blueteamnovel Chapter 750: The Fundamental Reason Why The Grassland Tribes Went South [Please Subscribe, Please Su
Chapter 750: The Fundamental Reason Why The Grassland Tribes Went South [Please Subscribe, Please Su
Finally, Yan Changqing concluded:
"So from the perspective of the grassland tribes and grassland people, even if they can raise sheep with peace of mind, they can even raise tens of millions of sheep."
"However, unless they can exchange their needs with the Central Plains and trade on an equal footing, it will be possible to turn their almost useless wool and goat's milk cheese into treasures, and then obtain huge benefits from them."
"Otherwise, the benefits they can generate and obtain simply by raising sheep themselves and then digesting and buying and selling the mutton internally will be relatively small after all."
"And for this relatively small share of benefits, the leaders and nobles who stand in the ruling class of the grassland tribes will take up most of it.
"If the remaining small part of the benefits is distributed to millions of grassland people, then the grassland people will naturally become barren."
"And the grassland people are poor, so naturally they cannot support more tribesmen."
"Then for the continuation of the tribe, generally the grassland tribes will have the following two choices. One is to abandon the old, weak, sick and disabled of their own tribe to reduce the pressure on their own tribe's population.
"The other option is to go to war with foreign countries, go to war with other tribes, go to war with the Ming Dynasty, and use foreign war to reasonably consume part of the excess population.
"If they win the foreign war, then they will be able to obtain more food resources, support a larger population of their tribe, and allow their tribe to further develop and grow!"
"If the foreign war fails, we can also reduce the population pressure on our own tribe by consuming part of the excess population so that our own tribe can continue to continue and develop."
"Then until the pressure point of tribal population support is reached again, foreign wars will be launched again."
"Until the final victory in a certain foreign war, enough food resources are obtained, allowing the tribe to enter the next stage of development."
"For example, from a small tribe to a big tribe, from a big tribe to a golden family like the former Yuan Taizu, from a golden family to an empire like the old Meng Yuan!"
"Or in the end, in a certain foreign war, one's own tribe was completely defeated, and then became a vassal and trophy of other tribes, or even was completely exterminated, and then disappeared on the grassland."
"For example, when the Liaodong region was recovered, the tribes that finally surrendered and belonged to the Ming Dynasty, as well as the captives from the North who were presented to the Ancestral Temple by His Majesty, etc."
"This is the fundamental reason why the grassland tribes have always chosen to go south to plunder the Ming Dynasty from time to time!!!"
After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru also completely understood why those grassland tribes still chose to go south to plunder the Ming Dynasty from time to time even if they could not defeat the Ming Dynasty.
"If this is the case, doesn't it mean that for those grassland tribes, they will make a lot of money when they plunder the Ming Dynasty, and even if they lose in the end, it will not be a loss?!!"
"Then wouldn't it be only Daming that suffered in the end?!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said with an extremely ugly face.
If it is true as Yan Changqing said, then Ming Dynasty was really taken advantage of.
You must know that every Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty required a huge amount of money and food to support it.
This means that the Ming Dynasty has become rich in recent years, so even if it sent troops to the Northern Expedition in the past few years, the financial pressure brought by it was not too great.
But in the early years, when the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue was not so much, every time the Ming Dynasty sent troops to the Northern Expedition, it almost emptied the national treasury to support it.
However, now Yan Changqing told him that he had spent so much manpower, material, financial and other resources to defeat Yuan Zhubu.
In fact, the damage caused to the tribes of Beiyuan was not that great, and it might even be a good thing.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't accept this!
For Zhu Yuanzhang, seeing the Northern Yuan tribes taking advantage made him feel more unhappy than himself suffering a loss.
What made Zhu Yuanzhang even more upset was that Ming had to be taken advantage of.
After all, all the tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty went south to plunder. If he didn't fight back, and if the Ming Dynasty didn't fight back, then for him and for the Ming Dynasty, the damage would be even greater!
Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang with an ugly face, Yan Changqing shook his head slightly and said:
"This is true in theory, but in reality it is difficult for the grassland tribes to control the outcome of foreign wars."
"For those tribes whose population has reached the point of support pressure, only controllable foreign wars are truly beneficial to them."
"An uncontrollable foreign war will be of no benefit even to them."
"For example, in their war against the Ming Dynasty, once they provoked a war, it was not they who had the final say, but the clear decision as to how far the war would go and when it would end.
"If you are not careful, your entire tribe may be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty."
"Even the tribe will be gone by then, and any claim that it is not a loss will be false."
"Even if you are lucky in the end, you can escape from the battle with Ming Dynasty."
"But they have just fought a battle with the Ming Dynasty, and their own vitality has been severely damaged. They also need to be wary of whether other grassland tribes will launch an annexation war against them."
"Once other grassland tribes take this opportunity to add insult to injury, they who finally escaped by chance will also be very likely to be annexed by other grassland tribes and become the resources for the growth of other grassland tribes, because other grassland tribes have made wedding clothes. ”
"At that time, even their own tribe will become vassals and trophies of other large grassland tribes. Whatever they say is not a loss, it will be false."
"Even if there is really no loss, it will be the loss to the large tribe that annexed them, rather than the loss to them who became vassals and trophies.'
"So for the grassland tribes, except for some of the stupid Northern Yuan fools who hope to overthrow the Ming Dynasty with their small force and then retake control of the Central Plains, they choose to take the initiative to go south and invade the Ming Dynasty.
"If the other grassland tribes hadn't reached the supply pressure point, they would have to use foreign wars to reasonably consume the excess population.
