Zhou Ning was very happy when he heard that Cheng Shijie was going to be knighted. After all, selfishness is human nature. Starting from Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu, people who are willing to follow Cheng Shijie through life and death are actually thinking about living a good life. .
Now, it's finally the harvest season.
Zhou Ning shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is actually not urgent!"
"No, the knighthood starts now!"
Cheng Shijie said: "However, being knighted is different from the past!"
"How different?"
Zhou Ning didn't understand what Cheng Shijie meant.
Cheng Shijie said: "Back then, Cao Cao made Guan Yu the Marquis of Han Shouting, Liu Bei made Zhuge Liang the Marquis of Wuxiang, and Wei Yan was made the Marquis of Nanzheng. Do you know the reason for this?"
Zhou Ning shook his head: "I don't know!"
"Because during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the system of rank and rank was adopted. Lords had feudal lords or towns, could appoint officials, and their titles were hereditary. They also had high political status in terms of food, clothing, rent, and taxes."
Cheng Shijie continued: "Both Cao Cao and Liu Bei are actually aware of a problem. Once a principality or principality is established, the principality or principality will be in a semi-independent state, thus forming a state within a state. This is very important for a unified court. It is said that it is very inconvenient. This kind of state within a state will eventually evolve into the current chieftain and become a thorn in the side of the court. At that time, Cao Cao wanted to sell Guan Yu a favor and make Guan Yu a Han Shouting Marquis, but Han Shouxian County was in Wuling, Jingzhou. Hanshou County in the county belonged to Liu Biao at that time!"
Zhou Ning suddenly realized: "Cao Cao used Liu Biao's territory to reward Guan Yu?"
"It's more than that!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Wuxiang County belongs to Langya County, and it is not Liu Bei's territory. Even Wei Yan's Nanzheng Marquis and Zhang Fei's Xixiang Marquis were not Liu Bei's territory at that time!"
Zhou Ning finally understood what Cheng Shijie meant: "What does the king mean by saying that the two capitals and thirteen provinces are not going to be ennobled?"
"That's right!"
Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "Of course, I am not going to treat my brothers badly. I am going to seal the country in the La Plata Plain. The land there is fertile and the products are rich. The brothers who follow me can build a country there, and it is If you are granted a real title, you can appoint your own officials and taxes, and you will not be replaced by hereditary officials!"
Cheng Shijie had been busy for many days in order to do these things. He planned to have 10,000 square kilometers of dukedom, 4,000 square kilometers of marquis, 3,000 square kilometers of earl, 1,000 square kilometers of viscount, and 500 square kilometers of baron.
"If it is a real title, there are still hidden dangers!"
Zhou Ning said solemnly: "Brothers are loyal to the king. There is no doubt about it. But the problem is that in the future, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no unscrupulous descendants. If these unscrupulous descendants have different intentions, that place is too far away from the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid He will lose control in an instant!"
Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Let's solve the future problems in the future. I believe there will be a good solution!"
Cheng Shijie would naturally vigorously develop industry and push the Ming Dynasty into the industrial age. The centralization of power in the past dynasties has become more and more centralized with the development of science and technology. Qin Shihuang divided the world into thirty-six counties, but he actually controlled these thirty-six counties. But come here because the level of technology is limited.
To say that the country with the most successful centralization of power is actually the beautiful country, that is because science and technology have developed. Even if it happens in any corner of the earth, it can be transmitted to the white house in about a few minutes. Eleven aircraft carrier battle groups and thousands of military bases can intervene anytime and anywhere.
Cheng Shijie is far from being able to do this now. He currently only has four fleets, and they are only considered a regional navy, far from being a global navy. In particular, the communication problem cannot be solved, and the transportation problem cannot be completely solved.
Even the road of Liaodong cannot be compared with that of later generations in the 1950s and 1960s. He still has a long way to go. Of course, Cheng Shijie is about to start the disappearance of the heroes of the knighthood. It has spread, and the principles and methods of the knighthood have also spread. Go out, this needs time to brew, let the cabinet and provincial committees discuss it collectively.
While they were talking, Qin Liangyu asked to see him.
"Let her in!"
"yes!"
Not long after, Qin Liangyu came in, bowed and said: "Meet the King!"
"Has General Qin eaten? If not, then eat with me!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the gift!"
Qin Liangyu said: "There is no rush to eat. It's just that the Champa Kingdom sent people to contact me. They hope to unite with our Ming Dynasty. We are in the north and they are in the south to attack the Southern Monkeys."
Cheng Shijie was very surprised: "Champa? This country still exists?"
"It still exists, but since two hundred years ago, the power of the Champa Kingdom has plummeted. Now there is only one capital left, which is no different from its demise. However, after all, the Champa Kingdom has lasted for thousands of years, and it has a lot of influence on this land. Deep influence!”
