Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 802

"I'm not dead, someone wants to overthrow the national policy I made!"

The emperor was at the head of the Guihua city, looking at the northern wind and snow, and speaking directly to the first assistant Wen Anzhi. When the emperor said this, his face was calm and his tone was gentle, but Wen Anzhi, who was familiar with the emperor, knew that the more the emperor was like this, the more his heart became more Anger, this may be the beginning of another storm.

"Your Majesty, calm down first. It is normal for some such voices to appear now, but I believe that these people will not be able to influence the court to unswervingly implement His Majesty's will. The country expands its frontiers and settles immigrants. The great cause of Qianqiu cannot be stopped because of some people's opposition."

"Mister, do you think I'm being too merciful?"

"I think what His Majesty has done is good enough."

"No, it's still too lenient. I should understand that the Ming Dynasty has experienced sixteen emperors for nearly 300 years. The inside and outside are rotten to the root. Although I have expelled the Tartars, this country is only temporary on the surface. Recovery, if the root cause cannot be cured, there will be chaos sooner or later." Before, Zhu Yihai felt that everything was on the right track.

Improvement has never been successful, and tinkering and tinkering cannot solve the problem at all. It must be a revolution.

Now there are a lot of messy voices in various places, especially since Chen Zilong Zuo Guang was first dismissed from his post and his family was exiled to Dunhuang, this voice has not only not subsided, but has become more and more intense.

"Have you heard what happened in the Henan Provincial Examination?" the emperor asked.

"The memorial of Chen Qianfu, governor of Huanghuai and governor of Henan Province, has been read by the ministers and the cabinet. It is indeed shocking."

"I request that a cabinet minister be sent to Henan to deal with this matter."

"No need, I have sent a decree to Chen Qianfu, let him report the matter of Henan to the prince who is staying in the prison country, and he will discuss it with the prince."

Wen'an's accident, what happened in Henan recently is not small, it is very serious or even bad, if it is not dealt with in time or even well, there will be a big mess, but the emperor asked Chen Qianfu to deal with the prince, isn't this a hot potato for the prince? ?

"Your Majesty, the crown prince is young and inexperienced, and Chen Qianfu's actions are somewhat aggressive. If he is not handled properly, it will hurt the crown prince's prestige."

"The prince is young, just right for him to break through, it doesn't matter if he makes a mistake, I can still check for him."

"Has Your Majesty given Chen Qianfu a decree so that he can have a bottom line?"

"No need, one is staying behind to supervise the country, and the other is the governor of Huanghuai and the governor of Henan. It is enough for the two of them to deal with this matter. How to deal with it depends on their situation."

The emperor was very angry about what was happening in Henan, but he suppressed his anger and did not deal with it immediately. Instead, he handed it over to the prince and Chen Qianfu, and the left-behind cabinet Du Yinxi and Zhang Mingzhen assisted. This is not only a test for the prince, but also Why isn't the emperor fishing?
There have been more and more noises in the past two years, but until now the emperor has really dealt with it seriously only Chen Zilong and Zuo Guangxian. Tens of thousands of officials, big and small, were demoted, fined, demerited, and more.

However, with the restoration of the customs, the provincial officials are gradually filling in place, and the gentry have also settled down. There is no constant threat from the Tartars, no raids from thieves, and even those bandits and bandits in the provincial capitals and counties. , and is now almost under siege.

The customs, especially the mainland, are basically stable.

So some people shouted that the horses put Nanshan swords and soldiers into the warehouse, and some people shouted that they could conquer the world immediately but not rule the world immediately.

The emperor moved the gentry and powerful gentry to Beijing and Tianjin, and to the north, which made many gentry and powerful people start to jump out.

Things are getting more and more lively.

"Leave him alone in Henan and let the prince deal with it. I also want to see the prince's ability. On the Suiyuan side, I think we still have to find a way to move the population here. Mongolia has occupied Hetao for nearly 200 years. The wall was built during the reign of Hua. Since then, Mongolia has experienced the rise of Dayan Khan, Zhongxing and Altan Khan. Until the time of Longqing, the tribute and peace talks were made, and the boundary wall built by Chenghua was basically maintained.
From Qingshuiying in the east to Huamachi in the west, the side wall stretching for 770 miles, although it was once broken, after the peace talks, it was basically bounded by this.

Although the Mongolian left wing is also weak, it has been grazing here for many years and is deeply rooted. If we want to really regain the control of the Hetao area, we must ensure that we have an absolute advantage in the number of Han people in the Hetao area.

