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Chapter 389 Mekong Province, Hunhe River Connects Shenyang

The major impact of the Little Ice Age on Daming can be divided into two parts: internally, the decline in productivity and shortage of means of production; externally, social unrest and frequent wars.

Judging from the duration of the catastrophe and the impact it caused, the hazards of the peak of the Little Ice Age were even worse than that of Jiannu.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao can only lament that he is not at the right time, and wants to be a caring emperor.

Externally, he can climb the technology tree, improve the level of weapons and equipment, strengthen the military, and resist the looting from the north.

Internally, he needs more officials like Li Jingbai who love and care for the people.At the very least, the more those bastards who are corrupt and shameless and may turn the people against the government, the more they kill, the less harm they will do to the country and the people.

Kill a group of corrupt officials, and replace another group, even if it is not Li Jingbai, it will be better than the original one.Even the family members were exiled, and there was no chance for revenge.

There are fewer and fewer enemies, and more and more obedient and useful ones. Zhu Youxiao feels that his situation is safer.

Moreover, beheading or exiling corrupt officials is also good news for many people.If the seat is not vacated, how can there be so many opportunities?Those who were selected by the Ministry of Officials, those who became officials through the imperial examination, and those who were transferred from subordinate officials to officials, everyone is waiting and looking forward to it!
To put it bluntly, there are many people who are sad, many who gloat, many who hate and hate, and few who stand up for the punished officials.Not even, or dare not at all.

No matter whether he dares or not, and no matter what evil he is holding back secretly, Zhu Youxiao will not stop, let alone be polite.

This is not something to be tolerated on the spur of the moment, and there is no need to talk about such a noble goal as a nation.This is a major matter related to the stability of one's dragon chair, and whether one's women and children can enjoy happiness in peace.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youxiao has already regarded this as a life-and-death struggle.It is the same determination and unshakable as he will destroy Jianu.

No one understands the cruelty and urgency of the emperor, because no one knows the tragic scene in history.Only the emperor knows that if you don't change, you will die.

For this reason, the emperor did not hesitate to kill ten times as many people.Doing the math, it's only tens of thousands, and at most it can't exceed one hundred thousand.Compared with the tragedies in history, 10 people are nothing.

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Jiannu has failed repeatedly and has been suppressed, and it seems that Pingliao will not take long to succeed.

Domestically, the emperor purged officials one after another, from the court to the local government, from corruption to collusion between officials and businessmen, either exiled the whole family or beheaded and exiled. The tense atmosphere enveloped the officialdom and seemed to never dissipate.

Under such a situation, the Daming navy set out from Guangzhou with more than a hundred warships and thousands of officers and soldiers to easily occupy Chaigun. It is not very eye-catching news, and not many people realize the importance of this overseas land.

Whether it's Chai Stick now, Jiadingfu, Saigon in the future, or by someone's name.Only the emperor knew that this place was a flat, fertile and well-watered plain, and if fully developed, it would be a big granary.

But in the early stage of development, capital and manpower are still needed.In this regard, Zhu Youxiao can only use hundreds of thousands of internal funds as the cost of this dispatch of troops and for the resettlement of immigrants.

Fortunately, the climate and land here are suitable for farming, and it doesn't take long to harvest three seasons a year, and the immigrants and garrisons can be self-sufficient.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan to mobilize people from Fujian, Anhui, and Guangxi to migrate, this year will be [-], next year [-], and the year after that will reach [-].

Conscripting troops from immigrants, coupled with the construction of ports and permanent naval divisions, this overseas land has become the territory of Ming Dynasty, and it can be guarded very firmly.

Anhui often suffers from floods, and Fujian has many mountains and little land, and the people are unbearable, so they are more engaged in sea life, and immigration and farming have given them another way to make a living.

As for Guangxi, let me tell you a fact that is not known to many people: In the last Ming Dynasty, the Guangxi chieftain's rebellion, as well as the Miao, Yao, and Zhuang uprisings broke out non-stop.

Among them, there have been three times in the Dateng Gorge Uprising, which lasted more than two hundred years.They are Han Yong, the censor of Youqian capital in the first year of Chenghua, Wang Shouren, Shangshu of the Xinbo Ministry of War in the seventh year of Jiajing, and Cai Jing, the servant of the Ministry of War in the 18th year of Jiajing.

That's right, Mr. Wang Yangming, the master of mind science, led the army again and suppressed the second Datangxia uprising.

Zhu Youxiao was also puzzled by this. How could Mr. Wang, who is passionate about war and has never been defeated, be molded into a philosopher by later generations.

