Just when Gao Shishi was more and more worried about Huang Zhiting's production safety, the news from Dingnan made him particularly nervous.

On this day, as soon as he returned to Zhaohui Jinggongfang's champion, a family member told him that Dingnan was in a hurry, which made him nervous and hurried into the study.

Looking at the specially painted envelope on the desk, Gao Shishi took a deep breath and carefully opened it to take a look......

Well?

Isn't it about having a baby?

Gao Shishi's whole person seemed to be deflated, and he seemed to be relieved, sat down on the Taishi chair, spread it back without any image, supported his forehead with his hand, and muttered in a low voice: "What kind of government affairs report to send at this time, it scared Lao Tzu to death." ”

But having said that, the government affairs report is also to be read, and he calmed down for a while, then sat up straight and opened the report to read.

I was stunned when I saw it.

Led by Huang Zhiting himself, a large number of important people in southern Xinjiang signed a letter in front of him. The gist of it is simple: they believe that the Kingdom of Cambodia should not be retained.

It's weird, why do you care about this? Isn't this obviously contrary to my previous idea of setting up the royal family and ruling in secret?

Gao Shi frowned suddenly.

The reason why his previous plan was always to elevate the royal family and not depose it was a very important aspect to maintain local stability, because after all, these royal families were the representatives of the locals, and if they ruled in name, the local people at the bottom would not be too resistant, which could greatly reduce the cost of governance.

This idea was learned from the Western colonizers in the original history, but Gao pragmatic did not plan to learn it all the time, because he still had his own plans for the second half of the year.

According to his plan, this "indirect rule" had a limited time. The conditions for determining this period are very simple, not to say how many years or how many years Jinghua actually occupied a certain country or place, but an exact data - the proportion of the population.

The idea of high pragmatism is to be a Han (in fact, including servants, etc. In the Jinghua region, where these ethnic minorities in the Ming dynasty were collectively classified as Han Chinese) and "naturalized Han Chinese" accounted for more than half of the kingdom's population, preparations for the dethronement of the royal family could begin to be initiated—of course, the seemingly mild method of "Chan Rang" would generally be considered.

However, in Gao Pragmatism's calculations, this time should come relatively late, because even Annan, who has the highest degree of sinicization, thinks that it will take at least twenty years to achieve this condition.

After all, there are more than 5 million native Annam people in Annam's territory alone, and Jinghua's means to increase the proportion of "Han Chinese" are limited after all, mainly immigrants and naturalized Han Chinese.

Another important point is that from the time he took Annan, more than 20 years can be just enough time to "cultivate" a generation, this generation grew up in the environment of "full-coverage cultural invasion" in Jinghua, and their sense of identity with the Han people and Jinghua will far exceed that of their parents and grandparents.

When this generation becomes the mainstream of society, especially after becoming a stable "soldier source pool" of Jinghua, Jinghua can be completely unafraid of possible resistance from the locals. At that time, it will be logical and natural to replace the royal family, which has long since gradually retired behind the scenes.

Gao pragmatic style is the same as always, he is not Yang Guang, he will not think about building a Grand Canal in three or five years, and then shake his foundation, and the wall will fall down and everyone will push it.

Just as he commands a battle, he generally doesn't think about surprises, preferring to fight steadily. What is unacceptable about spending twenty years expanding a stable territory the size of a kingdom for one's people?

What's more, the "assimilation" work of these kingdoms is not one completed and then the next, the time difference between them is not large, and when the plan is finally completed, it may also be "one after another".

In a few decades, the local people will inevitably become a minority, or even disappear outright – most of them have already been "naturalized" into Han Chinese.

And this kind of naturalization is still a means of survival of the fittest, and the excellent people are naturalized as Han Chinese, and what is left...... It's normal to die.

It's better to die normally than to engage in genocide, at least Gao Pragmatic can have a clear conscience: it's not that I didn't give you a chance, it's not that I didn't give you a choice, but you just don't want to progress, or you don't want to work hard, what can I do? I can't give you blood or brains.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest!

In addition to the above reasons, another reason why Gao pragmatic did not consider deposing the local royal family is even more "realistic".

Avoid arousing suspicion.

After all, he is still a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the other party is still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty after all, and he is pragmatic to depose the king of the Ming vassal state as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, which is unreasonable in legal theory!

Of course, the Ming Dynasty's attention to this type of jurisprudence may not be as high as that of European countries, but the Ming Dynasty has another kind of emphasis: monarchs and ministers.

