In the imperial city of Tokyo, in the imperial study, Emperor Zhao Huan and several henchmen.

Geng Nanzhong opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, you can ask for a report on the military situation, the Northwest Army of 40,000 people met the 80,000 army of the anti-thief king Qingbu outside Wanzhou (near Dengzhou, Henan), and won a complete victory. The thieves fled into the city, and the Ori Keqiu troops were besieging the city. ”

Zhao Huan was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Okay, excellent, quickly issue an order to reward the three armies." ”

Unexpectedly, Geng Nanzhong opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, in the midst of the fold, I also mentioned that there is no food in the army, and there is no money to build siege equipment, and I ask Your Majesty to decide." ”

When Zhao Huan heard this, he didn't think about it, so he said: "The matter of food and salary, let Zhe Keqiu raise it on the Jingnan Road, and the local government treasury should do its best to supply the needs of the army." If you want to kill the thieves quickly, you can't procrastinate. ”

"Yes." Geng Nanzhong replied.

After Geng Nanzhong finished speaking, Li Bangyan stepped forward again and said: "Your Majesty, now that the wheat is about to be harvested, the land taxes in Hedong in the north, around Gyeonggi, and Jingxi Jingdong Road should arrive in Tokyo in two or three months, and the imperial court will be much more prosperous. The minister also has some plans in his heart, that is, the matter of the forbidden army in Tokyo. ”

The cultivation and harvest season of wheat and rice is different, spring planting and autumn harvest, mostly talking about the south. Wheat is divided into spring and winter. To the northernmost place, the place where Yanyun is to the north, most areas in the northwest are mostly spring wheat, which is sown in spring and harvested at the end of summer.

However, in northern China and further south, winter wheat is mostly sown, which is sown in winter and harvested in late spring and early summer of the following year.

All the wheat in Hebei, Hedong, Shandong, and Gyeonggi will also be harvested, and even Zheng Zhi's money and grain problems can be greatly alleviated. However, the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty mainly came from the southern rice cultivation area.

Zhao Huan heard this and asked, "What is Li Qing's plan, and let's talk about it." ”

"Your Majesty, although the taxes on the two roads in Hebei are now in the hands of Zheng Zhi. However, it is the river Tokyo Gi, as well as the Tian Fu of the west roads of Beijing and Tokyo should not be underestimated, which can solve the urgent needs of the imperial court, as long as there is a slight surplus of food and salary, the recruitment of soldiers in the Tokyo forbidden army, and the training of sergeants and soldiers. It is time to quickly prepare for implementation. The matter of Hebei is focused on the forbidden army, as long as more than 100,000 elite soldiers are reorganized, the matter of Hebei can be solved, and Your Majesty is requested to make a decision as soon as possible. Li Bangyan's words, in the final analysis, are military training. Li Bangyan has seen the soldiers and horses under Zheng Zhi with his own eyes, and it is this stimulation that makes Li Bangyan more concerned about military training.

Zhao Huan nodded again and again when he heard this, and said: "What Li Qing said is extremely true, I will issue a holy decree today, and the Privy Council and the front division of the palace will arrange this matter properly. When the southern taxes arrived in Tokyo in the autumn, they had to settle the matter of Hebei. ”

Several people replied yes, and after saluting, they retreated.

Today's Bianliang City in Tokyo seems to have lost a bit of its former charm, and there are many fewer people on the streets. The problem of food shortage has also led to a sharp rise in food prices in the city. The high price of food was only a minor trouble for the high-ranking aristocratic class.

But for the vast number of people in the service industry at the bottom, it is unbearable. The only way to survive is to go out of the city to make a living, at least the food in the villages and towns outside the city is still somewhat surplus, and the price is relatively fair.

This time Tokyo's lack of food, although it did not cause widespread famine, also cast a shadow over this bustling and huge city. The small shops and stalls on the street are more than half, and the streets are much depressed. Even the lowest class of people in the city who pick up dung and the like, and many of them go out of the city or return to their hometowns to make a living.

Bianliang City seems to have fallen into a semi-paralyzed state. It is this state that can be empathized with for dignitaries and nobles, which has brought many inconveniences.

The smooth operation of a city is inevitably the result of all people's duties. But if something goes wrong, the consequences can be imagined.

