Zhu Houzhao obviously listened very carefully, he said: "It's so vast outside the Ming Dynasty, but it's mostly a wild place, Ye Aiqing, don't lie to me, the desert is all wasteland, North Korea is bitterly cold, and the Japanese country is just a mountainous island, the south is full of miasma, and to the west is the yellow sand, do you think I don't know?"
Zhu Houzhao has obviously studied these issues.
The gains and losses of the territories of previous dynasties, how could a person like Zhu Houzhao, who is full of fighting and killing, not know To put it bluntly, the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty have occupied the most fertile land at the moment, and other places, even if they get it, it will only outweigh the losses.
There is no food growing in the field, so what is the use of spending so much effort and dying so many people, you can't have a barren land.
In fact, the ancients were not fools, expanding their territory, there was no such motivation at all, this is like a rich landowner, but every day in vain to rob a few poor mountains in the mountains next door, the brain is sick, even if you rob it, do not consider that people in the mountains are more biao, a tendon in the brain, you rob him of the land, he may not think about you every day, when you are alone, he will give you a hammer in the back of your head, even if you rob the land, you have to ask someone to rent it, and plant the land all year round, must not be able to support their own tenants, who is willing to do this kind of lack of Dejia's brains It makes sense that the big fish of the Ming Dynasty only stare at the small fish and shrimp in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, everyone is not stupid, there are many fish bones outside, and they are all fry and fry, no chewiness.
Ye Chunqiu was very pleased, Zhu Houzhao really understood his theory thoroughly, and he was afraid of playing the piano to the cow.
Ye Chunqiu pursed his lips and said: "Your Majesty is very reasonable, if it is said now, it is just farming, this wild land, it is naturally unprofitable, but has Your Majesty ever thought about it Before the glass came out, those ores in the mountains were also worthless, if there were no iron tools, those iron ores and stones would be no different, if it weren't for the need to build a house, and the trees in the mountains were worth a few dollars, Your Majesty, they are not worthless, but the big fish have not yet discovered their value, and what Your Majesty should do is to let the big fish discover this value, so that they find it profitable. ” These words gave Zhu Houzhao enough shock.
Yes, in the past, those stones were really worthless, but because of the recent fire of crystal, this stone has become more and more sold, it is said that many people in the slack time, are secretly running to quarry and sell for money, stone can be exchanged for money, wood can also be, everything can be money, of course, the most important thing, the premise is that you can make crystal, but also sell this crystal.
Zhu Houzhao is actually an extremely smart person, and he fell into deep thinking at this time.
Ye Chunqiu didn't speak anymore, and sat on the crippled chicken butt and looked up at the sky.
There are stars in the sky, and it seems that Ye Chunqiu really clarified his path at this time.
The ancients were never stupid, it is precisely because they are not stupid, so they established a tributary system, so they have been stuck in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, at most, for the needs of security, add a few capitals, this is not because the scholars love peace, this kind of nonsense is particularly deceitful, in fact, you see that they protect their own interests, one by one diao have to fly, the reform of the past dynasties, once the scholars move the knife, let them give a little benefit, whether it is the old and new party struggle of the Northern Song Dynasty, to the reform of Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty in history, It's all bloody bayonets, take advantage of me, and kill your whole family.
You see, just for the slightest privilege, they can tear you apart, fight with you, and move with you in earnest, the class that really loves peace, and even their own people can see the red with bayonets, and the class that can kill can fly, will suddenly love you, a group of barbarians, and can't bear to invade you.
You are so funny to me, I really think that this group of elites in the Celestial Empire system are stupid They choose to maintain this system and choose to love peace, there is only one reason, that is, it is unprofitable for you group of poor people who only nest in the mountains, miasma, weeds, and deserts, uncle, I don't even bother to rob you, and you deserve to let Uncle Ben compete with you for profit, and you don't look in the mirror, oh, you are so poor that you don't even have a bronze mirror, don't take it, obediently come to Daming to pay tribute, and paste gold on the face of the master, uncle, I will send you a few ingots of silver, and then go back to where you came from.
This is the truth of the facts, there is no so-called peace-loving, and there is no benevolence in all directions, and any lofty theory is essentially evolved according to the actual situation.
Zhu Houzhao sat quietly, hugged his knees, and slowly began to think.
Because of this, you only need to guard your own one-third of an acre of land, so the court doesn't need any elite soldiers at all, these martial artists are really eye-catching, you just need to guard the pass, since you are useless, of course you have to belittle you, of course you have to weaken you, is it that the world is peaceful, the country does not need to be aggressive, and you have to be raised to be fierce and fierce The encroachment and annexation of internal land does not need to rely on the army, but only on its own privileges.
To deal with the chaotic people, even those scum-like military households, it is enough to be useful.
So in essence, although Zhu Houzhao's goal is there, no matter what he does, there are countless people who are passively pulling him, he wants to strengthen the army, the cabinet opposes it, the six ministries oppose it, and the scholars in the world are opposed, he wants to adopt a more active national policy towards the Hu people, and everyone also swarms to pull him and reprimand him fiercely, don't mess around.
Is this nonsense to some extent, yes, because the imperial court does not need to exterminate Hu at all, what the imperial court wants is to prevent Hu, you spend the world's money and food, recruit dozens of millions of troops, go out of the pass, and kill the Tatars so that they don't even recognize the, but what's the use, do you let the Han people migrate to raise horses Finally, you still have to retreat to the pass after all, and then, although the Tatars are gone, there will be the rise of the Warats, there will be no Warats, there will be the Huns, there will be Xianbei people, there will be Turks, there will be Khitans, in essence, When you can't make effective use of the desert and can't operate for a long time, then you certainly follow the example of the Han Dynasty and exchange the full treasury for the submission of the Xiongnu, but in the end, in a few years, in this desert land, a new strong neighbor will appear.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the starry sky from afar, and he suddenly let out a long breath: "I understand." ” He understood.
Then he stood up and looked at Ye Chunqiu with a smile.
"I, in fact, I don't know how to drive the big fish out to sea, but I can trust Aiqing, and there is Lao Aiqing in this matter." aa2705221: