Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

As the old saying goes, kneel to heaven, kneel to the earth, and kneel to your parents. If you must kneel, kneel to your ancestors, kneel to your parents. Apart from them, no one in the world is worthy of your kneeling.

In fact, there was a tradition of not kneeling in the Ming Dynasty, so Jiang Han’s move was not particularly abrupt.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so disgusted with the barbarian customs of the Yuan Dynasty that he once said, "The military and civilians should follow the barbarian customs in performing ceremonies. When drinking at banquets, they should mostly kneel and bow as a courtesy." After saying this, Zhu ordered officials from the Ministry of Rites to set the ceremonies for officials and civilians to bow and bow, and "all barbarian ceremonies should be banned."

Among officials of the same or similar rank, they only need to bow or salute twice.

If the rank difference is two or three levels, the superior official should sit at the top and the subordinate official should sit at the bottom, which is already a bow.

If the official rank differs by four levels, the lower one bows down and the higher one sits and receives the greeting. Except for reporting something, they do not have to kneel otherwise.

Therefore, during the Ming Dynasty, when entering the Meridian Gate, one did not kneel or kowtow, but bowed before entering the court.

In my Qing Dynasty, if you are an official of the same dynasty, you must kneel before me no matter how high your rank is. And you must kneel properly!

If you don't kneel down, I will send you to jail and kill you!

Sometimes, some people can't stand up after kneeling for too long. What Jiang Han wants to do is to make sure that everyone in Dayan has extremely hard knees!

Volume 443: Chapter : Frontier

Not only the internal affairs, but also the external affairs need to be taken care of. After the expedition to Mobei in 191, the governance there and the border policy have become new problems.

Today, the northern border of Dayan has finally calmed down. The Qing Dynasty is on the verge of death, and Mobei is still in fear. It can be said that they will not surrender unless they fight. Since ancient times, most of the threats to the Central Plains dynasties have come from the north. China's geographical environment is very special. Although it is located on the Eurasian continental island, it is geographically separated from other continents by prairies, big walls, and snow-capped mountains. In terms of space, it is a completely offshore island. Now that the north has been dealt with, there is a national guardian mountain in the west, and the east and south are all seas. The current Dayan has the capital to dominate the future hegemony with a dual civilization structure of land and sea.

After several hours of discussion and planning, Dayan officially established the southern part of the desert near the Great Wall as a province, called Daning Province, with its capital located in the Chifeng area of ​​later generations and named Daning City.

At present, Daning is temporarily managed by the Volunteer Army and implements the Corps system. After the local administrative personnel have completed their education and training, talents will be selected from the local area to govern and administer the area. The leagues under the league and flag system within its jurisdiction, such as Zhuosuotu, Zhaowuda, and Xilin Gol, will be changed into prefectures, states, and counties.

Mongolian people of all tribes can only graze and develop within the county. Except for necessary exchanges such as trade, they must avoid crossing borders and avoiding conflicts.

In terms of belief, Mongolians now believe in the Yellow Sect, which has a huge influence on the Mongolians. The imperial court does not oppose it. Of course, belief is belief and rules are rules. If you do something illegal, it is hard to say.

After seeing countless tragedies, Jiang Han's biggest request at the moment is that you can even adopt some feudal superstitions. Primitive religion is too backward! Unacceptable!

According to reports from the Ministry of Intelligence, in recent years, due to religious disputes, Tibet has been in turmoil. First, Gushri Khan, the leader of the Khoshut tribe and the leader of the Eleuth Mongols, overthrew the regimes of Qinghai and Kham.

Three years ago, at the invitation of the Yellow Sect regent Sonam Gökpa and the Fifth and Fourth Dalai Lamas to enter Tibet to rescue the Yellow Sect, Gushri Khan led a large army into Tibet and overthrew the Tsangpa Khanate of the Karma Kagyu sect, established the Khoshut Khanate, and confirmed the leadership of the leaders of the emerging Gelug sect in Tibet, which influenced Tibetan history for hundreds of years.

The internal strife among the Mongols, although due to their belief that only living people are worthy of development and the economic life-and-death struggle over cattle, sheep and land, faith also played a big role.

Before that, the three khans of the Khalkha Mongols in the northern desert had a long war with the Eleuth Mongols, which was settled by Gushri Khan. Then everyone began to respect the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism, also known as the Yellow Sect.

