February of the fourth year of the Era, Beijing, Forbidden City.

This place has now become the temporary power center of the Ming Dynasty!

Although the first capital of the new Ming Dynasty was Nanjing, Beijing, like Guangzhou, was only a companion capital. But since Zhu Heji regained Beijing, he never returned to Nanjing.

Moreover, after Zhu Heji returned from Japan in triumph and returned to Beijing, he moved all the yamen of the Nanjing court to Beijing, and only set up a stay-at-home department in Nanjing to let the emperor stay there to look after the family.

The reason why Emperor Zhu Da wanted to temporarily move the court to Beijing was not because he wanted to make Beijing the capital. It was because he wanted to digest the newly recovered northern provinces as quickly as possible, and at the same time, it was also convenient to completely conquer the Mongolian tribes in Monan, Mobei and Northeast China. The Ming Eight Banners.

Such a huge task makes me have a headache just looking at it, and it becomes even more difficult to handle it.

Now the six provinces in the north, including Huaibei, Shandong, Henan, Beizhili, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, have been recovered. The Liaodong Peninsula and the Liaoxi Corridor have been combined to form Liaoning Province (including Liaoyang but not Shenyang), so Zhu Heji is needed The imperial court organized a total of seven provinces.

The situation of these seven provinces is very different from the southeastern provinces that the new Ming Dynasty captured earlier. First of all, the finances of these seven provinces are relatively difficult... If they are as rich as Jiangnan, then there is no Ming Dynasty. The end is chaos.

Although these seven provinces were in financial difficulty, they could not spend less money. Therefore, the entire Ming Dynasty moved to Beijing and kept an eye on the officials of the seven provinces, so that they could be more careful with their budgets.

The second difference is that there are a large number of "ownerless properties" in these seven provinces... This is a huge amount of wealth! Of course, Zhu Heji's court could not let this wealth be lost. After all, they had already This wealth was advanced through the issuance of "Pingliao Bonds".

Therefore, the Ming court had to encircle and divide the land that originally belonged to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing demon imperial merchants and official merchants certified by the traitorous dog officials and Jinyiwei, as well as the land that was not reclaimed for various reasons but had the value of reclamation, into one Each farm was then appraised, and finally selected by the big creditor from the south... There was a lot of intrigue in this matter. If the Ming Dynasty did not pay closer attention, it would suffer a loss.

Moreover, the Ming court did not want those "big creditors" to get the land and just throw it there, so they had to create conditions to help those "big creditors" develop it. This was another delicate job that required a lot of effort, so the Ming Dynasty The imperial court cannot be too far away.

The third difference is that Confucianism is very powerful in the remaining six provinces excluding Liaoning Province! Confucianism and rural sages have long been closely integrated. The rural elites in these six provinces have joined the Confucian group. , and then become a village sage or work for a village sage to make a profit.

Moreover, these six provinces have always been the places where the White Lotus Sect is more violent. Many local powerful people who have been engaged in the White Lotus Sect for generations have also sneaked into Confucianism, which makes Confucianism very stubborn.

Although faced with the invincible Heavenly Soldiers, this group of Xiaoxiao did not dare to openly resist, and they were more cooperative with Qingtian Juntian, and the Confucianists who appeared on the surface were all in disarray. But Confucianism still has secret halls... ...And the Confucian Secret Hall was not established hastily before the Ming Dynasty arrived, but has always existed!

Moreover, Confucianism and the rural sages have successfully monopolized education in the rural areas of the northern provinces in the past few years. This is natural. Confucianism, who has learned "anti-Confucianism", and the rural sages with sword handles join hands, and they

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In addition, powerful people who can become rural sages often have a huge clan behind them. Although the large clans in the north are generally smaller due to frequent wars, famines, natural disasters and other reasons, there are more small families in the northern countryside.

However, the ability of a small household to resist annexation when faced with a clan that is united in a group is far inferior to that of a small clan facing a large clan...

So now the influence of Confucianism and rural sages does not exist on the surface, but privately they are still spread throughout the villages of the six northern provinces.

