I am the king of the dead

Since Prince Xiang's Mansion does not bite His Majesty's bait, there is also a need for military training. These bandits who have been in the Ming Dynasty for decades, and the thugs who acted as powerful families, have all become whetstones.

The knife of the Daming Twelfth Regiment Battalion became sharper the more it was sharpened.

Both Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian clearly understood that they were dancing on the tip of their knives at this moment, and they could not relax at all. The situation is indeed very good now, and even King Xiang, who is most likely to rebel, seems to have closed the door, obsessed with singing and dancing superior.

However, once the Beijing camp is dispatched, will those guys who are too scared to speak by the steel knife jump out immediately?

Yu Qian continued: "Your Majesty, I often hear that the people will gather in the mountains and forests, and move when they hear the wind. It seems that they have never heard of it. The powerful family echoes each other and communicates with each other."

"But if it is said that the powerful family is not united, I think this person is either ignorant of the truth, or ignorant of the world, or is slandering to deceive His Majesty."

"On the contrary, they maintain a tacit union anytime and anywhere, which is a very common and natural state."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a moment, Yu Qian's meaning was very clear, although these rentiers in the Ming Dynasty did not rush to tell each other, or even colluded with each other, they all maintained an absolute tacit understanding.

Just like the unity of honor and relatives and the mutual aid of honor and relatives, the various strata of the Ming Dynasty seem to be loose, but in fact they are closely united.

Once the steel knife in Zhu Qiyu's hand is no longer sharp, they will vibrate like flies that smell fishy.

Although they chose to surrender on the surface, in fact, they just lay dormant, waiting for the opportunity, and dealt a fatal blow.

Zhu Qiyu thinks so.

We cannot relax any vigilance, but we should also maximize the word response.

Yu Qian's way of benevolence and forgiveness has always been an ominous weapon for soldiers, and he has to use it as a last resort. Your Majesty must continue to promote his military power, kill some damned people, and make the world fear, so that there will be fewer killings.

Zhu Qiyu, Yu Qian, and Chen Xun walked into the martial arts lecture hall. The military officers in the martial arts lecture hall were dressed in ordinary clothes and sat in the auditorium, sitting upright, waiting for the emperor's arrival.

Today is the day when the officers of the lecture hall finish their graduation, and they have been training in the lecture hall for more than ten months.

"Your Majesty is mighty!" The generals in the lecture hall immediately bowed their heads and saluted after His Majesty walked to the center of the stage and stood still.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Sit down flat."

"Let me just say a few words."

Today is the place where the military generals in the lecture hall graduate, Zhu Qiyu really doesn't have much to say.

"The new defeat of the Ming Dynasty, the loss of all six divisions, the madness of the Wala, and the siege of the capital, this is a shame to me, a shame to all of you, and a shame to the Ming army!"

"I set up a school of military equipment, selected students, selected military equipment as teachers, learned the usage of equipment, command of battle formations, and the enemy's tricks, and strictly supervised the class. Today, it has been October, and the Ming Dynasty general If it is effective, the military and government can expect to improve."

"I only want to say one thing, you are all disciples of the Son of Heaven! But with this status, you can't help yourself. If you violate the military order, you will be executed 54 times in the Seventeenth Prohibition. I will never forgive you lightly!"

In fact, Zhu Qiyu was a little worried about these concubine generals in the lecture hall. If they relied on their four characters of emperor's disciples to go to the army and act recklessly, it would make it very difficult for the [-]th Regiment Battalion.

But today Zhu Qiyu told them that if they violated the military order, they could only die.

Zhu Qiyu walked down the stage, and said to the generals who had been waiting for a long time: "Let's begin."

A young general stepped onto the stage. He was Chen Ying, the second grandson of Marquis Chen Maoshu of Ningyang. In the hall, it is famous for its diligence.

Not all Xun Chen are like Zhang Fu's two stinky brothers, who don't want to make progress.

Although Zhang Mao is only nine years old, he is still very diligent. Chen Ying is a concubine, but he seized this opportunity and wanted to soar into the sky.

These are all Xunchen's cards.

Of course, Zhang Fu's two stinky younger brothers, Zhang Fu and Zhang Fu's heirs, failed to graduate this time. The military academy was strictly controlled, so they started to behave badly, and they didn't hand in their textbooks.

It doesn't matter, if it's bad next year, it will be sent to Kaiping to guard the border the year after next.

