Chapter 675 Such a treasured land should be inhabited by virtuous people
The establishment of Laos Xuanweisi can be traced back to the Dali Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Yunnan was not in the hands of the Central Plains, and the Dali Kingdom dominated the Indochina Peninsula. There was a small tributary state under the Dali Kingdom, the Jingdong Kingdom. After Kublai Khan attacked and destroyed the Dali Kingdom, the Jingdong Kingdom led its people to leave Yunnan and settle in Laos.
So Laos has had the same language, culture and blood connection with the Miao people in Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty from the beginning.
Menglu Xuanweisi was a chieftain in Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty. The Xuanwei envoy was named Dao, while the Lao Xuanwei envoy was also named Dao. The first Lao military and civilian Xuanwei envoy in the Ming Dynasty was named Daoxianji. In the local dialect, it means king.
Zhang Juzheng said that Laos was bullied, which was not nonsense, but he had really been bullied his whole life.
In the 16th year of Chenghua, Laos paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty. An envoy cried at the court and complained about the invasion of Annan. The court sent an internal official Qian Neng to mediate and ordered Annan to withdraw its troops. Annan retreated its troops. In the 17th year of Chenghua, Annan Li Hao led With 90,000 soldiers, he opened the mountain as three routes, marched into Ailao, and killed Xuanwei Daobanya and his two sons, for the reason of disturbing the country.
After hearing the news, Mu Cong, the Duke of Guizhou, had no choice but to order Dobanya's youngest son to take over his father's position, so that the Lao consolation envoy would not have an heir.
The Duke of Guo can appoint and remove the local officials of the Three Xuan and Liuwei chieftains. Accordingly, King Lu can also canonize these overseas lords, because the status of overseas lords is roughly equivalent to that of the three Xuan and Liuwei chieftains. .
In the forty-fourth year of the Jiajing reign, the tribute envoy from Laos cried to death again. The Dongxu invaders were rampant and committed all kinds of crimes, including burning, killing and looting. Mang Yinglong's conquest of Laos was extremely cruel.
So Zhang Juzheng did not arrange the situation of Laos and deceive the emperor. Laos is really very difficult. Today he will be beaten by Annan, tomorrow he will be beaten by Taungoo, and he will be beaten by Siam. Life is really hard. It's very painful, having no support, being surrounded by wolves, that's how painful it is.
"Then let the Lao Xuanwei Department of the Duke of Guizhou come to visit and ask him to build a Chi Road. If possible, Wang Jiaping will make plans and prepare to implement the matter." Zhu Yijun listened to Zhang Juzheng finish telling the history of Laos' blood and tears. It was really It was very miserable. After being beaten for so many years, I asked Daming for help every day.
Da Ming has nothing to ask of Laos, but Laos has to ask Daming for help every time. This time and twice, it was okay. As time goes by, how can Daming continue to help? We should not help the poor, but the current situation in Laos is that it is poor and weak, and Ming Dynasty has helped so many times, but if there is no improvement, we can only give up.
Now, Ming Dynasty wants to build a Chi Road to get there!
Zhu Yijun is not familiar with military affairs. The generals of the Ming Dynasty all trust the supply lines on land. The garrison must be stationed, but the supply of the garrison needs to rely on Chidao. Only by building Chidao to Laos, it has the ability to deploy quickly. No one else dares to bully the Lao Xuanwei Department!
Of course, when the Ming Dynasty persuaded the war and achieved peace, they only got some extra potassium salt.
"Wang Qian sent this memorial, which was researched by his outer chamber." Zhu Yijun took out a memorial and handed it to Wang Chonggu.
"This treacherous son, he doesn't do anything serious all day long, and he studies something!" Wang Chonggu was furious. His son, the most intelligent child, spent all day studying what he was doing in an outside room! Moreover, the more he studied, the more he became knowledgeable, and he has become the first person to study the outer chamber of the Ming Dynasty, which really left Wang Chonggu helpless.
Wang Qian couldn't listen to what Wang Chonggu said.
Wang Qian listed five types of families in his memorial, and the price for selling his daughter. This is the selling price, not the marriage price.
