Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 290 Chapter 290, Li Dingguo was suspicious, Zhu Cihong gave advice
That night, the envoys of the Xining Wei ministries set off one after another.

According to Zhu Cihong's order, they will scatter into various parts of Qinghai to search for those fleeing Heshuote people, and persuade them to join Daming's team.

Li Dingguo couldn't understand this to some extent: "Your Highness, if we just wiped out these Heshuote people, we'll be done. Why are you trying to persuade them to surrender? They are completely vulnerable in front of us."

Don't look at Li Dingguo who has just joined Zhu Cihong's command for a short time, but now he is already one of the best sharpshooters under Zhu Cihong's command.

According to Fang Gongqian's report, Li Dingguo now even sleeps with a musket in his arms, which can be said to be extremely obsessed.

Of course, guns are not fun just for shooting targets. Looking at Li Dingguo's appearance, he can't wait to use it to shoot the enemy every day.

At this time, Zhu Cihong also had the urge to help his forehead. In history, Li Dingguo seemed to be a commander-in-chief type of general. Why did he become a reckless man who only knows how to shoot when he is under Ben Gong?

Zhu Cihong said seriously: "Dingguo, I want to ask you a question. Qinghai is so big, how do you ask me to find the more than 2 enemy troops scattered all over Qinghai?"

Li Dingguo was speechless for a while.

How big is Qinghai?A total of 72 square kilometers, which is basically equivalent to the total area of ​​the five provinces of Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui in later generations.

How to find more than 2 Heshuote "Local Snake" cavalry in such a large place?
Zhu Cihong patted Li Dingguo on the shoulder, and said: "Understood? There are some things that I don't want to do, so I really can't do them."

Li Dingguo was quite depressed, and couldn't help but said: "But it's useless to recruit these people, they don't know how to farm."

Zhu Cihong laughed loudly: "I don't need them to farm the land, what I want is their ability to ride horses!"

Li Dingguo asked suspiciously: "Riding horses? But we already have musketeers, Your Highness, cavalry are no longer our opponents."

Zhu Cihong shook his head slightly, and said: "Dingguo, you have to take a long-term view. Forget it, I'm in a good mood today, so I'll explain it to you."

At this moment, out of the corner of Zhu Cihong's eyes, he noticed that Zhang Shize, the British Duke, had approached him unknowingly.

That's right, so I don't have to say it twice.

Zhu Cihong spoke patiently.

"Daming will definitely not be limited to the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the future. Whether it is Liaodong, Monan and Mobei, or even Qinghai-Tibet and the Western Regions, all of them must be brought under our Ming's rule."

"But the past 200 years of warfare have shown that infantry is not well suited to conquer these areas."

"You may want to say that we are Musketeers, which is different from the previous infantry."

"But whether it's a pikeman or a musketeer, it's just infantry with cold weapons and infantry with hot weapons. There is no difference in the attribute of 'infantry'."

"Conversely, who is ruling the north and south of the desert and the western regions of Qinghai-Tibet? You will find that they are all tribal alliances or countries established by the Mongols."

"That's why cavalry is the most suitable type of army to conquer these places. If we Ming want to conquer these places, we must have our own cavalry."

"But can such things as cavalry be cultivated in a short period of time? I said bluntly, it will take at least five or even ten or twenty years to cultivate."

"Since we can't cultivate them, we can definitely recruit a group of them."

"It doesn't matter if it's Xining guard cavalry, Heshuo special cavalry, or Chahar cavalry, as long as they are willing to fight for Ming Dynasty."

"With these cavalry, plus our Ming's musketeers and cannons, wouldn't these places be taken casually?"

After these words, Li Dingguo and the British Duke were also excited.

The British Duke couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, but according to what you say, don't we need a large number of Mongolian cavalry to join the Ming Dynasty? The loyalty of these people will be a big problem. Moreover, Your Majesty and the civil and military officials will Not accepting it is also a problem.”

What the British public said is correct. You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang's slogan during the Northern Expedition was "to drive out the Tartars and restore China." Needless to say, the Tartars are naturally referring to the Mongols.

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "You people are just too narrow!"

"Let me put it this way, how did our great Han nationality, that is, the Huaxia nation, be established?"

"Of course the oldest one goes back to Yandi and Huangdi, but in fact the real establishment was in the Zhou Dynasty when Zhou Gongdan formulated the etiquette law and established the Huaxia system, right?"

Li Dingguo and Duke Ying nodded at the same time.

Zhu Cihong continued: "When the Duke of Zhou enacted the etiquette laws, how many princes in the Zhou Dynasty were there? They took soldiers and horses out to feud the state and build a country, and they couldn't even leave the city. So at that time, the people in the city were called 'country people', and the people in the city Those who did not abide by the etiquette of the Zhou Dynasty were called 'savages'."

"How many savages were there? At that time, more than [-]% of the entire Central Plains were savages, and less than [-]% were 'Chinese' from the Zhou Dynasty."

"What happened later? The princes conquered the nine barbarians in the east, the Baiyue in the south, the mountain rong in the north, and the barbarians in the southwest, letting them bathe in the brilliance of Chinese culture."

"Nowadays when you go to these places, you can still see from their appearance that there are many descendants of Jiuyi, Baiyue, Shanrong, and Qunman. But they all speak Chinese and write Chinese characters. If you say They are not Han Chinese, and they still want to fight you desperately."

Li Dingguo and the British Duke were stunned, each thoughtful.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "So, it doesn't matter who they are, the important thing is that they will be assimilated after becoming the people of our Ming Dynasty. After decades or hundreds of years, they will integrate into China and become a Real Chinese people, do you understand?"

The assimilation power of Chinese civilization is not built, and the 5000-year history is the best evidence.

What's more, there is Zhu Cihong, who is cheating, sitting here!

Britain is fair: "What if some people with ulterior motives want to rebel?"

Zhu Cihong said: "After all, there will only be a small number of rebels. As long as we can occupy these places, most of the Mongols will be assimilated by us. At that time, we can unite most of the assimilated loyal people to deal with them. This small group of rebels who rebelled. Do you think these rebels have any hope of victory?"

Li Dingguo subconsciously clenched the musket in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Absolutely impossible!"

Zhu Cilang snapped his fingers and said, "Any questions?"

Duke Ying and Li Dingguo shook their heads together and said, "His Royal Highness is wise!"

Zhu Cilang laughed loudly, and said seriously: "Da Ming wants to conquer this world, but Da Ming is not the Mongol Empire back then. It is impossible to slaughter cities while walking like the Mongol Empire. That is not the style of our Chinese civilization."

"My Han family, the overlord's way is mixed! Conquer with domineering and assimilate with the way of king. This is the reason why the Han family can still survive and expand after thousands of years."

"If you want to conquer the world for Ming Dynasty in the future, start now and learn how to be a general who preaches the kingly way of Ming Dynasty!"

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