Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 200 County Annan has become a reality
Afterwards.

Hall of Martial Arts.

"Father, my son made a mistake at the court meeting just now. Please forgive me, father."

After Zhu Di sat down, Zhu Gaoxu bowed and saluted.

"That's all, let alone your complicated mood, mixed with joy and sorrow, isn't that the case in my heart?"

Zhu Di said with tears in his eyes.

Zhang Yu was his old subordinate in Qiandi, and he could be said to be a close and beloved general, but now he died in the Western Region.

If he had a choice, Zhu Di would rather send troops to attack Yilibaoli a few years later than rely on Zhang Yu's sacrifice in exchange for Yilibaoli City.

But after something happens, people always have to face it, and escaping is not an option. After all, there is no regret medicine in the world.

Although both Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu were happy that the Ming army captured and defended Yilibaoli City, Zhu Gaoxu was more excited than Zhu Di.

Because he knew that after the Ming army defended Yilibaili City, the next step was to occupy the entire Ili Valley area.

There are tens of millions of people living in the Ili Valley area in later generations!

During the Republic of China, millions of people lived around Ili City alone.

As far as Zhu Gaoxu knows, in the early Hongwu period, the total population of the entire Western Region was about 300 million. After recent decades of war, many local residents of the Western Region died due to the war, and many young people were killed by tiles, Tatars, and The plateau tribes and Timur captives were treated as slaves.

The current population in the entire Western Region is estimated to be more than 240 million.

Nowadays, there are only more than 200 million people in the vast Western Region. Zhu Gaoxu believes that now is the best time to turn the Western Region into an integral part of China.

This is the fundamental reason why he is so excited!
"I plan to make Zhang Yu a Duke."

Zhu Di said seriously.

"My son feels that he can pursue the title of Duke of Pinghou."

Zhu Gaoxu answered calmly.

After hearing this, the reason why he didn't show a surprised expression on his face was because he was Zhang Yu's son-in-law.

Seeing this, Zhu Di could roughly guess why Zhu Gaoxu behaved like this.

It was a pity that when the Zhang family married their daughter, Zhang Yu and Zhang Fu, their father and son, hurried back to the capital and only stayed in the capital for less than ten days before they rushed back to their respective places of residence.

"I originally wanted you to take care of Pinghou's funeral affairs, but I always feel that it is not appropriate. After all, Zhang Fu will arrive in Beijing soon, and you are only Pinghou's son-in-law after all."

Zhu Di said in a deep voice.

At this time, Zhang Yu's body was already on the way back to the capital. After receiving the news that Zhang Yu had died in battle, Zhu Di immediately sent someone to recall Zhang Fu who was far away in Annan.

It's not that Zhang Yu didn't have a son. According to traditional etiquette, it was not his son-in-law's turn to handle his funeral affairs, even if his son-in-law was the prince of the dynasty.

"Dad, it's better to leave Pinghou's funeral affairs to Zhang Fu. My son has decided to personally support Pinghou's funeral and see him off on his final journey."

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said slowly.

The prince of the current dynasty supported the spirit of a military general who died in battle. This was a great grace from the royal family, and it was also a great honor for the military general's family.

"Since you have this intention, I will naturally agree."

Zhu Di said in a deep voice.

He paused and then continued: "At the meeting just now, most of the ministers and ministers advocated taking advantage of the high morale to send out a large army to pacify the entire Western Region. I have made up my mind to send a large army to pacify the Western Region. And before this summer comes, we will pacify the Western Region. There should be no problem.”

It is obvious that Zhu Di has taken the most critical step in sending troops to pacify the Western Regions, that is, making up his mind to take advantage of the situation to regain the Western Regions.

Based on Zhu Gaoxu's understanding of Zhu Di, whenever Zhu Di made up his mind to do something, even a hundred cows could not pull him back.

