Good guy, he is driving the tiger to devour the wolf again. Gao Pragmatic has really used this trick to perfection. During the Battle of Monan, he drove the tiger to devour the wolf and defeated Chahar with Tumut. This Western Region plan actually once again drives the tiger to devour the wolf. Even this time it is not just a simple drive to drive the tiger to devour the wolf. In fact, it is also an attempt to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
The Ordos Ministry seemed to be in bad luck. Not only did they not use the strength of their men, but they had to change teams after winning the battle. I just don’t know if the Ordos Ministry would be so miserable that they would be homeless if they didn’t win.
But after thinking about it, Zhu Yijun felt that Gao pragmatism should not be so harsh. In essence, Gao pragmatism is not a very harsh person, and he is generally not used to forcing people into desperation.
Zhu Yijun believed that Gao Pragmatic's approach was to kill two birds with one stone. He would not only regain the Hetao in the most relaxed manner, but also use the Ordos Department to contribute to the future development of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions. He might even have the Ordos Department serve as a caretaker for the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions. bodyguard.
Not letting go of any oil or water is really the way to become the richest man in the Ming Dynasty through doing business.
As for whether the Ordos Ministry will be unconvinced, Zhu Yijun is not worried. Gao Pragmatic has always been the best at using profit drivers to work for him. He will definitely give the Ordos Ministry a big pie when the time comes, and this pie must be the type that the Mongols will think they have a good chance of winning. In this matter, Zhu Yijun completely trusted Gao's pragmatic methods.
Thinking of this, the emperor couldn't hide the smile on his face. He laughed and said: "I am so pragmatic that I feel like I have won a million soldiers."
The elders of the pavilion had different moods, but they all congratulated each other like a spring breeze. The emperor accepted the congratulations with a smile, and then said: "Okay, now that the post-war arrangements have been roughly finalized, let's talk about returning to Beijing pragmatically. Mr. Shen, what do you do now? look?"
To be honest, Shen Shixing really didn't want to answer this question first, because he really didn't have much confidence in military affairs issues, and this question happened to involve the post-war military layout.
Shen Shixing had no choice but to ponder and delay for a while to see if he could organize his words and say a few words that would be correct, but no one else could figure out what he meant no matter how hard he tried. However, to his surprise, he only took a few breaths before someone came out to help him.
The person who came to his rescue was Liang Menglong. The elder who was in charge of the work of the Ministry of War said: "It seems that Yuan Fu may want to consider it comprehensively from multiple angles. In this case, how about Menglong come and talk about it first?" What are some military ideas for Yuan Fu to refer to?"
Shen Shixing was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "If Mr. Mingquan is interested, then Mr. Lao Mingquan will give you some advice first."
"I don't dare, I don't dare. We are all working for the emperor. Yuan Fu made a strong statement." Liang Menglong received the permission from the chief assistant and gestured to everyone present: "Your Majesty, Yuan Fu, colleagues, according to the plan just now, after the war we The Ming Dynasty will directly control the old land of the former Chahar tribe, while Mobei Waikarkah will be handed over to Tumut, and Alukorqin in Hulunbuir will be handed over to Nenhorqin.
Under such a general situation, a situation was actually formed with me as the core and Tumut and Horqin as the left and right wings. Correspondingly, Tumut's strength is far better than Horqin, let alone Tumut's strength against Horqin. The Ordos Department also has great influence. Therefore, although both my left and right wings are subordinates, my left wing is strong and my right wing is weak. This point needs special attention.
It stands to reason that Tumut has surrendered for a long time. Whether it is the current king of Shunyi, Bhan Naji, or his son, the former military governor, Qianshi Erdemutu, they are all loyal people who have devoted themselves to guarding the border and fighting for the court. It is unlikely that he would betray the imperial court. However, the formulation of major national policies cannot be solely based on personal loyalty, so our officers and soldiers should also focus on their defense deployment. "
Shen Shixing admired his analysis quite a lot and said with approval: "Well, what Mr. Mingquan said is correct. The country's political affairs should really deal with the situation and not the people. In this case, Mr. Mingquan's idea must be that the soldiers are in the west. Are the soldiers in the east?"
Liang Menglong said: "It's roughly like this, but it's not complete. In Menglong's humble opinion, if our army is ten points, then three points should be in the middle, that is Daning; three points should be in the east, that is Chahanhot; four points should be in the east, that is Chahanhot; If it is divided in the west, it is necessary to choose another city to the west of Daning to garrison."
When he said this, Shen Shixing frowned. Although Liang Menglong actually helped him just now, it was too rude to say some words that were inconvenient, but he still couldn't help but hesitate and said: "There may not be a suitable city in the fortress. If If so, wouldn’t the imperial court have to spend another huge sum of money to build a new city?”
