"Admonishment and Advice on Political Affairs" is an eloquent article that needs to be savored, and when I first read it, Zhu Cihong's mind was on the issue of eating, so I didn't think it was good. But now, when the problem of eating has been temporarily alleviated, and the matter of cooking a bunch of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in Xiangxi and Guangdong is in front of him, Prince Zhu has tasted the value of "Admonishment and Advice on Political Sparseness".

Because he found that the real purpose of "Admonishment and Advice on Political Affairs" is not to promote feudalism in China, but to regulate the feudalism that already exists!

Later generations had a view that Ma Zhe's so-called division of feudal society did not apply to China. Because ancient China has long been a unified centralized empire, and there is no feudal society. However, when Zhu Cihong became the prince of the Ming Dynasty for two and a half years, he had already realized that there was an irregular feudal system everywhere in the Ming Empire, a unified centralized empire.

Feudalism and bureaucratic rule were also not opposites. There is probably no feudal state in the world that can survive without a bureaucratic system at all—this means that the monarch does not have direct land, but divides the entire land and people, and the lower vassals follow the same method to the bottom.

For the most part, feudal monarchs wanted to expand their direct domains, while reducing the domains of their lower vassals, and dividing large vassals into smaller lords as much as possible.

The feudal monarch's direct domain was governed by bureaucrats who could be removed by the lord at any time. At the same time, it is also the most reliable power and financial basis for feudal monarchs!

In other words, those who can directly govern are directly governed as much as possible, and those who cannot be directly governed are divided into small lords as much as possible, and there is really no way to recognize the big lords as their vassals...... Most of the world's feudal rulers are more or less in this way, and few feudal lords will take the initiative to reduce their direct domains.

Therefore, feudalism is a passive, not an active method of rule.

Therefore, the existence of central bureaucratic governance does not mean that feudal society does not exist. The proportion of the central bureaucracy in the entire territory of the empire only shows the strength of the emperor's authority in domestic political life as the largest feudal lord. In extreme cases, it is also possible for the Chinese emperor to establish the rule of the liuguan throughout the territory. However, such a situation is extremely rare, but it is more common for emperors who cannot leave the capital by decree.

So basically, the feudal society in ancient China existed. It was only for a long period of time that the emperor's direct area was very large, and the areas and populations ruled by vassals were small, which gave the illusion that the supreme ruler of the Central Empire could rule over every corner of the entire country.

Unfortunately, this is just an illusion!

And the current supreme ruler of the Ming Empire, Zhu Cihong, the prince of Fujun, did not completely pinch the remaining half of the Ming Dynasty in his hands.

That's right, Zhu Cihong has indeed created a new army that is relatively capable of fighting, and the total number of registered generals has now exceeded 200,000. In the next year or two, the 16 generals' palaces, including Huai'an, Yangzhou, Fengyang, Jiangpu, Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Yuezhou, Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Nanchang, Changsha, Hengzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou (not yet established), and Hangzhou (not yet established), will be able to provide at least 200,000 new troops for Zhu Cihong, thus increasing the number of new troops directly under the Ming court to 400,000.

About half of them can be exemplary, and become a field army with strong combat effectiveness - it is impossible to model all the 400,000 new troops, on the one hand, central garrisons are needed in various places to maintain law and order; On the other hand, the model needs to be equipped with a large number of mobile artillery and cavalry, which requires a large number of horses, but the number of horses that Nanming can obtain for a long time in the future is very limited.

Without cavalry and mobile artillery, the level of training is far inferior to that of the model army of the garrison new army, and at best it can only cope with low-intensity security warfare. They can be used to intimidate places (to scare people), but there is no way to use them to bulldoze areas with strong local separatism (it is not okay to really fight them).

So even if Zhu's army reached 400,000 men as expected, he still did not have the ability to establish a strong bureaucratic rule throughout the territory.

The 400,000 troops just seemed like a lot, after half of them were divided as a field army to deal with the Qing soldiers in the north and the Liukou in Sichuan. The remaining 200,000 people will be stationed in 13 provinces, including Jiangbei, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shandong, and Henan (Daming also has territory in Shandong and Henan), plus Wuhan and Yingtian...... This point of the army is placed along the Yangtze River and in the Lianghuai and Jianghan regions, where the field model army is concentrated, but it can rely on the main force to support the effective rule of the central bureaucracy -- considering the current situation, the main force of the field army of the Ming Dynasty cannot be too dispersed. It is best to deploy along the Yangtze River, the Canal, the Han River, and the Huai River, which can be quickly assembled by water, so that a large army can be assembled immediately if needed.

However, it is impossible to deploy a large number of model armies in Xiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, as well as in Shandong (including Huaibei), where there are strong warlord forces. Relying on only more than 10,000 troops to garrison the new army could not support the unitary rule of the central bureaucracy under any circumstances.

Therefore, cooperation and coexistence with local feudal forces is a last resort...... And in order to cooperate and coexist, we cannot do without rules and laws.

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"His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister carefully read the "Admonition Suggestion Political Sparseness" ...... "After He Tengjiao received Zhu Cihong's handwritten copy of "Admonishment Advice on Political Sparseness", he read it very carefully with his staff.

After reading it a few times, he understood that his Hunan governor was coming to an end - because the problem in Xiangxi was not very big, there was no need for a powerful person like him, and Guangdong was the place where he could show his talents.

He Tengjiao pondered and said: "The minister thinks that the Tuke clan in Guangdong lives in a group and occupies one side, and it can be regarded as a scholar or a countryman. Therefore, the ministers of Guangdong should be patient and careful, allocate land and water for the Tuke clans everywhere, and reasonably show off military service and taxes. The governor's ministers should also restrain clan strife and adjudicate disputes between clans fairly......

In addition, the government should also order all the powerful clans to build mansions in the city of Guangzhou, so that the elders of each clan can live in Guangzhou for a long time and serve as councilors on behalf of the clans. Whenever it comes to the affairs of the Tukka clan, the ministers should fully listen to the words of the government. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded again and again, this He Tengjiao is really an expert in infighting, and he should also know more about the of the Qiang clan (Guizhou is also the tune), and the governor of Guangdong is the only one.

Then Prince Zhu turned his head to look at Cao Youyi, the future general of Guangzhou and the commander of the Guangdong military, and asked with a smile: "How does the deputy military division think the imperial court should control Guangdong?" ”

The Ming court in Guangdong can not only have clans and fiefs, but also have no territory directly under the jurisdiction, and the places that can be directly governed must be directly governed as much as possible.

And what supported the governance of the Ming court in Guangdong was of course the 120,000 refugees from the north who were about to go there to eat and the more than 10,000 new troops selected from them.

Cao Youyi also had a little bit of his "money", and after listening to Prince Zhu's words, he immediately replied: "Your Highness, in the opinion of the ministers, the law of the imperial court to govern Guangdong should be to occupy Guangfu, base Sanjiang, suppress Haoao, and strictly control the customs.

Canton is the heart of Guangdong, the eastern, western and northern rivers are the bloodline of Guangdong, and Haoao and Customs are the great interests of Guangdong's commercial ports. Occupy the heart, according to the bloodline, control the source of wealth, the benefits of the land of Guangdong, naturally owned by the imperial court. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled, this answer is decent, but it is easy to say, but it is difficult to do!

He pondered for a while, and then said: "He Qing and Cao Qing, both of them are humerus of the imperial court, and they are heroes who have overcome difficulties...... Remember to be united and don't rush it. ”