Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 856 Furious Tumen Khan

"Waste, waste, all of them are waste!" The Great Khan of All Mongolia, Zasak Tutumen Khan, raged in his sweat tent near Pangu Town outside Daming Monolith Fortress, yelling almost indistinctly.

"Speed ​​up this trash, Ben Khan asked him to quell the chaos in Tumote. If he didn't come, he insisted on profiteering to attack Shanhaiguan's luggage. Even after Dong Huhu repeatedly warned him, he left Chahanhot and went south Gathering Dong Huli——He had a good idea, thinking that after joining Dong Huli, the two soldiers and horses would be in one place, not only would Li Chengliang not dare to move lightly, he could even continue to rob the Shanhaiguan supply team..."

"The result? These two wastes used their own heads to complete the prestige of Li Chengliang and Li Rusong's father and son! Ben Khan can imagine with his toes that the emperor of Han will definitely worship his ancestors after hearing these two news, maybe even more Zhujingguan!"

All the people in the tent, including the four rulers and one Mongolian general, were all sullen and silent.

Tumen was sweating and furious, and continued to scold: "But although the two of them are trash, they still died in battle, but what happened to Chang Ang? Qi Jiguang only sent more than 1 troops, and Chang Ang's cavalry There are more than [-], and they just left the giant town of Daning directly after a small battle, and fled? I knew this guy was so pusty, I shouldn’t have left him in Daning!”

All the people in the tent let out a long sigh and were speechless.

Tumen Khan's angry face was mixed with unspeakable fear, and his tone was cold and authentic: "Who can tell me, Qi Jiguang's move, is it because the Zhu family emperor wants to reopen Daning Town?"

As soon as Tumen's words came out, everyone in the tent didn't sigh, but were stunned, and their faces turned pale instantly.

Reopen Daning Town?
This Daning is outside the mouth of Xifeng, the land of the ancient Huizhou, connecting Liaozuo in the east and Xuanfu in the west. It was a giant town in the early Ming Dynasty.The town is dominated by ninety cities, with [-] armored vehicles and [-] leather chariots. Duoyan Sanwei belonged to King Ning who left the town of Daning back then.

If it wasn't for Zhu Dijing's difficult victory later, he was worried that Daning Town was too strong, and its geographical location was critical, and Duoyan Sanwei Jingqi listened to the order, so King Ning was moved inward, and Daning was abolished. The town has not been restored for nearly 200 years. If it is the case, it is not certain whether the Chahar Department can move eastward to Chahanhot smoothly.

Therefore, when Tumen mentioned that the Zhu family emperor might want to reopen Daning Town, all the Mongolian nobles in the tent were stunned.

Reopen Daning Town, and then "siege the Ninety Cities" again?What about us Mongolians?And moved north to Yuerhai (Lake Baikal) that ghost place where even bears can freeze to death?

However, the thinking of this group of Mongolians is still too simple. They know how oppressive the reopening of Daning Town will be to them, but they don't know how difficult it is for Daming to reopen Daning Town.

In fact, as the "behind the scenes" of the successive wars in the Monan area, Gao Wushi has no intention of restoring Daning Town now.

If you don't want to do what you don't want to do, you can't do what you can.

This matter has to be talked about from the battle of Jingnan before it can be explained clearly.

In the first year of Jianwen, the Battle of Jingnan broke out.Before Yan King Zhu Di launched the Jingnan Campaign, in order to prevent Ning King from outflanking his rear, he raised troops to attack Daning and took Ning King Zhu Quan and his troops back.

There are different opinions in the academic circles about the reasons for the relocation of the capital of Daning in later generations.In some historical records of the Ming Dynasty, it is believed that the three guards of Taining, Duoyan, and Fuyu in Wuliangha fought with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, during the Jingnan Mutiny. It can be seen in "Fu'an Dongyi Ji", "Wuxuebian", "Sanwei Kao", "Siyi Kao", "History of Ming Dynasty", "Minutes of Reading History and Fangyu" and other books.

Among them, "The Chronicle of Ming History" pointed out that since Zhu Di attacked Ning Fan in order to relieve his worries, he threatened King Ning to return to Beiping, and "returned all his horses to Beiping"; The king and his family members collected their elites, especially Duoyan Sanwei, who was the most brave and skilled in fighting.After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he abandoned Daning, in fact, to pay the three guards of Wu Liang Ha to help him seize the throne.

In later studies of Ming history, there are similar statements. For example, "General History of the Mongolian Nationality" believes that before launching the Jingnan Campaign, Zhu Di defeated the Ning King Zhu Quan who was guarding the Daningwei with the support of the Wuliangha Sanwei Mongols.Later, he borrowed [-] elite soldiers from Wuliangha Sanwei as the backbone of his Jingnan Army.

Therefore, after Zhu Di became the emperor, in order to reward the Wuliangha Sanwei Mongols who had made great contributions in the war, they decided to cede the Daningwei to them.At the same time, he also appointed the lords of the three guards as governors, commanders, thousand households, and hundred households; he decided to open mutual markets in Kaiyuan and Guangning, so that Wuliangha Sanwei Mongols and Daming could conduct mutual markets.

However, this point of view has also been questioned by many scholars. They believe that Zhu Di moved the capital of Beiping to Baoding in order to ensure the safety of Beiping and focus on consolidating Baoding's defensive forces.

There is a further point of view that during the period of Emperor Jianwen, because Zhu Di launched the battle of Jingnan, he had no time to work in the northeast, and his focus was on using troops in the south, so he exhausted his troops from Daning, which greatly damaged the combat power of the guards under the jurisdiction of the capital of Daning. The personnel and supplies originally stationed in the station were severely insufficient, and it was difficult to assume the responsibility of guarding the border. As a result, the Wuliangha Sanwei took advantage of the opportunity of the civil strife that the Ming government was trapped in, and began to gradually move south, almost regaining its independent posture.