There are four major living Buddha systems in the Yellow Sect, namely, ** Lama (front Tibet), ** Erdeni (back Tibet), Changkya Hutuktu (southern desert), and Jebtsundamba Hutuktu (northern desert), which have far-reaching influence.

Fortunately, Zhangjia I of the Zhangjia Hutuktu lineage was still a young man. He received full ordination from the Fifth King of Zhangjia Hutuktu and had not yet become a living Buddha, so his influence on the southern part of the desert was not great.

For people in the Mongolian, Tibetan and Qinghai regions, the Yellow Sect is their spiritual sustenance. It should be respected as long as it does not violate the law. It will also be much more convenient if they are unified in the future.

The current ruler of these two places is Gushri Khan. Historically, he took the initiative to submit to the Qing Dynasty. The strength of the Eight Banners Army was one aspect, but the most important thing was that the Qing court supported the Yellow Sect.

After completely unifying these places, Jiang Han will give orders to begin revising some of the unacceptable contents of the Yellow Sect and to eliminate some backward traditional religious customs.

After heated discussions, the meeting unanimously agreed to implement an immigration policy to relocate a large number of Han people in the interior who had not been allocated land to Daning Province, encourage intermarriage between Han and Mongolians, influence Mongolia in all aspects, reduce barriers, and promote sinicization.

The strongest point of Chinese culture is its inclusiveness. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine. Once you come here, you'll be considered a family. Everyone, don't leave. Since we're here, it's New Year's Day, right? Let's make dumplings together!

Politically speaking, it was to divide the power of the various Mongolian tribes, strengthen the court's command over Mongolia, gradually reduce the autonomy of Mongolian tribes, and gradually increase the influence of national sovereignty.

If the policies of Daning Province develop smoothly, these experiences can be expanded to Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang and other places (which are still Khanates now), so as to truly establish effective control over these regions.

To put it bluntly, everyone should just work together to get rich honestly and stop making trouble.

In addition to Daning Province, the entire border measures discussion meeting formulated a series of policies targeting the western desert and Western Mongolia.

Dayan established special trading offices in Jiayuguan, Shaanxi and other "Western" passes to attract investors to buy tea and conduct tea-horse trade.

The regulations for the tea-horse trade were set: one comb of tea weighed ten pounds, twelve combs of tea could be exchanged for a top-quality horse, nine combs of tea could be exchanged for a medium-quality horse, and seven combs of tea could be exchanged for a low-quality horse.

Military patrols were also set up to arrest and bring to the authorities any person who smuggled tea out of the country.

Shaanxi includes Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia in later generations. It borders several khanates of Western Mongolia and has a very important location. At least at this time when Tibet and Western Mongolia have not yet been recovered, this location is quite important, so heavy troops must be stationed here to prepare for any eventuality.

Today's Dayan has just torn a piece of meat from the Qing Dynasty and swallowed up the south and north of the desert. Now it turns its head and looks towards the Central Plains. It is at this time of continuous swallowing, strengthening itself and slowly digesting. A stable border is very important.

If someone is really shameless, it's basically the same as trying to make things difficult for Xiao Wu in front of Tang San, and you're doomed.

Oh, Tang San's lover is dead, let's change the metaphor, forget it, anyway, just die! Eat my blue silver entanglement!

In addition to the tea-horse trade, Shaanxi, which had experienced continuous wars, also produced a large number of refugees and hidden households. On the one hand, they were re-incorporated into the population, and on the other hand, they provided Shaanxi with work-for-relief and built several roads leading to the west of the desert.

While expanding transportation and promoting local economic production and development, it can also take into account military functions. Wherever roads are built, the army can reach there, and the scope of military rule can also reach there, while also facilitating local trade.

This set of policies was conducive to the exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the Western Regions. Among these caravans, there were staff from the intelligence departments. There were even projects that used the university topics of Dayan as an excuse to go to the Western Regions to survey the local terrain, understand the local customs, political structure, and geographical environment, and make strong preparations for conquering and even taking over and governing these places in the future.

I have indeed updated less in the past two days, mainly because it is the Chinese New Year and I am preparing to go back to my hometown. Now there are too many things at home that need to be thrown away or packed. I will send the computer home tomorrow. As compensation, I have arranged it. I will offer a reward for everyone. This is the first time to offer a reward. I will see how much is appropriate when the time comes.