My Daming New Empire

"What is geographical environment? What is living space? What are natural resources?"

"The geographical environment is the place where we live. This thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, from Jiaozhi in the south to the Daming land of Nuergandusi in the north, is our geographical environment. The living space is like the border between us and Beiyuan. The influence of the land. And natural resources include many, such as food, such as population, such as water sources, such as mines.”

Zhu Di thought for a while, nodded and said, "The war between us and Bei Yuan belongs to this category."

Zhu Zhanji did not answer, and continued: "The second type of war is a war of resistance caused by overpopulation, hunger, rampant corruption, and excessive oppression. For example, the Qin Dynasty in the Han Dynasty was oppressed and the people were overwhelmed. Jin Dynasty In the Han Dynasty, the imperial court declined, the people were in dire straits, and the war of resistance was caused by the Yellow Turban Uprising."

"The third type of war is the power war formed by careerists taking advantage of the decline of the central court and the separatism of warlords. For example, the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms replacing Tang were mainly caused by this reason."

Zhu Di thought for a while and asked, "Then what reason do you want to explain?"

Zhu Zhanji said: "After solving these three problems, my grandson can guarantee that my Ming Dynasty cannot be said to last forever, but it can also surpass the 800-year Guozuo of the Zhou Dynasty."

This issue can be said to be the most concerned issue of the rulers of all dynasties, but except for the 800 years of the Zhou Dynasty, no dynasty has lasted more than 500 years.

Especially since Qin Shihuang unified China, the territory of the country has greatly increased, and the subsequent dynasties have only exceeded 400 years except for a new dynasty entrained by the Han Dynasty.

Due to the limitations of history, Zhu Di himself did not know the real reason for the formation of this history, so he was dumbfounded when he heard Zhu Zhanji say this.

He immediately winked at Wang Yan, and Wang Yan knowingly asked the surrounding waiters to stand a little further away so that they could not hear their conversation.Even he himself didn't dare to listen any more. If the matter were leaked, he would not have enough heads to chop off even ten heads.

Only then did Zhu Di ask in a low voice, "What do you mean by that?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Analyze the essence of war clearly, and then deduce it in reverse, and the occurrence of war can be effectively avoided. Grandpa, in the eyes of grandson, war is just a continuation of politics, and the issue of war is just a political issue." The ultimate means. Solving the war problem is actually solving the political problem.”

The word politics appeared very early.The pre-Qin philosophers used the term "politics". "Shangshu Bi Ming" has "Tao and politics, nourishing the people"; "Zhou Li Local Officials Suiren" has "handling its political prohibition".

In feudal society, "politics" and "governance" were used separately in more cases. "Government" mainly refers to the power, system, order and laws of the country; "governance" mainly refers to managing and educating the people, and also refers to achieving a stable state, etc.

Zhu Zhanji analyzed the three causes of war before, and now he says that war is a continuation of politics, and he directly puts war and political issues together to solve them.

In fact, this is also Zhu Zhanji's helplessness. In modern society, although he is the top of the society, it is maintained by his money and violent groups.

For the study of politics, he is no better than a rookie.The complexity of politics cannot be resolved by imagination at all, but by understanding some superficial facts.

Because he has personally experienced the complexity of politics, he knows very well that it is impossible to play politics with his own ability, even if he is now in ancient times.

But at the same time, he knows how to effectively maintain his authority, that is, the violent group of the army.

In this era of low productivity and poor information flow, controlling the army is tantamount to having the most effective weapon.

As long as the imperial power firmly controls the army, no opponent or enemy can shake the imperial power.

Solving the army problem and the war problem is also tantamount to solving the political problem roughly.

On the basis of this stability, to solve political problems little by little and let the situation develop according to his own ideas is what Zhu Zhanji wants to do.

Then, at such a time, Daming's force system must not be allowed to be wasted by Zhu Di like this.

Because if you want to solve the grassland problem, just relying on fighting will not have much effect.

The teacher mobilized the crowd to beat him, but he immediately got up and ran away, what can you do?

As for the grassland issue, it must be fought, but the most important thing is governance.

"Grandpa Huang mobilized 50 troops, 10,000+ army horses, 40 civilians, and [-] pack horses to fight a battle thousands of miles away. Of course the Oirats would run away with such a large force, and they would never fight us head-on. And with so many people and such a heavy burden, it is also doomed that my war in Ming Dynasty cannot last. Therefore, this has formed a cycle of embarrassment. If there are fewer people, you can't fight. If there are too many people, the opponent will run away. So only rely on war , can’t solve the problem. This brings me back to the question I asked Grandpa Huang, what is the purpose of the war? What is the meaning? I Ming fought this war, what result do I want to achieve?”

At this time, Zhu Di also said seriously: "The worst result is to weaken the strength of Oara and prevent them from dominating the grassland. The better result is of course to submit both Oara and Tatars to Ming Dynasty. The best result, Of course, I want to turn the grassland into Daming's pasture."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Then, the question we need to seriously consider is how to use all means to achieve the best purpose. All actions, including wars, should serve this purpose. Instead of war for war, for the sake of War for deterrence, war for face."

