"You have to act like you're begging for help! What qualifications do these guys who are worse than beasts have to be my ministers?!"
Zhu Youxiao talked about it in the Political Affairs Hall, and his tone was not very good.
"Accepting his tribute as a vassal is a compromise. It looks decent on the surface, but it has no substance! How can I let the Ming Dynasty suffer secret losses because of some false reputation! How can false dignity be regarded as the dignity of the country! If the gains and losses of the war are just a calculation of paper It is even more unreasonable to consider the gains and losses on the surface. Zhao Song is very rich and is willing to buy peace with money. However, the more he buys, the smaller the land and the fewer people he can protect. In the end, he is still controlled by himself. I will not do such an unworthy thing as annihilating the abandoned people!"
Zhu Youxiao continued speaking and waved his robe sleeves violently. Suddenly, there was a roar like a dragon, and all the ministers in the political hall were silent.
After a while, Yuan Keli said: "They also sympathize with the border residents, but it is out of public interest, but they are not really willing to be so dignified. Please calm down, Your Majesty."
Zhu Youxiao did not deny Yuan Keli's words, but also commented on these peace ministers, saying: "These people not only want to restore the tribute system, but also want to disarm! In their eyes, war is a weapon, and bravery is It's against virtue, the stronger the army is, the more uneasy they become!"
Yuan Keli smiled bitterly, thinking that his Majesty the Emperor was indeed not that easy to fool.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao looked at Yuan Keli and continued: "This matter can be argued against. The existing strategy remains unchanged. We use war to promote peace. We would rather spend money to make guns and cannons than give them directly to the enemy. Now firearms It has long become the main shooting weapon of our Ming Dynasty, and flintlock guns that do not require match ropes have appeared, so the ban on bows and arrows can be lifted and border residents can be allowed to own bows and arrows for self-defense!"
"In addition, you can draw elites from the Guards and the Brave Guards to form several troops and go out to fight. It costs money and food. You have to show your posture. Others are shaking their fists at you. You can't tolerate this. The tone is good for others! As for how to fight, that is a matter for the Privy Council, and how to mobilize military pay is also your business!"
"Yes! Before that, I had already started planning how to use troops against the Tatars. When the Ming Dynasty uses troops against the Tatars, there are two disadvantages:
First, placing a large number of young men in the army to continue fighting is indeed a wrong construction;
Second, the Tatars are a nomadic people who live in no fixed place and are difficult to annihilate;
In my opinion, regarding the first point, Tatars can be used to fight Tatars and go out to kill our Ming Dynasty. The border residents of our Ming Dynasty are mainly middle- and upper-class Tatar nobles. They are barbaric and murderous and will not truly assimilate. Do our Ming Dynasty obedient people;
However, there are also many ordinary Tatars among the Tatars. They have already migrated en masse due to difficulties in survival, or fled to the Ming Dynasty to become obedient citizens. The court cannot accept Tatar nobles to pay tribute and become ministers, but it can accept those Tatars who are willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and become obedient citizens of the Ming Dynasty. People, use their skilled cavalry and archery to form more cavalry to fight the Tatars!
As for the second point, since the Tatars have been completely wiped out, then based on their pastureland, the strategic goal is no longer to annihilate the Hulu effective forces, but to change the soil and return it to the original, using barbed wire, wooden fences, brick walls, etc. All the occupied pastoral lands were divided into various areas, and cities were built in each pastoral area to send officials. The herdsmen in each pastoral area were allocated pasture land, and some of the young people were allocated to continue to occupy other pastoral areas. This way, there was no need to deploy young people from across the country to guard the area. A vast territory. "
Yuan Keli roared in response and put forward his own suggestions.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao naturally agreed very much, and said: "Reforming the native land and returning to the current situation is said to be enlightenment and salvation to the outside world. All those who are willing to join the people and accept enlightenment will be saved, regardless of whether they take the initiative to join in. Those captured by the army and local governments were first gathered to mine or participate in other projects outside the customs, and concentrated on learning Chinese. In line with Han customs, those who met the target were given grazing land and were exempted from corvee. As for taxes, , you should formulate it, it should not be too high, it should be attractive to ordinary Tatar herdsmen who are willing to surrender, and then recruit troops in pastoral areas with a high degree of Chineseization."
"Please remember this!"
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Therefore, after Emperor Zhu Youxiao's tough statement, Ming Dynasty decided to send troops.
Except for the disabled and those who voluntarily applied for demobilization, the officers and soldiers of the Guards and Brave Guards were not disarmed, but were drawn out and sent to border towns.
According to the strategic arrangement formulated by the Privy Council, this time, the Ming army was still not aiming to annihilate the Tatar forces, but based on the characteristics of the Tatars as a nomadic people, to occupy their pastureland.
The Ming Dynasty had not attacked the Tatars on a large scale since Yongle, and the Zhengtong Dynasty even lost once.
Therefore, after two hundred years of multiplication and reproduction, the current Tatars have already become a prosperous population, and there are many ordinary herders among the Tatars.
When Anguo Gong Lu Xiangsheng led the Guards to Daning and occupied the pastoral areas near Mameng Mountain, the Guards stayed up all night and encountered a large number of Tatar herdsmen grazing in this area.
Tatar internal serfdom.
These Tatar herdsmen are equivalent to slaves of the Tatar nobles, and are managed by the cavalry under the command of these Tatar nobles.
A centurion of the tribe named Edonila also learned about the arrival of the Ming army from the scouts, and quickly left the pastoral area with his Tatar herdsmen, waiting for an opportunity to be pursued by the Guards. When he is on his own, he will ambush him.
However, the Guards did not continue to attack as before after occupying the pastoral area. Instead, they did not advance further as they did when they occupied Daning. Instead, they drove up wooden stakes and pulled up barbed wire.
In addition, a group of internal Tatars who were gathered in advance and came here with the Ming Guards also began to be asked to build cities for the Ming Guards.
These internal Tatars are ordinary Tatars who were accepted by the border towns and fled to the Ming Dynasty on their own initiative. They fled to the Ming Dynasty because they were exploited too hard in their original tribes and the harsh climate made them unable to live. .
Therefore, for these internal Tatars, as long as they can give them a mouthful of food, they can do anything, even kill their own people.
Not to mention making them work or something.
And there are many Tatars among them.
Because the economic conditions of the Ming Dynasty were so good, many ordinary Tatars who sneaked over the city wall could be caught at the checkpoints on each side of the Great Wall almost every day.
Now that the Ming court has taken the initiative to accept these internal Tatars, they will naturally be more active, and there will undoubtedly be more internal Tatars.
Therefore, after the Guards occupied the pasture land in Mameng Mountain, it was very easy to recruit a group of Tatars to herd.
The Tatars who came to Mameng Mountain were organized by the Ming Dynasty officials sent here to participate in the construction of various projects, change their customs, and learn Chinese.
Not only Mameng Mountain, as the Guards and the Brave Guards marched everywhere, more and more pastoral areas were occupied as the new ruling areas of the Ming Dynasty.
The entire periphery of the Great Wall was broken into pieces. The Guards and the Brave Guards formed a large number of new pastoral areas outside the pass to serve as the depth of defense for border towns.
But when some Tatar rangers wanted to raid again, they had to attack these pastoral areas first.
However, each pastoral area was heavily fortified and had regular Ming army troops stationed there, so these rangers had to stay away.
"fire!"
Yang Zhan, a guerrilla from the first battalion of the Brave Guards, shouted loudly, and with the only remaining one thousand headquarters under his command, he repelled the attack of a group of guerrillas with the help of the barbed wire fences, fences and walls in the pastoral area.
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