Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

This kind of strategy for seeking the country, on the one hand, does not need to waste people and money, and on the other hand, it does not need to be killed by soldiers, which is obviously very suitable for the group of civil servants.

The emperor firmly believes that as long as the civil servants are exposed to such strategies for seeking the country, they will definitely be able to make good use of them!

It is enough for someone to do a special job, for the emperor, to grasp the general direction, and many labor-intensive things can be handed over to the subordinates.

And this kind of thing, no one has any experience. Although the emperor understands it, he only knows superficially, and the civil servants are even more confused.

There are two things in everything, and if it is successful this time, it will be even smoother next time.

Of course, there is one more thing about opening trade in the northwest, which is also an attempt by the emperor to Daheng world.

The pattern of the world has changed from the emphasis on east and west in the Han and Tang Dynasties to the current emphasis on north and south.

As for the North and the South, it is obvious that the rich and the poor are extremely uneven.

The south is already much richer than the north, and the future ocean era will aggravate the prosperity of the south.

And when the world's wealth is concentrated in the south, it is inevitable that all the centers of gravity will move south!

Even if the political center is in the north, it will definitely not go against this general trend.

After all, the clearest point is that being rich means that the family has surplus money, and only when the family has surplus money can they have a better living environment, a better educational environment, and it is easier to produce talents.

And being rich will contribute more money and taxes to the court, and will attract more attention from the court!

While the imperial court pays more attention to the south, it will pay less attention to the north.

In this way, a vicious circle will be formed, the south will become richer and richer, while the north will stagnate and even fall behind.

And when the north is backward and stagnant, such as grasslands and northwest Tibet, these backward places will naturally become tasteless places.

This is also the fundamental reason why in the past dynasties, when the country was founded, it laid down a huge land outside the territory, but in the middle and late dynasties, they often gave up one after another and turned into a trend of comprehensive strategic contraction.

After all, if they cannot make ends meet, they have to be subsidized by other rich places. Few people are willing to do this kind of loss-making business.

This is normal law!

The Son of Heaven developed Liao Province and set up municipal shipping departments in various parts of the Bohai Sea, all in order to make the north richer and try to make the balance between the north and the south as balanced as possible.

There are also reasons for this point in the decision to trade with the Northwest.

That is to open up the ancient Silk Road, connect Central Asia, add another source of wealth to the north, and make the north and south as balanced as possible!

Expansion of frontiers and territories has never been about being defeated and then being able to hold on.

The most fundamental factor lies in whether it can make this place generate value after it is laid down!

That is to say, even if it is impossible to make ends meet to keep this place, as long as the value of this place is far greater than the means to make ends meet, then no matter who is in power, as long as there is nothing wrong with their brains, they will definitely guard it beyond doubt.

This value can be divided into strategic position and economic position!

Strictly speaking, Northwest Tibet undoubtedly has great strategic value. However, in this era, the productivity has not yet reached the point where a missile can hit the whole world in later generations, and its strategic value has not yet been reflected.

If the strategic value does not work, the only thing left is to let it generate economic value, so that this piece of land can become a permanent land!

And once the Silk Road is fully developed, Tibet will undoubtedly have great economic value, and this economic value is not just Tibet itself.

It also means that those commercial countries connected to Tibet, as well as provinces whose internal borders are connected to Tibet, such as Hetao, Shaanxi, Sichuan, etc., will all be affected by this economic value, or benefit from it!

The balance between the north and the south, even if it is still difficult to balance, it will not tilt too seriously!

In this way, the Tibetan land must be an inseparable solid land with great value!

Otherwise, a piece of land with rugged terrain, harsh environment, and difficult to manage is a complete tasteless area.

If you cannot make ends meet for a long time, you can't say which generation, so you give it up.

This possibility is obviously not impossible, and the possibility is very large!

How many years did the Ming Dynasty go from strategic offensive to strategic contraction?

Yongle's five expeditions to Mobei, and his grandson's succession to the throne, almost completely negated Yongle's strategic offensive strategy. The interval between them was only a few years!

Obviously, the fundamental reason is that those lands that were contracted and abandoned are not worth enough!

Furthermore, it is because the country's wealth center lies in the south.

To avoid repeating the same mistakes, and without experience to refer to, the Son of Heaven can only test, try again and again, strive to change these...

Chapter 675 The Big Stick Sweet Jujube

By the end of the eighth year of Zhaowu, the situation in the grassland was undoubtedly extremely clear.

It was supposed to be an internal struggle in the grassland, but Daheng resolutely got involved.

