Chapter 251: Zhu Yings strategy of exporting Chinese culture
"What does Da Sun mean by moving all these people outside the Ming Dynasty?"
Zhu Yuanzhang asked thoughtfully.
Zhu Ying nodded and replied: "That's the case."
"Whether it is Annan, Goryeo, or even the future Japanese state, the natives in these places need to be educated."
"Whether they are from the Jiangnan area or scholars who commit crimes and break the law, Sun Er feels that they should be given a chance to redeem themselves and make meritorious deeds."
"In the future, when the vassal kings go to establish a vassal state outside the Ming Dynasty, they will also need the assistance of literati and businessmen around them, so that they can manage the vassal state smoothly. In the eyes of my grandson, it is considered that they have not read the books of sages in vain."
"It's also a good publicity for my Ming Dynasty's reputation."
The punishment of exile has existed since ancient times. What Zhu Yuanzhang heard from his grandson was to increase the number of people in exile.
After thinking about it in his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang still felt good.
The first is the issue of distance. Unlike previous migrations where you could pretend to be a refugee and run back, now that you are outside the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is not so easy to come back.
It's a journey of thousands of miles, and it doesn't mean you can get back by begging along the way.
"We don't care about reputation or anything like that, but this method of Da Sun has given many people a way to survive. Anyway, let's just follow Da Sun's advice, except for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, and all of them will be exiled."
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have much feeling about Da Sun's proposal, so he agreed directly.
Only Zhu Ying knew how much impact a decision made during such a meal would have on the future of the Ming Dynasty, and even the entire world.
This is a continuous output. The most important thing is that these people, mainly scholars, will exert an influence that is difficult to estimate outside the Ming Dynasty.
It is an important foreshadowing for Zhu Ying’s cultural export route.
The policy of establishing the Public Security Bureau, Public Security Department, and Public Security Department separated the most important armed power from the hands of county magistrates, prefecture magistrates, and prefects.
In the imperial court, no one dared to disobey the edict issued by Zhu Yuanzhang.
But secretly, many officials and literati are resistant to this.
Suzhou City.
This was once the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty, but now it seems to be in decline.
After experiencing the "Hongwu Dispersion", many large clans in Suzhou City, including their entire clans, were relocated.
Even the most prosperous Changmen in Suzhou seems much deserted now than before.
However, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Compared with other areas in the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou is still prosperous.
Suzhou magistrate's office.
The magistrate Yang Youwen, the magistrate Song Xin, and the magistrate Xu Zhen gathered together.
Everyone was here last year, Hongwu took office around the 24th year, which can be regarded as the same period.
Among them, Yang Youwen was transferred from the Department of the Ministry of Industry of the Capital.
From the ninth rank to the fourth rank now, Yang Youwen has reached the sky in one step.
This is also because Suzhou is special.
The reason why such a situation can occur is because for the position of Suzhou magistrate, basically eight out of ten people who came to take up the post died, and the remaining two, one was exiled and the other was demoted.
In the previous twenty years, the prefect of Suzhou had changed twenty-eight people.
Relatively speaking, there were more replacements when the Ming Dynasty was just founded. For example, in the fourth year of Hongwu, four people were replaced one after another in just one year.
You know, this has to include the time spent on the road.
In other words, the average of each of these four prefects, including taking office, only served for three months on average.
Among the four, three were sentenced to death and one was demoted to the county magistrate.
That's why a situation like Yang Youwen's happened.
Yang Youwen's predecessor, Wang Guan, served as the prefect from 19 years to 24 years, a full five years.
This has something to do with Wang Guan's background. After all, he was a candidate for the imperial examination.
Nowadays, most official positions are still based on recommendation. Comparatively speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang paid a lot more attention to officials who passed the imperial examination.
However, it may have been corrupted by local big players, and the end was not much better.
From last year to this year, Yang Youwen has been frightened for a long time. He often wakes up from his dreams, and suddenly the Jinyi Guards come and take him to the capital.
"Master Yang, what do you mean by the imperial court's order to open a public security department in our city of Suzhou? Isn't this equivalent to dividing your military power?"
"It is said that these individuals are all from the military. From now on, they will have the power to arrest people in Suzhou City, one state and seven counties."
Tongzhi Song Xin said in a strange tone.
As a co-president, he was in charge of local salt, grain, poaching, river defense, coastal areas, river engineering, water conservancy, as well as cleaning up military status, appeasing the people and barbarians, and other affairs.
Now that the Sheriff's Department has come over and the thieves have been arrested, it's not a big deal.
The key is that most of the government officials under his command were also directly separated.
There is no one here, so there is nothing easy to do these days. This means that, as a colleague, he must negotiate with them on most matters.
