Zhu Mai, Hao Guangming, and the Minister of Military Affairs and Pavilion officials had many discussions on the ruling policy of Mongolia in southern deserts.

The first thing the ministers considered was the Ming Dynasty's policy of ruling Mongolia.

In the impression of later generations, the Ming Dynasty seemed to be guarding the side walls and was passively defending the northern nomadic peoples going south.

But in fact, during the Hongwu and Yongle periods, the Ming Dynasty ruled the Mongolian Plateau, especially during the Yongle period.

In the 25th year of Hongwu, the Ming army arrived at the Onon River (now the Onon River). In the fourth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty established the Onon River Guard in the Onon River Basin to manage the Mongolian and other nomadic peoples in this area.

Where is the Onan River Guard?

To the east is the Greater Xing'an Mountains, near which is the famous Baikal Lake. It is surrounded by grasslands with abundant water and grass. It can be said to be the birthplace of the Mongolian people.

In 1206, Genghis Khan ascended the throne of the Great Khan in the Onan River area, so he was regarded as a holy place by the Mongols.

In the early Ming Dynasty, garrisons were set up here, not to mention the areas further south.

On some maps in later generations, it was even believed that the entire Siberia during this period belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty's rule over grassland nations such as Mongolia did not make much progress compared to previous feudal dynasties.

The main purpose is to make all tribes surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and their leaders accept the enthronement of the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty needs it, they can recruit troops from their tribes to assist in military operations.

The reason for this is that it is limited by communication methods, transportation conditions, and governance costs.

Let these grassland nobles continue to act as feudal lords and carry out a considerable degree of autonomy. In addition to accepting their tribute, the Ming Dynasty only obtained a certain amount of troops from its tribe, which became the most suitable governance method at that time.

However, this governance method must be strong enough to maintain absolute military suppression of the nomadic peoples.

Once the central dynasty declines and the military strength declines, these nomadic peoples will easily break away from control and even rebel, and will in turn go south to invade.

The experience of the Ming Dynasty one or two hundred years since the Xuande Dynasty shows this fact very well.

Therefore, the ministers thought for a little while and gave up the idea of ​​restoring the policy of governing Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty.

Immediately, Zhu Mai and his ministers considered the Qing Dynasty's rule over Mongolia in the south of the desert.

Since the sixth year of Tianming, Nurhaci swept across Liaodong, and the influence of the Later Jin spread to the Mongolian grasslands. However, the Later Jin was not strong at that time, and basically influenced the Mongolian tribes in Liaodong through marriage and alliance.

It was not until Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne that he began to conquer the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert. Since 1628 (the second year of Tiancong), Huang Taiji has been invading the Dorot tribe under Chahar for more than twenty years.

Even after Huang Taiji established the alliance flag system in Monan, it has been more than ten years.

Although the ruling effect of the alliance flag system on grassland nations has not been fully revealed, it has also begun to show clues.

The Qing Dynasty's alliance flag system not only enhanced the central dynasty's control over nomadic peoples, but also limited the nomadic areas of each flag and restricted their nomadic, farming and social production activities.

In conjunction with the later promotion of the Yellow Sect on the grassland, the students who join the school do not pay taxes, it can be said that the social order on the grassland has become much more stable than before.

However, this has greatly reduced the vitality of nomadic peoples and the growth rate of population, and overall hindered the development and progress of nomadic peoples.

If the Ming Dynasty was an ordinary feudal dynasty, it would be more secure to learn from the Qing Dynasty to govern Mongolia in the south of the desert and even all the nomadic peoples.

However, the Ming Dynasty today is not an ordinary feudal dynasty.

Zhu Meiyu's supernatural powers from both worlds made the Ming Dynasty enter the industrial age with great strides.

In this era, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty will completely exceed the boundaries that nomadic peoples can fight against, and the national strength will be greatly improved, which will lead to an absolute suppression of the nomadic peoples.

