People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 271 Zhu Yuanzhang is so depressed! The other princes were eager to ascend the throne as soon as possible, but Prince Zhu Biao refused to take the throne.

Chen Han didn't intend to quibble. Fan Zhongyan's strategy to pacify Xixia was implemented for several years, and the effect was very good, but it did not completely eliminate Xixia, so he decided that it was wrong.

But Chen Han didn't think so, so he explained.

"The reason why Fan Zhongyan's pacification of Xixia ended in failure is not necessarily because there was something wrong with his strategy.

But the Song Dynasty authorities did not have so much time to wait for Fan Zhongyan's plan to succeed.

Fan Zhongyan's strategy was measured based on ten years. He hoped to advance step by step by building a city wall.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty authorities hoped to have a showdown with Xixia.

At that time, there were constant internal disputes in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there was a lack of unity in civil and military affairs. He was also a reformist.

To put it bluntly, it was not that Xixia was powerful at the time, but that Fan Zhongyan was a reformist and he affected the interests of too many powerful people.

Those powerful people did not want Fan Zhongyan to continue to stay in that position. Without Fan Zhongyan's strong support behind him, the strategy of pacifying Xixia in the northwest would also collapse.

At that time, Fan Zhongyan judged that Northwest's strategy was right, but it failed in the end not because the external enemies were too powerful, but because of the internal fire in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Under such a situation of internal and external troubles, it was not easy for Fan Zhongyan to forcefully advance hundreds of miles into the hinterland of Xixia.

Now that our Ming Dynasty reform has been successful, I think all my colleagues have enjoyed the benefits of the reform.

Just like what Zhao Butang and Song Butang said just now, in terms of official administration, officials who have passed the examination and passed the law urge them to fulfill their duties and not dare to slack off;

Zhao Butang said that our Ming Dynasty’s tax revenue this year reached 28 million taels.

The officials' salaries have increased, and the peace at home has been supported by a strong foundation. Our Ming Dynasty has used troops in the north, and we also have strong cohesion to ensure that the construction of towns in the north will not be abandoned halfway.

Now that the Ming Dynasty wants to focus on developing the south, Lingnan, and maritime trade, it must proceed steadily to further stabilize the northwest, northeast, Oara, and Tatar, and cannot start a war on multiple fronts.

Therefore, it is right to implement the strategy of gradually eating away at the Tatar territory based on cities and towns. This direction is not wrong.

The most important issue is the implementation level.

During the implementation, Zhao Huaide, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, opened mutual trade at the border and established scattered markets to attract Tatar merchants and mainland merchants to trade together.

The Tatars are not monolithic, and not every tribe is hostile to the Ming.

Their people also eagerly yearned for peace, and took this as an opportunity to disintegrate the tribes within the Tatars, pull one group over and suppress the other, even if some tribes were hostile to the Ming Dynasty,

The soldiers and horses led by King Jin, King Gu, King Su, and King Qing can also take turns to resist them.

I think training troops on the one hand and developing trade on the other is the best way to truly govern the northwest. What do you colleagues think? "

After Chen Han finished explaining, everyone knew it, just as Chen Han said.

The reason why Fan Zhongyan failed back then was not because there was something wrong with the strategy that Fan Zhongyan formulated, but because his strategy was very clever.

When he was resisting the Dangxiang tribe of Xixia, he repaired the border walled cities, formed towns, and connected them to form a powerful fortress to push back Xixia. This policy was quite correct.

Moreover, Fan Zhongyan only had 10,000 or 20,000 people at the beginning, but he divided them into several groups.

These parts are trained in different places.

Wherever there is an attack by the Xixia people, in addition to relying on this part of the local force to resist, other forces can also take turns to support each other and act as horns for each other.

Within cities and towns, bilateral trade is developed so that people from the two countries can buy and sell each other and promote transactions.

One goes down and the other goes up, making Xixia very difficult to guard against.

In the end, this policy was abolished because Fan Zhongyan carried out the Qingli Reform, which was known as the Qingli New Deal in history.

His reforms offended a large number of powerful people, who ousted Fan Zhongyan from power internally, which led to the failure of his advancement policy.

This was not a problem with Fan Zhongyan's policies, but was caused by officialdom struggles within the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chen Han is now reactivating this policy because he sees the benefits of this policy.

It is meaningless to blindly engage in militarism and fight with nomads on the vast grasslands.

On the contrary, the best way is to work step by step and force the nomadic people to cooperate with the farming people.

