Zhu Houzhao obviously listened very carefully, he said: "It's so vast outside the Ming Dynasty, but it's a wild place, Ye Aiqing, don't lie to me, the desert is all wasteland, North Korea is bitter cold, and the Japanese country is just a mountainous island, full of miasma in the south, and thousands of miles of yellow sand in the west, do you think I don't know?" ”

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The gains and losses of the territories of the past dynasties, how could a person like Zhu Houzhao, who is full of fighting and killing, not know?

To put it bluntly, the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty have occupied the most fertile land at the moment, and other places, even if they get it, it will only outweigh the losses.

If there is no food in the field, what is the use of it? After spending so much effort and dying so many people, you can't want a barren land.

In fact, the ancients were not fools, expanding their territory, there was no such motivation at all, this is like a rich landowner, but every day in vain to rob a few poor mountains in the mountains next door, the brain is sick, even if you rob it, do not consider that people in the mountains are more biao, a tendon in the brain, you rob him of the land, he may not think about you every day, when you are alone, he will give you a hammer in the back of your head, even if you rob the land, you have to ask someone to rent it, and plant the land all year round, must not be able to support their own tenants, who is willing to do this kind of lack of Dejia's brains?

It makes sense that the big fish of the Ming Dynasty only stare at the small fish and shrimp in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, everyone is not stupid, there are many fish bones outside, and they are all fry and fry, no chewiness.

Ye Chunqiu was very pleased, Zhu Houzhao really understood his theory thoroughly, and he was afraid of playing the piano to the cow.

Ye Chunqiu pursed his lips and said: "Your Majesty is very reasonable, if it is said now, it is just farming, this wild land is naturally unprofitable, but has Your Majesty thought about it?" Before the glass came out, the ore in the mountain was also worthless, if there were no iron tools, those iron ore and stone would be no different, if it wasn't for the need to build a house, how much was the tree in the mountain worth? Your Majesty, it's not that they are worthless, but that the big fish have not yet discovered their value, and what Your Majesty should do is to let the big fish discover this value, so that they can find it profitable. ”

These words gave Zhu Houzhao enough shock.

Yes, in the past, those stones were really worthless, but because of the recent fire of crystal, this stone has become more and more sold, it is said that many people in the slack time, are secretly running to quarry and sell for money, stone can be exchanged for money, wood can also be, everything can be money, of course, the most important thing, the premise is that you can make crystal, but also sell this crystal.

Zhu Houzhao is actually an extremely smart person, and he fell into deep thinking at this time.

Ye Chunqiu didn't speak anymore, and sat on the crippled chicken butt and looked up at the sky.

There are stars in the sky, and it seems that Ye Chunqiu really clarified his path at this time.

The ancients were never stupid, it was precisely because they were not stupid, so they established a tributary system, so they have been stuck in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, at most, for the needs of security, to add a few capitals, this is not because the scholars love peace, this kind of nonsense is particularly deceitful, in fact, you see them to protect their own interests, one by one DIAO has to fly, the reform of the past dynasties, once the scholars move the knife, let them give a little benefit, whether it is the new and old party struggle of the Northern Song Dynasty, to the reform of Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty in history, It's all bloody bayonets, take advantage of me, and kill your whole family.

You see, just for the slightest privilege, they can tear you apart, fight with you, and move with you in earnest, the class that really loves peace, and even their own people can see the red with bayonets, and the class that can kill can fly, will suddenly love you, a group of barbarians, and can't bear to invade you.

Are you so kidding me, do you really think that this group of elites in the Celestial Empire system are stupid?

They choose to maintain the system and choose to love peace for only one reason, and that is to be unprofitable! You are only poor people nesting in the mountains, miasma, weeds, and deserts, uncle, I don't even bother to rob you, and you deserve to let Uncle Ben compete with you for profit? You don't look in the mirror, oh, you're so poor that you don't even have a bronze mirror, don't take a look, obediently come to Daming to pay tribute, put gold on the master's face, uncle, I will send you a few ingots of silver, and then go back from where.

This is the truth of the facts, there is no so-called peace-loving, and there is no benevolence in all directions, and any lofty theory is essentially evolved according to the actual situation.

Zhu Houzhao sat quietly, hugged his knees, and slowly began to think.

Because of this, you only need to guard your own one-third of an acre of land, so the imperial court doesn't need any elite soldiers at all, these martial artists are really an eyesore, you just need to guard the pass, since you are useless, of course you have to belittle you, of course you have to weaken you, is it that the world is peaceful, the country does not need to forge ahead, and you have to be raised to be fierce and fierce?

The encroachment and annexation of internal land does not need to rely on the army, but only on its own privileges. To deal with the chaotic people, even those scum-like military households, it is enough to be useful.

So in essence, although Zhu Houzhao's goal is there, no matter what he does, there are countless people who are passively pulling him, he wants to strengthen the army, the cabinet opposes it, the six ministries oppose it, and the scholars in the world are opposed, he wants to adopt a more active national policy towards the Hu people, and everyone also swarms to pull him and reprimand him fiercely, don't mess around.

Is this nonsense? To a certain extent, yes, because the imperial court doesn't need to exterminate Hu at all, what the imperial court wants is to prevent Hu, you spend the world's money and food, recruit dozens of millions of troops, go out of the customs in a mighty way, and kill the Tatars so that you don't even know the, but what's the use, do you let the Han people migrate to raise horses? In the end, you still have to retreat to the Guannai after all, and then, the Tatars are gone, there will be the rise of the Warats, there will be no Warats, there will be the Huns, there will be Xianbei people, there will be Turks, there will be Khitans, in essence, when you can not make effective use of the desert, can not operate for a long time, then you certainly follow the example of the Han Wu, with a full treasury in exchange for the submission of the Huns, but in the end, in a few years, in this desert land, there will be a new strong neighbor.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the starry sky from afar, and he suddenly let out a long breath: "I understand." ”

He understood.

Then he stood up and looked at Ye Chunqiu with a smile.

"I don't know how to drive the big fish out to sea, but ...... I can trust Aiqing, and in this matter, there is Lao Aiqing. (To be continued.) )