Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 251 What Do I, Daming, Want Toast?

The warm sunshine shines on the front yard, and the birds with fluttering feathers are chirping on the eaves of the roof.

In the eyes of the bird, in the study not far away, a man in a python robe is writing a book.

It is none other than our Liao King Zhu Qi who wrote the book.

Ever since he decided to reform the imperial examinations, Zhu Qi has had many things to do.

Although I have written a mathematics book before, it is still unrealistic to change the situation of officialdom with mathematics alone.

The most important thing is to change the ideology of those people. In terms of ideological education, although Confucianism has done a good job.

But compared with modern ideological education courses, Confucianism is still a bit weaker.

And this heat is faith.

In the past, Confucianism still had a set of beliefs that the world is public, but now even if the Four Books and Five Classics mention that the world is public, scholars only pass it by.

The most important thing is the great principles of those who know about it, which sounds really hard to resonate with.

The ideological education written by Zhu Qi is different. According to the research of modern psychology, it is introduced through small incidents, and there are various practical activities on weekdays.

There is only one purpose, and that is to let people who receive these ideological education understand that they become officials not for any personal gain, but for the prosperity of the nation and the country.

Of course, that's easy to say, but not so easy to do.

In addition to these ideological education, the most important thing is the training of professional knowledge.

Including the professional knowledge of farming, as well as statistics, operation and management, etc., these should focus on education and training.

And there are still many books to be written, but fortunately Zhu Qi's memory is still very good now.

I have also taken the exams for the books that civil servants read before, and it is not a problem to memorize all the materials that I used to take for civil servants.

Many of the contents learned in it are still very beneficial for the Ming Dynasty imperial examination.

But when Zhu Qi thought he could write a book for a few months with peace of mind, he suddenly received a piece of news that gave him a headache.

Although the Ming Dynasty had regained the whole territory of Yunnan under the heroic fighting of other generals, and the king of Liang had also become a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty.

The Duan family of Dali also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty without hesitation and donated the land of Dali.

At this time, Duan Qingyu, the leader of the Duan Clan in Dali, has also been sent to Yingtian Mansion to be a small official in the Ministry of Rites of the Central Court.

It seems that Daming has completely controlled the entire Yunnan, and no force can oppose Daming.

But the reality is not the case.

Zhu Qi completely forgot that it was not only the King of Liang and the Duan family of Dali who really controlled the actual power in Yunnan.

And in various places, the existing indigenous tribes are the largest group in Yunnan.

And those indigenous tribes, but they refused to accept it, they only obeyed their own tribal chiefs, the so-called chieftains.

Tusi is an official position, inherited from the Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty.

In name, Tusi is just like the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty, but there is still a big difference.

The main difference is that the appointment of chieftains is only a formal appointment by the central court.

It's not that the central court selects officials it thinks are suitable and sends them to the localities to manage those villages.

That is to say, the leaders of those villages will report their names to the central court, and then get canonized by the central court.

Become the local rulers, nominally these chieftains are responsible to the central court.

At any time, you must obey the dispatch and dispatch of the central court.

But in fact, the chieftain is the local emperor.

All laws, taxes, etc., have nothing to do with the central court.

The chieftain's rights are basically equivalent to a country within a country.

Of course, the scale of the toast cannot be particularly large. If the scale is particularly large, it is like the Dali section.

The imperial court of the Ming Dynasty definitely cannot allow the existence of such a large-scale independent force.

Wasn't the Dali Duan family overthrown by Daming's forceful attitude?
In fact, most of the toasts are not that big.

After Daming regained the entire territory of Yunnan, the problems of these chieftains became clear.

As for these chieftains, in fact, there was already a practice before the Ming Dynasty.

There are many chieftains in Sichuan, and Daming inherited the tradition of Beiyuan.

For these chieftains, the unification is adopted in name, but in fact they are still allowed to retain their own rights.

However, Zhu Qi had additional views on these chieftains.

Although these chieftains could guarantee the peace and stability of Ming Dynasty in the early years of Ming Dynasty, the existence of chieftains also has many disadvantages.

First of all, the people under Chieftain's command could not really bring any practical benefits to Daming.

Their taxes and military strength will not be provided to Da Ming, which means that Da Ming only owns these places in name, but these places not only need Da Ming to protect them, but they have no benefits.

This is a heavy burden for a country.

Of course, in the historical sense, it is also very good for Mian Daming to have sovereignty over these things.

But that was without Zhu Qi. Since Zhu Qi had come to this world, the chieftain in Sichuan was already an established fact, and he had no way to change it immediately.

But Yunnan is under his own control, if so many chieftains are allowed to continue to guarantee their actual independence, then should he, a time traveler, still do it?
Zhu Qidang heard the news, and learned that those chieftains had united to become Daming on the surface, but actually hoped that Ming would continue to maintain the pattern of chieftains and canonize them as local officials.

Then this kind of thing must not be able to close your eyes and let it happen.

What Zhu Qi wanted to do was to dig out the roots of these chieftains one by one.

Let the people under the chieftain be able to enter the livelihood system of Daming.

The book that should be made, the land that should be divided, and the county that should be set up must be set up.

Even if there are villages one by one, remote and backward, there is still a need for development and potential for development.

We must know that in modern Yunnan, it is a place where various tourism industries are very developed. The benefits of taxation and various resources brought to the country need not be mentioned too much.

But it is not so easy to eradicate the chieftain's forces.

You must know that these chieftains have ruled the local area for a longer period of time than the Dali Duan family.

Dali Duan's was able to uproot him directly because his territory was too large and the territory underneath was mixed.

After the Duan clan in Dali was eradicated, there were still various kinds of chieftains on the territory of Dali.