Regardless of them, the New Qin Central Grassland is still bounded by the Great Wall in the south. Let’s bring back the former plain, settle here as soon as possible, and station troops at key positions in the rear, such as Jiuyuan, and Houtao Dengkou and Shizuishan between Xitao and Ningxia, these two places should also be negotiated with Ordos Khan to build a city and station troops, and also serve as a place for border trade.

To restore the Hetao Yellow River shipping from Ningxia to Guihua Tuoketuo, this more than 1000-mile river course was already an important waterway in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it must be restored as soon as possible. If it is strengthened, the imperial court's control over Hetao can be further strengthened.

At that time, military forts and wharves will be built along the route, troops will be stationed to store food, shipyards will be built, a transport fleet will be built, and a river patrol navy will also be set up. "

The emperor attached great importance to the Hetao. The Ming Dynasty suffered from the problem of the Hetao for nearly 200 years, but was unable to retake the Hetao, which made the Northwest always insecure. In the end, the imperial court lost sight of the other, and the Jurchens in the Northeast took the opportunity to rise.

This section of waterway can be navigable after the beginning of spring until it freezes in October. The river is wide and the water flow is relatively gentle, which is very important.

"From Ningxia Mansion to Guihua Mansion, in the middle part of the land controlled by Ordos Khan, the imperial court tried to reach an agreement with them in the name of building post stations and border markets, and established Shizuishan, Dengkou, Jiuyuan, etc. city,"

"On the front set, Baotou was originally the surrendered city in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Clark was originally the surrendered city in the east of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Tiande Army.

Tuoketuo was renamed Zhenwu County, Baotou was renamed Yanran County, and Tiande County was established at the mouth of the Wujia River where Wuliangsuhai leads to the Yellow River. "

The location of Tiande County is Wuliangsu Lake in the north, which becomes a large lake when the rainy season floods, mountains in the east, the Yellow River in the south, and the Wujia River leading to the river and sea. It is very important to build a city here. "

"Shizuishan, Dengkou, Jiuyuan, and Tiande are the four counties intertwined with Mongolia. I request that by the end of next year, at least [-] households will be resettled from each county, and at least [-] households will be resettled after three years.

As for Yanran, Zhenwu, and Shengzhou, as well as the ten cities of Guihua, Suiyuan, Qingshui, Dingxiang, Fengzhen, Jining, and Wuchuan, each city must have at least [-] households by the end of next year, and at least [-] in three years. thousand households. "

No one, everything is empty talk.

Qiantao leans against Daqing Mountain in the north, Datong in the east, and the Yellow River in the south. This place is a strategic treasure, and it is connected to the Datong Basin, which is the strategic support point for controlling Suiyuan and Ordos.

It is also the key to controlling the Yinshan Corridor.

But there is still such fertile land here, suitable for farming, so why not vigorously develop it?In terms of fertile land, it is much better than the Datong Basin outside Yanmen Pass.

Wen Anzhi feels that the pressure is not small. Fourteen cities will complete [-] households by the end of next year, and now only the former Guihua, Fengzhen, and Qingshui, which are close to the west entrance, have gradually moved in. Immigrants don't have a fraction of four thousand households.

"In these frontier lands, immigrants are different from those in the interior. When they come, they will directly distribute the land and grant the land free of charge. However, it is stipulated that there is no right to sell or transfer within three generations, and they are not allowed to abandon the land to escape famine and move inward.

After they came, the imperial court would also give them An Jiayin, a loan to benefit the people, and loans to them for farming cattle, horses, and seeds and agricultural tools.

Building the Great Wall is dead, but if immigrants from the mainland can gain a firm foothold here and live and work in peace and contentment, then the Great Wall will truly remain intact. "

"The Tang Dynasty did not build the Great Wall. There were three surrendered cities in Hetao. There were the Hengsai Army, the Tiande Army, and the Zhenwu Army. There was the Yanran Dufu, the Shanyu Dufu, and the Anbei Dufu.

On the contrary, I repaired the side wall in Ming Dynasty. The side wall was built from Huamachi to Qingshui River, from Ningxia to Pianguan, Hengshan, Jingbian, Dingbian, Yanchi, Lingwu, and many places in Ningxia were blocked by the Guanwall to the north. automatically gave up.

And the Great Wall, which was withdrawn thousands of miles from the Hetao, did not allow Daming to really solve the border troubles.

