Chapter 2: The Cochin Rebellion
The ministers who took care of his life left by Zhu Gaochi were still Yan Keng and Sanyang.
At the same time, because Zhu Zhanji's age is not very large, and he is not as old as his father, he is more dependent on these four people.
The Xuande Dynasty, with their assistance, officially kicked off.
The first thing he had to solve was the problem of cochinism.
There has been a rebellion there for many years, and it can be said that since the conquest of Jiaozhi, it has been in turmoil, and the Ming army stationed there has almost always been in a state of counterinsurgency, and every year it has to spend a lot of grain, grass and silver there.
And these newly enthroned emperors already have a draft on this issue.
Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji, the way he dealt with the problem, is very strange.
You say he's a softass, but he's certainly not.
If an emperor who can personally lead 3,000 elites to meet tens of thousands of Uliangha cavalry and win the battle, and lead hundreds of cavalry to patrol the border many times and deter the Mongol tribes, it is a soft egg, then there are few hard goods.
But for Zhu Zhanji, the border issues that were extremely complicated for other emperors and even cost a lot of money and food to solve seemed simple.
Cochin Li Li rebellion? Then withdraw the Ming army and crown Li Li as the king of Jiaozhi.
Luchuan Xuanfu made Si Renfa invade Nandian, Tengchong and other places? Ordered Mu Sheng to be appeased.
Laos Xuanwei Si Dao Line and Ningyuan Prefecture Tuguan Dao Ji Hankai assisted Jiaozhi to fight against the Ming Dynasty? Let them go.
The Cypriot Guard Station has been repeatedly convicted? Then don't defend it, shrink it all-round!
Warat successively defeated the Tatars and the Uliangha, and attacked the Haixi Jurchens? Don't act rashly!
Compared with Hongwu Yongle's emphasis on land, Xuande obviously cares more about "people".
"Since Renzong is not diligent and far-sighted, Xuanzong inherits it", this is not a joke, although these two fathers and sons are good at governing the country, but their methods of dealing with the war on the frontier are not appropriate.
In the end, it caused the famous "Xuande abandonment" in history, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was seriously reduced, and the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains gradually turned from offensive to defensive in foreign wars because of the abandonment of a large number of strategic places in Mongolia.
He also completely abandoned the principle of helping the weak and attacking the strong in the Yongle era, and even reprimanded the Ming soldiers who drove out Wara, which made Warat further grow and eventually caused a catastrophe!
At the same time, the laissez-faire of the southwest also made the prestige of the Ming Dynasty lose completely, and the countries in the southwest gradually did not take the Ming Dynasty seriously, and invaded Yunnan several times, burning, killing and looting.
Zhu Zhanji's actions have left serious hidden dangers for his descendants.
Historically, however, this has been unanimously agreed upon by civil officials.
They are not in favor of sending troops, and they are right not to approve of it.
The Xuande Dynasty was a dynasty of the rise of civil power, that is, in the ten years of the reign of Emperor Xuande, the civil official group got rid of the situation of being firmly suppressed by the two generations of emperors of Hongwu Yongle and began to sit large.
At this time, who would want the power of the generals and nobles to swell again in the battle and compete with them?
This time, it's the same.
Sanyang was full of praise for Zhu Zhanji's decision, and bluntly said that this was a move for the benefit of the country and the people, which made the corners of Zhu Zhanji's mouth hooked upward.
Everything in history seems to be repeating itself.
Fortunately, in this Ming Dynasty, there is one more military general who has experienced a hundred battles, and one more person who has a clear understanding of the overall situation!
"Your Majesty, this must not be done!"
In the midst of the praise, the opposing voice was so eye-catching that Sanyang couldn't help but look sideways, that person was Yan Keng, Chen Guogong, who had been silent!
Even Zhu Zhanji, who was in his seat, was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting that this important minister, who was led by himself as a confidant, would suddenly deny his decision.
"Chen Guogong, why do you say this?" Although he was surprised and a little unhappy in his heart, Zhu Zhanji still spoke and asked.
He knew that his old minister would definitely not be untargeted.
"Your Majesty, there must be no truce in Cochin! If you give up fighting now, it will not only make the efforts of the Taizong Dynasty and countless Ming soldiers in vain, but also make the prestige of my Ming Dynasty lose and be despised by all sides! ”
"What will future generations think of Xuande and you? Said that you are an emperor who can't even beat Jiaozhi, and that our so-called prosperous era of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty will be beaten by your own vassal state to sue for peace? ”
"If this is the case, I am afraid that future generations will put you and Zhenzong side by side, saying that after my dynasty Taizong, there will be no pioneer king!"
