Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 801, Uzbek Serfdom
"What you say is reasonable. It has been like this since ancient times. It is easy to conquer the world, but it is difficult to rule the world."

After listening to Liu Jin's words, Emperor Hongzhi also nodded solemnly.

Only when he became the emperor, did he deeply understand how difficult it is to govern a huge empire. It is definitely not so easy to secure the country and foundation left by his ancestors.

Looking at Liu Jin again, he is even more satisfied, a capable minister who governs the world, and a pillar of the country.

When everyone was clamoring to fight the Western Regions, but only stared at the cotton and wool in the Western Regions, Liu Jin was already thinking about how to rule and manage the Western Regions stably for a long time in the future.

I was thinking about the continuous expansion after the Ming Dynasty, rather than just looking at the cotton and wool in the Western Regions.

"Then what do you think, if we conquer the Western Regions, how should we manage and govern the Western Regions?"

After thinking about it, Emperor Hongzhi asked again.

"If we conquer the Western Regions in the Ming Dynasty, we only need to grasp the core points in the management and rule of the Western Regions."

"The first is to always firmly grasp the military power, completely suppress and eliminate the military power in various places in the Western Regions, and not allow them to have any military power."

"The second is to de-Turkize and Sudanize, and vigorously promote our Chinese civilization. All ruled areas must be the same as the Nanyang provinces, fully promote our Chinese education, emphasize loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and combat theocracy."

"The third is to change the population structure, expel the Turkic people and the Sudanized people, migrate a large number of our Han people to various parts of the Western Regions, encourage our Han people to marry the foreigners here as wives and concubines, and reward childbearing."

"As long as these three points are firmly grasped, the land of the Western Regions will only take a few generations, and it will surely become the same place as the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and it will always become my land of China."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin made three points.

The collapse of the Mongolian rule in the Western Regions, or to be precise, the collapse of the rule in various regions actually has several reasons in the final analysis.

The first and most important aspect is the lack of cultural foundation, which makes it easy to be assimilated.

They are nomads themselves, and they didn't even have their own writing, laws, culture, and even customs.

Although they are nomads, they have extremely powerful force, but their own cultural foundation is lacking, so that they are quickly assimilated by the conquered lands.

In the Central Plains, Kublai Khan used Confucianism to rule, and the Mongolian Khan in Persia ruled in a Sudanese way. This kind of rule is extremely beneficial in the short term, allowing them to integrate more quickly In it, become part of the conquest, but also be assimilated at a frightening speed, and finally lose itself.

The second is that they are not good at management in politics, only advocate force, and have a strong innate predatory nature. They can be plundered before they are conquered, but what about after they are conquered?Or rely on plunder to maintain?
Forget about production, they even want to turn the land of the Central Plains into pastures in a very absurd way. In terms of monetary policy, they abandoned copper coins and replaced them with silk banknotes, which caused prices to skyrocket and made people miserable.

The third is the issue of internal heir succession.

The prairie people have never had a perfect system of heir succession. When they give birth to a son, they will be divided into one place, and they will continue to disperse the strength they have gathered with great difficulty. For the grandson, the smaller the distribution, the weaker the distribution.

The succession of Khan's position was constantly fighting for it, and internal disputes continued, and internal friction was serious.

Under these three main reasons, the once powerful Mongol Empire was established very quickly, but it also collapsed in a very short period of time.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to take over the vast area left by the Mongol Empire, it must learn the lessons of the Mongols, so that it can be long-term and stable.

Compared with the Mongol Empire, Ming Dynasty's own culture is very strong, not inferior to any civilization, but the Western Regions is where several major civilizations in the world meet.

Although the Chinese civilization is powerful, it is also a latecomer. This place has been ruled and occupied by the original civilization. If you want to occupy this place for a long time, the easiest way is to clean the house.

It is easy to paint on white paper. This principle is very simple.

"Firmly grasp the military power~"

"De-Turkization and Sudanization."

"Changing demographics."

Emperor Hongzhi pondered, thought carefully, and nodded solemnly after a long time.

