When Wang Zhichen mentioned Hutu Dun Khan (that is, Lin Dan Khan) who had been inserted into the Han Dynasty, Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin, who had dealt with him when he was in Jiliao, couldn't help but sigh.
Huang Liji didn't know much about the situation in Outer Mongolia, so he could only ask Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin for advice. Before he could speak, he saw two bitter faces, so he asked: "Zhisheng, Mingchu, you two are familiar with border affairs." , what do you think about the move of the Han tribe to the west? Over the years, the Han tribe has received millions of city rewards one after another, and we have never seen them encounter the Eastern captive slaves a few times. Why did they move to the west? Moved to start a war with King Shunyi's people? What on earth does he want to do?"
The relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Chahar tribe, as well as several other left-wing Mongolian tribes, was quite bad before the Battle of Sarhu. Both sides had been fighting life and death for who knows how many years. After the Battle of Salhu, both sides felt the danger, so they began to hug together for warmth. In the autumn of the forty-seventh year of Wanli, Wang You, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, took 4,000 taels of silver as envoy to Chahanhot, the seat of the Khan's court. After some negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement in which the Ming Dynasty would exchange a market reward of 40,000 taels for the intervention. An agreement between the Han Dynasty to assist in the defense of Guangning.
After the Battle of Guangning, the Ming Dynasty asked Hutu Dun Khan to assist in the defense of Shanhaiguan, and continued to pay city rewards, and gradually increased the number of city rewards to 120,000 taels per year. As of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Hutu Dun Khan had taken away a million taels of silver from the Ming court.
But Hutu Dunhan, who had received so many benefits from the Ming Dynasty, fed the Jurchens like tigers! Not to mention fighting for the Ming Dynasty and the Jianzhou Jurchens, even for his own cause of unifying the left-wing Mongolia, he did not dare to go head-to-head with the Jianzhou Jurchens - in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Hutu Dun Khan once sent troops to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens. The Horqin Tribe of the Jurchen Prefecture, but the Horqin Tribe asked Nurhaci for help. The latter sent 5,000 Mang Gurtai to bluff, and actually scared away Hutu Dun Khan, who claimed to be "Batulu Genghis Khan, the Lord of 400,000 Mongolia".
After the anticlimactic battle of the Chahan tribe besieging Horqin, Hutu Dun Khan's reputation was discredited, and all the tribes on the left-wing Mongolian grassland began to alienate the Chahan tribe. The corresponding method of Hutu Dun Khan was to "pacify the internal situation first before fighting against the outside world". While continuing to avoid the decisive battle with the Jianzhou Jurchens, he also annexed the five tribes of the Inner Khalkha tribes who were attacked by the Jianzhou Jurchens. As a result, he quickly defeated the five inner Khalkha tribes that could have become his allies to jointly resist the Jianzhou Jurchens. Although they also gained a lot of oil and water, they strengthened the strength of the Han tribe.
But the Jurchens in Jianzhou gained more benefits. Not only did they eat many members of the five inner Khalkha tribes, but they also gained prestige. The two battalions of Naiman and Aohan, among the eight camps of the Han tribe (Otok), also paid money to Jianzhou Jurchen. The leaders of these two battalions did not really want to join Jianzhou Jurchen, but wanted to mediate Jianzhou. The conflict between Jurchen and Hutu Dunhan.
Huang Taiji, who succeeded Nurhachi, was also a big liar. He immediately seized the opportunity to spread rumors that the Naiman and Aohan battalions were going to join the Jianzhou Jurchens. But Hutu Dun Khan was honest and believed it immediately, and immediately sent troops to attack the Naiman and Aohan battalions - the leaders of the Naiman and Aohan battalions were both the elders of Hutu Dun Khan! After being beaten like this, he was so angry that he really defected to Jianzhou.
Seeing that the Jurchens from Jianzhou sent troops to help, Hutu Dunhan withered again. He was so frightened that he even abandoned his old nest and moved westward to seize the territory of the right-wing Mongolian King Shunyi (Tumote)... Although this Hutu Dunhan was a coward when he met the Jianzhou Jurchen, his Han tribe has been in wartime for these years. Compared with the Shunyi Wang tribe who has been living a stable life after decades of market rewards, It is too strong!
Therefore, as soon as Hutu Dunhan's soldiers arrived, Shunyi King Bu Shitu couldn't stand it anymore and sent a messenger to the Ming Dynasty's Datong General Army Yamen for help.
