Early the next morning, cavalry were everywhere in Guihua City, and there were Ming and Mongolian cavalry patrolling outside and inside the city.
On the Mongolian side, inside the city were the guards of Anda Khan under the control of Zhongjin Hatun, patrolling the outpost, and outside the city were the headquarters of Hannaji's western outpost, and the Ming army actually got involved - the highly pragmatic cavalrymen were inside the city. People outside the city participated in the patrol.
This was truly an unprecedented situation. Ming army patrols actually appeared at the Kuritai Conference in Mongolia. Many Mongolian nobles who came from afar were stunned.
Of course, it doesn't matter whether they are surprised or not. Anyway, most of the "Taiji" from these small tribes don't have much power anymore. They were able to defeat Tumen Khan's army with Han Naji, Zhongjin Hatun, Qataiji and others. Under the power, he didn't dare to talk nonsense.
Besides, Gao was pragmatic and measured. His cavalry mainly appeared between the palace of his imperial envoy and the venue of the Kuritai Conference. Moreover, the Shunyi Palace where the Kuritai Conference was held was still guarded by the Great Khan's escort. guard.
As for the cavalry outside the city, they mainly guarded the east gate of the Guihua City. The Gaoqin envoy, whether he was cautious or afraid of death, must have left himself a convenient passage to escape.
Of course, the reason for telling the outside world is to facilitate the communication with the Bahan Naji tribe outside the city.
Considering that Ambassador Gaoqin and Bahan Naji have been friends for many years, this seems to make sense.
At two o'clock in the morning, the Kulitai Conference officially started at the former Shunyi Palace in Anda.
As the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Pangshi not only sat alone in the first place, he even sat alone on a small high platform.
This point needs to be explained separately. Although the overall appearance of Guihua City is a Han-style city, it has the same Mongolian characteristics as Shacheng Yuanzhong, that is, there is a separate racecourse in the city, and it is very large. , even in the "Miyagi".
Today's Kulitai Conference was held at the racecourse in the Shunyi Palace, so Gao Jingshi could build such a small platform alone.
Gao Pragmatic, who was wearing a red silk flying fish robe, was sitting on a high platform. He looked at the large number of Mongolian dignitaries in the audience and thought to himself: "It seems that these Mongolians have a high acceptance of reality. They are better than us." The Han people are easy to deal with... and the descendants of Genghis Khan are not very impressive either.
However, you really don’t blame me. I’m doing you a favor by allowing you to Chineseize. After the advent of the firearms era, you are bound to be in a weak position. This is the general trend. With the support of the Ming Dynasty, or simply integrating into the Ming Dynasty, you will still have the opportunity to maintain civilization and development, otherwise the Mongolian country of the next generation will be your future...
I'm afraid Genghis Khan never imagined that one day Mongolia would have no presence in the world political arena, and its economy would be so backward that it couldn't be seen, right? In comparison, Inner Mongolia, which is integrated with Chinese culture, is simply paradise. "
Gao pragmatically was distracted, while the Kuritai conference was carried out according to the established agenda, but since it was all planned, it was not worth mentioning.
Gao Pragmatic suddenly felt that at this moment, he was like the Japanese emperor of a certain period facing his ministers. Although he was actually in control of the situation, he did not speak in front of others and allowed his subordinates to perform there.
However, looking at the Kulitai Conference, he thought of one more thing: the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty is Zhu Yijun. Since the relationship between the two parties began to be arranged more than ten years ago, the relationship between them is beyond the comparison of ordinary monarchs and ministers, so many Things are easier to handle, but this should not conceal the problems inherent in the Ming Dynasty's system itself.
In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty was a political system in which the emperor made the final decision. Although due to the "efforts" of the civil servant group, the current imperial power often seems to be suppressed by the civil servant group, this is actually just a superficial appearance. The root of the emperor's dictatorship has not changed. , if a Chongzhen appears one day, no matter how civil servants or generals he wants, he can still kill him at will, no tradition will work.
