On the lonely plain, the cold wind smelling of blood blows, and the corpses are piled up, like a purgatory on earth.
Zhu Gaojie suddenly felt a wet chill on his forehead. He looked up and saw that it was snowflakes flying, covering the rich blood and broken battlefield.
"Butcher! You butcher!"
Shakanu roared at King Qi with red eyes. Behind him were a series of corpses of the Jurchen tribe.
It was this damned King Qi, this executioner, who ruthlessly ordered the slaughter!
"Drag him away and behead him in public." Zhu Gaojiao waved his hand calmly.
Violence cannot bring lasting peace, but it can silence those you hate.
He brought 30,000 elite troops to Jianzhou, and in just over a month, he made hundreds of Jurchen tribesmen here obediently beg for mercy, relying not on their mouths, but on their knives.
"Chirong."
"The general is here!"
"I order you to lead five thousand elites to annihilate Jianzhou's left guard, and bring the head of Meng Brother Timur to me."
"promise!"
Zhu Gaojie glanced at the Jianzhou Wei Jurchen who was kneeling on the ground shivering after the defeat, and lightly closed his eyes.
These Jurchens have two faces. When they are weak, they follow the Ming Dynasty as their master. When they are strong, they plunder the border people of the Ming Dynasty. They repeat endlessly and commit heinous crimes.
The Ming Dynasty has always treated these foreign ministers like a great country. At most, they only send troops to suppress them, but they will not kill them all. As a result, the aliens became more and more arrogant. If they were not given an unforgettable lesson, they would never be able to conquer them.
Zhu Gaojie suddenly opened his eyes, unleashed his evil spirit, and shouted loudly: "Find out the chief of the Jianzhou Guards, Sakyamuni, and all the Jurchens in the Jianzhou Guards who have participated in humiliating the Han people and disobeying the imperial court, and build a palace in the capital." !”
The Ming Dynasty established many guard posts in Nuergandusi. Although it was nominally ruled by the Han people, in fact it was dominated by the Jurchens and implemented the strategy of using barbarians to control barbarians. The Han people's garrison in Nuergan actually only had one or two thousand officers and soldiers. These officers and soldiers were still on seasonal patrols, and their dominance was almost zero.
During the Xuande Dynasty, the imperial court sent people to lead a team to inspect Yongning Temple, only to find that Yongning Temple had been destroyed. I didn’t know who did it. After asking, I found out that it was a savage tribe that destroyed it.
Yongning Temple is located in Nurgan City, the headquarters of Nurgandusi, the highest military and political station in the outer northeast of the Ming Dynasty. However, Yongning Temple was destroyed. The Ming Dynasty knew nothing about such a big thing. It was discovered only after an accidental inspection a few years later. This shows that the Ming Dynasty's rule in Nuergan was indeed a bit surprising. Ashamed.
"Zhujingguan?"
Zhang Fu was stunned when he heard this, "My lord, isn't your plan to recruit the Jurchens? Isn't this building of Jingguan too violent?"
Jing refers to a high hill; Guan refers to a palace. When the ancients killed thieves and laid out the corpses of a victorious battle, they would build a temple as a place to hide the corpses. There are ancient battlefields.
"Jingguan" is also called "Martial Army", which is to pile the enemy's corpses on both sides of the road, cover them with soil and tamp them down to form a pyramid-shaped mound, in order to show military power and deter the enemy.
If it is to suppress bandits, it is not unusual to build a temple in Beijing. But now King Qi has no intention of exterminating the Jurchen clan, so it may be inappropriate to build a capital temple.
"Appease? When did I say that I wanted to appease the Jurchens?"
Zhu Gaojie said: "I want to suppress the Jurchens, not for ten or twenty years, but forever, so that the Jurchen civilization will be destroyed forever!"
"Pass this king's order to build a temple in Beijing!"
…
In Jianzhouwei's camp, a hill-like building was gradually built, and the scarlet sand on the hill looked a little strange.
On the mound stood an unmarked stone tablet and a decapitated head.
This is the head of Sakyamuni, the most powerful chief among the Jurchens in Jianzhou!
"Your Majesty, the Jingguan has been built. Did you inscribe it yourself?" asked the Ming army general in charge of building the Jingguan.
Building a Jingguan was indeed hurtful, but since it was a foreigner's Jingguan, it was not a big deal.
"I will inscribe it myself."
To carve words on a stone stele, one usually sprays water on the stone first, then covers the rice paper with the written words on it, and then beats it evenly to make the writing imprinted on the stone. After peeling it off, it can be handed over to the carver for engraving. However, for calligraphers with high skills, they often write directly on the stone with ink or cinnabar, and then have it carved by a stonemason.
Zhu Gaojie's writing skills were always very good, so he directly picked up the wolf hair, hung cinnabar on it, and wrote on the smooth stone tablet.
The wolf-hair brush moves like a dragon and snake, and the cinnabar is like a bloody black dragon, writing majestic running script on the stone tablet.
"The emperors of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were all in one place, and they lasted for three generations and followed the Han and Tang Dynasties. They traveled from heaven to end and refused to submit to concubines."
"At that time, there were slaves wandering around in Nu'erqian, disturbing the border, causing a lot of evil, and making people and gods angry. The great Ming Dynasty sent 30,000 troops to the northeast to wipe out the slaves, and beheaded about 80,000 captives. The leader of the slaves, Sajjanu, asked the guilty leaders and issued a notice Universe."
"This stone serves as evidence. Anyone who offends the prestige of our Ming Dynasty will be punished!"
"Those who insult our people, the Ming Dynasty, will be punished!"
