PS: In view of the widely criticized lesson that the war scenes were too long in the past, the war scenes will not be too long in the future.

Since ancient times, there have been many ways to buy people's hearts, some give money, some give land, but no matter which method it is, it is actually to spend money to buy, since it is to spend money to buy, then you must calculate the cost before buying, and you can't lose money.

Like Zhu Ao, the people contribute part of the money, and they are contributing part of the money, it is okay to buy people's hearts, because the cost is not too high, and the people will be happy after they understand it, which is very cost-effective.

If, as Ji Junyong said, he paid all the money to support all the people in the Su country, then it would not be worth it, so that the finances would be burdened with a heavy burden, and there would be no money to support the army. After the country was occupied by Timur, even if Timur took the people of Su as slaves, they would bow down and obey orders, because if they did not listen, they would die, and no one wanted to die.

Zhu Ao's words made Ji Jun stunned, he also knew that according to the current financial situation of Su Guo, if he gave the people a free pension, he would definitely go bankrupt, and he was also a dozens of years old bureaucrat, knowing that the purpose of King Su was to enjoy himself, not to open a charity, so he didn't dare to answer.

Seeing that the ministers were silent, Zhu Ao knew the concerns in their hearts, looked around, and said in an undeniable tone: "The widow knows that at the beginning, it was difficult for the people to accept the widow's proposition, and it is very likely that they will think that the widow is raising taxes in disguise, and some people will even have some complaints. However, the widow thinks that Shang Ying said well, 'the people can not start with worry, but can be happy to be', if a thing must wait until the people of the whole country agree to do it, it will never be done, it is difficult to take advantage of the hearts of the people, let alone the hearts of the people. A few words today and a few words tomorrow will never be able to reach a unified opinion, let alone implement it. We are all high-ranking people in the temple, and we have far more information and understanding of the overall situation of the country than ordinary people, so we must be bold in doing things, as long as one thing is a good thing, we must vigorously promote it, even if the people do not understand it at the beginning, we must resolutely implement it, and when they see the results of our work, they will wholeheartedly support it. Don't be afraid of a person's fame. ”

"The ministers obey." Zhu Ao's discussion can be described as grandiose and profound, and he suddenly expounded the responsibility of the high person in the temple, not to be a good person, but to help the world, to do practical things, and to benefit the people of the world.

Zhang Juzheng is not a good person in the strict sense, he is insidious, forgetful of profit, and uses dishonorable means to squeeze away Gao Gong, who has always taken him as a friend, and after coming to power, he also collects money and women, and it is said that he has a leg with the Queen Mother, no matter how you look at it, he is not a good person, but he has done a lot of practical things for the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty once returned to the light, revealing the image of Zhongxing.

Wei Zhongxian is not a good person, he is also insidious and ruthless, and he also used lynching to fight political opponents, which has exceeded the moral bottom line of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty at that time, but when he was in power, all kinds of industrial and commercial taxes, mining taxes, and customs duties were continuously collected, and the money was used to establish the Guanning defense line, form the Guanning Iron Cavalry, replace the equipment that was rotten and unusable in the Liaodong Army, and supported Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong to win several battles, completely reversing the decline of Liaodong.

From this point of view alone, he is much better than those who can't do anything, only than the Donglin Party members.

The ministers couldn't help but admire Zhu Ao a little more, this king who was only twenty years old was too profound, his insight, and understanding of human nature and society greatly exceeded the age he should have, is this a genius? The ministers secretly warned themselves in their hearts that they must be cautious when acting under this king, and must not be sloppy, he is not easy to fool.

The establishment of a social insurance system was thus decided, and a few small matters were discussed in the morning of this morning. Zhu Ao, accompanied by the harem group, went to the lake outside the palace for a day.

As expected, as soon as the news of the establishment of a social security system broke, it immediately sparked a national topic.

"Have you heard? The king wants us to pay ten yuan of pension insurance every month, as well as five yuan of medical insurance. In a teahouse located in Zhangye City, a few middle-aged people who came here to eat tea with nothing to do talked about it with relish.

"Who hasn't heard of such a big thing, I have been discussing it with my mother-in-law for several days, and I don't know what the king means this time. We have grown up so big, we have never heard of any pension insurance, since ancient times, isn't it all sons to provide for the elderly? ”

"Our king has always been ingenious in doing things, and you don't know it, if you don't say anything else, let's just talk about the compulsory education he did before and the literacy campaign that is still going on, who have you heard of before?"

