Wang Shangwen obviously didn't understand the meaning of Gao Pragmatic's words, he also thought that Gao Pragmatic was like many civil officials who were stupid in reading, because the other party was very subdued, he was satisfied, and he was going to start talking about benevolence and gentleness.

As a military general, Wang Shangwen is very contemptuous of this literati mentality, but he doesn't dare to show it. Because the conclusion he has come from his military career over the years is that there is no need to tell these natives about benevolence, and they do not understand what benevolence is, and what they know and recognize is only strength.

But for this, high pragmatism is also clear.

In traditional Chinese culture, benevolence is a virtue. But Gao Pragmatic also knows that benevolence is not everything, when you can show your benevolence, you have to look at the object, look at the timing.

If people in the world are either gentlemen or ladies, then being benevolent is naturally a kind of upbringing and kindness, because the other party can understand.

What do you know? Understand that it's not that you can't do it, but you just don't want to behave too well, because if you behave too well, there will be no room for maneuver, and you will force others to be too embarrassed, or even forced to have no way out, so you can only be trapped and stubborn.

However, there is indeed a kind of person in this world who is afraid of power and not virtuous.

What is fear? Wei is power, strong, fear is afraid that you will use power against him, the more you bully him, the more he is afraid of you.

What is Wilder called? That is, if you are good to him, he knows how to be grateful, and understands that what you do is a virtue, so that he is willing to repay it with loyalty and sincerity.

When you meet someone who is afraid of power and not virtuous, it is useless to treat him well, only if he is afraid of you, he will be honest.

It's like the Japanese in later generations who are most afraid of Americans, but whenever the American father glares at him, Japan will be cowardly, and what his father says is what he says. Why? It's just that they were scared of the atomic bombs of the Americans, so even if the Americans fart, they would say that it was fragrant.

Gao pragmatic was born in such a snobbish era, so his consistent attitude is that benevolence must depend on the situation.

For example, first give it power, and then cherish it. Virtue must complement each other, and there must not be only one, otherwise you may be lame.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty is actually different from the Central Plains Dynasty of the past dynasties, the Ming Dynasty treats the "barbarians", Huaide is actually a few cases to do, most of the time, the power is the mainstream of the Ming Dynasty. It's like Liu Xianping is all in charge, and he was directly exterminated......

Is it once and for all? Yes, but it's not cost-effective.

This method of governance is "uneconomical" for Gao Pragmatic. A small population is not much of the barbarians, the Ming Dynasty sent a large army twelve times, after hundreds of battles, from Taizu, Chengzu, Yingzong, Daizong, Shizong, Muzong until the Wanli Dynasty, a few years ago finally exterminated the clan.

Is it a good deal? Economical? If the "barbarians" in the world want to rule like this, what is so strange about Daming grinding himself to death?

Gao Shishi's greatest appreciation for the "conquest and rule" of the Ming Dynasty is actually the "Yunnan model", and the worst "conquest and rule" is the "Annam model".

From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, Yunnan region has experienced Nanzhao and Dali for nearly 700 years, and it seems that it has a tendency to be divided into two countries with the Central Plains. But when it came to the Yuan Dynasty, Dali was leveled, but the actual control area was far less than that of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty attacked and destroyed the Yuan, and most of the capital had been lowered, and the king of Yuan Yunnan refused to die. So the Ming army invaded Yunnan, and King Yuan set himself on fire. At that time, the "south of Caiyun" was probably less than one-fifth of Yunnan in later generations.

The Ming Dynasty was the dynasty that truly established the central government's effective control over the entire territory of Yunnan in later generations.

And the gradual strengthening of the Ming Dynasty's control over Yunnan was not in place in one step, but in one step. The Ming Dynasty first established 36 Tusi in Yunnan. Because there are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan and do not belong to each other, the Ming Dynasty's Yunnan Tusi officials are like small kingdoms, even more so than Guangxi.

Among them, it became the country's two great toasts: Laos and Burma, which were only one of the 36 toasts at that time. Among these toasts, Longchuan toast is the strongest, and it often invades Myanmar and other toasts.

In the twenty-first year of Hongwu, Longchuan Tusi rebelled, and Xiping Marquis Muying led an army to crusade. At that time, there were 300,000 rebels, driving hundreds of war elephants to fight. Mu Ying discussed with the generals and believed that the morale of the rebels was a war elephant that had not been seen in the Central Plains, and what the war elephant had not seen was the firearms of the Central Plains.

So Mu Ying ordered that when the war started, the fire guns and rockets of the Shenji Battalion must be like a sky full of stars, and they would be scattered at the elephants in an endless stream. He also ordered the army to fight tomorrow, and if there was advance or retreat, all those who retreated would be executed.

