Chapter 138 Bei Yuan is a good Bei Yuan who wants to die! (Third update)
Quiet everywhere.
Xia Zhibai’s words surprised everyone.
He did not just speak for one side, but proposed a two-way standard.
The imperial court must do what the imperial court should do, and these ‘soldiers’ who came from military families must also do what soldiers should do.
But for now.
Neither the imperial court nor the military household did it.
Zhang Yu, who had finished receiving the military stick, was helped to the surrounding area.
Listening to Xia Zhibai's words, Zhang Yu had a deeper understanding of Xia Zhibai. Now he finally understood that on the street ahead, Xia Zhibai was not taking the opportunity to make things difficult, but really. I really think that their military discipline is corrupt.
Xia Zhibai had high requirements for Ming Dynasty's military discipline.
The requirements for generals are higher.
Zhang Yu now finally knows why Yuan Ting was defeated again and again.
Even defeated and defeated.
It is because there are people like Xia Zhibai in the Ming Dynasty.
Xia Zhibai said in a deep voice: "In the eighteen years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has carried out three Northern Expeditions, with victories and defeats. Generally speaking, the situation of the Ming Dynasty is relatively positive, but With the peace of the world, the combat effectiveness of Ming's army is constantly weakening."
"Of course there are reasons for this because of the soldiers."
"But the more problem lies with the imperial court. Some officials and generals of the imperial court have been out of touch with reality for too long."
"It is also out of touch with the people. Too long."
"In their eyes, the casualties are just a series of numbers."
"As long as the goal is achieved, it is worth it."
"But soldiers are human beings, not animals. You are all flesh and blood, with emotions. People are afraid of death. You are afraid, and I, Xia Zhibai, am afraid too."
"But some officials in the imperial court are not afraid. , because they were not the ones who were leading the charge, and the war had nothing to do with them. They were sitting hundreds of miles away from the battlefield, pointing fingers at the war, complaining about how much military supplies were spent, and how much more money the court allocated to the military. ."
"They all think that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are made of steel."
"They are not afraid of pain, injury, or death."
"But you are not. ”
"It's just that no one cares."
"Even the generals of the Ming Dynasty don't care."
"And this is my biggest puzzle. The generals in the army get along with you day and night, They should know your actual situation best, but the fact is that they know very little about your actual situation. They only have so-called "deeds on the battlefield" and only their own "grand ambitions"."
< br>“This proves that there is something wrong with the military system of the Ming Dynasty.”
“As soon as many people have achieved military merit and have been promoted to official positions in the army, they immediately forget their previous appearance and immediately turn over. How can such an army be regarded as elite when it starts to dominate? br>
"But this is not what the Ming army should be like."
"The Ming Dynasty is a little worse here, a little worse there, and it won't take long before the Ming Dynasty is completely ruined."
"Could it be that At that time, we still expected the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to go to war with a pile of scraps of copper and iron? Or did we try to win with that pile of rubbish? "
"I can tell you one thing clearly."< br>
“The Northern Expedition will not stop!”
"And the intervals between the Northern Expedition will become shorter and shorter."
"Because not only I have noticed this phenomenon, but His Majesty has also noticed it. The more aware of this situation, the more urgent His Majesty is now, and he only thinks about it. To accomplish this in one battle, while the Ming army still has enough combat power, the Northern Yuan will be completely wiped out."
"Let the world have long-lasting peace."
"I am a man of letters. , I have read a lot more books than you."
"I can tell you clearly that this kind of peace will not last long."
"In history, the Han Dynasty made several Northern Expeditions and the Sui and Tang Dynasties had many expeditions. The results were indeed very good, but it would not take many years for the nomadic tribes in the north to recover. Even if they were as powerful as the Han and Tang Dynasties and completely destroyed the nomadic tribes in the north, Even if they are defeated, they will come back soon."
"Because the Central Plains is too rich."
"There are too many gold, silver, and too many jewels. , too many treasures.”
“Everyone will be jealous and covet you.”
“Dignity is only within the range of the cannon.”
"If you fall behind, you will be beaten."
"When you are not strong enough, you are destined to be bullied by others. In fact, you understand this truth better than anyone else. This is true among the people, and it is the same in the world. So."
"If you don't want to be bullied, you must be strong enough."
"So strong that others don't dare to think wrongly." To a certain extent.”
"I don't want the world to go to war."
"But if we really have to go to war, my idea is very pure."
