The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 498 Sanctioning the Grassland
In fact, the effective direct management territory of the Ming Dynasty was not large.

The Ming Dynasty's rule over the Northeast was symbolic. A letter of appointment was issued to the local indigenous chiefs. Whether they accepted it or not, the initiative was not entirely on Daming's side.

So the current Northeast, for the Ming Dynasty, is the same as the affiliated countries of Korea, Vietnam, and Burma.

The rule of the Ming Dynasty was limited to the complete Central Plains region, which was slightly stronger than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, including Xixia, Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, Dali and other places.

In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there were no grasslands, no Western Regions, and no snowy regions.

"If you really want to take Mongolia down, it seems that you can't do it without some ruthless means."

Zhu Ying sighed slightly. In fact, he wanted to simply conquer the grassland, but as far as the current situation is concerned, especially the three major forces of the Beiyuan, Oala, and East Chagatai Khanates occupy the grassland.

The combined grassland cavalry of the three major forces numbered as many as one million.

To the northwest, there is also the Golden Horde Khanate, which is at war with Timur, with a large number of cavalry in their hands.

It is impossible to conquer the grassland in a short period of time, or within ten, 20, or even 30 years, according to the current situation.

Even if the arquebus has a modified version of the flintlock, it cannot pose a strong threat to the prairie cavalry without enough horses.

Because people are the ones who are mobile, even if they have the advantage of range, with such a large difference in numbers, it may be a difficult problem to bring all the grasslands under the direct rule of Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Ying no longer hesitated.

Men, when it's time to be ruthless, naturally they should be more ruthless.

After the morning court the next day, Zhu Ying took his memorial and handed it over to the old man in the Huagai Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the content of the memorial, and didn't say anything else. Instead, he nodded in approval and said, "Since Dasun has made a decision, we must support it."

Zhu Yuanzhang should be a ruthless person.

For Dasun's strategy, not only did he have nothing against it, but he supported it more.

The main reason for this is Zhu Ying's own psychological barrier.

After all, some of the truth, kindness and beauty in the previous life still have some influence.

In Zhu Ying's strategy, it is a comprehensive embargo policy on grasslands.

That is to say, when the law is issued, Daming will implement a strict embargo system on the grassland.

Among them, all merchants in Daming are prohibited from transporting steel, grain, salt, tea, medicinal materials, cloth, and women to the grasslands.

Once any discovery is made, those who violate the order will be executed immediately and all property will be confiscated.

Joint and several cooperative operators and all interested parties are felony, all property is confiscated, and hard labor is imposed.

Hard labor and hard labor are two different things.

Today's labor is equivalent to doing the work of a craftsman, such as repairing roads and bridges under the arrangement of the prison, factory work and a series of things.

The hard labor is different, that is, to go to the most remote and bitter cold places for construction, including repairing border cities, etc., where the intensity is extremely high, and people are prone to death.

Once sentenced to hard labor, it means that this life will come to an end, because there is no concept of years of hard labor, unless it is an amnesty, otherwise it will be done until death.

People in the grassland need a lot of food to survive the winter.

With the current population of the grasslands, without the support of the Central Plains dynasty, the food is simply not enough to eat.

It is already winter, and if an embargo order is issued at this time, it will definitely be a famine for the grasslands.

Mongolians only eat meat, without medicinal materials and tea. It doesn’t take long, just a few months, a large number of Mongolians will suffer from indigestion, constipation and blockage, and abdominal distension.

Steel, in fact, is weapons and all iron products.

Such as knives and guns, arrows used in bows and arrows, including needles for women, iron pots for cooking meat, and a series of supplies.

These are inevitable consumables, and in the absence of craftsmen, they must be continuously replenished.

Not to mention table salt, there is no iron pan for barbecue, but if there is no table salt, it will taste the same.

The ban on women is actually very serious for the Mongols.

You must know that there are not many women on the grasslands. In many cases, the solution for Mongolians to marry wives is to buy women from Daming.

Whether it is a human trafficker or a barbarian, a large number of women are sold to the grassland every year.

Mongolians are relatively poor, and it is common for fathers and sons to share one woman with brothers.

