Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 820

Since Zheng Luo was inconvenient to speak out against it, Jia Yingyuan could not persuade Gao Yushi who came with a secret order after all, so he could only worry about arranging defense.

Gao Wushi knew that Zheng Luo was actually worried and even opposed, so he took the initiative to tell him some news to reassure him.

One is that after Alta's death, Jinghua suspended two small markets and one monthly market on the grounds of King Shunyi's death. Now there are a large number of Mongols waiting for transactions near Zhangjiakou and other market places. They are all eagerly looking forward to the opening of the market. They all became bargaining chips in Daming’s hands—because once Mongolia’s high-level officials rejected Daming’s candidates for canonization, these people would not only travel in vain and wait for more than a month in vain, but also face the consequence of being cut off from their livelihood.

Ten years after the market opened, how many people can't do without Daming's "supply"?People who are used to walking small roads can certainly be used to walking big roads, but people who are used to walking big roads may not be used to walking small roads.

This is the "economic control" in Gao Yushi's plan - over the past ten years, the Tumed Department has increased investment in farming, cultivated wasteland everywhere, and is used to obtaining grain, cloth and other daily necessities from Ming Dynasty. It was also just before the spring plowing, so once the output of grain and seeds was stuck in Daming, at least one-third of the people in Tumed would be hungry, and extinction meant no harvest. Within half a year, there would definitely be a large-scale famine!
fight?That is just a last resort when there are no other means, but high pragmatism has plenty of means!
After the development of the Red Dynasty in later generations, it often forced some people to bow their heads with the "biggest market". For Tumed, the current Daming is not only the "biggest market" for their animal husbandry products, but also the production of daily necessities. The largest and almost the only supplier of .

You don't listen to me?Are you going to starve half the people to death?Can you afford such consequences?
Of course, there is a basic prerequisite for all of this, that is, you must have the strength not to be afraid of the other party throwing the table.

In layman's terms, it means not being afraid of the threat of war from the other side.

Why did Zhu Yijun issue such a long list of war preparation orders while appointing Gao Yushi as the full-power imperial envoy of King Shunyi?Because this is telling the other party: I am going to have a showdown, and I am not afraid of you flipping the table!

Obviously, Zhu Yijun followed these measures after being reminded pragmatically. Otherwise, although Zhu Yijun already had some experience in governing, he would definitely not have such thorough preparations.

But preparing for the war is not just a matter of saying hello to the border ministers and generals. With Zhu Yijun's order to prepare for the war, Jinghua also moved.

In addition to the mutual market that has pressed the pause button a long time ago, a large number of arms in the Jinghua Kaiping base include Longqing Type [-] firearms (in stock), Wanli Type [-] firearms, four types of artillery, and the newly developed "Jinghua Flying Cannon" that has not yet been mass-produced. "(In the early rocket launchers, there were similar products in the Ming Dynasty, such as Shenhuo Feiya, Zhentian Lei Cannon, Huolong Chushui, especially this Huolong Chushui, and even a second-level rocket), etc., which were also continuously transported to the towns in the north.

Of course, Gao Pragmatism is not so generous as to give it away for free. He just transported it in advance and stored it for a rainy day. As a monopoly giant of border trade, Jinghua Trading Company has an amazingly large trade volume, so naturally there are enough warehouses.

Gao Wushi also told Zheng Luo that in view of the fact that Xuanda, Shanxi and Shanxi have had few battles in recent years, the emperor did not plan to give Xuanda and other places many offensive missions. It is a great achievement.

After hearing this, Zheng Luo was really relieved. After thinking about it in his heart, he suddenly found that although this matter seemed a bit whimsical at first glance, according to the situation of the two parties, there is really a great chance of success.

Moreover, Gao Wushi told him just now that the emperor did not require them to send troops outside the Great Wall, seal wolves and live in Xuxu, as long as they guarded the border, it would be a great achievement.

If it was just like this, Zheng Luo felt that the problem was not too big.

Because of the decline in combat effectiveness, not only the three towns in Xuanda Shanxi will have it, but also the Mongols themselves.Correspondingly speaking, Ming's frontier army was better at defending in battle, and relied more on the power of firearms. Now the emperor asked them to remain on the defensive, which was already a decision to maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses.

At the same time, although the Xuanda Frontier Army has lacked actual combat training in the past ten years, not all aspects have been in a state of decline. At least the equipment of firearms has improved significantly-just take the Longqing Type II musket provided by Jinghua as an example. There are a total of [-] branches assigned to the three towns of Xuanda, especially Xuanfu and Datong, each with about [-] branches.

