Chapter 386 Give Daming Twenty Years, Make Daming Great Again
The year passed with the sound of firecrackers, and as the wheel of history entered the New Year of 1663, Zhu Shuren's path to power finally entered a new era.
The new emperor Zhu Ciyu changed the Yuan Dynasty, granted amnesty to the world, and announced that the world would be exempted from land tax for one year in order to show kindness to the people and win over the loyalty of the subjects to the new emperor.
In order to smoothly realize the smooth transition of power and avoid unnecessary complications, Zhu Shuren did not plan any external expansion in the first few years of his full power. He only focused his energy on internal governance and digesting the new territory gained in previous years.
aspect.
Of course, just because Ming Dynasty does not plan to expand immediately does not mean that it has no reasons and excuses for expansion.
In fact, in the first five months after Zhu Ciyu came to the throne last year, many thieves sprung up and pretended to be various clan members, and they were later put down. This series of events actually gave Ming Dynasty some means to mobilize foreign troops.
Chance.
Because of the rebels who were wiped out in remote areas, although the leaders were captured and killed by the court, there were always some minor remnants among the defeated remnants, or bandits and barbarian chieftains who were used by the rebels during the temporary imperial edict.
, chose to escape from the Ming Dynasty and live in a place where the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively weak.
This choice is also very normal. Since ancient times, in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, if the losers of the rebellion are not killed, the final result will usually be "either go north to the Hu, or go south to the Yue".
Specific to the situation faced by the Ming Dynasty in the 1660s, because the Rongdi in the northeastern region had been purged and there was no way for the remnants of the Ming Dynasty's rebel bandits to hide, then the fleeing bandits in the north could only find hiding places with the northwest Oirat Mongolian forces such as the Junggar tribe.
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The rebel forces in the south dispersed their remnants, and they may also seek refuge with chieftains from the border areas of Vietnam and Myanmar. This is a normal thing.
Regardless of the history of the original time and space, Myanmar in this era seemed to be able to help Li Dingguo hide the Yongli regime. However, the Burmese people's motivation was not because of "loyalty to the Ming Dynasty", but because they needed a force to contain the Central Plains dynasty to consolidate their presence on the border.
to rule the land and strive for more chieftain territories in Yunnan.
Therefore, even if the dynasty of the Central Plains is not the Qing Dynasty, but still the Ming Dynasty. When rebels appear within the Ming Dynasty and flee to the southwest after their defeat, the Burmese may still be tentative and hide in a low-key manner, or pretend not to know and place them in Yunnan.
On the territory of the chieftain who has not yet been converted to Tuguiliu.
As for Vietnam, it has always had a grudge against the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di fought against them in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, but in the end he failed to occupy them. Vietnam knew that the Ming Dynasty would not deal with them, and there were Ming Dynasty rebels who were willing to defect as long as they were not discovered.
The Vietnamese would definitely dare to take her in.
If the news of the incident passes and Da Ming still has no reaction, then they will become more and more courageous, and may even have the illusion that this matter is over.
At the end of last year, because the new emperor had not yet changed his name, and because the Ming army in various places was still focusing on searching and killing the remnants of the rebels in the country, they did not have time to pay attention to the problem of the rebels fleeing abroad.
At the beginning of the new year, some eager generals felt that the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty had been stabilized, so they began to secretly write to the Nanjing court, stating the latest evidence and intelligence they had collected of rebels fleeing, and also briefly describing the escape of the rebels.
scale, I hope the imperial court can order a counterattack, cross-border pursuit, or at least condemn the neighboring countries that hosted the Ming rebels and ask them to hand over the traitors.
In addition, the situation of individual rebels in the northwest region defecting to Junggar and other Oirat Mongolia is not urgent, because they dare not come back after running away. The northwest is sparsely populated and has little contact with the Ming Dynasty's actual control area.
