Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 1021: The curtain rises and falls (5)

"Father?"

Zhu Ciran's voice rang out in the hall.

"what happened?"

Zhu Youxiao, who was busy at his desk, put down his imperial pen, looked at Zhu Ciran in front of him, smiled and said, "Since Liu Hongxun and the others left, I have been watching what you are thinking."

"I do have some things that I haven't figured out."

Zhu Ciran raised his little head and expressed his doubts.

"Then tell me about it."

Zhu Youxiao reached out and held Zhu Ciran in his arms, "Let's see what happened that made Ran Ge'er like this."

"Chengde Mountain Resort!"

Zhu Ciran stretched out his little hand and said without hesitation: "I still can't understand why the Lifanyuan is so concerned about this imperial palace?"

"Logically speaking, building this imperial palace in Chengde and recruiting a large number of people to repair it, I can understand that this is an attempt to weaken the Inner Khalkha, Kharchin, Tumed and other tribes that are subject to our dynasty."

"After all, as my father said before, the tribal habits on the grassland are difficult to change. With so many people, even if they submit to our dynasty, there is no guarantee that there will be some disputes."

"Yes."

Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly.

Since I have decided to bring Zhu Ciran to my side to train him, although he is young, there are some things that Zhu Ciran can get familiar with and understand first.

Zhu Youxiao attached great importance to the training of successors.

After all, what he wants to do may not be accomplished by his generation alone, so he needs the next generation to implement and continue it.

Zhu Ciran is just the beginning. When his other legitimate and illegitimate sons grow up, they will all be kept by his side for a period of time. Since the Tianqi Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty no longer keeps useless vassal princes. Those with abilities will be discovered, but whether to keep them in the local area or send them overseas still requires screening and testing.

"But isn't the Lifanyuan paying too much attention to this?"

Zhu Ciran frowned and said, "There are obviously so many new situations emerging in Jianlu and Mengta. As the Lifanyuan, we should not interfere in these matters to prevent new threats from emerging and affecting our borders."

"It's just that I know a little about Master Liu's temper after my recent interactions with him, so the more I think about it, the more strange it seems. The more I think about it, the more I feel that something is definitely wrong."

"It's not that the Lifanyuan is paying too much attention."

Zhu Youxiao smiled and tapped Zhu Ciran's forehead. "It's because the Chengde Mountain Resort is closely related to a new policy approved by the Lifanyuan."

"What new deal?"

Zhu Ciran asked curiously.

"The alliance flag system."

Zhu You's speech is concise and concise.

"what?!"

Zhu Ciran opened his mouth wide, somewhat surprised, and said, "Alliance flag system? I seem to have heard of it. Yes, I have heard of it. Didn't Li Ruolian mention that the slave chieftain Huang Taiji tried this system in Khorchin when he reported the situation of Jianlu to your father during the audience with your majesty?"

"Yes."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Why? Do you think that since this system has been tried by the Jianlu, it cannot be implemented in our dynasty?"

Zhu Ciran was silent for a moment. In the past two years, the Jianlu Eight Banners led by Huang Taiji had gone through a lot of troubles and indeed changed the unfavorable situation in the past.

But in the Ming Dynasty, many people disagree.

The Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past.

Jianlu is not the same Jianlu as before.

With this mentality, if the Ming Dynasty suddenly wanted to use the same method used by the Jianlu to deal with the grassland, once this matter spread, there would be a storm.

Zhu Ciran is small, but he can see this.

"Perhaps the hard days of the Ming Dynasty are over."

Zhu Youxiao hugged Zhu Ciran and said with a half-smile: "This also makes the arrogance and prejudice of some people in the Ming Dynasty prevail again."

"This is also the reason why I have always been so strict on official administration."

Hearing this, Zhu Ciran thought of the Censorate, the Procuratorate, and the Commission for Integrity. From what he knew, the above three courts had handled many major cases in the past two years.

In particular, a major case that occurred recently was supervised by the Censorate, which caused an uproar in the court and the country, and has not yet subsided.

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"If the Ming Dynasty wants to solve the grassland problem, it cannot just think about the problem and formulate a system from one perspective. After all, the Ming Dynasty is an agricultural civilization. It has developed intensive manual manufacturing and has also entered into maritime trade, but overall, the Ming Dynasty is still mainly an agricultural economy."

Zhu Youxiao continued: "If we want to solve the problems of nomadic peoples, we need to stand in their perspective and learn from how they solve problems."

"The Eight Banners of Jianlu, which Huang Taiji presided over, were not pure nomads, but hunting peoples, but their basic characteristics were basically the same as those of the grasslands."

Zhu Ciran was a little confused, but he understood one thing. As long as it is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, no matter who it belongs to, he should take it and try it out first. If any problems arise during this period, see if they can be properly resolved. If not, then try to solve or improve it.

"If the league and flag system can be implemented on a large scale, then the grassland area will no longer need to be divided into south and north of the desert as in the past."

Zhu Youxiao said with a straight face: "Under the rule of the various alliances and banners, we will establish a clear administrative system at all levels, clarify the hierarchical order, and promote religious sects... With this series of combined punches, combined with the increasingly prosperous grassland trade, we can gradually closely link the grassland with the Ming Dynasty."

"Of course, if we want this system to take root, we need a strong armed force. But if we want to let the people of the grassland tribes know this, we don't necessarily have to go through the battlefield. The Ming Dynasty is warlike, but not chaotic. The essence of war is to serve politics. Do you understand this, Brother Tianran?"

“So there was the Chengde Mountain Resort!”

Zhu Ciran stretched out his little hand and said excitedly: "With this palace, when my father wants to inspect the grassland in the future, he will stay here. The grassland tribes that submit to our dynasty will definitely come here."

"In this case, if the elite troops here, equipped with our dynasty's most advanced firearms, were to fight in front of these grassland people, they would surely be frightened out of their wits."

"Haha~"

Zhu Youxiao smiled knowingly.

This is the significance of the existence of Chengde Mountain Resort.

At least in Zhu Youxiao's view, before the appearance of heavy machine guns and railways, relying on this system to control the grassland was undoubtedly the most cost-effective policy.

As for reducing the population, Zhu Youxiao would not do it. After all, the biggest difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Jianlu is that the core population is large enough.

Taking it doesn’t mean taking everything.

The grasslands will definitely be completely integrated into the Ming mainland in the future. By then, the people of the grasslands will be the people of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youxiao is well aware of the bravery of the grasslands. Wouldn't it be better to absorb the most brave people among them into the army and go to the northwest to fight against Yarkand? Wouldn't it be better to fight against Wei Late? Wouldn't it be better to fight against the countries to the west?

By fighting to support the war, the Ming Dynasty continued to consume all the countries or forces in the west, and then fed back the looted resources and population to the northwestern provinces and the grasslands. This would help the Ming Dynasty reduce its financial pressure. Once this situation was formed, it would even play a very positive role in the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Snow Region.

Of course, such a huge strategy is still not suitable to be implemented today. The premise of all this is that the Ming Dynasty must first control the grassland. Not to mention the entire grassland, at least the area south of the desert must be controlled. Only in this way can some planning and deployment be implemented in an orderly manner.

(End of this chapter)