What Qian Qianyi pointed out was actually a problem faced by all the southern crossing regimes in history - the number of northern nobles, nobles, and warlords who followed the migration south was nothing compared to the southern natives!
Moreover, the powerful people in Nandu are basically empty-handed and do not have much means of production, that is, they have knife handles but no money bags. And this generation of Nandu dignitaries is even worse than the previous ones. Not only do they have no money bag, but even the handle of the knife is firmly controlled by Zhu Cixi. Although the handle of the knife is in the hands of the Northern soldiers, there is no Northern military leader now. Can challenge Zhu Cixiang!
Because when Zhu Cihong entered Nanjing, he adopted a policy similar to Dorgon's in Beijing. He turned the backbone soldiers of the new army to overcome difficulties into "Nanjing people", gave them land around Nanjing, and paid for them to use the land. Building a house and resettling in Nanjing - at that time it seemed that a lot of money was wasted, and most of the property of Nanjing's nobles who had finally been copied was scattered.
But the money was worth "burning", and it burned away the military power in the hands of senior generals of the New Army such as Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfu, Li Yan, Hao Yaoqi, Li Ruolian, and Cao Youyi. Concentrate all the military power of the new army to overcome the difficulties into Zhu Cihong's own hands!
After firmly controlling the powerful new army to overcome difficulties, Zhu Cihong used force or peaceful means to conquer several other powerful northern military groups (Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, etc.) ) one by one to eliminate or conquer.
By the third year of Hongxing's reign, the "Great Unity of the Northern People" had basically been achieved-all united around Prince Zhu.
While uniting the Northerners, Emperor Zhu was also working hard to use the Northerners' swords to rob the Southerners' money bags!
That's how he got his money!
If he had not moved south and brought a group of empty-handed northerners "poor and wealthy" south, Zhu Cihong would still have been worried about money every day even if he had held Beijing.
Now that he has hundreds of thousands of "poor and wealthy" northerners who have gone south, of course he is not afraid of the Donglin Party or the Xilin Party... It is the Little Ice Age now, and the water is cold! Anyone who wants to go down and give it a try, just come forward!
And no matter how many drowned, those who survived had to pay!
Of course, Emperor Zhu's way of making money was not to send the Northern Army to rob, or even to send Northern officials to plunder, but to let the Southern scholar-officials who had taken refuge in the Ming court to plunder the money themselves!
In order to improve the efficiency of scraping money, Zhu Cihong also dared to delegate power to southern scholar-bureaucrats and allowed locals to serve as local officials - only then would he know where to scrape money! Moreover, he also allowed well-performing southern officials to stay in one place for a long time without worrying about developing separatist forces.
For example, Grand Duke Luo, who was promoted from the county magistrate of Shanghai to the prefect of Songjiang, was the "money-making star" for three consecutive terms. The people of Shanghai gave him the nickname "Luo Papi", and his official reputation was very poor. But it doesn’t matter, he can still be the prefect of Songjiang! As long as he can earn a lot of money and appease a good place, that's all. There are two keys to appeasing a place. One is to have some strength in the place; the other is to know the place well enough to know who to ask for money!
The reason why Zhu Cixiang dared to let go was because he relied on the support of the "poor and noble" in the north.
He relied on the "poor and noble people from the north" to govern the "rich gentry in the south". The "poor and noble people from the north" not only controlled the army, but also dominated the government offices at the imperial court and provincial governor levels, and also served in the Jinyi Guards and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It has an absolute advantage in a "powerful department".
In other words, the "Nan Fu Shen" were mainly responsible for local affairs in the Nanming officialdom, and mainly served as officials below the provincial level. It was easy for a "money-making star" like Luo Grand Duke to become a prefect, but it was difficult to become a governor. He would not even be allowed to be the chief officer of the Sixth Division under the Jiangnan Governor's Yamen.
The "poor nobles" from the north are responsible for escorting the "rich gentry from the south" to scrape money for the country. If they don't plunder it properly, they will be dismissed from office and imprisoned!
For a "money-making star" like Duke Luo, there is a northern governor, surrounded by imperial guards controlled by the northerners, and a group of northerner censors are investigating his corruption. The room for promotion is limited, so life will definitely be difficult, and Lack of security.
