"If you ask for someone, you have to look like you're begging!
What qualifications do these beasts have to be my ministers?!
”Zhu Youxiao talked about this matter in the political affairs hall for this reason, and his tone was not very good."
To accept his tribute as a vassal is to compromise, on the surface decent, but without the inside!
How can I let Da Ming suffer a dark loss because of some false fame!
How can false decency be regarded as the dignity of the country!
If the gains and losses of the war are only calculated on paper, it will be even more unreasonable, Zhao Song is very rich, willing to buy peace with money, how can the land become smaller and smaller, and the people who can shelter are getting fewer and fewer, and in the end, they are also destroyed by the people they abandon, this kind of unworthy thing, I don't want to do it!
”Zhu Youxiao continued, and waved the sleeves of his robe suddenly, and suddenly, as if there was a dragon roaring, the ministers of the political hall were silent.After a while, Yuan Keli said: "They also have pity for the border people, but they are also out of public interest, but they are not really willing to ask for such dignity, and please let Your Majesty calm his anger." ”Zhu Youxiao did not deny Yuan Keli's words, but also commented on these ministers of the Lord and faction, and said: "These people not only want to restore the tributary system, but they also want to be disarmed!"
In their eyes, war is a murder weapon, and bravery is against morality, and the stronger the army, the more uneasy they are!
”Yuan Keli smiled bitterly, thinking that his majesty the emperor was really not so easy to fool.Zhu Youxiao looked at Yuan Keli at this time, and continued: "This matter is worthy of public opinion, the existing strategy remains unchanged, using war to promote peace, it is better to spend money to make guns than to send them directly to the enemy, now firearms have long become the main shooting weapons of our Ming Dynasty, and there have been flintlock pistols that do not use arquebuses, so the ban on bows and arrows can be released, and the border people can be allowed to have bows and arrows for self-defense!"
”"In addition, the elite from the Guards and the Brave Guards are drawn out, and several troops are formed, and they go out to fight, and they spend money and food, and they have to put their posture out, and everyone else is waving their fists at you, and you can't still endure this breath, but give others benefits!
As for how to fight, it is the business of the Privy Council, and how to mobilize the military salary is also your business!
”"Yes!
Before this, the minister had begun to plan how to use troops against the Tatars, and I had two disadvantages for the use of troops against the Tatars: first, a large number of young and strong people were placed in the army to continue fighting, which was indeed a mistake in construction; Second, the Tatars are a nomadic people, who have no fixed place to live and are difficult to destroy; In the opinion of the ministers, in response to the first point, you can use the Tatars to fight the Tatars, and go out of the customs to kill the border people of our Ming Dynasty are mainly Tatar middle and upper class nobles, they are barbaric and murderous, and they will not really assimilate, and be my Ming obedient people; But there are also many ordinary Tatars in the Tatars, they have long been due to the difficulty of survival and migrated en masse, or absconded to the Ming Dynasty to be obedient people, the court can not accept the Tatar nobles to pay tribute, but can accept those who are willing to join the Ming Dynasty to be the Ming people, use their skilled cavalry, form more cavalry, so as to fight the Tatars!
As for the second point, since the Tatars are completely annihilated, then according to their pasturelands, the strategic purpose is no longer to annihilate the living forces of the Hulu, but to change the land and return it to the stream, to divide all the pasturelands we occupy into various pieces with barbed wire, wooden stake fences, brick walls, etc., to build cities in each pastoral area, to send officials, and to divide the herdsmen in each pastoral area with grazing land, and to draw a part of the young and strong to continue to occupy other pastoral areas, so that there is no need to draw young and strong men from the whole country to defend a wider territory. ”Yuan Keli responded to a roar and put forward his own suggestions.After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao naturally agreed, and said: "Changing the land and returning to the stream, it is said to be education and salvation to the outside world, all those who are willing to be attached to the people and accept education will be rescued, whether it is actively attached, or the army and the local government take the initiative to capture, they will first gather together to open mines or participate in other projects outside the customs, and concentrate on learning the Chinese language, and the customs of the Han people, those who meet the standards will be given grazing land, and they will be exempted from forced labor, as for taxes, you should formulate them, not high, to be attractive to the Tatar ordinary herdsmen who are willing to belong to it, Then recruit soldiers in pastoral areas with a high degree of sinicization. ”"Remember!"
…… So, after Emperor Zhu Youxiao's tough statement, Daming still decided to send troops.The officers and men of the Guards and the Brave Guards, with the exception of those who were disabled and those who applied for demobilization on their own initiative, were not disarmed, but were transferred and sent to the border towns.According to the strategic arrangement formulated by the Privy Council, this time, the Ming official army was still not aimed at annihilating the Tatar living forces, but according to the characteristics of the Tatars being nomadic people, mainly to possess their pasturelands.The Ming Dynasty has not attacked the Tatars on a large scale since Yongle, and the Orthodox Dynasty once lost.Therefore, after more than 200 years of multiplication, the current Tatar people have already become prosperous, and there are many ordinary herdsmen among the Tatars.When Lu Xiangsheng, the Duke of Anguo, led the Guards to Daning and occupied the pastoral area around Mameng Mountain, the Guards met a large number of Tatar herders grazing in this area.Inside the Tatar was serfdom.These Tatar herdsmen were the slaves of the Tatar nobles, and were controlled by the cavalry under the command of these Tatar nobles.A centurion of the tribe named Edonila also learned of the Ming army's arrival from the scouts, and quickly left the pastoral area with his Tatar herdsmen, waiting for an opportunity to ambush the Guards while they pursued him.However, the Guards did not continue to attack as they had done after occupying the pastoral area, but did not advance further, as they had previously occupied Daning, but instead raised wooden stakes and barbed wire.In addition, a group of attached Tatars who had been gathered in advance to follow the Ming Guards began to be asked to build a city for the Ming Guards.These attached Tatars are all ordinary Tatars who took the initiative to flee to the territory of the Ming Dynasty by the border towns, and they fled to the Ming Dynasty because the original tribe was too exploited and the climate was harsh.Therefore, as long as you can give them a bite to eat, they can do anything, even kill their own people.Not to mention letting them do the work or something.And there are quite a few Tatars of these.Because the economic conditions of the Ming Dynasty are too good, almost every day at the border towns of the Great Wall, many ordinary Tatars who secretly climb the city wall can be caught.Now that the Ming Dynasty has taken the initiative to accept it, these attached Tatars are naturally more active, and there is no doubt that there will be more attached Tatars.Therefore, it was very easy for the Guards to recruit a group of Tatars for grazing after occupying the grazing land around Mameng Mountain.And these Tatars who came to Mamengshan began to be organized by the Ming officials sent here to participate in various construction projects, and to change clothes and customs, and to learn Chinese.Not only in Mamengshan, as the Guards and Yongwei marched in various places, more and more pastoral areas have been encircled as the new ruling area of the Ming Dynasty.The Guards and Brave Guards, who had been reduced to pieces throughout the perimeter of the Great Wall, circled a large number of new pastoral areas outside the pass as the depth of the defense of the border towns.But some of the Tatar rangers, if they wanted to raid again, had to attack these pastoral areas first.However, all pastoral areas were heavily guarded and garrisoned by regular Ming officials, so these rangers had to be discouraged."
Fire!"
Yang Zhan, a guerrilla of the 1st Battalion of the Yongwei Army, shouted loudly, and with the only remaining 1,000 headquarters under his command, he repelled the attack of a group of rangers with the barbed wire, fences and walls of the pastoral area where he was located.