Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 713 The Great Victory
"Your Majesty, great victory, the recovery of Taiyuan!"

Early in the morning, before Zhu Yihai woke up, the envoy Shen Wenzhong came to announce the good news with a blushing face.

"Taiyuan?" Zhu Yihai chatted with his eldest son Hongjia last night until dawn, and he was still sleepy, "What, Taiyuan is restored?" He suddenly woke up, a little in disbelief.

"Aren't the eight towns in Hebei fighting against Baoding? How did they regain Taiyuan?"

The matter is somewhat fantastical to say the least, Zhu Yihai patrolled the Central Plains westward, and drove all the soldiers and horses from Shandong and Henan to Hebei. The provincial battalion of the town and the six regiment training towns are under the command of two governors, Tu Guobao and Ma Guozhu.

He used troops in the Central Plains, pointing his sword at Huguang.

Let Hebei side bluff and restrain some Tartar soldiers and horses, but they didn't let them play the real game.But with so many soldiers in Ma Guozhu and Tu Guobao's hands, no matter how strong they are, at least there are a lot of them, and it is said that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

In addition, the situation in various parts of Daming is very good now, so many officials and generals in Hebei and Shanxi have either directly opposed them or contacted them secretly.

However, Geng Zhongming in Liaodong, Li Shi of North Korea, etc. are not willing to be lonely. They are all beating the dog in the water, taking advantage of his illness to kill him. Geng Zhongming and the new North Korean army are extremely brave at this time. They live like wolves and tigers. They say they are conquering the Tartars for the Ming Dynasty, but in fact they are looting and massacring everywhere outside the pass.

They will not let this kind of cheapness go, even if the emperor says to slow down outside the pass, don't worry, take your time.

But Geng Zhongming and the North Koreans promised well on the surface, but in fact they turned out to be more and more alluring.

This caused the Tartars to be on fire everywhere, focusing on one thing and losing another.

Tu Guobao, the governor of Zhili, surrounded Baoding, and then the imperial battalion was still harassing Tianjin and Shanhaiguan at sea. Jierhalang was busy moving the Qing court from Beijing to Chengde outside the customs.

This relocation of the capital has brought about a great disadvantage, that is, the morale of the Tatars has completely collapsed, especially the surrendered generals in Zhili and Shanxi. The Tartars have all moved their capitals.

Everyone is in danger, looking for a way out, and trying to make amends.

To say that the two guys Tu Guobao and Ma Guozhu are indeed more capable, on the Tartar side is the governor and governor, and they are also titans.Now it is even more rumored that they have mastered the techniques of bluffing, surrendering and instigating rebellion.

Tu Guobao bluffed and besieged Baoding with an army of [-], but Ma Guozhu quietly entered Shanxi with his troops.

Because traitors like Zhang Ji, Bian Dashou, and Shi Tingzhu have long been uneasy, and have been doing smuggling business with them secretly. In order to avoid the two young sons of Jierhalang who came to Shanxi to discover the smuggling, they directly took the wife Both Guan and Guguan were given over to the Ming army.

Originally, it was agreed that these two gates would be handed over to the Ming army, just to facilitate smuggling and trading, but Ma Guozhu, the former governor of Shanxi Xuanda Tartar, was not so trustworthy.

Tu Guobao is besieging the city with a bluff in Baoding, and the Royal Navy is pretending to attack Tianjin and Shanhaiguan.

Ma Guozhu secretly led troops through Niangziguan, and then raided all the way to the city of Taiyuan. When Taiyuan found out, it was already surrounded.

At this time, there were not many soldiers in Taiyuan City, because the previous Tu Guobao attacked Baoding with great fanfare, and the Ming army pretended to attack Tianjin.

But at this time there were no soldiers in Beijing, and Prince An Yue Le wanted to defend Beijing and Tianjin. Governor Ma Guanghui, Governor of Rivers Yang Fangxing, Governor of Water Transport Wang Wenkui, and Governor Lang Tingzuo discussed with each other. Xuanda Shanxi asked for help.

Shanxi governor Shi Tingzhu opposed sending troops to rescue Baoding, but Jierhalang's sons Jidu and Ledu were in charge of the military and political power in Shanxi. The governor of Shanxi Zu Dashou had been in Beijing and moved to Chengde at this time. Shi Tingzhu couldn't help it either.

