Chapter 140: Red Card with Golden Letters (Part 1)

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After Zhu Yijun read the memorial that day, he called Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun, Minister of War, to the Yangxin Hall to present Zhang Chun's memorial.

Zhang Juzheng was sweating at that time - Wang Ning was the governor arranged by Zhang Juzheng after he took office. He made a big mistake, and Zhang Juzheng was certainly to blame.

Zhu Yijun said: "Zhang and more than 100 households in Yunnan Jinyiwei were all ordered to be arrested and brought to justice immediately by the Jinyiwei headquarters. If the report is confirmed, and according to the Jinyi law, if the corpse is not eaten and delays the important affairs of the military and state, all the people will have their heads confiscated. This is Wang Ning, a civil servant, how to deal with it?"

Zhang Juzheng calmed down and apologized: "This is my fault. I didn't think that Wang Ning was like this. It was really a mistake. However, he governed Yunnan to be quiet, and the people's voice was very good. I thought it was not appropriate to punish him, so he lost the court." It is better to take away the position and not use it in order to be dignified."

Zhu Yijun heard this and sneered at that time: "What is the dignity of the court? Donggu Mangrui attacked Mengyang, the government turned a blind eye, and broke trust with all the states. What kind of dignity does the court have?"

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng paused and apologized again, but he advised: "Your Majesty, the governance of foreign barbarians is different from that in the interior. Those who support the barbarians are not a Chinese state, but a barbarian land. Before, it was unknown that hundreds of barbarians attacked each other. Know China.”

"In the third year of Zhengtong, Luchuan was pacified by Burma. The Xuanfu Si Si Renfa raised troops and invaded, and the imperial court used force to conquer it. From the sixth year to the 13th year of Zhengtong, a large army was sent to "Conquer Luchuan three times". It was not until the 14th year that Luchuan was pacified. During this period, Burma took advantage of the imperial court's expedition to Luchuan to attack Mubang and Mengyang, and forged a feud."

"In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing, Mukang and Mengyang defeated Burma and killed Xuanwei Mang Ji Sui. Burma sued the court. The court at that time ignored each other because they were feuding with each other and the attack would not harm China. Minister. I heard that his son Mang Ruidi fled and hid in his mother's house in Dongwu. When he was older, he raised his own troops to regain his father's old land. He joined forces with Sijifa to invade the border, which was also to avenge his father."

After Zhu Yijun heard this, he did not argue with Zhang Juzheng whether his view was correct. After pondering, he said: "We can't kill the governor with a report. We need the Procuratorate and the Imperial Guard to send more personnel to find out the corruption situation in Myanmar."

Zhang Juzheng was relieved to see that the emperor had been dissuaded. Since Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng came to power, no senior governor official has been killed for crime. Zhang Juzheng was afraid that Zhu Yijun would leave him as a tyrant, so what he said was not all for himself.

Although he persuaded the emperor, Zhang Juzheng also believed that Wang Ning could not secure his position, so he requested an order to remove him from his post and replaced him as governor with Chen Wensui, the governor of Guangxi.

After Zhu Yijun's announcement, the Jinyiwei headquarters sent a capable team to Yunnan to investigate the case together with two members of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. When the investigation report came back in early December, Zhu Yijun almost exploded with anger.

Summoning Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun again, Zhu Yijun showed them the urgent secret notes of Jin Yiwei.

After the two of them had seen it, Zhu Yijun said: "This report has clarified the matter. Meng Yang's Sige Yi has defeated the Burmese army. The Burmese army has lost its food route and was chased and killed by it while fleeing. There are no survivors." . However, because the Yunnan side failed to send troops to support, Sige Yi claimed that he would no longer be dispatched by the Red Letter Gold Medal. Although the Burmese army was defeated, it had invaded many areas on the Yunnan border before, and no one has paid attention to it until now."

After entering puberty, Zhu Yijun was often dominated by hormones and became angry for no reason. Wanli in the original time and space also had some troubles during this period, but they were dealt with by the Queen Mother Li, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng, and later became a good baby.

Zhu Yijun in this time and space has already taken charge of political affairs, and no one dares to suppress him. All he can do is try not to let the rise in hormone levels interfere with him, work hard every day, exercise, shoot a bow and ride a horse, and try to vent his excess energy. At the same time, always remind yourself not to anger the administration.

Seeing Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun listening with solemn expressions, Zhu Yijun knew that their expressions were normal, but somehow he couldn't suppress his anger. The more he spoke, the angrier he became, and finally he slapped the table and said:

"Wang Ning's crime is that he lost his chance of fighting for a while? How many years has it been! He sat back and watched our land of China being invaded by Burma, and did not do anything, and did not report it to the court! This is the crime of losing the land! The crime of concealing the report! If this animal is not killed, it will die miserably. Why should the border people be blamed? And should all the civil servants and military generals in the past dynasties of our country who were guilty of losing their land be rehabilitated?!"

Since Zhang Juzheng became an assistant minister, he has never seen Zhu Yijun so angry. Seeing that the emperor was out of anger, he wisely stopped speaking, and his thoughts were as the memorial said, Wang Ning would be beheaded lightly.

