Just when Gao Pragmatic was increasingly worried about Huang Zhiting's production safety, the news from Dingnan made him particularly nervous.
On this day of the world, as soon as he returned to the No. 1 Scholar in Jinggongfang, Zhaohui, a servant told him that Dingnan was reporting urgently, which made him nervous and hurried into the study.
Looking at the well-painted special envelope on the desk, Gao Pragmatic took a deep breath and carefully opened it to take a look...
Um?
Isn't it about giving birth?
Gao Pragmatic seemed to be both discouraged and relieved. He sat down on the Grand Master's chair, slumped back in an imageless manner, put his hand on his forehead, and whispered in a low voice: "Why are you sending a government report at this time?
I’m scared to death.”
But having said that, the government affairs report also needs to be read. After calming down, he sat up straight and opened the report to read.
I was stunned at this sight.
Led by Huang Zhiting himself, a letter like a memorial signed by a large number of important people in southern Xinjiang was placed in front of him. The main idea was very simple, that is, they believed that the Kingdom of Cambodia should not be retained.
This is very strange. Why do you care about this? Isn’t this obviously contrary to my previous idea of eluding the royal family and governing secretly?
Gao Pragmatic suddenly frowned.
The reason why his previous plans were always to eclipse the royal family without deposing it was because of the maintenance of local stability. After all, these royal families are representatives of the local people. If they rule in name, the locals at the bottom will not be too overbearing.
Resistance, which can reduce the cost of governance to a great extent.
This idea was learned from the Western colonists in the original history, but Gao Pragmatic did not intend to continue learning it, because he still had his own plan for the second half.
According to his plan, this "indirect rule" has a time limit. The conditions for determining this time limit are very simple. It does not mean how many years Jinghua has actually occupied a certain country or place, but an exact data - population ratio.
Gao's pragmatic idea is that when the Han people (actually including children, etc. In the Jinghua area, these ethnic minorities in the Ming Dynasty are collectively classified as Han people) and "naturalized Han people" account for more than half of the kingdom's population, it will be
Start preparing to depose the royal family - of course, generally speaking, the seemingly milder method of "abdication" will be considered.
However, in Gao Pragmatic's calculations, this time should arrive relatively late, because even Annan, who has the highest degree of Chineseness, believes that it will take at least twenty years to achieve this condition.
After all, in Annan's territory alone, there are more than five million native Annan people, and Beijing's means of increasing the proportion of "Han people" are limited after all, mainly through immigration and naturalized Han people.
Another important point is that starting from the time he captured Annan, more than twenty years were enough to "cultivate" a generation of people who grew up in Beijing's "full-scale cultural invasion" environment.
For older people, their identification with the Han people and Beijing will be far greater than that of their parents and ancestors.
When this generation becomes the mainstream of society, especially when it becomes a stable "resource pool" for Jinghua, Jinghua will be completely unafraid of possible resistance from the locals. By then, it will be a matter of course to replace the royal family, which has already gradually retreated behind the scenes.
, things will fall into place.
Gao's pragmatic style is the same as always. He is not Yang Guang. He will not think about building a grand canal in three to five years, and then shake his own foundation and collapse the wall.
Just like when he directs battles, he generally does not consider any surprise troops, but prefers to fight steadily. What is unacceptable about spending twenty years to expand a stable territory the size of a kingdom for his nation?
What's more, the "assimilation" work of these kingdoms is not completed one and then moved on to the next. The time difference between them is not big. When the plan is finally completed, it may also be "one after another".
If immigration is combined with the "naturalized household registration system", within a few decades, the local people will definitely become a minority, and may even disappear directly - most of them have already been "naturalized" as Han Chinese.
Moreover, this kind of naturalization is also a means of survival of the fittest. Excellent people are naturalized as Han Chinese, and the rest...it is normal for them to perish.
A normal demise is better than genocide. At least Gao Pragmatic can have a clear conscience: It’s not that I didn’t give you a chance, it’s not that I didn’t give you a choice, but you just refuse to make progress or work hard. What can I do?
I can't do blood transfusions or brain transfusions for you either.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest!
In addition to the above reasons, Gao Pragmatic has not considered another reason for deposing the local royal family, which is more "realistic".
avoid arousing suspicion.
After all, he is still a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the other party is still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. He is pragmatic and deposes the king of the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty as a minister of the Ming Dynasty. This is not justified in legal terms!
Of course, the Ming Dynasty may not be as particular about this type of legal principles as European countries, but the Ming Dynasty has another kind of emphasis: the king, the king, and the minister.