This point of view shows that at that time, Wuliangha Sanwei had already carried out activities near Daning.However, according to the records in Volume [-] of "History of the Ming Dynasty", during the Jingtai period, Sanwei once begged to live in the abandoned city of Daning.

But what was Daming's reaction?

"Not allowed, ordered to live two hundred miles away."In other words, the activities of Wuliangha Sanwei in Daning were illegal. The Ming court did not allow the Mongols of Sanwei to move south to Daning to live in pastoral areas, but still wanted them to return to the area north of Huangshui.

In fact, in the face of the Wuliangha tribe who coveted to go south, Zhu Di adopted a policy of combining military strikes and political tenderness during the Yongle period.On the one hand, he adopted a variety of strategies to appease the various tribes of Wuliangha, and at the same time accepted the tribute from Oala and Tatar, and granted them the title of lord; Mobei.

Not only that, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also began to manage the border defense, and ordered the Ministry of War to review the three guards of Daning, Yingzhou, and Xingzhou, and formulate various measures to restore the farming system and restore the production of the guards, but it was too late. Night. "Ming Shilu" records that Zhu Di enfeoffed the king of Ning in Nanchang on the grounds that "after the war in Daning, the people and things withered".

Zhu Di's move was, on the one hand, a response to the reality of the Daningwei, and on the other hand, it was actually for the further reduction of the vassal.

Put the guards of Daning around the capital, strengthen the military configuration around Beijing, build a new political and military center, and then change the titles of King Gu, King Ning, and King Dai to other places to weaken the strength of the frontier vassals.

However, these measures actually undermined Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of building up various vassals and townships in the northern frontier, causing the northern border of the Ming Dynasty to shrink back.

However, Zhu Di's obvious reason for moving to Daning inland is "consumption of people's livelihood", which is not a random talk, but a fact.

One of the biggest troubles is food shortage.Since the establishment of the Great Ningwei in the 20th year of Hongwu, ensuring the supply of military food has become a heavy burden for the court.

In March of the 20th year of Hongwu, the imperial court mobilized people from Shandong, Beiping, Henan, and Shanxi provinces to transport grain to Daning, and those who participated in the grain transport were exempted from the summer tax.

In July of the same year, 31 shi were stored in Daning, 58 shi in Songtingguan, and 25 shi in Huizhou, adding up to more than 100 million shi.But only two years later, Daning’s food was exhausted, and “the military reserves did not give it to them.” As a result, they had to make changes, and changed the businessman’s supply of millet and salt. "

Due to the effective policy, by the first month of the 31st year of Hongwu, Daning's accumulated millet had reached 62 shi.As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to stop sending millet to Daning, and ordered the merchants to transfer millet to Dongsheng and other places.

From the above sporadic records, we can see how heavy the pressure of grain transportation in Daning is.In order to ensure the food supply in important northern military towns such as Daning, the imperial court used a lot of manpower and material resources to transport food from the south to the north, among which the Liaodong sea transportation lasted for more than 30 years.

In the early years of Yongle, in order to restore the dilapidated economy in the north, sea transportation had to be carried out again, but it stopped after a short time, and the ships and personnel were transferred to the Western Ocean. " solution.

However, the situation in Daning is different.Since the early years of Hongwu, there have been no residents here. After Hongwu set up guards for 20 years, there was a good opportunity to restore the population, but the Ming court emigrated here.

After the Jingnan War broke out, Zhu Di moved all his population to the south, and this place became no man's land again.

As for now, let alone, Daning has been a grassland for the Mongols for more than a hundred years. It is not easy to restore Daning and ensure the supply of military food for more than [-] guarding soldiers.

From a highly pragmatic point of view, to reset Daning Town, it would be better to set up "Dabansheng Town"... At least there are almost [-] Han people in Dabansheng City, and now the degree of farming is getting higher and higher , It can be regarded as having a farming foundation, not to mention complete self-sufficiency, at least most of the food supply can be guaranteed, and the remaining part, the court can find a way to solve it.

But there are no Han people in Daning at all, and there is no farming—even if it becomes Ningcheng County in later generations, it is not a good place to grow grain. Until the 21st century, "efficient water-saving irrigation" and "conservation tillage" are still being pursued. These work.

Now reopen Daning Town, unless Zhu Yijun intends to invest 100 million taels into Daning Town every year to ensure supply and revitalize the agricultural economy.

Zhu Yijun has so much spare money?Certainly not.

What's more, if he really had so much money, he wouldn't do it!For example, the armies of the Nine Frontiers are uniformly equipped with a new type of Wanli bayonet-style musket, isn't it delicious?

Even using the 100 million taels for disaster relief seems more reliable than "opening up the territory" and "restoring the old land". After all, the reopening of Daning Town is not a one-off deal. It is a continuous investment. 100 million taels, who knows when Daning will be self-sufficient?
This kind of loss-making business, high pragmatism would not recommend Zhu Yijun to do it, at least at the moment when he can't afford to lose money, he can't do it.

Naomao Da suddenly slapped the table and said angrily, "Chang Ang should be killed!"

Qieji Huang Taiji glanced at him, then at Tumen Khan, and said, "What should I do with Chang Ang? You might as well put this matter aside for now. Now I have a more serious problem. Su Bahai and Dong Huhu Died in battle, Chang Ang abandoned Daning and fled, Chahanhot lost any protection, and Duoyan Sanwei's land was almost lost in one day, leaving only one Chaohua (the only remaining leader of Duoyan Sanwei), But it's still far away in Liaohe Hetao..."

He sighed and asked, "Excuse me, Great Khan, do you want to continue the westward campaign against Tumed?"

(End of this chapter)