parentshiftbook Chapter 759: Boiling Frogs In Warm Water, Sheep Eating Horses [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Chapter 759: Boiling Frogs In Warm Water, Sheep Eating Horses [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
"In addition, the methods just mentioned."
"Whether it is promising huge profits, the Mongolian people of the Ming Dynasty can win over the people of the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang to submit to the Ming Dynasty."
"Or maybe they used inducements to provoke the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland to attack each other, and let them plunder the people of other grassland tribes and sell them to the Ming Dynasty."
"These will take a long time to be realized slowly."
"Before that, we can further weaken the strength of the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes by trading wool!"
Yan Changqing thought for a while and spoke again.
"Trading wool?!!"
"Can the strength of the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands be reduced by trading wool?!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhou Wang Zhu Ji both looked at Yan Changqing with confusion.
Yan Changqing nodded and affirmed:
"That's right, trading wool!!!"
"I have told you before that wool is of little use to the people in the grasslands of northern Xinjiang."
"But for the people in the Central Plains, it can be made into wool thread and woven into clothes.
"So the imperial court can send official caravans from the Ministry of Household Affairs to trade wool with tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands."
"However, the trading volume of this wool must be large, and the quantity of wool must be large!"
“The amount of wool traded is determined by the number of sheep currently raised by the grassland tribe.
"For example, a sheep can shear about four to five pounds of wool in a year."
"And if a small grassland tribe currently raises 10,000 sheep, then under normal circumstances, it can probably shear 40,000 to 50,000 kilograms of wool a year!"
"Then the imperial court's official caravan can make an agreement with the small grassland tribe. The small grassland tribe will trade with the Ming Dynasty every six months and deliver 60,000 to 80,000 kilograms of wool to the Ming Dynasty a year!"
"Remember, the quantity of wool must be more, not less!"
Hearing Yan Changqing repeatedly emphasize the quantity of wool, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju asked with some confusion:
"Why must the quantity of wool be more, not less?!!"
“Isn’t this more than the amount of wool this small prairie tribe can currently provide?!!”
Yan Changqing looked at Zhou Wang Zhu Ju and further prompted:
"Yes, what we want is to exceed the amount of wool that this small grassland tribe can currently increase!"
"And once the sheep raised by this small grassland tribe are not enough to provide the huge amount of wool needed by the Ming Dynasty, what should it do?!!"
After hearing Yan Changqing's questioning, Zhou Wang Zhu Xi thought for a while and then said:
“Expand the number of sheep in captivity?!!”
Yan Changqing showed a smile on his lips, nodded and said:
"Yes, they will choose to expand the number of sheep in captivity!"
"So what impact will the expansion of the number of sheep in captivity have on them?!!"
King Zhu Zhu of Zhou frowned. He could guess that the impact of what Yan Changqing said was the fundamental reason why Yan Changqing deliberately asked the grassland tribes to provide more wool than they were capable of.
But Zhou Wang Zhu Ju, who had never really lived on the grassland or raised sheep, could not imagine the impact that expanding the number of sheep in captivity would have on the grassland tribes.
However, although Zhou Wang Zhu Zhu never raised sheep, Zhu Yuanzhang did herd cattle!
Compared to Zhou Wang Zhu Zhu, who was still looking at things in the fog and could not figure it out, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already figured out what Yan Changqing meant, looked at Yan Changqing with a complex expression and said in admiration:
“After expanding the number of sheep in captivity, the number of cattle and horses in captivity will be correspondingly reduced!”
Yan Changqing nodded and said with an even brighter smile:
"Yes, a grassland tribe, whether it is in terms of its number of people or the local water and grass resources.
"In general, the number of cattle, horses, and sheep it can ultimately afford to keep is limited within a certain range!"
"Because whether they are sheep, cattle or horses, they are all herbivores."
"Their recipes are roughly the same, which means there is food competition between them."
"If a grassland tribe chooses to expand the number of sheep, it will inevitably reduce the number of cattle and horses."
"Otherwise, in terms of the limited number of aquatic plants within a certain local area, it is impossible to maintain the original number of cattle and horses after expanding the number of sheep."
