"Then what is the significance of this annual military salary, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, Aiqing can have a good plan to teach me. Emperor Hongzhi asked with a sigh.

"What does Your Majesty want, is it a solution to the immediate urgency, or a long-term strategy. Ma Wensheng asked.

"Let's talk about what to do now. Emperor Hongji said.

"What is the result of your majesty's plan? ”

"Let the northern captives retreat first, keep the border army, and you can bear some losses. Emperor Hongzhi said helplessly.

"You can let the border army gather, garrison troops in front of Tongguan, block the enemy outside Tongguan, transfer the Beijing battalion to support, and the Beijing battalion and the border army will appropriately force back the northern captives, and then negotiate peace. ”

"Why don't you just repel the northern captives?" asked Emperor Hongzhi puzzled.

"Your Majesty thinks why you can repel the northern captives. ”

"Is the Beijing camp and the border army hundreds of thousands insufficient? ”

"Enough, but who Your Majesty is going to let the united front, how long the treasury can last hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight, and what kind of equipment is ready to be equipped. ”

"If Ma Aiqing has any suggestions, you might as well talk about it. ”

"No, if Your Majesty wants to repel the northern captives, there must be a large number of cavalry skilled in archery and horses, so a large number of horses are needed, and this time the northern captives invaded with 50,000 soldiers and horses, and our dynasty also needs at least 50,000 cavalry. Beiyu is located in the grassland, there are many horses, good horses are also heavy, growing up on horseback, the tribes are all soldiers, and the battle is often one person and two horses to maintain horsepower;

However, we have no land to raise horses on a large scale, and raising horses consumes a lot of grain, and one ordinary horse can be worth the rations of two or three sergeants, and if you want to supply these hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, you need to collect grain from the interior and transport it, at least thousands of miles.

Nowadays, most of the canals supply Gyeonggi to the important land, so most of the grain needs to be transported by land, and it is good that one-third of the people on the road can be transported to eat and chew.

If we want to win, we are simply unable to support it without millions of people transporting grain, grass, baggage, and other materials and materials, and the manpower and material resources mobilized in various localities cannot be measured, and this is only the most important condition for victory, and there are also problems in the quality of soldiers and equipment.

The mobilization of so much manpower and material resources not only consumes a lot of money, but also delays farming, leading to a decline in taxes in the coming year.

Since Taizu has been invaded by the north, after Taizu set the world, the world was unable to support the conquest of the north, and then several times the invasion of the north was serious, our dynasty was not well prepared, but had to fight, so the victory was less and the defeat was more, but also because of the large number of troops, resulting in the emptiness of the treasury.

This is why even if you are as wise and martial as Your Majesty, you still can't fill the treasury after several years of cultivation. ”

"Alas, it's so hard. Then why can the northern captives invade at will?" sighed Emperor Hongzhi.

"Because the supplies of the northern captives are all from plundering our dynasty, there is no need to worry about the supply problem, they plundered our border passes, not only to grab enough for the march, but also to grab enough for the winter. After each looting, the imperial court not only had to repair the damage, but also bailed out the people at the border gates and exempted them from taxes.

In the event of a conquest, the levy of the levy is also exempted from taxation as appropriate.

If you win, you need to be rewarded for your deeds. ”

"It's so difficult, can I only endure it, I am not reconciled. "Emperor Hongzhi fierce card imperial case.

"Several emperors were unwilling to go to war, but they failed to completely eliminate the trouble, and our dynasty was greatly damaged by this.

If you want to get rid of the northern captives, you must first govern the country, and then you can be powerful. I hope that Your Majesty will be patient and patient for the long term. With the power of the Central Plains, the northern captives will be eliminated in the future. ”