Zhu Di sent hundreds of officials to Xia Xun this time. Yi Shiha, Huang Zhen, Zhang Xitong and others were just representatives.
Gu Zhou was very familiar with the various ethnic groups in Liaodong, especially the Jurchen, Taoist and other ethnic leaders in the Changbai Mountain area. Under his careful management, most of them had some friendship in the past. Most of these tribes used to be dependent on North Korea, and North Korea took advantage of these tribes.
In order to ensure that there was a clear support in Liaodong and to recognize its own political power, the Ming court maintained considerable tolerance and restraint towards their infiltration and encroachment.
Using this period of time, North Korea crossed the Tumen River and controlled many Jurchen tribes. These Jurchen tribes and the land where they settled were indirectly equal to North Korea's sphere of influence. Now that these tribes are willing to join the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty certainly welcomes them.
That's true, but poaching people is not a good thing to say if it harms the national system.
Xia Xun wanted to take advantage of this opportunity and promote their attachment, but he didn't want to tell them the truth and make too many official contacts before their attitude became clear. In this case, a secret envoy was needed, and Gu Zhou was the one.
A suitable candidate. When Xia Xun rushed to Liaodong, he thought of transferring him to use his familiarity with Liaodong to help him.
Now that Gu Zhou was here, he was asked to do this. After some advice, Gu Zhou took dozens of subordinates and a sum of activity funds and rushed to his previous main activity place outside the customs as a guest -
---He went to Changbai Mountain and began his secret series journey.
Yi Shiha was an eunuch beside Zhu Di. He was a Haixi Jurchen. He was transferred to Liaodong. No matter what achievements Guzhou had made, when official officials were needed to come forward to negotiate, he still mediated and maintained the Jurchen tribe in Liaodong and the Liaodong government.
Because of his status, it was easier for him to be accepted by those ethnic minorities, so Yishiha was sent to Liaodong and assigned a guard post. His actual function was equivalent to the director of the Ethnic and Religious Administration Bureau of Liaodong.
Yi Shiha came not just alone this time, he also brought some of the former Yan Palace guards. These former Yan Palace guards were the concubines of Aha, the leader of the Jurchen Huli tribe, whom Zhu Di married when he was the king of Yan.
The dowry he brought over when he was married has now been with Zhu Di for many years. With these people, he planned to fight for Aha Chu first.
The Huli tribe was originally one of the 50,000 households in the Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty lost its power to rule the Central Plains, the Huli tribe attached itself to North Korea and paid tribute to North Korea. Now the Ming Dynasty's control in Liaodong is strengthening, and many people are attached to North Korea and accept
The Jurchen tribe who held official positions in North Korea were willing to join. If Aha Chu could take advantage of his son-in-law relationship with Emperor Yongle and win him over first, Guzhou would be able to do the work of other tribes with half the effort.
Of course, Xia Xun welcomed the arrival of such a capable man.
Zhang Xitong took the initiative and rushed to Liaodong. Xia Xun was determined to establish Confucianism in Liaodong. At the beginning, the conditions were limited, and he would only teach the children of the tribal leaders and military attachés in Liaodong. Gradually, he set up teachings, taught scriptures, and taught widely.
To promote education, the imperial court needs to send some cultural and educational officials.
In the eyes of most people in the Central Plains, Liaodong is still a barbaric and backward uncivilized land. It is a place where only exiled prisoners should go. Not many people are willing to come, but Zhang Xitong is an exception. He has been in the Ministry of Rites for many years.
Now he is just a secretary. What kind of person is Huang Zhen? He also knows that in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he is a figure that no one wants to see. Not long after following the Duke of Fu, he actually got into the palace of the Imperial Envoy.
Position, the speed of promotion is amazing.
The last time Fu Guogong Yang Xu got married to the young princess of Zhongshan Palace, he was the master of ceremonies. He thought that he and Fu Guogong had a little love, and now he volunteered to go to Liaodong to work for him, even if it took him several years.
