As soon as Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, no official stood up and replied in the crowded and narrow Yulin County Government.

Because the current situation is more or less helpless for the Ming Dynasty.

Economic blockade was the most effective way for the Ming Dynasty to control the outer Mongolian tribes.

But now, because of internal thieves colluding with the enemy, once the economic blockade cannot be effective, it means that the Ming Dynasty has no choice but to use the little prince's military operations.

Because in the vast desert, the Ming army could not determine where the little prince would fight to the right wing of Mongolia.

This is not the 21st century, and there is no convenient communication method. Even if the Ming Dynasty wants to stop the little prince from unifying Mongolia and rescuing the Mongolian right wing, it is afraid that the little prince would have destroyed the Mongolian right wing before the Ming reinforcements found the little prince.

The Central Plains dynasty sometimes is in a very embarrassing situation, because the cavalry of the nomadic peoples is flexible, which makes it difficult for the Central Plains dynasty to completely annihilate the nomadic people even if they have strong national strength. Sometimes, in order to cherish the people's strength, they have to take a defensive stance and can only fight with the nomadic people when they attack. Even if they fight at most, they can only repel it! It is difficult to achieve the purpose of chasing and annihilation and maintaining peace forever.

Now, the Ming Dynasty once again fell into this embarrassing situation.

The little prince did not choose to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty because Zhu Houzhao stormed his son Urus Borot, and still implemented his strategy of unifying Mongolia first.

The Ming Dynasty either chose to take the initiative and spend national efforts to rescue the Mongolian right wing and prevent the little prince from unifying Mongolia. However, if you do so, you may return in vain because you get lost. It is also possible that the war between the little prince and the Mongolian right wing has ended before the Ming Dynasty could rescue.

Or the Ming Dynasty could only watch from the side, watch the little prince unify Mongolia, and then further expand, posing a greater threat to the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Moreover, there is still another problem facing Zhu Houzhao, the Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, which is that Zhu Houzhao had just granted three titles to the Mongolian tribe and asked them to join the Ming Dynasty.

But now.

Among these three Mongolian tribes that had just been granted titles and had been granted the title of king and had joined the Ming Dynasty, two of them were about to be destroyed by the little prince, and one directly rebeled and surrendered to the little prince, and colluded with the little prince to destroy the other two Mongolian tribes that had joined the Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty let this go, it would have a negative impact on the Ming Dynasty's national prestige.

This means that in the future, other Mongolian tribes will think that it is meaningless to submit to the Ming Dynasty, because even if they submit to the Ming Dynasty, other tribes can still attack themselves without scrupulously, and the Ming Dynasty will have no choice but to not rescue themselves, and thus will despise the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, if the Ming Dynasty inspected the Har tribe's behavior of first joining the Ming Dynasty and then betraying the Ming Dynasty and colluding with the little prince without giving a blow, it would also lose the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongolian tribes that joined the Ming Dynasty in the future would be unscrupulous.

In history, the story evolved like this. After the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, although Altan had been crowned king by the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes later betrayed the Ming Dynasty and became the lackeys of the Qing Dynasty.

It can be seen that if the Ming Dynasty left the little prince and the Chahar tribe alone, it would have serious consequences.

The cabinet chief Jiao Fang, the eunuch Liu Jin, the chief inspector of the Sili Supervisor, and other officials present realized this, but they did not dare to advise Zhu Houzhao to ask the Ming Dynasty to send troops to rescue, because this would likely cost money and food without any result. In that case, those who proposed to send troops to rescue Mongolia's right wing would probably take the blame.

Zhu Houzhao himself also knew that now was a time to face a decision, a time to decide whether to maintain the external majesty of the Ming Dynasty. If he wanted to maintain this majesty, he had to be prepared to spend money and food, even lose money and even lose.

Even, this decision can only be made by Zhu Houzhao himself.

Seeing that no one answered, Zhu Houzhao was even more sure that this matter was just as Qiu Yue said, and he could only make a new decision by himself, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The dry firewood burned in the winter night with a blazing fire, and from time to time, it made a crunch! A little dust shaking, and when the dust fell, the entire Yulin County Government returned to silence again.

Zhu Houzhao stood up and stepped on the charcoal that splashed on the ground. The charcoal still had sparks, but in a blink of an eye, it was crushed into ink marks all over the ground by Zhu Houzhao's thick shoes. He couldn't help but say:

"The little prince guessed that the Ming Dynasty did not dare to attack the desert easily, and ignored the dignity of the Ming Dynasty, and only thought that the grassland was the world of their Yuan people! But I was not as good as he wished, and the dignity of the Ming Dynasty was sacred and inviolable!

If his little prince dares to destroy the tribes of the Ming Dynasty, I will dare to destroy him. So what if it costs national strength! National strength can be restored! But the dignity of the Han Dynasty cannot be blasphemous, and the prestige of the Ming Dynasty cannot be limited to the wall! Besides, I will not suffer any loss in order to attract fame!"

As he said that, Zhu Houzhao looked at Jiao Fang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Liu Jin, the chief supervisor of the Sili, said:

"Issue the order! I send all the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, and all the cavalry go out of the desert! I harass the little prince's road behind the back, and kill them when they encounter cavalry! I plunder them when they encounter herdsmen! I burn them when they encounter tents and courtyards! I rob them when they encounter horses and sheep! The main attack is!

