Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1221 The case of gunpowder looting

Jinghua Mining is a very important department within Jinghua Group. It was established only a few years ago. Its headquarters is located in Kaiping, but it manages and guides the exploration and production of Jinghua's entire mining industry.

After Tumert completely surrendered, Jinghua Mining's domestic development in Daming began to expand from focusing on North China, Central China and Liaodong, and the first batch was the Northwest region.

The reason why the northwest region is the first batch of key development, politics is the main factor, because the basic plan of the real school or the high party still focuses on the northern region.Especially after Zhang Siwei came to power, the Jin Party was almost integrated into the Gao Party. In this way, in addition to Shanxi, the power of the Ma Ziqiang family, the main ally of Zhang Siwei, in Shaanxi was also used by Gao Pragmat, which opened up the development of Jinghua Mining. Northwest created the necessary conditions.

There is another key factor here, that is, the surrender of Tumet made the northwest region, which was originally under the disadvantageous situation of "all around Gan and all captives", suddenly became peaceful and had the foundation for large-scale development.

At that time, the focus of Jinghua Mining was on the coal mines in northern Shaanxi—the Shenmu and Yulin areas of later generations.The coal mines in this area, together with the Tumet Iron Mine (later Baotou, the mine was opened by Jinghua, which employed some Mongolians) and Ordos Glauber's salt (same as Baotou), formed the basis for Jinghua to build a new weapons factory in Shaanxi. Jinghua built the Yansui Arsenal in Jiazhou, where the governor of Yansui was stationed, mainly producing guns, and a small amount of light guns to supply military supplies in the northwest.

No problem until this period, the problem is the next step.After the Yansui Arsenal was completed and put into operation smoothly, Jinghua started the second step of western expansion.It was at this time that the Jinghua Trading Company heard local rumors in Gansu in the process of doing business—the rumors were an important source of minerals discovered during this period—that the military households of Yongchangwei in Gansu often discovered copper mines.

This news caught the attention of Jinghua Mining, and soon sent people to investigate and explore near Yongchangwei, and it turned out that a large copper mine was really discovered.

The news quickly spread to Gao Wushi, but he didn't know much about Gansu, so he couldn't make up his mind, so he wrote to Liu Xin to inquire.Liu Xin wrote back soon after, thinking that the copper mine discovered by Jinghua Mining was likely to be the Jinchang Baijiazuizi copper mine in later generations, and the reserves were very large.

This greatly boosted Gao pragmatism, because Daming was very short of copper, and now he needed copper mines to build artillery and ration the fleet, so when he heard that there was a large copper mine, he immediately approved the development plan in Yongchangwei - although The place is remote, but no matter how remote it is, it is on the only route of the Silk Road, and it is possible to run horses here. Can it be more difficult than Yunnan transportation?At present, most of the copper mines in Daming are in Yunnan.

Yongchangwei is the Jinchang of later generations. It is located not far from the northwest of Wuwei. Of course, the current Wuwei is generally called Liangzhou.The situation that Daming faced here in Gansu was just like what we just said, "all around Gansu are captives", with Tumet in the north, Turpan and Qinghai in the west and south.

Turpan is a little better. Due to his limited strength, he has always been more respectful to Daming.But Qinghai Tumet was not the case. They were relatively honest at the beginning, especially during Altan's reign. Because of fear of Altan's prestige, Qinghai Tumet always followed Altan's proposition: Altan hit Daming, and they followed suit. Harassment in Gansu; Alta was banned, and they did business honestly.

After Altan's death, the Monan War broke out. Daming and Tumut teamed up to defeat Tumen and Xin'ai. The Ordos Department's Qiejin Huangtaiji led Huo Luochi to cast Hannaji. This was the last peace period.

After Han Naji was conferred the title of King Shunyi, the status of Qijin, Huo Luochi and others did not change much.It's all because the Ordos Department is Jinong in Mongolia, so its status is only slightly inferior to Hannaji, and Huoluochi and others are not good, including his brother Jinlitu, everyone is just a commander- - Not as good as a commander.

Of course, this could not satisfy Huo Luochi, who had been one of the "five rulings" under Tumen, and even Litu was greatly dissatisfied, thinking that at least he should be given a commander.

When the two brothers add up, this is too busy?In the end, it's actually a lot worse than Han Naji's "hairy boy", and it's shameful to say it!
So the two began to separate Han Naji, and gradually became unruly.Han Naji contacted Qiejin Huang Taiji as usual, and prepared to send troops to teach the brothers a lesson, but Qiejin did not want to see the Mongols continue to kill each other, so he expressed his willingness to mediate.

