What is the most important duty of an emperor who is personally on the march?

It's not that he wants to boost morale, that's the job of the marshals. He doesn't need to be brave and good at fighting, that's the job of a general.

The only thing that really matters is to be good at coordination.

In yesterday's war, in fact, whether it was Zhu Di or Zhu Zhanji, they did not play a direct role in the war.

But if there was no Zhu Di's royal conquest, there would have been no coordination and cooperation for him to control the entire war. It is almost impossible to make hundreds of thousands of arrogant soldiers obey the unified management, rotate in an orderly manner from early in the morning, and cooperate closely at the final decisive moment.

As for Zhu Zhanji, not to mention, although he killed forty-three people, he was also a soy sauce player.

On the entire battlefield, the role of personal force has been seriously weakened, no matter how strong your personal force is, can you withstand the impact of thousands of horses, and the sword is like a forest?

When he goes to the battlefield, it is more of an uplifting effect, and as for killing, it is secondary.

If it weren't for the fact that there were so many masters around him, the enemy fled with his back, and it would have been impossible to kill forty-three people by personal force.

The decisive battle was over, most of the Warats had been killed, less than a third had fled, and several formations of cavalry were still in pursuit.

The Tatars, in particular, are in hot pursuit, trying to maximize the living power of their opponents.

And their own casualties were not small, half of the 10,000 cavalry lost their combat effectiveness, and the number of dead exceeded 1,000.

But they were already very satisfied, because their main opponent, the Maham Warats, had suffered even greater losses.

The statistics of the battlefield were carried out in an orderly manner, and the heads of more than 15,000 corpses were all cut off and placed under the slopes of the mountains north of Hulan and Huan.

The Kyokan is not simply stacked with human heads or corpses, but like architecture, it has its own rules and regulations.

Based on the corpse, mixed with rice porridge, the pyramid-like foundation is built with earth and stones.

Then there are individual heads, neatly set at the top of the pyramid.

Although Zhu Zhanji didn't care about killing, he couldn't stand this kind of insult to the corpse.

However, he also knew that Da Ming needed to deter the grassland, and he didn't have the heart of the Virgin to dissuade him, but he wouldn't support it.

It was only on the afternoon of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year that the results of this war were counted.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Ming army killed more than 15,000 enemies and captured more than 1,000 people alive.

Eight of the sons of Marat Taishi Mahamu were killed, more than 20 people were killed in 1,000 households, and more than 40,000 healthy military horses were captured.

It's just that the three kings of the Warats and the puppet Khan Tariba have all fled, which also makes this victory seem a little unsatisfactory.

But even so, Zhu Di was overjoyed, and asked the departments to count their exploits and prepare to reward the armies.

At noon on the ninth day of the first month, the last group of Teng Xiangwei, who were pursuing the enemy, returned to the camp with dozens of heads. Their return also made the number of heads cut off by the Ming army exceed 17,000.

This is indeed a great victory.

However, the pursuing Tatars never returned to the camp, and it was only on the afternoon of the ninth day of the first month that Arutai sent two guards to report that they had chased to Mobei and would not return to the camp.

Now that the Warats have been defeated, he is also afraid that the Ming will attack him, so he simply does not come back.

This made Zhu Di a little displeased, but he didn't have the idea of targeting the Tatars. After all, they had just helped the Ming Dynasty defeat Warat, and more than a thousand people themselves had died.

Zhu Zhanji knew that the future Tatars would become a big problem for the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di's last three Northern Expeditions were all for the purpose of crusading against the Tatars.

He hadn't figured out how to deal with Arutai yet, but he didn't expect that they would never return by pursuing the enemy.

However, he is not the historical Zhu Zhanji. In order to defend Beiping, he will not remove all the guards outside the Great Wall and on the grassland, let alone remove the Nuer Gandu Division, but will vigorously develop the Northeast in the future.

In the future, he will only tighten the constraints on the grasslands more and more, and will not let them have a chance to rise again.

The only thing that can restrain the scope of his power is the backward mode of transportation of this era.

However, he was ready to get the Portland cement out when it was right for him.

Portland cement is very low-tech and only needs limestone and clay to be fired. The technical content of producing cement is much lower than that of fired porcelain.

With cement, we can begin to vigorously develop road construction and grassland dock fort construction, which is much stronger than the earth city made of loess.

However, there is no urgency in this matter. As a grandson, his every move is watched by countless people, and it is impossible for him to come up with all kinds of new technologies out of nothing.

But he also didn't want to wait until he was on the throne to use the asymmetry of information to develop some necessary technology.

He still has twenty years to live, and no matter how old he can live now, at least he wants to see the revolutionary changes that his coming to this era brings.

Therefore, he also often has a sense of urgency that time is not waiting.

Two years later, going to sea will be an opportunity for him.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to contact the outside world, he will come up with some of the necessary technologies for the development of the Ming Dynasty to enhance the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Highness, Eunuch Li has arrived."

Zhu Zhanji raised his head, Li Liang took Li Qian into the big tent, facing Zhu Zhanji, Li Qian clasped his fists and saluted and said, "Your Highness, Your Majesty ordered you to go to the big tent." ”

Li Qian was the chief eunuch of the capital governor, and was responsible for all arrangements for the emperor to go out. Zhu Zhanji asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Governor Liu Jiang led the forward battalion back to camp twenty miles upstream, and he also brought back the news of the spies, the follow-up 30,000 cavalry of the Warat people have been divided, and the brigade has fled to Lingbei. And the Warat people of Helin are also on the run, and the entire Mobei is almost completely unpopulated. So Your Majesty is also ready to withdraw the troops......"

