Four days later, Zhu Guoqiang and his group arrived in Yulin.

The reason why it took two more days was that the railway had not yet been built to Yulin.

He didn't even stay in Xi'an for a few hours during this trip to the northwest. After all, compared to Xi'an, Yulin, located on the northern front, is undoubtedly the most important.

After the Qing Dynasty, the bandits reclaimed the Hetao Plain, the main direction of the Northern Expedition was Hetao, which could provide sufficient food and grass for the Northern Expedition army. As long as the Hetao army was occupied, the Hetao army could be used as a base to launch an attack on the entire grassland.

Changes in strategic direction have also changed the status of Yulin, but this change has changed inadvertently. Yulin is not only an extremely important pass on the Great Wall, but also a very prosperous commercial city market.

Every day, a large number of caravans traveled to and from various passes of the Great Wall. These caravans transported various goods such as cotton cloth, iron pots and other goods outside the pass, and then transported various commodities such as cattle, leather and wool needed by the Ming Dynasty from outside the pass.

Unlike the Chongzhen ban on trade with Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty now had already relaxed trade with Mongolia, even if Mongolia was now occupied by the Qing Tartars. After all, Mongolia had cows, horses and other things that the Ming Dynasty urgently needed. Of course, the Ming Dynasty's goods were also urgently needed by the Qing Tartars.

It is also because of this that in the past few years, although the two sides are still in a state of hostility, they have maintained a certain kind of peace. It is this kind of peace that has led to some abnormal prosperity in the border areas. Every year, millions of taels of goods flow into the outside world. In this regard, ministers have long submitted memorials to call "the enemy of traders". Zhu Guoqiang often chooses to stay in China for such comments.

After all, the annual import of hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses is extremely important for the Ming Dynasty. It not only affects the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of households, but also affects the Ming Dynasty's infiltration into the grasslands.

Standing on the wall of Yulin Great Wall, Zhu Guoqiang occasionally observed Ordos on the other side of the Great Wall with a telescope. Ordos in 1651 was not a desert, but a fertile prairie in East Asia. Although the prairie in autumn was yellow, he stared at this prairie with a certain desire in his eyes.

When he put down his telescope, he would turn his attention to another map, which was a map marked with all the roads, lakes, rivers and other information on the grassland. In the past seven years, Jinyiwei disguised as vendors have penetrated the entire grassland. While they were doing business on the grassland, they were also collecting information on the grassland little by little.

Even their footprints appeared in the Baikal area.

"Your Majesty, last month, we went to the north and encountered the Rakshasa people on the shore of Lake Baikal. However, we did not conflict with them. It was from them that we obtained an intelligence that the Donglu had had many conflicts with the Rakshasa people."

Standing respectfully beside His Majesty, Li Yun reported to the report.

He was a guard and was really shocked when he saw His Majesty, but he was so excited.

Your Majesty is here in Yulin in person!

what does that mean?

This means that Your Majesty must be using troops to the grassland!

It's time to fight!

For soldiers, there are a few people who do not desire to fight, which is the only chance to gain military merits. Li Yun, who was transferred to Yulin three years ago, is also eager for war.

What he longs for is not only to kill the enemy, but also to kill all the Donglu in the world and avenge his parents. He is the orphan of the Donglu invasion, and his parents both died at the hands of the Donglu.

Between the Eastern Barbarians, there are not only national hatred, but also family hatred!

"Your Majesty, the main force of the Eastern Barbarians is almost all west of the Western Regions. I believe that when using troops to the grasslands, there is no need to wait until the railway is built. I only need to attack with a town of cavalry and directly attack Xin'an and other cities in the Hetao area. I can obtain sufficient food and grass, and then expand north with Hetao as the foundation, and continuously send cavalry to sweep the grasslands, and then build garrisons and fortresses along the line. At most two years, the grasslands can all belong to our Ming Dynasty!"

