eldest son of Ming dynasty

Probably because last year’s Grand Court Meeting was held for the first time, and many details were too late to go into detail. At that time, the emperor died and there was a war in the northwest. .

Standing under the golden plaque, the vigorous emperor, with great eyesight, confident and powerful, declared to his ministers:

"In the 18th year of Hongzhi, I took restoration as a national policy, and determined that in three or five years, I would restore the old land and thank all the people in the world. If this ambition fails, I vow not to give up.

And I, thinking of the great orders of the former emperors, wanting to emulate the rule of Tang and Yu, and those who speak out, either agree with each other, or insist on their own wrong, but remember that there is no inclination or side, no party or side.Er and other ministers, strengthen their courage and insight, and help them rule.This is the so-called ambition of the Great Court Meeting! "

At the beginning of the Great Court Meeting, the emperor had this opening remark, which means that I will recite the order of the former emperor and follow the benevolent politics of Tang Yao, Yu and Shun to govern the country. You can speak out what you have to say and assist me in handling the government affairs.

In fact, this is what civil servants often call for to speak out.

So the courtiers in the palace once again shouted long live.

Zhu Houzhao came down the stairs, "During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu set up two counties, Shuofang and Wuyuan, and the Heshuo area has been the territory of the Central Plains since then. According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", the land of Heshuo was irrigated by canals, and the water Chonghe Cao. The effort is less, but the army food is abundant. Therefore, Emperor Xiaowu and Guangwu built Shuofang, opened the West River, and placed Shangjun, all for this reason.”

"Emperor Taizu of this dynasty used to drive out the Tartars and restore China and launched an army to conquer Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Taizong conquered Mobei five times and chased Yuanting in the north. The ancestors of the emperor also attacked Jianzhou Jurchen, so there was Chenghua Liting. More than a hundred Over the years, the Ming Dynasty and the grassland have never stopped fighting. I am determined to inherit my ancestor Yu Lie, and I will take over the land of Hetao for the rest of my life. Today's discussion, all ministers can play, if it is beneficial to the recovery, I will accept it, and it is not conducive to the recovery. I will abandon it."

As the emperor, he will set the tone. Today is to discuss how to regain the Hetao.

But it is the ministers' business to discuss how to recover Hetao.

In fact, in the final analysis, retracing is a military operation, or launching a war against Tatars.

Basically, from the status quo, this must be an expedition, so it is completely different from the battle of Huamachi in Hongzhi's 18th year.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was no longer in its early years, and an army of tens of thousands of 10,000+ entered the desert, which was no small matter.

For Yang Yiqing, when he took this task back, there were only two requirements.

One is for people, and the other is for military supplies.

So at this point, the ministers began to use their brains.

Yang Tinghe Jinzuo said: "Ningxia's army is weak, and it is necessary to select the strong and strong from each guard and reorganize them into two guards. Then they will be given horses and military funds, supplemented by land reclamation and drills."

Li Dongyang believes that the imperial court needs to prepare more grain and grass. For convenience, a granary can be built in the northwest like the Jingtong warehouse.

The so-called Jingtong warehouse is a large granary built in the capital and Tongzhou. Emperor Chenghua used these grain reserves to stabilize prices. In the 22nd year of Chenghua, Jingtong warehouse had 2000 million shi of stored grain.

After arriving in Hongzhi, the expenditure increased day by day, and the grain storage in Jingtong gradually decreased. So far, there are only 300 million shi left. When Zhu Houzhao was dealing with the affairs of the household department, he also ordered that the grain storage should be full and play a role.

Taipusi Qing Wang Teng suggested that the imperial court can appropriately expand the number of official horse farms, so that he can raise more war horses and reduce the pressure, otherwise Yang Butang would always ask him for horses, which would be quite a headache.

However, the cost of horse administration is not small, and it is often 10,000+ taels of silver.