On the contrary, the system of the Kuritai Conference is quite interesting. Although the Great Khan is the Great Khan, if the Kuritai, an organization that represents the collective interests of all nobles, is dissatisfied with it, the Great Khan will not be able to move forward. And this Kuritai Conference is not held on a long-term and fixed basis, so that the Khan can freely exercise his authority in peacetime.
Authority is available, but there are some scruples. Isn't this kind of political system better than speaking out?
However, how should the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty be restricted? If a "Sage of Chongzhen" appears, there is nothing the officials can do to restrict him.
Moreover, the Mongols have a tradition of "selecting a king" such as the Kuritai Conference that has been passed down from the tribal alliance period, but this is not the case in the Ming Dynasty or China.
Since Xia Qi abolished the abdication, the idea of a family and a world has been formed in China for thousands of years. "The world depends on one person" is not just a matter of one dynasty or two dynasties. It is not easy to change!
Moreover, China's political system is prone to extremes, and it is difficult to create a compromise constitutional monarchy like Europe - if the monarch is strong, the bourgeoisie or the proletariat will have nothing to do with it, and if the bourgeoisie or the proletariat is strong, it probably won't either. What happened to the monarch?
However, going to the extreme means that as long as the political system changes, it will most likely undergo violent revolution, and violent revolution is not a route that Gao Pragmatism is willing to choose from the beginning.
My head hurts... Forget it, let's let it go for a while, I'm not at the time to think about it yet.
Besides, this Kulitai Conference system is far from perfect. At least judging from the political realities of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, this system also had many problems.
For example, when Kublai Khan was promoting Han law, he tried to establish a princely prince system in the Central Plains dynasty at the suggestion of Han ministers. However, the Kuritai system still existed in parallel with it.
In the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1273), Kublai Khan appointed his eldest son Zhenjin as the crown prince, awarded the crown prince a treasure, built the East Palace, and staffed the palace with palace personnel. In the sixteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1279), the crown prince was allowed to participate in the government affairs.
However, after Prince Zhenjin died of illness in December of the 22nd year of Zhiyuan, Kublai Khan never formally established a heirloom. In 1293, he only awarded the crown prince's treasure to Tie Mu'er, Zhenjin's second son who was out of town in Mobei.
As a result, after Kublai Khan's death in 1294, Timur still passed through the Kuritai Conference before he could inherit the throne.
In other words, the princely monarchy system that Kublai Khan tried to establish was, in a sense, the same as the nature of the successors designated by the great khans during his lifetime during the period of the first four khans. The designated person still had to go through the Kuritai Assembly before he could inherit the throne.
This led to the formation of an "ancestral system". After Kublai Khan, all the great khans and new kings of the Yuan Dynasty basically followed the old rules of the ancestral precepts, whether they successfully succeeded to the throne or won the title of great khan through force or coup - For the emperor, a Kuritai conference attended by the Mongolian princes, nobles and court ministers was held.
The consequences of this were also very serious, which led to the frequent occurrence of crises over the succession of the Khan throne. Some scholars in later generations believed that the hereditary system of the imperial throne in the Yuan Dynasty was actually not fully established from the beginning, and the Kuritai system still had the stubborn power to interfere with the hereditary system on the issue of succession.
The hereditary system is considered very backward by many future generations. In fact, to a certain extent, the hereditary system also has its advantages, the biggest of which is that it can ensure the stability of the country.
For example, like the Ming Dynasty, the question of "who will be the next emperor" is completely clear, because the Ming Dynasty has never deposed any prince, and there has never been a situation like "the eldest brother is still alive, and the second brother will succeed." This kind of thing, so the ministers don't have to take separate sides, and then the two sides fight to the death, and even cause various coups and mutinies - this is equivalent to reducing the internal friction of the country to a minimum.
Looking at it this way, whether the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was dictatorial or the Mongolian Kuritai elected emperor, they all had their advantages and disadvantages. It is by no means simply that you are good and I am bad, or I am good and you are bad. of.
That's all. For me, a mere Imperial Academy student, I'm afraid this question is still a bit over the top. I'd better wait until I'm qualified in the future. Maybe there will be conditions to solve the problem by then?
