Jingming

Chapter 294 Can Be King

The ministers can't forget that the emperor's first court meeting at the beginning of his ascension to the throne stirred the minds of the ministers and generals.

The counselors are more aware that the first so-called "national policy that will last forever" at the national policy conference is the Great Wall of the South Seas.

Everyone understands the emperor's desire to open up territories.But from the 16th year of Zhengde to the fourth year of Jiajing, the emperor first supported the interests of Yang Ting and Qingge Huangzhuang Huangdian and Dongxun relatives; he also set up Huangmingji to let them take out assets to "share"; finally, because of the new law, Zhang Wei was beheaded, and Huguang Sanwei rebelled.

Before the establishment of this military affairs conference, His Majesty only emphasized one Beijing battalion in terms of military power, and the rest was just beating.

Now, the chance for the generals to make great achievements has come: Rebellion is not fixed every year, but it only depends on how big the heart is to expand the territory!
Of course, it also depends on whether they have the courage and ability to help the emperor expand his territory.

As soon as the topic is raised, what is received is doubts.

Say it as doubt, read it as objection.

"Your Majesty, during the reign of Xuande, Jiaozhi was abandoned because of the people's disobedience to the king for a long time, so there was a tendency that Jiaozhi became a disease of the Ming Dynasty. If there is civil strife in Jiaozhi, it is not difficult for Wang Shiping, but then how to make it the northern imperial Tatar , one of the Wala roots?"

It was Peng Ze who spoke.

He is very famous and very old.

At that time, he was the person who competed with Wang Qiong for the Minister of the Ministry of War.He has a very good relationship with Yang Tinghe. Yang Tinghe, who resigned as Prime Minister and Minister of State, still left a person who should not be underestimated in the capital after all.

Peng Ze is not any other official, he only serves as a staff member in the military affairs conference with his life experience.

Now when he speaks, everyone thinks of Yang Tinghe.

Didn't Yang Tinghe have already thought of the emperor's desire to move the cochin?

If the new law collapses with easy rhetoric, the party leader of the new law will eventually die without a place to bury him.Could it be that Peng Ze was the one who Yang Tinghe stayed behind to persuade the emperor not to think about a new strategy?
Zhu Houcong had expected such a reaction a long time ago, so he didn't change his face: "So it was just a secret plan first, which is called a pre-plan. What I can give you is that Erlang from the Foreign Inspection Factory risked their lives to pass it back to Beijing. The news here is a steady stream of news. According to these news, according to the actual national power and combat power of Ming Dynasty, what you have to do is to deduce. It includes not only the deduction of the direction of the war, but also the deduction of how to govern after the recovery of Jiaozhi. .”

After looking at Peng Ze, Zhu Houcong looked at Wang Shouren again: "Wars should not be taken lightly, and I will not take them lightly. Now that the military affairs conference has been established, you are called staff officers, so you should have big questions to think about. This time, we will That's the topic. How the Military Affairs Conference will draw up many plans for the Ming Dynasty's military strategy, I'll wait and see!"

Yes, only planning, only the brain cells of the "consultants" were injured.Maybe some people will have more gray hair because of this, but think about the strategy in advance, whether to use it or not, let's talk about it.

But is this really just a question?

impossible.

Wang Shouren looked at Zhu Houcong, thinking silently in his heart.

Yongle conquered Jiaozhi, and Xuande abandoned it. There are reasons for this.Wang Shouren wasn't sure if the emperor fully understood the complexity.

A very important point is: Why did His Majesty say that after the recovery of Jiaozhi, it can be used as one of the foundations for the northern attack on Tatar and Wala?

Everyone's eyes focused on Yang Yiqing. He is the general staff of the Military Affairs Conference. What judgment does he have?
Yang Yiqing opened his mouth: "In the sixth year of Yongle, the history records that Emperor Taizong won Annan, appeased the people 310 million Youqi, and won the barbarians [-] Youqi."

He just talked about numbers. Faced with today's new topic, Yang Yiqing first showed the same genius level of memory.

