After becoming the emperor, personal feelings had to be compromised for political purposes.
Everything must be compromised for the sake of the country. This was the first principle that Xiao Ruxun would never give up. Therefore, even if it was her two elder brothers whom she had not seen for a long time, Xiao Ruxun did not immediately receive them. Instead, she chose to receive the important generals and ministers.
Xiao Rulan and Xiao Ruhui were brought back by Wang Hui's army. Both of them were safe, even their families were safe. This was mainly due to Black Water and Niu Bingzhong who secretly protected them, and Zhu Zhengse who turned a blind eye.
Zhu Zhengse and Xiao Ruxun were old acquaintances. Earlier, Xiao Ruxun had been Zhu Zhengse's general for a period of time. Zhu Zhengse was a kind and honest person, but he also had some skills in governing the place. Therefore, Xiao Ruxun planned to appoint him as the inspector-general of Guizhou.
Guizhou was the hub of the southwest, where many ethnic groups lived. The ethnic environment was complicated. If he remembered correctly, there was still a ticking time bomb in Bozhou, Yang Yinglong, that he needed to deal with. He needed an experienced old bureaucrat to manage Guizhou.
When Xiao Ruxun led the army to the north, he deliberately bypassed the chieftains of Guizhou because he didn't want to have conflicts with them for the time being. He wanted to make them surrender after he got the power of the world.
But after a series of events, Xiao Ruxun suddenly figured it out.
He had his own way.
He summoned Zhu Zhengse to the palace and asked Zhu Zhengse, who had already surrendered, how to govern a multi-ethnic region.
Zhu Zhengse didn't expect that he would be put in an important position as soon as he surrendered. Excited, he quickly showed his talent and talked about his way.
"To govern Guizhou, we must first govern the chieftains. If the chieftains don't govern, Guizhou will not be peaceful. There are four chieftains in Guizhou: Song Family of Shuidong, An Family of Shuixi, Tian Family of Sizhou, and Yang Family of Bozhou. These four chieftains are important parts of Guizhou, but they are also important hidden dangers. But our Daqin has ways to deal with them."
Xiao Ruxun asked with a smile, "Then what is the way to deal with them?"
"Combine suppression and protection, change the land to the stream. Suppress with one hand and support with the other. We will succeed with the strategy of the king."
Zhu Zhengse seemed very confident.
Xiao Ruxun was overjoyed.
"I have Official Zhu just like King Wen has Jiang Shang!"
Zhu Zhengse's old face turned red, and he quickly said that he didn't dare. How could he be compared with Jiang Tai Gong? However, he was still very proud of himself.
After sending off Zhu Zhengse, Xiao Ruxun welcomed Tian Le. This Gansu Imperial Governor did not put up much resistance when faced with the food shortage situation and the pressure of Liu Gu's army. He directly surrendered. However, Tian Le did a pretty good job in Gansu. Xiao Ruxun asked Da Yun about him, and Da Yun said that Tian Le was a very competent Imperial Governor.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun planned to give the position of Yunnan's Inspector-General to Tian Le and let him deal with the situation in Yunnan.
Right now Yunnan also had the worries of many ethnic groups and the Mu Palace. Although the Myanmar elite troops were there to suppress them and could control the overall situation, in the end there were still some hidden dangers. Therefore, they needed someone with strong skill to subdue Yunnan.
Tian Le was the best candidate.
Just like Zhu Zhengse, after a round of praise from Xiao Ruxun, he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility. The little bit of worry in Tian Le's heart immediately disappeared without a trace. He just wanted to do his job well and win the favor of the new emperor so that he could seek a brighter future.
However, they didn't know that the purpose of Xiao Ruxun letting them be the local Inspector-General was to stabilize the political situation.
After sending off the two people, Xiao Ruxun summoned Zhang Wu.
"How's the infiltration of the people in Yunnan and Guizhou Chieftains? Have you learned the local language? Is there a certain relationship? "
Zhang Wu immediately said, "After receiving the order from Your Majesty, I immediately sent people to prepare. I found the merchants who often do business there and asked them to teach our people the local language. Then I sent them to do business there and find out the local situation. Now Black Water has the ability to control Guizhou and Yunnan."
"Continue to infiltrate, don't stop. This move is very useful."
Xiao Ruxun repeatedly urged.
Zhang Wu immediately nodded and said, "I understand!"
After Zhang Wu left, Xiao Ruxun waited for Xie He to come. When Xie He came, he could almost start his plan.
The plan to destroy the chieftains.
During this time, he understood one thing.
Daming implemented Han chauvinism, which made his surrounding environment unprecedentedly bad. There were no allies, only enemies, so the border had not been stable since the founding of the country. Although this satisfied the national sentiment, it also brought a heavy burden to the country.
The best combination with nationalism was fascism. Once the two were combined, a nation-state could instantly burst out with extremely terrible fighting power and transform into a destructive war machine. Tens of millions of people in Germany were like this. If China became such a country, it was estimated that it could destroy the world, no matter whether nuclear weapons were used or not.
Xiao Ruxun didn't intend to continue the unprecedented isolation policy of Daming. He had a better solution.
Question: How to solve the national contradiction?
Answer: Class struggle.
The only emotion that could fight against national sentiment was class sentiment.
The way to eliminate national boundaries and completely integrate a multi-ethnic country was to arouse class sentiment.
In other words, it was to carry out land reform within the chieftains.
Exterminating the chieftains was something that many officials in Daming wanted to do but didn't dare to do. They all knew that if they wanted to exterminate the chieftains, it would incite the strong resistance of the local people. The consequences would be unimaginable, and none of the previous emperors dared to do this. Only when they were at their peak would they occasionally do it.
Exterminating the chieftains wasn't easy.
They also had people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people. How could they be exterminated just like that?
There were classes within the Han, and they also had classes within themselves. Furthermore, most of them had a slavery system. The chieftain was the slave owner, and the commoners under him were the slaves. They were the chieftain's private property, and they could be beaten and scolded without retaliating.
After living in such an environment for hundreds of years, Xiao Ruxun didn't believe that these people didn't have any resentment towards the chieftain.
They were just angry but didn't dare to say anything.
It didn't matter. Xiao Ruxun would send people to incite their anger and cause internal strife. Then, he would send the army to attack and defeat the chieftain's main force. Then, he would let the officials of the land reform lead the poor people to kill the local tyrants and seize the land. They would also establish a peasant association and accept the central government's direct command.
Using this method to unite the poor and attack the chieftain's upper echelons, dissolving the chieftain's rule. This would allow the central government's power to take over and achieve complete rule. At most, they would change the name and create an autonomous region. Then, they would rope in the locals who had contributed the most to the land reform to join the government.
At the same time, they wouldn't give up on the class struggle. From time to time, they would pull out the chieftain's upper echelons to teach them a lesson. They would pull out those with questionable thoughts to teach them a lesson. This would expose the power of corruption.
At the same time, they would subtly erase the boundaries between the different races.
The larger ones would naturally assimilate the smaller ones, in a silent way.
Using a long period of time, they would forge an incomparably united nation through constant struggle, creating a country without ethnic conflicts.
They would use class to unite everything and break everything.
Of course, their methods couldn't be gentle.
This was the method that Xiao Ruxun used to lead the Daqin towards unification. If it worked well in Guizhou and Yunnan, he also planned to use it in Sichuan, Guangdong, and Liaodong. To deal with the Northern Barbarians and the Jurchens, wasn't this a better method than military attack?
Therefore, it was also very important to cultivate various language talents.
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