Wanli Youming

Chapter 378

Chapter 378

Si Yusi.

A row of copper urns filled with ice were laid out between Zhu Yijun and the ruling ministers, and Zhu Yijun himself was holding a goose feather fan and fanning the breeze, while asking Fang Fengshi and Qi Jiguang:

"What kind of border defense strategy did you discuss?"

"Your Majesty Qizuo, according to Zheng Butang's intention, if you want to avoid the invasion of the Hulu, you can cooperate with San Niangzi to mine mines for profit, so as to lock the Hulu!"

"Gain now has a lot of impoverished Hudi people in the border town, especially after the border trade with Gongtong."

Fang Fengshi said first.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Could it be that ordinary Hu people are more exploited by their nobles?"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Fang Fengshi then continued to answer: "After the border trade with Gongtong, although more Hu people's horses and gazelle can be sold into China, these horses and gazelle are also more controlled by the tribes of the Hu people. The number of horses and sheep that the barbarians can exchange privately has been greatly reduced!"

"Because of this, in many cases, the governor of my court had to limit the number of horses sold by the tribes of the Hu people, in order to prevent their nobles from exploiting their herdsmen too much, which would cause an increase in looting cavalry, and even escape into our country. There are refugees in the territory of Ming Dynasty, which just increases the pressure on us to keep the people safe in China!"

Fang Fengshi was the governor of Xuanda before he was transferred to Beijing, so he has always been very clear about the border trade.

At this time, Zhu Yijun also continued: "Therefore, Zheng Luo thought that the imperial court could use the method of mining mines in partnership with the Hulu nobles to turn these increasingly poor ordinary Hu people into settled Hu people with jobs. Furthermore, it is not easy to be instigated by the nobles to invade the border, and it is easy to be monitored because they settle in the mining area, and it also benefits the barbarian nobles, so that they also give up the idea of ​​provoking Huangming for the new ceremony?"

"Is such that."

"According to Zheng Butang's intention, in this way, even if there are still barbarians and nobles who want to make trouble, it will be difficult to entangle large-scale barbarians and bandits. At most, there will be more than a hundred or a thousand cavalry."

"It just so happens that the price of charcoal in the pass is rising every year. It's all due to the hardships of the small people in Dasu since His Majesty came to the throne, so the number of wealthy people has increased greatly. In addition, the weather is getting colder and colder, so the demand for charcoal has not decreased!"

"What's more, the smelting industry in this dynasty has greatly increased, so the demand for coal has also increased greatly, which in turn has caused a large increase in coal."

"The place outside the pass where Hu people live together is a good place to quarry stones, so Zheng Butang intends to stop fighting with the method of making profits."

Fang Fengshi replied.

Coal is coal.

Since Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty, the technology of using screened coal to make iron began to appear.

Therefore, Fang Fengshi mentioned here that the demand for coal increased due to the increase in demand for ironmaking in Daming.

"That's a way."

"It may have a miraculous effect."

"Zheng Luo is regarded as a capable minister, but he can think of such a mutually beneficial and win-win solution."

After Zhu Yijun nodded, he looked at Shen Shixing and other ministers in power and said: "Generally speaking, as long as the people of the country are enriched and the country has no internal worries, external hidden dangers are not a problem, and they can be solved very well. Even It is absolutely possible to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"What Your Majesty said is that treating the benefit of the people as the foundation of governing the country will make the wealth of the world no longer a fixed number. In this way, you can extend the emperor's favor to the barbarians, apply the way of benevolence and righteousness, and achieve the fruit of kingship."

Shen Shixing said with a smile.

Other ministers also followed suit.

After that, Zhu Yijun asked: "Has your Privy Council discussed anything else?"

Then, Qi Jiguang said: "Qizou Your Majesty, and there is also the training of border people!"

"Gein's border residents are mostly military households. Although most of them have become peasants, most of them still have the foundation to defend the border and resist captives. At least there are quite a few who can ride horses. Therefore, the imperial court can completely train them as militiamen and make them half-plow. A half-battle, or an early warning for the battalion.”

