"Why didn't Wu Haogu want the northern grassland to be calm?"

In Chongzheng Hall, the Emperor of Song asked.

Fengmingshan replied: "Because the grasslands are divided into small chaos, and if they are combined, they will be less peaceful. Small chaos can avoid big chaos, while if they are less peaceful, they will cause great difficulties in the future. Therefore, Wu Haogu divided and governed the grasslands, and was unwilling to do anything in the Eastern Liao, Western Liao, and Jin Kingdom to overwhelm the heroes and unify the grasslands."

In the main hall, Deng Xunwu, who replaced Su Chi as the instructor of the Privy Council, reported: "Your Majesty, in the past, the Huns unified the grasslands, which would cause harm to the Han Dynasty. The Turkic grasslands were to disrupt the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The Khitan unified the grasslands, which would cause harm to our dynasty for more than a hundred and decades."

Zhao Ji nodded, "I once made a date with Wu Haogu, and each became emperors. But he didn't want to establish himself for Liao. If he had established himself for Liao, wouldn't the grassland be unified by him? Why didn't he want to?"

"Because the grassland is easy to take and difficult to control," Fengmingshan said, "The Zhou army defeated the Khitan and defeated the Dongliao. There were tens of thousands of armored cavalry under its command, and its reputation was established.

As long as Wu Haogu was not stingy with millions of money and silk to reward the heroes on the grassland, he could win over 100,000 bow-induced men. More than 100,000 cavalry oppressed the Jurchens together, which was enough to drive them back and out of the tiger water.

However, it is easy to take grasslands, but it is difficult to control grasslands. In the past, the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and destroyed the Turks and took grasslands, but it was only a generation of governance. But today, the air is getting colder and the white disasters on the grasslands have been going on for years, and there are hungry and cold herders everywhere. If Wu Haogu became the common master of the grassland, he would have to take care of their food and clothing.

People on the grassland are all wolves. If they are full, they are comfortable, and if they are hungry, they will hurt people!

Moreover, the Zhou State had three to four hundred thousand citizens and more than four million Han people, and three million Han people, and three million Bohai Sea, hundreds of thousands of Khitans, hundreds of thousands of Jurchens, and millions of Goryeo people. If one had millions of Jurchens and two millions of grassland wolves, could the Zhou State still be as prosperous and stable as it is now?"

The Tianli Sect of Liang State understood the grassland, and they also preached on the grassland. They also understood the Zhou State and knew what it means to be a small number of people. The Han people on the territory of Liang State did not account for the majority, and the number of knights in a dominant position was even smaller, with only sixteen or seven thousand households.

The situation in Zhou State was of course better than that in Liang State, but now it is still a small number of people. The maximum number of Han people in Zhou State was 4 million, the number of people in Bohai was about 3 million, the number of people in mature Jurchens was more than 100,000, and the number of people in Dongliao was 700,000 to 800,000.

Even if the Goryeo people who were not dependent on the Great Zhou Dynasty, the ratio of Han people to non-Han people in the land of the Great Zhou Republic (including the Eastern Liao Dynasty) is one to one.

Moreover, Wu Haogu can really rely on, that is, more than 300,000 citizens. He is definitely a small number of people!

In this case, if you eat the grasslands in the northern desert and the white mountains and black waters, the Great Zhou Kingdom will encounter severe indigestion.

The military citizens of Zhou State were basically farmers, and it was impossible for them to ride horses all day long on the grassland.

Therefore, Wu Haogu had no way to establish direct rule on the grassland, so he could only engage in banish rule. Considering that the grassland people are not fooled by Buddhism, they are all barbarians who believe in immortality and God. They are not analogies that the Mongolians who believe in Lamaism...

It is still the Little Ice Age! The harsh climate not only puts great difficulties in the Zhou army in the north, but also forces the grassland tribes with difficult survival to continue to launch wars against the rule of the Great Zhou.

Unless Wu Haogu's army has the ability to conquer all the grassland tribes and then move them to a warm and comfortable place... or simply kill them all!

However, considering the boundless grassland, the difficulty of supply and the harsh climate, it is impossible for Wu Haogu's cavalry to truly conquer the grassland.

What can be done is nothing more than being called custody, but actually custody. In order to maintain custody rule, the Great Zhou had to prohibit tribes from private wars and disaster relief in the case of serious disasters on the grassland.

But this will further promote the growth of the grassland population... If it is well raised, the grassland population will grow. If it is not well raised, the grassland peaks will be everywhere. In short, it is all thankless things!

Wu Haogu was full and was doing such a thing? If you have this energy, it is better to do your own capitalist construction and go out to sea to go to a few more sacred territory since ancient times. Isn’t it better to struggle on the prairie?

"So that's it..." Zhao Ji nodded slightly, "No wonder Wu Haogu was unwilling to stand on behalf of Liao.

Since the grassland is so difficult to control, what is the significance of the strategy of pacifying the four directions by King Liang? Because even the strong Zhou State cannot control the grassland, who else can control it?"

"Report to your Majesty, Yelu Dashi can cure it."

"Yelu Dashi?" Zhao Ji asked, "What's his way?"

Feng Mingshan said: "He can find a warm and happy land for the two million people on the grassland!"

"Where is the land of warmth and happiness?"

"In the river, Persia, Great Food, and Egypt are all warm and happy lands."

Fengmingshan smiled and said, "Yelu Dashi has been operating in the seven rivers near the river for eight years. He knows that Persia, Dashi, and Egypt are rich and weak in the rivers. If there are hundreds of thousands of grassland heroes, they will definitely be completely pacified.

