In the five Northern Expeditions, the Ming army did occupy the cities on the grassland without blood, and it can be called the greatest achievement during the Northern Expedition. In particular, the burning of some of the Mongols' stored grain and other strategic materials can be regarded as effectively delaying the opportunity for the Mongols to regain their strength.

But because of this operation, the eastern faction, which had increased its power and was relatively moderate, declined. Even if the eastward invasion of the Warats in the west is temporarily stopped, it will not change the situation that the Mongolian region is strong in the west and weak in the east.

In the future, the Ming army will have to gradually face those opponents who have been cultivated in a more hostile environment - later in the Civil Revolution, the Wara that captured Yingzong, that is, Western Mongolia.

The real purpose of Zhu Di's Northern Expedition was internal, not external. Especially as a usurper, he had a great need to win foreign wars to show off his martial prowess. It is naturally convenient and easy to use with the best Mongolian tribes.

Zhu Di's big base, Beiping, will also be promoted in status because of these expeditions. It facilitated the implementation of the policy of moving the capital that he later proposed. As the emperor went north, various military and administrative departments had no choice but to be stationed in Beijing, and imperceptibly completed most of the foreshadowing before moving the capital.

The victory of the five Northern Expeditions was also Zhu Di's internal propaganda that the Mongol threat had been quelled by his own efforts. Moreover, the Northern Yuan forces were not completely dead, and Zhu Di wanted to establish a new capital in Beijing, so it was impossible not to consider the possibility of the recovery of the Northern Yuan.

Therefore, the Northern Expedition also satisfied his other two strategies at the same time: one was to establish a relatively safe buffer zone near Beijing; The second is to use the stability of the world as an excuse to gradually move all the vassal kings on the border to the interior and remove their control over the border army.

This is the reason why Zhu Di's five Northern Expeditions all seemed to be "thunderous and rainy", and finally seemed to be a busy one.

Gao pragmatic has never thought about how to rule from the perspective of a usurper, so of course he will slander. With his habitual thinking, he has always been unprofitable and does not get up early, even if he loses money temporarily, he must have long-term interests as the goal.

And Gao pragmatic also likes to take a two-pronged approach, or even a multi-pronged approach. Just like this "Mo Nan Game of Chess", his goals are actually more than those analyzed by Buzhhatu.

The first task was, of course, for him to get a better grasp of Tumut. For this reason, he not only prepared a stick, but also prepared a carrot, now the stick has basically been unveiled, but the carrot is still only a part, and the follow-up part needs to be given according to the situation - he is very clear about the truth of the promotion of rice and hatred, so how much to give must be decided according to the actual situation, but in a word, he still has cards in his hand to play;

The second task was to weaken the Chahar as much as possible. If everything goes well, it will naturally weaken the Chahar headquarters together, but he is used to thinking about the bad situation first, so his basic attitude is that if the situation changes, he will at least weaken the peripheral forces of the Chahar Ministry, such as Duoyan and Taining, so that Chahar will fall into an isolated and helpless situation.

The second level of the task is to indirectly control the Ordos Department and the Qinghai Tumut Department through the hands of Tumut, although Buzhihatu thought of this issue in his heart but did not say it in person, but there is no need to say more.

There are still some small incidental tasks left, such as asking Qi Jiguang to test the actual combat effect of the car battalion, so as to judge whether the Wanli one-bayonet musket can use hollow phalanx tactics after it is installed;

For example, to examine Li Chengliang's attitude towards himself, whether he is willing to cooperate, or is he resistant, and he is in disobedience, which is related to his future treatment of Li Chengliang - although Zhu Yijun is a little dissatisfied with Li Chengliang, he actually knows that Li Chengliang has no better replacement for the time being.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic has to judge whether Li Chengliang can continue to use it, and if not, who will replace him; If so, to what extent?

Gao pragmatic for employing people, in Jinghua he may pay more attention to the attribute of loyalty, because Jinghua belongs to the "private enterprise", all major things have his own master, he can ensure that the overall situation will not be serious problems, so the following people need more execution, rather than any pioneering spirit.

If you want to be creative, you have to wait until he is old, he can't take care of it, or he doesn't want to bother anymore before he thinks about it, and now...... Not yet needed.

But for the national level of Daming, he doesn't have the idea of "pro-virtuous ministers, far villains", so the national level is too broad, even though he is full of iron, how many nails do he make? Therefore, when considering the issue of employment, the first attribute to consider is ability, followed by controllability - there is no such thing as loyalty.

For the country of this family world, loyalty is a very luxurious attribute, especially because of some of Confucius's views, such as the patriarchal principle of "relatives and relatives" and the idea of family system, the vast majority of people regard family interests as far higher than the so-called national interests - because in their opinion, national interests are nothing more than the family interests of the Zhu family, so why should my own family interests be subordinated to the family interests of your emperor?

