Zhang Mao supported the establishment of a military academy, and Liu Jian and others also agreed to this proposal.

In fact, during the Hongzhi period, the contradiction between civil officials and military generals was not particularly big, like the British public Zhang Mao, who was often active in the court, and Zhang Mao often played on some people's livelihood issues.

For example, Li Guang once instigated Emperor Hongzhi to repair Yuxiu Pavilion, and Zhang Mao stated the harm of Xiu Yuxiu Pavilion on the performance.

It can be seen that during the Hongzhi period, the power of the military generals had not been pressed to death, and the contradiction between civil officials and military generals was not very large.

In addition, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian are all virtuous ministers, not powerful ministers or traitorous ministers, so basically, the three of them will not object much to things that are beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

For example, this military academy, the three of them have always believed that this is a good way to solve the lack of generals and commanders in the imperial court.

Moreover, the three of them also took into account that if a military academy was established, the civilian official group would be involved in it and have an impact, and the military generals trained would naturally not be too hostile to civilian officials.

In this way, it is much better than directly screening from the people, promoting from meritorious soldiers, and promoting from noble families!

Therefore, military academies are also advantageous to the civilian clique.

When the time comes, in the military academy, whether the civilian clique or the military clique will have the upper hand, it will depend on their ability.

Therefore, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian also have a supportive attitude towards the establishment of the military academy.

Wenwu agreed, Emperor Hongzhi is not the kind of person Zhu Houzhao who wants me to do this, and I prefer to do that, so Emperor Hongzhi also agreed to Li Zhaotong's proposal.

In August, when Turpan Sutan Mahammu would be frightened by Wang Yue's victory, he wrote a letter to apologize and return the Hami Zhongshun King Shaanba, who had been captured by his younger brother Sutan Ahei Ma Khan, and summoned Wang Yue back to Beijing.

As for in advance, that's not going to work.

Wang Yue in Li Zhaotong's "memory", was the eleventh year of Hongzhi on December 1, because of his friendship Li Guang had an accident, grief and hatred died, now Li Guang has long since died, Li Dongyang also went to Ganzhou to appease Wang Yue, Li Zhaotong now only hopes that Wang Yue can escape the judgment of fate and live a few more years!

Da Ming, he really needs him, the god of war, to continue to shine.

As long as he was alive, the little Tatar prince did not dare to act rashly.

After all, the land of the Hetao was recovered by Wang Yue. In Li Zhaotong's "memory", not long after Wang Yue's death, the land of Hetao was lost again, and since then, the Ming Dynasty has never taken it back, and the border of the Ming Dynasty has never been peaceful.

There is a saying: If the river is stored, it will be troubled, and if the river is lost, it will be troubled.

This sentence sums up the importance of the Loop in its entirety.

Why is this happening?

First of all, let's start with the name of the loop.

The name "Hetao" began in the Han Dynasty. Because of its abundant water and grass in all dynasties, there is a folk proverb that "the Yellow River is harmful, only one set of riches".

The description of the geographical scope of the Hetao in the History of the Ming Dynasty is: "There is luxury water in the west, and there is black water in the northwest. There is a big river in the north again, it flows through here from the northeast of Ningxia Wei, passes through the west of the old Fengzhou in the west, turns to the east, passes through the south of the city of three acceptances, folds and goes south, passes through the old East Shengwei, and enters the Shanxi Pingyuwei boundary in the east, and the land can be 2,000 miles. The river is surrounded on three sides, and the so-called river loop is also. ”

It can be seen that the Hetao of the Ming Dynasty refers to such an area: the Yellow River flows north through present-day Ningxia to the mouth of the river and Linhe in Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia, with the Wujia River as the main road to the east, and then flows through Baotou and Tuoketuo County, and then flows south to Shanxi Hequ and Baode, showing the shape of "several", resembling a sleeve, so it is called the Hetao, and the geographical range of the "Houtao Plain" of today's Ordos City and Bayannur City is roughly equivalent.

The topography of this loop is unique among the world's major rivers.

The surrounding areas of the Hetao, including the Huangshui Basin, the Taoshui Basin, the Luoshui Basin, the Weishui Basin, the Fenshui Basin, the Sanggan River Basin, the Zhangshui Basin, and the Hutuo River Basin, also have relatively good natural environmental conditions.

In addition, the Hetao is located in the middle temperate zone, deep in the interior of the continent, and is weakly affected by the warm and humid monsoon in the southeast and strong in the northwest dry and cold monsoon, and the climate is cold and dry, windy and sandy. The natural vegetation is mostly desert and semi-desert steppe.

The Yellow River, the mother river that gave birth to Chinese civilization, meanders through here, which is suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry.

Relying on the benefits of the irrigation of the Yellow River, the Hetao area is rich in products, the land is fertile, and it has the geographical advantages of Yinshan and Helan Mountain.

However, in this place, in the early Ming Dynasty, although Emperor Taizu Gao Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to fight it, it was not particularly important.

Because the Hetao area was just a no-man's land that no one cared about at that time.

At that time, in view of the scarcity of Inner Mongolia after the retreat of the Yuan Dynasty to the north, the policy of expelling the remaining people in the Hetao or moving to the interior was directly adopted, and only a small number of remaining tribes were also moved into the interior, creating a no-man's land as a military buffer zone.

It's funny here, not only was there no one in the Hetao area in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, but there was no one in the Yuan Dynasty, and even after fishing in the sea, Mongolia returned to the state of all the tribes, running around the world, but there was still no one in the Hetao area.

If there is no one, there will be no military pressure, and if there is no military pressure, there is no need to put so many soldiers, so Taizong Zhu Di will rest assured and boldly demolish the west wall of Shanxi Xingdu Division to make up for the east wall of Beijing's border defense.

So when did the Mongols begin to sporadically bring in the Kou Ming Dynasty from Dongsheng?

In the later period of Yongle, the era of benevolence and Xuan.

But at this time, the Tatars and Warats often stopped at a superficial level, and they didn't even go to the front line of today's Great Wall, and the combat effectiveness of the Weisho army at that time was still there, so it was easy to block back, so there was no need to restore the original place, and there was no need to even strengthen the outer border defense.

This phenomenon continued until the orthodox period, and gradually unified the Mongol tribes in southern China, and frequently committed internal crimes, especially in the year of the civil engineering change, starting from Ganzhou and Ningxia in the west, passing through Datong and Xuanfu in the middle, and reaching Liaodong in the east, stretching for thousands of miles at the same time by the attack of the first soldiers and horses, and the weak border defense of Datong was exposed.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty successively added Shanyin, Mayi, Jingping Qianhu, Weiyuan, Pingyuwei and Shanxi Laoying Fort, Yatou, Octagonal, Ningwu and other guards along the Great Wall, and then began to build the side wall from the Yellow River Laoniuwan, and arranged hundreds of military forts along the line, forming the famous Shanxi Jinbei military fortress group.

However, at this time, there were still signs of the activities of the Ming army, especially in the Chenghua period, it was common for the officers and troops to go out of the Hetao, and there were no Mongolian tribes stationed here.

However, after Wang Yue's death, the land of the Hetao was lost again, and it was occupied by the Tatars, and the situation was completely different.

The Tatars and the Warats began to build a city here and stay, using it as a springboard to constantly harass the Ming border, and since then, the border of the Ming Dynasty has no peace.

Therefore, the land of Hetao cannot be lost, and Wang Yue, the military god of the town and country, cannot die for the time being.