"How to engage in feudalism?"
Wu Sangui was stunned and thought to himself: I am the **** with the green flag of the Qing Dynasty! Don’t you know how to engage in feudalism? Do you still need to read a book?
Jia BuSi looked at Wu Sangui with some disdain, so he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you'd better read it... This book was brought to you by an extraordinary person."
An incredible figure...Wu Sangui understood, this was Emperor Hongxing!
Since it was sent by Emperor Hongxing, let’s take a look! Even if it’s useless, you still have to look carefully. This is a matter of attitude!
In front of Jiabus and Liu Sheng, Wu Sangui opened the book "Feudal Theory" and began to read it carefully.
This "Feudal Theory" is actually the "abridged version" of the "Laws of the Internal and External Vassals" that the Hongxing Emperor's court had just promulgated in the spring of the 20th year of Chongzhen. The original version of "The Laws of the Internal and External Fans" covers a wide range of matters, not only the internal vassals, but also the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the external vassals.
The so-called foreign vassals are those vassal states that nominally paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for generous rewards, but in fact did not fulfill any feudal obligations.
Zhu Cixiang is not that easy to talk to! You just give someone three melons and two dates, and you just want to take money from Zhu Cihong's treasury? How can there be such a good thing in the world?
A vassal state must have the obligations of a vassal state, and it cannot just take benefits without fulfilling its obligations. Emperor Hongxing does not like this kind of false excitement, he likes real benefits.
In addition, Emperor Hongxing would not do anything that was too thin or too thick - the vassals were at the bottom and the emperor was at the top. For example, the vassals are tenants and the emperor is the landlord. The tenants pay rent to the landlord, and the landlord pays some rewards to the tenants' families during festivals and holidays to bond with each other... But how can the rewards given out by the landlord be more than the rent paid by the tenants? How can a landlord continue to do this?
Therefore, in the "Laws of the Internal and External Fans", Zhu Cixiang strictly prohibited "favourable exchanges", and also prohibited the three behaviors of "non-tribute", "disrespect" and "disobedience".
The so-called non-tribute means not paying tribute on time - tribute must be paid every year, and you cannot just pay it just because you think about it, or just forget about it. If due to some special circumstances, it is really impossible to pay tribute on time, the tribute must be paid afterwards and the apology must be made.
Being disrespectful refers to being a vassal to several companies at the same time, or becoming an emperor behind closed doors. The former is not absolutely not allowed, but must seek the permission of the Ming Emperor. The latter is not allowed, but Ming Dynasty will not necessarily crusade, but will dissolve the relationship between monarch and minister and kick them out of the ranks of Ming Dynasty vassals.
From now on, you can no longer be a dog for Ming Dynasty!
Not being a minister means that the vassal country is not open to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, does not provide preferential treatment, and cannot refuse the Ming Dynasty's request to set up an embassy on the vassal territory. Because the vassal state is not an independent country and does not have complete sovereignty, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are not "foreigners" to the vassal state, but "people of the upper country". They cannot be turned away, tortured, or arbitrarily seized from their property. .
In addition, as the suzerain state, the Ming Dynasty had the right to set up "pavilions" to station officials or troops in vassal states.
As for what kind of pavilion to set up, whether it is to garrison officials or troops, we can discuss it slowly, but the vassal countries have no right to refuse the Ming Dynasty's request to set up a pavilion.
In short, starting from the 20th year of Chongzhen, being a foreign vassal of the Ming Dynasty was not a particularly comfortable thing.
Of course, the surrounding small countries can be happy independent countries if they do not want to be foreign vassals, or they can become vassals of other countries. Emperor Hongxing doesn't particularly want to take in a younger brother now... Zhu Cihong doesn't want a younger brother who is far away, has little luck, or is difficult to control!
The younger brothers he is currently focusing on developing are the Four Lords of Annam, Champa, Shuizhenla and Siam.
Among them, the Four Annan Lords and Shui Zhenla are the top priorities!
Now Zhu Cixi's Annan policy is to go to Houli and grant the four monarchs. The best solution is to abolish the Hou Li Dynasty in name only, and at the same time upgrade the four lords Ruan Lord, Zheng Lord, Mo Lord, and Wu Lord to the kings of the Ming Dynasty vassal state - that is, divide Annan into four. A small kingdom.
