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Chapter 1139
Chapter [-]

The news of the disastrous defeat of the Ming army was sent back to the capital, which shocked the Ming government and the public, and also caught the emperor and Duke Zhen who had just won the battle against the nobles, caught off guard!
Since Emperor Hongwu, it has always been the Han who suppressed the Mongols and beat them until their mothers couldn't recognize them!How many years has it been since Daming's invincible army suffered such a loss? !The anger of the people in the government and the opposition can be imagined. Those civil servants and military generals who used to beat you to death suddenly became the same tune, beating their chests and feet in the court hall one by one, shouting at the top of their voices, and immediately taught those desperate Mongols a lesson. !Let them pay with blood, and pay back a hundredfold!
However, as the decision makers of the court, Emperor Hongxi Zhu Gaochi and Duke Zhen Wang Xian, it is difficult to speak out at this juncture... The Ming Dynasty is now in a crisis period of extreme weakness and national power is extremely empty, what is urgently needed is Rest with the people and recharge your batteries instead of starting a war with the Tartars...

The so-called soldiers and horses are not moved, food and grass go first, and military supplies are obtained in battle, which is money and food.Especially when going deep into the grasslands to fight the Mongols, the military supplies needed are countless.The defeat in the Battle of the Tru River was too miserable. Nearly [-] elite Ming troops were killed, and a large amount of food, fodder and supplies were taken away by the Tatars.The Tatars are at their peak in terms of strength and morale.After Zhu Gaochi and Wang Xian thought about it for three days, they still didn't overturn the previous conclusion - they really don't have the ability to send troops right now.We can only strengthen the defense of the nine sides first, and at the same time order the various ministries of Mongolia to form an alliance and protect each other to prevent the Tatars from continuing to cause disasters...

As expected, as soon as this decision was announced, Emperor Hongxi and Lord Zhen Guo were flooded with saliva from the government and the public.The civil servants and military generals in the court were better. Frightened by Wang Xian's despotic power, they only dared to stage a bitter scene of crying and grabbing the ground, but they didn't dare to directly spray the emperor and Wang Xian.

The ordinary people in the market don't have so many worries. In teahouses, restaurants, and streets and alleys, there are shouts of righteous indignation everywhere.They scolded Emperor Hongxi as a weak lord who lost power and humiliated the country like the emperors of the Song Dynasty, and was an unworthy descendant who could revive Emperor Taizu.

Even the much-loved Emperor Hongxi could be scolded so badly, so one can imagine to what extent Wang Xian would be scolded.The good image he had in the hearts of the people all of a sudden collapsed, coupled with the secret support of those with good intentions, in the mouth of the people, he became a treacherous official like Qin Huijia, sinister and vicious at home, cowardly and traitorous abroad, Big villain.

Although Wang Xian and the emperor were aggrieved and helpless, they could not open their mouths to argue.They know that under such circumstances, saying anything is futile, and only by proving themselves with actions can they wash away their grievances and rebuild their reputation.

Conquer and stand strong.

So in the past three years, this pair of monarchs and ministers have been bearing the burden of humiliation, living hard, developing production, and reorganizing the army to practice martial arts, in order to restore national power as soon as possible and fight against the increasingly arrogant and domineering Tatars as soon as possible!
Yes, the Ming army hadn’t waited for revenge for three years, and the Tatars’ fear of Ming Dynasty had completely dissipated. Their looting on the border of Ming Dynasty became more and more unscrupulous, and they forced the tribes that had already attached themselves to them.Those tribes who disobeyed were slaughtered by the whole clan.Those tribes had no way to seek help from the imperial court, so they could only succumb to the Tatars' despotic power and become their tribes.

Naturally, many Mongols are actually happy to see the Tatars becoming stronger again. Although the Tatars are not descendants of the Golden Family at all, it is better than nothing to restore some of the Mongols' former glory.

As a result, the tribe of the Tatars expanded rapidly, and in just two years, it returned to its heyday more than ten years ago. Naturally, the ambitions of Alutai and his son also rapidly expanded. In the winter of the second year of Hongxi, they supported the Golden Family. The descendant, Prince Atai, is the Great Khan of Mongolia, known as Adai Khan.

Then Adai, who was called Khan but was actually a puppet, named Alutai the prime minister and the title of grand master, and ordered him to command all the Mongolian ministries and restore the Mongolian Yuan as soon as possible!

With the great banner of Adai Khan, Arutai was more free to conquer the various tribes of Mongolia. After unifying the north and south of the desert, he set his sights on the Hetao area again.

Hetao is the "Jizi" bend of the Yellow River and its surrounding basins. It is a large plain formed by the impact of the Yellow River. It is composed of the "Xitao" Yinchuan Plain and the "East Tao" Hetao Plain. The "East Tao" Hetao Plain is usually divided into the "Qiantao" Tumochuan Plain and the "Houtao" Bayannaoer Plain. It covers an extremely large area, and more importantly, it is rich in water and grass and fertile. It can be called the top of the Yangtze River. .

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the Yellow River has all kinds of harm, but only one set of wealth". The Yellow River and its many tributaries surround the vast Hetao Plain.