In the southern part of the steppe, the Dadan people, later also known as the Kerebu. The Tatar as the name of the Ming Dynasty was developed from the name Dadan. At this time, the Dadan people occupied the best pastures in the southern part of the steppe, and the Murowei people also had many tribes that submitted to the Dadan tribe in this era. The relationship between Dadan and Murwinai is distributed in the north and south of the grassland.

One of the most important of the murves is the Mughul murwei. That is, Genghis Khan Temujin. Sixty or seventy years later, when Temujin unified the steppe, the word Mongolia came from the Mongol language. When Mongolia unified the steppe, the golden family also moved south. The grasslands in the south are much better than those in the north in terms of sunshine conditions, climatic conditions, and abundance of aquatic grasses.

Later generations were divided into Inner and Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia belonged to China, and Outer Mongolia was established independently, among which the reasons for the establishment of Outer Mongolia will not be discussed in detail. But the Mongolian aristocracy, the Mongolian golden family, are all in Inner Mongolia. Outer Mongolia, in comparison, is the tribe that is ruled, and it can even be said that the Mongolian bottom or slaves.

Under Zheng Zhi, after the battle with the Jurchens, there were still 15,000 cavalry left, and about 2,000 wounded soldiers who survived, and the wounded soldiers had turned back and entered naturalization.

Zheng Zhi continued to go west with 15,000 cavalry, and the nine Dadan divisions were fought for by Zheng Zhi from the Jurchens. But the nine divisions of Dadan also need Zheng Zhi to conquer.

The nine tribes of Dadan are also a collective term, far more than nine tribes, there are Dadan tribes in the south, and there are Dadan tribes in the center of the grassland. The nine surnames of Dadan also have the meaning of Dadan's authenticity, but it does not mean that there are only nine tribes in Dadan, and the other tribes distributed in the south of the grassland are far more than the nine surnamed Dadan.

Zheng Zhi sat on horseback, looking at the endless grassland, and Mi Zhenwu and Xiang Lide had been called behind him to follow.

Zheng Zhi had a lot of things brewing in his mind, and the two followed behind for a long time. I didn't see Zheng Zhi speak.

It wasn't until the sun was about to go down that Zheng Zhifang spoke: "Dang Xiang and others can settle their families here and graze the grassland." ”

The two heard Zheng Zhi repeat such a sentence, and hurriedly bowed down to thank him.

But Zheng Zhi said again: "The grassland here is vast, and the party item will not be called the party item in the future, and it is divided into two parts in the north and south here, and the two of you will lead one part." The northern part is called the Ganhan Division, and the southern part is called the Suhan Division. It means the Han tribe from Suzhou in Ganzhou. It is forbidden to cut hair, and it is not allowed to use party documents. After that, all of them wore their hair in a bun, dressed in Han costumes, and wrote in Chinese characters. The rest of the nomadic customs can remain unchanged. ”

Mi Zhenwu and Xiang Lide glanced at each other, whether they wanted to or not, but they didn't dare to disobey, so they had to bow down and answer: "Yes!" ”

Zheng Zhi's move is also the meaning of assimilation. The two most basic points of assimilation, one is the assimilation of appearance, combing the hair bun, and wearing Han clothes. One is cultural assimilation.

The greatest significance of Chinese characters is that no matter what language you speak, as long as you can know the meaning of each Chinese character, you will be assimilated by Chinese characters. This is the biggest difference between meaning words and phonetic words.

Chinese characters themselves are the result of cultural assimilation and convergence. This is very different from Latin. A man can be read in an infinite number of ways, but the meaning is fixed. Most of the words in the Latin alphabet represent only one meaning in their own right, and this word is closely linked to the pronunciation. This is also the reason why countless small countries in Europe have a variety of letters and words, but the words of these letters are not yet compatible.

The combination of Chinese characters is an extremely scientific mode of language. If a person knows 3,000 Chinese characters, he can read any general reading material. But English is different, and if you want to read an English newspaper without the help of a dictionary at all, you need a vocabulary of nearly 20,000 English words. This is another difference.

