his eyes became!

In his vision, the future Ming Dynasty should be one where the Son of Heaven governs all the people and the King of Sai defends the frontiers, and the generation after generation continues to expand outwards, entrusting batches of descendants of the Zhu surname to the outside world, expanding the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

Just like in the Zhou Dynasty back then, three thousand vassal states with the surname of Ji spread all over the world, which can expand the living space of China and make the meat rot in the pot!
"In the future, you can also keep your descendants outside!"

"Until the whole world is covered with my country surnamed Zhu, the universe will be one!"

Emperor Hongwu unabashedly narrated to his grandson the grand road he had conceived for the Ming royal family!
However, the grandson, who kept his head down and acted as if he was listening respectfully, didn't take it seriously at all, and shook his head secretly in his heart.

The emperor and the kings rule the world together?
This is a fallacy.

He is familiar with Confucian works, and he believes in the scholar-bureaucrat class.

Compared with holding heavy soldiers, princes and kings who may be "on the side of the Qing emperor" at every turn.

Taisun felt that it was safer to rule the world by relying on the bureaucracy to rule the country together!
Since ancient times, only vassal kings rebelled, peasants rebelled, and generals rebelled.

But I have never seen civil servants rebel!

He still prefers the Lu Ru family who follow the rule of the monarch and the minister, and talk about "the ruler wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die" every day!
The whole world should belong to him alone!
How can it be divided?

It is absolutely impossible to subdivide or something!

The vassal king must be cut!

(End of this chapter)