The Cai family in Huzhou, Zhejiang is a common surname. Cai Qiqing is the head of a large family. In order to celebrate his birthday, his wife spent thirty taels of silver to buy a house for a concubine. This concubine is a good girl. I have never read a book, but my family is well off and I have no worries about food and clothing;
The Huang family of Xiaoshan was the county magistrate. Her family was in decline and she had a daughter. Fu Jiaze, a fellow villager, had admired her for a long time. Finally, he bought Huang's daughter as a concubine for two hundred taels. The Huang family knew that Finally, he spoke out and opened the genealogy of this side house.
A garrison of a certain battalion in Suzhou was condemned and banished to the garrison because of a bad battle. He was going to the smog-infested land of Guangxi. His daughter did not want her parents to go to Guangxi and suffer, so she sold herself for 1,000 taels of silver to atone for her father's sins. , this is the price of an official woman.
Ji Shu, the main house of the Ji family in Zhenjiang, the contemporary head of the Ji family, has a daughter named Ji Shu, who is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is quite talented in literature. She is a famous talented girl in Jiangnan. Later, the Ji family was captured by San Duao The private market case spread, and the savings of several generations of the Ji family were arbitrarily confiscated by Tiqi. The Ji family fell into decline. In order to pay off the debt on behalf of her father, Ji Shu sold herself for two thousand taels and was bought by the merchant Pan Shouchun as his concubine.
Not long after, Pan Shouchun sold it to a brothel. Pan Shouchun felt that being a concubine was like a lady, and the merchant was impatient, so he bought it directly.
A Yangzhou thin horse only costs a few dozen to a hundred taels of silver, but a county magistrate's daughter can be sold for more than two hundred taels.
"No, how could the Huang family of Xiaoshan behave like this? This side house was in trouble, and instead of offering help, they just sat back and watched as their sons and daughters were sold, and then they opened a genealogy after the fact. It's a bit too much." Zhang Juzheng felt that Xiaoshan Huang's behavior was a bit untrue. When faced with difficulties, it would be fine not to help, but he would also add insult to injury.
Wang Chonggu waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Hey, Yuan Fu was born in a small family and a family with thousands of hereditary families. Naturally, he doesn't know much about these things. This family has a big business, so there is nothing he can do to help. Okay, Your family helped this side house today, but how can we help the side house tomorrow? So we can only do this, which is considered a good thing."
"If the Xiaoshan Huang family is causing trouble. After completing the business and then opening the genealogy, it would be to add insult to injury."
Zhang Juzheng was stunned for a moment and then said: "So is this how you, the powerful family, are the parents?"
"Otherwise, can you take care of it?" Wang Chonggu said with certainty: "The Ten Kings City also moved the princes of the Yan Mansion and the princes of the Hongwu period to the capital. Your Majesty did not care about the lives of other princes and their like. , just let them fend for themselves.”
"It can't be controlled at all."
This is how the clan is, profit comes first, Huang is already very conscientious, and he has done his utmost to be benevolent and righteous by not ruining the business and causing trouble.
Wang Chonggu continued: "In the two Song Dynasties, a county owner only needed five thousand guan to buy it. So in the seventh year of Yuanyou, the Empress Dowager asked Song Zhezong: I regretted something very much. The day before yesterday, I regretted it. I went to ask Mao Tian's family, and I heard that the ten county heads of the family would buy each of them for five thousand gu, so why would the state want your money? It’s just a thousand sticks.”
Wang Qian’s research on this is actually studying the word oppression, the oppression of children by parents. His research complements the oppression of tribesmen by clan power. This oppression is not only reflected in eating. The extreme poverty is also reflected in various aspects of daily life.
How to break the oppression of clan power is the problem that Ming Dynasty will face.
"The section about the alienation of power from people should have clearly described the horror of the imperial court's oppression of the people, but Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi were still too timid." Zhu Yijun said with a hint of helplessness.
He actually wanted to encourage Lin Fucheng and the others to discuss the alienation of people by power, but Lin Fucheng did not dare to go any further.
