night.

"You think I won't kill you?"

His Majesty the Emperor said grimly.

He said this because Yang Feng refused his summons, and the reason was very simple...

"I am a modern man and a warrior, why should I be summoned by you, a feudal emperor, to come and go immediately?

I admit that you are an emperor who rules over the world and has the power of life and death over the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, but this has something to do with me. I am not a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and I am not your subject. You are just like us at that time.

A foreign leader, such as the president of a country that is hostile to us. Before I had no contact with the country, I could consider taking orders from you in the future, but now that I have been able to receive orders from the country, then you can only

He is a foreign leader.

Take your orders?

Then wouldn’t I be betraying the country?”

Yang Feng sat on his recliner and said with an attitude that was obviously inferior to Ling Chi.

"Don't forget that you are on my land!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

The eunuch next to him quickly carried his short couch forward...

"Long live the Lord, put this guy on top!"

said the old eunuch.

The eunuchs quickly carried the short couch past Yang Feng.

This bastard is sitting slightly lower on the top of the mountain. Unless Zhu Yuanzhang's short couch is placed behind him, it will either sit on an equal footing with him or be placed below him.

Only behind him can you be higher than him.

Of course His Majesty the Emperor cannot be equal to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked past him proudly and sat down on his short couch, facing the back of his head.

"Bring that cannon in front of me."

His Majesty the Emperor said.

The Jin Yiwei quickly carried a Hongwu cannon forward, then placed it at the feet of His Majesty the Emperor, and pointed the muzzle at the back of Yang Feng's head. Zhu Yuanzhang took the torch and stretched out his hand there, feeling that he was leaning against a short

On the couch, you can also light the fuse and shoot this bastard to death, so he nodded with satisfaction...

"I am indeed in your land, but at most I can only be counted as a diplomat here. You should understand this term, right? We had more than a hundred countries at that time, and these countries were all equal, although there were also strong ones.

Some are weak, some are big, some are small, but at least they are equal in face, and then they send diplomats to each other, we call them ambassadors. These ambassadors are stationed in other countries, represent their own countries, and deal with the exchanges with the host country, while the other party

Set aside a piece of land on your own land to build embassies for these ambassadors. The host country has the responsibility to protect these embassies and diplomatic personnel, and diplomats have immunity. Even if they commit a crime, they can only be expelled, and the police of the host country will also

That is, officials cannot enter the embassy to arrest people.

Even the embassy's vehicles are protected when driving on the street, so as long as they enter the embassy, ​​they cannot be arrested.

In short, diplomats enjoy various privileges in the host country."

Yang Feng said without looking back.

"So you want me to give you the status of a diplomat? But why should I give it to you? Our Ming Dynasty does not have such diplomatic relations. Everyone who comes to our Ming Dynasty pays tribute to me.

They all have to kneel before me and beg for gifts."

Zhu Yuanzhang said while playing with a torch.

"Trade!"

Yang Feng said confidently.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to play with torches...

"You don't think that all you can get from me is a few pistols and a few grenades, do you? Now that I can contact them, do you want to know how to make these weapons? Even if it is not possible to make a gun like mine,

It's too realistic, but a matchlock gun is totally possible? With a new musket, you also need a new gunpowder. Do you want to know how to make the new gunpowder? Do you want to know the new musket tactics?

You see, you can get huge benefits from this kind of relationship.

It can make you invincible."

Yang Feng said.

"Am I not already invincible?"

His Majesty the Emperor said proudly.

"That's not necessarily true. If you are really invincible, why can't you clear out Mobei?"

Yang Feng said.

"I can't clear Mobei because I want the people to recuperate.

The difficulty in Mobei is not how to fight. If we really fight in an upright battle formation, Can Yuan's remnant troops will not be enough to destroy the Ming Dynasty in one battle. However, it is not difficult to win, but it is difficult to clear it. The Mobei grassland is vast, and people often disappear thousands of miles away from the fortress.

There are no roads, no food to plunder, and there are not even wells to be found except for a few rivers. Everything the army needs depends almost entirely on transportation from the rear. Millions of civilians travel north and south. The military supplies transported are not enough for tens of thousands of elite soldiers, so they often need to save up.

It takes several years to support a few months of conquest.

If we continue to fight, the world will be exhausted.

Nowadays, the world is newly settled, and what the people want is to cultivate themselves and live a healthy life.

Can Yuan had already been defeated, and there was no power to knock the pass for a short time. In the first month of the previous year, the Yan and Jin vassals made a northern expedition, and when the Jin vassal came out of the fortress, there was no sign of Can Yuan's troops.

Then I don’t need to waste money and people anymore. I only need to continue to immigrate to the Yan Dynasty and Liaodong, set up forts one after another, turn those good pastures into fertile fields, and then build cities one after another to block all trade routes and seal them off.

Their salt and iron continued to encroach on the grassland, trapping them in the cold and barren lands of Mobei.

Each vassal then guarded the border fortress, and when the opportunity arose, they would attack with cavalry, defeating their tribes, killing their people, seizing their livestock, and burning their pastures.

Hit it with one blow and quickly retreat.

In this way, it will be trapped in famine, and the rest will be waiting for civil strife.

Over the years, the ministers of the residual Yuan Dynasty have continued to join us. This is the right strategy. This will only last more than ten years. As long as there is no civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, I will survive them all."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Then the Ming Dynasty was in trouble, and then it shrank, and all his arrangements were thrown away.

"Then do you know why Can Yuan revived again?"

Yang Feng said.

"explain!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.

"It's very simple. There is nothing wrong with your strategy, but the problem is that you can't support yourself in the guard posts in places like Liaodong!

Especially those health stations closest to the grasslands do not produce enough food to eat, so they rely on you to continuously transport food to them. Of course you understand that this is necessary. Even if the cost is high, you must continue to provide them with food.

Transport food, give them rewards, and let them feel at ease there.

But for your descendants, this kind of place is a bottomless pit. Instead of transporting the collected food to those military households, why not stay and enjoy it?

Just dismantle those guard stations.

It is estimated that those military households are also willing to move inland. After all, compared with Kaipingwei, even Jidong is a good place.

You cannot expect your descendants to be as thoughtful as you."

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Yuanzhang fell silent.

He also knew that those health camps were actually very difficult.

But it was strategically necessary, so he could only continue to transport food there every year and continue to give them rewards. But even this could not reassure the military households in the guard station, and escape was not impossible. There were also military households in the Hongwu Dynasty who fled, like Kaiping,

In places like Daning, in the farming era, and there were still no potatoes, corns, and sweet potatoes, who wouldn’t run away if there was a chance?

Compared with these places, Jidong is really a good place. The Kaiping guards who moved from Duolun to Tangshan are definitely grateful.

"So, you need to make those military households self-sufficient, or even more than enough, so that guarding the frontier is no longer a chore, but a good thing that can make them rich.

At that time, even if you didn't force them, people would naturally run to the border fortress on their own.

And I know how to make them rich."

Yang Feng turned around and said.

Then he took a look at the Hongwu cannon pointed at him...

"Your cannon is too small. In another sixty years, the cannons made by the Ottomans in the west will be heavier than your cannon in terms of shells."

He said contemptuously.

"Huh, can I push a cannon like that to the grassland? Or is there a city on the grassland that is worth blasting with a cannon like that? I can use hundreds of horses to drag a cannon weighing tens of thousands of pounds to the grassland and blast a few tents.

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To be continued...