A soft, rhythmic rustle, followed by a soft 'dong' sound, followed by a sore tooth scratching sound and a young man's hearty laughter. 【】

"Big brother, you said that letting the king come to the capital is a routine of boiling frogs in warm water? It's funny, I've heard that the Japanese people do look like frogs. ”

"Yes, yes, I said second brother, you should be slow, the snow here is not thick enough, and there are a lot of rocks or something underneath, it will be bad if you fall."

Xie Hong regretted getting the sled out a little, Zhu Houzhao was very interested in the fast speed and stimulating sports surnamed Qiang, and he was also quick to get started, just a day or two, he was already able to control it freely. It didn't matter if he had fun, the danger was a bit high, and the crash and scratch was like the sled sliding and the sharp corners of the rocks under the snow colliding and scraping.

However, marching on snowy days, without sleds, is indeed troublesome, the Guards have more baggage, and they are thicker, and in the case of the river has been frozen, sleds and ice sleds are the most convenient and fast things.

"It doesn't matter, don't worry, my skills are good."

Zhengde smiled nonchalantly, the ski pole in his left hand was weighed, and a beautiful half-arc was drawn in the snow, then he lifted his thick hat, turned his head to Xie Hong and said: "Big brother, sleds and skis are really good things, if the whole army is equipped, take advantage of the heavy snow on the grassland, you can counterattack the grassland, in the snow, the horse can't run fast, but the skis are convenient." ”

"Brother Jiang, what do you think?" Xie Hong turned his head and asked, he was not very familiar with the geography and climate of the grassland, if it was like Liaodong, this was a good idea, the most powerful thing about the Tartars was mobility. With ski equipment, the mobility of both sides will be reversed, and the method that Zhengde said is indeed a good way.

"It should be possible," Jiang Bin nodded, "The winters have been getting colder and colder these years, and there have been more than one or two heavy snowfalls like this year, and the grassland is flat, which is just the right place for skis, well, this down jacket can also be used." However, the equipment of the guards is a bit troublesome, and the Divine Arm Bow and Mo Knife are not easy to carry. ”

Zhengde waved his hand and said with a nonchalant smile: "It's okay, the guards were originally used to fight in arrays, and the sled was used for small-scale raids, and it was enough for the border troops to be dispatched. ”

After thinking about it, he added: "My idea is this, in winter, the elite of the border army will advance to the interior of the grassland in small teams, and in the spring and summer, the guards will be sent to consolidate the results of the battle, as long as this is repeated for a few years, it should be possible to drive the Tartars away from the Ming frontier." ”

"What does the emperor mean...... Is it to build a city on the grassland? Jiang Bin was surprised, and Wen Wen, who was listening, also let out an exclamation.

Since ancient times, there have been many monarchs of the Central Plains who have fought back against the grassland, and the Ming Dynasty alone has had the two founders, but no emperor has ever wanted to build a city on the grassland.

Because the local population is small, so they can only transfer labor from the Central Plains, the road is far away, and they have to transport materials, which is not much worse than Qin Shi Huang to build the Great Wall and Sui Yang Emperor to dig the Grand Canal.

And there are enemies all around, even if they are repelled for a while, but as long as the army retreats to the side wall, the Tartars are bound to make a comeback, and it is easy to give up halfway in building a city, not to mention, even if it is built, I am afraid that the Tartars will be cheaper.

But it is also not a way to let the army wander outside the fortress all the time, not to mention the cost problem, the danger alone is enough to make the monarchs daunted. The threat of the Tartar peeping is one of them, the army is also prone to change if it hangs out for a long time, and the disaster of destroying the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty is not the rebellion of An Lushan at the root of it? The dead fat man's reliance on raising troops was the soldiers and horses stationed at the border gates.

Therefore, although there are many advantages of building a city in the grassland, and the fact that it can move the battle line to the north as a whole and reduce border troubles is already exciting, the reason why the Central Plains monarch has never intended to put it into action is because the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, at least from the immediate point of view.

"Well, I plan to snatch the Hetao back first, and then rebuild Daning City, so that most of the border towns can be shielded, and while selecting the elite, I can also carry out disarmament, liberate the military households, and participate in the development and construction of the Central Plains, isn't it much stronger than now?"

Wen Wen and Jiang Bin are both generals, and they don't need to look at the map to know that if they can really recover the Hetao Plain and echo the east and west of Daning, then in the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, except for Liaodong in the easternmost part and Gansu and Guyuan in the west, there is no need for other towns to exist at all, and they can indeed liberate a considerable number of military households.

"Your Majesty...... Do you want to use the frontier army as labor? Gentle in his heart to consider the possible surname of this matter.

Zhengde's strategy is very good, and it is likely that Xie Hong will also participate, needless to say, the implementation surname is also very high.