In the southwest, the situation is more complicated, because the border between Yunnan, Myanmar, and Vietnam is not an uninhabited land, but has high mountains and dense forests, and the tropical rainforest environment is harsh, making it difficult for Central Plains people to survive there.
However, those rebels who fled to the chieftain territory that has not yet been completely controlled may still cross the border and return to Ming territory to plunder supplies due to lack of supplies when the southwest Ming border army fails to take precautions. Even if they dare not fight
The prefectures and counties where the exiled officials were stationed could at least deal with those good chieftains who had completely surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, even if the Ming border troops in the southwest did not receive orders from the court, they occasionally had to adapt to the situation and carry out self-defense and counterattack against enemies who invaded the border or invaded pro-Ming chieftains.
Nowadays, the main person left by Zhu Shuren in the southwest border is Li Dingguo. During the previous war to destroy the Qing Dynasty, Li Dingguo was also dragged to the northeast. He participated in many wars and made meritorious service. However, in the past few years after the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, Zhu Shuren transferred him.
Arrive at the edge of Yunnan Town.
In the subsequent liquidation of Fuso, the Fuso people were held accountable for their annexation of Ryukyu, and the Ezo people violated the Ming Dynasty trade embargo and sold Hokkaido rice seeds to the pseudo-clearance. In this series of actions, Li Dingguo was not good at water warfare, so he had no chance to show off his meritorious service.
Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Mingzhen and Chen Jinnan took it away. Zhu Shuren always insisted on putting Li Dingguo in Yunnan and would not let him move.
For this reason, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen were finally granted the title of Duke, but Li Dingguo only retained the title of Marquis at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Now three or four years have passed since the battle against Fusang. Of course, Li Dingguo also harbors a desire to make contributions and make himself a wife, so he is very active if there is any slight disturbance in the southwest.
For small-scale counterattacks, as long as there is conclusive evidence that it was indeed another country that started the attack, the border generals have discretionary power. As long as it does not lead to a full-scale war, the court will not hold them accountable.
Li Dingguo was still very capable militarily, pursuing cross-border pursuits into Myanmar twice, along the upper reaches of the Red River Valley in Yunnan, and pursuing downriver into Vietnam once.
The kill to injury exchange ratio is very good. Basically, thousands of enemies are killed each time, and the battle losses on the battlefield are only one or two hundred. It is a pity that the troops are still not used to fighting in the tropical rainforest, and the final non-combat attrition is still a battle.
The reduction in number of employees was at least three to five times greater.
On average, about two hundred people died in each battle, and more than a thousand fell sick due to tropical diseases. The only good thing is that most of the wounded who fell sick from tropical diseases were not fatal and could be brought back to rest for two or three months.
It can be cured and the fighting ability can be restored in more than half a year.
Regarding the pursuit requested by Li Dingguo, after the memorial was sent to Nanjing, Zhu Shuren personally reprimanded him, telling him not to act rashly, and that he would not be allowed to pursue pursuit outside the country in future counterattacks. He also secretly promised him not to rush, and that the court would naturally deal with it in a few years, and not to worry about "declaring war"
Excuse expired".
After Li Dingguo understood the profound meaning of the regent, he finally realized that he was indeed in a hurry. He did not wait for the court to be fully prepared and wasted the lives of some soldiers. He also quickly replied that he would not miss the overall situation of the court.
From now on, he must restrain himself and wait for orders. He is willing to be fined for one year as a sign of regret.
After all, one of the excuses used by the Ming Dynasty to deal with Fuso was that Ezo colluded with the Puppet Qing Dynasty. But when did Ming Dynasty cash in on this excuse to declare war? It was five years after the Puppet Qing Dynasty was completely destroyed! Hauge has been dead for five years!
Just because when the Ming Dynasty had just destroyed the Qing Dynasty, the national power was consumed too much, and the people wanted peace too much. They had to comply with public opinion to strengthen internal cohesion and give the people a chance to rest and recuperate.