Even nobles cannot avoid it.

The Mongols don't pay much attention to bloodlines. As long as they are their own raised sons, no matter whose species they belong to, they belong to their own species.

Therefore, when many Mongols went out to fight, if they came back and suddenly found that they had a few more sons, they would not feel green. This is because the vast grassland was originally green.

On the contrary, he will be very happy that he has a few more sons.

If there are many sons, the family will grow naturally.

This is a custom on the prairie. Whoever raises the child is the child of that family.

Morning morning on the third day.

Zhu Yuanzhang announced this decree in the court.

The officials in the audience looked at each other in blank dismay. You must know that this kind of thing is a rather ruthless policy for Daming, especially for scholars.

Just listening to His Majesty's tone and His Majesty's gaze, he didn't say any of the officials dared to stand up and object.

After a long time, a minister stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I don't know if this ban applies to the entire grassland, or only those who disobey me."

This question is more critical.

Because on the grassland side, there are still many friendly tribes in Ming Dynasty, including a series of business activities such as the mutual horse market, the exchange of tea for horses, and so on.

These are still relatively common in the border markets.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't answer directly when he heard the words, but turned his attention to the eldest grandson.

Zhu Ying took a few steps forward and said in a deep voice: "The target of this law is all the territory that does not belong to our Ming Dynasty. All the guards outside the grassland border borders without our Ming Dynasty stationed are covered by this prohibition."

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the hall.

It was only a long while, but none of the ministers dared to speak.

Those who can stand in the Fengtian Temple still have a basic sense of politics, and the current proposal is obviously made by His Royal Highness Taisun.

Maybe it's okay to speak hard on His Majesty's side.

But with His Royal Highness, it is not so easy to handle.

The ministers in the court are in their early thirties at a young age, and His Royal Highness is not yet in his twenties. If he can successfully become an official, he will still have to rely on His Royal Highness for his retirement life.

From the Ming Dynasty onwards, His Royal Highness Taisun will also rely on him.

What people worry most about is the unknown.

The present His Majesty the Grandson has not ascended to the throne yet, if there is a liquidation after ascending to the throne, who can bear it?
This is also Zhu Ying's current advantage as a grandson. Sometimes, there are some things that ministers are more afraid of than the emperor, and more afraid of the heir who has not yet become the emperor.

If Zhu Ying had succeeded to the throne and became the emperor at this time, the ministers would not be so afraid.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Since you have no other objections, this matter can be settled."

"The Sixth Department will make the plan today, and it will be urgently followed by the post station for six hundred miles, and the border will be notified quickly."

The court's laws and regulations are one aspect.

In fact, even if such laws and regulations are promulgated to border areas, it is difficult to say that they have been effectively implemented.

After all, the interests involved in this are too great, and many businessmen at the border are doing these transactions to earn a living.

Among them, there are a large number of smugglers, no matter how banned it is hard to say.

Even under strict regulations, the profits of smugglers are higher.

The former Zhu Ying, or the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, was one of the largest smugglers. Relying on the huge profits from snowflake salt and other goods sales, they established the initial primitive accumulation.

In fact, for now, it would be a big loss for Qunying Chamber of Commerce to completely abandon this business.

Including now, there are still many vest chambers secretly managing these businesses, but they don't use the name of Zhuying Qunying Chamber of Commerce.

Now that Zhu Ying has made up his mind, these vest chambers will naturally be forced to suspend all of them.

The strict implementation of this prohibition still falls on the Qunying Chamber of Commerce.

Because the Qunying Chamber of Commerce controls enough smuggling routes, and these smuggling routes will become a key blow to the grassland.

After the six departments issued a notice to the matter, Zhu Ying's order was also conveyed to Uncle Zhang.

Zhang Bo sighed softly holding the decree sent from the palace.

Because he is not a Han Chinese, but a Jurchen, Donghai Jurchen.

When this ban came into effect, it also included the place where Zhang Bo once lived.

He knew very well what would happen to the former clansmen if they did not have food, medicinal materials, cloth, ironware and other materials.

One year,
No, maybe it only takes half a year, and a large number of people will die due to famine and plague.

