Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 350 Real Tudusi

Hall of Martial Arts.

The meeting between Zhu Gaoxu and the important civil and military officials continued.

Xia Yuanji believed that enfeoffing the original leaders of the grassland tribes and allowing them to continue to rule their respective tribes and herdsmen was tantamount to following the old path.

After a hundred years of this, as various tribes on the grassland conquered each other, new powerful forces would inevitably be born.

This is all for the best.

If the Ming Dynasty begins to decline for some reasons a few decades later, it will not take 100 years, but only 40 to [-] years, and the strength of the grassland nomadic tribes will be at least doubled or even several times stronger.

After the fall of the Xiongnu, the Central Plains dynasty did not implement effective governance on the grasslands, so Turks were born on the grasslands behind.

Although the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu and seized the Monan Hetao land, and set up counties and counties to manage it, it was beyond the reach of the farther Mobei.

It was not that the Han court did not want to directly manage Mobei, but that the comprehensive national strength at that time was unable to do so. After all, the Han Dynasty had not yet carried out effective development in many areas in the south.

Later, during the Zhenguan period, after the Tang Dynasty surrendered to the Eastern Turks, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty established the four prefecture governor's offices of Shun, You, Hua, and Chang in the former homeland of the East Turkic Turks, Tuli Khan, and established the Dingxiang and Yunzhong governor's offices in the former home of Jieli Khan. Mansion.

In the first year of Yonghui, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty pacified the Turkic Chebi Khan and established the Hanhai Protectorate in the area. It led the three governorates of Langshan, Yunzhong and Sangqian, as well as 24 prefectures such as Sunong, and the Yanran Protectorate. The soil is intertwined.

Later, when the Tang Dynasty conquered the Western Turks, it also established the Duhufu, Duhufu, and many Dudufu to manage the local area.

It is a pity that after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and its control over the grassland became weaker and weaker.

If the Tang Dynasty had continued to be strong, there would not have been the rise of Mongolia on the grasslands.

However, since the beginning of history, there has been no dynasty that has ever prospered in this world.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms fought in the Central Plains for more than seventy years, giving the grassland nomadic tribes enough time to develop and grow.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji believed that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to completely eliminate the threat from the grassland, there was only one way to go, and that was to establish counties and counties on the grassland, and the court would dispatch officials to directly manage it.

Then people were moved from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to the grasslands to enrich the grassland population. At the same time, they strengthened the education of herdsmen and actively implemented the Sinicization policy.

It only takes two or three generations of hard work to turn the grasslands into Han lands.

But Xia Yuanji raised a series of practical questions.

The grassland is too big. If we set up counties, how many counties would be needed?

Where to build a city?

If people were moved from the mainland of Ming Dynasty to settle in the grasslands, how many people would be moved?

Is it hundreds of thousands, or millions?

Winters in many places in Mobei and Moxi are long and cold. Even if dozens or even millions of Ming people were forcibly relocated, would they choose to flee because they could not adapt to the long cold winter?

Furthermore, do the people who move to the grasslands graze their animals like herdsmen do, or do they cultivate land and make a living by farming?

If snow disasters or droughts occur in the grasslands in the future, how will the court provide disaster relief?
In fact, what Xia Yuanji has to say can be summed up in one sentence - County grassland is indeed the best policy, but it requires a huge price, that is, a large and continuous investment of manpower, material resources, and financial resources.

Zhu Gaoxu was not in a hurry to express his opinion. Instead, after Xia Yuanji finished speaking, he asked several other ministers, as well as the censors of the left and right, the minister of Dali Temple, and the general envoy for their opinions.

The views of these people are generally divided into two groups.

One group supports Jian Yi's theory of enfeoffment, that is, canonizing the leaders of various tribes on the grassland as princes and nobles, and demarcating pastoral areas for them according to the old Yongle system, allowing them to stick to their respective pastoral areas, and prohibiting random migration to prevent chaos.

Moreover, in order to prevent a dominant family from appearing in the future, more tribal leaders can be ennobled, and large and medium-sized tribes with more than [-] people can be split into small and medium-sized tribes with thousands of people, so that they can check and balance each other and can only obey the Ming court. If so, obey the management of the Ming Dynasty.The benefits of this are obvious. The court does not need to spend too much manpower, material and financial resources. It only needs to grant some official uniforms and official seals, and regularly send imperial envoys to inspect the grasslands to demonstrate the majesty of the court.

