Chapter 409: Mobei Protector
The palace banquet to celebrate the triumph of the army was extremely lively, the emperor and the hundred officials drank together, the palace banquet lasted until late at night, and the emperor drank too much and was unwell, so that he could not go to the court meeting the next day, and could only stop the day.
On the third day, the court meeting went on as usual, Su Dingyuan played, asking the court to decide what to do with the surrendered Manchus in Shenyang and Xingjing, he believed that the Manchus hated the court and were afraid of rebellion, so in order to prevent accidents, the Manchus loyal to the Qing court should be moved into the Guannai, scattered and settled in the Han land, and scattered and settled with the Han people, so as to eliminate the opportunity and ability of the Manchus to gather people to make rebellion.
Su Dingyuan's proposal was approved by many officials, and Su Yan agreed to his proposal, intending to disperse the Manchus waiting for resettlement and move them to Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiaozhi, Taiwan and other places lacking population.
In addition to Su Dingyuan's performance, there are other things that need to be discussed within the imperial court.
The first is how to enforce rule in the Northeast.
Now that the Qing court has collapsed, and the Jurchen tribes in the northeast are also vying to be the first to join them, the situation in the northeast is very good, and it is time to set up prefectures and counties in the northeast to send liuguan to govern, and completely consolidate the foundation of the imperial court's rule in the northeast.
There was a historical mission of the Ming Dynasty, and the historical mission of the Ming Dynasty was to incorporate the southwest into the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty and make it an indispensable territory, and Su Yan believed that the historical mission of the Xia Dynasty he established should not only be comparable to the Qing Dynasty, but even better than the Qing Dynasty.
Northeast China, Mongolia, Western Regions, Us-Tibet, Southeast Asia, South Seas...... These must be included in the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, and after a hundred years, they will become inherent territory and be indivisible.
To get back to the point, Xu He, the first assistant of the cabinet, had already had an idea, and then he stood up, saying that the northeast region is vast and there are many different races, and provincial-level units such as the Xuanwei Division should be set up to facilitate governance, and he planned to change the Qing Tingningguta back to the old name Longquan Mansion (its place was originally Longquan Mansion in Shangjing, Bohai State), with the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River as the boundary, and set up the Longquan Xuanwei Division for the transition.
The mission of the Longquan Propaganda Department was to appease the Jurchen tribes in the territory, recruit displaced people from the Guannai for resettlement, open up farmland, set up an army, build a new city, and educate the aliens.
In the north of the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, another propaganda department was set up, but the north of the two rivers was a bitter cold and barren land, the population was sparse, and there was no big city, so Xu He proposed to build a new city on the bank of the Heilongjiang River, named Heilongjiang City in the name of Heilongjiang, and set up the Heilongjiang Propaganda Division, whose task was the same as that of the Longquan Propaganda Division.
However, when Xu He said this, the commander of the Jinyi Guard made Li Yuanyin have other opinions, and after Xu He finished speaking, he immediately stood up and said to Su Yan: "Your Majesty, since the ministers took charge of the Fusi of the Northern Town, they often sent their ears and eyes into the Siyi countries to spy on them, and there is a big country called Rakshasa in the far north today, and its people are just like Westerners, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and its eyes are especially blue, its nose is particularly large, its beard is particularly thin and purple, and the tongue of the dove in the south is very different from the Chinese.
The Rakshasa people are warlike and brave, drunk and often fighting, and their territory is too large to explore, and their men and horses come from the far west, occupy the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and slaughter the Jurchen tribes in the upper reaches, and the ministers dare to guess that the future dynasty will definitely have a war with the Rakshasa country, so they should deploy troops and horses in Heilongjiang to prepare for war."
Rakshasa, Russia.
Su Yan's eyes moved slightly, he didn't expect that Li Yuanyin, who was in charge of the Jinyi Guard, was actually the first to realize the threat from the north, so he naturally looked at the other party with a little appreciation in his eyes.
He nodded and said, "I have also heard about the Rakshasa in Northern Xinjiang, and its country is belligerent, and it will inevitably become a big trouble for my Great Xia, once the war starts, Mobei Mongolia and Heilongjiang will become battlefields, so it is inconvenient for Heilongjiang to set up a propaganda department, and it is inconvenient to set up a political department, so there should be a Heilongjiang capital department, and a governor should be placed in charge of the military and political affairs of the Heilongjiang capital department."
"As for the Longquan Comfort Division." Su Yan changed his words again and said: "There is no need to set up a propaganda department here, let's directly set it up as the political secretary, and transfer An Daoyuan, the governor of Guizhou, to be the governor of Longquan, and order him to be fully responsible for the change of land and return to the northeast."
"Obey."
Seeing Su Yan's resolute attitude, Xu He had no choice but to reluctantly agree.
After Xu He retreated, he began the second issue, that is, who will be the governor of Heilongjiang, just now the emperor's attitude is very obvious, the next north will mainly guard against the Rakshasa country in the far north, then the first governor of Heilongjiang must also be good at military strategy.
Because there was no discussion in advance, the civil and military ministers in the court quickly insisted on their own opinions and recommended the candidates they thought were suitable, and the Zhoushan faction composed of former officials of the Lu Dynasty's court naturally elected Zhang Mingzhen, the prince of the country, and the rest were also elected, and in the end, the highest voice was Su Dingyuan, Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin and others.
However, Su Yan is not ready to use the three people with the highest voice, the three of them have made outstanding achievements, and they are about to be unsealable, and it is not good to always use veterans, so they should give newcomers a chance to stand out.