"Dad, since the imperial court wants to establish prefectures and counties in the Western Regions in the future, it is impossible to only govern the local people in the Western Regions. It also requires immigrants to settle in the Western Regions."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Therefore, my son thinks that we can first immigrate [-] people, including craftsmen, to the inner city of Yili to help the officers and soldiers build a new iron-framed stone and mud city, manufacture weapons, and build roads and farm fields to prepare for the future western regions of counties and counties. "

"In the future, after Zheng He's fleet brought back sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops, he would slowly move 50 Han people there. It would only take 30 years to double the population and develop the Ili Valley into a region with a population of over one million. Bustling urban area!”

"By then, with millions of Han people here, the source of troops and military supplies will no longer be a problem. In this way, the Western Region will become an inseparable part of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Di's blood boiled when he heard this.

He felt that in the future, Yili would manage the inner city well and bring the entire Western Region under the direct control of the imperial court, which would be the best gift to commemorate Zhang Yu and other soldiers who died in battle!
There are a lot of fertile fields in the Ili River Valley area. If a batch of crops are planted after the beginning of spring, a large amount of food can be harvested next autumn.

It is winter now, and both the enemy and ourselves are struggling to use their troops.

However, the Ming army was equipped with firearms. Compared with the forces in the Western Regions, the Ming army's weapons were more advanced.

In this way, before winter is over, it is not that difficult to send out a large army to defeat all the disobedient forces north of the Tianshan Mountains one by one.

In the past, the long transportation line would have overwhelmed the Ming army, but now the Ming army captured and defended Yili City at a heavy cost.

From this point on, the Ming army had a grain and grass transportation line from Hami to Yilibaili City. After the war, a steady stream of military grain would be transferred from the rear to the Western Regions.

After the spring of next year and before the grain harvest in the autumn, the Ming army can take advantage of this gap to send troops to the south of the Tianshan Mountains to wipe out all the disobedient forces by surprise.

Zhu Gaoxu can think of this, and Zhu Di can naturally think of it too.

"I am sending an army to pacify the Western Regions. The biggest threat is not the disobedient forces in the Western Regions, nor the Timurid army retreating to Alima City, but the grassland people in the north."

Zhu Di frowned and said: "If the grassland people wait for the opportunity to go south, it will definitely disrupt my deployment of troops in the Western Regions. Do you have any good suggestions on this matter?"

The father and son no longer discussed the strategic issues of pacifying the Western Region, but began to discuss how to deal with the threat from the north to ensure that the Western Expedition Army could successfully capture the entire Western Region.

Zhu Gaoxu thought: "Dad, my son thinks that we can recruit Annan troops and transfer them to the northern Xinjiang, divide them into seven major fortresses, and order the seven guard generals to take turns leading the troops outside the fortress and take the initiative to attack. After the grassland people are frightened, we can then choose a place to set up. Trade towns with each other, and let the grassland people exchange furs, slaves and other resources with us in exchange for food and other daily necessities."

Most nomadic tribes, as long as they have food to eat and clothes to wear, will basically not take up arms and go south to plunder.

Because there are people to eat and drink, who would risk being killed by the Ming army and go south to plunder?

But there will always be ambitious people who start a war of aggression!
And for these ambitious people, they need to rely on force!
Zhu Di said: "Half of the [-] garrison auxiliary troops previously recruited from Annan can be invested in the Western Regions."

Since the father and son mentioned Annan, it is necessary to introduce the changes that occurred in Annan during this period.

Although the imperial court established the Cochin Capital Division to manage Annam half a year ago, it later successively established the Cochin and other departments to accept the administrative envoys and the Cochin and other departments to punish and inspect the envoys and other official offices, gradually putting Annan under direct jurisdiction.

The imperial court adopted the same yellow registration system as the mainland to handle the population of Jiaozhi.

The local government recorded the name, age and place of birth of the people in Jiaozhi in the books, and based on these information, they made certificates, which were held by the people for government inspection.

If it is found that someone's ID does not match what is recorded in the book, he must be arrested as a coolie to build bridges and pave roads.The government's thin register will record the number of houses and fields in every mile, square and box in Jiaozhi.

The orphans, widows, and disabled people were registered in separate books called "jioling" books.

