Chapter 78
Chapter 0078 Economic Colonization! Let Beiyuan beg to surrender to our Ming Dynasty!!
Speaking of which.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Heng seriously and said:”So, I still ask you to give me some advice.”
Zhu Heng looked at his appearance, but scratched his head and said:”It’s not like giving me any advice.”
“If I want to give you some advice,”
“I suggest you quickly sell your land on both sides of the Yellow River.”
“Sell?”
Everyone was stunned.
Zhu Heng said patiently:”The problem of land loss in the Yellow River has become irreversible. The Yellow River will eventually burst its banks. There is no way to save it, and it cannot be saved.”
“Selling the land directly is the best solution.”
Zhu Di was stunned:?
“Even you can’t help it?”
In his eyes, Zhu Heng has always been omnipotent.
But he can’t even solve the problem of soil erosion?
“Are you overestimating me?
Zhu Heng said with amusement:”If you want to save your Yellow River pasture, you must ensure that the Yellow River does not burst its banks.””
“That is equivalent to regulating the Yellow River!”
“This is a major project that requires national strength to promote”
“Can you and I solve the problem of the Yellow River bursting its banks?”
“What a joke!”
Zhu Di frowned tightly when he heard this, but nodded helplessly.
But at this time,
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately said:”If I can’t do it with your strength, how about relying on the power of the court?”
“If you are the king of a country, you can use the power of the entire Ming Dynasty to repair the Yellow River”
“what will you do?”
“The more I talk about it, the more nonsense it becomes.”
Zhu Heng shook his head in amusement.
“And even if I have a way, it can’t be implemented.”
“Just have a way! Anyway, we are just chatting, so we might as well talk casually.”
Zhu Yuanzhang’s eyes lit up and he urged him.
This Uncle Zhu is really good at keying political affairs.
If he is really difficult to deal with, he is keying in politics anyway, so Zhu Heng just said casually:”If you want to rely on the imperial court to control the Yellow River, you only need to implement it. Three strategies”
“First, rationally allocate and utilize water resources to develop water-saving agriculture, save water resources and land fertility”
“Second, adjust the land use structure, rationalize grazing and actively build a protective forest network”
“Third, expand vegetation coverage, set up sand barriers and seal and fix sand to build a protection system”
“In the final analysis, these three methods are just four words:”
“Return farmland to forests.”
But as Zhu Heng gradually finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
This method… is very good and appropriate.
But it is not feasible.
Because this strategy will definitely be resisted by the Ming Dynasty!
Now the Ming Dynasty is still In the stage of restoring people’s power, it is time to reclaim wasteland and increase output.
It can be said that it is very inappropriate.
Zhu Heng is not lying. This strategy is feasible, but it cannot be implemented.
Zhu Heng took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. , casually said:”So, it is useless to have a good policy. If there is no good opportunity to implement the policy, good government will turn into bad government in the eyes of the people.””
“For example, regulating the Yellow River is a century-long or even thousand-year plan.”
“But how many people can think about things a hundred years from now?”
“Now that the people don’t even have enough to eat, you want them to abandon the good land by the Yellow River?”
“Believe it or not, as soon as this policy is promulgated, the people in the two areas of the Yellow River will immediately rebel. At that time, the emperor will not solve the problem of the Yellow River, but the problem of rebellion!”
After saying this, Zhu Yuanzhang had to sigh and nod.
Most people can only care about the immediate things…
Even if they break the truth into pieces and promulgate it to the world, it is useless.
After all, the world is big and the food is the biggest.
Most people only care about eating enough now, but they don’t care about the Yellow River flowing after death.
At this moment, Zhu Di was a little desperate:”We can only watch the Ming Dynasty reappearing the historical tragedies of the past dynasties?”
Now he clearly knows the cause of the Yellow River bursting its banks.
He also knows the solution.
But he can’t stop it.
This kind of sober pain makes him desperate.
At this moment, Zhu Di even preferred not to know what was behind the Yellow River bursting its banks. The truth.
Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed and sighed helplessly:”There is still time for human power, and the emperor is not omnipotent.”
Just like now, he clearly knew the solution but was unable to implement it. This made Zhu Yuanzhang feel helpless in his heart.
But at this time, Zhu Heng looked at their appearance and gave him a rare comfort:”There is no need to be so desperate.”
“I can’t help it”
“But someone has a solution.”
Huh?
Zhu Yuanzhang and others were stunned and looked at Zhu Heng!:”!?”
Zhu Heng smiled slightly and said,”People from Beiyuan.”