Zhu Cixiang's policy of Champa and Shuizhenla was to take advantage of the conflicts between the Ruan rulers of Annan and the two countries to gradually annex the Jiulong River plain in the east of Shuizhenla and some areas in the south of Champa into the Ming Dynasty. soil of!
As for Siam... let's strengthen the vassal relationship first, and then slowly find ways to make progress together!
Of course, the affairs of the foreign vassals have nothing to do with Wu Sangui. They are all the responsibility of Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen, and Zheng Jiangong.
So Zhu Cixi asked Ji Kun to remove all the outer vassal parts of "The Laws of the Internal and External vassals", and then deleted the inner vassal part, compiled it into this "Feudal Theory", and asked Jiabus to send it to Wu Sangui .
In this book, "Feudal Theory", which teaches people how to engage in feudalism, the famous feudal political scientist Ji Kun focuses on explaining the "feudal household system" where the military and civilians are integrated. In other words, the object of enfeoffment was not territory, but households.
For example, Wu Sangui, a cuckold of the Qing Dynasty, no, how many military households and civilian households were there on the territory of the Qing Dynasty? Count the numbers first, and then according to the situation, organize some of them into hundreds, thousands, and ten thousand households according to the method of integrating military and civilians. At the same time, they will entrust heads of hundreds, thousands, and ten thousand households.
Even though the territory Wu Sangui currently occupies is relatively poor, a careful calculation shows that there are three to four hundred thousand military and civilian households.
According to the current situation of big warlords coaxing small warlords, and small warlords occupying a piece of land and plundering it hard, 300,000 to 400,000 households are crowded together, and there is no organization. Among them, only 50,000 to 60,000 people can really fight. , we have to restrain each other, be wary of each other, and cannot even use 10% of our strength.
It is precisely because he cannot use his strength that Wu Sangui has been suppressed in the western part of Gansu and Shaanxi until now, and he cannot even defeat Zhang Xianzhong in Guanzhong.
If Wu Sangui could use the methods in "Feudal Theory" to reorganize the ministries under his command and organize the Qing Dynasty with green flags into twenty or thirty thousand households, each ten thousand household could raise thousands of elite soldiers, which would be enough to form a powerful force.
In history, when Mongolia rose, there were only ninety-five thousand households, that is, less than 100,000 households. The True Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were similar, with no more than 100,000 households in both horizontal and vertical terms.
If Wu Sangui could sort out thirty, no, even if he could sort out two hundred thousand households, he would at least be able to crush the surrounding opponents in terms of numbers.
Jabs smiled and said to Wu Sangui: "Your Majesty, the common people do some business in Xi'an, so we know that the Xian thieves are now entrenched in Xi'an. The Xian thieves have been rampant in the Central Plains and Sichuan for many years, and they have robbed a lot of property, including silver No more than ten million taels... He asked him to take all this money to Xi'an! If the prince can persuade the generals of Gansu and Shaanxi to reorganize their troops, and everyone goes to attack Xi'an together, we can make a fortune!"
"Seriously?" Wu Sangui was surprised again when he heard this.
"How can this be fake?" Jabs smiled, "Zhang Xianzhong, a thief, has no rules at all. He robs wherever he hits. He has nowhere to spend the money he robbed, so he takes it all with him... ..As long as the king can rectify the armies of Gansu and Shaanxi, he can take them as his own."
When rectifying the internal situation, we need a common goal! It seems too dangerous to attack Beijing, and it is more appropriate to go to Xi'an to make a fortune... As for whether to go to Xi'an after the reorganization is completed, or to go to Beijing via the Monan Grassland, let's talk about it then!
Wu Sangui closed the book and said to Jiabus: "Shopkeeper Jia, if there are mountains of gold and silver in Xi'an, no one will believe it even if I say it. But your business names are all over the northwest, and most of the generals in the Gansu and Shaanxi armies are with you. I have business dealings, and many of them are in debt to you... If you tell them about this, they will definitely believe it!"
He paused and said with a smile: "Besides, my money is really tight! If you want to rectify the army, you have to spend money. Why don't you lend me two or three hundred thousand taels first, and I will repay you double when Xi'an is captured." "
Wu Sangui's Pingxi King really suffered a loss. Not only did he lose all his savings, but now he is also in debt to loan sharks... If he loses again in Xi'an, he will really be in debt!
