I am the king of the dead

Chapter 205 The Cost of Offense and Defense
Zhu Qiyu put down the memorabilia from Prince Xiang's Mansion, and shook his head again and again, this King Xiang is too cowardly.

This has gone for one round, is it dormant?
The [-]th Regiment Battalion has been training day and night, and the Tongzhou Boiler Battalion has been expanded to the [-]th Battalion, with enough gunpowder to feed them.

There has been no war, how to test the training results?
In the strategic deployment, Jining and Hetao will be recovered next year. The [-]th Regiment Battalion will send troops at this time. If they fight quickly, they will return to Beijing in the spring of next year. After three months of rest, they will continue to fight.

Zhu Qiyu originally thought there was going to be a playoff, but before the playoff, King Xiang walked for a round and immediately knelt down.

Both Chen Xun and Yu Qian were in the martial arts hall. Today is not the day for the Salt and Iron Conference. They have already held three Salt and Iron Conferences, and they have gained a lot.

Let's take a break for a while, and wait for the bullets to fly for a while before continuing the discussion.

They are going to give lectures in Wutang today and listen to the completed textbooks.

Chen Xun bowed his head and said with a sigh: "Your Majesty, King Xiang is also a clan relative. The world is in disarray, so it's not good for him, King Xiang, is it? This peaceful life is peaceful, accompanied by beauties, and silk and bamboo. Yinger, Youdao yes, dear..."

Yu Qian interrupted Chen Xun's chanting. After he listened to it once, he didn't bother to listen anymore, and had to put him to sleep.

The way to persuade benevolence and forgiveness is not Chen Xun's method of persuasion.

Now the ministers, ministers, and relatives of the capital have all formed a habit.

Said: If the emperor does not move, I will not move; if the emperor moves, I will be terrified.

Your Majesty's fishing is always not able to catch fish, it is reasonable, the method and method of baiting are not bad, but the fish has long been startled, what can you catch?
Yu Qian bowed his head and said: "The investigation of the gentry's fish scale books from all over the country has also been explained, but your majesty, I think that the rebels are hiding in their nests and dare not come in and out."

"The Twelfth Regiment Battalion has been mobilizing for more than a few months. There are tens of thousands of farms in Gyeonggi and Kyushu outside the mountains. It's time to clean up the bandits and bandits. Your Majesty has given them ten months, but they still refuse to go down the mountain. .”

"It not only strengthens the combat power of the twelve regiments, but also cleans up the rogues and bandits. This is the best strategy to calm the people."

Yu Qian likes to sit in front of everything, who is a bandit?

It is the wings of kings, ministers, relatives, gentry, and rich merchants.

Every time when the two taxes come in summer and autumn, these exile bandits will start their activities wantonly, but any villages that don't want to receive the apportionment will be trampled and plundered by the exile bandits, killing chickens and monkeys.

If all these bandits are not cleaned up, once His Majesty's Beijing camp is out of the fortress, some restless guys will definitely jump out, and these bandits will help the evildoers.

Cutting off the wings can be used not only on the Oirats, but also on the inside. Besides, these bandits do all kinds of evil.

"Wait until the commanders present the distribution of bandits in Gyeonggi and Kyushu outside the mountains, and then we will see how to divide the troops to suppress the bandits." Zhu Qiyu nodded heavily.

Military training, it's time to test the results.

Since Prince Xiang's Mansion does not bite His Majesty's bait, there is also a need for military training. These bandits who have been in the Ming Dynasty for decades, and the thugs who acted as powerful families, have all become whetstones.

The knife of the Daming Twelfth Regiment Battalion became sharper the more it was sharpened.

Both Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian clearly understood that they were dancing on the tip of their knives at this moment, and they could not relax at all. The situation is indeed very good now, and even King Xiang, who is most likely to rebel, seems to have closed the door, obsessed with singing and dancing superior.

However, once the Beijing camp is dispatched, will those guys who are too scared to speak by the steel knife jump out immediately?
Yu Qian continued: "Your Majesty, I often hear that the people will gather in the mountains and forests, and move when they hear the wind. It seems that they have never heard of it. The powerful family echoes each other and communicates with each other."

"But if it is said that the powerful family is not united, I think this person is either ignorant of the truth, or ignorant of the world, or is slandering to deceive His Majesty."

