Naturally, Zhu Yijun could not be so generous for nothing and give a large piece of territory to Siam.
What he is doing now is just to intensify the conflict between Siam and the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar.
After all, the Ming Dynasty is not yet able to completely swallow up the entire Myanmar. At most, it can only establish some strongholds in places such as Maodangmian and Dagon, and then colonize and immigrate.
But what is certain is that the Mang clan in Myanmar will not allow the Ming Dynasty to settle down and immigrate in peace. They will definitely drive away the Ming Dynasty people who moved here after their strength is restored in the future.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun needed to bring Siam in, and deliberately allocated a large area of southern Myanmar to Siam, so that in order to eat this piece of meat, Siam had to continue to have bad relations with Myanmar, maintain enough troops in Myanmar, and must not Do not seek Ming's support.
"His Majesty!"
"Siam also has limited financial resources and a small population. It may be difficult for Siam to rule such a large area of Burma."
"Otherwise, there would not have been a situation where the Burmese and Barbarians invaded Siam, rather than Siam invading the Burmese and Barbarians."
Fang Fengshi said at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and said: "What you are saying is, maybe this is just my wishful thinking. I'm afraid Siam may not necessarily be willing to sin against the Burmese barbarians in this way. There are always many people who live in peace and are unwilling to make progress in the world who eat land. Is this a phenomenon unique to our Huang Ming?"
"Your Majesty said so!"
"Study the ancients and seek truth from facts. The great wisdom of our country is to make friends with distant people and attack those with close friends. Now it is time to make friends with Siam, which has no border with the emperor Ming Dynasty, and attack the Burmese barbarians who have enmity with the emperor Ming Dynasty!"
"So, what your Majesty is doing now is a sage act. As for the problem that Siam may not be able to rule such a large piece of Burma, it is not a problem for me! Our Chinese dynasty is not only good at destroying countries, but is actually better at enriching countries! "
"In my opinion, since Siam needs to fight against the Burmese barbarians, it should not only support them in military affairs, but also support them in the interests of economic development and benefiting the people, and send officials and craftsmen of this dynasty who are good at water conservancy to help them They built water conservancy and even passed on to Siam some weaving and smelting techniques that were valuable but not superb for the country, especially the science of arithmetic, making it like Korea and another small China in the world."
"As the saying goes, those who play chess should not just play the chess pieces that are immediately effective, but also lay out the chess pieces for the long term."
Shen Shixing put forward his own opinions on Zhu Yijun at this time.
Zhu Yijun looked at Shen Shixing with great pleasure: "Master Shen is a man who is good at planning and understands the principles here."
"Your Majesty is so complimentary!"
Shen Shixing hurriedly cupped his hands and said.
Zhu Yijun then waved his hand and said: "Just follow Master Shen's words, destroy Burma and support Siam! Let all the barbarians in the world know that those who come from China will be rich! Those who go against China will be destroyed! The cabinet will discuss it and send a reliable person Officials went to Siam as envoys to negotiate with their king about the dynasty’s funding to rejuvenate the country, enrich the people, and even strengthen the army.”
"According to the order!"
It is unavoidable to achieve the goal of maximizing external interests by strengthening diplomatic strategies.
If you want to devour the world, you have to take in some of your own dogs, or even raise some of your own dogs.
However, diplomacy is only a auxiliary means. Even the rewards and concessions that have to be made are essentially to capture greater benefits in the future.
Zhu Yijun did not really want to support a powerful Siamese dynasty.
He just wanted Siam to have the ability to compete with Myanmar.
In fact, Zhu Yijun hoped that both Siam and Burma were Han people. Even if they could not be directly governed by the central court due to climate and geographical factors, they should still be of the same culture as the Ming Dynasty.
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"His Majesty!"
"In my opinion, the court should establish a new etiquette as soon as possible."
"After his inspection tour in the south, Mr. Yu Ge wrote to me that the old folk customs have collapsed badly. Common people and merchants wear silk, rich and wealthy families build illegal mansions, and prostitutes wear gold hairpins and silver ornaments. It can be seen everywhere!"
