Zhu Di understood what Zhu Su meant. It was like a group of bandits hiding in the mountains next to his house, and they blatantly wrote a letter of war to the old Zhu family and told the landlords down the mountain, the old Zhu family: I am on this mountain preparing my troops and waiting for me. After all the subordinates have been trained, I will rob your old Zhu family first.
Zhu Di's idea was: Let's first take out the money at home, gather the young men, forge swords and knives, and lead the men and horses to attack the mountain. It doesn't matter even if the other accomplices escape. No matter what, let's take care of them first. The bandit leader was killed.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also had this idea. Not only did he kill the bandit leader, he also succeeded in razing the mountain stronghold. Although the family wealth was exhausted, the Old Liu family has since become the most arrogant family in the village. For decades or even hundreds of years, no one in this area dared to question the prestige of the Old Liu family.
But Zhu Su’s idea is not like this. Zhu Su’s idea is: we not only need to destroy the bandits, but also occupy the village on the mountain, turn the mountain top into the mountain top of our old Zhu family, and find a way to place manpower on the mountain to plant seeds. Food shortage...
For this reason, we must work step by step to eliminate all the bandits. Our Lao Zhu family not only wants to be prestigious for ten to a hundred years, but only by occupying the bandit village and turning the hilltop into the property of Lao Zhu's family will no more bandits come to occupy this mountain.
"Could we use the step-by-step method now?" Zhu Di asked doubtfully.
"It works, why can't it be used?" Zhu Su smiled slightly. "Times have changed. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han Emperor and the Tang Emperor relied on a combination of kindness and power to control the grassland. It was not that they did not want to occupy it, but because the grassland did not produce much, for the Chinese people living in the fertile land of the Central Plains, It’s just a tasteless piece of chicken ribs that is worth throwing away.”
"But it is different now. Thanks to the advancement of wool spinning technology, the grassland can produce a steady stream of wool benefits for China. In this way, cattle and sheep can not only be livestock grazing and produce milk, but can even be called grasslands. The gold on the grassland. Coupled with the emergence of cement, we can build commercial roads on the grassland and promote trade... The grassland is also profitable. "
"As long as the profit exceeds the waste, we in China can use the 'step by step' strategy to deal with the rogue bandits, relying on wool trade and road construction to advance and encroach on the grassland step by step. Wei Gong also wants to use this method to harmonize Lin As the center, gather the eastern part of the grassland that lost its subordinates due to the defeat of Yuan Ting. Since the eastern part can be used, the west can naturally be used, and the prestige of Yesudie'er has not been able to spread to all parts of the grassland for the time being."
"There is another strategy, which is also commonly used to deal with rogue bandits..."
"Fifth brother, you mean to recruit people?" Zhu Xi, who had been listening silently, suddenly spoke. Zhu Su was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Second brother knows how to recruit people?"
"That's natural." Zhu Xi smiled. "When my brother first established the Qin Gang, he met many rangers who came to stir up trouble. Later, he recruited them one by one and recruited them, and the Qin Gang gained its current momentum. After being incorporated into the Qin Gang, many of them also had good friends. Man."
"So while we are building roads, penning sheep and building cities on the grassland, we can also recruit small tribes on the grassland... It is natural for me, the Ming Dynasty, to inherit the Yuanting Taoist tradition and rule the grassland. If you follow me, why don't you follow me?" Daming...is that what you mean?" Zhu Di also smiled.
"That's right. In terms of family wealth, our Ming Dynasty is much richer than Yesudier's. Should we follow the Ming Dynasty and live a prosperous life, or should we follow the so-called Great Khan and be precarious? Those leaders on the grassland are not fools. They naturally know how to make a choice. "Zhu Su said.
The three brothers laughed.
"It seems that I still can't just sit in Shuntian. From time to time, I have to go to those Wala people to communicate and express feelings." Zhu Di said.
"Of course it should. Although the Ming Dynasty's current focus is to help Duke Wei and develop the power of the eastern grasslands... But we can't let Yesudier have too much leisure on the western grasslands... From time to time, we can go to the west to conquer and win over a few Wa'la. Come over from the tribe... He Sudie'er needs time more than us now, so he still dares to summon soldiers to invade my Ming Dynasty?"
"It's just too slow. If you do it this way, it won't take you a year or two to finish the grassland." Zhu Di said regretfully.
"Not too slow, not too slow. When the herdsmen on the grassland follow Yesu Die'er to grab everything and know that the only way to live a good life is to join the Ming Dynasty, they will naturally respond to me, Wang Shishan of the Ming Dynasty."
"The force of an avalanche often starts from some barely audible vibrations. As long as there is a little force, the snow on the entire mountain will be pushed down at a rapid speed like a landslide and tsunami. This is how to win over the tribes and make the herdsmen live in peace. It seems like a trivial trend. When accumulated, sooner or later it turns into an avalanche, causing the thousands of years of looting customs on the grassland to completely collapse."
Zhu Su said it firmly. Zhu Di chewed on this for a long time and nodded in agreement.
He and Zhu Xi left Yingtian the next day. Three brothers, Zhu Su, Zhu Biao, and Zhu Fan, who were staying in Beijing, went out of the city for more than ten miles to see each other off on behalf of Lao Zhu and Queen Ma. When Zhu Fan returned to Longjiang Shipyard on his way back, Zhu Biao also hurriedly returned to the cabinet and was busy doing something important.
"Scientific examination reform", a national policy that Zhu Biao has planned for several years, is about to be fully implemented!
This is the first national policy drafted by Prince Zhu Biao himself. Although Zhu Biao also participated in politics before and controlled more than 80% of the power in the DPRK through the cabinet, in the final analysis, he was just following Lao Zhu's policies. All reforms related to the Ming Dynasty were promoted personally by Lao Zhu. "Scientific examination reform" was the first major policy project proposed by Zhu Biao himself and completed in person with the cabinet officials. Even Lao Zhu did not interfere too much.
From Zhu Biao's point of view, he actually didn't need to do this. Reforming the scientific examination is bound to offend a large part of the old literati. Don't look at the fact that these people are now becoming weaker and weaker under the pressure of Lao Zhu and Zhu Su's new learning, but the centipede insects are still alive and their power hidden under the water is still very huge.
Whether it is difficult to reform the scientific examination is another matter. It will definitely damage the reputation of scholars.
But Zhu Biao didn't care anymore. A few years ago, he might have cared about his reputation among the literati, and wanted to be a "benevolent king and filial son" and "ancient sage king" as mentioned in the sages' books, so that the Ming Dynasty could be "upright and prosperous" and realize "The Rule of Three Generations". But now, he is no longer so naive.
The interests of the country are the most fundamental interests, and between the interests of the country and the interests of the literati, as the prince, he must sit firmly on the side of the country's interests.
The old-style scientific research has become a stumbling block to seeking greater national interests, so as the future king of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao should try to use these emperor's methods to eradicate it.
This is the "way of being a king" that Zhu Biao himself understood. As an emperor, he inherits the hope of a country and holds supreme power. Not for pleasure, nor for the reputation of benevolent kings written in history books and spoken by literati.
It is to be able to use the power in hand to manipulate and guide various factions in the country at critical moments so that their actions tend to be in the direction of national interests. As for the factors that are harmful to the national interests, only the emperor can get rid of the confusion of all factional interests and start to eliminate the shortcomings.
Only a high-ranking emperor can have such authority, so the emperor should also have such determination.
(End of chapter)
