I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 479: Intervention in Monan
There are several new heads hanging on the flagpole at the top of Nanjing City these days.

The owners of these heads include those of Emperor Qianlong, as well as the most blessed Empress Dowager "Zhen Huan". The heads are all made of salt, and the money rat tail on the back of the head is used as a rope to hang.

This won't last long, because the scalp will gradually fall off due to force, but it doesn't matter, I didn't plan to hang it for long, and there is a rope hidden behind the braid to absorb the force.

Originally, Zhu Yijiong planned to hang them all, but considering that there were too many, not only the hundreds of people who were killed that day, but also those who died on the road.

If all of these are put up, even the hated Tatars will be intimidating, and it will easily affect the flow of people in Nanjing.

Therefore, under the advice of the courtiers, the remaining heads and corpses were burned together, and the ashes were cast into kneeling statues and placed in front of the tombs of the Ming emperors.

The kneeling statue of Emperor Qianlong was finished first, and the fast boat has been rushed to Sichuan, so that the father and son can be reunited as soon as possible.

"Your Majesty, the Governor's Office of the Chinese Army in North Zhili sent an urgent military report through the post station. A war broke out in the Monan Grassland this year. All-out wars broke out among the Horqin Tribe, Karaqin Tribe, Chahar Tribe, and Tumut Tribe. "

"The Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army ordered Duke Yang Gong to send envoys to the grassland. After trying to dissuade them to no avail, I would like to ask you to send troops immediately to completely pacify the tribes in the Monan Grassland."

Just when the Ming Dynasty launched the final annihilation war against the Liaodong Tatars, the Mongols in the Monan Grassland also started to move, and every move was a big move.

The cause is no longer important, because all the tribes in the Monan Grassland have been involved. Now the Horqin, Kalaqin, Chahar, and Tumut tribes are the main force, and the other small and medium-sized tribes in the gap are trapped, and the war is rapid. Swept across the entire grassland.

If an extremely powerful tribe emerges at this time, and a wise and powerful Khan comes forward, and the Central Plains Dynasty does not intervene, then maybe the Monan Grassland will be unified again.

Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, a new "Lin Dan Khan" appeared.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Lin Dan Khan was actually very close to success. In the early days of Lin Dan Khan, most of the entire Monan Grassland was willing to obey his orders. This can be seen from Lin Dan Khan's military strategy at the border of the Ming Dynasty, and the coalition forces of various ministries could be mobilized by him.Even Mobei Khalkha did not dare to disobey him. Nurhachi of the Later Jin Dynasty tried to get involved in the Monan grassland, but was directly beaten by Lin Danhan.

Until later, relying on the two generations of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, they continued to win over, marry, and divide. Lin Dan Khan himself made frequent mistakes and was extremely short of money. In the end, Chongzhen and Huang Taiji attacked Lin Dan Khan from both sides, and Monan was reunited. The situation gradually collapsed.

Therefore, Chongzhen's cool operation... is really hard to evaluate.

No matter how useless Lin Danhan is, he is also a pawn in the grassland defense line to contain Huang Taiji. At least there is no problem in delaying time. He has to ignore the long-term strategic overall view for the sake of temporary pleasure.

However, Zhu Yijiong is obviously not the Chongzhen of the past, and the form of the Monan grassland today is also very different from that of the past. The Tatars' differentiation of the Monan grassland is undoubtedly quite successful.

Even now that they are separated from the Tatars, the fragmented situation of the entire Monan Grassland has not changed at all. On the contrary, the barriers between them have become more serious.

Because the leaders of Horqin, Karaqin, Chahar, and Tumut all wanted to be the Khan of Monan, and they had even become Khans.

Although he was called the Great Khan of the main body, this position was endorsed by the Han emperor, and he was even given the golden seal and edict of the Khan.

The rest of the grassland tribes in the cracks of survival also do not want to obey the orders of these large tribes, because they will definitely be squeezed and squeezed out.

This means that even without the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, there will only be a continuous civil war in the Monan Grassland. Everyone is evenly matched, and even if there are some strong ones, they will not be able to fight one against three.

There is no chance for the grassland tribes to unify!

Yang Gong saw this, and he could see it from sending envoys to test. The conflicts and estrangements between the various departments were too deep, and even forced annexation would only lead to self-destruction.

After reading the memorial, Zhu Yijiong thought for a while and said: "The Northern Zhili and Liaodong armies can start preparing for war. Don't act rashly for the time being. Wait until the fighting on the grassland is almost done, and then wait for an opportunity to send troops to clean up the mess. Within this year, it must be completely resolved. Regarding the issue of the Monan grassland, the order was sent to the Sauron tribe of Heilongjiang Dusi. Since they have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Mobei must also keep a close eye on it. If there is any change in Khalkha in Mobei, they will immediately send troops to attack and harass them without asking them to defeat them. Khalkha, at least hold the opponent back.",

Regarding the Mobei strategy, the Ming Dynasty always used careful tactics to provoke civil war so that it could maintain the chaotic situation. After the Monan grassland was completely cleared, it could concentrate its efforts to solve the problem.
But the plan could not keep up with the changes. At the end of last year, news came back from Mobei Xizuo that the Chechen Khanate and the Tuxietu Khanate had been basically unified.

