Chapter 134 Kings
Even when King Yan destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, it caused a lot of harm to the Mongolian people. Now the Mongols have quickly recovered their strength and are sincerely convinced by King Yan.
Not that King Yan has much personal charm. It is true that the lower class people of the nomadic people are really miserable compared to the people of the Ming Dynasty. This is why in ancient times, there were many lands outside the Great Wall that Chinese people wanted, but among the nomads, there was abundant water and grass, and they could build a country.
Now, King Yan has brought advanced technology from the Central Plains and new production methods. Many people had enough to eat for the first time.
In this case, how can we not let the herdsmen be grateful?
People everywhere are very realistic, but the herdsmen on the grasslands are more realistic. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are snobbish, because the living conditions on the grasslands are difficult. If you are not realistic, you will starve to death. They have no choice.
Therefore, if a Mongolian woman is snatched away by a man, she belongs to the man, and she will not hesitate to follow the man against her mother clan. It seems heartless, but it is the only way to survive.
Perhaps the Mongolian nobles still have so-called loyalty and pride. But it has nothing to do with the people at the bottom.
King Yan was very clever, and all the members of the Borjijin family were sent to Nanjing. Under such circumstances, he tried to find ways to win people's hearts, so after more than a year, King Yan had established a firm foothold.
What is even more valuable is that King Yan also established a complete civil service system. Every thousand households have a long history as deputy, in charge of money, food, and civil affairs. This is also based on economic development, and only additions and subtractions to the superstructure are made.
In this way, King Yan's rule was actually more progressive than the tribal alliances of some nomadic dynasties.
After all, even when Genghis Khan was around, Qianhu was still affiliated with the major nobles, just like the Naha Branch, which was inherited from generations of the Muhuali family.
Now, at least King Yan has established a bureaucratic system. Thus strengthening the royal power.
The system of King Yan already had the foundation for establishing a large nomadic empire.
This has been King Yan's goal all along, and he has always done this.
Internally, we have consolidated our foundation and externally, we have been monitoring the situation of Wala.
The relationship between Wa Ci and the Ming Dynasty is very delicate. Wa Ci paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang named the leader of Wa Ci as the King of Zhongshun. Anyone who is given such a king title is generally neither loyal nor submissive. Therefore, this loyal and obedient king did not live up to his title of king at all.
King Zhongshun quietly re-established the Yuan Dynasty in his own territory. He found a child from nowhere, saying that he was the direct bloodline of Boer. He married his granddaughter to the child and made him the Great Khan. To integrate the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty on the grassland, and in this name, interact with the Mongol Khanates in the Western Regions.
One team, two brands, corresponding to the Ming Dynasty and the remaining Mongol forces, with very flexible skills.
When King Yan was solidifying his foundation, Wala was not idle either. Established the rule of the Choros family and waited for the day when the dynasty would change.
King Yan is also preparing for his own opportunity. That is, King Yan City is the core, with forty-four thousand households as branches. King Yan City is the core of King Yan and the only city on the Songnen Plain with a population of more than 50,000. It is the gathering place for generals and officials under King Yan.
There are also some simple handicrafts, and it is also a product distribution center.
The King of Yan directly subordinates more than 10,000 cavalry and forty-four thousand households, which adds up to a total of 40,000 cavalry. During the war, he can also recruit people to organize a cavalry of more than 100,000. It was enough for him to dare to launch a decisive battle against Wala.
But King Yan himself felt that to complete such an army construction and hoard enough supplies, King Yan felt that it would take three to five years of savings.
Before that, King Yan liked the Ming Center to remain stable.
But with the death of the prince, his simple expectation was shattered.
King Yan immediately thought about whether he could compete for this position. Then King Yan himself rejected the idea.
It's not that King Yan has no ambition at all, but King Yan understands Zhu Yuanzhang better than King Jin.
If Zhu Yuanzhang likes him, then he doesn't have to fight, this position must be his. If Zhu Yuanzhang does not like him, even if he fights, it will be of little use. The final outcome is still very miserable, and it is difficult to escape unscathed.
