In August of the seventh year of Chongzhen.
Liu Chengzong opened up territory according to the map and appointed officials and generals in Lanzhou City.
The Marshal's Mansion established the Monan Governor's Mansion, with its headquarters in Guihua City, and granted Yang Qi, a general of the Ming army, the chief military officer of Guyuan, the post of Governor of the Monan Governor's Mansion, making him one of the most powerful officials in the Marshal's Mansion.
Later, Bohutu of Chahar County served as the governor of the Monan Governor's Office. Wang Chengen, the former chief military officer of Lintao of the Ming Dynasty, and He Huchen, the chief military officer of Ningxia, served as the governor of Monan respectively.
At the same time, four military towns were established in Monan, with He Huchen as the chief military officer of Shuofang Town, Wang Chengen as the chief military officer of Wuyuan Town, Yang Qi as the chief military officer of Yunzhong Town, and Chahar Bohutu as the general commander of Yanmen Town. Military officer.
Everyone was happy, except Gotutaiji who came back from Gansu.
To be honest, as a clan member of the Beiyuan Khan Court, Gututaiji had been very happy before accepting this appointment from Liu Chengzong.
Even in the Battle of Gansu, Zhang Tianlin robbed his war horse and caused some unpleasantness. In fact, he had no more complaints except that he thought Zhang Tianlin was dishonest and did not treat him as one of his own. The money and horses were nothing more than mere possessions.
What's more, in the end, Liu Chengzong cut half of Zhang Tianlin's military exploits and gave it to Nututaiji. In fact, it didn't matter whether he divided it or not. To put it more hypocritically, what Nututaiji wanted was Liu Chengzong's attitude.
What kind of person wants someone else’s attitude? For those who are unable, unwilling, and unable to realize their personal value, their value lies in the attitudes of others.
Zhang Tianlin does not need attitude. All Zhang Tianlin wants is value. He wants to realize his own value. He will do whatever it takes to obtain armaments and beat people on the battlefield to be victorious. This is how he realizes his value.
Cantu has no way to realize his personal value. As a member of the Beiyuan clan, his background does not support him in realizing his personal value. As a person who has subjugated his country, his spiritual world is void. Without respect, he has nothing.
But on the other hand, Qututaiji didn't really care that he had nothing. He had already looked away. Things like Maowusuhai and Wulianghai were once his brother's. His brother was rich all over the world, so it was better to just say it was gone. .
Therefore, happiness is the most important thing when people live.
A happy day is a day.
He was not his brother Lin Danhan who was dedicated to realizing the great rejuvenation of the Yuan Empire. He received a salary from the Marshal's Mansion. From Dulan Mountain to Golmud, it was the pasture land of the Chahar Camp, which was enough to raise horses and sheep.
I still have seven or eight hundred elite cavalry under me. If I want to go to war, I will follow him. If I don't need to go to war, I will go back to Golmud. I will lead the old and young to worship the ancestors, and visit relatives and friends. It is a grand occasion. There is nothing else to do in this day. Satisfied?
What the fuck are you supposed to be, the chief military officer of Yanmen Town?
Furthermore, even if his level of Chinese education is considered illiterate compared to Yang Qi and Wang Chengen, it can be seen that the Marshal's Mansion, the chief military officer of the border town, is much lower than the Ming Dynasty's nine-border chief military officer. .
In fact, in comparison, only Yang Qi, the governor of Monan, was like the chief military officer of the nine sides, and the remaining three of them were basically large generals.
Because the general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not controlled by the governor, but they were obviously controlled by Yang Qi.
Another point is that the town names chosen by Liu Chengzong are all very nice, but Guantutaiji is a living map of Jiubian. He has personally walked from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan, and he knows the topography by heart, so he can choose the name again. It sounds good, and he knows where it is.
Shuofang and Wuyuan are actually ten thousand households in Ordos. Ordos is familiar to them, south of the Yellow River and north of the border wall.
The Great Wall forms a concave inverted triangle here. The two high points are Helan Mountain in Ningxia Town and Hequ County in Yulin, which separate the flat Ordos Plateau from the thousands of ravines in northern Shaanxi.
The generalissimo held the map here to open up new territories. Guitu Taiji, who had wandered around those places, was filled with a wry smile, because on the one hand he knew very well that the mighty army prepared by Liu Chengzong would not be able to fight with Huang Taiji as long as he did not follow Huang Taiji. At the beginning of the film, it was no problem to dominate Monan.
They can definitely control these four towns, because in Ordos, the only thing that can compete with them for territory is the desert.
