Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 854 Borrowing Another 50 Years from Heaven
Qinghai.

Chahan City, also known as Baiyun Fort, is located at the foot of Baiyun Mountain between the east bank of the lake and Riyue Mountain.

The emperor coughed badly. This time he came down from Riyue Mountain and came to Chahan to join the Heshuote princes and princes. He worked hard day and night. The wind, snow and altitude here caused Zhu Yihai's asthma to recur.

The asthma attack was fierce, and it was better during the day, but it became more serious at night. He couldn't even lie down, he could only sit on the head of the bed, and he couldn't even breathe when he lay down.

Zhu Yihai, who was suffering from asthma, was very uncomfortable. He was always blocked by phlegm and coughed all the time. Sometimes he coughed endlessly, as if he wanted to cough up his lungs.

Although the imperial physicians who accompanied him were experienced and knew about the emperor's chronic illness, but this attack was too severe. Various prescriptions and precious medicinal materials could not relieve it for a while, and could only watch the emperor's painful coughing and wheezing .

'If God gives me another 50 years, I will surely make the entire East fall under my feet. "

Zhu Yihai once thought that he was in good health and would not die before the age of 50 as in history, but the repeated asthma, especially this outbreak, made him feel as if he would die at any time.

He had to start to accept the fact that maybe he only had less than ten years to live, and even if such serious illnesses occurred several times in the future, he might have to retreat to the second line in advance.

He had to start arranging the aftermath.

This is a huge blow to the emperor who is leading the great Ming Dynasty forward, but it is also a helpless fact.

Accept it whether you like it or not.

Facing this fact, although he also searched for famous doctors and prescriptions everywhere, he was a little indifferent. After all, even if it is put in later generations, this disease cannot be cured, and the older it is, the more serious it will be.

"If God can give me another 50 years, I will use ten years to level the Western Regions, another ten years to level Qingkang Weizang, and then ten years to stabilize Mobei and Siberia. Then use ten years to conquer Japan, Jiaozhi, and finally After ten years of conquering Burma and Luzon, and establishing colonies in Malacca, Tianzhu, Sumatra and even Yindian, it is a pity, a pity."

Sitting in front of the emperor, Yan Wogong, listening to the rare mantra of the emperor, not only admired the emperor's ambition, but also felt somewhat regretful for the emperor.

It can be said that there may not be one king of ZTE like today, Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming Taizu, such emperors are rare, but they are all the holy masters who lead China to the next level.

If the emperor can really be given another 50 years, Yan Wogong dare not say that what the emperor said can be done, but Daming will definitely be able to go to the next level.

But now the emperor is coughing constantly, gasping for breath at every turn, and has to be sucked by the imperial doctor from time to time. Although he is extremely exhausted, he can't lie down and rest. The emperor in his 30s has been tortured a lot How out of character.

Compared with the majestic and heroic friends when he was outside, the image of bravery and wisdom is worlds apart.

"Fortunately, I appointed Hongjia as the reserve resolutely at the beginning, and let him supervise the country and regent in the past two years. I have a lot of ministers to assist me, and they are very comforting to my heart."

The prince's performance really satisfied Zhu Yihai, but the prince was still only a teenage prince after all, and his behavior could only be said to be at the upper-middle level. Compared with Zhu Yihai, his knowledge and structure were much worse, let alone prestige.

The prince has never really led soldiers to fight, especially lack of military qualifications.

"Didn't the prince repeatedly ask to lead troops to the Northern Expedition to destroy the remnants of Manchuria? I have thought about it for a long time, and it is time. Now that the Horqin tribe's banners have also split, the remnants of the Tartars have been led by the young captive chief Fulin for two years. Several times when they invaded the border south, they were all beaten to the head and bled by the frontier soldiers of the imperial court, causing heavy casualties. In addition to the smallpox and plague deliberately created by the Jinyiwei in Hulunbuir, Mantar died of countless illnesses. Now Mantar is extremely weak, and Horqin It's time to wait until you start to renounce your virtue."