You, Gao Gongbao, deposed the king of a certain country in southern Xinjiang. Now you want me, the Ming Dynasty, to make you the king? Then do you plan to be the king, or continue to be a minister in my Ming Dynasty?
When ruling indirectly, Gao pragmatism can completely avoid this problem, because no matter how strong the Jinghua Group is, it is only a "national policy advisory group", but once indirect becomes direct, this issue can only be put on the table for discussion.
What's more, there is not only one country in southern Xinjiang. Which country do you plan to be the king of?
Oh, you still want to be the king of the entire southern Xinjiang? Do you think that the Ming Dynasty is a fool?
If southern Xinjiang is unified, then there will be at least more than 20 million people (actually more than that). I think Annan made Ming Dynasty work so hard back then. If you unify southern Xinjiang in a pragmatic way, I, Ming Dynasty, can still sleep peacefully?
Yes, the relationship between Zhu Yijun and Gao Pragmatic is very unique and unusual. When he was in power, there might be a certain chance that Gao Pragmatic would not regard the unification of southern Xinjiang as a border threat, but what if Zhu Yijun is no longer there?
National affairs are no trivial matter. The emperor may think that Gao is pragmatic and reliable, but officials may not think so. Especially Gao is pragmatic and has a lot of political opponents. And after the emperor who had a unique friendship with him is gone, he may be their junior.
During his time in power, the Ming Dynasty and the unified southern Xinjiang may also become "unavoidable to fight".
Why?
Because there are still many things that Gao Pragmatic has not accomplished, especially the change of national will, this is very important. Under the current national will, Ming can only recognize that the surrounding countries are its vassals, and will never recognize that there is a neighboring country that can
threaten its existence.
Moreover, the power of Ming Dynasty to "go to the ocean" is all following Gao Pragmatism. Once Gao Pragmatism leaves on his own, will this power in turn be nipped in the bud by traditional forces, causing Ming Dynasty to continue to ignore the ocean and only focus on land?
Probably.
What about Southern Xinjiang at that time? It might move towards the ocean, but it also could not ignore the land, because Southern Xinjiang was actually in the middle of two land-based empires - the Ming Dynasty and the Mughal Empire.
If you only focus on sea power, if the Ming Dynasty suddenly wants to attack you, or if the Mughal Empire at its peak wants to attack you, will you resist or not?
Resistance is likely to be defeated, because under this premise, it will be difficult for Gao Pragmatism to complete the sinicization of southern Xinjiang. How can there be any hope of victory with these local people?
But if he doesn't resist, Hai Quan's hope will "collapse in the middle." Then if he is pragmatic and has worked hard for more than ten years or even decades, wouldn't it be a dream in the end?
Therefore, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have to continue to work. If the Ming Dynasty is not sorted out internally, many things will not be able to continue to be carried out at all. It will not only be "clarified", but also the adjustment of the national system in the end.
Even if there is no need to say those things for the time being, at least for now, Gao Pragmatic does not think that he should "expose" his "ambition". The peaceful evolution of southern Xinjiang should be carried out slowly and persistently.
However, after Gao Jingshi took a closer look, he realized that Huang Zhiting and the others were not going to "persuade" now, because the way they proposed to deal with the Kingdom of Cambodia was not to depose the royal family and then let Gao Jingshi come to power, but to carve it up.
Huang Zhiting suggested that the Kingdom of Cambodia should be divided into three kingdoms: Siam would divide the entire western part, including Phnom Penh, Annan would divide the southeast part, and Nanzhang could also obtain the northeastern part of Cambodia.
Gao pragmatically continued to read with an expressionless face, and as expected Huang Zhiting gave the reason for doing so.
To summarize what she means, there are probably the following points: First of all, the Kingdom of Cambodia is very weak. It was so weak that Siam had already been beaten by Myanmar. It only took the soldiers of Angkor to frighten them. It can be seen that they
With a population of nearly three million, there is actually no fighting capacity at all - in other words, there won't be much resistance to carving them up.
Secondly, the Kingdom of Cambodia is in an important position. It can be directly connected to Annan by land. Huang Zhiting particularly emphasized this point, because Annan is actually the foundation of Beijing in Indochina. If we want to build the future "Dingnan Core", we cannot just
To connect by sea, Dingnan, Jingang and even Thang Long must be connected by land.
Under this requirement, if Cambodia always maintains the status of a kingdom, there will be an additional yoke on administration. "Cross-border" is definitely more troublesome than "cross-provincial border", and this needs no explanation.
This point made Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but think about it for a long time before he continued reading.