Zhao Shen, the servant of the Ministry of Justice, put forward a rather special point of view: he felt that since there was a shortage of war horses, it would be good for the official horse farms to cultivate and accumulate more, but could the old system of "Nama atonement" in the Chenghua period be restored.

In the era of imperial power, there was no concept of the rule of law. Whatever the country needed, it did what it wanted. Back then, when there was a shortage of horses, that was the only way to go.

Emperor Yongle also stopped the development of the whole country because of the lack of grain in the capital, and concentrated all of them in the capital. In this way, all the salt merchants who paid for the grain had to send the grain to the capital, and all the granaries in the capital were full all of a sudden.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the dragon chair, listening to Zhao Shen's idea, shaking his head in his heart.How many more horses can a few prisoners get?

Sure enough, Lin Han, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, denied this approach, saying that since this is the case, it is better to temporarily stop the gradual withdrawal of the people and herdsmen. Since there is a war in the country, if the people suffer a little for two years, the people must understand the court.

Hubu Shangshu's Korean suggestion: As I said before, opening the sea is for duplication.Now that the opening of the sea has been completed, the three city shipping departments implement the access system, and the income from the access bank is nearly 200 million, which can be allocated to the horse administration and the national policy respectively.

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All in all, above the Fengtian Palace, many courtiers started various discussions around how to repeat the set.Some of these are good ideas, and some are just thrown away.

And Zhu Houzhao felt that there were a few points, which he had never thought of before, that the three cobblers were better than Zhuge Liang.

Among them, the military strategy was proposed by Wang Shouren. He suggested to use elite soldiers to come and go like the wind, and to suppress the set first.This incident was not initiated by him. During the Chenghua period, and even Wang Yue's attack in the 11th year of Hongzhi, it was considered a successful suppression.The reason why it is easier to succeed in suppressing tactics is that the nomads also have their "work and rest".

This is a kind of military common sense. Wang Shouren must have known it since he had fought against the Tatars.

This common sense is that nomads went south to the Central Plains, usually in autumn, while the Northern Expedition of the Central Plains Dynasty usually came in spring, just the opposite.Behind it all is determined by the production method.

First of all, look at nomads. The reason why they often choose autumn is because nomads are resistant to cold and not heat, and the climate in the customs is relatively warm, so nomads are not used to it.In autumn, the air is crisp and the weather turns cooler. Even if the war drags on for a long time and the weather gets colder, the nomadic cavalry will fight harder and harder. At the same time, the Han army is not resistant to cold and suffers more and more.

After another cold day, the big river in the north froze, and the cavalry drove straight in without any hindrance.

Moreover, autumn is the time for farmers to harvest. It is not easy for the Central Plains army to gather, and it is also beneficial for them to fight.

The most critical factor is that they are short of supplies in winter. If they don't rush to grab a wave in autumn, it will be difficult for women, children, and livestock to survive the winter.

For the farming people in the Central Plains, it is best to attack in spring. As soon as the weather turns hotter, the weather will get hotter as the fight continues. We are not afraid.Secondly, spring is the breeding season for livestock. In order to raise more cattle and sheep, nomads will try their best to graze and raise young on the vast prairie.At this time, it is difficult for them to assemble an army in a short period of time, and the war will also affect the reproduction of livestock.

In addition, the master's expedition will consume a lot of food and grass, and it will take time to raise food and grass, and winter is the slack season, so there is just time to organize peasants to deliver food and grass.

The so-called suppression means to go deep into the desert at this time, kill people when they come across, and rob cattle and sheep when they come across,
Once the nomads robbed the people in the pass, causing the people to live in dire straits, and the Central Plains dynasty robbed them once, that was also a heavy blow.Anyway, it's the Seven Injuries Fist, let's see who dies first.

Wang Shouren's final conclusion is quite reasonable, "Since the Ming Dynasty has spent its national strength to prepare troops, how can it be regarded as the Tatars' accumulation of military horses? If they don't suppress the tricks, God will punish them."