At the beginning, Zhu Yihai didn't directly take advantage of the victory to pursue the Mantars. He went all the way to the north to destroy the Mantars. He also considered that they were quite strong after they escaped from the customs. At that time, Horqin and many other Mongolian and Jurchen tribes were still attached to and followed the Mantars.

Zhu Yihai also tried his best to reject the pursuit suggestion of the group of ministers, first to stabilize the customs, and then marry Mongolia, open trade and mutual markets, recruit Mongolian and Jurchen tribes, and slowly advance.

In the end, most of the allies of the Manchus were drawn over. On the one hand, they formed an alliance with the Mongolian Jurchens to marry and trade, and on the other hand, they blocked the Manchus. In addition, the Ming army slowly advanced northward, constantly building post stations and fortresses, and implementing fort chain advance tactics. Constantly compressing the space for activities of Manta, especially disintegrating his alliance.

After a few years, it seems that the Ming army did not directly attack the north, but the effect is still very good. The Manchus are now extremely poor, especially the plague plan of the Jinyiwei is even more ruthless.

Directly through smuggling, some blankets, cloth, clothes, etc. with smallpox were imported to the Hulunbuir Grassland occupied by the Tartars. They thought that the smallpox was not enough, and transported clothes, food, etc. with plague to spread there.

These are extremely deadly plagues. In the late Ming Dynasty, repeated smallpox and plagues in Shanxi, Zhili, Beijing and other places took away millions of northern Ming people.Before Li Zicheng took over Beijing, the rat plague was breaking out in Beijing, with tens of thousands of deaths, folk songs, dead rats in the east, dead rats in the west, a dead rat is like a tiger.Rats die within a few days, but people die like Qi blocks.

Beginning in the 14th year of Chongzhen, the plague was rampant in Daming Mansion, and five or six out of ten people died, and the age was very fierce.There was a severe famine in Guangping Prefecture, and people ate each other.The great epidemic in Beijing, the great epidemic in Tianjin.The whole province of Henan was hit by a severe epidemic. Nineteen people died in Yangwu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, and countless people were exterminated.In Rongyang, people are not separated from each other when they die, and there is no one on the road in March.

Even the Chuang army who captured Beijing was defeated by Jianlu so quickly. A large part of the reason was that they were also infected with the plague, which greatly reduced the Shun army's combat strength. Coupled with some strategic mistakes, they finally big defeat.

Although the population on the grassland is not as dense as that of the big cities in the north of the Chongzhen Ming Dynasty, the plague can also occur on the grassland, and the infection is just as severe.

When the Qing army entered and plundered the customs several times in the last years of Chongzhen, many Qing soldiers died of smallpox and plague, and even some clan generals died of the disease.

Using the plague to defeat the enemy is actually nothing new in the history of war.

When Mongolia went west, Kafa City resisted desperately with its fortified city. The Mongolian army could not attack for a long time. They are all the corpses of soldiers who died in rat labor.

The city of Caffa was finally destroyed by the plague, and the plague spread to Italy with the residents who fled the city, and then spread to Britain, France and Spain, and finally enveloped the whole of Europe. This epidemic that took away more than 2000 million people in Europe in just six years The plague, known as the Black Death, killed a third of the entire population of Europe.

Plagues such as smallpox and plague in the late Ming Dynasty, together with the resulting famine, also killed tens of millions of people.

Jin Yiwei's implementation of the plague plan in the Hulunbuir Grassland is very confidential, and not many people know about it. Zhu Yihai has hesitated to report this action.

It was too cruel to use this tactic, but in the end he agreed to carry it out secretly. There is no kindness in war, and ending the war early is the greatest kindness.

Jin Yiwei secretly launched a plan in Hulun Buir to spread and spread the plague. This kind of targeted and intentional spread caused the plague to break out quickly in all the Jianlu tribes and spread extremely fast.

Facing the plague, the Jianlu who had retreated to the Hulunbuir Grassland at this time were already a little poor and lacked medical care. The newly built Shangdu Manzhouli was reduced to hell.

A person dies like a lamp goes out, like a candle blown out.

A great plague raged for nearly a year, and one-third of the Tartars died. When they retreated to the outside of the pass, they took away a lot of people and millions of people. Yes, plus this pandemic, there were less than [-] accounts left in the end.