"What's the best plan for Jier?"

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Grandson's expedition this time, only came into contact with military affairs with the permission of the emperor's grandfather. Now, grandson doesn't even know who the generals of each army are, what abilities they have, what clever strategies can they have?"

This said Zhu Di was a little ashamed, because all this was done according to his will, and he never thought of giving up power now.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not get entangled in this issue, but said: "However, Sun Er believes that the army should not be dispatched easily, and it will cost countless money and food. It is because of the combination of military strength and political factors that the grassland is formed. A certain degree of deterrence will steadily erode the power of the grassland."

But Zhu Di said: "At this point, the arrow must be fired, the army has not moved, and even the soldiers of the three armies will be dissatisfied."

"Of course Grandpa Huang wants to fight, but you must also pay attention to the coordination of war and political goals."

Although Zhu Di could understand every word, every time Zhu Zhanji spoke, he had to think about it to understand what he was talking about.

However, although Zhu Zhanji's words are uncommon, they seem to be able to express the meaning very clearly in simple words.

He chuckled and said, "Okay, I really want to know how to combine war with political goals."

Chapter 38 Arrived in Peiping

Zhu Zhanji stood up straight, then knelt down on one knee and cupped his fists and said, "Grandfather, please re-establish the capital of Daning, Kaiping, Sanjiangcheng, Dongsheng, Weiluwei, Weiyuanwei, and Baichengzi Qianhusuo." Wait for the guards in Monan, and choose places along the nine sides to build Wubao and Weisuo in the Monan area, compressing the living space of Tatars, Oalas and other tribes."

Zhu Di frowned, not expecting that Zhu Zhanji would suddenly mention this suggestion.

At this time, he also felt the same as Ji Gang and Yang Zhangde. This grandson's thinking was too active, and he couldn't grasp his real thoughts at all.

In the eighth year of Yongle, Zhu Di used troops against the Tatars for the first time. At that time, many guards outside the Great Wall on Nine Sides were revoked.

Zhu Zhanji knew that in the original history, after these guards were abolished, they were never built again.

Even when Zhu Zhanji was in power, in order to guard Beiping, he abolished the last few important guards outside the Great Wall.From then on, the areas beyond the Great Wall were no longer owned by Daming, and Beiping was directly exposed to the minions of foreign races, and there was no more peace.

The so-called rule of benevolence and propaganda is nothing but the flattery of shameless literati. In Chinese history, they are absolute sinners, not even comparable to the captured Yingzong Zhu Qizhen and the mischievous Emperor Zhengde.

Zhu Di laughed and said, "Was Ji Er worried too much? I drew the troops from these guards just to fight against Oirat. Of course, these guards will not be withdrawn. When the war is over, these guards will be restored."

Zhu Zhanji didn't know that Zhu Di thought so. His understanding of history was only a little bit.But since he brought up this topic, he would not reveal his ignorance, and asked, "What if the officers and soldiers suffer heavy losses? When will these guards be reset? Is there a detailed plan? Can those sergeants know what the emperor's grandpa is thinking? Those generals Do you know?"

Zhu Di stopped talking, because these were all his own thoughts, and would he let the people below know what he was thinking.

After a long time, he said: "As long as the Mahamu clan is wiped out this time, the guards in Kaiping, Xinghe, Ningxia, Gansu, Daning, and Liaodong will be restored, and the border will be fine forever."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Wala wants to fight, but you can't just want to destroy the opponent. What if you can't? These guards are easy to cut off, but difficult to reset. There is no perfect plan in the world, and any result needs to be considered. The emperor Grandpa's insistence on abolishing the guards to enrich the crusade army will only make the soldiers think that the emperor wants to abandon the guards. Under such circumstances, those soldiers will not put their heart into running the guards. If things go on like this, it will be like nothing. , Grandpa Huang is familiar with the art of war, has he forgotten this?"

Zhu Di laughed, pointing at him and cursing: "Little monkey, don't you get up, why don't you let me help you up yourself? In the past ten years, no one has dared to point to my nose and say that I did something wrong! "

Zhu Zhanji stood up immediately, and said with a smile: "Of course, Grandpa Huang did nothing wrong, but the information of the superiors is blocked, and everything cannot be blocked. Such decisions related to foreign policy must be made known to the people below." What is Grandpa Huang thinking in his heart, so that they will not make random guesses and do something that goes against Grandpa Huang's wishes."

Only then did Zhu Di hum, and introduced to Zhu Zhanji his plans for the various guards in Monan.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang changed Yuan to Beiyuan, seventeen guards and capitals were set up in Monan, and Jimi Guards were also set up in the nomadic areas of Beiyuan.

By the Yongle period, these guards had expanded to more than 170, but now because of the station, most of them exist in name only.

Now Zhu Di has no intention of canceling the guard, but just wants to use these soldiers to fight and go back after the fight is over.

But in the end, due to various factors, all these guards were withdrawn after his death, except for a few near Beiping.