In the end, he simply let the two young princes take away the elite of Shanxi Eight Banners.

They went north from Taiyuan, entered Lingqiu through Pingxing Pass, crossed Taihang, crossed Zijing Pass, and entered Yizhou in Baoding Prefecture, just to the rear of Baoding.

Shi Tingzhu and the others originally thought that they couldn't stop them anyway, so they might as well let them go, which would make it easier for them to do smuggling.

Who would have expected that Ma Guozhu would suddenly send troops out of Jingxing to the city of Taiyuan.

Ma Guozhu surrounded Taiyuan, but he was not in a hurry to attack the city. The soldiers and horses rested for two days, and then began to persuade them to surrender, while sending troops to sweep the periphery of Taiyuan.

Ma Guozhu also used a routine against Shi Tingzhu.

He quietly evacuated some of the soldiers and horses from the city every night, and then came back with great fanfare during the day, so every day, there were more camps under the city, and soldiers and horses from all walks of life gathered with banners.

He also asked people to deliberately spread various news.

For one thing, the Liaodong Ming army had broken through Shenyang, for a while, the Hebei Ming army had broken through Baoding, and for a while, the navy had broken through Tianjin.

Tomorrow the emperor beheaded Nikan again in Nanyang, the day after tomorrow it was Wu Sangui who killed Oboi Li Guohan anyway in Guanzhong, and Meng Qiaofang surrendered again.

In short, all kinds of news are flying all over the sky.

The city of Taiyuan was terrified every day, and people were in panic.

Ma Guozhu sent people to shoot arrows into the city to summon peace and persuade them to surrender. Over there, Zhang Jiben, the governor of Shanxi Province, was a corrupt official. Seeing the Ming army gathered in the city, battalion for ten miles, his face turned pale with fright.

After some thought, he quietly sent someone out of the city to meet Ma Guozhu.

Ma Guozhu was no stranger to Zhang Ji, an old friend. The two sides exchanged secret letters, and soon Ma Guozhu knew the details of Taiyuan City.

Zhang Ji also got a guarantee from Ma Guozhu, saying that as long as he is anyway, he will not be held accountable for his crimes after the recovery of Taiyuan, and he will be asked for credit.

Zhang Ji is no longer interested in being an official or not. What he cares about now is saving his life and the large fortune he has accumulated in Shanxi in the past two years.

Obtaining the promise, Zhang Ji also went around everywhere. Bian Dashou, the prefect of Taiyuan, was the one who dug Li Zicheng's ancestral grave, and he had been secretly engaged in smuggling with Zhang Ji for a long time. The two quickly reached an agreement.

In a few days, the surrender faction of Zhang Bian and his wife had attracted a large number of Taiyuan officials, generals and gentry, and they went to persuade Shi Tingzhu several times.

Even the people around Shi Tingzhu were bribed by them.

Shi Tingzhu was not a fool either. He couldn't understand the situation in Taiyuan City. He hesitated again and again, and finally asked Zhang Ji to negotiate with Ma Guozhu on his behalf to get some good treatment anyway.

Ma Guozhu was also familiar with Shi Tingzhu, and they had been courtiers outside the pass before. After several secret discussions, Shi Tingzhu met Ma Guozhu in the middle of the night under the city, and got Ma Guozhu's personal promise.

Over there, the Jidu brothers heard the news in Baoding, and Baba led his troops back to Taiyuan, but they ran all the way. As soon as they arrived at Pingxing Pass, they came to climb Taixi Mountain, and then they received the news that Taiyuan had fallen.

Shi Tingzhu was very wicked. Although he surrendered, he was worried about his family members in the Tartars, so he asked Ma Guozhu to cooperate in a play.

Ma Guozhu led troops to attack the city, and Shi Tingzhu led troops to fight against the enemy. The two sides fought, and then the gentry in the city suddenly turned against each other and opened the city to meet the enemy. The Ming army he had already killed was defeated. As a result, Taiyuan was lost. He drew his sword and killed himself, but was seized by his subordinates and was finally captured.

Anyway, the loss of Taiyuan is not his problem.

