Chapter 701: Timur marches towards Ming Dynasty

Style: Historical Author: Writing and Seeing the Spring and Autumn PeriodWords: 4509Update Time: 24/01/12 03:43:00
Zhu Ying never thought that Ming Dynasty's economy would develop the real estate industry.

This is a deep hatred from later generations.

Therefore, the impact on housing prices is a policy that has been prepared since the introduction of housing loans.

This time the banks joined forces to speculate in real estate, just to let the sales restriction order go ahead.

As far as the current Daming is concerned, Zhu Ying has never worried that he will lose. After all, the cards in his hand are too good, and they are all king bombs.

No matter how arrogant you are, if you really get angry, don't forget that this Ming Dynasty is the world of imperial power.

Zhu Ying can only say, don't let me try the taste of failure, otherwise I will let you feel the taste of death.

The bank's acquisition is a slow and detailed process, and it is impossible to integrate everything at once.

Of course, it’s not too soon to announce a ban on private operations.

It is still necessary to set aside some time to slowly take over these private banks before making an announcement.

Zhu Ying doesn't need to worry about these specific things, he just needs to grasp the direction.

I do everything myself, do you think I am a model worker like the old man?

From the Western Regions to now, I am both a boss and a great-grandson. After conquering Japan and then conquering Annan, I still have to worry about industry, military, and money. Is it easy for me, and I can’t enjoy it?

"Are you deliberately going against me? You really don't want me to take a break."

Zhu Ying was speechless.

It was as if God didn't even blame this lazy boy, so he immediately gave him a job.

In the Huagai Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang was already in place with the six ministers.

"Dasun, you are here just in time to see the news coming from the west." Zhu Yuanzhang said hello.

When the six ministers saw Zhu Ying coming in, they naturally stood up and bowed: "Greetings to His Highness Taisun."

"No gift."

Zhu Ying nodded, casually took the envelope from Zhu Yuanzhang and read it.

This is the news coming from the Uzang Command Department. It is still using the eight-hundred-mile expedited method. It is obviously an urgent military situation.

Zhu Yuanzhang and the six ministers have already read the content, leaving only Zhu Ying.

A key figure is involved here, Timur.

After Timur captured the Sultan of Delhi, he immediately used the Sultan of Delhi as a springboard to harass Tibet and the Uzbek area.

I have to admit that Timur's army is definitely one of the best in today's world, especially the large number of cavalry, which is almost invincible in field battles.

There are no strong cities or walls in the Tubo region, so it is difficult to organize a decent resistance to the harassment of Timur's army.

This is a regular Mongolian army, and their elite cavalry also have the same ability as the Mongolians used to sleep on horseback.

Timur invested more than 200,000 troops in the Tubo area.

Excluding the slave army, there are nearly 70,000 elite cavalry troops.

This is almost as good as Timur's showdown with the Ottoman Empire last year.

Naturally, the confrontation with the Ottoman Empire was not a big war between the two countries. The Ottoman Empire's monarch Bayezid I was also a fool. He was too proud and arrogant about the name of Thunder.

As a result, he was captured alive by Timur and is still in a cell in Samarkand. Timur obviously has no intention of releasing him in his lifetime.

"This Timur is really out of his mind. He has already arrested all the Ottoman emperors. Now the Ottoman region is in chaos. Why did he come to our territory instead of going to the west to receive the fruits of victory?" .”

"You ambitious guy, do you really think our Ming Dynasty is so easy to mess with?"

Zhu Ying's scolding was approved by Zhu Yuanzhang and the six ministers.

Timur's actions made Daming very passive.

The Ming Dynasty's military strength is now rapidly developing cavalry, but this will take time to brew.

The military base on the other side of the grassland has been continuously cultivated, even if it continues to

It is still very difficult to absorb the grassland tribes, but it is still very difficult to generate a considerable number of cavalry teams in a short period of time.

The difficulty lies mainly in loyalty, not in numbers.

The training of a cavalry requires first training his personal qualities, and then ideological education. For example, for foreign officers from a hundred or more households, they also need to come from the grasslands to the military academy in the capital to study.

While the Ming Dynasty was training cavalry, it also needed to take into account the loyalty of the trained cavalry to the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, what will happen if the cavalry troops in the grassland areas are far away and don't listen to the announcements? If others go to the grasslands, Ming Dynasty will lose his wife and lose his troops.

Now is not the time to fight Bei Yuan. We can no longer spend a lot of money and food to expand the army as we did before.

The training method has also changed from absorbing foreign personnel to training Ming Han cavalry.

