Chapter 591: War Money
The court fell silent, and the Mughals didn't say anything, but who doesn't know what a crusader is?
Emperor Jiajing wanted to occupy the southeast, but he didn't want to bear the infamy of conquering the vassal states, so he wanted to cover up Mizhang to find a fig leaf for himself, use Western Europe to capture and destroy the southeastern countries, kill the southeastern royal families, and then use the name of the kingless countries to send troops to guard their lands, divide the state capitals, and achieve fundamental rule!
This series of dazzling operations really blinded the eyes of the Manchu ministers, but what can you say?
Can these methods of Emperor Jiajing be recorded in the official history?
No!
As for the wild history...... At best, it can only be a reference, who can be more real, who dares to be more serious!
What's more, even if it's more true? Even if the people of later generations slander, who can deny that Emperor Jiajing, who has expanded the land for thousands of miles, and whose talent has reached the realm of the ancients before is not the emperor of the world?
Emperor Jiajing was reckless?
Don't be kidding, the essence of civil officials who don't like war is because war will consume national strength, and a large number of martial arts will be born, so as to form a clamp and counterweight to civilian forces!
But in today's Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, do you say that Emperor Jiajing's foreign wars have consumed national strength? That's!
The grassland war, in one fell swoop annihilated the troubles of the frontier that had plagued China for thousands of years, and the open grassland policy allowed the Ming Dynasty and the grassland to communicate with each other, and the grassland people became rich because of this, and they could live and live very well, who would be willing to follow the ambitious so-called khan to fight with knives, and the people in the frontier would never suffer from military disasters from now on, and they would no longer have to live in fear.
The border trade directly contributed a lot of tax revenue to the Ming Dynasty, and the trade between the agricultural products of the Central Plains and the livestock of the grassland also made the people's lives more abundant.
As for the southeast, not to mention, the Ming Dynasty basically didn't spend a single soldier, just played a game to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, occupied a large area of land, and plundered endless wealth!
and Western Europe, the Ming Dynasty sent troops and ammunition, but how much did the Dawu Dynasty feed back to the Ming Dynasty? Innumerable riches!
Therefore, no official in the Manchu Dynasty felt that it was wrong for Emperor Jiajing's reckless military force, and even unanimously agreed that Emperor Jiajing made war money through one war after another, and since he could make war money, there was naturally no bullshit loss of national strength.
The other most important thing is Wu Xun!
From ancient times to the present, civil and military inaction has always been one of the crux of the hidden dangers of all dynasties, in the eyes of the literati, the strength of the martial arts is the source of the country, the stronger the strength in the hands of the martial arts, the more ambition can be generated, and with the expansion of ambitions, what the disaster of the feudal town, what rebellion and seizure of power, what yellow robe will follow!
And what about the warriors? In the eyes of the martial arts, what kind of bullshit humble gentleman, to put it bluntly, is a group of corpses vegetarian meals, only wind and snow every day, and the governance of local government affairs depends on the waste of the master, as for the court?
It was a battlefield where there was no smoke of gunpowder, fighting for power and profit, attacking each other, and fighting against the same party, and there were a few really good officials who took the people's livelihood in their eyes and heart, and it was just a hundred.
Literary and military fights have been the same since ancient times, but in the Jiajing Dynasty, the civil officials were frightened by the emperor who personally rolled up his sleeves and went down, and they were cold, and even chose to deal with it silently in the face of the survival of the Taoist system, because almost all the courtiers knew that their strength could not change the emperor and could not fight against the imperial power, so the only way out was to change themselves.
What about military attachés? Everyone knows that the emperor does not like the privileged class, even if he himself is the largest privileged class, in the eyes of the emperor, the existence of the privileged class is a group of leeches that are constantly sucking blood on the state.
Therefore, Emperor Jiajing not only changed the inheritance of the hereditary title of the clan, but also changed the title system of the nobles.
However, the clan is a reduction system, that is, through the reduction of titles from generation to generation, the clan titles will naturally disappear, but for the nobles, it is a three-generation meritorious system!
What is the three-generation merit system? For example, the Duke of Wei is a duke, then the contemporary Duke of Wei himself and his sons and grandsons who inherit the title will also be dukes, but when the great-grandson generation is directly deprived of the title, he wants to keep his own title, unless these three generations can make special contributions to the Ming or the brother country of the Ming Dynasty, then the title can be extended.
Of course, now that the Jiajing Dynasty is gradually dividing the clan and the noble class overseas, what kind of system will these nobles who have been divided out adopt in the new country, it depends on how the countries of each brother operate, Emperor Jiajing just gave reference opinions, how to implement or whether to implement, the Ming Dynasty does not ask......
But one thing is worth affirming, that is, Emperor Jiajing was extremely stingy with the bestowal of titles, you must know that with the scale of the war of the Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, if you want to give a knighthood, a large number of nobles will inevitably be born, but no!
In the Jiajing Dynasty, there were only two nobles canonized by Emperor Jiajing, one was the Guhou who crossed the ocean and brought the seeds back to the Ming Dynasty with nine deaths, and the other was the rice master who researched hybrid rice!
And none of these two titles are related to military merits, and the military merit is the royal family to gather the hearts of the army, and what is the purpose of rewarding the military generals for their great military exploits?
Isn't it just to seal his wife and son, and to extend the blessings of future generations?
The battlefield battle to find the feudal marquis itself is the source of the power of the general's bloody battle, and in the end, he doesn't even hope for the title, how can the warrior be convinced?
However, there was no such thing in the Jiajing Dynasty, the reason for this is that Emperor Jiajing is too good to ordinary soldiers, it is the emperor who gives the army a sense of honor, it is the emperor who makes the soldiers have a sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and because of a series of policies that make all the soldiers in the world condense their allegiance to the emperor, and the generals will be severely punished even if they raise their families, who can still have the ability to resist the king!
Even if you really want to rebel, then you have to have soldiers willing to give you their lives......
Today's Ming Dynasty has no internal worries and no external troubles, the officials are relatively clear, the corpses of the vegetarian officials, the scum of corruption and corruption have almost nothing to hide, if the emperor does not consider that this kind of officials still have a little use, it is estimated that the Jiajing Dynasty can reproduce the bloody wind and rain of the Hongwu Dynasty!
Now Emperor Jiajing's eyes have long been set on the distant overseas, although Tianzhu and Huaxia are blocked by the Xiongshan, but they are also neighbors, then Emperor Jiajing's attitude towards the five neighboring countries is likely to have an extremely long-term impact on the stability of Western Xinjiang.
The courtiers also knew that Emperor Jiajing had no interest in the territory on the other side of the mountain, but for what considerations, Jiajing would rather seal the prince away from the Americas and Australia tens of thousands of miles away than seal it at the door of his home, which is the biggest doubt of the officials.
But in any case, they were eager to know how Emperor Jiajing dealt with the problem of the Five Kingdoms of Tianzhu, especially the Crusader Kingdom, because this might be able to take a peek into the leopard, figure out what kind of policy the Ming Dynasty would adopt towards neighboring countries in the future, and then make a targeted policy program, so that Confucianism could take the lead in the change!
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