Moreover, the Northern Song Dynasty only occupied part of the Central Plains. It had too few troops, a weak national power, and internal officials were not united, so it was bound to fail.

But today's Ming Dynasty is different. The Ming Dynasty now covers the whole world, the reform has been successful, the national power is booming, and all officials work together. It is different from the Northern Song Dynasty, so of course this policy can be implemented.

After Chen Han's analysis, all the officials were convinced and finally unanimously agreed that it could be implemented. They agreed that King Gu and the general soldiers of Xuanfu would form a town construction group of nearly a thousand miles in the Datong area in Xuanfu and the King of Jin guarding Shanxi.

A town was built every thirty miles.

On the one hand, it attracts trade between Tatar tribes and divides the internal power of Tatar.

On the other hand, cement roads must be laid to form a complete transportation network, thereby cutting off the mobility of the Tatar cavalry.

In the court hall, everyone had finished discussing all the plans and was just waiting for them to be implemented.

The implementation and advancement of this policy fell to the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army.

With the support of the entire court, they are better able to move forward.

The most important thing is the practice of Zhao Huaide, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, which has proved the feasibility of the strategy.

This is not a problem that Chen Han has to worry about.

Chen Han has already helped Zhao Huaide, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, and the King of Jin complete the most basic work.

……

After leaving the court, Prince Zhu Biao left Chen Han alone.

"The old man has been missing you a lot lately. Please go to the Royal Garden to find the old man."

Chen Han didn't expect that the majestic Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty would be so caring about him.

So he didn't go back home immediately and came to the back garden.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang really looked like a retired old man.

Even if there were so many important matters to be discussed in the court, he could not show up.

The old man had mentioned in front of Chen Han more than once that he would abdicate and let Prince Zhu Biao become the emperor.

He will do his best to fulfill his eldest son's goal of becoming emperor.

But Zhu Biao is a filial person, and he will never ascend the throne while the old man is still alive.

Even though he knew that he should have died this year in the original timeline, he did not covet the throne, which made Zhu Yuanzhang quite helpless.

Throughout the dynasties of the past, even a hero like Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty committed the murder of his brother and his father during the battle for the throne.

After him, there was a battle for the throne between the crown prince Li Chengqian and the king of Wei Li Tai.

A heroic leader like Li Shimin was very suspicious of his own son and did not want the prince to take power.

Moreover, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, suspected that his prince Liu Ju had the intention of treason, and they were hostile to each other.

So much so that Prince Liu Zhi was finally forced to rebel.

In the past dynasties, there have been so many emperors who were jealous of their princes, and so many princes who wanted to ascend the throne early and had conflicts with the emperor's father.

But why did Zhu Yuanzhang clearly want to abdicate and hand over the throne to the prince as soon as possible, but Zhu Biao was unwilling to take it.

Zhu Biao would rather be a supervising prince, and would rather ask his father for instructions on everything, than let his old man retire early.

Zhu Yuanzhang would not suspect that his prince was hypocritical.

But he knew very well that Prince Zhu Biao was very filial.

He didn't want the officials in the court to be suspicious and say that there was a feud between father and son. Did the prince have too much power and vacate the emperor, causing the emperor to abdicate?

Just like how Emperor Taizong Li Shimin imprisoned his old father in the palace and forced Emperor Li Yuan to abdicate.

Since such disharmonious things happened in the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Biao did not want it to happen again.

So in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to hide and relax by himself.

If you, Zhu Biao, are not the emperor, then I will force you to be the emperor.

Anyway, now the old man just ignores the government affairs, doesn't see the ministers, and just idles around every day, which is difficult for Zhu Yuanzhang.

So now Zhu Yuanzhang is thinking of asking his children and grandchildren to come into the palace and chat with him, because he is really free.

Among these descendants, Chen Han is the one who can get along best with him.

Because Chen Han came from a later generation, he did not have such a heavy etiquette baggage and dared to tell any jokes.

After all, the old man is old, and his ministers of the same generation are either dead or too old.

There was a generation gap between the younger generation of ministers and him, and there was no way to communicate, so Chen Han was left.

Yesterday, the old man heard that Chen Han was back, so he wanted Chen Han to come to the palace to accompany him.

Chen Han sat next to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The two caught fish happily, and Chen Han told him about the war in Liaodong and how he forced Li Chenggui to act like a king and come to the Yalu River to negotiate with him.

He explained in more detail how he fought against Li Chenggui at the negotiation table, so that the king had to compromise in the end.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly.

After Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, he said to Chen Han, "It seems that you are the only one who can deal with the shameless gang of Li's North Korea."

