Daming: Is There Imperial Examination Fraud At The Beginning? I Cry As A Candidate During The Test

Chapter 63: The strategy to remove the firepower: change the vassal state every ten years!

Ye Xuan continued to talk.

"Your Majesty, I have already said that the vassal king will transport the wealth plundered from the colonies back to the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the Ming Dynasty will be able to continuously increase its wealth accumulation."

"And because of the constraints of colonial rebels, it was difficult for the lord's power to grow."

"So, our Ming Dynasty can suppress the feudal king forever."

"Wonderful!"

"How wonderful!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes shone when he looked at Ye Xuan.

What he was most worried about was that after giving the vassal kings the power to expand outward, the vassal kings would grow their own power like the princes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then stab the suzerain country in the back.

But now, the method given by Ye Xuan, capital colonial plunder, has completely eliminated this potential threat.

The vassal king cannot grow in power.

The wealth plundered by the colonies will also be given to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty was able to piece together the wealth of its colonies and continue to grow itself, just like the empires on which the sun never sets, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries in previous lives.

Colonies cannot be annexed.

The vassal king could only enslave, plunder, and squeeze the colonies like the Western countries in previous lives.

Thus.

The benefits obtained by the vassal king cannot be compared with those of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the vassal king needed to deliver the benefits gained from the colony to the Ming Dynasty.

Colonies could only be bases for supplying raw materials and dumping goods.

The Ming Dynasty can obtain gold, spices, minerals and other resources from the colonies. It can also obtain cheap raw materials from the colonies, as well as rare and rare materials that are not available in its own country.

The raw materials from these colonies doubled in value when they entered the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty directly made double the profit.

However, Ming Dynasty's local overproduction or cheap goods can be transported directly to the colonies and sold to the people in the colonies.

The surplus or cheap goods in the Ming Dynasty were transferred to the colonies. The sales volume increased and the price could also increase. It was also a hugely profitable business.

Daming could make a lot of money from it.

The accumulation of wealth.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, it was a bit thankless for the vassal kings to expand outward and plunder capital.

Because most of the wealth obtained by the vassal kings from the colonies had to be transported to the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the feudal king also had to deal with the rebels in the colonies.

Ming Dynasty does not need to do anything.

Just wait for the feudal king to send the treasure back.

certainly.

The vassal kings can do whatever they want in their own colonies, that is, the vassal vassals they conquered. They can enjoy whatever they want (bhbi) and exploit the common people.

After all, under the colonial plunder of capital, the people in the colonies were only considered slaves, not subjects at all.

The people in the colonies were difficult to tame.

And they are not the people of Ming Dynasty.

No matter how we treat them, it will not affect the local people of Ming Dynasty.

Even if the vassal king becomes a weak king in the colony, it will be fine.

Under the colonial plunder and oppression of capital, the people in those colonies will definitely resist.

However, don't worry about anything happening.

Even if these vassal kings cannot defeat them, they still have the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty is not the weak Western countries in previous lives.

In the early days of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty had more than 1.8 million soldiers and horses. As the Ming Dynasty continued to develop, its military strength continued to increase. During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty's military strength increased to 2 million!

The Ming Dynasty has strong soldiers and horses, and the national strength is strong. Moreover, the comprehensive national strength of the Ming Dynasty currently far exceeds that of other countries, and there is even a gap with other countries. Other countries cannot catch up with the comprehensive national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

A colony that the feudal king could not defeat.

but--

The Ming Dynasty could easily suppress small colonies.

“By adopting capital colonial plunder and using the colonies as resource supply bases and commodity dumping bases, our Ming Dynasty can continuously obtain wealth from the colonies.

"The vassal king can also dominate the colony without affecting the Ming Dynasty."

"The vassal kings were hampered by the colonial rebels, making it difficult for them to become bigger and stronger. They could not obtain population, land and other benefits from the colonies.'

"If the feudal lord cannot suppress the colonial rebels, Yin Ming can also help them."

"In this way, the weak vassal kings need to rely on the powerful Ming Dynasty, and they dare not have any different intentions.

Because the method of capital colonial plunder cannot make them bigger and stronger at all. They are just an intermediate channel to transport wealth to the Ming Dynasty and a machine to attract the hatred of the colonies. "

"If they dare to resist, the colonial people will hate the vassal king who oppresses them, and the Ming Dynasty can also send troops to attack them. If the forces of both parties are combined, the vassal king will die without a burial place."

"Although powerful vassals can suppress the rebels in the colonies, they also need to spend manpower, material and financial resources. It is almost impossible to accumulate wealth, amass soldiers and horses, and grow their power."

"In short, the vassal kings used capital to colonize and plunder [Li Qiang's Song Youming."

"This will do no harm to Ming Dynasty."

Ye Xuan informed Zhu Yuanzhang of the benefits of capital colonial plunder.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath.

His eyes were full of shock.

Such a genius idea.

A bold strategy.

It’s truly amazing!

The ancient emperors adopted territorial annexation and never thought about enslaving the people of the conquered areas and squeezing the resources of the conquered areas.

Therefore, when vassal kings and vassal kings expanded outwards, annexed territories and populations, and became stronger, the suzerain state could not stop it at all.

But capital colonial plunder is different.

Capital colonial plunder takes the form of enslaving local people and squeezing the resources of conquered areas.

The people in the conquered areas will certainly not be tamed.

Territory was only temporarily snatched away.

Only the wealth that is continuously transported back to the country and the wealth that is obtained by continuously dumping goods out is real.

In this way, although the vassal king could enjoy imperial treatment in the colony, his power could not become stronger at all.

Zhu Yuanzhang was already mostly relieved at this time.

In this way, it would be difficult for the vassal king to become stronger by adopting the method of capital colonization and plunder.

However, there may be exceptions....

"Ye Aiqing, what if these vassal kings kept a large part of the colonial wealth for themselves and only handed over a small part, and then their power became stronger?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

This possibility is also possible.

Ye Xuan:……………………

Zhu Yuanzhang is really suspicious.

However, this possibility does exist.

"Secretly set up a supervisory agency and put people around the vassal kings to play a supervisory role so that they dare not line their own pockets. Only a small part of the wealth plundered by the colonies is reserved for them so that they can support the government troops below."

"If you are really worried, just let those vassal kings who behave abnormally exchange colonies and vassal vassal states every ten years.

"In this way, they have to conquer new subordinates again."

Ye Xuan directly told Zhu Yuanzhang the strategy of removing salary from the bottom of the cauldron.

He felt that no matter how impressive those vassal kings were, as the Ming Dynasty continued to gain colonial wealth and grew stronger, it would be impossible for the vassal kings to compete with the Ming Dynasty in ten years, right?

Ye Xuan's last few words made Zhu Yuanzhang completely relieved. He also agreed in his heart with the national policy of the vassal king to expand outward and capitalize on colonization and plunder other countries.