The topography of Ordos is the reverse character for '合'. The reverse human shape at the bottom is the side wall of the Ming Dynasty. In this era, there was a huge T-shaped desert. The south bank of the Yellow River was its horizontal line, and the vertical one ran through the entire Ordos Plateau.
There is no forest on that land, and there are only a few seasonal small rivers for nomadism. Compared with it, Golmud is a good place for nomadism. At least there are forests and rivers, especially in northern Shaanxi where the Yellow River tributaries run through. Heaven on earth.
The poor and small Yan'an Prefecture had a population of 600,000 conservatively estimated even during the Chongzhen period, not counting the Yulin frontier troops who were not engaged in production, and the area of 10,000 households in Ordos was four to five times the size of Yan'an Prefecture.
Even in the best of times, that is, when Anda Khan developed Fengzhoutan, the Ordos Plateau was not developed. The land as large as northern Shaanxi plus Guanzhong only had 30,000 strings.
Therefore, the biggest problem that the three towns of Shuofang, Wuyuan and Yunzhong had to solve in the past was not war, but survival.
Wuyuan Town is under the greatest pressure here, because after looking at the map drawn by Liu Chengzong, Tutai Ji was very sure that the entire Wuyuan Town territory was moved into the desert by Marshal Liu, and not even rabbits could be hunted there.
He Huchen's Shuofang Town has relatively better conditions, with grazing, rabbits to hunt, and it's close to Ningxia, so it will be easier to find a solution.
The one with the best conditions is Yunzhong Town, which is not in Ordos. Yang Qi's territory is actually the core area of the Tumut Department and the front line of the Hetao. It is a very good place.
Putting these three places together, short-term survival is not a big problem in the eyes of Yang Qi, He Huchen, and Wang Chengen, so they are very happy.
Guitutaiji is different. Yanmen Town is the largest town designated by Liu Chengzong. A place as big as Ordos was divided into two towns, and Yanmen Town is about the same size as Ordos.
To the east of Guihua City, it used to be the territory of Chahar. It was a good place for nomads. Not only could it be nomadic, but it could also be farmed. It was so good that there was no need to consider the issue of survival at all.
Logically speaking, Gotu Taiji should be happy, but in fact this is what makes him most unhappy.
The Mongolian tribes stationed there as pastoralists today, such as the Kalaqin, Naiman, and Aohan tribes, are all his enemies. They were once all subordinates of the Chahar tribe.
When internal disputes continued and foreign enemies took advantage of the situation, the Mongolian tribes attacked their emperor under the command of the Jurchen Huang Taiji. The battle of Zhaocheng was a great gift to Houjin that "Lin Dan Khan lost 40,000 troops."
He deeply hated those Mongolian nobles, not because they surrendered or rebelled. Surrendering was a helpless act to save one's life when there was nothing to be done. Rebellion was also common in the history of the Northern Yuan Dynasty when the regime was unstable.
This move is not glorious, but it is not shameful either.
But they reported the military intelligence of the Khan court to Hou Jin when they did not surrender, attacked the Khan court while Lin Dan Khan was fighting the Ming Dynasty, and attacked their own emperor under the command of Huang Taiji - very shameful.
The hatred of the country and the family, Liu Chengzong's appointment as the chief military officer of Zhiyanmen Town undoubtedly cast an artificial sense of fate on Qututaiji.
Under this kind of mission, even though Qututaiji was unwilling to return to Monan to fight with his roommates, he was forced to impatiently send troops.
Fang Zhenghua, who was temporarily living in Lanzhou, was cautious and asked Jinyi Fanzi to observe the military mobilizations taking place in Lanzhou and inquire about them all, whether they were present or not.
The bandits put on makeup and changed their appearance, and ran around in Lanzhou. The mission was completed smoothly. They knew the personnel arrangements, specific time, and where the various soldiers and generals would depart from. They knew better than some middle and low-level officers in the Marshal's Mansion. .
Several times, the fans gathered together secretly and complained to each other about the lax management of the Marshal's Mansion. Apart from the inability to enter the military camp, the city of Lanzhou was like a sieve inside and outside, and there was no news that they could not find out.
Correspondingly, what the Jinyi fanzi talked about, ate, and fucked every day, Liu Chengzong's Yulinqi also knew very well, because behind each fanzi there was his own anti-smuggling force.
Liu Chengzong had no intention of hiding such a big thing from sending troops to Fang Zhenghua. Who would have thought that before he sent someone to inform him, he had already heard from Yu Linqi that Jinyi gangsters were running rampant in Lanzhou City, so he simply didn't notify him. Let him find out for himself.
