Qiming 1158

Chapter 1423 Does Daming still need to keep them?

Su Yonglin received the message of help from the elders, and his face was black.

He felt that he kept raising them as pigs. Although their morality declined and they could not threaten the Central Plains, the effect of this northern barrier was no longer there.

As soon as the wild people of the forest tribe headed south, they were beaten into quails, and they were looking for teeth all over the place.

Can this be used as a northern barrier?

I'm afraid that Daming won't be able to wipe their buttocks.

In desperation, Su Yonglin could only convene a military meeting to discuss the matter with the military cadres.

"In recent years, the people of Wanggu and Tatar have lived a good life for too long, so comfortable, that the sense of crisis has disappeared, and the guns have entered Kuma and released to Nanshan. Last year, they did not even have I heard that they organize large-scale hunting activities, but instead they have tea parties for fighting the rich one after another."

Sun Ziyi rubbed his temples and said helplessly: "It seems that these two tribes are almost abolished, and they can't fight, how can they share the worries for Daming? If this is the next time the tribe in the forest goes south, they will ask for help once. , how much military spending will Daming pay for them? I don't even dare to think about it."

"Why are they still hunting? How tiring is hunting."

Xin Qiji sneered and said: "I heard that they are more willing to engage in animal husbandry, because they have enjoyed the sweetness of doing business with Daming, they are very concerned about the cattle, sheep and horses that Daming needs widely, and they keep raising and increasing production.

Now the four-legged running is all money in their eyes, it is a luxury of Daming, and it is their own luxury. dizzy. "

"Having said that, they are too wasteful and have brought a lot of trouble to Daming."

Deputy Chief of Staff Ma Weiying sighed: "As Sun Shuxiang said, Daming left them in order to guard Daming's borders and defend against the tribal cavalry from the north going south, becoming Daming's first line of defense.

But now this line of defense is invalid, not only is it invalid, but Daming has to invest in troops and military expenditures to maintain their existence. In this way, is it necessary for Daming to keep them? "

This statement by Ma Weiying gave the people at the military conference a good start, and everyone began to consider the pros and cons of keeping these two tribes and destroying them at will.

Keeping them, of course, can make a lot of money, but I don't know how much money I will spend to defend them in the future.

Destroy them easily, although there will be no money to make in the future, and many luxury goods have no buyers, but the reduction in military spending will also be very considerable.

Su Yonglin really didn't think about this joint at first, but after Ma Weiying put forward this idea, he suddenly felt that this matter was quite troublesome.

The Tatar Department and Wang Gu Department are obviously almost abolished, and they can't play the role of guarding the border for Daming. If they continue to let them rot and stink in the north, it will only attract more wolves, tigers and leopards, and it will waste Daming more. more energy to protect them.

Su Yonglin remembered Germany's evaluation of Italy during World War II.

If it is an enemy, only ten divisions are needed to destroy them, if it is neutral, twenty divisions are needed to monitor them, and if it is an ally, it is over, fifty divisions are needed to protect them.

Su Yonglin was also thinking that maintaining their existence at the beginning was mainly because Daming still had many enemies to deal with. Those in the south and west were all enemies. Now, the Southern Song Dynasty in the south and the Western Xia in the west are already finished, especially in the south, basically. There won't be any major battles.

In this case, is it a big advantage or a big disadvantage to continue to keep these two rotten and smelly tribes now?
At the military conference, everyone spoke to me, took out pen and paper to write and calculate, and used pure numbers to demonstrate.

Su Yonglin listened silently.

After about two incense sticks, everyone's opinions gradually tended to be unified.

Taking advantage of the fact that Wang Gu and Tata's are now easily destroyed, some buyers of luxury goods may lose some money for a while, but they will lose some income, but in the long run, it will reduce the amount of money Daming needs to spend in order to protect them and deal with emergencies. A lot of military spending.

Compared with luxury goods transactions, military expenditures are more "considerable".

Moreover, as far as the current climate issue is concerned, the possibility of large-scale grain supply northward to support them cannot be ruled out in the future, and after destroying them, these problems will be solved.

The Fengmei grassland that originally belonged to them also belongs to Daming directly, and can be directly administered by Datong Province. Daming can organize a large number of herdsmen to graze here on a large scale, raise cattle, sheep and horses, provide enough livestock for the Central Plains, and incorporate grasslands into Daming’s economy. In the inner loop, there is no need to deal with them a lot of political and economic expenses.

Therefore, the elimination of Wanggu and Tatar is more beneficial than detrimental.

Su Yonglin nodded, expressing his support for the view of the military conference.

"Since the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, let's do it this way. We plan to dispatch [-] to [-] cavalry to fight a medium-scale raid, while eliminating the barbarians in the forest who are attacking south, while taking care of Tatar and Wang. Gubu, solve the northern border problem in one go!"

In this period when Daming is about to move westward and manage the relationship between the Western Regions and Central Asia, the value of the northern grasslands that have lost their unification and the possibility of rising has been greatly reduced, and they no longer have the value of winning. What Daming needs is a peaceful The northern border of the problem.

However, it is necessary to look at the problem from a far-reaching perspective, because the northern border is so cold that the prairie barbarians have no choice but to go south, and it is not that Su Yonglin has not considered it.

At this moment, China is indeed in a relatively cold climate cycle.

With the further drop in temperature in the future and the further coldness of the global climate, if the barbarians living further north and even in Siberia are not cleaned up now, they will definitely go south on a large scale in the future and become a frontier of the Ming Kingdom.

This time, they were forced to go south, and they were all eliminated, and all the prisoners of war were moved to the Hexi area to help build the Shazhou and transport strategic materials. Using this method to make them play a role can be regarded as a sense. waste utilization.

And since this time it was decided to send troops, it would be better to go to a more northern position, preferably to reach the legendary Beihai, and set up a national boundary monument in the place where Su Wu and Shepherds was, which is also a rare achievement.

According to the discussion at the military conference, the court decided to appoint Han Jinggui, the commander of the Third Corps, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, commanding the [-] cavalry of the Third Corps and the [-] cavalry under the Zhongdu Huben Imperial Guard, a total of [-] cavalry.

The [-] cavalry will be the main fighting force of this battle.

In order to ease the logistical pressure, the imperial court ordered the Privy Council to mobilize a large number of dairy products and dried meat products stored in the military material warehouse of Datong Province and distribute them to the cavalry as the main food.

Even if it is not prepared for future wars, the Ming court also has its own regulations on strategic material reserves. The storage of dairy products and air-dried meat products that are very suitable for large-scale and long-distance cavalry operations away from the homeland is carried out all the time.

Not only the livestock produced in the local pastures were provided to the logistics support department of the Ming army, but also the livestock of the Wanggu and Tatar departments in large quantities. After so many years, the quantity of dried meat and easy-to-store dairy products has been enough to support [-] cavalrymen. consumed.

In addition, considering other food needs of the cavalry, the Privy Council also allocated [-] prairie sheep and [-] prairie cattle to accompany the army on the expedition. They will also carry some made-to-bread carbohydrate foods and become mobile [grain banks]. Provide a sumptuous meal for the Ming cavalry.

(End of this chapter)