Huang Liji was suddenly a little surprised and said: "But Your Majesty, now that Shaanxi is in a great drought, and the imperial court doesn't even have the money for disaster relief, how can it afford to fight another battle with Lin Dan Khan." ”

Zhu Youzhen said indifferently: "If we stand by and ignore the war between the left and right wings of Mongolia, then from the first Shunyi king, the city reward given to the right wing of Mongolia by my Ming Dynasty will be in vain."

Sitting back and watching the Tumut tribe, who is good friends with my Ming Dynasty being defeated, who will be close to the Ming Dynasty in the future? If we make the Mongolian tribes think that it is not beneficial to be friendly with the Ming Dynasty, but the benefits can be obtained by using force against the Ming Dynasty, then the entire Guanwai will become a potential enemy of our Ming Dynasty.

What's more, Lin Dan Khan asked the Ming for the city reward of the right-wing Mongolia, which completely violated the principle of the Ming Dynasty dividing and ruling the Mongolian tribes with the city reward. If we give him the city reward of right-wing Mongolia, then we are undoubtedly acknowledging his ruling power over right-wing Mongolia.

Lin Dan Khan can take my Ming city reward to envelop the right-wing Mongolian tribes, but he doesn't have to be grateful to my Ming. We already have such an enemy as Houjin in Liaodong, should we erect a second Houjin on the grassland in the west?

Besides, if Lin Dan Khan completely disrupted the right-wing Mongolia, and the Houjin took the opportunity to march west, would I sit back and watch the Houjin subdue the right-wing Mongolian tribes? Or go out to fight with the Houjin army in the field?

It is better to assist the right-wing Mongols in resisting Lin Dan Khan and keep the peace in the western steppes than to fight alone against the Houjin army at that time, right? As for the funds for this war, I will allocate a part of it from the Inner Treasury and then raise some from the merchants, and all I need to do is to get the cabinet and the court to support this war. ”

Regarding the reason stated by the emperor, Huang Liji thought about it again and again, and finally chose to agree. Although he did not think that what the emperor said was correct, he knew very well that if he chose to advocate the opposite of the emperor, in the end things would fall to the end that the emperor expected, and he would have to bear too much responsibility.

Huang Liji thought for a while and said: "Since Your Majesty already has an opinion in your heart, then the old minister should obey his fate, but the old minister still hopes that His Majesty will think again." Since Taizu opened the country to expel the Mongol Yuan, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongol tribes has continued for more than 200 years.

Compared with the Mongols, the Jiannu were just a tribe of savages with a population of less than a million, and although they claimed to be the Jin State, they also called the country Jin.

But now there are books on the market that have proved that this statement is nothing more than these Jiannu putting gold on their faces, they are just a group of wild people who came down from the Tunguska wasteland, and they have multiplied in the mountains and forests of Liaodong by the gift of my Ming Dynasty.

A tribe with no history and no culture, relying on the weakness of my Ming Dynasty, stole the Liaodong region, although its rise is rapid, but after all, the background is not deep, and its decline is also predictable.

But the Mongols were different, they had established a regime in the Central Plains, and at the height of their power they had fought far to the west. They have a glorious history, and heroic legends that have been passed down for a long time to this day.

Although the Mongols are now in decline because they are divided, if there are a few heroes among the Mongols, it will suddenly become strong again, and this is not the case with Altan Khan.

It is because the old minister thinks that compared with Jiannu, the Mongols are the biggest trouble in my Ming Dynasty, and it is good for my Ming to be able to sit back and watch the Mongols kill each other, so that Lin Dan Khan, who inherited the orthodox status of the Northern Yuan, loses his appeal to the Mongolian ministries. ”

Huang Liji's idea is not bad, and this is also the mainstream view of the Ming Dynasty on Mongolia and the Later Jin.

Although the Ming army was defeated by Jiannu four times in Liaodong, each time it was the failure of the generals who attacked without authorization, the commander's wrong subordinates, and the use of traitors by the Later Jin.

Although the Ming army lost its division and lost its territory, it lost the ability to fight with Jiannu in the field. However, the officials in the court never thought that Jiannu could not be defeated, nor did they think that Jiannu and the Ming Dynasty were equal enemies.

After all, Jiannu had never defeated Beijing, and the topography of Liaodong also made these officials think that as long as there was Shanhaiguan and the Liaoxi Corridor, Jiannu would at most occupy a small kingdom in Liaodong.

But for Mongolia is different, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty itself expelled the dynasty established by the Northern Yuan, and it was born with Mongolia to be an undying and hostile relationship. Even in the more than 200 years of dynastic history, the Mongols have come to Beijing several times and captured an emperor, which can no longer help but make the Ming Dynasty pay special attention to Mongolia.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty could quickly acquiesce in the actions of the Mongol tribes to occupy the Hetao region, but they were unwilling to admit the fact that the Later Jin occupied Liaodong, which is the true embodiment of their views on the two countries.

However, Su Changqing knows very well that Mongolia, which seems to be still powerful, is now on the verge of collapse.

Huang Liji, these Ming officials, would never have thought that the Mongols, who had been entangled with the Ming Dynasty for more than two centuries, would submit to the Later Jin in turn in just a few years. The thousands of miles of defense line from Shanhaiguan to Shaanxi have become a sieve full of loopholes under the threat of a unified foreign power.

