September of the third year of Jianwen, late autumn.

The mighty Ming army turned southwest, leaving Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou provinces one after another. In the entire southwest, Mu Sheng still led the policing affairs with the honor of Xipinghou.

In Annan, the new Jiaozhicheng Announcement Administration left behind 20,000 troops to command the Jiaozhi Commander and Chen Chunsheng led the commander.

Banggela established the Bangla Guard, Awa Kingdom established the Southern Myanmar Guard, Zhou Yunfan served as the commander of the Bangla Guard, and Gao Su, the commander of the Second Battalion of the Mountain Army, was appointed as the commander of the Southern Myanmar Guard.

As for the former deputy general of Yunnan, Ma Dajun, deputy commander of the Mountain Army, followed the imperial guards back to Nanjing, and along with him were He Fu, the commander of Sichuan. These two men will receive the award from Zhu Yunwen on the National Day of the fourth year of Jianwen!

Ma Dajun knew that his eye had won a marquis for him!

Also accompanying him is Chen An, the former King of Annan, and more than a dozen Annan royal family. This little kid will stay in Nanjing for the rest of his life and eat good food for the rest of his life until he dies. As for the others, they will not have such a good life. The Ministry of Rites will arrange a errand work for them to do.

The central army stopped in Chengdu for another three days, mainly because Zhu Chun, the King of Shu, spent a lot of time moving.

Zhu Chun was not wrong. After the southwest was pacified, his Shu king's vassal could not be preserved.

The matter of reducing the vassal states is imperative, not that Zhu Yunwen does not want to be a foreign vassal. The prerequisite for the foreign vassal is how many of these clans are capable of being worthy of the foreign vassal?

Just talking about the southwest, what if Zhu Yunwen sealed Zhu Di?

Zhu Di will fight again, where will the soldiers, grains and weapons come from?

How many army does the center need to provide? How many years will it take to support Emperor Yongle to complete the feat of opening up South Asia?

The countless national strength was not enough for Zhu Di to squander. In the end, the method was wrong. Once Zhu Di died, all the countries in South Asia rebelled, and this land would become independent from the embrace of the Ming Dynasty. Then wouldn’t all the expenses over the years be wasted?

It’s not that Zhu Yunwen underestimated the wisdom and abilities of the ancients. If the ancients really had a broad vision and thinking, the North Korean, which is so close to the Central Plains, had not been successfully assimilated for more than a thousand years. The native people of Guizhou and Guangdong and Guangxi were in China from the pre-Qin period to the Ming Dynasty, and were still in chaos, isn’t this enough to explain the problem?

Assimilation every day, for two thousand years, in the end, there was no nation-state that was assimilated inside and outside the Central Plains that was willing to take the initiative to surrender. Instead, it was all disobedient. This was the wrong way.

The earliest assimilation method of China was Ji Fa, who enfeoffed the royal family to various places, forcing the local people to write the Chinese characters and speak the Chinese language. All the native documents were burned, and those who spoke slang were killed. Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty, which lasted for eight hundred years, had great achievements with China, and created the basic conditions for civilized unification for the King of Qin and mixed it into one universe.

The first emperor had the same writings, the same carriages and tracks, and unified weights and measures. On the basis of the Zhou royal family, it once again strengthened the unity of the Chinese nation and deepened the concept of the nation. This is the real assimilation.

Since the Han Dynasty, all schools of thought were abolished. Confucianism in the Han Dynasty was a very commendable Confucian lecture notes, but in terms of assimilation, it is also an idealized one.

That is, empty oral assimilation.

Emperor Wu of Han attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and the Southern Xiongnu attached the Ming Dynasty. What a good opportunity for assimilation, but in two hundred years, he did not teach a good baby, all of whom were killing without blinking!

When the big man fell, these Hun wolf cubs were eating our food, killing our people, burning our books, and assimilating the achievements?

So the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty actually knew that assimilation was useless, but they could not think of a better way, so they would always say that assimilation would do whatever it would happen. When you ask him the specific method, you would use the nonsense of the Guangsect teachings and sending more books to say.

