Chapter 1514 Conservative
Hanjing.
I don’t know who cuts out the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors. By the banks of the Imperial River, the willow trees have already hang down green ribbons, and the fields in the distance are also green.
The spring of the three years of revival is a cold spring.
But for the people of Dahua, this spring is very hot.
The Crown Prince of Dahua did not return to Beijing during the Spring Festival this year, but he presented a very special precious gift to the court. The Crown Prince Zhang Jing launched a spring offensive against Japan during the Spring Festival, and originally planned to slaughter Japan in March. As a result, in just one month, even the two roads of Shanyin and Shannan in Japan were pacified. The Fusang Bureau of the Jinyiwei was even more powerful. The Fusang branch of their military intelligence department actually set up a fifth column of tens of thousands of people in Namba.
Before the Crown Prince's militia had already attacked, the Fifth Column of the Jinyiwei had already taken down all the Japanese, and the Jinyiwei's operation team directly beheaded the Queen of Japan.
Deputy Navy Commander Liu Rengui then landed in Namba and planted the Dahua military flag in the Japanese palace.
The empress was beheaded and the country was defeated. The remaining dozens of guardians of the country had no intention of fighting, and they all submitted to surrender almost overnight.
Overnight, Japan pacified.
It was only halfway through the plan to pacify Japan in March by Crown Prince Zhang Jing. It was only three months after Liu Rengui defeated the Japanese army and counterattacked and landed in Tangjin.
The Great China Eastern Expedition was successfully completed after pacifying Japan.
Silla, Baekje, and Japan were destroyed, and Dahua expanded thousands of miles of land and added more than 10 million new population.
The total population of the Great Hua Empire also officially exceeded 100 million.
The Minister of Revenue reported to the cabinet excitedly, and the cabinet was also full of joy. An important goal in the cabinet's first five-year plan was to have a population of over 100 million. Now is the beginning of the three years of revival. Before half of the first five years had passed, they achieved the important goal of over 100 million in population.
This spring is not just one good news.
In the just-concluded Dahua Revival Three Years of Imperial Examination Competition, the imperial court admitted 1,800 Jinshi at one time, which is unprecedented. In the past, 500 Jinshi were admitted every year, only 1,000 special subjects in the Revival Three Years of Imperial Examination, but this year, 1,800 Jinshi were admitted at one time.
It was a joy to be full of joy.
This has greatly increased the chances of choosing among the nobles who are under the list of sons-in-law.
Another good news is the surrender of Mobei.
Mobei was included in the Great Hua Empire and became a feudal state. The nobles' House of Representatives had passed a resolution to enfeoff 800 princes in Mobei at one time.
Although the private feud between the Uighur Khan and the Chief of the Khikas occurred in the middle, resulting in the murder of Tu Midu and his son, this was just a small episode.
No one cared about this mystery, although he was once the Uighur Khan, and once owned half of the land in the north of the desert, and had 200,000 string control men under his command.
But everyone quickly forgot about him.
The Uighurs quickly chose a new Khan, the chief of another powerful tribe of the Uighurs. He happily accepted the title of Emperor Dahua and became the Duke of the Uighurs.
As for the Yaoge Luo family, they were immediately torn to pieces by other Uighur tribes and divided up.
"Your Majesty, the nobles' House has passed the resolution to divide the 800 princes. The cabinet has also prepared the enthronement ceremony for the princes in the north of Mo."
Cabinet Prime Minister Ma Zhou and noble president Wei Zheng reported to the emperor during the morning court.
The matter of the feudal division in Mobei is of great significance to the court. Although Mobei is a place that many people look down on, including Mobei, Monan Yanbei, Western Regions and even Qinghai-Tibet, for the Dahua court, Mobei is the same as Tubo.
Although this place is very ordinary and will not increase much income if it is occupied, if it is not included in Dahua, then this place will be a source of plague and chaos.
If they are not controlled, and the nature of nomadic peoples will sooner or later pose a threat to the Central Plains, even if they are just harassing the border, this is annoying.
Now that the seal agreement has finally been reached, this is of course good. Even Dahua actually reserved some of the seal in this seal. After all, he gave Tiel tribes more than 500 titles and fiefs, but overall, Dahua also enfeoffed more than 200 princes at once.
Moreover, after this ban, Mobei completely entered Dahua's control.
After the fiefs were divided one by one, it was no longer allowed to cross the boundaries easily. The Khans and chiefs of each tribe were actually undermined, and the fiefs were not subordinate to each other. The nine tribes in the northern monastery turned into more than 500 feudal states, making it a mess of sand, making it difficult to pose a threat to Dahua again.
Zhang Chao and the court attached great importance to this feudal ceremony.
We must handle the matter very much. We must enthrone the eight hundred princes in the north of the desert at one time and hold a grand ceremony.
After this ceremony, Mobei is no longer a threat.
"Tomorrow, the Tianmen will be granted the title of princes and all officials will observe the ceremony!"
It just so happened that the tribute envoys from all over the country and the princes from all over the country had not yet begun to return to Beijing, and they just watched the ceremony together to witness this moment.
The Great Hua Empire added eight hundred princes, which was even stronger.
Today, Dahua is in the south of the desert, the north of the desert, the north of Liao, the Xindu is in the river, the Daxia is in the west sea, the north of the mountains, and has eight divisions of princes.
Each leader ranges from five hundred to more than one thousand, and has a total of more than seven thousand real princes. The small barons only have ten miles of land, while the big kings have five or six hundred miles of land.
