In the summer of the sixth year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the political situation in the Central Plains was in a strange harmony. First, Ajige, Princess Gulun of the Qing Dynasty, married in Nanjing. It was such a grand funeral, no, it was a grand wedding! The Ming Dynasty was also very generous and gave Ajige extremely high courtesy, which was even more glorious than when Dongguo Gege arrived.
And both parties seemed to have reached an agreement. During the process of Ajige's marriage, no one mentioned the "Ajige dowry", as if there was no such thing as the transfer of Zhongzhou land at all.
Of course, it is impossible for Ajige, who is only 13 years old this year, to enter Zhu Cihong's harem immediately. Like Dongguo Princess back then, she was arranged to live in Laoshan Palace and began to receive four years of re-education before she officially entered the palace...
At the same time that Ajige arrived at Laoshan Palace, Emperor Zhu also changed his past "not very womanizing" style and began his first "draft" after taking power.
It seems that this rare wise king in the Ming Dynasty is ready to develop into a debauched and unethical path.
In addition to marrying Ajige and the draft, two major events happened in the first few months of Hongxing's sixth year. One was that Zheng Chagu gave birth to a son for Emperor Zhu at the beginning of the year, named He Zeng. Now that Zhu Cixiang has five sons, Hehao, Hejiang, Hezhen, Hexing, and Hezeng, he seems to have no worries about having no one to take over...
Another major event was that the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty successfully issued a 10-year bond with a face value of 20 million taels of silver, with a coupon of only five cents (annual interest).
With such a low interest rate and such a long term, there was actually a "supply exceeded demand" situation, and it was sold out in less than a month!
At this time, in the northwest of the Central Plains, the originally peaceful situation suddenly changed drastically. The three Khans of Khalkha Mongolia and the fifteen allied forces of Monan Mongolia began to arrive on the Hetao grassland outside the Great Wall of Yulin Town one after another.
This is a rare joint dispatch of troops by Mongolia from Monnan and Mobei! According to the report of the emissary sent by the Yikezhao League who is attached to the acting king Zhu Cijiong, the total number of Mongolian troops currently assembled in the northern part of the Hetao Grassland is likely to exceed 100,000!
And soon there will be a Mongol Khan leading his "Qixue Army" from Dadu, and the Mongol army gathered in Hetao will eventually reach 120,000!
One Mongol Khan, 120,000 Mongol troops... This thing seems a bit like traveling through time and space.
However, Zhu Cijiong, the acting king in Yulin Town, did not dare to take it lightly.
Although Yulin has not been afraid of the Mongols for many years, a Mongolian Khan is coming back this time! And he has as many as 120,000 troops, which sounds a bit intimidating.
"The Great Khan of Mongolia? Old man, that must be your relative, right?"
"A distant relative, a very, very distant relative...but I am quite close to you, the prince."
"What? Are you related to this king? That means..."
"This is Erzhasak Khan, your eldest brother's wife-in-law."
"It turns out to be Fulin!"
In the Prince Dai's Mansion in Yulin City, Zhu Cijiong was talking to an old Mongolian man at this time. The old man was chubby, cheerful, and not intimidating at all. He was accompanied by a little Mongolian girl who looked somewhat similar to him. , with his head lowered and his face red, he couldn't help but stealthily look at Zhu Cijiong, the "third prince"!
This old Mongolian man has some origins. His surname is Bo'er Jijin and his title is Linchen. He is a descendant of the "little prince" Dayan Khan. He is a descendant of the serious Golden Family and is qualified to be the Great Khan of Mongolia.
However, his strength is not good. In his hand is an Ordos Ten Thousand Households, known as "Jinong", which means prince. In the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and granted the title of Jinong of the Ordos Department.
Later, Zhu Cijiong came over from Shanxi. When he first came here, E Linchen thought that Prince Zhu was easy to bully, so he once sent troops to invade. As a result, he was beaten to pieces by a gang of murderers from Luliang Mountain and Datong Prefecture. He no longer served as the "Jigong" of the Qing Dynasty, but became the "Jigong" of the Third Prince. Zhu Cixiang was the king himself, so of course he could not confer the title of king to the people below him, so he preserved the title of Duke of Ordos for Erlinchen - there is no such title as Duke in the Ming Dynasty now, but Zhu Cijiong was on the list, so Zhu Cihong approved it conveniently. .