But this is just an insignificant matter. Zhu Youxiao is more concerned about why Guangxi keeps rebelling, and what is the reason?There are also so many native officials, why is Yunnan so much more stable.

After searching the information and asking the officials, the emperor finally found out the reason.Quite simply, and unsurprisingly, it was a matter of land.

Zhu Youxiao was not unfamiliar with Guangxi's many mountains and little land, barren land and poor people, but he did not expect it to be so acute in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, most of the land in Guangxi had been occupied by native officials and natives, while farmers of Miao, Yao, Dong, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities, as well as farmers of the Han nationality, had little or no land.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty basically did not touch the native officials in remote areas. This was certainly conducive to rapid stability, but social contradictions also remained.

With the growth of the population, land annexation in Guangxi intensified in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which gradually intensified social conflicts.

In feudal society, land was the most important means of production and the foundation of farmers' survival.When farmers lose their land, it means cutting off their livelihood.

Therefore, the poor peasants in Guangxi revolted for their livelihood, and it never stopped from Ming to Qing.

However, the Ming Dynasty basically adopted tough measures to suppress rebellions in various places. They believed that once they showed weakness, more chieftains would follow suit and cause a worse situation.

However, one of the methods of repression adopted by the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi, "armed seizure of land", created the seeds of the next rebellion, and the peasant uprisings in Guangxi continued endlessly.

The so-called armed seizure of land means that the land of the uprising peasants is called the thief's land, and after the rebellion is suppressed, it is distributed to the army or recruited local soldiers for cultivation.

In other words, the armed seizure of land meant that the imperial court openly assigned the peasants' land to the officers and soldiers stationed there, as well as the native officials who helped the imperial court suppress the rebellion.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that a peasant uprising has been suppressed, and a new uprising against the government's armed forces to seize land has begun to brew.

In fact, there is another reason for the constant rebellion in Guangxi, and that is salt.

Since Guangxi itself does not produce salt (don’t think that there is salt next to the sea), the salt in Guangxi is basically transported from Guangdong.

Due to the inconvenient transportation in ancient times and the monopoly of the imperial court on salt, there was a severe shortage of salt in Guangxi. "There are a lot of smugglers, and the price of salt is very high", and "the salt of the official movement, after the rotation, the soldiers are short of food and utensils, and the place is trapped."

There was no salt production in the first place, and local officials intervened in the salt transportation and engaged in private fishing by salt dealers.So salt has become a relatively serious social problem in Guangxi, and the common people are very dissatisfied with it.

"Western Guangdong Poetry" has a saying: "The mountains are deep and the roads are far away from salt, and the banana leaves are burned to ashes to pickle the vegetables." This is a true portrayal of the life of the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi at that time.

The problem of salt is easy to solve. Kill a group of local officials, and then implement the "ticket salt law" to break the monopoly of salt. Through the invisible hand of the market, it is very hopeful to solve the shortage of salt and the high price.

And the most important source of the endless rebellion lies in the land, Zhu Youxiao can be sure.Not surprisingly, he lists Guangxi as a province for mobilizing migrants.

Moreover, whether it is Anhui, Fujian, or Guangxi, the local people can quickly adapt to the climate of Mekong Province

That's right, the firewood occupied by the Ming army is not too big, but the emperor has already regarded it as a province of Ming Dynasty and named it Mekong Province.

As for the management of Mekong Province, Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate to add the title of governor, becoming a local governor with the same rank as the mainland.

In fact, from the emperor's will, we can also see the emperor's attitude towards Mekong Province and his ambition for the development of Mekong Province.The territory will become bigger and bigger, and the area will be closer and closer to the inland provinces.

Taichang Shaoqing Dong Yingju was appointed governor of Mekong Province by Zhu Youxue because of his effective management of the farmland affairs from Tianjin to Shanhaiguan.

In Mekong Province, there is not only a governor, but also an admiral of the garrison. The governor and the admiral are side by side, and the military and government are separated, which is also a precedent set by Zhu Youxiao.

As mentioned earlier, Mr. Wang Yangming, the master of mind studies, led the army with literati, and successively quelled the rebellion of King Ning and the Datangxia Uprising. He can be called a model of Confucian generals.

But in Zhu Youxiao's view, the fact that civilian officials led troops and military commanders obeyed their orders was the main source of Ming's decline.

Civilian officials are the direct planners and commanders of most military operations. Although there are many people who practice martial arts and are familiar with military books, they rarely come directly from the military system.

