Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 361: Division Strategy
Zhu Biao looked at Wang Buli and couldn't help laughing: "These Mongols are becoming more and more unbearable to fight."

The Ming Dynasty's two-way smuggling by land and sea enriched many Mongolian nobles so that they would be able to enjoy the good life they had in the Central Plains when they arrived in the grasslands.

But they can no longer take all of this with the knife in their hands, and can only rely on commercial purchases.

That would require more wealth to maintain their decent life.

The nobles' natural choice was to plunder more wealth and labor from the middle and lower class Mongols.

This group of people were exploited extremely badly by their Mongolian masters.

I guess I just want to make you suffer a little. I can't let a noble like me deprive myself of the enjoyable life.

Once the Ming Dynasty soldiers led by Mu Ying arrived, how many of them would have the energy to resist? It was already a sign of their loyalty that they did not rebel on the spot and take the opportunity to stab the Mongolian nobles to death.

They were all surrounded by Mu Ying. How many people dared to risk their lives to break out of the encirclement?

Even if you break out, you will be protected by the nobles who are "eating and drinking well" and leaving you starving. If you die on the way to the charge, then you die.

Who made your life worthless?

In addition, the smuggling team of the Ming Dynasty spread the word that ordinary Mongolian soldiers who served the Ming Dynasty and made meritorious services were granted titles. Many Mongolians who were exploited and could not survive were not unable to accept this result.

Mu Ying focused on quickly taking over the entire team without letting any one escape.

Or they took the initiative to harass the Great Wall in order to gain some benefits, and eventually they brought in the Ming army and wiped them out.

Now that I have become a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps I can have the good food of the Ming Dynasty.

They don't have to be loyal to the Yuan Dynasty. As long as they can have enough food in the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely work hard for the Ming Dynasty.

It depends on how the Ming Dynasty uses this group of people in the future.

"It is better to use your remaining courage to pursue the poor bandits, not to use your reputation as an academic overlord."

Zhu Biao suddenly looked at Wang Buli beside him and listened to a line of poetry he recited casually.

Wang Buli didn't know why he thought of this sentence.

"Well said." Zhu Biao commented seriously:
"Although the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty have fled far away to the grasslands, they are still a major concern for our Ming Dynasty. We must not stop easily, otherwise we will cause trouble for future generations."

Wang Buli nodded. After more than two hundred years of confrontation between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, both sides had gone from being extremely powerful to being weaklings fighting each other, and were eventually defeated by the newly rising Jurchens.

"What do you think we should do with the newly conquered land?"

Wang Buli put his hands behind his back, thought for a while and said with a smile: "Just leave it there. After a while, Mongolians will grow again."

"Hahaha."

Zhu Biao pointed at Wang Buli.

Khorin is a place where grazing is easy and has been the choice of the Mongolians for hundreds of years.

Genghis Khan established the Mongolian capital here, which has evolved into the center of the world.

It was not until Kublai Khan eliminated Ariq Böke's forces and moved the regime south that this place became a little desolate.

However, the Yuan Dynasty never gave up this place. Instead, it opened up military farms, built granaries and established schools here.

It was not until the middle and late Ming Dynasty when many Mongolian tribes fell apart and the Tatar and Oirat Mongolian nobles attacked each other that Khara-Khara gradually declined.

"Well, I do believe that the Mongols will gather there again. After so many years of construction, it can be said to be the most prosperous place for the Mongols on the grassland."

Zhu Biao also put his hands behind his back and looked into the distance: "Then we have to write a letter to Mu Ying and ask him to try not to destroy the houses there."

"Brother Prince, this will also shorten the distance for transporting our military rations, which will be beneficial for our repeated expeditions against the Mongols."

Wang Buli's words made Zhu Biao suddenly enlightened.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang would bring the crown prince to attend many military meetings, he did not train him for military career, instead relying more on his descendants.

Zhu Biao was completely trained by his father Zhu to be a political successor.

After hearing what Wang Buli said, Zhu Biao had a clear idea about how to utilize the Helin area.

If they launch a surprise attack or surround the enemy in the future, it will be a piece of cake for the Ming army.

In this way, the military strength of the Mongols can be continuously weakened.

"Do you have any good ideas for these captured Mongols?"

Wang Buli thought for a while and said, "Apart from transferring some personnel to the army, I don't know how to arrange the rest. After all, they don't seem to be very good at farming."