The Han and Tang Dynasties also ruled the Western Regions for a period of time, but soon lost their control over this land. One very important reason is because of the third point, the number of Han people in the Western Regions is too small.

When you are strong, the tribe here will submit to you, but once you are weak and weak, because you have few people here, they will quickly drive you out completely, and the Central Plains Dynasty will once again lose control of this place. rule.

After all, since ancient times, the most lacking thing in the rule of the Central Plains dynasty in this area of ​​the Western Regions is the management of the population structure here. There are too few Han people, which makes the rule here unstable and often lost.

Whether it was the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions were far away from the land of the Central Plains, and the Han people were unwilling to migrate there, so naturally they had to rely on the local tribes for their rule.

When they were strong, they surrendered to you, and benefited from the Central Plains Dynasty, and quickly strengthened themselves, but once the Central Plains Dynasty weakened, such things happened again and again in history, countless.

In essence, it cannot be said who is right and who is wrong.

These tribes are also for the interests of their own tribes, and the Central Plains Dynasty also has its own helplessness. In the final analysis, it is actually the saying of later generations that interests are the foundation of everything.

There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

"What about Wu Sizang's situation?"

Emperor Hongzhi silently remembered Liu Jin's words, and then looked at the area of ​​Wu Si Zang.

Wusi Tibet is the huge plateau area of ​​Tibet and Qinghai in later generations.

"Your Majesty, Uzang is much simpler than the Western Regions."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said, "Usi Tibetan area is vast and sparsely populated. The entire vast area is very sparsely populated. The people here mainly make a living by planting highland barley and grazing cattle and sheep."

"The agriculture here is extremely backward. The tools they have produced so far are often wooden hoes or tools made of stone."

"In the cultivation of highland barley, we often work hard for a year, and the yield is very low. It is only five or six times that of planting, and the yield is very low."

"Is this too low?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he said in disbelief.

"It is indeed very low. The altitude here in Uzang is very high, the air is thin and the heat is very little, so it is extremely difficult to grow crops and the yield is very low."

"Compared to our Central Plains, everything here is very backward."

"Because of the special geographical environment and climatic conditions here, the system practiced here in Uzbek is the serf system. In Uzbekistan, local landlords, nobles and temples occupy and own all the land, while others own everything Attached to these lands."

"Besides, in Uzang, Buddhism has a very high status, and everything is decided by the monks in the temple."

"So for Uzang, if our Ming Dynasty wants to truly rule this vast land, we need to change two things."

"One is their backward serf system. If we want to abolish this serf system, even if our army can subdue the nobles, monks, and landlords in Uzbekistan, they still have the final say when it comes to the bottom. .”

"After a long time, they still have the final say on U-Tsang."

"The second is to change the status of Buddhism in U-Tsang. The succession of the Living Buddha in U-Tsang must be conferred and selected by the Ming court."

Liu Jin introduced the situation on Wu Si Zang in detail.

"It turned out to be such a situation."

Emperor Hongzhi frowned slightly, the information he learned from Liu Jin was completely different from what he had known before.

In the view of Emperor Hongzhi, this Wusi Zang is actually good for Daming, and he will come to Daming to pay tribute every ten years or so.

In the eighth year of Hongzhi, Wang Ge Limaba began to send people to pay tribute.

Moreover, in the perception of the people of Ming Dynasty, there are monks who are indifferent to the world in Wusi Zang, and they are dedicated to studying Buddhism.

This makes people feel very good, but what I know from Liu Jin is completely different. These monks in Uzang are definitely not the eminent monks who are indifferent to the world and only study Buddhism as they appear on the surface. .

Behind them, there were countless bloody serfs, and it was these poor serfs who supported everything that Uz hid here.

"Your Majesty, all religions are actually the same in essence. They are all tools for ruling and controlling people by using thoughts. These monks don't do production. What they eat and drink is not all from the following What believers provide?"

Liu Jin thought for a while and said, don't be deceived by the monk's coat. Since ancient times, few monks are actually good things.

　Cough, cough, monk, what do you think?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)