Therefore, Su Yanli overrode public opinion, and appointed Beixi Marquis Wang Yi as the governor of Heilongjiang, and organized 50,000 Han people and various craftsmen to go north to Heilongjiang together in the Guannei, and chose good land to build a new city.
Then came the third thing.
The third thing is also related to the northern great power Rakshasa or, to be precise, also related to Mobei Mongolia.
Thanks to the assistance of the system, after the four tribes of Mobei Mongolia surrendered to the imperial court, they were loyal to the imperial court, and firmly guarded the northern frontier of the imperial court like loyal guards, Su Yan knew that this was only temporary, and after his death, the system disappeared together, and the loyalty generated by the constraints would disappear together, and there was a high probability of rebellion in Mobei Mongolia at that time.
Therefore, Su Yan planned to build city strongholds on the border and key points of Mobei Mongolia in the name of guarding against the Rakshasas, and stationed the Han army, so that he could not only guard against the Rakshasas in the north, but also monitor the Mongolian tribes nearby.
Since it is necessary to build a city stronghold in Mobei Mongolia, it is inevitable to invest a lot of manpower and material resources, and Su Yan also needs to appoint a big man in Mobei to be responsible, and by the way, he also establishes a town guard system in Mobei.
Su Yan thought for a long time, and said his thoughts to the courtiers below, as soon as he heard that he had to invest manpower and material resources again, the face of Ma Guozhu, the head of the household department, suddenly became ugly, and he immediately came out of the ranks, and said: "Your Majesty, not long after the founding of the Great Xia country, it has been fighting for many years, and it has consumed a lot of money and food, and it has emigrated several times at the beginning of the year, and the people urgently need to recuperate.
"Please take back your life and recuperate!"
Some officials also stepped forward and echoed in unison.
Su Yan was not ready to follow Ma Guozhu's advice, but he also felt that Ma Guozhu's words also made some sense, he should also let the people recuperate for a while, since the local Han people couldn't move, then why didn't he change the crowd Huohuo?
"What Aiqing said also has some truth." Thinking of this, Su Yan nodded, and he admitted: "The people do need to recuperate and restore their national strength, but the Rakshasas in the north are aggressive, if I don't take precautions early, if the Rakshasas provoke a war one day, our dynasty is defenseless, won't we suffer greater losses?"
As he spoke, he paused and said, "I also took this into account, so I decided to set up a garrison in Mobei and build a city."
"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, the minister can understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts, but the minister still insists on the minister's intentions." Ma Guozhu said.
Su Yan smiled slightly, and said, "But I have thought of a solution, since Ma Aiqing is considerate of the people of this dynasty, then why not allow Yili to let the subject countries provide labor to help build the city?"
In order for Ma Guozhu and other ministers to understand, he added: "There are many small people in Korea, there is a famine every year, and there are many displaced people, so instead of continuing to stay in the country, why not recruit them to work with money and grain, and build cities for the officials and troops in place of our people in Daxia, in exchange for money and food for survival, which not only solves the problem of famine among the displaced people in Korea, but also liberates the people of our dynasty and frees them from the suffering of hard labor, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone."
Su Yan's words gave a new inspiration to the civil and military officials, after they heard it, it seemed that they had opened the door to a new world, and their eyes suddenly lit up, and Ma Guozhu was also surprised by Su Yan's thoughts, his brain turned quickly, thinking about the possibility of this method, and after a while, he said with admiration:
"Your Majesty's words are really commanding the ministers
If this move can be truly implemented, I only need to pay some insignificant money and food to get a lot of labor, which is really ......" Speaking of the back, Ma Guozhu couldn't even find any adjectives to express his surprise.
Not only Ma Guozhu, but also other ministers were amazed, and praised the emperor's intelligence, Su Yan listened to their flattering words, laughed, and then made a final decision, handed over the matter to Su Fu, who was still the governor of North Korea, and ordered him to go to North Korea to recruit laborers one day.
Subsequently, there was no objection to the proposal to establish a town guard system in Mobei, and the imperial court would first send the first, second, and third cavalry brigades north to Mobei to increase the military strength directly under Mobei, and at the same time prepare materials, money and food in the northern provinces, so that they could be transported to Mobei together with the Korean laborers when the recruitment of laborers in Korea went smoothly.
The only disagreement is the selection of the big man sent to Mobei, the imperial court plans to set up the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate in Mobei Mongolia, with one metropolitan protector and two deputy protectors, and it is mandatory that the metropolitan protector must be served by the Han people, and the deputy protector can be jointly served by the Han and Mongolians.
After fierce discussions among the courtiers, Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, who had made great achievements in the conquest of Monan Mongolia, was finally selected, and his appointment was promoted by civil officials with a pre-Ming background, and these civil officials who served as officials of the former Ming court still had the view of the door, and they were also worried that Li Laiheng would continue to be in charge of the fourth town composed of the former Dashun army would threaten the imperial court, and the transfer of Li Laiheng from the fourth town could just weaken this dangerous factor.
Li Laiheng was transferred to Mobei to serve as the protector of the capital, and the position of the fourth town commander was temporarily vacant, considering that the fourth town was still stationed in the same line of Xuanfu Datong and did not directly encounter the pressure of the enemy, he was not in a hurry to dispatch a new chief general for the time being, and Hao Shaoqi, the prince of Yiguo, temporarily acted as the chief general.
Subsequently, the first court meeting after the triumph of Su Dingyuan's army ended like this.