The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 334 News from the Grassland

The three continued to work out some details.

After all, sending troops to Liaodong is no trivial matter, and any carelessness will lead to the worsening of the situation.

However, at this moment, Jinyiwei commander Mou Bin suddenly came to ask for a meeting.

Zhu Houzhao initially mistakenly thought that the case was related to Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, because Ning Wang's case of treason was handed over to the three judicial departments for joint trial, with the Jinyiwei as jury.

Even if there were any other circumstances, it was nothing more than a court official accepting bribes from Zhu Chenhao and colluding with him.

The reason why Zhu Houzhao asked the Jinyiwei to serve as jurors was to catch these parasites and corrupt officials in one fell swoop, so there is nothing much to say.

However, the first words Mou Bin said after entering the room directly frightened the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Guards have an urgent report that the Mongolian prince is attacking the right wing of Mongolia and is about to win!"

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao and Yang Tinghe could no longer sit still.

They looked at Tang Hao in shock, because this news first came from the mouth of the Marquis of Zhongshan.

The little Mongolian prince refers to the Mongolian leader, not just one person. It was a derogatory term used by the Ming court. At this moment, it specifically refers to the leader of the Mongolian revival, Dayan Khan!

This true leader of the revival of the Mongolian Empire devoted his life to the cause of unifying Mongolia. In his early years, under the leadership of Manduhai, he led his troops to conquer the Oirat Mongols, forced them to migrate westward and eliminated the threat from the west. After he became an adult, he focused on cracking down on powerful officials of different surnames who usurped power.

In the fifth year of Zhengde, Dayan Khan successively eliminated Yismain and Huoshai, and defeated the right-wing separatist forces such as Yibula and Mandulai Agulehu (Altusi), unified the various tribes of Eastern Mongolia, strengthened the military organization, consolidated the Khan's position, and incorporated the scattered separatist territories into 60,000 households, divided into left and right wings. The Khan himself led 30,000 households of Chahar, Khalkha and Uriankhai on the left wing, and stationed his tent in Chahar Wanhu; he named one of his sons Jinong, commanding 30,000 households of Ordos, Tumed and Yongshebu on the right wing, and stationed his tent in Ordos Wanhu.

Later, he enfeoffed his sons as lords of ten thousand households and made them vassals of the Great Khan; the territories of the feudal lords of different surnames in Eastern Mongolia were abolished, and they became subordinates of the Great Khan and his sons; the positions of grand tutor and prime minister were abolished, changing the system of the coexistence of taijis of the same surname as the Khan and lords of different surnames since Genghis Khan, thus ending the dictatorship of powerful ministers of different surnames, internal strife and feudal separatism that had existed for a hundred years.

This Mongolian hero, who was quite ambitious and resourceful, extended his authority throughout Mongolia in order to revitalize the Northern Yuan Mongolian tribes. He was able to command all Mongolians in the world, reunite the fragmented Northern Yuan tribes, and enable the stagnant Mongolian society to develop again. His greatest contribution was that he ended the history of more than a hundred years of tyranny and dominance of lords of different surnames in various territories after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, and transformed the Taishi, who used to be at the top of the ruling class, from feudal lords into subordinates of the Taiji lords of the Golden Family.

In other words, ever since Lan Yu shattered the orthodox court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the Battle of Buir Lake, the vast Mongolian grassland has fallen into division and civil strife, with tribes large and small fighting each other endlessly, and powerful lords taking turns to support a puppet Khan and call themselves the Grand Master to take power. The legitimacy of Genghis Khan's Golden Family no longer exists, and the unification of the Great Mongolia is nowhere in sight.

Until the emergence of Dayan Khan, he defeated all the powerful lords who dared to challenge the status and authority of the Golden Family like a savior, restored the Golden Family to its leadership position, and carried out a series of in-depth reforms. His authority penetrated deeply into all parts of Mongolia and was able to command all of Mongolia.

Dayan Khan's grandson Altan Khan, relying on the foundation and prestige accumulated by Dayan Khan, repeatedly invaded the Great Wall and attacked the Ming Dynasty. In the 29th year of Jiajing, he once again broke into the Ming Dynasty and surrounded the capital, causing the Gengxu Incident, and once again trampled on the face of the Ming Dynasty!

