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Chapter 138 The Central Plains Dynasty Fortified Jiangnan: Hetao!

"Your Majesty, give me [-] steam chariots, [-] heavy armored soldiers accompanying the army, and [-] large bombing airships."

"Within one month, I will definitely be able to blitz the Beiman's forces in Monan, and the four major families of the Beiman will be wiped out in an instant!"

Pei Xuan, the former right governor of the army, came out confidently and issued a military order to Emperor Hongwu!

Although he didn't know what an armored blitzkrieg was, but his excellent combat literacy made him think of using a highly mobile steam chariot to carry out an armed raid!
In his opinion, now that Daming has so many new equipment, he can follow the example of the sages and go straight to Huanglong!

Even to the extreme, not even ordinary soldiers, but only heavy armored soldiers, let all the heavy armored soldiers ride on steam chariots, even if they travel three to five hundred, they can arrive in only half a day!

Such a quick surprise attack, the Beiman tribe in Monan couldn't react at all!

"I set off from Datong, and within four hours, I can reach any northern barbarian tribe in Monan, and the enemy has no chance to react!"

Pei Xuan was full of confidence, as if he alone could defeat the four tribes of the Northern Man.

The Monan region is actually the Inner Mongolia region as it is called in modern times.

Since the time when Yanhuang ruled the world in ancient times, the Huaxia Dynasty in the Central Plains has been facing the harassment of nomadic peoples originating from Monan.

Although, the Central Plains Dynasty has always collectively referred to these nomads as "Northern Man".

But they still have names.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, they were called Xiongnu.

Later, it was also called Donghu, Xianbei, Turkic, Tuyuhun, Huihe, Mohe, Khitan...

The reason why there are so many names is mainly because the nomads in the north fought too many fights with the Central Plains Dynasty. A dozen of them lasted for thousands of years. When the Central Plains was strong, they were deleted several times.

Monan was also actually controlled by the Huaxia Dynasty for a period of time during the Han and Tang Dynasties.

However, due to the farming civilization of the Central Plains, it is impossible to keep a large-scale garrison and life on the grassland for a long time.

Time passed and the Central Plains Dynasty weakened and lost control of Monan again.

Other nomadic peoples around moved into Monan again, grew and developed, and then went south to fight against the Central Plains Dynasty.

In fact, those who bear the title of "Beiman" are not the aborigines of the Monan area.

The current Beiman is a nomadic people originating from Mobei. They call themselves "Tatar"!
About five or six hundred years ago, it began to develop in Mobei.

At the beginning, they were divided. There were more than a dozen large tribes, and they had been beaten to death for 200 years.

Later, more than 100 years ago, a fierce man from the Borjijin tribe came out to unify the major tribes of the Northern Man, and held a unification meeting at the source of the Onan River in Mobei.

After that, the Tatars began to conquer and expand other places besides Mobei.

The four large Tatar tribes in the Monan area now migrated from Mobei after that.

Along the way, they were invincible. A group of nomads who originally lived in Monan and the area outside the Great Wall were all conquered by them.

Moreover, they put gold on their faces, and called the place at the foot of Yinshan Mountain the Ancestral Court.

Claiming that they also originated at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, they only migrated to Mobei later, and now they have returned.

Claiming that they already have the right to rule Monan!

Proposing a reasonable right to rule over the land they occupy is not only something that the Central Plains dynasty would do, but also nomads.

After the ancestral court was established in Monan, all the nomads in the entire Monan were called to hold an ancestral court meeting.

The other small and medium-sized nomadic peoples in Monan also more or less recognized this group of tribes who came from Mobei as big brothers.

Under the leadership of the four Tatar tribes, they launched a war of aggression against the old Song Dynasty.

This fight lasted for 30 years, but the old Song Dynasty was not defeated.

Later, because they were unable to attack for a long time, the main force of the Tatars, the Borjijin tribe also led an army from Mobei to support them, and they went south together.

Therefore, under their iron hooves, Song was still defeated in the end, and Shenzhou Lu sank.

In the past 100 years, Monan has always been the core area of ​​Beiman's rule in the south.

Under the Yinshan Mountains in Monan, it is even called the Ancestral Court of Monan, and there is a dragon city built there!
In fact, the Yinshan Mountains are very close to the actual ruling area of ​​Ming Dynasty.

Starting from Datong Mansion and crossing the Great Wall, it only takes two or three hundred miles to reach the foot of Yinshan Mountain.

If you start from Ningxiawei, it will be closer, and you only need to travel a hundred miles to arrive.

It is said to be the ancestral court here, but it is only the birthplace of the nomadic people in Monan, and it has nothing to do with Tatar in fact.

However, the four major tribes of Tatar still occupy the most extensive and richest grassland at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and live here.

After all, this is the most fertile grassland in Monan.

It is called the Hetao area by the Central Plains!

It used to be called Yunzhong, Jiuyuan and Shuofang!
It reaches Helan Mountain in the west, Piantouguan in Shanxi in the east, Langshan Mountain and Daqing Mountain in the north, and Ordos Plateau in the south!
Hetao borders Shaanxi in the south, Ningxia in the west, Shanxi in the east, and the vast Mongolian Plateau in the north.

This place is two thousand miles from east to west, from the Great Wall in the south to the Yellow River in the north. The distance is eight or nine hundred miles, and the nearest is two or three hundred miles.

Most importantly, although the natural vegetation in the Hetao area is dominated by semi-desert grasslands, the land along the Yellow River is fertile and suitable for farming and animal husbandry!
As long as the water diversion is done well, it can be turned into a thousand miles of fertile land.

At that time, the Qin Dynasty regarded the Hetao area as a new granary, but after the death of the second emperor, the Hetao area could not be developed.

In the following thousand years, the Hetao area has been the place where the Central Plains dynasty and the grassland nomads competed fiercely.

For the Central Plains dynasty, controlling the Hetao could use the Yin Mountains as a barrier to resist threats from the northern nomads and ensure the safety of Guanzhong and the Central Plains.

Therefore, Hetao has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, and it has also become the main place for exchanges and collisions between grassland peoples and Central Plains peoples, grassland culture and Yellow River culture.

Basically, it changes hands once every 200 years.

The last time it was controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty was already in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, no Central Plains Dynasty has ever controlled the Hetao area.

"The Hetao area has been separated from our Chinese rule for hundreds of years."

"As long as the four major tribes of the Northern Man in Monan are wiped out, the Hetao area will return to my Huaxia rule again!"

"It took ten years to build the railway from Datong and Ningxia to the Hetao area, and this place will definitely become the south of the Yangtze River for my Ming Dynasty!"

"Thousands of miles of fertile land, all developed, can become my new granary for Daming!"

Pei Xuan went out, knelt down on one knee, and kept telling Hongwu Emperor the importance of the Hetao area.

The Jiangnan area, relying on the rich water system of the Yangtze River, has become the most important granary of the Ming Dynasty.

And the Hetao area, which is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, has flat terrain, good soil quality, and the benefits of irrigation by the Yellow River, as long as it can be occupied and developed, it will definitely not be a problem to become the second Jiangnan!

　In the Hetao area, Emperor Hongwu once controlled it for a short period of time in history. It was not until Zhu Di's time that he moved inward and abandoned Hetao.

　　But in my world, Ming just drove Beiman out of the Great Wall, so the Hetao area is still under the control of Beiman.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)