If Zhu Heji wanted to minimize the influence of Confucianism (it would be difficult to eradicate it completely), he would have to build an education and promotion system in the six northern provinces that Confucianism could control - said

To put it simply, it is to establish a compulsory education system in the six northern provinces, and at the same time open a large number of primary schools (there are also elementary schools below primary schools), middle schools, and universities, so that the intellectual elites in the six northern provinces can have a route to upgrade through examinations.

This is another slow and detailed job, and quite expensive.

While reorganizing the seven northern provinces (including Liaoning), we must also completely conquer Monnan, the Mongolian tribes in Mobei, and the Ming Eight Banners in the northeast.

And the task of conquering the Mongolian tribes in Monan, Mobei and the Ming Eight Banners in the northeast cannot be done with one hammer... The matter of plowing the courtyard and sweeping holes is very satisfying to write on paper.

But it doesn't have much effect when actually implemented.

Because the territory of Northeast and Mongolia is really huge!

Just "sweeping" can never clean it all, it must be "cured"!

Zhu Heji's method of governing the Northeast and Mongolia was actually a copy of the alliance flag system of the Qing Dynasty. Instead of calling it "Legacy Flag", he changed the word to "Buqi". That is to say, the Mongolians on the grasslands in the Northeast were

The population of all ethnic groups outside the boundaries of Liaoning Province imitated the organizational model of the Eight Banners, forming many banners that could be farmed, fought and herded, and then organized into units.

Moreover, each ministry and each banner has regulations on where to graze and farm, and it is strictly prohibited to farm or graze beyond the boundaries.

Each ministry has a commander-in-chief, and each banner has a banner master or commander... Not all banners have banner masters, some banners will be commanded by Emperor Zhu himself, so the leader who is directly in charge of affairs below is called

All unified.

In addition, the Ming court also had the power to transfer various ministries and banners - that is, to move them from their original territory to other places.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Not long ago, Zhu Heji moved one of the Ming Eight Banners to Nagoya and Ezo Island, and moved the other two flags to Nagoya and Ezo Island.

They visited the newly built Aihui City on the edge of the Heilongjiang River and the Yaksa City captured from the Rakshasa people. They also placed a flag in Jilin City, where General Ningguta was originally stationed, and were planning to move a flag to Vladivostok.

Of course, Zhu Heji did not have such control over the Chahar Tribe, the Mongolian Khalkha Tribe, and the Junggar Tribe under Geerdan under Burni. Although Burni followed the instructions of the Ming Dynasty, he also established a tribal flag system.

, but it is just a formality.

As for the Dzungarians and the Otok who maintained their own restraint, no changes were made.

However, the immediate priority of Zhu Heji and his Ming court is not to transform the powerful Junggar tribe, or even to march into Gansu or Sichuan to complete the unification of the Han Dynasty, but... to open up a sugar road connecting the East and the West.

the road!

Yes, it is the Sugar Road, not the Silk Road.

Now sugar is the number one strategic commodity in the world!

However, Zhu Heji was never able to control a channel to send sugar to the west... Although the Nanyang Trading Company has achieved considerable success in the Southeast Asian and Eastern Seas, it is still difficult for them to enter the west of the Strait of Malacca.

So Zhu Heji controlled 100% of the sugar, but it was difficult (not completely impossible) to send the sugar to the hands of the Ottoman Empire...

Not long ago, a Portuguese merchant ship from the Indian Ocean brought two members of Huang Zhisheng's mission and an Ottoman mission disguised as a business mission. According to the report that was rushed 600 miles from Guangzhou to Beijing, the Ottoman Empire

The Sultan and the Grand Vizier were very interested in Ming Dynasty's "sweet gunpowder" and hoped to buy it in large quantities.

Of course there is plenty of sugar, but the question is how to send a large amount to the Ottoman Empire? After all, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and England, countries that control the Indian Ocean routes, do not want the Ottoman Empire to use the sweet gunpowder supported by the Ming Dynasty to give the Holy Roman Empire to

Demolished.
Chapter completed!