It’s hard, after he has achieved this qualification, the Fuguogong will not treat him badly. When the time comes, he will be recommended to return to the court. If he doesn’t become the Minister of Honglu Temple, he can also become the Young Minister of Honglu, right?
So Mr. Zhang packed his bags and took the initiative to go to Liaodong to popularize culture and education.
As for Huang Zhen, who rushed to Liaodong as the envoy of Qiandu, he reciprocated the favor.
The Imperial Procuratorate was quite critical of Xia Xun's many actions in changing the ancestral system in Liaodong. Some imperial envoys headed by Chen Ying would issue memorials to impeach him from time to time. Zhu Di was forced by public opinion to send people to Liaodong to supervise government affairs.
Huang Zhen took the initiative and took the job. Chen Ying was the imperial envoy to the left capital, Wu Youdao was the imperial envoy to the right capital, and he was next, the third in command of the Imperial Procuratorate.
He took the initiative to request to come to Liaodong. Is there anyone more suitable and qualified than him? As a result, Chen Ying's wishful thinking happened to be wrong with this last part. Later, although he reluctantly fought for it, he sent a few more imperial officials from his faction.
But Huang Zhen is the person in charge. With him here to maintain it, the hum of the envoys will hardly have any impact on Xia Xun.
"My lord, when your subordinate comes, the emperor will give you instructions!"
In the study, Xia Xun and Huang Zhen were sitting. Huang Zhen leaned slightly and said to Xia Xun: "The emperor said that mutual trade is established at the border, so it is used by the country and people from far away. This is a move that benefits the country and the people. Don't let it go.
The officials and the people were disturbed. As for the engraving of imperial envoys, mutual trade between Liaodong and shipping operations, many of the families of the generals and generals stationed on the border were involved...
The emperor said that Liaodong was poor, and the officers and soldiers could not support their families with their salaries alone, so they would not feel at ease guarding the border. There was nothing wrong with the family members finding a way to make a living, but they had to set rules and not use power to seek power, or even blackmail and trap people, so as to arouse public resentment.
In particular, military supplies that are not allowed to be exported by the country should be strictly prohibited if they are exported privately and used to support the invaders. The offender will not be forgiven even though he has served as a relative."
Xia Xun breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. Liaodong actually had its own rich products, such as mink skins, ginseng, wood, fish, etc. However, because the west wall was close to the captives, in order to suppress foreigners, during the Hongwu Dynasty, free trade was not allowed at all, especially no bureaucrats were allowed to participate.
, it was stipulated at that time: "Any official on official business is not allowed to carry pine and hazelnuts and other items across the sea. Anyone who violates the regulations weighs one or two kilograms and will be quartered. If the order is passed, the lawsuit will be condoned and the whole person will be punished."
Not to mention trade, even if a person who is sent on a business trip to Liaodong wants to bring back a few kilograms of Liaodong's local specialties for his family to taste, it is a sin of beheading. From the Jianwen and Yongle times, the rules of trade have been relaxed, but the participation of officials' families
Doing business was still criticized, and Xia Xun knew that it could easily lead to corruption, but now he had to mobilize all his forces to turn their inertia into enthusiasm, and he had to let them get some benefits.
Some people are greedy, but it is better than everyone having nothing, and their pockets are cleaner than their faces, right? Everything has advantages and disadvantages. With the prosperity of the economy, some bad phenomena will inevitably breed. These can be gradually solved by improving the legal system. , instead of giving up food because of choking, in order to prevent corruption, it would be better for everyone to be completely poor and unable to afford greed.
But some of these ideas cannot be put on the table. When he submitted a letter last time, he only tactfully explained the necessity of the participation of both the government and the people. Now with the emperor's words, he has finally settled down.