Qiejin is Altan's nephew. He was highly valued by Altan in his early years. He is still relatively prestige in the Mongolian left wing. After he came forward, Huo Luochi and Shilitu were honest for almost two years.

However, the good times didn't last long. Last year, Qie Jin suddenly fell ill, and the disease was like a mountain, and he quickly collapsed. He even summoned the leaders of his subordinates to explain the funeral.

By this time, the thoughts of Huo Luochi and Shili Rabbit came alive.In their opinion, all face is to be seen, but it doesn't matter to Han Naji, this kid is neither of low generation nor outstanding ability, the Monan war seems to be his great credit, but it is not.

When it comes to strategy, it's a pragmatic handwriting; when it comes to combat, it's a personal show of Tuotuo - what's the matter with Hannaji?

As a result, the two men started to become unstable again, and they began to harass the border of Gansu. They were "removed from the city reward" by Daming, that is, banned from trade.

However, removing such a thing as a city reward is actually not only detrimental to Huo Luochi and Shili Rabbit, but also harmful to Daming itself.The specific manifestation is that it became difficult for Jinghua Trading Company to do business in the northwest. Not only did it lose the business of Qinghai Tumote, but also to prevent fire and robbery when doing business with Turpan.

In this situation, in order to make up for this "loss", Jinghua had to increase the development of Yongchangwei Copper Mine, so it made an important decision: to reduce the employment of labor, and use gunpowder to mine copper.

Under this idea, Jinghua Mining began to transport gunpowder to the northwest, and a large amount of gunpowder was sent to Yongchangwei's copper mine for use.

Huo Luochi and Focus Rabbit didn't have any interest in this because they didn't have guns and artillery, but a guest happened to come and helped them come up with an idea.

This guest is really an old acquaintance, and it is Burihatu, the son of Xin Ai.

Burihatu traveled thousands of miles from Mobei to Qinghai. Of course, he had something important to do. This important thing was to get angry and fight against the "retroactive" Han Naji.

It doesn't matter whether Hannaji did anything backwards or not. What matters is that Burihatu brought the Khan's decree from Tumen. Tumen canonized Huoluochi and Litu to govern the Great Mongolia. Cooperate with the Tumen to destroy Hannaji, although the left and right flanks of Mongolia must be unified, but the Tumen only needs the Tumut headquarters, and the Ordos Department retains the large Mongolian Jinong position will be given to Qinghai Tumut.

This canonization basically moved the Huo Luochi and Litu brothers, but the two brothers also had requirements, that is, Qinghai is not complete now, and the most important Xining area is in the hands of Daming.

The two brothers proposed that if the Great Khan can help them retake Xining and make up the complete Qinghai, then not only can they immediately declare their departure from the jurisdiction of Hannaji and start harassing Mingbian, but they are also willing to make blood alliances in the future. When they launched the unification battle against Hannaji, the two tribes must "serve the Great Khan regardless of age".

In this way, the problem turns to Brihattu.

The Tumen were thousands of miles away, separated by the Tumut headquarters, of course, unable to send troops to help. Burihatu could only rely on his own strength to find a way to help the two of them win the important town of Xining.

This difficulty does not sound much lower than that of Wang Xuance of the Tang Dynasty.

But Burihatu is Burihatu after all, and he is a mastermind who can be loved by the tutu. While gathering intelligence in Songshan, he thought carefully about the plan, and actually came up with an idea.

Soon, Huo Luochi began to send people to contact Yongchangwei. On the surface, he continued to ask Daming to reopen the market, and secretly, he contacted Yongchangwei and said that he wanted to go private with them.

As we all know, when the frontier army in Daming is poor, they can't take care of the ban, or the effect of the ban will be greatly reduced. Xiang Yongchangwei, a frontier army far away in Gansu, certainly doesn't mind the private market.

It's just that the frontier army also tends to incline the price of the private market very much in response to the ban. The Mongols are usually not willing to accept this kind of "exploitation", so generally speaking, the scale of this kind of private market is not large. big.

This time, however, is different. Huo Luochi said that he and the two brothers Jilitu are going to start a war against Oara, and to completely establish the status of the "Hero of the Western Regions", so a lot of materials are needed - in other words, this transaction The scale is much larger than the usual private market.

Of course, a guard station in Yongchang Wei District will not have such a high strategic thinking to pay attention to the problem of "the hero of the Western Regions". For them, the Mongolians are willing to take advantage of it is the best news, and trading such things is really not afraid of you. If your business is big, I'm afraid your business is small.

The big one also violates the prohibition, the small one also violates the prohibition, the court law does not blame the public, and it is impossible to behead Yongchangwei up and down, so why not do a big one?
So this matter was quickly negotiated, and Huo Luochi and Yongchangwei held a private market at the foot of the city wall somewhere inaccessible.

