Not long after, the ministers rushed to the Wenhua Palace. Many people's minds are focused on the upcoming auction of shares of Daming Construction Bank, and they don't know what the emperor is suddenly summoning for what?

Emperor Chongzhen did not delay, and said straight to the point: "I summoned Zhuqing to come here to discuss the issue of military salaries for the border army in Qindi!" ”

Upon hearing this, everyone felt tricky. In fact, this problem has always plagued the imperial court, however, it is mostly unsolvable.

Wen Tiren and Emperor Chongzhen have been in contact for a long time, so they naturally know better than others, and after a move in their hearts, they bowed down and said, "I don't know what strategy Your Majesty has?" ”

"Well, I just have an idea, I just want to see how this idea goes!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded and replied, "The salary of the border army mainly lies in the fact that it consumes a lot of money if it is discounted into its true color, and it is because it is converted into silver and no grain. The fundamental reason lies in the lack of materials in Qindi. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Wen Tiren echoed and patted a little fart. There is a consensus on this. Otherwise, there would be no long and steep journeys that cost money and food.

"Qin is only rich in Hanzhong, but the taxes collected by the imperial court in Hanzhong are very limited......" Wen Tiren said this along Emperor Chongzhen's train of thought, and suddenly his heart moved, and he was immediately a little surprised, looking up at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty's intention should be to ...... with the kings of Qin."

Emperor Chongzhen understood what Wen Tiren meant, and he thought that he wanted to attack the vassal kings and gentry of Qin, clear out the fields in the Hanzhong Plain, and have more fields where the imperial court could collect taxes. But this is not what he meant, he said before that it was not time to move them, so he immediately shook his head and interrupted Wen Tiren's words: "No, I mean the nine songs of the Yellow River, only one set of rich!" ”

......Hearing this, the ministers were stunned, they didn't expect that the emperor would set his sights on the land of the Hetao.

Indeed, the Hetao is rich, and if it is cultivated, there is water from the Yellow River to irrigate, and it can produce a lot of output, which is more than enough to feed a Qin land. But the problem is, the Hetao is not in the hands of Daming!

"Your Majesty, my Ming Dynasty once occupied Tumo River, but it is difficult to hold it!" Auxiliary minister Min Hongxue said.

Shen Yongmao, the secretary of the military department, also followed: "Your Majesty, there are tens of thousands of people in the Tumo Chuan Tribe, and now there are new Lin Dan Khan, there are so many people, I am afraid of it...... I'm afraid it's hard to beat! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, now that I have Jianyu in the east of the Ming Dynasty, Tusi rebellion in the west, and frequent droughts in various places, this time should be the time to rest and recuperate, and then use the sword and soldiers, and fight on several sides, which is embarrassing!" Wen Tiren followed suit, and this time, he was opposed.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that most of the ministers below were opposed, and he was not annoyed, and continued to discuss: "I know what you mean. But if you can make money by fighting a war, is it okay to go to war? ”

"Fighting wars to make money?" When the ministers heard this, they looked at each other, and they were all confused by this novel statement. Fighting a war has always been a costly and laborious thing, when did it become profitable?

When Emperor Chongzhen saw this, he frowned, and gave an example: "Although Jianyu is our enemy, they make money by fighting. ”

"......" the ministers were speechless.

After a while, Wen Tiren, as the first assistant, had to play: "Your Majesty, my Ming Dynasty is the kingdom of heaven and the state of etiquette, how can I learn to build and rob the people?" ”

"Wrong!" Emperor Chongzhen immediately denied it, "It's not robbing the people, it's the spoils of war!" Land, wealth, and population are just spoils of war after winning the war! Moreover, I didn't say that I would allow my Ming army to plunder the wealth of the common people as spoils of war! ”

Wen Tiren looked at his colleagues, and his face was a little helpless. The emperor is the biggest, he wants to say so, but it's not much worse!

On the contrary, it was Shen Yongmao and Min Hongxue, who had commanded the war, who were thoughtful after listening to it. Ordinary Confucian scholars may be more pedantic, but those in high positions are rarely really pedantic.

When Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, he made his attitude clear and said: "Let's put it this way, the people of other countries and the people of my Ming Dynasty, which is more important?" Do you want the people of my Ming Dynasty to starve to death or the people of other countries to starve to death, which one do you choose? It has been two years since the drought in Qindi, do you know how many people have died? The grassland tribes were originally the enemies of my Ming Dynasty. How many times have their people, dismounted as herdsmen, mounted as robbers, invaded my Ming Dynasty? occupies the Tumochuan Plain in vain, but only livestock, how wasteful, and how many people are fed? ”

When he said this, he saw that some courtiers wanted to speak, so he raised his voice and said, "I know that it is not easy to use troops against the grassland, it is easy to defeat them, and it is difficult to annihilate them. But the imperial court must have a strategy to properly and permanently solve the predicament of Qindi! ”

Hearing what the emperor said, the ministers were silent. As the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, they have no face to say that they don't care about the life and death of the people of the Ming Dynasty. If you want to say that the best strategy, of course, is to have the Hetao Plain.

"Your Majesty is wise, and the minister agrees with it." Min Hongxue first agreed, but he changed his words and said, "But the enemy of the grassland, as Your Majesty said, is easy to defeat and difficult to destroy." Even if I occupy the Tumo River for a while, I will be embarrassed by the harassment of Mongolia! ”

Emperor Chongzhen looked at him and nodded, didn't speak for a while, and swept his gaze to the other courtiers, just asking them to express their position as well.

When he looked at it like this, the other courtiers had to express their positions, whether it was Wen Tiren or Cheng Jiming and others, they all finally agreed. However, the biggest problem, Min Hongxue has already said, this problem is not solved, it is still just a fantasy, insisting on sending troops, but losing the troops, and finally the bamboo basket is empty!

Emperor Chongzhen saw that everyone's opinions were unified, so he nodded and said: "Okay, my Ming Dynasty wants to take the Hetao Plain, this is a strategic goal, and it must be achieved." Then, Zhu Qing discussed it again, how to solve the enemy of the grassland? ”

This proposition seemed to be unsolvable, at least after he finished speaking, the ministers were silent, and no one spoke.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "I have heard a sentence, if you don't tear down the Great Wall, you will not be a hero, and you will be the first to be the hero of Beihai!" I don't know what you think? ”

"......" the ministers were speechless.

All dynasties, even in this dynasty, have taken the Great Wall as the focus of defense, often spending a lot of manpower and material resources to repair the Great Wall and garrison a large number of troops. Even when Qi Jiguang was in the Jiajing period, it was the same.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw them staying there one by one, he smiled and said, "Actually, I am more opposed to this......"

"......" The ministers are confused, what does the emperor mean?

The first sentence is actually the meaning of opposing passive defense and taking the initiative. I appreciate this very much, but what I want to oppose is the second sentence, what I want is not to be dominant, but to ensure the peace of the country and the people, and to permanently solve the border troubles in the north. It's time for my eyes to shift from the grassland! ”