Chapter 846: Hope (II)

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Why do nomads, once they are strong, frequently invade the outside world?

There are many explanations for this, and those of temperament will say that they are warlike, savage, cruel, and predatory by nature; Proceeding from the economy, it is said that the nomadic economy is backward and has a low ability to resist natural disasters, so it has to supplement itself by plundering the agricultural peoples.

This is all well known, and Noyandara can naturally tell it, but the silence tells him that there is actually a deeper reason, and that is the need to maintain unity.

When mankind was still in the age of ignorance, there was no nation that did not want to expand and invade, because if you do not conquer others, you will be conquered by others...... In fact, even in the age of civilization, those who do not want to make progress will still be punished by the times, and the law of the jungle is eternal, and will accompany mankind until its extinction.

For the steppe peoples, this law is even more supreme. Because the tribes are so weak - the population is sparse and the production is backward. In order to protect themselves, they had to fight each other and seek unification, but after unification, they did not have an economic base sufficient to maintain this unity - agricultural civilization required large-scale human input, and fixed the people to the land, but the nomadic economy only needs to maintain a herd group of a few hundred people to stand on its own, and live in pursuit of water and grass, and the tribes are separated by hundreds of miles, and they will naturally lack cohesion.

So, how to maintain the unity of a nomadic empire? It's about giving a reason why we have to stick together.

The easiest reason to find is war, to wage war constantly...... The Huns, Turks, etc., are all like this, and Mongolia has become the purest war group under the creation of Genghis Khan. Compared with the Huns meeting the Han and the Turks meeting the Tang Dynasty, Temujin's luck was so good that he fought all over the world invincible, and no country could fight with him for a long time, thus ushering in the golden age of nomadic empires and establishing an invincible empire across Asia and Europe.

After that, the Mongols, who could no longer find a challenger, had to put their swords and guns into storage, put their horses in Nanshan, and then split and degenerate faster than they rose, and the empire was sunset, and the afterglow was bleak......

So without war, the nomadic country would fall into division, this has become a truth imprinted in the minds of the Mongols. Therefore, whether it is Yexian or Dayan Khan, these majestic and strategic lords who unified the various tribes of Mongolia, like their ancestor Genghis Khan, returned to the rise of Mongolia, constantly waging wars in an attempt to restore the glory of the past.

But the golden age of the steppe peoples has passed, and the Mongols have long been divided into two tribes, Tatar and Warat, who have been fighting each other for more than 100 years, and the hatred between them even exceeds the hostility towards the Ming Dynasty. They were also not as lucky as Genghis Khan, caught up with the Song-Jin confrontation, and had no time to care, their enemy Ming Dynasty, was established by overthrowing their homeland of Mengyuan, and from the day it was built, they regarded them as the enemy of life and death.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty has not encountered a second powerful enemy in the two hundred years since its founding, so it can mobilize the strength of the whole country to confront this only enemy, and even move the capital to Beijing, and use the Son of Heaven to guard the country to stabilize the defense line of the frontier.

The internal and external environment is like this, no matter how hard the Great Khans of the past dynasties, it is impossible for Mongolia to recover to its former strength, and they have no luck when they were ancestors, and they frequently launched wars with the Ming Dynasty, and all they can get is to attack and defend and preserve the survival of the country......

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"So the same war, your ancestor Genghis Khan can sweep through Europe and Asia in a few decades, but now, you are getting poorer and poorer and less populous." The second bottle of Xifeng also bottomed out, and he silently opened the third bottle again, poured it for Noyan Dara and said: "Shiyi time has passed, war is no longer the panacea of your Mongolian maintenance system, it is time to find a new way." ”

Noyandara lowered her head, her face was red, but her eyes were confused: "Can you find a new way?" ”

"Yes." Shen Mo nodded solemnly.

Noyandara looked up at the silence.