Chen Ying took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, my choice of topic is the cost of offense and defense."

"In February of the seventh year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen sent an envoy to Tatar, saying: "We are in harmony with each other. I am in charge of the Central Plains, and Khan is in charge of Shuomo. We will live in peace forever. Isn't it beautiful?"

"King Benya of the Tatars lost his way. He killed the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Ji, and wiped out Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, who was the first hero in Jingnan. He led a Ming army of more than [-] people. Emperor Taizong Wen was furious and ordered his own conquest."

"In February of the eighth year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen fought at Feiyun Mountain and destroyed [-] Tatar cavalry. On May [-], the Yinma River broke the Tatar Khan Benya and left a stone engraved with the imperial inscription: Hanhai for Tan, the Tianshan Mountains are the neck, sweep away the dust, and clear the desert forever."

"In the 12th year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen once again sent troops to crusade against Benya Shili, defeated Benya Shili in Yinmahe, and defeated [-] cavalry in Onanhe River, and returned with a great victory."

Chen Ying eloquently talked about these achievements, all in Mobei.

For example, the Yinma River is close to Helin, and the Onan River is the place where Yuan Taizu Temuzhen made his fortune. It was the horse herding land of the Qiyan tribe in the Mongolian headquarters, which was plowed by Emperor Yongle.

During the Yongle period, except for the fifth Northern Expedition and Zhu Di's death, all gains were made, but they became smaller and smaller. The reason, in the final analysis, was that the grassland people were too good at running.

When the army went out of the fortress, there were no horses for thousands of miles. Those who were beaten twice threw away their helmets and armors. The Oirats and Tatars gradually stopped fighting with Ming Dynasty, and the Wuliangha tribe surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ying said: "There are always people who say that the Taizu and Emperor Taizong Wen resorted to military force, which caused the people of Ming Dynasty to live in poverty, and the country was poor and the people were exhausted."

"But I think that's not the case."

"Five Northern Expeditions, two storehouses and one thousand warehouses in Tongzhou, Taicang, each transfer was no more than two million shi, a total of no more than 200 million shi and rice beams, and the total number of people's transfers was more than one million times, and the reward silver consumed was only more than four million. Two, timber, stonework, gunpowder and other armaments are worth only two million taels in silver."

"It's all converted into golden flowers and silver, but only 200 million taels of silver, of which 400 million taels of silver are rewarded to the three armies, and come from internal funds."

"The total consumption of the country and the dynasty is only 800 million taels of national funds. Five battles to settle the north, and the northern border will be safe and peaceful for 40 years."

"The northern captives are scattered in Mobei. People don't farm and weave, and the land has no other products. The daily use of needles and threads in the pots and kettles of the captives must be made in China. The colored clothes of uranium, satin and silk can only be obtained by looting."

"The Tartars have nothing to wear, their felt furs are not suitable for the summer heat, their raw pots are broken, and they try to mend the leaks. As a last resort, they eat boiled meat in skins and water. They are thin and hungry, and they are poor. ability."

"Since the fourth year of orthodoxy, the frontiers have built more cities and forts to defend the border from the Oirats and Tatars. In the past ten years, Datong Mansion alone has spent about 140 yuan in salt, grain, grass, and silver on the building of forts and forts. [-] taels, more than [-] civilian husbands were mobilized."

"Datong, Xuanfu, Ningxia, Yansui, Gu'an, Liaodong, six towns and four places, consumed more than 170 million yuan of silver, and mobilized civilian labor more than [-] million times."

"Attack and defense, what is more valuable or less? Is it to go north to conquer the captives and not disturb the border, or to build cities in six towns and four places, so that the people will not be able to live, and the country will be poor and the people will be exhausted?"

"Your Majesty, the subject is finished."

Chen Ying stepped off the stage, leaving behind the thinking generals, Zhu Qiyu specially brought Yu Qian and Chen Xun today, to let them think about this issue.

It all means that Emperor Taizu Gao made eight Northern Expeditions, and Emperor Taizong Wen made five Northern Expeditions. If the country is really destitute and the people are exhausted, can they still go out to fight for decades?

This has been a national policy for more than [-] years!

From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the 22nd year of the Northern Expedition to Yongle, Zhu Di died on the way to the Northern Expedition!

