Luo Zhaoyun expressed his feelings and was targeted at the Turks. After all, this grassland border has a long history. The hidden dangers of the grassland tribes to the Central Plains have never been eliminated since the Western Zhou Dynasty. Whenever the dynasty in the Central Plains are strong, the grassland tribes will retreat. They did not leave behind the destroyed cities, villages and towns, because the grassland tribes are migrant nations and have no fixed places.

Moreover, the gathering place of grassland tribes is just lush water and grass, not that the land is fertile and the land is always reclaimed and farmed. The crop yield in ancient times was very low, and the environment was too serious. Therefore, the grassland land could not be used as farming fields. In this way, the dynasties in the Central Plains never tested the filter to completely conquer and occupy the grassland. They were mainly driven away, or they were allowed to rely on them and obey and not mess around.

There are many complicated reasons in this!

At this time, Chen Yu, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, once our army wins, can we pursue the victory and send a large army to invade the grassland and slaughter the grassland, so that some tribes can reduce the population of grasslands, and even cause tribes to decline. They often come to the Central Plains to hunt grass valleys, burn, kill and loot. We can follow the example. The population of grasslands is originally small. If some can be slaughtered, it may not be a threat within a hundred years."

Wen Boyan, Gao Shilian, Xin Gongyi, Changsun Shunde and others all took a breath when they heard this. They learned the way of Confucius and Mencius, and they paid attention to the sages of sages and kings outside, so that foreign countries could surrender and influence them with benevolence. This is the principle that saints handed over to Confucian scholars. Relying on slaughter, this is probably not abide by etiquette.

"No, Your Majesty, the Supreme Master has established virtue, secondly, made merits, and secondly, made words. The ancient sages put benevolence and virtue first. As the saying goes, those with good virtues flow, those with weak virtues flow, and those with weak virtues are right. However, if we send troops to kill innocent people indiscriminately, it is really against the original intention of the saints' benevolence and virtue, it will make other tribes in the grassland, the Western Regions, Baiyue and other countries become hostile, and they will become hostile, and that will not be good!" Right servant Wen Boyan took the lead in proposing his objection.

Gao Shilian also said: "Your Majesty, it is indeed important to kill the grassland tribes once they start, so please be careful!"

"I also agree, and you should think twice before you act." Xin Gongyi, the Minister of Personnel, came forward to discuss.

Chen Xu's face was a little embarrassed. Those who spoke were unintentional, but for those great scholars and old scholars, such remarks and strategies were probably to encourage the king to become a tyrant. Once the mouth was opened, he was worried that the foreign country would be the first to be foreign, and then to the domestic country, his iron-blooded skills would be unfavorable to the reputation of benevolence and virtue, which was contrary to the teachings of the saints.

"My dear sir, maybe Chen's wording is wrong, and killing seems too heavy. The meaning of the following is whether to take advantage of the great victory to attack the grassland, and it may not necessarily massacre or waste the tribes of the grassland. However, you can gather women and children and take them back to the pass, capture the strong men and men as slaves, or drive them away, and block some stone cities on the grassland, echoing each other from a hundred miles away. In this way, the grassland grazing territory can be reduced, and they dare to go to the bitter and cold land in the extreme west and north, and to threaten the Central Plains." Chen Yu explained so that these great scholars and old ministers, Hanlin scholars, would criticize their reputation. If they spread it in the future, they would be annoying.

Wen Boyan, Changsun Shunde, Gao Shilian, Xin Gongyi, Wei Zheng and others, after hearing his explanation, they felt a little relaxed and looked less angry.

Luo Zhaoyun pondered for a moment and shook his head and said, "My Dahua is similar to the Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties. It has one shortcoming, that is, there are many infantry and too few cavalry. I raised my army in the Tuyuhun area, where there are multiple pastures, so I led 50,000 elite cavalry to advance eastward, which is invincible. However, in a few years, the loss of war horses has been very high, and the horses have years of service, so they will have to be replaced in a few years. The cost of raising horses is too high. In troubled times, the country's tax revenue is insufficient and it cannot support the huge cultivation of war horses."

