Spring goes and winter comes

Winter in the Forbidden City, snow-capped, snowy years.

Fang Yuan stood alone on the palace wall of the Huangji Gate, overlooking the snowy scene of the Forbidden City, with a lot of thoughts, Qu Zhi, he had been stationed in Beijing City for a year.

Administrative aspects

In this year, Fang Yuan moved all the cabinet and officials of the six ministries in Jiangnan to the capital as the basic team of the cabinet. The former cabinet and six ministry officials in the capital, who were willing to stay as officials, were demoted to one to three levels of appointment; Those who do not want to be officials may be allowed to resign and go home.

According to Fang Yuan's estimate, most of the officials in the capital will resign and go home after being forced to donate silver. I never thought that the officials of the cabinet and the six ministries would rather accept the treatment of demotion or be willing to stay in the officialdom of the capital. And the other party was originally respectful, and when he went to court, the regent shouted affectionately, as if he had been forced to donate silver before.

Fang Yuan was secretly funny, it seemed that no one was willing to give up the name of Uncle Guan easily. What's more, Fang Yuan is far more moderate than Chongzhen, neither beating nor scolding, nor killing indiscriminately. Moreover, Fang Yuan did not completely prohibit the gray income of officials, as long as it was within the tolerance of the common people, and did not come to the regent palace to complain, he usually let it go.

Although these officials had a large amount of income less than the black food and black money taken by Chongzhen during his previous reign, Fang Yuan's requirements for the administrative efficiency of officials were far better than Chongzhen's. But in the end, everything is still inferior, only when you are an official, you can be more diligent than before, have less appetite when accepting bribes, be more fair when adjudicating cases, and be able to take care of and appease the emotions of the people. Being an official under Fang Yuan is not unbearable.

In fact, Fang Yuan's request for these officials is only two words, 'harmony'! Officialdom should be harmonious, not allow party strife and infighting, and each perform its own duties; The society must be more harmonious, and the society under Fang Yuan's rule must be a society where ordinary people can live and work in peace and contentment, which is also the only bottom line.

Military aspects

Sichuan direction

According to reliable information from Sichuan, Li Zicheng did not go to Sichuan to join Liu Zongmin, Gao Zemin and others. Today's Sichuan is Zhang Xianzhong, and Liu Zongmin each occupies four prefectures, and the situation of confrontation. Because of Fang Yuan's powerful foreign enemy, the two rogue bandits were not fighting each other. Zhang Xianzhong made money by selling Shu brocade to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and minerals from Sichuan, while Liu Zongmin relied on collecting protection fees for the transit of these commodities to maintain the livelihood of the army.

Fang Yuan did not restrict the business contacts between the state capitals under his jurisdiction and Sichuan, not only to recruit these two gangsters, but also for the sake of the people of Sichuan. If business contacts are cut off, these rogues will have no livelihood, and the first people to be unlucky will be the people of Sichuan.

On the one hand, he ordered Gan Hui to recruit troops and horses in Huguang and surrender to these two gangsters; On the one hand, he ordered the Xing family and Gao Yuanjue's subordinates to send spies to Sichuan to persuade the generals under the command of these liukou to surrender and infiltrate. The work in these two areas is still in progress for the time being, and there is no breakthrough progress. Zhang Xianzhong was the face of an old man before, neither refused nor agreed, and used the negotiation as an excuse to delay time.

Fang Yuan also had to spend a year or two recuperating and recuperating, straightening out internal affairs, and he didn't have time to deal with Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Zongmin. As long as they don't go out of Sichuan, let's drag it for the time being!

Guangxi, Guizhou direction

Under the strong military deterrence of Qin Zhan, Gao Yuanjue, and Xu Cheng, the Tusi from all over Guangxi and Guizhou sent letters of surrender one after another, willing to surrender to Fang Yuan. Fang Yuan's condition for these toasts was that the prefectures and counties where the toasts were located must adopt the state and county system, and the top prefects and county orders of each state and county must be appointed by the imperial court, and the rest of the county governors, chief secretaries, and county lieutenants could be served by locals.