"Under normal circumstances, they would not choose to go south to plunder the Ming Dynasty."
"After all, they can't defeat the Ming Dynasty. If they can really defeat the Ming Dynasty and gain huge benefits from the war, then they will be able to actively go south to invade the Ming Dynasty."
"Just like the Jin Kingdom and the Song Dynasty in the past, the reason why the Jin Kingdom was so proactive in going south to invade the Song Dynasty was because if the Jin Kingdom won the battle, the Song Dynasty would cede lands to pay compensation; if the Jin Kingdom lost the battle, the Song Dynasty would also cede lands to pay compensation. "
"This is the real war in which you can make a lot of money if you win, and you can guarantee no loss even if you lose."
"In a war like this, whoever doesn't fight is a fool!"
"So without being able to truly defeat the Ming Dynasty, this kind of war that is purely about death is just used to consume the excess population of the tribe [no one even likes the Gehulu]."
"After all, swords have no eyes on the battlefield. If you don't make a mistake, a stray arrow will fly, and you will die unexpectedly."
"Basically, except for those who are born to like war and are born specifically for the battlefield, the vast majority of people do not like war."
"Even among the ruling class nobles of the grassland tribes, except for a few who are truly ambitious."
"The vast majority of the other prairie ruling class nobles also hope to enjoy their aristocratic life, rather than go to the battlefield and fight their lives."
"Of course, if it affects them enjoying their life of aristocratic rule, then even if they don't want to, they will have to go to the battlefield and fight."
After listening to Yan Changqing's words, Zhu Yuanzhang's ugly expression softened.
At the same time, I also reminded myself in my heart that if the grassland tribes stir up trouble in the future, they must not be let go. They must either surrender to the Ming Dynasty or slaughter them all!
Want to use the Ming Dynasty to reasonably consume the excess population of your tribe and allow your tribe to continue?!!
There are no doors!!!
The Ming Dynasty slaughtered everyone in their tribe and scattered their ashes. Let’s see how they can continue their tribe and take advantage of the Ming Dynasty!!!
But now Zhu Yuanzhang has regarded Northern Xinjiang as the large pasture destined for Ming Dynasty. In the future, before the grassland tribes have time to stir up trouble, Ming Dynasty will take the initiative to go deep into Northern Xinjiang and sweep the grassland.
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Zhou Wang Zhu Zhu, who was listening silently, noticed another problem at this time:
"Sir, wouldn't the larger the population of the people, the better?!!"
"Even for grassland tribes, the greater their population, doesn't it mean that there are more young and middle-aged laborers, and the tribe's strength will be stronger?!!"
"Why do the grassland tribes need to abandon the old, weak, women and children, or engage in foreign wars to reasonably consume the population and reduce the pressure on population support when the population reaches the so-called support pressure point?!!"
"Isn't this a disguised way of reducing the population of your own tribe, reducing the number of young and middle-aged labor force, and reducing the strength of your tribe?!!"
“Wouldn’t this make it easier for us to be attacked and annexed by other tribes?!!”
We must know that the number of common people in the Central Plains has always been an important data to measure whether a dynasty is prosperous and whether a country's national strength is strong.
After all, the greater the population of the people, the greater the number of young and middle-aged people, the more armies that can be organized, the more taxes collected, the land reclaimed, etc., and the national strength will also increase. As it becomes stronger, the country will become more and more prosperous!
For example, the Ming Dynasty is very short of population. It wishes that the population of the people under its rule could increase to 100 million, 200 million, or even more than 300 million!
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Because only with a sufficient population of common people, the north, which had experienced a sparse population due to the chaotic wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, could further recover its vitality.
Similarly, only with a sufficient population of common people could the Ming Dynasty really put the development of the Liaodong Plain on the agenda.
And now the Ming Dynasty has set its sights on Northern Xinjiang, which also needs a large population.
After all, if there were not a large population of civilians in Northern Xinjiang, how could the imperial court raise tens of millions of sheep and millions of cattle, or even hundreds of millions of sheep and tens of millions of cattle?!!
Similarly, how can the imperial court support the millions of troops stationed in northern Xinjiang in the future?!!
All of these are major actions that require the support of a large number of people to be able to proceed.
After all, if they don’t even have people, then no matter how good their plan is, they won’t be able to execute it!
So now the Ming Dynasty has never disliked the large population of people, but only wanted to use one common person into two.
The king of Zhou, Zhu Ju, felt that although there were differences between the Central Plains and the grasslands, the Central Plains and the grasslands should be connected.
Yan Changqing glanced at Zhou Wang Zhu Xi and said simply:
"The number of people is not
The more, the better.
“Because the resources of an environment are limited, the number of people it can support is also limited!
"For those tribes that have reached the pressure point of population support, more tribes at that time are not a good thing, and it will not make them become more
If they become stronger, they may fall into civil strife and weakness.
“Because their resources are not enough to support more young adults, but those young adults need more resources to survive.
"The consequence is that young adults will start fighting among themselves in order to compete for resources to survive!"
"If there is internal fighting, no matter what the final result is, the entire tribe will fall into a weakened king because of this internal strife."
"So in order to avoid falling into civil strife, those grassland tribes often choose foreign wars and use wars to divert the contradictions of insufficient internal resources and excessive survival pressure!
"This is actually another part of the "Dragon Slaying Technique", so I won't go into details here."
“The next time I teach “Dragon Slaying Technique”, I will tell you more about this issue.’11
"Now let's continue talking about Northern Xinjiang."
Hearing what Yan Changqing said, although Zhou Wang Zhu was curious, he still suppressed his curiosity.
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