Then, Li Yun pointed to the map and drew a line westward and said.

"Your Majesty, please see. Although there are mountains, Gobi and deserts along the way, there are basically no dangers to defend. When the Mongols entered the Western Regions from here to the Western Regions, the Eastern Barbarians also took this road. If a railway could be built here, it could lead to the Western Regions directly, and the army could go directly to the Western Regions along the railway. In this way, the extermination of the Eastern Barbarians was just around the corner."

Regarding Li Yun’s suggestion, Zhu Guoqiang nodded slightly.

"I know all of these, but the most important thing for us now is to carry out more intelligence collection. Our Northern Expedition is different from the past. We must fight to determine the universe. What is this universe? It is to completely solve the threat from the grassland to the Ming Dynasty and the threat to the Central Plains, rather than defeating them and then withdrawing them."

Shaking his head, Zhu Guoqiang pointed to the plump pastures on the map and said.

"In the future, we will set up garrisons here and take root in the grassland for generations. As long as we occupy it, the Tartars will never threaten us. In the future, what is our policy? It is to take the initiative!"

Looking at the grassland outside the Great Wall, Zhu Guoqiang sighed.

"During the Han Dynasty, there were the Huns outside the Great Wall. By the Tang Dynasty, they became Turks, and then there were Mongolians. We Han people fought a war with the nomadic people on the grassland for two thousand years, but what was the result of the war? They were never eliminated. When the Huns were strong, they were Huns, when the Turks were strong, they were Turks, when the Mongols became strong, they became Mongolians again..."

Shaking his head, Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"When face them, what choice do we have? It's nothing more than taking the initiative and making it difficult for them to pose a threat to the Central Plains through continuous attacks. However, this will not solve the problem. If you want to solve the problem, you must immigrate to the real border like in the Northeast. Only in this way can you fundamentally solve the problem. This means that for a long time in the future, the Ming Dynasty will use swords to expand, and then consolidate the occupation with a plow!"

To put it bluntly, in the future, it is necessary to expand, to change the cage and change the birds, to drive people and seize their careers. Why can the southwest of the Ming Dynasty be "continued and stable for a long time"? Because the Ming Dynasty maintained a high pressure for more than two hundred years, it eliminated various hidden dangers in the long history through some official "driving people and snatching people and snatching their careers".

It is OK in the southwest, and it is also OK in Mongolia. They don’t want it. It doesn’t matter. Muskets and cannons will make them agree, and they will be obediently handed over the best ranch, or even their women.

"But we can't be anxious. We do have this strength in whale swallowing, but what about after whale swallowing? Compared to whale sky, nibbling is more secure. This nibbling requires some reasons and excuses..."

Looking back at Li Yun, Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"When I leave, you will find a way to create this reason. What is the goal of the first step? Hetao? It's a bit far away. Just take Ordos down first. Didn't Dorgon put his main force in the west? The defense here is empty, so force him to spit out Ordos!"

Your Majesty's decree made Li Yun raise his eyebrows and tentatively tentatively.

"Your Majesty asked me to take the initiative? Find an excuse to fight them, and then seize Ordos..."

"I cut my flesh with zero knife, my heart doesn't hurt. I eat a little bit, and they now..."

Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"I dare not tear apart with us. Since this is the case, I will take the opportunity to eat up some territory. It's so good to raise sheep on such a large grassland, and the best wool!"

It's expensive!

Wool is not cheap!

High-quality wool is more expensive. It can even be described as soft gold, and this seemingly inconspicuous little thing is the foundation for the Ming Dynasty to conquer the grassland in the future.

Why can't the Han people survive for a long time on the grassland? Because the grassland is not suitable for cultivation, but wool will change all this and allow the Han people to survive for a long time in the local area...

"In Liaodong, I don't know how many military households get rich by raising sheep. In the future, at least 30,000 military households can be placed on the Ordos grassland, and they can also raise sheep,"
Chapter completed!