Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 226, Emperor Hongzhi's thoughts
"His Royal Highness, I am far behind."

"How can you easily talk about the great affairs of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of life and death?"

Xie Qian looked at Zhu Houzhao beside him. This young prince of Ming Dynasty really didn't know how to persuade him not to use force to solve the problem.

"What Xie Gong said is that we have always been friendly to people, and we have conquered the world with loyalty, filial piety and etiquette, but people on the grassland have believed in the law of the jungle since ancient times, and the strong dominate everything. Enlightenment."

"Even though we are friendly to them, they are still ambitious. They covet my Middle-earth China repeatedly, and even plunder every year. It's not that we want to talk about war lightly, but that we have to fight back, otherwise they will only think that we are They are easy to bully, they treat us like cattle and sheep on the grassland, come and harvest as long as there is a need, wave after wave, there is never a time to be satisfied."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Xie Qian, thought for a while and replied.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Emperor Hongzhi nodded in relief. He only recently had such an understanding of this.

It has been eleven years since he ascended the throne, and he has always followed the advice of civil servants before, thinking that the country should be governed by benevolence, righteousness and morality, and this is also the case outside.

But the nomads of the grassland have to buckle the border every year, and go south to plunder every year. Every time they go south, it is like locusts crossing the border. The places they pass are full of corpses, blood flows into rivers, and everything is robbed. net.

From edible food to clothes, cloth, salt, iron pots, etc., they will rob almost everything, just like a beggar entering a rich man's house, looting wantonly, and robbing everything he sees .

The border town area, which was originally prosperous due to the salt introduction system, has become increasingly depressed over the years. A large number of border residents have either been killed, or gradually fled from the border town area.

Especially after the Naliang Kaizhong was changed to Nayin Kaizhong, the town area here became even more empty, which further weakened the defense force of the Ming Dynasty in the border town area, making the already precarious defense line full of loopholes. .

In the face of these robbers, it is useless to reason with them. The most effective way is to talk to them with fists. Just like last year, because of Wang Wang's glasses, he knew the little prince's movements in advance and set up traps and ambushes , hit the little prince hard in one fell swoop, life in the border town area will be much better this winter.

Otherwise, Emperor Hongzhi would have to sleep and eat every winter, not only worried about the safety of the border town, but also worried about whether the prairie wolf would take advantage of the trend to threaten the capital.

Emperor Hongzhi was very happy that Zhu Houzhao was able to understand this truth now, and clearly realized this point. Just thinking about the current court situation and the fighting power of the Ming army, Emperor Hongzhi looked sad again.

If the Ming army had fighting power, he would be very happy to see this, but the fighting power of the Da Ming army has changed since the Tumu Fortress, when the literati came to power, and the general Xungui was severely suppressed, Daming who was like a tiger and wolf The army has become a war scum.

In the past, he could go for a walk on the grassland and hunt along the way, but now he could only rely on the strong city wall for defense, and he didn't even dare to fight in the field. He expected such an army to realize Zhu Houzhao's revenge?
Emperor Hongzhi knew this very well, so he became worried again in his heart, fearing that after Zhu Houzhao came to the throne in the future, Xue Yingzong would come to the imperial conquest.

At this moment, he didn't know how to guide his son.

"Maybe it's good to be an honest and well-behaved emperor."

In his heart, Emperor Hongzhi thought so again.

But thinking about the embarrassment, passivity, and humiliation faced by the prairie wolves over the years, Emperor Hongzhi knew very well in his heart that what Zhu Houzhao said was right, and Ming had to change.

In the past, during the opening of grain collection, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain to the border town area, salt merchants recruited refugees on a large scale to open up wasteland and grow grain in the border town area, which greatly strengthened the defense of the border town area.

However, this Naliang Kaizhong could not last. After it was changed to Nayin Kaizhong, the border town became weaker and weaker day by day.

The lower the combat power of the army here, the more unscrupulous the grassland nomads will be. Every year, they seize the border and plunder every year. The scope and scale are getting bigger and bigger, and a vicious circle has gradually formed.

If it goes on for a long time, Daming will definitely be dragged down by this town, especially this Daming's finances, which are already stretched, will eventually be sucked up by this town.

He knew that Daming had to make some changes, otherwise even if the emperor Zhu Houzhao could live a stable life, what about the next emperor?

In another few decades, hundreds of years?
Really wait until the border town is completely corrupt, and there will be another natural and man-made disaster like now. Maybe the surname of Ming Dynasty will not be Zhu in the future.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi became even more worried.

He is a good emperor, he inherited the country of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally wanted to pass on the country and the country of the Ming Dynasty.

Similarly, he is also a father, and a good father. He also thinks about whether he can leave something for his son, and he can clear up some stubborn diseases for his son, so that he can better rule the great Ming Dynasty in the future.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao, then looked at the important ministers around him from the corner of his eyes, thought about the famine in the three northern provinces this time, and then looked at the spacious cement floor under his feet that snaked to the end of his sight. Ma Lu suddenly had many decisions in his heart.

"Perhaps this is the turning point of Daming's transformation."

Unconsciously, I thought of Liu Jin in my mind, and carefully recalled everything that Liu Jin had done.

From meeting Liu Jin at Wangyue Tower, hearing him talk about the world beyond the daimyo, to the appearance of honeycomb coal, and now, he went fishing and doing business in Tianjin, which solved the famine problem this time. Let yourself and Zhu Houzhao's pockets bulge up in a very short period of time, and now they have invented such a magic weapon as cement.

Emperor Hongzhi unconsciously showed a smile on his face.

Whether it was Zhu Houzhao who was next to Emperor Hongzhi, or the elder of the third cabinet, no one had noticed the changes in Emperor Hongzhi at this time, and no one knew that Emperor Hongzhi had a lot of thoughts in his mind.

　I have a cold and cough, but fortunately I don’t have a fever, and I still have a runny nose~~ I have never felt so happy with a runny nose~~
　　
　
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