Chapter 62 The Grassland of the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Qizhen weighed the pros and cons and said, "Is there anything else?" ”

Guo Deng pondered for a while and said, "There are too many Mongols. ”

Zhu Qizhen didn't understand for a while.

How can there be too much Mongolia?

There are only a million people, even if all the men are only a few hundred thousand, and they are distributed in three places, controlled by the imperial army, and the high-level people are raised in Beijing, how can it be considered a lot.

Guo Deng said: "It's not more now, but more in the future. ”

"The minister asked the Mongolian elderly, many Mongolian children, at the age of two or three, there is not one out of ten who survived, it is very miserable, but Yichen observed, almost Mongolian women have given birth in recent years, and quite a lot of them have been saved."

"The number of millions in Mongolia is just a rough count, not counting children under the age of five, and if you count children under the age of five, the number of Mongolians will never be millions."

Zhu Qizhen only felt more headache.

He did not doubt Gordon's words.

If you think about it, because of the implementation of the silage law, the Mongols changed from nomadic herding to sedentary, so that the living environment was greatly favorable.

In fact, the life of the ancient Mongols was also very miserable.

How miserable it is, that is, as long as the child, then the child is not his own species, after all, it is unknown whether his child can survive. There is no concern for the jealousy of men themselves.

When the situation improves, it becomes inevitable that the population will multiply in large numbers.

But Zhu Qizhen has to face this consequence.

First of all, he didn't know how many Mongols there were under the silage method to get a balance, and secondly, he didn't know how many Mongols Mongols could withstand in Monan.

Finally, the most worrying thing.

This question should be thought of in conjunction with the first question.

Mongolia will definitely draw a red line for reclamation, and even prohibit reclamation on the desert steppe in the future. After all, compared to a little grain production, the ecological environment is the most important.

As for such a ban, where is the proportion, and to what extent it is prohibited, it still needs to be carefully considered.

If the ban on reclamation is issued, then it also shows a problem, the grassland may be the grassland of the Ming Dynasty, but it will not be the grassland of the Han people.

This is determined by lifestyle habits.

That's it, and there's nothing.

After all, as long as he is a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen doesn't care if he is Han or not.

But the problem is that the Mongols have grown by leaps and bounds with their unprecedented population growth rate, and it is estimated that in twenty or thirty years, there will be 23 million, or even more, Mongols in southern Mongolia.

Of course.

Mongol has been fighting for many years, but there is still a lot of room for it. Mongolia's population is growing rapidly, and it will not explode in the hands of Zhu Qizhen for a while.

But not in the hands of his sons and grandsons.

The increase in the number of Han people, the contradiction between population and land supply, Zhu Qizhen has paid great attention to adjusting, and to put it mildly, that is, the Ming court actually has rich experience in suppressing the uprising of the Han people.

However, in the case of the Mongol uprising, the Mongols, who had a large number of horses, could easily split from the Ming Dynasty, which reminded Zhu Qizhen of the Six Towns Uprising in history.

Because their geographical locations are highly overlapping.

How much trouble the Six Towns Uprising brought to the Northern Wei Dynasty can be seen from the history books, whether it was the establishment of the Northern Zhou Dynasty or the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was directly or indirectly related to the Six Towns Uprising.

How could Zhu Qizhen not be worried?

You must know that Beijing is the first to bear the brunt.

Zhu Qizhen has been in power for so many years, and he has a profound feeling, that is, if a problem is solved, there will be a problem, and if another problem is solved, there will be another problem.

The world's problems cannot be solved.

Zhu Qizhen already had a prototype of an idea in his heart.

Of course, whether it will be done in the future depends on the future situation. Naturally, it was a multi-pronged approach, on the one hand, to introduce Lamaism to Mongolia.

Nowadays, although Lamaism has begun to become popular in Mongolia, it has not completely replaced shamanism, so that the Mongolian people believe in lamas and become monks to control the population.

It's just a cruel policy of reducing Ding, Zhu Qizhen can't use it, he has to use another method, that is, to learn Genghis Khan's westward expedition.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Zhu Qizhen is going to conquer the west by himself.

Rather, the Central Asian region is used as a pressure relief valve for the Daming steppe.