Your high palace has abolished the king of a certain country in southern Xinjiang, and now you want me to make you the king of the Ming Dynasty? Are you going to be the king, or will you continue to be a minister in my Ming Dynasty?

When ruling indirectly, Gao Pragmatism can completely avoid this problem, because no matter how strong Jinghua Group is, it is only a "national policy consulting group", but once the indirect becomes direct, this problem can only be put on the table.

What's more, there is not only one country in southern Xinjiang, which country do you plan to be the king of?

Oh, and you still want to be the king of the whole southern frontier? When I was a fool in the Ming court!

Southern Xinjiang is unified, then there are at least more than 20 million people (in fact, more than that), I want to let the Ming Dynasty work hard like that, you are pragmatic and unified Southern Xinjiang, I can still sleep peacefully?

Yes, the relationship between Zhu Yijun and Gao Pragmatic is very unique and very unusual, and there may be a certain chance that Gao Pragmatic's unification of southern Xinjiang will not be regarded as a frontier threat during his time in power, but what if Zhu Yijun is gone?

National affairs are not child's play, the emperor may think that Gao is pragmatic and reliable, but the officials may not think that Gao is pragmatic and has a lot of political enemies. And after the emperor who had a unique friendship with him is gone, it may be the period when their younger generation is in power, and the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the unified southern Xinjiang may also become a situation of "having to fight". Romance 888

Why?

Because there are still many things that have not been done in high pragmatism, especially the change of the country's will, this is quite important. Under the current national will, the Ming Dynasty can only recognize that the surrounding areas are its subject countries, and will never recognize that there is an existence around it that can threaten it.

And the power of Daming to "go to the ocean" now follows his high pragmatism, once he is pragmatic and he leaves, will this power be nipped in the bud by traditional forces, causing Daming to continue to ignore the ocean and only focus on land?

Quite possibly.

And what about southern Xinjiang at that time? It may go to the ocean, but it can't ignore the land either, because southern Xinjiang is actually in the middle of two land empires, the Ming and Mughal.

You just pay attention to sea power, in case the Ming suddenly wants to fight you, or the Mughal Empire at its peak is going to fight you, will you resist or not?

Resistance, most of them can't be defeated, because under this premise, it is difficult for Gao Pragmatic to complete the sinicization of southern Xinjiang, how can these locals have any hope of victory?

But if you don't resist, the hope of sea power will "collapse in the middle way". Then he has worked hard for more than ten years or even decades, and in the end, isn't it a dream of Nanke?

Therefore, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have to continue to do it, and if they don't sort out the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, many things will not be able to continue to unfold at all, and even not only have to be "sorted out", but even the adjustment of the national system in the end.

Even if there is no need to talk about those things for the time being, at least for the time being, Gao Pragmatic does not think that he wants to "expose" his "ambitions", and the peaceful evolution of southern Xinjiang should be unremittingly and slowly.

However, Gao Pragmatic took a closer look and found that Huang Zhiting and the others were not going to engage in "persuasion" now, because the solution they proposed for the Kingdom of Cambodia was not to depose the royal family and let Gao Pragmatic come to power, but to divide it.

Huang Zhiting suggested that the Kingdom of Cambodia should be divided into "three families": Siam divided into the entire western part including Phnom Penh, Annam divided into the southeastern part, and Nanzhang can also obtain the northeast of Cambodia.

Gao Shishi continued to look at it expressionlessly, and sure enough, Huang Zhiting gave a reason for doing so.

To summarize her meaning, there are probably the following points: first of all, the Kingdom of Cambodia is very weak, so weak that Siam has been beaten by Burma at the beginning, and it only takes the soldiers of Angkor to deter them, which shows that they have a population of nearly three million, and in fact have no combat effectiveness at all - in other words, there will be little resistance to carving them up.

Secondly, the Kingdom of Cambodia is strategically located, and it can be directly connected to Annam by land. For this point, Huang Zhiting particularly emphasized, because Annam is actually the foundation of Jinghua in the Indochina Peninsula, if we want to build the future "Dingnan core", we must not only rely on sea connection, but must connect Dingnan with Jingang and even Thang Long by land.

Under this requirement, if Cambodia always maintains the status of a kingdom, then there is an additional shackle on the administration. "Cross-border" is certainly more troublesome than "cross-provincial", this does not need to be explained.

This made Gao pragmatic think for a long time, and then continued to watch.

The third reason proposed by Huang Zhiting is from the consideration of merit. She believes that with the rapid expansion of Jinghua after the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, the original remuneration is actually no longer enough to "reward merit".