It was the Jidu brothers who didn't listen to his persuasion, and fell into the trick of the Ming army to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and took away the few soldiers and horses, which gave the Ming army an opportunity to take advantage of.Then he could have won a desperate fight, but was killed by some cowardly surrenderers.

No matter how the play was performed, Taiyuan was indeed recovered by the Ming army.

Even bloodless.

After Ma Guozhu took Taiyuan, he quickly took Li Jiyu, Xu Dingguo and Ding Qiguang northward, and took Xinzhou and Daizhou again.

The Jidu brothers came one step late to lead the army. Daizhou had been recovered by the Ming army. The two brothers led the army to attack unwillingly, but Ma Guozhu led the army to defend the city. Fortress, internal and external corresponding, the Qing army attacked three times, all of which were disastrous.

In the end, Ma Guozhu came to another sneak attack in the middle of the night. The battalion screamed in the middle of the night, and the Eight Banners collapsed.

However, after Ma Guozhu won the victory, he was not in a hurry to go north. He guarded Daizhou by himself, divided his troops to guard Yanmen Pass, Hepingxing Pass and Ningwu Pass, and then divided his troops and turned back to sweep other prefectures and counties in Shanxi.

Regardless of Daibei Datong Mansion, first focus on Taiyuan and Daizhou to sweep the rest of Shanxi.

"It's a pity that Baoding failed to win. Ma Guanghui and Shi Tingzhu defended tenaciously."

Zhu Yihai didn't take it seriously, "If the Tatars lost Taiyuan, how long can Baoding last?"

"How to deal with people like Shi Tingzhu, Zhang Ji, and Bian Dashou?"

Zhu Yihai looked down on these few people, either they were old traitors or big greed, but considering the need to stabilize the hearts of the surrenderers in Zhili Shanxi, he planned to pacify them first for the time being.

"According to the original position, the corresponding ranks will be assigned to the official ranks, and the original position will be temporarily held. The wife and son will be bestowed as gifts to the ancestors. One of Yin's sons will enter the Imperial Academy, and the other will enter the lecture hall. Let them be sent to Tokyo."

"Where are the Jin merchants?"

Shanxi merchants, Zhu Yihai became angry when he heard the name, especially the representatives of the Eight Great Families, traitors and profiteers.

However, considering the current situation, Zhu Yihai intends to bear it a little longer, "Didn't Shanxi merchants join forces with Zhang Ji and the others to secretly smuggle and trade with us? We can continue to let them smuggle and use their channels to send money to Daibei, Beijing and Tianjin. As well as the smuggling trade and intelligence gathering in Outer Mongolia.”

These profiteers should be killed.

But killing them now is too cheap, and it's a bit wasteful, "Let them donate a sum of gold and silver, which will be regarded as a temporary atonement, and then we will see their performance, and hope to make a good atonement."

"I hope they can contact the Mongolian tribes in Monan for the imperial court, convey my goodwill to the Mongolian tribes, and hope that they can turn to the light and stop working for the Tartars.

The Mongolian tribes belong to Ming Dynasty, and there will be a brighter future. "

Especially the Ordos tribe in the Hetao area. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols have occupied the Hetao area. After the Ming lost the Hetao area, the Taolu became one of the serious border problems of the Ming Dynasty.

After the Qing Dynasty exterminated Lindan Khan, the Ordos Department in the Hetao area belonged to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing set up the Ordos Six Banners here, controlling the vast Hetao area from the south to northern Shaanxi and the Great Wall of Ningxia, and to the north to the Yellow Mountain and Yinshan Mountain. In the area, only Xitao, that is, the Ningxia area is still in the hands of the Central Plains.

Both the front set and the back set are in the hands of the Ordos Six Banners. The two sets are surrounded by three sides blocking the Yellow River. The land is fertile and can be cultivated. It is two thousand miles from east to west. Three hundred miles.

The Yellow River is full of harm, but the richest river is the only one.

Hetao is not only a good land for raising horses, but also a granary. Except in the northwest, there is no such good land.

The Ming Dynasty lost the Hetao, and there was a 200-year Hetao disaster that plagued the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Zhu Yihai has recovered northern Shaanxi and Gansu, and also recovered half of Shanxi and Hebei, he will naturally start contacting Monan Mongolia, especially the Ordos tribe that bears the brunt of occupying the Hetao.

