Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 543, many methods

Liu Jin's words made everyone present ponder.

Everyone doesn't have a deep understanding of the grassland. They don't know what kind of life the grassland people live and what kind of pursuit they have.

It's just based on past impressions that the grassland people are as cunning as wolves, greedy and cruel.

Now from Liu Jin's words, there is a completely different side.

Prairie people and Daming people are actually the same, they just want to live a better life.

"Can this work?"

"Since ancient times, there have been many prairie tribes who have taken refuge in our Central Plains Dynasty. When they were weak, they naturally obeyed us. But once they became strong and we were weak, they would immediately show their sharp teeth to us."

"Basically, they are raising tigers to make trouble, and in the end they suffer instead."

Li Dongyang thought for a while and shook his head slightly.

People who are not of our race must have a different heart, which has been bought by bloody lessons time and time again in history.

"Li Gong's worries are not unreasonable. In history, we have been hurt time and time again, and we have also raised tigers again and again."

"But we also need to be clearer."

"Historically attached to the grassland tribes of our Central Plains dynasty, we did not have any direct intervention in these grassland tribes, but simply conferred titles on the leaders and nobles of these grassland tribes."

"Other than that, there is no intervention in the military, economic, and political power of the grassland tribes. It is still the leaders and nobles of these grassland tribes who have the final say."

"They are attached to our Central Plains Dynasty, and they have obtained the time and nutrition for development from us, and they have full independent power. When they become stronger, they will naturally turn back again."

Liu Jin nodded, and then began to analyze the grassland tribes conquered by powerful dynasties in history.

"It's like the local princes. All the power is in their hands. After a long time, it will naturally be reversed. The reason is the same."

"If we want to turn the grassland into the territory of our Ming Dynasty, and turn the grassland people into our Ming people, then we must solve this problem from the root, and separate the leaders and nobles of these tribes from the power of these tribes. It is better to implement the prefecture and county system in the grassland area, and assign officials to manage it."

"In this case, these prairie nobles and leaders have separated from their own tribes and lack control over the tribes. Even if they want to make trouble, they have no power."

"At the same time, these ordinary grassland herdsmen are the same as our ordinary people in Daming, except that our people in the Central Plains farm land, and they herd herds. They are essentially the same."

When everyone heard this, they nodded after thinking about it.

Since ancient times, no matter whether they are grassland people or Central Plains people, they are essentially the same. As long as they hold the power of military, government and finance in their hands, they will naturally breed a rebellious heart.

Because of the differences in culture and customs between the grassland people and the Central Plains people, they are even more prone to rebellion, and the attachment is only a temporary expedient measure, and the essence is still to gain a chance to breathe.

After clarifying this point, it is not difficult to govern and annex the grassland.

"But what if the leaders and nobles of these grassland tribes are unwilling to leave their tribes?"

Liu Jian thought for a while and asked.

"It's very simple. If you don't want to, we will fight until they are willing."

"Whoever is willing to become a citizen of my Ming Dynasty is naturally the best. If you don't want to, we don't need to be polite to them."

Liu Jin said very straightforwardly that now that Daming has become stronger, it is natural for him to be tough and domineering towards the outside world. If he wants to solve the grassland problem once and for all, if he doesn't have the courage, then he should stay in the Central Plains honestly.

"If the grassland people are the same as our Daming people, what will happen to their population after their rapid growth?"

Liu Daxia thought for a while and asked, he thought of the problem of future population growth.

The population of the grassland has always been small, and its growth is extremely slow, but if it is merged into Daming, with the support of Daming's food and medical technology, the population will definitely grow rapidly.

"Population growth is a good thing~"

"This means that we can recruit more cavalry capable of fighting from the grasslands, and it also means that we can have more people for overseas immigration."

"It's still the same sentence, the world outside of Ming Dynasty is very big. The Golden Continent alone has such a huge area, and the population that can support it is calculated in tens of millions."

"When our Daming continues to expand overseas, we will only worry about insufficient population."

Liu Jin smiled and said, it's not good to have too many people, the more people the better.

"Of course, the growth of the population on the grasslands will inevitably bring about some unstable factors."

"So, for all the tribes that belong to our Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, we have to separate the nobles and leaders of the tribes from the tribes; On the other hand, a tribe of steppe people should also be regularly relocated overseas.”

