Qiming 1158

Chapter 1012 Xia people are mostly addicted to the good governance of the Ming Kingdom and do not think about restoring the country

As far as the actual situation is concerned, it is not feasible to use the expansion of official positions to curb vicious involution and win over people's hearts.

The phenomenon of redundant officials in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties has proved the bankruptcy of this set.

Blindly expanding the scale of admissions will only lead to a serious phenomenon of redundant officials. Coupled with the high welfare of officials, it will only drag the finances to death. The losses suffered by the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty will not continue to be eaten by the Ming Dynasty.

So Su Yonglin thought of a way to go out.

After the development of business and technology, government departments must respond, and professional departments are required to be responsible for these new social components. At that time, it is natural to increase the number of officials.

Not only that, when these industries develop, there will be more demand for jobs in the society, which in itself will distract some people's attention, so that people no longer use the imperial examinations as the only way to rise.

This is the development of domestic demand brought about by social development, which can curb vicious involution.

At the same time, Su Yonglin also intends to increase external demand by expanding its territory, not only by setting up local positions, but also overseas positions, so as to transfer some of the excess internal talent pressure in this way.

Needless to say, expanding territory is one of Ming's future national policies.

The newly acquired territories also need officials and officials, and there will also be a demand for social production jobs. After the local jobs are saturated, they will be transferred out. This is also an effective way.

Su Yonglin knew that the later British Empire was a master of this, with a small homeland, but a large number of overseas territories, and successfully transferred the contradictions for many, many years. It was not until the rise of competitors that he had to take a back seat and became a complete scumbag.

If you want to avoid vicious competition, you must open the pattern and go out.

The malignant involution in the Ming and Qing dynasties was mainly due to the inability to go out. After one's own thinking became rigid, he could not go out, and if he couldn't go out, there was no way to survive.

But if you go out, it will open up a whole new world.

Although Su Yonglin currently only controls northern China, his eyes are scanning around all the places around him that are suitable for opening the border.

The first to bear the brunt of course is the Southern Song Dynasty.

It is also quite a coincidence that when Su Yonglin was ambitious and began to reserve human and material resources for the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty also learned that Xixia was completely playing with eggs, and the Ming Dynasty set up Hexi Province in the hometown of Xixia.

At that time, the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty were stunned to be able to handle Xixia in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and they could not hold it for three or four years. One rebellion almost destroyed the country, and another rebellion was completely sent.

As an independent country, Xixia has ceased to exist. In the future, there will be only Hexi Province, and without Xixia, the potential foreign aid from the Northwest of the Southern Song Dynasty has completely disappeared.

Originally, they were still silent for the ministers who failed to reach a cooperation with Xixia to suppress the Ming Kingdom. While embarrassed, they also felt a great sense of crisis.

For no other reason, the Ming Dynasty's annexation of Xixia was too terrifying.

After all, it was a war-torn country with the potential to mobilize hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In the face of the complete annexation of the Ming Kingdom, it did not seriously mobilize the national army to fight the Ming Kingdom even once.

Not even a single national war, just launched two military operations of the nature of rebellion, and sent it.

In the face of the continuous onslaught of the Song army in the era of Song Taizong and Song Renzong, the Western Xia Dynasty, led by Li Jiqian, Li Yuanhao and others, won many times.

How strong was Xixia back then?
Although they continued to weaken after that, until the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, they could not border on it at all, and the Northern Song Dynasty, which was more than ten times larger, could not destroy it and retake the old land in Hexi.

The Liao and Jin countries also had no choice but to take this piece of candy.

That's more than 200 years of entanglement.

Xixia, who founded the country with a mere Hexi land, is so tenacious.

It has only been five years since the establishment of the Ming Kingdom, and less than five years after dealing with Xixia, Xixia was annexed, and it was annexed in the form of a local war.

According to the report of Guanzhong Eyeliner, this time the rebellion, the Ming Guoguanzhong garrison has no sign of large-scale dispatch, it seems that the rebellion was solved only by relying on the original garrison in Hexi.

After the annexation of Xixia and the establishment of Hexi Province, there was no rebellion in the old place of Xixia, and the situation was calm.

Then it just happened.

