Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 189 Governing a Great Country is Like Cooking Small Fresh Food

".The above is the specific situation of Ganzhou in recent years."

In the government office of Ganzhou, Tang Wen comprehensively reported the situation in Ganzhou to Chen Yunfu, and then stood still, waiting for Chen Yunfu's response.

"that's terrible."

Chen Yunfu frowned and sighed, "No wonder the banditry in Ganzhou has been so serious these years. The people have no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies. There is no other way to survive if you don't become bandits."

"It's the incompetence of Xiaguan and others." Tang Wen bowed his hands in shame: "Xiaguan and others are the parents of Ganzhou, and the people are like this, so they are ashamed to kill them."

Chen Yunfu waved his hand and said: "The previous one has nothing to do with you, but the future Ganzhou will have something to do with you. Now you are trying to be the magistrate of Ganzhou. You have to worry about Ganzhou."

"Yes, thank you for your envoy."

"Go."

Tang Wenzuo bowed to retreat, stopped and said hesitantly: "Emissary Jinglue, if you leave, the chief envoy is there."

"You just need to wait for the official document from the Ministry of Officials, and ignore the chief envoy."

With Chen Yunfu's affirmative answer, Tang Wen left steadily. After he left, Mu Shiqun asked Chen Yunfu somewhat unbearably.

"Master Hou, if you do this, will it have any bad influence on you?"

"What bad influence?"

"You are the manager of Huguang and Guizhou. How to punish corruption and appoint and dismiss officials in Ganzhou, Jiangxi is similar."

"It seems that the official has no jurisdiction over it, right?"

Chen Yunfu shook his head and sighed: "Of course I know that I have no authority to govern, but no matter what, no matter what, the chaos in Guizhou and Huguang cannot be completely settled."

"Ah?" Mu Shiqun scratched his head, puzzled and said, "Is the collapse of Ganzhou's officials related to the rebellion of the chieftains in Huguang and Guizhou?"

"Of course there is."

Chen Yunfu knew that Mu Shiqun didn't understand, so he explained: "Those of you who have joined the army look at things and only have one thing in your eyes. Huguang Cave is in chaos, so Chang Mao and Feng Sheng went to suppress it, thinking they killed him. , If the chaos is settled, the matter will be resolved?"

"Is not it?"

"It's just treating the symptoms, not the root cause." Chen Yunfu said: "The ultimate goal of killing people is to suppress the riots, as long as we can completely eliminate the source of the riots, there will be no chaos in the future.

The turmoil in Huguang and Guizhou chieftains was in essence just the internal turmoil of our Ming Dynasty, neither foreign aggression, nor aggression or anti-aggression, so the internal turmoil must find its own reasons. "

"When I was working as a political envoy, I learned about several rebellions by the chieftains in Guizhou, and found a very coincidental pattern, that is, every time the chieftains rebelled, there were wars outside the country or internal turmoil. The next six months to a year.

When our world is peaceful, these chieftains are honest and tight, and once we have a big disturbance, such as after the Hu Weiyong case, the Huaixi Xungui Group was destroyed and killed, and the military guards in various provinces are in the ascendant, and there is no time to establish Promoting production under the system will be stopped halfway, and the chief executive of the local capital is seriously empty.

Under such circumstances, the chieftain of Guizhou launched a major rebellion that spread to the entire southeastern and southwestern Guizhou, destroying and destroying more than a dozen long-term lawsuits. , The road was difficult and obstructed, and it took three years to pacify the entire territory of Guizhou.

Besides, Huguang Cave was in chaos this time. Xia San, a bandit from Ganzhou, brought thousands of people into the border of Xiangxi. I don't know how he tried to tell the truth, so the local chieftain in Huguang started a riot.

If I were the leader of the local barbarians, I would feel like a wolf mastiff when I saw thieves swarming in our Daming. "

Mu Shiqun nodded half-understood and said: "Hou Ye means that as long as there is no chaos in our place, these chieftains will not dare to be moths."

"This is just one of them. The other point is that if you want to thoroughly investigate and pacify the Tusi rebellion in Huguang and Guizhou, you must have a comprehensive view of the whole country."

There is also a map of mountains and rivers in the government office of Ganzhou. Chen Yunfu took it, pointed to Huguang and Guizhou, and said: "Huguang connects Bashu, Guizhou connects Yunnan, and the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hunan together form the entire southwest of our Ming Dynasty. Guizhou and Hunan are in chaos. , Southwest instability.

Why did such a huge amount of money and food be consumed in the battle of pacifying Yunnan that year? Because detours were required. The official warehouses in Zhili and Zhejiang had to detour through Sichuan before sending them to the front line. If they could go directly to the front line in Huguang and Guizhou, the road consumption would be huge less than half.

The detour will increase the pressure on the people in the prefectures along the line, and the exploitation will be severe, and the people will be unable to survive if the burden increases, and the grass will become bandits, and the people will cause chaos for the bandits, and the court will not stop. The chieftain felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and took advantage of the situation to cause disaster. "

"This is the reason why successive dynasties have been unable to pacify Guizhou chieftains for thousands of years. To the south of Guizhou is Guangdong and Guangxi.