The rebel forces of the two Khan tribes were actually so easily dealt with by their khans, without even a large-scale melee that swept through Mobei breaking out.

The civil strife in Mobei ended too quickly. Not only did the two Khan tribes not suffer much loss in strength, but their strength also increased after the Khan King successfully centralized power.

This is a bit difficult to handle.The two Khans were unified so quickly, and the Ming Dynasty had to respond as soon as possible. The only way was to intervene in the civil war in the Monan Grassland in advance.

Within this year, the Monan Grassland must be completely conquered, even completely controlled, and then the front line can be established with the Monan Grassland.Not only to prepare for the Khalkha in Mobei to move south, but also to wait for the opportunity to move north, because Mobei has also just been unified, and the two major Khans are separate. They can completely change their passiveness into activeness and see if there is any chance to hunt rabbits.

The new Ming Dynasty is now very rich in money and food, and the Liaodong War has basically not been fought. Therefore, the Ming army is completely concerned about changing the target and turning around to launch an all-out war on the grasslands.

As for the money and food needed by immigrants from Liaodong, Lelang, and Heilongjiang to govern the people, this is a long-term project, and there is no shortage of this.Just because of the ongoing anti-corruption crackdown in the country, there are many corrupt officials waiting to have their homes confiscated and exiled.

Moreover, there is really not enough food, and there is still a granary called North Korea.

At worst, you have to spend money to buy it. Anyway, Ming Dynasty is not short of money now. The profits from sea trade, spinning and monopoly are too great. There is also the newly opened silver wire trade, which is an input, and it is a pure profit input.

"Let's deal with things on the grassland like this first! Order the Cabinet and Privy Council to draft and issue decrees, and raise grain, grass and military supplies." Zhu Yijiong said.

After the emperor's imperial edict was issued, the two major centers of the cabinet and the Privy Council immediately began to operate. The drafted imperial edict and army deployment orders were announced through the post within a few days.

The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry also immediately began to raise grain and military supplies, and recruited a large number of civilians and grain transport ships from the private sector.

Along the Yangtze River.

A merchant who was drafted into a grain transport ship couldn't help but sigh: "The imperial court is about to send troops again. Aren't the Tatars already finished?"

Another fellow merchant shook his head: "Only the Liaodong Tatars were defeated, but the Mongols in the Monan Grassland are still there."

The merchant was a little confused: "Didn't His Majesty already ennoble the Monan Grassland, and didn't the Mongolians on the grassland also help me fight the Tatars with the Great Tomorrow Soldiers? If the imperial court is like this, it still needs to send troops to the grassland?"

The fellow merchants laughed and said: "Hey, the imperial court has restored the Zunhua Ordnance Factory and Changlu Saltworks in Hebei. How could it not have any idea about the grassland? Before, it just happened that the Liaodong Tatars were not wiped out. Now, even the Tatars are gone. Sooner or later, the imperial court will We also have to take action against the grassland. But if we can do it so quickly, something must have gone wrong in the grassland this year..."

The merchant whose ship was being requisitioned sighed: "No matter what goes wrong, I just want this battle to be fought quickly. Even if the court pays, the business will still be delayed!"

"..."

But speaking of the Monan Grassland, these Mongolians are quite sensible. They actually knew to wait for the spring plowing in the Ming Dynasty to end and the farming work to be completed before a full-scale civil war broke out.

Although some of the weapons and equipment are still transported from the south, they no longer need to rely entirely on the south, because the Zunhua Iron Works in Hebei has been built, and the supporting Ordnance Bureau workshops have also been set up.

The really good products sent by the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau are rifled guns hand-drawn by craftsmen, as well as new hollow-point bullets.

Two full years of reserves are enough to rifle all the existing dragoons of the Ming Dynasty.

More importantly, hollow-point bullets are not only cheaper, but the probability of the gun exploding can also be greatly reduced.

Originally, the advent of muskets and artillery was a heavy blow to the Mongolian cavalry, especially dragoons and wall formations. Now they have to be equipped with rifled guns and hollow bullets, as well as the Ming army's commonplace mortars.

The war into the grassland has not even begun yet, but it is almost certain. The key lies in how many enemies can be annihilated and how many can be killed to completely defeat these Mongols.

As for the future rule of the Monan Grassland, we can learn from the Qing Dynasty, but we cannot learn everything.

The system of the Qing Dynasty is not called rule, but simply plunges the Monan Grassland into continuous chaos and division.It's okay to say that the Central Plains dynasty is strong, but if it weakens, it will easily be backlashed.

Outer Mongolia is just missing. Inner Mongolia is still there because it is really close, and it is not due to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty is long gone now.

(End of this chapter)