My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 217: Fight against local tyrants to divide their land
"During the previous dynasty, the Yuan court launched a massive attack on Annan. Although the local tyrants in Annan successfully resisted the attack of the Yuan army by taking advantage of the geographical advantages, the small peasant economy in Annan suffered a serious blow in the process.

The invasion of the Yuan Dynasty led to the destruction of social stability. Landlords and bureaucrats took the opportunity to plunder land and intensified the exploitation of farmers.

This resulted in many farmers losing their land, and in order to survive, they had to mortgage their land or become slaves. This situation exacerbated the phenomenon of land annexation, which has seriously affected the social structure and economic foundation of Annan today.

However, this is a golden opportunity for the Ming Dynasty!
Old Zhu, you have to understand that there are also noble families in Annan!"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but stand up. There was a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he had received some revelation, but he just couldn't figure it out!

"Annan's government was derived from the Central Plains dynasty, and its social structure was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in fact, the ruling structure of Annan was dominated by landlords and bureaucrats, who controlled a large amount of land.

After the Ming Dynasty overthrows the Li Jixian regime, a large number of landlords and bureaucrats will also fall. Then how will you distribute the large tracts of land that will be vacant, Old Zhu?"

"Kill without blood, kill without blood!"

Zhu Yuanzhang finally couldn't help but shouted out loud in his bedroom. At this moment, he actually had a creepy feeling and once again sighed that it was a good thing that Lao Li was on his side, otherwise he would really be killed by him!

He admired Li Han's wisdom to the extreme.

The palace maids and eunuchs outside the door were frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang's roar, but looking at his majesty's appearance, he did not seem angry.

What's going on?
"What a great trick! This is a way of doing a favor and being generous to others! Old Li, this time Old Zhu is really convinced!"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but continue reading with excitement.

"In my opinion, the extra land can be distributed to the farmers. This will not only win the hearts of many Annanese people in a short period of time, but also further reshape Annan's social structure."

The more Zhu Yuanzhang watched, the more frightened he became. Using land to win people's hearts was already the limit of what he could think of. Could it be that Old Li had another trick up his sleeve?

"The Ming Dynasty wants to implement complete rule over Annan. Think about it, where will the greatest resistance come from?"

The biggest resistance should not come from the people. Unless the Ming Dynasty massacres the city or imposes tyranny, the uncivilized people will not care who the ruler is.

This is different from the Ming Dynasty. The people of the Ming Dynasty have been civilized, and now, under the promotion of documentaries, they have initially established national consciousness.

We know that there is no home without a country, and nowadays, everyone seems to have become what Lao Li calls a nationalist.

Every day they were clamoring to destroy this or do that. Many scholars even wrote articles in newspapers asking the court to continue external expansion. They wanted to seal the Wolf's Lair and carve a stone tablet at Yanran, so that the Ming Dynasty could repeat the glory of the Tang Dynasty and all nations would come to pay tribute.

This momentum even frightened him, the head of the empire.

Uh...he learned the word nationalist from Li Han.

Then the biggest resistance should come from the aristocratic class, Zhu Yuanzhang thought, because in the Ming Dynasty, the contradiction between imperial power and the aristocratic class was also quite sharp.

However, under Lao Li's various tricks, especially the initial establishment of industry, the social economy has been taken back by the court. Now the Ming Dynasty's gentry is suppressed by the imperial power and can no longer cause any trouble. "The biggest resistance to the Ming Dynasty is the local gentry. The most direct way for the Ming Dynasty to rule is to damage their interests.

In order for the Ming Dynasty to achieve long-term peace and stability in Annan, these noble families must be eradicated.

Old Li, you really are a genius!
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but swear. You have played this man who is using someone else's knife to kill someone and someone else's flower to offer to Buddha to the extreme!

Human desires are endless. Once the farmers' appetites are aroused by the land, they will turn into ferocious beasts, extending their fangs towards the landlords and gentry. In their eyes, the gentry is just a huge piece of fat meat!

Besides, they have the Ming Dynasty backing them up.

"So how to solve the power vacuum after the aristocracy is overthrown? The Ming Dynasty can either directly send officials to govern, or reopen the imperial examination in Annan to recruit officials. Of course, the questions for the imperial examination will naturally be set by the Ming Dynasty. I don't need to teach you this.

If scholars in Annan wanted to take the imperial examinations, they had to read Chinese and write Chinese characters, thus completing cultural assimilation without realizing it.

The first is to seize power in Annan, and the second is to make Annan completely loyal to the Ming Dynasty and become a member of the Chinese nation wholeheartedly. "

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was already sweating profusely. He once again witnessed Li Han's strategy, which was linked together and was even more exciting than the chain of tricks.

At this moment, he already had plans for Annan's future in his mind.

“After talking about Annan, let’s now talk about the issues that need to be solved urgently.

"The navigation problem you mentioned in your letter is easy to solve. I sent you a batch of instruments called sextants, which can be used for navigation and determining the position of the fleet. I have attached the specific usage to the letter. You can ask the officials in charge of navigation to study it."

It turns out that those instruments that I couldn't understand were the sextants used for navigation in sailing?
Zhu Yuanzhang picked one up at random and looked at it carefully. He found that he couldn't understand it at all. He picked up the instructions again and saw something like "The principle of the sextant is very simple: the reflection angle of light is equal to the incident angle..."

His face suddenly became dark. How could this be easy? He couldn't understand it at all!
Forget it, I'll just leave it to those sailing guys to study it themselves, and I'll continue reading the letter.

"There is another most important issue, which is the needle-fired gun bullets you mentioned. Once they get wet, they can't be fired. Regarding this, my suggestion is to upgrade the weapons and equipment comprehensively to solve this problem once and for all."

Comprehensively upgrade weapons and equipment?

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became interested and excited. Could it be that Old Li had sent him another peerless magic weapon?

"Although the needle-fire gun is a huge improvement over the previous firearms, it also has obvious shortcomings. The firing rate is slow, and the bullets are easily affected by moisture and difficult to store. Therefore, I have brought you a brand new weapon - the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle!"

Semi-automatic rifle?
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew the meaning of rifle. A needle-fire gun was a rifle, but he was a little confused about what semi-automatic meant. Moreover, the name Type 56 sounded strange. Why use a number as the name?

"Previously, needle-fired rifles were called bolt-action rifles because you had to pull the bolt once to fire a round, and you had to reload the round every time you fired, which was very inconvenient to operate.

As for the semi-automatic rifle, as the name implies, you don't need to pull the bolt by hand. You just need to load the bullets and you can fire continuously. The rifle has a capacity of ten rounds, which means that you can fire ten times with one bullet!"

(End of this chapter)