Volume 13 Chapter 7 The Great Army Gathers
Siming Mansion is located in the southernmost part of the Guangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, and further south is the boundary of the Ming Dynasty's Annan, which was originally a Tuzhou, that is, the state capital where a few famous ethnic groups gathered, but at this time, there are no strangely dressed civilians on the streets of the entire Fucheng City, almost all of them are Chongzheng clothes, and there are Ming troops everywhere!
In the center of the city, a huge palace is nearing completion, which is specially prepared for the emperor, no way, this place is located in the remote, it is too poor and backward, even the prefect's yamen can't take it, Lu Xiangsheng, who is responsible for the construction of the southernmost railway, sees that there are plenty of personnel and raw materials, so he simply asked Zhu Cijiong to build such a palace.
Zhu Cijiong naturally will not object, why should he be wronged if he can live better, it is not a waste of money and labor, after more than 100,000 captives finish repairing the railway, there is basically nothing to do, and they are idle there, it is better to find something to do for them.
He is not going to transfer these more than 100,000 prisoners to other places immediately, and another 550,000 prisoners will be transported over one after another, and even all the experts in the construction of railways and bridges from the Ministry of Industry will gather here, why is this? Although now that the railway has been built, the transfer of grain and grass is no longer a big problem, but there is no need to waste it so much!
In fact, this is not a waste at all, the successful experience of northern Xinjiang gave Zhu Cijiong a great inspiration, the Ming Dynasty did not conquer the northern Xinjiang before, Emperor Taizu had beaten the southern tribes of the Mo Dynasty to submit, the northern Xinjiang had all merged into the Ming Dynasty at that time, but the northern Xinjiang slowly broke away from the control of the Ming Dynasty, and even invaded the Ming Dynasty many times, causing serious losses to the Ming Dynasty, the reason for this is mainly because the transportation is too inconvenient, the Ming court is unable to support the cost of a large-scale garrison, so the supervision is not strict, and it can only be requisitioned again and again, They were rejuvenated again and again.
Now it's different, with the railway, the allocation of grain and grass materials is not a problem at all, the Ming Dynasty can station as many troops there as he wants, and there is basically no possibility of rebellion in northern Xinjiang.
At that time, Nanyang is no longer a place on the edge of the southwest pole, the Ming army can be stationed here in large numbers, and the south is no longer a place where the Nanban gathers, the Ming will educate the barbarians here, develop the economy here, and let the Nanyang people live a life of abundance and food like all the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, so that they will still rebel?
Zhu Cijiong's decision directly led to the fact that the outside of Siming Mansion became a sea of camp tents, and there were all kinds of camp tents everywhere, on the mountain bag, beside the river, and in the fields, there were gathered Ming troops and prisoners everywhere, and the train at the Siming Mansion Railway Station never stopped, and there were constantly troops and prisoners pouring out from it, and there were constantly materials and grain and grass transported out of it. The posture of provincial capitals such as Kunming.
Now, the Guan Ning army led by Cao Wenzhao and the 150,000 prisoners escorted have already arrived, the Dingliao army and 250,000 prisoners led by Qin Yiming have also arrived one after another, and the Wuwei army and 25 prisoners led by Li Mingfu have also been drawn from Guangzhou Mansion and will soon arrive one after another, the entire Siming Mansion has gathered 300,000 troops and 550,000 prisoners, and the camp is almost a hundred miles away, fortunately, Siming Mansion is just a small basin, otherwise so many people really have no place to camp.
As for whether the captives will rebel, there is no need to worry about this at all, like the captives of the peasant army, the emperor has already spoken, let them serve five years of hard labor and let them go back to their hometowns, and also give them fields to let them start their lives again, now they have been boiling for almost three years, and they will be free in two more years, let them rebel at this time, it is strange that they don't kill you.
Manchu and Mongolian prisoners, Zhu Cijiong also treated them equally, let them serve five years of labor and let them go back to their hometown, although this has only started a short time, but don't forget, their families are under the control of the Ming army, if they dare to rebel, the consequences are not something they can bear!
Of course, Zhu Cijiong was not afraid that they would rebel, and at this moment he was sitting on his royal special train, discussing the issue of "The Order System of the Ming Dynasty" with Sun Yuanhua, Cheng Guoxiang, Huang Daozhou and other court officials.
As he and King Philip IV of Spain described, this royal train has a special bedroom, a special dining room, a special study, a special conference room, a royal dining room, an imperial infirmary, a toilet, etc., as well as a resting place for eunuchs, palace maids, and brocade guards.
As for why the "Ming Vassal State Decree System" is discussed, there is nothing wrong with it itself, the main reason is that the programmatic nature is too strong and there is a lack of necessary details, and Zhu Cijiong summoned Huang Daozhou and others this time to discuss a supplementary detailed provision.
For example, the vassal state and the vassal state are managed by the vassal king and the vassal king canonized by the Ming Dynasty, so what is the specific process of the canonization of the vassal king and the vassal king, and what is the evidence, who is eligible to accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty? These must be explained clearly and form a fixed process, otherwise it will be chaotic when it comes to canonizing the next vassal king and subordinate king.
For another example, the taxes of the vassal and vassal kingdoms are collected by the vassal kings and vassal kings themselves, and there must be a standard for collection, otherwise those vassal kings and vassal kings will levy and extort for pleasure and provoke popular uprisings, and the Ming Dynasty will not be able to wipe their butts at that time.
For another example, the army salaries and baggage of the vassal and vassal states are provided by the vassal king and the vassal king, so how much food and salary is provided, and how much baggage is provided, they have to give as much as the Ming wants, so that the vassal king and the vassal king will definitely not accept it, and they can't give as much as they want, so that the Ming will lose a lot of money, so a specific standard must be given according to the number of troops.
For example, the officials of the vassal state are appointed and dismissed by the vassal king, what is the standard of this appointment and dismissal, it cannot be said that they can appoint and dismiss whoever they want, then the unified imperial examination organized by the Ming Dynasty has not become a joke, so it must be stipulated that more than a few grades must be held by the people who have been awarded the meritorious name of Jinshi by the Ming Dynasty, and a few grades to a few grades or more must be held by people who have made meritorious contributions, so that those students who study the four books and five classics of the Ming Dynasty have sufficient motivation, otherwise who will learn what Chinese.
By the time these supplementary details were almost revised, the convoy was almost at Siming Mansion, and at this time, there were large armies gathered all over Nanyang:
In the north of Siming Mansion, there are the Tianxiong Army, the Guanning Army, the Dingliao Army, the Wuwei Army, the Second Army of the Frontier Army and the First Army of the Praetorian Guard, which is about to arrive, with a total of 600,000 troops;
In the Xingcheng Port base in the south, there are a total of 250,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet, and the Naval Division Reserve Corps, and thousands of warships;
In Fangcheng Xingang, south of Siming Mansion, there are also 200,000 troops of the Beiyang Fleet and the Beihai Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, with more than 2,000 warships;
In Menggen's Mansion in Yunnan, there are tens of thousands of horses gathered by Tusi from all over the country, eh, what is going on with this Tusi people? Let's see the next breakdown.