This is actually not a big deal.
The biggest thing is that the commanders of the Public Security Department belong to the fourth rank, which is only half a rank lower than the prefect, and they are not yet under the jurisdiction of the prefect.
Its Shangguan is the Public Security Department corresponding to the Chief Secretary.
In other words, the current situation is that Suzhou Prefecture is no longer dominated by the prefect alone, and the armed forces have been completely divided.
The prefect no longer has the power to arrest people. Whoever he wants to arrest must go through the Public Security Department, and whether to arrest or not is not the prefect's final decision. It is the commander of the Public Security Department who has the final say.
These are the contents of the documents issued by the imperial court regarding the powers of the Public Security Department.
Yang Youwen glanced at Song Xin. He knew very well that unlike himself, Song Xin was recommended and secretly had some unclear relationships with some big names in Suzhou.
Today's meeting between the three of them was also proposed and initiated by Song Xin.
As soon as these words came out, Yang Youwen understood that this was to provoke him to go against the newly appointed Public Security Department.
"According to Song Tongzhi's wishes, what should we do? This is determined by His Majesty's decree. If we resist, we will not have a good life in the future."
"Oh, maybe Song Tongzhi is going to go against His Majesty if he can't even survive."
Yang Youwen didn't speak. Xu Zhen, the general judge on the other side, spoke directly without any hesitation.
Obviously, Xu Zhen is working with Yang Youwen, otherwise Yang Youwen alone would not be able to compete with these big players in Suzhou.
After all, the yamen servants are basically Suzhou locals. I don’t know whether the people below will follow certain government orders.
And because Suzhou's prefects changed so quickly, few prefects were able to support corresponding counterattacks and were pulled down before they had time to take action.
When Song Xin heard this, he immediately said: "Of course we dare not go against your Majesty's wishes, but those Qiu Ba can't read any Chinese characters and they don't know anything about arresting thieves."
"In my opinion, even the Public Security Department has to rely on the prefect to handle things satisfactorily. Otherwise, we ordinary people in Suzhou may not pay attention to them."
"Master Magistrate, do you think what Xiaguan said is true?"
Song Xin was backed by a large family in Suzhou and spoke very tough words. He was not too afraid of Yang Youwen and Xu Zhen.
Although the current situation in this room is two against one.
But apart from this room, the prefect and general magistrate were responsible for the whole of Suzhou.
When Yang Youwen heard this, he glanced at Song Xin lightly and said, "We must abide by your majesty's arrangement. Besides, I heard that these people from the Public Security Department who came here have great military exploits."
Old pawn."
"Even the commander this time is still related to Duke Liang. If Song Tongzhi thinks that Duke Liang is no big deal, I naturally have nothing to say."
When Song Xin heard this, he immediately stopped talking.
Suzhou people have a natural fear of this series of military commanders and nobles headed by Duke Liang.
When Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Suzhou, he had strong troops and horses, but suffered heavy losses outside the city of Suzhou. After ten months of hard fighting, Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he vowed to massacre the city of Suzhou.
The one who attacked Suzhou was none other than the famous general Xu Da and Chang Yuchun.
Chang Yuchun was a famous butcher. When the city of Suzhou was destroyed, he kept clamoring to massacre the city to vent his anger.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zheng Kui, Zheng De and his son, talented men from eastern Zhejiang, moved to Suzhou from Suichang and took refuge with Zheng Yuanyou, who had joined Zhang Shicheng.
Previously, father and son Liu Ji from Qingtian, Song Lian from Jinhua, and Zheng Kui were all talented people from eastern Zhejiang who knew each other and cherished and admired each other.
Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to massacre Suzhou, Zheng De immediately wrote to Song Lian and Liu Ji for the safety of the people in the city and his uncle Zheng Yuanyou and others, asking them to try to dissuade Zhu Yuanzhang from massacring the city.
It was in this way that Suzhou was successfully prevented from being massacred.
However, although there was no massacre of the city, the rampage of the Huaixi military generals still caused great damage to the city of Suzhou.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's indulgence, the generals showed no mercy.
At that time, Lan Yu was under the command of Chang Yuchun and left a great reputation in Suzhou City.
Song Xin maintained his last stubbornness, snorted coldly and left.
This is the current state of mind of most people in the Jiangnan area. They fear and hate Zhu Yuanzhang but have to join him.
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew these situations.
But as the literati in the Jiangnan area said, there is only one stone in the world, and Jiangnan alone has eight buckets.
At present, there is a huge difference in talent and learning between the north and the south. In the imperial examinations, most southerners are on the list. This is something that will be difficult to change in a short time.
