Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 312
So Zhu Cihong demoted the two big families from top to bottom as common people, and immigrated their direct descendants and offshoots to Liaodong and the Western Regions.

The fate of these two offshoots is not bad. After going to Liaodong and the Western Regions, they can still be a commoner at least. Since these two places are rich in resources, as long as they are willing to work, it is not a problem to get enough food and clothing.

As for the direct descendants of the two families, the males were sent to the army and sent to the frontier guards to serve as slave labor for military households, and the females were sent to the Jiaofang Secretary to contribute to Daming's entertainment career.

All of a sudden, Liaodong and the Western Regions had the population of a small county out of thin air, and the Jiaofang Division of the Ming court had many more beauties from foreign countries.

Now that Jiaozhi has been pacified, the Li Dynasty, a small local court that established itself as emperor, was abolished, and its monarch was taken captive to the capital as a prince. Next, it is time to establish an official government in Jiaozhi and extend the Ming regime here.

However, as the saying goes, it is easy to conquer a country but difficult to sit on it. Although an army of [-] people defeated the Zheng and Ruan families and their Dutch and Portuguese helpers in more than a month.

However, it is not an easy task to rule the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, and the large number of Han people, Dai people, etc. who do not speak Chinese in this land.

First of all, because of the language barrier, and ordinary people in the feudal era were basically illiterate, no matter how many officials Zhu Cihong sent out, he could not effectively rule here, because officials had to use translators to handle local government affairs and involve local affairs.

It would be okay if Ming Dynasty had enough translation talents, but the terrible thing is that in this era, there are very few people who can speak more than two languages, even fewer than giant pandas, and there is no place to cultivate translation talents.

A clever woman can't cook without rice. Zhu Cihong didn't have officials suitable to rule this land, so he had to set his sights on local scholars and intellectuals in Jiaozhi.

Fortunately, the Li Dynasty of Cochin was established after the Ming Dynasty. In terms of attaching importance to scholars and Confucian culture, it was almost the same as the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, there are a large number of intellectuals in Jiaozhi who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and who know and write Chinese characters.

So Zhu Cilang decided to open an Enke in Jiaozhi to admit scholars, but it was different from the Enke opened in Liaodong before.

After all, the system in Jiaozhi is somewhat different from that in China, and Zhu Cixiang is not sure about the quality of their scholars.

If they were given Enke casually, let them take the exam and become Enke Scholars of Ming Dynasty, then the Enke Scholars would be too worthless.

Originally, Enke was not recognized by the world because of the emperor's many subjective factors. Now that Zhu Cihong has held a large number of meetings, if it is not stricter, I am afraid that Enke Jinshi will become worthless in the end.

So in the end Zhu Cihong decided to open an Enko in Cochin. First, he opened an exam in the provinces of Cochin, and ordered the local intellectuals to sign up to take the exam in each province.

That's right, Jiaozhi claims to be a small China, and imitates the Central Plains court everywhere, even the local system. Although they are only as big as Ming Dynasty, they still have many provinces. In fact, a province of Jiaozhi is only as big as a mansion of Ming Dynasty .

Then, dozens of candidates from each province were selected to go to the capital thousands of miles away to conduct a general examination in the capital's tribute courtyard. Just like the scholars of Ming Dynasty, as long as those who participated in the general examination did not make any excessive mistakes, they would not be rejected. go down.

Afterwards, the palace examination was conducted, still the same as in the Ming Dynasty, and about 300 people were selected to become Jinshi and Tongjinshi.

This time the Enke was called Yiyou Cochin Branch, while the last Enke held for local intellectuals in Liaodong was called Jiashen Liaodong Branch.

And all the Cochin scholars admitted this time will be thrown by Zhu Cihong to Cochin as officials.

Because they were admitted as Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty and became part of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, they would not betray and had no reason to betray Zhu Cixiang, so Zhu Cixiang felt comfortable using them.

Except for the official principle of avoiding their origin, that is, not being allowed to return to their hometown to be an official, there are almost no restrictions on them.

They can do everything from the chief envoy to the yamen to the county magistrate.

The matter of Enke is settled. Now that there are officials and talents, it is time for Zhu Cihong to start formulating the local government administrative system of Jiaozhi.

Fortunately, other places in Ming Dynasty gave Zhu Cihong a template, so Zhu Cihong made it very easily.

First of all, the Jiaozhi Kingdom was changed to the Cochin Province, and Hanoi in the Thang Long area, the capital of the Li Dynasty, was designated as the Cochin Province.

In view of the important position of Da Nang in Cochin, Zhu Cihong specially set up the Da Nang City Shipping Department, and dispatched some officials and eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to manage commercial activities in the south of Cochin on behalf of the imperial court, providing Ming with a steady stream of wealth and income.

Politically and economically, Zhu Cihong imitated the political system of Ming Dynasty and established these official offices and institutions.

In terms of military affairs, Zhu Cihong ingeniously moved some overpopulated military households in the interior guards to Jiaozhi, and established ten guards all over the north and south of Jiaozhi with about [-] inland military households.

There are 6000 to 5 registered soldiers in a guard, not including other logistics personnel, family members, craftsmen, etc., the [-] that Zhu Cihong moved are naturally far from enough.

Fortunately, Zhu Cixiang did not expect these guards to help him defend the territory and defeat invading enemies. As long as they could help him rule the local Jiaozhi people and suppress some civil unrest and riots, it would be enough.

In addition, Zhu Cihong transferred nearly 10 prisoners from the Zheng and Ruan families and other warlords and small families involved in the war to Liaodong and the Western Regions, and even set up Chahar left guards on the Chahar grassland. Chahar right guard these two guards.

At this point, the Jiaozhi problem is almost over. As long as there is no large-scale rebellion like that of Li Li during the Xuande period in the next [-] years, Jiaozhi will be assimilated by China in a long time and become a part of China. Just like Liaodong and the Western Regions.

But in fact, there is still one problem that has not been resolved, that is, the Dutch and Portuguese captured in the war. They assisted the Zheng Ruan family in resisting the Great Ming soldiers, and undoubtedly committed unforgivable crimes.

However, because of their status as Westerners and the small number of them, the total number is only 400, and it is not easy for Zhu Cihong to organize them into a guard, but it is too much to kill them all, after all, they are just It's all about fighting for the Zheng and Ruan families because of money.

If Zhu Cihong didn't care about innocence and killed people completely, what difference would it make from killing those beasts?

(End of this chapter)