Everyone was thinking about the reason why Yang Yiqing listed these numbers, and only heard him ask the emperor calmly: "Dare to ask your majesty, if Ke recovers cochin, kill or caress?"

There was a moment of silence in the Hall of Martial Arts.

Wang Shouren looked at the emperor solemnly as if a boulder was pressing on his heart.

Yang Yiqing's words were very simple, pointing to the essence in one sentence.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Jiaozhi had millions of people.Although Jiaozhi has a large area suitable for grain, how much surplus grain can be transported to the hinterland of Daming to feed so many people, so that Daming can have more food and wages?Is Jiaozhi one of the foundations of the northern attack on Tatar and Wala?

too difficult.

And why did you give up Jiaozhi during the Xuande period?The rebellion continues, and the cost of continuing to govern is too high.A rebellion requires conditions. With the support of so many people, the practice that has been established for hundreds of years since the Song Dynasty is not so easy to break.

To kill, that means to kill millions of Jiaozhi people, and then move the people of Daming.There are many such examples in the annals of history.

It may not be easy to move people to borders.As strong as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, how many people moved there after conquering Goguryeo?It's back after eight years.

To move people to the real side, unless the army is extremely powerful, it has already been killed so that the other side is no longer able to resist, and the fertile land has no owner.

Otherwise, we can only learn from Yunnan's experience and spend hundreds of years slowly digesting it.

Yunnan's experience may not be useful in Cochin. How many people did Yunnan have?Is it the millions of people in Cochin?

The question raised by Yang Yiqing is a great moral torture: caressing is not enough to feed back in the short term; killing, does Zhu Houcong have to carry this kind of moral burden?
Zhu Houcong shook his head: "I won't kill, and I won't caress."

Yang Yiqing looked at him in astonishment: To open up the frontier and expand the land, you don't kill and you don't care, what do you want?

"I'm in business." Zhu Houcong gave their unexpected answer, "Between countries, we only care about interests. If I send troops to help the Li family, if he regains his position, what will he give me in exchange? I don't want to be a minister in a mere sentence." .”

Wang Shouren's heart moved: "The three prefectures of Langshan, Langjiang, and Xin'an are all dangerous places to the south of Zhennan Pass. If it is only the three prefectures, they can be attacked if they advance, and they can be defended when they retreat! In addition to some other dangerous places, set up a Everywhere is the boss."

Daming has mastered those dangerous places that go directly to Jiaozhi on the land, and he can go further at any time in the future.Without these barriers, the fertile land of Jiaozhi is just a pocket.

This can be regarded as expanding the territory, and the follow-up does not require much cost.There are not many people there, as a border town, it is enough to suppress it by force.

Zhu Houcong nodded: "Not enough. This reward is not enough to become one of the foundations of my future north-sight."

After a pause, he said: "Here, let me first talk about Huang Mingji's achievements in Jiaozhi in the past few years."

Huang Mingji was ordered to buy food from Jiaozhi and hire people to serve in Guangdong. In the past few years, a lot of money was spent, and in exchange for a large amount of physical supplies, there was also a large number of people in Jiaozhi.

After talking about some emperors who were not obligated to tell them about their business conditions, Zhu Houcong looked at them: "I intend to recover Jiaozhi, not for the sake of fame in Qing history, but for real profit. First sit and watch Mo's usurpation of power, and then help Li's recovery. The country has a famous teacher. After the success, I want to be merciful outside the three prefectures, and allow Qike to continue to trade with Daming every year. However, in order to ensure smooth trade, I want Yuntun Zhugang, especially Jipo Big Island!"

The lower reaches of the Red River are densely covered and divided into several rivers that flow into the sea.In the Tang Dynasty, the center of gravity of their foreign trade was further south.But after the population rises, the floodplain of the lower Red River must be more inclined to agriculture.Today, the most active place in Cochin's foreign trade is in the area called Baizao River Estuary.

Van Don Port, which is now Halong Bay.

