Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 137 Turning the Northern Wolves into Wolf Dogs

After solving the problem of internal unity and reaching a unified understanding, Wang Daoqiu and his friends can play happily together again.

The next day, it was the same work schedule. First, go to the Forbidden City and queue up to be a fool, and then go to Xiyuan to have breakfast with Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing was extremely cold at a high place. Wherever he went, people treated him as a monster and trembled in front of him.This kind of scene is so powerful!But it has been like this for more than twenty years, and Emperor Jiajing is tired of it now.Therefore, he now especially likes the casualness when getting along with Lu Bing and Wang Daoqiu in private. He even learned to help Lu Bing and Wang Daoqiu pick up their food when they ate together.

It was the same today. Emperor Jiajing first gave Lu Bing a fried bun, and then asked: "Lu Ermao, it's been almost a month, how much have you made? Isn't it time to help me recruit a mine protection team?" "

"Well, well, well, Your Majesty, now I have collected the tribute of more than 4000 Beijing officials, and collected a total of nearly 170 million taels. Among them, 92 officials have been on the elimination list, and I have returned their money to them . And in these days, I celebrated my thirteenth birthday in the mansion, invited more than a hundred officials to have a banquet in the mansion, and asked Wang Shizhong and Lu Fang to accompany me. Afterwards, as Wang Shizhong expected, those people all gave extra gifts. For filial piety, these filial piety silver are almost the same..."

"Okay, okay, Lu Ermao, I'm too lazy to listen to your bad debts. Just tell me how much money you have now, and can you recruit a Jurchen mine protection team for me?" Emperor Jiajing became impatient when Lu Bing reported his bad debts. , he only wants results.Process, process is not important.

Seeing that Emperor Jiajing was annoyed, Lu Bing quickly corrected his attitude and reported respectfully: "There are nearly 200 million taels of silver. Those who are going to return it to the eliminated officials should have 150 million taels available now. In the evening. I will have people escort 100 million taels of silver to the inner treasury first, and then divide 10 taels among the king's servants. I will send people to take the remaining silver to Liaodong and ask them to go to Jianzhou and recruit a thousand young Jurchens."

"I don't worry about those people doing things. You go to Jianzhou by yourself, and you have to choose the people yourself." Hearing that Lu Bing planned to send his men to Jianzhou instead of himself.The always suspicious Emperor Jiajing was unhappy and ordered Lu Bing to go alone.

After listening to Emperor Jiajing's words, Lu Bing said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, Liaodong is a place with vast seas and skies. I also want to ride horses? But now with the reputation of our place, we are given money every day." There are hundreds of officials there. Especially in the past two days, officials from Nanjing have come one after another to give us money. So Your Majesty, we are making money every day here. I really want to leave. Don’t open it!”

Silver, it's still silver. Thinking about the money that comes in like a tide every day, and then thinking about the iron ore being stolen every day in Xuanhua, it doesn't seem so heartbreaking.

Thinking of this, Emperor Jiajing said to Lu Bing: "The Jurchens' affairs will be dealt with after the Beijing inspection. You first dispatch five hundred elite men in brocade clothes to Xuanhua to hold the situation up for a while. In addition, send someone to the Jurchens to report the imperial requests. The news about recruiting warriors with huge sums of money has been released. Also, don’t be stubborn and just focus on the Jurchens in Jianzhou. People will also be sent to the Haixi Jurchens and Savage Jurchens. I heard that these Jurchen tribes usually have many If there is discord, they often attack each other. It is better not to reconcile, but it is better not to reconcile."

Love the Jurchen feud!Wang Daoqiu and Lu Bing naturally knew Emperor Jiajing's starting point, and Wang Daoqiu had a longer-term plan for this.So as soon as Emperor Jiajing finished speaking, Wang Daoqiu said before Lu Bing: "Your Majesty, your Majesty! I have been traveling to and from Tongzhou a lot in recent days, and I occasionally drop by to see our Tongzhou Trade City. In the Trade City, I have a close relationship with Liaodong." We have also met with merchants from there. They told me that the Jurchens are completely different from what we think. We think that the Jurchens are a nation and a whole, but they themselves have no such awareness at all."

"We Han people are a farming people, even in the north where the land is barren. Under normal circumstances, one acre of land can harvest more than 300 kilograms of grain. Ten acres of land is enough to support a family, so we can live in clusters. And people live in clusters. Together, we can concentrate on doing big things, such as building water conservancy projects together, concentrating financial resources to support our husbands, provide education for our children, and facilitate commerce. The Jurchens are different from us. Their mode of production is not farming, but fishing and hunting. This mode of production determines that they cannot live in concentrated communities."

“For example, our Han people can support one family with ten acres of land, and thousands of families with ten thousand acres of land. So for us Han people, we can live in thousands of families and thousands of people in ten thousand acres of land. . But the Jurchens cannot. After all, how much prey can they produce in a year with tens of thousands of acres of mountain forest? Therefore, tens of thousands of acres of land can support thousands of Han households farming, but it can only support one fishing and hunting household. Jurchens. Therefore, the Jurchens live in scattered places. It takes half a day to go to a neighbor’s house and ride a horse.”