These books also have maps at the front of the volume.

After the book was compiled, it was copied into four copies. One copy with a yellow cover was handed over to the household department of the imperial court, and the remaining three copies with cyan covers were handed over to the Jiaozhi Provincial Envoy Department and various prefectures and counties for preservation.

The number of Tianding is updated every ten years.

The Ming Dynasty adopted a number of taxation and taxation systems for Jiaozhi. The officials responsible for collection included the tax department department, the deputy envoy of the Hebo Office, etc. in Fuzhou and County, and the deputy envoy of the local bureau.

At the end of last year, the imperial court stipulated that Jiaozhi would collect five liters of millet per mu of land, one tael of silk per mu for planting mulberry, and one bolt of silk for every kilogram of silk.

The imperial court also set up a salt tax. The people of Cochin boiled a certain amount of salt every month and sent it to the Provincial Envoy for collection. It could only be sold after being inspected by the Proclamation Department.

If it is cooked or sold privately, it will be punished.

At the same time, resources from Jiaozhi were also gradually exploited and transported back to the mainland. All gold and silver minerals were mined by officials to supervise the people.

In mountainous and forested areas, people were ordered to look for ivory and rhinoceros horns and buy them at official prices.

In coastal areas, people were ordered to go into the sea to collect pearls and buy them at official prices.

In addition, local products such as pepper and spices will also be purchased at public prices.

As a result, the income of local people gradually increased steadily, and their mentality towards the imperial court gradually changed.

The prefecture and county yamen established by the imperial court successively opened schools in various places. They visited those who had talents in Confucianism, medicine, and monks, and appointed them to official positions and taught them relevant talents.

In terms of the learning curriculum for Jiaozhi people, the Ministry of Rites, on Zhu Gaoxu's order, issued Confucian classics such as the "Four Books and Five Classics" and "The Encyclopedia of Nature and Theory" to various states and counties for reading, and sent monks and Taoists to spread Buddhism and Taoism.

The imperial court made great efforts to recruit scholars from Jiaozhi at the beginning of the occupation.

Last year, Zhu Gaoxu issued an order to Zhang Fu, the commander of the Jiaozhi capital, to make the place "a place that embraces talent and virtue, is a hermit in the mountains and forests, knows the classics and can write, is knowledgeable and talented, is virtuous and upright, has a filial piety, is smart and upright, is honest, capable of doing business, and is experienced." People who are good at official affairs, proficient in arithmetic, knowledgeable in the art of war, skilled in martial arts, tall and tall in appearance, easy to speak, physically brave, capable of yin and yang calculations, and medical prescriptions, should be carefully visited and sent to the capital with gifts for promotion."

Later, the Ministry of Rites, based on Zhu Gaoxu's wishes, formulated measures for Sui Gongsheng to enter the Imperial College.

Initially, it was stipulated that two students from government schools would be selected every year, three students from state schools would be selected every two years, and one student from county schools would be selected every year.

Later, it was changed to one person from a government school being selected every year, two students from a state school being selected every three years, and one person being selected from a county school every two years.

These matters are the responsibility of the Department of Proclamation and Prosecution, the Department of Prosecution and Prosecution, and local officials in prefectures and counties. They arrange for the students to go to Beijing for pilgrimage on the first day of the first lunar month of the second year after selection.

As for the conditions for being selected as Sui Gong students to enter the Imperial College, it is "regardless of the age of admission, and those who have learned and practiced are selected."

During Zhang Fu's governance of Jiaozhi, he implemented measures related to the customs and life of the Annan indigenous people according to Zhu Gaoxu's wishes.

Although the real purpose is to "turn barbarians into summer", it is claimed to be to stabilize order in various places and prevent bandits from doing evil.

Therefore, in terms of sacrifices, Zhang Fu followed Zhu Gaoxu's wishes and ordered the construction of temples such as the Confucian Temple, the Mountain God, the River God, and the City God, so that worship services could be performed on time.

This is closer to the Central Plains and Han Dynasty in terms of belief and thought.