As of the date of the intelligence release, the Southern Song court intelligence officers disguised as merchants in Guanzhong had not heard any news of turmoil in the homeland of Xixia.

The merchants who brought cattle and sheep from Xixia to trade in the Guanzhong market did not say anything.

An intelligence officer had business dealings with a Dangxiang businessman in the past. This time, he came to Guanzhong to buy sheep and saw him. After a while of negotiation, he was surprised to learn that the Dangxiang people living in Hexi now had no opinion on the demise of Xixia.

"Grief? Why?"

The party businessman laughed loudly and spoke fluent Guanzhong Chinese.

"Before the people from the Ming Kingdom came, those bastard officials could not wait to suck up all my family's wealth. Every year, in order to do business safely, about [-]% of the money I make must be filial to the big officials, the small officials, and the officers.

Now that the people of the Ming Dynasty are here, as long as I pay taxes on time, I have never been asked to pay an extra penny. The road is easier to walk than before, the horse bandits can't see it, and none of the officers and soldiers guarding the pass have ever blackmailed me or detained me. The goods won't let me pass the customs, and I haven't robbed my cattle and sheep. What am I angry about? "

The Southern Song intelligence officers were very surprised to hear this.

"You are not Han, so those Han officials in Ming Dynasty will not embarrass you?"

After hearing this, the party businessman seemed to shake his head with emotion.

"Not really, we don't talk about this at all, and the government doesn't publicize it. We only say that everyone is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of whether it is a Han Chinese or a Khitan. Anyway, as far as I can see, the Ming government treats us. It is true that there is no discrimination, no difference, and we are encouraged to intermarry and live together.”

"This...really?"

"Of course it's true. My eldest brother's son married a Chinese girl a few years ago, and I have a friend's daughter who also married the son of a Chinese merchant earlier this year. On the day of the two's wedding, the local government sent people over. Congratulations, and congratulations."

"…………"

Southern Song intelligence officers did not know how to comment on this, so they could only write it down in the intelligence and send it back to the Southern Song Dynasty together.

It is now the Privy Council that leads the collection and analysis of external intelligence in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Privy Council will collect the intelligence collected by the expatriate spies, analyze them together, and then hand over some meaningful essence to the top officials of the Privy Council.

So this matter was put on Chen Kangbo's desk as important information about Xixia, and Chen Kangbo learned about it.

After Chen Kangbo read the recent information about Xixia, he was deeply worried.

"Xia people are often addicted to the good governance of the Ming Kingdom, and they don't think about restoring the country. It is quite difficult to instigate the Xia people to launch a rebellion to contain the Ming Kingdom. It seems that there is no chance in the short term to restore Guanzhong."

Seeing this information, Yu Yunwen, Yang Wanli and others also felt very helpless.

At the end of September last year, before the Xixia rebellion occurred, Wu Lin, who guarded the Sichuan border, received a notice from the Xixia dignitaries.

They hope that the Southern Song Dynasty can reach an alliance with them, attack from the north and the south, and together break the Ming Dynasty's rule in Guanzhong and Northwest China, restore the border between Xixia and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the two countries will fight against the Ming Dynasty together.

At that time, Wu Lin was very excited and very happy. He felt that there was another opportunity in front of him, and he could not give up no matter what, so he immediately reported to Lin'an, and used [-] miles to rush the news to Lin'an day and night.

He wants Lin'an to make a quick decision whether he should take the opportunity to send troops to respond to the Xixia rebellion.

Although the Privy Council, which has not yet completed its reorganization, has a lot of unfinished business, its response to this is still very fast, but it takes a little more time to make a decision.

Some people think that they should respond to this rebellion and try to seize Guanzhong. This is the last chance and cannot be missed. Otherwise, once the Western Xia is over, it will be difficult for the Southern Song Dynasty to have another chance to go north.

But some people think that they can't respond to this rebellion, because the timing is not right, Guanzhong is not so easy to attack, and the powerful Xixia are just dragging people into the water and cannot support them.

Yu Yunwen, who has always upheld the offensive concept, chose a conservative attitude this time, and suggested to Chen Kangbo not to act rashly, let alone send troops at will.

(End of this chapter)