Everyone was stunned.
Zhu Heng smiled and said slowly:”Let the Beiyuan people raise horses for the Ming Dynasty. The horse farms on both sides of the Yellow River can naturally be abolished, and the time when the Yellow River bursts its banks will be greatly delayed.”
“This is a disguised solution to the problem of the Yellow River bursting its banks.
Zhu Yuanzhang said in disbelief:”How is this possible?””
“Beiyuan people are not fools”
“This is an enemy!
Zhu Di was also confused and said:”Brother, don’t you know the situation in Beiyuan?””
“The people of Beiyuan now regard the Han people as life and death enemies. How can they listen to the orders of the Han people!”
“Not to mention now, even if Beiyuan is conquered in the future, Beiyuan may not be willing to let us raise horses with peace of mind.……”
“Not to mention us, even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not let the Huns raise horses for him.”
This matter has been confirmed in history.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu many times, but the Han Dynasty could never let the Xiongnu raise horses for them.
The reason is also very simple, the Xiongnu refused to obey!
Let them be horse slaves, they After calming down, they will definitely rebel and continue to invade China. There is a consensus that the grassland cannot be governed!
Except for the Yuan Dynasty, no Central Plains dynasty has ever formed an effective rule in the grassland, even as powerful as the Han Dynasty. We can only create a hundred years of peace in the grassland, let alone let the grassland people raise horses for the Ming Dynasty.
“How is it impossible?”
Zhu Heng asked back:”If the predecessors couldn’t do it, people today must not be able to do it?”
“If we continue to be so stubborn, won’t the Chinese nation never be able to progress?”
After these words fell,
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked and glanced at Zhu Heng in surprise.
These words were so bold.
People today may not be inferior to the ancients!
Even if this ancient man was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!
When Zhu Di heard this, he felt proud. He paused and slapped the table:”That’s right!”
“The Ming Dynasty wanted to rule the Tang and Song Dynasties and reach far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties!”
“We must not set limits on ourselves. We may not be able to do what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not do!”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he nodded slightly with satisfaction:”There is some ambition.!”
“Father’s praise!”
“What can you do? Tell me what you can do?”
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhu Di with some relief.
This child can be considered promising if he has such an ambition.
Zhu Di simply said:”I can’t help it!”???”
Zhu Yuanzhang
“I am a martial artist, what do I know about strategy?”
Zhu Di said very bachelorly.
“Then why do you ask Beiyuan to raise horses for us?”
“I can’t help it, but I have the ambition!
Zhu Di said proudly:”Where there is a will, there is a way!””
“Dad, isn’t that what you always said?”
Zhu Yuanzhang’s mouth twitched, and he had the urge to shoot this unfortunate son to death.
This fourth child is indeed unreliable!
“I can’t help it, but my brother definitely has it!
Zhu Di looked at Zhu Heng confidently:”If you can come up with this strategy, you must have a mature method, right?””
Zhu Heng’s face was also full of black lines.
But Zhu Yuanzhang couldn’t help but look at Zhu Heng, a little doubtful:”Do you really have a way to get Bei Yuan to raise horses for us?”
It’s not that he doesn’t believe Zhu Heng.
It’s just that what Zhu Heng said is too unbelievable.
Even if he conquers Beiyuan in the future and uses a knife to force him, the herdsmen will not be able to raise horses for him.
What can Zhu Heng do if he can’t do it with a knife? Is there any way to do it?
“There is a way, and it’s very simple, just four words……”
“Economic colonization!”
At this point, Zhu Heng looked at Zhu Di and said:”Remember, when we talked about sea power before, there was still a paragraph that was not finished.”
“The content of this second half is exactly economic colonization!”
Zhu Di suddenly remembered that at that time, Zhu Heng was talking about sea power and the governance of the colonies.
But it suddenly stopped, and he was still unfinished.
It was just that he was busy with other things, but he had no time to ask about the content behind it.
“Yes, there is also the second half! This economic colonization can also solve the problem of horse breeding!”
Zhu Di was immediately shocked, and with great seriousness, he quickly urged Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Zhu Heng:”After the fourth child came home, he told us about the theory of sea power, and we were also very interested.”
“Tell us about it too.”
Zhu Heng was not surprised by this. He just glanced at Zhu Di with disgust and said:”You don’t have any control over your words.”
Forget it… since I dare to say it, I’m not afraid of Zhu Si leaking it.”���After going out, Zhu Bo was one of his own anyway, so Zhu Heng continued:”Last time I talked about the reasons for the formation of the sea power theory and the way to its rise.”
