accurate!

Zhu Di is very unhappy now!

He called out important civil and military officials with great fanfare, hoping that the second brother would give a reasonable suggestion.

Who knew that this rebellious son was abnormal and he commented that he was just useless in his efforts to fight the Northern Expedition.

The Tatars and the Oirats were killed!

After conquering the Oirat again, the Tatars rose again, or there were other nomadic tribes!

That is to say, Zhu Di worked hard to expedition the northern grasslands in exchange for a short-term peace.

But the price paid by the Ming Dynasty was countless money, grain and resources.

By this comparison, Zhu Di seems to be very stupid!

After all, the imperial guards personally led the Northern Expedition, and many important officials in the court disagreed. It was because he, Zhu Di, insisted on creating a peaceful and prosperous era!

But now, the second son Zhu Gaoxu directly refuted that the Northern Expedition was not worth the cost. Where did he put his old face like Zhu Di?

Thinking of this, Zhu Di became even more angry and stared at Zhu Gaoxu with a bad look.

"Second, it is not advisable to fight the Northern Expedition by force. What are your opinions?"

"Can I, the Ming Dynasty, just hiding in the Great Wall, watching Mongolia take the opportunity to rise?"

Everyone heard the anger in the emperor's tone, and they didn't dare to say anything, for fear of being invincible disaster.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care, touched his chin and smiled, "Dad, do you know the class differentiation in the grassland?"

Everyone was stunned and confused on the spot.

Class differentiation?

What does this mean?

"Mongolia can be roughly divided into two parts: aristocrats and civilians according to status. Genghis Khan broke the traditional organizational structure of traditional clan tribes and established a unified system that combines administrative, military and production organizations - the Thousand Household System."

"There are ten thousand households above the thousand households, and there are ten households below them, and the ten households are governed by ten households, thousands of households, hundreds of households, and ten households. Most of the leaders of these households are the leaders of the former tribes and nobles..."

It has to be admitted that Genghis Khan is really a genius of his generation.

He used the Thousand Household System to control the entire grassland at all levels, and no one dared to refuse to follow wherever he went.

Under this thousand-household system, all young and middle-aged men in Mongolia were soldiers, joined the army, and brought their own horses and weapons. They were led by the thousand-household chiefs and the hundred-household chiefs, and they were ordered to go to the expedition at any time.

In addition, he fixed the residents within the designated ten households, hundreds and thousands of households, to ensure the integrity of the thousand household system and the necessary military and tax sources, so that all adult men in Mongolia can "prepare for battle when they get on the horse, and gather to raise them when they get off the horse." This is similar to the garrison system founded by the Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

But the only thing Genghis Khan did wrong was that he personally cultivated a group of the highest ruling group of the royal clan headed by Genghis Khan, namely the "Golden Family", and the feudal lords composed of Nayan nobles at all levels.

Genghis Khan used the Mongolian people who organized thousands of households and Nayan at all levels who were in charge of thousands of households as property and distributed them to his sons, brothers and other members of the royal family.

According to the practice of family property distribution, his sons and brothers distributed the civilians and Nayan at all levels to their relatives or subordinates.

Nayan at all levels is in an absolute subordinate position to the clans of the Khan and the Khan, but to the Mongolian people they are also rulers.

They received rewards from the Khan or his relatives, became lords, and gained hereditary power.

They have the power to allocate pastures, collect taxes, levy corvee, and lead the army in their jurisdiction.

They gradually became the backbone of the Mongolian Empire for the Golden Family.

However, when the Golden Family Declined, these great lords became gravediggers of the Mongol Empire.

For example, Alutai is not a member of the Golden Family, but with the wishful thinking of "using the emperor to command the princes", he supported Ben Yassili, a member of the Golden Family, as the Mongolian Khan, and tried to control the entire grassland through this puppet Khan.

Members of the Golden Family, who were once noble in blood, have now become lord puppets and have even been slaughtered at will. If Genghis Khan had spirits in the sky, his coffin board would probably not be able to be suppressed.

Zhu Di was a little impatient and urged him: "King of Han, what do you want to say?"

"It's very simple. Whether it's Tatars or Oirats, what really wants to fight is what the lords and nobles and the lower-class herders want. If you don't sue for it, you're just survival."

"Whether this battle is won or lost, there is no difference for the lower-class herders. The money and food obtained from the robbery are the spoils of the nobles. They can't even get a single hair when they fight in blood. The more people who lose or die, they are also the lower-class civilians, and their lives will be more difficult."

"However, to put it bluntly, the Mongolian civilians are slaves of the Mongolian nobles. In order to survive, they have to obey the nobles, obey all their orders, and dare not resist at all. Even if the nobles ask them to fight with their lives, they can only execute them."

"In that case, the only real enemies of our Ming Dynasty, are those lords and nobles. Why don't we try to instigate and assimilate these civilians?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was shocked and fell into deep thought.

It is true that Prince Han’s words are not aimless, after all, the facts are there.

The one who wanted to fight was the Mongolian nobles.

The one who really fought hard was the Mongolian civilians.

Even if the war is won, the civilians will not benefit at all. Instead, the nobles make a lot of money.

If you lose, civilians will have a harder life and will have a hard time survival.

Mongolian civilians don’t want to fight at all.

Jin Zhong stroked his snow-white beard and sighed: "Your Highness, you said just now that the Mongolian class is strict, and the awe of the civilians for the nobles has penetrated into their bones. How dare they join our Ming Dynasty..."

"Why don't you dare? As long as there are Mongolian civilians who are willing to surrender to our Ming Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty will start a trade, and even give them land, fertile land, pastures, and you can also send Confucian scholars to set up colleges to educate and improve benevolent politics, so that they can truly feel the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty, and then develop a yearning for the Ming Dynasty... This is assimilation!"

"Mongolian civilians do not want to fight. Winning will not do any good for them. If they lose their families, their lives will become more difficult. If they have a better life, stronger support, and more opportunities to survive, will they still obey those Mongolian nobles?"

"Ming Ming does not need to go deep into the grassland to fight. What is needed is to instigate the rebellion and accept Mongolian civilians, win the support of Mongolian civilians through mutual market and rewards, fix them in the areas near the border, and slowly penetrate and assimilate until they become part of our Ming Dynasty!"

"At that time, even if there are abnormal movements in the grassland, these Mongolian civilians spread outside the Great Wall can become our Ming Dynasty's intelligence network or the first line of defense against the enemy. How can we be afraid of the grassland in this way?"

After a pause, Zhu Gaoxu chuckled and said, "War is not necessarily resolved by force."

"The war of money and food, and the war of resources can also achieve political goals."
Chapter completed!