Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Jianghu is not about fighting and killing, it is about human relationships.
In the Qilian River Valley, the emperor rode his Tiandan war horse slowly through the west of Dangar City, known as the Throat of Haizang, the tea and horse trading capital, and Little Beijing.
Outside the Gonghai Gate of the west gate, upon hearing the arrival of the emperor, countless soldiers and civilians spontaneously came to greet them, and they greeted each other for twenty miles. No matter officials, generals, or soldiers and immigrants, even Dayu, Yugur and other Mongolian Uighur herdsmen and merchants here came to greet them.
Come and greet us spontaneously and enthusiastically.
The prestige of the Emperor of Heaven is as high as the sun.
This Dangar city has a history of three hundred years and was first built during the Hongwu period. However, since the establishment of Xihai County in the Western Han Dynasty, it has gradually become an important commercial and military town.
Dangar is Tibetan, and its Chinese name is Dongkelcheng. Its original meaning is white conch.
"The power of the saints shines in Qinghai." The young third prince Han Wang came not long ago from Beijing and accompanied the emperor. Looking at this scene, especially the enthusiastic respect of the herdsmen, he was very impressed. His Royal Highness the Han Dynasty was also fifteen years old.
, looks quite like Zhu Yihai.
After years of conditioning and training, he is no longer the malnourished and skinny boy he was when he first came back. He has grown taller, can ride steadily on the horse, and has a good temperament.
"Government is an art. It cannot be conquered by simply fighting and killing. It requires tactics. You see the great changes in the Western Region now, and you see the hospitality of these Tangut, Mongolian, and Uighurs.
It’s not natural.”
King Hongtou of Han nodded, "I understand, just like the Jurchens, the Jurchens I saw in the past were all barbaric and cruel, and treated us Han people as pigs and dogs, but this year I went back to the border with His Highness the Crown Prince, and saw
What is more important is the respect and obedience of those Jurchens. Even the once fierce and arrogant Eight Banners of Jianzhou have now become slaves of my Royal Young Master. They were all conquered and beaten down by our cannons."
"Yes, but not entirely. Sufficient force deterrence is necessary, but blind force deterrence is not enough. Zhang Youchi must be there. In addition to severely suppressing the rebels and rebels in recent years, I still have many leftovers for other things.
Those with large leeway, whether it is the Jurchens from the mountainous areas of the East China Sea and the North West, the Mobei Desert, the West Desert, and South Mongolia, or even the Wei, Zang, and Qingkang tribes, etc., they mainly focus on recruiting, marrying with them, and trading with them. Do you know why?"
"Win over the majority and attack the small minority," replied the King of Han.
"Yes, the core essence of rule is to form alliances. Constantly form alliances, always win over the majority as allies, and divide and attack a small group of opponents. Only in this way can we remain invincible. This is a game of sitting and dividing the fruits.
, power is the power to divide the fruits. The core is how to divide the fruits. You cannot do as you like. You must try to take care of the interests of the majority of people, so that they can support you and at the same time, you can eat the biggest or even the most fruits as much as possible. "
The emperor's severe crackdown on the rebels and rebels was because they threatened the core rule and occupied the geographically secure areas of Shaanxi-Gansu and Liaodong, the two most important Han corridors in the east and west, which could not be given up at all.
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As for Mobei outside the Great Wall, or Qingkang in the Western Regions, these places are now out of reach. The imperial court cannot adopt the same ruling strategy as the Han Dynasty, so it has to adopt a more pragmatic strategy.
"Long live my emperor!"
"Long live!"
"God bless the Ming Dynasty!"
The soldiers and civilians on the roadside cheered, and the mountains shouted long live.
Zhu Yihai waved to greet everyone and somewhat enjoyed the scene.
He turned to King Han and said, "You can't do things out of touch with reality. Even if you have clear goals and lofty ideals, you can look up far, but you must be down-to-earth. Otherwise, you will be too high-spirited, unrealistic, and unable to go far."
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It took the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years to conquer the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Although after Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, it no longer adopted a policy of active expansion and turned to a conservative policy, the Ming Dynasty still relied on inertia to truly incorporate the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau into imperial rule.
Let this area that has been separated from the Central Plains for hundreds of years return.