Yan Keng's words came out, and he was shocked!
Yang Shiqi and the others looked at him with surprised eyes, and they almost didn't write him a "cow".
Brother, you are really bold!
But Yan Keng was not afraid, it can be seen from Zhu Zhanji's decree that the imperial history spoke freely as soon as he ascended the throne, this is a very broad-minded emperor, and he even praised those outspoken officials.
It's definitely fine.
Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji heard this, although his face was swollen red, but the imaginary "anger", "pushing out the beheading" and the like, did not happen, he forcibly suppressed his excitement, and said coldly:
"How can my soldiers be invincible! This is just because I pity the hard work of the Ming soldiers, so I made this decision! How could future generations not know! ”
"But how can you block the mouth of the market? Since the Han Dynasty destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom, Jiaozhi has always been the old land of our country, and there is no Jiaozhi in the previous dynasties, only the Song Dynasty. Now that I've given up Jiaozhi in the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it make people compare the Ming Dynasty with the former Song Dynasty? The name of the weak Song Dynasty can't be added to my Da Ming's head? Your Majesty has lost his land, can he be described as a Ming Jun? ”
A seat of words was like cold water on his head, pouring the young emperor calm and sober.
The name of the abandoned land should not be taken seriously!
Gradually, he began to consider his policy towards Cochin. As an emperor, he attached more importance to his posthumous name than modern people can hardly imagine.
Zhu Zhanji was also full of poetry and books, and now when he thought about it, he soon found that Jiaozhi had indeed existed as the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time.
It's just that the Great Song Dynasty threw it away for hundreds of years, so that the Ming Dynasty did not recover for a while.
If you think about it this way, if Yongle recovers the land, then Xuande is tantamount to losing the land again, which will be an indelible stain on Xuande.
Other northern Xinjiang or something, after all, it is just some desert deserts, lost and lost, the Han dynasty of the past dynasties was able to control the grassland at its peak, most of the time they are independent, there is nothing to say, but Jiaozhi started from the establishment of the history of Jiaozhi thorn by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and continued to the Tang Dynasty!
Not only that, Jiaozhi can be said to be the only place since ancient times that has successfully broken away from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty and stood on its own.
It's going to be a bad head.
The rest of the vassal states, I can't say that I will think about it, and I will not obey the rule of the Ming Dynasty, after all, you can't even beat the Jiaozhi under the rule of the county, so I, a vassal state with its own power, will I still be afraid of you?
And Sanyang, who was beside him, couldn't even think of words to refute for a while, so he could only watch him sneer at Fang Xuan.
"In that case, Chen Guogong, do you have any good suggestions? Jiaozhi turmoil, every year to spend countless money and food, countless soldiers killed and injured, taking advantage of this, is not a way, the Ming Dynasty is afraid that the finances will be dragged down. ”
Zhu Zhanji's voice softened, and at this time, he looked at Yan Keng's eyes and the anger just now, which was clearly full of fear and gratitude!
"The minister has a plan, and he will definitely be able to pacify Jiaozhi, and he will be a province in my Ming frontier, which is no different from the mainland!"
"Oh? Hurry up! ”
These words aroused Zhu Zhanji's curiosity, and he straightened his expression and listened carefully.
"The minister's strategy is nothing more than three points."
"Treat everyone equally, migrate, sinicize!"
The reason why Yan Keng put forward the suggestion of treating everyone equally was because the chaos of Jiaozhi was actually made by the Ming Dynasty itself.
The officials of the Ming Dynasty held the idea of the heavenly kingdom, but they really did not treat the people of Jiaozhi as human beings.
Let's just say that, at this time, the rule of officials in the Ming Dynasty was still Qingming, but it was obviously under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and Jiaozhi was similar to the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
Originally, Jiaozhi actually welcomed the Great Tomorrow soldiers to garrison here, and he was very proud to be a member of the Celestial Empire.
The officials did this, and in the end they made the people miserable, and finally the smoke was everywhere.
Therefore, Yan Keng put forward this point, asking the imperial court to govern Jiaozhi as if it were the mainland, and it must not be biased.
If you want to take a handful of money like the Western colonizers, then you can do whatever you want, but if you want to rule for a long time, you must not treat people as outsiders, and you must treat everyone equally.
Purge the local officials and pacify the people.
Migration、Needless to say, sinicization.,It's all a cliché.。
It is nothing more than the migration of people from the interior to Cochin, and at the same time the various cultures of the Ming Dynasty are promoted there, making them as unique as the Han people.
These are all proven methods, and many of the assimilation of China have been done using these strategies.
(End of chapter)