Zhu Di's five Northern Expeditions were indeed aimed at dismantling the Mongols and stabilizing the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhu Di's five Northern Expedition to bring peace to the Ming Dynasty in Zhu Qizhen when the emperor was Zhu Qizhen to the broken, the Ming Dynasty by the Mongolian Warat tribes defeated hurt the Ming Dynasty's fundamental.

Zhu Di's reign, Zhu Di personally led the army to attack the Mongols, the North Yuan to the north of Desert North, and the original Mongolia North Yuan's power all to break up, disintegrated their power, Mongolia gradually into a one after another tribes, they began to live alone in their own tribal life, different tribes to develop independently. After that, the northern Yuan was gradually replaced by a new force, the Tartars, and the Warat tribes gradually developed, as well as the Woodruff Tribe, which became more and more powerful.

The Tartar tribe in the Northern Expedition, Zhu Di put the Tartar tribe hard to destroy their prestige, so that they expressed obedience to the Ming Dynasty, and give the Ming Dynasty a lot of cattle and horses and a lot of money. However, the weakness of the Tartar tribes made the Walar tribes strong again, and became one of the biggest hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty, and the northern border of the Ming Dynasty was not stable, so Zhu Di decided to the second Northern Expedition.

In the second Northern Expedition, Zhu Di's main attack is the Wala tribe, however, the Wala tribe by the Ming army to the collapse of the time, the Tartar tribe is strong again. So Zhu Di decided to the third northern expedition, the resident of the third northern expedition is in order to the Tatar tribes, Walar tribes to beat down so that they can not rise again. However, the power of the Mongolian tribes rose and fell, to the fifth northern expedition, Zhu Di focus on the Woodland Harbor tribes and Tartary, which makes them since then have been afraid to violate the borders of the Ming Dynasty, however, the Woodland Harbor tribes and the Tartary tribes are weak, but the Walar tribes and slowly developed, and twenty years later and once again attacked the Ming Dynasty.

Varat tribal strength of the Ming army can be completely destroyed them, but Zhu Qizhen playful, must be the Royal Palace, gave the Varat tribe to catch him the opportunity to make him a prisoner, and thereafter the Varat tribal development more and more powerful, Zhu Qizhen directly Zhu Di disintegration of Mongolia's plan to break.