"On the contrary, they maintain a tacit union anytime and anywhere, which is a very common and natural state."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a moment, Yu Qian's meaning was very clear, although these rentiers in the Ming Dynasty did not rush to tell each other, or even colluded with each other, they all maintained an absolute tacit understanding.

Just like the unity of honor and relatives and the mutual aid of honor and relatives, the various strata of the Ming Dynasty seem to be loose, but in fact they are closely united.

Once the steel knife in Zhu Qiyu's hand is no longer sharp, they will vibrate like flies that smell fishy.

Although they chose to surrender on the surface, in fact, they just lay dormant, waiting for the opportunity, and dealt a fatal blow.

Zhu Qiyu thinks so.

We cannot relax any vigilance, but we should also maximize the word response.

Yu Qian's way of benevolence and forgiveness has always been an ominous weapon for soldiers, and he has to use it as a last resort. Your Majesty must continue to promote his military power, kill some damned people, and make the world fear, so that there will be fewer killings.

Zhu Qiyu, Yu Qian, and Chen Xun walked into the martial arts lecture hall. The military officers in the martial arts lecture hall were dressed in ordinary clothes and sat in the auditorium, sitting upright, waiting for the emperor's arrival.

Today is the day when the officers of the lecture hall finish their graduation, and they have been training in the lecture hall for more than ten months.

"Your Majesty is mighty!" The generals in the lecture hall immediately bowed their heads and saluted after His Majesty walked to the center of the stage and stood still.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Sit down flat."

"Let me just say a few words."

Today is the place where the military generals in the lecture hall graduate, Zhu Qiyu really doesn't have much to say.

"The new defeat of the Ming Dynasty, the loss of all six divisions, the madness of the Wala, and the siege of the capital, this is a shame to me, a shame to all of you, and a shame to the Ming army!"

"I set up a school of military equipment, selected students, selected military equipment as teachers, learned the usage of equipment, command of battle formations, and the enemy's tricks, and strictly supervised the class. Today, it has been October, and the Ming Dynasty general If it is effective, the military and government can expect to improve."

"I only want to say one thing, you are all disciples of the Son of Heaven! But with this status, you can't help yourself. If you violate the military order, you will be executed 54 times in the Seventeenth Prohibition. I will never forgive you lightly!"

In fact, Zhu Qiyu was a little worried about these concubine generals in the lecture hall. If they relied on their four characters of emperor's disciples to go to the army and act recklessly, it would make it very difficult for the [-]th Regiment Battalion.

But today Zhu Qiyu told them that if they violated the military order, they could only die.

Zhu Qiyu walked down the stage, and said to the generals who had been waiting for a long time: "Let's begin."

A young general stepped onto the stage. He was Chen Ying, the second grandson of Marquis Chen Maoshu of Ningyang. In the hall, it is famous for its diligence.

Not all Xun Chen are like Zhang Fu's two stinky brothers, who don't want to make progress.

Although Zhang Mao is only nine years old, he is still very diligent. Chen Ying is a concubine, but he seized this opportunity and wanted to soar into the sky.

These are all Xunchen's cards.

Of course, Zhang Fu's two stinky younger brothers, Zhang Fu and Zhang Fu's heirs, failed to graduate this time. The military academy was strictly controlled, so they started to behave badly, and they didn't hand in their textbooks.

It doesn't matter, if it's bad next year, it will be sent to Kaiping to guard the border the year after next.

Chen Ying took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, my choice of topic is the cost of offense and defense."

"In February of the seventh year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen sent an envoy to Tatar, saying: "We are in harmony with each other. I am in charge of the Central Plains, and Khan is in charge of Shuomo. We will live in peace forever. Isn't it beautiful?"

"King Benya of the Tatars lost his way. He killed the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Ji, and wiped out Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, who was the first hero in Jingnan. He led a Ming army of more than [-] people. Emperor Taizong Wen was furious and ordered his own conquest."

"In February of the eighth year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen fought at Feiyun Mountain and destroyed [-] Tatar cavalry. On May [-], the Yinma River broke the Tatar Khan Benya and left a stone engraved with the imperial inscription: Hanhai for Tan, the Tianshan Mountains are the neck, sweep away the dust, and clear the desert forever."

"In the 12th year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen once again sent troops to crusade against Benya Shili, defeated Benya Shili in Yinmahe, and defeated [-] cavalry in Onanhe River, and returned with a great victory."

Chen Ying eloquently talked about these achievements, all in Mobei.