An uncle with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek with a rat's whiskers looked around, then lowered his voice and pretended to be profound: "I heard that the king is going to build a big palace and elect a concubine, and he wants to raise money in this way. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, be careful of being arrested by the government." Another white, chubby, good-looking uncle was startled by this person's words, slanted a pair of small eyes, looked around vigilantly, and whispered.

"Look at your guts? What are we brothers afraid of? I told you only because I trusted you. The thief-eyed uncle glanced at the good-looking uncle with great disdain, and said lightly.

Since the topic has been opened, people have no scruples, and another uncle sitting on the east side of the table who is wearing a long shirt and looks like a scholar shook his head, and said with the appearance of a master outside the world: "Fei Ye, Fei Ye." Our king is still very hard-working, as far as the old man knows, he will not ask the people for money because of things like building palaces and draft girls, I think, eighty percent is going to fight again, he is raising military funds. ”

"It makes sense, it makes sense. It was Zhang Xiucai who said profoundly. All the uncles flattered again.

"Hey, hey, hey. Don't say it, the official is here, the official is here. The good-looking uncle, because of his timid timidity, kept looking around to guard against the arrival of uninvited guests, and when he saw a group of officers approaching him, although he did not know what they were doing, he must not stand in their way to talk about this kind of thing, so he immediately warned his companions.

The uncles here are not fools, and when they saw the official coming, they immediately closed their mouths, and drank tea leisurely, don't talk about state affairs, don't talk about state affairs.

As soon as the policy of the social insurance system was announced, the people of Suguo, including the officials, were like these uncles, and they held a wait-and-see attitude, not knowing what kind of medicine was being sold in the gourd, and a considerable number of people thought that he was raising taxes in disguise, so they all hesitated to refuse to pay, which brought great difficulties to the progress of the work.

For such a thing, Zhu Ao knows that he can't be in a hurry, if he is afraid that it will cause disharmony, but he knows that this system is a very good system that has been proven by later generations, so no matter how many people oppose it, he will stick to it without hesitation, as a king, if he doesn't even have this bit of courage, how can he be?

Sure enough, after some time, still in that teahouse, there was another group of people discussing this matter.

"Oh, I really regret not paying medical insurance, you don't know, my neighbor's Ergouzi's child was seriously ill some time ago, Ergouzi really couldn't come up with the money, and they all wanted to sell the house, who thought that people paid medical insurance on a monthly basis, and the official family actually reimbursed him eighty percent of the drug expenses at one time.

"Now I know that I regret it, I let you in at the beginning, I said it was a lie, and now your son's leg is broken, and all the medical expenses have to be paid out of your own pocket, no one will reimburse you." An uncle at the same table put on a look that you don't listen to me.

"Hey, what's the use of regretting? Regret medicine has no place to sell. I have paid my medical insurance and pension insurance on time. Our king really cares about all the people, and he is extremely clever, and he has designed this policy to benefit all the people. In the future, we don't have to worry about our own pension problems, even if that little bastard is not filial to me, I won't starve to death. ”

"Hahaha." There was a burst of hearty laughter in the teahouse, it can be seen that they are really happy, from now on, there is no need to worry about pension, there is no need to worry about seeing a doctor, people have no worries about living all of a sudden, do you say happy or not?

Time flies, in a blink of an eye, it has come to the winter of the 30th year of Hongwu, and after another year of development, the national strength of the country has been further improved, coupled with the social security system, which is a policy of benefiting the people, attracting many people to settle in the country.

By the time of the winter of the thirtieth year of Hongwu, the population of Su had reached more than 4.8 million, not far from Zhu Ao's small goal of breaking 5 million.

Whether it is 4,800,000 or 5,000,000, it means that the strength of the Su State today is not what it used to be, and it can launch a war against the Warat and the Uighurs at the same time. Zhu Ao has been waiting for this day for a long time.

It is necessary to annex these two countries while Lao Zhu is still alive to strengthen his strength, and as soon as Lao Zhu dies, the situation will be unpredictable, he is a very insecure person, and he must take advantage of these unknown things to strengthen his strength, so that he can have more capital to make different choices in the future.

On this day, the atmosphere was extremely serious, because during this period of time, Su Guo began a general mobilization again, all the military households were checking the equipment, every armor was out of the strong men to join the army, and the ordnance, armor, cotton socks and other materials were also distributed.

The men's blood was ignited again, because they knew that the king was going to war again, and every time they fought, they would gain a lot of wealth, a lot of beautiful women, and a lot of awe and stammering eyes from aliens, and to be honest, they enjoyed this gaze very much, and even had some addiction.