Although they did not succeed in Jiaozhi and Burma, and even lost the land of Liangliao outside Shanhaiguan during the Apocalypse, it was just that the Ming Dynasty was corrupt at that time.
"What do you think of Qinghai?" Zhu Yihai asked his son.
"It's very nice here. When I arrived here a few days ago, I happened to catch up with the local officials here and the monks from Dongke Temple to worship the sea. I participated in this local custom and went west from Gonghaimen, crossing the sun and the moon.
Go to Qinghai to worship the God of the West Sea.
I felt a little uncomfortable when crossing Riyue Mountain, but I got used to it in a few days.
There is a Riyue Mountain, and to the east is the Loess Plateau and the farming area of the Hehuang Valley. There are stretches of river valleys, fields and villages, and prosperous industrial and commercial towns. Xining Fucheng is even more lively than the mainland. But once you pass the Riyue Mountain, the west is very...
A vast, endless plain, Qinghai Lake deserves to be called the West Sea, and the Qinghai Dragon Horse on the Dragon Island in the center of the lake is an excellent thousand-mile horse."
The King of Han liked this place very much, and the season when he came happened to be autumn.
The banks of Qinghai Lake and the Hehuang Valley in early autumn are both extremely beautiful. The 800-mile agricultural area in the Hehuang Valley to the east is the time when crops are harvested, and there is great joy.
On the bank of Qinghai Lake in the west, there are herds of cattle and sheep, and horses are running. Herdsmen are rushing to shear sheep before winter, and slaughter the excess male animals, and even some small lambs, so that there will be pasture for the winter.
, but there will definitely be insufficient fodder. By then, male animals and lambs will lose fat and waste fodder. Raising them all winter and spring may not be as cost-effective as slaughtering them and selling them to Han merchants now.
During this harvest season, merchants from the Han region rushed back and forth along the ancient Silk Road. There was a constant flow of camels, oxen, yaks, and pack horses carrying all kinds of tea, salt, and furs to and from Haiyan, Baiyun, etc.
, many new warehouses were built in Huangyuan, as well as many places for primary processing of leather, wool, cattle hair, etc.
What Zhu Hongteng, King of the Han Dynasty, saw was not the remote and remote northwest frontier, nor the wilderness and dangers. Instead, he saw a prosperous and prosperous place with hard-working and simple Han immigrants, hospitable nomads, and loyal soldiers guarding the border.
Of course, there are also local specialties such as plump beef and mutton, strong and resilient Xining blankets, Xining woolen cloth, yak jerky, Qinghai dry-coated stunner, Huangzhong broad beans, Huangyuan mature vinegar, etc., which impressed him deeply.
"I'm calling you here this time. It's been a long time since I've seen you. You've also been crowned an adult. I'm asking you to come here so that we can enjoy the scenery of the northwest."
The king of Han could vaguely guess the main reason why the emperor summoned him. He was crowned in Beijing this year. The emperor and the prince were not in Beijing. The crowning ceremony was held by the chief assistant of the cabinet, the chief prime minister Wen Anzhi, and the royal family Zhengtang Wang Zhu Yujian and Liu Bei.
Zhu Zhenye, grandson of the Emperor of the Jianguo Kingdom, presided over the witness together.
The crown prince went on a northern expedition to exterminate the Jian captives. Before his expedition, the emperor issued a special edict, conferring the title of grandson of the crown prince Zhu Zhenye on his eldest son, Zhu Zhenye, and asked him to stay in Beijing to supervise the country in place of the crown prince.
The grandson of the emperor, who is just over one year old, was born a little early.
However, the crown prince unexpectedly led the Northern Expedition, and the emperor appointed his eldest grandson as the crown prince and stayed behind to supervise the country, which made sense.
After being crowned King of Han, he immediately completed his wedding.
The Princess of Han was personally selected by the emperor a long time ago. She also came from Emperor Conglong Yuanxun. She was the daughter of Shen Chenquan, the former cabinet scholar, and she was also from Ningbo.
However, Shen Chenquan is a civil servant. Compared with Zhang Huangyan, his position and family background are almost the same. However, Zhang Huangyan also has strong connections in the military. He is now the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, especially the several concubines whom the emperor returned to the prince.
