Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 342, change the land and return to the stream

In the reviewing office of the imperial palace, there are elders from the three courts of the imperial court, ministers of the six ministers, and four honorable representatives from the British Duke Zhang Mao, Cheng Guogong Zhu Fu, Jianchangbo and Shouninghou, as well as more than a dozen Hanlin from the Hanlin Academy. More than a dozen censors from the Shifu and more than a dozen censors from the Procuratorate formed a huge high-quality marking team.

Even Emperor Hongzhi brought his prince Zhu Houzhao to participate in the reviewing of the papers in person. This reviewing team is not low, which is enough to show that Emperor Hongzhi and the court attached great importance to the Ceremony of Luncai.

"Where is Liu Jin's exam paper, show it to me, this kid doesn't know what kind of crazy idea he can come up with."

As soon as Emperor Hongzhi sat down, he ordered Liu Jin's examination paper.

He had long wanted to give Liu Jin some reward or something. Liu Jin had done a lot for him and the crown prince, and he had also done a lot for Daming. Logically speaking, Liu Jin's merits were enough to confer a title, but Liu Jin was not a member of the imperial court. , plus the Ming Dynasty's strict control over titles, it is difficult to confer titles for non-military merit. After all, Comrade Zhu is really mean and thoughtless. He is very kind to his own children and grandchildren. So it became a tradition.

So what Emperor Hongzhi thought was to give Liu Jin some rewards in the imperial examination, and let Liu Jin rank higher if he did not do well in the examination. He never thought that Liu Jin had always done well in the examination. It's finally time for him, Emperor Hongzhi, to play.

Soon, someone found Liu Jin's examination paper.

"Returning to the land?"

Emperor Hongzhi took Liu Jin's answer sheet and read it carefully. When he saw the first four words, he was immediately full of doubts.

Then look carefully.

The chieftain system in the southwest region was formed in the continuation of the Jiji system in the Tang Dynasty. It was essentially a means of winning over the chieftains of the natives adopted by the central government because it was unable to care about the border areas in the southwest. Min', recognize the hereditary system of native chiefs, and give their official positions and titles for indirect notification.

Under this system of chieftains, the land and the people are hereditary owned by the chieftains, and the chieftains each form a sphere of influence. Judicial power, finance, military, administrative power, etc. Apart from becoming an emperor, everything else is no different from that of an emperor, and you only need to pay a meager tax to the imperial court, which is often exempted by the imperial court in order to show the greatness of the emperor's grace, and various rewards are given from time to time.

This kind of system once played a certain positive role in the case of low productivity, inconvenient transportation, and huge differences in ethnic cultures. However, in the era of the chieftain, he was an official, hereditary, and dominated one side. Over time, the chieftain system gradually changed. Decayed and backward, these chieftains have also developed arrogance and domineering, defiant, just like unfamiliar wolves.

When the imperial court has gifts, it is good to say, once the imperial court has less gifts, it will immediately show its teeth and bite people, and even take the initiative to provoke troubles by virtue of having soldiers in its hands, etc., in order to blackmail the imperial court to get rewards.

In fact, this problem, in the words of later generations, is a matter of getting used to it, just like Mr. Yang and Gang Can in later generations. The better you treat him and treat him better, the more he will take it for granted. Yes, it won't work the other way round.

They don't think about whether they have made any contribution to this land, whether they have contributed to this country, but they are shameless, arrogant and domineering. After all, they are used to it.

As long as they are treated equally, don't make any distinctions, and if they do what they should, there will be nothing wrong with them, and there won't be so many bad things happening at all.

The same is true for this chieftain, who has been used to it in the past dynasties, and something has gone wrong. These chieftains who are used to it think that the court is easy to bully, and they will make trouble if they don't give gifts. As long as they make trouble, they will be rewarded. All very headaches.

To appease these chieftains can still be more peaceful, but this is drinking poison to quench thirst. These chieftains' appetites are getting bigger and bigger, and the burden on the court will become heavier and heavier.

But if you don't appease them, the mountains in the southwest are rugged, the mountains and rivers are steep, and among the mountains, even if you have a million troops, you have nothing to do with them.

This is what created the embarrassing situation now.

Liu Jin first analyzed the history, development and current situation of the chieftain system in detail, and pointed out the root of the chieftain system.

Emperor Hongzhi kept nodding his head after reading it. Liu Jin was really different from ordinary court officials. Few of the court officials could understand the history, development and essence of the Tusi system.

"Worthy of being a disciple of a high-ranking man, he really has extraordinary insight and sees the fundamentals."

Emperor Hongzhi gave his own evaluation, and then looked at the specific methods and suggestions given by Liu Jin.

Liu Jin’s policy of reforming the land and returning it to the local people is actually a copy of the policy of reforming the land and returning the land to the local people in the Qing Dynasty, abolishing the chieftain system, setting up prefectures, departments, prefectures, and counties, and dispatching local officials with a certain term of office to manage them.