“In essence, we are still at the stage of conquering the world.”
“The so-called second half is the way to dominate the world in the era of sea power.”
“Economic colonization is a unique method of rule and exploitation in the era of sea power.”
“The so-called economy is not about managing the world and benefiting the people, but doing business.”
At this point, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said:”In other words, we must use business methods to tame Beiyuan for our own use.”
“Zhu Bo, you have been in business”
“Do you know anything about Beiyuan’s economic structure?”
“Business? Zhu
Yuanzhang was stunned and said hesitantly:”You want to use business methods to buy war horses from Beiyuan?””
“I’m afraid this won’t work”
“Nowadays, there is some mutual trade on the border, but it is limited to daily necessities, strategic materials such as war horses, and large-scale trade is impossible.……”
“Over the years, the imperial court has been working hard to promote tea and horse trade.”
“But now this is the result.”
Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt helpless again.
He promoted the mutual trade. He originally wanted to use tea, salt and other strategic materials to exchange war horses from the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
However, the Northern Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for more than 90 years. Following Han customs, they were no longer idiots in business.
They were extremely wary of the trade, and were not willing to exchange war horses for tea or salt.
Eventually, the tea-horse trade became the tea-goat trade. The Ming Dynasty used a large amount of tea, but only Can be exchanged for a very small number of war horses and a large number of cattle and sheep
“Wrong, I asked about Beiyuan’s economic structure, not its business……”
Zhu Heng shook his head slowly and said.
But seeing the confused looks on their faces, Zhu Heng simply gave the answer directly.
“so-called economic structure”
“Refers to the layout of a country’s productivity”
“In other words, what industry does this country rely on to make a living?”
“In Beiyuan, its economic structure was extremely simple, and it was entirely animal husbandry, that is, raising cattle, sheep and horses.”
“Upper decision decided by the economic background”
“Relying on animal husbandry, Beiyuan has formed a self-sufficient economic cycle”
“For this reason, Biyuan has no dependence on Ming Dynasty.”
“This is also the reason why the Chinese Dynasty has never been able to truly govern the grassland.”
“You can’t control others!”
The words fell.
Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately stunned:”We really haven’t considered this.……”
This is a brand new perspective. In his previous interactions with Bei Yuan, he mostly considered political and military factors.
But these economic issues were not considered.
Zhu Heng’s words gave him a feeling of enlightenment! so.
Only by grasping the economic lifeline of Beiyuan and making it dependent on Ming Dynasty can it be possible to truly govern Beiyuan!
But how to control the economic lifeline?
But for a moment, he felt like he had no idea where to start.
Zhu Di’s eyes lit up and he said:”That’s right! Beiyuan’s economic self-sufficiency is the crux of the problem.”
“So the essence of the problem is to destroy their livestock industry. Without cattle and sheep, Beiyuan’s economy will collapse. In order to survive, they have to listen to us!”
“I see!”
“Let’s find a way to destroy all their cattle and sheep!”
“Brother, see if what I said is right!”
“Getting started.”
Zhu Heng smiled happily. After teaching Zhu Si for so long, he finally thought that the problem was more reliable.
Now he continued to say in a persuasive way:”Think about it again, how to destroy all their cattle and sheep?”
“this……”
Zhu Di frowned tightly, scratched his head and thought.
His first reaction was to kill.
Kill all the cattle and sheep of Beiyuan, and the economic structure will naturally collapse.
But he knew that the answer Zhu Heng wanted was not that simple.
Zhu Heng continued to inspire:”When considering a problem, you should pay attention to the way of thinking. For example, you can use the idea of sum points and total points.”
“First look at the problem in general, find out the crux, then decompose the problem and finally form the overall answer”
“Now you are at the stage of decomposing the problem”
“Please break down Beiyuan’s animal husbandry again.……”
The words fell.
Zhu Di’s eyes suddenly lit up, and even Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked thoughtful.
But no one directly asked Zhu Heng what the final answer was.
Again.
The idea of thinking questions is more important than the answer itself. Only what you think about truly belongs to you… The group…
After being quiet for a long time.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke and said in a deep voice:”Let’s break down Beiyuan’s animal husbandry.”
“Beiyuan is what you said…extensive animal husbandry, extremely simple”
“It is nothing more than two stages: grazing and harvesting.”
“To destroy their livestock industry, start from these two stages……”
“anything else?”
Zhu Heng asked back.
Zhu Yuanzhang blushed and shook his head slowly:”We only think of so much for the time being.……”