Wang Chonggu shook his head and said: "I think the discussion between the two has been sufficient. In Lin Fucheng's travel notes in Baoding Prefecture, although there is no separate discussion, every article has the shadow of the imperial court, and the birth of the polders. , it was because of the rebellion in the 29th year of Jiajing that Anda Khan entered the capital. Although he did not directly accuse him, he still expressed clearly the terrible consequences of the court's negligence. "
"Like this time. , Without the connivance of Yizhou Zhizhou, how could the opium shop exist in such a grand and audacious manner?”
Every time there is a major case, there is a Yamen figure, and the current court atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty never avoids talking about its own faults. For example, when it came to the difficulty of clearing the emperor in Sichuan, it was Zhang Juzheng who took the lead and liquidated Luo Yao, the former governor of his direct line.
This is already a huge progress. At least Wang Chonggu never saw such a situation during the Jiajing and Longqing years. This is the result of the examination method breaking the teacher system.
The Ming Emperor's southern tour team has arrived at Xuzhou City and stayed at Yanqing Tower in Xuzhou.
Along the way, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty saw the real Ming Dynasty, which had good and bad qualities, flaws and vitality for vigorous development. These were the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was never the Kingdom of God on earth as the Great Light Sect said. There are flaws and there are also contradictions.
But Zhu Yijun’s first impression of the Nanya Mansion was very, very bad. From Taierzhuang to Xuzhou, Zhu Yijun walked very uneasily.
"Qi Shuai, I have a doubt. I have arrived in Xuzhou and found that Xuzhou is connected in all directions. This place is barely surrounded by mountains and rivers and can be defended. But compared with Shanhaiguan, Jiayuguan, Juyongguan, etc. , It's a lot worse. From my humble point of view, Xuzhou is undefeated." Zhu Yijun didn't understand how Xuzhou became a battleground for military strategists.
This place is impossible to defend at all. There are rivers, the Yellow River and canals, but the water volume is not large. It is far from a natural moat, and there are no great passes. The terrain is very open.
"Your Majesty, because of this, this is a battleground." Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "Xuzhou can be attacked from the east, west, north and south, but it cannot be defended, and the south cannot be defended. The north cannot be defended, so once there is a conflict between the north and the south, the boundaries of Xuzhou and Huaihai will become a buffer zone and a tug of war."
"If you take a step back, you will reach your own hinterland, so you must not retreat, naturally. It became the place of the Four Wars."
"That's it, Xie Qishui cleared up the confusion." Zhu Yijun understood this time why Xuzhou became a battleground for military strategists of all ages. It was not because of how easy it was. It's difficult to defend and attack simply because no one can take a step back here. To retreat would be to reveal your innermost feelings, and it's a life-or-death situation.
"Xuzhou is far inferior to Shandong where I traveled." Zhu Yijun spoke of the Xuzhou he saw very unhappily. He frowned and said: "In summary, you can't make big money, and you can't afford small money. Unlike Shandong, where big money is made, small money is not spared."
"The prefect of Xuzhou did a very poor job."
Zhu Yijun is very dissatisfied with Xuzhou. Now Xuzhou is on the border of Nanya, but he I saw the problem as soon as I arrived.
Shandong wants to make a lot of money. For example, Mizhou City Bosi is willing to make a lot of money, but it is not within the scope of the city's economic zone. It is also willing to make small money, kelp, cotton, iron smelting, Everyone is willing to make money. If the big ones can't make money, they will make small profits. Zhu Yijun can see the vitality of that kind of development.
But Xuzhou can’t see it.
Zhu Yijun continued: "To be specific, the people are generally dissatisfied with the yamen. It is very common. It is not just in Yizhou. Here in Xuzhou, when the yamen is mentioned, the people frown, not for the six rooms. A single person is dissatisfied with taxes, criminal names, public security, etc. "
"For this reason, the prefect of Xuzhou changes every three years, and the prefect leaves without even recognizing his face. Once it was changed, the master would change accordingly, and the sixth house would also be changed. As soon as the situation subsided, it was changed again, causing the government office to malfunction. If you can’t find anyone, you can only make your own decision.”