"I can't say it to you yet," Shen Mo said, "Recently, a distinguished guest is coming to Yulin, and Jinong may as well meet him at that time, maybe he can have some ideas." ”

Seeing that Shen Mo was reluctant to reveal, Noyan Dara had no choice but to hold back her doubts and eat wine with Shen Mo for a while. When he was about to end the banquet, he couldn't help but say again: "The Governor is nothing more than worried, the Ordos tribes will surrender and rebel, and I can't control other tribes, but I can guarantee that the people I belong to will always be obedient to the Ming Dynasty and be the people of Wanghua......" After a pause, he gritted his teeth and said: "In order to show sincerity, I can never return to the grassland, and send my children and grandchildren to Beijing as hostages for generations," he knelt down in front of Shen Mo and whimpered: "But please Daming must save my people, they can't afford to wait......"

"Hey, hurry up, hurry up," Shen Mo held his shoulders and said: "I have the capacity to accept all rivers, since Jinong is willing to submit, of course there is no reason to reject it," he said with a light sigh: "But you are not in the tribe now, how can you give orders?" ”

"I can write to my son, and when he sees it, he will surely lead the crowd to vote." Noyandala took out a letter from her bosom that had been written long ago and said, "Please give it to my eldest son, Behe, and he will do it." ”

"Hmm." Shen Mo nodded, and said softly: "As long as they cooperate, Da Ming will not let your people starve to death." ”

"Thank you for your magnanimity." Receiving a silent promise, Noyandara finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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asked Noyandala to be sent away, and Wang Chonggu ordered people to remove the pot and replace it with greasy tea.

Shen Mo held the teacup in his hand, leaned comfortably on the square pillow, and said with a smile: "This Noyandala is a strange flower, if those princes of Mongolia were like him, the world would have been peaceful a long time ago." ”

"The influence of this kind of person in the Mongolian tribes is destined to be limited, even if he really leads the people to join him, he will not affect the other tribes?" Wang Chonggu said proudly: "What's more, they didn't offend me before, and this time they killed and injured thousands of my soldiers in Jinong City, and now they are forced to the end, like a lost dog, before they think of Guishun...... But the adults just agreed, it was too cheap for them. In Wang Chonggu's view, there was no reason for the imperial court to accept Noyandara's surrender. On the contrary, the tribe should be dealt a severe blow, so that the Tartars will understand that there is no good end to fighting against the Celestial Empire!

"Brother Jianchuan, don't underestimate this Noyan Dara, although his strength is not good, he has the identity of Mongolian Jinong, and he is even more noble than Meda."

"It's just an empty prince," Wang Chonggu pouted, "even if it's Jinong?" It's not about honoring me yet. ”

"You can't deny the importance of Jinong's position because of his bear." Shen Mo smiled faintly: "I think that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han family was in decline, and the emperor's decree could not get out of the capital, but Cao Mengde could coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes...... Reputation is always a good thing, it depends on whether you have the strength to hold it up. After a pause, he said confidently: "The banner of Noyandara can not only help us subdue the entire Ordos Department, but even pass through Mongolia in the future, he will also be very useful." ”

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, the Mongolian Tatars are not enough to swallow elephants. When the time comes, you will have to turn your face and not recognize people. "Wang Chonggu is a main battle faction, and he represents the general idea in the current army...... Taking advantage of the current situation, the Mongols were completely driven out of the Hetao, and the intercom was naturally not cold. Of course, this is also because he has seen too many cases of the Mongols rebelling, and he naturally distrusts the other party.

"Brother Jianchuan's concerns are reasonable." Silent said: "The steppe wolves are greedy and ferocious, and it is common for them to rebel, so forcing them to surrender is only the first step, and then it depends on whether we have the ability to domesticate them into dogs, and then tie them to a thick chain, so that they will never be in chaos, in order to be considered a success!" ”

"Domesticating wolves into dogs?" Wang Chonggu said in disbelief: "This is much more difficult than repeating it...... "Although wolves and dogs are relatives, one can be a partner and the other an enemy. Most of the Central Plains dynasties in history have made such attempts, such as the harmony of the Han Dynasty, the equal treatment of the Tang Dynasty, the cultural assimilation of the Song Dynasty, and so on. In the Tang Dynasty, the Han Yi was like a family, and there were many famous ministers and generals who were born of nomadic descendants, but that was based on the strong national strength of the Tang Dynasty, and once the national strength declined, the first to make chaos were these aliens, which was really chilling.

