Zhu Cizhao "Rinan County" in the title of the king of Rinan County is the old name of the Zhancheng State. The Jing Navy, the envoy of his official position, was a feudal town established by the Tang Dynasty in the seventh year of Xiantong to guard the Annan region against the attack of the Southern Zhao Kingdom.

The government of the southern capital of Shangzhen was broken twice in the first year of Xiantong and the fourth year of Xiantong, and the situation was precarious.

Among them, the fall of Zhennan Duhufu in the fourth year of Xiantong lasted for three years, and it was not recovered by the famous general Gao Biao at the end of the Tang Dynasty until the seventh year of Xiantong. This was followed by the establishment of the Domain's pacification navy to defend against the offensive of the brain-pumping Nanzhao state against Annam, which was a decades-long tug-of-war between the Tang and Zhao states, which stretched from Sichuan to Annam, and the result could be said to be a defeat for both sides!

The Tang Dynasty, which had long had little central army available, relied on a bunch of secession or semi-secession to send troops to hang up the once powerful Nanzhao and beat it violently, causing it to "repeatedly overwhelm the people and deplete the country", even to the point of conscripting men under the age of 15 as soldiers.

The depletion of the Nanzhao clan's own army also gave Zheng Maihei, a Han Qingping official who had taken refuge in Nanzhao, to launch a coup d'état, punish more than 800 members of the Nanzhao royal family, establish himself as the emperor, and establish the Great Changhe State.

On the Tang side, because the hundreds of Xuzhou soldiers who defended Guilin could not return to their hometowns because of the defense for six years, the masses were angry, launched an uprising, and fought all the way back to Xuzhou, and later fought with the Tang Dynasty officials and troops in the Xuzhou area for nearly a year, which seriously depleted the military strength of the Tang Dynasty in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

A few years after the Pang Xun uprising was suppressed, the "Wang Xianzhi and Huangchao Uprising" occurred, so some people believe that the Tang Dynasty died in Huangchao and the disaster was based on Guilin.

However, if you really want to trace the source, the decades-long Tang Zhao War is probably the real culprit.

The disaster for Annam's secession from China was actually the result of this long-term war that led to the defeat of both Tang and Zhao, and it had little to do with whether or not to establish a vassal to calm the navy.

After thinking about it again and again, Zhu Cihong still felt that the establishment of a feudal town was the most suitable method for governing the colonies that the Ming Dynasty could use at present.

What else could I do?

At present, the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty has taken the route of separating the military from the government, and the governor and prefect (prefecture) basically cannot interfere in military affairs (except for patrols to maintain law and order), and the governor, admiral, and general soldiers cannot interfere in local government affairs.

In addition, the governors, admirals, and commanders are only the heads of the military districts (theaters), and unless they are specifically authorized to do so, they cannot have jurisdiction over model divisions (including the units under the jurisdiction of divisions) and other troops under the direct control of the Generalissimo's Office, and basically they can only govern some model regiments -- not all model regiments that are not incorporated into divisions are under the jurisdiction of the governors, admirals, and commanders-in-chief, and they can only manage some of them.

In addition, the conscription and training of new recruits, as well as the administration of military dependents, were governed by 16 generalistries – which were theoretically under the direct jurisdiction of the Generalissimo's Office. Although the position of general can be concurrently held by the admiral, the general's office and the admiral's department cannot be combined, and two sets of teams must be maintained.

In this case, the military power and political power in the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty were dismantled very carefully, and the governor, the admiral, the general soldier, the governor, the prefect, and the governor of the prefecture could only manage their own stalls, contain each other, and no one had full power.

This governance structure ensured the authority of the central Ming Dynasty, but at the same time reduced the efficiency of the local military administration.

Within a distance of one or two thousand miles around Nanjing, the reduction in efficiency is not large - 600 li can be rushed in three or four days, then the two central governments (the Cabinet Office and the Generalissimo's Office) can deal with it in time.

But beyond this distance, it is a bit difficult to govern!

For example, the three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou are just outside the "2000-mile expedited circle". Fortunately, Guangdong and Guangxi are not war zones now, and the problem is not big - but the Ming Dynasty's control over the two regions is still weaker than the "two lakes and four rivers" at the core.

Guizhou has a large number of toasts on the territory, and there is very little land under the direct jurisdiction of the governor, and the total amount of land (controlled by the governor of Guizhou) is only a few hundred thousand mu. said that he was a governor, but in fact he was a governor.