This question is quite tricky, because it is actually a problem at the core of spiritual culture, and it can almost be said that as long as the family and the world still exist, this kind of thinking cannot be broken.

From a highly pragmatic point of view, this contradiction is irreconcilable under the politics of the real monarch. If the monarchy must be retained, then it must also enter the political system of the hypocrite monarch, so that the people of the world feel that they are also one of the masters of the world, and they will really feel that "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband" - this sentence has not yet appeared, because it was said by Gu Yanwu in the context of the Qing army's entry into the customs.

But this truth is actually very simple: as a company, there is only one boss, employees get dead wages, there is no performance reward, there is no equity capital, let alone dividends, then how can you expect these employees to see the interests of the company as important?

He naturally tries to use his position and power in the company to seek personal interests for himself - how good is self-interest, the company is not mine, and the loss is also the boss's loss, why am I in a hurry? Even if the company turns off, it's a big deal that I just change jobs, where can't I do it?

At the national level, this is how traitors are created.

Therefore, there must be performance rewards, otherwise everyone will eat together, and the more you do, the more you lose; Dividends must also be paid, otherwise no one will take the interests of the company seriously without their own interests in it.

There are also performance rewards at the national level now - promotions and knighthoods can be counted as performance.

But there is obviously no dividend at the national level, for example, if the Ming Dynasty now conquers Mongolia, can ordinary people have any direct benefits except for the awesome "I Daming is mighty" in his heart? Can the court give him a silver tael as a reward? Apparently not, so in the eyes of ordinary people, it has nothing to do with them at all.

Of course, the ordinary people on the border may understand it a little more deeply, at least once the Ming Dynasty conquers Mongolia, they don't have to worry about the Mongols going south to loot from time to time, right?

Why have Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places now almost become the "basic plate" of the Gao Party? In addition to Gao Gong's earlier officialdom leader, who was born as a scholar in Beibang, he won over a large number of officials in the Jinlong area very early, the fundamental reason is that Gao Gong's policy of paying tribute to Shanxi and Shaanxi saved Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places from the suffering of war, and the local economy was restored and developed, and both officials and civilians benefited from it.

Do you really think that the leaders of the north will be able to stabilize the basic situation of the north? Then the emperor is from Fengyang, is it only the people of Fengyang who support him? Naive.

Why is Gao pragmatic's development in the south far less smooth than in the north, more than ten years later, Jinghua's basic market is still in Gyeonggi, Henan and other places? Without him, it's just profit.

His industry in the north has attracted a large number of lords, and through the advantages of Jinghua's iron and coal supply, and the mastery of the port of Tianjin, and even the mutual market and trade routes of Mongolia, he has a relationship with some bureaucratic capital, so he can run rampant in the north, and everyone has to give him a little bit of thin noodles.

In the south, because it is not as convenient to buy land as in the north, and because there is no official care for building factories and mines, it is very difficult to move forward.

Only when he can lead the relatives and nobles in the south to make a fortune together with officials and businessmen will his development in the south become smooth, and this can only be pinned on the smooth development of the Nanyang strategy and the use of maritime trade to win over people, so there is no hurry at all now.

It is precisely because everyone will consider selfish interests, and he is not the emperor, and it is impossible to give Li Chengliang dividends on behalf of the emperor, so it is necessary to examine Li Chengliang's attitude, which is actually an act of testing the price code: I need you Li Chengliang to listen to me, it depends on what price you Li Chengliang offers.

Gao Pragmatic certainly can't accept that Li Chengliang has almost turned the entire Liaodong into his independent kingdom as he did in history - of course, this "independent kingdom" does not mean that Liaodong belongs to him personally or his Li family, in fact, the so-called "Liaodong Jiangmen" later came out by Li Chengliang, and they are the real rulers of Liaodong.

According to Gao Pragmatic's idea, it doesn't matter if you Li Chengliang want to build yourself into the god of war in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, I can accept it if you want to make some benefits for yourself and your subordinates, but you regard Liaodong as the backyard of your Li family and your subordinates, and no one can touch your interests, then it won't work.

Because once Liaodong changes, you Liaodong can't solve it alone, don't you want the entire Ming Dynasty to give you a blood transfusion? Why is the imperial court led by you in everything in Liaodong affairs?

Finally, Gao Pragmatism also has a side task, which is to gain prestige - Mongolia, a two-hundred-year disaster, I Gao solved most of the problem for Daming as soon as I made a move, and I questioned that I was just a person who was mixed with the third uncle, and now I should have nothing to say, right? Zhu Yijun is going to reuse me next, you don't have anything to say, right?

At the same time, this is also a major event within the stability of the Gao Party: Gao Gong died, Guo Pu Zhishi, it does not mean that our Gao Party is not in charge!

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