This kind of private market is an unspoken rule, and credibility is more important than anything else, so in the past so many years, the two sides will not break this tacit understanding.However, this time there was an accident. In the middle of the transaction, a group of Huo Luochi and Jinlitu suddenly appeared, killed and captured the Yongchang Wei people who were conducting the private market, and then found some people who could speak Chinese and have a long speech. People who are like Han people, wearing their clothes and holding their token to go to the customs...

Yongchangwei was attacked and broke the border at that time, and they retreated to various docks - this is not a new thing. In addition to the wall, there are a lot of docks in the frontier. The use is that if one side wall is broken, You can also retreat to Wubao and wait for the rescue of the army.

But the surprise is that the large force of Huo Luochi and Focus Rabbit did not go to eat those well-built fortresses, but went directly to the Yongchang Copper Mine in Jinghua—they didn’t go to grab the ore. Although this thing is good, they almost Can't handle it, can't get any copper, they go to the warehouse on the mine.

Jinghua had a mine protection team at the copper mine, but because Yongchangwei did not warn them in advance that there was an invasion by foreign enemies, they did not react at all at that time, and they were still working in the mine.

When they picked up their weapons and organized a team to defend the copper mine, they found out that the other party did not come to the copper mine, or even to the copper ingots that had been refined. These Mongolians roared and went to the warehouse to loot. When it was empty, especially the gunpowder used for blasting the mountains and quarrying, there was not a packet left and the Mongols took it away.

After Huo Luochi and Shilitu stole the gunpowder, Yongchangwei concealed the situation while arguing with Jinghua Yongchang Copper Mine, and even alarmed Cao Gan, the chief shopkeeper of Jinghua Trading Company in Xi'an.After Cao Gan heard the news, he was also very puzzled. What was the purpose of the Mongolians in Qinghai grabbing gunpowder?They don't have firearms, and they can't blow up mountains and mines. Are they going to sell them to other forces in the Western Regions?
However, Cao Gan had no choice but to take care of so much gunpowder that his home was robbed, so he personally rushed to Liangzhou to understand the situation, and even prepared to wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

As a result, when he went, the news he got surprised him: Huo Luochi and Shilitu didn't go to the Western Regions at all after getting the gunpowder, but went directly south, all the way to Xining.

Cao Gan was shocked, and while sending fast horses to inform Xining, he personally led the team and led a team of more than 3000 horses to chase south.

But it must be too late. He came all the way from Xi'an and was delayed for a long time in Liangzhou. How could he catch up with the main forces of the two Mongolian tribes, Huo Luochi and Shilitu?

He had just climbed over the Qilian Mountains when he got the news that Xining had fallen!

What shocked him even more was that the reason why Xining was lost was because Huo Luochi and Litu's men rushed to the bottom of Xining City to confront Xiningwei, and that night, the Mongols dug a tunnel "halfly", in the city wall of Xining City. A large amount of gunpowder was buried under it, and the west gate of Xining City collapsed in one fell swoop!
How could the Mongolians do this?
Cao Gan couldn't care less and used all the means at his disposal. It took several thousand taels of silver to find an insider piece of information: Burihatu, the military advisor of Tumen Khan, had been serving in the Huoluochi Army for more than a month. , this method was his idea from beginning to end, and he even came up with the idea of ​​blasting the city with gunpowder.

In addition to being shocked, the shopkeeper Cao didn't care how Burihatu would understand this, so he quickly dispatched a fast horse, and sent an urgent letter to Gao Pragmat in [-] miles to report the situation.

According to his thinking, this incident went wrong at the beginning, and the responsibility lies with Yongchangwei, but the large amount of gunpowder lost by Jinghua is actually the main reason for the fall of Xining City.Without this batch of gunpowder, Burihatu would not be able to pry open the strong Xining city even if he had all his abilities.Therefore, he thinks that the imperial court should hold Jinghua accountable, so the master must prepare in advance, and cannot wait for the news of Xining's fall to reach the capital to put out the fire urgently.

Gao Wushi was not afraid of how much trouble this incident would put Jinghua in. After all, Jinghua himself was also a victim, and he was a "no-fault party". Even if someone in the court wanted to make trouble, he was enough to deal with it.

He is anxious about the whole situation!
Because the current situation is too in line with Burihatu's plan, this situation must be reversed, otherwise Daming has not yet settled the matter of "opening the ban", and Burihatu has successfully planned to besiege Tumet outside.

If Tumet couldn't stand it, wouldn't his plans for the past ten years be in vain?
It’s tolerable, it’s unbearable!
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