When life is difficult and people lack a sense of security, of course they have to form a party to protect themselves.
Therefore, the Southern People's Party, a group formed by the "Southern rich gentry", came into being!
Qian Qianyi and Zheng Zhilong, because of their status in the court and local influence, became the leaders of the Southern People's Party - the purposes of these two leaders of the Southern People's Party are also different. Zheng Zhilong and Qian Qian Yibaotuan wanted to fight for the position of prince for his grandson "Zhu Tuhao". Qian Qianyi, on the other hand, looked at Wei Zaode's position as chief assistant and wanted to sit on it before closing his eyes, so he joined forces with Zheng Zhilong.
From the perspective of Uncle Wen Quan, who is most afraid of cold water, as long as he lives long enough, he still has a good chance of becoming prime minister. After all, the Northern Party only has a base of several hundred thousand households, which is too small compared to the indigenous people in the eight southern provinces.
Moreover, when they first came south, they were empty-handed and had to be dogs for Emperor Zhu. However, as time went by, each of these people made a lot of money, and they had to show their true colors.
At that time, Emperor Zhu knew that if he wanted to govern the Southeast for a long time, he would have to rely on the scholars in the Southeast... just like the Southern Song Dynasty in history! Those famous ZTE generals later either died or were idle, leaving only one Wu Lin in power until his death. But doesn’t the power of the center still belong to the Southeast scholars?
Now Emperor Zhu is probably aware of the destiny of the Beiren Group, so he wants to cultivate successors for the Beiren Group by establishing a new school for Beiren, right?
"There is a way to run a school and educate talents." Qian Qianyi tugged at his gray beard and narrowed his eyes. "Isn't it true that Emperor Guangwu was also a Taixue student? In primary schools, middle schools, and Beijing schools, noble people are given priority. Taixue should be given priority to all scholars in the world. Should you take the exam based on your ability? Many local officials are incompetent. They either have too little education or are not familiar with practical matters. If there is an imperial college that can educate talents for the country, Emperor Guangwu will surely be able to save a lot of trouble, right?"
"Zhongtang," asked Ye Maoxiang, deputy director of Beijing Academy, "the Imperial College has been closed for a long time, and it is time to reopen it... Who should propose this matter?"
"Let it be brought up by the Political Council." Qian Qianyi said, "It is common sense for local political officials to want local talented people to study in Taixue... Since Taixue trains nine-grade officials for the country, then We need to recruit more people. Twenty or thirty thousand people are not too much, right? That’s the censorship without official position!"
"No official Yushitai" is a boast of the three students of the Song Dynasty, which means that although they have no officials, once they submit a letter to Fuque, they may even overthrow the prime minister...
Now "Nan Fu Shen" suffers because Zhu Cixiang puts him in a position to be beaten. He can only be beaten and cannot fight back!
If there could be an "unofficial Yushitai", then the Southern People's Party would have a way to fight back!
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"Your Majesty, I sincerely request the imperial court to open an Imperial College again, to cultivate capable officials for the imperial court, and to open a ladder to heaven for scholars..."
Forbidden City, Fengtian Palace.
The political meeting, which was originally just a routine meeting, suddenly encountered something unexpected. Zhu Zhiyu, the political officer recommended by Duke Luo, the prefect of Songjiang, suddenly loudly proposed the idea of reopening the Imperial College.
And this is not Zhu Zhiyu’s suggestion alone, but is jointly proposed by dozens of political deputies from all over the country!
"Open Taixue again..."
Zhu Cixiang took the Jianbai letter from Zhu Zhiyu and asked with a smile this bearded old man from the Southeast, who was nearly fifty years old and still energetic. (hence the nickname Zhengjun), I was about to ask you for advice... This matter is related to the foundation of Confucianism, and if we don’t understand it clearly, it will be difficult to deal with it!"
"What? The foundation of Confucianism?" Zhu Zhiyu was stunned. Zhu Cihong was talking about him as Wang Gu, but this "him" is a bit big. It is directly related to the foundation of Confucianism. What is it?
Zhu Cixiang nodded and deliberately lowered his voice so that everyone in the hall could faintly hear: "Zhengjun, do you know about Confucius' excavation? Now Confucius' treasure appears on the market in Lushunkou!"
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