After King Wei said this, Zhang Mi thought carefully, and then said to King Wei:
"It's okay for Your Highness to think this way. After all, no matter what, as long as the imperial court is strong, we vassal states don't have to worry about weak people causing the country to become weak and then destroyed."
As he spoke, Zhang Mi smiled and said: "I am confused. I habitually use the political ideas I learned in the ruling school to advise His Highness on how to govern the vassal state. Now it seems that this is also unrealistic."
"It doesn't matter!"
"Changshi just needs to agree with Gu Xi's idea."
"Now I don't want this vassal to be strong, I just want to protect the foundation of the ancestral temple of my vassal Wei, so that it can be passed down to all generations. As long as it can be passed on to all generations, it doesn't matter if we don't have strong military equipment, and even the ability to guard against foreign enemies It’s okay to leave the matter to the king’s master in the imperial court, and this vassal can provide military expenses for it.”
King Wei smiled and spoke at this time.
And his meaning is very clear, that is, he just wants his palace to monopolize the agricultural, commercial, and industrial interests of the entire Wei Kingdom, but he doesn't really want to have military power here.
Zhang Mi nodded: "Your Highness has far-reaching intentions, and I cannot compare with you!"
Then, Zhang Mi added: "In this case, in the opinion of a foolish minister, it is better to resume corvee service in the vassal state, so as to reduce the vassal state's financial expenditure as much as possible."
"In addition, we also clearly informed the local people that the reason for using the old system is because the education area is different from that in China. It needs to go through a period of old ritual governance first, and it cannot be the same as in China all at once."
"Very good!"
King Wei nodded and agreed with Zhang Mi's proposal, and said: "However, the Han people and the gentry of this vassal should be exempted from corvee service. After all, there is a difference between high and low. What's more, if you offend both the Han people and the gentry of this vassal, then No one will come to replace the lonely herders.”
Zhang Mi raised his hand and said yes.
As a result, Weiguo almost completely restored the system of the early Ming Dynasty. It established road guides and made up various household registrations. People were not allowed to leave their place of residence at will. They could only read the Four Books and Five Classics. The imperial examination only took the Four Books, Five Classics and Cheng. Zhu Zhixue, all ordinary Japanese had to perform corvee service. In addition, a sea ban was set up to prohibit private ships from going to sea.
The only difference from the early Ming Dynasty is that Weiguo did not have a business registration, because the Wei Palace wanted to monopolize all the business profits of Weiguo.
After all, the Wei Kingdom was not big, so King Wei could monopolize the commercial profits of the Wei Kingdom. What's more, as a descendant of the Ming royal family, he naturally monopolized the commercial goods from the Ming Central Empire.
The Japanese civilians now only want a peaceful world. They are not like before, suffering from war almost every day, so they are willing to be ruled by King Wei like this.
Who makes Wei Guotian have more people and less people now?
Therefore, they Japanese people will be allocated fields. As long as they work hard, pay taxes and serve, they will have no problem not to starve to death. Even in years of famine and disaster, they can still make ends meet by working as miners. On that day, they either went to live as slaves in the homes of Han Chinese and Chinese-formed Japanese gentry, or went to the palace as official slaves and were sold by the palace to China.
However, only the most handsome or healthy young Japanese will be bought by the prince and sold to the Middle-earth, because it is much better to be a slave in the Middle-earth than to be a slave in the enlightenment area.
In short, most of the Japanese in Wei State, whether they can survive or cannot survive, are creating wealth for the Palace of Wei.
As a result, Prince Wei's palace was very prosperous, and a large amount of food and business profits were obtained every year.
The vassal kings who were granted overseas status were basically the same as Wei Guo.
They colluded with Han and Japanese gentry, and almost completely copied the system that existed at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, which was to lock the people into the land as much as possible to grow food and serve for themselves.
At the same time, they will also give ordinary Japanese a little hope of crossing the class. However, if the ordinary Japanese want to cross the class successfully, they must first have a deep understanding of the knowledge of "preserving natural principles and destroying human desires". They are so profound that they only know how to follow the old ways. the point.
This kind of governance model is a backward model for the current Ming Empire, but for overseas regions at this time, it is a very advanced model and a model that is very suitable for their agricultural development.
After all, this model is a system that emerged after the development of farming civilization in the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years. It is a very mature and advanced system in farming civilization. Therefore, after being transplanted to these agricultural areas, there is no acclimatization at all, and even It is very conducive to the restoration of local productivity, just as this system was also very conducive to the restoration of productivity in the early Ming Dynasty.
After all, there is no real distinction between good and bad systems, only appropriate ones and inappropriate ones.
You must know that in the original history, after Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan and began to govern Japan, he also used Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism to improve the agricultural system and strengthen closed management.