Learning from history and having more advanced and developed modern historical operations as reference is the advantage of a time traveler.

Regarding the best way to assimilate, you can either learn from Ji Fa, but it is too cruel and bloody, which can easily lead to the counterattack of river crabs and beasts.

Either you can only learn from John Bull, and Zhu Yunwen optimized it based on the East India Company, which was enough to deal with the rule in the fifteenth century.

A John Bull, who is so small in the central area, can create an empire that will never set, rule the territory of the colonies hundreds of times higher than that of the local area for hundreds of years, making English a common language all over the world. The Ming Dynasty, which is dozens of times larger than that of the John Bull, can operate properly and achieve productivity and maritime technology in the future, and be developed, it will be enough to rule without restrictions.

Even if you cannot rule indefinitely, the degree of global Chineseization must always be deeper than that of British culture?

Think about the first day of the Lunar New Year in the future, a large group of white skin, colorful hair, singing and dancing in Mingguo shirts, or a large group of children with fat cheeks, their faces flushed with anxious eyes. From the recording of the sentence "Xiao Ming, do you want this gift or that gift? This, that one." Isn't it very exciting to judge which gift Xiao Ming wants?

Whether these Ming clans will be granted a feudal title in the future depends on how much they can learn from Zhu Yunwen in the future.

For capable clan relatives, Zhu Yunwen would never choose to hold them under his command and not give them a chance, because his attitude is already very clear, that is, the Chinese-level position. As long as everything can make China good, he can make unlimited concessions.

The key is that these things don’t have the ability.

Zhu Gaochi was also a clan relative, but he was quite good at governing the country. Zhu Yunwen also tried to train Zhu Gaochi according to the standards of the chief minister of the cabinet. Among the clan relatives, as long as they have the ability, Zhu Yunwen could find a suitable office for him to arrange it.

Zhu Yunwen didn't know much about his psychological activities. Zhu Chun was not very comfortable anyway, but after the central army entered the Huguang territory, Zhu Yunwen went to Zhu Zhen's Chu Palace for a walk, Zhu Chun felt happy.

Lao Liu didn't run away either!

The only way you can amuse an unfortunate person is that you are even more unfortunate than him.

Zhu Yunwen is too lazy to use any means to scheming when he cut off the vassal state. He just opens his mouth and says: "Uncle Liu has made great contributions to the country in the past few years. I am very grateful. Nanjing's national affairs are complicated and I always feel incompetent. Foreign officials from the court are not trustworthy. I hope that the sixth uncle will follow me to return to Nanjing to uphold national affairs together."

When Zhu Yunwen said this, Zhu Di and Zhu Chun were both present, looking at each other, looking at the nose and looking at the heart, looking at the ears without hearing. Zhu Zhen only looked at it twice, then sighed in his heart, and finally crawled on the ground, kowtowing to thank him.

In this way, Zhu Yunwen, who went on an expedition alone before leaving Beijing, turned around and had three more princes and the families of Shu and Chu. As for the land they occupied in their respective capitulations, they were all given to the two governing officials of Sichuan and Huguang for free.

The royal merchants have received hundreds of thousands of taels of dividends a year. Since they have all had legal income, they should spit out state-owned assets.

How dare the two of them say no? They hold the knife in Zhu Yunwen's hands. Which prince in the world dares to have different opinions now?

As for the Chu King Guard, who Zhu Zhen used to guard the local people in southern Hunan, Zhu Yunwen chose a good commander: Liu Zheng, a hundred households who were guarding Xianzi Pass in the first expedition to Annan.

This kid is a good material. He has been studying in Nanjing for more than a year and can take it out and exercise. A mountain army has produced several good seedlings.

Taking off Zhu Zhen is also considered a test by Zhu Yunwen, because like Zhu Di, Zhu Zhen is a few vassal kings who hold heavy troops and have a lot of military merits and prestige. Even Zhu Zhen is not defensive. Among the remaining vassal kings who hold military power, only the Qin and Jin vassals, Zhu Quan, also the Ning king.

Under the warm winter sun, Zhu Yunwen was standing tall on the back of a horse and had already vaguely seen the city of Nanjing.
Chapter completed!