This is also the reason why Zheng Zhi arranged it after careful consideration. Giving this grassland to Mi Zhenwu and Xiang Li is just the beginning, to let the real Han people control this grassland, assimilation is inevitable and the most effective way, in this era of unscrupulous use of bloody means, the problem can be solved within three or four generations.

This is also the way China has been doing it for thousands of years. From Huayi in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the southern return of the Xiongnu, to the Wuhu, Sui and Tang dynasties. Even to the Khitan Jurchens, this is the process.

A nomadic branch of the Han people is also an effective method for the grassland. Because in the Han culture, it is important to divide for a long time, and for a long time, it must be divided, and in the Han culture, the division of the country is not allowed. Split will always lead to reunification, and history has proven this time and again.

This is the significance of what Zheng Zhi did. Not in a year or two of planning, but in the foundation of thousands of generations. Even beyond the change of dynasty.

"Since then, there have been no third-class people in the party, only slaves and the Ganhan Department and the Suhan Department. After the slave is promoted, he is a member of the two ministries. If you two tribes want to gain more population and resources, you also need to take credit in exchange. Zheng Zhi has thought about this issue very thoroughly, and even many unspoken details of the administration have been thought through.

When Mi Zhenwu and Xiang Lide heard this, they could only bow their heads and thank them. Things in the world are like this, with Zheng Zhi as a hard-handed master, the two of them can't help but say more.

Zheng Zhi waved his hand and motioned for the two to go back. He beckoned Wu Yong to his side again, and said, "Have you ever heard the words just now?" ”

Wu Yong hurriedly said: "Your Highness, rest assured, the lower officials can hear it clearly, and there are many records." ”

Zheng Zhi looked at the pen and paper in Wu Yong's hand, and said: "Add one more, start to set up the grassland capital protection mansion, choose a site to build a city in the northwest direction of the Mo Ge lost tribe, and order Shi Jin to be the governor of the capital protection mansion and sit in the new city." ”

Wu Yong nodded again and again when he heard this, and while writing hard, he asked, "Your Highness, are the people who build the city from Cangzhou?" ”

Zheng Zhi nodded and said: "Cangzhou Northland, there are many people, so I will transfer 10,000 to the grassland, and then transfer 20,000 party items to Qingzhuang." After the city is built, there is no need to transfer back, and it remains in the grassland. ”

The significance of the city to rule is self-evident. Zheng Zhi's method of confronting the party in the western army is also ready to be used on the grassland again. To build a city, there is more than one, to build a city on the grassland from generation to generation, important places to build cities, along the line to build forts. The tribe was nomadic, and the nobles all had to live in the city, which was convenient for control.

Each fortress does not need too many people to be stationed, as long as the beacon smoke is together, all the city fortresses are military advance bases, and the army comes along the line, it will inevitably get twice the result with half the effort, and it can be attacked and defended. Even if there are more cities and forts, it can also divide the grassland forces, so that the grassland nomadism cannot be unified.

This is a huge project, a project that must be done from generation to generation. Zheng Zhi took advantage of the opportunity to enter the grassland, so he abolished the Great Wall project that was constantly built in later generations, and instead built a city in the hinterland of the grassland. For the consumption of manpower and material resources, it must be much easier than building the Great Wall in the mountains.

The Ming Dynasty alone built and repaired thousands of kilometers of the Great Wall. If this manpower and material resources were used to build cities, hundreds of cities would have been built.

Zheng Zhi's opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Naturally, we can't continue to build the Great Wall.

Zheng Zhi's long-term vision is unmatched by anyone in this era. If Zheng Zhi told people that he was going to build hundreds of cities in the grassland. Others will only think it is ridiculous when they hear it. However, Zheng Zhi knew that in the past three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of work to build the Great Wall had already exceeded the amount of work to build hundreds of cities.

The Great Wall is the law of defense. Zheng Zhi's plan, although it will last more than a hundred years, Zheng Zhi's plan is an offensive plan. It's a plan to really control this huge grassland. The hard-working, united Chinese have been good at major projects since ancient times.

The plan is just the beginning, Zheng Zhi doesn't need to say much, he thinks about it for a long time on horseback, and slowly perfects many details.

After Wu recorded Zheng Zhi's words, he was about to prepare an official document to go to Cangzhou. began to mobilize manpower and material resources into Yanyun, out of naturalization, into the grassland.