After reading Yu Yunwen's apology, Li Yan calmly put him aside, then looked at Li Xiu and Li Ci who had arrived at the palace and his twenty sons who had just grown up, and said: "The characteristics of nomadic peoples riding horses and hunting determine that they are born warriors, civilians are soldiers, and soldiers are civilians. The way of nomadic life cannot guarantee that nomadic peoples have sufficient food accumulation. Once bad weather occurs, the cattle and sheep of nomadic people will die in large numbers, resulting in the unsustainable life of nomadic peoples. In this way, nomadic peoples will inevitably invade the farming peoples in the south and plunder. Therefore, as long as nomadic peoples are not completely destroyed, nomadic peoples will definitely invade our Dazhong."

After a pause, Li Yan looked at his sons and asked again: "How can we deal with the nomadic peoples to eliminate future troubles forever?"

Li Yan did not use his sons to answer, and replied: "The Great Wall can protect our farming people from being invaded by nomadic peoples. However, it is precisely because of the Great Wall that our farming people and nomadic peoples will always be opposites. This Great Wall is like the Chu River and Han dynasties. In the past, most of them only guarded behind the Great Wall and painted the grassland as a place outside, and never took a step. This seems to be a kind of self-protection, but in my opinion, this is self-restriction and self-esteem, so I will never do such stupid things. Only by letting the nomadic people become part of our Dazhong and the grassland become part of our Dazhong and the indivisible territory of our Dazhong, nomadic people will not attack our Dazhong again. As for how to make the nomadic people a part of our Dazhong, we must first completely conquer them, and then assimilate them with culture..."

...

Not long after, Li Yan transferred Yu Yunwen to transfer the school's destiny, which was to give Yu Yunwen and Li Cun a warning, and then continued to conquer the grassland tribe himself.

The autumn of the eighth year of Tietong.

After more than half a year of conquest, the Wang Gu tribe, Tatar tribe, Wang Ji Ting, Gu Lie tribe, Mir Ji tribe, Ba Shihu tribe, Menggus tribe, and Cha Chi Ting were defeated by the central army one after another, and some were even directly destroyed by the central army.

Today, most of the remaining troops of the Mongolian tribes gather in the Onan River and Buerhan Mountain areas, with Borjijin Hebule from the Mongolian Kingdom, that is, Hebule Khan as the leader.

A small number of Mongolians fled to the Great Jin Dynasty and completely integrated into the Jin Dynasty. Now they gathered in the Shangjing area and guarded the enemy strictly.

In the north, after autumn, it will become colder and the temperature is scary. Many areas even sprinkle water to make ice.

Many of the soldiers of the central army came from the south, and they could not stand such weather at all.

Therefore, if the Mengwu Kingdom and the Great Jin Kingdom cannot be destroyed as soon as possible, Dazhong will have to withdraw its troops for the time being and make a comeback after the flowers bloom next year.

But if this is true, it will undoubtedly give the Mongolians and the Jin people a chance to breathe, and then there may be countless variables.

Li Yan brought Xu Guanzhong and Liu Qi to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Qi boldly proposed: "It is better to take the risk of attacking once. If you can conquer the Mongolian Kingdom and the Great Jin Kingdom, you will continue to fight. If you can't conquer the Mongolian Kingdom and the Great Jin Kingdom, you will withdraw your troops for the time being."

Liu Qi's idea was that if the Mongolian and the Great Jin Kingdom could be conquered, the central army could occupy the places of the Mongolian and the Great Jin Kingdom to rest, so that it could not only occupy the important land without giving the space for the Mongols and the Jin people to escape, but also put pressure on the Mongols and the Jin people, and then surrender them.

Xu Guanzhong disagrees with Liu Qi's radical idea. Xu Guanzhong said: "The whole country is the best way to use military forces, and the country is the best..."

Xu Guanzhong meant that the basic principle of war was that making the enemy surrender to the whole country was the best strategy, and defeating the enemy country was the second best choice.