“And there have been four prefects in the past twelve years, each of which left a mess. Liu Changqing in the first year of Wanli left a mess with the Yellow River dam. Chen Wuyin, who lived in the fourth year of Wanli, left behind a mess of coal wells. The next generation felt that the coal wells were not profitable, so they stopped and began to build the canal. After the canal was halfway developed, they laid a foundation and replaced it with the current money. Zhiyi felt that the city wall had to be demolished. "
"The changes were made day and night, and the people from the top to the right and the poor and the coolies were complaining. "
Zhu Yijun really felt that. The difference between arriving in Shandong and Nanya.
Moreover, there is no way to clean up these four messes in Xuzhou. Every time I want to do something, I always give up halfway. If people give up halfway for a long time, they will lose their perseverance and become weak. The same is true for this yamen. Four messes. , causing the yamen to be distrusted.
“The only thing that is doing well here is mining coal, but this coal is not used by Xuzhou, but transported along the canal to Suzhou and Hangzhou. I am very dissatisfied. It is bare, there is not even a shady forest, and without trees, it is difficult for the people to use firewood. At Xuzhou Meishikou, only firewood is sold, not even briquettes." Zhu Yijun added the specific reasons for his dissatisfaction.
If it is a bit rotten, it can be said to be accidental. This comprehensive rot is not even as good as Yizhou, which has a tobacco shop. At least there is wind briquettes to buy at Meishikou in Yizhou. Yizhou Prefecture The old man in the city has finally gotten rid of his dependence on firewood. Xuzhou dug coal and sold all the coal to Suzhou and Hangzhou.
“As for the bad things of the bureaucracy, there are a lot of bad things like getting stuck and getting things, being greedy, shielding and appeasing each other, appointing teachers, and prefectures and counties. Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table and said, "Sir, do you think this is the case in one place in Xuzhou, or in the entire Nanya Prefecture?" Avoiding this issue did not excuse his disciple Li Le.
Li Le, governor of Yingtian, was the key to defeating the Jin Party in the early years of Zhang Juzheng's Wanli reign. Li Le was strong enough, but he just couldn't do it well. If it weren't for Shen Shixing's help, he would have become a slave in Jiangnan. , when fighting Sochi, Li Le had already fallen.
I am really busy.
"Your Majesty, Nanya was originally the Fourteenth Prefecture, but now it has been separated from Songjiang Prefecture. It is better to separate the remaining thirteen prefectures." Wang Chonggu did not add insult to injury and took the opportunity to retaliate against Li Le, because Li Le was really If the Communist Party of China and the Labor Party are replaced, the situation will be the same.
When the time comes, Wang Chonggu will also be unlucky.
Wang Chonggu thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, Nanya is rich and prosperous, but this is a cesspit in officialdom. Whoever comes will be unlucky. Someone has to control this cesspit."
Yingtian is the capital of Liuzhou. , this thing is the capital city in terms of system, and there are also six yamen, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, etc. The Nanjing District 14 Prefecture is so messy that even Hai Rui can't play with it, so someone should suppress this cesspit.
Nanya will not be able to recover at all unless the Thirteen Prefectures of Nanya are demolished.
Zhang Juzheng then continued: "His Majesty talked about the four pitfalls left by the four Xuzhou magistrates. Why can they be promoted in three years? Because after three years, they can become officials in the six departments of Yingtian. Then he suddenly went straight to the capital, and had a completely different promotion from other local governors, political ministers, and envoys before entering the capital. These officials had no intention of doing anything specific. Even if they wanted to do something, three years would not be enough. What can I do?”
“Ling Butang is very capable, but it will take several years to finish the job in Henan. The turnover of officials is too fast, and this is what it looks like.”
Li Le wrote to complain more than once, complaining that the capital-living system is the cesspit of the Ming Dynasty. Whoever comes to Nanya as governor will wallow in the cesspit, and it is difficult to get ashore cleanly. The key is this issue, Li Le The governor cannot solve the problem. Only when the court is determined to do it can it succeed.
Zhang Juzheng could only persuade him with kind words every time, but there was no good way. Only the emperor could do such a thing as splitting up Nanya.
Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table, then stopped and said: "Legas once told me a story about the Roman Emperor Galba, saying that after Nero died, Galba succeeded to the throne. As soon as Galba came to the throne, he executed two generals who were good at fighting. People generally questioned this decision, and then a proverb became popular in Rome: Once an emperor becomes the object of hatred, the good deeds he has done and bad things will arouse people's resentment and malicious speculation about him."
"Just like after Song Gaozong killed Yue Fei, people became generally dissatisfied with him, so that he could not give up the throne to his adopted son."
Song Gaozong Zhao Gou died. His successor Song Xiaozong was his adopted son. Song Gaozong's abdication was reluctant, and Song Xiaozong was very aggrieved as emperor.
What Legas actually wants to say is the trust trap. Once the yamen falls into a crisis of trust and loses credibility, truth, lies, good things, and bad things are all lies, deception, and evil.
The ground in Xuzhou has fallen into this trust trap. No one cares about what the Xuzhou Yamen does. You will definitely not be able to do it anyway, and you will leave a mess.
We all make do with each other, good or bad, we can make do.
"Both Suining and Pi County are bad, and Tongshan County is bad and bad. This is what the people say, and I did not arrange Xuzhou." Zhu Yijun's brows knitted into knots, and he let Tiqi out. , Tiqi told the emperor that the people were dissatisfied not only with the prefecture yamen, but also with the county yamen.
The prefect is changed every three days. When the prefect is changed, the county will also change the direction of the wind. As a result, the entire Xuzhou area has not developed much at all since the Wanli Reform. The only coal that can be obtained is still available. Out of Xuzhou.
"Your Majesty, there is the latest situation." Zhao Mengyou said with a slight embarrassment: "The Tiqi have discovered something. Trafficking on the ground in Xuzhou is very serious, and human trafficking is rampant."
Zhao Mengyou is not willing to put pressure on Xuzhou officials, let alone add trouble to His Majesty. His Majesty has been in a good mood since he left the capital. Even though he discovered the opium den in Yizhou, the solution to the problem is that Wang Yi E did not show any condolences, and even intensified his efforts to rectify the administration.
His Majesty's mood became extremely bad after he walked out of Taierzhuang and entered Xuzhou. Zhao Mengyou really didn't want to cause any trouble to His Majesty.
But there were so many abscesses in Xuzhou that Zhao Mengyou had to break them.
"What's the situation?" Zhu Yijun leaned back, and there was another problem that he didn't know about. He originally thought that the four major bad things were already rare in the world, but it turned out that something even worse was happening. .
"On the ground in Xuzhou, especially in Feng County, almost every household has a child bride, and many of them are from Sichuan and Guizhou. The route here is also along the Yangtze River and the canal to Xuzhou. This situation seems to be very common in Nanya as well. Common." Zhao Mengyou handed a written memorial to His Majesty.
After the situation was completely confirmed, Zhao Mengyou reported that this was the case at least in the several places Tiqi had visited so far. Every household had the habit of child brides.
"The situation is indeed serious." After reading the memorial, Zhu Yijun asked with a slight headache: "In my opinion, Datong Prefecture is better than Xuzhou."
"Your Majesty, Datong The government is poor, and it is entirely due to Xuzhou’s inaction.” Wang Chonggu still said a few good words for Datong Prefecture. Datong Prefecture is outside the Pass, Yanmen Pass and Juyong Pass. It has not developed fast enough, but it has not yet become full of people. To the point of running.
For the sake of Wang Hua Suiyuan, the officials of Datong and Xuanfu searched for Yazi from all over the jurisdiction to serve as targets. After all, if they caught more people, they would be promoted.
At least the Datong Lady is quietly withdrawing from the stage of history.
"The next chapter is for Li Le. If you have any ideas, you can do it boldly. If something happens, I will take care of him." Zhu Yijun gave instructions in response to this bad situation. Before setting off, , he felt that splitting Nanya was an issue that needed to be discussed. It now seems that he seriously underestimated the seriousness of the problem.
I had just left Shandong and entered Xuzhou, and I encountered so many bad things.
Li Le mentioned more than once the normalization of the Nanya Prefectures, which means that Yingtian Prefecture will be used as the capital alone, and the other twelve prefectures will be divided into three parts and become the normal Chief Secretary, Fuzhou and County. This is in line with the organized institutional framework of the Ming Dynasty, rather than the current poor and chaotic framework.