For example, the Yinma River is close to Helin, and the Onan River is the place where Yuan Taizu Temuzhen made his fortune. It was the horse herding land of the Qiyan tribe in the Mongolian headquarters, which was plowed by Emperor Yongle.

During the Yongle period, except for the fifth Northern Expedition and Zhu Di's death, all gains were made, but they became smaller and smaller. The reason, in the final analysis, was that the grassland people were too good at running.

When the army went out of the fortress, there were no horses for thousands of miles. Those who were beaten twice threw away their helmets and armors. The Oirats and Tatars gradually stopped fighting with Ming Dynasty, and the Wuliangha tribe surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ying said: "There are always people who say that the Taizu and Emperor Taizong Wen resorted to military force, which caused the people of Ming Dynasty to live in poverty, and the country was poor and the people were exhausted."

"But I think that's not the case."

"Five Northern Expeditions, two storehouses and one thousand warehouses in Tongzhou, Taicang, each transfer was no more than two million shi, a total of no more than 200 million shi and rice beams, and the total number of people's transfers was more than one million times, and the reward silver consumed was only more than four million. Two, timber, stonework, gunpowder and other armaments are worth only two million taels in silver."

"It's all converted into golden flowers and silver, but only 200 million taels of silver, of which 400 million taels of silver are rewarded to the three armies, and come from internal funds."

"The total consumption of the country and the dynasty is only 800 million taels of national funds. Five battles to settle the north, and the northern border will be safe and peaceful for 40 years."

"The northern captives are scattered in Mobei. People don't farm and weave, and the land has no other products. The daily use of needles and threads in the pots and kettles of the captives must be made in China. The colored clothes of uranium, satin and silk can only be obtained by looting."

"The Tartars have nothing to wear, their felt furs are not suitable for the summer heat, their raw pots are broken, and they try to mend the leaks. As a last resort, they eat boiled meat in skins and water. They are thin and hungry, and they are poor. ability."

"Since the fourth year of orthodoxy, the frontiers have built more cities and forts to defend the border from the Oirats and Tatars. In the past ten years, Datong Mansion alone has spent about 140 yuan in salt, grain, grass, and silver on the building of forts and forts. [-] taels, more than [-] civilian husbands were mobilized."

"Datong, Xuanfu, Ningxia, Yansui, Gu'an, Liaodong, six towns and four places, consumed more than 170 million yuan of silver, and mobilized civilian labor more than [-] million times."

"Attack and defense, what is more valuable or less? Is it to go north to conquer the captives and not disturb the border, or to build cities in six towns and four places, so that the people will not be able to live, and the country will be poor and the people will be exhausted?"

"Your Majesty, the subject is finished."

Chen Ying stepped off the stage, leaving behind the thinking generals, Zhu Qiyu specially brought Yu Qian and Chen Xun today, to let them think about this issue.

It all means that Emperor Taizu Gao made eight Northern Expeditions, and Emperor Taizong Wen made five Northern Expeditions. If the country is really destitute and the people are exhausted, can they still go out to fight for decades?
This has been a national policy for more than [-] years!

From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the 22nd year of the Northern Expedition to Yongle, Zhu Di died on the way to the Northern Expedition!
If the general direction of the Northern Expedition had gone wrong, then in the past 60 years, the world would have been devastated and starved everywhere, but on the contrary, the more the war, the more prosperous it became.

Since the reign of Xuande, Xingwen, Wu, and Mafang Nanshan, the life of the people has become more and more difficult. Even Fujian, a place where three crops a year, have given birth to farmers, and millions of people responded and followed. .

Xining said that the common people are the most treacherous, who made them look like this?
After the Ming Dynasty's external strategy changed from offense to defense, the people's livelihood in the world became withered instead.

Zhu Qiyu had seen this subject before, and he had already done a good job, but he only considered it from the perspective of Han, Tang and Song Dynasties.

This time, Zhu Qiyu asked him to make a supplementary explanation, demonstrating how much the Northern Expedition cost, what kind of results were obtained in the end, how much was spent on defense, and what results were obtained in the end.

There are such textbooks and questions.

Is the Northern Expedition worth it?

The answer, of course, is worth it.

Zhu Qiyu handed Chen Ying's project book to Yu Qian and Chen Xun, asking them to check it out carefully, and then discuss and make a decision.

Daming's external strategy must be changed. The Wala people are afraid of power but not morality. If they are not swept away, they will not have a long memory.

Not only to fight, but to fight hard until complete victory.

　Ask for a ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)