Fang Yuan also added four special conditions, one of which was that the county governors, chief bookkeepers, and county lieutenants appointed by the Tusi Territory must be able to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, and before being appointed, they must first go to the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Guangzhou for assessment.

Second, the official documents of these prefectures and counties must be transmitted in two languages, Chinese characters and local characters, and the local characters can only be used as translational languages. Third, we will set up a Chinese language school in the local area to encourage local people to learn Chinese. Fourth, the descendants of each Tusi must send their heirs to Jiangnan University Hall or the school hall in the capital for further study and learn advanced cultural etiquette.

These four conditions added by Fang Yuan are to gradually assimilate the ethnic minorities in Guangxi and Guizhou, so that they can gradually integrate into the big family of the Chinese nation. Of course, Fang Yuan would never implement any preferential treatment for Tusi, and there was a policy of fewer people, no matter what nationality, all of them would be treated equally.

Although Fang Yuan's policy deprived Guangxi and Guizhou of some of the powers, he changed from the previous Tu Emperor to half of the Tu Emperor. However, under the military deterrence of the Southern Military Region and the Western Military Region, these Tusi still chose to compromise. It is better to be a local emperor than to be wiped out like Yang Yinglong.

The only thing that hasn't moved in the southwest is Muwangfu in Yunnan.

This Mu Wangfu has been semi-divided in Yunnan for two or three hundred years, and the local personnel appointments, military and political powers, all of which are mastered by the Mu Wangfu, has long been the local emperor. If Fang Yuan was willing to respect the interests of Mu Wangfu, of course Mu Wangfu would surrender obediently.

But Fang Yuan's condition was to send officials to serve as the local leader, which was clearly to deprive Mu Wangfu of the right to rule in Yunnan, how could Mu Wangfu, which had 100,000 troops in Yunnan, agree to such a request similar to cutting the domain?!

More importantly, Yunnan's territory is in the southwest, separated from Fangyuan's forces by the three provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and is not bordered. Moreover, Yunnan is adjacent to Burma, and in times of crisis, it can also borrow troops from the king of Burma. If Fang Yuan wanted to come to collect, he had to pass through the territory of these three provinces. Among them, there are two rogue groups in Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Zongmin, and the Tusi of Guangxi and Guizhou will not easily let Fang Yuan's army enter the territory.

The Heavenly High Emperor was far away, and the powerful Mu Wangfu did not intend to give in to Fang Yuan so quickly. He also openly replied to the letter to the Regent Palace, under the guise of loyal ministers, denounced Fang Yuan's crime of bullying the monarch, Mu Wangfu has been a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty for generations, and vowed to fight to the death with Fang Yuan, clarifying the bright and clear situation of the Ming Dynasty, although the Regent Palace sent troops to fight!

In the face of such a blatant provocation by Mu Wangfu, Fang Yuan could only order Qin Zhan's Southern Military Region and Gan Hui's Western Military Region, and the two military regions fought together. Grain and grass are provided by Huguang, the land of fish and rice, and silver is provided by Minguang, who has the right to tax and tax the city, and the date of sending troops is discussed by Qin Zhan and Gan Hui, and can be implemented after being reported to the capital for approval.

The war in the southwest region will still be stalemate for a while, and in the eastern direction of Liaodong, after Dolgon returned from defeat, he immediately punished Terhu who fled back after defeat, and also organized hundreds of thousands of people with two red flags into two white flags, only to Terhu, and the nobles of the two red flags retained the title of two red flags.

After this defeat, Dolgon's descendants did not decrease, but grew a lot, and completely stabilized the emperor's throne by merging the forces of the two red flags.

In terms of strategy against the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon did not shrink strategically, but left Azig in the city of Guangning in western Liaoning. The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Eight Banners of Mongolia in Western Liaoning were all assigned under the command of Azig, and the Eight Banners of Manchu, Han and Mongolia were added together, and a total of 200 Niulu were commanded by Azig. Dolgon gave Azig such a large number of troops for only one purpose, which was to defend Quang Ninh, the most important military stronghold in western Liaoning.