"It is precisely because they live scattered and live in deep mountains and old forests. Therefore, they only see their own family on weekdays. The only chance to meet strangers is to go to the market controlled by their tribal leader to use animals to Skins are exchanged for salt, iron, and cloth. Therefore, in their minds, they are basically just their own family, and they have a very low sense of identity with their own tribe, let alone their fellow tribesmen from other tribes."

"Let's put it this way, Your Majesty, it is precisely because of the Jurchens' production method of fishing and hunting that they determine their isolated lifestyle. And isolation from the world allows those Jurchens who can read to know that the Jurchens are of the same nation, so they There are only a few tribal nobles like Liao Liao. The other Jurchens only have their own families and hunting in the woods in their minds. They are not as good as a child of the Han people in terms of worldliness. As for national righteousness, they are big Most people have never heard of it at all." "So those people can be said to have no national concept at all. All they have is an individual life based on the family unit. This means that as long as we treat them well, we can provide them with more than just fishing and hunting. If they live a much richer life, they will recognize me as the Ming Dynasty as their master, and will not worry about their identity as Jurchens at all. After all, they have only lived with their own families in the mountains and forests since they were young, and there is no master to teach them What kind of etiquette, justice and integrity, what kind of national justice.”

The meaning of Wang Daoqiu's words is very clear. The Jurchens' deep mountains and forests and isolated fishing and hunting production methods determine that they may have the opportunity to receive education, and they have no collective concept. In their minds, they only regard themselves as independent individuals. individual.So good national integration.

Emperor Jiajing understood what Wang Daoqiu meant.So after thinking for a while, Emperor Jiajing said: "The Jurchens are more powerful than our Ming army. I remember that on the way back from Xuanhua to see the Red Stone Mountain, Wang Qing mentioned to me that the Jurchens should fight with the Mongolian Tatars The strategy of reducing each other. I think this strategy is a good strategy and should be implemented. Now that we have the financial resources, we should implement this strategy. For the sake of the future of our ancestors, I will not give up the money from the capital inspection this time. , use it all on the Jurchens! And Wang Qing, you have a clever plan. After this Beijing inspection, you and Lu Bing will take the money to conquer those Jurchens. "

"promise"

"Subordinate to the order"

Emperor Jiajing issued an order, and Wang Daoqiu and Lu Bing hurriedly stood up to receive the order.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing, who had no intention of Wang Daoqiu and Lu Bing, thought of the Jurchens' terrifying combat power, which was invincible. Emperor Jiajing felt a deep sense of crisis in his heart.He was afraid that there would be another hero among the Jurchens who could unite the Jurchens like Aguda.He was afraid that the united Jurchen cavalry would attack the Central Plains and destroy his empire.

Therefore, Emperor Jiajing, who felt deeply frightened, was no longer obsessed with money. He generously planned to spend millions of taels of silver to solve the hidden danger of the Jurchens, and at the same time, make the Mongolians unable to take care of themselves.Of course, if the Jurchens can fight with the Mongols and die together, that would be even better!
Even though he was willing to give up millions of taels of silver, Wang Daoqiu also understood Emperor Jiajing's determination to conquer the Jurchens.So he suggested: "Your Majesty, there are still two months before the end of the Beijing inspection. During these two months, I feel that we can do some preliminary preparations in advance. For example, let the Taoist sect select good doctors and bring medicinal materials. In the name of the emperor's grace, we will go to the Jurchen living area to carry out the activity of sending doctors to the countryside. We will provide them with free medical treatment, and send them cloth, salt and other daily necessities to the old, weak, orphans and widows. Of course, in order to prevent the Jurchen nobles from causing trouble, we can also send them Collect the animal skins, ginseng, and horses from them at a high price, sell them salt, iron, and cloth at a low price, and reward them with some gold, silver, and jewelry."

"Ai Qing means that the one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world?"

"Your Majesty, the work of conquering the Jurchens must start from the bottom, and win the hearts of the Jurchens subtly and without leaving a trace. And more importantly, as long as the Taoist medical skills are widely recognized by the Jurchens, then the next step will be for the Jurchens Preaching the gospel in the middle is a matter of course.”

"My dear, do you want the Jurchens to believe in you?"

"Of course! Your Majesty, if you think about it, as long as the Jurchens believe in it, then Your Majesty, a god recognized by the Taoist sect, will naturally be the god in the eyes of the Jurchens and the master to whom they must be absolutely loyal. By then, the Jurchens, the northern wolf, will also It is a dog that is absolutely loyal to Your Majesty."

Turning the northern wolves into the wolf dogs of the Han nation is one of Wang Daoqiu's military preparations to conquer the world, so it must be completed.

After Emperor Jiajing heard Wang Daoqiu's plan to transform the northern wolves into watchdogs of his Zhu family, he also greatly agreed with him, deeply feeling Wang Daoqiu's loyalty.So as soon as Wang Daoqiu finished speaking, Emperor Jiajing made the decision to ask Wang Daoqiu to go to Tao Zhongwen and ask Tao Zhongwen to gather the power of the Taoist sect and do his best to focus on the Jurchens' ideological education work.

(End of this chapter)