In fact, when the urgent documents from Datong were sent to Beijing, King Bu Shitu of Shunyi had already been defeated and lost his old nest of Kuku and Tuncheng (Guihua City). It's just that no one in the Ming court knows yet (Zhu Youjian certainly knows), but Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin still know the strength of the Han tribe, and they can also expect that King Shunyi's tribe will be defeated soon.
In the eyes of Wang Zaijin and Sun Chengzong, the westward migration of the Han tribe and the defeat of the Shunyi royal tribe were an opportunity to achieve their goals...
"What else can we do? Of course, we want to avoid the sharp attack of the slave builders, swallow up the right-wing Mongolian territory, and then sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight while asking us for money!" Wang Zaijin didn't have anything nice to say, and he had a murderous look on his face when he spoke. It was as if he was going to take advantage of Tiger Rabbit Tun Khan.
Huang Liji looked at Sun Chengzong again, and Sun Chengzong snorted: "This Hutu Dunhan is really nothing. He took so much money from us and did nothing, and now he has moved westward!
However, our primary enemy is Jiannu Donglu after all, and we should still try to appease Hutu Dunhan. "
Wang Zaijin said: "Even if you want to appease him, you should let him know how powerful our Ming Dynasty is! Otherwise, Hutu Dunhan will definitely take advantage of it... Our northwest of the Ming Dynasty will never have peace again!"
Huang Liji frowned: "In the early Ming Dynasty, do you mean to suppress first and then appease?"
Wang Zaijin nodded: "Suppress it first, and then comfort it, so that the northwest can be stable!"
Sun Chengzong shook his head: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, how many fighting soldiers were there in the three towns of Datong, Yulin, and Ningxia? Moreover, in the past few years, the northwest has been suffering from drought, and the people are struggling to survive. There are already people in Guanzhong who have rebelled!"
He was talking about the Wang Er Uprising that occurred in Guanzhong and Weibei in the seventh year of the Apocalypse. This uprising is still a spark, but if it cannot be extinguished in time, it is very likely to start a prairie fire.
Sun Chengzong then asked: "Even if we don't consider the suffering of the drought-stricken people in the northwest...does the imperial court have the money to go to war with Hutu Dun Khan?"
Wang Zaijin laughed: "The warehouse has no money, but the internal transportation warehouse has money!"
you do not say!
When the officials in the hall heard Wang Zaijin's words, their eyes lit up!
The young emperor had just confiscated the Wei Zhongxian and Hakka families, and sold a lot of indulgences... Otherwise, how could he have bypassed the "middlemen" such as the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the Jiliao Governor's Office and paid directly to them? Mao Wenlong gives out money?
Since the emperor is so rich, let's use some of it to defeat Hutu Dunhan!
Wang Zaijin said with a smile: "This dynasty has always refused to accept money, make peace, or cede territory...especially to Hulu who are not strong but thick-skinned like Hutu Dunhan!"
"Yes! No payment, no marriage, no land!"
"You can't spoil the tiger and the rabbit Dunhan!"
"We must punish them severely!"
A group of important ministers immediately reached a unified opinion...Whether Hutu Dun Khan will suppress it or not is another matter, but this excuse looks good!
Huang Liji nodded and said: "Since you all have this intention, then when we discuss politics in the Wenhua Hall this afternoon, let's take charge of the suppression together!"
The afternoon came quickly.
The cabinet, officials, censors, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp and several admirals entered the Donghua Gate together, and were led by the eunuchs to the Wenhua Hall where the emperor studied and consulted on politics.
As soon as they entered the palace, they found that two people had arrived before them. Seeing these two people, the mood of the ministers suddenly became bad.
It turned out that the first ones to arrive were Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyi Guards, and Liu Chao, the eunuch serving in the East Factory.
Zhu Youjian seemed to be in a good mood. After the ministers kowtowed, he greeted cheerfully: "Pingshen, Pingshen."
Seeing that all the ministers were getting up, he smiled again and said: "I want to tell you good news! Jinyiwei North Town Fusi has been reorganized...it will be open for business soon!"
Is this good news?
The ministers are all a little numb!
Zhu Youjian continued: "The second good news is that Liu Chao, the eunuch in charge of Dongchang, has done a good job. He has raided all the houses of the Wei Ni and Ke Ni clans. He did a good job! He found gold, silver and treasures of all kinds. The property is equivalent to no less than 16 million taels of silver! Hahaha, the accounts of the confiscated house have been checked by Wei and Ke themselves, and they are basically correct!
As the emperor, I finally have some internal funds, which can be used to support the military towns ahead of the fierce battle with the Donglu... Do you have any objections to my spending money like this? "
