Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 297 Strategies on the Mongolian Grasslands
After hearing that Li Zicheng's remaining troops were destroyed in the Huguang area, Zhu Cixiang was so happy that he almost wanted to have a party in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

In the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful and most promising person to become the king of the unified world was Li Zicheng. Now that he is dead, his remnants have also been destroyed.

It can be said that Daming's internal threat has been eliminated.

Although there is still Zhang Xianzhong, the mud-legged earth emperor who dominates Sichuan with tens of thousands of soldiers and established the Daxi Kingdom, but to Zhu Cihong, there is no threat.

Not to mention the Gaojie tribe in Guanzhong, Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo in Huguang, there are a total of several 10 people.

Even if these hundreds of thousands of troops suddenly disappeared out of thin air, Zhu Cihong could use the chieftain soldiers from Lingnan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the grassland cavalry from Mongolia to destroy Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhu Cihong, who has almost unified the world, has reached a terrifying level of resources. Now Zhang Xianzhong and Liaodong's Mi Qing can't catch up even if they flatter them.

Just when Zhu Cihong was dreaming, Liu Bao suddenly complimented him from the sidelines.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Congratulations to Your Majesty. You have avenged your father and eliminated Li Zicheng. My Great Ming Dynasty will surely last forever from now on."

"No." Hearing Liu Bao's words, Zhu Cihong suddenly said resolutely.

"Why?" Liu Bao stared at Zhu Cihuang dumbfounded, unable to understand why he would do this.

After more than ten years of headaches for the imperial court, the peasant uprising army that had ignited the flames of war all over the country was finally put down. What threat could make Ming Dynasty unable to last forever?

"There are Mongols and Mitezhou people outside the pass. If we don't get rid of them, our Daming's country will not be stable for long." Zhu Cihong said with a serious face.

The ethnic minorities in the north are the eternal enemies of the Han people. When troubled times come, they will take the opportunity to enter the Central Plains. If the Han people are still strong, they will run away.

But if the Han people are weak, like Zhao Gou and Zhu Yousong, they will have the idea of ​​​​taking over the Central Plains and enslaving the Han people.

Although Zhu Cihong has now repelled the Manchurians and driven them out of the pass, who knows if they will rise again one day and cause disasters in the Central Plains.

Will other nations rise up again, replace them, and continue to pose a threat to the Central Plains.

Zhu Cihong understood that if the problems of Mongolia and Liaodong were not resolved, Ming Dynasty and even China would never have a peaceful day.

When it comes into contact with the colonial countries of Europe, with the existence of these two laggards, China will inevitably repeat the mistakes of the later generations.

"Then what shall we do?" Liu Bao asked.

"Chuan Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa come to see me, and let Wang Chengen come too." After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, he walked towards the imperial study.

Behind him was full of steppers, eunuchs, guards, and guards of honor. There were hundreds of people. This was the emperor's ostentation. Even in the small world of the imperial palace, there were so many people waiting on him.

But Zhu Cihong was preoccupied today, so he didn't step up, but walked in front alone. The eunuchs and guards didn't dare to say anything, let alone leave, so they could only follow closely behind Zhu Cihong.

In the imperial study, Zhu Cixiang sat behind a large desk and asked the eunuch to place a few chairs for Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi and Wang Chengen to sit on.

However, Wang Chengen felt that his status was far inferior to Qian Qianyi and the two, and he did not dare to sit down with them, so in this study, apart from Liu Bao, only Wang Chengen was standing.

"How much money and treasures are there in the treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Zhu Cihong asked himself how much money he had as soon as he came up.

Under his reform, Daming's ability to collect money is now much stronger than before, but Zhu Cihong earned the money so hard, and he will not let officials spend it, so it is stored in the emperor's internal funds, which is now of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Returning to Your Majesty, there are more than a million taels of silver, more than [-] taels of gold, thousands of pearls, thousands of gems, fifty corals, and more than five thousand bolts of silk..."

After listening to Wang Chengen's words, Zhu Cihong didn't feel a little happy about this huge wealth. On the contrary, he always had a sad expression on his face.

Zhu Cihong has only one thing to say about this wealth, which is too little.

If it was an unimaginable wealth for the countries in Europe, or Mizhou, Korea, and Japan, but for Daming, it was not enough to maintain the country's operation for a month.

Fortunately, there are at least six ministries responsible for government expenditures and military expenditures, instead of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Otherwise, Zhu Cihong's court would be declared bankrupt immediately.

Of course, this is impossible, the Chinese did not say this, even if the imperial court owed money to the people of the world, no one could bankrupt the imperial court.

"Two lovers, I don't know if you have any thoughts about Mongolia and Mizhou." Zhu Cihong didn't mention the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but first asked Qian Qianyi and Qian Qianyi what they thought of Mongolia and Mizhou.

Shi Kefa believed that he was a veteran of the three dynasties, was highly respected in the court and the opposition, and had made a lot of military exploits. He was the top civil servant today, so he first stood up and said.

"Your Majesty, now that the civil strife has been subsided and the foreign invaders have been expelled, China has peace for the time being."

"However." Shi Kefa changed the subject and wanted to express his own point of view.

"The scourge of Mongolia and Mizhou has not been eradicated. We must find a way to solve them, otherwise it will inevitably cause endless harm."

"However, killing alone can't solve the problem. When the ancestors were born, they swept the caves in Liting. The Northern Expedition killed countless Mongols and burned many pastures. However, after a hundred years, the Mongols recovered their strength, and only then did civil engineering The tragedy of the Fort Change."

Hearing Shi Kefa's words, Zhu Cihong couldn't help applauding him secretly. Shi Kefa's thoughts coincided with his own, and he also felt that killing could not solve the problem.

Perhaps strictly speaking, the problem can be solved, but it requires a sky-high manpower and material resources to completely destroy the other party.

But if he had such huge manpower and material resources, why would Zhu Cihong completely destroy the other party, anyway, the other party could not threaten him.

But before Zhu Cihong could speak, Qian Qianyi retorted first.

"Mongolia and our court have lived in peace for decades, so why bother to deal with them? Besides, didn't they also send troops to help us in the Northern Expedition?" Qian Qianyi refuted Shi Kefa.

His thinking was even more extreme. He was so naive as to think that Daming and Mongolia were in a state of peace, and they could even be said to be allies.

"Qian Qianyi, do you think the Mongols are sheep? They are wild wolves on the grassland, descendants of Genghis Khan. Whenever they have the chance, they will immediately pounce on Daming and tear off a piece of flesh."

"There is also Mizhou. They have already had the idea of ​​​​taking over the Central Plains. If they are not destroyed, it is tantamount to planting a time bomb."

(End of this chapter)