How can we get people to be willing to emigrate, and still to immigrate overseas?

For thousands of years, for Chinese people who are accustomed to Sinocentrism, in their eyes, only China is the richest, and all other places are barbarian lands, all unsuitable places for survival. A place like Nanyang is a badland full of miasma, and who wants to go there unless it is a last resort?

To go to such a place is even more pitiful than exile. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong has always chosen exile as the main way of immigration, but this method obviously will not last long.

Therefore, how to make people willing to emigrate is the most important issue.

"Throughout the ages, the active immigrants are nothing more than war, the Jin Dynasty is chaotic, the world is in chaos, the Central Plains scholars fled south with each other, and the clothes crossed south; And then to the Jingkang Rebellion, Jianyan Nandu, all people avoid the chaos in the south and take root, and the clothes are more collapsed in the south, if it is not to avoid chaos, how can the people be willing to leave their hometown? Moreover, now that the world has been peaceful, the imperial court wants to make the people move overseas, and I am afraid that even if there is a good law, it will not be able to make them leave their hometowns. ”

Then Wang Zhongxiao let out another long sigh, no one wants to leave here unless it is absolutely necessary.

"People leave their hometowns cheaply, and things leave their hometowns expensive." Who wants to leave their homeland unless they have to? ”

This sentence "people leave their hometowns cheaply, things leave their hometowns are expensive", so that the four monarchs and ministers in the cabinet fell into silence, they just stood there, no one spoke, after all, this is a fact, after leaving their hometown, they have no relatives and no reason in a different place, and they have lost their support, and they must be despised by others.

"If Your Majesty wants to use overseas immigration to alleviate the worries of the narrow Central Plains, please ask Your Majesty to seal the clan and build the country in Yidi!"

After a long silence, Gu Yanwu said to His Majesty.

"In this way, the people of the world can naturally move to the land."

The feudal clan was founded in Yidi!

Once again, this suggestion sounded in Zhu Mingzhong's ears. Once again, he heard this suggestion from the minister. He wasn't surprised by that.

Because Gu Yanwu himself is a supporter of the establishment of a feudal state, as for Zhang Huangyan and others, they do not object. After the Jiashen Heavenly Change, most of the Ming elites were in favor of the establishment of the feudal state, and the reason why this was so was because they believed that if the kings of the "central part of the domain" remained unchanged, there would be no rebellion, no Qing captives would enter the country, and there would not even be the rise of Jiannu. This is, of course, a reflection on the past. They are always reflecting. After all, after experiencing the chaos of the great changes in the world. They always have to reflect and reflect on why? What caused all this?

Of course, the most important thing is how to prevent this from happening again in the future.

"Why is that?"

Zhu Mingzhong looked at Gu Huowu and asked rhetorically. His expression was a little curious.

"Your Majesty, if the feudal clan is built in Yidi, in order to protect the clan in the future, it will be restored to the three guards, the three guards are ten thousand people, one Ding family, so that a feudal clan has 10,000 households moved overseas, plus vassals, in-laws, each feudal clan is less than 10,000 households, more than tens of thousands of households, so that it will build a royal city in Yidi, and when the royal city is built, the city must be reclaimed as familiar land, and after the soldiers are moved, relatives and friends will pass it on, and there will be people who are willing to move the sea, and in the long run, until the people do not think that razing the land is a bad land, and do not take migration as a wanderer, they will naturally be willing to immigrate to the land."

After Gu Yanwu said these words, Zhu Mingzhong did not show any attitude, sealing the feudal domain in Yidi, and using the government to immigrate, this is indeed a way to promote immigration. In the absence of the effects of war, military immigration is the safest form of immigration. After all, it's not just soldiers who have migrated to the past.

Just like the Xinjiang Construction Corps a few hundred years later. It's not just themselves who they used to be, but their families, their wives, and eventually, they put down roots there, they thrive there.

It was those people who turned the frontier into the hinterland. This can also be used today.

In order to be able to protect immigrants, he has repeatedly thought about many methods, but he feels that it is not appropriate. Gu Yanwu's "feudal emigration" is indeed a mild and moderate measure, and it is more suitable than the method of exile. It's easier to accept.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Mingzhong said.

"This is indeed a method, but have you ever thought about it, if the domain has soldiers, it will be chaotic, if it is sealed in razed land, will it be a disaster for the court? Causing chaos in the world? ”

Feudalism was the beginning of chaos in the world. The establishment of a feudal system that is not conducive to unity will inevitably lead to war, and the centralization of power must be guaranteed in the ruling of such a vast empire, and power must never be decentralized.