Even if you have this power, why don't you weaken them?
Both Yang Shangyi and Zhou Shangwen agreed with this suggestion, but they did not expect that it was a civil servant who made such a point, because civil servants always tend to prevent the army from attacking.

Suppressing sets also requires food and grass.

Another suggestion was made by Song Heng, a doctor in the Shaofu. He viewed the war from an economic point of view.

Song Heng is no more than a fourth-rank official, which is nothing on this occasion, but the court will allow officials of all sizes to speak, so he also said that he believes that the court will gradually tighten the trade with Tatars, and on the basis of Datong Town Further strictly control the sale of salt, iron, cloth and other materials to the Tatars.He believed that the military strength in the past was not strong, and this approach would only allow the impatient Tatars to plunder.

However, as the troops and horses of the imperial court continued to go north to the desert, they actually had the strength to resist the Tatars.And no matter where they enter the customs, the officers and soldiers can respond.

On this basis, border trade laws and regulations should be specially formulated for the purpose of repeating national policies, and businessmen who still maintain trade with Tatars should be severely cracked down.

This is actually a blockade.It was also done in Datong to a certain extent before, and the Ming Dynasty itself prohibited trading with Tatars, but there was a lot of smuggling in private. According to Song Heng's suggestion, the imperial court's measures should be more resolute, with the strength of opening the sea.

In fact, it is not that the court is not resolute. The trade war hurts both sides, because the people on both sides have the demand for mutual market.

But Zhu Houzhao thought about it carefully. In fact, after two or three years of military harassment and economic blockade, the strength of the Tatars must have been greatly reduced.

But the economic blockade has a disadvantage, that is, the Tatars may really not be able to survive. What if he cannot survive?You can only go south to plunder.

In this way, the Ming-Mongolian War may happen this year.How many will be caught off guard.

And then again, what if he wins?
This kind of war is the all-out pounce of the disadvantaged. If they fail, they will lose most of their breath.

eat at noon,

The emperor first revealed his intentions with several important ministers, "I think the matter of suppressing tricks can be implemented this year. Zhou Yanzhang has already gone north to the desert. In spring, the Mongols are grazing cattle and sheep. The probability of quickly gathering troops to counterattack is relatively high." Small. But the blockade is discussed, I think it can be implemented next year after the suppression of the embarrassment.”

Next year, Ming's cavalry and border troops will be further strengthened, and they can wait for the Tatars to counterattack.

Yang Yiqing also felt that this was safe, "I think it's very good. If this year's blockade occurs, the Tatars will definitely try their best to invade the frontier in the autumn. It's a waste of risk. It's definitely not the best policy."

"Suppression of tricks in one year, blockade in two years, and re-trapping in three years can be achieved." Yang Tinghe said directly: "It is worthwhile to have two strategies of suppression and blockade on the first day of the Great Court."

You can use Zhou Shangwen for the suppression, but you don't know if you can use Song Heng for the blockade.But Zhu Houzhao is not in a hurry, after all, it will be next year's matter, so it's okay to observe and observe.

In addition, he also thought about another thing.

The court will continue in the afternoon,
The emperor said to the crowd: "Earlier, Da Situ has said that the Shibo Division has nearly 200 million silver. Since I opened my mouth, I said that the sea needs to be opened, and the sea is the second. Now that I said it, We must keep our word. In the first year of Zhengde, the expenses of the palace will be reduced, and the redundant officials of the court will be removed, but the military pay, food and grass of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty cannot be reduced. This year, the re-enrollment must also be effective, so I don’t care about this amount of money. Don’t move, dear friends, don’t make up your mind. Yang Aiqing, I hereby promise you today that I will allocate 100 million taels of silver for the purchase of military horses, soldiers, and preparations for war!”

All the ministers were astonished, such an amount was astonishing.The emperor was really willing to spend all his money for this matter.