"Those who invade our territory of the Ming Dynasty will be punished!"
"In the twelfth year of Yongle, in the middle of Jiawu, in the middle of winter, Qi King Zhu Gaojie set up a stone. Don't say that he was unpredicted!"
The whole inscription is written in wild and unrestrained fonts, and the evil spirit is oncoming, which makes people feel shocked. Especially those three "Executioners", like three thousand bloody swords attacking and killing!
There were too many illiterates in the army and they couldn't understand what Prince Qi wrote on the monument, so they surrounded Zhu Yong and asked, "My lord, what is written on this monument?"
"Ah..." Zhu Yong was a little embarrassed.
Zhu Yong had read a book. He was forced to attend a private school under the urging of the previous generation Chengguo Gong Zhu Neng. However, after learning the characters, the gentleman directly taught him the Four Books and Five Classics, which drove Zhu Yong crazy. He spent the whole day Here is just skipping class and playing.
A little cultured, but not much.
What King Qi wrote on the stele was in classical Chinese, which made Zhu Yong a little confused. He obviously knew every word, but when they were put together, it was as mysterious as a heavenly book.
Zhu Yong could only say vaguely: "Prince Qi said on the monument that if anyone dares to mess with me again in the future, we will kill his whole family!"
The key point is that Zhu Yong was right. This is what Zhu Gaojie wanted to express.
The soldiers cheered for joy: "My lord is mighty!"
"How damn domineering! If anyone dares to offend my Ming Dynasty in the future, let the prince take us to destroy their country!"
"Prince Qi is mighty!"
"Prince Qi is awesome!"
"Long live the prince!"
Hearing the words "Long live the prince", Zhu Yong was frightened and coughed violently. However, the Yongle Dynasty was full of martial arts, and the soldiers were also very tough. After winning a battle, if they said some arrogant words in private, as long as they were not too excessive, others would pretend not to hear them.
The captured Jurchens were so frightened that they shrank their necks and shivered when they saw the Ming army's wild behavior.
These Ming people are really terrible!
…
After the Ming army swept through Jianzhou, they set up a temporary camp on the site of Jianzhou Guard and built a simple town.
The core of the town is Shuaiying, which is actually a shabby house built with birch bark and stone bricks. There is no way, the Jurchens belong to a hunting civilization and they often move around. There is no decent city at all, so they can only go step by step. Set up a stage.
Although the early work is a bit heavier, the advantage is that Zhu Gaojie can unscrupulously turn Jianzhou into his own hall, and establish whatever system he wants. Jianzhou was his territory, and the imperial court could not get in.
If it were within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, such a good thing would not be possible.
"Now that statehood has been completed, the next step is to put the system in place."
In the commander's camp, Zhu Gaojie said to Zhang Fu and Zhu Yong, "Send a letter to the capital and find me at least thirty students who have Juren and Jinshi backgrounds. They must have a clean background, preferably from Prince Qi's palace... ahem, I won’t go into details, I understand everything you know. Transferring people from the capital, requesting an edict to change Jianzhou into ‘Jianzhou Province’, and establish the Jianzhou Chief Envoy, the Inspectorate Envoy, and the Naturalization Envoy. Then from us Five thousand people were transferred from the Northern Expedition Army to form the Jianzhou Capital Command and Envoy Department. Without troops stationed, all the systems are bullshit."
Compared with the regular three divisions of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaojie implemented the policy of "four divisions" in Jianzhou, with an additional naturalization division.
The main task of the Naturalization Envoy Department is to apply for the "Ming Dynasty household registration" for the Jurchens. This was originally the task of the Chief Envoy Department, but special policies must be used in special places. Zhu Gaojie felt that after his own policy was implemented, he would only apply for the Ming Dynasty household registration. This task would overwhelm the Chief Envoy, so a separate department was simply set up to handle this task.
"What I want to say next is the most important thing."
Zhu Gaojiu tapped the desk lightly and said seriously, "First of all, five prefectures will be established on the basis of Jianzhou, namely Jiandong Prefecture, Jiannan Prefecture, Jianxi Prefecture, Jianbei Prefecture, and Jianzhong Prefecture. Jianzhong Prefecture will be the core, and the layout will be divided into five prefectures." The Government Envoy Si Yamen, the Inspection Envoy Si Yamen, the Naturalization Envoy Si Yamen, and the Dusi Military Camp will all be established in Jianzhong Prefecture. This territory may expand in the future, but in the end only five prefectures will be established."
"There are only prefectures, but no prefectures and counties?" Zhu Yong asked doubtfully.
The local system of the Ming Dynasty was that the imperial court controlled the provinces, the provinces controlled the government, and the government controlled the prefectures and counties. However, the "state-building system" mentioned by Zhu Gaojie simply slapped the prefectures and counties away.
Is this reasonable?
"Prefectures and counties will be decided later. The state is sparsely populated. Now we can only set up the provincial and government teams first, and then set up prefectures and counties after the system is stable."
Zhu Gaojie said seriously, "The most important thing is the Chinese Academy! Every prefecture must set up a Chinese Academy. After we improve the system of establishing a state, this standard will rise to the point where every state and county must set up a Chinese Academy."
"We wrote to the capital and transferred students from the Imperial College to oversee the students. Now the Imperial College has almost overcrowded the school with students. We transferred people from the Imperial College, and the court was very happy. The transferred students taught in the Chinese College, and ten of the Jurchen tribesmen were recruited. As students under the age of five, we don’t need to teach anything else, just teach them the Four Books and Five Classics, Confucius, Mencius and Zhuzi!”