Because of the principle of emphasizing civility over military affairs and suppressing military affairs with civil officials, civil officials directly override military commanders, making military commanders become grassroots executors.

The low status of military commanders is just one of them. It is not surprising that the battles are commanded by civilian officials who are good at talking on paper.

Mr. Wang Yangming's victory is not universal and cannot represent the true ability of civil servants.The same is true for Yuan Keli. His excellence cannot cover up the incompetence of other civil officials and the low military ability.

However, it is not an easy task to achieve equal emphasis on civil and military affairs and to separate the military from the government.The establishment of Mekong Province gave Zhu Youxiao an opportunity to experiment.

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From quantitative change to qualitative change, there is always a process.Sometimes the time is short, which makes people feel violent; sometimes it is slow, which can be described as subtle.

For individuals, some of them feel more obvious when they are in it; some have less influence, so they don't realize much of the change.

This has a lot to do with the status of the individual and the difference in the environment.

The civil officials felt the change in the direction of the court, and felt the emperor's iron fist and determination to punish corruption; the military generals had more and greater power, and they could straighten their waists in front of the civil officials, and the war became more and more serious. There is hope of victory.

For Shengdou Xiaomin, they are busy making their old snacks full and warm.Perhaps I also felt the spring breeze of reform and the relief of pressure, but it was not so strong and obvious.

Zhu Youxiao, who is in the palace, can't fully understand the feelings of others, he can only unswervingly follow the path designed by himself.

Of course, he also has feelings for the changes in Daming.From the amount of financial revenue, from the victory and defeat of the war, from the secret performances of the officials, and from the reports of the factory guards, he can realize that the sickness of this old empire is getting better.

And his layout, whether in the immediate future or in the long run, no matter how many people can understand it, they are like chess pieces on a chessboard, and sooner or later they will play a role.

The fastest to see the effect was the war in Liaodong. The delivery of a large number of weapons and ammunition, the continuous replenishment of food, supplies, and war horses made the Ming army in Liaodong increase its combat power, and at the same time put more and more pressure on Jiannu.

When the men and horses of Liaozhen marched along the waterway of Sancha River, they captured Niuzhuang Station and Dongchang Fort one after another;

When the navy of the Ming army gradually explored the waterway, went up the Liaohe River, and appeared in the Hunhe River, which might reach Shenyang directly, Jiannu felt the embarrassment that could not be guarded against.

Hunhe shipping began in the Yuan Dynasty and became increasingly prosperous.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the official transportation of food and salaries began, usually from Shandong to the northeast along the Bohai Bay and Liaodong Bay, and up the Liaohe River, and the food and salaries were transported to the garrisons in various places along the way, and the Shenyang section was transported via the Hun River.

Since then, commodity transportation has gradually emerged, and Hunhe freight has become busy.

At that time, the Ming court allowed each ship to transport [-]% of official goods and [-]% of private goods at the same time, which made the ferrymen profitable. The rice, ginseng, fungus and other commodities in the Northeast began to be sold to various places.

As a result, the Shenyang section of the Hun River has formed a fixed wharf. Large and small ships set off from Shenyang, carrying passengers on board, and returning from Yingkou, carrying goods on board.

At that time, or until the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shenyang could be regarded as a coastal city.Through Hunhe shipping, it is connected with the vast world outside.

But now, Jiannu hated the Hunhe River and this "golden waterway".Because the ships of the Ming army can flow smoothly, but their riding and shooting can only look at the river and sigh.

Is it just as simple as sailing? A fool also knows that ships can carry guns and ships can transport troops.The navy of the Ming army opened up the sea channel leading to the Hunhe River, which meant that Shenyang might be attacked by the Ming army.

The advantage of the navy of the Ming army is that Jiannu can't catch up even if he flatters his horse.Because of this, Jian Nu felt a huge threat.

It was obviously impossible to block the Ming army's navy or block the river course, but it was obviously impossible for the Hunhe River, which had a fast-flowing current at that time.

Another way is to block the iron chain on the river, but this project is still a task that Jiannu cannot complete.

In other words, Jiannu had no effective way to deal with the navy of the Ming army.Close monitoring to prevent the Ming army from going up the river and landing and attacking seems to be the only passive way.

Regardless of whether the Ming army's navy is feigning or actually attacking, it can contain many Jiannu troops. This may be the purpose of the Ming army;

The situation has deteriorated further, and this does not include the Dongjiang Headquarters' pressing on the Jianzhou Guard every step of the way, and the threat posed by the Liaonan Ming Army and Liaozhen to Liaoyang.

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(End of this chapter)