They are all top-notch civil and military achievements.
Crowning, wedding.
Then it was time to consider conferring the title of vassal.
Among the emperor's sons, the eldest were the Crown Prince and the King of Han, and the eldest among the others was only seven years old. It was still early for them to be granted titles and vassal status.
The court now has many opinions on how to confer a vassal status on the prince, but it is obvious that the emperor has his own plans.
Directly summon the King of Han to Qinghai.
"If you are asked to stay in Qinghai and establish a vassal state, are you willing?"
"Qinghai is a good place. My sons and ministers all obey my father's arrangements."
Regarding the enfeoffment of princes, Zhu Yihai has been thinking about it for several years. The enfeoffment system in Mongolia and the Yuan Dynasty has great flaws and will inevitably lead to division. There will definitely be rebellion between the central government and the vassal kings within three generations, which is not conducive to centralization and unification.
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At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the system of vassal enfeoffment, which mainly enfeoffed various places, and even enfeoffed some in frontier fortresses. There were many fortress kings, with the intention of shielding the central vassal, but some were too powerful, especially in the area of military power.
, the subsequent Jingnan incident also demonstrated the huge loophole risks of this policy.
Zhu Di succeeded in seizing the throne, so he almost overturned Zhu Yuanzhang's enfeoffment system, took back the guards, etc., and directly allowed the feudal kings to raise pigs locally. This not only restricted the feudal princes' role in shielding the feudal center and contributing to the country, but also increased the national finances.
The burden was huge, especially for the vassal kings in the Central Plains, who had to reproduce from generation to generation, were constantly enfeoffed, had great pressure on salaries, and were also prone to occupying military and civilian fields and oppressing the people.
However, Zhu Yihai also saw the positive effects that the Mu family of Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son Mu Ying had in guarding Yunnan for nearly three hundred years. Although by the time of Chongzhen, the Mu family occupied one-third of the official land in Yunnan, and more
There was lawlessness and he was a big chieftain, but he was still very active in maintaining the central authority of the Ming Dynasty.
How to find a balance point is very important.
He neither hoped that the enfeoffed princes would rebel in the future, nor that their descendants would rebel against the Ming Dynasty, nor was he willing to be locked up in a place to raise pigs.
He also didn't like the Tang Dynasty's practice of locking up all the princes, emperors and grandsons in the capital and raising them in the Five Kings Courtyard and the Baisun Courtyard.
After much thought, Zhu Yihai planned to make the King of Han suffer some hardships by arranging a border land for him, demarcating a fiefdom, giving him some limited military power, and mainly giving him the power of local supervision.
After entering the city, Zhu Yihai took the King of Han to see the sand table.
To the south of Riyue Mountain, that is, on the south bank of the Longyang Gorge area of the Yellow River, there is a guide station. During the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, the Hezhou Guard was established, with guide stations and other units under it, and troops were divided into fields. There were ten troops in guide.
The villages and soldiers were all moved from the Huaisi area of Jiangzuo, and later some local indigenous people were resettled.
This Guide is the Guide of later generations, and it also includes Jianzha. The Guinan area is mainly concentrated on the south bank of the Yellow River in Longyangxia.
After nearly three hundred years, Guide still retains some unique Jiangzuo culture, but it is also mixed with some barbaric styles. There are both Han and Tibetan Buddhists here, including Confucius Temple, City Emperor, Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.
, there are also Honshu temples, with nearly a hundred temples of various kinds, thousands of monks, and dozens of sutra halls.
There are both farming villages and tribal herdsmen.
This has always been Shaanxi under the Ming Dynasty. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it also lost control for a time, but now it is back on track.
The Shao Dynasty established a new Heyuan Prefecture on the east and south banks of the upper and lower reaches of Longyang Gorge, reaching Hezhou City on the Daxia River in the west and Maqu in the west Qingshan Mountain in the south. Later Maqu, Luqu, Henan, and Zeku
, Xiahe, Tongren, Linxia, Xunhua, Jianzha, Guide, Guinan and Tongde are all included in this Heyuan Prefecture.
Heyuan Prefecture, Xining Prefecture, and Xihai Prefecture were divided from Gansu Province and included in Qinghai Province, and were directly managed by the imperial court.
