Zhu Houzhao was obviously listening very seriously just now. He said, "It's so vast outside the Ming Dynasty, but it's mostly wilderness. Ye Aiqing, don't lie to me. The desert is full of wasteland, North Korea is bitter and cold, Japan is just a mountainous island, with miasma on the south, and yellow sands to the west. Do you think I don't know?"

Zhu Houzhao obviously studied these issues.

How could a person like Zhu Houzhao, who was full of fighting and killing, not know the gains and losses of the territory of all dynasties?

To put it bluntly, the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty have occupied the most fertile land at present. Even if other places are obtained, it will be more than worth the loss.

If there is no food in the field, what is the purpose? After spending so much effort and so many people die, you can't have a barren land.

In fact, the ancients were not fools. They had no motivation to expand their territory. They were like a rich landlord who was squandering his efforts every day to rob a few poor mountainous land in the next mountain. They were ill. Even if they snatched it, they didn’t think that the people in the mountains were quite tough and had a stubborn mind. If you snatch his land, they might not think about you every day. When you were alone, they would give you a hammer behind your head. Even if you snatch this land, you still have to hire someone to rent it. If you plant it all year round, you will definitely not be able to support your own tenants. Who would do this kind of unethical and brain-drawing?

It makes sense that the big fishes in the Ming Dynasty only stare at the small fish and shrimps in the thirteen provinces of the two capitals and thirteen provinces. Everyone is not stupid. There are many fish bones outside, and they are all frying and are not chewy.

Ye Chunqiu was very pleased. Zhu Houzhao had indeed understood his theory, and he was afraid of playing the piano against the cow.

Ye Chunqiu pursed his lips and said, "Your Majesty's words make sense. If it were now, it was just farming, and this wild land would naturally be unprofitable. But has Your Majesty ever thought about it? Before the glass came out, the ores in the mountains were worthless. If there were no iron tools, there would be no difference between those iron ores and stones. If it were not for the need to build a house, how much money would the trees in the mountains be worth? Your Majesty, they are not worthless, but the big fish have not discovered their value yet. What Your Majesty should do is to let the big fish discover this value and make them discover profitable."

These words shocked Zhu Houzhao enough.

Yes, those stones were really worthless in the past, but because of the recent fire in crystals, the stones have become increasingly tight. It is said that many people secretly go to quarry and sell money during the slack season. Stones can be exchanged for money, wood, and everything can be money. Of course, the most important thing is that you have to be able to make crystals and sell them.

Zhu Houzhao was actually a very smart person, and he was deeply thinking at this time.

Ye Chunqiu stopped talking, sat on the broken chicken butt, looking up at the sky.

There are many stars in the sky, as if Ye Chunqiu had truly clarified his path at this time.

The ancients were never stupid. It was because they were not stupid that they established a tribute system. Therefore, they have always been in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. At most, they added several Dusi for the needs of safety. This is not because the scholars and officials love peace. Such nonsense is a lie. In fact, you see that they have to protect their own interests and have to fly one by one. In the past dynasties, once the reforms of the scholars and officials are used to give them some benefits, whether it is the new and old party struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty or the Zhang Juzheng reform in the Ming Dynasty in history, they are all bloody bayonets, taking advantage of me, and killing your whole family.

You see, just for the sake of a little privilege, you can fight with you, fight with you, and be serious with you, and really love peace. Even your own people can be successful. The class that can kill you will suddenly love you, such a group of barbarians, and cannot bear to invade you.

You are so funny about me, really think that these elites in the Celestial Empire system are all stupid?

They chose to maintain this system and choose to love peace, and there was only one reason, that is, it was unprofitable! You are the group of poor people who only live in mountain tombs, miasma, weeds, and deserts. I am too lazy to even rob you. You deserve to let me compete for profit with you? You don’t look in the mirror. Oh, you are so poor that you don’t even have a bronze mirror, so don’t look in it. Come to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute and put gold on your face. I will send you a few ingots of silver, and then go back to wherever you come.

This is the truth of the fact. There is no so-called peace-loving, nor any kindness to all sides. Any noble theory is essentially evolved based on actual conditions.

Zhu Houzhao sat quietly, hugged her knees, and slowly began to think.

It is also because of this that you only need to guard your own land one acre and three-point area, so the court does not need any elite soldiers at all. These martial artists are really hindering people's eyes. You just need to guard the barriers. Since you are useless, of course you have to belittle you and of course you have to weaken you. Is it possible that the world is peaceful and the country does not need to make progress, but you still have to raise your spirits and tigers to be fierce?

The embezzlement and annexation of internal land does not require the army, but only rely on its own privileges. Even those slack military households are useful enough to deal with the chaotic people.

So in essence, although Zhu Houzhao has a goal, no matter what he does, countless people passively pull him. He wants to strengthen his troops, the cabinet opposes, the six ministries opposes, and scholars all over the world oppose. He wants to adopt a more active national policy against the Hu people, and everyone rushed to hold him and scolded him hard, so that he should not make trouble.

Is this a nonsense? To some extent, yes, because the court does not need to destroy the Hu at all. What the court wants is to prevent Hu. You spend all the money and food in the world, recruit dozens or millions of troops, and go out of the pass in a mighty way, killing the Tatars so badly that they don’t know how to recognize the Tatars. But what’s the use? Do you let the Han people migrate to raise horses? In the end, you still have to retreat to the pass. Then, although the Tatars are gone, there will still be the rise of the Oirats. Without the Oirats, there will be the Huns, Xianbeis, Turks, and Khitans. In essence, when you cannot effectively utilize the desert and cannot operate it for a long time, then you have imitated Hanwu and exchanged the full treasury for the Huns, but in the end, in a few years, a new strong neighbor will appear in this desert.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the starry sky from afar, and he suddenly let out a long sigh: "I understand."

He realized it.

Then he stood up and looked at Ye Chunqiu with a smile.
Chapter completed!