In terms of clothing, it is stipulated that in the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, men and women are not allowed to cut their hair, and women must wear short clothes and long skirts, which is the same as the Chinese clothing system.

In terms of treatment of the common people, soldiers and civilians who died in the war were properly buried, the elderly and prestigious were treated with courtesy, and the widowed, lonely and helpless were set up in almshouses.

Moreover, Zhang Fu was ordered to give posthumous titles and repair the tombs of the nobles of the Chen Dynasty who died tragically after being persecuted by Hu's rebels.

Zhu Di followed Zhu Gaoxu's suggestion and ordered the establishment of a post station system from the Qinzhou area of ​​Guangxi to Dongguancheng (now Hanoi).

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty set up horse-drawn carriages from Dongguan City to Gia Lam County, Cishan Prefecture (now Jia Ping County, Bac Ninh Province).

In addition, the imperial court set up water stations in Chi Linh County (in Thanh Hoa Province), Dong Chao County (in Hai Duong Province) and Wanning Mansion bordering Qinzhou to facilitate the delivery of official documents.

The most important thing is that after more than half a year of development, most of the disobedient forces in Annan have been wiped out one by one by the Ming army.

After that, many local wealthy families in Annan territory were also forcibly moved to Guangxi by Zhang Fu's troops under Zhu Gaoxu's instruction, and then dispersed and settled in separate areas.

Since the environment in Guangxi is relatively close to that of Annan, most of the wealthy Annan families who were forcibly relocated did not erupt in violent resistance.

The small number of rebels were no match for the Ming army.

After those wealthy families who are willing to cooperate arrive in Guangxi, the local government will allocate houses and fields to them.

These migrating wealthy families may not seem to have changed much, but in fact, they have lost their original influence in Annan.

As for the young people in Annan, [-]% of them have been rationally divided and controlled by the imperial court.

Seventy percent of these young men either joined the guards as auxiliary soldiers, were recruited into the local guards to plow fields for regular soldiers, or were recruited by the Hui Civilian Construction Bureau to build roads and bridges.

Zhang Fu had a set of mature rules for recruiting aborigines to serve as soldiers in Jiaozhi, that is, in places with guard posts, each household would select three soldiers to serve as soldiers. However, in the south of Thanh Hoa, due to the smaller population, each household would only select two soldiers. soldiers.

As for areas where there are no guard posts, forts are set up in strategic locations and the militiamen are responsible for guarding them.

The remaining [-]% of young people are controlled by local wealthy families through dependent relationships such as servants and servants.

As the local wealthy families were split up and relocated, these remaining young people were forced to terminate their master-servant relationship, were given grain and land, and became household residents under the control of the imperial court.

Since they are registered residents, they must also participate in the military conscription.

As a result, after this series of operations by the Ming army, in the next five years, it would be extremely difficult for ambitious people to entangle the young and strong in Annan and launch a large-scale rebellion.

But for the Ming Dynasty, these five years were the most critical five years for migrating the Han people into Annan, and at the same time dividing and gathering the hearts of the Annan people.

Five years later, Zhu Gaoxu believed that even if someone wanted to rebel, no people would follow him.

"Dad, my son thinks that in addition to recruiting guardsmen from the Annan people, we should also recruit guardsmen from the Nurgan area."

Zhu Gaoxu suggested: "Especially the guardsmen from the Nurgan region should be dispatched to the seven major fortresses and obey the control of the seven guard generals. In this way, the guardsmen from the Nurgandusi region can get involved in the grassland. Human blood creates hatred between both sides.”

In this way, if the prairie people and the straight women try to unite, either party will have to come up with a large enough benefit, and may even face the risk of being backstabbed by the other party.

This is a strategy to divide opposition and kill two birds with one stone.

Zhu Di nodded in agreement.

After a pause, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu and said: "Pinghou's matter cannot be kept hidden from Yuerong's child. Zhang Fu is not in the capital, and her brothers are young. In my opinion, you should tell her the truth. "

"Yes." Zhu Gaoxu said respectfully.

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