Now it is the Monan Grassland, but in the future, the Mobei Grassland will definitely have the same situation as the Monan Grassland, so Zhu Qizhen decided to make the grassland one of the main conscription places of the Ming Dynasty.

And when the steppe population is overpopulated, a general is sent to lead a large army to conquer Central Asia.

You must know that in the original plan of Zhu Qizhen, it was enough to only recover the Western Regions. After all, in the Age of Discovery, the lifeblood of the world was at sea, and there was no need to spend too much energy on inland problems.

Now, in order to solve this problem, Zhu Qizhen has to consider this possibility, after all, Central Asia and even West Asia are places where cavalry can crisscross and crisscross.

Even if the cavalry will be eliminated in the future, it will still be able to exert its last remaining power.

What's more, it was the Ming army that marched west, not the Mongols. With the support of the entire Ming Dynasty in the rear, can the Western Expeditionary Army get less firearms?

In this way, Zhu Qizhen's view of the tile thorns in the Western Regions is a bit of an eyesore.

This is just a prototype, Zhu Qizhen secretly wrote down this matter, after all, it will take more than ten years for Mongolian children to grow up.

There's still time to fix that.

Zhu Qizhen said: "You have a heart, I know about this matter, you have been in Daning for a long time, do you know how Shi Heng is doing?" ”

Guo Deng's heart sank, he naturally knew that an important issue for him to be stationed in Daning was to watch Shi Heng. He pondered for a while, and said: "Loyal to the country, loyal to his duties, many times in the convening of Mobei tribes to hunt, and last year with the headquarters of the people, over the Yanran Mountain, and the Watt Thorn Boyan Timur fought a battle, each has a victory or defeat, and the court has also been rewarded. ”

"The minister thinks that Shi Heng is in Mobei, and the court can have no worries."

Zhu Qizhen sneered in his heart, and didn't say anything, just said, "Is Yang Xin competent?" ”

Of course, after Yan Ran's victory, Yan Ran Mountain became the natural dividing line between the tile thorn and the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the grassland is vast, and it is impossible for both the tile spur and the Ming Dynasty to send people to garrison Yanran Mountain, which means that this is just a geographical division, in fact, the two sides want to enter and exit, but they also come and go freely.

In particular, some of the various tribes of the tile spurs secretly sneaked into the east of Yanran Mountain to graze.

After all, most of the grassland is almost worthless to the Ming Dynasty, but for the Mongolian tribes, the value of a piece of grassland is simply indescribable.

So sporadic fighting between the two sides has always existed.

Shi Heng fought that battle last year, which was good.

It can't be regarded as a victory, but Shi Heng led more than 10,000 cavalry, one person and three horses, entered the territory of the tile spur, retreated with his whole body, and had hundreds of captures, which was already good.

His biggest problem is that he runs counter to national policy. There was no prior report.

Of course, as a border guard, he has the right to cut first and then play. However, such a military operation, which by no means could be explained by a temporary intention, was not reported to Beijing, and only after a great victory did it come to report victory.

What does he want to do?

Of course, the officials have to impeach Shi Heng for provoking on the side. was pressed down by Zhu Qizhen.

Because now Da Ming and Tile Thorn have always been in an enemy state, and Zhu Qizhen does not defend Shi Heng, but also maintains the orthodox lords and generals.

If Shi Heng can be impeached by the Yanguan and convicted after victory, then what is the status of the military general in front of the civilian officials?

At that time, it didn't mean that Zhu Qizhen felt that Shi Heng had no problem.

Zhu Qizhen felt that Shi Heng's problem was getting bigger and bigger. It's just that the location is critical and it's not easy to dispose of, so it's put on hold.

Zhu Qizhen even rewarded Shi Heng, rewarded him with gold and silver, increased Shi Heng's wealth, and so on, it seems that Shi Heng is the first favorite general of the orthodox emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Only those who know the inside story know what level has come between Shi Heng and the emperor and his ministers.

Guo Deng's words seemed to compliment Shi Heng, but they were actually eye medicine for Shi Heng. Guo Deng's relationship with Shi Heng is not good, and he doesn't dare to be good, after all, he is going to watch Shi Heng to prevent Shi Heng from going south, if he has a good relationship with Shi Heng, what will the emperor think, but he has to think carefully.