Chapter 277 Trouble after the war (12) I thought it was okay
Good guy, he drove the tiger to devour the wolf again, and Gao Pragmatic really used this trick to perfection. During the Battle of Monan, he drove the tiger to devour the wolf and defeated Chahar with Tumut. This Western Region plan actually happened again.
Once the tiger is driven away and the wolf is swallowed up, even this time it is not just about driving the tiger away and swallowing the wolf, but actually it is also about driving the tiger away from the mountain.
It seems that the Ordos Division is in bad luck. Not only did they contribute a lot of people, but they also have to change their positions after winning the battle. I just don’t know if the Ordos Division will be so miserable that they will be homeless directly if they fail to win.
But after thinking about it, Zhu Yijun felt that Gao pragmatism should not be so harsh. In essence, Gao pragmatism is not a very harsh person, and he is generally not used to forcing people into desperation.
Zhu Yijun believed that Gao Pragmatic's approach was to kill two birds with one stone. He would not only regain the Hetao in the most relaxed manner, but also use the Ordos Ministry to contribute to the future development of the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions. He might even have the Ordos Ministry to act as a caretaker for the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions.
bodyguard.
Not letting go of any oil or water is really the way to do business and become the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.
As for whether the Ordos Ministry will be unconvinced, Zhu Yijun is not worried. Gao Pragmatic has always been the best at using profit-driven people to work for him. He will definitely give the Ordos Ministry a big cake when the time comes, and this cake must be the kind of Mongolian.
The type that you would think you have a good chance of winning after seeing it. In this kind of matter, Zhu Yijun completely trusts Gao's pragmatic methods.
Thinking of this, the emperor couldn't hide the smile on his face. He laughed and said: "I am so pragmatic that I feel like I have won a million soldiers."
The elders in the pavilion had different moods, but they all congratulated each other like a spring breeze. The emperor accepted the congratulations with a smile, and then said: "Okay, now the post-war arrangements have been roughly finalized, let's talk about it later.
Let’s talk about returning to Beijing pragmatically. Mr. Shen, what do you think now?”
To be honest, Shen Shixing really didn't want to answer this question first, because he really didn't have much confidence in military affairs issues, and this question happened to involve the post-war military layout.
Shen Shixing had no choice but to ponder and delay for a while to see if he could organize his words and say a few words that would be correct, but no one else could figure out what he meant. However, surprisingly,
He only took a few deep breaths when someone came out to help him.
The person who came to his rescue was Liang Menglong. The elder in charge of the work of the Ministry of War said: "It seems that Yuan Fu may want to consider it comprehensively from multiple angles. In this case, how about Menglong come and talk about it first?"
What are some military ideas for Yuan Fu to refer to?"
Shen Shixing was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "If Mr. Mingquan is interested, then Mr. Lao Mingquan will give you some advice first."
"I don't dare, I don't dare. We are all working for the emperor. Yuan Fu made a strong statement." Liang Menglong received the permission from the chief assistant and gestured to everyone present: "Your Majesty, Yuan Fu, colleagues, according to the plan just now, after the war we
The Ming Dynasty will directly control the old land of the former Chahar tribe, while Mobei Outer Khalkha will be handed over to Tumut, and Alukorqin in Hulunbuir will be handed over to Nenhorqin.
Under such a general situation, a situation was actually formed with me as the core, Tumut and Horqin as the left and right wings. Correspondingly, Tumut's strength is far better than Horqin, let alone Tumut's strength against Horqin.
The Ordos tribe also has a great influence. Therefore, although my left and right wings are both vassals, the left wing is strong and the right wing is weak. This point needs special attention.
It stands to reason that Tumut has surrendered for a long time. Whether it is the current king of Shunyi, Bhannaji, or his son, the former military governor, Qianshi Erdemutu, they are all loyal people who have devoted themselves to guarding the border and fighting for the court.
It is unlikely that he will betray the imperial court. However, the formulation of major national policies cannot be solely based on his personal loyalty, so our officers and soldiers should also focus on their defense."
Shen Shixing admired his analysis quite a lot and said with approval: "Well, Mingquan Gong's words are correct. The country's political affairs should indeed deal with the situation and not the people. In this case, Mingquan Gong's idea must be that the soldiers are in the west.
Are the soldiers in the east?"
Liang Menglong said: "It's roughly like this, but it's not complete. In Menglong's humble opinion, if our army is ten percent, then three points should be in the middle, that is Daning; three points should be in the east, that is Chahanhot; four points should be in the east, that is Chahanhot;
If it is divided in the west, it is necessary to choose another city to the west of Daning to station it."
When he said this, Shen Shixing frowned. Although Liang Menglong actually helped him just now, it was too rude to say some words that were inconvenient, but he still couldn't help but hesitate and said: "I'm afraid there is no suitable city in the fortress. If
If so, wouldn’t the imperial court still have to spend a huge sum of money to build a new city?”