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Capital.
It’s the annual Huangming Expo again.
There are more products on display and more people at this expo.
"Master Zhang, don't go ahead. There are more and more people watching the expo every year, especially around the Yudai Bridge, which is often the most crowded."
"We don't need to join in the fun. If you want to see any fresh merchandise, just let your people see it."
Before the opening of the expo, Zhang Mi, the chief minister of the Wei Dynasty, returned to China, and because he was the teacher of the second prince Zhu Changhui when he was in the capital, he came to the expo with the second prince on the day of the expo.
The second prince said this to Zhang Mi because he disliked the large number of people coming to the expo, especially the Yudai Bridge area, so he did not let Zhang Mi go to the Yudai Bridge area.
Zhang Mi nodded after hearing this, followed the second prince to another place, and said:
"Your Highness should ask for an order to join the vassal overseas as soon as possible. In your own vassal country, you don't have to watch this exposition with these common people. You can just open an exposition that only the princes and nobles can participate. Now His Highness King Wei and King Yi Your Highness, this is what they do in their own vassal country."
"I want, too!"
"But isn't it true that the queen mother will have a full birthday next year? She just wants to ask for the order after next year."
After the second prince said this, he asked Zhang Mi: "But master, is it really that good overseas?"
"I can't guarantee anything else, but your vassal, Second Prince, is definitely a good place."
"Because according to the strategy planned by the imperial court, most of the vassals of His Majesty's family and children have to be in the Japanese Kyoto area, in order to set up some vassal states that are close to the emperor by blood between the religious areas directly under the imperial jurisdiction and the vassal states of other sects. This is really If Yuan Fan becomes bigger and disobeys others, there will be a buffer between the Jiaohua District and Yuan Fan."
"And Your Highness doesn't have to worry about the rebellion of the Yuan clan in the next hundred or two hundred years, because the Yuan clan that is currently a vassal are all guarding the inside and the outside, and no one dares to use military force privately. They all rely on the imperial court to protect the country. , of course, they are also afraid that the court will really be wary of them, and they only think about how to better make money for the people."
Zhang Mi spoke.
The second prince nodded after hearing this: "I saw it. The princes and uncles became a lot richer after they left."
Then, the second prince looked at Zhang Mi again: "I heard that they all live like real emperors? Life and death are all in a matter of thoughts. Those who obey me will prosper and those who go against me will perish?"
"This is indeed the case for the natives, as long as it is not done this way for the Han people."
"However, there are also few Han people in the vassal state."
Zhang Mi said.
The second prince nodded, and then said: "This is also very exciting. It is indeed better than what we are in Middle-earth now."
"Now in Middle-earth, even if you are the lord of the world, you will probably be limited in what you can do in the future, and you will not be able to be the lord of the world so freely!"
"After all, since the father of the emperor opened up the people's wisdom, too many Han people in the world have read! Especially among the younger generation of military households, there are almost no people who can't read and can't count, so there are too many people who hold different opinions. It is not easy to win over all the scholars in the world to support oneself."
When the second prince said this, he smiled and said: "So, let me leave this middle-earth country where the people are wise and more difficult to control to the eldest brother. He is the eldest son, and no one is more suitable to bear this burden than him."
"As for me, I just want to go and join the feudal clan!"
"It will undoubtedly be easier to manage a vassal state with a small number of overseas Han people and a large number of foreigners. It will also be more worry-free and more comfortable. Even if there are people who cannot be dealt with, you can kill them at will. This will not solve the problem, but it can also eliminate the people who caused the problem. Get rid of."
The second prince obviously wanted to be at ease and not worry too much, so he said this at this time.
Zhang Mi didn't say anything after hearing this.
Not only the second prince, but the third prince was also affected by the current situation of being an emperor at home and not being a powerful vassal outside to enslave the people under his rule, and just wanted to get out.
Therefore, on this day, the third prince also took the initiative to hand over to the emperor the names of several scholar-bureaucrats who secretly instigated him to participate in the seizure of the heir, as well as the criminal evidence of their dealings with him.
"Father, my subjects don't want to fight for the foundation of the country, so they insist on urging them to fight!"
"He also said that I am my second son, and I have great hope. As long as my eldest brother is gone, I will only be my son."
"My son is really angry, so I came here to expose it to my father, and ask my father to punish them for their sins. Then I also ask my father to let my son serve as a vassal for the country and defend the territory as soon as possible. I really can't stand this, lest our brothers are too much." He is a harmonious despicable person, so he just wants to become a vassal as soon as possible and serve the country as loyally as possible!"
After the third prince Zhu Changlun told Zhu Yijun, he bowed to Zhu Yijun and said, "Father, please grant me your permission!"
(End of chapter)