This is the leader of the revival of the Great Mongol Empire!

He single-handedly created a powerful Mongol Empire again.

Zhu Houzhao's face turned pale, and he subconsciously asked: "What is the situation with the Mongolian right wing?"

Tang Hao took over the conversation and briefly explained the current situation of the grassland.

Dayan Khan's father was defeated and killed in an internal conflict in Mongolia. His mother Sikir was abducted as a wife by the powerful official Yismain. Dayan Khan became an orphan and was adopted by Bagai and Temurhadak successively. After Mandulu Khan died without an heir, Dayan Khan became the legal heir to the throne and was accepted by Mandulu's widow Manduhaihatun. The following year, he married Manduhaihatun according to Mongolian customs. With her help, he inherited the throne and was called the Khan of the Yuan Dynasty.

Ismain was one of the noble leaders of the Oirat Mongols. He used political tricks to sow discord and became a powerful Mongolian official. He appointed himself as the Grand Tutor and monopolized power. After Dayan Khan ascended the throne, he fought hard for three years and finally eliminated Ismain's forces. However, the territories of the Yongshebu tribe of the right wing of Mongolia and the Ordos tribe of the right wing, which originally belonged to Ismain, were occupied by the brothers Yibula and Yeliyasi, grandsons of the Great Khan Yesen, who were of Oirats, and who led more than 10,000 people to the eastwards and took advantage of the chaos.

The Yibula brothers colluded with Mandulai, a noble of the Ordos tribe, to oppose Dayan Khan's social reform measures. They constantly provoked and caused trouble, disrupting social order, and then dispatched troops to launch a rebellion. Dayan Khan's second son Urusborot, who had just been transferred to the right wing 30,000 households in Jinong, was killed in the war.

The 30,000 households of the Mongolian Right Wing were stationed in Hetao, Ordos Plateau, north and south of Yinshan Mountain, and the border areas of Datong and Xuanfu. The strategic position of this area was very important. At the same time, the 30,000 households of the Right Wing had hundreds of thousands of Mongolian people, which could be regarded as half of Mongolia. The news of the rebellion launched by the Right Wing and the murder of Jinong reached the Mongolian Khanate, which shocked Dayan Khan very much.

This wise and capable leader of the restoration of the country immediately realized that the rebellion of the 30,000 households on the right wing was a major issue directly related to the success or failure of the cause of unifying Mongolia, whether the Khan's power could be consolidated, and whether Mongolia could be revitalized. Therefore, Dayan Khan had to devote all his efforts to a decisive battle with noble lords such as Yibula and Mandulai.

In the fifth year of Zhengde, Dayan Khan personally led his troops to conquer the right wing. As a result, the people of the right wing Darat drove cattle to harass Dayan Khan's camp at night. Dayan Khan's troops thought that the right wing army was attacking, so they panicked, lost their composure, and retreated in a hurry. The first attack ended in failure. Soon, Dayan Khan organized a coalition to start the second expedition against the right wing. This time, Dayan Khan, who had learned from experience, was about to complete his success in one battle, completely defeat the right wing army of Yibula and Mandulai, and then unify the entire Mongolia!
But this news was fatal to the Ming Dynasty.

If a powerful Mongolia and a barbarian tribe with hundreds of thousands of soldiers march south to attack, can the Ming Dynasty really resist?

Emperor Zhu Houzhao felt under tremendous pressure.

He subconsciously looked at Tang Hao.

"Lord Tang, can we send troops to Hetao now and reap the benefits?"

Zhu Houzhao mentioned a place, that is... Hetao!
"Today's Hetao is Zhou Shuofang, Han Dingxiang, and Helian Bobo Tongwancheng."

"Tang Zhangren is willing to build three surrender cities and set up 1,800 beacons, so that the Turks will not dare to cross the mountains to graze their horses!"

"The man who accepts surrender occupies a dangerous position on three sides, with a thousand miles of defense."

"At the beginning of the country, we gave up accepting surrender and defended Dongsheng, which had already lost a strategic advantage. Later, we gave up Dongsheng and joined Yansui, which blocked the attack of more than a thousand miles with one side, and thus the fertile land of Hetao was abandoned as a den of bandits!"

