If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 171 Makeshift Management

Because of Xu Bin's suggestion, Zhu Zhanquan suddenly realized that the place ruled by the Japanese country and the Ming Dynasty were completely different concepts.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of the complete grassroots official system established since the Hongwu Dynasty, as a vassal king, he did not need to spend too much energy to govern the place well.

If there are any government orders, they only need to be conveyed to the subordinate officials of the royal palace, and they will naturally communicate with the local officials in the fiefdom, thereby realizing the government orders issued by him as the vassal king.

And this was only after the Hongwu Dynasty and Zhu Di implemented the new policy of the vassal king that the vassal king had such rights. Before the vassal king's new policy, Zhu Di, in order to prevent his brothers from imitating him and committing another Jingnan incident, did not allow the vassal king to interfere with local affairs. All rights are prohibited.

Therefore, for a new vassal king like Zhu Zhancheng, governing the local area was a brand-new thing that he had never been exposed to before and had little experience to speak of.

After all, you can't expect him to learn how to be a vassal king and govern the place when he was in the world of immortality.

When he was in the Ming Dynasty, he learned something from his prince father, but that was based on the premise that the Ming Dynasty had a complete grassroots official system.

A properly functioning political system can effectively convey government orders and govern local areas, so upper-level leaders do not need to spend too much energy on this. They only need to consider how to make high-level decisions, and the rest will naturally take care of themselves. Those grassroots officials who do the work are responsible.

This is what a perfect political system should have. The top level is responsible for making decisions and the grassroots level is responsible for implementation.

But now that the grassroots level of the Japanese country has been wiped out by the Ming army in the previous liquidation, Zhu Zhanqi wants to regain control of this land, so rebuilding a grassroots management structure is what he should do now.

Compared with this matter, promulgating government decrees, winning over local people's hearts, and thinking about how to operate and manage this territory are all things that can be done later.

If it were in the Ming Dynasty, this would be very simple. After all, the Ming Dynasty has cultivated a large number of scholars since the Hongwu Year.

Although the literati in Jiangsu and Zhejiang looked down on the Ming Dynasty and the old Zhu family because they had been massacred several times, after so many years, the rule of the Ming Dynasty has become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

There may be some die-hards from the older generation who do not want to serve in the Ming Dynasty, such as the two who wrote "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", but most ordinary literati still hope to pass the imperial examination and become officials of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the Yongle Dynasty was no longer the Hongwu Dynasty, so the official dogs of Lao Zhu's family wouldn't do anything.

But this was not possible in the Japanese country. Even if Zhu Zhanjun wanted to take the risk of overstepping his bounds and open an imperial examination to select candidates, the Japanese country did not have that many scholars for him to use.

However, although there are no scholars, the Japanese country has another group that can be used as a major component of the grassroots management structure, and that is the warrior class of the Japanese country.

In later generations, people's main impression of Japanese warriors was that they had two knives stuck in their waists, one to stab people and the other to stab themselves, which was barbaric and ferocious.

But in fact, although the samurai of the Japanese country did like to scratch their belly and look into the water, and take out the intestines from the cut belly and throw it at others' faces, the samurai group still had a pretty good education level, and they could even be boasted about the literacy rate of the Japanese country. high.

This is actually easy to understand. The samurai class is not just professional soldiers.Although their main task during the war was to kill people, they also needed to manage the fiefdom, manage the local area and the people in the territory, and collect and pay taxes on time.

It can be said that the basic management structure of the Japanese country was composed of warriors.

As the most basic unit of the feudal system, warriors were not only professional soldiers, they also shouldered the functions of village chiefs and local administrators.

Today's Japanese country has just ended the separatist war between the Southern and Northern Dynasties and entered a relatively peaceful and stable period.

During this period, the main job of warriors also changed from fighting to governing local areas, so they needed to know how to let their subjects cultivate the land and harvest food according to the farming season, they needed to know arithmetic to collect taxes from these subjects, and they also needed to know how to act as warriors The most basic military knowledge can organize and train the army to fight other lords...

All in all, a qualified samurai actually needs to know a lot of things. Although most samurai are not good at so many things in most cases, this does not prevent them from having enough talents.

And facts have proved that there are indeed enough talents among the samurai class, or talents that can satisfy Zhu Zhanchun to establish a grassroots management structure.

Since he announced the recruitment of men in Fukuoka Castle, which has been renamed Fukuoka, many low-level samurai have come to seek refuge, including many former retainers of various generations of the Ouchi family, as well as middle- and lower-class samurai from other daimyo families on Kyushu Island. .

There are not a few people among them who are proficient in Sinology, and there are also a lot of people who know the Ming Dynasty dialect, and the vast majority of them can read and write the most basic Chinese characters.

The main reason for this phenomenon is, of course, that although the Japanese people had developed their own kana script at this time, the mainstream written characters were still Chinese characters. If one did not know how to read and write Chinese characters, in this era, one could be equated with illiteracy. .

Of course, there is another reason. All the martial arts factions around Fukuoka City were wiped out by the thunder summoned by Zhu Zhankun. Most of the remaining warriors are Wenji factions who are not good at killing people. Relatively speaking, they are not good at internal affairs. The level of proficiency is much higher.

With the support of this group of people, coupled with the subordinate officials of Prince Zheng's Mansion, an administrative system that was indeed quite efficient at the moment was quickly established on Kyushu Island.

These samurai who came over became the lowest-level acting officials. The samurai who understood Mandarin relatively occupied high positions. After all, they were able to communicate in the language. They were relatively middle-level managers and could play a role in communicating up and down. .

The subordinate officials of Prince Zheng's Mansion are the top management. After all, these people are Zhu Zhanqun's cronies and are more worthy of trust.

However, the loyalty of these warriors who came over was basically guaranteed. When Zhu Zhanyu agreed that they should retain the basic fiefdoms of their respective families, these warriors were already considered his vassals.

Of course, this temporarily constructed relationship between vassals and lords was not reliable, and Zhu Zhanchen himself would not have enfeoffed the land in this way.

All this at the moment can only be regarded as a temporary and excessive policy. After everything stabilizes, Zhu Zhanjun will reorganize it all, but for now... let's make do with everything.

At least this temporary structure he built was enough for him to convey orders to the countryside and let the ordinary people know that the entire Kyushu Island had changed its lords, and that they and their lords were now... regarded as dogs of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)