Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 829
Ten thousand fine riders, walking unhurriedly on the grassland, were Gao Yushi and Chataiji and his party—obviously, Chataiji had been persuaded by Gao Yushi, and now he joined forces with him.

Gao Pragmatic's guard of honor is basically a decoration, his riding skills are quite good now, so he usually rides a horse, so as not to slow down the speed of the team.

His equestrian skills, in his own words, have no problems in other aspects except for him to fight on horseback. Not only can he ride a horse gallop, he can even do a few tricks, such as hiding in stirrups for a short time This kind of thing is no longer difficult for him.

Chataiji can only be described as extremely surprised by his performance, and of course after being surprised, he is sincerely admired.

Gao Yushi's identity is very clear to him. Gao Wenzheng's nephew, Wanli Emperor's classmate, Ming Dynasty's six champions, Zhan Shifu's left concubine and Imperial Academy attendant, such a typical Ming Dynasty civil servant, unexpectedly has a good hand. Riding skills are as miraculous as asking him to go to the Hanlin Academy to discuss learning and Taoism. It completely overturned his 30-year view of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty.

No wonder the Great Khan in the past never considered occupying Daming's territory for a long time, and sneered at what Zhao Quan and others said to encourage him. Now it seems that the Great Khan is wise and wise. There is no hope of accomplishing such a miracle.

How many civil servants like this did Ming have?

Chataiji didn't know, but he knew that at least there was one in front of him.

Forget it, for the sake of the mutual market, let's just give in some things, it's no big deal.At the very least, Dacheng Taiji is also a direct bloodline of the Golden Family, a proud son blessed by the Longevity Heaven.

He was thinking about these things in a mess, when he heard Gao Wushi beside him asking, "Has this area always been like this?"

"Ah? What kind?" Chataiji looked in the direction of Gao Yushi's finger, but saw that it was an ordinary grassland in front of him.

Gao Wushi reminded: "In those grasslands, why is there still a lot of loess directly exposed, and the grass is not even full?"

Qiataiji looked surprised, and said: "Most of the grasslands in Monan are like this, there are very few places full of grass, at least it has been like this since I was a child."

"Really?" Gao Wushi frowned slightly, and thought to himself: There is a saying that "the Yellow River has all kinds of harm, but the only rich one". Isn't this where the first set of one of the "three sets" is located? Why is soil erosion so serious? ?
Gao Yushi asked this question just now, mainly because he remembered a saying on the Internet of later generations that he believed that the Ming Dynasty was extremely lacking in strategic vision, so he gave up Hetao.Especially after Alda vigorously developed agriculture in Tumochuan (belonging to the Qiantao area), this kind of argument became even more popular, thinking that the Ming court foolishly gave up a large strategic area.

The person who said this may not have seen China's precipitation distribution map. In fact, the core territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty in the pass, except for northern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi, is all within the 400 mm precipitation line.

The northern part of Shanxi is the two border towns of Xuanfu and Datong, and the northern part of Shaanxi is the so-called three borders of Shaanxi.These two places are typical military and national defense towns, and it is impossible for them to support their own expenses, relying on blood transfusions from the mainland.

The front, back and west of the Yellow River are actually outside the 400 mm precipitation line.

These three places are collectively called Hetao, where are they located?

"The Yellow River is blocked on three sides around the Hetao, and the soil is fertile and can be cultivated. It is close to Yulinbao, Shaanxi (later Yulin, Shaanxi), east to Piantouguan, Shanxi (later Pianguan County, Shanxi), and west to Ningxia Town (later Yinchuan), east and west. Two thousand miles; from the side wall in the south, to the Yellow River in the north, the distance is eight or nine hundred miles, and the distance is two or three hundred miles.” ——This passage comes from "History of Ming Dynasty".

Well, that still doesn't seem clear enough.

In fact, Hetao is the big bend of the Yellow River, and the northeast corner of the big bend is Qiantao, the northwest corner is Houtao, and the west is near Yinchuan.

Not counting the outer part, the inner part is called Henan Land by Ming people because it is located south of the Yellow River. The approximate scope corresponds to the Mu Us Sandy Land, Ordos Plateau, Kubuqi Desert and Hetao Plain in later generations.

It is a pity that most of the Hetao in the Ming Dynasty was outside the 400 mm precipitation line, so the precipitation in the Hetao was actually quite rare, and it was not suitable for large-scale cultivation. In addition, there is also the Mu Us Desert, one of the four major deserts in China. .