Seizing the Hetao, taking over the Heshuo Special Department, everything, once again clearly proved Daheng's naked peeping at the grassland, and his unabashed manipulation of the heart of the grassland.

It's just that the three parties in the grassland obviously have nothing to do about it.

Of course, Daheng's intervention is not a bad thing for the grassland tribes in a sense.

The loosening of the blockade at the Daheng border is of greater significance to the grassland tribes who lack food and clothing, and everything else!

For example, the reason why Daheng has made Lin Danhan, who has almost unified the grassland, overwhelmed and divided Mongolia into chaos these years is because of Daheng's blockade of grassland materials.

Blocking one of the largest sources of supplies for the prairie tribes caused many prairie tribes to be unable to survive at all.

We can only rely on the grassland itself to survive, and the land carrying capacity of the grassland itself is undoubtedly extremely limited, and the natural disasters during the Little Ice Age are not limited to Daheng!

Grasslands are also plagued by natural disasters!

If you can't survive, you will compete for survival resources, which is inevitable!

This is the reason why Daheng's layout in the grassland is always beneficial, and this is also the reason for the chaos in the grassland.

And Daheng let go of this hole, even if it was just a deal with the Heshuo Special Department, it would benefit all the grassland tribes after all.

Of course, the most important thing is that in the face of Daheng's meddling, no matter whether it is Zhungeer's three major tribes or Lin Danhan, it is difficult to have any countermeasures, and it can even be said...to be powerless to protest.

Under such circumstances, the so-called invisible is pure, even if Daheng's kick directly changed the pattern of the grassland, but in the entire grassland, it seemed as if nothing had happened, and there was silence.

However, since the Heshuo Special Department announced its surrender to Daheng, the war between the three Zhungeer tribes and Lindan Khan's Mongolia in Mobei seems to have weakened a lot.

The private connection between the two has suddenly become much closer.

But... how can the hatred of war be eliminated in a short while? The three tribes of Zhungeer fought fiercely with Lindan Khan's Mongolia for nearly a year. , It is not so easy to resolve the countless blood feuds.

And Zhungeer's three major ministries and Heshuo's special ministries are fighting for the old and new overlords, not to mention, Daheng is in front of them as a "shit-stirring stick". If you don't want to fight, you have to continue to fight!

Moreover, the grassland and the northwest are where Daheng's center of gravity lies. Since the Intelligence Department of the General Staff and Jin Yiwei determined the distinction between inside and outside, the Intelligence Department of the General Staff has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the cultivation of grasslands and northwest Tibetan areas, so as to win over those who can use them. tribe.

For so many years, a large net has been woven in the grasslands and northwest Tibet, involving all aspects.

If it is said that it is not easy to stir up the wind and rain in a calm time, but in this chaotic situation, it is undoubtedly the easiest thing to make some noise to keep the war going.

At the end of the eighth year of Zhaowu, even though the three tribes of Zhungeer and the Mongolia of Lindan Khan were more restrained and even intended to unite against Daheng, under the manipulation of Daheng, this was ultimately just a fantasy.

Even Lin Dan Khan of Mongolia, although he is the Great Khan of Mongolia, ruled the whole of Mongolia in name,

But the existence of the tribal system is doomed. It is only a nominal aggregate, and the Great Khan is just the strongest among them.

Far from achieving true centralization!

This is true for Mongolia, the same is true for the three major tribes of Junggar in the northwest, and the same is true for the Heshuo Te tribe!

Under the control of Daheng, the war started again at the end of the eighth year of Zhaowu, and the intensity of the war had just been weakened a lot, and it jumped instantly.

The entire grassland in the eighth year of Zhaowu entered the ninth year of Zhaowu under the continuation of this shocking chaos.

The chaos in the grassland not only did not weaken in the ninth year of Zhaowu, but intensified with Daheng's entry into the situation.

In February of the ninth year of Zhaowu, after the arrival of the first batch of food, grass and military equipment from Daheng to support the Heshuo Special Division, under Daheng's will, the soldiers of the Heshuo Special Division also stabbed Zhunge Er three fiercely. mostly.

At the same time, the war between the three ministries of Jungar and Lindan Khan's Mongolia, although both sides are profusely willing to cease fighting, but the war continues to spread in a direction that neither leader wants to see.

The secret work of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff of Daheng is active in every part of the grassland, affecting every aspect of the grassland.

At the same time, the commercial blockade of Heshuo's special department was lifted, and under the liberalization of border trade, a large amount of materials also poured into the grassland.

