Chapter 184: Sheep Shearing

The emperor's mental technique is not practiced in a day, but as long as he has a heart, even if he is as wonderful as Zhu Houzhao, he can slowly become a qualified emperor.

Xu is embarrassment when he first ascended the throne gave him too deep a deep impression, and Xu is the poor gene in the bones of the Zhu family, in short...... Slowly, Zhu Houzhao accepted the modern ideas that Jian Ning revealed from time to time.

Only the interests of countries can last forever! At the same time, he added the idea that "those who are not of my race must have different hearts". This idea does not mean that Zhengde has become a nationalist, in fact, nationalism in ancient times was different from that of later generations, especially in the Confucian cultural circle.

To put it simply, as long as you learn from me, you become me. Chinese civilization is divided into cultural circles rather than ethnic bloodlines, the most obvious example of which is the Jews during the Song Dynasty.

The reason why this suffering people have always been criticized by the world is that they are not easy to integrate with the locals, and in this long human life, only the Jews living in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty were finally assimilated by Chinese culture, which is rare in the entire history of the Jewish nation, and even only such a group of people were assimilated by the Chinese.

Based on this point, whether it is the ancient kings or the people, as long as you identify with my culture, you are your own people.

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold. As the supreme commander of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao had apparently understood another mode of warfare: economic assimilation.

The power of the Southwest Tusi is being disintegrated step by step, which makes Zhengde more determined in his own thoughts. Since the southwest can succeed, then there is no reason why the grassland and Liaodong cannot succeed.

Therefore, he only needs to set up a template between the white mountains and black waters, and then he can attract more people's hearts to the Central Plains. As for whether these people will be anti-water? There's always a risk in doing business, isn't it? Think about the benefits you can get, and then it's worth the risk.

As long as the other party forms an economic dependence on the Central Plains, then it is not a chieftain who wants to plunder the Central Plains at that time. If the people of the Ming Dynasty can combine with them and slowly assimilate, then soon the grasslands and places such as Changbai Mountain will truly become the land of the Ming Dynasty, and then ......

He can push the battle line outward, and the Rakshasa people can survive there without potatoes, which means that the Chinese people can also do it!

And the key to all of this is to first cultivate an agent, first assimilate him, and then assimilate others through this person. Of course, armaments must not be slackened, but strengthened.

When I went back to the border pass, I saw that the border pass was obviously not good enough to be armed, so I had to allocate funds to train these guys. You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to defend people!

Zhengde's small abacus is played properly, and it can be imagined that when a large number of materials are piled up in front of Qixi Bao Qi Zhanggu.

After making a bunch of poisonous oaths to show his loyalty, Xibao Qi Zhanggu began to count the things rewarded by the Son of Heaven.

"Good things, good things, all good things!"

A bunch of weapons eliminated by the Ming army successfully made Xibao Qi Zhanggu sell himself and future generations. At this moment, the Aixin Jueluo, who are so poor that even Neku wears them, don't seem to have much choice before surviving, what else can they do except work for Daming? Historically, this has been done in the past, but now it is a little bigger because of Jian Ning's variable.

Wang Yangming, who returned to Beijing to restore his life, handed over Xibao Qi Zhanggu's braid and said, "Your Majesty, when the minister went, he couldn't understand the reason why His Majesty did this. It's just that on the way back, Chen gradually figured it out. ”

"Oh?"

Zhengde became interested, "What does Aiqing want to understand?" ”

"Your Majesty wants to strengthen the Aixin Jueluo Department to fight against the Tartars."

After a pause, he continued: "And the Jurchen tribes are fighting each other, if Aixin Jueluo makes a windfall, it will inevitably attract other small tribes to follow suit, and other tribes will also come to attack. In this way, they will inevitably rely more on my Ming Dynasty, and if I wait for the Han people to enter the northern cold land and bring the cultivation method of potatoes and other things, over time, the Aixin Jueluo Department will be assimilated into my Han people. ”

"Aiqing is very relieved to see this."

Zhengde was very happy, "It's a pity that there are too few people in this court who can really understand it." ”

He sighed, "Aiqing, you see that our Central Plains Dynasty has fought with the grassland people for thousands of years, from the barbarian dog Rong in the Zhou Tianzi period to the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties, and then to the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Liaojin and Mongolian dynasties in the Song Dynasty...... Fighting back and forth, in the end, no one won anyone, why do you say this? Our Ming Dynasty now has to use people everywhere, and we have hoarded a lot of grain, and rice in Luzon and Southeast Asia can be harvested three times...... It's a shame that such a good place can't be used by me due to lack of manpower! ”

"Your Majesty means ......"

Wang Yangming said tentatively: "Do you want to completely solve the northern trouble, completely let it become our family, and then go to sea together?" Conquest of Oceania, Luzon...... Or even that legendary America (America)? ”

"America is not a legend, the Spaniards have established a base there, our great ships will soon be able to go to sea, and the Jinyiwei have obtained reliable nautical charts through various sources......"

