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"Your Highness has great views, but I am far behind."
"However, war is a major event for the country, the place of life and death, and the path to survival. How can we talk about war easily?"
Xie Qian looked at Zhu Houzhao beside him. This young prince of the Ming Dynasty really didn't know how to persuade him not to think about using force to solve problems.
"What Mr. Xie said is that we have always been friendly to others and conquered the world with our loyalty, filial piety and etiquette, but the people on the grassland have believed in the law of the jungle since ancient times, and the strong dominates everything. They believe in knives and swords and have no idea of ??etiquette, justice and shame. Knowledge and enlightenment.¡±
"Even if we are friendly to them, they are still ambitious. They have repeatedly coveted our Middle-earth China, and they have kidnapped and robbed us every year. This is not because we want to talk about war lightly, but we have to fight back, otherwise they will just think that we are Those who are easy to bully treat us like cattle and sheep on the grassland, coming to harvest whenever necessary, one after another, never satisfied."
Zhu Houzhao looked at Xie Qian, thought for a while and replied.
Hearing Zhu Houzhao¡¯s words, Emperor Hongzhi nodded happily. He had only recently come to this understanding.
It has been eleven years since he ascended the throne. In the past, he had always followed the advice of civil servants and believed that the country should be governed with benevolence, justice and morality, which was also the case externally.
However, the nomads on the grassland have to seize the border every year, and go south to plunder every year. Every time they go south, they are like locusts passing through. Wherever they pass, corpses are strewn in the fields, rivers of blood flow, and everything is robbed. net.
From edible grain to clothes, cloth, salt, iron pots, etc., they will rob almost everything, just like beggars entering the rich man's home, looting wantonly, and grabbing whatever they see. .
The border town area, which originally prospered due to the salt introduction system, has become increasingly depressed over the years. A large number of border residents were either killed or gradually fled the border town area.
Especially after the change of the grain payment system to the silver payment system, the border town area became even more empty. This further weakened the Ming Dynasty's defense force in the border town area and made the already precarious defense line even more porous. .
In the face of these bandits, it is useless to reason with them. The most effective way is to talk to them with fists. Just like last year, because of the hope glasses, I knew the little prince's movements in advance and set up traps and ambushes. , hit the little prince hard in one fell swoop, life in the border town area will be much better this winter.
Otherwise, Emperor Hongzhi would have trouble sleeping and eating every winter. He was not only worried about the safety of the border town area, but also worried about whether the prairie wolf would take advantage of the situation and threaten the capital.
Emperor Hongzhi was very happy that Zhu Houzhao could understand this truth now and clearly realize this. Just thinking about the current situation of the court and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, Emperor Hongzhi looked sad again.
If the Ming army had combat effectiveness, he would naturally be happy to see this, but the combat effectiveness of the Ming army had not been so good. The army has become a bastard of war.
In the past, you could go for a walk on the grassland and hunt for a while, but now you can only rely on solid city walls for defense, and you don't even dare to fight in the field. Do you expect such an army to realize the revenge in Zhu Houzhao's heart?
Emperor Hongzhi knew this very well, so he became worried in his heart. He was afraid that after Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne in the future, he would imitate the Yingzong and make a personal expedition. If the Ming Dynasty had another Tumu Fortress Incident, it would really be in turmoil.
At this moment, he didn¡¯t know how to guide his son.
"Perhaps it would be good to be an honest and well-behaved emperor."
In his heart, Emperor Hongzhi thought so again.
But when he thought about the embarrassment, passivity and humiliation faced by the prairie wolves over the years, Emperor Hongzhi knew very well in his heart that what Zhu Houzhao said was right, and the Ming Dynasty must change.
In the past, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain to the border town area, salt merchants recruited large-scale refugees to open up wasteland and grow grain in the border town area. This greatly strengthened the defense of the border town area.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? This supply of grain cannot be sustained. After it was changed to a supply of silver, the border towns gradually weakened, the military supplies of the border armies could not be guaranteed, and the combat effectiveness became lower and lower.
The lower the combat effectiveness of the army here, the more unscrupulous the grassland nomads will be. They seize borders and plunder every year. The scope and scale are getting larger and larger, gradually forming a vicious circle.If this goes on for a long time, Ming Dynasty will definitely be dragged down by this town, especially the already stretched finances of this Ming Dynasty. In the end, everything will be sucked up by this town.
He knew that Ming Dynasty must make some changes, otherwise even if the emperor Zhu Houzhao can live a stable life, what about the next emperor?
What about a few decades or a hundred years?
"When the border town is completely ruined, and another natural or man-made disaster occurs like now, the Ming Dynasty may no longer have the surname Zhu in the future.
Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi became even more sad.
He is a good emperor who inherited the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he also wants to pass on the Ming Dynasty.
In the same way, he is also a father, and a good father. He is also thinking about whether he can leave something for his son, and whether he can clear up some stubborn diseases for his son, so that he can better rule the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao, then looked at the important ministers around him with his peripheral vision, then thought about the famine in the three northern provinces, and then looked at the spacious cement road under his feet that wound to the end of his sight. On the road, I suddenly had a lot of decisions in my heart.
"Perhaps this is the turning point for Ming Dynasty's transformation."
I unconsciously thought of Liu Jin and carefully recalled everything Liu Jin had done.
From meeting Liu Jin at Wangyue Tower, hearing him talk about the world beyond the famous, to the emergence of briquettes, and now, he goes fishing and doing business in Tianjin, solving the famine problem this time, and even more The pockets of himself and Zhu Houzhao were bulging in a very short period of time, and now they have invented an artifact like cement.
Emperor Hongzhi¡¯s face unconsciously revealed a smile.
No one, whether it was Zhu Houzhao beside Emperor Hongzhi or the elder of the three cabinet ministers, noticed the changes in Emperor Hongzhi at this time, and no one knew that Emperor Hongzhi was thinking a lot in his mind. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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