"Da Tou thinks so beautifully." Yi Feng sneered a few times, "In my plan, Da Tou will not be able to do anything except to bind himself and surrender, and he will come to Jingshi to be a rich idler in the future, and he will not be able to protect anything." ”

Pei Shiju asked, "Your Majesty still wants to send troops to the grassland?" ”

"Of course, this year's Northern Expedition has not been fully successful, and the current war in western Liaoning is undecided, and after the recovery of western Liaoning, the imperial court will go back to the Northern Expedition again to completely solve the grassland problem in one fell swoop."

"Your Majesty, the land of the grassland cannot be cultivated, and even if it is occupied, it cannot be defended for a long time, and it is not beneficial to send troops to the grassland. It is better to accept the submission of the Turks, which will not only avoid the burden of grain and grass transportation, but also avoid the soldiers from using soldiers. At the beginning, His Majesty Gaozu's strategy against the Turks was to divide and attack, and to unite the weak and separate, so that the Turks could never become bigger, and the imperial court was not only free from the threat of the Turks, but also exempted from the cost of using troops. Pei Shiju persuaded him.

Yi Feng flicked his robe, "That being said, this strategy is not perfect, otherwise there would not have been a Northern Expedition last year to unify the Turks, and the imperial court would have this year." The imperial court had to change its strategy for the Turks and the steppes. The steppe people have always been weak and submissive, strong and rebellious and capricious. Now that the Turks have been newly defeated and there is the Tiele Rebellion, this is the best time for the imperial court to solve the Turks and the steppe once and for all. ”

Pei Shiju was a little surprised when he saw that Yi Feng had raised the use of troops against the Turks to such a height, "Could it be that Your Majesty has a better strategy in mind to solve the grassland problem?" ”

"Of course there is a way, but I have to subdue them first, and then I can implement it."

Pei Shiju's meeting with the emperor did not explain the new strategy. At the moment, I had to hold back and not ask. However, in his heart, he still didn't believe that the emperor had any omnipotent good way. The grassland threat can be solved once and for all. After all, he has been to the grassland many times, and he knows the grassland. He can claim to be among the top three officials of the DPRK and China. He couldn't think of a better strategy to deal with the Turks than Emperor Wen, but when the emperor said so, he could only believe it first.

"You have just come back, and you should have been at home for more time to spend with your family. But now is not the time to wait, I plan to wait until next autumn when the horses are fat, and immediately send troops to the Northern Expedition again. Therefore, there is still some diplomatic work that needs to be done by capable officials like you. In a few days, you will go to the Western Regions again and bring with you the will I have given to the Gaochang Kingdoms of the Ancient Regions. Let the kings of the Western Regions come to Beijing to participate in next year's Zhengdan Dynasty and meet the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains. In addition, I also went to meet a Datou and asked him to come to Beijing as well. Of course, if he doesn't want to come, forget it, and then I will send generals to lead troops and directly lock him into Beijing. In addition, I have asked Changsun Sheng to lead a delegation to Mobei Tiele and ordered them to prepare. Join us next fall. ”

Pei Shiju saw that the emperor was really going to send troops to the grassland, and he was going to play a big game, so he couldn't help but ask, "I don't know what your majesty's plan is." The grassland problem can be solved once and for all. ”

"Actually, it's not worth a lot of money to say it, but since you want to hear it so much, it doesn't hurt to tell you. But don't reveal it. ”

"The minister is tight-lipped." Pei Shiju hurriedly said.

Yi Feng's intended solution to the steppe problem was actually quite simple, but borrowed from the old methods of the later Manchu Qing conquest of the Mongolian steppe. To conquer the steppe. Of course, you have to defeat and convince them first, or else. Miscellaneous Hugh. It is not enough to defeat, the Central Plains Dynasty defeated the nomadic tribes of the steppe, such as the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty beat the Huns to the wolves, and constantly retreated north. But in the end, the Han people did not really solve the Huns, let alone establish rule in the steppe. To put it bluntly, the grassland is a place that is completely unsuitable for growing food, and it will not take long for the Han people to immigrate to the grassland, and it will not take long for them to become nomadic tribes, and the nomadic way of life of living by water and grass is difficult to adapt to for the Han people, a farming people, let alone establish rule, in the final analysis, the Han people's set will not work on the grassland.