Even the women and children in the country are in full swing, busy producing grain and straw, transporting supplies, and fighting for the men of the country to seize more strategic materials and expand the living space of the country.

Speaking from the heart, they are very supportive of the current king, this young king not only completely solved their food and clothing problems, so that they can eat meat every day, but also opened compulsory schools, let their children read and write for free, establish a social insurance system, and solve the problem of pension and medical treatment for the people of Su State.

On this day, all the preparations were ready, and everyone knew that today would be the day of the expedition, so all the ministers came to the court in full clothes, waiting for this solemn moment.

In particular, all the generals of Su Guo were neatly dressed, dressed in military uniforms, with solemn expressions, and their eyes released burning heat and desire, because they knew that they were the protagonists in the days to come. During this period of time, Su Guo has been engaged in construction, and they have no chance to make meritorious contributions, they have been waiting too long.

Zhu Ao put on his Jiuzhang Gon dragon robe to show his attention to this meeting, calmly faced, with a pair of tiger eyes swept at the group of civil ministers and military generals standing under the hall, seeing that everyone had come, he raised his spirit, and said in an extremely majestic tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, the two clowns of Warat and Uighur have repeatedly engaged in friction with our country, and the widows do not care about them in line with the principle of good neighborliness and friendship, but I did not expect them to become even more serious, and they did not repent at all. It's tolerable, it's unbearable, today the widow decided to conquer them, in order to show the majesty of my heavenly kingdom, so that Siyi knows that my Ming is not easy to mess with! ”

"The ministers are willing to serve the king! The king is a thousand years old, a thousand years old! "Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and exterminate the barbarians!"

The blood of the ministers in the hall was ignited again, and they raised their fists and shouted loudly as if in estrus.

Seeing that the morale of the hall was available, Zhu Ao was very happy, stood up with a bang, pressed the heavy sword in his hand, and shouted majestically with the momentum of Mount Tai: "The former general Qu Neng, the later general Fan Chaoxi." ”

"The last general!" "The last general!" Qu Neng and Fan Chaoxi glanced at each other, and then they both stood up and shook their heads at Zhu Ao, shouting loudly.

"Order the two of you to be the chief officer and deputy chief officer of the northern expedition, and lead 100,000 iron cavalry to the northern expedition to Wara!" Zhu Ao pressed the heavy sword and ordered in a deep voice.

"The last general commands!" "The last general commands! The last general will definitely not disappoint the king, and will definitely capture the head of Mahamu and dedicate it to His Majesty! Qu Neng and Fan Chaoxi shouted loudly, the blood on their bodies had been burned.

"Good, good, good." Seeing that the morale of the two generals was so high, Zhu Ao was very happy in his heart, and laughed loudly: "The widow will personally lead 100,000 infantry troops to attack the Huihu, and when the time comes, let's see which of us will make great achievements first." ”

"The last general will obey the king's orders!" Qu Neng and Fan Chaoxi waved at Zhu Ao again and shouted loudly. After that, they glanced at each other again, and the meaning of those eyes was very clear, obviously saying that even if you are the king, we will not let you in this kind of thing, and we will definitely make great achievements as quickly as possible.

After the deployment was completed, the army immediately set out, led by Qu Neng and Fan Chaoxi, a total of 100,000 iron cavalry, set out from the east and west sides of Hami respectively, and attacked Warat.

The other route was led by Zhu Ao, with a total of 100,000 infantry troops, starting from Turpan and entering Gaochang City, which is today's Urumqi.

It should be noted that it is not impossible to use the method of dividing troops against the nomads on the other side, and the battle of Sarhu in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was just an exception.

The reason why the battle of Sarhu failed was not because of Yang Hao's four-way advance, but because the general of the Western Route Army, Juniper, advanced lightly and gave Nurhachi an opportunity.

Yang Hao's choice of four ways to march is reasonable and necessary. Let's talk about its rationality first, many battles in history have been successful by adopting the tactic of separate attacks and joint attacks, such as the Tang Dynasty's battle case of destroying the Eastern Turks, and a total of six routes of army were dispatched. The Ming Dynasty's conquest of Tusi Yang Yinglong was also surrounded by several roads. Later, Lao Chiang also succeeded in "encircling and suppressing" the Central Red Army for the fifth time.

Why are they successful? The reason is to grasp the key point of this tactic, to put it bluntly, it is four words - go hand in hand.

As long as the armies you send out can cooperate closely, calculate the time, march together, and don't give the enemy a gap, then they can only be surrounded by you in the middle and beaten in groups, and they can't rush out.

