In the era of great unification of Confucianism, any behavior must be labeled with a layer of benevolence, righteousness and morality.

Even if it is a war, you must advertise yourself as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, a war of benevolence and righteousness.

Zhu Di wants to fight against Warat, the reason is very simple, that is, because their power is now rising, and the power of the Tatars is unbalanced and needs to be weakened, so that they can continue to fight with the Tatars.

Otherwise, Zhu Di would have gone crazy, he fought Tatar four years ago, and now he came to fight Warat again.

Maintaining the balance of forces in the grassland and not letting one family dominate is Zhu Di's purpose.

But to start this war, of course Zhu Di will not say this, and will only teach Wara a lesson in the name of disobedience to the king.

The whole world is not the king's land, and a tribe split by your Northern Yuan Dynasty now dares to oppose the Central Dynasty, so you should be taught a lesson.

But if you want Confucianism to play tricks, or educate the people, you can. Let them really plan a war, or construct a complete strategy, and they will push two and do five, which is not my Confucian responsibility.

They will intervene in everything, otherwise they will be tyrants and faint kings, but when they encounter something, they will shirk it if they need to take responsibility.

Of course, this is their own limitation, and the limitation of the times.

They are equivalent to shareholders in a company who take technology as shares, everything must be according to me, I want to share when I make money, and you are incompetent when you lose money.

But they never really think about it, their set of technologies is outdated, and they don't want to engage in technological innovation until they have to.

When the company goes bankrupt and goes out of business, it's too late for them to want technological innovation.

Although Zhu Di didn't like Confucianism, he had to use the Confucian set to govern the country. Because in the era of feudal kingship, only the Confucian idea of great unification was the foundation of the stability of an empire.

What's more, public opinion is also in the hands of Confucianism, and he doesn't want to become a faint monarch in the history books.

In the crusade against the Warat people, naturally Confucianism made a text for him about the teacher of morality and the teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji say this, he said casually: "The reason is that the Great Khan of Warat is not convinced by the king, is the purpose, of course, he wants to subdue Warat, as for the meaning, I haven't thought about it carefully." ”

Zhu Zhanji laughed, looking at his expression, he knew that this grandfather was testing him.

In the palace, Zhu Zhanji didn't know, but in the past few days, every day Zhu Di was discussing the details of the war with a group of generals and court officials, how could he not have thought about it carefully.

Half of the civil and military ministers of the imperial court came with them, and these people were the best talents of this era.

However, he likes this kind of test, because through this test, he can elaborate some of his ideas and influence Zhu Di.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "Although what Grandpa Huang said is right, it is not comprehensive at all, and he has not clearly explained the essence of the war and the ultimate purpose of the Ming Dynasty in fighting this war. In my spare time, I have also made an analysis of the wars that have occurred over the ages, and have listed the classifications of the nature of wars. ”

Zhu Di smiled curiously: "Ji'er's words aroused my interest, and I would like to hear about it." ”

Sun Er analyzed the wars that had occurred in the past, and they were basically divided into three categories. First, it is caused by the competition for a certain amount of living space and natural resources based on the geographical environment. ”

"What is geography? What is living space? What are natural resources? ”

"The geographical environment is where we live, this thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, south to Jiaozhi, north to the Ming land of Nuer Gandusi, is our geographical environment. The living space is like the border between us and the Northern Yuan, and the influence of both sides on each other's land. Natural resources include many, such as food, such as population, such as water, such as mines. ”

Zhu Di thought for a while, nodded and said, "The war between us and the Northern Yuan belongs to this category. ”

Zhu Zhanji did not answer, and continued: "The second type of war is a war of resistance caused by overpopulation and hunger, rampant corruption, and excessive oppression, such as the Qin Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, which is too oppressive and the people are overwhelmed. In the Jin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was a war of resistance caused by the decline of the imperial court and the people's misery, due to the Yellow Turban Uprising. ”

"The third type of war is a power war formed by careerists taking advantage of the decline of the central court and the division of warlords. For example, the Sui Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, the replacement of the Tang Dynasty by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was mainly caused by this reason. ”

Zhu Di thought for a while and asked, "Then what do you want to explain?" ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "If these three problems are solved, my grandson will be able to ensure that my Ming Dynasty cannot be said to be a thousand generations, but it can also surpass the eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty." ”

This issue can be said to be the most concerned issue of the rulers of all dynasties, but except for the 800 years of the Zhou Dynasty, no dynasty has lasted for more than 500 years.

Especially since Qin Shi Huang unified China, the land has increased greatly, and the subsequent dynasties have only exceeded 400 years except for the two Han Dynasty and a new dynasty.

