Zhu Yushu nodded: "With Your Majesty's support, I will have the courage to do it, but Your Majesty's verbal support is not enough, and he should take some practical actions."

Li Mingxun thought about it and said, "Okay, let's start the garment factory first. The military control status of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei must be lifted. Some field troops and security brigades need to be changed to the security department on the spot. Their uniforms will be handed over to the queen. I will just say hello to the army."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I'll do it." Zhu Yushu left happily. She walked out of the room. The female official next to her pointed to a corner of the cabinet and said, "Your Majesty, the sweater that the Empress knitted for you has been knitted there..."

Li Mingxun nodded slightly, feeling that he had misunderstood the queen, no, misunderstood his wife.

"Your Majesty, Lord Li from Lifanyuan has been waiting for a long time." The attendant walked in and whispered.

Li Mingxun said: "Okay, go to the Qing Palace."

"My minister Li Decan kowtowed to Your Majesty." In the Ganqing Palace, Li Decan knelt on the ground, his etiquette was meticulous.

Li Mingxun said: "Get up, you will be in Beijing often in the future, so you will be exempted from these etiquettes."

After becoming emperor, there has always been a dispute over whether to kneel down to the emperor, because in the United States era, civil rights included not worshipping officials when they saw officials, but obviously, the emperor was not an ordinary official. In the end, there was no result in arguing. It was just a matter of arguing. The rest were agreed upon. Generally speaking, central officials only kneel down when performing new and ceremonies. If they don’t have to kneel down to worship normally, local officials need to kneel down to worship when they enter Beijing. In fact, all the rules are just a matter of Li Mingxun’s words. Li Decan was the administrative chief of Liaoning Province and had to bow when they came to Beijing, but now he has been promoted to the president of the Lifanyuan and often walk in front of the imperial court, so this ceremony is saved. However, Li Decan is cautious and must make three words and three requests.

"I thank Your Majesty for your kindness." Li Decan then stood up. He didn't have to kneel down when he saw him later. The fear and fear in his heart could not be eliminated.

The Lifan Yuan is an institution that combines administration and diplomacy. It is responsible for all military management in the land direction, military and political affairs in the appeasement areas, and diplomacy in the mainland direction. It is almost the other General Administration. As the president of the Lifan Yuan, it is a small cabinet prime minister.

Lee Mingxun promoted Lee Decan as the president of the Lifan Academy. One reason was that there was no one around him, and the other was that such important positions could not be taken by soldiers. Lee Decan was in charge of the affairs outside the pass for many years and was always familiar with the affairs of the vassal department. He was promoted by Lee Mingxun himself. He was always respectful and comfortable to use.

"Give him a stool." Li Mingxun said to the attendant, and then asked, "What's wrong with the ritual system and appeasement laws?"

The ritual system and appeasement laws of the inner vassal state were done by Xu Hanfeng. The servants came forward to establish a research group on Mongolian policy. After the practice and understanding of the Yunzhong Appeasement Zone, the framework was generally established. After the establishment of the Lifan Academy, since Xu Hanfeng appeased Yunzhong, Li Decan took over. Various rules were set. After Li Decan took over, he mainly explored the reactions of the inner vassal state departments for implementation.

"I asked someone to refine the constitution and let Manchuria and Mongolia breathe in and modify it. Please check it out." Li Decan handed over a note, which listed no less than a hundred and ten items in different categories. The old decrees and rituals were all black, and those modified were marked with red.

The main purpose of the empire to formulate rituals and laws for the inner vassals was to weaken the vassals in the short term, differentiate them to form an effective rule, and to assimilate and integrate them in the long term.

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These ritual systems not only require mastering the strength of each vassal, but also consuming the strength of each vassal through the ritual system. The key is to pay tribute, which is available every year. Moreover, the empire changed its previous rules of being plain and thin and generous in dealing with each other and adopted a policy of having a strong relationship.

