back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 864 Situation
After saving for ten years, I can finally fight a big battle.

Why develop Jiangnan?It's not for storing food and preparing the army!
In war, what is actually fought is logistics, and what is fought is comprehensive national strength.With insufficient food and grass, no matter how brave the soldiers in front are, it will be in vain.Not to mention that the nomads all know that the Han people fought wars, with a lot of logistics and relatively weak defense.Once the grain and grass were robbed and burned, the Han people would have to retreat.

The nomads are different. Their horses can find delicious aquatic plants on the grassland. They take their mares, cattle and sheep together to set off.Once the cattle and sheep are finished eating, they will drink mare's milk, and they will not starve to death no matter what.Coupled with the vastness of the grassland, except for some undulating hills, it is all flat land. If they run in any direction, you will not dare to chase them.

why?There are many dead places on the grasslands, which are unknown to outsiders.The seemingly ordinary grass turns into a swamp as soon as you step on it. It's really killing people without seeing blood.

And this is also the difference between nomads and farming peoples, which inherently determines who is the defender and who is the attacker.

Of course, it cannot be generalized.

According to the theory of yin and yang in the Bagua, the cathode turns to yang, and the anode turns to yin, in other words, prosperity and decline.During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Xiongnu were extremely powerful, and after the Wenjing rule in the Han Dynasty, the seventh emperor Liu Che, with the power of the whole country, finally drove the Xiongnu away and became the mighty Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.The Huns turned from prosperity to decline, but why not the Han Dynasty?Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty exhausted the national power accumulated by Wen Jingshi, and the Han Dynasty also plummeted from its peak.

After all, the Han people are farming people, and the nomadic people are the grassland people. They know how to make a living on the grassland, but the Han people don't. This is the difference.It's not that the nomads don't want to make progress, but that they have been running around for survival. How can they settle down and develop culture?
The inertia of the Han people is that the more developed the culture, the looser the force and armament. Once the nomads are restless, they have little resistance. The culture that was previously developed is used as a wedding dress for others.

This is a strange circle, a strange circle of history.Even though history has changed beyond recognition, this vicious circle still exists.

Until there is technology that can offset the gap in brute force, the offense and defense can be transformed.

And this is also the reason why Lu Chengqi wants to vigorously develop firearms. Even if he is not familiar with history, he can also know from reasoning why the nomads suffered a devastating blow after the appearance of firearms?To be precise, it should be that after the emergence of continuous firearms, cavalry gradually withdrew from the stage of history.The reason is very simple, can thousands of cavalry withstand the fire of more than a dozen heavy machine guns?The nomads have lost their superiority in force, and culturally they can't even reach the edge of firearms. How can they resist?
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

All wars are just to struggle to survive, or to provide capital for careerists. In the eyes of these people, there is no justice.

If you want to break out of this vicious circle, you have to frighten the nomads first, and then give them a sweet date, and then they will obediently put down their arms, or choose to integrate into the Han people, or choose to go away to the desert.

It is impossible to carry out this ethnic policy without three or four generations.Lu Chengqi knew that the lifespan of the ancients was not long, and the lifespan of the emperor was even shorter.If we want to implement this policy, we must rely on our descendants to complete it unswervingly, so as to eliminate the barriers between ethnic groups and truly integrate the grassland people into the Han people.At that time, it was not grassland people who knew how to herd herds, the Han people did the same.But after the prairie people entered the Central Plains, they could only put down their butcher knives and work hard for three meals a day honestly.

This plan has been lingering in Lu Chengqi's mind for ten years.Every step he took after taking power was for this plan.

He would not speak rashly of this plan to Feng Jing, the chief minister of the cabinet who just took office, but used his fear of the Khitan people to achieve the purpose of increasing troops on the border.

"Feng Qing, horse bandits come and go without a trace. I really have no good way to destroy them. What do you think should I do?" Lu Chengqi said in a pretentious way.

Feng Jing also read military books, but he never dared to claim to know soldiers, his family and his own affairs, he said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, why don't you send troops to protect the battlefield?"

"It is indeed necessary to protect the market. But what if the horse bandits rob Khitan merchants?"

Feng Jing was stunned: "Then it's useless..."

"It's for this reason, I'm thinking, should I send more than [-] Huwei Imperial Guards to wipe out the horse bandits..." Lu Chengqi pretended to be embarrassed, but in fact he was just looking for a legitimate excuse to increase the number of troops.

Now Liao Kingdom and Jurchen are fighting very happily, and even Xiao Xulie, the Prime Minister of Beifu, died in office. General Xiao Feng is still a little bit worse than the treacherous and cunning Wanyan Wugunai. After being ambushed once , although he tried his best to kill and wound more than a hundred heroines, he still got dozens of arrows in his body and hated the battlefield.

So far, the hatred between the Liao Kingdom and the Jurchen has deepened, and the fighting in the Northeast has become more intense. Almost all the elites of the Liao Kingdom have invested in it.

Jurchen had only been majestic for a while, but now she was beaten to the brink of death, and had to return to Changbai Mountain again to recuperate.

But the weather is getting colder and colder, and the winter snow in Changbai Mountain is as thick as four or five feet deep. Even if a person is buried in it, the top cannot be seen.How could the Jurchens be reconciled to such a harsh living environment?
From the spies, it seems that Wanyan Wugunai's old injury has recurred, and he is seriously ill in bed, dying soon.However, Wanyan Wugunai has already decided on an heir, the second son Wanyan Xilibo, and a smart grandson Wanyan Aguda, there is no doubt that there will be no successors.

Now, what Dashun has to do is to watch the Liao Kingdom and Jurchen lose both sides, so that they can go there and take advantage of the fisherman.Lu Chengqi would not reveal his intentions, otherwise those civil servants who were full of benevolence and morality would criticize him verbally.Literati, the favorite is innuendo, and they have done a lot of this kind of thing.Fortunately, Lu Chengqi didn't run a literary prison. If there was a literary prison, I don't know how many people would be killed.

"Your Majesty, as long as the situation can be kept safe, let alone more than ten thousand mighty troops, what's the point of sending one hundred thousand forbidden troops over there?"

Hearing Feng Jing's words, Lu Chengqi shook his head helplessly. The Huwei Army is the cavalry of the imperial army. With the national strength of Dashun, they only raised one hundred thousand elite cavalry. It is almost all of Lu Chengqi's property. Do you invest in it all at once?Only fools do this!Besides, the food consumed to raise one cavalry can completely feed thirty infantrymen.When one hundred thousand cavalry arrive at the border, the logistics and transportation alone can drag Dashun down!

Fighting is not like that!
(End of this chapter)