If the enemy sends the main force to attack one of your routes, then the other ones will take advantage of this time to take advantage of the situation, dig out his lair, and then counter-surround him. The nest has been dug up, even if you are lucky enough to escape, what future is there? can only be slowly consumed like Shi Dakai.

Therefore, this tactic is not unusable, and the key is to grasp the timing and rhythm of the march of troops from all directions, ensure that all troops and horses advance at the same time, and do not give the enemy a chance to seize the gap.

However, the Ming army's Western Route Army's commander-in-chief, Du Song, violated this operational principle, and he led the main force to arrive at Sarhu three days ahead of schedule, which was too prominent, creating an excellent opportunity for Nurhachi to concentrate the main force to besiege the first bird. What's even worse is that Juniper didn't know that his death was coming at this time, so he didn't listen to the words of the deputy general, set up camp, and waited for the other three roads to catch up, but divided this small army into two and took the initiative to cross the river to attack Houjin, and the end was naturally eaten by Nurhachi.

Juniper's behavior is equivalent to the stupid fork white bull in the Dota, relying on himself to be the main force, a little equipment, when he went to the high ground, he didn't wait for his teammates to catch up with a fierce man and plunged in, originally thinking of grabbing the head, grabbing the head, super god, and the result was naturally surrounded and killed by the other party. And he is the main force, as soon as he dies, the crispy little brother in the back will not be able to stand, and can only be harvested and wiped out by others.

The evaluation of Juniper by Emperor Wanli, a generation of heroes, is: "Juniper is greedy for merit and makes light progress to lose his teacher, which is deeply hateful!" "Wanli is the emperor, and he is the emperor at the time of the Battle of Salhu, as a generation of male lords, he may have mastered the most comprehensive information at that time through the performance of the officials at that time and the strict Dongchang Jinyi Wei system, so his evaluation should be the most pertinent.

Personally, I think that Wanli's evaluation is far more than that of later generations or some historical critics and so-called scholars at that time, because they cannot grasp the whole situation at that time.

Speaking of its necessity, the reason why Yang Hao chose to send troops from four ways was because he had to do so. You can open the map and take a look, the Kaiyuan of Marin's troops and the Kuandian of Liu Ting's troops are basically in a straight line, and the middle part of them is Nurhachi's nest Hetuala. Kaiyuan and Kuandian and Fushun in the southwest, where Juniper sent his troops, formed a semi-circular encirclement to enclose Hetuala, so it was best to march separately.

If you choose to march all the way, you will inevitably give up the two places of Kaiyuan and Kuandian, and the people of these two places will be slaughtered by Nurhachi. Besides, if you go around a semicircle from Kaiyuan and Kuandian, go around such a big circle to Fushun, and then attack Nurhachi from Fushun, how many twists and turns will it take, how much grain and grass will be spent, and if you don't go in a straight line, you have to take a detour, isn't it full of food?

Moreover, the grain and grass in the Fushun area cannot supply the 100,000 troops, and the 30,000 main forces that supply juniper are still more than enough.

In the end, Nurhachi is not a fool, and even less a wood, if you send an army of 100,000 to attack him from one direction, won't he run? Will he stupidly stay in Hetuara and wait for you? The aforementioned Kaiyuan and Kuandian are both good running directions, you have given them to others in vain, and people will be polite to you?

By the way, Nurhachi will not run to the north, because it is basically a barren land, and when Suo Etu signed the Nebuchu Treaty during the Kangxi period and passed through Heilongjiang and Jilin, he basically relied on hunting to make a living, and rarely found people.

In later generations, the police caught a bandit and paid attention to blocking all sides and blocking all roads, and it was too naïve for you to fight a giant and a fierce gangster, only sending all the way over, and expecting people to wait for you there stupidly.

Later, when Hong Chengchou rescued Jinzhou, the reason why he took the way of marching all the way was not because he learned the lesson of Yang Hao, but because of the terrain.

As long as you can control the time of each way to march into the army, and tell the generals of each way in advance, to attack a certain place in a certain month and a certain day, everyone will strictly follow the agreed time, step by step, go hand in hand, do not go deep alone, and do not give the enemy a chance to seize the gap, then it is very likely that the enemy will be surrounded and killed in the predetermined place.

The fundamental reason for the failure of the battle of Salhu was that after the death of Zhang Juzheng, the examination law was abolished, Wanli gradually lost control of the country, and the manpower, material resources and other resources at his disposal became less and less.