The imperial court has always felt that the problem is not that serious and not so urgent.
"It's also a embarrassment to Li Le. He has been wallowing in such a mud pit for so many years and nothing happened." Zhu Yijun used to think that Shen Shixing was better than Li Le, but now it seems that the situation in Nanya is more complicated than that in Songjiang Mansion.
Zhejiang’s Ren Ya Xing was completely physically liquidated during the process of Zhejiang Jiuying’s entry into the city to exterminate the bandits. This also led to the blockage of Ren Yazi’s way south, and the Ren Ya Xing trade in the Huaihai area , but it became more and more popular.
The matter has come to this, and the only thing left is to strike hard.
Li Le wants to pilot regional governance, and he can start now. Without changing the basic framework of Nanya, it will be useless to try hard in one place in Xuzhou.
Seeing that His Majesty was upset, Wan Shihe thought for a while and took out this memorial, handed it to His Majesty and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the Governor's Office of the Old Port has sent a congratulatory message to the Ming Dynasty's plantation in Java. The scale finally reached one million acres. "
"Java can actually grow nine crops in two years."
The memorial was written by Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Luzon, on behalf of the old port governor's office. It wasn't Zhang Yuanxun's report. Zhang Yuanxun was busy bullying Mang Yingli. Apart from going back to Old Port for supplies, he didn't take care of the general affairs at all throughout the year.
Wang Guoguang stood up suddenly, looked at Zuoshu and asked eagerly: "How much? How mature is it in two years?"
"Nine ripe." Wan Shihe made it clear again In fact, Java Island is ripe for nine years in two years. This is not Yin Zhengmao trying to paint a pie for His Majesty the Emperor, using the special situation of a few acres of land to fool the court. It is really nine years after two years.
The Minister of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, who was used to having one or two rice cooked a year, almost suffocated when he heard that the rice was cooked twice a year or nine times a year.
"Your Majesty, this place can be used for farming. It is such a precious land that a virtuous person should live in it!" Wan Guoguang's eyes lit up. Of course he wanted the mine, but he couldn't ignore the good. Of course he wanted a place that could be used for farming!
As for what virtue is, we don’t care for the moment. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty must have virtue, and it was full of literary and military virtues.
Thanks to the fertile soil brought by volcanic ash, abundant precipitation, and high heat at low latitudes, Java has cultivated 10,000 hectares and a total of 42 plantations, which can reach a maximum of nine crops in two years.
The local area had little mature agricultural experience, let alone high-end agricultural technology such as intensive farming, and they did not cherish the land very much. They just threw away seeds and harvested more or less, depending on God's will. After Zhang Yuanxun captured the city of Malacca, he began his journey to conquer Taungoo.
Zhang Yuanxun has no interest in things like Wang Hua.
Guo Zhengmao, who was born as a civil servant, was very good at plantations and copper factories, but the two axes that Yin Zhengmao used to rule in Nanyang, the third one was naturally the Ming Navy.
The pilot was very successful, and in order to cultivate the land, Yin Zhengmao also specifically ordered that no fishing should be done in the lake, and only three crops a year should be planted. The remaining three crops must be planted with crops such as soybeans to stabilize the fertility of the land. Extreme farming with nine crops in two years will result in the land being farmed to waste within a few years.
"The virtuous live here." Wang Chonggu also agreed. If their hometown in Shanxi had such an environment, there would be no famine in Shanxi.
During the Yuan Dynasty, many Mongolian people were grazing in Shanxi. Kublai Khan once issued five imperial edicts prohibiting Mongolian people from grazing in Shanxi, but it was of no use. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, even places like Nanya , there are pastures everywhere.
Due to overgrazing in Shanxi, the land has become desertified. The fertility is not enough. Adding to the desertification, the celestial phenomena are different. Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gansu have all become poor places. Agriculture is the basis of everything. Without food, what? None.
If Ming Dynasty controls more places like Java, Ming Dynasty's food crisis can be alleviated.
(End of this chapter)