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However, at this time, the Rouran, Turkic and other ethnic groups rose up on the steppe and continued to invade the south, causing heavy disasters to the Central Plains. Bi·Qi Medium·· Net·· hair

Now the Zhou Dynasty has defeated the Turks and temporarily eliminated the threat of the northern frontier. But this is also roughly comparable to the victories achieved by Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Sui. After twenty years, the alien races on the grassland have recovered, and after reunification, they will continue to invade the south.

After Li Jing raised this concern, all the ministers thought deeply and nodded yes.

However, when it comes to how to eliminate the threat from the grasslands, although the ministers have put forward many opinions, they are all methods of making standards but not making books. It's even a little unreliable.

For example, an imperial historian proposed to send some old men to the grassland to teach Confucianism and influence the grassland people. This almost made the generals laugh out loud. Let's not talk about whether the grassland people are willing to obey the education, even if they are obedient, they are willing to listen to the old man's lectures. How long can those old men stay in the bitter cold grassland where they sleep in the wind? And if you don't send a large army to follow and suppress it, these old men are afraid that they will be killed completely.

At this time, Du Ruhui proposed a method that everyone could accept: "Your Majesty, it is difficult to conquer the grassland tribes, the desert is too vast, and they are all cavalry, coming and going like the wind. The tribes live on the grass and are often on the move, and there is no fixed city, so it is difficult to find a suitable target to attack them...... It is not difficult to defeat them, but it is not easy to conquer them completely. Therefore, Weichen thinks that he can only be canonized and appeased, I wonder if His Majesty thinks it is feasible? ”

According to the method he proposed, the imperial court could appoint the nobles of the various ministries on the grassland as the governors, and establish several prefectures on the grassland, which indirectly governed the various departments of the grassland.

This method made the eyes of many ministers light up, and they secretly thought that this was a good way to use razing to defeat razing.

When Yu Ming heard this, he shook his head slightly. This method in the original history, the Tang Dynasty had already done this, the result was a failure, only forty or fifty years, the grassland will rise Hui this new tribe, after they unified the grassland, thinking that they have the strength to confront the Han people in the Central Plains, so they no longer obey the orders of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, he believes that a new approach should be adopted to solve the problem of grassland threats once and for all.

So, Yu Ming threw out the plan he had been preparing for many years.

And when he finished talking one by one, all the ministers were amazed, thinking that this was a good way to solve the hidden dangers of the grassland in one fell swoop. It can be promulgated and implemented immediately.

It turned out that when Yuming was still in Liaodong, he had already ordered the Ministry of Intelligence to focus on collecting information on various Turkic departments, and recorded in detail the mountains and rivers of the steppe, the scale of each department, the abundant water and grass, and the main trading places.

In Yu Ming's view, the lifeblood of the grassland lies in the aquatic grass. Their food comes from cattle, sheep and horses, and in order to feed so many cattle, sheep and horses, it is necessary to have water and grass.

However, although the desert is vast, there are not many abundant water and grass. And because the rivers on the prairie often dry up, this year there is an abundance of water and grass, and next year the river that flows through this place may dry up and become a desert.

However, these seasonal rivers also have regularity, and it is possible to find the place where they flow.

According to the statistics of the personnel of the Ministry of Intelligence, there are only about 70 places on the prairie where aquatic plants are abundant in normal years, and only about 20 places where aquatic plants are abundant in season. However, these two or so places with abundant water and grass only account for one-half of the area of the prairie, but they support more than ninety of the livestock and population of the desert. If you control these more than 290 places where water and grass are more abundant, you will also control the lifeblood of the desert, and you can't help but not surrender to the grasslands.

Therefore, Yuming's method is to take a step-by-step approach, compress the activity space of the grassland tribes, and then provoke it to fight each other and conquer the prairie.

First, Yuming ordered the establishment of logistics support bases in the peripheral areas of Yiwu, Xiliang, Hetao, Dingxiang, and Beiping, close to the desert. Provide food and grass weapons for the imperial army and civilian armed forces attacking the steppe.

His approach was also inspired by the Russian conquest of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Yu Ming proposed to first establish offensive and defensive bases in the grassland tribes of the friendly Zhou Dynasty, and every land where the water and grass were abundant. Cities should be established in large areas with abundant water and grass, fortresses should be established in medium water and grass in abundance, and outposts should be established in small water plants with abundant water and grass.

Cities, fortresses, and garrisons were all built with walls, and a varying number of soldiers were stationed and officials were stationed to manage them. In peacetime, the land could be provided to the herders of the steppe as a place for their trade, so as to collect taxes and obtain supplies. If the enemy attacks, immediately close the gates and wait for reinforcements.

Since the Zhou army is not short of horses now, its weapons and equipment are far sharper than those of the grassland people. If a stronghold is attacked, it will be no problem to hold out until reinforcements arrive.

