Chapter 141: National Policy Advances and Retreats

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir's meaning, I already know that after the war, you can't start the war lightly, but I will not make peace with the tile spurs. ”

Zhu Qizhen also knew that this battle had almost beaten the vitality of Daming for so many years.

Not to mention the casualties of the people and the people, how much manpower and material resources are needed for more than 100,000 troops to cross the Hanhai Sea, and the total may not be as much as the 500,000 army in the Yongle period, but it is not much worse.

In the vast grassland, maintaining a logistics line is a very difficult thing.

Just by rewarding the generals and soldiers of various departments, Zhu Qizhen has already smashed millions of taels of silver, and it has really rained a rain of silver coins, from Yang Hong, Shi Heng, Guo Deng, Meng Ying, to the ordinary soldiers below, there are a lot.

The capital that Daming has saved in the past few years has almost been consumed.

If it weren't for last year, it wasn't a good year this year. The situation that Zhu Qizhen has to face will only be worse.

Not to mention, the war is over, but there are many, many things that need to be done to consolidate the rule of the Ming Dynasty on the grassland, such as improving the post station gallop system on the grassland. For example, outside the side walls, the cultivation is carried out in suitable places.

Zhu Qizhen prepared to withdraw the guards inside the border wall during the orthodox period of Yongli, and all of them were moved back outside the border wall, and even took the opportunity to screen the guards in various places.

Where to be a soldier in the camp stationed in Beijing, where to set up a guard, if to prevent the fall of the guard. That's all the problem.

And these problems are indispensable to money.

Therefore, at this time, Zhu Qizhen is not a fool, how can he be reckless to go to the Western Regions to conquer the thorns. Be a fool for one's pains.

However, Zhu Qizhen still refused to negotiate peace with the tile spur and bow his head above, so the tile spur bowed his head and called his minister, and Zhu Qizhen did not allow it.

First, Zhu Qizhen understands very well that what he can't get militarily can't get at the negotiation table.

Don't look at the tile spur's posture this time, he sent the second person of the tile spur to Beijing, but Zhu Qizhen asked the tile spur to withdraw from the Western Regions and include the Western Regions in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, will the tile spur agree?

It can't be, even if you can agree, it's just a name.

Second, Zhu Qizhen knew that the civil officials below, he nodded, and when the time was ripe in the future, it would be another troublesome matter to attack the tile spur again.

It seems that due to the natural geographical environment limitations, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have a strong mentality of being rich and peaceful.

As soon as the dragon city was established, Beijing's strategic form has undergone a fundamental change.

The closest border to Beijing is probably a thousand or two thousand miles away. There is enough strategic depth. In their opinion, it is already perfect.

But Zhu Qizhen didn't think so.

Although the land in the northwest, Zhu Qizhen has no thoughts. But after all, in his opinion, the Western Regions, too

Xinjiang has always been a part of China, and we must not let future generations lose its territory.

And he also understands that just garrisoning Longcheng is actually not safe, in the land of Mobei, the Ming Dynasty only controls the eastern part of Mobei, which is relatively close to the northeast, as for Beihai, and the western part of Mongolia in later generations, they have been abandoned.

The whip is out of reach.

Now that the tile spur is suffering from a great injury and is licking its wounds, it naturally does not dare to go eastward, and this large area has become a strategic separation zone between the two sides.

But in the future, when the vitality of the tile spur recovers, will you not eat the meat in front of you?

These places, for the Ming Dynasty, are simply bitter cold places, but for the tile spurs, they are the best grasslands.

Although the belligerent will die, but forgetting the war will be dangerous, Zhu Qizhen actually wants to keep the state of war with the tile spur all the time, in his opinion, there is no loss at all?

Does Daming have an interest inside the Tile Spur? Is there anything in Daming that must be purchased from the tile spur? In the past, there was a shortage of horses, and perhaps the horses that had accumulated thorns, but now there is Monan Mongolia, which has a large area of Mobei grassland, and nearly half of Mongolia, which is more than one-half, are under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

There are so many pastures, although because of the war, there are not many Ming war horses. But within a few years, there must be a lot of war horses in the Ming Dynasty.