"In terms of old etiquette, all of these must be banned! Offenders may even be sent into military exile, but now I'm afraid they can't be forcibly banned. Due to the boom in commerce, most of the people in many towns and cities rely on this for their livelihood, so forced bans It will only hurt the people; secondly, this is conducive to increasing taxes. As long as the court adjusts the tax policy appropriately and in the name of establishing new rites, the people will pay attention to life. However, those who want luxury need to pay more taxes to the country and cannot just satisfy their selfish desires. Ignoring the fact that the country is rampant in extravagance, the court has no money to strengthen the army and the people."
"In addition, abandoned babies, bound feet, and eunuchs still exist. If you want to benefit the people and use courtesy to the common people, then these are all unethical!"
"First of all, it is not humane to abandon an infant, and it is not filial to bind feet and castrate oneself."
"As for the construction of new etiquette, we should first prohibit people from saying that these three are inappropriate and should be strictly prohibited!"
"For one thing, the country needs more Han people to give birth to children in order to facilitate the expansion of frontiers in the future, so abandoned babies need to be criminalized and the Ministry of Punishment is ordered to formulate new laws;"
"The same goes for self-castration."
"If you really want to sacrifice your filial piety and enter the palace to serve the country and serve your emperor and father, you should first ask for your majesty's permission. The most important thing about the new ceremony is that the love can only be taken by the emperor; this will also help prevent traitors from entering the palace."
"As for foot binding, it is not appropriate at the moment whether it is the mulberry weaving business in the country that requires women to work more conveniently to benefit the family and the country, or the country's rouge, gouache, gold and silver jewelry and other industries that can bring huge profits and requires more women to go out and do business, it is not appropriate Because this is the habit of scholar-bureaucrats, it harms filial piety and etiquette and harms the state."
At this time, Shen Shixing suddenly reported to Zhu Yijun the issue of the construction of new rites.
Zhu Yijun and the officials around him listened carefully.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "That's how it should be! The edict strictly prohibits abandoning babies, binding feet, and self-castration; etiquette should start with respect and end with benevolence. Children should respect their parents and elders, but their parents and elders should also treat them with benevolence, so that it is proper etiquette!" At the same time, a decree was sent to the Ministry of Punishment to amend the criminal law. Abandoned babies, including parents who are trafficked, should be convicted and punished. Traffickers who are not parents should be subject to more severe torture. Parents and parents who violate the prohibition of foot binding should be punished; self-castration should be punished. , he will be punished for treason."
“However, in governing a country, we need to give both grace and power, and rewards and punishments go hand in hand.”
"Let's do this. In order to encourage the people to be willing to raise children, we have issued an edict to find other ways to increase taxes in the prosperous dynasty. We will no longer increase taxes for the children we raise! At the same time, the Ministry of Household Affairs will discuss it based on the increase in the country's financial resources. If the Dingkou reaches a certain scale, a certain amount of Dingyin can be exempted, so that the people are willing to have children and raise children."
"For families with sufficient talent, a certain amount of incentives will be given, and each governor will make a decision based on the level of local wealth and the annual income of the vassal treasury. In addition, the Ministry of Rites can ask the court to allocate money to some less wealthy families based on the level of wealth in different places. place as a reward to encourage you to let go.”
"According to the order!"
After Shen Shixing handed over his hand, he said: "Your Majesty, in addition to the new rituals for the common people, we also need to rebuild the rituals between the Fanyi and the people. After all, now we have to move the people to the newly created land, which involves the relationship between the Han people and the Yi people. Rituals, so we should make clear the decree to distinguish between Han and barbarians, in order to facilitate the transformation of the king."
"My people are the people of the higher country, and the Fanyi are the slaves of the lower country. They should be distinguished from the noble and the humble. The Fanyi need to treat the upper country like their parents. By the same token, the Fanyi people need to treat the people of the upper country like their parents. The upper country The people can teach them to be immoral!"
"In particular, the superiors of the country can only be dealt with by their own country, and each party is not allowed to deal with the superiors. If you do so, it will be disrespectful to your parents!"
"Order the Ministry of Punishment to formulate new laws for treating barbarians accordingly."
Zhu Yijun instructed.
"yes!"