"Yes, they are good at raising sheep, cattle and horses, but I am worried that they are just hungry and come to the Ming Dynasty to seek refuge, and they will still escape when the time comes."

"Hmm." Wang Buli pondered for a while and then said:

"Brother Prince, we can still divide these Mongols. We can select the Mongolian nobles and some officials and bring them inside the Great Wall for easier custody.

As for the large number of ordinary Mongolian slaves, they can be registered as household registration or military personnel.

Just like the Ming Dynasty villages, a grassland was designated for them to graze.

At first, the imperial court allocated cattle and sheep to them, and they returned the same amount of cattle and sheep to the imperial court within three years.

From now on, all the cattle and sheep as well as the cattle and sheep born will belong to them, and then taxes will be levied on a per capita basis.

In this way, they became the meat trumpets of our Ming border army and could detect the movements of the Mongols in advance.

If they went from having nothing to owning their own cattle and sheep, many Mongols would consider themselves Ming people.

There will also be new rulers among this group of people, and they will certainly not be willing to give up what they have.

If they were killed or looted by the Mongols outside, they would have a blood feud.

By then, we won’t have to take the initiative to seek revenge on the Mongols outside the Great Wall.”

Differentiation and further differentiation.

The Ming Dynasty gave them benefits, but the Mongols took them away.

It is easier to identify who their enemies are.

Zhu Biao laughed a few times and was very satisfied with Wang Buli's strategy of division.

As a result, the Mongols who have been entrenched in the northern desert and are suffering from diarrhea will become even more diarrheal in the future.

There is a huge gap in class concepts between them.

"Well, it seems that this strategy can be used not only on the Mongols, but also on the Jurchens!"

Zhu Biao had not talked about world affairs with Wang Buli for a long time.

Especially some of the exquisite methods, he hadn't heard such smooth ones for a long time.

Zhu Biao was very happy that he could recruit Wang Buli to provide him with some advice.

"Jurchens?" Wang Buli narrowed his eyes and smiled, "They are entrenched in the Liaodong area. Maybe they can even claim to have discovered a gold mine or something, which will make the Ming soldiers pay more attention to them.

Compared to the copper mines in Yunnan and the silver mines in Japan, the gold mines in Liaodong sound more attractive.”

"Hahaha."

Zhu Biao couldn't help laughing again. He really didn't expect Wang Buli's thinking to diverge so quickly that he would come up with this method to motivate the Ming soldiers.

But then Zhu Biao's laughter stopped abruptly and he reacted suddenly.

What if what Wang Buli said about the gold mine in Liaodong is true?

In Zhu Biao's opinion, Wang Buli did not love money very much, but he always wanted to bring some benefits to his descendants.

So it is very likely that there are gold mines in the Liaodong region! "Do you know where it is?"

"I don't know." Wang Buli shook his head.
"I've heard that there are a lot of minerals in the deep mountains and old forests of Liaodong. As for finding gold mines, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's very difficult to find the exact location."

"Well, then I understand."

Zhu Biao also understood that it was already very good that Wang Buli knew where the silver and copper mine was. As for the specific location, he had to send people to explore it carefully.

This is by no means something that can be achieved quickly.

After so many years of spies being sent to Japan, there is still no definite news.

"The imperial court is preparing to recruit the Jurchen tribes entrenched in Liaodong to surrender and have them join the war against the Mongols."

Zhu Biao looked at Wang Buli and smiled:

"Now we have finally contacted some experienced Jurchens, and are systematically reducing the Mongols' influence."

Zhu Biao also remembered that it was the Jurchens who defeated Li Zicheng and eventually seized the Ming Dynasty.

It was something he had not expected.

According to reports from officials in Liaodong, many Jurchens still ate raw meat and drank blood. They did not even have their own written language. Most of them could not speak Chinese, so communication with them was extremely difficult.

But after all, he is familiar with weapons and knows how to keep a low profile.

Zhu Biao thought this move was quite effective. These people had evil ambitions, so they should be allowed to fight and bleed more on the battlefield and be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

"Last year, Mu Ying attacked the Western Fan and captured the leaders of eighteen tribes, expanded the territory by thousands of miles, captured more than 20,000 men and women, and more than 200,000 livestock."

This is what Wang Buli said back then: Daming was short of cattle, but friendly countries had cattle, so we could just take them and use them.

It took a lot of effort to use Deng Yu's death to instigate them to rebel against the Ming Dynasty again.

After all, they were scared by Deng Yu last time, so this time they had to find someone to spread rumors for a long time before they succeeded in their rebellion.