The entire grassland will start to wither.

It will become a hell on earth.

"Father, are we really going to do this?"

Zhang Bo's son, who was once Zhu Ying's guard, asked hesitantly after reading the decree.

Uncle Zhang frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then reprimanded: "This is an order from the boss, so naturally it must be strictly implemented."

"But."

"No buts."

Uncle Zhang's expression became solemn: "You should also know that it was because of the boss that we survived, and it is also because of the boss that we are what we are today."

"Since the time when the master saved our tribe, we have made an oath to the Changshengtian, and we will be wholeheartedly loyal to the master in the future."

"No matter what the order is, even if it is to let us die, we must strictly implement the order of the boss."

Zhang Bo's son immediately lowered his head and said, "I see, father."

After Zhang Bo finished speaking, he felt a little lonely again.

Because not all members of Zhang Bo's tribe follow Zhu Ying, they are just a separate branch.

The relationship between the tribes is also more complicated, and the friendly tribes are basically related.

Thinking of this, Uncle Zhang said again: "I will go to the palace to ask my master to see if I can give him a way out. Now that all parts of Daming are employing people, if they are grassland people who are willing to move into Daming, I hope the master can accept them."

"Even if you don't pay too much wages, you can at least live in Daming through labor."

"Now Daming is rich, there is a lot of food, and there are many places to employ people. Even if tens of millions of people come, they should be able to get a bite to eat."

"I have never begged my master in my life. If I want to come here to ask for it once, my master should be able to agree."

Faced with Zhang Bo's request, Zhu Ying chose to agree after some thought.

And appointed Zhang Bo's son Zhang Wen as the leader of the incident on the spot.

Zhang Wen is Uncle Zhang's son and the young patriarch of the tribe. In this regard, it is relatively easy to go to the grassland to collect people, and he can also gain more trust in the grassland.

For the current Ming Dynasty, the better the population, the better. In fact, there are quite a few Mongols in Daming, and even the ministers in the court, many of them are Mongols.

It's just that these Mongols were born in the Central Plains because of the relationship between Mongolia and Yuan since they were young, so they don't have any concept of Mongolian grasslands, and naturally they don't have any resistance to Zhu Ying's ban on grasslands.

After agreeing to Uncle Zhang's request, Zhu Ying summoned Lan Yu to Kunning Palace in the afternoon.

"Chen Lanyu, I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Grandson."

The current sapphire is not in Zhu Ying's hands, and he no longer has any arrogance, and all water chestnuts have been polished, and he is more obedient than under Zhu Yuanzhang's men.

With Zhu Yuanzhang, Sapphire still has some merits that can be sold, but with Zhu Ying, there is nothing. Instead, it was a bit taboo because of the military power.

So far, he hasn't made any major contributions, so naturally he won't be able to float.

Lan Yu also knew that Zhu Ying couldn't pay much attention to what was said about Daming's contribution.

"Duke Liang, please get up, Guo Zhong, show the seat to Duke Liang."

Under Zhu Ying's order, Guo Zhong immediately moved the chair.

After Lan Yu sat down, Zhu Ying didn't exchange too many greetings, and got straight to the point.

"About the ban on the grasslands in the early morning, I think Duke Liang has already heard about it."

Lan Yu nodded and said: "I have heard about it, this method is good, as long as it can be implemented, it must be a powerful blow to the grassland."

"Without food, ironware, tea, and medicinal materials, the grasslands will definitely lose their vitality in the near future."

Speaking of this, Lan Yu paused for a moment and said: "Just please pay attention to His Royal Highness, after this ban is spread to the grassland, it will inevitably cause great waves, and Can Yuan will surely join forces with other tribes to invade our Ming Dynasty. Forcing the withdrawal of such prohibitions."

Zhu Ying nodded and said: "There are also people of insight on the grassland, and they will surely see the scene after this."

"So the military defense of the border will be greatly strengthened, including the training of the guards, armaments, etc. are all urgent matters at present. It is not certain that there will be a big invasion on the grassland before Zhengdan."

"That's right, today I specially asked Duke Liang to come over."

(End of this chapter)