Chapter 205: A Cost-Effective Colonial Policy
Hu Zongxian's good news and Di Qing's good news arrived in Guangning at about the same time, and it happened to be the day after Jiang Chuan received the holy decree.
Jiang Chuan was greatly pleased with the arrival of the two good news, and soon wrote letters to Hu Zongxian and Di Qing, commending and encouraging their achievements, and telling them that everything outside could be judged by themselves, and they could report it in the future.
This is equivalent to giving them the power to cut first and then play, which can be said to be a great trust.
Of course, these people are all virtuous people recruited by Jiang Chuan from the system, and there is no problem that they cannot be fully trusted. For them, Jiang Chuan can give all his trust.
Only for those who came over later, Jiang Chuan would have some concerns about using it.
For these two good news, Jiang Chuan's mood is actually subtle.
For Ran Wu to break Hetuala, kill Dai Shan, and capture a large number of prisoners, Jiang Chuan was mentally prepared. The general trend of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has gone, and the remaining people have no chance of turning the tables in front of the Jiang Jiajun, whose morale is like a rainbow and the fierce and slaughtering.
But Jiang Chuan was a little surprised by the treaty signed between Di Qing and the three Koreans, but more of it was a sight to behold.
Di Qing is worthy of being a real famous general, his vision is not limited to the battlefield, but extends beyond the battlefield. The three contents he signed are all in line with Jiang Chuan's ideas and the fundamental interests of long-term development.
The strength of the three Korean countries is weak, and if the Jiang army wants to attack it directly, it can be said that it is very simple. It was only the occupation and governance after the defeat that was the beginning of the real troubles.
Although Jiangchuan currently has a unit like the Hanlin Academy that can recruit talents, there is still a large talent gap. And these people are basically ordinary talents, and the effect that can be played if there is no great talent to lead the town guard is also very average.
At present, Jiangchuan only has three Wenchen, and there are only four or five military generals, and there are no superfluous people to govern Korea.
Moreover, if you want to govern, you need to invest a lot of money and materials, and you have to garrison troops everywhere.
The above things alone are enough for Jiang Chuan. Therefore, the best way at the moment is to use this unequal treaty to harvest wool, which can be beneficial without having to feed the sheep yourself, which is simply a multi-tasking thing.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the three Koreans are the current colonies of Gangcheon, and of course they are relatively rudimentary colonies.
For Jiangchuan, this model is the most suitable model at present.
With force as a deterrent, let the sheep shear their own wool to pay tribute. And the wool shearing is not so powerful, so as not to cause dissatisfaction and resistance of the sheep, just sit and collect the money, how trouble-free.
And even the military expenses and food and grass of the garrison were provided by the colonies, what a cost-effective thing.
Therefore, Jiang Chuan fully affirmed in his reply that Di Qing's approach was correct and had a long-term vision, and stamped his own Qin King seal on the three contracts, and asked Di Qing to send it back.
When Di Qing received Jiang Chuan's reply, he learned that Jiang Chuan had been made the king of Qin by the Ming Emperor and controlled all matters in Liaodong, so he quickly summoned the envoys of the three Korean countries and asked the kings of the three countries to come to see him.
The kings of the Three Kingdoms trembled and didn't know what was going on, but after coming, they learned the news of Jiangchuan's title from Di Qing's mouth, looked at each other, and after being stunned for a while, they all began to rejoice that they knew the current affairs early and hugged this thigh, otherwise it would be inevitable that the soldiers would be in danger.
After returning home, the kings of the Three Kingdoms hurriedly wrote a congratulatory sheet and sent envoys to Quang Ninh with a large number of gifts, escorted by a team of cavalry sent by Di Qing, to congratulate Jiang Chuan on being crowned king.
Hu Zongxian, who received Jiang Chuan's reply, also sent a team of men and horses to escort a large number of Manchu nobles such as the Manchu Emperor Fulin and the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai to Guangning to present a gift for Jiang Chuan's ascension to the throne.
At the same time, the first immigrants from Hulu Valley had already arrived in Liaoyang and Quang Ninh. At the same time, a group of subordinates and maids from the general's mansion such as Yan Zhai arrived in Guangning.
After these people arrived in Guangning, the original seven-in, seven-out mansion of Fan Sihai became the real Qin palace in Jiangchuan. The plaque on it was also written by Liu Ji himself, with gold characters and a black background, and it was magnificent.
The first courtyard is the residence of the people, and Yan Zhai, the housekeeper, also lives in the courtyard of the first entry. The second courtyard was opened up as the meeting hall of the Qin Palace.
The wings on both sides are the temporary resting places for the soldiers on duty of the personal guard battalion responsible for the security of the palace. When they weren't on duty, they lived in the barracks.
In the meeting hall, according to Egawa's request, instead of making one chair high above and the other chairs arranged on both sides under the steps, a rectangular conference table was placed like in modern society, and thirty-two chairs could be placed around it.
The other chairs are the same, but the only chair at the top of the northernmost is slightly larger, covered with tiger skin, which can be regarded as the chair of Jiang Chuan, the king of Qin.
At the northernmost edge of the conference table, behind the tiger skin chair on the Jiangchuan side, hung a huge wooden board with a huge map of the Ming Dynasty on it.
This map of the Ming Dynasty is actually officially published and printed, supervised and distributed by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, and sold by Yin Shuai, the largest bookstore in the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Bookstore, which is very detailed and perfect.
In fact, the printing and publishing industry in this era was still very developed, and the maps of the Ming Dynasty of various sizes, national editions, and local provincial editions were all drawn and then printed by the Ministry of Industry after actual measurement.
Of course, this map was also ordered by the discerning Emperor of the Ming Dynasty fifty years ago, otherwise the real improvement of the map of the Ming Dynasty may only be available in the imperial palace and various great yamen.
It is precisely because of the dissemination of these Ming maps that more Ming people understand the size of the Ming Dynasty's territory, and also let many people have a basic impression of the location of the Ming Dynasty's states and counties.
To get back to the point, this map was also copied by Jiang Chuan from the yamen of the prefect of Guangning, and it was a special super-large version, with many marks on it that planned to march into the army, which shows that the Manchus had wolf ambitions for the Ming Dynasty.
On either side of the hall there are five rest rooms and uninterrupted study rooms for temporary rest and temporary office work for participants in the meeting.
The third courtyard is Jiang Chuan's own office space, a study, an office, a temporary lounge, and a small conference hall that can accommodate ten people for meetings. At the same time, the wings on the left and right sides also prepared guest rooms for Liu Ji and other civil and military generals.
The fourth courtyard is Jiang Chuan's living place, and next to it is the room of his housekeeper and secretary Qi Xuan and several personal maids.
The fifth courtyard is for other maids to live in.
There are too many houses in Fan Sihai's family, and no matter how much Jiang Chuan Rao makes full use of them, there are still many vacant rooms.
It took several days for these things to be arranged according to Jiang Chuan's requirements by Qi Xuan, the inner housekeeper, and Yan Zhai, the outer housekeeper.