This point of view needs to be broken down again, and she believes that there are three main types of people. The first category is the vassals and generals of the local kingdoms, such as the previous Abrabang (Shamumin) and this time Musari.

Xia Muming's luck was very good, because Jinghua had no plan to really take Burma at that time, and the restoration of the Bago Kingdom in southern Myanmar was also temporary, so he picked up the king of the Bago Kingdom for no reason, and his reward was certainly enough.

However, Musari's reward is more troublesome, because his contribution this time is too great, and it may be second only to Liu Xin, who forced Cambodia to surrender. So if the Kingdom of Cambodia is retained, how should Musali be rewarded? Do you want him to be the prime minister? If he becomes prime minister, Jinghua's control over Cambodia will definitely be limited.

But if the Kingdom of Cambodia itself ceases to exist, then Musali can only be "called", and where to transfer can be discussed, in short, there is no Kingdom of Cambodia to keep him in office. In this way, even if he is transferred to Annan to be a scholar (Annan's internal system imitates the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming side does not ask), Musali can't afford to turn the storm up, and he can't say that Jinghua is not reused - transfer you to my Jinghua's starting place in southern Xinjiang as a pavilion elder, this is not enough to be reused?

Of course, this is a temporary measure, just like arranging Ruan Huang at the beginning, and when he and Ruan Huang show loyalty, it is not that they can't really be entrusted with important tasks.

The second group of people is the family members, including the garrison system and the national policy advisory system, the former is the military, and the latter is the "civilian official". But no matter which category, at present, it is according to the old-fashioned reward of Jinghua, and in most cases, even if the merit is great, it is nothing more than a reward for some land or commercial land, which is also a promotion for him.

The problem now is that such a reward may gradually become less attractive, and the root of the problem lies in the word "family".

What does it mean to be a housekeeper? Especially for the family member in the garrison who changed his surname to Gao, it means that even if there are more properties in his name, in fact, because even he himself is Gao Shi's "private property", so these industries are still Gao Shi in the final analysis, and if Gao Shi is willing, he can take it back with just one sentence, and it is reasonable and legal.

In other words, no matter how much they are rewarded, they are actually only given a "right to use", and they are not given "ownership" at all—and they can't be given, because they are even highly pragmatic.

Wong's suggestion is that even if they can't abolish their slavery for the time being out of loyalty, they should at least find a way to increase the reward, preferably by bypassing the slave contract issue to "property rights", and if not, then the amount of the reward should also be increased - this amount has to be taken out of the Kingdom of Cambodia, because it has already been distributed elsewhere, and it is more troublesome to re-divide it.

The third type of people is the Guangxi Tusi headed by the Cen and Huang families. Huang Zhiting because she is married to Gao Pragmatic, according to the custom at this time, she completely stands on the position of Gao Pragmatic to look at this problem, she thinks that Guangxi Tusi, who moved to Annan, now has two hidden worries.

One is that the fiefdoms are too centralized. Just look at the map at this point, because there was only one place in Annan at that time, and Jinghua pulled all the southern parts of Annan into his own bowl, which led to all the Guangxi toasts being sealed in the northern part of Annan. Now that Jinghua's ruling area has covered almost the entire Indochina Peninsula, there are many places where the Tusi wolf soldiers need to be used as a force that is both loyal and combative, and it is very unreasonable to limit them to such a small area.

At the same time, there is also a hidden danger in the concentration of fiefdoms: if some of them engage in tandem, the threat to Jinghua is also relatively great. Huang Zhiting even hinted at his unconscious brother Huang Yinglei here.

In fact, she is also thinking about Huang Yinglei - once Gao Shishi accepts this suggestion and separates the Guangxi Tusi fiefdom that moved with him, he will not be able to connect them in series, and he will actually be safe.

In addition to the concentration of fiefdoms, there is also the factor of mixing sand, or balancing the proportion of the population. At present, the proportion of "Chinese people" in Annam is the highest, and because the only force that Guangxi Tusi can rely on is the high-pragmatism Jinghua, and they have the strongest combat effectiveness (in terms of civil structure), so dividing them into various places can not only increase the proportion of "Han people", but also ensure that they will not be bullied by the local natives, and then lay a good living environment for the newly immigrant Han people.

These views can be described as reasonable and well-founded, and they are by no means something made out on a whim, it can be seen that Huang Zhiting has carefully considered it, otherwise even if she is her wife, there will not be so many people willing to sign and second.

Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but fall into contemplation after reading it.

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