After all, Shen Shixing is the chief assistant. Although he is not very knowledgeable in military matters, he still needs to pay attention to spending money - even if he really needs to spend money, it should be a pragmatic headache.
But this is not over yet. Xu Guo, the second auxiliary, also had some doubts about this and asked: "Just now, Duke Mingquan said that the garrison should be focused, but apart from the core of Daning, four divisions of troops are stationed in the west and three divisions are stationed in the east. There is a gap between them.
It’s too small, how can it be called focused?”
The cabinet ministers were still discussing. As the emperor, Zhu Yijun would not interfere at will at this time, but he also felt that the two questions of Shen Shixing and Xu Guo made some sense, so he immediately looked towards Liang Menglong to see how he would answer.
Liang Menglong was very calm after hearing this. He smiled and said to Shen Shixing: "Yuanfu, fortification and fortification are actually not that difficult. What Yuan Dynasty can do well, how can we, Ming Dynasty, not do it well? What's more, this time
Building a city is different from building a new city in Daning. There is no need to worry about defense issues, and the cost will be much less than building a new city in Daning. Although Menglong is not a scheming prime minister, Duke Huanzhou is here now. You can confirm it with Duke Huanzhou."
Wu Dui met several scorching glances and said calmly: "That's right, the cost should not be more than half of the newly built Daning City."
Shen Shixing muttered: "Daning City spent 700,000 taels..."
This time he started to stand up, but Wu Dui interrupted him rudely and said: "Yuan Fu's calculation is wrong. The cost of repairing Daning City itself is less than 200,000 yuan. Not only did it cost about
Three years, and including the Wengcheng, the inner city, the government office, and the military camp, if divided into each year, the cost would only be 70,000 taels.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for the so-called 700,000 taels, the remaining 500,000 taels are mostly spent on mobilizing troops and enriching the people in the city. They are considered the cost of migration, not the cost of building the city.
Fee, how can we talk about it in general terms?"
This time Wang Xijue intervened and defended Shen Shixing: "No matter how much money is spent, it will be spent on Daning City, right? Since Daning City has to spend all this money, isn't it necessary to build another city to the west of it?
Spent?"
"What Mr. Jing Shi said is wrong." Liang Menglong shook his head and said: "When we built Daning City, we lacked experience, so we did not rationally utilize and allocate resources. Later, Da Situ proposed to build Fuxin City, and acted as follows
The imperial court found a way to kill two birds with one stone when building a new city - immigrants should be refugees rather than forcibly expropriating households in a certain place."
He explained: "Refugees staying in the same place because their property and houses are in ruins actually become a hidden danger in the local area. If they are not careful, they may become a mob. Therefore, although relocating them costs money, it is always cheaper than using troops after the incident."
many.
In recent years, there have been disasters of varying degrees in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, where the number of disaster victims and refugees is increasing. If they can be moved to Monan New City, it can not only enrich the local area, but also divide their land and order them to cultivate.
Although it’s not cheap, if we look back a few years or ten years from now, I’m afraid there will be some leftover.”
Of course, the "surplus" he mentioned came from future taxation, which everyone knew. However, Wang Xijue obviously disagreed, saying: "Although the land of Monan is vast, it is not cultivated land. Mingquan Gong's so-called order
How can it be cultivated?"
Originally, this statement was generally accepted by everyone. After all, there is almost a consensus that there is no cultivated land outside the Great Wall.
However, something unexpected happened this time. Liang Menglong smiled and asked: "Tumote has been farming for decades, and has even opened up hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the past twenty years. How can we say that there is no cultivated land in Monan?"
In fact, he is exaggerating. In fact, Tumut has not cultivated so much cultivated land. It should be more than 100,000 acres. However, none of the cabinet members know the exact data. They only know that Tumut has indeed cultivated a lot of land in recent years.
The land is used for farming, and the people farming are mainly Han Chinese who fled north in the early years and their descendants.
There are now about hundreds of thousands of Han people in Tumut, and on average, each person has about one acre of land. However, the numbers are not calculated like this. Not everyone here is a young man, a young man.
Not everyone just goes to farm.
In fact, there are only about 40,000 Han laborers engaged in agricultural production such as farming in Tumut, and more than half of them are old, weak, women and children. There are also some people who are engaged in other occupations, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and bamboo craftsmen.
, merchants and other handicraft manufacturing, etc.
Of course, no matter what the actual data is, at least Liang Menglong did prove the idea that agricultural production can be carried out in Monan through this example - and this is also true.
However, Liang Menglong still refused to give up, and then raised his hand towards Zhu Yijun and said: "I have good news. The Pope knows that in addition to growing wheat, Da Situ also told me that he got a kind of wheat from the Spanish.