There are also many chieftains in Yunnan and southern Sichuan. If the imperial court wants to pacify Guizhou, it must first remove all these thorns surrounding Guizhou, so that the central government's decrees can be unimpeded to the localities, and the imperial power will be sent to the counties and even to the countryside. , the provinces coordinate and unite as one, and the Guizhou chieftain can be completely healed. "

"In a word, the head of governing Guizhou is not Guizhou itself, but the maintenance of the provinces surrounding Guizhou."

Mu Shiqun seemed to be listening to the scriptures, even though Chen Yunfu had said it so clearly, he still couldn't understand it.

Seeing this, Chen Yunfu didn't bother to explain further, but he was worried.

The collapse of Ganzhou's bureaucracy just reflected what he was most worried about.

That is, when the imperial court was too busy to put down chaos and had no time to take care of the local area, local officials began to corrupt and degenerate, and the depravity of these officials led to frequent local turmoil, which constituted a vicious circle of the country's internal environment.

How much is Daming doing right now?

The development of Liaodong, the West Fanman in Qinghai, the long lawsuit in Yunnan, the suppression of rebellion by chieftains in Huguang and Guizhou, and the business reforms in Zhili and Zhejiang.

The imperial court was in such a state of desperation that it gave lazy officials like Zhang Hongjun the opportunity to play around and catch fish. Even Jiangxi's bureaucratic situation is so bad, so will Guangdong and Guangxi be worse now?
Will the clan forces in Guangdong and Guangxi take the opportunity to intensify their mergers and expansions, colluding with the local government?

Once this is the case, the national finances and taxes of Guangdong and Guangxi will inevitably be lost, and it will also become a link in the vicious circle of the country's internal environment.

Maybe these disturbances are nothing more than ringworm and scabies at first glance, but everyone knows the term vicious circle. As time goes by, the evil becomes more and more serious, and small diseases become tumors. When attached to the country of Ming Dynasty, giants will also have down day.

Think about the general development of Ming history.

In the 26th year of Hongwu, the population of the imperial court was 480 million, and the number of hidden households was less than 200 million. The national taxation was as high as [-] million taels, and the price was stable, and the living environment was extremely benign.

And the battle of Houjing Nan, the Jiaozhi rebellion, and the Guizhou chieftain's rebellion.

Zhu Lao four and five conquered Mobei, called the God of War, Tumu, and broke his halberd.

By the time of the three major expeditions in Wanli, in the 11 years before and after, the national military expenditure of 180 million taels completely consumed the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the defeat of Saarhu.

In 11 years, just over 1000 million taels of military expenditure is too much?
Chen Yunfu thought about it, when he coordinated logistics to support Feng Sheng to recover Liaodong two years ago, the military expenditure approved by the imperial court in that year was more than 300 million.

The 20 troops of the Northern Expedition were all on the battlefield with fresh clothes, angry horses, and shiny armor and weapons.

When they came back, they all had greasy faces, big belly and round waists, and they were not affected by the cold weather in Liaodong at all.

This is the fundamental reason why Daming was able to sweep the world invincible in a hundred battles in the early Ming Dynasty!
Why is Daming getting poorer and poorer?

Because no matter whether it is the central government officials or local officials, in the process of implementing specific policies, due to the limitations of the thinking of the times, they lack a national overall view of a game of chess.

Headache treats head, foot pain treats feet.

Now that Lao Zhu is getting older, his temper is getting more and more irritable, and he knows to kill at every turn.

If you kill it, you kill it. After the killing is over, it is not a waste of money to come up with a solution, but after the killing, you still let it go. Then this battle is not a waste of the court's military expenses and food.

You might as well learn from Zhao Song and send a piece of Zhao'an to save you worry.

Now that Lao Zhu is throwing the hot potato of Guizhou to Chen Yunfu, Lao Chen is really under a lot of pressure.

If you want to look good on the surface, then Chen Yunfu can now bring out the historical policy of reforming the land and returning it to the locals and directly apply it.

However, from the rudimentary form of the land reform policy in Hongwu 28, to the last land reform in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and the emigration of the people to Yunnan and Guizhou, until the beginning of Jiaqing, it took nearly 400 years. In the end, it was not still relying on [-] million people A good mouth is digested by the stomach.

If Daming now has 50 million Dingkou, Guizhou's less than [-] chieftains still have to find a way to solve it?
The 1000 million landless and propertyless poor who could not survive in the past, in three to five years, there will still be an ambitious chieftain in Guizhou, that is, the singing and dancing Miao girls and the hospitable Qianzhou welcome you.

Wouldn't it be possible to break a cleverness with strength?

Now there are only 6000 million people in Ming Dynasty, and there are no landless and propertyless people. Even if there are, they will move to Liaodong first. If you don’t develop Guizhou, you will cause chaos at most. If you don’t develop Liaodong, you will be raising enemies for yourself.

So, start with the big picture and simmer.

Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.

(End of this chapter)