Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 254 His Royal Highness Liao's Ancestral Temples Are Everywhere
"Slaughter cattle and sheep, prepare wine, and open the city gate to welcome the king of Liao, but the king of Liao will not pay the food when he comes.

Eat his mother, eat her mother, if you can't eat enough, there is King Liao. "

Joyful songs resounded through the streets of Kunming, and this was the song that the children sang the most recently.

The common people are also quite unfamiliar with this song. As for how the song spread, everyone is not very clear, but the content of the song is quite appropriate.

Since King Liao came to Kunming, they not only planted potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, but also exempted them from taxes for three years.

Isn't this what it says in the song?
Naturally, everyone was very happy in their hearts, and Li Er's mood was indescribably happy. After living such a big life, it was the first time he encountered such a good thing as tax exemption.

But better things are yet to come. Apart from tax exemptions, there are various high-yield crops. His Royal Highness King Liao actually plans to open a school in Kunming City.

If Li Er had a lot of doubts and doubts about the Liao King Zhu Qi of Ming Dynasty before, then now he has 100% trust in His Highness Liao King.

Before running a school, I might have to consider whether to send my children there.

But now when he heard that His Royal Highness King Liao wanted to build a school, the first thing he asked immediately was whether the school would accept people, when the school would start, and so on.

And the matter about the school is not a secret, those Jin Yiwei have already started to publicize it on the street.

This school is naturally similar to the one in Liaoyang City, with various discounts and discounts.

All in all, the school was established mainly to serve ordinary people.

It's not for nobles to come to school, and Zhu Qi still said that, not just to let the common people in Yunnan have a sense of identity with Han culture.

More importantly, it is to prepare for the future imperial examinations.

If the teaching content of the new-style schools is not promoted nationwide as soon as possible, then the four books and five classics will be tested in the science examination in the future.

Isn't the recruitment of officials the same as before?
My own set, but the content of the civil service examination is very advanced now, it would be too wasteful not to show it out for others to learn.

Of course, the most important thing taught in the school is the content of natural science.

Li Er naturally didn't know so much, but he also knew that this school was opened by Liao King Zhu Qi, and there were so many preferential policies.

Children can not only have the opportunity to reduce or exempt tuition fees, but can even work part-time to earn money.

Li Er now has 100% trust in His Royal Highness King Liao. Naturally, needless to say, he discussed this matter with his family when he returned home.

His wife also looked strange after hearing this, she didn't expect such a good thing to happen.

After asking again and again to confirm that it was indeed a notice posted by the government office, I quickly thought about letting my children try it too.

And their chief, to tell the truth, naturally thought that the villagers would revolve around him, not for the court.

However, their village chief had already been called to talk before, so naturally he didn't dare to stand up and say anything at this time.

This is close to Kunming, so the Ming court naturally has stronger control over them.

Those villages far away from Kunming are not so easy to control.

There is a village in the mountain. Although the village head doesn't understand His Highness Liao Wang's operation, he also knows that His Highness Liao Wang is trying to win the hearts of the people.

If the children of those villagers are really allowed to go to school, I am afraid that as time goes by, the village head himself will not have much prestige at all.

So the village chiefs of these distant villages, that is, the chieftains, naturally tried their best to prevent those people in their own villages from getting more contact with the Ming court.

And those villagers, even if they think His Royal Highness King Liao is very capable, but because of their own village chief, they dare not directly disobey the village chief.

He could only look at the newly built school helplessly, but his own children did not dare to sign up.

And if Zhu Qi acquiesced in this kind of thing happening, it would not be him.

And the way to deal with those village chiefs is also very simple, as long as it is not a direct force push close to the mountain, it will be fine, but it is different for those who are easy to escape.

If you go directly to force to push flatly, you may create conflicts and sparks.

At that time, it will not be so easy to resolve these contradictions.

If a few people really died, it would not be so easy to negotiate a peace.

Even if you look at you, Daming, to give them tax relief, but that tax is still incomparable to human life.

Therefore, Zhu Qi could only use a soft policy for those villages that were easy to escape.

To put it bluntly, a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry was given to the village head, so that the village head turned a blind eye, and let those villagers come to Kunming or the largest nearby schools to receive education.

And as long as they can get their children out to go to school, the next thing will be very easy to handle.

After receiving school education, it will naturally not be as difficult to communicate as it is now.

However, it is inevitable that there will be some village chiefs who are not willing to let their villagers go to school to study even if they are given money.

In such a situation, there is no particularly good way. We can only ask Jin Yiwei to inquire in private if there is any clue or a breakthrough that can be broken through.

But these are just the most basic things, and if you want to fundamentally solve the problem of the central court's weak control over Yunnan, you can only start with the system.

After all, relying on Zhu Qi's personal prestige, he can hold back here, but what will happen once Zhu Qi leaves?

So the best way is to establish a better system, and Zhu Qi also knows that the best system is to set up local government departments.

In the current Ming Dynasty, most government departments are set up in towns, and there are no government organizations at all in the countryside. This is definitely not possible.

If there is no government organization sent in the past, that is, the so-called village officials, the voice of the imperial court will not reach the grassroots at all.

And it is not so easy to establish a government organization.

At least the village heads of those villages, that is, the chieftain officials, would not easily allow such things to happen.

So it can only be done step by step, those who are willing to take refuge in Daming, start investing in the grassroots from them.

As for the others who are unwilling, they can only bite the bullet and start a war with them.

It's not realistic to think about Huairou everywhere.

While Zhu Qi was in Yunnan, he didn't do anything else. He just found out those villages that were unwilling to obey, killed the chieftains, and then sent officials to manage them.