This newly established Heyuan Prefecture also included the fiefdom of Yinle Duqi, the fifth son of Heshuote Gushi Khan. His fiefdom was on both sides of the meander of the Yellow River in the north of Jishi Mountain.
From Longyang Gorge to Liujia Gorge, this is a more dangerous section of the Yellow River. There are many shoals and fast water, making it difficult to navigate by boat. You can only ride a sheepskin raft or raft down the river.
The area on the south bank of the Yellow River is high in the south and high in the north, with mountains and valleys in the east and plateau pastures in the west.
During the Xuande period, the southern part of this area was governed by Longwu Temple Xia Cang Huofu and Longwu Nangsuo, which gradually formed the unity of Zhenjiao in the Regong area. During the Wanli period, the Huangnan area was governed by
Controlled by Hun Sabatur of the Mongolian Tumed Tribe.
When Heshuote moved eastward, this place was controlled by Yin Leduqi, the fifth son of Gushi Khan. However, the Xia Cang Huofu family of Regong Longwu Temple was granted the title of Country Master during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty.
Five Kingdoms: Shi, during the Wanli period, Longwu Temple directly converted to the more influential Gelug sect.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The current presiding officer, Xia Canggarden Gyatso, was now canonized by the emperor as one of the eight Qinghai Tuktu, and is in charge of the Yellow Sea area.
In this large area of Huangnan, there are now Heshuote's Yinledu Qinoyan, Xiatsang Hutuktu, and Tumut's troops, plus Guide and Hezhou in the north.
The Ming Dynasty's military garrison, immigration, etc. became even more complicated.
Zhu Yihai now wants to set up this large area as a government directly under the imperial court and place it under Qinghai Province. There will be an imperial camp stationed here to garrison in the town, a provincial patrol camp in the town, and the prefect, county magistrate, etc. will also be dispatched.
At the same time, the most important thing is that he plans to entrust the King of Han to come here.
Zhu Yihai planned to build a new city in Guinan, south of Guide, on the bank of the Mangla River between the Yellow River and Xiqing Mountain, station troops and immigrate, and at the same time enfeoff the King of Han and establish a vassal state here.
The conditions in Guinan are worse than those in Guide. The southern part of the territory is surrounded by tall and towering mountains, which are part of the west-facing mountains. The central part is the plateau beach. The terrain is flat and open. There is an inland desert beach land of more than one million acres.
There are rolling sand dunes and dots of pasture.
The Taiji and valleys formed by the Yellow River and its tributaries Shagou River and Mangla River are wide or narrow and relatively flat.
The scattered distribution of mountains, flatlands, and valleys is the topographic feature of this area. The mountains are suitable for grazing, the valleys are suitable for agriculture, and the terraces are suitable for farming and grazing. They are surrounded by mountains and rivers. In this area where agriculture and animal husbandry meet, the geographical location is very important.
A prince enfeoffed and guarded the area, which helped the Ming Dynasty expand its borders to the south bank of the Yellow River and the foot of Xiqing Mountain.
Heyuan Prefecture is very large, and its highlight area is Hezhou Linxia. To the east are Jishi Pass, Tumen Pass, Lotus Fort, Bao Bao Fort, Qitai Fort, etc.
Zhu Yihai did not give such a large palace to the King of Han.
"This area south of Guide is located in Guinan County. I will send people to build Seoul City and the Palace of the Han Dynasty there. Then the entire Guinan County will be your fiefdom. Civil affairs, justice, taxation, etc., the imperial court will send county magistrates and other officials to be in charge.
We will also send out imperial camps, garrison towns and other sub-battalions to garrison."
"I will grant you the land, pastures, and mines in the entire Guinan County. You can hire tenants or buy slaves to farm or herd. I will exempt you from taxes for ten years. After ten years, taxation will start normally. It's feasible.
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The King of Han replied without thinking, "My sons and ministers all obey my father's arrangements."
"Well, things like civil affairs, justice, and taxation are too complicated. I leave them to special personnel. You don't have to worry about it. Just take care of your own property in your Han Dynasty. I allow you to form an emergency team of no more than three thousand people.
The militiamen were trained, and the officers were dispatched by the imperial court."
