Yan Keng immediately waved his hand when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, it is difficult for the Tatar and Warat tribes to be annihilated by relying on horses, and once our army penetrates deep into the desert, I am afraid it will be difficult to continue." His head shook like a rattle:

"It's too risky."

Zhu Di also knew this, and he muttered:

"I want to emulate Han Wu and drive out the northern captives, so that the border of the Ming Dynasty can be safe, and there is no need to spend so much military money on it. Mo Lin, you see, if I ordered General Lan to command my elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, follow the example of Wei Huo in the past, sweep the grassland, and completely annihilate the remnants of the Yuan, how about it? ”

However, he has been dealing with his brothers in the north for decades, and he is troubled by this endless stream of border troubles, and he is tired of the endless news of his entry into the army. Yongle is a far-sighted emperor, and he can already see that dozens of hundreds of years later, the north has become the confidant of the Ming Dynasty.

He wanted to do it once and for all.

There was a cruel glint in those eyes.

Yan Keng immediately replied:

"If Your Majesty gathers my Ming elite, there are generals like General Lan who can conquer and fight in battle, and there are cavalry such as Shunyi and Duoyan who are good at desert expeditions, and then I have the help of the whole country to conquer the grassland, the probability of success is naturally not low."

"But even if you sweep away the remnants, it will be difficult for you to truly rule the Northlands."

"I, the Han people, take farming as the main thing, no one is willing to go north to graze horses, the north is wide, even if we open up wasteland and build cities, without hundreds of years of operation, we don't want to turn the entire grassland into a cultivated land."

"What's more, there are many wind-blown sandy places in the desert, and they are not suitable for farming."

"In the past, Dou Xian Yanran took stone, and the Huns fled westward, but then?"

"In the vast grassland, without a master, there will be new people to replace them immediately."

"The Xiongnu and Xianbei of the Han Dynasty, the Turks of the Tang Dynasty, and then the Mongols of the Song Dynasty...... You see, the grassland, there has never been a shortage of masters, even if you completely annihilate or drive out the remnant forces, the minister dares to assert that it will only take more than ten years to have a new tribe relying on the grassland to become strong. ”

"It's a palliative, not a cure."

"It should still be based on the combination of suppression and appeasement, this is the long-term way."

Zhu Di touched his chin, his eyes shone brightly, he nodded while listening, and then he said:

"Since that's the case, how about following the example of Tang Shi's Detention Prefecture?"

"It's also a way to detain the prefecture." Yan Keng nodded, the Tang Dynasty, a feudal prefecture, effectively ruled the grassland for a period of time, but there were also drawbacks.

The feudal prefecture is essentially not much different from the feudal system of the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang rulers were still influenced by Confucianism, and did not completely deprive these prefectures and prefectures of all power, their taxes did not need to be paid, the position of governor could be hereditary, and the governors of the prefectures even held military power in these places.

When Datang was prosperous, there was naturally no problem.

However, in the past forty-nine years, the Tang Dynasty weakened slightly, and a rebellion broke out in the Dadu Protectorate alone, and the 24 prefectures of the Guardian Prefecture responded in droves, and within five months the number of people reached hundreds of thousands, and the Turkic Khanate was established, once again becoming the great enemy of the northern Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty was as if they had been given time and space for indecent development.

So, this time, all the steppe tribes who surrendered must make a change!

"I have some suggestions." Yan Keng said without changing his face:

"Tang Dynasty's Bondage Prefecture, you have also seen, the effect is not very good, once the Central Plains declines, it will be a big disaster, you can use it, but you can't imitate the ancients."

"The tribes within the state of the prefecture must pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty, and the supreme governor can be the tribal leader, but the subordinates must have a certain number of Han officials."

"Military power must not be given to them, it must be in the hands of Han officials."

"They have to set up a household registration like the Hermes-Epitek and hand it over to the government."

"They also come to the pilgrimage regularly."

"You don't want to give them a lot of rewards like Han and Tang, the so-called face of the Heavenly Empire is just like that...... On the contrary, you want to make good use of these naturalized troops. Yan Keng lowered his voice again and smiled sinisterly.

"You mean, if there is a war, they will be ordered to send soldiers to assist in the battle?" Zhu Di squinted his eyes, and his half-opened eyelids also flashed with a treacherous light.

"Yes!" Yan Keng slapped his palms: "Constantly draw troops, consume their elite, and make the troops unable to rebel...... However, we must also pay attention to proportion, and do not mobilize too many fetter troops, otherwise the people of all departments will complain, and the grassland will be unstable. ”

"When we are working together, we can also constantly understand and learn their tactics, and even use them for our own use or create ways to counteract, and use the high-ranking officials who are rewarded for their military achievements to infiltrate their troops and drive a wedge between them. In this way, even if they end up with a different heart, what is there to fear? ”

"Good!" Hearing this, Zhu Di slapped the armrest of the chair heavily and stood up:

"This is a good way, in this way, the Ming frontier will be peaceful for at least a few decades!"

"As you say, start with these attached tribes!"

He didn't say that it was always peaceful, Zhu Di was still more rational than Zhu Yuanzhang at this point, he knew that there was no way to pass unimpeded for a hundred years.

Chaos is inevitable, but as long as this period can be extended, it is enough.

Actually, Yan Keng has a better way. When Yan Ling was chatting, he once mentioned to them the way to cure the northern border troubles.

As long as the integration and identification of the nation is not completed, and they are not truly regarded as subjects of the Ming Dynasty, then the border troubles in the north will not be eliminated for a day. The so-called combination of grace and power is just an expedient measure.

However, the Ming Dynasty is now very strong, if the border troubles in the north are completely removed, it will be impossible for thousands of generations, but after crossing the hurdle of three hundred years, there is great hope, what good is this for them?

Anyway, this method can also make the grassland tribes quiet for at least a few decades, so that it will not be like the original, as soon as the Yongle Five Expeditions to Mobei end, and in the early years of Xuande, there will be trouble in the north again.

And in the original time and space, although the five expeditions to Mobei were vast, and the results were not small, but Mongolia was not hurt to the foundation, at this time this method was proposed, and they were strange, so the Ming Dynasty was forced to use the method of sealing the king and dividing.

Now that there is Blue Jade, it is not a dream to sweep the grassland.

So Zhu Di sent an edict to the north, telling the decisions of the tribal courts that had returned to him.

At the same time, he also sent a letter to Lan Yu, who was still in the grassland, explaining the strategic concept of the central government.

The foundation of all this is still based on the fact that the Ming Dynasty can beat the northern tribes and tell them who is the king of the world, so that they can execute, otherwise even the dozen or so small tribes that are now attached may not be willing to do so.

Therefore, at the end of this letter, Zhu Di left this sentence:

"Don't make Yan Ran up, but leave Han Jianggong!"

Thanks for the tip of "Eggplant Tomato Potato", thanks!

(End of chapter)