In the end, the Manchus succeeded in controlling the Mongolian steppe, in the final analysis, they still used the Mongols to rule the Mongols, but the Manchus co-opted and controlled the Mongolian upper nobles, and they only needed to control the upper nobles, and then let the Mongolian nobles control the Mongolian herdsmen, just like the entire Mongolian steppe. And the Manchu Qing control zhì Mongolian nobles also have no secrets, one is to fight, fight until the Mongols are served. At the beginning, the Mongols also worked hard for the Ming Dynasty, and had a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, they had already been subdued by the Ming Dynasty, and they were also mortal enemies with Houjin. But in the end, Houjin subdued the Mongols, and he called him Daddy. Then, the Manchu Qing began to woo, first with relatives, the Manchu emperor prince Beile married the daughters of the Mongolian nobles, and then married the Manchu princesses to the grassland to those Mongolian tribal leaders, married each other, shared interests, and became a family. Of course, if it is only a harmony, it does not completely guarantee the control of the Mongolian steppe.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty controlled the Mongolian steppe, and the most powerful move was to canonize the Mongolian nobles, divide them into fiefs, and then prohibit crossing the border, so the result was to divide a huge Mongolian steppe into a relatively independent territory one after another, which made the Mongols scattered into pieces, and then integrated into a complete force, and there was no one who could command the entire steppe Khan. Once someone wants to cross the border and expand their strength, it will inevitably attract joint suppression from other tribes and the Manchus. And this system of dividing land and dividing feuds is also a good thing for the Mongolian nobles on the steppe, who have become generations of nobles, hereditary territories for their descendants, and even receive Yulu from the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Especially after the grassland was subjugated to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the trade between the two sides was strengthened, and the Mongol nobles could easily sell their output to those merchants from outside the steppe in exchange for a large number of various materials they wanted, and they could be quite comfortable nobles.

Especially with the Manchu monarch to provide them with security and help them prevent the invasion and plundering of those ambitious Mongol nobles, they really lived a very chic life, and no one wanted to go back to the old era when the steppe tore each other apart and the tribes took turns to dominate. Of course, the Manchu Qing Dynasty controlled the grassland, and there were many other strategies that also contributed to it, such as arousing Buddhism and building Buddhist temples on the grassland, so that those originally aggressive grassland people believed in Buddhism and worshiped Buddha, and slowly consumed their murderous fighting spirit. In short, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's control of the grassland was indeed the best in the ancient Chinese dynasties. It was they who completely incorporated the grasslands outside the Central Plains into the system of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Yi Feng didn't care about using the Manchu Qing system, first took advantage of the current great opportunity to subdue the Turks, and then also came to a large fiefdom, demarcated the fiefdom, prohibited crossing the border, and then strengthened the trade with the grassland, in short, so that those nobles could be pigs, live a comfortable and worry-free life, in this way, the grassland will naturally become a pool of stagnant water, and it will be difficult to make any waves.

"First unite the countries of the Western Regions and Tiele to destroy Datou and Dulan, and then use the Turkic Descending Department to destroy Tiele, and then rectify the Western Regions, and finally directly bring the area south of Yinshan into the rule of the imperial court, set up prefectures and counties, build cities and garrisons to resettle and reclaim fields, and push the border line to the north. For the broader eastern and western grasslands, you can return to the imperial court as soon as possible, and then divide the noble leaders who have made meritorious contributions to the imperial court one by one, and I plan to divide them into five ranks, Khan, Ye Hu, Special Service, Qi Jin, and Tutun. At that time, he was given ten or eight khans, and then dozens of Ye Hu, hundreds of special services, hundreds of catties and Tutun, and the grassland was divided into hundreds of thousands of territories of large and small, and most importantly, it was also specially stipulated that the territories of the fifth-class titles were independent of each other, although the Khan's territory was larger than Ye Hu's, and the title was higher than Ye Hu's, but the Khan's territory could not control Ye Hu's territory, and their territories were independent of each other. Moreover, the imperial court must also specifically stipulate the number of soldiers and horses that can be owned by all levels of titles, and it is strictly forbidden for each territory to cross the border, let alone invade other departments, but if there is a transgression foul, the Great Sui will send troops to unite all the departments to jointly crusade and destroy it. The territories will be inherited by the lords from generation to generation, canonized by the Great Sui Emperor, the Great Sui guarantees that their territorial hereditary rights are sacred and inviolable, if there are those who dare to seize the throne and seize power, the Great Sui will send troops to crusade, and return the right to the legitimate heir of the territory. Well, it is necessary to spread Buddhism and Taoism to the grassland, build temples and Taoist temples, build schools in the grassland, set up commercial markets, build roads, and marry Han and Hu."

Pei Shiju's mouth opened wide, he didn't expect that the emperor's new strategy would be this way. At first it sounds a little too taken for granted, the Turks are willing to obey the emperor's canonization? But when I think about it, I feel that it is very operational. The premise is that the tribes of the steppe can be subdued, but this does not seem to be a problem. Now in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor, there are already many Turkic nobles such as Poshi and Nili, and some of them are originally Little Khans. Now there are more than 200,000 Turkic troops in the Central Plains who are loyal to the emperor, and these people are still waiting for the emperor to let them return to the grassland. If His Majesty the Emperor had sent these Turkic nobles back to the steppe, and then promised to canonize them as Khan, they would have been willing to kill them and fight with the first class. Use these Turkic subordinate soldiers to unite with Tiele to destroy the old forces of the steppe such as Datou and Dulan, and then turn back to destroy the tribes that want to stand on their own, and then the rest are those Turkic nobles who surrendered to the Great Sui, and then the emperor will give them the title of fifth-class knighthood in the name of rewarding them, and then divide the territory, most of them must be happy, and a few of the big nobles may be dissatisfied, but they still have room for resistance under the general trend? Dare to resist, just give the court the opportunity to unite with other Turkic nobles to destroy them and divide their territory. When the dust settled, the grassland had been divided one after another. (To be continued......)