"In addition, I give you the power of supervision. All military and civilian officers and soldiers in the counties of Heyuan Prefecture are within your supervisory authority."
In the south, Henan, Zeku County, and Zhu Yihai were designated as the Heshuote Autonomous County of Yinledu Qinoyan.
The three newly established counties of Xiahe, Tongren, and Luqu were assigned to the six local chieftains, Kajia, who had existed since the Tubo era.
Maqu County was handed over to the Tumed Ministry here for self-government.
Zhu Yihai redrawn the boundaries of several major forces in Heyuan Prefecture and divided and ruled them.
There were two counties in Yinleduqi, three counties in Kagaliube, and all the counties in the north were directly under the Ming Dynasty, and one of them was entrusted to the King of Han.
In addition, several places in the west and south of Shanxi and Jishi in the river meander are still under the jurisdiction of Yinleduqi, but these places are not under the jurisdiction of Heyuan Prefecture.
The original territories, people, and livestock of nearly a hundred temples such as Longwu Temple are still owned by them. Zhu Yihai only made adjustments and established temple-affiliated towns based on these temple territories, which are still autonomous by them.
"I have sent people to conduct surveys and found that Guinan County can cultivate millions of acres of cultivated land, and can utilize tens of millions of acres of natural grassland. It is not a problem to graze hundreds of thousands of livestock. It is also suitable for growing rapeseed, highland barley, etc."
"The Yellow River surrounds the northwest, and the snow-capped mountains protect the right and east. This is the strategic location of the Bailan Ancient Road, an important ancient road. It connects Hehuang to the north and connects Sichuan and Yunnan to the south. It has great potential."
"I would like to express my gratitude to my father for the gift!" The King of Han happily accepted the order and was not dissatisfied at all. For him who had suffered so much, he did not have much ambition.
The emperor allocated a county fief for him in Qinghai and directly gave him millions of acres of arable land and tens of millions of acres of pasture. He felt very satisfied.
He doesn't even care that he doesn't have the power to govern the people.
In fact, if possible, he would prefer to stay in Beijing, even if he was allowed to go to Nanjing, but his father said that he hoped that he could build a vassal on the south bank of the Yellow River in Qinghai, and screen the center of the vassal court, so he had no problem with it.
"In the future, if your descendants have both talents and virtues, the subsequent monarchs of the imperial court will naturally continue to entrust them to other frontier areas and continue to build vassals to guard the center of the vassal."
Descendants of vassals who are capable can learn literature and martial arts, take imperial examinations, go to the battlefield, make meritorious deeds, and be awarded to the feudal vassal based on their merits. Those who are averagely capable can also be minor officials, do business, or just be idle.
Landlord.
"The Ronin Begins with Douluo"
"I will use my internal funds to build the Seoul City of Guinan County and the Han Palace for you. I won't build it too extravagantly. You will have to work hard for the rest. Of course, I will also give you a sum of money to start the development.
How Yinzi and some subordinates will develop in the future depends on your own ability and your own efforts."
"I hope you can cherish this fiefdom and maintain it well. You can develop farming and herding here, and you can also develop industry and commerce through the convenient transportation of Bailangu Road. This is the foundation that you will pass on to your descendants in the future. You must work hard.
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Enfeoff a county and supervise a prefecture. There are three thousand militiamen in hand who cannot cross the county or leave the prefecture. They cannot be mobilized except in times of war. The emperor still has relatively large restrictions on the fiefdom power of the Han Dynasty, but he also gives certain powers to show his authority.
special role.
He is the representative of the royal family, guarding the local area and supervising the civil and military affairs. At the same time, he is not directly given political power and military power to command and mobilize troops.
In the entire Heyuan Prefecture and the northwest border, various ethnic groups are mixed, and the fiefdom autonomy of several major forces is increasingly testing the princes. Fortunately, with the support of the imperial camp, towns, provincial camps and other troops, it does not need to be too much.
worry.
"I have summoned Yinledu Qinoyan, the six chieftains of Kajia, Hutuktu of Longwu Temple, and Tumut Hutaiji to come together. From now on, you will be neighbors. I have chosen
Yao Qisheng, the prefect of Jinan, is patrolling Haixi Road in Qinghai. If you have any questions in the future, you can go to him directly."