In the Ming Dynasty, which pays attention to "friendship between relatives and relatives", the funeral rites at the prince's level are extremely strict, which is also extremely troublesome. The sacrificial texts, the inscriptions, and the inscriptions were written in advance by the Hanlin Academy, the inscriptions were prepared by the Ministry of Works, and the burial period was the divination of the heavenly phase by the Qin Tianjian Prison.

There are still a few days left in the funeral. Zheng Anmin treats the guilty body and does not dare to be sloppy. Big and small, all asked.

With Zheng Anmin's best assistance, Huang Jin, the boss of the Qincha, was much easier. During the day, he inspected the mausoleum and the guard of honor, and at night slipped into the apse of Jinde to flip through the books. Li Sixian was afraid that Huang Jinren would be dazzled, so he dropped the lantern and set the temple on fire, and specially sent a few clever eunuchs to accompany him to turn the book for him, which made Huang Jin quite comfortable.

Li Cunliang showed his true colors, and after living in the palace, he appreciated the good things inside and outside the palace. In the end, he also broke into the Sichuan Machinery Bureau, not only visited Yu Ruzhen's R&D studio with great interest, but also forcibly became a shareholder, and even the share capital was cushioned by Zhu Pingjin for him. If it weren't for the fact that the Firearms Bureau kept Li Cunliang strictly secret, Zhu Pingjin estimated that he would have killed him in the rent collection courtyard without any scruples.

Huang Jin went to Nanjing to take office, and Li Cunliang took a detour through the canal to return to Beijing, just taking advantage of their Qincha banner and official ships to carry a grain ship bound for the south of the Yangtze River. Huitong Qianzhuang to Huguang and Nanzhili distribution points can also go together. With the official ship, the safety of the road will be greatly improved, and the cost will be greatly reduced. You know, it's not a peaceful time.

Luo Yuhong made a bold decision in order to make a lot of money in the grain business. She moved all the 100,000 stone long-term rice that was about to mold in the Wangfu Guangzhen Warehouse to the Dongmen Wharf, ready to be shipped to Jiangnan for sale, and then reloaded the newly harvested grain this year into the Guangzhen Warehouse. In this way, the new rice replaced the old rice, and the contradiction of the current shortage of Cangtun was easily solved. It's just that selling so much grain at one time makes Zhu Pingjin, who is settling accounts with his fingers, a little drummed. And his wife was full of confidence and lightly asked Zhu Pingjin to be nosy.

Zhu Pingjin did not have time to dwell on them.

In the office of the East Pavilion of the Jinde Palace, Zhu Pingjin and Shu Guoping were receiving Gao Antai who came in a hurry.

"Mr. Gao, Mr. He and General Song both hope that you can go to Luzhou before leaving, and this Shizi thinks about it again and again, and thinks that this proposal is feasible. At present, Luzhou is initially decided, and the high judge is stationed in Jiezhou City, and he cannot be moved lightly. Tens of thousands of immigrants who went south wanted to eat and drink, and the high judge was also very busy......"

"The second brother's injuries have not healed, and it is not suitable to travel far. If you want students to do things, ask the prince to speak clearly. Gao Antai was blunt. He really wanted to take this opportunity to go out for a walk, it was too uncomfortable to guard the north gate every day.

"Mr. Gao, please look!" Zhu Pingjin motioned to Shu Guoping and asked him to open the map hanging on the wall, "This is Luzhou, sandwiched between the Tuojiang River and the Yangtze River. To the east is Hejiang County and Chishui River, and to the west is Naxi Water (now Yongning River), a tributary of the Yangtze River, and at the intersection is Naxi County, which is only 50 miles away from Luzhou. ”

Gao Antai took a closer look. As deputy chief of the general staff, who had served for several months, it was the first time he had seen the map in Shizi's office.

"Naxi water originates from the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou, flows from south to north through the three counties of Xu, Yong and Naxi, and there is a major tributary of the ancient Song River on the west side of Naxi water, which flows through the Acropolis of Luzhou (Note 1). Now Mr. He and General Song are on their way to the city. This prince asked them to quickly enter the Acropolis of Luzhou, show the power of heaven, and stabilize the place. It must be known that there are nine chief lawsuits in the Luzhou Acropolis; Not far to the west is Xingwen County (Note 2), which was once the place where the Duzhangman and the Bo people were exterminated; And a large area of land in the southwest is the hometown of Xuyong (Note 3) of luxury! ”

"Our Gao family has fought in Yongning for several years, and many people have died." Gao Antai has a rough idea of his mission.

The next thing was explained by Shu Guoping, he had a very good personal relationship with Gao Antai, and some injuries were also started by him.

"Luzhou is an important town in the southwest, and it is a place where soldiers must fight for it!" Shu Guoping didn't say anything polite, and when he came up, he pointed to the core, "More importantly, Luzhou is the only way for Sichuan to enter Guizhou and Yunnan!" If you control Luzhou, the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou are under the might of our caravan!