Due to the limitations of history, Zhu Di himself does not know the real reason for the formation of this history, so he was dumbfounded when he heard Zhu Zhanji say this.

He immediately gave Wang Yan a look, and Wang Yan knowingly asked the people around him to stand farther away, so that they could not hear the conversation between the two. Even he didn't dare to listen to it anymore, and if this matter was leaked, he wouldn't have enough to cut off ten heads.

Only then did Zhu Di ask in a low voice: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "If we have analyzed the essence of war and extrapolated it accordingly, we can effectively avoid the occurrence of war." Grandpa, in the grandson's view, war is nothing but a continuation of politics, and the problem of war is nothing but the ultimate means of political problems. Solving the problem of war is actually solving the political problem. ”

The word politics appeared very early. The pre-Qin princes used the word politics. "Shangshu Bi Life" has "Taoism and politics, Zerun Shengmin"; "Zhou Li, Diguan, Suiren" has a "political ban on holding it".

In feudal society, more often than not, "government" and "governance" were used separately. "Government" mainly refers to the power, system, order and laws of the state; "Governance" mainly refers to the management of the people and the education of the people, and also refers to the realization of a stable state.

Zhu Zhanji has analyzed the three causes of war, and now he has said that war is a continuation of politics, and he has directly put war and political issues together.

In fact, this is also Zhu Zhanji's helplessness, in modern society, although he is the top of society, but it is maintained by his money and violent groups.

For the study of politics, he is not much better than a novice. The complexity of politics cannot be solved by speculation at all, by understanding some scratches of the surface.

Because he has personally experienced the complexities of politics, he knows very well that it is impossible to play politics on his own, even if he is now in ancient times.

But at the same time, he knew very well how to effectively assert his authority, that is, the violent group of the army.

In this era of low productivity and poor information, controlling the army is equivalent to having the most effective weapons.

As long as the imperial power firmly controls the army, no opponent, no enemy, can shake the imperial power.

And solving the problem of the army, the problem of war, is tantamount to a rude solution to the political problem.

On the basis of this kind of stability, Zhu Zhanji wants to solve political problems little by little and let the situation develop according to his own ideas.

Then, at such a time, the force system of the Ming Dynasty must not be allowed to be consumed by Zhu Di like this.

Because if you want to solve the grassland problem, you just rely on fighting, and it will not have much effect.

The laborers mobilized the crowd to beat people, and they got up and ran away, what can you do?

The grassland issue must be fought, but the more important thing is governance.

"Grandpa Huang mobilized 500,000 troops, 100,000 military horses, 400,000 people, and 100,000 pack horses to go thousands of miles to fight a battle. With such a large army, of course the Warats will run, and they will definitely not fight us head-on. And so many people, such a big burden, is also doomed to my Ming war's prominence. So, this creates a cycle of embarrassment. If there are fewer people, you can't beat them, and if there are more people, the other party will run. Therefore, war alone will not solve the problem. This goes back to the question I asked the imperial grandfather, what is the purpose of the war? What is the significance? I'm fighting this war, what results do I want to get? ”

At this time, Zhu Di also said seriously: "The most important result is to weaken the strength of Warat and prevent them from dominating the grassland." The better result, of course, is to return both Warat and Tatar to the Ming Dynasty. The best result, of course, is to turn the grassland into a pasture for the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Then, the problem we need to seriously consider is how to use all means to achieve the best goal, and all actions, including war, should serve this purpose." And not war for the sake of war, war for deterrence, war for the sake of face. ”

"What's Kir's idea?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Sun Er went out on this expedition this time, and only with the permission of the imperial grandfather did he contact military affairs, and Sun Er now doesn't even know who the generals of each army are, what abilities they have, what can they do?" ”

Zhu Di was a little ashamed of this, because all this was done according to his wishes, and he never wanted to give up power now.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not dwell on this issue, but said: "However, Sun Er believes that the army cannot be easily dispatched, and the dispatch will cost countless money and food. Rather, it is because of the combination of military power and political factors to form a certain degree of deterrence against the grasslands and steadily encroach on the forces of the grasslands. ”

Zhu Di said: "Up to now, the arrow is on the string, the army has not moved, and even the soldiers of the three armies will be dissatisfied." ”

"Of course, it is okay for the imperial grandfather to fight, but we must also pay attention to the coordination of war and political purposes."

Although Zhu Di understood every word, Zhu Zhanji had to think about it every time he said to understand what he was saying.

However, although Zhu Zhanji's words are obscure, they seem to be able to express the meaning very obviously in simple words.

He laughed and said, "Well, I'd love to know how to combine war with political purposes." ”