After all, Shen Shixing is the chief assistant. Although he is not very knowledgeable in military affairs, he still needs to pay attention to spending money - even if he really needs to spend money, it should be a pragmatic headache.
But this was not over yet. Xu Guo, the second auxiliary, also had some doubts about this and asked: "Just now, Duke Mingquan said that the garrison should be focused, but apart from the core of Daning, four troops are stationed in the west and three troops are stationed in the east. There is a gap between them." It’s too small, how can it be called focused?”
The cabinet ministers were still discussing. As the emperor, Zhu Yijun would not interfere at will at this time, but he also felt that the two questions of Shen Shixing and Xu Guo made some sense, so he immediately looked towards Liang Menglong to see how he would answer.
Liang Menglong was very calm after hearing this. He smiled and said to Shen Shixing: "Yuanfu, it's not that difficult to fortify and build a city. What Yuan Dynasty can do well, how can it be that our Ming Dynasty can't do it well? What's more, this time Building a city is different from building a new city in Daning. There is no need to worry about defense issues, and the cost will be much less than building a new city in Daning. Although Menglong is not a scheming prime minister, Duke Huanzhou is here now. You can confirm it with Duke Huanzhou."
Wu Dui met several scorching gazes and said calmly: "Yes, the cost should not be more than half of the cost of building a new Daning City."
Shen Shixing muttered: "Daning City spent 700,000 taels..."
This time he started to stand up, but Wu Dui interrupted him rudely and said: "Yuan Fu's calculation is wrong. The cost of repairing Daning City itself is less than 200,000 yuan. Not only did it cost about Three years, and including the Wengcheng, the inner city, the government office, and the military camp, if divided into each year, the cost would only be 70,000 taels.
As for the so-called 700,000 taels, the remaining 500,000 taels were mostly spent on mobilizing troops and enriching the people in the city. They were considered the cost of migration, not the cost of building the city. How can we make a general statement? "
This time Wang Xijue intervened and defended Shen Shixing: "No matter how much money is spent, it will be spent on Daning City, right? Since Daning City has to spend all this money, isn't it necessary to build another city to the west of it? Spent?"
"What Mr. Jing Shi said is wrong." Liang Menglong shook his head and said: "When we built Daning City, we lacked experience, so we did not rationally utilize and allocate resources. Later, Da Situ proposed to build Fuxin City, and acted as follows The imperial court found a way to kill two birds with one stone by building a new city - immigrants should be refugees rather than forcibly expropriating households in a certain place."
He explained: "Refugees staying in the same place because their property and houses are in ruins actually become a hidden danger in the local area. If they are not careful, they may become a mob. Therefore, although relocating them costs money, it is always cheaper than using troops after the incident." many.
In recent years, disasters of varying degrees have occurred in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, where the number of victims and refugees is increasing. If it can be moved to Monan New City, it can not only enrich the local area, but also divide its land and order it to be cultivated. Although it will cost a lot, if we look back after a few or ten years, I am afraid there will be a surplus. "
The "surplus" he refers to is of course coming from future taxes, and everyone knows this. However, Wang Xijue obviously disagreed and said: "Although the land in Monan is vast, it is not cultivated land. How can it be cultivated if Mingquan Gong orders it to be cultivated?"
Originally, this statement was generally accepted by everyone. After all, it was almost a consensus that there was no cultivated land outside the Great Wall.
However, something unexpected happened this time. Liang Menglong smiled and asked: "Tumote has been farming for decades, and has even opened up hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the past twenty years. How can we say that there is no cultivated land in Monan?"
In fact, he is exaggerating. In fact, Tumut has not cultivated so much cultivated land. It should be more than 100,000 acres. However, none of the cabinet members know the exact data. They only know that Tumut has cultivated a lot in recent years. The land is used for farming, and the people farming are mainly Han people who fled north in the early years and their descendants.
There are now about hundreds of thousands of Han people in Tumut, and on average they have about one acre of land per person. However, the numbers don’t work out like this. Not everyone here is a young and middle-aged man, and not all young and middle-aged men are just farming.
In fact, there are only about 40,000 Han laborers engaged in agricultural production such as farming in Tumut, and other elderly, weak, women and children account for more than half. Others are engaged in other professions, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, bamboo craftsmen, merchants, and other handicraft manufacturers.
Of course, no matter what the actual data is, at least Liang Menglong did prove the idea that agricultural production can be carried out in Monan through this example - and this is also true.
However, Liang Menglong still refused to give up, and then raised his hand towards Zhu Yijun and said: "I have good news. The Pope knows that in addition to growing wheat, Da Situ also told me that he got a kind of wheat from the Spanish. A new crop whose roots are as big as goose eggs, edible and extremely filling..."