Although the imperial court has appeased Ordos now, it cannot just relax its vigilance. It has to look to the long-term future and must be proactive. "

Zhu Yihai took out the map, and he pointed to the two big rivers in Qiantao, the Red River and the Dahei River, especially the banks of the Dahei River, which is the most fertile Qiantao Plain, Chilechuan.

"First come and occupy the good land, first build Tunpu villages along the banks of the Dahei River to resettle immigrants, then the banks of the Red River, then the Qingshui River, and then the banks of the Yellow River.

Defensive battalions, provincial patrol battalions, town camps, regimental training camps, postmen, and officials are given priority in granting land, with [-] mu of land for each Ding, [-] mu for each household, and [-] mu of garden and house land. Public land is rented out, and officials rent it out to employees. Post stations, water operations, shipping fleets, ship repair yards, wharfs, schools, and river workers set up public leased land, which is managed by the government and leased out on behalf of the government. The rent is used to subsidize government offices and officials, Soldiers and teachers.

The imperial court will set up another special fund for Hetao immigrants. If the imperial court can gain a foothold in Hetao, the hidden dangers in the northwest will be gone, and the northwest will even become rich. "

This is the granary of the Fortress. At that time, the grain and grass will be stored in the castle of the Fortress. Whether it is to deter the various tribes on the Fortress, or to use troops in Shaanxi and Gansu in the future, it can also be transported to Ningxia through the Yellow River to supply food and grass to the Shaanxi-Gansu army.

"200 households emigrate a year, and [-] to [-] households emigrate in three years. I'm afraid it will not be easy for a while." Wen Anzhi asked after hesitating. , and another [-] million people were captured, should some of them be relocated first?"

"No." The emperor refused without hesitation.

"Those Huihui, although not all of them participated in the rebellion, can't relax their vigilance now. Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and others have dirty hands. The imperial court will also take this opportunity to disperse them and move them to Taiwan, Hainan, Guangxi, or even Liaodong. Northwest, otherwise I will hook up with Huihui from the west again."

Zhu Yihai doesn't think those Huihui are bad people, but the Islam they believe in now makes them a threat to the imperial court, so after they were disbanded, they reorganized and relocated, banned religion and practice, changed customs, and even returned to Han to intermarry, prohibiting intermarriage of the same race Let them learn Chinese and worship their ancestors and respect Confucius and Mencius, and they will assimilate sooner or later, and they will still be a family.

"After the Shanxi-Gansu rebellion, the population also dropped sharply, with a decrease of more than 200 million Huihui, and 30 million Han people died. For the time being, it was impossible to move people from Shaanxi-Gansu to Hetao. They moved from Shandong and Jiangxi, and there was no land. There are always a lot of poor people in the country, and if we want to mobilize them to relocate, we can even move out entire villages and clans from those poor mountain villages, and there are more fields here, wouldn’t it be better than in the mountains?”

As long as the imperial court is willing to give policy benefits, the poor people are of course willing to move, just like those people who fled to the Yunyang mountainous area to the southern Ganshan mountainous area during the Chenghua period. , after all, can survive.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty strictly prohibited this kind of refugees, and even forbade the people to move around casually. The main reason was to tie the people to the land and facilitate management.

In the middle and late period, the gentry and landlords were in power. They had the right to speak from the court to the local government. They openly avoided and resisted taxes with the privilege of gentry. They controlled the land and also controlled the industry and commerce. Naturally, they would like the common people to become them The tenants and even serfs in the village were forced to surrender their fields to ordinary self-cultivating farmers with their privileges, and they were called slaves under their names.

If people all go to the mountains to reclaim wasteland, or even go overseas, how can they maintain the pattern of exploitation, so it means that the sea is banned in the dynasty and the personal freedom of the people is strictly controlled. This is an institutional problem.

It is the inevitable behavior of vested interest groups in order to maintain their interests and solidify their classes. They don't want farmers to get their fields and become serfs to sing.

They just want to be the upper class forever and enjoy privileges forever. With their status as gentry, others take the initiative to put their land in their name, pay them rent, and even put their household registration in their name, and become slaves. Let them drive.

The Taizu and Chengzu dynasties of the Ming Dynasty had large-scale immigration, and that was just after the founding of the country. After the war, this kind of immigration was never seen again.

