"Your Highness is high-minded, and the ministers are far from it."

"However, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, how can they easily talk about war."

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 use force to solve the problem.

"What Gong Xie said is that we have always been friendly with people and have been prestigious to the world with loyalty and filial piety, but the people on the grassland have believed in the weak since ancient times, the strong dominate everything, and believe in swords and swords, and they don't know etiquette, righteousness and shame, and they don't know how to educate."

"Even if we are friendly to them, they are still wolves and ambitious, they have repeatedly coveted our Middle-earth Shenzhou, and they have plundered the border every year, this is not that we have to talk about war lightly, but we have to fight back, otherwise they will only think that we are easy to bully, and treat us as cattle and sheep on the grassland, as long as there is a need, they will come to harvest, wave after wave, and there will never be a time to be satisfied."

Zhu Hou looked at Xie Qian, thought about it and replied.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Emperor Hongzhi nodded very happily, about this, he only recently had such an understanding.

It has been 11 years since he ascended the throne, and in the past, he had always followed the advice of civil officials, believing that the country should be governed by benevolence, righteousness and morality, and this was also the case outside.

But the nomads of the steppe have to buckle the border every year, and every year they have to go south to plunder, and every time they go south, it is like locusts crossing the border, and the corpses are all over the field, and the blood is flowing like rivers, and everything is robbed cleanly.

From edible food to clothes, cloth, salt, iron pots, etc., they will rob almost everything, just like a beggar entering the house of a rich man, looting wantonly, and robbing whatever he sees.

The border towns, which had originally prospered because of the salt introduction system, have become more and more depressed over the years, and a large number of border people have either been killed or gradually fled from the border towns.

Especially after the change of Naliang Kaizhong to Nayin Kaizhong, this town area is even more empty, which further weakens the defense force of the Ming Dynasty in the border town area, and makes the already stormy defense line even more full of loopholes.

In the face of these robbers, it is useless to reason with them, the most effective means is to talk to them with your fists, just like last year, because of the hope glasses, I knew the movements of the little prince in advance, set a trap and ambush, and hit the little prince hard in one fell swoop, and the days in the border town area this winter are much better.

Otherwise, every winter, Emperor Hongzhi would have to sleep and eat, not only worried about the safety of the border towns, but also worried about whether this steppe wolf would take advantage of the situation to threaten the capital.

Emperor Hongzhi was very happy that Zhu Houzhao could understand this truth now, and clearly realized this, just thinking about the current situation and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, Emperor Hongzhi was sad again.

If the Ming army has combat effectiveness, he is naturally still very happy to see this, but the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been since the change of Tumubao, after the literati took power, and the generals and nobles were extremely suppressed, the Ming army, which was originally like a tiger and wolf, became a war scum.

In the past, he was able to go to the grassland for a stroll and hunt along the way, but now he can only rely on the strong city wall for defense, and he doesn't even dare to fight in the field, counting on such an army to achieve the revenge in Zhu Houzhao's heart?

Emperor Hongzhi knew this very well, so he became sad in his heart, afraid that after Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne in the future, Xueyingzong would come to the imperial expedition, if there was another change in the Ming Dynasty, it would really be stormy.

At this moment, he didn't know how to guide his son.

"Maybe it's good to be an honest and well-behaved emperor."

In his heart, Emperor Hongzhi thought so again.

But thinking about the embarrassment, passivity and humiliation of the steppe wolf 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 displaced people on a large scale to go to the border town area to cultivate grain, which greatly strengthened the defense of the border town area.

However, this grain opening could not be sustained, and after the change to the silver opening of the middle school, the border towns became weaker and weaker, the border army could not be guaranteed, and the combat effectiveness became lower and lower.

The lower the combat strength of the army here, the more unscrupulous the steppe nomads became, detaining the border every year, plundering every year, the scope and scale of the army getting bigger and bigger, and gradually forming a vicious circle.

If it goes on for a long time, Daming will inevitably be dragged down by this town, especially the already stretched finances of Daming, and in the end, all of them will be sucked clean by this town.

He knew that Da Ming had to make some changes, otherwise even if Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, could live a stable life, what about the next emperor?

What about a few decades, a hundred years?

When the border town is completely eroded, there will be a natural disaster like now**, and this Ming dynasty may not be surnamed Zhu in the future.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi was even more worried.

He is a good emperor who has inherited the Ming Dynasty, and naturally wants to pass on the Ming Dynasty.

In the same way, he is also a father and a good father, and he is also thinking about whether he can leave something for his son, and can clear 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 of the country around him with his spare eyes, and then thought about the famine in the three northern provinces this time, and then looked at the spacious cement road that winded to the end of the line of sight under his feet, and suddenly had a lot of decisions in his heart.

"Maybe this is the turning point of Daming's transformation."

I unconsciously thought of Liu Jin in my mind, and carefully recalled everything that Liu Jin had done.

From meeting Liu Jin at Wangyue Tower, hearing him talk about the world outside the daimyo, to the appearance of honeycomb coal, and now, he went to sea to fish and do business in Tianjin, solved the problem of famine this time, and even made himself and Zhu Houzhao's pockets bulge in a very short time, and now he has invented an artifact like cement.

Emperor Hongzhi's face unconsciously showed a hint of a smile.

Whether it is Zhu Houzhao next to Emperor Hongzhi, or the old man of the three cabinets of the cabinet, no one has noticed the changes in Emperor Hongzhi at this time, and no one knows that Emperor Hongzhi has a lot of thoughts in his mind.