Su Yonglin received a call for help from his elders and his face was suddenly full of darkness.

He felt that he kept raising them as pigs, although their martial ethics declined and could not threaten the Central Plains, but the effect of this northern barrier was gone.

As soon as the wild people from the tribe in the forest went south, they were beaten into quails and looked for teeth all over the ground. They were really embarrassed to throw them to their father's house.

Can this still be a northern barrier?

I'm afraid Daming can't even wipe their butts.

In desperation, Su Yonglin had to hold a military meeting to discuss this matter with the military cadres.

"In recent years, people from the Wanggu tribe and the Tatar tribe have lived a good life for too long and comfortable, so that the sense of crisis that has disappeared. They have been put into Kuma and put into Nanshan. Last year, I didn't even hear that they organized large-scale hunting activities, but instead took tea parties to fight for wealth one after another."

Sun Ziyi rubbed his temples and said helplessly: "Now it seems that these two tribes are almost abandoned and cannot fight. How can they share their worries about the Ming Dynasty's border guard? If the tribe in the forest went south once and asked for help, how much military expenditure would the Ming Dynasty pay for them? I dare not think about it."

"Why are they still hunting? How tiring is it."

Xin Qiji sneered: "I heard that they prefer to engage in animal husbandry because they have eaten the sweetness of doing business with the Ming Dynasty. They care very much about the cattle, sheep and horses that the Ming Dynasty needs widely, and keep raising them to increase production.

Now they run four legs and they all see money, all luxury goods of the Ming Dynasty, and their own luxury enjoyment. They are reluctant to take it out to train and fight. They don’t know how much reserves they have left for themselves. It’s really because they are so confused when doing business."

"With that being said, they were too useless and also caused a lot of trouble to the Ming Dynasty."

Deputy Chief of Staff Ma Weiying sighed: "As Sun Shuxiang said, the Ming Dynasty left them behind to guard the border for the Ming Dynasty and resist the tribal cavalry from the north to move south, becoming the first line of defense for the Ming Dynasty.

But now this line of defense has failed. Not only has it failed, but the Ming Dynasty also needs to invest troops and military expenditures in turn to maintain their existence. In this way, is it necessary for the Ming Dynasty to keep them?"

Ma Weiying's statement gave a good start to the people at the military conference, and everyone began to consider the pros and cons between keeping these two tribes and destroying them casually.

Keeping them will make a lot of money, but I don’t know how much money I will spend to defend them in the future.

If they are killed, although they have no money to make money in the future and many luxury goods have no buyers, the military spending reduced for this will be very considerable.

Su Yonglin didn't expect this joint at first, but after Ma Weiying put forward this view, he suddenly felt that this matter was quite intriguing.

The Tatar tribe and the Wang Gu tribe are obviously almost abolished, and they cannot play a role in defending the border for the Ming Dynasty. Continuing to let them go bad and smelly in the north will only attract more jackals, tigers and leopards, and waste more energy from the Ming Dynasty to protect them.

Su Yonglin remembered Germany's evaluation of Italy during World War II.

If it is an enemy, only ten divisions are needed to destroy them. If it is neutral, twenty divisions are needed to monitor them. If it is an allies, fifty divisions are needed to protect them.

Su Yonglin was also thinking that the main reason for maintaining their existence was that the Ming Dynasty still had many enemies to deal with. The south and the west were all enemies. Now the Southern Song Dynasty and the west were all over the West were all over, especially in the south, there was basically no big war.

If that's the case, is it a big advantage or a big disadvantage to continue to retain these two stinky tribes now?

At the military conference, everyone said everything, took out paper and pen to write and calculate, and used pure numbers to prove it.

Su Yonglin listened silently.

After almost two incense sticks, everyone's opinions gradually became unified.

If you destroy the Wang Gu tribe and the Tatar tribe now, you may lose some luxury buyers for a while and lose some profits. However, in the long run, it will reduce the large amount of military expenditure that the Ming Dynasty needs to spend in order to protect them and deal with emergencies.

Compared with luxury goods transactions, military expenditure is still more "conspicuous".

Moreover, judging from the current climate problem, the possibility of large-scale food going north to support them cannot be ruled out in the future. After they were destroyed, these problems were solved.

The plump grassland that originally belonged to them was directly under the Ming Dynasty and could be directly under the jurisdiction of Datong Province. The Ming Dynasty could organize a large number of herders to grazle on a large scale, raise cattle, sheep and horses, provide enough livestock for the Central Plains, incorporate the grassland into the internal economic cycle of the Ming Dynasty, and save a lot of political and economic expenses that need to be dealt with.

Therefore, the benefits of eliminating the Wang Gu tribe and the Tatar tribe outweigh the disadvantages.

Su Yonglin nodded and expressed that he also supported the view of the military conference.

"Since the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, then do it like this. We plan to dispatch 30,000 to 50,000 cavalry to fight a medium-scale raid battle. While eliminating the barbarians invading south, we can remove the Tatar tribe and Wang Gu tribe and solve the problem in the northern border in one go!"

In this period when the Ming Dynasty was about to move westward and manage relations between the Western Regions and Central Asia, it had lost its unity, and the value of the northern grassland that could rise was greatly reduced and it no longer had the value of winning over. What the Ming Dynasty needed was a peaceable northern border without any problems.

However, we still have to look at the problem more far-reachingly, because the northern border was too cold that the grassland barbarians had no choice but to go south, Su Yonglin had considered it.

At this moment, China is indeed in a relatively cold climate cycle.

With the further decline in temperature in the future, the global climate will become colder. If the barbarians living further north and even in Siberia are not carried out in a large-scale cleaning, then they will definitely go south on a large scale in the future and become a border trouble in the Ming Dynasty.

This time they were forced to go south, and they wiped out all of them and moved all prisoners of war to Hexi to help build Shazhou and transport strategic materials. In this way, they can play a role. This is also a waste utilization in a sense.

Moreover, since we have decided to send troops this time, it is better to head towards the north, and it is best to reach the legendary Beihai and set a national border marker at Su Wu's shepherds. It is also a rare achievement.

According to the discussions at the military meeting, the court decided to appoint Han Jinggui, commander of the Third Corps, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, commanding the 10,000 cavalry of the Third Corps and the 40,000 cavalry under the Zhongdu Huben Imperial Guard, a total of 50,000 cavalry.

These 50,000 cavalry will be the main combat power of this battle.

In order to reduce logistical pressure, the court ordered the Privy Council to recruit a large amount of dairy products stored in the military material warehouse of Datong Province, and distribute smoked and dried meat products to the cavalry as the main food.

Even if it is not for future war preparations, the Ming court has its own strategic material reserve regulations. For dairy products that are very suitable for cavalry to fight on a large scale for long distances away from local areas, the storage of air-dried meat products is carried out every moment.

Not only were livestock produced in local pastures provided to the Ming army's logistics support department, but also provided a large number of livestock from the Wanggu and Tatar departments. Over the years, the amount of jerky meat and easy-to-storage dairy products has been enough to support the consumption of 50,000 cavalrymen.

In addition, considering the other food needs of the cavalry, the Privy Council also allocated 100,000 grassland sheep and 10,000 grassland cattle to go on an expedition. They also carried some made pancakes and carbohydrates, becoming mobile [grain warehouse] to provide a sumptuous meal for the Ming cavalry.
Chapter completed!