First, continue to trade with the Mongols in Ordos through Shanxi merchants. Not only can the market not be closed, but also trade in tea horses must be increased, so that the Mongols cannot do without the economy of Daming.

Open the way for the economy, and then talk about abandoning the Qing Dynasty and attaching the Ming Dynasty.

Step by step, the ultimate goal must be to take back the entire Hetao area. This is the foundation of ZTE's founding.

"Send someone to Wu Sangui to send the good news of recovering Shanxi, let Wu Sangui block Lan Wudao to me, and then ask Wu Sangui if he can hold it, if he can't hold it, he will speak up immediately, and I will personally lead the troops into the pass Come and fight the Tartars."

From the time when Jiajing gave up on recovering Hetao to now for a hundred years, the Mongols have continued to fight for it, and finally occupied it firmly, and set up the Eight White Houses that worshiped Genghis Khan in the Hetao area.

From offering sacrifices to Genghis Khan's four dry ears to the Ming Dynasty, it evolved into the Eight White Room for offering sacrifices to Genghis Khan, so the tribe where the Eight White Room is located is called Ordos.

From King Jin, who was in charge of Genghis Khan’s sacrifice, to Jinong, the leader of the Ordos tribe, from the beginning of the sacrifice in the north of Dimo, and later according to the legend, Genghis Khan wanted to spend his later years in Hetao and was even buried in Hetao. Therefore, the place of sacrifice was moved to Hetao, Ordos The Ministry and its leader Jinong also lived here.

The Ordos people were originally a tribe that guarded many palaces in Mongolia. They were the guards guarding Genghis Khan’s mausoleum.

Ten years ago, Ordos was attached to the Qing Dynasty, each of which was granted Zhasak, a total of six banners, and the six banners under its control formed a league of its own, the Yikezhao League.

In the Qing Dynasty, Bo'er Jijin · Elinchen was named Erdos Jinong, and also Zhasake, the left-wing middle banner of Ordos in the Ikezhao League, the prince of Jinduoluo County, and the leader of the Yikezhao League.

"Send an envoy to Hetao, and formally announce the edict to Elinchen. I canonize him as Jinong of the Ordos Department, and also canonize him as the King of Jiuyuan County in the Ming Dynasty. He is still the guardian of the Ikezhao League and continues to lead the Ordos Left Wing Central Banner. Awarded as the governor. I propose marriage to Er Linchen, hoping to take her a daughter into the palace as a concubine."

Zhu Yihai felt that the alliance flag system used by the Manchus to manage the Mongols was not bad and could be learned and used.

However, he plans to change the leader of the alliance to the guardian, the flag Zasak to the governor, the alliances to the Chengdu guard, and the banners to the Chengdu governor. Trade, let's pull them over first.

In fact, in the conflict between Hetao and the three sides in the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia’s request for tribute and Ming Dynasty’s refusal of tribute were the main reasons for the conflict. Mongolia is a nomadic tribe and is highly dependent on the economy of the Ming Dynasty. Lai Ming Dynasty, and some of their nomadic fur, hair, cattle, horses and livestock also need to be traded to the Ming Dynasty in order to have greater profits, otherwise Mongolian nomadism is very difficult, especially for the upper Mongolian nobles, through tribute trade, they can obtain more benefits.

However, the Ming Dynasty often dealt with the Mongols by conquest by force and economic blockade. Later, they divided the Mongols and only allowed some Mongolian tribes to conduct tribute trade. However, the size of the border market was small, so not only was the smuggling serious, but the Mongols often went south to plunder. .

Later, the nine-border defense line established by the Ming Dynasty, such as the three-side defense against the Hetao, those frontier soldiers received low salaries and earned extra money by driving horses and smashing nests to rob Mongolian tribes. If they are allowed to pay tribute, then they will not be able to plunder legitimately, so the servants of the three generals often deliberately provoke frontier quarrels.

The troubles of the Ming Dynasty could not be subsided.

These things seem unbelievable to Zhu Yihai. Although the economic blockade is helpful to fight against the Mongols, it is a double-edged sword. In fact, a blind blockade will only be counterproductive.It would be better to use trade to fight an economic war with the Mongols. As long as it is done well, economic weapons will be more effective than knives, guns, bows and arrows.

