The current situation in the northwest is not very complicated, because that's what happened, the key lies in the problem of the Ming Dynasty, what is the problem of the Ming Dynasty? That is, the combat effectiveness of the northwestern border towns is low. Not to mention the counterattack, even the defense is not good, the city wall is in disrepair, the weapons are old, and the generals are negligent in the military formation, afraid of the battle, in this case, the defense is not good.

Based on such a reality, if Daming wants to fight back and attack the Hetao, it is simply impossible.

If you want to defend well, you need to invest a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and the imperial court has little money.

In such a situation, it is naturally a dilemma, in addition, on the Mongolian side, Dayan Khan has risen strongly, the fire sieve can be good at fighting, the fire is now stationed in the Hetao, forming an offensive posture against the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the tribe of Dayan Khan can echo the east and west, the situation is very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, attacking the border, the damage of the Ming Dynasty will increase, and it will also lose the hearts of the people in the northwest.

"This is the inscription of Wang Wei, the servant of the ministry!" Zhu Youzhu saw that Zhu Houzhao had finished reading the question book, and handed a copy of the question book to Zhu Houzhao with a slightly gloomy face.

Wang Wei is known to Zhu Houzhao, and he is also a very famous minister in later generations, Wang Wei has been studying with his father since he was a child, and he is very smart. He was able to read Bible history at the age of eight and compose poetry at the age of twelve. At the age of sixteen, the students of the country began to recite his texts. For the eleventh year of Chenghua, he was awarded the Hanlin editor, and he lectured on bachelors and Japanese officials, and was promoted last year to serve as the right attendant of the ministry.

What makes Wang Wei famous is that he is an honest official and has no savings, and is known as "the poor old man in the world". Tang Yin knew that he was a person, and gave him a pair of couplets, the upper one was "the first article in the country", and the lower one was "the unparalleled prime minister of the DPRK and China".

Zhu Houzhao is no stranger to Wang Wei, he is also one of Zhu Houzhao's teachers, but Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Wang Wei to actually set a side policy, which is a bit interesting. Taking the question book handed over by his father, Zhu Houzhao quickly flipped through it, in fact, he also wanted to know what Wang Wei wrote in this question book.

"Today's fire screening, the little prince is not afraid, and he is fortunate to be in chaos, the merits and crimes are unknown, the appointment is not specialized, the laws and regulations are not working, and the border is empty, which can be feared. The border general lost his discipline and led the order to kill the thief, and the people's morale was sluggish and morale was low. I hope that Your Majesty will make a big move, and those who are guilty will be punished, those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, and the dictatorship will be in power. Generously sympathetic to the home of the dead along the border, recruit brave people from the border, please follow the example recommended by the Jing Dynasty Department to collect different materials. ”

Zhu Hou looked at Wang Wei's question book, and sighed in his heart, in this question book, Wang Wei also said it well.

The fire screen and the little prince are not afraid, this Zhu Houzhao is not surprised, the Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty has never put the barbarians in northern and southern Xinjiang in his eyes, and always feels that they are not afraid. Whether it is for Mongolia at this time, or for Liaodong in the future, even if the situation in Liaodong is very erosive, these people only regard them as scabies.

However, Zhu Houzhao knew that this would not work, and the northern Xinjiang really involved too much energy of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was manpower or material resources, the Ming Dynasty invested too much.

I don't know what they think, but for Zhu Houzhao, the northern Xinjiang must be solved, and southern Mongolia must become the horse grazing land of the Ming Dynasty.

Like other things Wang Wei said, what "a large-scale cadre program, the guilty will be punished, the meritorious will be rewarded, and the dictatorship will be in power." Generous sympathy for the homes of the dead along the border, and recruit brave men on the border", these things are just saying. First of all, the dictatorship, whose power? Civilian or military generals? Where does the money come from?

Can the money go to the people who deserve it? Not to mention anything else, the money from the military department is directly lost by 20%, or even 30%, and they dare not even lose their military salary, let alone pensions.

When you get to the border town, the magistrate, the local general, who of these people doesn't want to drift? How did the term "drinking soldiers' blood" come about, and how much of the money sent down can really be used?

In a word, if the military household system is not abolished, and the military household system is not changed to a recruitment system, everything else is scratching the itch of the boot and is useless. Compared with the military household system, the conscription system has more advantages, and the disadvantage is that it costs money. Or spending money can't be considered a disadvantage, recruiting too much money is the incompetence of the imperial court, and you can't blame recruiting too much money.

Zhu Houzhao closed the questionbook, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously, in Zhu Houzhao's opinion, this is a dead knot, how can it be so easy to solve.

During the period of Emperor Jiajing, there were Wakou in the south and Dayan Khan in the north, how did they solve it? Another new army is recruited, this is the recruitment system, and the original military household system remains unchanged. After the war, the border passes were stable, the conscription system was basically abolished, and the conscription system was brilliantly combative, whether it was the Qi family army or the three major expeditions of Wanli, all of which reflected the superiority of this system.

It's just that later, the finances of the imperial court were dragged down, and the conscription system was also gone.

In Zhu Houzhao's view, with the size of the Ming Dynasty and the economic strength of the Ming Dynasty, let alone burning seven or eight million taels a year, it can afford to burn seven or eighty million taels.