Xia Xun nodded and said: "Your Majesty is wise, but the supervision and law enforcement matters are easy to handle inside the customs, but it is difficult to do it outside the customs. There is no administrative and judicial office here, only six departments affiliated to the Department of Arms and Arms, each with only Just three or two kittens, even if they sprout arms and legs, what can they do? Besides, they are already affiliated with the army, can they supervise the violations of law and discipline by the generals in the army?"
Huang Zhen said with a smile: "My lord, please stop complaining. The emperor said that re-establishing the Yamen is a big deal. If it is abolished and re-established, the establishment is not stable, and it is abolished again in the future, then the prestige of the imperial court will be lost." There is nothing left. But what the Duke said is true, and the Emperor also hopes that Liaodong can re-establish government officials and officials to pastor the place, so the Emperor has another decree here, which is to ask the Duke to establish the Liaodong shogunate."
As Huang Zhen spoke, he took out a scroll of yellow silk from his sleeve, held it solemnly in his hand, and handed it to Xia Xun.
Xia Xun took it, feeling confused: "Shogunate? Isn't that a thing created by the Japanese? Does China also have a shogunate?"
He didn't know that the shogunate existed in ancient China. It was recorded in the Han Dynasty, and the name of this system in the Han Dynasty was the shogunate. Later, the name was changed, but the system was still the same. The feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty were part of the shogunate. As an extreme representative, the basic characteristics of the shogunate are four: first, appoint officials at their own convenience. Second, financial autonomy. Third, autonomy in rewards and punishments for military merit. Fourth, military decision-making and command authority.
The most important of these is to set up official offices and officials according to needs. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the power of the shogunate has sometimes been greater and sometimes less. Some of the last three powers have been returned to the court from time to time, but the first one is What must be retained is that only when this system exists can it be called a shogunate.
The shogunate system was basically abolished during the Song Dynasty. All the power to appoint and remove officials was transferred to the court. It was said to be basically abolished because some special areas still had shogunates. For example, the Zhejia who guarded the border in the early Song Dynasty appointed and dismissed officials on their own. And by the Northern Song Dynasty, the shogunate system was basically abolished. In the middle and late period and even in the Southern Song Dynasty, this system was not completely eliminated.
During the Jianyan period, due to the war between the Song and Liao Dynasties, the imperial court issued an edict: "Envoys to Hebei to appease, and Hedong to control and pacify were all allowed to have generals, assistants, and subordinates. Generals serving in the Five Armies and Imperial Camps were also appointed to have envoys, both large and small." When the county was in ruins, the officials were dismissed, and the various departments were tempted to fill the gaps. They all accepted their posts first and then paid their bills. So the governors and generals of the prefectures and counties all changed their official affiliations in the name of military prosperity."
Not to mention after crossing to the south, which army in this army or that army did not have the right to appoint generals? At most, they would report it afterwards. In the original history, the Ming Dynasty also had a shogunate. Hu Zongxian, the anti-Japanese general, Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, etc. all once recruited private individuals as guests to assist in military and political affairs. However, unlike previous generations, these were temporary missions, with duties but no assignments, and they would be withdrawn as soon as the matter was over.
Zhu Di didn't want to hastily reopen an official office in Liaodong, lest it lose its foothold and be abolished again, which would make the world laugh. However, facing the situation reported by Xia Xun, he also knew that this was an excellent opportunity to re-establish an official office in Liaodong, so he thought of it.
After this compromise strategy, the Liaodong shogunate was established and further delegated power to Xia Xun. If the shogunate's official office cannot stand, it is only the personal behavior of the governor of Liaodong. If it holds firm, the imperial court will issue an edict, and the shogunate's official offices and officials will be transformed.
It became the government office of the imperial court.
"My brother-in-law is quite smart. Such a cautious strategy can not only solve the urgent problems in Liaodong, but if it fails, there will be no trouble for the court..."
Xia Xun smacked his lips while holding the imperial edict, and suddenly remembered the classic line from the movie "Mission: Impossible": "If..., the government will not admit that it is involved in this matter. This recording will be destroyed in five seconds.
Good luck……"
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