377 The Fateful Enemy Part 2
"According to the emperor, practicing Han laws, and opening a statute to win scholars..."
Kublai Khan's brows frowned. Most of the reason for the split in the Great Mongolian world today is actually because of the "Han Law". When I follow the novel, where to go quickly. In the eyes of most members of the Golden Family, Kublai Khan's behavior is too sinic. He can speak Chinese and like to live in the city. He has read many Confucian classics and the military tactics of the Han people. There are also a bunch of Han Confucians who offer advice.
However, all this is not the most disgusting of the great figures of the Golden Family. In fact, the Khan of the Golden Family, who lost the Mongolian tradition, is not the only one. Mongolia's cultural heritage is too poor, and there is no even a written word before Genghis Khan. The Khan had to compile a song to make the officials who passed the imperial edict so that they could not forget it. Such cultural heritage is of course easy to be assimilated by the leading cultural nation. In a sense, sticking to the Mongolian tradition is to stick to the backwardness. The characters of the Golden Family are not stupid, so they naturally know these truths.
However, the laws of the Han people and the laws of the Turks, Tianfang Sect, Lama Sect, and Christianity have the biggest difference. The Han laws have a very persistent pursuit of unification! The basis of the political system of the Great Mongolian Kingdom was the feudal system. If Kublai Khan became a Khan and implemented the Han laws, it would be very likely that he would implement the "reducing of the vassals" in the future. Although it may not necessarily be able to cut off the vassals of the Western Dao Sects who had a vast territory and countless subjects. But Kublai Khan would at least seek a unified "Khan Empire" that included the headquarters of the Mongolian headquarters, the four kings of the host, and the Han area in the northern part of the Han area.
At the same time, Kublai Khan would also turn this "Khan Empire" into his own property, rather than the common property of the Golden Family, according to the laws of the Han people. The future Khan will be hereditary by Kublai Khan's descendants, rather than publicly recommended by the Golden Family.
This is equivalent to depriving other members of the Golden Family of "shares" in the Central Ulus! It is not surprising that Kublai Khan was disgusted by the members of the Golden Family. His original status was similar to that of the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, and he could choose an emperor (Khan), but he was turned into a vassal king who had no right to be involved in the central power. If it weren't for the fact that it was not really possible, these vassal kings would have to be kept in captivity as pets...
As for how many Confucian books Kublai Khan himself read, and how many Han Confucian scholars were around him as counselors, they had nothing to do with other members of the Golden Family. They would not be opposed by so many people because of this.
In history, except for Hulagu whom Kublai Khan himself "encircled" (Kublai Khan granted Persia and Dashi to him as a khan in order to gain Hulagu's support), almost all the Mongolian Khan kings who owned Ulus opposed Kublai Khan. This guy was so hated. It was because he tried to form a unified and hereditary "Great Khan Empire" that seriously infringed on the interests of most Mongolian princes!
But Kublai Khan would act like this, in addition to the fact that the "Han Law" is very beneficial to expanding and maintaining the power of the king. It is to gain the support of the upper middle and upper classes of the Han area (in layman class intellectuals) in order to maximize the power of the Han area in the north. At the same time, it can resolve the resistance will of the upper middle and upper classes of the Song Dynasty in the south...
Therefore, for Kublai Khan, Han Fa was a double-edged sword. If he had no Han Fa, he would have been the second Mongke. He could have been elected as the Khan relatively smoothly, but he could not establish the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, let alone destroy China.
But Kublai Khan is in a much more difficult situation than in history. The original basic force of the Great Mongol Kingdom and Kublai Khan's rule has now proven that he is not as good as the newly-rise Chen Dexing.
After the Great Mongolian military showed weakness, the Han marquis, the basic Han marquis who ruled the northern Han area, also showed differentiation. Li Yan, Yidu, who ranked first among the Han marquis, had publicly raised an anti-flagration! Zhang Rong, Jinan, Li Gaoge Li, Zhang Bangzhi and others had already raised troops to respond. Shi Tianze, Dong Wenmo, Li Yinuge, Dai Quxue and others had ambiguous attitudes.
Although Li Yan's reaction after the uprising was as slow as in history, he did not attack Yan Yun with his superior forces. Instead, he was wasting time negotiating with the Han Hou forces of all parties and drawing them back together. However, due to the existence of the Chen-Li alliance, Kublai Khan was unable to extinguish Li Yan at all. He could only watch him dig his own corner!
Faced with such a situation, if Kublai Khan is unwilling to sit and wait for death, he can only take risks and take more radical and risky measures.
Kublai Khan must bet on his life! Going to Alibuge camp in Bulachuan is a gamble! Being an emperor, practicing Han laws, and opening a statute to win a scholar is also a gamble!
If his "Sinicization" did not gain the support of the middle and upper classes of the Han people in the Northern region, but it would have made him lose the love of the Mongols. Then he and the Great Mongolian Kingdom would never be defeated!
"But I often hear people say: Liao is destroyed by Buddhism, Jin is destroyed by Confucianism!"
Kublai Khan was silent for a while. What he said was the lesson of the abolition of the Liao and Jin dynasties. This was not what Kublai Khan summarized, but was the common perception in the Han society in the northern Han area when the Jin Dynasty was invaded and flourished.
The defeat of the Jurchens was because he lost his brave nature because he followed Confucianism!