"The method of reforming the land is to plan and capture as the top, and to suppress soldiers as the bottom. Ordering them to sacrifice is the best strategy, and ordering them to sacrifice is the worst strategy. The method of controlling seedlings is to use both kindness and power..."

"Okay, well said!"

After reading it carefully from beginning to end, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but praise the whole person. Liu Jin's plan to reform the land return can fundamentally solve the chieftain problem in the southwest region.

Hearing what Emperor Hongzhi said, everyone who was grading papers couldn't help but looked over one by one.

"Look at it, Liu Jin is worthy of being the son of a high-ranking man. From this, he can change the law of returning the native land to the natives, and the southwest can be settled, so there is no need to worry about it."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and motioned everyone to look at Liu Jin's answer sheet.

When everyone heard this, they all became more curious. Liu Jian took the paper first and read it carefully.

"It's tall, it's really tall, and my son is really tall. Once this strategy is implemented, Southwest will have no worries."

Soon, Liu Jian finished watching, and couldn't help but squeezed his goatee and praised.

"Diagnosing the essence, pointing at the vital point, and eradicating the source of the disaster, this strategy is very fast~"

After reading it, Li Dongyang also nodded vigorously.

"Reform the soil and return it to the stream, and reform the land to return it to the stream. If this policy is successfully implemented, there will be no worries in the Southwest."

Xie Qian couldn't help but praise after watching it.

Even the three elders praised it greatly, and the others immediately became more curious. Emperor Hongzhi simply asked Xiao Jing to read it to everyone, and everyone immediately applauded after listening to it.

In history, it took Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty only a few years to reform the southwestern region and completely solve the problem of the southwestern chieftain. Since then, nothing has happened in the southwestern region.

Moreover, because of the reassignment of officials, the central government's rule over the border areas has been strengthened, which is conducive to promoting the social and economic development of these areas, and at the same time can promote the integration of nationalities and the unification of the country.

"Everyone, continue to review the papers. If there are any good answers, I will take a look."

After receiving Liu Jin's strategy of reforming the land, Emperor Hongzhi was in a good mood and could sleep soundly from then on. But soon, he also began to think about how to better implement this land reform. return policy.

"They will definitely not agree to stripping the chieftain of his privileges and status. Once this policy is implemented, the southwest will be in chaos. Therefore, troops should be mobilized from all provinces in advance, just in case."

Emperor Hongzhi was thinking about reforming the soil and returning to the exiles, and the officials here continued to read the papers, answering the papers one by one, some of which could still have something to say. He is a nerd, and he can't say anything except knowing the four books and five classics, and a bellyful of stereotyped essays.

So some of the ministers who reviewed the papers kept shaking their heads, some nodded slightly, and some angrily put the answer papers down.

There are more than one hundred answer sheets, and there are dozens of ministers who review the papers, so on average, it is enough for one person to read a few. Of course, the specific ranking must be read again carefully, but some of them are selected. Good articles are still not difficult.

"This person has the talent to know the world, this method cooperates with Liu Jin's method of reforming the land and returning the people, and the southwest can be safe."

Soon, when Liu Jian saw Wang Shouren's answer sheet, he couldn't help but yelled out. When everyone heard it, they immediately became interested again. Xiao Jing also hurriedly showed the answer sheet to Emperor Hongzhi.

Wang Shouren's strategy is actually very simple. He pacified the Southwest from two aspects of military and education. In terms of military affairs, Wang Shouren suggested recruiting a group of mountain people from Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou to train them into an army.

Because the mountain people have lived in the deep mountains and old forests for many years, they are naturally familiar with and can adapt well to the environment of high mountains and steep mountains and rivers. Using them to form an army, supplemented by the method of mountain combat training, does not require many troops. Training [-] such mountain elite soldiers is enough to easily wipe out the rebellious chieftains in the Southwest, and there is no need for the imperial court to spend a lot of trouble and mobilize too many troops.

This method is also the method that Wang Shouren came up with after carefully studying the situation in the southwest region. The transportation in the southwest region is inconvenient, and it is not suitable for large-scale military use at all. Suppress the Southwest chieftain who rebelled.

Extermination alone is definitely not enough, so Wang Shouren proposed to strengthen the education of the descendants of the southwestern chieftains, etc., mainly to gather the children of the southwestern chieftains and some children of the Tu nationality, teach them the four books and five classics, teach them the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, so that They also come to take the imperial examinations and so on.

"This method is very fast, and it does have the talent to know the world, and it is used in conjunction with Liu Jin's reforming the land and returning to the stream. There is no worry in the Southwest."

Just now, he was still worrying about how to wipe out the rebellious chieftains in the Southwest, thinking that once the land reform was implemented, these chieftains would definitely rebel. Emperor Hongzhi immediately cried out happily after reading it.

"Xiao Jing, read it to everyone~"

　Can't write classical Chinese, everyone will just wait and see~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)