If 2 million people are lost on the grassland, it will not cause harm to the Central Plains for hundreds of years in the future!”

"In the river, Persia, Great Food, and Egypt are all weak?" Zhao Ji asked, thinking in his mind, why can't the Song Dynasty meet so many weak countries in the world? Is it because the ancestors are too clever to take over the country? So God has to ask some problems?

"Everything is weak!" Feng Mingshan said, "But they are not really a country that is both weak and rich."

Isn’t the Song Dynasty a weak and rich man? Zhao Ji thought to himself.

Fengmingshan said: "The real weak and rich is the Kingdom of Tianzhu! With tens of thousands of Western Xia, they crossed the mountains and traveled thousands of miles, and won a rich country in one fell swoop. As far as I know, now the Western Xia is located on both sides of the Xindu River, which is located in the northwest of India, the taxes earned in a year are no less than those in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Tens of thousands of people crossed the Pamir Plateau, passed through the Afghan mountainous areas, and entered the unfamiliar northwest of India. All the military taboos were violated!

Then... it was not that the army was wiped out, but that he became the owner of the rich Xindu River Basin. The food was so much that it was moldy, the cotton cloth was piled up like a mountain, and the gold and silver were cramps. From then on, he lived a happy life that Li Yuanhao could not even imagine in his dreams!

With such a lively wealth effect around you, Yelu Dashi and Zhang Li certainly want to copy it.

So these two guys have been communicating with each other for more than a year and have been discussing where to get rich. After discussing, they still think it is better to make money in Persia, Dashi, Egypt, and the river.

However, Yelu Dashi and Zhangli had too few troops on hand. Dashi had 60,000 households. Zhangli had only 16,700 knight households, and there were also 10,000 households of Wang Gu, Tatar, Uighur, and Tubo soldiers who were attached.

With such a few people, even if they can defeat Persia, the Great Food, Egypt, and the rivers, they will not be able to occupy it.

Therefore, they began to make the idea of ​​the grassland, trying to trick the robbers on the grassland into being rich.

Of course, Yelu Dashi and Zhangli never thought of pulling away all the barbarians on the grassland. It was enough to take away hundreds of thousands of people, which was enough to make a fortune in Persia, Dashi, Egypt and the river center.

...

"The Head of State, Tenriko and Dr. Oishi have no intention of going east and competing for the world with the Great Zhou Dynasty, and just want to go west and make a fortune."

Tianjin, the Head of State.

Another envoy sent by Zhangli, Su Zhihuan, was acting as a lobbyist at this time. He lobbyed Wu Haogu to participate in the "Four Squares to Pair the Golden Strategy" to help defeat the Jin Kingdom. He created conditions for Zhangli and Yelu Dashi to gather the grassland tribes.

Wu Haogu sat behind a large desk, frowned, and while listening to Su Zhihuan's words, he looked at a map spread on the desk.

The picture shows the general situation of the "Dajin Encirclement Net". Yelu Dashi's men were huddled near Kedun City, Mobei. Zhangli's army was on the grassland on the north bank of Hetao. On the grassland on the south bank of Hetao, the Song army was gathering heavy troops!

In Bing Dai, Fulin, the Song army and Xiao Gan's Bing Dai army, and the Zhe family's Fulin army were also gathering.

A huge net surrounding the Great Jin Kingdom looks like it has been woven.

However, Wu Haogu, who has been through a long battle formation and has become a military expert, knew that all aspects of participating in the "encirclement" did not have the determination to fight to the death with the Jin soldiers.

Yelu Dashi and Zhang Li just wanted to pull people from the grassland. Five hundred thousand, one million were all profitable. Wanyan Aguda didn't say anything about not letting them pull them... Those people could not be raised even!

And how much money do Oishi and Zhangli have? Can they afford it?

As for the Song Dynasty... Jiaozhi and Jin Kingdom are not the same opponent of the same order of magnitude! And there is also Mongolia and Kelie who is following the Jin Kingdom!

And the Great Zhou... it is possible to take down Linhuang Mansion and Huanglong Mansion. However, it is a bit difficult to bear the war in Datong Mansion at the same time.

Although the Great Zhou Kingdom had more than 200,000 troops, it was not enough to really spread out and put on such a vast battlefield.

This war is not more powerful than a dignified formation, but more maneuverability and search ability. The role of cavalry is much greater than that of infantry!

Without enough cavalry to search, the Zhou army simply occupied several empty cities, and could not even find the shadow of the enemy!

With the strength of the Zhou cavalry, even if the dependent Dongliao cavalry can be divided into two or three routes, and then a pair of infantry to occupy the city... If you want to stay one route as a reserve team, at most two large armies will be there, and it would be good to be responsible for one direction of the Tokyo Road of the Jin Kingdom.

Once the Jurchens discovered that the Zhou army was used on Tokyo Road, they were likely to concentrate their main force on Xijing Road.

"It's so adventurous!" Wu Haogu shook his head, "This four sides destroy Jin Ce is so adventurous!"

Su Zhihuan smiled and said, "Adventure? With the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is enough to defeat the Jin Kingdom. What's more, there are other three troops? You are talking about adventure now. It seems that the Martial Saint only wants to see the Song and Jin tug-of-war, so that he can reap the benefits of the fisherman, right?"

Wu Haogu snorted coldly, "Whether my Great Zhou can defeat the Jin Kingdom is not determined by the eyes of the world, but by the swords in the hands of the generals of the Republic. The Republic's military will be the swords of the Great Zhou Republic and will only fight for the Republic!"

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