Qin Liangyu said seriously: "As long as we form an alliance with Champa, the Champa people in various places in Annan will definitely rise up and attack Annan, which will save us a lot of energy."
"Well, there are indeed many benefits to forming an alliance with the Champa State, but you have to be careful not to be used as a weapon."
Qin Liangyu smiled lightly and said: "It depends on how they behave in the future!"
Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "It is not easy for them to continue their national destiny for thousands of years. They have been bullied and invaded by the Annan people for hundreds of years. However, they must not have any thoughts that they should not have. My bottom line is that at most they can only retain the identity of a country and continue to exist. , continue their civilization, if they are still greedy, don’t blame me for being cruel!”
Zhou Ning felt that Cheng Shijie was now becoming more and more decisive in his killings and knew how to make choices.
Qin Liangyu now knows what to do. It seems that Cheng Shijie is still the same as before. In his heart, only the talented people of Ming Dynasty are human beings, and the others are not human beings at all. With Cheng Shijie, no one else can have a good life!
Cheng Shijie couldn't get excited about the battle in Shenglong City. After all, it was really bullying. You must know that there were more than 600 chieftains in the Ming Dynasty, but originally there were only 159 chieftains. Nearly a quarter were deeply influenced by Han culture. The chieftain is willing to accept the change of land and return to his hometown.
But as Lin'an Town grew bigger and bigger, more and more chieftains came to Annan with Cheng Shijie. There was no other way, Annan's environment was too good.
If you follow Cheng Shijie, you can have a good meal, but the temptation of having a good meal is too great.
Just as the chieftain army was concentrating its forces to attack Shenglong City, Cheng Shijie continued to patrol the Red River Plain, the area controlled by the chieftain army. Good guy, not only the land left by the Annan people was used, but also newly reclaimed A lot of land!
Whether these chieftains live in the mountains or in the forests, they are all experts in farming. It is no wonder that the Central Plains dynasties have repeatedly suppressed and conquered them, and they have been unable to destroy them. Their vitality is tougher than camel grass seeds, and as long as one They thrive with a little moisture.
It can be seen that these chieftains are very satisfied with the land of Annan. Although the climate in Annan is a bit hotter and rainier, compared with the barren mountainous areas where they originally lived, it is already a paradise like the Garden of Eden.
The Red River Plain is full of strong young men wielding axes and hoes to cultivate wasteland. Folk songs of various ethnic groups are played one after another all day long, which is intoxicating.
Only the chieftains from the Western Sichuan Plateau privately complained that this place was a little hot. There was nothing they could do about it. They originally lived on the Western Sichuan Plateau and were used to the steep mountains and cold glacial winds. Suddenly they came to the hot and rainy Red River Plain. It is reasonable to feel uncomfortable.
However, complaints are complaints, and they will definitely not do it if they are asked to return to the Western Sichuan Plateau.
Cheng Shijie is actually very worried about the fact that there are dozens of ethnic groups with different beliefs, diets, cultures, etc. If there is a conflict, they may be defeated by each one.
However, the problem is that Cheng Shijie's worries are unnecessary. The relations between various ethnic groups are very harmonious, with different languages and different beliefs. Different cultural customs did not affect their friendship. For them, the Red River Plain is large enough and fertile enough. With sufficient living space and resources, all conflicts except life and death are just minor issues.
How can we fight among ourselves? There is a richer Mekong Delta waiting for them to conquer. How can we fight among ourselves now?
However, it is quite funny that so many ethnic groups are huddled together. The Yao and Miao people build ancestor temples wherever they go to devoutly worship their ancestor Chiyou.
The Qiang, Tibetan and other ethnic groups built Yanhuang temples and even invited incense from the oldest Yanhuang temple in the country. Therefore, you can often see Chi You and Yandi and Huangdi living next to each other, enjoying the incense from their descendants. I wonder if these three What do the great ancestors of the Chinese nation think of this?
Not to be outdone, other ethnic groups threw away the Buddha statues in the Buddhist temples and invited the statues of their ancestors in. Now it was a big joke. The Bo people offered sacrifices to the Frog God, the Li people offered sacrifices to King Pan, the Bai people, the Shui people, the Jing people...everyone Each nation has different ancestors, and if the temple is not enough, we can build a wall in the middle, or draw a curtain, and worship the Frog God here and Panwang there, it will be a lively event!
Yanhuang Temple and Chiyou Temple are the most popular. Most ethnic minorities believe that their genealogy can be traced back to these three people, so they must pay homage when entering the temple.