Moreover, it was the joint efforts of both sides that made this rebellion possible.

Now there is no more trouble in Xifan.

The King of Qin also went on the expedition and kidnapped pregnant women and put them in the palace to play with, causing couples to separate.

Three hundred young children were abducted, and one hundred and fifty of the boys were castrated. Most of them died due to poor recovery.

Therefore, Zhu Biao became increasingly dissatisfied with his brother's behavior.

He simply doesn't treat people as human beings. How is he different from those Mongolian nobles who bullied the people before?
Zhu Biao also saw how messed up the Ming Dynasty's vassal kings would be in the future, so he wanted to teach them a lesson to prevent his descendants from learning the same thing.

By then, the entire Ming Dynasty will be dragged down by these vassal kings!

"Alas, there are still not enough cattle that can be converted into plow cattle."

Wang Buli had heard of Mu Ying's battle record last year, but it was quite less than the previous time.

After all, they have all been plundered once, so how can they afford to be plundered a second time?

This time, Xifan's strength has completely declined.

They wanted to rely on the Mongols to continue causing chaos but they couldn't. Zhu Yuanzhang had achieved one part of his goal of weakening the two wings of the Mongols, and the next step was to focus on managing Liaodong.

"Yes, but it also relieved some of the pressure on the border troops to cultivate land."

Zhu Biao felt that they could take it slow. The cattle and sheep that Deng Yu and his men had captured during the battle had already given birth, and their numbers had increased to a certain extent.

The next step is to wait for time.

Zhu Biao also wanted to govern the Ming Dynasty well, otherwise he would be relying on future generations and his efforts would be in vain, making him a complete fool.

He would never allow such a thing to happen.

Wang Buli nodded gently: "So we're still fighting in the north in the next two years?"

"Yes, let's see how many Mongolians can be produced in Helin."

Zhu Biao was very satisfied with his father's combat strategy.

Xu Da came back from Peiping this year to stabilize the balance of the incident of killing Hu Weiyong, and then send him out.

Wang Buli thought about it and shook his head gently: "I'm not sure. I hope there will be more. It will be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty to send people to find the location of the gold once and for all."

Inside the bedroom, Zhu Yuanzhang watched as Empress Ma applied medicine all over Zhu Shouqian's body with great concern.

Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be really angry, with marks on his back and buttocks.

"Zhongba, how could you be so harsh?"

Empress Ma even shed tears. They hadn't seen each other for several years, and when they met again, things turned out like this.

When Zhu Shouqian heard this, he hummed even louder.

Such a golden opportunity must not be missed.

If the Queen had said a few more good words to herself, then His Majesty might not have punished him so severely.

He eats delicious food and wears fine clothes every day, and after eating and drinking his fill, he goes to tease or molest girls.

Otherwise, he would do something that would harm the troops. He was confused even by himself, not to mention the miserable treatment of only being able to eat one bun a day, and his entourage couldn't even think of getting close to him.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang also showed a distressed look, he waved his sleeves and said:
"It would be better if you spoiled him so much in the past that he did so many asshole things."

"What do you mean I spoil him!"

Empress Ma immediately cried out in grievance, and it just so happened that everyone in the palace knew that you, Zhu Yuanzhang, were keeping a close eye on the actions of the princes.

It would be fine if they don't study well on weekdays, but you are also making trouble for yourself.

Now that they have done such evil things, it will surely bring shame to you, the emperor.

Zhu Shouqian heard the couple cough a few times, pretended to wake up, and began to steal glances at the surrounding situation.

It really hurts to apply the medicine.

"Shouqian almost fainted from the pain just now. As a grandfather, you are so cruel."

Zhu Shouqian agreed that his grandmother went to the side to prevent her tears from falling, but in fact she was just pretending.

He had planned it out long ago.

"Report, Your Majesty, a great victory!"

"Okay, take him down to warm himself by the fire. Since you are so anxious to deliver the message, I will reward you with one hundred taels of silver."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The messenger left happily.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Mu Ying's battle report and couldn't help feeling proud.

I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang sometimes has a bad face. Who would like to listen to what he says?

The messenger left excitedly. It was a rare occasion that His Majesty showed such generosity.

Zhu Shouqian had the fruit peeled off and lay there listening.

He just felt that the beautiful girl in front of him was just a passing moment, and it was worth eating the bamboo rattan fried noodles and soy milk noodles.

"Grandfather, I will definitely change my ways from now on!"

(End of this chapter)