Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 573 Establishment of Monan Governor
Just after Zhu Youjian listened to Song Yingxing's report on the northward relocation of the Daming Armory Institute, Xu Zhaohua handed over a memorial:

"Congratulations, father!"

"I have congratulations?"

Zhu Youjian was quite surprised, smiled slightly, and handed half a plate of rosy cherries to Xu Zhaohua.

"Daming has an additional Qingsong County, and the current cabinet is tentatively planned to be under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture."

Xu Zhaohua put half a cherry into his red lips, and smiled.

Zhu Youjian looked at the memorial for a while, and then said: "Very good, but Qingsong County is not suitable to be designated as Shuntian Mansion. Now that area is equivalent to building a city outside Guancheng;

Without mountains and rivers as obstacles, they will be plundered by the Tartars at any time;

Not only Qingsong County, but the newly built cities after leaving the customs had to consider military security issues, so they called Ma Shiying, the deputy privy envoy and director of the General Political Department of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, and Gao Hongtu, the chief assistant of the cabinet. "

Zhu Youjian suddenly realized that the outside of the pass was no safer than the inside of the pass, and the military pressure from the various Mongolian tribes still existed. If Ming took the liberty to build castles outside the pass to reclaim bases, he would be easily harassed by these Mongolian cavalry.

But the Ming Dynasty Guards are field forces, and it is impossible to defend every castle base.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian wanted to strengthen the military functions of these places, so Zhu Youjian immediately summoned Ma Shiying, the head of the military internal organization of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, and Gao Hongtu, the head of the political internal organization.

"The outside of the customs is no better than the inside of the customs. Each prefecture, county, and even province must have a strong enough garrison. The chief officials of these places must be good at military and political affairs, and they must be able to deal with the Mongolian cavalry at any time for military strikes;
Therefore, I feel that a governor should be established outside the customs instead of a governor. The governor should be in charge of the military and political power in the entire province. The governor is responsible to the Generalissimo's Office in military affairs and the cabinet in politics. What do you think? "

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he asked Ma Shiying and Gao Hongtu.

"My minister agrees with His Majesty's opinion, but the officials of the newly established prefectures and counties below the governor must be appointed and dismissed by the cabinet, the taxes must also be handed over to the cabinet, and the food and salaries must also be allocated by the cabinet. This is different from the Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty. Avoid the emergence of feudal towns."

When Gao Hongtu said this, Zhu Youjian had no objection either.

According to his opinion, the governor-general established outside the customs should indeed be different from the Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty. The power of taxation and appointment of officials is still in the hands of the court, including the appointment of officials in the military system, but the governor-general can control military and political affairs with full power in one province. That's it, there is not much difference between the governor in the war zone system.

The only difference is that during the war zone system, the governor is in charge of the internal political and ideological work of the army.

But now the Governor-General outside the customs has all the responsibilities of the Chief Soldier and the Governor-General concurrently, and there is no limit to the number of troops the Governor-General can lead.

The governor can recruit soldiers and horses by himself and report to the court's general marshal's office that he will be appointed and dismissed by the court.

This is similar to Li Chengliang in the Wanli period, and his power must be greater than that of the governor in the pass.

In the later stage, after the central control power declines, there may also be a phenomenon of self-respect, but this is unavoidable.

Now in order to coordinate forces and preserve the expansion results, we can only increase the power of local officials outside the customs.

As for the expansion of the local area in the future, it can only be the result of the incompetence of the central government. Perhaps the central government can change this method through various means, and Zhu Youjian can't think so far.

He has only one purpose now, which is to extend Han culture to a wider area.

Even if the central court of the Ming Dynasty is really replaced by other Han people, it doesn't matter. At least at that time, the entire Han nationality owned a vaster country than it does now.

That's enough.

soon.

The cabinet, together with the Grand Marshal's Office, delineated the area south of Kent Khan Mountain, and the area west of Ulaanbaatar to the Datong line today as Monan Province, and the governor of Monan was located in Shuangquanhai.

That is now Ulaanbaatar.

Chen Zilong was appointed by Zhu Youjian as the first governor of Monan.

The full name is Doctor Zishan Hussars General Grand Marshal's Mansion Monan Commander and Right Capital Censor and Military Department Zuo Shilang Admiral and Superintendent of Monan Army Political Affairs.

The second grade of official residence.

After all, he was the first to propose the expansion of immigration, so naturally Chen Zilong was the first governor outside the customs.

Looks like a lot of power.

But in the early days of Ming Dynasty's external expansion model, even Monan, which is close to the customs, is just a sparsely populated grassland and Gobi desert.

……

The area of ​​Monan is not just the Mongolian Harqin.

But now the nobles of the Harqin tribe feel the most obvious about the expansion of Ming Dynasty.

They instinctively believed that the Ming army's expedition to Horqin would be the same as the previous Ming army's expeditions, and they would go back, so they chose to avoid the Ming army's edge and moved the royal court to a place a little farther away from the old official road of the Ming Dynasty in advance. .

But what the nobles of Harqin did not expect was that their tribal herdsmen were disappearing, and sometimes hundreds of herdsmen disappeared within a day or two.

This number is not a small number for the Karaqin tribe with a small population base.

At first, the business groups in Qingsong County forcibly plundered these herdsmen, but later, whoever spread the word that going to Qingsong County can have enough food and earn money, these herdsmen began to flee to Qingsong County on their own initiative.

The Mongolian aristocrats in Harqin, like the landlords in the pass, are also supported by the herdsmen at the bottom. With fewer herdsmen, their wealth will naturally decrease, and even their military power to plunder wealth will also shrink.

Therefore, the Mongolian nobles in Harqin panicked. At the beginning, they only strictly prohibited the herdsmen from fleeing, and even did not hesitate to kill their own herdsmen.

However, Mongolia's household registration management has never been as perfect as that of Ming Dynasty, and herdsmen still flee in large numbers.

In addition, the Ming business group now has a territory, and the most lacking is population and labor, and they are still plundering the herdsmen in various ways.

So come on.

The Mongolian nobles of the Harqin tribe couldn't bear it, and they became more and more aware that this phenomenon had something to do with Ming Dynasty.

The Harqin Department no longer avoided the Ming army's edge, but sent people to take the initiative to understand what Ming was doing in Monan.

They did not expect that Daming did not leave the Karaqin tribe, but built a city and built roads in the Qingsongyi area bordering the Karaqin tribe and Gubeikou, and even a large number of villages inhabited by the Liuhe River.

"Khan, this is the Qingsong City of the Han people. They want to turn our grassland into their urban farmland. You can see that there are all their newly plowed land."

Under the guidance of one of his commanders, Polo Khuri, the leader of the Harqin Tribe, quietly came to the vicinity of Qingsong County.

Polo suddenly looked at it and couldn't help laughing: "These Han people are quite bold now. If they don't farm in the pass, they come to our land to plant. Aren't they afraid that our cavalry will snatch them all? It just so happens that there are many fewer herdsmen now. , the cattle and sheep are also much less, Ben Khan is thinking of crossing Gubeikou to fight the autumn wind, now it is good, just fight the autumn wind here, and don’t need to deal with the Han officers who guard the city, immediately call our tribes, and attack Qingsong City tomorrow , snatch all the people and animals here!"

Polo Kuri began to covet the wealth of Daming Qingsong County, so he gathered an army to attack Qingsong County.

After all, now that the main force of the Ming army has gone north, in his view, this Qingsong County is like meat delivered to his mouth.

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