If the main force of the Little Prince's army withdraws, it will quickly withdraw to the pass!

The purpose of this battle is to disrupt the entire rear of Hetao by his little prince! His little prince can plunder the Central Plains, and my cavalry can also plunder the Hetao he currently occupies!"

After Zhu Houzhao said that, Jiao Fang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, looked at Zhu Houzhao in surprise. They admitted that this was a very effective response measure and the best and most beneficial measure to the Ming Dynasty.

However, Jiao Fang couldn't help but wonder, was it too shameless and despicable to do this? He did not fight head-on with other people's army, but seized other people's retreat and looted the rear. This is no different from the Tartars! There is no righteousness of the country above the Celestial Empire!

"Your Majesty! This move may be despised by the scholars of the world. Your Majesty is impeached by the censors. You do not dominate the world with the kingly way, but you plunder the world with cruelty. This will impeach you. This is an act that will lose the hearts of the people in the world. After all, the Celestial Empire is a country of etiquette, and if you fight, you cannot use this inferior act." Jiao Fang hurriedly reminded.

Zhu Houzhao was very surprised. Isn’t it normal to treat someone with tooth and use his own way to treat someone else? Besides, now we can only use this as the only means. Could it be that if the little prince is too big? Is it necessary to pay attention to the despicable and elegant means of the enemy?

But Zhu Houzhao didn't ask much. He knew that this era was deeply influenced by Confucianism, and he was famous for his masters, and he said it was reasonable, and he paid attention to governing the world with etiquette. Even when dealing with the enemy, he should have a kind heart. Therefore, Jiao Fang's reminder also made Zhu Houzhao understand it. He also knew that he could not convince these officials who were raised by Confucian education, but he was the emperor and had the power to make decisions. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao still said with certainty:

"It is to draw an order! Impeachment and criticism are their power! But decision-making is my power. I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, not them! Moreover, this move is not an act that loses the hearts of the people in the world, but an act that wins the hearts of the people in the world. Since ancient times, all people have been convinced by the strong! The same is true between countries!"

"Abide by the order!"

Jiao Fang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, replied.

At the end of the fourth year of Zhengde, before the New Year of Zhengde's fifth year of Zhengde, countless commissars began to appear on the official roads from Gansu to Xuanhua. The sound of horse hooves resounded throughout this cold winter. Experienced veterans knew that the court was going to make big moves.

In Gansu, Shaanxi, Yansui, Ningxia, and Xuanhua, border troops began to go out to the frontier under the leadership of eunuchs and generals of the border towns! For a time, the entire Hetao area was full of the Ming cavalry. And because the little prince had already led 50,000 cavalry in his headquarters to fight against the right wing of the Mongolian wing, the rear was extremely empty.

The Shaanxi general system was only wide and carried only three thousand iron cavalry. Starting from Yulin Guard, he swept across the entire Hetao and directly robbed the area near Muna Mountain!

I met the Tatar tent and burned all the way!

If you meet a Tatar Ranger, you will kill it!

When you meet herders slaves and sheep and horses, you will catch them!

When the spring warms up in March, three thousand people directly carried nearly 10,000 herders and slaves, six thousand horses, and no more than ten thousand sheep flocks!

The officers and soldiers of other border towns also made money and rescued many Han people who were robbed by Tatars.

When March was in early spring, when Ma Wensheng was ordered to send the censor to count the robbery, he saw that many of the border soldiers who came back were satisfied, and obviously he tasted the taste of a woman, and each one was much more gentle than before.

Moreover, according to the rules, the gold, silver and fine materials that these border soldiers had picked up on themselves were their own. Therefore, the border soldiers who had been able to rely on Lumi for many days in the past made a complete fortune this time!

For many officers and soldiers, this time going out to the frontier and robbery was not only a blessing, but also a proud look!

After all, the Ming Dynasty was robbed by the Tartars in the past, but now after changing roles, the soldiers and civilians in the border town felt a sense of anger!

The conflicts between the military and civilians have also eased a lot. After all, the officers and soldiers have made money and will no longer treat their own people too much, and the military discipline has improved a lot.

The border troops were eager for the emperor to issue another order to let them go out to rob.

But it is obvious that this is impossible, because this looting is not tolerated by the Confucian gentry, and all the Tartars were robbed, so how could they make money by the commercial border trade they secretly controlled?

In the past, the Tartars plundered the wealth of the military and civilians in the border towns, and then bought salt, iron, tea, cloth and other items from merchants with backgrounds of powerful and noble gentry. The one who made the most profit in the end was the powerful and noble gentry.

They even had to raise the gangs and let the gangs rob the border towns so that they could take advantage of this to annex the land.

Now that the Tartars have been robbed and killed a lot, how can they raise enemies in the future to facilitate their own land acquisition?

Now that the border troops have snatched the money robbed by the Tartars, the powerful and noble gentry naturally cannot make any money, and their interests will naturally be damaged.

Therefore, there is no doubt that they want to stop Zhu Houzhao from encouraging the military and civilians of his country to rob the outside world, and their reasons for this matter were particularly just, that is, the emperor asked the border soldiers to do this to be harmonious, too unpopular, and what they should do without the will of heaven.
Chapter completed!