Chapter Thirty-Nine: I Only Have Some Less Mature Ideas

Faced with the old emperor's inquiry, Zhu Jingyuan hurriedly sorted out the information in his memory and pulled out several classic schemes:

"I only have some immature ideas, and I was going to discuss them with the household department separately after I have time to summarize them carefully.

"Since the imperial grandfather is asking now, then I will give you a rough idea first, and ask the imperial grandfather and the old gentlemen to judge.

"The first idea was to free up the cage for the bird.

"For example, the natives of Annam, Siam, Burma, Luzon, Malacca, Yingzhou, and the Daming Ocean (Pacific) islands were concentrated and migrated to a few islands.

"For example, Mindanao (the island in the south of the Philippines), Sioux (Sulawesi on the east side of Borneo), the Solomon Islands, etc.

"Make these islands a native reservation, establish a new native vassal state on the islands, and arrange special officials to manage and educate the natives.

"The second idea is to recognize the ancestors and return to their ancestors.

"The black natives of Ji and Tiannan, as well as the black natives and slaves of other feudal states, were trained simply politically and militarily.

"Teach them the way of organizing the feudal state in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and send them to Mozhou (Africa) to establish a primitive feudal kingdom of blacks.

"It's too complicated for them to learn, and even if it is the feudal kingdom of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it can be regarded as an advanced system for the central and southern Mozhou of the primitive tribes.

"With the advantages of the system and the material support of the Ming Dynasty, their development within Mozhou should be relatively smooth.

"They should be able to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and they should also be able to interfere with the invasion and occupation of Mozhou by the Taixi countries.

"The third idea is a plan to return home.

"The objects of use include the native Burma, the slaves of the Yin people, the Yin people of the Yin countries, and so on.

"The knowledge, skills and abilities they have are far beyond those of their home country.

"We can organize them and give them special military and political training, as well as weapons, equipment, and material resources, so that they can return to their hometowns and build their country.

"The operation method is actually similar to recognizing the ancestors and returning to the ancestors, but the complexity is higher, and the classical kingdom of the Sui and Tang dynasties can be established.

"Burmese servants can go to the Nanyang reservation, and the Yin people can go deep into Brazil, Peru, Mexico and other places to rebuild the Yin Shang (ed.), Incas, Aztec and other Yin kingdoms.

"The military kingdom we support is an alliance state of the small landlord class, and there is no institutional disadvantage compared to the manor-style colonial rule practiced by the Xiyi in Yinzhou.

"Coupled with the weapon support of the Ming Dynasty, they should be able to confront the European colonial forces, and if the main force of the Ming Dynasty presses the formation, the chances of victory should not be small.

"As for defeating the white ghost rogue led by Boliwa and Sun Martin, it should be no problem.

"The fourth idea is a plan of one servant and two masters.

"In Tianzhu, Dongmo, Nanmo, Yinzhou, Tiannan and other places, the areas where the Ming people accounted for the absolute majority within the vassal state were separately divided into new state capitals, which were jointly governed by the imperial court and the vassal state.

"The people of pure Ming blood in the region will receive the same citizen treatment as the Ming Dynasty, and will be governed by officials arranged by the imperial court.

"People of non-Ming blood continue to be treated as ordinary people of the vassal state, and they are governed by the officials of the vassal state.

This was equivalent to the partial withdrawal of the feudal states to which they belonged, and the civil rights of the Ming people, who were the dominant position in society, to stimulate their centripetal force and make them help rule the native people.

"The fifth idea is to turn the razor into a summer plan.

"This is a strategy left by Emperor Sejo and has been implementing, mainly for the education of Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus.

"Nowadays, the upper strata of the people in the three places are basically the descendants of the Ming people, and the middle strata are all mixed descendants of the Ming people and the natives, and only the lower strata are the original natives.

"But no matter the upper class, the middle level, or the lower class, they don't know what the emperor and the general are.

"Korean and Japanese slaves who remained in the Ming Dynasty should refer to the local abolition plan of the Renwu Dynasty and transform them into a hired labor model according to the situation.

"The sixth idea is the plan of the vassal dynasty.

"He ordered the vassal king to go to the Jingshi court with his children to meet His Majesty, and then asked him to stay in the capital, and began to implement the title assessment and inheritance system.

"In the vicinity of the new city of Jingshi, a piece of beautiful scenery was selected, and the king of the vassal stationed in Beijing was asked to build a new palace on his own, so as to promote the consumption of Jingshi and reduce the number of unemployed and displaced people.