However, there are many barbarians in the southwest of Luzhou, and the Tusi family has many marriages with Guizhou and even Yunnan barbarians. As soon as the power of my Ming Dynasty declined, many ill-intentioned people came out! The three major expeditions of Wanli ended with the Yang rebellion in Banzhou (now Zunyi City), and then there was the rebellion of Lu'an. Decades of war, tens of millions, and countless lives have been destroyed! The first thing about Brother Gao's trip is to persuade the nine surnamed chiefs to ......"

"Returning to the Stream?" Gao Antai interjected and asked.

He felt a little uneasy. It must be known that the Tianquan Gao family is also a hereditary toast, and if the prince uses the old methods of the imperial court to change the land and return to the stream, it will be the turn of the Gao family sooner or later.

"Definitely!" Shu Guoping shook his head and said, "The place where the barbarians live in the southwest is surrounded by mountains and mountains, and the miasma is overflowing, send a few scholars to go, and the road will be consumed." Even if you arrive at the place, you are not familiar with the place, you can't understand the barbarian language, even if you change the stream, it will not help! ”

"Then what am I going to convince?"

"Three of a kind: one soldier, two taxes, three merchants!"

……

As the "Heavenly Empire", the Ming Dynasty generally adopted a policy of appeasement with Huairou for many so-called "barbarians" at home and abroad, which was the policy tone laid by the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

First of all, the surrounding small countries, the "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" clarified the national policy of "not leviing" for 15 countries such as Korea, Annam, Japan, and the Great and Small Ryukyus; followed by the remnants of the Mengyuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang denied the idea of Zhongshu Province to move to the interior, and let them resume their old business, engage in nomadism, and often add pensions; For other ethnic minorities in the country, they are also extremely lenient and "lenient".

However, a good policy starting point does not necessarily lead to good policy results. As the time and characters have changed, the flavor of this policy has also changed.

The government's discrimination and humiliation against the barbarians, as well as the wanton expropriation and expropriation in different ways, have aroused the resistance of ethnic minorities again and again. For example, Zhu Pingjin was most concerned about the Southwest Yi, and the so-called rebellions and rebellions emerged in an endless stream, almost throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty.

As early as the Hongwu period, there was a luxury lady from Shuixi, Guizhou (now Qianxi County) who went to Beijing to file a complaint. Zhu Yuanzhang punished the local military attachés who had exacerbated the contradictions and acted recklessly, while Madame Xiangxiang built a post road in return to the emperor and the imperial court. Since then, there have been a number of large-scale rebellions in the southwest, and the scale of the rebellion has completely reached the level of war. The Ming Dynasty tore off the veil of warmth and affection for these rebellious barbarians in an instant, and turned to resolute suppression without mercy.

During the Jiajing period, the Tusi of Datengxia (Broken Tengxia, now 100,000 mountains in Guangxi) rebelled, and the famous Confucian master Wang Shouren rose up as the governor of Liangguang. He oversaw the march of the army, and surrounded it on all sides. The rebels relied on the deep mountains and old forests to build a fortress, but they still could not stop the advance of the official army, and in the end almost all the troops were wiped out, with more than 300,000 dead and wounded and captured. In the first year of Wanli, the Han Yu Nine Silk War broke out in Xuzhou Mansion. The ancient Yu people were wiped out, and their place took the meaning of "Yanwu Xiuwen" and changed its name to Xingwen County.

The constant wars and vendettas formed a deep ethnic hatred between the Han and Yi, which was eventually exploited by some careerists like Hao Chongming and An Bangyan. The Lu'an Rebellion was the beginning of the Sichuan Rebellion.

Zhu Pingjin's idea of building a powerful war machine in Luzhou, and the Han-Yi contradiction was not resolved, which was completely a fool's dream. To resolve this contradiction, one is the policy, and the other is the people. The most important person is, of course, Gao Antai, the third brother of Toast who was recruited today. As for the policy, Shu Guoping is explaining to Gao Antai one by one.

……

Shu Guoping explained Zhu Pingjian's minority policy to his classmate Gao Antai in detail.

"Soldiers, the weapon of the country! Don't be in the hands of outsiders! Shu Guoping paced back and forth in Zhu Pingjin's office, like Zhu Pingjin when he was thinking.

"Barbarian Tusi, Emperor Taizu Gao once had a feeling: I am also a child! It is tax-free, provided every three years, and is mostly homegrown. And then there are no taxes at all? False! Tusi usually gathers troops to defend the village, and when the country has something to do, he has to prepare his own money and food, recruit strong men, and go to war with the army! Shi Yan Qin's widow, her husband died and her son succeeded, and the men of the clan were killed and injured. How tragic! ”

"That's the case with my Gao family in Yongning! This is not a fiscal tax, but a blood tax! ”

Shu Guoping pressed his hand, so that his former classmates should not be excited: "Fighting always has to die." But this soldier can only be raised by the state. ”

"Just like my Tianquan Tusi Battalion, take the salary of the army?" Gao Antai asked suspiciously.

