Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 368 Shuofang temporarily appoints Admiral Xuan
ten days later.

Blackwater City.

Shuofangdu commanded the envoy Si Yamen.

Conference hall.

At this time, Jingxian Bo Yanghong, the commander of Shuofang Capital in the Ming Dynasty, and Geng Xuan, the commander of Shuofang Capital, were having a meeting with the commanders of the eleven guards of Shuofang Capital Division and other senior generals.

Yang Hong first highly praised the various commanders of the guards for their outstanding achievements in building the acropolis and the city of Qianhusuo, especially the commander Tong Zhi Geng Xuan was praised by name.

Geng Xuan not only worked on the construction site with the guardsmen when inspecting the guards, but also made a contribution to appease the tribal herdsmen in the jurisdiction of the capital that could not be matched by the commanders and colleagues of the other five grassland capitals - —Persuading the herdsmen to change their surnames to Chinese, use Chinese names, wear Chinese clothes, speak Chinese, and learn to use Chinese characters.

Then, Yang Hong changed the subject and said loudly: "The imperial court has issued a report, please take a look and discuss it later."

Immediately, the two soldiers began to distribute reports to the generals present.

A quarter of an hour later.

Yang Hong looked around at the generals and spoke slowly: "The imperial court has issued an order that all tribal leaders and herdsmen who want to surrender from the grassland must adopt Chinese surnames, take Chinese names, speak Chinese, use Chinese characters, and pass on Han clothes. They are no longer allowed to wear Chinese clothes. Wearing common clothes and ornaments, the old system of step marriage must not be continued.”

"Every woman is prohibited from marrying a Jiangren and must marry a Han citizen. If a woman violates this order and privately marries a Jiangren, she will be punished with a rod of eighty and then taken as an official slave. Anyone who performs well, regardless of gender, will be punished by the court. Select them and use them according to their talents.”

The so-called "step marriage system" means that if the father dies, the father's wives and concubines will be inherited by the son. If the elder brother dies, then the elder brother's wives and concubines will be inherited by the younger brother.

To the Chinese people, this is simply an unethical marriage system.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has brought the grasslands under its rule, of course the civil servants in the court have taken out the "forced sinicization" promoted during the Zhu Yuanzhang period.

Zhu Gaoxu naturally agrees with this point.

Zhu Yuanzhang's "forced Sinicization" strategy was enthusiastically supported by a large number of Mongolian and Yuan women. It took more than 30 years to assimilate the vast majority of the Mongolian and Semu people who surrendered.

Yang Hong paused, looked at Geng Xuan, smiled, cupped his fists and said: "General Geng, congratulations! The imperial edict will arrive soon. His Majesty has ordered you to be the temporary governor of Shuofang. You will be fully responsible for the rule of Shuofang. The sinicization of herdsmen.”

"Thank you, Uncle Jing County!"

Geng Xuan returned the greeting with cupped hands.

In his early years, he was Zhu Gaoxu's East Palace guard. Later, after being repeatedly recommended by Zhu Gaoxu, he and Fu Rang, who was also the East Palace guard, participated in the war to regain the Western Regions in the early years of Yongle.

Later, he, Fu Rang, Guo Jian, Tang Yun, Wei Xian, Xue Lu, Chen Gang, Wang Bin, Chen Mao and others, under the recommendation of Zhu Gaoxu, participated in Zhu Di's three personal expeditions to the desert.

Although Geng Xuan could not be said to have great military exploits, he did not become a marquis in the late Yongle period like Xue Lu and Chen Mao, nor was he as lucky as Chen Gang, Wang Bin, and Fu Rang who were granted the title of favor by Zhu Gaoxu in the first year of Qianxi. Earl (for life).

But fortunately, like Wei Xian, Guo Jian, and Tang Yun, he had a rich military experience and accumulated military merits. Therefore, in the first year of Qianxi, he was awarded the viscount by Zhu Gaoxu.On June [-] this year, Zhu Gaoxu promulgated the "Edict on the Governance of the Grassland", establishing six major capital divisions on the grassland, and promoted Geng Xuan, Wei Xian, Guo Jian, Tang Yun, Fu Rang, and Wang Bin to serve as the capital commanders of the six capital divisions respectively. Or the position of commanding colleagues.

