If you want to ask who is the biggest beneficiary of the Datong defenders' big break and the Mongolian army, the vast majority of Ming officials and people will answer that it is the local border army, or Lu Zhen (if he has not been transferred to the Ministry of War), after all, they have gained a lot of benefits from this scene, not only have the imperial court reward, but also have a reputation in the world.

But in fact, there is another group of people who have gained more than the Datong border army, and they have not paid any price. That is the Warat tribe, which is also in the steppes to the north and has long become the sworn enemy of the Tatar tribe!

Over time, under the wise leadership of Yesen, the strength of the Warat tribes has steadily increased, and although they cannot reach the momentum of Genghis Khan's sweeping grasslands, there are few enemies that can stop their progress.

The only obstacle was the feud of the Warats, the Tatar tribes whose leaders were recognized by all the tribes of the steppe. Because they are the descendants of Genghis Khan, they have the blood of the Golden Family, which makes the Warat army always a little constrained when they encounter them.

Although in the past few years, he had already controlled the Great Khan of the Tatars by means in his own hands, but after all, the grassland is different from the Central Plains, and it is impossible to really coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Therefore, he had to continue the campaign, using all means to deal with the Tatar tribes, which were only weaker than the Warats, but he could not devote all his strength to completely wipe out this formidable enemy.

This is not because he can't do it with his own strength, but because he is worried that if he really does this, he will also be damaged, and in the end, he may be cheaper than the Ming Dynasty in the south. Although the Ming Dynasty has not had the heart to advance north all these years, the majestic posture of the Yongle Emperor decades ago has planted a deep shadow in the minds of the people in the grassland, and I am afraid that they will not be able to ignore the threat of the Ming Kingdom until they achieve a decisive victory.

As a result, in the past two years, Rivarat's strategy against the Tatar tribes has changed from whale swallowing to encroachment, hoping to completely digest the Tatar tribes through long-term consumption.

Unexpectedly, good luck suddenly befell Yexian this time. Several Tatar tribes who were constantly squeezed out and threatened by Warat suddenly took risks last winter and waved their troops to attack the border city of Datong of the Ming Kingdom, and suffered a great defeat there, losing their troops and losing their troops!

When the news was brought back by Warat Hosaku, who was buried in the Yates Division, he couldn't believe that all this was true. Subsequently, he decisively ordered, under the banner of crusading against rebellion, he directly sent troops to kill the Yates who were greatly injured - although the grassland tribes have always been the strong enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, they are still counted as Ming vassals, so the Yates invasion of the Central Plains is indeed no different from rebellion.

On one side is a few Tatar tribes who have just met in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, lost their troops and lost their morale, while the other side is the elite of Warat who have been recuperating for many years, working together, and are determined to win, and there is also the overall arrangement of the first, this battle has not yet begun, and it is doomed to its result.

However, in a month's work, several tribes of Yat were successively wiped out by the Warat people, and their clansmen, cattle and sheep, and other wealth, all of which were also filled into the Warat, became the powerful nourishment of the other party.

And more importantly, with the demise of these tribes, the power of the Tatar tribe has decreased sharply, and the already precarious situation has become more and more unfavorable, and even some Tatar tribes who know that they are not opponents have taken the opportunity to completely fall to Warat, and the gap between the two tribes has completely widened. It seems that as long as the first order is given, the army will rise, conquer the unified steppe, and become the dream of a new generation of Genghis Khan can be realized.

And when this accident on the grassland was reported back to the capital by the Ming Dynasty's fine work, the Manchu officials were greatly frightened.

Although the Ming Dynasty now thinks that it has entered its heyday, it is far from being comparable to the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty in a corner of peace and precariousness, but in the face of this increasingly powerful foreign enemy in the north, everyone is still jealous. I'm really worried that they will be like those ancestors hundreds of years ago, and they will attack the Central Plains again, and then they will naturally be in ruins.

When this argument prevailed in the DPRK and China, the third point mentioned by Lu Jin's just-mentioned recital was even more important.

Because in Lu Jin's recital, it was also mentioned that they should beware of the continuous strengthening of Warat, maybe after they have accumulated enough strength, they will covet the rich Central Plains and invade the border land of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of this inference, Lu Zhen also gave his own countermeasure, that is, to defend first, as long as the border town is held and the Mongolian people are not given a chance to take advantage of it, the threat of the other party can be minimized.

At the same time, he also proposed the strategy of replacing military warfare with commercial warfare. By opening a field, using some items that are scarce on the grassland, such as tea, silk, fine porcelain, etc., to trade with the Mongols, and exchange them for furs, cattle, sheep and horses, they can naturally consume the strength of the Mongols in a subtle way and reduce the threat of their cavalry to the Central Plains.