At this time, what needs to be considered is not how to prevent the nomadic people from developing and growing, and then going south to invade, but how to make full use of the human resources of the nomadic people and use the resources of the grassland.

As long as the development continues, the grasslands and nomadic peoples will inevitably become more and more tied to the Ming Dynasty, until they can no longer break free and completely integrate into the China family.

Therefore, Zhu Niu and Hao Guangming both clearly realized that after collecting Mongolia in southern desert, the Ming Dynasty not only could not learn from the Qing Dynasty to weaken the nomadic peoples, but instead tried to increase their population and improve the living standards of the grassland people to liberate the productivity of the grassland

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The truth behind this is quite difficult for people in the feudal era.

Fortunately, the Minister of Military Affairs and Pavilion officials have been influenced by many concepts in later generations for several years. After Zhu Mai explained the truth clearly, the ministers quickly accepted it.

After all, there are specific examples in front of you.

Such as the wool light industry.

In northern border provinces such as northern Zhili, western Liaoning, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu, wool mills are now blooming everywhere, but they have also become an important source of taxation for border counties.

The wool textile industrial products it produces are not only popular introspection and in the south, but also sold overseas.

At the same time, the large amount of cattle and sheep on the grassland was imported into introspection, which also caused the introspection of beef and mutton to be significantly reduced. Many ordinary people can eat beef during festivals and festivals.

Therefore, although the local governments of Yunzhong and Ningsui provinces have not been established yet, Zhu Mai is already discussing with the ministers how to develop the people's livelihood and economy in the south of the desert in the future.

The Ming Dynasty's policies were a great thing for the vast majority of grassland people, but for the vested interests in the old order and those Mongolian nobles, they were undoubtedly unfriendly.

Look, Zhu Ma was having a meeting, and Zheng Sen came to the main hall with a telegram.

As a secretary, if there were no major matters that needed to be reported urgently, he would not have disturbed Zhu Mo and the ministers during a meeting.

So Zhu Mai saw him and stopped the previous topic and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zheng Sen handed the telegram to Liu Zhu, and then bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the hundreds of households in the Fushishi District, Jinyiwei, North Town, Liaoxi, sent an urgent report, saying that the leaders and nobles of the tribes of Korqin, the Fourth Sect, Maoming'an and other tribes have been spreading widely recently.

Rumors that are not conducive to our Ming Dynasty seem to lead the tribe to the north of the desert."

When Zhu Mai looked at the telegram from Liu Zhu, she couldn't help but frown slightly.

The territory occupied by the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert is actually a hook shape curved toward the northeast on the map, and the grassland in the northeast is the largest.

Therefore, the population of Korqin, Sizibu, Wengniute, Maomingan and other tribes are relatively small and have not weak strength now.

The tribes split from Ordos, Tumot, and Chahar, and the inner Khalkha tribes were bordered by Shaanxi, Shaanxi and Northern Zhili. After the Northern Expedition, that is, the second year of Zhaowu, they began to be affected.

The influence of the Ming Dynasty's new policies has made the Ming Dynasty have a certain degree of trust.

This made the Jinyiweibei Town Fushi much easier to carry out the work of these tribes.

However, the tribes such as Korqin in the northeast began to be deeply influenced by the Ming Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty recovered western Liaodong in the third year of Zhaowu.

Now, only more than two years have passed, the Jinyiwei has not penetrated these tribes enough, and the herdsmen of these tribes also lack understanding of the Ming Dynasty today.

As for trust, there is no question at all.

Now, the Jinyiwei not only did not show any effect on the propaganda of the Ming Dynasty's new policy on the southern Mongolian desert, but the herdsmen were deceived by the leaders and nobles first.

However, Zhu Mei was not surprised. After all, these leaders and nobles were equivalent to the introspective gentry and elders of the Ming Dynasty. Years of rule made the herdsmen habitually trust them, which could not be changed for a while.

After putting down the telegram, Zhu Ma sighed: "I originally wanted to collect Mo Nan without bloodshed, but now it seems that I have to use force."
Chapter completed!