After Song Xin left, Yang Youwen and Xu Zhen began to communicate more casually.
"This matter was arranged by His Highness Changsun himself. I think the people in Suzhou City are not even aware of His Highness Changsun's existence."
"Look carefully, if you want to go against His Highness Changsun, there is no chance that you will end up well. Song Xin's position as a colleague can be regarded as the beginning."
"He really thought those people in Suzhou City could protect him. It's really funny."
Yang Youwen looked at the untouched wine on the table, picked up a glass, drank it, and said with a sneer.
Just saying these words made Xu Zhen, the general judge next to him, a little embarrassed.
Because he didn't know who His Highness Changsun was, he couldn't understand the meaning of Yang Youwen's words at all.
Fortunately, there were only two people in the room, so Xu Zhen said tactfully: "I am a lowly official, so I would like to ask Mr. Yang to give me some advice."
Yang Youwen was not surprised when he heard this. What he said just now was actually that he was testing Xu Zhen to see what his subordinate's connections in the capital were like.
Now that the answer has been revealed, even the existence of His Highness Changsun is unknown, so obviously the path is not good.
Otherwise, it is impossible not to know this big open secret that alarmed the capital officials.
After pondering slightly, Xu Zhen poured wine for Yang Youwen. After Yang Youwen finished drinking, he said slowly:
"His Royal Highness Changsun is the eldest grandson of His Majesty and the legitimate son of the Crown Prince. He is also His Royal Highness King Yu, who became famous during the Henan plague."
"Ordinary people don't know about His Royal Highness King Yu. Xu Tongpan can learn about the Xiaoling incident in the past few months, and he will roughly understand it."
When Xu Zhen heard this, his hand holding the wine bottle shook and he almost didn't drop it.
After a long time, he said with some shock: "So, the rumors about Xiaoling are true?"
Yang Youwen chuckled and said: "If it wasn't true and it was related to Xiaoling, how could it be spread so widely?"
At this time, Xu Zhen smiled widely and said: "It seems that there will be big changes in Suzhou City."
Yang Youwen smiled and said: "Let me tell you one more thing. You will know it in a short time anyway."
"The commander of the Public Security Department of Suzhou City this time is none other than Duke Liang's nephew, the commander of the Yingwu Guards, Lan Tian."
"Lord Lan, please go slowly. I won't send you off now."
"Congratulations to the elder brother for your promotion. I have heard that the city of Suzhou is very prosperous. It is said that it was no worse than the capital city."
"Master Blue"
Amidst the compliments, Lantian got into the carriage and headed back to his house.
Although he is a commander, Lan Tian's family is obviously not rich. In the inner city of the capital, it is just a three-story courtyard, which was purchased with the help of his father Lan Rong.
In fact, most of the officials in the capital have very average personal conditions. Now in the Hongwu period, the officials in the capital are the most incorruptible. Those who are not are basically gone.
Even the ministers of various ministries all live in the yamen, and most of the officials in the capital live in official residences.
That is to say, the military commanders and nobles, relying on their past merits, have the large houses and mansions given by His Majesty.
This third courtyard was purchased by my father, Lan Rong, when he got married.
At the entrance of the courtyard, the housekeeper has been waiting for a long time.
Seeing Lan Tian get off the car, he hurried over.
"Master, you are finally back. Master and Duke Liang have been waiting at home for a long time."
When Lan Tian heard this, he suddenly sobered up after being a little confused due to drinking.
He quickly walked towards the yard.
In the lobby, Duke Liang Lan Yu and his father Lan Rong were sitting at the top.
Next to him is his wife serving him.
Entering the lobby, Lan Tianzuo bowed and saluted: "Greetings to my father and my uncle."
"You are such a good boy. Just after you got this appointment, you were eating and drinking outside. You are so tired that your uncle waited here for half an hour. It is simply audacious."
When Lan Rong saw this, he was scolded.
"Brother, please don't blame us. We came in a hurry and my nephew didn't know about it. Besides, after getting promoted, it is inevitable to have a few drinks with colleagues."
Lan Yu persuaded with a smile.
Lan Rong snorted coldly and said nothing.
Of course he was not really angry, but he was afraid that his brother would complain about his son after waiting for so long.
After saying this, there will naturally be no problem.
Unlike Lan Yu, although Lan Rong is the eldest brother, he relies on Lan Yu to a large extent.
It can be said that Lan Yu is the backbone of the entire Lan family.
Lan Yu pondered for a moment and said: "I came here suddenly this time to tell you a few things. This is also the intention of His Highness Changsun."
After hearing His Highness Changsun, Lantian Station became straighter.
This was an instinctive reaction after training in the palace school.