"Ryukyu, Golden Continent, Nanyang, Australia, there are some places to house them, and if they are relocated overseas, they will have to rely on our Ming Dynasty even more, and they will also be more loyal to our Ming Dynasty."

Then Liu Jin proposed the strategy of disrupting the grassland tribes, relocating the Han people to the grassland, and relocating the grassland people overseas.

There is only one purpose, to constantly break the original tribal system and establish a new system that is completely dependent on Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jin clearly knew that if he wanted to truly turn the grassland people into Daming people, he would have to work hard in politics, economy, culture, military, etc., so that the grasslands would become heavily dependent on Daming.

For example, a very simple thing.

In terms of wool, it is more cost-effective to let grasslands know that it is more cost-effective to raise sheep and shear wool through economical means. They will naturally expand the scale of breeding, and gradually get used to raising sheep and shearing wool for sale, and become a major player in the wool textile industry. links.

Once this dependence is formed, they become a constituent tribe of Ming's economy, and once separated from Ming, their economy will collapse.

Another example is that in winter on the grassland, the weather is very cold, and cattle and sheep will freeze to death on a large scale, which is a great loss to the grassland people.

If Daming buys their cattle and sheep on a large scale and gives them food before the winter, in this way, the cattle and sheep are turned into food and money, and their own losses will be much smaller, and they are sure He is very happy to exchange some cattle and sheep for living materials such as money and food.

Year after year, every year is like this.

They will gradually form a habit. Once they break away from this habit, they will have no way to survive and their life will be very sad. This is also a kind of dependence.

So there are many ways to control the grassland.

Moreover, Liu Jin knew that with the continuous development and maturity of musket and artillery technology, farming civilization would eventually rely on powerful firearms to gradually and completely defeat nomadic civilization.

Once the capitalism of Ming Dynasty develops and the technology matures in the future, there is actually no need to worry about the grassland people rebelling again.

The polar bears of later generations developed from a small principality to a superpower. In the process, I don’t know how many grassland peoples were conquered. Among them were the extremely fierce Cossacks and the Mongols who once flogged Europe, so they relied on muskets and cannons. .

In front of powerful muskets, horses can run as fast as bullets, and bows and arrows are not as powerful as muskets. Especially after the appearance of machine guns, cavalry gradually completely withdrew from the stage of history.

"That's a good idea~"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Emperor Hongzhi finally relaxed his frown, and couldn't help but nodded.

Breaking away from ordinary herdsmen and noble leaders, disrupting grassland tribes, mixing grassland people with Han people, and relocating grassland people overseas, after a series of policies, it is entirely possible to turn the grassland into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and turn the grassland people into Ming people. of.

"I think it's feasible~"

"Now that our Ming Dynasty's national power is booming, it is a great time to solve the problem of the northern grassland. Once and for all, the problem of the northern grassland is solved, and we will have no worries in the north."

Zhang Mao thought about it and nodded.

"I'm not as good as Liu Jin~"

Wang Shouren had been listening carefully, and after listening, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He actually thought of a lot of countermeasures just now, countermeasures against the grassland, but the countermeasures he thought of were not much different from the countermeasures in history.

It is nothing more than conferring kings and knights on the prairie people, giving them favors, making them grateful, and hoping that they can be loyal to the Central Plains Dynasty and so on.

Now after listening to Liu Jin's strategy, he couldn't help but sigh that he was still far behind Liu Jin.

"Your Majesty, in fact, we can try it on the grassland first."

"Now there are some grassland tribes attached to our Ming Dynasty. We can start with these grassland tribes attached to our Ming Dynasty to conduct experiments."

"Separate the noble leaders of these prairie tribes, disrupt these prairie tribes, and recruit troops from these prairie tribes. We will soon have a powerful cavalry."

"Coupled with the cavalry formed by our own Ming Dynasty, there is no problem at all to wipe out the wara tribes. At that time, we will be able to roll like a snowball."

"While constantly conquering more tribes and letting them belong to our Ming Dynasty, at the same time use these tribes that have been conquered and belonged to continue to sweep the wider grassland and conquer more areas."

After thinking for a while, Liu Jin came up with another method, as before, to try out the new policy on a small scale to see if the new policy works, and to see the effect. If the effect is ok, it will be implemented on a large scale.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up again, yes, yes~
　A knife in one hand and a carrot in the other, plus overseas migration~ It’s all right

　　
　
(End of this chapter)