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Chapter 541 Daming's Gold Letter Red Card

The changes in the Ming Empire started a few years ago.

The most obvious ones are not necessarily officials, but even ordinary people, even orphans like Wu Yue and Zhao Dabao.

Without Shaoying Academy, she (he) don't know what would happen?But in Shaoying College, they study, they play, and they have no worries about food and clothing.

Moreover, she (they) knew that the Shaoying Academy was funded by the emperor, and they (they) were extremely lucky to be able to enjoy such treatment.

She (they) also knew that every province now has a Shaoying Academy, which was jointly funded by the royal family and several major chambers of commerce, which provided shelter to countless orphans, allowing them to learn and grow without hunger and cold.

The funds for the daily operation of the Shaoying Academy are partly the internal funds provided by the emperor, partly provided by the chamber of commerce, and donations from the wealthy, gentry, merchants, and even ordinary people.

But these sheltered orphans didn't know that the emperor had great expectations for them.What they learn is appointed by the emperor; when they grow up, they will become all kinds of talents that the emperor expects.

More importantly, their thinking will take a big step forward.

Of course, the orphans adopted by the Shaoying Academy are not enough.The emperor is gradually promoting it, using tax reductions and exemptions, and using the tilted investment in education to create more talents that meet his requirements.

If one generation is not enough, then two generations, the emperor thought he could achieve this goal.Because he is also very young, taking 20 years as a generation, he should be able to last until then.

well!Forget it, Zhao Dabao had Zhao Dabao's thoughts, and maybe he was right.What's more valuable is Zhao Dabao's persistence.

Wu Yue sighed very maturely, Long live doesn't interfere, what does she care about so much.

With her thoughts cleared, Wu Yue stared at the candied fruit on the table again, and grinned.

Happiness is that simple, even though she is far smarter than ordinary people, she is still a child after all.

And all the children of Daming will no longer have the war and pain in history.Although they will have their confusion and difficulties in the future, it is an inevitable growth experience in their lives.

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Ping Liao not only continued the life of the Ming Empire, made the subjects rejoice, but also removed a big stone from the emperor's heart.Although in his heart, it's not just a piece.

And this year was the most relaxing and comfortable for the emperor.

From now on, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.While eliminating foreign enemies, internal purges have never stopped.It is the promotion of internal advantages and elimination of disadvantages that has the confidence and strength to fight against Liaodong with the power of the whole country.

Plans for the future can also begin to be released now.As for the rebellion in the southwest, as long as he said a word, the An family would surrender, but he didn't want to.

Not only did he not accept An's surrender, but the emperor was not going to let go of the chieftain who participated in the rebellion.He is not stingy with money, food and supplies, but he must eliminate future troubles.

Shuixi will be under the direct jurisdiction of Ming Dynasty; Uzzah will be the same.and also……

The emperor didn't want to kill Shuixi to bleed into a river, but he couldn't tolerate An's continuing to enjoy the status of chieftain after his surrender.

To put it bluntly, the emperor's target was the An family, not the soldiers and civilians in Shuixi.Uproot An's family and move the rebels to Mekong, Dongfan, Hainan...

But they are still citizens of Ming Dynasty, and they will live more freely and richer.Except for those chieftains and chieftains who got something for nothing, their losses were the greatest in this counter-insurgency war.

Lost the land left by their ancestors, and the people who can be enslaved for generations, even their lives depend on the attitude of the emperor.

This is the real deterrence, the confidence brought to the emperor after Ping Liao.With the sharpness of weapons and equipment and the improvement of combat power, the Ming army is no longer what it used to be.

Although it is not yet the time for large-scale implementation of land reform, the strategy of weakening chieftains has already begun.

To be more precise, it is to weaken the strength of domestic chieftains, but to strengthen their presence abroad.

For example, after the suppression of the rebellion, elite soldiers and strong generals entered Yunnan. While rectifying the officialdom in Yunnan, they also made preparations for war against the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar.

However, the Ming army was not the only force in the war. Uniting the soldiers of various chieftains to compete for land and resources outside the country is a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

This is similar to the method of setting up chieftains in Mekong Province. Letting domestic chieftains branch out will weaken their power virtually.

The emperor understands the truth that power is divided and dispersed, and power gathered is strong, but others may not be clear.Just thinking clearly, how many of them can resist the temptation and only stick to the fixed one-acre three-point land?

Draw the forces that may rebel outward and disperse them. Once a strong reform is carried out, the resistance will be greatly reduced, and they can be defeated one by one and divided and controlled.

The emperor put away the information about Yunnan, suppressed his urgency, thought for a while, and ordered the palace man Xuan Wang Sanshan to come to the palace to have an audience tomorrow.

The Mu family is located in Kunming, and the governor of Yunnan is in Chuxiong, not in the same city, so there are fewer conflicts.

Although the emperor wanted to wait until the She'an Rebellion was quelled, he would send a large army to Yunnan to bring the military and political power in Yunnan back to the imperial court and end the history of Mujiashi Town in Yunnan.

But the current governor of Yunnan is not satisfactory, and Wang Sanshan should be a more suitable candidate, but he is too old.

In the emperor's heart, the best candidate is Fu Zonglong who is commanding the suppression of the rebellion.But the suppression of the rebellion was coming to an end, and he didn't want to fall short, so he had to settle for the next best thing.

The emperor wrote a secret decree and sent someone to send him away, ordering Fu Zonglong to select five thousand elite soldiers and escort Wang Sanshan to Yunnan.These [-] elites are not only escorts, but also a teaching team for reorganizing the army of Yunnan Province.

There are many chieftains in Southwest China, but there are many and powerful chieftains in Yunnan, and the situation is even more special.

"Every area inhabited by hundreds of barbarians has a chieftain." Until the Zhengtong period, the imperial court readjusted the southwestern border of Yunnan and changed it to "three announcements and six comforts".

The three propagandas refer to the Xuanfu Division of Guidian, the Xuanfu Division of Ganya, and the Xuanfu Division of Longchuan. Xuanwei Division, Laos Xuanwei Division.

In addition to the domestic part, the scope of the three announcements and six comforts roughly includes present-day Burma, northern Thailand, and central Laos, all of which are "those who can be dispatched in central Yunnan."

Ten years after Jiajing, Mang Ruiti established the Toungoo Dynasty.With the decline of the national power of the Ming Dynasty, the Toungoo Dynasty became stronger day by day, and the chieftains belonging to the Ming Dynasty, who belonged to the Three Propaganda and Six Comforts, all belonged to the Toungoo Dynasty.

After finishing his official duties, the emperor pondered for a while, took out the gold and red card from the drawer of the imperial book case, looked at it, stroked it, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Golden Character Red Card system was implemented in the outer administrative regions of Yunnan in the middle and early Ming Dynasty. It played a very important and active role in frontier management, protecting the country and defending the border, and mediating and handling internal conflicts within the group.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the implementation of this system was gradually relaxed, and even basically abandoned the implementation of the letter and red card system in the southwestern frontier.

In the first year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty awarded the golden red card, Kanhe and Xinfu for the last time to the outer border administrative region of Yunnan, and there was no record of awarding the golden character red card and letter after that, which means that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty gave up this frontier management system.

But Myanmar is advancing step by step, and even learns from the Ming Dynasty's golden letter and red card system, sending envoys to lend a helping hand to solve problems for the chieftains of the weak outer political regions. They all turned to Myanmar.

Red card!A chill flashed in the emperor's eyes, and he was determined to regain this system and reproduce the majesty of the Ming Dynasty when it was strong.

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(End of this chapter)