Until Gao Pragmatism crossed over, China was still investing a huge amount of money in afforestation in the Mu Us Desert.Therefore, the phrase "the soil is fertile and can be plowed" in "History of Ming Dynasty" is very problematic. Even if it is not nonsense, it obviously cannot refer to such a large desert.

In such a large desert, you tell me that the soil is fertile and plowable, so let me see if you plow one?

Therefore, in the Hetao area, only three alluvial plains beside the Yellow River are suitable for farming, and they can depend on the river for irrigation.But because the Yellow River was diverted, the area of ​​Yinchuan in later generations did not exist in the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, there is only a long and narrow area in the north with only a few big bends, which is land that can be used for agricultural cultivation.

If you take the map of later generations as a comparison, the narrow strip from east to west, from Hohhot to Baotou, and then to Bayannaoer is the front set plus the back set.

The front set and the back set are the so-called fertile and arable areas suitable for cultivation. This is an enclave suitable for cultivation outside the traditional Han land.

Modern people tend to confuse these two geographical concepts. Some people think that when they talk about Hetao, they think that the land thousands of miles away from Yinchuan in Ningxia to Yulin, or even think that this large piece of land is a blessed land with abundant water and grass.

All in all, the Zhenhetao area in the Ming Dynasty was not suitable for cultivation. The suitable cultivation area was in the north of the Yellow River, in the Fengzhou Beach area outside of Taotao, and it also used river irrigation.The area near Ordos in the Hetao is rich in water and grass, but due to insufficient precipitation, it is more suitable for grazing rather than farming. This is the area where "Taolu" were often active in the Ming Dynasty. only place.

Now, it can basically explain why the Ming people did not occupy Hetao: once an area that is not suitable for farming is occupied, it needs to continuously provide military supplies to meet the needs of the garrison.For the Ming Dynasty, this is an area that cannot be self-sufficient and will become a huge financial burden.

Daningwei, which was set up in the early Ming Dynasty, was also a place that could not be self-sufficient, and had to spend the power of the four inland provinces to supply it. Therefore, it is necessary to take a look at the Hetao. If the Hetao is occupied, it will inevitably become a huge financial burden.

If you really want to occupy it, you might as well occupy Fengzhou Beach, which is the front set.

However, the problem is that Qiantao itself is also a farming enclave. It is a bit far away from the traditional Han land and does not directly border it. It is separated from Datong and Xuanfu, the key points of defense in the direction of Shanxi. Strategically, there are many problems. If they are stationed for a long time, the local defenders can easily become a lone army.Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack and burn Dabansheng City once, it had no intention of occupying this place.

The above is just a matter of geography, so let's talk about the abandonment of the Loop.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty couldn't talk about giving up or not giving up the Hetao at all, because the Ming Dynasty never actually controlled the Hetao, so how can we talk about giving up?
In fact, the Hetao area was just a no-man's land that no one cared about in the early Ming Dynasty.In the early Ming Dynasty, in view of the fact that the number of Mongols in Hetao was scarce after the forces of the Yuan Dynasty withdrew to the north, a simple and crude policy of expelling or relocating the remaining people in Hetao to the interior was adopted directly. Attacked Chahannaoer, captured the fierce general Huchen, the township general Xie Cheng, and others, and sent them to the interior, and Hetao was ruined."

In other words, the few remaining tribes were also moved into the interior, artificially creating no-man's land and turning it into a military buffer zone.

Many people in later generations, including some people in the Ming and Qing dynasties, regard the Ming Dynasty's abandonment of Dongshengwei as the Ming Dynasty's abandonment of Hetao. In fact, this perception is a typical cognitive error of hindsight.

The place where Dongshengwei is set up is also outside the set, which is near Fengzhou Beach.In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, this place was only used as a part of Shanxi's defense system, and as an outpost for the army to march from Shanxi in the elastic defense system of the early Ming Dynasty, it was not set up for defense and control of Hetao itself.

Therefore, the abolition of Dongshengwei has nothing to do with Hetao, it is just a strategic adjustment.During the Hongwu and Yongle years in the early Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to predict the changes in civil engineering, and it was also impossible to predict the danger of trapping captives. It is true that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were able to fight, but they are not gods after all.In their generation, because Hetao was a no man's land, in fact there was no need for defense at all.

