The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

The era of cold weapons has passed.

Now it is the world of firearms and artillery!

Tang Hao spoke in a deep voice.

"They don't want to obey, but they find that they can't win!"

"Back to the topic just now, Mongolian civilians and slaves don't want to fight. Winning will not benefit them. If they lose, they will lose their families and their lives will become more difficult. If they have a better life, a stronger support, and more opportunities to survive, will they still obey those Mongolian nobles?"

"They watched the rest of the people live a good life, and they were all well fed and clothed under the support of the Ming Dynasty. They no longer had to starve and freeze, and they no longer had to worry about being robbed and killed suddenly. That's real life!"

"My Ming Dynasty does not need to go deep into the grassland to fight. What we need is to incite rebellion and accept Mongolian civilians, and reward them through mutual trade. Means, win the support of Mongolian civilians, fix them in the border areas, slowly infiltrate and assimilate them, until they become part of my Ming Dynasty!"

"At that time, even if there are unusual movements in the grassland, these Mongolian civilians densely distributed outside the Great Wall can also become my Ming Dynasty's intelligence network, or the first line of defense against the enemy. In this way, why should we fear the dangers of the grassland?"

After a pause, Tang Hao chuckled and said: "War does not necessarily have to be resolved by force."

"Money and food wars, resource wars, can also achieve political goals."

"My Ming Dynasty only needs to pay some money and food resources to win without fighting, why not do it?"

"This is the real war!"

The room fell into a dead silence again!

No need to conquer by force, but through resource wars!

But the resources that want to be invested are too much!

And it is almost needless to think that it will take a long time for Ming Dynasty to achieve the step of "assimilation" and "liberation", at least dozens or hundreds of years!

So An Guo asked: "General, what if we invest a huge amount of resources, but those Mongolian civilians rebel again? They took our benefits, but chose to rebel again under the threat and coercion of Mongolian nobles?"

"Will these civilians rebel repeatedly? I have made it very clear just now. Maybe you don't know how miserable the lives of those Mongolian civilians are. Once they see the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty and feel the welfare of my Ming Dynasty, even if my Ming Dynasty drives them away, they can't be driven away!"

Tang Hao said in a deep voice: "As for how those Mongolian nobles will react, this is even more trivial. We instigate tribal civilians on the grassland and build them into a war barrier. Even if the Tatar Wala army attacks, what does it matter? The first to die are just the grassland barbarians!"

After hearing this, everyone felt a chill suddenly rising from the bottom of their hearts.

Yes, the Mongolian Tartars died, what does it have to do with them?

As long as the dead are not Han people, the Ming Dynasty has no losses at all!

On the contrary, if this situation really happened, those Mongolian civilians would only be more loyal to the Ming Dynasty and full of hatred for the Mongolian nobles!

But this strategy is too cruel and insidious, and it does not conform to the Confucian concept of benevolent government.

An Guo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he finally figured out one thing.

No wonder Duke Xin wanted to leave the three Tumed tribes to graze in Hetao, and he actually had such an idea.

With the three Tumed tribes as a war barrier, even if the Mongolian left wing attacks again, the first to die will be the three Tumed tribes. With them as a buffer, the Ming Dynasty can also respond in time!

"Besides, the Mongolian nobles may not object."

"Remember what I just said? Through some specific trade methods, we can change the Mongolian barbarians' grazing habits, so that these tribal nobles on the grassland will feel that raising cattle and sheep is more profitable than raising horses. Driven by interests, they will gradually expand the scale of cattle and sheep breeding and reduce the scale of unprofitable horse breeding."

"Why is raising cattle and sheep more profitable? Because the Ming Dynasty can raise the price of cattle and sheep in the trade, and even devalue the price of war horses. We can tell the Mongolian barbarians that we are too lazy to ask for horses without war. The war horses on Jeju Island in Korea are enough to maintain basic needs. We need What they want is the power of cattle and sheep, the more the better! "

"The Ming Dynasty buys cattle and sheep at high prices, whether it is wool, cowhide or beef and mutton, as much as they can get, and even raises the price to two or three times the market price, inducing the grassland tribes to increase their efforts to raise cattle and sheep, because they can see clear benefits and can exchange cattle and sheep for more things in the trade!"

"Once the Ming Dynasty buys cattle and sheep at a large premium, the fascinating benefits will be in front of them. Those grassland nobles will definitely flock to it and force the lower-level civilians to raise cattle and sheep for profit, and the number of war horses raised will naturally decrease accordingly!"

After hearing this, An Guo understood it instantly.

Tang Hao's method is to use benefits to tempt the Mongolian Tartars to raise sheep!

Although the grassland is large, the pasture is limited.

As the number of cattle and sheep increases, the number of war horses will naturally decrease, especially the horses with the largest number on the grassland!

For the Ming Dynasty, the grassland tribes that lack horses or even have no horses are simply no threat at all!

“The Ming Dynasty distributed farming tools to these Mongolian civilian slaves, taught them how to cultivate potatoes, and provided them with a strong guarantee of personal safety. Then they no longer have to hunt or plunder, they only need to cultivate honestly. Being able to have enough food and clothing is a dream life for Mongolian civilians and slaves!”

"For those Mongolian nobles, by raising a large number of cattle and sheep, they can also exchange for enough living materials from the mutual market, including expensive things such as salt, iron, and tea leaves. In addition, the Ming army's combat power is so powerful that it makes people desperate. Who can Anyone who dares to cause trouble and plunder will have their tribes slaughtered. Under the threat of such powerful force, the Mongolian noble lords will naturally slowly lose their belligerence and begin to succumb to the mutual market control model of the Ming Dynasty! "

"After all, everyone has got what they want. Whether they are Mongolian noble lords or Mongolian civilian slaves, they are all satisfied with the stable and prosperous life in front of them. Who would be willing to risk their lives to plunder, harass, and provoke the Ming Dynasty? Where is the teacher?”

Tang Hao said everything he was thinking, hoping that Anguo would remember it in his heart.

"In addition, these Mongolian people themselves don't know that as they work hard to cultivate, they will occupy more and more grassland fields, and I, the Ming Dynasty, will help them build houses for free. In this way, the living space of the nomadic people will be It will be greatly compressed until it completely loses control of the grassland. Even if other barbarian tribes migrate over by then, these naturalized Mongolian barbarians will be the first to suffer, and they will become the only ones between the Ming Dynasty and the grassland. The buffer barrier is enough for the Ming Dynasty King’s Division to respond promptly and send troops to annihilate these outsiders!”

"What you have to do is to assimilate the three Tumut tribes into farming tribes. Nomadic life does not guarantee that they can have enough food and clothing every day. As long as this is done, it will be difficult for the three Tumut tribes to leave the Ming Dynasty. !”

"Just imagine, what would happen if Ming Dynasty closed the mutual market?"

A picture emerged in the minds of the generals.

The three Tumut tribes, which gradually focused on farming, suddenly lost the support of the Ming Dynasty. They could not even get the most basic agricultural tools and seeds. They were afraid that they would... collapse in an instant!