When Yao Shu heard this, he looked at Liu Bingzhong beside him. Yao Shu smiled and said, "If the Jurchen law is feasible, why did Xizong, Shizong, and Zhangzong asceticize the Han system? Although Jin was destroyed by Confucianism, it was after all the great times and the rule of Mingchang, which were all the contributions of the Han Dynasty Confucianism."
Liu Bingzhong said: "If the Han law is not implemented now, the Liaodong Jurchens will enter the Eight Banners, and the Han Marquis in the North will return to Li Yuan. The Khan has only more than 100,000 Mongolian heroes. Can they really use them to defeat Chen and destroy Li?"
Kublai Khan sighed: "It turns out that Jin practices Han laws and respects Confucianism is a last resort!"
Kublai Khan asked the same question more than ten years ago, when he only regarded the demise of Jin Yi Confucianism as a lesson. Now he knew that it was because the Jurchens were unable to give in to the scholars and officials in the north after their weak force!
The Jurchens' military strength is weak first, and the Han law is practiced and Confucianism is respected later!
Now, due to the rise of Chen Dexing and Li Yan, Mongolia's military power has been relatively weak. Without overwhelming military power, the Mongols would naturally rely on scholars and officials if they wanted to maintain the rule of the Central Plains.
Of course, practicing Han laws and respecting Confucianism may not help Kublai Khan revitalize the situation. But if he doesn’t do this, he will definitely be a dead end!
"If Mongolia does not follow, what will happen?" Kublai Khan asked again, thinking.
Personally, as long as he can defeat Chen and destroy Li and unify the world, it doesn’t matter what law he practices or what kind of religion he respects! But the Mongols on the grassland may not be willing to sell the accounts of Han laws.
Yao Shu replied: "Use Mongolia to control Confucianism, use Confucianism to control the Han Dynasty, Mongolia is the foundation, and Han Confucianism is the auxiliary. Mongolia and scholars share the world!"
Kublai Khan was silent for a while and finally nodded: "I will think about this matter again. When I solve it, I will make a decision!"
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Liaodong, the former Gaizhou, Jian'an was abandoned city.
It is now the fourth day after the Battle of Zhuangshui. For four days, Chen Dexing's army was pursuing Tacharer's defeated soldiers day and night. It was not until noon today that Chen Dexing's central army entered Jian'an Waste City and issued an order to rest for a day.
Although it is daytime now, the entire city is like a sleeping city. Except for a very small number of people, most of them are sleeping soundly.
As the commander of the three armies, Chen Dexing, was patrolling the city with Zhao Fu, and he had been taking a nap in a carriage on the way to Jian'an waste city. Now he could suppress his sleepiness and discuss with Zhao Fu the future strategies to defeat Liao.
Tachaer was defeated, and the heads he captured in the Battle of Zhuangshui alone exceeded 15,000! There were as many as 8,000 prisoners, and in addition to Hong Fuyuan's troops, the Mongolian prisoners also exceeded 1,000. In the past few days, there have been as many as 2,000 beheads and prisoners reported one after another! However, the heads of Tachaer and Huotu were not obtained, and Liu Xiaoyuan and Guo Shoujing were also gone.
However, even if Tachaer, Huotu and others were not captured, it was a decisive victory.
Tachaer's elite suffered heavy losses. In the future, at most, he would retreat to the grasslands in northern Liaoning to confront Chen Dexing and move strategically from attack to defense. The Liaodong Peninsula, the Goryeo Peninsula and even the western Liaoning Corridor are very likely to be captured by Chen Dexing.
Chen Dexing's idea of founding Liaodong was soon realized. However, it is much more complicated to create a country than to establish an army! A country has to face complex problems from all aspects, and military is only one side, politics, economy, education, diplomacy and other aspects are almost as important as military. And at the beginning of a country's suffrage, it is time to create various fundamental systems. The systems created at this time often have far-reaching impacts and sometimes last for hundreds of years.
If it is not arranged properly, it will become a disadvantage that has harmed hundreds of years, and sometimes it will become the fundamental reason for the demise of the country. For example, the Song Dynasty used civil warfare to control the military, the Ming Dynasty used civil warfare and military household system, and the Qing Dynasty's Eight Banners as the basis, were all fundamental systems of the country. They made the country strong in a certain period of time and later became the reason for the decline of the country.
And all important institutional arrangements are fundamentally the distribution of interests!
How to distribute a country's interests so that enough people can become the basis for the regime to be maintained, and at the same time, it can lead the entire country to a positive and progressive path. This is the key to the fundamental institutional arrangement of the country.
Now that Chen Dexing has the conditions to establish a country, he naturally began to arrange various systems that will affect the country for hundreds or even thousands of years.
"The king, now the northern land recruits land under the jurisdiction of the Ministry, with a growing population. It is necessary to establish prefectures, counties, jurisdiction over local governments, collect taxes, and...cultivate the foundation."
Zhao Fu talked to Chen Dexing one by one with his fingers and told Chen Dexing about the various things that were about to be implemented. Although Chen Dexing had a very big name in the past, the recruitment department and the Jiedu Department were not large, just a few small islands along the coast of Goryeo, as well as the Tamsui Maritime Manufacturing Services of Taiwan Island, Penghu Island and Yashan Island. In fact, the civil affairs and business that need to be managed are very limited. Apart from the army, Chen Dexing's regime had no basis for ruling.
Chapter completed!