It's just that when the Tatars were oppressed by Oala a few years later and had to move to the Hetao area, causing the problem of trapping captives, the wise people looked back-fuck!Why did you give up on such an important place as Dongshengwei?Why was such an important place in Hetao abandoned?
In addition, many people of later generations, even Ming people, like to use the Han and Tang Dynasties as a comparison to "restore Hetao".In fact, the Ming Dynasty is not very suitable for comparison with the Han and Tang Dynasties, because with the southward shift of the economic center of gravity, the capital is no longer in Guanzhong, but in Beijing (this is actually not accurate, in fact, the first capital in the hearts of Ming people is Nanjing, so Later, after the death of Chongzhen, many officials ran to Nanjing to commit suicide or continue to resist).

Simply put, due to the shift of the country's political and economic center of gravity, Hetao's strategic threat to the Central Plains is far less than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties.After all, Hetao was able to go straight to Longyou Pass, but the ruling center of the Ming Dynasty was not in Guanzhong, so there was no motivation like the Han and Tang Dynasties to seize Hetao.If you want to seize and control, the only reason is to open up the map and use the people's fat and anoint to fight for fame.

How did Zeng Mi die?Internal power struggles are of course an important reason, but this is also one of the reasons.

Therefore, in the view of high pragmatism, Hetao itself is not very useful, at most it can be used as a horse farm, but the Han people don’t like raising horses (trading at a loss, it is better to farm), and force the Han people to raise horses, and the result is the same as raising horses in Hebei Like horses, there were no major problems at the beginning. After decades, people complained. Thieves and robbers have become a source of chaos for local law and order.

The thieves in Hebei are almost extinct now, but it’s not just that Jinghua’s cavaliers received money from the government to fight against them very well. , so the government released the pressure of raising horses among the people little by little. In the end, the tribute was completed and the mutual market opened up. , How will Mao be attached?

Gao Yushi has always believed that many things do not need to be solved by fighting. In fact, it is like practicing medicine. You just treat the symptoms. Here it is cured, but there is a bad one. The doctor looks very powerful, but the medicine always cures the disease. ?It is better to go directly to the source of the disease, that is the real solution to the problem.

When it comes to governing the country, it's useless to be Bian Que, Bian Que's elder brother is powerful.

But now Qiataiji's words made Gao Wushi a little worried, not to mention that the front and back of the Fengzhou Beach area would also be soiled, right?

But after thinking about it again, I am a little fortunate: Now Tumet has begun to change his thinking on governance and vigorously engage in agriculture. That is to say, they will pay more and more attention to irrigation and land maintenance, instead of the past pure nomadic period. Here When the water and grass are not abundant, they migrate to other places, and deserts and Gobi are everywhere.

It seems that Han Naji should really be regarded as this Chechen Khan. Compared with Xin Ai, who is more willing to live a settled farming life like the Han people? Ascension to the city, while Xin Ai has been living in tents, who is more inclined to farming, is there any need to compare?

However, on the contrary, I want to remind Han Naji, don’t be like some Chinese people in later generations who want to “****” at every turn. They Tumet can vigorously Sinicize, but they must not completely Sinicize—if you completely Sinicize, who will Come and help me Daming raise cattle and sheep for cavalry?
Gao Wushi then said to Chataiji: "In farming, the most important thing is not only the quality of the seeds and the proper cultivation, but also the maintenance of soil fertility. For example, in Tumochuan, according to my opinion, the soil itself is not bad. But it’s a bad thing to protect, and in the long run — I mean, maybe in a year or 20, you might not be able to grow crops.”

"Can't grow crops?" Chataiji was taken aback. The reason why Tumot is basically not afraid of bad disasters now is that he relies on the mutual market and the crops planted by the Han people. This is a matter of life and death. He couldn't help but rush Asked: "How to maintain soil fertility? We Mongolians don't understand this."

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "I am Wenkui of the Great Ming Dynasty, how to maintain the strength of the soil... I naturally know."

Chataiji was overjoyed, and just about to continue to question, he suddenly found that Gao Yushi was smiling a little meaningfully, and suddenly realized, he hesitated for a while, and said with emotion: "The imperial envoy is a great talent in the world, and he can't escape the imperial envoy's words and deeds." The envoy's grasp. Whatever, as long as you can help me Tumot from the natural disaster, Tuotuo... Willing to drive for the imperial envoy."
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