Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1605 Shen Yuanfu's "Second Battlefield"

As Wang Xijue's ability, Shen Shixing, who was his friend in the same year, knew it all too well.Since Wang Xijue couldn't bring Gao Yushi into the ditch even if he went out, then if Shen Yuanfu went into battle in person, it would be nothing more than that and would not change the situation.

Therefore, trying to win or at least gain an advantage in the previous battlefield is futile, so it is better to try another battlefield.

In the early years, Hongchao, a later generation, put forward the theory of "overtaking on a curve". Later, with the development of the country and changes in the situation, the term "overtaking on a curve" became "changing lanes and overtaking".Today's move by shishihang can actually be regarded as a kind of "changing lanes and overtaking".

Of course, it can also be said that it is to open up a second battlefield in order to break the deadlock and strive for a side breakthrough.

Whether changing lanes to overtake or the second battlefield, in the final analysis, it is because it is difficult to succeed in the original battlefield, so they take the initiative to change to a battlefield where their own side already has an advantage.

In the battlefield that Shen Shixing changed this time, the School of Heart actually gained an advantage just now - thanks to the blessing of Gao Yushi who gave up his direct influence in the factory guard before, the School of Heart, which had not been suppressed by the emperor, is now better than Jinyiwei in Jinyiwei. Gao Yushi is more influential, so they learned some information from Chahar earlier.

According to Jin Yiwei's news, about two months ago, Tumen Khan, together with his army division Brihatu, led the main force of [-] horses from Khan Ting Chahar's ten thousand households to sneak out to the northwest.

In just one month or so, Tumen Khan's army, which had been attacking thousands of miles, suddenly appeared in Hara and Lin. Abadai Saiyin Khan of Waikalkha was shocked, and only led his personal guards out of the tent to greet him. Things map their sweat.

Harahelin, also known as Helin and Hening, is the capital of the Mongolian Empire and the capital of the Lingbei Province in the Yuan Dynasty, established on the basis of the Kelei tribe in the deep grasslands and the capital of the Uighurs in the earlier period. It was the center of the world in the middle of the 13th century. Geographical location is extremely important. There are so-called "Tiance Huanhuan controls the upper reaches, and the border courts are all paid for by Jin Fan. Those, so the name of the Wei Jingshi".

In the seventh year of Okutai Khan of Mongolia (1235), the capital was established here. Its site is the upper reaches of the Orkhon River in the central part of Mongolia. Near Erdenizhao, 365 kilometers southwest of Ulaanbaatar.

The area where Harahelin is located is also the center of the Mongolian plateau, where the forests are dense and the fields bloom in midsummer.After Kublai Khan established himself as Khan in Kaiping and defeated Brother Ali, the political center moved south to Han, which was no longer the capital.After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Northern Yuan Dynasty took it as the political center again. Although Helin was still gradually deserted in the continuous civil war, it is now the seat of the Khan Court of the Waikalkha Tribe.

It is precisely because of geographical location and historical reasons that controlling Helin basically means controlling the Mongolian Outer Khalkha.

But the problem is that the Waikarka tribe centered on Helin has always respected the left-wing Mongolia as the Great Khan, at least in name. Karka went to the northwest to contact him, and later he returned to Chahar, also via Waikalka.

That being the case, why did Tumen Khan lead his troops to Helin?
Shen Shixing explained this point, saying: "It is said that because Abadai Saiyin Khan refused to implement some clauses in the "Tumen Khan Code", the Jinyiwei side analyzed the intelligence that has been detected, and believes that the most critical One, it is probably that Abadai Saiyin Khan refused to cancel the sacrifice, which led to Tumen Khan's secret crusade."

Gao Wushi let out an "oh", and quickly examined the news in his heart.In fact, he knew that Shen Shixing must have not finished his words, but this alone has attracted Gao Pragmatic's attention.

Speaking of which, Tumen Khan is really a figure worth mentioning in Mongolian history.This Mongolian Great Khan is not a simple person. When he took office at the age of 20, he planned to implement a new policy in the whole Mongolia, so as to consolidate his position and ease the contradictions in Mongolian society.

In the original history, he reigned for 35 years, and there were no major wars, killings and bloodshed in Mongolian society.Tumen Khan thought in his heart that in order to compete with the powerful Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to achieve unity within Mongolia, and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to coordinate the relationship between the tribes within Mongolia and take care of the interests of all parties.

At that time, the young Tumen Khan pondered for a while, found a way, implemented drastic changes, and implemented Tumen Khan's New Deal.

