Chapter 256 Talking about justice in life, the two surnames serve the king
This Gushi Khan was sent to a delegation to establish contact with the Qing regime in the first year of Chongde (1636), and was grandly received by Huang Taiji.
At that time, he was the leader of Wei Lat Mongolia. At that time, Wei Lat Mongolia was not only incompatible with Kazakhs in the west, but also in conflict with Tsarist Russia in the north, but also in conflict with Khalkha Mongolia in the east. It was so hostile to many sides. Gushikhan then looked forward to the Qing Dynasty.
Because of the distance, the near attack?
Huang Taiji had already dealt with Lin Dankhan at that time, that is, he dealt with Mongolia in the south of the desert. Isn’t it a threat to Khalkha Mongolia in the north of the desert?
In the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1645), Gushi Khan had already advanced westward to the Qinghai Sea and turned to Tibet, defeating the Tibetan Pakhan, and for more than three years, he established the vast Khanate of the Hoshuot Khanate.
Gushi Khan's grandfather, Bobemierz, father Hanino Yanhongguoer, and eldest brother Baibagas (and his eldest son Ezirtu Khan) were the leader of the Weila alliance for generations - the leader was not the Khan. The leader had the right to convene various tribes, and the Khan had the right to centralize the leadership of his headquarters. Therefore, the leader of the Weila alliance could not be called the Weila Khan, but the leader of the Hezirtu tribe was Hezirtu Khan when he established the regime, or the Junggar Khan of the Junggar tribe. After the eldest brother Baibagas was killed, he succeeded as the leader because of his bravery and good fighting. Before going to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, his nephew Ezirtu Khan was the leader.
After arriving in Qinghai, Gushi Khan successively launched a war against the Khalkha Mongol tribe, which occupied Qinghai and the Yellow Sect at this time. It took three years to kill Ketu Khan and his 40,000 troops. Then he advanced to Tibet to destroy the Zangpakhan, who was enemies of the Yellow Sect, took control of the local government in Tibet, and supported the Yellow Sect.
By last year, the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and the 18th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, three years had passed. During these more than three years, he strongly supported the Huang Cult, and devoted the taxes of Tibet to the Wushida as the cost of the temple. In addition to the daily government affairs, the Huang Cult regent, and the Diba Sonan Raodan cuisine, senior Tibetan officials were appointed by him, and the "Thirteen Laws" were formulated, and the Karenda and other official positions were added, to improve the local administrative institutions in Tibet, directly control the Tibetan army, firmly grasp the local government in Qinghai-Tibet, and regard himself as the Huang Cult Protector.
He also divided the jurisdiction of the Qinghai Sea into two wings, from Dongkeer Temple (now Huangyuan County, Qinghai) to the west of Xining, along the upper reaches of the Huangshui River, Qinghai Lake, Buha River, Bulongji River to the Ejina River, the left wings, and the west and south of the right wings. The left wings include the present-day north of Haibei, northwest of Qaidam, western Gansu and Ejina River basin, and the right wings include the present-day southern Yellow River, Hainan, Yushu Goluo and southeast of the Qaidam Basin. His eight sons led their troops to the herd and became the bases of Heshuo Mongolia. It is stipulated that the taxes in the Qinghai and western Sichuan are all subject to the Heshuo Te tribes in Qinghai.
It can be said that Gushikhan, whose foundation is now consolidated, has occupied half of China in later generations, and the entire western region, Qinghai-Tibet, and Western Regions are all within its sphere of influence.
Of course, Gushi Khan, who occupied such a vast territory, had no real power. The Heshuo Troops only had more than 200,000 people, and the real Ding Zhuang was only 50,000 or 60,000. After all, the Heshuo Troops were only one of the four major divisions of Weilat Mongolia, while the other Junggar, Turgut and Durbert Mongolia each had their own leaders. At the same time, in the hometown of the Heshuo Troops, his nephew Eziertu Khan also had many tribe members. More than 200,000 Heshuo Troops, it would be better to have more than 100,000 people follow Gushi Khan.
The four-mongol alliance of Erat Mongolia has been around for a long time, but it has always been just a loose tribal alliance.
However, after Gushi Khan was over 60 years old, he did not want to succeed in the Qinghai-Tibet land, but sent his sixth son Dorjidaze Batur to Yanjing to express to the Qing Dynasty the willingness of Heshuot Mongolia to surrender to Emperor Shunzhi/Dorgon. The reason was very simple, he wanted Xining.
Although Li Zicheng implemented a policy of water not violating rivers against Heshuot Mongolia.
But there is a saying that no one hurts the tiger's will, and no tiger hurts the hearts of the people.
Gushihan, who occupied most of the Qinghai area, felt that Xiningwei was awkward no matter how he looked.
In addition, Li Zicheng was a Han Chinese, so Gushihan did not believe him innately. Compared with Han Chinese, the Qing Dynasty had a more common language.
In this way, Dorjidaze Batur's visit to tribute was warmly welcomed by the high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon went out of the city to welcome him.
The Black Ice Platform did not find out much inside, but only knew that Dorjidaze Batur received a high favor in Yanjing City. This made Zheng Zhilong have to think of the possibility of Gushikhan joining forces with the Qing Dynasty and stabbing Li Zicheng behind the scenes. And if that is the case...
"Is the Marquis afraid that there will be major changes in the north?" Chen Ding's face changed suddenly after reading the information.
"I'm not waiting..." Zheng Zhilong's words mean too much.
"But..." Chen Ding hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to ask clearly. "Your Majesty must know that gentry is the foundation of the country, and monarchs of all dynasties have all ruled the world with literati and officials. How can a country be established without gentry?"