There is even more news that Shunzhi Fulin also contracted smallpox and died, and even his eldest son also contracted smallpox and died.

Although Jin Yiwei has not fully confirmed the news, Jianlu has indeed collapsed now.

With the betrayal of relatives, coupled with the epidemic and the snowstorm last winter, the Tartars began to eat people on the grassland.Crazy Tartars went south again and again, trying to invade and plunder, but at this time, Jianlu was no longer as brave as before. A group of outrageous robbers who were tortured by the epidemic and famine, although they had the heart of robbers, they no longer had the heart of robbers can.

Even Horqin had several tribes that openly rebelled against the Tartars. They erected side walls and sent tribal cavalry to patrol the borders, not allowing Jianlu to cross the border, for fear that they would rob cattle and sheep, and even more afraid that they would bring disease.

Horqin was less affected by the plague, and blocked the border in time. In addition, Daming sent a rescue team to win over Shien, told them the countermeasures of epidemic prevention and medical treatment, and taught them isolation and treatment, so that Horqin escaped this catastrophe. Yu people.

The Horqin people regarded Jianlu as gods of plague and plague, and they would never allow them to go south. Once they found that they went south, they would attack them, kill them and burn them all.

In order to prevent the epidemic and build captives, Horqin established a cavalry army, which was stationed on the border, and did not return to the tribal grasslands, so as not to bring back the plague. It insisted on relying on the methods guided by Ming and the timely resoluteness to defend this place. line of defense.

Daming sold Horqin medicinal materials and weapons to them, allowing them to go south again and again against the Jianlu.

Jianlu went south again and again, and was beaten back again and again, and he couldn't be beaten anymore.

Now Prince Hongjia said that the plague in Hulunbeier has basically subsided, and the Jianlu has completely collapsed. Now is a good time to sweep the hole in one fell swoop. He asked to personally lead the Northern Expedition to attack Hulunbuir and kill it in Manzhouli. of its kind.

The prince is very active in this matter, and he wants to build military merits.

Zhu Yihai was unwilling to let the prince lead troops to the front line before, because the prince was young, and he didn't want him to take risks, and wanted him to study government affairs well, but now that the situation was not good, he had to think more about the prince. From the standpoint of the prince, he is so young, if he does not have any military achievements, he may not be able to convince the public and control the government if he succeeds to the throne.

The current Jianlu has collapsed, and Horqin, Khalkha, etc. have all joined them. Now that they send troops to the Northern Expedition, that is a ready-made military achievement, but after all, the demise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a great contribution.

"Mr. Yan, you write a letter to the prince for me, and you also write to the left-behind cabinet and the prime minister's office, asking the chief assistant, Wen Anzhi, to stay in the capital, and the prince will lead the northern expedition to Hulunbuir to destroy the Tartars, and take the prince as the marshal of the captives. Zhang Guowei As the commander-in-chief of the Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Mingzhen is the Sima of the Marshal's Mansion, with Zhu Dingguo and Zheng Zunqian as the vanguard of the Marshal's Mansion, dispatching [-] elite troops to the Northern Expedition to destroy the captives!"

"Decree to Mobei Karka Zhasaktu Khan, Altan Khan, Tuxietu Khan, Chechen Khan, Buryat Khan, and Monan Horqin Khan, Tumed Khan, Chahar Khan, Ordos Khan Khan, as well as Haidong, Haixi Jurchen capital governors and North Korea jointly sent troops to coordinate, and they all listened to the prince's dispatch."

"Destroy the captives!"

"The Crown Prince is the Grand Marshal of the Northern Expedition. He has full command. All soldiers, officials, and subordinates of the camps and places must obey the Prince's orders. Those who disobey can be killed first and then played. The Crown Prince is specially granted the right to entrust the seal and worship, the third rank The civil and military officials below are appointed, and the titles below the county duke are rewarded, all have to do it cheaply."

Zhu Yihai said a long list in one breath, then coughed violently again, his face was red from coughing, he finally stopped after a long time, and he waved his hand, "That's it, I wish the crown prince's flag will be successful and success will come soon. Waiting for his good news here."

(End of this chapter)