The problem of consumption, which was the most headache for the kings of the past, was the easiest to solve. Today's Son of Daming, it's hard to say anything else, but in terms of wealth alone, it can be called the most in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Silver is not a problem at all, food, as long as there are no major natural disasters, the three towns of Xuan, Ji, and Liao are now successful, and the supply of grassland strategies is not a problem.

The threat of the Tatars is not a problem, and in the battle of Yingzhou, both the Tatars and the Warat can be called a broken nerve. According to the report of the defenders of the Tiger Pass, the fire sieve who escaped from the pass first was worthy of being a hero, and after escaping, he did not rush to the west, but set up a position outside the pass, intending to annex the remnants of the Tatar army.

His calculation cannot be said to be wrong, although the number of the remnants of the Tatar army is still above the Varat cavalry, it has been routed into a plate of scattered sand, and it should be well subdued.

However, things still went wrong, and among the defeated Tatar army, there was still a formed army, that is, the Usu Division, which was the first to strike and the first to flee. Wusu was not so much frightened by the heavy cavalry of Liaozhen as he was frightened away, and he made preparations for turning in advance and ran at the forefront of the Tatar rout.

Therefore, when he ran out of the mouth of the tiger, he still had thousands of cavalry by his side, and there were defeated armies on both sides, and they had little courage to fight again. Then more and more Tatar troops ran out, and when they saw this, they all consciously joined the Usu array.

Seeing that there was nothing to be done, the fire screen simply withdrew, but the relationship between the two sides could not be repaired completely, and the lost strength could not be made up.

The challenge is manpower.

With the current situation of Xuanfu and Jizhen, the military households should respond in groups, Zhengde's prestige there is high enough, and this matter is very beneficial to everyone, but it is difficult to say in other places.

Before the army returned to the court, Yang Yiqing had rushed to Datong in person, asked Zhengde to resign in person, and was approved, and now he is returning with the army, and a military disaster on Ningxia and other three sides has been eliminated invisibly. However, it is difficult to say what the people's hearts are there, and if they really work hard and stir up the crowd, it is difficult to say whether there will be any stirring up in them.

On the Liaodong side, although there are already signs of splitting in Duoyan Sanwei, it is not difficult to retake Daning with the power of a great victory, but the manpower of Liaozhen has always been insufficient, even if it is repeatedly squeezed from North Korea and scattered to the vast land of Liaodong, it is only a drop in the bucket. Development is still insufficient, and if you want to expand, the trouble will be much greater.

"You don't need those manpower, in addition to North Korea, there are also Nanyang and Wa Kingdom. As long as the offensive against the Tartars has been maintained for the past two years, they will not be able to slow down, and when the time comes, it will be logical to build a city in the steppe and develop the Hetao by the way. ”

For the situation in the whole world, Xie Hong already has a comprehensive plan, and the expansion model with the highest growth surname is the strategy of plundering the surname, or how to say that the accumulation of capital is bloody? Even Citigroup, which was known as the most free and open cooking in later generations, was soaked in countless blood in the process of their growth.

Building a city in the grassland was only the first step in his grassland strategy, and then he had to build pastures and farms to build the Hetao into a self-sufficient stronghold, so as to completely eliminate the threat of alien races in the grassland.

In this process, the people of the Ming Dynasty certainly have to play a role, but they should not play the role of coolies, but more construction surnames, architects, overseers, and farmers, which are the positions of the Ming people. Xie Hong intends to change the social structure of the Ming Dynasty in the shortest possible time.

In this regard, Xie Hong intends to fully copy the Western model of later generations, Citigroup uses black slaves, Xie Hong intends to use slaves from the South Seas, in line with the principle of proximity, the first and biggest target is Luzon, and the Japanese State is also one of the targets.

Luzon was famous as a Filipino maid in later generations, so the people there should be very qualified to be slaves.

The Wa side was a little more troublesome, and it took a lot of time and energy to forcibly conquer them, and it was impossible to compete with them when the South Seas were in urgent need of development and the great voyage was in the ascendant.

Xie Hong's method was to invest in the Wa [***] valve on the one hand, let them consume their strength in internal strife, and at the same time suppress the Wa court, make their prestige lower and lower, and enhance the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in the Wa State. You may not be able to see much in a short time, but after a long time, the Wa Kingdom will slowly weaken, and it can fall down with a push, and that is the time to reap the fruits.

In fact, the whole strategy is the same, maybe five years, maybe ten years, it is time for a bumper harvest, when the time comes, not only the South Seas are in hand, but the northern grasslands will also be completely settled, and maybe by the way, it can also create some trouble for the Western countries.

Seeing that he and Zhengde have reached a consensus, the second general will not say more, countless examples have proved that there is nothing that these two people can't do if they want to do it, and that heart is also in vain, it is better to think about what they can do in the future. Looking at the skis under Zhengde's feet, Scarface is very tempting, and it seems to be fun to step on this thing to chop tartars.

(To be continued)