"Because most of them have lost their land, they are also poor and poor. It doesn't cost much money to train them. Instead, they can take this opportunity to subsidize the border residents. After all, because the livelihood of the border towns is becoming more and more difficult, even if His Majesty has paid enough for the army since he came to the throne. , but there is still a phenomenon of military households migrating southward, making the border population decrease year by year."

"This is true. The population of border towns has indeed decreased over the years, so much so that the examination to become a border official is no longer strictly tested by the number of border town household registrations."

Zhang Xueyan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, followed up.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this.

He also knows that due to the impact of the climate of the Little Ice River, the reduction in grain production in the north is becoming more and more serious. The migration of northern border residents to the south is not just a matter of whether the officials are clean or not, but a general trend caused by climate factors. The nomadic economy was severely damaged by the climate of the Little Ice River, and a large number of them fled to the interior, or became refugees in Gyeonggi, and even had the opportunity to be recruited as the Ming border army when the Ming Dynasty began to implement the battalion system.

"Then make it up."

"For border residents who participate in training and perform border security tasks, they will be given subsidies during the training and early warning patrol period. If they die in battle, they will also be given pensions."

"Let's discuss and formulate standards for subsidies and pensions."

Zhu Yijun said.

"According to the order!"

At this time, Qi Jiguang said again: "Your Majesty Qizuo, what you mentioned just now is to strengthen the frontier defense. The strategy for the people and the barbarians has not been mentioned for the frontier army. In my opinion, for the frontier army, we need someone who can deal with the frontier army." A general who is good at fighting can take the initiative to suppress individual captive chieftains who still have the ambition to swallow our middle-earth but are unwilling to accept new rituals and Sinicization."

"This time, who will the Privy Council recommend?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Fang Fengshi replied: "The ministers and others recommended Li Rusong, the general who has returned to Beijing. He is a frontier general of the northern army, and he also knows the inside story of the northern militia. He also often contacts Yiding. The ministries of Tarwara are engaged in business, and they have enough eyeliners, so they are more suitable for this task than the generals of the Southern Bingbian."

"Right now, there is no big battle that requires more than [-] troops, so it would be appropriate for him to do it."

Zhu Yijun said.

"What your Majesty said is that Li Rusong had more than enough cunning in Burma, but his overall planning was obviously insufficient, so that Mang Yingli had the opportunity to retreat to the west. He could not have attacked Dagon himself, but instead mobilized tens of thousands of troops from Siam. His command is to go deep into the western part of Dongwu to build a stronghold and cut off his back road. Before he leaves Beijing, I asked him to think about how to plan a long-term plan, but his obvious strategy is still limited to seeking short-term great achievements, and he forgets to be a commander-in-chief to plan a general plan!"

Qi Jiguang said at this time.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Then Qing should talk to him about this matter carefully after he enters Beijing. There are few people born with rough ideas, and he still needs someone to take care of him."

Qi Jiguang clapped his hands and said yes.

……

Li Rusong was already on his way back to Beijing at this time, and had already arrived in the territory of Huguang Yuezhou Prefecture.

In order to complete what Zhu Yijun told him to travel, Li Rusong had to collect wind wherever he went, and then wrote it into the secret music. When he stopped in Yuezhou Fucheng, he wandered around in micro-clothes.

Because of this, Li Rusong was able to see a scene where government soldiers were destroying the infant drowning pagoda by the river outside the city of Yuezhou Prefecture, and then asked a ferryman: "Your place also drowns female infants?"

"Yes, not only drowning women, but also drowning men!"

"No way, we can't feed so many people."

"But it's different now. Whether to be exempted from military service is decided according to the number of children. As a result, instead of drowning, everyone goes around to buy babies to raise! After all, compared with the benefits of exemption from military service, raising a few children is nothing."

After the boatman returned, he smiled and said, "My daughter-in-law has given birth to a daughter now, so I am not willing to throw it away."

After hearing this, Li Rusong wrote a secret note to Zhu Yijun after returning to the post station, saying: "The imperial court has exempted them from military service and corrected the people's customs. It has achieved miraculous results. The number of drowning cases has been greatly reduced. The government of Yuezhou has begun to concentrate on demolishing the towers of drowning babies..."

(End of this chapter)