The first countermeasure he mentioned in the song is naturally in response to the initiative that will appear next year. If he could bury the idea in the heart of the Son of Heaven early on, so that he felt that defending was more conducive to the Ming Dynasty than attacking, maybe when Wang Zhen once again instigated him to drive the expedition in person and send troops to the Northern Expedition, Zhu Qizhen would hesitate and even change his original intention.

As for the second countermeasure, it was Lu Jin's conclusion that he had reached in some historical forums for many years.

Why do Mongolian people always want to invade my Daming? Isn't it because the Ming Dynasty is rich and the grassland is bitter? Even though it is true that many farms have been opened, the goods provided are not too much, and the prices are extremely high, far from meeting the needs of the herders on the grasslands.

So if you want to deal with them, it's better to follow their wishes and give them what they need at a lower price. At the same time, some of the luxury goods of the present era were also sold to the chiefs and chiefs of their tribes in the same way, so that they completely fell into the gentle trap of the Ming Dynasty, and willingly exchanged the most important livestock in the clan for silk and other good things.

When the fighting spirit of the people on the grassland is no longer as strong as it was at the beginning - after all, the grain, salt and other things that used to be looted by fighting and risking death can be obtained through simple transactions, and at the same time, the cavalry that originally suppressed the Ming army was difficult to have the original fierceness because of the lack of horses, then the threat of the grassland tribes to the Ming Dynasty was completely non-existent.

However, this strategy requires continuous investment and dedication in the early stage of the Ming Dynasty, and it will also last for a period of tens, or even hundreds of years to be effective.

It is precisely because of this relationship that the Son of Heaven did not really accept Lu Jin's advice. However, he hit the nail on the head with a word about the next changes in the grassland, so when the news returned to the capital, Lu Jin's name began to be publicized among the government and the opposition.

In addition, he was originally a very topical figure, and he was still so young, it was impossible not to be famous in the capital, and not to be known by the people.

Lu Zhen became famous in the capital because of this recital, but it is a pity that he worked hard to write this recital, and the three countermeasures proposed, whether it is the Son of Heaven or the courtiers, can really understand. Except for some people saying that the young man does have some ideas, it is more just that he has a good eye.

In the end, he only gained some false fame, but he was powerless to change the evolving situation of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was north or south, everything was business as usual......

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Fortunately, Lu Zhen is not a person who can drill the horns of the bull, and after knowing the various reactions of the imperial court and ministers from Yu Qian's mouth, he did not go any further.

It just so happened that Chu Yunrong and the girls came back from the north at this time, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, so he just wanted to meet them as soon as possible. That's why he took leave yesterday, and then brought Lin Lieying out of Beijing early in the morning.

After waiting for two hours on the side of the official road in Beitongzhou, in the distance, a puff of smoke and dust finally came, and I just hoped that its momentum was not small.

Soon, the team came closer, and Lu Zhen and the others saw the specific situation clearly. It was a cavalry force of more than a hundred people, and a carriage was rushing towards this side in the wind and rain.

And at the front of the team, there was a big man riding a horse in front of him, and it was Qingle.

When Lu Zhen saw him, Qinggeler also saw their appearance clearly, and quickly added a whip and rushed over quickly. When he came to the front and back, he jumped off the horse neatly and arched his hand at Lu Jin: "I've seen the adult, let the adult wait for a long time." ”

Lu Jin hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "I should have said that it was hard work, did you go all the way?" ”

"With these border soldiers guarding over you, naturally there won't be any problems!" Qingle looked at the border soldiers who came up behind him with emotion.

Lu Zhen also smiled, and then walked towards the cavalry who stopped their horses one after another. As soon as those people saw him coming, they all stopped and dismounted, and saluted him one after another: "Lord Lu! ”

Just leading the army to defeat the intruders is enough to make the border army look at Lu Zhen with admiration, not to mention that he is not greedy for merit, and has distributed more than half of the credit to the entire Datong defenders, so now Lu Jin's status in the Datong border army is quite high.

"You have to send my family to Beijing, and please accept Lu Jin's gift."

When Lu Jinxing bowed, everyone hurriedly clasped their fists and saluted: "My lord's words, we just happened to come to the capital to thank us, and this time it was just a stopby." This must be said, after all, they are border troops, the army of the imperial court, not anyone's private army.

Lu Zhen smiled knowingly, and didn't say more, but soon came to the carriage with the curtain hanging low. At this moment, as if he had a heart, a slender jade hand lifted the curtain, revealing several pretty faces......