"But Your Majesty, Oceania alone is enough for six generations of us to digest, not to mention the Luzon area."

Wang Yangming shook his head, "The world's best people have also seen it, we are too far away from there, and the climate of the ocean is weird, we have to cross two oceans, although the Ming Dynasty is now a strong country, but it has no ability to eat any piece of land in America." Your Majesty, there are things that can be left to future generations, and what we have to do is to digest Southeast Asia and Oceania. And, of course, the land of the north that His Majesty said. ”

"Aiqing thinks it's feasible to completely turn the people in the north into our Central Plains?"

Wang Yangming smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, they are more like us than the natives of Luzon, aren't they?" And those annihilated steppe overlords eventually learned what we were, culturally speaking, we are more like a family, aren't we? Therefore, if Your Majesty can really turn them into us, then it will be the real merit. If the Central Plains is no longer invaded by the grassland, why not be strong? ”

Zhengde nodded, "Poor people are treacherous, and the grassland people will come to rob us whenever the green and yellow are not accepted." So, if we want them to settle down, we have to think about how to make them rich first. Let them herd the horses and sheep for us, and talk to the Mongols, and we will buy their wool. ”

He smiled as he spoke, lifted his dragon robe, and said, "Aiqing, look, this is the cashmere sweater spun by the imperial concubine with wool, and then woven with this wool thread." If we buy wool in large quantities, make it into clothes and sell it, and open a border trade by the way, do you say that those steppe people who can buy things with silver will still come to rob us? They will just honestly herd the sheep and shear the sheep......"

Wang Yangming thought about that scene and couldn't help but feel a little chill in his back. This kind of statecraft is very strange, I have never heard of it before, but it is feasible to think about it carefully.

The steppe people came to rob the main ones and still had nothing to eat, but if the Ming were willing to trade with them fairly and could buy what they produced......

It is conceivable that a warm and soft woolen sweater like this will soon become popular and even exported overseas...... As long as a thing is popular, then the demand for raw materials will also increase, and those grassland people will taste the sweetness, and they will only unknowingly become the shepherds of the Ming people.

In front of interests, it doesn't work for the leader to speak, which is more direct in the grassland. Profit is something that can kill everything!

With infinite emotion, Wang Yangming left the palace and then went to the cabinet. He wants to discuss the feasibility of this matter with Shoufu and his father, if it can be successful, then the northern trouble of the Ming Dynasty will be solved, and the newly acquired land can be digested.

Jeongdeok's idea was quickly supported by the ministers. The ministers are not stupid, and later generations feel that the ancients are stupid because they stood on the shoulders of history, and there are no limitations of the times. Now that Zhengde's idea has been induced, after taking out the woolen jacket, almost all the ministers feel that this thing is feasible.

Don't look at Zhengde to do a stupid thing, but the general policy of governing the country over the years has not gone wrong, and the Ming Dynasty is indeed getting better and better, which makes Zhengde's prestige also established, and the occasional mistake is quickly forgotten. After seeing that the Son of Heaven came out with new things, they expressed their support, and let their mother-in-law also enter the palace to learn to knit sweaters with the imperial concubine, planning to learn to cut the wool of the Mongolians.

As for whether the Mongols will accept it?

Scold......

Those poor and crazy guys even sell people, let alone wool. Why do they come year after year? Isn't it because you're poor?!

The Mongols were also confused.

After the Son of Heaven personally went to the battlefield to defeat them, he thought that he would continue to show off his might, but who knew that the Son of Heaven did not want to fight with them anymore, but planned to do business with them.

Are they really the Mongols stupid?! But they couldn't screw a piece, and soon some tribes secretly traded with the Ming people, and when they exchanged useless wool for silk, tea, salt, and grain, the grassland became a sensation!

And Xibao Qi Zhanggu jumped out at a very opportune time, and suddenly became a comprador, relying on his fluent official language, leading his clansmen back and forth, and making a lot of money.

At the same time, Da Ming also sent technical guidance, planning to plant a wave of corn on the vast land of the Northeast, to be precise, on the land of Aixin Jueluo. And then......

Within a few months, there was news that there were Han women and Aixin Jueluo who had a love crystallization, and the relationship between the two clans seemed to have become closer, and the other Jurchen tribes were also red-eyed, all kinds of coercion and temptation, Xibao Qi Zhanggu took the sword of the Ming Dynasty and flickered around, it was like a fish in water, and it was not destroyed by anyone, which is really a miracle!

And in the deep palace, Jian Ning also became busy because she wanted to teach the noblewomen to knit sweaters. Fortunately, her students are very hard-working, and after a few years of systematic learning, their abilities have improved a lot, and unskilled jobs like spinning and knitting sweaters can also help Jian Ning cope. Of course, these people don't want to do these things too much, they want to do all kinds of invention and research, because once they come up with something new, it means a large reward and an infinite future......

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