The feeling is that Zeng Mill plans to ask for his life to recover the Hetao? Want to fight the Mongols? At the beginning of the year, he only won a big battle of defense and counterattack, and now he wants to take the initiative to attack the Hetao? It seems that Xia Yan still agrees with Zeng Miao's proposition very much, and he looks very supportive, but is there really no problem with this? The Hetao region has been lost for a long time, and how easy is it to recover it?

Emperor Jiajing didn't continue to look at it, but asked Xia Yan: "Xia Qing thinks that the Ming Dynasty has the strength to recover the Hetao at present?" In previous years, the defense of the Nine Sides was already overwhelmed, and now they still have to take the initiative to attack, Xia Qing, can the soldiers of the Nine Sides guarantee to take the initiative to attack and occupy the Hetao? ”

Emperor Jiajing's worries are not abnormal, but normal, because Xia Yan himself knows that before this, the land of the nine borders is indeed defeated every year, and he is slapped in the face by the Mongols every year, which makes Emperor Jiajing very unhappy, and a few victories can not make the emperor satisfied, because the whole of the Ming Dynasty still presents a passive beating situation, not only the southern guards dare not fight, but these soldiers who have been guarding the frontier for several generations also continue to disgrace their ancestors, and thousands of cavalry dare not fight against hundreds of Mongolian soldiers. Let their ancestors who constantly go to Mobei to fight the Mongols cut off their liver and sausages......

However, this is not a reason for the Ming Dynasty to rest on its laurels and let the land fall without fighting for it!

Lao Xia Yan rose up and said: "Your Majesty, the land of Hetao has been my Chinese territory since the Qin and Han dynasties, and later dynasties are incompetent and cannot stick to it, but the Hetao area is too important for my Ming Dynasty, whether it is Qin Mengtian's northern expedition to the Xiongnu or Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's northern expedition to the Xiongnu, it is very important to use the Hetao area as a logistics supply base and become the connection point between the interior and the grassland, which is very important. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On the contrary, if the Ming Dynasty masters the Hetao, it will be able to strike at the Mongols just like Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu, forcing the Mongols not to dare to invade the nine sides in the south, and the Ming Dynasty can organize the strongest military force to start from the Hetao and strike at the interior of Mongolia. Just like Grandpa Tai and Grandpa Cheng, the Mongolians who beat were frightened and didn't dare to peep into the Central Plains!

Once, the Ming Dynasty could also completely defeat the Mongols, but now, the Ming border will be complacent, just waiting for the Mongols to fight, and the Mongols will be over, the Mongols not only did not suffer any losses, turned over and plundered, more and more powerful, and the Ming Dynasty is more and more poor, the soldiers dare not fight, will not dare to fight, in the long run, the nine-sided is in vain, and the Ming frontier has directly become an inexhaustible warehouse for the Mongols! It just doesn't make sense! ”

Xia Yan's angry roar woke Emperor Jiajing suddenly, yes, isn't that so? Two hundred years ago, it was Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu who succeeded each other, more than a dozen times of the Northern Expedition of the Great Desert to beat the Mongols to cry dad and call mother, and then did not dare to commit the border for more than 100 years, until Emperor Yingzong changed the civil fort, the Ming Dynasty gradually turned from offensive to defensive, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty gradually became afraid to fight with the Mongols, and fell back into the disadvantage, and before that, the Ming Dynasty was a forbidden area that the Mongols did not dare to touch!

If I let the Mongols go like this, then after I die, where will I have the face to see Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu? Tell them that the Ming Dynasty is under my governance, and the people are not able to make a living? Where is my face? What should future generations say about me? How do I speak ill of me? Is this what I want?

No, no, this is definitely not what I want, I asked myself if I don't have the military strategy of Grandpa Tai and Grandpa Cheng, but I am not stupid, I can distinguish between good and evil, good and bad, Xia Yan is right, Zeng Mo is right, if Da Ming does not want to continue to be pressed and beaten by the Mongols, if I don't want to be threatened by the Mongols every year in Beijing City, the only way is to fight out, take back the Hetao, and then organize the Northern Expedition to completely defeat the Mongols! That's the way to do it once and for all!

As soon as he thought of this, Emperor Jiajing felt that his cold blood was gradually heating up, and he quickly flipped through Zeng Miao's recitals - thieves were based on the Hetao and harassed the border for a hundred years. Xiaozong wanted to recover but couldn't, Wuzong wanted to conquer but failed, so that Ji Nang was the nest, and out of the set was Kou Xuan, Da, and Sanguan, and Zhenqi Fu; Into the set is Kouyan, Ning, Gan, and Gu, in order to disturb the pass. The mountains and rivers are in the enemy's position but not in me. The ministers of the feudal territory have no one to recover as His Majesty's words, and the army is also prosperous; There is a small frustration, the matchmaker is coming, the wok, the knife and saw, and the face is clear.