Zheng Zhilong’s current behavior is to push all the gentry all over the world to where Li Shun of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. What should we do in the future?
Are those students trained by senior officials?
He doesn't believe it.
In Chen Ding's eyes, those individuals are not even as good as students. They are only minor officials who can write and recognize words, or basic arithmetic, and then follow the rules and follow the rules.
How can such a group of people achieve great things?
"Of course I know what Wen Yanbo said: The emperor and the literati rule the world, not the people. Unfortunately, the literati are no longer the brave husbands of the Han and Tang Dynasties."
When Zheng Zhilong said this, he couldn't help but think of a poem, a poem written by the prodigal son of Qianlong: "I talk about morality in my life, and the two surnames serve the king; there is no basis for advancing and retreating, and the article is bright. It is really enough to cover the wine jar, and I often see sings of sachets. I escape from Zen at the end, and it was Meng Balang."
Qianlong had a bad impression of Qian Qianyi, so Zheng Zhilong had a very clear memory of this poem by this guy in his lifetime.
Is it ironic or not?
Chen Ding's face turned red. After all, he was also a scholar and a scholar's fame. "What the Marquis said is, Chen was ashamed."
"Those officials and gentry who are shameless and greedy for life and death are truly loyal to the Ming Dynasty or the Han Dynasty? They are not. They are loyal to their own interests. If they really intend to be loyal to me, how could this marquis refuse?"
"You will preside over an exam when you return to Quanzhou. It is either a county or a government exam, or a provincial exam. It is a pen exam that I asked you to organize. All the people you took were civil servants, that is, local officials. Let me explain it to them clearly. Luzon is vast, and this marquis needed to rectify the local area, so I came to take the exam together."
"Anyone under the age of forty can take the exam, regardless of identity. No matter whether you are a beggar on the street or a turtle man in a brothel, as long as you have the ability to get the exam right at the mid-term exam, you will be on the list."
"Although the persons obtained in this test were of great status, Luzon was not the Central Plains, but the officials were in harmony with each other."
Zheng Zhilong is accelerating his own progress, using force as a foundation, and vigorously implementing a policy that is incompatible with the will of "Great Ming World".
Chen Ding's expression changed when he heard this. His lord was really able to make trouble.
Since the establishment of the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, officials have differentiated the various ranks of Confucian officials outside the ranks. In addition, the power is in the central government, and the emphasis on the inside and the outside is on the outside. The trend of the division between the official rank of "the lower-rank has no high school, and the upper-rank has no low-ranking clans" is clear, and the clerks have become increasingly humble, and it has been more than a thousand years since then. Although it was a major trend that the clerks were extremely low and the power was very heavy.
Most of the clerks were natives. They worked in government offices for a long time and even for generations, controlling the various yamen rooms. The so-called "officials are transferred, but officials are not changed." They are all locals in the government office. Over time, these clerks and yamen runners have been closely colluding with local forces. They have been in charge of their positions for a long time and have been in charge of their affairs for a long time, and combined with the mixed local connections, resulting in the professional monopoly of the clerks' positions, which makes the clerks actually hold the real power of local administration in their respective roles.
It is not impossible for those who have the power to put together the main hall to put aside their hands. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the "released land" that reported the approved amount in local townships and the "real land" actually controlled by the county magistrate's yamen. Most of the true and false information of this information is controlled by the clerk who has been in his position for a long time.
Clerks and servants at all levels below the county magistrate played an important role in land measurement, finance, tax assessment, and both were in an important position in profit-oriented brokerage and protection brokerage. This situation had not really improved in the original time and space even in the Republic of China period.
Zheng Zhilong's tolerance for these illegitimate officials is exactly the same as that of the corrupt officials. It is impossible not to completely isolate them, but it is impossible to completely isolate them. But he can't know that it is wrong, but he just turns a blind eye because he saves trouble and is very labor-saving.
The clerks have been defeated by the clerks because the chief officials violated the interests of their clerks. The phenomenon of restraint is common, and officials and scholars from all dynasties have also criticized this aspect everywhere. But no one is willing to change it.
If a scholar has titles and salaries, his reputation is more important than profit; if an official has no honor and advancement, his profit is more important than reputation.
Zheng Zhilong cannot tolerate it.
But in Chen Ding's opinion, Zheng Zhilong is obviously good to the clerks. Look, I have opened up the barriers between you and the officials, but in fact it is harvesting the real power of the clerks. This is really to offend all the gentry and tyrants.
The social status of those clerks is not high, but the families behind them are usually local snakes with complicated relationships. Song Heizi on Water Margin is the most obvious example.
Zheng Zhilong seems to have given the clerks a way to rise, but he may not be cursed by many people behind his back.
However, Chen Ding's worries were not taken seriously by Zheng Zhilong.
The strong are respected. As long as his strength is strong enough, all opposition parties will be paper tigers. All those who stand up to oppose him are defiant of the torrent of history and are overestimating their abilities to drive a chariot.
"When you return to Quanzhou, do as I told you. Those who are willing to follow me, Zheng Zhilong, will give them the opportunity? Let's see who jump around and who are still dishonest, and the first batch of people who are migrating will be them." Zheng Zhilong said immediately.
After Chen Ding retreated, Zheng Zhilong sent two more letters to Jinling, namely Duke of Wei and Jiang Dejing. When will his throne of Duke of the Kingdom be finalized? He changed Manila to Xinjing. Isn’t this meaning obvious?
Didn’t Emperor Chongzhen want to kick him out? Don’t be stingy with the title, give it as much as you can. It would be even better if you really want to be the king.
Chapter completed!