The other group supported Xia Yuanji's theory of prefectures and counties, which was to establish prefectures and counties on the grasslands and be directly managed by floating officials sent by the imperial court.

But doing so requires a high price, and it is likely to take three to five years or even more than ten years of deployment to see results.

After listening to the opinions of the civil servants, Zhu Gaoxu turned his attention to Cao Guogong Li Jinglong and Wei Guogong Xu Huizu.

Li Jinglong and Zhu Di were born in the same year and are 66 years old this year.

Li Jinglong was five years older than Xu Huizu, and he succeeded to the title of Cao Guogong in the 19th year of Hongwu, while Xu Huizu only succeeded to the title of Wei Guogong in the 21st year of Hongwu.

Today, the two of them are veterans of three dynasties.

Although they no longer have the youthful splendor and vigor, they have become more stable and look at problems more comprehensively and profoundly.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu relied heavily on Li and Xu, letting them serve as the left and right governors of the governor's mansion, and even let them join the cabinet.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the war between Oara and Tatar for decades has greatly reduced the strength of the grassland tribes. Now your Majesty has wiped out Tuohuan, Arutai and others in one battle. Adai Khan even presented the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty Seal. Oara and Tatar have been completely destroyed."

Li Jinglong stood up and bowed in salute and said: "As far as I know, there are no tribes with more than ten thousand people on the grassland at this time. Most of them are small tribes with a population of hundreds or thousands. The grassland is now under the direct control of the imperial court. God-given opportunity.”

"In my opinion, we can follow the example of Emperor Taizu Gao who set up the capital of Liaodong, and set up a separate capital on the grassland to manage the grassland."

"The old minister agrees!"

Xu Huizu followed closely, stood up and added a comment.

Dusi is the abbreviation of the capital commander's signature. It belongs to one of the three provincial divisions. It is not only the highest local military leadership organization in the Ming Dynasty, but also a local military organization set up by Zhu Yuanzhang to strengthen the imperial power. It is similar to the military regions of China in later generations.

In order to strengthen local control, Zhu Yuanzhang established separate capitals in important border areas in addition to provincial capitals, and implemented military-civilian rule, such as the Liaodong capital.

In the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of Dingliao Dusi in Liaodong. Two years later, Liaoyang Prefecture and County were established. Two years later, Dingliao Duwei was changed to Liaodong Dusi, and its administrative seat was Dingliao Zhongwei (Liaoyang City). The scope is equivalent to most of the jurisdiction of Liao Province in later generations.

In the [-]th year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that all the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Capital Division be deposed, leaving only the garrison.

This separate capital was both a military organization and a political organization because it was responsible for conveying government orders, collecting taxes, judicial trials, and social governance.

For example, there are three functional agencies under the Dusi Department: the Department of Experience, the Department of Judgment, and the Department of Prisons. Among them, the Department of Experience is divided into the Department of Experience and Dushi, which is responsible for Zhangwen Yi; The prison chief is in charge of the prison.

In addition, there are warehouses, grassland ambassadors, deputy envoys and other dependents.

The division of labor within the capital department is generally divided into the capital commander, his colleagues, and the chief minister. One of them is in charge of the chief officer, which is called the palm seal; one person is responsible for training troops, and the other is responsible for the field work, which is called the chief secretary. Some are in charge of patrols, weapons, and equipment. Among them, those who do not hold specific duties are called stipends.

Li Jinglong and Xu Huizu knew that Zhu Gaoxu had issued a benevolent decree at the Heishui City camp before sending troops to Oala.

The content roughly refers to all the guards commanders, colleagues, and officials who were eliminated during the reorganization of the New Army, as well as the military attachés such as Zhenfu Si, Zhenfu, Qianhusuo, Qianhu, Baihu, and General Banner.

Anyone who does not consider staying in the New Army after being demoted, who does not plan to retire and return to the civilian population, and who does not want to be transferred to the provincial bureaus and sub-bureaus under the Ministry of War, will retain their original positions and be arranged by the imperial court to move to Mobei and be incorporated into the army. In the Dusi Guards Station directly under the imperial court.

Moreover, in order to allow these military attachés to go to Mobei to guard the grassland for the imperial court.

Zhu Gaoxu not only encouraged these soldiers and generals to take their families over to live with them, but also rewarded each of them with an additional Yongye Ranch according to their rank.

PS: The child was discharged from the hospital today healthy, so the next update will be more stable.

(End of this chapter)