Liu Chengzong wanted to see what this group of people could find out. After they summarized the information they found out, they would know that he was also on the military dispatch list of the Marshal's Mansion, and what his expression would be like then.
Smuggling green salt is private, and smuggling information is also private. In our Marshal's Mansion, anything with the word "private" is a serious crime, and it is all under the control of the anti-smuggling force of Xining Mansion. A sentence of exile is not too much.
In fact, as the most comfortable branch of the marshal's office, the anti-smuggling soldiers are not easy. Although they work harder and get more rewards, the most powerful soldiers have the opportunity to become generals. The anti-smuggling soldiers will end up being a squad leader in charge of ten people.
It's not that I can't go up, it's that I don't want to go up. It's too easy to die if I go up any further.
The penalties for smuggling in the Marshal's Office are divided into four levels, namely, exile, prison, hard labor, and beheading.
Although the law of the Marshal's Office stipulates that the four levels of punishment for smuggling are in ascending order, but sometimes the regulations are one thing and the execution is another.
After all, you have to take care of the food.
Xining Mansion is not willing to let criminals go to jail. Mr. Liu, who came out of the drought, is very stingy about the government's grain inventory. He is panicked when the warehouse is half a foot short of dissatisfaction. Is he giving food to prisoners, or is he a smuggler who ruins people's money? Go ahead and eat shit!
The army is not willing to accept prisoners as conscripts. In the area from Hehuang to Golmud, the original Han and Mongolian tribes were counted as 300,000 people. In terms of gender, age, physical condition and intelligence, there are only less than 300,000 people suitable for military service. fifty thousand.
The law on smuggling into the army was created by Liu Chengzong at that time. Later, he was busy fighting the war and did not bother to change it.
However, after the Ming Dynasty sent Huoluochi, Huoluochi sent off Oirat, and Oirat sent Chahar, the situation of redundant troops in the Marshal's Mansion was much more serious than that in the Song Dynasty. Counting all men, women, old and young, from Hehuang to Golmud, Two of the three came from military families.
In the entire Marshal's Mansion, Liu Chengyun was the only one who wanted to establish a sound recruitment mechanism in Hehuang. Others, including Liu Xiangyu, Liu Chengzong, Yang Dingrui, Cao Yao and others, from top to bottom, were all thinking about how to get the army to control the army. Kick out such good people.
Still serving the army?
A pure waste of food!
And those generals and officials were unwilling to be regarded as such evildoers, so the captain of the anti-smuggling army brought the smugglers to court, and the county magistrate often asked them for their suggestions on sentencing.
What can the squad leader suggest? If he suggests being exiled to the army, the general must accept him; if he suggests imprisonment, the county magistrate must nod.
Therefore, the first two sentences will basically be skipped. For those who need to be sent to the army, it is recommended to be released through education; for those who need to be jailed, if there is no other way, it is recommended to be sentenced to a slap in the face, beaten and released, and if you cannot be beaten, be detained for a few days. Let it go quickly.
Anyway, whether it is turned off or not, whether it is turned off or not.
For the captain of the anti-smuggling squad, he had to deal with it firstly because the criminals were indeed smuggling, not to mention that part of the seized goods were the wages of his brothers; secondly, he did not dare to take it seriously because it would test his ability to work.
With the current population distribution of the Marshal's Mansion, Mongolians and Westerners cannot do smuggling. Unless they can't walk or can't walk, the young and middle-aged people are all soldiers in the herding camp. They have their own pastures and there is no chaos. The reason for running away can be determined once you check it.
And there are very few Han people in the Marshal's Mansion. Eight out of ten men are running outside. If something doesn't go their way, they can go up to Heaven to listen.
Whoever came from Shaanxi could not find Liu Chengzong; who among the natives of Hehuang did not know Liu Chengyun.
Today, someone who smuggled two pieces of cloth broke the law. According to the law, he should be sent to the army. He was thrown into the Jingou Silver Cave of Riyue Mountain to do hard labor. Tomorrow, Yang Dingrui received the news and held a hot trial in the government office to finish the trial of the team leader. His head swooped onto the city gate tower.
Why bother?
This is the basis for the Marshal's Mansion's ability to detect smugglers to be stronger than that of the Jinyiwei, because they actually treat the smugglers under the Marshal's rule in a state of self-respect. If they are caught, they will confiscate the stolen goods and let them go after a quarrel. , He still committed the crime when he went back, and he still arrested him when he went back, focusing on a long and steady flow of GDP.
