Chapter Ninety-Six: Guarding Yungui's Strategy

"Guizhou Tusi because of the last year's war, there have been complaints, the minister thinks that when one hand is soft and the other is hard, appease the Tusi in various places, distribute money and grain, and reward merit, but also jump out of some unscrupulous people, one by one to correct the law, in order to rectify the authority of the court." Wang Ji said: "In addition to this, it is enough to rectify the guards, especially the post station." ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded, what does Daming have in Guizhou?

Isn't it just a road, why is the post station of this road to ensure the smooth flow of news and materials between the imperial court and Yunnan, which is the biggest role of Guizhou.

In ancient times, the development of Guizhou was really not a profitable thing.

Wang Ji said: "Yunnan has to divide the interior, the guard, and the foreign domain. He paused slightly, and said, "Please use the map." ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, and someone immediately spread the map of Yunnan on the table.

To be honest, looking at the map of the interior of the Ming Dynasty, there is still a little bit of what China looks like in later generations. But the map of Yunnan is simply miserable. If you don't know, you think that Luchuan has already arrived at the Bay of Bengal, but you don't know that they are still a short distance from the Bay of Bengal.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't even match the map above with the impression of his later generations, if he didn't know that the Ming Dynasty was still the same Ming, he once thought that Southeast Asia was already another world.

This is another reason why Zhu Qizhen promoted astronomical surveying, using astronomical positioning technology to draw maps. After all, the concept of latitude and longitude has been around for a long time.

Wang Ji didn't feel that his map was wrong, and still said: "The interior of Yunnan, that is, Kunming, Chuxiong, and Dali's prefectures and counties, is the foundation of Yunnan. ”

Wang Ji immediately said with his hand, which was the middle of the map, and said: "This area is the foundation of Yunnan, and Luchuan, Lin'an, and Qujing are the three gateways of Yunnan. These three portals are all important places where the guards gather. ”

Zhu Qizhen took a closer look at the past and suddenly felt that this Yunnan is enough to establish a country to a certain extent, and the form of mountains and rivers is indeed good.

Wang Ji said: "Beyond this, there is the outer domain. ”

"The three use different methods to recuperate and recuperate inside, relocate households, repair water conservancy, large-scale tuntian, hoard grain, and once the troops are transferred into Yunnan, it will also make Yunnan enough to support the local area, saving the suffering of transporting grain."

"And the gateway to govern, when the guard is exhausted, the Yunnan guard is tired, and the ministers will naturally deal with it one by one, but there is one thing, but it is a difficult thing, not elsewhere, it is the king of Luchuan Xiang."

"King Xiang is a prince, courtesy, in Yunnan, even the ministers are under King Xiang, if King Xiang insists on going his own way, who can govern?"

"And the land of the Luchuan,

It is also the western gateway of Yunnan, once it is lost, the impact is too great. This one thing had to be dealt with. ”

Zhu Qizhen also understood.

It is precisely because Luchuan is very important that Da Ming Decisive Plan cannot bear Luchuan's provocation, and must be subdued.

Now although King Xiang has been divided, his strategic position in Luchuan has not changed. It's enough to make Wang Ji's head big.

Zhu Qizhen also had a solution to this matter, and said: "I will add another Yulu to Wang Qing, with Wang Qing as the master of Xiangwang, and King Xiang must be treated as a teacher." ”

"King Xiang but he doesn't obey, you can go to the court to deal with it."

In fact, this gave Wang Ji jurisdiction over King Xiang.

Zhu Qizhen had this idea for a long time. In the future, the governor of Yunnan will have to hold this official position, of course, under normal circumstances, they will not take care of the affairs of King Xiang, but once they need to manage, the governor of Yunnan has this authority.

In fact, it is also because the Queen Mother is here, so it is necessary to use such a roundabout form.

After all, if King Xiang was the Prince of Yuanzhi, he would have directly ordered that King Xiang listen to the governor of Yunnan, or let King Xiang be a subordinate of the governor of Yunnan.

Wang Ji said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, so that the interior of Yunnan is safe, and the most difficult person to treat is no more than three announcements and six comforts." ”

"The minister has three strategies."