Then the two people talked about the issue of Lan Yu.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Chen Han came from a later generation, and told him that this year was originally the death anniversary of Prince Zhu Biao, and it was also the day when Lan Yu was implicated and executed.

Now Chen Han not only saved Zhu Biao, but also Lan Yu.

"You wanted Lan Yu to become the naval commander. But the officials didn't agree. Did you convince them?"

Chen Han smiled and said: "Lanyu is a little messy, but he can stand out.

This is what I think, if we let him stay in Daming, our family will be in chaos.

But let him run to the sea, and his arrogance and domineering attitude can just scare the pirates on the sea.

I even wanted him to subdue a group of pirates and do some dirty things for our Ming Dynasty. "

Zhu Yuanzhang put down his fishing rod and said, "Let's talk about it!"

Chen Han said: "We run Nanyang now by means of business, and we use those who want to do business with our Ming Dynasty to join the network themselves.

But this is not enough. We must conquer them in the future.

Only by turning them into our own land can we make better use of them.

In particular, the land in Nanyang is fertile and has a suitable climate, which is perfect for growing food.

Instead of constantly trading with them, it is better to take over this land and grow our own food. Colonization is a must.

In this matter, I think it is more appropriate to entrust it to anyone than to entrusting it to Lan Yu.

His savagery and rudeness are the qualities that colonists need most. In our Ming Dynasty, his savagery and rudeness are annoying.

But on the road to colonization, his perverse, violent, arrogant and domineering behavior was the best catalyst.

The more destructive he is, the more beneficial it will be for our Ming Dynasty to release him. As the saying goes, kindness cannot control troops, and colonization can only be established on the basis of numerous bones.

It would be impossible for any general to command the navy to make such a decision.

But only Lan Yu dares to do such a thing,

Because he himself is not a good person, entrusting such a person to the road of naval colonization is the best use of him. "

After hearing Chen Han's words, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "It is indeed a bit of a loss, but what you said is exactly what you want.

This blue jade will not make our Ming Dynasty worry-free anywhere, but it can only be placed on the ocean.

We can use his arrogant and domineering personality to achieve great things.

Chen Han, Chen Han, I didn’t expect that you, a monkey cub, could be as talented as a prime minister. You know how to control a geek.

But to convince him, you may have to come forward in person. "

Chen Han said, "I have planned to invite him to my house for a meal tomorrow or the day after tomorrow in the name of the princess, and explore his bottom at the dinner table."

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said, "Okay, you can treat him to dinner at noon tomorrow. After dinner, come directly to Daming Institute of Engineering. I'll wait for you there."

Chen Han didn't know what kind of medicine Zhu Yuanzhang was selling in the gourd, but he readily agreed to go.

……

The Duke's Mansion of Liang Kingdom.

Governor Zuo, Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi and others all came to Lan Yu's mansion.

After everyone exchanged drinks, Governor Zuo said directly, "Commander, you didn't see it in the court hall. Today is really unexpected.

Duke Qian said in the court that after the navy was established, it lacked a commander. Looking at the court, you are the only one who is most suitable to be the governor of the navy. "

Lan Yu was extremely surprised after hearing this and put down his wine glass.

Lan Yu has indeed restrained himself a lot in the past two years.

Because since he was recalled to the capital two years ago, the imperial court has never assigned him a mission again.

When there were no wars in the past, commanders like Lan Yu would go to various places to train troops.

But now, those third-generation juniors have begun to go to various places to supervise military training.

Only he, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, was left alone in the capital to ignore the famous people who had just destroyed Beiyuan.

No one told him what other tasks he had to do, so he was left alone for two years.

And a lot of things happened in these two years.

First of all, all of his adopted sons and cadres were found to have embezzled military pay, oppressed the people, or caused many casualties to soldiers during the military operations, and thus were exiled or sentenced.

He is not a fool and understands that this is the imperial court's rectification of him.

It's just because he has more merit and it's not easy to touch him directly.

Therefore, Lan Yu's temper has changed a lot in the past two years due to fear.

But today he was surprised to hear that Chen Han recommended him to be the Navy Commander.

He still remembered that when he just returned to the capital, he invited Chen Han to a restaurant for dinner.

I hope that for his own sake, he will not collect the land tax from Huaixi Civil and Military, but Chen Han refuses to give him face, which makes him furious.

He still put down his words, and he had nothing to say to Chen Han from now on.

But I didn't expect that in today's court, Chen Han would defy everyone's opinions.

Recommending him as Navy Governor shocked Lan Yu...

(End of this chapter)