On the one hand, the peaceful environment allowed countless Mongols to work with peace of mind, and iron and grain, which they could not ask for before, can now trade freely with mainland traders.

Because inside and outside the border walls are already a country.

On the other hand, there is the promotion of silage, a revolutionary achievement in animal husbandry, which allows Gendo livestock to be preserved from winter.

As a result, it became inevitable that livestock, including horses, would multiply in large numbers.

Looking at it this way, there are many, many places where the tile spur needs Daming, and Daming doesn't need anything at all. And why bother with diplomatic relations.

Regarding intelligence, even if Daming does not have official contact with the tile spur, neither Jinyiwei nor Dongchang are vegetarians.

Zhu Qizhen really couldn't imagine that negotiating peace with the tile spur would be beneficial to Daming.

When Chen Xun heard Zhu Qizhen say this, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

What he was most worried about was that Zhu Qizhen insisted on going his own way, was carried away by victory, and single-mindedly pursued the north.

Now that Zhu Qizhen has said it, he will not start the war lightly. Chen Xun was also relieved. Still, he felt that he should talk to Watts. He said: "Your Majesty, the minister's suggestion to talk to the envoy of the tile spur is not to agree to the peace of the tile, but to have a relationship with the internal and external outlook. ”

Zhu Qizhen frowned slightly and said, "What does Mr. mean?" ”

Chen Xun said: "Your Majesty, the imperial court vassal states are more than 100, and the tile thorn is only one of them, before the imperial court destroyed Korea, and now it is a tile thorn, killing first, in a few years, even breaking the two countries, Japan, Annam, Champong, Siam, Burma, Yili Li, Usizang, all

There is fear. ”

"The information from the Jinyi Guardian newspaper is that the envoys of these countries are in frequent contact."

"The minister thinks that he must always calm the hearts of all countries and let them know that I will not cut down the innocent country, and even if I send troops, I will not seek people and land, but I just want to order the world."

Zhu Qizhen listened to Chen Xun's words, and felt that he was a little narrow-minded in his heart.

Politics and morality.

Virtue is a thing that seems ethereal, but it is useful in many cases.

Zhu Qizhen rarely thinks about problems from the perspective of international relations, without him, before Western countries came to the East. Daming is international.

It's not that Daming is closed off from the country, but many times, it is the surrounding countries that look at Daming, not Daming to think about the reactions of other countries.

But there are some things that he also has to think about.

Look at what Zhu Qizhen has done in recent years, especially in North Korea, the appearance is a little ugly, and many countries are worried about the attitude of Daming.

Although there was a reason for the death of North Korea, North Korea was a country that was not conquered in the ancestral training of the Ming Dynasty. These countries naturally have to consider whether there has been a fundamental change in the national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the past two years, there have been more envoys from the Quartet.

Zhu Qizhen realized these things a little later. After all, these things are all small things compared to the Northern Expedition. At this time, Zhu Qizhen had to think about it.

If you only consider the problems in the north and even in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen doesn't need to worry about it, even Annan, which is the strongest among the countries, does not dare to act rashly under the prestige.

A place that Zhu Qizhen hadn't considered for a long time came out of Zhu Qizhen's heart again, and it was not somewhere else, it was the Old Port Propaganda Division.

This is the southernmost territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the military strength of the Ming Dynasty in other places, the strength in the old port is too much owed.

The ability of the Old Port Propaganda Department to maintain until now, on the one hand, the Han maritime merchants led by the Shi family in the old port do have some skills, and on the other hand, it is the aftermath of the Ming Sea.

This residual power is military on the one hand, and political on the other.

Some people may think that Zheng He went to the West and carried out peacefully, which is a bit silly. But it was Zheng He who did not seek the interests of the local kings, and even gave them a lot of benefits.

The kings of the land in various places are subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, and are willing to be friendly with the Ming Dynasty, after all, with the Ming Dynasty as a backer, they can not only get benefits, but also will not worry about the Ming annexing them.

Now this foreign policy change will have a great impact on the situation in the South Seas.

The situation in Nanyang has deteriorated a lot compared to the early years of orthodoxy, although the old port has the support of a large number of Han maritime merchants, but the big ships of the Ming Dynasty have not come to Nanyang for nearly 30 years.

Thirty years, already a generation.