Chapter 823
When he reaches his current position, Zhao Ming's heart is just for money and power, which is too low-level fun.
Of course money and power are essential, but in addition to this, there is also an ideal.
Unifying the world is Zhao Ming's goal, not Zhao Ming's entire political ideal.
At this time, as the status and strength grows, the greater the ability and the greater the responsibility, Zhao Ming has gradually had a vision of how to build the world and what kind of system to unify the world.
In his opinion, the Chinese headquarters must achieve enlightened centralization so that it can become a high-energy country and gain the upper hand in modernization.
Zhao Ming's idea was to establish a powerful and enlightened centralized country within the traditional Chinese territory, while the overseas colonies were expanded around China, and feudalism was carried out, and many vassals were established to protect China.
This is equivalent to centralization and feudal systems being implemented at the same time, but there is still a primary and secondary, and the primary is to realize centralization at the headquarters of China.
Only when the headquarters is strong can the surrounding vassal states not retaliate against China and develop to the outside world. If the headquarters is weak, the vassal states will turn inward and compete for the Central Plains, and sooner or later the Eight Kings Rebellion will occur.
Therefore, the reclaim of the fief of the Han Kingdom in its headquarters was actually proposed by Zhao Ming himself.
Otherwise, the cabinet would not have the courage to take back Zhao Ming's fief.
Of course, Zhao Ming would not over-weak the Han State, and would provide certain compensation to the Han State and support the expansion of the Han State overseas.
According to the intentions of Wang Jiaqin and others, maintaining a weak central government and retaining its power to the hands of various vassals, then Zhao Ming, the Nanjing Regent, would be meaningless.
A weak central government cannot be controlled by the vassal states in various places.
Such a Ming Dynasty will only be a mess of sand and constant melee.
In the next few years, or even more than ten years, Zhao Ming's main energy will be spent on unifying China and establishing a high-energy modern centralized country.
Zhao Ming temporarily handed over the mission of overseas expansion to the Han Kingdom, and with the example of the Han Kingdom, Zhao Ming gradually consolidated the status of the Nanjing court, and gradually transferred the strength of the domestic vassal states to overseas, using the feudal system to develop remote areas and expand the scope of rule.
Zhao Ming coughed, and then said in a deep voice: "The cabinet told the Gu Wang that if the Han Dynasty is not cut off, it will not be able to cut off the other vassals and revitalize the central government. Gu thought about it over and over again and felt that the cabinet's words were reasonable. Therefore, I wanted to set an example!"
Zhao Ming first blamed the cabinet, and then continued: "So, the Lone King decided to return all the vassals of the Ming headquarters to the court."
It is said that it was returned to the court, but it was actually controlled by Zhao Ming, but it was different for the bureaucratic group that remained in the Han Dynasty.
At present, Zhao Ming is equal to dividing his own power into two parts, and there will naturally be conflicts in the division.
"King~" Wang Jiaqin and others were anxious.
Zhao Ming reached out to stop him from interrupting his words, and then comforted him: "The Lonely King knows that you are worried that after taking back the court, it will have an impact on the gentry and merchants, and will affect trade and workshop production. Here, the Lonely King can guarantee that after the vassal state is retracted, the laws and regulations will not change. The Nanjing court will copy the policies and laws of the Han State and will not affect the people, but officials will change from officials of the Han State to officials of the court."
The public opposed the return of the vassal states. In addition to the unwillingness of the Han officials to give up their rights, a big reason was that the gentry and merchants in the Han Dynasty were worried about policy changes that affected their business, and were also afraid that the court would randomly collect taxes and implement a strategy of banning the sea.
According to Zhao Ming's words, the only loss of the rights in the hands of Han officials, and these newly promoted Han officials had never had the rights, but just saw that the old bosses were dropped into the central government and wanted to take over the rights left behind.