"The decline in the number of cattle and horses also means a disguised reduction in the number of cavalry of this grassland tribe!"
"After all, if you want to be a cavalryman, you must have a horse at least!"
“If we don’t even have horses, how can we become cavalry by riding sheep?!!”
When they heard Yan Changqing say that it was possible for the grassland tribes to ride sheep as cavalry, the three little guys Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi just imagined the appearance of the cavalry riding sheep in their minds, and couldn't help but laugh. stand up.
The sheep cavalry is so funny, they might as well be the ox cavalry!
At least the bull cavalry looks a little more intimidating!
Yan Changqing continued:
"Of course, not only this small prairie tribe, but any prairie tribe that trades with the Ming Dynasty, the amount of wool required by the Ming Dynasty must be 1.5 to twice the current annual wool output of the prairie tribe!"
"If we talk about the grassland tribes that traded with the Ming Dynasty, this year they successfully provided 1.5 to twice the amount of wool that the Ming Dynasty needed."
"Then Daming can tell them that the quantity of wool traded in the second year will remain unchanged, allowing them to slow down and relax their vigilance against Daming."
"But starting from the third year, they will need to provide 1.5 times to twice the amount of wool to Daming based on the current amount of wool!"
"If they cannot provide the amount of wool that the Ming Dynasty needs, then the Ming Dynasty will cut off trading with them and find other prairie tribes that have the ability to provide more wool for trade."
"Of course, if they don't want to cut off the wool trade with Taiming."
"Then the insufficient amount of wool can be offset by the population of women from their own tribe or other prairie tribes that they kidnapped."
"This cycle of analogy continues until finally these grassland tribes are forced to completely give up raising cattle and horses and instead raise all sheep, or they lose nearly 70 to 80% of their female population."
"Stop the persecution of these grassland tribes and let the amount of wool they need to provide remain unchanged at the current amount."
"Once they plan to raise cattle and horses again, or if the number of women in their tribe exceeds 20-30% of the current tribe's population, then they can start to increase the amount of wool they need to provide.
"This further forced them to give up their plans to raise cattle and horses, making it impossible for their cavalry to be organized in an organized manner."
"And causing the number of women in their tribe to return to 20 or 30% of the total tribe's population, fundamentally limiting the possibility of a significant increase in their tribe's population!"
After hearing this, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju also completely understood the meaning of Yan Changqing's words.
If the Ming Dynasty and the northern Xinjiang grassland tribes proposed a trade, and the trade was still wool that they disdained.
Then these northern Xinjiang grassland tribes will definitely agree. After all, they are using the wool they do not need to trade with the Ming Dynasty for the salt, tea and other daily necessities they need.
This is equivalent to using their garbage to make money from Ming Dynasty!
If they don’t agree to such a transaction, they would be fools!
Maybe they would even trade with Da Ming while laughing at Da Ming in their hearts for being a big fool!
Under such circumstances, if Daming proposed to further purchase more wool, they would need to provide more wool.
They would also eagerly agree, because the greater the number of wool transactions, the more "benefit" they would get from Ming Dynasty.
If they refuse such a once-in-a-lifetime "(bhci) great thing", they are all worried that the Changsheng Heaven will drop a thunder bed to kill them.
What's more, Daming also raised the invisible threat of "if they cannot meet the quantity of wool that Daming needs, Daming will cut off trade with them and trade with other grassland tribes who have the ability to provide more wool."
Under such circumstances, even though they were worried that Ming Dynasty was cheating.
But as long as you see that Ming Dynasty really only needs their wool, and they really only need to pay for their wool, they don't need to pay for anything else.
And by taking wool, they could indeed continuously exchange it for daily necessities such as salt, tea, etc. from the Ming Dynasty.
Then it is estimated that in the end, they will most likely choose to expand the number of livestock breeding in order to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty.
As for the statement that if they breached the contract and provided insufficient wool to Daming, they would have to offset it with the female population of their own tribe, they ignored it.
After all, it's just wool. The garbage that falls on the grassland and no one picks it up. How can it not provide the amount of wool that Ming Dynasty needs? At worst, they can just raise a few more sheep.
And once they do this, they will fall into Ming's trap.