"It is to conquer the north once and for all and completely interrupt the nomadic ambitions. , so that the nomads who could have made a comeback will not dare to think of going south again, so that they can only sing and dance in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and will not dare to think of using swords or force. "
" Even."
"The Ming Dynasty should regain the old Yuan homeland"
"Completely annex the entire north."
"Realize the unity of the world."
Hearing Xia Zhibai's words, not only the soldiers below, but also Zhu Di, Zhang Yu and others, All their eyelids twitched. This ambition and idea were wilder than they thought. They dared to think about it. They only dared to think about defeating Beiyuan, or even wiping out the Beiyuan regime, and then fighting for dozens of people in the north. Years, even hundreds of years of stability.
But Xia Zhibai is not.
What he wants is 'once and for all'.
Since the north has always been a hidden danger to the Central Plains from ancient times to the present, then we should simply and ruthlessly annex the entire north.
In that way, there will be no other situation.
It’s just that this idea is too whimsical.
It’s simply unrealistic.
The grassland is huge.
It's so big that it's easy to get lost if a large army enters.
How can the nomads on the grassland be willing to rule for the Ming Dynasty?
They only need to head further north or west to escape, and the court will be beyond reach.
And the north is no different than the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture. There is more grazing than farming. That also means that these are a group of people who live in pursuit of water and grass and have no fixed place. Such a tribe , how can the imperial court manage it?
The price is too high, the cost is too high.
Xia Zhibai looked calm.
He knows how crazy and unrealistic his words are in contemporary times.
But he also knew that it could all be done.
Xia Zhibai looked indifferently at the commotion of the soldiers below, and said calmly: "You think it's impossible?" Someone among the soldiers spoke.
"Impossible."
"The north is too big to occupy."
"There are only a few cities, one place per day, how can we manage this?"
< br>"Impossible."
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Xia Zhibai nodded with a smile and said: "I think it is possible, and it can be very promising. In my opinion, the imperial court's current offensive against Bei Yuan is wrong to a certain extent. The death of Bei Yuan is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty. , the desperate Beiyuan is the Beiyuan that Ming wants."
"Of course this is just a different strategic perspective."
"From the perspective of many officials in the court, A dead Bei Yuan is a good Bei Yuan.”
“Because without the Bei Yuan regime, the nomads in the north would be a mess, and they would not pose much of a threat to the Ming Dynasty. Even if they could pose a threat, they would not. The threat posed by the Northern Yuan Dynasty is far smaller than that of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, so the imperial court has been committed to this in the past few years. "
"I have a different view on this."
"I don't want Bei Yuan to be destroyed, not because I care about Bei Yuan."
"But in my opinion, it is in the Ming Dynasty's current interests that Bei Yuan must die."
< br>"There are many people in the court who have read history books and are well aware of the treatment of nomadic peoples by previous dynasties. They all agree that it is best for the Ming Dynasty to completely defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty, or even break it up. However, many people They only focus on the benefits of defeat, but ignore the other aspect."
"It is the existence of the Northern Yuan Khanate that suppresses other forces within the Northern Yuan."
" There are many tribes in the Yuan Dynasty. It is now relying on this "Khan position" that they can control the area north of the Great Wall, Jurchen in the east, Hami in the west, and the Yuledus River Basin west of Hami, and Ye Ye in the north. In the vast area of the Nisei River, the existence of Beiyuan actually caused great internal friction for the grassland, because the monarch of Beiyuan did not want other tribes under him to be too powerful, and would definitely suppress them secretly."
"As long as the Beiyuan regime continues, this suppression will continue."
"If there is no Beiyuan regime."
"Many nomads will completely lose their restraint and lose their strength. Great improvement, because in the past they had to fight against other Beiyuan tribes on their own, but after the Beiyuan regime was eliminated, the resistance they had to face was greatly reduced. In this case, many brave and capable nomads The tribe will gradually become stronger, thus further threatening the stability of the Ming Dynasty's borders."
"This is the first one"
"The second one."
"The Northern Yuan regime fled back from the Central Plains."
"They have long been accustomed to the life of fine clothing and fine food in the Central Plains."
"Let them resume living by water and grass, there will be many of them People are not used to it.”
“And after nearly a hundred years, many nomadic tribes have become more and more ‘farming’, especially the Jurchens and Manchurians in the northeast, and those close to the Great Wall. , Beiyuan is still collecting agricultural taxes as it was in the Central Plains. As long as the Beiyuan regime exists, many nomadic peoples, no matter how unwilling or dissatisfied they are, will still be forced to do "half fishing, hunting and half farming". "
"If the Beiyuan regime is gone."