Under the governor of Sichuan and Guizhou, there are also two jiedu envoys with great authority - the eastern Sichuan Jiedu envoy and the western Sichuan jiedu envoy.

As for Shaanxi, which was further away, Emperor Zhu simply gave carte blanche to the two major feudal towns of Pingxi and Shuofang.

The only exception is probably Liaodong - although Liaodong is not outside the "2000 miles expedited circle", it has to cross the sea, so the communication with Nanjing is not too convenient.

However, there is only one Jinzhou Mansion in Liaodong Province, which is still a newly established "Tuntian Prefecture", which is relatively easy to manage.

Moreover, the troops stationed in Liaodong are all model armies directly under the central government, and they are still stationed in Liaodong in turns, so it is relatively easy to command, so there is no need to set up Liaodong feudal towns.

The two territories of Zhancheng and Jinou are 6,000 miles away from Nanjing, and there are also large sections of sea routes, and communications are affected by the monsoon. It is very difficult to govern a feudal town that does not have a high level of military and financial authority without setting up a feudal town to oversee the military and civil affairs.

And the feudal towns are not actually the same as fighting against the central secessionist regime - the jiedu envoys are all officials appointed by the imperial court, just like the governors, governors, admirals, and soldiers. As for whether it can be replaced, the key is not in the name, but whether it has private soldiers who can fight against the imperial court!

If the Governor of Wenchen has a private army that can fight against the imperial court, it will also be a divided feudal town!

Therefore, in the current feudal towns established by the Ming Dynasty, there are actually divided into feudal towns and loyal feudal towns.

Among them, the Pingxi Army, the Shuofang Army, the Dongning Army, and the Jing Navy were all divided into feudal towns and had the military strength to resist the imperial court. However, the Dongning Army only has a powerful naval army, and there is no army that can fight against the model army, so it can only theoretically fight against the Ming Dynasty.

The Huaibei Army, the Xu Navy, the Jin Ou Army (Jin Ou Yingtian Envoy), the Eastern Sichuan Army, and the Western Sichuan Army were all loyal to the feudal towns, and they did not have the ability to resist the imperial court at all.

In addition to feudal towns, there were two forms of local autonomy (which can also be seen as secession) of the Tusi and the feudal kingdoms.

Among them, the Tusi were mainly concentrated in the southwest and northwest of the Ming Dynasty - the Tusi existed not only under the Ming court, but also under the feudal towns. The 330,000 households under the Pingxi Domain were classified as "Tusi" by the Ming Dynasty.

The vassal kingdom, on the other hand, is a large toast with a country name - not a feudal town with a country name, because the lord of the feudal town is not necessarily hereditary, and the lord of the toast must be hereditary.

In other words, the two vassal kings, Zhu Cijiong, the acting king, and Zhu Cizhao, the king of Rinan County, are actually not the "kings of the vassal country", but the prince (county king) and the envoy of the festival.

And there is only one real vassal country, and that is the Kingdom of Annam!

After getting the transcripts of Li Weiqi, Zheng Jie, Wu Gongyi, Mo Jingyu, Ruan Fuwei and others asking for the title, the Ming court responded at the first time.

Li Weiqi was canonized as the king of Annam, Zheng Jie was named the Marquis of Thanh Hoa, Wu Gongbi was named the Marquis of Xuanguang, Mo Jingyu was named the Marquis of Gaoping, and Ruan Fuwei was named the Marquis of Guangnan - the Marquis of Qinghua, the Marquis of Xuanguang, the Marquis of Gaoping, and the Marquis of Guangnan Although the names of the Marquis of Annam are all named the names of the Annam Kingdom, they are all marquis of the Ming Emperor, so they all belong to the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty!

It's not something that the king of Annam can casually edict to crusade!

At the same time, Zhu Cihong also absolved the Zheng, Wu, Mo, and Ruan clans of all their past crimes in the form of a holy edict - whether they forced Emperor Li to hang himself or proclaimed himself the emperor, it is not a problem now. Therefore, they are all loyal ministers of Annan, loyal ministers certified by the great emperor, and they are all loyal!

At the same time as canonizing the king of Annam and the four marquises, and certifying a group of loyal ministers of Annam, Emperor Zhu also discovered a villain.

It's the evil Champa state!

This Champa country is obviously a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, but it does not observe the vassal festival, declares itself a vassal to Annan and Zhenla, and also takes advantage of the opportunity of civil strife in Annan to invade Annan, which is really a great crime, so it must be crusaded!

Not only did the Ming Dynasty send troops, but also the newly crowned King of Annam and his four loyal ministers must also send troops together......