Miss Liu led Xu Hao into the door, only to see Master Liu standing on the high steps. Seventy-year-old man is not very old, yellow and white-skinned, tall and tall, with sparse and unkempt hair, long gray hair, sleepy eyes, wearing a cardigan and deerskin boots, some military temperament and some celebrity style.

"General Liu!" Xu Hao stepped forward.

Master Liu blinked in surprise, and said in surprise: "Are you?" ”

Miss Liu said: "This is a scholar of Donggong University, and he came to visit my grandfather, but I don't know the adult's surname. ”

"Oh." Master Liu was even more confused, what qualifications did he have to make the dignified and high-ranking officials come with dignity? Call yourself a general again? Suddenly, he was shocked in his heart, and secretly said that those who come are not good, and those who are good will not come.

"My lord, please come in, you can come here, it really makes the humble house shine!"

The smiling old man Liu was very enthusiastic, and he was busy inviting people to the living room, and was just about to sit down with the guests and hosts, when he suddenly heard a string of whips like firecrackers outside the courtyard, and a high-canopy carriage with gold lacquer paintings and green curtains and red windows, and four fierce guards sitting on four horses, broke in on a rampage.

Master Liu immediately ran out angrily and shouted, "Where did the dignitaries come from, so domineering? ”

In the carriage, there was a sharp and sweet laugh: "Brother Liu, except for the younger brother, who dares to climb your Three Treasures Palace?" ”

Xu Hao saw that from the car window, a fat and swollen white face was revealed, a pair of bulging goldfish eyes, two ink brushes like a mustache, and ruddy lips were grinning.

"Lao Gao, is that you?" Master Liu looked a little surprised.

Old high? Xu Hao quietly recalled the life of Master Liu, as well as the names and resumes of the people who had the most contacts with him, because Hong Xi created a complete database in the first year, and quickly guessed that the name of the person should be Gao Liuhe.

Just as the Qing Dynasty was abolished in modern times, leaving behind a group of old and young people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the north also left a group of old and young people of the Yuan Dynasty in the north. In addition, the Mongolian nobles who were brought back from the Mongolian steppe several times, the imperial court treated them with courtesy and scattered in various places.

Zhu Yuanzhang chose his fourth son, Zhu Di, to guard Beiping, one of the purposes was to order his son to monitor and suppress the ill-intentioned Mongolian Party, after all, this is the capital of Yuan.

After experiencing the harshness of the Hongwu Dynasty and the strength of Zhu Di, no one in the north dared to rebel, and with the benevolent and tolerant Zhu Gaochi inheriting the imperial business and not moving the capital to Beiping, the atmosphere in the past ten years has become more and more enlightened, and it seems that some people are beginning to move.

This high sext. I'm an old friend with Master Liu.

He also went to the steppe where Genghis Khan arose, but compared to the good luck of Lord Liu, he was overflowing with filth in order to hook up with a female slave, because he wrote a good hand, he was the guest of the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty at that time.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, he was recommended to be a scholar, because he was unlearned and greedy for money. often reminiscing about the previous dynasty, was attacked by a group of students, and left in the wilderness.

So, he announced that he was indifferent to fame and fortune. Retired to a grange in Nanyuan, Beiping, devoted himself to the study of Buddhism, while copying a large number of Diamond Sutras to give to others, while begging for a variety of concubines. and spent a lot of money to pursue famous prostitutes.

Not long ago, he recruited a group of shameless literati to learn to write books and run newspapers. He strongly advocated that the imperial court should recognize the orthodox throne of Benjamli, and help the Tatars conquer Warat and establish a state, and the two countries became allies.

This is the disadvantage of encouraging non-governmental newspapers and making speeches innocence, and anything sneaky can pop up. Presumably, these remnants of the Yuan Dynasty want to reproduce the scene between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and then an emperor will appear and give up the sixteen states of Yanyun, so that they can transform themselves and become nobles again.

Historically, Zhu Di moved the capital to Beiping, which undoubtedly greatly strengthened his rule over the north and allowed the Han people to stabilize the north.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the entire north has been ruled by foreign races for hundreds of years, which is a very strict reality. The reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to easily occupy the entire Hebei Province was that the northerners were indeed relatively weak in their sense of nationality, the Song Dynasty abandoned the land, Jin and Meng became the masters, and the social atmosphere was that the southern Han people looked down on the northern Han people.

