Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 806
The emperor went west.

In the name of personal conquest, he patrolled the northwest.

Accompanied by the mighty imperial camp, they entered the Xuanfu via Juyong, and left Zhangjiakou to Duolun. Some people even thought that the emperor was on a parade, but they didn't know that the emperor set up government offices and counties along the way, and stationed troops. .

From Duolun to Weichang, from Jining to Liangcheng, from Guihua to Wuchuan, from Baotou to Tiande, from Linhe to Dengkou, even Erdos Khan could not have expected that the emperor's journey westward was like laying eggs.

One battalion after another of the imperial camp was stationed in various places, and began to build cities and garrison troops, and immigrants were needed to fill them.

"Khan, the emperor did this, and we just watched?"

A group of Mongolian left-wing princes looked at Elinchen.

After the Duolun League, the Mongolian tribes in Monan, apart from following the Horqin and other tribes who built the captives, were integrated into the left, middle, and right, and the left-wing twelve tribes, mainly based on the original seven banners of Ordos, mainly in the Ordos, Qianqiantao, Langshanwai, Helanshanwai and other places.

After the emperor came back, the ministries began to be integrated according to the covenant, and moved to the new pasture. The emperor came later, and first designated the former set including Guihua City as the imperial court, and also assigned the left part to Suiyuan Province. After all, the Qiantao Plain was completely taken away by the imperial court, and even Wuchuan Town was set up in the north of the mountain, and Shengzhou Prefecture was set up in the south of the Yellow River.

Then it goes on and on. The Houtao Plain in Dongtao was also set up by the imperial court as Tiande and Jiuyuan counties, and garrisoned troops to immigrate. The emperor traveled along the river and set up another county between Ningxia Plain and Houtao Plain. The three counties of Linhe, Dengkou and Wuhai were covered.

Dengkou County is located in the west of the Hetao Plain, on the east edge of the Ulanbuh Desert, and on the west bank of the Yellow River.

This was originally the territory of Ordos, and Elinqin, the younger brother of Elinchen, led the nomadic tribes, and even a large area in Hexi, he led the nomadic tribes. Although he did not set up a banner before, he actually separated himself.

But now the emperor has set up a garrison in Dengkou County in the middle, Linhe County in the north, and Wuhai County in the south, which also occupies the connecting zone between Houtao and Xitao.

There is Langshan Mountain in the north and Helan Mountain in the south. The Dengkou area is between the two mountains. Although there are deserts on the left and right, there are still many areas along the Yellow River that are suitable for grazing and even farming.

It is a good place with Helan in the south, Langshan Mountain in the north, the Yellow River in the east, and the desert in the west.

The emperor directly left an association of troops to garrison here, and also used the post station communication as an excuse to build post stations, Yandun, etc. along this line. Everyone understood the emperor's thoughts.

Erdos Khan had a gloomy face and didn't say a word.

If you want to blame, you can blame Elinchen for being selfish when the Duolun League was formed, and did not explain the area on the west bank of the Yellow River, north of Lanzhou and Liangzhou.

In the past, various ministries competed for this area. The Wakhalka tribe went south to herd herds, and even went to Qinghai via this place. Then Xie Yongbu, a Mongolian leftist, also nomadic here. Later, one of them was also squeezed to Qinghai, and Lin Danhan occupied it after the Western Expedition. Here, he was also beaten to Qinghai later, and finally died of illness in Qinghai. His wife and children moved back to Huacheng, and was conquered by the Manchu expedition.

After Chahar moved to the east, Elinchen asked his younger brother to lead his troops across the Yellow River and occupied this large area.

Earlier, the emperor had reached a covenant with the tribes of Moxiweirat, conferring five Khan kings: Heshuo Tegushi Khan, Jailut Chechen Khan, Junggar Khan, Durbert Khan, and Turhut Khan , also canonized Kazakh Khan, Yaerqiang Khan and so on.

After sending troops to take down Turpan, Hami, Kansai Four Guards and other places last time, the territories of various ministries were readjusted.

Duerbert and Huite merged, they nomadic in the north and south of the Altay Mountains north of the Irtysh River, and assigned Juyanhai, north of Gansu, etc. to them in the east.