The main measures of Tumen Khan’s New Deal are as follows:
The first is to formulate a code of law, that is, the "Tumen Khan Code", to regulate and coordinate the relationship between the tribes of Mongolia and within the tribe;

The second is the distribution of power, that is, the power of the Mongolian Khan Court was redistributed. Amdai Hongtaiji of Chahar Wanhu, Weizheng Basu Haitaiji of Kalkha Wanhu, and Kutu of Ordos Wanhu Ketai Chechen Hongtaiji (that is, Chinese historical materials and Huangtaiji in this book) and other leaders of thousands of households on the left and right wings of Mongolia, held important positions in the Khan court. In case of major events, they held meetings and asked the leaders of various ministries , thus strengthening the power of the Khan;
The third is to ease the relationship, the most important thing is to ease the conflict with the Mongolian right-wing Tumed Wanhu's Altan Khan, so as to avoid the situation of Mongolian social division;
The last is tax reform and revenue increase. According to historical records, Tumen Khan changed the tax and corvee system of paying tribute and apportioning, and collected from the attached Jurchit (that is, the Jurchen), Ericht and Dajihur. Taxation increased the fiscal revenue of the Khan court.

According to the views of later generations of Mongolian historians and experts on the history of Mongolia in the Red Dynasty, Tumen Khan reigned for more than [-] years, and he can be regarded as a well-governed and well-governed person. Therefore, the Mongolian society at that time presented a scene of peace and prosperity.

To be honest, Jingtianweidi is a bit too flattering, but overall, the performance of this Great Khan is indeed not bad, at least among the rulers of Mongolia.

In the present "history", due to highly pragmatic interference, Tumen Khan's efforts to ease relations with Tumed have failed. Although peace within Mongolia is currently maintained, the two sides have had a major war before. I'm afraid it will inevitably happen again.

Therefore, from the perspective of "diplomacy"—or perhaps it should be said "internal diplomacy"—Tumen Khan's reforms have already failed halfway.That being the case, the remaining other half will obviously make him pay more attention.

What's left?Basically, most of them can be said to be internal affairs.There are two most important points in internal affairs. One is the "Tumen Khan Code", which is to reform fiscal laws and increase taxes.

We will talk about the issue of financial law later, but here we will first talk about the "Tumen Khan Code".In later generations, the main body of the "Tumen Khan Code" has been lost, and scholars rely more on the clues in the "Altan Khan Code" to trace back to the "Tumen Khan Code".

Altan Khan is the Mongolian title of Altan Khan, and his code is called "Altan Khan Code".In the Mongolian historical materials that can be found in later generations, the "Altan Khan Code" is often called "Small Law", while the "Tumen Khan Code" is called Dafa.

Why can later generations use the "Altan Khan Code" to look back on the "Tumen Khan Code"?Because in the original history, although Altan Khan was conferred the title of King of Shunyi by the Ming Dynasty, he did not completely tear himself apart from Tumen Khan. In name, he also respected Tumen Khan as the great Khan of all Mongolia.

Therefore, Altan Khan implemented the "Tumen Khan Code" and "Altan Khan Code" in his "Da Ming Jin Kingdom" (that is, the country built by the Tumed Department), and there are many in common.

As mentioned earlier in this book, the two key reasons why Altan Khan accepted Lamaism were to seek orthodox status, and the second was to abolish the traditional sacrifice of shamanism—the biggest disadvantage of this system for the ruler is The reason is that it will seriously damage the national strength.

Mongolia is a nomadic country, and Sacrifice is to kill livestock to be buried with nobles.This practice is similar to the burial of living people in ancient China, and the disadvantages are so obvious that it does not even need to be analyzed.

The burial of living people has long been abolished in China, but Zhu Yuanzhang himself turned back the wheel of history once. After his death, he carried out burial of living people. Fortunately, this is a special case.This is not the case in Mongolia. The sacrifice system has persisted until now and there is still a big market.

Tumed had already abolished sacrifice after Altan Khan's conversion, and his strength gradually became stronger. Therefore, Tumen Khan, who also had a higher political vision, naturally couldn't sit still. Regarding the abolition of sacrifice in his "Tumen Khan Code The regulation has been paid more and more attention to. After Brihatu returned from the northwest last year, the Chahar Wanhu Headquarters has completely abolished sacrifices.

Mongolia, which is only nominally unified, is obviously not easy to implement certain policies. The area where Tumen Khan can do his best is actually the headquarters of Chahar Wanhu.On the side of the Wai Khalkha tribe, Abadai Saiyin Khan basically ignored the abolition of sacrifice, and not only did not follow up on the implementation, but even gave no feedback, which angered Tumen Khan.

Tumen Khan also seems to understand the principle of "teaching is famous". He first issued an order to Abadai Saiyin Khan, asking the Outer Khalkha tribe to abolish their "Baihua Code" immediately, and then uniformly implement the "Tumen Khan Code" ".

The most deadly word in this order is the word "immediately" which means "repeal immediately".