The ministers are not aware of the danger of the soldiers, and the pillow is sweaty, and the teeth are painful. Stealing and scheming: autumn is high and horses are fat, bows and arrows are sharp, they gather and attack, I scatter and defend, then they win; The winter is deep and the water is dry, the horse has no shelter, the spring is cold and rainy, the bad and dry soil, the other is getting weaker, I take advantage of its disadvantages, then China wins. The ministers are invited to take 60,000 sharp pawns, and 2,000 to benefit Shandong Gongshou, whenever the spring and summer are handed over, with 50 days' salary, the water and land are handed in, and the nest is smashed. If the material official is hairy, the artillery fire is thunderous, and the Kou can't support it. This one-and-done policy is also relied on by the eternal society.

Reading this, Emperor Jiajing couldn't help but shout: "Good! The country has such a courtier, it is my luck! ”

Then Emperor Jiajing went to read Xia Yan's painstaking writing, Xia Yan's memora was written about how to use Hetao as a base for the Northern Expedition, save money, food, soldiers and horses, and prepare for the Northern Expedition after recovering the Hetao. Hande Hetao, then Wei Qinghuo to the sick north expedition to the Xiongnu, expelled it, so that the Khan fled at night, so the minister thought that if you want to solve the danger of the nine sides, you must first get the Hetao, if you want to solve the disaster of Mongolia, you must go from the Hetao to the north, go deep into its interior, and completely expel it, so the only plan now is to get the Hetao, and then you can Xu Tu later.

Seeing this, Emperor Jiajing sighed in his heart, although Xia Yan was a little unlikable, some relied on the old and sold the old, some were old-fashioned and mean, and he would not please himself, not as likable as Yan Song, but really, Xia Yan really knows how to do things, can do practical things, just like that little guy, ******** bury his head in things, Xia Yan was the first assistant during this time, although there were no major political achievements, but the country was still stable, in the past few years, the Mongols have not once broken through the defense line to threaten Beijing.

Unlike Yan Song's time, he was promoted to be the first assistant, but the result was a mess, and he had a different mind, after being dug by Jinyiwei, Emperor Jiajing did not hesitate to drive Yan Song down from the position of the first assistant, and invited Xia Yan back again, although Yan Song became more and more low-key and well-behaved after that, but compared with Xia Yan in front of him, it was really a lot worse, after all, what he needed was a capable minister who could make him live a comfortable life, he couldn't be ambitious, and he didn't make big mistakes.

You are corrupt and bribed, in fact, Emperor Jiajing doesn't care at all, from childhood to adulthood, Emperor Jiajing never believed that there were courtiers who were as honest as water, he thought that there were no fish when the water was clear, corruption and bribery were not at all in his eyes, he never thought it was a crime, only one point, you can't be greedy for the emperor's money, you can be greedy for anything else, there are handles and weaknesses, such courtiers are easy to control, besides, the Ming courtiers' salaries are indeed too low......

The emperor has never heard of Xia Yan's corruption and bribery, because this old man is really old-fashioned and stubborn, but there is one point, Xia Yan also cares about fame, the most attractive thing to him is not money, but power and reputation, like power, so he wants to be the first assistant, care about reputation, so he will not deviate, this is the most important reason why Emperor Jiajing let Xia Yan be the first assistant, it is nothing to like power, men don't like power to have problems, care about reputation is the best, care about their reputation, so they will not do those dangerous things.

Compared with the current Xia Yan, Emperor Jiajing felt that Yan Song was simply weak, just like the old papier-mâché pavilion at the beginning, he couldn't make any contributions, and he followed my ass all day long to try the pill to jump the god, loyalty is loyal, and it is respectful enough, but the Mongols really called, you as the first assistant, you have to come up with a strategy, you can't say that you help me cultivate, I will give you the first assistant, you have to be able to do things!

The Mongols called, you didn't deal with it, you came to Xiyuan to dance with me, this is your loyalty, then I understand, but the Mongols are going to enter the city, they are coming to threaten me, who will be responsible? Who is responsible? Sure enough, when choosing people, you still have to choose those who are talented and can do things, those who are blindly flattering, comfortable to use, but not to use them, they will become straw bales in three or two clicks, and my country will be defeated in their hands.

"Your Majesty, since the Yongle Lord moved the capital to Beijing and showed the Son of Heaven to guard the country, Beijing has been threatened by the Mongols several times, so that the Holy Driver is uneasy, the so-called Lord humiliates the ministers to death, and the Mongols invade, then Your Majesty is humiliated, Your Majesty is humiliated, and the ministers are better than death! Since the minister was appointed as the first assistant, he has been thinking about how to expel Mongolia for His Majesty, so that Beijing can be stable and the world can be peaceful.

The old minister implored His Majesty to agree to this matter, give the old minister the opportunity to serve His Majesty, share his worries for His Majesty, and give the loyal and brave soldiers the opportunity to fight for the country and promote the prestige of our country! Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has been silent for so long that the Mongolian Tartars have forgotten how Grandpa Cheng beat them back to their hometown in Mobei! This time, we are going to let the Mongols remember it for a long time, and let them relive the taste of being expelled by the Ming Dynasty! ”

At this point, Xia Yan's eyes were red and he was out of breath.