Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 574 Assimilation
  "Sun'er thinks that someone should replace General Song."

Zhu Xuan put forward his own idea and said: "General Song defended the border for the Ming Dynasty. He worked hard and achieved great results. He is too old. He can't think of coming back. Grandpa Huang doesn't allow it. But the northwest cannot be defended without anyone. Only his second uncle can do it." My cousin is under a lot of pressure."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "Who does the good grandson want to arrange to guard?"

At present, there don't seem to be many military generals in the government who can be used. It is difficult for the younger generation to take on major responsibilities alone. The other generals basically have their own tasks.

Most of those old guys came to find themselves employed and go home to take care of their grandchildren.

"When my grandson was in the capital of Liaodong, he met Sheng Yong, the deputy general under his eldest cousin. This man is very capable and can stand alone. He should be able to guard the northwest." Zhu Xuan added.

After hearing these words, Zhu Yuanzhang finally understood the reason why Guaisun spoke for Song Sheng.

This is because they want to place their own people in the northwest.

Sheng Yong should have become Zhu Xuan's man when he was in the capital of Liaodong.

However, he thought deeply and thought that the arrangement of being a good grandson was necessary.

The fourth child has dared to be so unruly. I am afraid that some of the other princes and grandsons are also restless, especially in places where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, they can do whatever they want.

It is a good thing to divide the princes and support the Ming Dynasty, but it is also a bad thing. The Seven Kings Rebellion in history are all examples.

Good and bad, relatively speaking.

According to Zhu Xuan's idea, there are good people on all fronts in the east, middle and west of the north. While the vassal king is guarding the border, the military generals are also guarding the border, and the military generals and the vassal king have reached a balance.

If either of them dares to rebel, they will be restrained by the other unless both sides work together.

"Guaisun's idea is still feasible."

Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking in his heart.

He also lamented how thoughtful his grandson was. He was already preparing for the future even before he became the emperor's grandson. He probably wanted to do this after seeing his fourth uncle's impudence.

In fact, what Zhu Xuan did was not entirely because of Zhu Di, but mainly because he was worried about all the vassal kings.

In addition, there is a very important plan.

That is to prepare for the future reduction of vassalage.

The existence of the vassal kings seems to be very good, but in the long run, they will become the existence that brings down the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang has suffered hardships and does not want future generations to also suffer hardships. He is extremely generous to the descendants of the old Zhu family.

He also wrote these into the ancestral precepts.

All future emperors will have to support these princes and grandchildren, and they will become a group of vampires, sucking the blood of the Ming Dynasty dry.

This problem is quite serious.

In fact, Zhu Yunwen's decision to cut down the feudal clan was not completely unreasonable, but he was just going too fast and taking too big steps. If there were a group of crouching dragons and phoenixes around, it would be easy to cause trouble.

Unlike Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Xuan made sufficient preparations before cutting.

Boil the frog in warm water and toss slowly.

"Sheng Yong?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was somewhat impressed by this person.

After thinking for a long time, he agreed: "Since it is the person recommended by Guaisun, let's let him give it a try. If it works, he can stay in the northwest for a long time. If it doesn't work, we will replace him with someone else."

Zhu Xuan said: "Sheng Yong will definitely be able to use it."

Song Sheng's matter has been confirmed.

Tomorrow morning, after the morning court, Zhu Yuanzhang will send people to send the imperial edict to the northwest, and also to Sheng Yong, and make the transfer of border guards, temporarily following Zhu Xuan's suggestion.

"Guaisun thinks, what can we do with Goguryeo?" Zhu Yuanzhang raised this question again.

Korea is either big or small, and its location is relatively far away.

The locals in Goryeo were all left behind by Zhu Xuan, and the nobles were exploited by Zhu Xuan. However, it was still troublesome to manage them. It was basically impossible to return the land that was conquered by the Ming Dynasty.

We can no longer allow Korea to have a dynasty.

It must be controlled by Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, the fight is in vain.

"Sun'er's initial idea was to use the model in Annan to control the Korean people through economic means."

Zhu Xuan actually thought about it and said: "But now that I think about it, I feel that using economic means in Goryeo is not very appropriate. Goryeo cannot use economic means, and my grandson thinks it can be assimilated."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "How to assimilate?"

Zhu Xuan said: "That is to use our culture to change the concepts of the Korean people and let them recognize that they are the people of our Ming Dynasty. Although Korea is a barbarian, it is not without merit. When the emperor expelled Yuanmeng, there were many Mongolians The people who stayed in the Ming Dynasty were gradually assimilated by us and became the Han people, and Sun'er thought that Korea could do the same."

Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with this.

Their Ming Dynasty was still a big country with ethnic integration.

This was true not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Turks, Uighurs, Tubo, etc., and even people from further west came to Chang'an to settle and do business, including serving as officials, and gradually assimilated and integrated.

"Before my grandson left Goryeo, he exploited the local nobles to a great extent."

"If you want to win the hearts and minds of the people and govern Korea well, you cannot rely solely on the nobles. People's hearts and minds can only come from ordinary people."

"The nobles have prestige in the local area and can easily form a second Li dynasty, so they cannot stay."

Zhu Xuan said again.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "My dear grandson has done a good job. He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. This is an eternal truth. If you control the hearts of the people, you can control Korea."

Zhu Xuan continued: "According to Sun'er's idea, it is to turn Goryeo into a chief secretary of our Ming Dynasty. The most important point of assimilation is to make the Goryeo people identify with our Ming Dynasty. This identity is cultural, economic and political On the economic side, Sun'er will arrange people, military, Sun's navy, and the soldiers of Dingliao Youwei to station in Goryeo and suppress everything, then only culture and It’s political.”

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "What do you think, my dear grandson, how to do these two aspects?"

After thinking deeply, he agreed with Zhu Xuan's suggestions.

"Culture and politics can be done together."

"What the Korean people admire most is the culture that we Han people have inherited for thousands of years. At this time, Confucianism can play a role."

"Use Confucian education to promote the ideas of benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, trust, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism."

"But the most important thing is to let the Korean people see the hope that the Ming Dynasty gave them."

When Zhu Xuan said this, he paused.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "My dear grandson is prepared, what hope do you give them?"

"Take Enke, take the Imperial Examination."

Zhu Xuan organized his words and said: "First educate the people at the bottom, and then give the people at the bottom a chance to serve as officials in the Ming Dynasty. This will increase their sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty."

As long as the Koreans wanted to be officials in the Ming Dynasty, they could not escape the fact that they had to be assimilated by the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)