A new crop whose roots are as big as goose eggs, edible and extremely filling..."
"Oh, you mean potatoes, right? I already know about this. Pragmatism even treated him to a treat, and I tasted it with him." Zhu Yijun laughed and said nonchalantly.
He said it easily, but it shocked several cabinet elders. Shen Shixing, Xu Guo, Wang Jiaping, and Wang Xijue stood up at the same time, and then each of them was stunned for a moment. Finally, Shen Shixing, as the chief minister, spoke on behalf of everyone.
, solemnly said: "Your Majesty, the son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall! The warmth and coldness of this thing from this country has not been known (a term in traditional Chinese medicine, which basically means "property" at this time), how can your Majesty test it yourself?
This move is too casual and really puts the world down. I hope Your Majesty will be careful about it in the future!"
As an assistant minister and the chief minister, Shen Shixing did have the status and responsibility to say this. But who knew that Zhu Yijun at this time was no longer the young emperor of the past, and could be rounded and flattened by his assistant ministers.
Now that Can Yuan has been destroyed, he is the real master of the Ming Dynasty’s resurgence!
Therefore, Zhu Yijun waved his hand indifferently and said: "I appreciate the kindness of Yuan Fu and other gentlemen, but pragmatically I will eat this for three months first, and then I will be invited to have a meal after confirming that everything is fine. How can I
Why don't you know the meaning of "warm and cold" in it? Is it okay to eat it pragmatically, but something will happen to me after eating it? There is absolutely no reason for this."
He didn't care what the four assistant ministers had to say, and turned to ask Liang Menglong directly: "I have eaten this, it is indeed very filling, and it even tastes pretty good, but what does this have to do with what Liang Aiqing just talked about?
Oh, let me guess... Could it be that Monan can grow potatoes?"
Of course! Just kidding, potatoes can be grown not only in Monan, but also in Siberia!
Of course, Liang Menglong didn't know about the idea of "sending you to dig potatoes in Siberia". He just repeated some of the words Gao Pingshi said to him, and then said with a smile: "The emperor has seen thousands of miles, and Da Situ did say that there are people in Monan."
Many areas are extremely suitable for growing potatoes, and Chahar is one of them."
He was right in paraphrasing this, Gao Pragmatic’s original words were like this. In fact, the so-called Monan is basically Inner Mongolia in later generations, and Inner Mongolia was indeed one of the three major potato producing areas in China later. The output was not high, but very
High - annual output is up to approximately 1.4 million tons.
Note that here is "1.4 million tons", which is 1.4 billion kilograms, 2.8 billion kilograms. Considering that there are many types of agricultural planting in Inner Mongolia in later generations, and the total grain output is as high as more than 73 billion kilograms, it can be seen that they are not going all out to grow potatoes (
Chinese people’s eating habits have a great impact on this).
It can be seen from this that in the Ming Dynasty, when eating well was ten times more important than eating well, what would happen if all efforts were made to grow potatoes in Monan. It can be said that at least the food shortage problem in the north will be greatly improved.
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Zhu Yijun also thought about the yield issue and asked: "How is the yield of these potatoes?"
"I don't know the specific quantity, but Da Situ clearly said that the output is extremely high." Liang Menglong replied confidently.
Of course he was very confident. After all, Gao Pragmatic never joked about these things. In fact, in later generations, the yield of potatoes per mu in Inner Mongolia was as high as more than 840 kilograms, which is nearly 1,700 kilograms. Although this figure is definitely not reached now, even if it is cut directly
Half, that's much better than growing other grains. It's definitely a sacred thing when it comes to food and clothing.
Zhu Yijun was overjoyed, even a little carried away. He patted his thigh and laughed and said: "In this case, building a new city to the west of Daning is really nothing. When pragmatic returns to Beijing, I will personally learn the details from him... Well,
Liang Aiqing, please continue."
Liang Menglong responded to the order and turned back to explain another question, saying: "As for the weight of the east and west of the army's equipment, it is actually related to geography. Your Majesty, colleagues, please look at the map. The Tumo Special Territory is actually not far from Daning. If
I built a new city to the west of Daning. In fact, this city and Daning are both close to the territory under the jurisdiction of Tumote.
Correspondingly, Chahanhot is located to the east, but it is considered to be on its own wing. Therefore, although Daning is the core of our garrison in Chahar, it is actually more inclined to the west. Therefore, it can be seen that 70% of our army is located in the west, so why not
Focus?"
This time everyone finally fell silent and no longer expressed doubts. Upon seeing this, Zhu Yijun said: "It seems feasible, but this layout is just naturalization after all. What I want to know now is whether the Imperial Guards can work with pragmatism.
Return to the capital so that the imperial court can arrange a suburban welcome for them."
Liang Menglong said flatly: "Go back to the emperor, I think it's okay."
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