If the general direction of the Northern Expedition had gone wrong, then in the past 60 years, the world would have been devastated and starved everywhere, but on the contrary, the more the war, the more prosperous it became.

Since the reign of Xuande, Xingwen, Wu, and Mafang Nanshan, the life of the people has become more and more difficult. Even Fujian, a place where three crops a year, have given birth to farmers, and millions of people responded and followed. .

Xining said that the common people are the most treacherous, who made them look like this?

After the Ming Dynasty's external strategy changed from offense to defense, the people's livelihood in the world became withered instead.

Zhu Qiyu had seen this subject before, and he had already done a good job, but he only considered it from the perspective of Han, Tang and Song Dynasties.

This time, Zhu Qiyu asked him to make a supplementary explanation, demonstrating how much the Northern Expedition cost, what kind of results were obtained in the end, how much was spent on defense, and what results were obtained in the end.

There are such textbooks and questions.

Is the Northern Expedition worth it?

The answer, of course, is worth it.

Zhu Qiyu handed Chen Ying's project book to Yu Qian and Chen Xun, asking them to check it out carefully, and then discuss and make a decision.

Daming's external strategy must be changed. The Wala people are afraid of power but not morality. If they are not swept away, they will not have a long memory.

Not only to fight, but to fight hard until complete victory.

Chapter 2

Chen Maoshu and Sun Chenying's subject book have very detailed figures, such as the changes in the number of acres of land and the population of Datong Mansion over the years due to the unrest in the border defense, especially the remaining population of each camp and fort.

Why does Chen Ying have so many figures, even clearer than Huo Xuan, the prefect of Datong?

Because Shi Heng, the permanent academic director of the Jingshi Lecture Hall, is domineering in Datong Mansion, no matter who he is, he will collect taxes, even the Tatars and Oirats are not spared.

Naturally, he had to figure out how many people there were on his territory, and he naturally had an account, which could also be regarded as the testimony of Chen Ying's signing data.

There are more than one million people in Datong Prefecture, and more than 7 horsemen. They raise horses in Shunshengchuan. There were more than 13 horsemen, and the number of horsemen dropped sharply to more than [-]. The Daming Shunshengchuan Army Horse Farm was overgrown with weeds and was full of desolation.

Fortresses and cities have been built, but the people are still unable to secure the borders, and the people are still fleeing and moving inward. In the final analysis, there are problems in strategy.

Luo Tong, the right servant of the Ministry of War, came to the stage again. He pointed to the position of Dongshengwei on the Kanyu map, and said with regret: "My task is to rebuild the guards in Monan."

"Daning Dusi, Sanjiang City, Dongshengwei, Weiluwei, Weiyuanwei and other guards in the southern part of Monan are in a dangerous position. They are the must pass through for Wala, Tatar and Wuliangha to enter Daming Hetao and go south to Shanxi and Gyeonggi. The way, the guards of Hongwu abandoned it in 28 years..."

The views of Luo Tong and Chen Ying seem to be completely opposite.

Chen Ying said that Jianbian Town was not as fast as the Dawara people, but Luo Tong's point of view was that the guards in Monan still had to be restored. If Monan was gone, the Northern Expedition would be half the result with twice the effort. Huge problems would arise in the dispatch of food, grass, roads, etc. .

But in fact, the views of the two are completely consistent. Luo Tong’s project of rebuilding the Monan guards is to serve the Northern Expedition, not to build a new frontier town, but to establish a system of guards like permanent fortifications. , to achieve true domination.

Serving the Northern Expedition.

Zhu Qiyu sat in the auditorium and listened carefully to the generals' project books. These generals studied for ten months, and the project books they made became more and more detailed and thoughtful. The eyes of Yang Hong and other veterans of the border guards brightened.

Yang Hong, who has been a soldier all his life, is very pleased with such a thriving lecture hall.

Zhu Qiyu listened to the classwork for nearly an hour, took a break in the middle, and then ended. All the graduated generals will go to the [-]th Regiment Battalion to serve as junior and middle-level officers above the commander-in-chief.

The new batch of students will enter the school after the spring of next year.

Zhu Qiyu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw more than 500 soldiers leaving the martial arts hall with large and small bags.

These people are disciples of the Son of Heaven. When someone ordered the bombing of Chang’an Gate and the Tai’an Palace, these low-level and middle-level military officers were the ones who executed it. Would they really bombard Chang’an Gate and Tai’an Palace?