In the 13th year of Yongle, Zhu Di gave the Hetao to the Borjijite tribe who had returned thousands of miles south to settle in the Hetao. It has been a full ten years since then.In the past ten years, Princess Baoyin Qiqige of Heshun relied on the support of the Ming court, especially Wang Xian's full help, and the Borzijite Department naturally grew rapidly, and now it has grown from 3 to [-] people at the beginning To more than [-] people.Coupled with the continuous attraction of various Mongolian tribes, there are more than [-] Mongols under the banner of Heshunchang Princess Baoyin.

More importantly, with the assistance of Wang Xian, Baoyin built two cities, "Dawangcheng" and "Boyincheng" in Tumochuan and Kundulun respectively, announcing that they would do business in these two cities, Exemption from all taxes.It also distributed millions of acres of land suitable for cultivation to the Han people who were willing to settle in Hetao, and provided them with cattle and seeds for free.

This is undoubtedly very attractive in the last years of Yongle when people's livelihood was difficult. Many people who could not survive in the interior moved to Hetao with their families to settle down.After confirming that Baoyin was not lying, some people even went back to the mainland and brought all the folks from the whole village and clan with them.

In just five or six years, the number of Han people in the Hetao area has reached 50 million, and the permanent population of Dawang City and Baoyin City has exceeded [-], which can catch up with the average county towns in Han.

Moreover, during the peak trade season in autumn every year, there are as many as 30 to [-] merchants, and all kinds of people who come to make a living.At that time, Dawangcheng, where Baoyin was stationed, was really a place full of businessmen and tourists, with a thriving industry, with southern accents and northern accents, and crowds of people. It was not much better than the commercial cities in the mainland.

Prosperous commerce brought a wealth of materials, and many Han Chinese who moved to Hetao from the inland were themselves carpenters, blacksmiths, doctors, and veterinarians.They opened shops in Dawang City and Baoyin City, and naturally they would not only serve the Han people. The Mongolians in the set could also seek medical advice from them and buy daily necessities from them.

Therefore, unlike the impoverished life of the Mongolians outside the set, the Mongolians inside the set have enough to eat, wear warm clothes, have iron pots for cooking, tea bricks to relieve boredom, and people look at them when they get sick.Moreover, there are flocks of cattle and sheep in the family, and they live a very nourishing life.

This is just the life of ordinary Mongolians. The leaders of the nobles, large and small, usually wear silk and porcelain. The gouache on women’s faces and jewelry on their heads are all made in the south of the Yangtze River and transported out of the mouth by merchants from the mainland. of.This kind of life, even in the mainland, can be called rich.

All in all, Hetao is like a wonderful flower, where the Mongols and Han people live in harmony, and the people of both races live in a very stable and comfortable way, and their wealth even exceeds that of the border areas of Ming Dynasty.Not to mention those Mongolian ministries who drink the wind and eat the soil, and suffer from hunger.

Baoyin Qiqige is naturally innocent, but she has the truth that she is guilty.She is very clear that those hungry wolf-like Mongolian tribes have long been salivating at the richness of Hetao.In order to defend the Hetao and protect their homeland, she divided the people in the Tao into two groups, Mongolian and Han. , Regular drills throughout the year, must not waste armaments.

The set looks like a strong army, ready to fight, and it really suppressed those Mongolian tribes who wanted to attract their attention. For many years, no one dared to invade the Hetao. This allowed the Mongolians in the set to live their good life with more peace of mind. ...

Until last year, Alutai supported Adai Khan and established the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, intending to unify the various ministries of Mongolia. Naturally, he focused on the fat of Hetao.Arutai first sent a letter to Baoyin, asking her to surrender to Adai Khan and go to Hulan to pay homage to Khan.

Naturally, Baoyin ignored this and sent envoys to Beijing instead.This gave Arutai an excuse to use troops against Hetao... Although the Mongols never needed any excuses to fight... In February of the third year of Hongxi, Arutai raised 15 cavalry from all its troops and vassals, claiming [-] soldiers and horses. He and his two sons were in command respectively, and went to Hetao in three ways.

When Baoyin received the news of the Tatar invasion, he immediately summoned four ten-banner soldiers and horses, and personally led [-] cavalry to meet the enemy in Tumochuan.The two sides fought a fierce battle with both winners and losers. At the time when it was inextricably linked, the Oirats who had surrendered to Baoyin for many years suddenly rebelled.

It turned out that the old and cunning Alutai had secretly contacted the Wala people long ago, promising that as long as they would submit to the Great Khan and cooperate with them in killing Baoyin, he would give them Hetao to graze.Although Baoyin has always been kind to the Wala people, but the people's hearts have always been unsatisfactory, and the Wala people can't resist the temptation at all...

And there is another layer. The Oirats have always regarded the Borzigits as their slaves, but these years they have to rely too much on the slaves of the past, which makes them extremely unhappy.No matter how nice the Borzigit people are to them, they are still unhappy...

In the end, the Oirats turned against each other, causing Baoyin's army to suffer a big defeat...

Seeing that the situation was not good, Baoyin had no choice but to pack up the remnants of the army and retreat back to the Dawang City. He also ordered all the tribes and tribes to retreat to the Dawang and Baoyin cities, stick to the city, and ask the Beijing court for help.

When the news spread to Beijing, it naturally caused an uproar, which is why Yang Shiqi came late...

(End of this chapter)