The Lifanyuan will explain the tribute requirements to the nobles of the flag-sect through the appeasement zone every year, mainly local specialties. The first thing is the best horse breed. The number of stallions and mares is specified, and there are also requirements for the quality of the shoulders. Secondly, cattle and sheep. Of course, there will be differences in different places. For example, there are minks, honey, tiger skin, human bodies, deer antlers, and deer skins, beef yellow, bows and arrows in the south of the desert. Even if some flag-sects do not have any specialties, they will not let go. Even wood, pine nuts, charcoal, and coal will appear. The purpose is to let the flag-sects of each battalion have something to do. When they concentrate their manpower and material resources on finding tributes, there will be no too many resources on the arms.

Of course, the empire will not ask for tribute in vain. The principle of the empire is to have a lot of contact. The emperor will give tributes of various vassals of equal value or even super value. These rewards include gems, ruyi, silk, python robes and other ritual utensils, and spices and other luxury goods. Of course, everything will be labeled as a royal gift, so these things will be in the ranks of prohibited trading.

The essence of the new tribute system was to replace the military and national instruments and wars of the various vassals with luxury goods and rituals, but the nominal equivalent exchange actually weakened the strength of the various vassals.

"The number of tributes can be reduced a little, and it will be more important to pacify the northern desert. It is not advisable to over-weak the tribute at this moment." Li Mingxun approved after seeing the ritual system.

"Yes, I understand." Li Decan said carefully.

The other rules involve population, mainly Soding and the Imperial People. From the large number of red fonts added to these two items, it can be seen that the various vassals have responded greatly to these two policies.

These two policies are briefly mentioned in the previous article. Returning to the people is to ask the subordinates of the inner vassal to return the Han people in the inner vassal to restore their freedom. Most of these Han people were plundered by the various tribes when they went south to participate in the war, or rewarded by the Qing court, or dowry during the marriage between Manchu and Mongolia. Although the number was not large, most of them were craftsmen, which were important property and human resources for the nobles of the inner vassal. However, considering the loyalty and obedience to the new dynasty, the inner vassal still chose to agree to return it, but there were differences in details. The Lifanyuan of course hoped that not only returned the Han people, but also returned the Mongolians who married the Han people and their private property. The subordinates of the inner vassal only agreed to return the Han people, and their Mongolian relatives were left behind. Moreover, the Han people were mostly slaves and had no property to accompany them. After several discussions, the patriarchal line was still based on the patriarchal line. Those who married the Mongolian women and the Han women kept them.

However, on the issue of Soding, the Neifan Banners responded very much, because the Lifan Court directly asked for Mongolian herders. You should know that in the past few decades, the Mongolian tribes in the southern desert, as important military forces of the Qing court, have repeatedly sent cavalry south to participate in the war. In this process, a large number of Mongolian cavalry were captured, and the total number was no less than 40,000. Soding's policy was to ask for the families of these Mongols who had already submitted to the empire to reunite their families.

Of course, many flag assistants have nothing to do with these policies, especially those flag assistants who rewarded merits, such as the Manchu Banners and some Mongolian Banners. Their leaders had long been selected by the rest of the appeasement zones. The key was the Mongolian Banners who were collected after the Battle of Balin Bridge. They led their troops to vote. Taking King Abnay of Chahar as an example, in the Battle of Guihua City, King Chahar had made contributions and rewarded two reorganized flags, but King Chahar's own leaders had compiled them.

With four and a half-staff, what Soding wants is the leaders of these flag servants. Because the Chahar tribe is directly controlled by the Manchus' powerful people, if the naturalized Mongolian soldiers' families were completely handed over according to the rules of the Lifan Academy, Abunai would lose more than 20 flag servants, and the rest of the noble chiefs were mostly like this. After all, the Lifan Academy would ask for 12,000 prisoners from these Mongolian nobles, which was almost 12,000 households, equivalent to eight reorganized inner vassal banners.

"Weichen summarized the meaning of each department. They dared not disobey His Majesty's orders, but they did not want to hand over so many herdsmen so simply. They hope that the Lifanyuan could send back the captured noble relatives, and they were willing to hand over the prisoners from slaves. But in the middle level, we thought it would be better to buy them?" Li Decan said.

