Chapter 51
Even if she took the initiative to send it to the door, Baili Wuji would be grateful for it.
Baili Wuji has passed the age of thinking in the lower half of his body, this woman who is one or two years younger than his daughter Baili Yiyun, just take a look, if she is really included in the palace, the palace is destined to set off a wave of acid and vinegar.
The so-called more is better than less, and there is no wave in the heart of Baili Wuji.
There is a world of difference between conquering a country and recovering a country, both in terms of prestige and the political pattern in the future.
If Duan's request is accepted, then at least for a few years, it will not be possible to change the political pattern of Dali, that is, Duan's annexation will be in the next few years, that is, nominally, the Ming State will not be able to really control the Dali regime.
In order to truly grasp the political power of Dali, it is necessary to carry out one or several political reforms.
At least for five years, it will be difficult for the central court of the Ming State to extend the tentacles of power into the core of Dali's state politics.
This is not what Baili Wuji wants, for such a result, in Baili Wuji's heart, it is better to directly send troops to occupy it, although it will lose some soldiers, but it is said that it is Baili Wuji, even if it is the new army soldiers below, they would rather fight the world.
Only a war of equal strength will be a war of attrition, which will make Baili unscrupulous and fearful, just like the battle of Ming Liao that year, the casualties of the Ming State were as high as more than 200,000 soldiers, and even the Eighth Army of the Black Flag Army commanded Liu Renzhen also hated the south bank of the Luan River, and the Tenth Army of the Black Flag Army commanded Bian Ho to be disabled for life.
This was the greatest loss of the Ming army since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. A war like this is undoubtedly nerve-wracking.
So, even if it's time-consuming. Baili Wuji would rather exchange time for space and split the Liao State with a plan.
But now it is different, except for the vitality of the national treasury, the Ming State has not yet fully recovered, but the new army within 100,000 is mobilized to attack the Dali State, as long as the leading generals do not make stupid moves, it is easy to win.
The casualties of a small number of soldiers are compared to the benefits of conquering Dali. That's pretty much negligible.
But there is also the sequelae of military conquest, that is, the will of the people.
Unless the Ming army swept away Dali by massacre, more or less ethnic minorities would rise up to resist. But Baili Wuji never wants a piece of white land, because although the population of the Ming Kingdom has increased year by year over the years, the population is far from enough for the expanding territory.
The tribes of Dali are different from Liao, Tubo, and Zhubu. They did not have an unforgettable hatred with the Central Plains people. On the contrary, Dali has always had a good relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty.
This is also the reason why Baili Wuji hopes to absorb the Dali regime as much as possible "without hurting the harmony".
But as soon as the army moves, it is not easy to "not hurt the peace".
Although the Ming army had strict military discipline, it was undoubtedly a lie to fight in a foreign country without harming the common people.
And the people's will often accumulates in this petty hatred and hatred, and finally leads to irreconcilable national hatred.
Baili Wuji is not unable to accept Duan's invitation to surrender, in fact, even if there is no Duan Foyin to come and kiss. As long as the Duan clan can agree not to keep the army anymore, Baili Wuji will readily agree to Duan's request for surrender. Even as long as the Duan clan agreed to the Ming State to garrison troops in Dali and Shanyan, Baili Wuji could tolerate the Duan clan to retain no more than 30,000 troops.
But Baili Wuji knew that it was impossible for the Duan clan to agree, no emperor would hand over the army lightly, it can be said that in this troubled world, the army is equal to their lives.
Even if Duan Sicong is willing to demote the emperor to the king and accept the canonization of the Ming Kingdom, in their bones, they are still the controllers of the Dali Kingdom.
And Duan Sicong ordered Duan Foyin to go to Jinling Mansion to make peace, the root of which was to keep his army, just imagine, when Duan Foyin married Baili Wuji, how Baili Wuji opened his mouth to Duan Sicong and deprived him of the army in his hands.
Even if Duan Foyin is just a concubine, in terms of etiquette, Duan Sicong is the father-in-law of a hundred miles of unscrupulousness, and this kind of etiquette and righteousness will strictly hinder the process of unifying Dali in the Ming Kingdom.
This is something that Baili Wuji will never tolerate, so Baili Wuji Gujing Wubo, he understands that Duan Foyin, a woman, cannot be touched lightly.
On this day, the court meeting ended hastily due to the arrival of Duan Foyin, and Baili Wuji did not make any decisions in the court.
But the blow this brought to Duan Foyin was huge.
A pampered princess of the royal family, a beautiful woman who thinks her appearance can convince men in the world, is actually sent to the door, and is treated as nothing, such a blow is so that even Duan Foyin, who has studied Buddhism since childhood, cannot bear it.
The sense of loss was like an insect and an ant tearing at Duan Foyin's heart, and the most important thing was that Duan Foyin had an uncontrollable sense of crisis about completing the task assigned by his father.
Duan Foyin's heart was shaken because of the loss, but she didn't know that because of her arrival, the Ming government and the opposition had a sharp quarrel for the first time since the beginning.
To fight or not to fight.
No one doubts the end of Dali.
Even if the strength of Dali increases by five times, it will be difficult to defeat the hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened tigers of the Ming Kingdom.
But the key lies in how the Ming Kingdom took the Dali Kingdom.
Since the emperor of Dali has expressed his willingness to surrender, and let the princess of Dali come to Jinling Mansion in person, in fact, harmony is just a trick, in the final analysis, Duan Foyin is a hostage.
Therefore, these officials thought that even if the Duan clan controlled the Dali regime for a few more years, it would be better than spending national strength to send troops to the west, after all, fighting a war would kill people.
However, a considerable number of officials below the third grade are-for-tat, believing that if they continue to make decisions, they will suffer from chaos.
Since the Ming Kingdom can destroy the Dali Kingdom with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, why not send troops directly, and it will be a hundred.
After all, after the destruction of the Dali Kingdom, the Dali regime was like a blank piece of paper, which could be painted by the Ming court without being fettered by the original forces such as the Duan clan and the Gao clan.
As far as the Ming Kingdom is concerned, even if the Dali Kingdom is razed to white land, the population of the Ming Kingdom, which has a huge base, can still fill the gap in the Dali Kingdom.
The interests of the country are higher than a qiē, and this is what Baili Wuji personally told them.
These officials below the third grade are far inferior to Feng Dao's group of old ministers, but their momentum is not inferior to that of the old ministers, and even surpasses them.
There is no other reason, just because they are protégés of the Son of Heaven, all of them are from Jinling and Tanzhou, the two highest universities in the Ming Kingdom.
Baili Wuji abolished the imperial examination system, and the new system of selecting officials below the fifth grade from the academy was popularized in recent years, and the climate was formed.
According to their aptitude, students from various disciplines entered various departments, which played a great role in improving the politics, economy, and military of the Ming Dynasty at that time. (To be continued......)