But on the other hand, in the face of feudal temptations. But it makes people can't help but want to move that thought.

"Your Majesty, there are all razed land, there are many local people, and the country is outnumbered, after the vassal king takes the country, it is necessary to lead the army and the people to open up the mountains and forests. Fu has barbarians, so that it can belong to Yihuaxia, the native people have not yet been naturalized, and how dare the vassal king abandon the imperial court. ”

Gu Yanwu's words made Zhang Huangyan nod in agreement.

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Qianguo guarded Yunnan, and raised the barbarians for nearly 300 years, until the Shapu Rebellion in the first year of Hongguang, Wuding Tusi Wu Bikui still claimed, "There is no Emperor Zhu, how can he come to Mu Guogong." It can be seen that there are barbarians in the southwest, not four or five hundred years and can not see its effect, with guest territory, with Han control, with less and more, it is not easy, in the eyes of the ministers, at least four or five hundred years, the feudal clans must follow the imperial court and dare not have the slightest disrespect."

Native!

Whether it was the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty or the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Jin Dynasty, or the Jingyan of Yongle, the most fundamental reason why they raised troops was that the areas they divided were all developed and rich areas, and the people there were their people, and the property there was available to them. Even if they raise troops, they have no internal worries, and they don't need to worry about people making trouble in the rear.

However, in Yidi, the clan had to deal with a barbarian population of natives everywhere, who had to maintain their rule through constant pacification, which not only consumed most of their energy, but also made it necessary for them to strengthen their ties with the imperial court in order to gain the support of the imperial court. Even if they have the intention of making trouble, they don't have the guts. Because they knew better than anyone that once they led their troops out of the fiefdom, there was a high chance that the natives would cause rebellion, and no one would take that risk.

"In this way, the feudal lords naturally dare not have different aspirations, after all, the guest lord, with less to lead more, it is easy to be resisted by the natives, and the feudal lords need all kinds of support from the imperial court, especially the people, and the feudal lords need the countrymen who have moved from the country to maintain their rule, after all, the more people there are, the more stable the rule."

Wang Zhongxiao nodded, he was originally from Fujian, and he could naturally understand the key from the dispute between the Turks and the Turks he encountered when he was in his hometown in Fujian, and the key was balance.

"Such as Liangguang, Fujian, there are both aborigines, there are Hakka, the Turks live in it, often for the fight for land, water and even a little property, Turk disputes occur from time to time, and even between each other is tearing and killing, but no matter where the Turks are small, the government is respectful, lest the government is biased to one side, and in Yidi, my Ming court is the government, the vassal king is the guest, the aborigines are the soil, the court only needs to be fair, both sides can not be separated from the court ......"

Wang Zhongxiao's words made Zhu Mingzhong's eyes light up, and he vaguely seemed to see a possibility, just as he was thinking, Wang Zhongxiao continued.

"However, even so, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty and the rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Jin Dynasty can be used as a water guide. If the sub-seal exceeds a certain regulation and limit, disaster will immediately arise. Therefore, even if the land is divided and destroyed, its regulation must be restricted. The minister thought that he could follow Japan's "One Country, One City Order" in order to limit the feudal domains. ”

"One country, one city."

When he suddenly heard this word, Zhu Mingzhong couldn't help but be a little surprised. I was surprised why Wang Zhongxiao also knew this term.

It took a moment to realize that the current court officials were not like the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who knew nothing about the world.

They are equally eager to learn about the outside world. Of course, this also includes Japan, and on the other hand, because Fujian has a lot of trade ties with Japan. So it's not surprising that he knows the word.

Thinking that the neighbor who had already locked himself off from the country used the "One Country, One City Order" to weaken the strength of the daimyo by half, this can indeed be used as a reference, but it cannot be completely borrowed. Zhu Mingzhong said with a smile.

"Japan's Tokugawa Ieyasu's method is not bad, it can limit the strength of the vassal king. However, although this country and a city are good, they may not be completely suitable for Nanyang, after all, Nanyang has both cooked land and raw land, but there is soil in the cooked land, and there are barbarians in the raw land, and the soil is recruited by the barbarians, each of which is different, so it is natural to adapt measures to local conditions......

The phrase "adapt measures to local conditions" has actually made clear the attitude of the three of them - His Majesty has no objection to sealing the clan and destroying the land.