Xu Guanzhong said again: "Now, our central army has forced the Jin people and the Mongols into a desperate situation. It is time to stop and find a way to make the whole country surrender and should not continue to fight. In that case, the Jin people and the Mongols will still fight the beasts, causing unnecessary casualties to our Dazhong."

Liu Qi opposed the peace talks now and said, "But the problem is that now, neither the Jin people nor the Mongols can really surrender. At most, they just want to use a delayed strategy to deceive us, and then continue to occupy the Northeast Plain and the Mongolian Plateau, and continue to be enemies with our Dazhong. Therefore, we must conquer Shangjing and the Onon River, so that the Jin people and the Mongols will be afraid, so that they will surrender the whole country."

Xu Guanzhong asked Liu Qi back and said, "If we lose the battle at Dazhong, then the Jin and Mongols will definitely make a comeback, and then there will be a tug-of-war. We will even promote them to truly unify and become our great enemies. Therefore, it is better for us to stop when we see the good, and then use political means to destroy the Jin and Mongolia tribes bit by bit."

Speaking of this, Xu Guanzhong bowed to Li Yan and said, "The government and the policy of reducing the number of taxes implemented by the Dajin Institute is not desirable. It cannot truly eliminate the barbarians. Therefore, it is impossible to fight blindly. Now, we have already beaten the Dajin and the Mongolian tribes. I feel that we should not take the risk to continue fighting again. It is time to stop and have a good talk with the Jin and Mongolians."

The so-called reduction of taxes is one of the policies formulated by the Jin Dynasty government to deal with the Mongolians, that is, to regularly send troops to suppress the people of the Mongolian tribes. All the adult men of the Mongolian tribes were within the range of the killing, and they were even more killed in the poor years. This policy is called "reduction of taxes".

To put it bluntly, the Dajin was afraid that the Mongols would harm its rule, so he sent troops to kill the Mongols regularly, and then rob the Mongol women and children to strengthen themselves.

The Mongols hated the Jin people to the core. If they had not been too tightly pressed, they would not have been able to merge with the Jin people.

(In history, the Jin Dynasty was destroyed, and the Mongols carried out a massacre of the Jin people, and Temujin even ordered that "only Wanyan's family cannot be forgiven."

In fact, there are also the contributions of the Song people. After the Jin Dynasty negotiated peace with Mongolia, the Jurchen nobles who once relied on the power of the emperor to do good deeds lost their backings. The people who were once exploited took the opportunity to take revenge. They would kill them after seeing Meng'an Moukeqi, so they searched for shadows and slaughtered them in just 3 or 2 days, and even dug tombs and abandoned bones. The Jurchens in Hebei, Henan and Shandong were slaughtered. Therefore, the demise of the Jin Dynasty was almost equivalent to extermination of the clan.)

Therefore, it is not advisable to kill blindly and will also be subject to crazy revenge.

Liu Qi also bowed to Li Yan and said, "Officials, I agree with the marshal's intention, but I insist on conquering Shangjing and the Onan River first. Otherwise, with the greed and cunning of the Jin people and the Mongols, they will never obey our Dazhong, nor will they cooperate with our Dazhong to differentiate and govern them."

The ball hit Li Yan's feet again.

Li Yan was too clear about the Jin and Mongols' abilities and survival ability. He would never be able to conquer them if he didn't completely destroy them or destroy them.

Therefore, this time Xu Guanzhong was actually wrong.

but--

Xu Guanzhong was worried, after all, winter was coming soon, and if he could not conquer Shangjing and Onan River in one fell swoop, it would become the home court of the Jin and Mongols, which would likely allow the Jin and Mongols to find a chance to fight back.

But even so, Li Yan still stood on Liu Qi's side and said, "I will not be able to sleep or eat until I have destroyed the Jurchens and the Mongols, so I will continue to fight!"

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