According to the instructions provided by Jinghua, as long as they line up in dense formations and take turns to shoot, the firepower should far exceed that of the previous generation!Zheng Luo felt that this made some sense, because this strategy was a bit like Daming's "Three-Duan Strike".

Of course, Zheng Luo felt that the "hollow phalanx" that Jinghua provided with the guns was a bit unreliable-they actually said that this formation could break the cavalry!How can such a stupid square formation break the cavalry?
However, anyway, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty are bragging too much, and Gao Yushi is the future leader of his own faction. Zheng Luo will not be stubborn until he points it out. He just regards this "hollow phalanx" as Gao Yushi fooling the emperor statement.

Gao Wushi only said that Xuanda, Shanxi and other places are enough to defend, but Zheng Luo has already understood that it seems that Ji Liao is the one who takes the initiative to maintain an offensive posture.However, this is none of his business, no matter how poorly Ji Liao plays, he will not be unlucky; It's better to strengthen the defense honestly.

Now, he was no longer worried about himself, but a little worried about the safety of Gao Yushi, the imperial envoy of King Shunyi, who went north to the frontier. He couldn't help but care a few words, especially asking whether there would be too few soldiers accompanying Gao Yushi.

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "It's quite a lot. Five thousand troops are going out, and the scale is already big enough. If there are more, Tumote will be in danger for everyone, and maybe even Hannaji and Zhong Jinhatun will be killed." It is not beautiful to have misunderstandings."

Zheng Luo knew the elegant meaning when he heard the string song, and he immediately understood that if Gao Wushi brought more troops, Han Naji and Zhong Jinhatun would be worried that he would "turn the guest into the master".

In particular, the alliance between these two is still on paper, and Gao Yushi may go back on his word at any time. If he brings too many troops at that time, he may choose to support one of the factions while annexing the other.

As for why he did this, it was naturally intended to set up a puppet-this is absolutely possible if the hands of Gao Pragmatic are strong enough.Even if Han Naji and Zhong Jinhatun are the obedient ministers of Daming, I am afraid they will not reach this level. That is not a question of obedience, it is stupid.

There is only more than 300 miles from Xuanfu to Datong. Ma Gui led 1000 of the most elite "Dabing" cavalry under his command. It took only three days from receiving orders to arriving. Gao Yushi was very pleased and felt that this could finally be said Live up to the name of the elite.

This matter should be done sooner rather than later, especially the need for in-depth consultations with Tumot power factions such as Hannaji, Zhong Jinhatun, and Qiataiji. More time to prepare and tandem.

Therefore, only on the second day, Gao Wushi and Ma Gui and his party went straight to the north.

From the point of view of the terrain alone, the best exit point from Datong to Guihua City is Shahukou. However, the name Shahukou does not fit Gao Yushi’s political intention of going north this time, so he changed his route a little and went to Ningxia. Lubao left the customs and headed northwest all the way.

Of course, the Mongolian side will not turn a blind eye to a Ming cavalry force of up to 5000, but the flag of this Ming army makes them a little uncertain-except that the Chinese army is carrying the dragon flag of the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty. , All the surrounding troops held high the "Double Swords Protecting the Book" flag of the Jinghua Cavaliers and the "Book Golden House" flag of the Jinghua Trading Company.

The Mongols in Tumed are very familiar with these two flags. According to the Great Khan’s Golden Arrow Order, caravans carrying these two flags can travel freely in any area under the control of Tumed—from Yongxie If you go to Qinghai, you can go anywhere.

So... what to do now?
The first Tumed nobleman to come into contact with Gao Yushi was Qingbadu, whose full name should be Qingbaduer Taiji.

This is an acquaintance, who once represented me to discuss with Gao Wushi about the release of Hanaji, and then was fooled by Gao Wushi, thinking that the disasters of Tumote in those years were all because of the war with Daming , and later turned out to be a typical pro-Ming sect just like Bahan Najib.

Of course, he is different from Bahanaji's pro-Ming. Bahanaji really likes the Han culture of Ming Dynasty, but he is afraid that fighting with Daming will cause the wrath of the gods and bring disasters.

Qingbadu in history was the lord of the Mongolian right-wing Yongxiebuwanhu Karaqin tribe.It is also known as Kundulun, and it is called Qingbadu for short.Borzhijinshi, the grandson of Balsboro Tejinong, the second son of Kundu Liha.Stationed in the area beyond the Great Wall from Zhangjiakou to the north of Dushikou.

