Hearing this appointment, Chai Baochen knew that Lord Wang's energy was limited. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info can't do everything himself, handle some daily affairs by himself, and major events have to be presided over by Lord Wang. But this is enough, it is enough to see Lord Wang's trust in himself. Chai Baochen was very happy, and hurriedly replied: "Lord Xie! ”

Lord Wang continued: "The focus of my work in the recent period is mainly on the Xuanfu, this is the trust of the imperial court in us, we must not live up to the trust of the imperial court, so the burden on our shoulders is not light!" ”

Chai Baochen replied: "Yes, my lord." As far as I know, the Varat is quite ambitious, and this winter, let's be careful. ”

"Oh? Tell me, how to guard against it? Lord Wang looked at Chai Baochen and was very interested in this topic.

"My lord, I'm just saying a little immature opinion, forgive me for not being there. The rule of the Yuan Dynasty was terminated by Emperor Hongwu of our dynasty, and although Timur and some Mongol nobles were forced to flee to Mobei, they still retained considerable strength. In the western part of the Great Khing'an Mountains, in the Hulun Bell steppe, live the Mongolian Korqin tribe, who are descendants of Genghis Khan's younger brothers. After the repeated attacks and internal migration of our Korean army during the Hongwu period, the remaining population of several major tribes in Mongolia is not much. In the early years of Hongwu, the Warat tribe was dormant, and they gradually rose after the Northern Yuan Dynasty was almost wiped out, and the population of the Tatar Mongolian tribes was also growing and increasing.

Generally speaking, if it is possible for a Mongol tribe to operate on the border between Han and Mongolia, it must have a large enough population. According to the border Gong City, the need of the Warat Department is the greatest, and the desire has been increasing in recent years. ”

"Yes, you have a good point. I am also puzzled that in the past, there were only forty or fifty envoys who came to pay tribute to us, but this year the court has received a letter of state from the Ministry of Warat, which is very arrogant, and has privately requested that the number of people who pay tribute to the court be increased to 200. How could it be that the silver and silk fell from the sky? The number of requests they asked for was so much different from last year, and it was really ambitious. ”

"My lord, I want to ask, is it that the current detachment of Warat does not take off sweat is in vain, and the person who actually holds the real power of Warat is actually Taishi Yexian?" Chai Baochen raised his head and looked at Lord Wang, revealing an imperceptible smile.

"Huh? Where did you hear that? It was only ten days ago that I received a letter from a secret agent of Jinyiwei, and I learned about this news only in the DPRK and China at present. Could it be that the Jinyi Wei secret agent leaked the news? Seeing Chai Baochen's confident appearance, Lord Wang couldn't help but be puzzled.

"Don't worry about it, the news has not been leaked." Chai Baochen secretly scolded himself in his heart, he said so much, and if he didn't get it right, it would cause others to be suspicious, but when Chai Baochen saw that Lord Wang looked like his father, he couldn't help but want to tell him everything he knew, help him guard the Xuan Mansion, and help him do everything well. Chai Baochen had an inexplicable impulse in his heart, which was a deep longing for his family. But at the moment, he can't tell him that he has crossed over, so he can only prevaricate in the past, and then said: "That's the case, my master went south and north, and met some friends in the martial arts. ”

"Well, I see." Lord Wang felt that this reason was a bit flawed, but he didn't want to think about it in his heart, he believed that the young man in front of him would not do anything harmful to himself, so he didn't want to continue to investigate. Then he asked, "You just said that Warat is very ambitious, so how can we guard against it this winter?" ”

"The Gongshi trade allowed the Mongols to obtain the necessities of their daily lives. Due to the low productivity and the underdevelopment of their science and technology, in trade, the Mongolian tribes often imported some things that ordinary people could not afford and could not use, such as: horses, mink, bear and tiger skins, deer skins, roe deer skins, fox skins, ginseng, honey, horsetails, otters, etc.; Most of the commodities they bought were cattle, sheep, meat, salt, wine, millet, japonica rice, cloth, yellow wax, silk, silk, ploughshares, iron pots, tea, medicinal herbs, etc. In this way, this kind of trade is not good for our dynasty, we can live without buying their things, they sell some luxury goods, and ordinary people are not very willing to buy them.

And they had to sell these things in exchange for the necessities of life, and sometimes because the things were unsalable and the money in their hands was insufficient, they would take the opportunity to make trouble, burn, kill and loot. Therefore, in the second year of the orthodoxy of our dynasty, the government did reduce the number of Jurchen and Uliangha tributes each year because of the difficulty of reception, and stipulated that each guard was only allowed to receive two or three Mongols who came to trade, and under special circumstances, each guard received a maximum of 20 people, and the rest of the Mongolian merchants were all left outside the customs and were not allowed to enter the city. In addition, the trade time is only five days, and the maximum time is extended to 40 days when the goods are unsalable. But the Mongols still refused to leave.

I heard that Warat was also in the prime of life, he succeeded his father and became the Grand Master, this person is shrewd and ambitious, and he made a move to increase the number of tributaries just to test the bottom line of my Ming Dynasty and see what the temper of our emperor is. If you want to talk about a large-scale war, he doesn't dare to start it yet. A person like this will not act lightly, he will definitely recuperate and enrich the strength of his tribe, and then invade our dynasty. Now, as soon as he became a Grand Master, he must establish his prestige in the tribe, lest the power be taken back by the nominal leader. So, there will be some action to help him build this prestige first. This winter, we need to step up our preparedness! ”

"Good! I'm not mistaken, your analysis of Warat is the way it is, and it suits me very much. I think so too! Lord Wang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "In your opinion, how can you strengthen your defense?" ”

Chai Baochen pondered for a while and replied: "To put it simply, it is 'a combination of grace and power, and a combination of rigidity and softness'. This is what Chai Baochen saw when he read history, in the later Wanli years, the Ming Dynasty's strategy towards Mongolia began to change, and the trade of the tribute city was enveloped by Huairou, and it was necessary to step up vigilance at all times, repair war preparedness, and defend at any time. Chai Baochen went on to say: "Economically, it is one of the important ways to show grace to the city of tribute; But militarily, we must strengthen defense and encirclement and suppression, so that the small-scale harassment and robbery of Mongolia cannot be realized, if Warat invades on a large scale, we should not easily engage them, the walls are cleared, so that the wilderness has nothing to plunder, they drag on for a long time, the supplies cannot keep up, and they cannot use war to feed the war, and their spirit is frustrated, so they will naturally go back. When Chai Baochen told the suggestion of the Ministry of War in the future, Lord Wang's eyes lit up and he felt that it was too incisive.

"Well, that's a great point. I didn't expect your vision to be so unique. In this case, today we will talk about this first, and I will write down what you just said, and submit it to the Ministry of War, asking for permission to implement it. ”

When Chai Baochen said this, he was also beating the drum in his heart, because this knowledge was all seen in the history books, and it was not tested by the actual situation at the moment. Hearing Lord Wang's praise for himself, he knew that he must have said it right, the ancient history textbooks are honest and don't deceive me, haha.