"Exactly! Luzhou is under the rule of our palace, and Tusi can no longer gather clans as soldiers. Luzhou Wei wanted to pick up troops and enter the camp in places such as Jiu and Xuyong. Han Tusi and barbarians who know Chinese can directly enter the caravan. Those who do not speak Chinese can form an independent company. ”

"Is it like Dong Bulian?" Gao Antai asked.

"Not bad! If there is a company, it will be made into a company. If there is a battalion, it will be organized into a battalion. ”

"What about Toast in the future?" Gao Antai asked. That's what he's most concerned about.

"Shizi Dao, after the separation of the soldiers and the people, Tusi is equivalent to a local state and a county, governing the people without leading the troops. But the difference is that the toast is hereditary. Unless they rebel! ”

There were originally four Tufu in the south of Xufu and Luzhou: Dongchuan (now Huize County, Qujing, Yunnan), Wumeng (now Zhaotong, Yunnan), Wusa (now Weining County, Yunnan), and Zhenxiong (now Zhenxiong County). These four Tufu are no different from Tusi, they are all governing the people and leading the army. After the separation of the soldiers and the people, the new Tufu and Tuxian obviously had less rights than the original Tusi.

"Isn't that a tax to be paid in the same place?" Gao Antai asked.

"Of course. Under the rule of the royal government, the officials and gentry are one, and the land is one, and they have to pay taxes! Shizi Dao, this tax law is called 'one size fits all'! ”

"I raise 3,000 soldiers in the whole day, and I spend silver a year...... Now the palace is on behalf of the government, but it has to pay taxes, and this tax is ......" Gao Antai began to calculate nervously. It's a pity that he often skipped class when he was in school, and he didn't calculate it for half a day.

"Mr. Gao, small accounts are easy to calculate, but big accounts are difficult to calculate!"

Zhu Pingjin walked over and sat opposite Gao Antai, earnestly and seductively.

"Soldiers, murder weapons! You can kill the enemy and harm yourself!

Tusi has soldiers, and there are disloyal and unfilial children in later generations, so he wants to use these soldiers to do something. The result is nothing more than the death of the clan! Banzhou Yang's family, from the end of the Tang Dynasty, after two Song Dynasty and Mengyuan Yuan, its leader Yang Keng (KENG) attached to my Ming Dynasty. The result? The descendants are not good, Yang Yinglong went against the sky, and was finally wiped out by the clan! Isn't it sad that the twenty-ninth generation of the foundation was turned into ashes overnight!

Since Tusi is subordinate to my Ming Dynasty, isn't it the duty of the courtiers to pay taxes and tribute? Han people eat food as soldiers, why can't Tusi eat food as soldiers? Han people pay taxes, why don't toasts pay taxes? The Ming Dynasty is not the Ming of the Han people, but the Ming of the world. Since they are all Ming children, then Hanyi wants a bowl of water! ”

Zhu Pingjian's words were critical, Gao Antai blushed, and hurriedly explained: "Shizi, the student doesn't want to ...... The students feel that this big account should be calculated, and this small account should also be calculated. The land of Tusi is mostly remote and bitter cold, and if they pay taxes and pay grain, the food will not be enough to eat, and people will starve to death......"

"You don't have to pay food!"

Zhu Pingjin laughed: "My Ming Dynasty has always been generous to toast, and I pay more tribute to local products, and Guizhou has also handed over shells!" As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the water to eat the water. For example, the nine surnames are in a lawsuit, and the bamboo forest in the territory is a sea. Those bamboos are worthless in the local area, but they can be cut down and bundled into rows and thrown into the river, and they can be turned into silver! There are also all kinds of bamboo mushrooms and bamboo shoots, these mountain goods are very expensive in Chengdu! There is also that Dongchuan, there is copper in the mountains, and it is money when it is fried! It is best for them to pay money and pay for grain and silver, and they do not pay for the local products. These are all negotiable! ”

"Shizi Dao, can you start a field?" Gao Antai asked.

"There's no need for a dedicated field. South Sichuan is full of trails, and there are no big passes to guard. But as long as it's useful, where can't it be exchanged for money? This is what this son calls the third thing: business! Which toast wouldn't want to do business with Handi? ”

"I see!" Gao Antai patted the armrest, his face full of excitement, "The student asked Shizi to set up a bamboo bureau to produce bamboo chairs, bamboo stools, bamboo beds and other utensils. Together with bamboo mushrooms and bamboo shoots, we buy and sell them together! The prince of the world appreciates the silver taels of the whole toast, I don't want a penny, all as share capital! Set up another copper mining bureau and dig up all those copper coins! What else is there to treasure, I only found out after I went to see it, as long as it ......"

Gao Antai was so excited that his saliva splashed, leaving Zhu Pingjin and Shu Guoping stunned.