The "mountain" in these words is the famous Yinshan Mountain!
South of the Yin Mountains is the Hetao area, and north of the Yin Mountains is the world of nomadic tribes!

Since the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu royal court had been stationed in the Hetao area south of the desert as early as two thousand years ago.

The Hetao area, with its fertile land and abundant water, has always been a place suitable for both farming and grazing.

The Hetao area is not only nourished by the water of the Yellow River, but also protected by the Yin Mountains from the sandstorms of the Gobi Desert on the Sino-Mongolian border and the cold currents from the north. The Hetao area can also serve as an excellent base for plundering to the south, so it has always been a core area in the eyes of the Mobei forces!
Any farmer who cultivates the land in Hetao must be prepared for the sound of arrows from the Yinshan Mountains and face the Mongol nomadic cavalry that comes and goes like the wind.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan forces retreated to the main base of the Mongolian Plateau. The Ming and Mongolian sides fought several times and won and lost alternately. Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang realized that relying solely on military means could not eliminate the Mongolian threat, so he began to adopt a border defense policy based on defense.

Therefore, in order to consolidate the northern border defense, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang not only sent troops deep into the grassland many times to attack the Northern Yuan forces, but also established a relatively complete defense system along the northern border, especially in the Yinshan Mountains-the southern foot of the Daqing Mountains-the Xilamulun River line in the south of the desert, where dozens of defense guards were set up, including Dongsheng Guard, Yunchuan Guard, Guanshan Guard, Quanning Guard, Laoha River Guard, etc.

However, during the Jingnan Rebellion, Emperor Taizong Zhu Di transferred troops from border garrisons to the south, and the Daningdusi and Dongshengwei of the Ming Dynasty were withdrawn to the interior one after another. This caused loopholes in the defense system planned by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the Hetao area, and the Hetao area was directly exposed to the Mongolian army.

After Yesen's death, the Oirat tribe began to weaken, but the Tatar tribe on the eastern grasslands became strong again.

During the Xuande period, Mongolian tribes began to enter and leave the Hetao area. In the fifth year of Tianshun, Bolai of the Tatar tribe invaded Yongchang and Ganzhou, but was defeated by Mao Zhong, the governor of Liangzhou. Bolai then sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to seek peace and beg for tribute. When paying tribute, Bolai requested to enter the interior from Lanxian County, Shaanxi, instead of Datong, an important border town that he had to pass through before to pay tribute. However, Lanxian County was the only way to enter the Hetao grassland. Bolai's delegation paid tribute through Lanxian County, and then settled directly in the Hetao plain and never returned to the grassland. As a result, the Hetao area was gradually occupied by the Mongols who migrated there.

Since then, Hetao became the main starting base for Mongolian tribes to harass the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Hetao bandits" also became the main border threat in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongolian tribes penetrated deep into the interior of the Ming Dynasty year after year, burning, killing and looting. However, after the Battle of Tumu, the Ming Dynasty weakened rapidly and was completely unable to recover the Hetao region. In response, the Ming court adopted actions such as "searching the Mongolian tribes", "destroying the Mongolian nests" and "recovering the Mongolian nests" in the Hetao region, trying to expel the Mongolian tribes and bring the area back under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. However, the army was corrupt and had low combat effectiveness, so the results were minimal.

Not long ago, Yang Yiqing proposed the suggestion of re-enacting the system. The fundamental reason for this is that "those who have undertaken great events in the past have always worked hard first and enjoyed themselves later"!
"In ancient times, those who undertook great events always worked hard first and enjoyed themselves later." This is the fundamental reason why the hawks in the court supported the "re-establishment of the system."

Even though the Hetao region directly borders the Mongolian Yuan tribe, this is a great cause that will benefit future generations. We cannot leave this hidden danger unattended and leave endless disasters to future generations.

Looking at the emotional Zhu Houzhao, Tang Hao shook his head expressionlessly.

"Not very likely!"

"Even if we take it back, we can't keep it!"

"We can adopt a policy of support and differentiation and try to persuade Nayibula and Mandulai to surrender!"

(End of this chapter)