Why did the Chinese dynasty, which was also the Han Dynasty, Qin, Han and Tang actively expanded their frontiers, but the Ming Dynasty's borders became smaller and smaller?
It’s not because Mongols are so powerful or Jurchens are too many, it’s because after the Tumubao change, the Ming Dynasty became lame, and the meritorious group completely collapsed, so the civil official group dominated, and the emperor could only rely on eunuchs or something. Beat and beat to maintain the imperial power, but they can no longer control the direction of the Ming Dynasty.

Of the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, eleven emperors did not live past the age of 40, and only Zhu Yuanzhang lived past the age of 70. Those who lived past the age of sixty included Zhu Di, Jiajing and Wanli who lived past fifty.

Three emperors did not live to be 30 years old, and eight emperors passed [-] but did not reach [-].

It all shows that the emperors of the dynasty are lazy and slack in politics. In fact, there are many problems. Emperor Hui Yunwen was taken over by his uncle, and Renzong Gaochi was no better than his cousin Yunwen. , He indulged in wine and sex and died of illness.

The good sage Sun Ming Xuanzong reigned for ten years and was known as the Cricket Emperor. He was a figure like Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. He died in his thirties. His son Yingzong was not a hero. In the Tumubao incident, he became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He spent many years drinking with him in the grassland and was imprisoned for many years when he returned. Later, although there was an incident of seizing the gate, he took the throne back from his younger brother, but in the end Daming still took it from him. remnant.

Without the balance of the Wuxun Group, Daming will go further and further down the road. At least the Emperor Mingmen can still conscript himself, but after him, even if Emperor Zhengde personally leads the army, none of the civil servants will support him. He even dared to write that the emperor defeated the Mongolian ZTE In the battle of Khan Yanda Khan, only a few heads were chopped off, a blatant black emperor.

Moreover, he fell into the water and died of illness at the age of 30. It is hard to believe that the emperor died of illness as soon as he fell into the water. From Renxuan to Yingdai, all four emperors died of illness.Chenghua died of illness, and Hongzhi died of illness, both of which were short-lived.

Zhengde fell into the water and died of illness, Jiajing died of illness taking elixir, Longqing died of illness taking Chunyue, Wanli died of excessive drinking, Taichang died of illness taking Hongwan, Tianqi died of illness taking immortal medicine, all of them died at the age of 30 or [-].

This inevitably makes people feel suspicious.

This is like the emperors of the Tang Dynasty who were controlled by the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty. The emperors of the Tang Dynasty died early one by one. Even the Emperor Xianzong of the Yuan Dynasty and Zhongxing were killed by the eunuchs. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty died after taking the elixir of longevity.

Zhu Yihai didn't believe that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all short-lived, and they all indulged in reckless play and eating to death.

The accomplished emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang lived more than 70 years with great diligence, Zhu Di who made five Northern Expeditions also lived more than 60 years, and Jiajing and Wanli who were slightly capable also lived more than 50 years.

Anyway, after Zhu Di, especially after Yingzong, the mainstream of Ming Dynasty was already the gentry and landlord class. Neither can be mentioned.

Not to mention the recovery of Annan Cochin, unless someone else hits the head, there is no way to fight, and if you can not fight those who are determined not to fight.

To put it bluntly, it is because the gentry and landlord class are in charge. They do not want to expand their territories, and they also oppose immigrants guarding the border. These people regard themselves as local feudal lords and regard the local people as theirs. The serfs who led the people were absolutely unwilling to let people go.

What does it matter to them that the imperial court expands its territory?

China’s least enterprising dynasty, the least enterprising emperor, and the least enterprising elite class can be said to be the Ming Dynasty emperors and gentry bureaucratic landlords after Zhu Di.

It was they who gave up Annan, Kansai, Hetao, Nuer Gandusi, and they gave up Burma and Uszang.

It's all nonsense that the emperor guards the country and the gentleman dies. This group of people shouts loyalty to the emperor and patriotism on the surface, but in fact it's all about his mother's interests, it's all business, it's all calculations, it's all gentry Exemption means encroaching on land, depriving tenants, sending names to Feisa, resisting and evading taxes.

A group of selfish and rotten Confucianism ruled Ming Dynasty, what else could it do besides party struggles?
Even if Daming was buried in their hands, with this group of people, there would be other people without Nurhachi, without Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, there would be Zhang, San, Li, Siwang and Ermazi. Those people are just the result, not the cause.

Because it rotted in the gentry class of Ming Dynasty.

"If the incident in Henan continues, maybe one hundred thousand households will be moved to fill the river!" The emperor said with murderous intent.

(End of this chapter)