During this period, try to avoid direct conflicts with the villagers, so assassination became Zhu Qi's best choice.

Although it sounds a bit cruel and the methods are not clean, but if it is really done, Zhu Qi does not have any psychological burden.

After all, it was all for Daming's future to kill several toast leaders, so Zhu Qi still didn't care at all.

As for the villages that have been controlled by Daming, it is necessary to arrange grassroots officials to manage them as soon as possible.

Of course, in addition to arranging grassroots officials to go there, there is another important measure, which is the self-management of the people.

This village is different from a town. The population of a town may be tens of thousands or even 10, but the number of people who come and go in the village is only two to three hundred, or even less than 300.

Under such circumstances, if each village arranges for an official to stay in the village, there will naturally be no problem for Daming's current finances.

But the main problem, such a situation, would quickly corrupt those officials.

Without institutional constraints, the village officials dispatched to the village are almost equivalent to the emperor.

So Zhu Qi planned to send the village officials on the one hand. The people who work under the village officials must be selected by the villagers themselves.

Under the control of the two parties, it is impossible for the village officials to do whatever they want without thinking.

It also depends on whether the group of people selected under him are willing to obey.

If it really gets serious, according to the current law of Ming Dynasty, your village official will be tied up and sent to the city to complain.

They all have no temper at all. You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang has a violent temper, but he will not tell you the truth, as long as it is reported by ordinary people.

Once it is verified, even the skins are peeled off, and there are not one or two hanging at the gate of the yamen.

When Zhu Qi vigorously promoted the system of village officials at the grassroots level, some people in the court who did not understand began to speak.

What they don't understand is naturally why the court spends so much effort to send officials to the village.

To know that the total number is only two or three hundred, an official must be sent to manage it.

He is paid a salary every year, so the pressure is very great.

If this is the case all over the country, I am afraid that the salaries are not enough for these low-level officials.

The most important thing is that these people don't even know the meaning of these village officials managing two or three hundred people alone.

They didn't know, but Zhu Qi knew very well that it was a terrible thing for the imperial power not to go to the countryside.

In the later period, the gentry dominated, and these gentry were at the bottom, and the relationship with the imperial court was of little use.

Look at the late Ming Dynasty, didn’t those gentry just bury Daming with their own hands, and then invited Aixinjueluo back?

The people at the bottom have changed from batch to batch, and these gentry are still dominating the bottom, but have you ever seen anyone change?

And what Zhu Qi wants to do is to uproot the gentry who are at the bottom and firmly in control, and replace them with official people from the imperial court.

This naturally set off a voice of condemnation in the court, but Zhu Yuanzhang had already heard Zhu Qi talk about the importance of imperial power going to the countryside.

He is an emperor with very ideals and dreams, so he naturally understands the key to this.

He would not listen to what those ignorant ministers said, and after hearing those people's opposition to the dispatch of village officials in the village, Zhu Yuanzhang became more determined in his heart and wanted to reform the imperial examination.

If the imperial examinations were not reformed, wouldn't the recruits in the future be the same short-sighted people?

If not now, Daming still needs these people to set up a skeleton to govern.

Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to dismiss and replace them all one by one, but this is also a thought, they are not useless.

At least they are already very proficient in their work, but their vision is not as broad as Zhu Qi's.

If some new talents are selected to come up now, they may not necessarily be capable.

Zhu Yuanzhang also understood very well, so he didn't make things too difficult for them. He just suppressed their arguments and let Liao King Zhu Qi let go.

However, only a few ministers raised objections to this matter.

Most of the other people don't really care much, because the Ming court is rich now.

As for where the money came from, everyone knows it well, isn't it that His Royal Highness King Liao earned it through tariffs.

Many people opposed the opening of border trade before. As a result, the benefits of border trade have been fully reflected now.

Just relying on the border trade to attract the chiefs of the grassland tribes to surrender, there are not one or two, but dozens of them.

You have to think about the tribal chiefs on the grassland in the past, they must have clamored to fight Daming desperately.

Now he is crying and shouting to surrender to Daming, isn't it the credit of His Royal Highness Liao Wang?
Not only that, there is a famine on the grassland now, because King Liao bought all the grain on the grassland with a big basket of banknotes.

Those people on the prairie, holding banknotes and all kinds of iron and metal, can't eat at all

.And if they want to buy food from Daming, Daming's control is very strict, and they won't give it at all.

Even if you want to buy it, you have to spend gold, silver and jewelry to buy it back at a high price.

And the food sold each time is just for maintenance, they are not all starved to death, that's all.

Although there were many grassland tribes who wanted to rob Daming's side because of this, the force of Daming's side was not something they could do casually.

Since His Royal Highness King Liao invented more powerful armor and weapons, and improved firearms.

Now the prairie tribes are almost being beaten by the regular army of Ming Dynasty, even though Wang Baobao has realized that something is wrong, and hastened to imitate the weapons of Ming Dynasty.

And understand what kind of method Daming uses to make new armors and weapons.

But how can such technical things be learned in a short period of time? Even if others put in enough effort, Zhu Qi estimated that they would not be able to learn these skills within 10 years.

Of course, it is unrealistic to completely hide these technologies, as technologies will eventually spread.

It just depends on the length of time, but Bei Yuan probably won't live to that time, and Zhu Qi reckons that in just two years, he's going to experience a big change.

This Beiyuan can't make a fuss for long.

His wings have been cut off, and even Yunnan has been taken back.

I'm afraid it won't be long before Zhu Yuanzhang will attack him, and it's about this time in history.

(End of this chapter)