But Zhu Houcong was talking about the ports of Yuntun.

This means that if the Xin'an Mansion near the sea is also taken, the two throats of the Jiaozhi water and land roads that go straight into the plains will be pinched.

"I'm afraid Jiaozhi will refuse to agree." Wang Shouren said, and then, as if adding to others, "Yuntun Port is extremely dangerous. If Nanyang ships want to go north to our Daming ports, they must pass through Yuntun Port! From Yuntun Port, as long as we break Anxing City, we can go straight to Thang Long City along the Baizao River."

This Anxing City was the Haiphong of Vietnam later, and it was also a major city of Haiphong at this time.

But Zhu Houcong said: "I am different from Taizong. The Li clan invaded our country in the past, and Taizong sent Zhang Fu to fight and destroy it. Today's Li clan also pretended to surrender in the past. Now if the descendants of the Li clan invite us again Come on, how can we learn from the past? I want Langshan, Langjiang, and Xin'an just to prevent Jiaozhi from invading our borders in the future. I want the ports of Yuntun just to buy more good things from Jiaozhi and trade."

Then he said lightly: "Since the king's teacher has arrived, he will bring the prestige of victory. If the Li family is not willing, there will be someone willing. Then I will keep the agreement and withdraw the troops. From now on, only three or five escort warships will be stationed in the ports of Yuntun. Anxing In the city, the exchange of money and money is counted in multiples."

Wang Shouren couldn't help asking: "What's next?"

He always remembered that what the emperor wanted was the Great Wall on the South Seas. Could it be that in Jiaozhi, a fortress at Yuntun Port would do?Does the emperor really have no idea about the plump hinterland of Cochin?

Zhu Houcong laughed: "Business is based on honesty. I don't send officials to collect food and taxes. I buy it with silver. Even if I buy more and more, I can afford it. In addition, those who sell to Jiaozhi Daming’s good stuff can make money, but if someone breaks the contract in the future and refuses to deliver the goods after taking the deposit, it’s hard to say.”

"...a deposit?"

Zhu Houcong nodded: "Nowadays, Wei Bin's purchase of grain, sugar, iron sand, etc. in Jiaozhi is booked on a yearly basis. The grain has not been planted yet, so the deposit will be paid [-]% of the amount this year."

Everyone took a deep breath.

He doesn't kill people, but if he buys grain in such a large quantity and ships it back, doesn't Jiaozhi care about it in the past few years?

It turns out that driven by great profits, there are always people who take risks.As long as Wei Bin made a start at the beginning, now a few big households in Jiaozhi buy their own grain and smuggle it to Guangzhou to get the final payment.

In the future, if Daming gets the Yuntun Port, it will cost less and make more profits to transport grain and various goods to Yuntun Port to sell directly.

Daming really only needs to guard one Yuntun port to reap the benefits of intercourse.The cost of buying grain at a premium is much lower than the cost of governing the entire territory of Jiaozhi.

But if things go on like this, domestic grain merchants in Cochin are bound to hoard grain.If the domestic grain price rises, it can be sold domestically; if there is a bumper harvest, Huang Mingji will buy it out of pocket.

Food is always the lifeblood.How can people with insight in Cochin just sit and watch?If the people of Jiaozhi can't afford to eat food, wouldn't there be civil strife?

At that time, if the trouble or even the flames of war are brought to Da Ming's head, it will be another breach of promise and agreement, and Da Ming will become famous again.

Still can't get around the question: in the future, to kill, or to caress?

"Da Ming doesn't care about other things, as long as it doesn't invade our territory, Da Ming doesn't care who can send the goods that Da Ming wants from Anxing City." Zhu Houcong has no feelings, "As for their own internal affairs, whether they quarrel or fight, Da Ming doesn't care. If the Li family invites troops to be sent in exchange for conditions, the blood of the Ming generals will not be shed in vain."

Everyone understood, His Majesty didn't do it himself, let them kill a few rounds first.