The third reason put forward by Huang Zhiting was the consideration of merit. She believed that with the rapid expansion of Jinghua after the Yunnan-Burma War, the original reward was actually no longer enough to "reward merit".
This view needs to be subdivided. She believes that there are three main types of people. The first type is the surrender of the local kingdom, such as Alabang (Xia Muming) last time and Musali this time.
Xia Muming was very lucky. Since Beijing had no plan to really take over Burma at that time, and the restoration of the Bago Kingdom in southern Burma was just a temporary move, he chose the king of the Bago Kingdom for no reason.
Of course that is enough.
But Musali's reward is more troublesome, because his contribution this time is so great that he may be second only to Liu Xin who forced the surrender of Cambodia. So if the Kingdom of Cambodia is retained, how should Musali be rewarded?
Should he be allowed to become prime minister? If he becomes prime minister, Jinghua's control over Cambodia will definitely be limited.
But if the Kingdom of Cambodia itself ceases to exist, then Musali can only "transfer", and we can discuss where to transfer him. In short, there is no Kingdom of Cambodia for him to stay. In this case, even if he is transferred to Annan to become a bachelor (
Annan's internal system is imitated by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty does not ask), Musali cannot cause trouble, and it is hard for him to say that Jinghua does not reuse it - to transfer you to the place where I started in southern Xinjiang to be the chief minister, this is still
Not reusable enough?
Of course, this is a temporary measure, just like Ruan Huang was arranged at the beginning. After he and Ruan Huang show their loyalty, it is not impossible to really entrust him with important tasks.
The second type of people are servants, including the garrison system and the national policy advisory system. The former is the military and the latter is "civilian officials." But no matter which category, at present, they are rewarded according to Beijing's old rules. Most of them are
In this case, even if the merit is great, it is nothing more than a reward of some land or commercial land, which is also a promotion for him personally.
The problem now is that such rewards may gradually become less attractive, and the root of the problem lies in the word "servant".
What does a servant mean? Especially for the servants in the garrison who have changed their surname to Gao, it means that no matter how many properties he has under his name, in fact, because even he himself is Gao's pragmatic "private property", these
In the final analysis, the industry is still highly pragmatic. If Gao Pragmatic is willing, he can take it back with just one sentence, and it is reasonable and legal.
In other words, no matter how many rewards Gao pragmatism gave them, they actually only gave them a "right to use", not "ownership" at all - and they couldn't, because they were even Gao pragmatism.
Huang Zhiting's suggestion is that even if their slave contracts cannot be abolished for the time being out of loyalty considerations, they should at least find a way to increase the rewards. It is best to bypass the slave contract issue and give "property rights". If not, then the rewards should be increased.
Quantity - This quantity has to be exported from the Kingdom of Cambodia, because it has been distributed elsewhere, and it would be troublesome to redistribute it.
The third type of people are the Guangxi chieftains headed by the Cen and Huang families. Because Huang Zhiting is already married to Gao Pragmatic, according to the custom at this time, she views this issue completely from Gao Pragmatic's standpoint. She thinks that moving the town to
Annan's Guangxi toast now has two hidden worries.
The first is that the fiefdoms are too concentrated. You can see this by looking at the map. Since there was only Annan at that time, and Jinghua had all the southern part of Annan included in its bowl, this resulted in all Guangxi Tusi being sealed in the northern part of Annan. Now Jinghua
The ruling area of has covered almost the entire Indochina Peninsula. There are many places where the loyal and combat-effective force of Tusi Wolf Soldiers is needed. It is very unreasonable to limit them to such a small area.
At the same time, there is a hidden danger in the concentration of fiefdoms: if some of them form a conspiracy, the threat to Beijing will be greater. Huang Zhiting even hinted at her troubled brother Huang Yinglei here.
In fact, she was also considering this for Huang Yinglei - once Gao Pragmatic accepted this suggestion and separated the Guangxi chieftain fiefs who moved to the town with him, he would not be able to connect them together, and in fact he would be safe.
In addition to the concentration of fiefdoms, there is also the factor of adding sand, or balancing the population ratio. Currently, Annan has the highest proportion of "Chinese people", and since the only force that Guangxi chieftains can rely on is the highly pragmatic Jinghua
, and they have the strongest fighting capacity (in terms of civil structure), so dividing them into various places can not only increase the proportion of "Han people", but also ensure that they will not be bullied by the local natives, thus laying a good survival for the newly immigrated Han people.
environment.
These views are well-founded and are by no means made on a whim. It can be seen that Huang Zhiting has considered it carefully, otherwise even if she was his wife, there would not be so many people willing to sign and second their opinions.
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but fell into deep thought after reading it.
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