If we say that King Yan is now very dissatisfied with his life and situation.
King Yan may not hesitate to take a ruthless fight, but in fact, King Yan is quite satisfied with his current situation. He has established his own huge empire on the grassland. King Yan can even foresee his future and sweep across the Western Regions. To the west is the yellow sand.
After being far away from the Central Plains, everything can be settled with one word. This kind of pleasure is no less than being an emperor.
Why shouldn't he leave a way out for himself?
So no matter what King Yan thinks in his heart, the best way is to do your own thing well and wait for God's will. If God's will is with me, then there is no need to say anything. If God's will is not with me, then there is no need to say anything about this matter. Moreover. 33
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Old Port.
King Zhou waited on the dock for a long time.
He was waiting for none other than King Chu.
The two kings of Zhou and Chu were powerful vassals in Nanyang. The routes between the two vassals were quite different.
King Zhou worked hard to immigrate to the old port and gather the Nanyang Han people in the old port as soon as possible. He also made great efforts in water conservancy construction, repaired the rivers outside the old port, and worked hard to transform the overflowing rivers outside the old port city into a Jiangnan water town.
This is a big project. It cannot be done in one or two years.
These years of King Zhou were not fruitless.
The biggest achievement is to make Old Port a Nanyang grain distribution center. On the one hand, naturally the food production in Old Port has increased a lot. With enough capital to influence the rice market, on the other hand, the location of the old port can take over grain from Java and the Indian Ocean region.
You know, in Southeast Asia, Java has been an important food producing area for a long time. This is also one of the reasons for Java's special position among the Southeast Asian islands.
But King Zhou's doing this also had a bad impact. That is, the King of Zhou's army is weak and he can only rely on the Governor of Nanyang. The relationship between King Zhou and the Governor's Office of Nanyang is particularly close, and they are even as close as one family. King Zhou is already preparing to take the daughter of the Lu family as his heir apparent.
But King Chu was completely different.
When the King of Chu was in Java, he followed the local customs and governed according to the customs.
From the very beginning, the King of Chu entered into marriages with local wealthy families, married many local Hindu beauties, and attracted many local wealthy families to serve as ministers to the King of Chu. Of course, these wealthy families are naturally just outsiders, wavering between the kings of the East and the West of Java.
The King of Chu, with his own elite troops as the core and the local subordinate soldiers as his wings, fought several times to pacify the princes below. The momentum was extremely huge for a while. It even affected the war between the Eastern King and the Western King.
Let the war in Java change from a two-power division to a tripartite confrontation.
The King of Chu established the Zhou system, also known as the feudal system, on the advice of many Confucian scholars. The place where the King of Chu is located is regarded as Wang Ji, and the surrounding princes are named princes respectively, and the obligations of each prince are determined. Establish a complete system.
And put the local Han people and the in-laws of the King of Chu himself in an important position.
This is also the reason why the King of Chu was able to attract many local tribes to join the King of Chu.
As mentioned earlier, the level of civilization in Southeast Asia is almost the same as that in the Spring and Autumn Period of China. In terms of political structure, in fact, no matter which dynasty it is, it can only control its own core areas, and it is difficult to control remote places.
The differences between local centrifugal forces and centralized power caused the disintegration of many so-called empires, and Majapahit's split may not be without such reasons.
No matter how bad order is, it is better than no order at all.
The King of Chu established an order of superiority and inferiority, and even the King of Chu and many princes made blood alliances and swore alliances with heaven. The obligations of both parties are determined. This system brought the greatest benefit to the King of Chu, and it was its attraction to the outer island areas.
Although, everything on the island of Java is the core of the Nanyang region. But it does not mean that there is no power on other islands in the Indonesian archipelago. This is obviously unrealistic. However, the power of the other islands in Southeast Asia is much worse than that of Java Island. It will be the same even in later generations.
Some people died, but not completely...
