Daming Military Empire

Chapter 354 Layout Southeast
The situation in the entire southeast peninsula has been settled after the forced landing of Donghu. As for how to recover other places in Donghu, it is very simple. It is enough to force King Talong to issue an edict ordering all state capitals to surrender. The Donghu Dynasty has a total of [-] regular troops. They are concentrated in Dacheng and Toungoo. Now that these two main forces have been taken over by Daming, there are less than [-] people left, and it will not take too much trouble to recover them.

Donghu now has a total of [-] state capitals. To be on the safe side, Zhu Cijiong sent [-] cavalry to each state capital to take over the place with his edict from King Long. I'm tired of writing, and my heart is broken. It's over, it's over, the mighty Donghu Dynasty is over!

Naturally, Zhu Cijiong would not allow such a vassal state that was big enough to threaten Daming to exist. Of course, he would not kill all the royal family of the Donghu Dynasty. They all surrendered. It would be immoral to kill them again. Daming is a state of etiquette , this point of morality still needs to be talked about.

His method was very simple. He directly divided the territory of the Donghu Dynasty into three parts. Donghu was reduced to a second-class vassal state, and King Talong was also named King of Burma. Under the direct control of Daming, Zhu Cijiong didn't want to set up a Xuanwei Department anymore. He decided to directly use the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department to manage it, and divide the remaining territory of Donghu into two provinces.

One province follows the name of Jiaozhi Chengxuan Zhengshi in the early Ming Dynasty, and governs the original Laos Xuanweisi, Eight Hundred Dadian Xuanweisi and all areas of the original Chenla Kingdom, and one province follows the Han Dynasty’s Rinan The name was designated as Ri Nancheng Announcement Political Envoy Division, which had jurisdiction over the original Mubang Xuanwei Division and Mengyang Xuanwei Division.

Naturally, the establishment of a province is not simply a matter of drawing a line on the map, administrative management and local security must be arranged.

The most important of these is the local guards. Many places in Nanyang are still uncivilized lands. Coupled with the constant competition of various forces, the folk customs are quite tough. If you do not arrange enough guards to firmly control them, I am afraid that the government will It simply won't work.

In the Ming Dynasty, the local defense forces were mainly garrison guards, and they guarded the local security while garrisoning the fields. This not only saved food and grass, but also maintained sufficient reserve forces. It was a very good way to garrison troops.It’s just that in the late Ming Dynasty, the government was corrupted, most of the garrisons survived, and more than half of the troops stationed in the garrisons fled. Most of the so-called garrison fields were swallowed up by the royal family and local tyrants. That’s why the Ming Dynasty seemed so weak.

However, it is different now. After more than ten years of rectification, the number of troops stationed in guards in various places has basically been completed. There were more than 500 inner and outer guards in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, and now more than 400 have been restored. After recovery, the remaining outer guards have no choice, because most of the outer guards are located in places like the southeast peninsula, the entire territory is occupied by people, and the guards are naturally annihilated.

The Weisuo has almost recovered, but the scale of the farmland cannot be restored to the size it was in the early Ming Dynasty, and the scale of the farmland varies greatly from place to place. After several wars in Liaodong and Northwest, the population has dropped sharply. In the past, the population in the southeast and southwest has exploded, and the land in Tunwei has been severely reduced after various embezzlements. This is something that Zhu Cijiong could not solve before. They are ordinary people, we can't drive them away, let them starve to death.

It's all right now. The southeast peninsula is also full of wars, the population has dropped sharply, and there are many vacant lands. It's just right to transfer the guards here, which not only expands the area of ​​the farmland but also ensures local security. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

After discussing with Sun Yuanhua, Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhu Cijiong directly ordered ten guards from Nanzhili, Fujian, and Huguang to distribute a total of [-] guards of thousands of households to various places in Jiaozhi and Nichinan.

In addition, the Xuanwei Division, Xuanfu Division, Appease Division and Changju Division in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places were all changed into Weisuo and Qianhusuo. Chieftains who want to enter politics can be magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates. As long as they are honest, their positions can be hereditary If you want to continue to keep the army, you should all move to Nichinan and Jiaozhi to serve as guards. Those who don't obey the imperial court's orders will be dragged out and chopped down!
Now those chieftains are all staying in the Menggen Mansion. Zhu Cijiong secretly ordered Wang Zhengnan to monitor them all. It is more than enough for more than 100 chieftains to be monitored by Wan Jinyiwei spies. Of course, they each have their own men, but their three-legged cat kung fu How can they compare to the masters of Jin Yiwei with pistols, so they are all very honest now, for fear that they will be dealt with by Jin Yiwei if they are not careful.
As soon as Zhu Cijiong's decree was spread to Meng Gen's mansion, these chieftains naturally talked about it, but none of them dared to sing a different tune. There were Jinyiwei everywhere around, and many of them were still dressed in casual clothes among these people. Who dared to sing a different tune? As soon as he opened his mouth, his head flew away!

In the end, most of these chieftains chose Tunwei. After all, when Tunwei was still the emperor on his one-acre three-point land, Zhu Cijiong had already made arrangements for this. They were all scattered to various places in the southeast. The three regular guards of the Ming Dynasty, it would be difficult for them to turn the world upside down.

This newly recovered place is naturally not something that can be suppressed by the Tunwei alone. Zhu Cijiong also left five regular legions. He ordered the Guanning Army to stay in Donghu, stationed in Toungoo, to monitor the King of Burma, and the Dongjiang Army to stay in Siam. Stationed in Ayutthaya to monitor the King of Siam, the Second Army of the Frontier Guard stayed in Annan, stationed in Thang Long City, monitored the King of Annan, Dingliao Army and Wuwei Army escorted the prisoners to continue to build the railway in the southeast peninsula, lay the telegraph network, etc. After everything is done, they will be stationed directly in Jiaozhi and Nichinan to ensure the safety of the place.

Regarding the arrangement of the local officials in the two provinces, Zhu Cijiong didn't bother to think too much. He directly issued an imperial decree to be sent to the capital, asking the Ministry of Officials to quickly transfer officials at all levels to take up posts in the two provinces of Jiaozhi and Nichinan.

After nearly half a month of busy work, the southeast layout has finally been completed. Now there is only one first-class vassal state Siam in the southeast, and Donghu, Annan, and Champa are all second-class vassal states. The legion, an Annan legion, Zhu Cijiong directly transferred You Shilu, Wang Xueshu, Wang Shiqin and other veterans who were loyal to the emperor and patriotic as the head of the legion, so as to ensure that these legions could listen to Ming's command.

In addition, there are two provinces of Jiaozhi and Nichinan. The deployment of local officials and the mobilization of the guards in these two provinces will take time. These free officials and the Ministry of War will take care of them. Zhu Cijiong only needs to set the framework.

At this point, the matter in the southeast peninsula has come to an end, and it is time for wrangling. Zhu Cijiong knows that the anti-Habsburg alliance powers will never stop there, and a war of words cannot be avoided.

(End of this chapter)