Holding a military stick in one hand and an economic jujube in the other, Daheng is on the outside, but easily affects this vast grassland.

The military stick, Daheng, which established the country with force, naturally used it very smoothly.

But this obviously somewhat advanced monetary and economic stick, Daheng, is still quite raw.

This is not as simple and crude as blocking the border cross-market and cutting off the flow of materials into the grassland in the past. The twists and turns are obviously too complicated.

Since the end of Zhaowu Ninth year, when the border market was released for the Zhuanger department, most of the courts have been extremely tense, and they are all centered on the concept of money economy, processing, and analysis...

Under the rule of appointing people to do special tasks, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including the emperor, were adapting to and understanding this new rule little by little.

The so-called advancing with the times, Daheng's center is not behind at all.

Of course, these things will hardly be effective in a short period of time.

Whether it is changes in productivity or institutional thinking, it will take time to slowly change.

But in any case, the innovation of productivity lies in the market demand.

Today's Daheng not only has a huge internal demand, but now it seems to have taken the most critical step to create external demand.

Tianzi firmly believes that everything develops and exists in a law. The massive market demand inside and outside Daheng, coupled with policy support, will inevitably accelerate the innovation of productivity.

And since ancient times, many things.It's a winner-takes-all rule.

The same is true between countries.

The same is true for this productivity innovation!

In today's era of in-depth and expanded exchanges between the East and the West, Daheng's productivity is faster and more thorough than the West's innovation, and Daheng is the leader!

One step ahead, one step ahead!

Until... the winner takes all!

After the innovation of productivity, Daheng has a military stick in one hand and a currency economy stick in the other hand...

At that time, the face will no longer be just a mere grassland, but the whole world!

The rules and order of this world for hundreds of years will also be forged by Daheng!

Thousands of years of history, the central celestial dynasty, the glory is still there!

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Chapter 676 Wealth Circulation

The early spring has passed, and the scorching sun is approaching. The ninth year under Zhaowu's rule seems to be entering the midsummer.

The situation in the grassland is still in turmoil, and the Daheng Center is still busy, but in this Daheng world, it is becoming more and more prosperous.

In particular, the commercial and trade blockade of Heshuo Special Department was released, and massive demand poured into Shaanxi and Sichuan from northwest Tibet, and spread to the north and south of Daheng very quickly.

In fact, although in the eyes of the emperor, Daheng's productivity has not yet reached the point of complete innovation.

But in fact, for the whole world, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes in the ninth year of Zhaowu's rule.

All kinds of policies that benefit the people should be the foundation of the country and a change in the general environment, but changes in the market bring about changes in the living environment of the entire people.

For example, with the emergence of hydraulic textile machines, within a few years, they have appeared in almost all regions of Daheng from north to south.

Water power replaces manpower, and the scale is huge, and the output is also huge. In just a few years, the price of cloth has plummeted, which can be called high quality and low price!

The item of "clothes", which is related to the survival of the people, has completely become a popular item!

As long as the family has a little extra money, it is not difficult to change the whole family into a new set of clothes.

As for the item of "food", despite the continuous natural disasters in the north and south, it has benefited from the popularization and promotion of various drought-resistant and cold-resistant crops by the imperial court in recent years, such as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and so on.

High yield, and cold and drought tolerant!

According to the agricultural tax statistics of the eighth year of Daheng Zhaowu, if the grain produced by Daheng in one year is counted together with all staple foods, even in this year of natural disasters, the annual grain output in the eighth year of Zhaowu is already the fourth year of Zhaowu twice as much!

It is enough to easily supply the survival needs of the people all over the world.

However, each region is divided into more or less, barren and rich, and in many cases, the imperial court needs to allocate and coordinate.

And, most importantly, a small number of people occupy most of the survival resources.

And this point, the emperor has always tried his best to suppress and avoid it.

Obviously, food is still a big problem for Daheng, but as long as the pace of reform is maintained, the problem of food is not too fatal at present.

Just like the stock in the capital, up to now, the capital’s treasury reserve granary and internal money reserve granary, the stock in it is enough to supply the needs of the people of the capital for three years, and at the same time, it can also supply the Daheng Jing army, the imperial army, and hundreds of thousands of troops. Needed for the year's campaign!

And one of the items of food is salt. If we say that the industry with the earliest productivity innovation is salt.

In today's world, the gray-brown coarse salt in the past has long been a thing of the past, and the white flower snow salt, which is also high-quality and cheap, is the mainstream of salt today.