"When the vassal king and his children get used to the prosperity and bustle of the new city of Jingshi, they should no longer be nostalgic for the remote countryside of the feudal kingdom.

At the same time, the outer domain was changed to the inner domain, and now the internal domain is no different from the provincial political envoy, and the change of the outer domain to the inner domain is the de facto withdrawal of the domain.

"The vassal kings and vassal kingdoms still exist nominally, but they have returned to the traditional state of 'the lords are not the people, and the feudal lords are not the people'.

At that time, these vassal states would practically cease to exist, and could be formally abolished over the next few decades, or they could remain as many names as needed.

"The above six tactics can be used intersecting, and should be able to eliminate the authority and influence of the vassal king, merge the most suitable colonies as the mainland, and thus expand the ruling base of the empire......

"Of course, these are just some immature ideas, whether to adopt and implement, and how to implement it, have to be discussed and decided by the imperial grandfather and the old gentlemen."

Zhu Jingyuan paused for a moment when he said this, and then bowed his hand to the emperor and ministers, signaling that he was finished and had questions to ask.

Wang Shangshu and the other ministers looked at Zhu Jingyuan in surprise, and they couldn't speak for a while.

The previous ominous premonition came true, and this kid really gave a solution again.

And this time, the plan is not just a simple and crude problem, but a complex, diverse and flexible level.

Even Wang Shangshu subconsciously felt that if these plans were really combined, it seemed that most of the problems of withdrawing the feudal domain could be solved.

In particular, the trouble of abolition has been solved, and at least it can be delayed and circumvented, which is really the best operation.

But is that what you call "immature"?

Immature ideas are all in this form, so what are mature ideas?

The specific operation plan of each vassal state is directly made into a guidance document and sent down, so that we can directly follow it?

Although I sighed many times, everyone still couldn't help but ask in their hearts:

Is this really something that a fifteen-year-old should be thinking about?

The Wenhua Hall was quiet again for a few seconds.

As the person who raised the question, Wang Shangshu of the household department was also the person who knew the most about household registration, vassal state, and slave matters, and he was the first to slow down:

"Dare to ask Your Highness, why don't Korean and Japanese slaves continue to keep the vassal kingdom and existing slaves instead of one servant and two masters, or the plan of vacating cages for birds?"

Since Wang Niansun raised this kind of question, it is obvious that he has already accepted Zhu Jingyuan's "strategy," but he has a different view on the scope of application.

Zhu Jingyuan also expected this, and replied directly at this time:

"The three places are too important to the Ming Dynasty, and they should be absorbed as soon as possible, and their people will be turned into the Ming people, and there may be losses in the short term, but they will make steady profits in the long run.

"The point is that slavery must be abolished altogether sooner or later, and I suggest starting with Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus, which are most suitable."

Wang Niansun subconsciously wanted to continue asking, but the old emperor spoke directly:

"Jingyuan, Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus are indeed important, and the abolition of slavery is indeed a necessary policy, but it is absolutely impossible to be impatient.

"Unemployed slaves must not be allowed to merge with unemployed displaced people, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

"After the peace talks are over, the domestic situation is basically stabilized, and the displaced people have basically become workers, the abolitionist policy will be gradually promoted.

"However, it can be prepared in advance, and the Ministry of Household and relevant government offices will tighten the relevant industries and markets, remind relevant industry personnel to change careers, and put pressure on the entire industry.

"It's the same with the withdrawal of the feudal domain, it cannot be revoked all at once, and where it is not suitable to be withdrawn, where it is not necessary to withdraw the feudal domain, it must not be forcibly removed.

Like the abolition of slavery, the abolition of feudal domains was a long-term policy, and the withdrawal of feudal domains was gradually promoted at any time in the future according to the actual situation of the feudal states.

"The household department took the lead, with the assistance of other departments, and for the time being, in accordance with the six strategies proposed by Jing Yuan, we will start to withdraw the feudal domains from easy to difficult, and come up with a timetable to announce it as soon as possible.

"Jingyuan, from now on, you don't have to worry about other government affairs recently, concentrate on planning the new warship design, and don't bother others."

Before Zhu Jingyuan and the minister quarreled over the abolition of slavery, the old emperor came out and gave a compromise choice.

The old emperor did not compromise where he spent money to build ships, but he took the initiative to choose a compromise in politics and reform.

But this choice was also very effective, and as soon as the order was given, all the courtiers stood up and bowed in response:

"Your Ministers obey."

Zhu Jingyuan could only reluctantly agree.