Zhao Ming continued: "After taking back the vassal territory, the Han Dynasty still retained North Korea, Luzon and other places! The court promised to immigrate at least 300,000 yuan per year to help the Han Dynasty expand its colonies. In addition, the newly obtained places in the Han Dynasty overseas belong to the Han Dynasty. As for the Huaxing Silver, the shares held by the gentry and merchants were inconvenient, but the general number of the silver number needed to be located in Nanjing. In addition, as a major vassal, the Han Dynasty could choose three people from the country and take up the position of the Six Divisions of the Six Divisions in Nanjing."
The Six Divisions of the Secretariat were a very special official position in the Ming Dynasty because he had the responsibility to supervise the government and the right to "refute".
Zhao Ming will be of great use to the six subjects in the future, but his ideas are not yet perfect.
Zhao Ming proposed to let the vassals send personnel to serve as a clerk, which was to send a signal to them that the court would not do whatever it was to change its policies to the vassals.
Not only the court manages vassals, but vassals can also monitor the court's faults.
After Zhao Ming finished speaking, he looked at everyone and said, "What are you any objections!"
Wang Jiaqin and others had a calm face and did not speak. The vassal state belonged to the King of Han, and the Huaxing Company belonged to the King of Han himself. What could they say?
Although officials from the Han Dynasty certainly had objections to this, they did not dare to say it explicitly, and they bowed their heads and protested silently.
Seeing this, Zhao Ming immediately changed his statement, "Whoever agrees, whoever objectes! Raise his hand if he agrees!"
Zhao Ming first raised his hand, but several people in the cabinet and the six ministers of Nanjing raised their hands one after another.
Wang Jiaqin and others saw Zhao Ming's eyes scanning, but they had no courage to resist King Han, and they slowly raised their hands.
Zhao Ming then looked at the two of you who wanted to block Yinxi and the other two, and narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you have any objections to the three gentlemen?"
Du Yinxi was shocked by Zhao Ming's actions, feeling Zhao Ming's majestic side, and he came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "I have no objection!"
Seeing this, Zhao Ming waved his hand, "Okay, today's discussion will end here!"
After speaking, he called everyone to retreat and said to Du Yinxi: "Stay Mr. Du!"
When everyone left Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhao Ming walked down, "Mr. Du, go with the orphan!"
At that moment, the two of them climbed to the top of Wenyuan Pavilion, stood in front of the window, blew the autumn wind, overlooking the prosperous Nanjing City.
"Sir, what do you think the Lone King will do?" Zhao Ming asked casually looking out the window.
Du Yinxi praised from the bottom of his heart: "This move of the regent will surely revive the court and revive the Ming Dynasty!"
"Sir, I think so too!" Zhao Ming's eyes were deep, and he suddenly smiled: "Since that's the case, I want to summon various vassals to the capital and pay homage to His Majesty and the King of Gu. I won't support you!"
Du Yinxi was slightly stunned. Unexpectedly, Zhao Ming made such a request so quickly.
It is a manifestation of surrender to the vassals to the capital and come to the regent, but this is a fatal requirement for the vassals.
Because I don’t know if Zhao Ming will detain them when he comes to Nanjing.
However, the various vassals were not able to refuse this matter. The Regent waved his sword and castrated himself back all the vassals to the court. He just asked you to come and pay homage. It was not an exaggeration to ask for it.
If so, who dares not come, Zhao Ming has absolutely no reason to withdraw his title and reduce his vassal.
"Why don't you speak? Don't support it?" Seeing that he didn't hear the response for a while, Zhao Ming couldn't help but turn around and look directly at Du Yinxi.
Du Yinxi was shocked to be out of control and hurriedly saluted, "I dare not! I agree with Your Highness!"
Through the Wenyuan Pavilion discussions, Du Yinxi made great changes to Zhao Ming. Zhao Ming's move to return the vassal areas to the court made Du Yinxi know that Zhao Ming would use relatively gentle means to reduce the vassals and learn from the lessons of the Longwu Dynasty, and did not want to cause unrest within the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!