After such a long time, when Daming went to settle old scores, the Fusang people couldn't say anything. It shows that there is no need to rush for this kind of thing!
Now that the new monarch has just ascended the throne and entered the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, what should Li Dingguo be anxious about? Even if he waits until the late emperor's edict said "when the new monarch reaches the weak crown, he will officially take charge of the government", it will only take four years, which is much worse than the initial deal.
Fuso still has one less year to wait.
The relevant excuses are definitely still within the "statute of limitations".
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Although it is not possible to take action against the enemies in the southwest border for the time being, Li Dingguo's appearance can be regarded as a wake-up call for Zhu Shuren, setting an alarm clock and making him aware of the direction in which the next enemy of the Ming Dynasty should appear.
Junggar and other Oirat Mongolia don’t need to worry for the time being. Historically, the Qing Dynasty’s three expeditions to Galdan were all in the 1690s. They still fought a battle with the Rakshasa people in Yaksa and signed a treaty to stabilize the Rakshasa people. The following year
Only then did he attack Galdan.
But even now the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Oirat Mongolia will be brought forward, it is estimated that it will be brought forward to 1678, because historically Galdan began to annex the Khalkha Mongolia in 1678, and pursued the Eastern Mongolia area that entered the actual control of the Central Plains Dynasty, and followed
There was a conflict between the Central Plains dynasties.
Even if there is a butterfly effect in this life, for example, because Galdan took in a small number of the remnants of the Ming rebels who rebelled when Zhu Ciyu came to the throne, his strength expanded in advance, or he accepted a few more military technologies from the Ming in advance, and then died out of fear.
Intensify the chain of suspicion.
Well, this timeline may not be too far ahead. At least historically, Galdan only came to power in 1670 because his brother Sengge Hutaiji was killed in internal strife. In the first two or three years after taking office, he was still busy with the Junggar Civil War.
The internal enemies who murdered his brother were eliminated. Therefore, the conflict between Galdan and the Ming Dynasty was unlikely to break out before 1673, and most likely after 1675.
The Sengge Hutaiji who is currently in power in the Junggar tribe is far less ambitious than his younger brother, and he is not very strong in dealing with internal opponents. He still needs to show weakness to the Ming Dynasty, so he will not threaten the Ming Dynasty.
If the Ming Dynasty can detonate and nip the Galdan threat to the Central Plains Dynasty in the bud in the future, then it can turn around and solve the Junggar tribe first, take the Xinjiang area and northwest Gansu into its hands, and then turn around and deal with Luo
The pressure from the Cha Kingdom on the outside of Northeast China——
Historically, the Manchu Qing had been delaying in provoking Galdan until the threat of Rakshasa in the Northeast became greater, and then they could only seize the big ones and release the small ones, tolerate one side first, and sign a treaty to recognize it.
In order to protect the interests of the Rakshasa people, they concentrated their efforts on dealing with Galdan.
Now Zhu Shuren definitely cannot let this tragedy happen again. What he wants is to cripple or even eliminate Galdan before the Rakshasas invade Yaksa, creating a time lag to ensure that when the Rakshasas invade in the future, they will not be able to pull in other people.
Help them contain Ming's allies.
In this way, relying on his understanding of the general trend of history, Zhu Shuren roughly sorted out a timetable for the foreign strategy to be laid out in the next ten years:
In the first four years after the new king ascended the throne, he continued to farm in a low profile, focusing on maintaining a stable transition of power at the center of the imperial court. This was the most fundamental core interest.
All border ringworm diseases cannot harm this fundamental interest. As long as new civil strife and civil war do not break out in the Central Plains, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment, farm and resume production, this is the most fundamental and hard truth.
After four years, we can first liquidate those local forces in Myanmar and Vietnam that now dare to accommodate the Ming Dynasty's fleeing rebels across the border.
