My Daming New Empire

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"From His Highness's Malaka policy, I have already seen that His Highness is going to change Daming's previous policies towards the Nanyang countries. He does not care about appeasement, but intends to strengthen control, so that the people of Nanyang countries will more agree with my Ming's rule."

After Zhu Zhanji ate a piece, he stopped eating and told Li Liang, "Give it to Ma Liangyuan and the others. Their women like these sweets."

Then he turned around and said, "I have a question to ask the Duke of Dian. Although Daming is nominally the upper kingdom of the Nanyang countries, each country is in its own way. Except for the upper class who know about me, how many of the common people know about me? How many people agree with me, Daming?"

Zheng He pondered for a while and said: "Except for Luzon, Boni Country, and Old Port, there are no people who are just trying to take advantage of the wind."

Zhu Zhanji was surprised instead. He thought Zheng He would cover up his mistakes, but he didn't expect him to be able to confess directly.

"Therefore, it is time for Ming to change its policies towards the countries in Southeast Asia. I have been preparing for this trip to the West in my early years. The purpose is to make all countries truly become my Ming's vassal states, and let the glory of my Ming shine on all countries. This process will not be smooth, and to achieve this goal, you must hold candy in one hand and a knife in the other. Those who obey my orders will be given a piece of candy, and those who do not listen will be forced to do so."

"Your Highness thinks that I am too lenient to the countries in Southeast Asia?" Zheng He said with a wry smile, "Your Highness doesn't know what I think..."

Zhu Zhanji spread his hands and said: "I am the coach and you are the deputy coach, so now Gu hopes to be open and honest with you and reach an agreement. Now I have enough time to listen to you."

Seeing what Zhu Zhanji said, Zheng He didn't know where to start.He pondered for a while and said: "He has been going to sea since the first year of Yongle. In the past 15 years, he has traveled to most parts of the Zhongzhou mainland. But he has never seen a country as strong and rich as my Ming Dynasty. I have been thinking about it. , Why is there always war in this world, why can't we live in peace? But I found that as long as there are different countries and different nations, the war will never stop.

In the past, Daming did not have an absolute advantage, it was just a grassland, and Daming was helpless.However, since His Highness improved the muskets and produced them in large quantities, the Ming Dynasty now has the ability to unify the Central Continent.If these countries were all under the rule of Ming Dynasty, wouldn't there be no more wars in the future?

Therefore, the minister not only has no opinion on His Highness's plan, but also supports it very much.In the past, I could only obey His Majesty's orders, focusing on appeasement, and would not interfere in the affairs of the Nanyang countries, but if all these countries were turned into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and I, the Ming Dynasty, promulgated decrees, all people would have no choice but to obey, and the world would be destroyed in that day. There is no more war. "

Zhu Zhanji was really dumbfounded when he heard Zheng He's words.Unexpectedly, in this era hundreds of years ago, there would be such a pacifist as Zheng He.

He has completely abandoned the country, the nation, and the religion, and has become a true philanthropist.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but said: "The idea is good, but it is difficult to realize."

Zheng He asked, "Why?"

Zhu Zhanji likes this kind of experience crushing the most, which is the only thing he is better than other people in this world.Regardless of IQ or EQ, people of later generations are not stronger than people of ancient times. The only thing that is stronger is experience and hundreds of years of experience.

"First of all, we have to look at this matter separately. On the one hand, it is the degree of acceptance of Ming Dynasty by other countries, and on the other hand, it is the management conditions that Ming Dynasty possesses. Both of these aspects must also include contradictions and conflicts between individuals and groups.

Let's first look at the attitudes of various countries towards Ming, not to mention the countries in Southeast Asia and the countries in the West that are far away from each other.Just take the Tatars as an example, they are not a nation or a way of life, and their integration with Ming has fundamental contradictions.Because of the short distance, Ming could slowly influence Tatar and use the benefits of the Beiming Mountain Copper Mine to connect Daming and Tatar, but this did not resolve the fundamental contradiction between the two different ethnic groups.

The original Mongolian Yuan implemented a management model of different levels, which has been proven and cannot solve the problem.Because no nation is willing to be an inferior person, this will only lead to continuous resistance.

This is just an analysis from the general direction, but specific to the details.The management of the Ming Dynasty and the management of the Tatars are all carried out by individuals. People will have selfishness and their own interests.Not every Daming person will protect the interests of Daming, especially when Daming's interests and personal interests conflict with each other.

Next, let's look at the management conditions Daming possesses.Now it takes one month to send an order from Daming to Mobei, and it takes three months to send an order from Daming to Nanyang, and it takes more than a year to send an order to Xiyang.Any order, by the time it reaches the West, may already be out of date.

Moreover, all levels of management personnel in Daming have selfish motives.The management difficulty brought about by this distance and time will make the policy that originally benefited the people become harmful in the end.In the former Song Dynasty Wang Anshi's reform, Qingmiaodai was originally beneficial to the people, but in the end it became harmful to the people. This is a simple example.

