My life skills in Daming Liver

When the news reached Nanjing, all the cabinet ministers breathed a sigh of relief. Yunnan and Guizhou no longer needed to use troops, so they could concentrate more forces to attack the north.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is far inferior to Southeast Asia in terms of the territory it occupies, its population, and its technology. It can be said that the overall situation has been decided.

In particular, the south of the Yangtze River has been completely controlled by the Southeast. Coupled with Annan and North Korea, the decline of the Ming Dynasty has been fully demonstrated.

But Su Ze didn't feel too happy about the surrender of Yungui.

Shuzhong has surrendered, and it is only a matter of time before Yungui surrenders.

Su Ze came to the cabinet, leaving behind Xu Wei, Fang Wanghai and Lin Liangjun.

"Yunnan is run by the Duke of Guizhou, and the number in Kunming has been rising, so the situation is better than in Guangxi."

Xu Wei nodded. After years of governance in Southeast China, the Han Yao problem in Guangxi has finally been alleviated.

However, the problem of too few Han people in Guangxi has not been solved. The ethnic issue has always been a time bomb that will explode if not handled well.

Changing customs is not an easy task and requires sustained policy investment of one or two generations.

Compared with Guangxi, the Duke of Guizhou has been attracting Han immigrants in order to change the ratio of Han people and Southwest Yi people in Yunnan. Today, in Kunming, there are already more Han people than Southwest Yi people.

Therefore, the ethnic issues in Yunnan are better than those in Guangxi.

Xu Wei also said with emotion:

"The Mu family, the Duke of Guizhou, runs Yunnan as their own territory. From father to son, every few generations, the head of the Mu family personally leads the army to fight against the southwestern barbarians, so they pay more attention to long-term stability."

"Officials in Guangxi are all exiles, and Guangxi is the place where the Ming court dispatched and demoted officials. There are only two outcomes for officials in Guangxi. One is to be completely ruined, and it is impossible to be promoted anyway. The other is to move around or Looting the common people, hoping to cling to the powerful and return to wealthy areas."

"So, due to the efforts of successive generations of officials in Guangxi, the problem of Han Yao in Guangxi has become increasingly serious."

Su Ze nodded helplessly, that's the situation.

In provinces such as South Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, officials can achieve political achievements as long as they don't mess around. Anyone who is more upright can quickly accumulate political achievements and be promoted.

These developed provinces do not lack talents, funds, or projects at all. The level of grassroots official governance is also very high, and there are many local scholars.

But this is not possible in remote areas like Guangxi.

In these places, there are few talents, the people don’t even know how to read, and there are no industries that can be established.

In some remote mountains in Guangxi, transportation is inconvenient, and building roads requires a lot of funds. The local big households are just well-fed landowners and have no ability to build railways on their own like Songjiang Prefecture.

To be an official in a place like this, no matter how cool your sleeves are, no matter how much you love the people, it will be difficult to make a difference in the end.

This is the reality, so when the Ministry of Personnel selects officials, most officials are not willing to go to remote areas. Even if the Ministry of Personnel gives more preferential treatment to remote areas in the assessment, and even if the official position in remote areas is promoted faster, most officials Officials are still willing to choose economically developed areas.

This can also be seen from the civil service examination.

In areas such as Southern Zhili, most scholars still prefer to take the imperial examination.

Although in the southeast, civil servants can also become officials, but everyone knows that the starting point of civil servants is much lower than that of officials.

You, a first-class Jinshi, have been serving as officials in central departments such as the Seventh Division, Five Temples and Second Supervisors since the end of Guanzheng. All the people you know are high-ranking officials in these places, including monsters like Tang Xianzu and Gu Xiancheng. After Guanzheng has finished, you will be regarded as Future minister.

And if you are an official and spend half your life dealing with basic-level administrative work, it will be extremely difficult to get promoted. Your end may be someone else's starting point.

But in areas like Guangxi, scholars are more willing to be officials.

Officials have heavy responsibilities, and most of the staff live in the city and work as errands.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also seen this problem, set a few examples of officials who have made contributions in remote provinces, promoted them, and continued to call on young officials to go to these remote provinces, but these are not long-term solutions.

Su Ze was helpless about this. The problem of uneven regional development could not be solved even in the era before Su Ze traveled through time, let alone in this era when transportation and medical care were still underdeveloped.

Su Ze said: "Please stay, there is one more thing, Guizhou."

"The chieftain rebellion in Yunnan and Guizhou has been endless since the mid-Ming Dynasty, especially in Guizhou. The problem of southwestern barbarians is very serious, especially in Bozhou."

Su Ze's worries come from the "Three Major Conquests of Wanli" on the historical timeline of previous lives.

Among them, the most painful thing for the Ming Dynasty was the Bozhou Rebellion.

In the eighteenth year of Wanli, Yinglong, the chieftain of Bozhou, openly rebelled and provoked a war, and the Battle of Bozhou broke out.

Yang Yinglong initially had the advantage and swept through Guizhou and Yunnan. The Ming court responded promptly and immediately mobilized the power of eight provinces, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Huguang, sending 240,000 troops and spending about two million taels of silver to put down the Bozhou Rebellion. .

In the 28th year of Wanli, Yang Yinglong's last stronghold, Hailongtun, was captured by the Ming army. Yang Yinglong committed suicide, and the Battle of Bozhou ended.

The Bozhou Rebellion lasted for nearly ten years, almost exhausting the last military and financial resources of the Ming Dynasty, and weakening the defense power of the Northeast. It was a turning point in the decline of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, there is a saying that "the Ming Dynasty died in Wanli".

If converted according to time, there are still eight years left before the Bozhou Rebellion, but the problem of southwestern barbarians in Guizhou is already very serious.

Now that Yungui is in his hands, whether the Bozhou Rebellion will break out and how large-scale the rebellion will eventually turn into must be investigated clearly.

After Su Ze traveled through time, he understood that there were no "sacred nodes" and "historical moments" in this world.

Yunnan and Guizhou surrendered to the Southeast. This does not mean that the moment of surrender began, and all the problems in Yunnan and Guizhou were solved.

When the southeast comes, the clear sky will come, the world will be better, and the hungry will have enough to eat.

This is not time travel, this is fantasy.

Nowadays, officials in Yungui are still officials of the Ming Dynasty, scholars in Yungui are still scholars in the old era, the land in Yungui is still in the hands of landlords, and the southwestern barbarians in Yungui still have a strong tendency to separate.

It does not mean that life will get better day by day if the court is changed.

Su Ze said:

"The southwestern barbarian problem in Yunnan and Guizhou is very serious. I plan to keep Yu Zigao's fourth brigade and Qi Jiguang's sixth brigade in Yunnan and Guizhou. I will not go north to solve the southwestern barbarian problem first."

After Su Ze finished speaking, Xu Wei and Fang Wanghai both showed unsurprised expressions. Only Lin Liangjun said:

"Grand Governor, do we need so many people?"