At least for now, at the officer level, it is basically necessary to ensure a high proportion of suppression by the Han people, so as to prevent big troubles.

There have been some minor frictions so far, but overall the problem is not major and there is no way to avoid it.

As for sending the cavalry to Tibet, this is very unrealistic.

That's why Zhu Ying complained about Timur's disgust.

Tubo sounds like a small place, but in fact its territory is very vast, which is equivalent to one-eighth of the land area of ​​later generations.

However, Tubo is now only nominally under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

In the third year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Yuanzhang began to appease Tubo, conferring a large number of upper-class officials with different levels of official positions such as tongzhi, marshal, and ten thousand households, and initially established an administrative system in the Tubo area.

In fact, Tubo is no different from a vassal state, which is reflected in the fact that the Ming Dynasty cannot collect taxes.

The difference between direct territory and nominal territory lies in taxation.

"Your Highness, Timur's march into Tubo this time is probably a demonstration against us." Ruyu, the Minister of War, said helplessly.

Zhu Ying asked: "What does a demonstration mean?"

Rujun replied: "According to the news from the sea, our Ming Dynasty Ocean Fleet has arrived at the coast of Central Asia."

"Because of the monsoon, our Ming Dynasty's treasure ship will have to stay there until the end of the year before it can set sail."

"The natives over there may be covetous of our Ming Dynasty treasure ships. In order to protect the majesty of our Ming Dynasty, Cao Guogong had a conflict with the local natives."

"Gong Cao Guo is leading the elite of our Ming Dynasty. The natives are certainly no match. They are currently winning consecutive battles and are invincible."

Zhu Ying couldn't help but ask: "What does this have to do with Timur?"

If he remembered correctly, Tamerlane has not conquered the coastal North Indian region yet.

Ru Yu replied with some embarrassment: "Cao Guogong destroyed an army of 20,000 people there and captured many slaves, and that army was Timur's expedition to North India."

Zhu Ying was stunned for a moment.

Li Jinglong, this kid, is pretty good at fighting.

Even Timur's expeditionary army was wiped out.

But it sounds normal.

The North Indian side has always fought against the fifth scum. Tamerlane has hardly encountered opponents in North India, which is equivalent to a situation of being pushed all the way.

The 20,000 men were obviously not necessarily Tamerlane's direct troops.

Although there were only 30,000 officers and soldiers brought by Li Jinglong, in order to promote the majesty of the Ming Dynasty, most of them were veterans of hundreds of battles, and they were equipped with sufficient firearms.

"What's the loss?" Zhu Ying asked.

Rujun replied: "Cao Guogong showed off our country's prestige and defeated Timur's expeditionary army. The loss itself was negligible. The main vanguard was mainly local indigenous people."

Got it.

Li Jinglong felt sorry for his own manpower and used the local indigenous people as cannon fodder.

"Very good. It seems that Mr. Cao Guo has made great contributions."

Zhu Ying said approvingly.

I probably understand the situation now

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Because it was an ocean-going fleet, it was difficult for Timur to send troops for revenge.

After all, by the time Timur organized an army and rushed over, Li Jinglong had already set sail again.

It is true that Timur was the overlord of the Middle East, but in fact, the area that Timur ruled was basically on land, and there were not many places close to the sea. Therefore, it was not that Timur lacked naval power, but simply There is no navy.

Both Mongolians and Turks have a natural fear of the sea.

This fear came from the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Kublai Khan's troops in Japan.

Therefore, the Mongols have no idea at all about developing a navy.

The Ming Dynasty's ocean-going fleet has already reached its own territory, and Timur naturally doesn't want to be angry like this.

It just so happened that the Sultan of Delhi was captured, so he simply marched directly into Tibet.

"If the eldest grandson hadn't reminded us, we would have almost been deceived by this old boy Timur."

"In the letters he wrote to us before, he seemed to be a loyal minister, but he turned out to be a female thief."

"If you dare to send troops to Tibet this time, we must make him pay the price."

Zhu Yuanzhang said very unhappily, with a clear temper in his tone.

Dasun had told him many times before that Timur was secretly harboring evil intentions. From the time when the Ming Dynasty envoy was detained in Samarkand to the time when Timur was marching into Tubo, Zhu Yuanzhang had really seen his face clearly.

Even if it costs a lot this time, Timur must know how powerful the Ming Dynasty is.

After Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, the final word was made, and the six ministers sat at attention.