The next day, the Longchuan army came from the wilderness, and the elephants were violently attacked by the Mingshen machine battalion, and they were really defeated, but the Tusi army was still in order. Mu Ying was in a high place, and saw a Tusi general, fighting desperately, and the Tusi army was angry with him. Mu Ying then ordered his own elite soldiers to enter and bring this person's head to see him.

The Tusi general was attacked and killed, and the rebels were routed. Mu Ying then entered the siege of the capital and destroyed it, so Baiyi was shocked. Because the Yunnan region was too complicated, the Ming Dynasty sealed the town of Mujia in Yunnan, and finally established effective rule over the entire territory of the current Yunnan region, and the Tatar Qing Dynasty continued to govern later, and Yunnan finally became China's inalienable core territory.

Since he had an idea about Annan, Gao Pragmatic has carefully thought about a question more than once: The situation between Yunnan and Annan seems to be actually very similar, why did Yunnan finally become "China", but Annan finally gained and lost?

It stands to reason that Annam has been a Chinese county since the Han Dynasty, and it was not until the five dynasties after the death of the Tang Dynasty that the country was established, which was not as early as the founding of Yunnan Nanzhao. By the time of the Song Dynasty, the Dali Kingdom of Yunnan was far stronger than Annam. During the Yuan Dynasty, Dali and Annam were conquered. Annam was restored a little earlier, and his slogan for the restoration of the country was similar to "drive out the Tartars and restore China".

At the beginning of Hongwu, Chen's Annan paid tribute. By the time of Chengzu, the Chen family was in turmoil, and Chengzu sent Empress Chen to Annan as the king, and Annan booby-trapped the envoy of the Ming Dynasty and the king surnamed Chen. So the Ming Dynasty sent 500,000 troops to attack Annam. Thousands of elderly people in Annan greeted the military gate: said that Annan was originally a part of China, why bother to set up King Chen again, it simply became a Chinese county - there is no need to say whether there is a private arrangement, anyway, Chengzu happily obeyed it.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not deal with Annan as it did in Yunnan, and sent people to guard the local area. After Zhang Fu conquered Annam, he was soon recalled, and Annam revived. At that time, Annan's prison made the eunuch Ma Lin a big corrupt official, accepting bribes, killing and humiliating innocents, which can almost be described as doing all the bad things, which finally led to the rebellion in Annan.

Zhang Fuzhi rebelled, and Zhang Fu was recalled again, and the rebellion resumed. In the end, Chengzu died, and the Annan Rebellion could no longer be determined.

Gao Pragmatic felt that the Ming Dynasty lost Annan, the first thing was that he did not let Zhang Fu follow Mu Ying's example of Annan, which is also where Chengzu is not as good as Taizu, not as good as anything else, but not as good as caring for his relatives - Mu Ying is the adopted son of Taizu.

The second is that the officials who chose to guard Annan were extremely corrupt and violent, and this point does not need to be discussed in detail, in short, it is a mistake in employing people.

The third is that the Xuande ministers have no foresight at all, and they make historical analogies indiscriminately, but do not see the great benefits of maintaining Annan. In fact, the Li clan Annan has been in civil strife for only two generations, and there are many mountains inside Annam, the Mo clan killed the Li clan, and the Zheng clan competed with the Mo clan in the name of the Li clan, creating an Annam version of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

However, Emperor Xuande finally gave up Annam, whom he felt was not cost-effective to rule, and recognized Annam's independence.

Since then, Annam has become Vietnam, and China will never be cut off.

But why does Gao Pragmatic think that there is no general "Shizhen" in the local area, which is related to "prestige" and "morality"? Shouldn't it be "Wei", what does this have to do with Germany?

Of course there is a relationship, and a lot of it.

Because Shizhen means that this land is, to some extent, already your "ancestral property"!

Since it is an ancestral property, can it not be managed well? Since you want to manage it well, can you still kill the local people at every turn? Obviously not, everyone is killed, who will pay you taxes, who will provide for you?

Which landlord will kill all his tenants! For the sake of his own dominance, he can only fight and pull, and pull while fighting.

And this is also the biggest advantage of hereditary officials over liuguan: liuguan is not responsible for the long-term stability of the local area, he is likely to only want the present; The official must take a long-term view of the local area, otherwise he will lose his ancestral business, and not only he will have nothing, but his descendants will also have nothing.

Using Shizhen to core the border land, this is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty to stabilize Yunnan. And now what Gao pragmatically wants is to use another inconspicuous "world town" to deal with Annan.

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