Huang Taiji has made up his mind to regard Yanshan as Qishan, and to surpass Zhuge villagers in farming... What a commendable spirit! After all, Zhuge Villager once worked hard in Nanyang, and there are many old Sichuan farmers who know how to farm under him. But what about Huang Taiji? When did he plant the land? Can you tell the difference between wheat, barley, oats, and rye? Moreover, he also pulled two to three hundred thousand Mongolians from outside the border walls of Jizhen and Xuanfu... Is this to make Mongolians and Han people compete in farming?
Although the Karaqin Mongols knew how to farm, they also opened up cultivated land in many valleys in the Yanshan Mountains outside the wall. But their farming skills are not very good, and they have to import rations from Daming every year! Are you really afraid of losing money if you go to farm with this craft?
Maybe Huang Taiji never thought that he could lose money by farming, right?
While Huang Taiji was arranging for the Mongols to farm, Zhu Youjian was also dealing with the Mongols. However, the people he met on the Ji River outside the mouth were all Mongolians who were not prepared to farm - they were the elites of Uliangha Wanhu Orduo and Duoyan Wanhu Orduo, with a total of 3,000 iron cavalry. , one man with three horses, followed Princess Wuliangha southward from the Bashang Grassland, mopping up the disobedient Haraqin Mongolian tribes along the way, and advanced until they reached Hushiha Town, close to the Miyun Border Wall, before stopping their advance at Hushiha Town Defenses were deployed all around, waiting for Zhu Youjian to leave the country again.
And Zhu Youjian did not let Princess Wu Liangha wait too long. After confirming that Huang Taiji, the "Manchu Zhuge Liang", had withdrawn from Tangzhishan and left the border wall of Ji Town from Modao Valley. He immediately divided his troops into two groups, with Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou as one group, and led the soldiers and horses belonging to Liao Town and Xinji Town to advance eastward. After leaving Shanhaiguan, they headed towards the mountains of western Liaoning, located in the upper reaches of the Daling River, and originally belonged to the Yingzhou Guard of Daming Dynasty. Entering the territory - Yingzhou Guard is not a guard, but divided into four garrisons, left, right, front and center, occupying the entire middle and upper reaches of the Daling River. During the Hongwu period, they all belonged to the Northern Parallel Capital Division. However, because Zhu Di borrowed the Mongolian cavalry of the Duoyan Sanwei during the Jingnan Campaign, he moved the four camps of Yingzhou inward and gave this part of the land to the Duoyan Sanwei. The Karaqin Mongolia was developed from some tribes in the Duoyan Three Guards.
The Karaqin Mongols who settled in the middle and upper reaches of the Daling River also surrendered to Huangtaiji and sent troops and grain to participate in the battle of the entrance. Of course, they also suffered heavy losses - not only lost many strong men, but also provided precious rations to the Later Jin Army. Military rations, and no harvest at all. Therefore, starting from the winter of the first year of Chongzhen, the Haraqin Mongolian tribes in the Daling River Basin began to suffer from famine (this year, many places in North China and Northeast China suffered from drought, and the territory of the Haraqin Mongols was always in war. , so the situation is particularly severe). In Zhu Youjian's opinion, this is the best time to send troops to seize the homeland of the four guards in Yingzhou!
The other army is the original Jizhen Army, Jingying Army (18,000 men led by Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Fengyi), Miyun Army and Zhangqian Army led by Zhu Youjian himself, with a total strength of about 60,000. From the Chaohe River under Miyun Town, we left the border wall and went north along the Chaohe River. Finally, on the tenth day of October, we arrived at Hushiha Town, which was already controlled by Princess Wu Liangha.
Hushiha Town belonged to the Xingzhou Wutunwei during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and also belonged to the Peiping Dusi. Later, it was also occupied by the Haraqin Mongols.
The target of Zhu Youjian's dispatch of troops outside the wall this time was the former home of the Wutun Guards of Xingzhou and the Huizhou Guards next to Xingzhou - that is, the area north of the Miyun Border Wall and east of the Xuanfu Border Wall.
According to the plan, Zhu Youjian will build a town and a garrison city on the site of the five garrison camps in Xingzhou. At the same time, he will set up 10 thousand-household stations (guards) and move at least 10,000 garrison households (civilians) out of the border. Wall, settled on the territory of 10 thousand households (guards). At the same time, he would also order Zhao Lijiao to select generals who were willing to be granted guard posts from the Jizhen army he led, and to build a garrison city in Huizhou's hometown outside the border wall of Zunhua County and Yongping Prefecture. For each thousand-household settlement, 10,000 military (civilian) households were also moved out of the border wall to settle and cultivate.