The group of eunuchs all belong to the royal family slaves, so even if Li Qian dares to put on a stand in front of the military generals of Wenchen, he will never dare to put it in front of Zhu Zhanji's most favored grandson.

He not only told Zhu Zhanji the reason why he was looking for him, but also told Zhu Zhanji the attitudes of some military generals.

In general, the current Ming Dynasty has no interest in the grassland, and there is almost no other role here except grazing. And now there is absolutely no shortage of grassland in the Ming Dynasty, so the grassland has become a tasteless chicken rib.

Most of the people were in favor of withdrawing troops, and even if there were some objections, it was not because they saw the importance of the steppe, but because they did business with the steppe people.

Today's Northern Yuan can be said to have regressed to the primitive society, originally in Dameng, in ancient times, it also mastered the manufacture of gunpowder and the creation of ironware, but now, these talents have all been lost.

The low-level herdsmen of the Northern Yuan Dynasty lived a miserable life, and many of them did not even have clothes to wear except for a few animal skins.

As for the slaves, they were like animals, digging a hole in the ground every day, spreading hay, and eating and sleeping with the animals.

The poverty here is unimaginable to Zhu Zhanji. If Da Ming doesn't do business with them, they have no clothes to wear, no salt to eat, and no tea to drink, then there is no way to live at all.

Today's Ming army is not put an end to doing business, because many local armies, especially the border guards, if they don't do some business with the Northern Yuan people, they can't maintain basic living security at all.

In addition to ironware, the Ming Dynasty did not strictly control the export of goods to the Northern Yuan, although the military guards were not encouraged to do business, but they were not directly banned.

It is better for the army to earn this money than for the merchants to make this money.

When Zhou Nan heard that he was going to withdraw his troops directly, he felt a little painful.

Although Da Ming killed more than 10,000 people on the other side this time, he also killed four or five thousand people, and nearly 10,000 people were injured.

In addition to casualties, countless money, food, and materials were spent, but it was just to teach them a lesson, and then the fruits of victory were thrown out again.

Zhu Zhanji knew that even if he was against it, it would be useless.

In the final analysis, there is only one reason, and that is profit!

Leaving an army in the grassland, if there are fewer people, you can't beat the other side, and if you have more people, the money and food consumed are not cost-effective at all.

If you want the Ming army to stay in the grassland, you must find a channel to get money, so that the benefits of the garrison are greater than the expenses.

He thought for a while and said to Li Liang: "Bring my data box, I want to find a copy of the information." ”

In his previous life, Zhu Zhanji controlled countless mineral resources in South America and Africa, and was very familiar with mineral resources around the world.

Although the grasslands are now very poor, the mineral resources here are the most abundant in Asia, and the reserves of many mineral resources are the largest in Asia, and the reserves of gold and copper can be ranked first even in the world.

However, the world's largest copper mine he knows, the Oyu Tolgoi Copper Mine, is located at the junction of Mongolia, Cuba and Inner Mongolia in later generations, and the Ergut Copper Mine is at the junction of Mongolia and Russia in later generations.

He hadn't been there, and of course he couldn't just say that there was a copper mine there.

So, he was going to "find" a copper mine near the route of their march.

Moreover, there is indeed such a copper mine, which is the Zeelt copper mine located in the northern suburbs of Siourt.

This copper mine is pitifully small compared to several other world-class copper mines, but in the current Ming Dynasty, there is no copper mine that can compare.

In later generations, the reserves here have been surveyed, and the copper ore reserves in the mining area are about 800 million tons, and the ore contains high copper grade and gold content, and it is estimated that the copper reserves are 1.5 million tons and more than 100 tons of gold.

In addition, there are associated molybdenum and silver, and the reserves of silver also have more than a thousand tons.

Although the mine is not a world-class mine, it is an open-pit mine, easy to mine, and of high grade.

Taking out this copper mine will definitely attract the interest of Zhu Di and the military, because the current Ming Dynasty is extremely short of precious metals.

With a map, Zhu Zhanji and Li Qian came to the big tent together. Because the war was over, the sand table inside the tent was moved elsewhere, leaving a large space to be vacated.

When Zhu Zhanji arrived, the generals had almost reached a unity and were ready to withdraw their troops.

It wasn't until the end that Zhu Zhanji stood up and said loudly: "Grandpa Huang, my grandson has a request that I want to ask for your consent. ”

"What?"

"Half a month ago, when the army passed through the north of the Tula River, Sun Er found that a local mountain was very much in line with the copper mountain that the craftsman said, but because the war was imminent, Sun Er did not say anything. Now that the war is over, Mahamu and the others have fled, so the grandson wants to check it out. ”

Zhu Di said with some disapproval: "Since it is the way to come, why not wait for the army to call back and check it out?" Now that the Warats have fled, there are rebels everywhere, and they have to be careful. ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are set aside and stationed, and they are all troublesome. If there is no copper, the grandson will wait for the army there, and if there is copper, the army may have to be delayed here for a while, so the grandson should go and investigate first. ”

Zhu Di thought for a while and said: "In addition to your Yulin Left Guard, bring three thousand battalions and one guard each of the Shenji Battalion, and gather 10,000 horses." ”

"The grandson obeys."

(The mine is actually zinc-copper, mostly zinc, no gold.) I hope the data party will not be more serious. Because on the route of the Northern Expedition, and in the hinterland of Mongolia, the scale of this mine is larger. ）