However, because these matters are not serious, if the leaders of Myanmar and Vietnam are willing to change their ways, cede territory and pay compensation, and provide the Ming Dynasty with several strategically important coastal supply ports to facilitate the Ming Dynasty's Southeast Asian trade routes, then the Ming Dynasty will
You can forgive them, but you don't have to destroy them.
After all, tropical rainforest areas, before the modernization of science and technology, were really not suitable for large-scale colonization and reclamation. Although the local fields had abundant rain, it was precisely because of the abundant rain that too many nutrients were washed away, and the land fertility was not good, even if the crops could
There are three seasons a year, but the output in each season is pitifully low.
Before the large-scale use of chemical fertilizers or artificial fertilizers, these areas were not suitable for large-scale agricultural development by the Han people. Therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty got the maritime rights and interests, such as Jiading (Saigon), Pattani, and Malacca in later generations
In the game "Age of Navigation", all the navigation nodes of the port city have been captured. The initial layout of Southeast Asia is okay, let's talk about the inland land slowly, and the mountainous and dense forests will be worthless in a hundred or two hundred years.
This year is 1663, and until 1666 it was the period of recuperation before the new king of the Ming Dynasty took office. Therefore, the earliest time to start the war should be 1667.
Considering that something might happen to Galdan as early as 1673, after the Ming Dynasty started taking action in 1667, it needed to announce the end of its pursuit of Burma and Vietnam before 1670, and then take another two or three years to prepare and start to be on guard against Galdan.
Once Galdan shows the slightest hint of ambition, Ming Dynasty will be able to dig out the old accounts accumulated today and calculate them, or take action in 1674, and the latest should not be more than 1678 (Historically, Galdan also took the initiative to deal with the Qing Dynasty in this year
Control the area), and then the complete eradication of Galdan must not exceed 1680.
Moreover, Zhu Shuren’s plan for the Junggar tribe must be to completely annex it. It is impossible to cede territory first like Myanmar and Vietnam. After all, Galdan is ambitious and will pose a threat to the Central Plains dynasty. It belongs to the "Mongolia that has threatened the Central Plains since ancient times."
Nomadic” nature.
More importantly, as a time traveler, Zhu Shuren must have a preconceived blueprint in his mind. He feels that all future generations are already part of the Chinese territory. Now that he has traveled through time, he naturally has to be thorough and get everything.
If in the direction of Xinjiang, the territory that the Ming Dynasty gets in the future is not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty, then Zhu Shuren will definitely feel like a failure.
Even the Ming Emperor before Zhu Shuren really couldn't get his hands on the Xinjiang area. Now that he is here, he must take it, and at least he must reach the Balkhash Lake Basin (history was ceded by the Qing Dynasty in the 1860s, and now
belongs to Kazakhstan)
After 1680, when the issues between Junggar and Xinjiang were completely resolved, the Zhushu people could devote all of the Ming Dynasty's external attention throughout the 1980s to guarding against the Rakshasa people's attempts to test the Yaksa region in the northeast.
After careful calculation, Zhu Shuren has basically arranged the foreign affairs schedule for the next twenty years. Every time, he will have a good reputation. Every time, he will be "anyone who offends our strong men will be punished no matter how far away", rather than taking the initiative.
Struggle with military force.
In the first seven years, the company was farming and preparing to lead military forces, which was left to the Burmese and Vietnamese; in the second seven years, the company was preparing to lead military forces and was left to Junggar; in the third seven years, it was left to Rakshasa.
As for the future, Zhu Shuren can't think clearly for the time being. After all, those major foreign enemies that originally posed a threat to the Central Plains in the 18th century in parallel time and space have been defeated once and for all.
And twenty years later, Zhu Shuren will be sixty-three. He doesn’t know whether he can live longer. How can he think so far now? It’s better to devote more energy to educating the next generation, and don’t mess around and exercise power.
Optimize and improve the mechanism, and everything else will fall into place.