So many princes of all sizes were spread across the borders of Dahua, with fiefs intertwined and restrained each other, forming a huge group of feudal aristocratic groups.
And the Dahua court has also been expanding over the years.
The territories directly under the imperial court expanded a lot, including western Liaoning, Liaodong, Korea, Lelang, Daifang, Fusang, Luzon, Linyi, Funan, Annan, Vietnam, Western Regions, Qinghai, Yanbei, Raole, Songmo, Lingdong, Suiyuan, and many overseas territories directly controlled by the imperial court.
"After the pacification of the northern desert, Dahua's north can rest assured. After pacifying the East China Sea, Dahua's east will be free of trouble. Now Dahua has completely freed up its hands from the north and the east, and can start with the south and the west with all its strength."
After the morning court is over.
Zhang Chao held a meeting of imperial fronts, and Dahua's most core officials participated.
The north and east sides were pacified, which exceeded the previous scheduled time. Now the court should also adjust its strategic layout appropriately.
Although there are many tribes of all sizes, such as Shiwei, Mohe, Liugui, Yasha, etc., in the north, these distant northern tribes have nominally surrendered to Dahua and become the vassal states of Dahua. Before Dahua stabilized Mobei and Liaobei, Dahua no longer needed to march further to the north.
The fight against Wei and the Martyr are not enough for military expenditure.
Since they surrendered, it would save this issue.
There are no rivals in the east. To the east, there are America, but it is not considered a place that is thousands of miles away.
"In the next stage of the empire, I think we should focus on using troops to the Indochina Peninsula and develop the South Ocean. As for the west, we are now neutral. As long as the Romans and Arabs can abide by the agreement with us, we can continue to trade with them. Selling arms can make a fortune, and there is no need to go to the muddy waters."
Prime Minister Ma Zhou's foreign strategy was not conservative. He supported the imperial court's external expansion. However, his expansion strategy was relatively stable. He always advocated that the imperial court should use troops to the surrounding areas, strengthen conquest and development, and turn it into Xia.
As for the far away West, even if it is rich and large, distance is the biggest difficulty. So as long as trade can be maintained, as long as the two empires, Rome and Arab, are willing to always recognize the boundary agreement agreed with Dahua and do not take the initiative to invade, Dahua will continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
On the contrary, it is in the south of Dahua, which should be the direction of Dahua's full-scale operation.
The places like Qianzhong, Jiannan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Guangxi, and Annan still need to be strengthened, especially many barbarian tribes are not convinced by the king's transformation. Dahua must strengthen the promotion of land reform and return to the land, and incorporate these places into true rule, so that those indigenous people can no longer be free and free.
And the Indochina Peninsula further south, such as the water and land real la, the Piao Kingdom, etc., will they still keep it for their children and grandchildren to do it?
Taking advantage of the fact that there is no truly powerful force on the peninsula, the Indochina Peninsula was flattened and the land was completely part of the Central Plains Empire. From then on, the north and the permafrost and the south to the sea were all the land of the empire.
In this way, the court's control over the fertile land of trust can also be greatly strengthened.
Ma Zhou's idea was actually the original system of the Central Plains, which was a reflection of centralization. The court could enfeoff the princes, but this did not affect the centralization and did not make the court stronger.
Incorporating the Indochina Peninsula into the direct jurisdiction of the Dahua court is a reflection of centralization.
Fang Xuanling was somewhat reserved about this.
In his opinion, there is actually nothing rare in the Indochina Peninsula.
What else is there besides mountains and steep mountains and jungles? Are leeches and malaria?
The Shuilu Zhenla and the Piao Kingdom, the Wolf-Take Cultivation and other things are far less valuable than Baekje Silla and the Japanese Kingdom. If he thought, those places would be directly enfeoffed. Let the princes conquer and explore, and the court would save worries and effort.
The court's jurisdiction has limited capacity, and it is enough to transform the land into the territory of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan and truly incorporate it into the rule.
Of course, the emperor insisted on putting the Indochina Peninsula in the conquest plan, and after the conquest in the future, it would be directly under the jurisdiction of the court, and Fang Xuanling did not object.
Speaking of later, Zheng Yuanshu of the Censorate raised a question.
"Now that the Japanese have been pacified, the Eastern Expedition Camp can be withdrawn. Now Fusang has three militia divisions and one regular court army, with its troops exceeding the limit. Will some be reduced and removed?"
The Kingdom of Wa was destroyed and now it was renamed Fusang Road, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but it was designated as the prince's fief. The court sent officials such as Xuanfu envoys, but were controlled by the prince. The prince personally took charge of Fusang and managed the area.
The prince's fief was 15,000 private troops, while his militia was 20,000, which were written into the constitution. But now, Fusang has 20,000 regular troops and 60,000 militia divisions, which is not included in the court's Korean fleet.
"The army's army is temporarily staying in Fusang, and then transfer back when the situation is more stable. As for the three militia divisions in Fusang, the 103rd Division, they will be transferred back to Liaodong and Liaobei in two months. There are two Fusang militia divisions left, 15,000 to be reorganized into the prince's fief guard, and 20,000 to be retained as the prince's fief militia."
"There are five thousand left, and they will be reorganized into a tax police force."
Zhang Chao said after thinking for a while.
The censor Zheng Yuanchun asked in confusion, "Five thousand tax police forces? They are specifically used for tax collection?" This was the first time he heard about the tax police forces.
Chapter completed!