"First of all, please canonize the Dao clan as a consolation envoy to reward the Dao clan for his merits. The lawsuits of the governors show that what the court did was only to punish the Sijia who offended Tianwei. ”

"It's definitely not the heart of the clan that is not the end of the toast."

Zhu Qizhen also understood in his heart that some things could not be explained clearly, and the more he described them, the darker they became. It's like this one. This explanation alone is not enough to convince the toasts.

But the problem, even if the Tusi are apprehensive, they don't dare to do anything to the court.

Gain's strength and weakness are too obvious. The Marquis of Baoding has only been away from Yunnan for a few months, and these toasts can't and dare not forget the prestige of the Marquis of Baoding.

Therefore, the imperial court gave the steps, and they naturally wanted to go down.

But going down the stairs is going down the stairs, and it's hard to get them to untie the knot.

"The second strategy is to build a post road from Yunnan to Luchuan, and traffic Xiangwang in preparation for the extraordinary." What Wang Ji said is very, what kind of very, did not explain clearly.

But Zhu Qizhen still heard the sound outside the strings.

One of the tenths is that Sijia attacks King Xiang. Yunnan sent people to rescue, and the very second is that King Xiang has other ideas, and Yunnan can also respond quickly.

As for whether Zhu Qizhen is right or not, Wang Ji naturally won't say it clearly. Otherwise, a divisive Heavenly Family's flesh and blood would be enough for Wang Ji to drink a pot.

For a while, Zhu Qizhen had a question in his heart,

Is it really good for national defense to seal a prince like this?

He has not seen the benefits, but he has seen all kinds of troubles. I think that in the future, the quarrel between King Xiang and Yunnan is indispensable, and this vassal king is not allowed to be in the normal court system. In the eyes of civil officials, it must be a big trouble.

"The third is to gather all kinds of toasts and jointly crusade against Meng Yang." Wang Ji explained in detail: "The first battle of Baoding Hou made Luchuan break the courage, and the reason for the resurgence of Siji is not in Sijia, the key lies in Burma, with the support of all Tusi, and Mengyang is west of the Jinsha River, the Han army has never encountered the Jinsha River, and the road is difficult. ”

"Therefore, you can't overcome it, you must outwit it, and the ministers must win over the Tusi for reasons, and take the land of homesickness to Xu Zhi, take the Yunnan Department as the Chinese army, and merge the Tusi of the various departments as subordinates to attack Mengyang."

"It's going to be a big win. It's just that in this way, the situation of checks and balances between the toasts may be broken. The minister can only guarantee that there will be nothing for ten years, but after twenty or thirty years, there will be great changes. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened and understood Wang Ji's worries.

First of all, because of the limited strength of the Sijia, as long as Wang Ji can isolate Siji on top of diplomacy, the final war will be swept away. But the biggest sequelae of this is that the best pattern of the experience of Taizu Taizong of the Ming Dynasty will definitely change a lot.

It is said that Myanmar and Laos are all subordinate to Yunnan, because although the Ming Dynasty indirectly administers these places, it is not indifferent. The position of each other's toasts, the checks and balances between each of them began at the time of Taizu, Mu Ying defeated Luchuan, but left homesickness, it may not be this reason. But the rise of Luchuan has broken this system of checks and balances.

If Zhu Qizhen sends a large army again, breaks through Mengyang, and redivides the positions of each department in Mengyang, and rebuilds the original system of checks and balances, it may be different from that in the Taizu period, but it can still establish indirect rule over **.

But Zhu Qizhen will not send troops for Wang Ji, Wang Ji can only rely more on diplomatic means, and wants to adjust the ** Tusi on a large scale, but he can't. Not to mention the distribution of the remaining land of the Sijia to all parties.

In this way, the originally fragmented system of checks and balances will be even more invisible.

Without this set of checks and balances, if you want to come to **, you have to mess up for a while, and finally decide a hegemon. At that time, ** will really no longer be owned by the Ming court.

So within ten years, it can be guaranteed, but after twenty or thirty years, it is difficult to say.

Zhu Qizhen sighed in his heart, the Luchuan Expedition, although it seems to be full of joy at the moment, it is half a battle. Although Meng Ying is a general and talented, in some places, he is not as good as Wang Ji.

Zhu Qizhen may not have sent another army to the south in his heart, but he can still understand the priorities of the situation in the world.