Zhu Houcong pointed out the key point: "This is the covenant between Daming and Jiaozhi, not the covenant between me and the Li family. I am the lord of Daming, as long as the cochin lord agrees to this agreement, does not violate our territory, and allows trade, I will still Worrying about the people of Ming Dynasty, how can we control the internal affairs of other countries?"

"...If this is the case, in the end, there must be someone who will take advantage of Anxing City and wipe out the heroes first. You will not stop if you are so prosperous. Sooner or later, you will find a good opportunity to recover the three prefectures and Yuntun Port."

Zhu Houcong also agreed with this point, and then said: "This is just my general idea. How to plan, I am asking you to deduce it in detail. In short, the purpose of this time is to let the Li family be the master, and Jiaozhi will become a separatist regime. After many years, If Jiaozhi offends our Ming Dynasty again, we will send troops to punish him. After several years or even decades, Jiaozhi must have a strong force that relies on Ming Dynasty. This generation is different from the native officials in Jiaozhi in the past, who only know how to coerce The power oppresses the people of Jiaozhi."

"These people are businessmen who understand the principle of inexhaustible water. They are the key to helping Daming manage cochin. At that time, they only need a stable orthodoxy. I only need someone who can bring Daming a lot of money without too much effort." The benefits of Jiaozhi. Therefore, in the future, you can be named Jiaozhi King, no matter whether he is a clan relative, a general, or a Confucian general!"

He threw out an unbelievable bait, and finally said: "I am willing, and I am not afraid that the Ming Dynasty will become an enemy again in the future. In the past, Emperor Taizong only used Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places to pay tribute to students. Officials, those generations only want to make a fortune; the military supervisors and internal officials also searched exhaustively. I am different, I only do business between countries, and the prices are clearly marked, and no one is cheating. It must also be a talented person selected by the counselors and hand-picked by me!"

Enfeoffment, in this era, is still the supreme temptation—a place where one can truly make decisions.

As long as he abides by the agreement between the two countries and does not pursue complete and complete power, Daming may still send troops to protect his legal system.

Now, the emperor has given that promise.

Wang Shouren finally understood that the Nanyang Maritime Great Wall, in the future, would actually be enfeoffed kingdoms relying on the benefits of the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade and protected by the Ming Dynasty.Daming, only in each country, has a fortified port.

This model is very different from the establishment of the Three Divisions in Jiaozhi back then, where officials were selected by the Ministry of Officials of the Ming Dynasty and directly governed.

If this method works, it is true that with only a relatively small cost, many good things from Nanyang can be transported back to Daming continuously.

In order to govern the government and ensure the safety of the people, officials and the army will always spend the most money, and the imperial court still has to worry about the internal affairs that are happening one after another every day.

In the future, all these questions will be handed over to the Cochin King?As for the relationship between Jiaozhi and Daming, the Son of Heaven and the King of Jiaozhi only talked about interests.

After the first military affairs conference determined the candidates for the internal provincial capitals and public security departments, and discussed the strategies for reforming the guards and recruiting troops, they began to systematically plan external strategies.

And His Majesty the Emperor passed on a brand new concept to them.

Zhu Houcong, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, didn't want to make a name for himself. He cheerfully rewarded him several times without hearing a word of being a minister.

He passed on a new principle: between countries, interests should be considered first.

As long as Da Ming's interests are recognized and Da Ming's interests are satisfied, the son of Da Ming doesn't care who is the king of other countries!

Yang Yiqing felt very strange in his heart.

His Majesty doesn't seem to care about the throne and legal system at all...

Thinking of the many things that have happened in the name of legal system over the years, he couldn't help but look at the emperor who was listening to the discussions of his courtiers.

The reason for the throne and legal system is just a tool, right?

It's just that it's easy to use, and it's easier to "persuade people" than arguing about whether a new law that hasn't seen results works.

In Daming, you can disagree with the new law, but since His Majesty has said that this is considered treason, then you cannot conspire against it.

It's vaguely familiar, it seems to be the routine that Yang Tinghe was once hated by the emperor...

(End of this chapter)