If the reclamation and development of Xingzhou, Huizhou, and Yingzhou in western Liaoning can succeed, then Huang Taiji will never even think about visiting the Great Wall again in his life...
Moreover, the success of the colonization of Xingzhou, Huizhou, and Yingzhou also meant that the Ming Dynasty reversed its shrinking trend and once again entered a period of expansion.
Zhu Youjian, who had learned how to be an emperor for more than fifty years in his previous life, knew exactly what expansion meant to the country of Ming Dynasty!
The Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty is now overcrowded, especially Beizhili at the foot of the emperor. With more people and less land, and the climate is getting colder and drier, eating is becoming more and more of a problem.
The only way to solve the problem of eating is to expand!
But Zhu Youjian could not learn from Nizi and regarded expansion as a business - not only because Zhu Youjian failed to learn Nizi's business skills, but because his Ming Dynasty was centered on Beijing, not on Beijing. Industry, commerce and maritime trade are very developed, centered on the southeast coast.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian's Ming Dynasty could only follow the route of feudal military colonization, and the guard system left by his ancestors and the thousand-household system passed down from generation to generation by the Mongols were actually tools of feudal military colonization!
Because whether it is the Ming Dynasty Guards or the Mongolian Qianhu, the military and civilians are integrated, and they can all be moved in an organized manner.
As for the two Ordos with ten thousand households under the jurisdiction of Princess Ulyanha, they also have military and civilian integration, and they can also travel long distances!
If these tens of thousands of Orduo households could be combined with thousands of military and civilian households, the feudal military colonization with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty might be even more powerful!
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The so-called Hushiha Town is actually a civil structure fortress, standing in a valley on the edge of the Chaohe River. There is a small commercial market outside the fortress, which should be the place where Ming Dynasty merchants and Mongolians traded. There are also some deserted farmlands around. Due to the drought in last spring and summer and the war that followed, the fields are full of dead crops and weeds.
I don’t know where the Karaqin Mongolians who originally lived here have gone? Now only Princess Ulyanha's Mongolian cavalry were left lining up outside the fortress to greet their male master.
When Zhu Youjian led the first two to three thousand cavalry and some officials to Hushiha Town, the Princess Wuliangha had already put on her costume and led several people from two thousand households in Orduo. The beautiful maid who was selected walked out of the fortress gate and knelt down to greet her respectfully.
Zhu Youjian had just defeated Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of Hou Jin Tiancong... and charged into battle again. The first warrior of the Ming Dynasty, Princess Wu Liangha, was of course in admiration.
"Get up!" Zhu Youjian got off the horse, glanced at the woman who was already pregnant with the child, and said with a smile, "Well done...We have already arrived at Hushiha Town! "
Although Wu Liangha was pregnant, he got up quickly and followed Zhu Youjian. As he followed the emperor inside, he reported with a smile: "Long live my Lord, I am just relying on your reputation to pacify the country." The tribes outside the border wall of Xuan Town...now the Saihanba grassland and the border walls of Xuan Town are all His Majesty's territory."
Saihanba grassland is the place where tens of thousands of Duoyan households live as herders. Zhu Youjian also plans to build a palace there to promote the grassland.
"How many households are there in Orduo with two thousand households?" Zhu Youjian asked again.
"Reporting to your majesty, there are now 8,000 tribesmen in Wuliangha Wurduo households, and there are relatively few tribesmen in Duoyan Wan'erduo households, only 5,000 households... About half of these tribesmen are from Kabul. Half of the Laqin people are Uuliangha people."
Zhu Youjian nodded slightly and asked, "Is there any news about Huang Taiji?"
"Your Majesty, Huang Taiji also gathered many Haraqin people and retreated to the east bank of the Luan River." Princess Wuliangha said, "I also heard that Huang Taiji was planning to farm in Mameng Mountain... He was planning to take the captured people The Karaqin Mongols and the Mongols who had already surrendered to him mixed together to create the Eight Mongolian Banners and let them farm in Yanshan!"
"What? Mongolians farming?" Zhu Youjian laughed loudly, "He really can think of it..."
Wu Liang laughed and said: "How can the Mongols know how to farm? Don't wait until next year to harvest nothing!"
Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "Let him go to farm... I'm not afraid to compete with him in farming." He paused, then looked at Wu Liang and laughed, "Princess, I have something else to do. After discussing with you, I want to hold a gathering of all Mongolian tribes on the Saihanba grassland, can you help organize it?"
