After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 576 General Talent and Handsome Talent

Coal miners in Shanxi rushed to work day and night, and workers in iron mines in various places were also digging day and night. Several ironmaking blast furnaces never stopped firing.

But still can not meet the huge demand.

The current Ming Dynasty is like a glutton that likes to devour steel. The steel produced by the steel workshop cannot satisfy its huge appetite at all.

Not to mention that in the near future, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Dongfang Tielong will be built.

Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about whether to order the whole people to make steel and support the construction of the Ming Dynasty.Let the people in every village and town refine it, and sell all of them to the imperial court except for the iron that is necessary for daily life.

The imperial court bought it at a high price.

"I don't know which country has more iron ore in the neighboring countries." Zhu Yuanzhang pondered, "Although there are many iron ore in Daming, Mr. Qin said that iron ore is also a non-renewable resource, which means that every ton used is one ton less."

At present, the amount of iron ore exploration in the Ming Dynasty is the largest in the world. The civilization of other countries is very backward, and the society has not yet reached the point where it needs to use iron on a large scale.Therefore, they didn't even explore. Many iron ores were still buried underground. The Ming Dynasty had to take the first step to help them explore and then dig them out.

"Now that Daming has such a huge demand for iron ore, what should we do when the mining is over? Mr. is still right, the resources within the territory of Daming should be left to future generations, and if they need to be used, they should be used first."

"Come here!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Order to send professionals to neighboring countries to explore iron ore resources."

"Follow the order!" Yang Xian said.

The officials can also understand why Zhu Yuanzhang did this. After all, Daming now has a great demand for iron ore, and everyone is aware of it.Even if you don't do it today, you will do it in the future.

Leave your own to future generations, and use others first.

"Your Majesty, if you want to know which country has the most iron ore, just ask Mr. Qin? He is a scholar of heaven and man!" Li Shan said long.

"It makes sense!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Now the Ming Dynasty depends on Qin Yu for everything?Can lie down and win without doing anything?
Taken away?
"Retreat!"

……

In the palace bedroom, Zhu Yuanzhang passed on the meal and personally entertained Xu Da who was preparing to go on an expedition to Tianfang.

"Xu Da, how are you going to fight the expedition to Tianfang?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked while eating, "If you have any plans, tell us about them."

"The purpose of the higher authority to let the younger brother go out this time is to get the oil from the Tianfang Kingdom, not to kill more people." Xu Da said, "Please rest assured, the upper authority, the younger brother has a sense of propriety."

"My younger brother has gone on the Northern Expedition before to bring the northern region back to his heart. The situation in this expedition to Tianfang is similar."

"This is the difference between general talent and handsome talent!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed.

If Sapphire is to lead the army, his goal must be to annihilate as many people as possible and kill the enemy's vital forces to the greatest extent. This is obviously not possible.

Sapphire is only general, not handsome.

You must be handsome to attack Tianfang.

Being handsome is able to understand the strategic intention of the Lord, and all actions are to achieve the strategic goal.It's not as simple as defeating the enemy and annihilating others.

For example, let’s attack Tianfang this time.

Although Lan Yu was able to win battles in the past, even a little faster than Xu Da, but he would definitely kill people like hemp, causing blood to flow in the sky, and everyone was afraid of Daming.

Kill all the people in Tianfang, and make everyone in Tianfang hate Daming. Who will dig oil for Daming in the future?Tianfang is far away, and it is impossible to move the people in Daming territory in large numbers to dig there.

And a large number of people migrated there, what did they eat?
Growing food depends on the people in the sky.

Therefore, in ancient wars, massacring cities or killing people at every turn had the least strategic value.What's the use of killing all the people and occupying a dead pool with no one inhabited for hundreds of miles?

Many people participated in the resistance under the bewitchment of the generals who defended the city. The generals who defended the city often used the propaganda slogan that there will be no eggs under the cover of the nest.

Are there really no eggs?

Any enemy that captures a city will not kill the people, they will only kill the ruling class.Keep the people to continue to serve them and produce food for them.

Kill everyone and fill it with your own people?
That is simply impossible, and there are not so many people to fill it in.

The Lanyu Northern Expedition chased and fought the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, and captured the royal family of the Yuan Dynasty in the battle of Yuerhai, but the strategic intention of this battle was too simple, which was to annihilate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty.And Xu Da's Northern Expedition was to conquer the lost land in the north and return the north to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and its strategic intentions were even greater.So Lan Yu is just a general, while Xu Da is a handsome talent.

The strategic intention of attacking Tianfang this time is to obtain oil, and it is not as simple as defeating Tianfang.

That's why Zhu Yuanzhang used Xu Da instead of Sapphire.

"Xu Da, this expedition to Tianfang is not as easy as imagined. It may be a little more difficult than your Northern Expedition." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The small countries in Tianfang are too persistent in their beliefs. You have seen it too."

"That is to say, the people in Tianfang, when they encounter the attack of our Ming army, will probably rather die than submit. Killing them all is not in line with the intention of this expedition."

"If you don't kill them, you can't deter them and make them surrender."

"It's up to you to grasp the proportion."

"This is indeed a difficult task, not easy to do." Xu Da said, "If you send Lan Yu to face those who would rather die than surrender, I'm afraid he will kill people without mercy."

"After the slaughter, who will dig oil for us, and who will grow food for us?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Yes." Xu Da said, "It's really too difficult to grasp the scale, because belief is too scary. Therefore, I still need a military advisor to accompany the army and give advice to me anytime and anywhere."

"Who do you want?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Mr. Qin." Xu Da said, "If you have Mr. Qin, you will win this battle, and you will be able to perfectly achieve the strategic intention of the superior."

"Impossible!" Zhu Yuanzhang said, "You choose another one."

"It won't work if you change to someone else." Xu Da sighed, "At the beginning, no one present at the Jixia Academy could solve the tricks of the Tianfang envoys. In the end, it depends on the master."

"The others are not capable enough!"

"In short, you can choose anyone, but you can't choose Mr. Qin." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Mr. is so important to my Ming Dynasty, how can he easily go out with the army and take risks?"

"Besides, even if we agree, we won't be able to be Mr.'s master."

"If you want to go, sir, you can go, if you don't want to go, you won't go."

"Then let my younger brother think about it again." Xu Da said.If you can't choose the god level, you can only choose from the lower level.If Qin Yu belongs to the god level, then the rest of the counselors are all B level.

There are several levels of difference between the two.

(End of this chapter)