"Oh, you mean potatoes, right? I already know about this. Pragmatism even treated him to a treat, and I tasted it with him." Zhu Yijun laughed and said nonchalantly.
He said it easily, but it shocked several elders. Shen Shixing, Xu Guo, Wang Jiaping, and Wang Xijue stood up at the same time, and then each of them was stunned for a moment. Finally, Shen Shixing, as the chief minister, spoke on behalf of everyone and solemnly said: "Your Majesty, the son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall! This time the state is coming. We have not yet learned about the warmth and coldness of an object (a term used in traditional Chinese medicine, which basically means "property" at this time), so how can your Majesty try it yourself? This move is too casual, and it is really disrespecting the world. I hope your Majesty will be careful in the future!"
As an assistant minister and the first assistant, Shen Shixing does have the status and responsibility to say this. But who knew that Zhu Yijun at this time was no longer the young emperor of the past, and could be rounded and squashed by his ministers. Now he has destroyed Can Yuan, and is the real master of the Ming Dynasty and the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, Zhu Yijun waved his hand indifferently and said: "I accept the kindness of Yuan Fu and all the gentlemen, but I will eat it for three months first, and then I will be invited to have a meal after confirming that everything is fine. How can I Why don't you know the meaning of "warming and cold" in it? Is it okay to eat it pragmatically, but something will happen to me after eating it? There is absolutely no reason for this."
He didn't care what the four assistant ministers had to say, and turned to ask Liang Menglong directly: "I have eaten this, it is indeed very filling, and it even tastes pretty good, but what does this have to do with what Liang Aiqing just talked about? Oh, let me guess... Could it be that Monan can grow potatoes?"
Of course! Just kidding, potatoes can be grown not only in Monan, but also in Siberia!
Of course, Liang Menglong didn't know about the idea of "sending you to dig potatoes in Siberia". He just repeated some of what Gao Pingshi said to him, and then said with a smile: "The emperor clearly sees thousands of miles. Da Situ did say that there are people in Monan." Many areas are extremely suitable for growing potatoes, and Chahar is one of them."
He was right in paraphrasing this. That was Gao Pragmatic's original words. In fact, the so-called Monan is basically Inner Mongolia in later generations, and Inner Mongolia was indeed one of the three main potato producing areas in China later. The output was not high, but very high - the annual output was as high as about 1.4 million tons.
Note that this is "1.4 million tons", which is 1.4 billion kilograms and 2.8 billion kilograms. Considering that Inner Mongolia has many types of agricultural planting in later generations, and the total grain output is as high as more than 73 billion kilograms, it can be seen that they have not devoted all their efforts to growing potatoes (Chinese people's eating habits have a great influence on this).
It can be seen from this that in the Ming Dynasty, when eating well was ten times more important than eating well, what would happen if all efforts were made to grow potatoes in Monan. It can be said that at least the food shortage problem in the north will be greatly improved.
Zhu Yijun also thought about the yield issue and asked: "What is the yield of these potatoes?"
"I don't know the specific quantity, but Da Situ clearly said that the output is extremely high." Liang Menglong replied confidently.
Of course he was very confident, after all, Gao Pragmatic never joked about these things. In fact, in later generations, the potato yield per mu in Inner Mongolia was as high as more than 840 kilograms, which is nearly 1,700 kilograms. Although this figure will definitely not be reached now, even if it is cut down by half, it will be much better than growing other grains. Food and clothing is definitely a sacred thing.
Zhu Yijun was overjoyed, even a little carried away. He patted his thigh and laughed and said: "In this case, building a new city to the west of Daning is really nothing. When pragmatically returns to Beijing, I will personally learn the details from him... Well, Liang Aiqing, please continue."
Liang Menglong responded to the order and turned around to explain another question, saying: "As for the weight of the east and west of the army's equipment, it actually has something to do with geography. Your Majesty, colleagues, please look at the map. The territory under Tumo's jurisdiction is actually not that far from Daning. If I built a new city to the west of Daning. In fact, this city and Daning are both close to the territory under Tumut's jurisdiction.
Correspondingly, Chahanhot is located to the east, but it is considered to be on its own wing. Therefore, although Daning is the core of our garrison in Chahar, it is actually more inclined to the west. Therefore, it can be seen that 70% of our army is located in the west. Why is there no emphasis? "
This time everyone finally fell silent and no longer expressed doubts. Seeing this, Zhu Yijun said: "It seems feasible, but after all, this arrangement is just for naturalization. What I want to know more now is whether the Imperial Guards can return to Beijing with Jingshi, so that the imperial court can arrange a suburban welcome for them."
Liang Menglong said flatly: "Go back to the emperor, I think it's okay."
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