It can even use the money earned from trade with Mongolia to strengthen border defense, arm the army, and reward and subsidize the soldiers. That is far more expensive than building the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty, abandoning the Hetao, and deploying 20 soldiers and horses on the three sides all the year round. It is often much stronger to be invaded and plundered by the Mongols going south.

The imperial court does not allow tribute, but smuggling at the border is still serious, and the actual blockade has not been completed. On the contrary, the imperial court has lost a lot of tax revenue and benefits.

He is now willing to do the opposite, as long as Elinchen is more aware of current affairs, Zhu Yihai is willing to trade with him in an all-round way, even if he is not willing to recite the Qing Fuming for a while, Zhu Yihai is willing to start a trade with them.

Open up trade, expand the border market, and even restore the post stations and pier forts in the border areas along the Belt and Road, and enter the caravans of the Hetao Grassland through Shanxi merchants, go deep into the tribe, find out the reality, and even buy and win over the tribal leaders Wait.

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols were no longer the Mongols they used to be. After the rise of the Houjin Dynasty, they were already the existence that everyone could hang and beat.

Now Zhu Yihai can trade with one hand and seal with the other, so as to win the Mongols over.In the name of paying tribute, if Mongolian tribes want to trade with each other, they can ask for tribute in the name of paying tribute. The imperial court took advantage of the opportunity of trade to formally confer Mongolian tribes.

For the sake of trade, accepting canonization, the Mongols got the trade they had been longing for, and Ming could also cut off the Jurchen allies, and by the way, included Mongolia into its own Celestial Dynasty system.

During the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, the relationship with Mongolia eased, and it was planned to establish a tribute exchange relationship with both Mongolian wings, but only Altan Khan accepted the Shunyi King who was conferred by the Ming Dynasty, and established a tribute relationship, while Tuman Khan on the left wing, that is, Zasak Tuhan of Wai Khalkha did not accept it.

Of course, the Longqing peace agreement itself was indeed an alliance under the city, and the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty had always been ashamed of it, and the Mongols themselves thought that it was because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was afraid of them, so they paid tribute to seek peace.Later, Daming simply favored and stomped on the other, dividing and conquering, supporting one to overwhelm the other.

The Ming Dynasty did not burn barren land and did not destroy nests and drive horses, but I Da Khan did not go south to invade the border.After the peace talks, there were indeed decades of great peace.

Now Zhu Yihai is willing to give Ordos a more comprehensive trade market, so as to untie them from the Manchu chariot and appease them, so as not to conflict first.

Mutual benefits can also be achieved through trade. Selling tea, cloth, porcelain, salt, iron, tobacco, wine, etc., in exchange for fur, cattle and horses, and collecting taxes, this business will never lose money. If marriage and marriage can be achieved, there will naturally be more benefits and a more stable relationship.

As for the recovery of the Hetao area in the future, it will be after the Jianlu is killed, or even the three guards of Jianzhou are recovered.It's still early, and there is no need to treat Ordos as a deadly enemy now, so there is no need to make enemies on all sides.

"If Er Linchen wants to marry a Daming woman, I can agree to him."

Daming had the ancestral precepts of not getting along with relatives, not paying tribute, and not cutting land, but Zhu Yihai felt that the marriage between the two parties was not a bad thing. He didn't need to marry a princess, he could recruit among the court ladies who voluntarily went to Mongolia to be the princess and the wife of the country, and accepted them as righteous daughters. , give a title of princess, and send it to be married.

It is not a bad thing for an ordinary palace man to go to the grassland to become the princess of the tribe, or even the emperor's adopted daughter, as long as it is voluntary.

Both Moxi and Mobei Mongolia are now friendly with Daming, and have paid tribute to Daming and even made marriages. Monan Mongolia can also appease and win first.

Courtesy before soldiers, unless you are really stubborn, there is no need to make enemies everywhere.

Zhu Yihai is a pragmatic person.

Even if it was the precepts of the Great Ming ancestors, he would not pay attention to them. Anyway, the ancestral system has been violated a long time ago, and he doesn't care about violating one more.

Everything is centered on rejuvenating Daming and rejuvenating China, and everything else can give way.

(End of this chapter)