After Su Yonglin learned about the specific situation of the Sixth Corps, he expressed satisfaction with Jiang Liangping's work.
These outstanding talents from poor backgrounds finally got a platform to display their abilities. The Ming Dynasty's recruitment policy was correct and there were no problems.
And this further strengthened Su Yonglin's idea of curbing the so-called "Jiangnan Old Man" group's bastard idea of trying to exchange seniority for privileges.
If you have the ability, go ahead. If you don't, don't take advantage of it.
The first confrontation between the two sides ended in Su Yonglin's victory. As for whether there was a second time, Su Yonglin believed that there was, but whether it was the second, third, or fourth time, whenever there was a problem, Su Yonglin's attitude was to be decisive. No compromise.
In this military operation against Xiliao, the Sixth Corps will be dispatched together with the Second Corps.
According to the latest military arrangements, the Second Corps still needs to retain a considerable part of its troops in Sichuan and Guanzhong. There is only one cavalry unit directly under the Army and Corps that can go into battle, with almost 40,000 people. The Sixth Corps is fully mobilized.
However, considering that there would only be 20,000 cavalry, which was slightly insufficient in terms of cavalry, Su Yonglin also planned to dispatch 10,000 Huben Guards cavalry to participate in the battle, so that would be 30,000 cavalry.
In addition, Su Yonglin also plans to mobilize 20,000 cavalry from the Tata'er tribe and the Wanggu tribe to accompany the army in the battle. Counting the 30,000 Ming army cavalry, there are 50,000 cavalry, which is almost equal to the number of cavalry mobilized in Xiliao.
In any era, 50,000 cavalry is an extremely powerful armed force that can destroy a country. Generally, medium powers do not dare to compete with it. Only continent-level powers can confront it head-on and come up with a sufficient number of cavalry to fight. .
It's not that Su Yonglin can't bring out more cavalry. With full mobilization, Su Yonglin can bring out 200,000-level powerful cavalry across the world.
I want to save some money by doing this, because the consumption of war horses is really high.
Secondly, under the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's border policy, the Tata'er tribe and the Wanggu tribe had carried out smooth trade with the Ming Dynasty in recent years and made a lot of money. It was time to pay him back with some blood.
Ever since Su Yonglin personally conquered the grasslands and wiped out several grassland tribes, the Mongolian grasslands were basically ruled by the Ming Dynasty.
The Wanggu tribe and the Tata'er tribe, as the eldest sons of the Ming Dynasty, moved north to guard the border for the Ming Dynasty. With the Ming Dynasty at their backs, they carried out trade and mutual trade with the Ming Dynasty to make money while showing off their power to the "forest tribes" further north. They lived a good life. So unhappy.
Su Yonglin specially set up a grassland market on the grassland under the management of Datong Province, and regularly organized merchants to go to the local area to trade with merchants from Wanggu and Tataer tribes. Everyone gave each other discounts and gave each other profits. Hello, I am hello, everyone, make money. It's a pleasure to make money.
Of course, this money is not earned in vain.
Daming has plenty of ways to earn back the money they earned.
Once the leaders of these two tribes made money, their lives quickly became luxurious. Today, they are the bulk buyers of some of the state-owned luxury goods production factories preserved in the Zhongdu area.
They used the large amounts of wealth they exploited from their herdsmen to buy frantically the "luxury goods" specially provided to them by the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Sichuan brocade, high-grade green salt, handmade high-end gold and silver jewelry, limited-edition high-end tea shipped thousands of miles from the south of the Yangtze River, etc. They don't buy them by piece. purchase.
Moreover, when they buy things, they basically don’t look at the price anymore. They only buy the expensive ones if they don’t buy the right one. The purchasing team they sent is so arrogant that they can empty out half of the luxury goods storage warehouse with just a finger. .
Su Yonglin also heard that starting from the seventh year of Hongwu, the Wanggu tribe and the Tata'er tribe started a "tide against wealth."
After those respectable tribal leaders made a lot of money through business and exploitation, they decorated themselves with high-end luxury goods produced in the Ming Dynasty to make themselves look wealthy.
It can be said that all the clothes they eat, drink, and eat now are produced in the Ming Dynasty. Anyone with any trace of their own origin will be ridiculed as "poor people who have never seen the world."
It is said that among the wealthy leaders of the Wanggu tribe and the Tata'er tribe, the basic necessities of clothing, food, housing and transportation are fully Ming-style. Any preservation of any prairie traditions would make these leaders feel ashamed.
In order to show their wealth and difference, they carried out many "changing customs".
First of all, the staple food must be rice. You can eat rice and stir-fry vegetables while sitting at the table with bowls and chopsticks. You cannot eat meat around a boiler or fire like in the past.
Not only is that rude, it's unhygienic, and it's even more embarrassing.
It is most elegant to sit upright in front of the table and eat with perfect tableware like the Ming Dynasty people did.
Moreover, you cannot eat rice produced anywhere. You must eat the most expensive high-end rice produced in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty to be considered a decent person.
In the past, rice was produced in the Huaihe and Lianghuai regions of the Ming Dynasty. Now, rice is produced in the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions of the Ming Dynasty. You must pay attention to the place of production.
Then there's the drinking.
The mare's kumiss that our ancestors drank for many years was abandoned by the chieftains. Nowadays, only a respectable person has to drink [Super Fine Wine·Bamboo Leaf Green] from the Zhongdu Daming State-owned Brewery Factory exclusively for the palace.
In terms of eating meat, the cattle, sheep and horses in the grassland are obviously high-end meat sources. Su Yonglin likes to eat grassland mutton, but they don't. They think the food they produce is very low-grade, so they have to eat the food from the Ming Dynasty.
For mutton, goat meat produced in the Jiangxi region of the Ming Dynasty must be eaten.
Beef must be yellow beef produced in the Henan region of the Ming Dynasty.
When eating mutton and beef, you cannot use ordinary salt for seasoning. You must use the legendary "Super Green Salt·Sapphire Salt" exclusively used by the Ming Dynasty Palace.
Then the unique seasoning soy sauce of the Ming Dynasty must also be used, and the [Super Grade Soy Sauce·Black Jade Soy Sauce] brewed by Zhongdu Soy Sauce Factory and specially made for the imperial palace.
When it comes to wearing clothes, from head to toe inside and out, they should be made of Shu brocade. If you really can’t use Shu brocade, you will use other materials. If people find that there is something about you that is not Shu brocade, To make people laugh.
Anything used at home, as long as it can be shown to outsiders, as long as the Shu brocade that can be used, it is all Shu brocade, and even Shu brocade can be divided into three, six or nine grades. If the [low-grade Shu brocade] in their eyes is used, it will be divided into three grades. For a few minutes, he was ridiculed for being old-fashioned and ignorant.
After hearing these things, Su Yonglin felt quite dumbfounded.
Because the so-called high-end products they pursue and the high-end products they pay extremely high prices for are actually mostly marketed. In fact, they are nothing at all, and the cost price is pitifully low.
Except for Shu Brocade, which is a serious high-end product, the others are actually relatively watery.