Zhu Youzhen is unwilling to use his position to oppress Huang Liji to support him, after all, between him and Huang Liji, they can barely be regarded as political allies now. It is precisely because of Huang Liji's existence that he will not be entangled in the trivial government affairs of Daming, and has the time and energy to do what he wants to do.

He pondered for a while, and then said again to Huang Liji: "Then sir, who do you think will be the most dangerous enemy of my Ming Dynasty, Lin Danhan and Huang Taiji?" ”

Huang Liji replied without thinking: "Naturally, it is Lin Dan Khan, and there are still Ningjin defense lines and Shanhaiguan in Liaodong that can resist Jiannu."

However, the thousand-mile border wall from Xuanda to Shaanxi borders Mongolia everywhere, and if Lin Dan Khan integrates the Mongolian right wing, my Ming Dynasty's thousand-mile border wall may not be able to prevent the Mongol army. ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said: "I don't see it that way, Lin Dan Khan lost his foundation and moved westward, allowing Huang Taiji to take the opportunity to occupy the entire Liaodong region, which is not a glorious thing.

He was occupied by Jiannu in his own pasture, and he did not want to recover it, but instead went to capture the pasture of the right-wing Mongol tribes who nominally submitted to him.

Even if he forcibly unified the Mongol right wing by force, these right-wing tribes would not be convinced by him. Therefore, the greater the victory of Lin Dan Khan against the right-wing Mongol tribes, the more resentment he received.

For Jiannu, only by completely eliminating Lin Dan Khan and making Mongolia lose its de jure ruler can they receive Lin Dan Khan's inheritance and bring the Mongolian tribes under the rule of Jiannu.

Lin Dan Khan now has a strong enemy of Jiannu on the outside, and a disobedient right-wing Mongolian tribe inside, but he wants to get benefits from my Daming, so it can be said that the days of his defeat are numbered.

On the contrary, Huang Taiji is different, after he ascended to the throne of the Great Khan, he was bent on revising the cruel policy of the old slaves towards the Liaodong Han people, wanting to turn these Liaodong Han people into real Jin people.

In addition, although the policy of the four major bailes implemented by Jiannu made him lose the dictatorial power of the Great Khan, it also made the power of Jiannu smoothly transferred after the old slave.

Jiannu went to Korea and attacked the Chahar tribes in the west at the beginning of this year, not only eliminating the threat in the east and west, but also mastering the almost complete Liaodong region.

Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, Jiannu's internal and foreign affairs have been freed from the dilemma of the old slave era, and the country is thriving.

The enemy who poses the greatest threat to my Ming Dynasty is not a desperate Lin Dan Khan, but Huang Taiji, who occupies Liaodong and is eyeing my Ming Dynasty..."

When Chongzhen left, Huang Liji stood in the Wenhua Hall for a long time before he sighed and returned to his duty room and began to give orders for the emperor's decision.

The center of the Ming Dynasty began to operate for the drought in Shaanxi this year and the war outside the Datong Pass.

After leaving the Cultural Palace, Zhu Youzhen instructed Wang Chengen on the side: "Inform Mr. Sun that tomorrow a military meeting will be held in the Wuying Hall on dealing with the war between Lin Dan Khan and King Shunyi.

Then in the afternoon, I will summon King Fu, the directors of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, Wang Fengyuan, well, and those Jin merchants who stay in the capital and refuse to leave..."

After entering Beijing for more than a month, although he was reunited with his mother Zheng Taiguifei, he also received Chongzhen's permission to let Zheng Taiguifei live in King Fu's new home in the Ten Princes' Mansion, so that he could serve his mother.

But Chongzhen originally promised him that he would be appointed to get him a position in the Zongren Mansion, but he did not come down for a long time, which made Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, very angry. He didn't spend so much money just to go to Beijing to meet his mother.

Zhu Changxun knew very well that if he didn't get an official title, he could only stay in the capital illegally now, and as long as Chongzhen was willing, he could be driven back to Luoyang at any time. This is obviously sorry for the large amount of land and rights he handed over.

He sat in the garden of his palace and sulked, and several of the waiting attendants did not dare to make a sound. Suddenly, the eldest son, Zhu Yousong, ran in from outside and shouted happily at him: "Father, father, Father-in-law Li and Father-in-law Li are here." ”

Compared with the Fuwang Mansion in Luoyang, the new palace in the Ten Kings' Mansion can only be regarded as a big mansion, but even so, Zhu Yousong is a little out of breath.

Zhu Changxun didn't get happy when he heard the news, he stood up, threw the glass in his hand on the ground, and said fiercely: "What a Li Chaoqin, he still dares to come to my door, he is so lonely and bitter, I have to settle old accounts with him today." ”

Seeing that his father, who had always been obese, suddenly became agile and walked towards the exit of the garden, Zhu Yousong was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said: "Father, it's a good thing, Gonggong Li has brought good news, Your Majesty wants to summon you, it seems that there is an eyebrow in that matter." ”

"Good news?" Zhu Changxun was immediately stunned, he tidied up his appearance, then regained his composure, walked at the same pace as before, and said, "Then go and see what he says." ”