The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 723
Jiang Chuan roughly looked through, and there were about a dozen copies of the persuasion form in his hand, most of which were submitted by officials below the fourth rank, and most of them belonged to the Inspectorate and the Sixth Ministry.

As for the content, it is conceivable that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has made outstanding contributions to the people of the country, and he can directly catch up with the ancient emperors and sages.The Ji family has no virtue and is not qualified to sit on the emperor's seat anymore, please His Royal Highness the Regent to go further.

To put it bluntly, it is to persuade Jiang Chuan to abolish the emperor to do it himself.

This is actually what it should mean. As early as when the Zheng family in the southeast surrendered and destroyed Li Zicheng, someone had already written a letter to persuade him to enter.

However, the timing was not ripe at that time, and Jiang Chuan clearly refused at that time, so in the end nothing happened.

Now the situation is very different.Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were destroyed one after another, and Shuzhou basically recovered most of the area. Only the native land in the southwest was not brought under the official rule of the imperial court.

Regarding the complete solution to the problem of the natives in the Southwest, the imperial court has established a policy of reforming the natives and returning them to natives, and sooner or later it will be resolved.

When Zhang Xianzhong entered Shuzhou, he also had the idea of ​​subduing the natives, but he gave up after the first few attempts.Most of the natives live in the mountains and forests, relying on villages that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. The roads to enter the villages are basically rough and difficult, and it is extremely difficult for large troops to attack.

These natives have lived here for generations, they are familiar with the terrain, and they can walk among the mountains and forests as quickly and smoothly as monkeys.Under such circumstances, the Great Western Army, who was familiar with the battles of Mazhan and Plains, was often dizzy and defeated.

Of course, the most fundamental reason was that Zhang Xianzhong wanted to divide his troops to garrison other state capitals, and it was impossible to send too many troops to attack the natives.

Seeing that he couldn't chew this bone for a while, he had no choice but to give it up for the time being, and save it to deal with it when he frees up his hands in the future.In the end, before he could free his hand, he was cleaned up first.

Now that Shuzhou was restored by the imperial court, Di Qing resettled the people and resumed production, and at the same time sent troops to monitor these natives to prevent them from taking the opportunity to cause chaos.

As a famous general of a generation, Di Qing knew that to deal with these natives, he needed to get rid of their advantages, so he also recruited a lot of native guides to familiarize himself with the situation of the natives, draw the distribution map of their villages, and do a good job in the preliminary intelligence collection work.

In addition, soldiers were also recruited locally, and troops suitable for mountain warfare were formed for training, and they were prepared to cooperate with the imperial court's policy of reforming the land and returning the natives to subdue these natives in one fell swoop.

There is basically no major problem in the southwest. The 15 troops of Fusang who attacked North Korea were wiped out. The enemy chief Tokugawa Hidetada was also captured and escorted to Lingchi in the capital for execution. This made Jiangchuan's reputation reach an unprecedented height. , both inside and outside the capital are full of praises, everyone only knows the regent, but they forget that there is another emperor who is imprisoned in the deep palace.

It can be said that the time for Jiang Chuan to proclaim himself emperor is ripe, when the right time, place, people and all three are available.

Under such circumstances, it can be said that officials collectively wrote a letter to persuade them to advance, which came into being as a matter of course.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan was not so surprised.

And this time, although there are only a dozen copies, and most of them are written by middle and lower-level officials, it is actually used as a test, and it is also a conventional procedure.

And according to historical practice, it is generally necessary to persuade three times.Those who were persuaded to enter were modest, saying that I was not virtuous enough to inherit the great cause and refused twice for reasons such as.

The ministers will not give up and continue to persuade them to advance, and the number of people and the level of officials who submit letters will become higher and higher.By the third time, the person who was persuaded to enter finally reluctantly agreed, to give the ministers a face, to be the emperor for a while, and to say that if there is a virtuous person in the future, I will abdicate to let the virtuous and so on.

In the past, Jiang Chuan felt that this kind of behavior was both acting as a watch and setting up a memorial archway, which was shameless.

But after experiencing so much, when sitting on the top of the mountain condescendingly, my thinking has changed, and I will no longer take it for granted as naively as before.

Although I come from a modern society and have a strong military force, it is not enough to change everything in this world. After all, manpower is sometimes poor.

Therefore, his current principle is that he will appropriately compromise with some traditional customs without harming the bottom line he set.

Innovation is done step by step and subtle. If one has to achieve it in one step and adopt radical methods, it will definitely lead to death and chaos.

This is no exception at all times and in all over the world.

Jiang Chuan's reform of the official system, the reform of the currency value, and the reform of the military system are actually considered unnatural moves.If he hadn't possessed a strong military power, and this power hadn't come from the support of those powerful families, he might have been overthrown long ago.

Since ancient times, many emperors and kings did not see the various disadvantages that existed, nor did they want to get rid of these disadvantages, but they were often powerless and were constrained by various constraints.

The most important and fundamental reason is that their power and status come from those aristocratic families who support them to ascend to the throne of God.

With this kind of entanglement, once reforms are insisted on, it is easy to touch the interests of these aristocratic families, and it will inevitably arouse their opposition, thus threatening his throne.

Therefore, except for those emperors and kings who have conquered the country with their own hands and have strong prestige to promote large-scale reforms, most of the descendants of future generations will not be able to do so.

Food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step. Jiang Chuan now understands this truth more and more.

Reform is a long-term process and a major project involving interests from all sides.As long as he is in office, the reform will continue to advance and gradually gain popular support.Finally, after the subjects and common people have enjoyed the benefits brought by the reform, they will begin to support the reform from the bottom of their hearts.If someone still wants to restore the old system, he must be an enemy of the world.

At that time, if Jiang Chuan didn't do anything, these people would all be dead.

Without further ado.

Looking at the persuasion letter in his hand, Jiang Chuan naturally understood the routine, and smiled at Liu Ji: "Military Master, since there are rules, let's follow the rules. Draw up an order for me and publish it in the Dibao and Daming Newspapers." .”

Liu Ji understood, and quickly understood what Jiang Chuan meant, and said with a smile: "Your Highness wants to let the public opinion ferment again, and by the way, see if some restless people will jump out."

Jiang Chuan was stunned, and laughed loudly: "Those who know me are also military advisers. This seat will be mine sooner or later. If so, then I will sing the whole scene. By the way, see if there are any bugs and fleas. Send him all by the way."

　In the past few days, I have suffered from severe insomnia until dawn, my mind is dizzy, and my spirits are listless. Please forgive me.

　　
　
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