Lao Zhu felt unhappy. He was originally the most annoyed by those who violated the law. Timur was the first country in the west to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning, Lao Zhu felt that it was a big deal.

The result is that last year he captured his own envoy and refused to let him go, and this year he skipped to Tibet.

It's okay if this continues.

I really thought the Ming Dynasty was still the same as before.

With the help of our eldest grandson, today's Ming Dynasty has been completely transformed.

In the past, when we were fighting against the Japanese state, Hu Weiyong and Liu Bowen came out with a bunch of officials to persuade them, saying that the Ming Dynasty had just been established and was waiting to be destroyed, so it was not suitable for a national war.

Now Ming Dynasty wants people and money.

Why do you need to hold in your breath?

Anyone who dares to provoke me will fight back hard to let you know what is good and bad.

Zhu Ying also understood that since it was the old man who had spoken, he had to fight this time, even if it was for the old man to vent his anger.

The current Ming Dynasty can definitely afford it.

When it comes to fighting, the three armies go first before using food and grass. What they fight is people and money. Now the Ming Dynasty has no shortage of these.

Rujun, the Minister of War, glanced at the grandson from the corner of his eye.

As the Minister of War, it is of course his responsibility to dispatch troops and generals.

In the past, the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army suppressed the Ministry of War. Now, although the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies has been considered empty, the military power has not actually been transferred to the Ministry of War. Instead, it has been cut off by His Highness Taisun.

To put it simply, in the Ming Dynasty's current army, His Highness Taisun's orders are much more effective than the documents of the Ministry of War.

Tubo is huge.

Timur's more than 200,000 troops were quite large, but in terms of Tubo's territory, they were really not that many.

The most troublesome thing is the 70,000 cavalry.

A slave army of hundreds of thousands is nothing, and Tubo can easily handle it himself.

"Borrow troops from Beiyuan. Our own cavalry has just begun to show some improvement. We cannot let it go to waste."

Zhu Ying thought for a while and made her decision.

Previously, the total number of cavalry in the Ming Dynasty was only about 50,000, but now it has developed a lot, and it is only about 80,000 or 90,000.

Even so, in plains or grassland areas, if you want to fight the Mongolian cavalry, you will still lose more than you win.

You can't just wipe out all the Ming Dynasty's cavalry just because of Timur.

Fortunately, Bei Yuan was taken care of, otherwise it would be really troublesome.

Ren Hengtai, the Minister of Rites, couldn't help but speak.

Asked: "Your Highness, how many troops should we borrow from Beiyuan this time?"

Borrowing troops is considered a matter of diplomacy, and this is the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites

Zhu Ying hesitated: "One hundred thousand cavalry, otherwise we will not be able to suppress Timur's army."

He knew very well that Beiyuan would definitely not bring out his own elite cavalry, probably all the major tribes.

Naturally, Timur's side is probably not the elite cavalry of his headquarters.

Don't worry about the infantry. Timur's soldiers are slave soldiers, and Tubo can handle them themselves.

I've already given you cavalry, why don't you get some infantry to help you? At least it's good to wave the flag and shout.

Ren Hengtai, the Minister of Rites, took a deep breath.

Borrowing 100,000 troops, they are all cavalry.

This is a big deal.

Although there is now the Beiyuan Employment Association, it is not a problem to recruit a few thousand people, but if it exceeds ten thousand, then you must talk to Beiyuan first.

Beiyuan is not a fool, and will naturally restrict you from arranging tens of thousands of people at every turn.

If there are too many people, in addition to the money from the employment association, Bei Yuan will also have to give money to borrow soldiers.

I'm afraid this wave of Beiyuan will make the lion open its mouth.

Who doesn’t know that Ming Dynasty is extremely rich now.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said: "One hundred thousand cavalry is only a deterrent. If Timur's cavalry does not fight head-on, there is nothing you can do against them. This is not enough to let Timur know the pain, you still have to do it." Let him know something good and bad.”

"We heard that the emperor of the Ottoman Empire was captured by Timur. The enemy of our enemy is our friend. I think our Ming Dynasty can unite with them and jointly put pressure on Timur."

"Our navy of the Ming Dynasty has built a lot of ships and added a lot of people in the past few years. It's time to take them out for a walk."

"Just go through the land that Duke Cao Guo once occupied and unite all the surrounding natives."

"There is also the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. Now Timur has conquered the Sultan of Delhi. They are more anxious than us. They sent envoys over and gave them some money and food to defeat Timur together."

Lao Zhu didn't open his mouth. Once he opened his mouth, he would attack Timur from all sides.

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