"Didn't we ask you to wait in Hepu County and spy on Li Jin?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang saw these brocade guards, he immediately frowned, and said in an unkind tone:

"What are you doing coming back now?"

"Do you dare to disobey our holy will?"

Jinyi Wei Baihu was so frightened that he knelt in front of Zhu Yuanzhang all of a sudden, and hurriedly defended:

"We will never dare to disobey the holy decree, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked me to wait for him to come back and escort the important prisoners to Yingtianfu."

"If not, how dare we leave our posts without permission?"

"Here is a secret letter from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Your Majesty, you will know it at a glance."

"Escorting important prisoners?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were puzzled, but he still didn't immediately let people drag these brocade guards down, but took the secret letter and tore off the letterhead.

After opening the secret letter, he saw that it was indeed Zhu Biao's note, and Zhu Yuanzhang took a serious look at it.

After reading the content of the secret letter, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was first shocked, and then showed a look of surprise, he only felt overjoyed, hurriedly looked at the brocade guard, and asked loudly:

"Where are all the toasts?"

"Have they really all been escorted to Beijing? Is there any error? ”

"Emperor Qiqi has all been escorted into the capital, and he is waiting outside the palace, and there is no difference."

Jinyi Wei Baihu quickly replied, and then said with some hesitation:

"It's just... It's just..."

"Just what?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's excited face had a stunned expression, and then he asked:

"Did someone die on the road?"

"No, it's not! It's just that some people are scolding and scolding on the road, very reluctant! ”

Baihu told Zhu Yuanzhang about the performance of these toasts on the way to Beijing.

After Zhu Yuanzhang listened, his eyes narrowed slightly, and then said:

"Huh, reluctantly?"

"Since they have come to the capital, they have to listen to us."

"You take them to the post station first, keep them under strict supervision, and you must not let them disappear from the sight of Jinyiwei."

"You did a good job this time, when the matter is resolved, we will still have a reward, you go down first."

Baihu was overjoyed when he heard this, hurriedly bowed down, and said:

"Serving the emperor is a humble duty, and I don't dare to be greedy."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, and then waved his hand to make people retreat, but the joy on his face was obvious.

Liu Bowen, who watched the whole process, was very surprised by Zhu Yuanzhang's performance, hesitated for a long time, and asked:

"Dare to ask the emperor, but what is the happy event?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was even more happy when he saw Liu Bowen asking, and laughed:

"We have done a lot of things in Hepu County, which makes us very pleased!"

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang say this, Liu Bowen was even more curious, and couldn't help but say:

"I don't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has done in Hepu County to make the emperor so happy?"

"Hahaha, Berwyn, you are extremely clever, have you ever thought about how my dynasty should manage those southwestern toasts?"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, and then asked Liu Bowen who deliberately betrayed the guanzi.

Hearing this, Liu Bowen frowned lightly and fell into deep thought.

Even the talented Liu Bowen couldn't help but be silent when faced with Zhu Yuanzhang's question.

The reason is very simple, the Tusi in the southwest is too difficult to govern.

These toasts are intertwined with each other, and coupled with the intricate terrain of the southwest, if these toasts are forcibly pacified, I am afraid that the southwest will fall into the swamp of war.

It is not that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is not strong now, but that special geographical environment is destined to make it extremely difficult for the natives in the southwest to suppress bandits.

The 100,000 mountains, the Hengduan Mountains, the Guizhou Plateau, the primeval forests, and the deadly poisonous insect miasma, these things were the biggest obstacles to the Ming army.

Which of these southwestern toasts is not a soil emperor who has been inherited for hundreds of years?

For example, the Yang family of Banzhou, which has been inherited since the Tang Dynasty, has gone through five dynasties and ten kingdoms, two Song and Mengyuan, and has a history of 700 years.

And the Yang family is not the largest toast in the southwest, but there are many such big toasts compared to it.

Like this kind of Tusi, even the incomparably powerful Mongolian iron cavalry has no way, they are like warlords, they are a country within a country in the Ming Dynasty.

But the Ming Dynasty can only appease, once the war starts, the southwest, which has finally settled down, will fall into turmoil again in an instant.

The extermination of the Southwest Tusi will drag down the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, even if the finances of the Ming Dynasty are no longer what they used to be, but as soon as the war starts, no matter how much silver there is, it will eventually disappear without a trace like flowing water.

Though the kingdom is great, the belligerent will perish.

However, if something cannot be obtained on the battlefield, it must be even more unobtainable at the negotiating table.

The Yang family and the Zhao family, these southwestern toasts, are the tumors that grow on the body of the Ming Dynasty, these are called courtiers, but they are actually warlords, once they break out, they will inevitably bring extremely heavy disasters to the Ming Dynasty.

But how to deal with these toasts?

Liu Bowen thought about it for a long time, but there was no way to get the best of both worlds, so he could only shake his head and smile bitterly:

"Your Majesty, the ministers are stupid, I really can't think of how to govern these toasts?"

Zhu Yuanzhang saw Liu Bowen's embarrassed appearance, laughed louder, and said:

"O Berwyn, Berwyn!"

"Aren't you known for your ingenuity? Is there anything in the world that you won't know? ”

Liu Bowen made a fuss, saying that he was only a shallow learner, and he didn't dare to be so praised by the emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled very happily, what he liked to see the most was Liu Bowen's deflated appearance.

"O Berwyn, have you ever heard of changing the land and returning to the stream!"

"Returning to the Stream?"

Liu Bowen's eyes were puzzled, and he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in confusion.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with a smile, then stroked his beard and said with a smile:

"Yes, change the land and return to the stream."

"Since the previous dynasty, the Tusi has continued the hereditary system, and the Tusi have been regarded as private property by these Tusi for generations, and the imperial court has always adhered to the system of Tusi managing the Turen."

"Although there are some advantages to this system, the disadvantages are more obvious."

"Although such a fetters system can quickly recover these places in the southwest, in fact, it is not a change of soup, and it is still these Tusi who rule these places."

"In the eyes of the natives, there is only Tusi, but they don't know our emperor."

"As long as these Tusi ascend to the top and shout, these Tusi will be deceived by the Tusi and launch a rebellion."

"This is also the reason why although the southwest has been recovered in recent years, there has been frequent turmoil."

"In that case, let's restructure! Let these natives and all parts of the southwest be handed over to the liuguan for management. ”

"These rogue officials rotate every three years, and the original Tusi is all sent to the capital for further study, until we feel that they can go back to lead the tribe, they can go back."

"In this way, changing the Tusi system to a liuguan system will inevitably be able to completely eradicate the Tusi rebellion in the southwest!"

Liu Bowen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang dumbfounded, although Zhu Yuanzhang said that the system of liuguan was very good, but there was a fatal flaw.

If this defect is not solved, no matter how perfect the system of liuguan is, it will not be able to be implemented in the southwest.