Zhu Qiyu was sure they would not.

The army is the ballast stone of Ming Dynasty politics, and it is the last resort.

And now the ballast stone is getting thicker and thicker.

"Taihang Mountain and Yanshan Mountain have the most bandits. With this strategy, we plan to let the [-]th Regiment Battalion wipe out all the bandits in these two mountain ranges. Tomorrow, all the deputy commanders, commanders and commanders of the Beijing Battalion will be called together to discuss the plan to suppress the bandits." matter." When Zhu Qiyu left the lecture hall, he gave Yang Hong a word of advice.

Shi Heng and Yang Hong bowed their heads respectfully to see off His Majesty.

Going out to suppress bandits is also one of the responsibilities of the Beijing Camp, but it is the first time in this dynasty to go out to suppress bandits on a large scale.

The Beijing camp needs military training, King Xiang has to pay taxes and taxes, don't rebel, and is unwilling to be a sharpening stone, then these bandits and bandits have become the best sharpening stones for the Beijing camp.

After Zhu Qiyu inspected the [-]th Regiment Battalion and the Siwu Regiment Battalion, he went back home.

Tai'an Palace welcomed his long-lost master.

Empress Dowager Sun never had any dissatisfaction with Zhu Qiyu's refusal to visit the palace, because even the Empress Dowager Wu who lived in Tai'an Palace actually never saw Zhu Qiyu twice a month.

Ever since Empress Wang and Concubine Hang Xian became pregnant, the emperor seldom returned to Tai'an Palace.

Fengtian Hall, Wenhua Hall, Lecture Hall, Lecture Hall, Wang Gong Factory, Bingzhan Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau, Shijing Factory, Twelve Regiment Battalion, the capital almost everywhere has His Majesty's figure, but only Tai'an Palace does not. The figure of His Majesty.

Empress Wang and Concubine Hang Xian are fine, because they are pregnant, they have no thoughts, but they have suffered a lot for the two nobles who have just entered Tai'an Palace.

Tang Yunyan and Li Xi'er are almost becoming husband and wife stones.

His Majesty bid farewell to Ye Ting, and has not seen anyone for more than two months.

Zhu Qiyu got off the horse and didn't take up the reins, but patted the unremarkable short-legged horse. The short-legged horse gave a rhythm twice, and then walked towards the stable.

This pony is even a little black and thin, but among all the war horses, it is the most fierce.

The ceremonial horse was a pure white tall horse, but its status in the stable was lower than that of a pony horse.

There is no way, Zhu Qiyu's war horse is too fierce, and other horses are afraid of it.

Zhu Qiyu went to see the Empress Dowager Wu first, and then went to the study.

The imperial study room of Tai'an Palace has undergone an expansion, mainly because courtiers will come to visit from time to time, and a large square table is specially set up.

Behind the imperial study room, a large warehouse was set up, which contained the charts and records of the great Ming treasure ship that His Majesty had been thinking about, especially various nautical charts and hull designs.

Zhu Qiyu stretched his waist after dealing with official documents for a long time, and when he looked up, he saw Wang Meilin.

"Husband, it's getting dark. I'm busy all day, but I can't see my husband." Wang Meilin smiled and walked over, rubbing Zhu Qiyu's shoulders. Her husband is busy all day. Even if she is inconvenient, His Majesty has returned to the palace. , but also to see.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "The state affairs are troublesome, I have been busy, and in a few years, when the world is at peace, I will also do my best to be the foolish king that the courtiers say."

A big bath was built in Tai'an Palace, it is said to be big, but it can only accommodate two or three people. Your Majesty is still thrifty, and there are only eight sets of regular clothes for four seasons, and Xing'an is not good for large-scale construction.

The main thing is that Xing'an is relatively stingy, and it won't be able to use such good materials when it is built.

"It's not easy for me to say anything about the affairs of the foreign court, but a group of people are chattering endlessly, so don't bother with them." Wang Meilin was immediately a little unhappy. His husband is so diligent, and they still talk about the country all day long. When it is about to perish, the demon will give birth to it.

It's just nonsense.

Daming's court cannot say that the leakage is like a sieve, it can only be said that there are no secrets.

The court meeting is held today, and it will be spread all over the streets and alleys tomorrow.

Zhu Qiyu played with Wang Meilin's little hand, and said with a smile: "I'm going to take a bath and change clothes too, lady and husband to wash together?"