"What do you think?" Zhu Youzhu looked at his son and asked, it has become Zhu Youzhang's habit to ask about his son in case of trouble. Besides, this time it's military, and this son of mine knows this better than himself, so it's normal to ask his son.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Houzhao spoke: "When a member of the important ministers is sent to the three sides, the officials will be strictly governed, the border walls will be renovated, the military discipline will be strictly enforced, some lawless generals will be punished, the old and weak will be eliminated, the army will be trained, and the crime will be committed with fire screens. With the current financial resources of the imperial court, there should not be much of a problem, and in a few days, the salt government will be opened, and the silver should be able to be obtained. ”

"The other thing is to teach the fire some lessons!" Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and said, "It's best to send a team of men and horses to attack the Hetao and give the fire a sieve!" ”

Zhu Youzhu looked at his son and said with a wry smile: "What you said earlier is easy, it is nothing more than a matter of candidates and money, but now how can anyone in the imperial court enter the Hetao, there are no such generals in the court, and there are no such soldiers, there is no champion Hou in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no Ban Dingyuan." ”

Glancing at his father, Zhu Houzhao wanted to blurt out, I'll go, but Zhu Houzhao still swallowed this sentence back.

If this sentence is spoken, then he really can't go, and after a moment of silence, Zhu Houzhao said: "Then choose the candidate for the minister first!" ”

After returning from the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Houzhao's heart has been blocked, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is very difficult, and he has no time to spend more than ten or twenty years in Northern Xinjiang for groceries, and he has no heart to entangle with Dayan Khan. The battle of Hetao must be fought, it must be fought continuously, and it must also be painful to sift the fire sieve, and abolishing the fire sieve is equivalent to breaking Dayan Khan's right hand.

Hetao, a region that is destined to be unsurpable in Chinese history, is also a name destined to be unsurpassed.

Hetao area, its geographical location is located in the north of the 37th parallel of the Chinese mainland, including the east of Helan Mountain, the west of Luliang Mountain, the south of Yinshan, the north of the Great Wall, because the Yellow River channel in the area presents a zigzag, so it is called the Hetao area, because the precipitation is abundant, the terrain is suitable, the aquatic grass is very rich, so the Hetao area is also called the south of the Yangtze River.

Because of its abundant resources and the fact that it has always been a battleground between the Central Plains regime and the nomads, the Hetao area has been regarded as a strategic place since the Qin Dynasty.

After stabilizing the regime, the Ming Dynasty quickly moved into control of the Hetao region and actively fortified against the Yuan court entrenched in the Mongolian Plateau. During the reign of Emperor Taizong Zhu Di, due to the lack of troops and other reasons, the Ming Dynasty's defense line in the Hetao area began to shrink, so that the Hetao area was directly exposed to Mongolian influence.

Then they began to enter the Hetao area, and since then the Mongol tribes have settled in the Hetao area, and the Hetao area has been used as a base to constantly harass the Ming border, and the trouble of the Hetao in the Ming Dynasty began to form.

Zhu Houzhao began to recall the trouble of the Hetao of the Ming Dynasty in his brain, and now, that is, during the Hongzhi period, with the fire screen is moving into the Hetao, the trouble of the Hetao has been officially formed.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty did not ignore the Hetao, since the beginning of the Chenghua period, for the Mongolian tribes entrenched in the Hetao area, the Ming Dynasty is also constantly driving out, in order to restore control of the Hetao area, continue to carry out "searching", but the effect is very little. Zhu Houzhao can understand this question, what about the past?

You can't garrison, you can't live inhabitants, I'll leave if you come, and I'll come back when you leave, anyway, the Mongolian tribes are living in pursuit of water and grass.

In the tug-of-war for the Hetao, the Ming Dynasty was finally defeated, and they had no way to win.

In addition to the arrival of the Xiaoice River period, the north became more and more bitter cold, coupled with the serious desertification of the land, even the city wall of Datong was buried by yellow sand, how difficult the garrison there was, how great the logistical pressure, the imperial court could not provide at all, how difficult it was to reset, and Emperor Wu of Han had only done it with the strength of several generations and the whole country.

Although the current Mongolia is not as powerful as the Xiongnu, the Ming Dynasty is not as powerful as the Han Dynasty.

"What a chicken rib!" Zhu Houzhao pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh, that's right, he was talking about the land that is blessed with the Hetao.

The Hetao is located in the south of the Yellow River, so the Ming Dynasty is called Henan, and the approximate range corresponds to the Mu Us Sandy Land, Ordos Plateau, Kubuqi Desert and Hetao Plain in later generations. Unfortunately, most of the Loop is now outside the 400 mm precipitation line. This means that the Loop has scarce rainfall that is not suitable for large-scale farming, and that the Loop is also home to the Mu Us Desert, one of China's four major deserts.

Even in later generations, the country is still investing a lot of money in planting trees to control the Mu Us Desert, and the current Ming Dynasty does not have the economic strength or technology.

Even if Zhu Houzhao is a traverser, he is helpless in the face of this matter, and small-scale military operations and policy changes are meaningless, unless hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen sweep the steppe and then completely occupy MonanMongolia.

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