"You can't give up your food because you choke, and you can't let your guard down." Shen Mo said confidently: "Although our current strength is not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty, they are far inferior to the original Turks. Summing up the gains and losses of predecessors and acting cautiously, there is still a lot to be done. ”

Wang Chonggu heard it, and Shen Mo had already grasped the wisdom bead, so he said solemnly: "I want to ask the adults for their wolf taming strategies." ”

"This plan is a three-pronged approach," Shen Mo nodded and said, "One big stick first." The tiger wolf is the tiger wolf, only if you are stronger than him, he will obediently do it according to your arrangement, otherwise whatever he wants, he will directly use it to rob it, which will tell you the rules. ”

"That's right." Wang Chonggu bowed his head and said: "The Mongols shouted all day long, because I was not allowed to open the border market, and they couldn't buy daily necessities, so they had to rob the Mongols." In fact, it is not that I have not promised the mutual market before, but every time the market is opened, the Mongolians rely on the strength of the army, bully and dominate the market, and forcibly seize it, and of course the mutual market cannot be opened. ”

"Well, the ancients said, 'Although the country is big, the warlike will perish.' Although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous. This is illogical. Under the influence of alcohol, Shen Mo's domineering side hidden under mildness, tonight he said: "A country that is not warlike will inevitably forget to fight, just like our Ming Dynasty, fortunately thanks to the Mongols harassing the nine sides, in order to be two hundred years after the founding of the country, the military strength is barely reasonable." I'm very worried, in the future, if the problem of the Mongols is really solved, the nine sides are safe, the swords and guns are put into storage, and the horses are put in Nanshan, what will my Ming army degenerate? ”

Wang Chonggu looked at Shen Mo with complicated feelings, all along, it has been difficult for him to correct his relationship with this former 'brother', and he always feels that the other party is just lucky to become his boss. But the recent contact made him finally understand that the other party is far better than himself in terms of vision and heart...... Just like this time, when he was still complacent about the smooth outcome of the war, he had already thought about what to do after the war, and even the future of the Ming army. It seems that he and he are really the difference between 'seeking a domain' and 'seeking the overall situation'. In the face of this gap, what age, qualifications, etc., are really insignificant. ”

It was only at this moment that Wang Chonggu put himself in a correct position, no longer pretending to be an old qualification, but conscientiously performing the duties of his subordinates.

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"A big country must be belligerent, must have the courage of 'those who offend me and are strong will be punished even if they are far away', and must resolutely fight back against any provocation! Otherwise, you can only breed wolf ambitions and invite greater war to the country. Shen Mo's eyes were cold, and his words overflowed with domineering: "Even if the neighboring countries dare not make trouble, they must regularly launch controllable wars to hone their own armies and make them not forget to fight." It also keeps neighbors in awe at all times. ”

These words greatly appealed to Wang Chonggu's appetite, and he laughed and said: "To do this iron-blooded talk, the tea is too light, and the wine must be served!" So he removed the teacup, opened a jar of 'Huang Gui', poured it for Shen Mo and said, "But there are many examples of warlike deaths." ”

"Being belligerent is not a sin, the key is to do what you can." Shen Mo picked up the wine cup, took a sip and said, "You can't fight a battle that you must lose, and you can't fight a battle that loses money." The former will damage the prestige of the imperial court, while the latter will lead to a financial crisis, which will then be passed on to the people, both of which are the source of disaster for the country. Before fighting this battle, the cabinet first analyzed the situation of the enemy and us, and said that I was getting old, the various departments had many different hearts, and there were natural disasters on the grassland for five consecutive years, and it was precisely at a time of embarrassment and weakness that the arrogance of previous years was completely lost. And we have been united and carefully prepared for several years, and we have gathered a strong army of famous generals and new firearms, so that we have the ability to defeat the steppe cavalry. At this time, if he didn't take the initiative to fight this battle, Emperor Taizu would be so angry that he would jump out of the imperial tomb. ”

"In addition to not losing, this battle will not be lost." He smiled silently: "There are Shanxi merchants and Southeast businessmen who are willing to pay, so fools can't make it." ”――

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