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

Chapter 235 Border Management
In terms of level, Bilige can be called a talent.

"Bilige is very smart and talented. Now he is taking the initiative to rely on me, Daming. He is also aware of current affairs, but he is in charge of Monan..." Zhu Zhancheng did not have a low opinion of the man who was about to become his uncle. , but he does not think he is suitable to take charge of Monan: "This person is the leader of the Wengjira tribe. If he is in charge of Monan, he will inevitably favor his own tribe. When the Wengjira tribe becomes strong, it will be different from the grassland adopted by the Ming Dynasty. The balance of power policy is inconsistent.

Therefore, the court should choose another wise minister to take charge of Monan, and Bilig can be his deputy and ask him to assist the chief official. This will not only benefit him, but also prevent Weng Ji's tribe from getting bigger. It can be regarded as killing multiple birds with one stone. "

Seeing that Zhu Zhanjuan was not biased towards Bilige, Zhu Di didn't say much. He just nodded and asked: "Then who do you think is suitable to be in charge of Monan in the court now? The six ministers will not consider it. The court now I can’t live without them.”

If the imperial court was willing, it would be more than enough for officials at the level of the Six Ministers to be in charge of Monan, but obviously it was impossible for Zhu Di to send one of his six ministers to Monan, even though Monan was very important to the Ming Dynasty.

"If you don't send high-ranking officials, grandpa, what do you think of the Eastern Palace Prince Xima Yang Pu? When I recruited troops and trained the Qingyu Guards, my father sent him to help me for a while. This person is very talented. He is used to supervise the place. It's more than enough." While Zhu Zhanquan recommended Yang Pu to Zhu Di, he also denounced the Ming Dynasty's bizarre policies towards the frontier.

In fact, this has always been the habit of the Ming Dynasty. Although the imperial court attaches great importance to border areas, it does not pay that much attention; and although the conquered border areas are important, they are not that important to the imperial court.

It sounds like nonsense, but it can well explain why during the Xuande period, the Ming Dynasty gave up all three propaganda and six comforts.

Because in the eyes of Confucian scholar-officials and the rulers of the Central Plains dynasty, the core territory of the country was still the Central Plains, and it was not until the Song and Ming dynasties that a fiscal and taxation land in the south of the Yangtze River was added.

These are the 63 provinces in the south, seven in the north, and the seven in the north that are the core of the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Di established his capital in Beijing, they became what the Ming Dynasty has always called the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

Except for these two capitals and thirteen provinces, the rest cannot be regarded as core territory for Ming Dynasty.

This can also be seen from the administrative agencies established in the Ming Dynasty. In the thirteen provinces in the north and south, the imperial court established the Department of Administrative Envoys, while in other places, the Department of Xuanfu and Xuanwei were established.

Among them, the Xuanfu Division was more focused on civil affairs, mainly appeasing local areas and announcing imperial decrees, while the Xuanwei Division was more military-oriented.

Both were mainly established in border areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, and were one of the main means of managing border areas inhabited by ethnic minorities in the Ming Dynasty.

Generally speaking, hereditary chieftains from various places serve as the chief officers of the Xuanfu Department, while the Xuanwei Department established by the imperial court is mainly responsible for military deterrence.

However, this is not certain. Depending on the actual situation in each place, the officials or management functions, or whether the Xuanwei Department or the Xuanfu Department is established are not fixed.

It is precisely for this reason that for the imperial court, these places in the Xuanwei Division or Xuanfu Division are basically foreigners, not descendants of the Han family in the Central Plains.

As a result, policies tended to be more repressive. The story of the famous Madame Shexiang in the Ming Dynasty originated from the oppression of ethnic minorities by local officials in the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Mrs. Shexiang was already more inclined to the Ming court. Zhu Yuanzhang's praise for her was that "Shexiang surrendered and won a hundred thousand soldiers." When she died, Zhu Yuanzhang even sent an envoy to express his condolences.

But even so, Mrs. Shexiang still suffered the humiliation of being stripped of her clothes and receiving a cane because local officials of the Ming Dynasty wanted to force the local Yi people to rebel.Therefore, during the Xuande period, when the imperial court began to shift from military expansion to defensive contraction, it was not surprising that the Chief Secretary of Cochin and Nuergan both commanded the Envoy Division to be abandoned.

After all, in the eyes of the imperial court, those places were either bitter cold places outside the Great Wall or barbarian smog. The imperial court spent a lot of money and food every year to manage and control them. The barbarians still rebelled every day. The imperial court did not want to abandon such places. What impact will it have.

From the perspective of the civil servants in the Xuande period, this was not a big problem. After all, during the Yongle Dynasty, the territory of the Ming Dynasty had reached an exaggerated extent. The northernmost part reached the Arctic Ocean, and the southern part reached today's Southeast Asia. This is true. Literally thousands of miles away.

Governing such a vast territory and without modern communication means, the court's control over local areas can be said to have been reduced to an unacceptable level.

Therefore, it becomes reasonable to give up direct control over these remote frontiers.

After all, these places cannot be said to be tasteless to Daming, but they are indeed tasteless.

The imperial court invests huge amounts of financial expenditures every year and maintains huge military expenditures, but it cannot obtain actual benefits and almost all of them are in losses.

This was still affordable for the abundant fiscal revenue during the Yongle period, but during the Xuande period, the court's fiscal revenue decreased, and such huge military expenditures and fiscal expenditures became somewhat unbearable.

To avoid such a situation, in addition to reforming the Ming Dynasty's finances as much as possible to allow the court to have more money to maintain such huge expenditures, the only option is to reduce the court's spending in these places as much as possible.

For the north, Zhu Zhanjuan's idea was to restore the border guarding system of the Sai kings and let these vassal kings resist the invasion of nomadic people from the north.

This military defense strategy developed during the Hongwu period can be said to be effective. At least during the Hongwu period, it did effectively suppress the border troubles in the north, and further expanded the border territory beyond the Great Wall in the north.

As the Northern Expedition successfully defeated the military power of the Mongolian tribes, the imperial court established administrative agencies in both Monan and Mobei to further control the Mongolian grasslands. The problems in the north have basically been effectively controlled.

Later, with the establishment of the Qianqian, the Mongolian ministries were further controlled economically and their military power was disintegrated. The north was no longer a concern of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the south, Jiaozhi is really difficult to deal with. Even in later generations, it was one of the most chaotic places in the world. The social problems caused by various local indigenous people were quite troublesome.

But fortunately, we are still in the era of the feudal dynasty. There is no need to talk about human rights. If some people really like to make trouble, then let's talk with the handle of a knife.

Although the use of force may not solve the problem, at least force can solve the problem.

Zhu Zhanjun is not someone who likes to use this method to deal with problems, but if the rule of law cannot work, then he can only take the route of rule of force.

(End of this chapter)