But this time, E Linchen brought his granddaughter Saren to be Zhu Cijiong's concubine, and by the way, he wanted to test the confidence of the third prince Zhu.
Zhu Cijiong’s confidence looks very strong!
He returned to Yulin from Nanjing with guns, gunpowder and cloth worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. As soon as he came back, he summoned the generals and announced the method of reorganizing his troops. There were more than 40,000 households in Dai Wang's army. Yulin, Yan'an, Ningxia, etc. have disposed of their land. According to the standard of one soldier per household, about 40,000 troops can be gathered. Because the sources of these armies are a bit mixed, internal rectification has always been a problem. People like Zhu Cijiong, Li Jiantai, Jiang Yu, Gao Di, and Luo Xiushen have been struggling for several years before they finally have some clues.
Taking advantage of Zhu Cijiong's return from making up lessons this time, he still had the opportunity to gain a lot. He just made a drastic reorganization and organized the army of more than 40,000 people into 16 regiments according to the standard of 2,500 men per regiment, 4 of which were Cavalry regiments (not traditional cavalry, but musketeers), 10 infantry regiments. They were all equipped according to the standards of the new Ming army as much as possible - enough muskets and long gun barrels, but a little less breastplate.
While reorganizing his army, Zhu Cijiong learned that the Mongolian army had gathered on the grasslands in the northern part of Hetao, so he issued an order to E Linchen, who was attached to him, asking him to send his granddaughter Saren to Yulin to be his concubine... ..
This is actually forcing E Linchen to express his position. If he refuses to send his granddaughter, then Zhu Cijiong will immediately send troops to massacre the Ordos Department!
In the past few years, the Ordos tribe has been working as a second-rate dealer selling muskets and ironware on the grasslands, and horses here in Yulin. They have made a lot of money. If they return both ends, they will be able to grab a handful!
However, E Linchen is also an old fox, and he has already found out clearly - if the brave king Duduo of the Qing Dynasty does not come, at most the "Mongolian Khan" Shunzhi will come to the Hetao grassland for a visit, and maybe he will not get close to Yulin and will be naturalized. We stationed ourselves in the city for a while and took care of the matter.
So E Linchen took his granddaughter and came to Yulin in a hurry.
"Doduo really won't come?" Zhu Cijiong is still a little worried. Fulin is not afraid of him, but Dodo is still a bit scary.
"I won't come." E Linchen said with a smile, "There has been trouble in North Korea recently, and Duduo has to go and quell it."
"What happened to North Korea?" Zhu Cijiong asked quickly.
E Linchen said: "What else can be done? The untouchables are making trouble... In order to build a grain transportation station from the Liao River Hetao to Xuanfu, Duduo wanted to recruit 80,000 Korean civilians to build roads, farm fields, and build forts. , and you are not allowed to bring your family members! This is forcing people to die! How could the North Koreans not resist?"
Dodo's oppression of the Koreans seemed to go too far. After the latest "Conquest Order" was issued, there was commotion in all eight provinces of North Korea, so Dodo mobilized 12,000 troops to enter the North Korean army. He also stationed in Yiju, North Korea, and personally Supervise the recruitment of civil servants.
"If Duduo doesn't come, why should Fulin come?" Zhu Cijiong was still a little doubtful.
"Of course he has to come!" E Linchen said, "Now Wu Sangui and Zhungeer are attacking the Yeerqiang Khanate. The Yeerqiang Khanate is in such chaos, how can it stop it? And the Kazakh Khanate is also there. The war was broken up last year, and Bukhara did not dare to move. Of course, the Kashote Khanate could not support the Yeerqiang Khanate... and once the Yeerqiang Khanate collapsed, Tibet and Mongolia The contact with the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty! How will Fulin be the Mongol Khan at that time? Today's Mongolia is not the time of Genghis Khan. The lama has the final say! If he dares not to come, the Tibetan Great Lama will issue a decree. The Mongol Khan may need to be replaced by someone else."
It seems to be the case...
Zhu Cijiong squinted his eyes and was silent for a while, then turned his eyes to the slightly rounder little girl Saren and smiled: "Today is a great day, let's not talk about national affairs... Saren, come here and let me know I, the king, take a closer look!”