As we all know, the reform is not a treat for dinner, it is not so easy to just leave.To carry out some reforms with a high level of pragmatism, many foundations were laid as early as 20 years ago, but 20 years later to "change" today, it is still far from ripe, and still requires a lot of struggle.

The "Birch Law Code" of the Wai Khalkha is not a piece of waste paper, it also has a long history, and the historical inertia is there. How can you Tumen sweat just scrap it?Therefore, Tumen Khan's order itself was not a normal order. If Abadai Saiyin Khan's political thinking was sharper, he should have known the seriousness of the matter when he received this order.

Unfortunately, compared to Alta Khan and Tumen Khan, Abadai Saiyin Khan is really just a typical Mongolian Khan with well-developed limbs and a simple mind. dismissive.

He thinks that Tumen Khan can't take care of himself now: the Ming people have already rebuilt the city in Daning, and the next goal is obviously Chahanhot. If you Tumen Khan have time to care about my "Baihua Code" in Wai Khalkha, you might as well hurry up Try to find a way to hold back the pace of the Ming people's northward advance, so that they can only be a bereaved dog when the time comes.

At that time, Daraisun Khan had to move the Chahar headquarters to the east because he was forced by the strength and prestige of Altan Khan.Now Tumed not only has further strength, but also has Daming as his backer.At this moment, your Tumen Khan's status and even the safety of the tribe are already at stake, so you still have time to meddle in my Wai Khalkha's affairs?
However, Abadai Saiyin Khan made a mistake in his judgment, and it was a big mistake-under the suggestion of Brihatu, Tumen Khan made up his mind, and led the main force of the Chahar headquarters to fight against the enemy regardless of his own health. Along the way, even Waikalka's sentry rangers didn't let go, so they killed Helin directly.

As soon as He Lin fell, the Waikalkha tribe completely surrendered. Although the distance was a little far away, Tumen Khan still insisted on establishing a much more direct rule here than before.So far, the Chahar headquarters and the Waikhak tribe are no longer united in name, but have quickly reached an actual unity, and the abolition of the sacrifice system in the "Tumen Khan Code" has also been forcefully implemented.

Gao Wushi knew that as long as the sacrificial sacrifice system was abolished, Mongolia would not only grow stronger, but at least it would not continue to decline.Tumen Khan, who has unified the Outer Khalkha tribe, will definitely increase his own strength significantly. For the decisive battle in Chahar in the near future, even if it is not a big bad news, at least it must be bad news.

Not only that, after Shen Shixing and other high-level officials digested the news, they continued to throw out the second bad news: "Afterwards, Tumen Khan returned to Chahanhot and decided to launch an offensive against the Horqin Department for the same reason. This point has been confirmed by Jin Yiwei—they got the news through Horqin’s Jurchen ally, Ye Hebu.”

Shen Shixing sighed softly, and said: "It is said that the Yehe tribe is also very nervous at the moment, because the Horqin tribe is their loyal ally, and the alliance between the two parties has been maintained for many years. If the Horqin tribe is attacked by Tumen Khan, the Yehe tribe will It's hard to stay out of it.

Besides, from the perspective of Tumen's invasion of Yehe last time, since Tumen attacked Horqin this time, there is a great possibility that they will attack Yehe again-oh, by the way, Da Situ has a concubine who came from Yeh?Well, then presumably this news will reach the ears of Da Situ in the near future even if the Ministry of the Japanese cabinet has not mentioned it today. "

With Shen Shixing talking so far, how could Gao Yushi not know his intention to open up a "second battlefield"?

The existence of Ye He's tribe is the key piece to maintain the balance of Jurchen, and the balance of Jurchen is the key to ensure that the upcoming battle to aid Korea will not be attacked by the enemy, so Ye He must not lose at this time.

Of course, this is not because of Meng Gu Zhezhe, a concubine who has not yet consummated the marriage, but because the national policy is not easy!

To put it more bluntly, following this move by Tumen Khan, Daming must immediately focus back on the Liaodong-Jurchen line, and make active preparations to ensure that the situation will not get out of control and Yehe will not perish.

Even for Gao Yushi, since he was also quietly infiltrating Horqin after the last battle in Liaodong, it is best that Horqin itself will not experience any changes, let alone perish.

In short, what Ming must do at this moment is to absolutely not allow Tumen Khan to continue to expand his power and actually unify the various tribes around his headquarters in Chahar that were originally subject to him only in name, so as to create trouble for the future decisive battle in Chahar. form an obstacle.

Since it is necessary to concentrate on dealing with this major danger, of course, Da Ming should not make too many moves internally, so as not to be exhausted and unable to take care of both ends.

This is Shenshihang's "changing lanes and overtaking" and "second battlefield"! ——
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