But there was no mention of the eastern boundary at that time, only Heishan, Heli Mountain, and Longshou Mountain in the Hexi Corridor were the boundaries, and the eastern boundary was not determined.

In fact, Elinqin occupies the Chuhun Mountains, the east of Yibula Mountains and the west bank of the Yellow River. Basically, the north of Suzhou, Ganzhou is nomadic in the Huite tribe, and the north of Liangzhou in Lanzhou is the nomadic Elinqin of Ordos.

No one mentioned this when Duolun met.

At that time, the emperor set up twelve capitals for Ordos. The boundaries drawn were Langshan Mountain, Helan Mountain, and the Yellow River as the west boundary, and the north reached the desert.

In fact, to the west of the Xihe River, there is also the Yellow River, and to the west of Helan Mountain, a small part is grazing and arable, and the rest of the vast land is desert.

In the north of Liangzhou, there is a prominent oasis that is Minqin, where honeydew melons were produced in later generations. It was called Zhenfan in the Ming Dynasty. It is desert.

There is no barrier of Helan Mountain and Wolf Mountain here in Qikou, and the wind and sand are blowing in. Compared with the three sets of plains of the Yellow River, it is really barren.But for nomads, this is a piece of land after all.

Now the emperor went directly to the west bank of the Yellow River between Helan Mountain and Langshan to set up three counties. Even if it is only three points now, as long as the army is stationed, the city will be built soon, which means that in the future they will be able to build up the Twelve Departments of Ordos. It can no longer go west, and it is designated on the east bank of the Yellow River.

And Linhe is actually located in the south of Houtao Plain.

It used to be that Elinqin's department now either moved to the east of the river, or directly registered as a household of Qimin. The emperor wanted to set up the Royal Ranch of Helan Mountain, the Taipusi Ranch, and the military horse farm of the Ministry of War in the west of Helan Mountain.

Elinchen looked at his brother Elinqin, "What's your plan?"

Elinqin is listless, he doesn't have many followers, otherwise he would have just compiled a banner at the beginning, and now the emperor is going to swallow his territory, he is dissatisfied, but he is powerless to resist, just like him The Daming imperial camp, which is not strong enough to have enough soldiers and horses, puts more troops between its teeth.

The Duolun League, he really saw the might of the Daming imperial camp, those cannons and muskets were not something they could fight against, and he had already seen that, his elder brother was not willing to or Say dare not confront the emperor.

Although he is now the head of the twelve tribes, Erdos Khan, only seven of the twelve new editions were originally created by Ordos.

"I listen to my brother."

Elinchen looked at him like this, and said, "Then you bring all the people back and incorporate them into the Yijin Huoluo Governor's Mansion. I will ask the emperor to ask you to be Erdos Jinong and Deputy Governor, and your eldest son will be Yijin Huoluo. Deputy Governor of Huntaiji of the Duhu Mansion."

Yijin Huoluo Dudu Mansion was originally the King Banner of Ordos County, directly led by Erlin Chen, one of the seven banners, and now his eldest son is under the command of the Dudu.

"I always listen to my elder brother." Elinqin still said the same thing.

"That's how it is, move back as soon as possible, and draw a good pasture for you."

Because the emperor reorganized the eastern part into twelve capitals, and now Ordos is in chaos, let alone opposing the emperor's establishment of county garrisons, even if you want to reorganize these departments as soon as possible, it will not be easy.

Since the return of the Duolun League, the Mongolian princes have been a little silent. In the past, as Genghis Khan's mausoleum guards, they fought against the Ming Dynasty for 200 years and never persuaded them.

But in this short period of ten years, he was first beaten by Lin Danhan and forced to surrender, and then beaten by the Jurchens and surrendered again.

Even though they were not beaten up by Da Ming now, Da Ming swept Hou Jin and killed Sunit's Teng Jisi brother like crushing an ant, which shocked them very much.

The power of the Ming army's guns and the neatness of the army also made them fall into deep self-doubt about themselves.

They feel that they are not good enough, and anyone can beat him.

They couldn't even beat Lin Danhan, and Lin Danhan was beaten to death by Hou Jin, and Hou Jin was beaten to death by Zhu Yihai, so they couldn't resist Zhu Yihai at all.