His Majesty's loosening made Gu Yanwu's heart excited, so he asked tentatively.

"Then, from Your Majesty's point of view, this, if it is divided, is it the old system of our emperor and Ming, or the Zhou system, or the Han system......"

"Since it is razing the land, then the old system of only leading troops and not governing the people can no longer be used, after all, they want to recruit the local people and make them belong to China."

After pondering for a moment, his brows tightened, Zhu Mingzhong had already made a decision in his heart.

"It is also impossible to use the Han system, and if the Han Dynasty county system is used, it will inevitably be necessary to send officials to each domain, which will inevitably lead to a power struggle between the feudal domains. When the central officials and the vassal kings were in dispute, one side would inevitably seek power and the other side would cut the feudal domain, which would naturally repeat the mistake of feudal rebellion, and sending officials would increase the expenses of the imperial court. ”

Why do officials advocate cutting feuds? It is because they are sandwiched between the emperor and the vassal king, and they are naturally constrained when they do things, and they feel constrained, especially by the vassal king, and there will be constant conflicts with the vassal king because of the distribution of power. In this case, they naturally advocated cutting the feudal domain.

To put it bluntly, that is, to get more rights. In order to get the power from the hands of the vassal king, he took it into his own hands. This is the biggest shortcoming of the Han Dynasty county state system.

Between hesitations, Zhu Mingzhong said categorically.

"The imperial court does not send any officials to the feudal domains except to send historians to take charge of the will of the country. If the country cannot be autonomous, what does feudalism mean? ”

If the country cannot be independent, what does feudalism mean!

Although Zhang Huangyan, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Zhongxiao all supported the feudal system to varying degrees, their views were different, Zhang Huangyan advocated the restoration of the Ming ancestral system at the beginning of the founding of the country, that is, "only the lords and not the people, and the division of the feudal domain without giving land". It is different from the sub-feudal system of Zhou and Han. Gu Yanwu, on the other hand, advocated the Han system. As for Wang Zhongxiao, he was inclined to Japan's "one city, one country order", in which the vassal king could lead troops and even govern the government, but with only one city's land, one city's soldiers, and one city's taxes, it was naturally impossible to pose any threat to the central government. In this way, it can not only achieve the purpose of guarding the center, but also keep their power under control.

And now, His Majesty's decision is obviously completely unexpected.

Because His Majesty has decided to do a weekly system!

"Your Majesty, the ...... of the weekly system"

"Acting weekly, I am a Ming, and I am also the co-master of the world!"

Zhu Mingzhong, who had already made a decision, continued.

"There is only one Son of Heaven in the world, that is, the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the co-lord of the world, as for the vassals, they are the vassals of my Ming Dynasty, but they are definitely not vassal states!"

By no means a vassal state!

His Majesty's words made Zhang Huangyan and Gu Yanwu stunned, and it was difficult for them to understand what was a vassal and what was a vassal state.

"This vassal can be autonomous in internal affairs, can also formulate its own decrees, and also has its own army, but only the Ming can declare war ......"

Previously, when Wang Zhongxiao mentioned the role played by the government in the Turkish-Hakka conflict, Zhu Mingzhong's first thought was that in the colonial empire established by the British, the role of Britain in those dominions, compared with the almost completely autonomous vassal states, a modified dominion model is more suitable for the "great unification" of the feudal feud.

"Your Majesty, I want to stop the disputes between the princes."

Wang Zhongxiao immediately said His Majesty's thoughts, and just when he wanted to continue talking, he suddenly felt a flustered ringing in his ears. Zhu Mingzhong had already seen it and hurriedly asked.

"Changru, there is something wrong with your face, is it uncomfortable?"

Wang Zhongxiao reluctantly smiled,

"When you get old, it's easy to get sick, so it's okay."

But that face was still extremely ugly, and Zhu Mingzhong hurriedly instructed the attendant to ask for a doctor, and at the same time persuaded him to rest well. The dialogue between the monarch and the minister naturally came to an end, and that night, Zhu Mingzhong, who was reviewing the excerpts, received a report from his attendants that the second assistant Wang Zhongxiao had died......

After knowing the news, Zhu Mingzhong was speechless for a long time, he just sat there quietly. In this moment, he thought a lot. I thought about why he was a cabinet minister in the first place, perhaps for balance. But on the other hand, his conservatism is also holding back his radicalism.

After a moment of contemplation. Zhu Mingzhong picked up the pen and wrote on the paper.

"Wenzheng."