But for outsiders, the smugglers coming from the east of Lanzhou and the anti-smuggling soldiers have no such concerns. They are very enthusiastic about inspections and are usually caught before they have crossed the Yellow River.
If you are caught, you will be sent directly to the army and jail, and all places will be arranged on the way. Good people will go to Nanshanbao Salt Brick Factory, normal people will go to Haibei Quarry, and particularly bad people will be taken to Riyue Mountain Jingouyin Cave, and the county government will interrogate them. Just a process.
They have always had an extraordinary enthusiasm for those whom the Generalissimo works with other than the common people.
In the next few days, Fang Zhenghua lived happily in Lanzhou City. He read the information collected by the Jinyi Fanzi every day, and was sometimes surprised and happy. One moment he heard that the Mongolian Corps was moving south from the north, and the next moment he heard that the Mongolian Corps was moving from the north to the south. After coming over from Qinghai Lake, we got corrected information two days later. What came over from Qinghai Lake was a group of Mongolian armed soldiers.
At first, Fang Zhenghua was very frightened by the gathering of these troops. Later, he was ecstatic when he learned that the four general officers appointed by the Marshal's Palace were actually three former chief army officers of the Ming Dynasty and a younger brother of the Mongolian king.
This information was enough to turn the tide of the war. When they gained a foothold in Monan, the imperial court took the right measures to instigate them to rebel. This would not only solve the border crisis in the north, but also achieve the goal of retaliation!
With such a huge secret, the joy in Fang Zhenghua's eyes could not go away. On August 15th, the entire Lanzhou was decorated with lights and colorful decorations. The generalissimo rejoiced with the soldiers and civilians. They set up camp outside the city to enjoy the moon cakes with the soldiers and returned them to Lanzhou. The whole army was given pig, goat, milk, wine, and a pocket money of two coins per soldier.
By August 16th, the jubilant atmosphere disappeared in an instant, and the whole of Lanzhou became murderous again under the roar of war drums. The generalissimo held a parade on the west wall of Lanzhou and awarded the military commander Yang Qi, the governor of Monan, the military throne.
The sitting banner is one foot six feet high and one foot long. The banner is made of black and green satin as the base and white silk as the edge. It is painted with Tai Chi Bagua constellations, decorated with beaded tassels on the head, hanging with five-color horn ribbons, and equipped with a leopard tail flag.
Under this banner, banner troops, rebel troops, peasant troops, Han soldiers, Fan soldiers, Mongolian soldiers, and flags symbolizing each camp stood in great numbers.
Fang Zhenghua, who was accompanying him at the top of the city, was also very happy. After all, in his eyes, the generals of the Marshal's Mansion hoped to use this parade to shock the court, and in his eyes, this parade was for the future. The advance parade of the border troops in Monan Town of the Ming Dynasty... Sooner or later they will be incited to rebel. He was just checking in advance for the emperor.
Unexpectedly, just as the parade was about to end, Liu Cheng called him, and then a Yulin knight came forward holding armor and clothes, and a letter of appointment was photographed in his arms.
Fang Zhenghua didn't react at all. He looked at the letter of appointment again and again with a bit of sluggishness. It was true that the name on it was his, but the official position above was not the Chief of Ceremonies, Eunuch Bingbi, but the Governor's Mansion of Monan, General Marshal's Mansion. Supervise food and discuss matters.
"Commander, we are about to resign and return to the capital to resume our duties. What does this mean?"
"You already know this army very well, so I don't need to introduce anything more to you. It's not urgent to go back to Beijing, not to mention it's a convenient way. Going back from Zhangjiakou is much closer than going back from Qinghai, and the road is safer - —Everything should be put to its best use, and people should be put to their best use."
Liu Shizixin said that at this juncture, he could only be trusted by Hong Chengchou who was squatting in Ningxia. Yang Qi's army wanted to reach Monan safely through Helan Mountain, so how could they do it without an angel in their pocket.
"Don't worry, I don't need you to do anything. Just stay in the army and Commander Yang will send you to Zhangjiakou... Commander Yang, you won't let the Food Supervisor go hungry, right?"
As soon as Liu Chengzong finished speaking, Yang Qi, who was standing aside, quickly reached out to take the official seal of Fang Zhenghua from the lacquer plate holding the clothes and armor, put it into his arms, and immediately clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, Commander, I will believe it, along the way. Bian Town will ensure that Eunuch Fang has food and drink every time!"
Good evening!
(End of chapter)
