Zhiwen secretly shook his head and sighed, Zhou Chengyun was admirable, but this idea was a little too arbitrary.

The whole world of this era, including the European continent that is vigorously carrying out the industrial revolution and colonial development, the concept of the country and the nation has not yet been completely formed, you don't see the Italian Columbus, but the American continent was discovered with the support of the Spanish king, which made great contributions to Spain becoming the hegemon of the sea and taking the lead in colonizing the Americas.

This is still the case in Western Europe, let alone the land of China at this time.

Jianzhou Jurchen can smoothly enter the Central Plains, in charge of Shenzhou for three hundred years, in addition to their own strength and enterprising, the Han people in the leading party is indispensable, Li Yongfang in the early stage, Shang Kexi in the middle period, Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and others in the later period, have made great contributions to their masters.

The behavior of these people is contemptible, but there was no clear concept of the country and the nation at that time, and in the hearts of most people at that time, it did not matter who was the emperor, the important thing was to accept the Han culture at the top, and to let most people have something to eat, then it would be fine.

Dolgon's implementation of the shaving order, no matter what his purpose was at the time, and what the subsequent results were, but at that time it was indeed a big failure, "keep your hair without your head, keep your head without hair" provoking a fierce resistance from the Han people, if it were not for the lack of such a talent in the Han people to dominate the overall situation, and the Jurchens were a little more lucky, maybe they would have been driven back to the northeast.

In the hearts of Wu Sangui and others, they may not think that they have betrayed the country and the nation, but that they are just good birds and choose trees to perch on.

Of course, it is not that people like Zhou Chengyun are advanced enough to have the concept of a country and a nation, but that their hearts have always been loyal to the Ming Dynasty and regard foreigners as enemies who "have different hearts", but in this way, it is a little difficult for Zhiwen to convince him.

"Brother Zhou, I don't know if you have noticed the changes in the Mongolian people before and after Altan Khan?" Zhiwen thought about it for a while, and decided to talk about the present with history, in fact, he was not familiar with this history, but when he was in Dalin Taibu, he had a lot of contact with Lin Yuan, and learned a lot about the situation of the Mongolian people during the Altan Khan period from his mouth.

"Altan Khan? I naturally know that the male lord of the Mongolian right wing forced the Mongol suzerains to insert the Han Department to Liaodong, and the troops once reached the Beijing Division. Speaking of this, Zhou Chengyun became familiar with it and began to talk endlessly.

After all, the rise of the salt merchants in southern Jin is due to the ancestors of the Zhang and Wang families, Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu, who advocated trade with Altan Khan, and created a good situation for the Jin merchants.

"Cough..."Zhiwen coughed a few times and interrupted Zhou Chengyun's words, "Brother Zhou is so knowledgeable, it's a pity not to go to school." ”

Zhou Chengyun's face was slightly red, "The stinky boy buried me again, didn't he?" Speaking of which, this is also a stalk in his heart, Zhou Chengyun is talented and intelligent, and he was originally interested in the scientific field, but his father died early, and he was the only son in the family, so he had to give up his studies and turn to business.

"Don't get me wrong, Brother Zhou, I didn't mean to make fun of you." Zhiwen hurriedly explained, "I have a general understanding of what you said, of course, I can't compare to you, but please advise, let's talk about it another day, when I mention this Altan Khan today, I want to ask Brother Zhou to think about it carefully, before and after Altan Khan, did the Mongolian people become stronger or weaker?" ”

When Zhou Chengyun heard this, his mind was spinning rapidly, since Altan Khan was named the king of Shunyi in the Ming court, the two sides have successively opened eleven horse markets in Datong, Xuanfu, Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu and other border areas. It seems like... There will be no large-scale wars on the Ming-Mongolian border?

After a little bit of this back and forth, Zhou Chengyun had to admit that after the Mingmeng mutual market, there was indeed no war in northern Xinjiang, if Zhiwen didn't mention it like this, not only him, I'm afraid no one would do this kind of before and after comparison.

So the question is, is this Mongolian person strong or weak? Zhou Chengyun didn't care about speaking for a while, lowered his head and thought hard.

According to common sense, after the Mongolian people have the materials of the Central Plains, especially food and iron tools, their strength has increased unabated, and then, it is natural to be strong and raise troops to the south, but why has the northern Xinjiang calmed down since Longqing?

"Xiao Zhi, then tell me, are the Mongolian people strong or weak?" Zhou Chengyun didn't figure it out, so he simply stopped dwelling on it and threw the problem to the initiator.

"Brother Zhou, financially... No, judging from money and food, the strength of the Mongolian people has undoubtedly increased, but if you look at it from the perspective of fighting spirit, their strength has weakened. Zhiwen replied.

"From the point of view of the fighting spirit, the strength has weakened?" Zhou Chengyun muttered to himself, as if he had gained something.

"That's right, before they had no food, no green salt, horses, cattle and sheep wanted to change, but there was no way, just eating meat and drinking milk could not survive, they could only take a knife to rob, not only ordinary herdsmen, but also noble herdsmen, all of them, so they worked together and could respond to a hundred calls, which is why they frequently offended." Zhiwen said.

The barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, people who have nothing, and can not exchange their own labor for survival, in desperation, robbery has become the only way to live, not only Mongolians, Han people, Jurchens are like this, bandits are like this, they can't be suppressed, in the final analysis, the homeless people have no way to live, only the combination of suppression and appeasement, the right way, but the late Ming Dynasty has been unable to appease.

"When we open the border market in the Ming Dynasty, we can exchange for grain and tea bricks without bloodshed, if we are more diligent, raise more livestock, and harvest more, who wants to play with their heads again?" Zhiwen then asked, "Of course, ordinary herdsmen don't have many cattle and sheep, so they naturally get less, but at least the herdsmen don't have to worry about food and clothing. ”

In fact, these people around Shenzhou, more, admire the culture of the Central Plains, and they can't wait to be a Han talent, and there are many Mongolian soldiers and generals in the Ming army, which is a clear proof, even if the Houjin is despised for the weakness of the Han people, and envy the Huahua world of the Central Plains.

These people, as long as they are given a channel so that they can see that through their own efforts, one day, they can also become a member of the Central Plains civilization, not only will they not cause trouble, but they will become the cornerstone of the Central Plains civilization, and even the minions of outward expansion.

Like the Tang Dynasty, the generals and soldiers of different races made great contributions to the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, but the strength relationship between the imperial court and the local feudal towns was not handled well, resulting in the Anshi Rebellion, which plummeted.

PS: In addition to trade, the spread of Tibetan Buddhism is also an important factor in the decline of the Mongolian people's combat power, so in order not to be crabbed, it will not be discussed.