"Farming will be completely abandoned, and nomadic tribes will be completely transformed into fishing and hunting."
"This kind of completely nomadic tribe is the real troublesome existence for the Ming Dynasty."
"The apparent threat from Beiyuan is something that Ming can predict, but the threat after the disappearance of Beiyuan regime is something that Ming cannot predict. Therefore, in comparison, let Beiyuan regime exist, but it must die. It would be more beneficial to the Ming Dynasty if he didn't live."
"Even"
"When the Northern Yuan monarch couldn't suppress his subordinates, the imperial court should take action to suppress the Yuan monarch."< br>
"The longer Beiyuan exists, the longer it suppresses other forces below, and the longer it leaves Ming to strengthen its own strength."
"Of course, all this is only temporary."
"With the continuous improvement of the Ming Dynasty's military strength and the continuous wooing of Bei Yuan's internal forces, it will finally achieve the complete annexation of Bei Yuan and bring the entire north into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the tribes that are hostile to the Ming Dynasty will be cleared out one by one. "
"Decades of peace are not what the Ming Dynasty should pursue."
"The complete stability of northern Xinjiang is what the Ming Dynasty and even the generals of the army should pursue."< br>
"One battle will determine the northern border!"
Listening to Xia Zhibai's heroic words, Zhu Di was completely stunned.
My mind is completely blank.
He had no idea how Xia Zhibai could think of this, because at first he thought it was nonsense, but when he heard it again, he felt it made sense, but he couldn't tell what the truth was. It feels like this is indeed the case.
Decades of peace and complete peace.
'Keep' Bei Yuan, let the Bei Yuan regime suppress internal nomadism, and at the same time let Bei Yuan maintain traces of 'farming'. This will be conducive to Ming Dynasty's future annexation and rule of the north. If Bei Yuan is really eliminated, There will be no restrictions on internal nomadism, and 'farming' will be completely abandoned.
Barbarism and civilization.
No matter how bad the Northern Yuan Dynasty is, there are still shadows of the Central Plains.
But other nomads don’t.
Compared to facing a group of barbaric nomadic tribes, Beiyuan, who is now clearly well-behaved, is more suitable for Ming Dynasty to deal with.
Think of this.
Zhu Di's mind was confused.
Yao Guangxiao, Zhang Yu and others also had scalp numbness.
The eyes looking at Xia Zhibai were full of fear and solemnity.
They have gradually figured it out.
Xia Zhibai just wanted to 'raise' Bei Yuan, just like raising his own 'chickens', relying on the 'chickens' to clean up the bugs in the backyard, and when they were almost done, he would kill Bei Yuan. To feed itself.
Yao Guangxiao and Zhang Yu looked at each other, their eyes looking a little deep.
Zhang Yu had served in the Yuan Dynasty and knew the internal situation of the Yuan Dynasty. It is true that the various forces are constantly fighting and stumbling against each other. Because of this, Bei Yuan clearly occupies a vast land and has There is a large population, but they can never get together.
Da Ming really does what Xia Zhibai said and has great potential.
The interior of Beiyuan is very decadent.
If the Ming Dynasty hadn't clamored for the Northern Expedition from time to time, Beiyuan itself would have started fighting within itself.
Once there are no external threats, the power struggle within Bei Yuan will undoubtedly develop in a more cruel direction, but the outcome is also unpredictable. If one party can really unite the entire Bei Yuan, what will happen to the Ming Dynasty? It is very unfavorable, but if the two sides can always be in a stalemate, that is what Daming would like to see.
To make iron, you need to be hard yourself.
Xia Zhibai's plans will eventually be realized by one point.
Even Ming Dynasty will continue to become stronger.
And much stronger than Bei Yuan.
Otherwise
This is letting the tiger return to the mountain.
However, Zhang Yu has to admit that if this strategy can really succeed, it will be of great benefit to the entire world. Northern Xinjiang will also have long-term stability, and the buffer zone of Northern Xinjiang will also be established from outside the Great Wall. Expand hundreds of miles.
Yao Guangxiao stroked his beard, his mood also difficult to calm down.
He secretly calculated in his mind and just calculated it over and over again.
He didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit that this crazy idea was indeed possible.
“Madman.”
“A complete madman.”
Yao Guangxiao couldn’t help but curse a few words in his heart.
(End of this chapter)