Tongzhi, the commander of the capital, was a second-rank military attaché, one level higher than the imperial minister, and second only to the six ministers of the second rank. He was a high-ranking official.

After Geng Xuan takes office, he will definitely want to achieve some results.

He followed Zhu Gaoxu in his early years and knew the current Emperor Qianxi's attitude towards the grassland herdsmen, and he was even more aware of the emperor's ambition to "enjoy the Chinese style in all nine continents", so he took the initiative to persuade the grassland herdsmen who were placed under the jurisdiction of Shuofangdu to reform. If you have a Chinese surname, use a Chinese name, wear Chinese clothes, speak Chinese, and learn to use Chinese characters.

"The imperial court's decree only outlines a general direction. How we will implement this measure to treat herders needs to be discussed in detail."

Yang Hong looked at Geng Xuan and said, "I would like to hear General Geng's opinion on this. After all, the general has been in the army for many years and has extensive experience."

"Then I'll just give it a try and ask Jingxian Bo and the generals to correct me if it's inappropriate."

Geng Xuan clasped his fists and saluted Yang Hong and all the generals present.

Afterwards, he talked a lot.

"There is no such thing as a century-old Hu misfortune in China. When the Ming Dynasty was established and Hu Yuan was exterminated, Emperor Taizu Gao had already issued an edict banning the Hu surname, Hu language, and Hu clothing. Now the court is reviewing Taizu's edict, which is obviously to make All herdsmen from all tribes on the grassland have become naturalized. In my opinion, if they are surrendered tribal leaders or herdsmen, if they can abide by our laws and decrees of the Ming Dynasty, we will treat them as our subjects and we can no longer call them Tatars or Tatars."

Yang Hong nodded and said: "Yes, that's the truth."

Geng Xuan continued: "During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Zhao and Song Dynasties, Fan Zhongyan used a strategy to manage the western frontier. Generally speaking, there are three words, namely defense, suppression, and care. I think these three words are worth learning from."

Yang Hong's eyes shone brightly and he said, "General Geng, can you tell me specifically how to prevent, suppress, and pacify?"

Geng Xuan continued: "Thanks to His Majesty's love, Geng Shuofang temporarily appointed the governor to protect the country and the people. He knew that his ability was low and he was afraid of betraying the divine grace, so he studied the history books and learned from Lu Meng when he was under Wu. As for Fan Zhongyan's prevention and suppression , Fu, this is also what Geng learned from the book."

Yang Hong said hurriedly: "Say it quickly!"

"The so-called defense means to set up beacons widely, build castles, passes, and bridges at dangerous places, set up patrols along the border, and send scouts back and forth every day to patrol and spy on people's opinions, so that I know when the people are moving, and I know what is happening Be prepared. The garrison troops all drill on weekdays without slacking off, ready to suppress rebellious people and quell chaos at any time."

Geng Xuan said: "The so-called suppression means not compromising or appeasing the rebellious tribes and herdsmen. Whenever the surrendered tribesmen start a rebellion, the garrison will respond immediately and fight with all their strength without mercy."

"The so-called appeasement means to appease the obedient people like my people. As long as they surrender to our Ming Dynasty, our army and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will work hard to protect them. To prevent officials from hundreds of households and general banner officials from being corrupt and exploiting the herdsmen, we must peacefully expropriate cattle, sheep and other livestock and order them to surrender. The people enjoy grazing and live peacefully around the city of Qianhusuo. If there are occasional disputes or disputes between each other, our guard office can handle them impartially and without favoritism. In this way, the people on the border who are happy with our government will never cease to live far away! "

Yang Hong nodded while listening, with a smile on his lips and said: "General Geng speaks well, and a border general like you, why worry about the Ming Dynasty's border troubles!"

Geng Xuan waved his hand humbly and said: "Uncle Jingxian is overly praised. Geng just followed the script and has no actual experience in promoting propaganda."

(End of this chapter)