These chieftains are not easy to deal with, their territory is only a village, and their personal prestige has reached its peak.

It is basically unrealistic to want them to bow their heads and surrender. The most important thing is that they are not afraid of anything, they will really rebel with troops, and if they can't fight it, they will fall into the mountains and become bandits.

Anyway, when I was in the village before, I was not much different from robbers.

But if it is said that Zhu Qi has nothing to do, then he is worthy of the title of time traveler.

In fact, Zhu Qi had thought about this problem before. If he wanted to solve the chieftain's problem, the focus was on the hearts of the people.

The reason why those chieftains can exist is because they have a very high reputation in the local area.

What if these reputations are not those of the chieftains, but my Daming?
So in the final analysis, it is still because the common people on the chieftain's territory don't know about Ming's policies.

They also didn't know that choosing Da Ming could bring them any benefits.

And what Zhu Qi has to do is to bring down the administrative agencies of Daming to the towns and villages in those places.

It may seem that the cost of these actions will be very high at first.

But after more than ten or twenty years of hard work, these costs will eventually turn into profits.

As long as those ordinary people know how much I, Da Ming loves them, and how my Da Ming favors and cares for them in various policies.

I believe that before long, they will no longer be nostalgic for their own tribe.

After all, no one wants to live a primitive life. Everyone wants to live a more civilized and more comfortable life.

The first thing to do is to conduct propaganda and win over the army and some obedient chieftains.

As for those die-hard chieftains, it is obvious that they should be flattened by him.

Most of the chieftains still have to go first, and of course they have to negotiate with them.

These chieftains can retain their status.

My Ming Dynasty can also continue to confer on them as local rulers, but the prerequisite is that they must give up some of their rights.

And this part of the rights does not include taxes, which they can collect by themselves.

But local administration and education must be handed over to Daming.

The so-called administration is to count the people's livelihood policies on weekdays, and what troubles every household has, which needs to be dealt with by lawsuits, or registered for labor service, etc.

These matters are all administrative, and education is not to be mentioned. Education must be firmly grasped.

As for the tax money, Zhu Qi really didn't take it to heart, he could collect how much those chieftains wanted to charge.

Zhu Qi wished that they would take bribes and exploit the local people, so that he could know which one the local people needed most, Daming or the Chieftain.

I believe that many chieftains will not agree to this point, but it doesn't matter, now that Daming is intimidating with force, if you don't take advantage of this sharp force, you can subdue these chieftains.

It will not be so easy to do these things when Daming no longer has such a strong force.

The next 10 years will be a critical moment to decide whether the chieftains in the Ming Dynasty will continue to be popular, or wait for the painful reform and return.

So Zhu Qi has to do the most difficult step for the younger generation.

The first thing to do, and the most important thing, is to write a book about health regulations for the common people in Yunnan.

Naturally, this is not only for the local people, but more for those Ming people who will come to Yunnan to fill the population in the future.

In order to quickly stabilize the situation in Yunnan, on the one hand, it is natural to rely on the chieftain, and on the other hand, the population structure must be changed as soon as possible.

The demographic structure naturally includes the proportion of traditional Han people in Yunnan.

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang used the population of the Central Plains to fill the population of Yunnan many times.

I also have this idea, but there are only a small number of people from the Central Plains who are willing to go to Yunnan.

Even though Zhu Yuanzhang forced them to go there, most of them escaped on the way, and many people also spent money to eliminate the disaster. In fact, less than half of them arrived in Yunnan.

This is only second, and more importantly, the Ming Dynasty in history had no follow-up arrangements for these people after they filled Yunnan.

Although livestock and iron tools were also distributed to them for farming, everyone knows what the situation in Yunnan was in the early Ming Dynasty.

Although it underwent great development in the Song Dynasty, basically all the progress and development in Yunnan were returned during the hundred years of Yuan Dynasty rule.

There have been a lot of chieftains, and each of them is not thinking about how to farm to support themselves, but looting and looting everywhere.

And what Zhu Qi wanted to do was not simply to send the common people there.

Sending the common people there is the first step, and the most important step is to let the common people survive in Yunnan.

Not only to survive, but to live better than before.

You used to be a poor peasant, but after arriving in Yunnan, I will make you a rich peasant!
It cannot be said that he used to be a rich peasant, but after being transferred to Yunnan, he became abjectly poor, so the old ghost is willing to go.

So Zhu Qi wrote this book for the common people who will come to Yunnan in the future.

The main reason why those ordinary people are unwilling to come to Yunnan is that their lives may be lost after arriving in Yunnan.

I believe everyone has heard of the so-called miasma. Miasma is not just a poisonous gas.

It's because the weather is hot and humid, and those people who are not used to it are very likely to have some prickly heat on their bodies, or other skin diseases.

In these humid places, germs such as bacteria are very easy to multiply, so if there is a wound on the body, it is easy to cause inflammation and infection, and then create a wound.

Once infected under such conditions in ancient times, it was really close to death.

That's why it is said that miasma can easily kill people.

The solution is actually very simple, there are only 4 words in total, pay attention to hygiene.

Prickly heat can be completely avoided by taking frequent baths to keep cool, especially when sleeping, sleeping on some mats and the like, and not going out to work when the temperature is hot.

Of course, don't go out to work. I'm afraid this will make most people uncomfortable, but it doesn't matter, Zhu Qi also has a trump card.

That's the calamine lotion that was previously made to treat scalds and burns.

This thing is really a great killer for prickly heat and skin diseases.

Of course, if the wound area is too large and infection has occurred, antibiotics should still be given.

Zhu Qi has all these things, so I believe that those ordinary people who will come to Tianbian in Yunnan in the future don't have to worry too much about their lives.

(End of this chapter)