As the sixth grandson of Dayan Khan, he has been the sixth generation since Dayan Khan appointed his son Balsborot as the leader of ten thousand households in Ordos, but from Jinong to Ordos Khan, his previous ambitions have not He was beaten up in repeated defeats.

Even his own brother didn't have the courage, so he completely lost his mind.

So be it.

At least the Ordos Grassland, most of the Houtao Plain, and the pastures to the north of Langshan Mountain have been preserved, right?

Zhu Yihai inspected the garrison defense battalion in Ningxia.

In the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia was one of the important towns on the nine borders, and it was built with the Great Wall for defense. After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Yihai still placed Ningxia in Suiyuan Province.

The three areas east of Liupan Mountain, Pingliang, Jingzhou, and Qingyang, which originally belonged to Gansu, were returned to the jurisdiction of Shaanxi.

The boundary of Shaanxi is the Great Wall in the north, Longshan Mountain in the west, the Qinling Mountains in the south, Hanzhong, Xing'an and Shangluo, and the Yellow River in the east.

The terrain of Gansu Province is quite special, reaching Dunhuang in the west, Bailongjiang in the south, Longshan in the east, and the Great Wall in the north.

It leads to the Western Regions through the Hexi Corridor, to Qinghai along the Huanggu Valley, to Hetao along the Yellow River, to the Guanzhong Plain along the Weishui River, and to Hanzhong or Sichuan along the Bailong River.

This piece of land can be called a sharp sword of the Central Plains Dynasty. The blade points directly at the Western Regions, and on both sides of the blade are Qinghai-Tibet and Mongolia. This place must never be lost.

The Hexi Corridor and the Hehuang Valley are the grain and grain rivers in Longyou, and they are the support points for the operation of Longyou.

In order to defend against Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall in Gansu from Ningxia to Jiayuguan in Suzhou. It once lost the seven guards of Kansai, and Hami also lost two.

Now that Ming has returned to Dunhuang, stationed troops in Xingxingxia, and even all the Mongolian ministries have surrendered one after another, but after inspecting the soldiers and horses, the emperor did not show much relief.

This journey to the west was not exhausting, but the most important thing was that he found that the current situation in the northwest frontier was much worse than expected.

Not to mention the area to the north of the Great Wall, even in Ningxia, within the Great Wall, an important town on the nine sides, after years of war, especially after this turmoil, it is still very dilapidated.

The population is sparse, and the industry and commerce are withered.

Many officials requested that the rebels be given a lighter sentence, and that they were still allowed to return to their hometowns to farm, or they were scattered and resettled.

But Zhu Yihai rejected all these requests.

You can neither give up food because of choking, nor drink poison to quench your thirst.

Now in the northwest, the names of Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Zhang Yong and others can stop children from crying, and even the emperor is called a tyrant.

But since the decision is made, it must be done unswervingly.

On the tower of Yuanmen Gate in Ximen Town, Ningxia, the emperor, Wen Anzhi and other ministers were admiring the snowy scenery in the north.

Years of wars and famines have sharply reduced the population, and now the population has dropped by nearly half.

For such a border province, it is a terrible thing to lose so many people all of a sudden.

The main issue of controversy is that there are too many people lost now, and the imperial court can't move so many people now.

Yan Wogong's proposal can be regarded as a compromise.

Wu Yi's being too loose will cause great troubles, while Zhu Dadian's is too costly and will cause a large loss of population in Shaanxi and Gansu.

Zhu Yihai is hesitating.

He has to weigh the pros and cons.

In the end, he decided to agree with Yan Wogong’s suggestion. During this west tour, he also found that although the Mongols and Jurchen surrendered one after another, and Daming finally stepped outside the Great Wall again, it is very difficult to build post stations or build cities in various places. lack of population.

Without population, all that can last for a long time.

Zhu Yihai said solemnly, "You can follow Mr. Yan's suggestion, but there is a red line that must not be crossed..."

"Let's do it according to Mr. Yan's suggestion, first draw up a detailed and specific charter." Zhu Yihai finally made a decision.

(……Revise………)
(End of this chapter)