The ethnic composition in the north is also extremely complex, with dozens of ethnic minorities, and Xu Hao has the responsibility and obligation to take action.

Zhu Gaochi's strategy of taking scholars from the south and the north and four of them certainly alleviated the situation of the dominance of the southern Shilin family, but at the same time, it also opened the door to being officials and increased the right to speak for the old and young, which shows why the Hongwu Dynasty tried its best to exclude the northern Shilin.

Otherwise, there are always positive and negative sides to things in the world, and you can't simply look at the problem, there is a reason why the imperial court headed by Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely distrustful of the northerners, and after hundreds of years of confrontation across the river, there are as many as one million Jurchens in the Central Plains of the Jin Kingdom alone.

The Yuan Dynasty was a multi-ethnic melting pot, with the collective migration of millions of Hui people, a large number of Semu people from the Middle East, India and even the Western Regions of West Asia settled in the Central Plains, and the uncountable Liao, Western Xia Dangxiang and Mongols changed their surnames one after another.

The Yuan Dynasty can be said to have disrupted the geographical distribution of ethnic groups, and in later generations, there were Hui, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, Korean, Manchu, and Dong in Tongzhou alone. Bai, Tujia, Hani, Dai, Li, She, Kazakh, Russian, Oroqen, Gaoshan, Shui, Naxi, Tu, Salar, Gelao, Xibe, Achang, Qiang, Tajik, Jing.

Of course, the development of transportation and war during the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China also played an important factor in the mixing of ethnic groups, and the population growth of the pure Han people is also incomparable with all ethnic groups, which is also the tacit basic national policy of the past dynasties, and the population of the ethnic group must occupy an absolute advantage, which is the basic guarantee of national peace and security.

Gao Liuhe, who was full of spring breeze, jumped out of the carriage, straightened his clothes first, and bowed deeply to Master Liu, but his mouth was oily and smooth: "Big brother, little brother is polite." ”

"If you are courteous to others, you will ask for something." Master Liu thought of the court officials in the living room, and deliberately said: "It seems that when you came to the house, it was a night owl entering the house." ”

"Little brother, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." Gao Liuhe grinned, "My newspaper lacks a respected Confucian, if the eldest brother doesn't agree, the younger brother will be a failure." ”

Master Liu has not had contact with him for many years, and the mentality of leading the Mongols into the customs is long gone, who makes the current Ming army invincible. And he has always been very trusting of this righteous brother who likes to blash and exaggerate, so he said: "You! Again, he pretended to be amazing. ”

"It's a big deal, it's as urgent as a spark!" Gao Liuhe rubbed his hands and seemed to be in a hurry, "Big brother, you get in the car and follow me into the city to talk in detail." ”

"Thank you!" Master Liu flatly refused, "I have already seen through the red dust and escaped from the world." Besides, I'm old and can't live for a few years, what are I going out to do? ”

"Are you afraid of being criticized?" Gao Liuhe asked.

"Alas! Exactly. Old Man Liu's expression was stern, "I married a Mongolian wife back then, and I was charged with the remnants of the previous dynasty for many years, until my wife died, which made me feel better." Now, my Daming is thriving, why should I bother to break the connection with the northern lotus? Do you know you're playing with fire? Is it really a decoration for the government? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned. ”

"Good! Good! Gao Liuhe didn't dare to annoy Master Liu, so he gave in: "Then go to your study and talk." ”

In the living room, Xu Hao sat alone thinking about it, and Miss Liu hid back in the boudoir. Because there is no history to draw from. He must rely on his own judgment, first of all, the Mongols, who have been divided and disintegrated, should only cause some border trouble to the Ming Dynasty, and it is unlikely that they will enter the Central Plains again.

Of course, the old and the young could not have predicted that the Tatars and the Warats were gradually recovering their vitality. The momentum is very strong, Benjamin is equivalent to a banner, and the national teacher Arutai is also a rare hero.

Historically. Zhu Di reneged on his promise to give up the Daning area to Duoyan Sanwei for grazing, which was obviously a wise decision, and Zhu Di had long been prepared to weaken the population strength of Duoyan Sanwei.