Secondly, it adopted the method of inciting the steppe people to kill the steppe people, and instigated the Turks, Xue Yantuo, Tiele, and Murowei to kill each other. Encourage the pro-Zhou steppe tribes to attack into the depths of the steppe. And every time a new land of abundant water and grass is occupied, the aforementioned methods are adopted, strongholds are built, soldiers are stationed, and the battalion is advanced step by step.

Of course, if the Zhou army adopted this method of razing and razing, there would definitely be people in the leaders of the grassland tribes who would be unwilling to kill each other with others.

But Yuming believes that there is no need to worry about such a situation. Because the tribes of the grassland are not monolithic, there are many people staring at the position of the leader. If the leader of a tribe does not obey the orders of the Zhou Dynasty, he can take the bribe of his brother and other people who look down on his position, and take him down, and replace the obedient person to come up as the leader.

At the same time, for the tribes such as the Turks and the Murwei who stubbornly opposed the Zhou Dynasty, they adopted a resolute attack and wiped them out.

In this regard, Yuming believes that the power of the private sector should be fully utilized.

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty proposed to issue an edict to the whole world, declaring the Turks and Murwei to be the public enemies of the Great Zhou, and anyone who killed the people of these two ethnic groups could go to the city of the Zhou army on the steppe to receive a reward with their heads, and each person would be rewarded with one Yuan Great Zhou banknote.

And if it is the head of the tribal leader of these two ethnic groups, the reward is 10,000 yuan Da Zhou banknote. Anyway, the appearance of the steppe people such as the Turks and the Murwei people is very different from that of the Han people in the Central Plains, and they are not afraid that the garrison will admit their mistakes. And now the Great Zhou banknotes have long been in circulation in the Central Plains, and they can be exchanged anywhere.

As for whether anyone would kill the people of other tribes on the steppe, and then take their heads, pretending to be the heads of the Turks and Murwei people to receive the reward, that is not for Yu Ming to consider. In any case, his aim was to weaken the Mongol tribes.

Although for the people of the Central Plains, the reward of one yuan is not much, and it is relatively unattractive. But for the people in Hetao, Xiliang and Liaodong, the one-yuan Dazhou banknote is still a considerable wealth, enough for an old snack last month.

After the decree was issued to exterminate the Turks and the Murwei people, the outlaws of the nomadic peoples, such as the Xuyantuo, Tiele, Tubo, Tiele, Xi, Goryeo, and Khitan, all went into the steppe one after another, wanting to kill the Turks and the Murwei people to receive rewards.

It's just that they soon found that it was more difficult to find people from these two big tribes to kill, after all, people were not stupid, knowing that Zhou Jun was wanted for them, how could they dare to appear in public? I didn't even dare to run to the places of other tribes on the steppe. They all broke into pieces and hid everywhere.

As a result, some cruel but cunning people found that the people of the major tribes of the grassland were almost the same. So they had an idea, killed the people of the grassland tribes that they could see, and then carried their heads to the Zhou army's city and border fortress to receive the reward, trying to see if they could get the reward.

However, they soon discovered that this did not arouse the suspicion of the Zhou army officers who had given the bounty, and they did not even ask whether the head they had handed over was Turkic or from the Murwei tribe, and they were properly received the bounty.

As a result, the news spread quickly, and everyone thought it was a good opportunity to make a fortune. The number of bounty hunters pouring in from beyond the prairie has increased dramatically, causing the various parts of the prairie to complain. But I can't deal with it, after all, the largest of these bandits who kill people indiscriminately is only a few people, and there are many lone rangers, and they are not subordinate to each other, and there is no unified command. Let the grassland tribes can only be beaten passively, and they can't fight back at all. Even if they were able to ambush and destroy one of them, they would not be able to cope with the steady stream of other influxes.

As a result, the herdsmen of the steppe tribes, who had already taken refuge in the Zhou Dynasty, had no choice but to change their clothes and speak Chinese as much as possible, and pretended to be Han Chinese outside to avoid being killed.

In this case, the various tribes of the grassland either moved into the interior, or although they still lived in the grassland, they claimed that the Han Chinese were naturally the best choice.

At the same time, the Zhou Dynasty sent some peasants who were good at farming to guide the various departments of the grassland to cultivate the abundant water and grass, and issued farm tools and two new types of grain to live a settled life.

The new grain varieties brought by the farmers of the Zhou Dynasty are very suitable for growing in the bitter cold and barren land of the prairie, even if there is little precipitation and the land is not fertile, it can also achieve a higher grain yield.

These two food crops were potatoes and corn, which became famous in later generations.

They are native to the Americas and are not found in the Central Plains. But Yuming, a traveler, is well aware of the great contribution of these two crops to the history of world food.

In the history of China, the Central Plains Dynasty began to colonize and emigrate to the Northeast on a large scale, which began in the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why large-scale immigration could begin in the Ming Dynasty was because potatoes and corn had been introduced to the Central Plains at this time and began to be widely planted, so the Han people were able to take root in the cold Northeast land.

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