"How to redeem it?" Li Mingxun asked.

Li Decan said: "The meaning of the empress is to release Taiji and others, and ask for the family of herds slaves. The Hariqiu Te and ordinary herdsmen in the middle can redeem them. First, let the inner vassals redeem them, and the Mongolian prisoners will be redeemed according to their crimes. They will pay the money to redeem the prisoners. The prisoners who are unsold will be prepared as army, drive the empire and make meritorious contributions. After they redeem their sins with military merits, they will give them food and salary. After these soldiers have savings, they can redeem their military origins and return home, or they can redeem their relatives from the various vassals and belong to the flag assistants of the inner vassals. How about it?"

"If you follow your method, how many households can the Lifan Court obtain?" Li Mingxun asked.

Li Decan had already calculated that he said: "There are 4,500 households that have received herd slaves, but if the redemption system is established and the future purchases are redeemed, it depends on whether these Mongolian soldiers want to be internal flag assistants or vassal flag assistants."

Li Mingxun nodded slightly. This is a good multiple-choice question. It depends on whether it is the Mongols ruled by the empire to live better or the Mongols ruled by the Mongolian aristocrats in ten or eight years.

"Okay, let's do it like this. It's only a few thousand households." Li Mingxun responded.

After saying that, Li Mingxun wrote a reply on the note and handed it over to the people in the attendant's room to use the seal.

"I have summoned you to come and ask about North Korea. President Li and the three dynasties in the East have all sent envoys to the court. What do you think should you choose?" Li Mingxun asked.

When Li Decan came, he had some expectations. He quickly stood up and knelt down and said earnestly: "Your Majesty, I have been troubled by this matter these days. The envoys of the three dynasties have come, and the interval between them is only half a month. I should have avoided suspicion, but these envoys are really hateful. I force myself to enter the humble house while I am not at home, force me to get gifts, and get close to you. Please punish you."

As he said that, Li Decan took out three gift lists from his sleeve and presented them to Li Mingxun. It was given by the envoys of the Three Kingdoms of North Korea. Li Mingxun opened them and looked at them one by one. In addition to the real money and silver notes stated on it, there were also North Korean specialties such as ginseng, and each gift list was worth less than 10,000 taels of silver.

"It's no wonder that you were originally from the Eastern Kingdoms, and now you are in a high position. If you are envoys from North Korea, you should follow your own way. Haha, I won't blame you." Li Mingxun put the gift list aside and said with a smile. The Security Bureau reported to Li Decan's bribery. In fact, Li Mingxun allowed the envoys of the Three Kingdoms to walk freely in Beijing to make it easier for them to handle things. In addition to testing Li Decan's loyalty, he could also seize some tricks. This bribery of the Celestial officials was also a great sin.

"Tell me, the three countries of North Korea, which one do you think you choose as a vassal?" Lee Mingxun asked with a smile.

Li Decan knew the situation of North Korea best. The current situation of the three kingdoms of North Korea was formed by Li Decan, who was in charge of Jeju. In the Beiyang War, the imperial army first occupied Shandong, then attacked Liaodong, and then landed in North Korea, destroying the Korean dynasty supported by the Qing Dynasty. Long before the Beiyang War, the empire supported Shen Qiyuan and Lin Qingye to separate Northeast Korea, and supported Li Yu as king after the coup. After the Beiyang War, the open flame army supported by the empire rose and occupied southern Korea.

In the past decade, the three major forces of North Korea have joined forces and attacked continuously, and their strength has also risen one after another. No one can unify the three thousand miles of mountains and rivers of North Korea. The open flame army that once swept across North Korea by using the slogan of equalizing fields and exempting grain from food has also lost the direct support of the empire because of its strong momentum. The Qing coalition forces have been hit back with a blow. Now North Korea is divided into the Western Dynasties that are pro-Qing, the eastern country of Zhongming and the southern country of China.

"I think that the matters in North Korea should be handled quickly and delayed, and no longer accept vassals, but build provinces and establish prefectures and counties." Li Decan coughed lightly and said firmly.
Chapter completed!