In the fifth year of Longqing, after Mingmeng reached a tribute agreement, he was granted the title of Commander Tongzhi by Mingming.In the sixth year of Longqing, his father died, so he took control of the Harqin tribe, with tens of thousands of tribes (the number of men in the tribe).In the first year of Wanli, he was promoted to General Jinwu.She married her daughter to Chang Ang, the leader of the Duoyan Guard, and they became in-laws, and they exchanged tribute with Daming continuously. She was able to restrain her younger brother Ha Wusuo, Man Wusuo, and Man Wu Da to maintain peaceful exchanges with Daming, so the Ming Dynasty relied heavily on her.

However, in the original history, he also sometimes clashed with the Ming army, and once joined forces with the Chahar Ministry to attack Mingbian.Many of its genus married Han women and built houses (bansheng) in the near Sai area to house their families.He was at odds with Subahai, the leader of the Kabalin tribe in Neika. In the 11th year of Wanli, he even planned to murder Subahai, but he failed.

In this life, because of Gao Pragmatic's deceit, he did not join forces with Chahar to attack Mingbian, but other situations are similar to the original history.

"Similar" means that, as the Taiji of the Tumote Department, in addition to the headquarters, he also controls some of the troops left by Yongxiebu after he moved west to Qinghai.In theory, his immediate boss is Xin Ai.

However, the current green handles are all Hannaji's gang.

Although he is nominally the elder of Bahanaji, he is not much different in age from Bahanaji, and has always had a good relationship with him. After Ji, Han Naji tried his best to win him over.

Judging from the fact that he appeared in front of Gao Yushi at this moment, he should have been persuaded by Hannaji.

Sure enough, although Qingbadu came with more than 3000 cavalry, he left the army behind. He only brought more than a hundred cavalry to ask Gao Wushi, saying that he would come to see the imperial envoy.

Gao Wushi received him happily, and after accepting his salute on behalf of the emperor, he laughed and helped Qingbadu up, holding his hand as if facing an old friend for many years: "Brother Qingbadu, these How was the year? I told Cao Gan specifically that every time a caravan comes, I will prepare the best wine for you, have you received it?"

When Qingba heard this, his round face smiled like a bright spring, and said again and again: "I have received, I have received, Mr. Gao's generous gift, Qingba has always kept it in my heart, and I have never forgotten it! No, as soon as Dacheng Taiji said that you were coming to Mongolia, I rushed over to greet you with the people around me without saying a word."

Gao Wushi laughed, still holding his arm, and said with an intimate look, "Did Dacheng Taiji tell you what I am here for?"

Qing Badu's complexion changed slightly, he glanced left and right, hesitant to speak.Gao Wushi smiled and said: "It's okay, these are all my confidantes and servants, brothers Qingbadu just speak up if they have something to say."

Qing Ba heaved a sigh of relief, but subconsciously lowered his voice a little bit, and said: "In general, I already know, but I also know one thing, very important, I must tell you personally, that's why I connected all my followers I came to see you before I could summon you."

Gao Wushi looked serious, and said, "What's the matter?"

Qing Badu looked solemn, lowered his voice and said: "Xinai Huang Taiji's envoy passed by my territory the day before yesterday and went to see Chataiji."

Gao Wushi frowned slightly, nodded, and asked, "There is one thing that I have never had a clear understanding of. I hope Brother Qingbadu can introduce it to me."

Qingba nodded and said: "We are good friends, if you want to know anything, just ask me, as long as I know, I can tell you."

"Okay, thank you." Gao Wushi frowned and asked, "I want to know why Chataiji is so loyal to the Great Khan—I mean Altan Khan. In addition, I also want to know that Chataiji himself The headquarters is not considered powerful, but why it can influence so many tribes, please brother Qingbadu introduce to me."

After hearing all this, Qing said in relief: "So you want to ask this, I know that, but this is not the place to talk, or..."

Gao Wushi laughed, and said: "Come on, Brother Qingbadu, come to my camp and talk about it--there is fine wine given by the emperor in my camp, but it's not interesting for me to drink alone on weekdays. It's the joy of life to drink with heroes like the Qingbadu brothers."

Qing Ba was overjoyed, one was that he was happy with the wine, and the other was that Gao Wushi called him a hero, and immediately followed Gao Wushi into the camp.
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