The reason why the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang were able to conquer the grasslands and even go south to plunder the Ming Dynasty was because of their grassland cavalry that controlled the world!
Once they discover that raising sheep brings more benefits than raising cattle and horses, and then reduce the number of cattle and horses in order to raise sheep, then they are equivalent to abandoning their martial arts.
The grassland tribes who lost their cavalry were like sheep to the Ming Dynasty, just letting the Ming Dynasty take whatever they wanted!
And all this happened quietly.
Not to mention the grassland tribes, even if he himself had not heard Mr. Yan’s explanation, I am afraid he would not have realized that behind this simple wool transaction, he could actually abolish the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang and run rampant in the world. cavalry!
More importantly, in this process, Daming did not suffer at all.
After all, wool is garbage to the grassland tribes, but it is the best wool clothing material to the Ming Dynasty.
In the view of Zhou Wang Zhu Ju, this strategy was even better than the previously mentioned strategy of "promising huge profits to induce the Mongolian people of the Ming Dynasty to win over the people of the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang to submit to the Ming Dynasty".
Or it could be a strategy of "lure them with benefits, provoke the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland to attack each other, and let them plunder the people of other grassland tribes and sell them to the Ming Dynasty". It is much better, and let the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland fight without a fight. The future has lost its ability to resist.
If one word were used to describe this strategy, then the one word that Zhou Wang Zhu Xi could think of was "absolute"!
"And another advantage of wool trading is that through wool trading, the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang can rely on the Ming Dynasty as much as possible for their food, clothing, housing and transportation!"
"It would be best if the Ming Dynasty provides all the food, clothing, housing and transportation for the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grassland, and they only need to raise sheep on the northern Xinjiang grassland and provide wool for the Ming Dynasty.
"When the Ming Dynasty provided all the food, clothing, housing and transportation for the grassland tribes in northern Xinjiang, they themselves reduced the breeding of cattle and horses, and even abolished the breeding of cattle and horses.
"Then the Ming Dynasty doesn't even need to send troops to conquer them. It just needs to cut off the provision of resources such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation to the tribes in the northern Xinjiang grasslands."
"This is enough to cause the entire northern Xinjiang grassland to fall into civil strife among the grassland tribes due to insufficient resources such as food, clothing, housing and transportation."
"In the end, it is not impossible that the vitality of the entire Northern Xinjiang grassland tribes will be severely damaged, and it may even lead to their demise!"
"In addition, when Ming Dynasty has accumulated enough power to sweep away the grassland tribes.
"The Ming Dynasty can also further increase the amount of wool that the grassland tribes need to provide, and then send troops to attack those grassland tribes when they cannot provide a sufficient amount of wool and cannot offset it with enough tribal women!"
"After all, Daming had said in advance that if it broke the contract and could not provide the amount of wool that Daming needed, then it would need to use the population of tribal women to offset it. If the population of tribal women
If Dharma Body can't resist it, then don't blame Ming Dynasty for sending troops to seek justice. "
"In this way, even if the Ming Dynasty conquered this grassland tribe, the news would not arouse their vigilance to other grassland tribes."
"Even other grassland tribes will be happy to see the Ming conquer this grassland tribe. After all, after the Ming conquers this grassland tribe, the additional wool demand gap created by the Ming will definitely need to be supplied and filled by new grassland tribes."
"And if this wool gap falls on their tribe, then their tribe can use more wool to exchange for more good things from Daming!"
"As for whether their tribe will one day be unable to provide the amount of wool needed by the Ming Dynasty, thus incurring a crusade from the Ming Dynasty's army [they will not consider these ten points."
"Because in their minds, their tribe is not a small tribe, so how could it not be able to meet the Ming Dynasty's wool demand."
"And under such circumstances, the Ming Dynasty can cannibalize and annex those grassland tribes bit by bit."
"And after the Ming Dynasty cannibalized and annexed most of the grassland tribes, even if a small number of grassland tribes woke up, it would not help the situation by that time.
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"The entire northern Xinjiang grassland will then become the possession of the Ming Dynasty."
"I call this strategy - sheep eating horses!"
Yan Changqing stood on the podium, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhou Wang Zhu Xi, Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi below, and smiled lightly.
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