"In addition, a cavalry who is good at riding and shooting and fighting is also very difficult to train. The men, women, young and old on the grassland are all riding archers, and they have huge innate advantages over our Central Plains! Most of the soldiers who joined the army in our new army are farmer men. Perhaps they have grown up for twenty years and have never ridden a horse. It is very difficult to train like this, and it is not as good as the grassland cavalry. Therefore, the Central Plains army has often entered the grassland and cannot walk too far, so they have to withdraw their troops. Fighting in the wilderness without cities and passes. Infantry faces the cavalry corps, they have huge shortcomings, they cannot catch up or run away, and they can only be beaten and wait for death."

"There is another reason, that is, the military supplies are a huge number. When a hundred thousand troops enter the grassland and a thousand-mile front, the need for hundreds of thousands of people to transport food and grass will require hundreds of thousands of people. Their consumption along the way is greater than that of a hundred thousand troops. Moreover, once they enter the grassland and are attacked by the Turkic cavalry on the grassland, they may be destroyed. Once the army ahead is short of food and grass, what is waiting for them is panic and will be defeated in an instant."

The civil and military ministers present were a little stunned. They did not expect that His Majesty had analyzed so thoroughly that these two factors alone had already grasped the most core point.

In Chinese history, since the Spring and Autumn Period, the nomadic Hu people have continuously invaded the Central Plains, the East Yi, the Western Rong, the Northern Di, and the Southern Barbarians, surrounding the Central Plains, and hundreds of tribes almost destroyed the Central Plains Yanhuang bloodline. Later, Duke Huan of Qi proposed to "respecte the king and expel the barbarians", turning the tide, repel the barbarians, nine combinations of princes, and one to help the world, and then continued the Central Plains civilization. Next, there were the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Song and Ming Dynasties, not to mention the threat of the Five Barbarians invading China, the Khitan Liao, the Jin Dynasty, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and the Later Jin Dynasty.

Why has the Central Plains only had a defensive heart and it was difficult to completely defeat or even eliminate the barbarians and Hu people? Mainly because in the era of cold weapons, both men and women of nomadic people were able to fight, were brave, and learned to ride and shoot all day long. Moreover, they were tall and big, and all the iron cavalry were invincible. The Central Plains army was not as powerful as the nomadic tribes in terms of impact power and speed, and hard battles. This is one of the reasons.

Another important point is that nomadic tribes wander around, without unified fixed places, and without cities. Apart from the royal court and several fortress cities that place food and grass, there are almost few cities and cities, freely advancing and retreating and unrestrained. Moreover, it is a desolate place with cold weather. Even when the Central Plains are at its peak, it will not mobilize all the country to mobilize the power of the whole country. Going there is a place where people in the Central Plains are bitter and cold, and they will never be able to fight! Even if they want to attack, the nomadic tribes will directly relocate their tribes, and go to places where people in Mobei and Mobei are still in the north. The Central Plains army cannot go straight to pursue them, because it is meaningless. There is no occupied city on the grasslands with vast land and sparsely populated cities. This is also one of the important reasons why people in the Central Plains did not attack the nomadic tribes.

When the dynasty ruled by the Central Plains declined, it was corrupt and incompetent, and the military was dispersed. Many foolish and loyal ministers of Confucian doctrine of the mean thought always shamelessly proposed reconciliation, cede land and pay money, pay tribute every year, and save some place to continue their rule. The most representative one was the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, in summary, when the Central Plains was strong, they were disdainful of the nomadic tribes and felt that there was no need to mobilize troops to occupy the bitter and cold land. Therefore, Meng Tian expelled the Hu people, Qin Kai defeated the Donghu, Li Guang expelled the Huns, etc., but they only had the effect of expulsion, and did not really eliminate it, occupied the vast grassland, and gradually the city was held; when they were weak, they could only be passively beaten, unable to fight back, and survived.

Chen Xu was a little unwilling to accept it and said, "Is the Rongdi troubles on the grassland really impossible to solve?"
Chapter completed!