Most of the temples are very simple, but the etiquette of worshiping gods is very grand. These ethnic minorities who have experienced thousands of years of hardship know how to cherish their own beliefs better than any other nation. If they are not allowed to worship their ancestors, they will rebel.
The cost of the ancestral temples of these mountain barbarians blooming everywhere is that the Buddhist temples of the Annan people suffered. Buddha statues were thrown everywhere, and even chopped up and used as firewood to make room for their ancestral spirits.
The actions of these guys once again prove that the most important thing for Chinese people is their ancestors. What religion? Stand aside!
If they act this way, Annan, which is ruled by them, is likely to become the first land in Southeast Asia that has no soil for Buddhism to survive...
While the chieftain army was busy attacking Nanhou in Annan, Shen Mingyu, as the governor of Annan, also led the main force of the Annan army to attack the noodle shop. It is better to control the exit to the sea in one's own hands. This is Cheng Shijie's established strategy.
From the 16th to the end of the 18th century, the Indochina Peninsula was Myanmar's most powerful country for three hundred years, sweeping across Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia from west to east. At its peak, it occupied the entire Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam.
Although the cursed water disaster did not happen in this time and space, Cheng Shijie remembered it.
On July 18, the 18th year of Shunzhi (August 12, 1661), King Mangbai of Myanmar sent a message to Zhu Youlang, Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who had fled to Myanmar, asking him to cross the river tomorrow and drink the cursed water to form an alliance. , to become friendly. Zhu Youlang and some ministers all saw that there was a fraud in it, but they did not dare to leave because they were staying with others, so they had to order some civil and military officials such as Ma Jixiang, a scholar, and Mu Tianbo, a minister, to go to the appointment.
The next morning, Ma Jixiang and others came to the tower where the Burmese army stationed themselves, and were immediately surrounded by three thousand Burmese troops. Seeing that something had happened, Mu Tianbo immediately grabbed a knife to resist. In the end, he was outnumbered and all 42 officials, big and small, were killed. Immediately, the Burmese army rushed to Zhu Youlang's residence and hunted down more than 300 of his followers. This is the famous "cursed water difficulty" in history.
Of course, this war was definitely not a war of aggression, but an internal reform of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, the Ming Dynasty’s territory in the south was far larger than that of the Qing Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had three propaganda and six Wei divisions in the south.
They are respectively the Luchuan Xuanwei Envoy Division, which has jurisdiction over present-day Dehong Prefecture and several areas outside the border.
The Mubang Xuanwei Envoy Division has jurisdiction over the northeastern region of Shan State in present-day Myanmar, and its administrative seat is Xingwei in present-day Myanmar.
The Mengyang Xuanwei Envoy Division had jurisdiction over the area north of Bhamo and Kaitai in present-day Myanmar, west of the Irrawaddy River, and east of the Naga Mountains. The administrative seat was Mengyang in present-day Myanmar.
The Xuanwei Division of Myanmar is located in the middle reaches of the Irrawaddy River, west of Mubang and south of Mengyang, centered on Mandalay, Myanmar.
Diwu Laxuanwei Division is located in the south of Xuanwei in Myanmar, east of the Irrawaddy River in old Bagan, which is the land of Dongwu.
Dagu Laxuanweisi is located in Baigu, Mage, in the delta where the Irrawaddy River flows into the sea.
Demassar Xuanweisi, where the Salween River enters the sea, in the Danasilin area, south to Dawei.
The Eight Hundred Dadian Xuanwei Envoy Division was located in the eastern Shan State of Myanmar and the Chiang Mai area of Thailand.
The Lao Propaganda and Comfort Department was located in present-day Laos.
The Che Xuanwei Envoy Division had jurisdiction equivalent to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, my country today.
All the above areas, except Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty because the Mu family guarded Yunnan and implemented a relatively thorough land reform and returned to the country, so the Manchu and Qing Dynasties inherited it, all the other territories were lost after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Qianlong knew the territorial scope of the Ming Dynasty when it was strong. He tried to regain Burma and Jiaozhi, and tried to restore the territorial scope of the Hongwu and Yongle Dynasties, but they all ended in failure.
Just after Shen Mingyu led the troops into Yunnan, following Cheng Shijie's order, the Ming Dynasty officially issued an order to reform the native land and return it to the locals, restricting the three propaganda and six consolation envoys, and immediately went to Che (Xishuangbanna), but there were no people or birds. Shen Mingyu , It is very good not to be a bird, and the heart of being disobedient is obvious.
The deadline is here, so go ahead and fuck him.
Shen Mingyu, the governor of Annan, led hundreds of thousands of Annan troops to march south in their cars to attack the rebels. This was not an invasion, it was just an internal war to return the country to its homeland. (End of chapter)