At the same time, Arutai seized this opportunity and took advantage of his kinship relationship with the leader of the Duoyan Sanwei to reach an alliance between the Tatar Ministry and the Sanwei on the condition of supporting the Duoyan Sanwei to move south to Daning.

In the twentieth year of Yongle, Zhu Di led his troops to raid Duoyan Sanwei for the first time, just to strike at the alliance between the two sides. The historical event of Tongguò proves that Arutai and Duoyan Sanwei secretly united before, otherwise Zhu Di, as the emperor, would never take revenge.

Not only did the Ming Dynasty distrust but also inseparable from the outer barrier formed by the three guards, the old and the young hated the two ends of the snakes and rats of the three guards, and now the Ming army and the Yongle Emperor in history, have already hit the three guards hard, which has evolved a new situation.

The Horqin grassland, which has the most abundant aquatic grasses and the best climatic conditions, and the large pastures of the nomadic pastures of Duoyan Sanwei are vacated.

Historically, in March of the eighth year of Yongle, Zhu Di led an army of 500,000 to conquer Arutai and Benyasuri, and in June, forced Arutai and Benyasuri to split.

Benjamin led his troops to the west, Arutai led his troops to the east, the Ming army fought the first battle of Benjamli, the Mongol army was defeated, Benjamin only took off with seven horsemen, and entered Vala in the west.

Zhu Di then led his troops to the east, defeated Arutai in Xing'anling, in the winter of the same year, Arutai was forced to send an envoy to surrender, Yongle 11 years, the imperial court canonized Arutai as the king of Hening.

In other words, history has become confusing due to the arrival of Xu Hao, and the Ming Dynasty did not lose 100,000 elites, but it did not attack Benjamoli and Arutai on a large scale.

One reason why Xu Hao didn't want to go to war was that he didn't want to start a big war lightly, and it was useless to work the people and lose money, and the other reason was that he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, let the Outer Mongolians fight to the death by themselves, and then send troops to balance things if necessary. There is another important reason, he is also afraid of the defeat of the army, in case the whole army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people is wiped out, and he cannot afford it, the situation will also become drastic.

The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer Mongolia looks magnificent, but who is qualified to be the commander now? Who would dare to be the manager? Who has what it takes to be the manager? Xu Hao didn't dare to bear this decision, and he couldn't bear it, once he lost, he would have to face the criticism of the entire court, and he would be ruined at least and his family would be destroyed.

After striking at the Tatars, we can't sit idly by and watch the Warats want to take the opportunity to unify the whole of Mongolia, so they must go to conquer the Warats again, and so on, as long as they can't completely destroy the Mongols, they will only be in vain in the end.

In the fourteenth year of Yongle, after subduing the Tatars, Zhu Di once again led a large army to the north and defeated the Warat army.

Arutai also took the opportunity to start a war with Warat, Mahamu was defeated, his people were scattered, and his son Tuhuan was captured and became a slave in the Arutai family, and was later released and returned to Warat.

In the fifteenth year of Yongle, the Warat army, determined to take revenge, defeated Arutai at the Wuguzhi River.

In the seventeenth year of Yongle, Arutai defeated Warat again, annexed many tribes, and regained its strength.

In the nineteenth year of Yongle, Arutai betrayed the Ming Dynasty and went south, which immediately triggered Zhu Di's last three personal expeditions.

Although the three personal conquests were able to greatly deplete Arutai's strength and dare not go south, but also allowed Warat to take the opportunity to rapidly expand his power, Mahamu's son Tuhuan was like Genghis Khan back then, destroyed the Tatar tribe of Arutai, almost unified most of the Mongolian steppe, and laid the foundation for the hegemony that his son also came to achieve.

Xu Hao dreamed of solving the Mongols and going to the army to fight and plot, but he insisted on not starting a big war, and accumulated strength so that the country could transition to modern times.

If electricity, trains, radios, rifle bullets, and even machine guns could be invented, what would happen to the Mongols by then, even if they had multiplied by thousands and had millions of string controllers?

Carry all before one!

Modern times have proved that in the period of thermal weapons, the Han nation had the capital to be fearless of any strong enemy. (To be continued......)