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Chapter 1341 Cannibalize step by step

Zeng Yunfeng smiled, "You are starting to be kind again. Building the Great Wall requires a lot of labor, but these laborers do not necessarily have to be Han people. There are too many herdsmen and too many tribes on the grassland. They A strong body can be used to build the Great Wall."

Zeng Yunfeng's eyes fell on Zhu'er, and Zhu'er shuddered, "You mean?"

"That's right. I want to issue a slave arrest order to arrest some people from the grasslands to help us build the Great Wall. No matter which tribe they are, we only need to spend money to capture these people to build the Great Wall. Once the pass is completed, we will build the Great Wall." Relying on these places, we can advance and attack, and retreat and defend. The scale of slave hunting can be further expanded, and the repair of the Great Wall can also be accelerated. When the time comes, the offensive and defensive momentum will immediately transform. These border areas will no longer be our shortcoming. It becomes our strength.”

"At critical moments, these city walls can not only resist the cavalry going south, but also seal off the various caravans coming from it." Spider sneered.

There is no way, there are always some businessmen among the Han people who only care about profit and don't care about the life and death of the border people. They transport tea, ironware, grain, and cloth to the grasslands, which greatly supports these Mongolians.

"Now, we have to cut off the trade with the grassland in a short period of time, let time slowly erode them, their clothes will gradually be torn, and their arrows will slowly rust, so that they have no bows and arrows to use, To make their horseshoes unable to nail horseshoes, we must do everything possible to weaken them and gradually erode the grassland."

Zeng Yunfeng's plan was not just to build a Great Wall and rely on it for defense, but Zeng Yunfeng knew very well that this would only dilute everything with time and gradually shrink the Central Plains' strategic advantage over the grassland peoples.

He needs to use these Great Walls to attack the grassland in turn, capture grassland people to build the Great Wall, also weaken the tribes of the grassland, block their economy, reduce their confidence in fighting the Central Plains, and also use the trade at the Great Wall to fight and pull a group , Differentiate these steppe people.

After all, there is no tea, no cloth, no salt, no ironware, and no exquisite clothing. Some grassland people, especially the princes and nobles who fled to the grassland, will not be able to bear it.

Use these things to completely divide the prairie people, and then defeat them one by one. As long as they don't let them knead together, the Central Plains will have countless opportunities to annex the grassland.

The grassland cannot be cultivated on a large scale because of the rainfall, but there can be a lot of cattle, sheep and horses here.

In the current era, horses are still an important strategic material, and the number of horses determines how far Zeng Yunfeng's new dynasty can go. Walking alone, the farthest pace of this newly established dynasty is within the river in the Western Regions. It's over.

No matter how far the army's logistics supplies are, it should not be able to keep up. This is why the territory of the Central Plains has always been limited.

Relying on the infantry to supply the transportation line is purely to cause trouble for oneself, and because of the lack of horses, various problems in the communication stations within the territory will also arise, and it will become more and more difficult to rule the territory.

The grassland, the grassland, is now a very good production place for horses, and it will also bring new opportunities.

Zeng Yunfeng knew very well that the huge grassland north of the Central Plains must not be left alone, and these grassland people cannot be allowed to graze on the grassland. Even if there are no Mongols in the future, other grassland peoples will come here to multiply and thrive in this grassland. A powerful force was formed to threaten the Central Plains again.

Only real occupation or assimilation and annexation can make the north stable, and Zeng Yunfeng has to make more plans.

Although the Golden Horde is here now, it may not be there in the future, and the Tsarist Russian Empire will rise in the north in the future, but now Zeng Yunfeng's hand can't reach the west of the Great Caucasus Mountain at all, but we must be prepared for all this in advance .

"Master Rudder, are you too optimistic, will the Mongols lack iron?" Zhu'er was very puzzled.

"Do you know what are the most important points in smelting ironware?" Zeng Yunfeng looked at the spider and asked.

"iron ore!"

Zeng Yunfeng smiled and said: "Not only iron ore, but also iron ore smelting and iron ore fuel. Skilled craftsmen, they are all in short supply. Don't think that they attach great importance to these things."

After the Mongols entered the Central Plains, they held these craftsmen more in their hands and asked them to forge these irons. The moment they withdrew from Dadu, they did not take away too many craftsmen and knowledge. Although there are many mineral deposits, especially iron ore, most are not open pit mines.

"For them, it is very difficult to mine underground iron ore. Similarly, for smelting iron ore, the furnace temperature is also very important, especially now that steel is forged for white knives, reaching the same weapon level as ours. It is necessary to master a certain iron ore smelting technology, otherwise, they will only decline from generation to generation."

"And our knives are sharper than theirs, and our armor is harder than theirs."

"Secondly, the export of salt and tea should also be controlled. Without salt, tea, and corresponding resources, their life will become more difficult every day, and their health will decline day by day, while the people of the Central Plains will become more and more miserable every day. Strong, the advantages of war are accumulated bit by bit, don't ignore these small details."

"The accumulation of these is the key factor for us to win the war. Both sides in the war have to fight with their lives, but every time the two sides in the war cancel each other out, it will bring great damage to the vitality. How to make the enemy as much damage as possible, And we do as little damage as possible to ourselves.”

"This is the goal of the war. The Mongols do not lack courage and blood and sensitivity to war, so our advantage lies in technology."

"Why did the Mongols prohibit the smelting of ironware in various places when they went to the Central Plains? Even weapons and even kitchen knives were not allowed. The very important purpose came from this."

"And we have to do the same. Not only swords, but also iron pots and ironware are not allowed to be traded to the grasslands. This point must be promulgated when we go back. All border crossings must be strictly blocked, and anyone who sells ironware to the grassland without authorization , all show their heads to the public, and will not be tolerated."

Zhu'er frowned at Zeng Yunfeng's words. Zhang, he didn't expect Zeng Yunfeng to think so. Even ironware and even iron pots were not allowed to be exported to the grassland. This meant a complete blockade of the grassland.

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