There are simply too many such examples. In many cases, the policies of the imperial court can still be implemented in the state capital, but they have changed beyond recognition when they arrive in the county.But when it comes to townships, they can only rely on the villagers to manage themselves.

This is still within the territory of Daming, and outside of Daming, the imperial court has no control over it.So I say that Duke Dian's idea is good, but unrealistic. "

"Then there is no solution?"

"Of course, but that must be based on changing the current vertical management system of Daming."

This was another new term, and Zheng He couldn't understand it. "What is a vertical management system?"

"To put it simply, it is the management model of the upper and lower levels. The imperial court orders, and then from the six departments to the localities, and then pass it down layer by layer."

Zheng He asked suspiciously: "If you don't manage it like this, how can you manage it?"

Zhu Zhanji smiled and stopped explaining to him, but returned to the original question and said: "Because the conditions are not mature, the management of Daming basically depends on the self-management of various places. However, Daming must Diplomacy, trade, and culture play a leading role. This is also the main reason why I started the Sinicization policy in Nanyang. First of all, we need to let everyone start to speak Ming dialect and write Ming characters. Only in this way can they understand us The command."

Zheng He's train of thought finally returned to normal, and he sighed: "I understand, haste makes waste. The first thing the Ming Dynasty should do is to establish a system that can be practiced all over the world."

"What Duke Dian said is right!" Zhu Zhanji laughed, and he was really happy.

Originally, he thought that Zheng He could not be reused, but now he realized that he was actually more radical than himself.

Although the two people have different ideas, Zhu Zhanji's taste is to let the Han people become the masters of the world, but Zheng He wants the powerful Ming Dynasty to control the world, and then reduce wars.

But the purpose is the same.That is to make Ming the strongest country, and let all countries in the world respect Ming.

Because of the same purpose, Zheng He can still be used.

Zheng He's attitude also completely made Paramisura no longer to rely on.He could only resist and follow Zhu Zhanji's instructions, and began to promote Chinese in Malaka, and made Ming Mandarin the official language.

Just when Zhu Zhanji spent a few busy days, arranged various affairs, and was about to go to the unnamed island off the coast of Malaga for vacation, Chawang also came to the governor of the port with dozens of apprentices. So, started a new study.

There are nearly a thousand of these apprentices, most of whom are young people from surrounding villages.There are many people who were not Malaka people originally, but because the Siamese didn't care about them, they have become Malaka people now.

There were only three villages in Malaga 20 years ago, but now, with the size of a county, the surrounding villages have also been absorbed by Malaga.

In the port, those coolies were responsible for loading goods, repairing ships, and smelting copper.Although it is hard work, there is relatively a lot of income, so it attracts many local people to work

But for apprentices like Chawang, they have worked and studied since they were young.Although the work is easy, I only need to be responsible for statistics, but there is no salary except food and housing.

Now Daming recruits apprentices who can speak Daming dialect, and then arranges them to serve as officials in various villages.Although this official is not in the ranks, as Daming's agent, he will have a higher status and income.

Therefore, many apprentices were attracted to sign up. After careful selection, Daming recruited 50 people for the first time.

There are only 27 villages and a small city in Malaka.According to one person stationed in each village, 27 people are needed.Then a liaison agency, a management agency, needs to be set up in the city.

Fifty people are enough to meet the basic requirements. After all, the entire Malaka, plus more than 1 Han Chinese, is less than 5.

Chawang is smarter, he can read and write in Ming Dynasty, so he was selected.

Like his second brother, Yale, who was eliminated and could only continue to be an apprentice.

When 50 of them were gathered together, several eunuchs and several civil officials from Ming Dynasty became their new teachers.

Those civil servants taught them how to measure the land, how to compost, how to plow the field, and trim the ridges every day.

They are very strict. Anyone who does not listen carefully and cannot keep up with the progress will be pulled out to beat the board, so everyone is studying seriously and dare not be sloppy.

After learning how to grow the farmland, those people began to teach them how to collect taxes and how to calculate taxes.Finally, they were taught how to write uniform official documents, including some special nouns.

Although these civil servants are strict, but because what they teach is useful, these students are still studying very hard every day, and they are not really afraid of them.

But compared with them, these eunuchs are terrible.They take everyone to run every morning, exhausting everyone.

Then they were asked to kneel down to His Majesty the Ming Emperor endlessly, and they had to write an article praising the Ming Emperor every day.

Moreover, they are much more ruthless than those civil servants.

One of the apprentices named Wudu was taken out and slapped ten times just because he sneezed while kneeling down to the portrait.

And another apprentice named Han Lidan was beaten to death because he laughed when a eunuch told them a story about the emperor.

The eunuch said violently: "This is the emperor of my Ming Empire, the most honorable person in the world. His words are golden words, and his orders are more important than your sultan's words. Everyone must not have a blasphemous heart. Otherwise, it will only be worse than his death!"

This is not the first time Chawang has seen someone beaten to death, but the first time he was beaten to death for such a seemingly ridiculous reason.