Zhu Yijun took a sip of water, suppressed the restlessness of his youth, and softened his tone and said: "My anger is not directed at this piece of land. The inside story reported by the Jin Yiwei is even more terrifying-Xuan who was dispatched by the scarlet letter gold medal before Now there aren’t even half of the Weisi and Fuzhou chieftains left!”

He looked directly at Zhang Juzheng with burning eyes: "Does the old gentleman know what is said in the report? In the first year of Wanli, Yue Feng, the chieftain of Longchuan, Duo Shining, connected with Mang Rui Ti, poisoned Duo Shining and then killed his whole family. More than 600 people took refuge in Dongxu?! Mangrui Ti actually appointed him as the Longchuan Xuan comfort envoy on behalf of the imperial court! And Chen An, a county official in Guangxi, fled to Myanmar and was actually made Prime Minister of Dongxu! These two things, the old gentleman knows ?"

Zhang Juzheng opened his mouth, and gave Wang Ning numerous big crosses in his heart, and sentenced him to death. His face was sweating profusely, and he couldn't help but apologize.

Zhu Yijun said: "I'm surprised. If a good Chinese person doesn't do that, he has to become a traitor. These two traitors are really amazing. They are all registered in front of me!"

Zhang Juzheng was speechless and still fell to the ground to plead guilty. Tan Lun couldn't sit still and knelt down with him.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng, who was lying on the ground to plead guilty, with his thin shoulder blades protruding and making the back of the python robe stick up. He felt a little unbearable and asked him to get up.

After taking a sip of tea to calm down the fire, he sighed and said: "Because the two palaces needed jade materials for making mahjong, I sent an internal official to Yunnan to purchase it. Wang Ning is such an upright official, but he actually lost his temper because he did not dare to play. I can't flatter you with the response. At that time, I thought he was a good official - ridiculous, extremely ridiculous!"

He said something ridiculous, but there was no smile on Zhu Yijun's face: "Does such an old official still need to be bailed out?"

Both Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun were shocked by the contents of the memorial, and were frightened by Zhu Yijun's momentum. They dared to give advice. Tan Lun said: "Your Majesty, I think that Wang Ning and his like will not be able to atone for their serious sins unless they are humble!" Zhang Juzheng did not say a word this time and could only continue to bow his body and plead guilty.

Zhu Yijun remembered that he was bullied by Wang Ning that day, and his face turned red with anger and said: "Mang Rui was bewitched by the traitors, imitating the imperial court, and also made red letter gold medals, and most of the major Xuanweisi and prefecture chieftains listened to Burmese Gold Medal Dispatch! Isn't this a great shame and humiliation?" After saying this, Zhu Yijun couldn't suppress his anger and almost slapped the table and shouted again.

After repeatedly talking about controlling his anger in his mind, Zhu Yijun gained a deeper understanding of the extent to which rising hormone levels affect his thinking. The red-lettered gold medal he just mentioned was actually the Ming Dynasty's means of ruling the Indochina Peninsula.

In the Ming Dynasty, the way of ruling Yunnan was very complicated, but some connections can be found, which can be roughly divided into three levels.

The first level is the "Central Yunnan" area that was pacified in the fifteenth year of Hongwu's reign. It is exactly the same as the mainland, with counties and counties set up, schools set up, taxes levied, and guard posts set up to farm fields for strict control.

The second level is where the army that conquered the south in the 16th year of Hongwu "divided its troops and went to Dali, Jinji, Lin'an, Yuanjiang" and other ethnic minority inhabited areas. Prefectures, prefectures, and counties were still established, but "they were still guarded by local officials."

The third layer is very large, including the 27 marginal areas of Che, Burma, and Babai that were conquered after the 17th year of Hongwu. This layer only realized the "paying tribute with salt and soil", and the tax paid was more than a thousand taels at most and only 11 taels at the least.

The so-called "barbarian lands are entrusted with taxes, servitude, lawsuits and prisons, and they are only sent out according to their measurements and restrained." Legally speaking, it is a territory, but the Ming court did not establish official governance.

During the Zhengtong period, in order to consolidate the control land of Indochina, the Ming court established the "Three Proclamations and Six Comforts" based on the victory of the "Three Expeditions to Luchuan".

Yunnan's Sansi, Sanxuan and Liuwei were placed among the other chieftains, just as the capital was placed in the various state capitals. The three Xuanxuan are the Xuanwei Department of Nandian, the Xuanfu Department of Qianya, and the Xuanfu Department of Longchuan. The Six Welfare Departments refer to the Xuanwei Department of Cheche, the Xuanwei Department of Myanmar, the Xuanwei Department of Mubang, the Xuanwei Department of Babaidadian, and the Mengyang Xuanwei Department. Xuanwei Department, Lao Xuanwei Department.

In addition to the domestic part of later generations, the scope of the Three Propaganda and Six Comforts roughly also included present-day Myanmar, northern Thailand, and central Laos, all of which were "those who can be dispatched in central Yunnan." The so-called dispatch mainly relies on the "gold letter and red card" system.

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