Zhu Youjian has arrived at the foot of Daqing Mountain. This time he came from Shanxi, instead of leaving Yulin, walking to Dongtao Grassland, and then crossing the Yellow River to reach the hometown of Dongshengwei.
The reason why we went this way was because the drought in Shaanxi was too severe. If we marched through northern Shaanxi, the supply along the way would be very problematic. Moreover, the situation outside the Yulin border wall is also very chaotic, and they are in a power vacuum. Many small tribes from the Tumut tribe and the Ordos tribe were fighting for each other, and no one would submit to the other. If Zhu Youjian wants to pacify the Dongtao Grassland, now is a good opportunity. But it would not be appropriate to march there... The scale of his troop dispatch this time is not small at all. There are 16,000 regular soldiers. If you add the entourage of the knights in front of the tent (the knights are a mixture of light and heavy cavalry) , one person needs to be equipped with two or three horses and a bunch of equipment, and it is not possible without followers) and civilians to cooperate with the infantry operations, the total number is more than 20,000.
For such a huge army to pass through the uninhabited Dongtao Grassland (it's not that there are no people in the Dongtao Grassland, or the Mongols there would avoid Zhu Youjian), eating would be a big problem.
So Zhu Youjian simply left the near and sought the far, and went around Shanxi. He spent 40 days and walked 2,000 miles. On the fifth day of May in the third year of Chongzhen, he arrived at the foot of Manhan Mountain, less than 150 miles away from Guihua City, and stood at the Daigen Pagoda. Set up camp in Laxing Palace.
It has been almost two years since the Daigentala area fell into the hands of Zhu Youjian. However, he did not ask the Ming Dynasty court to send out exiled officials to take over the area. Instead, he asked the Wuliangha Wanhu Orduo under the jurisdiction of Princess Wuliangha. Taken over Daigentala and Jininghaizi to the east. And several bad guys who performed well and could be reformed were sent from the "Taiyechi bad guys" (that is, Wei Zhongxian's tiger and tiger children and grandsons) to help Princess Wu Liangha manage Daigentala and Jining Haizi.
These bad guys who were favored by Wei Zhongxian still had some ability. Although they had not taken over Daigentala and Jining Haizi for a long time, they had managed to achieve some success.
First of all, the demarcation of the two sites and the registration of households with the same names were completed. Among them, there are nearly 4,000 farmers under the Daigentala Palace (mainly Han people, and some Chinese Mongolians), and 3,000 farmers under the jurisdiction of Jining City. Yuhu. Adding the two places together, there are more than 7,000 households in total.
After clarifying the household registration status, the farmland within the jurisdiction of Daigentala Palace and Jining City was also quickly identified. More than 7,000 households cultivated a total of more than 200,000 acres of land, most of which were concentrated in Daigentala and Jining City. Around Jininghaizi and on both sides of the Dongyang River to the west of the Xuanfu Great Wall.
Zhu Youjian doesn't know the current situation on both sides of Jininghaizi and Dongyang River, but the situation around Daigentala Palace looks pretty good... Daigentala has not dried up, and the surrounding oats fields have also not dried up. Lush and lush, it seems that Wuliangha Wanhu'orduo can still receive ten thousand stones of grain grains in the third year of Chongzhen's reign - it is impossible not to pay. There are no exemptions in Wuliangha Wanhu'orduo's territory. The rules... There are no imperial examinations here, and of course there will be no scholar-bureaucrats. There is no such thing as Wangzhuang Xuntian. Of course, farming is the only way to pay for food.
Moreover, there is a unified standard for how much grain should be paid. One dou per acre of grain is paid. There are no additional fees or discounts, and there are no discounts. Just pay the grain. There is no need for households to send them to far away places, just send them directly to Daigentala Palace and Jining City.
In addition to asking households to hand in food, more than 7,000 households under the jurisdiction of Daigentala Palace and Jining City also had to work as errands!
It is impossible to exempt from corvee, and there is no money for exemption. There are very few households under the jurisdiction of Daigentala Palace and Jining City. There are only more than 7,000 households in total. If exemption from corvee is allowed, then Daigentala Palace and Jining City will The big work can't be done.
Zhu Youjian didn't see how Jining City was built, but the construction of Daigentala Palace was indeed progressing well. The palace was built on the basis of a separate courtyard of the Prince of Shunyi (the leader of the Tumote tribe). This villa is located to the north of Daigentala, between Daigentala and Manhan Mountain. Cui Yingyuan, who was in charge of running the palace, made clever use of this terrain. He built two rammed earth walls between Daigentala and Manhan Mountain, and dug trenches to isolate the palace from the outside world. - As long as Daigentala is not frozen, Uliangha Ten Thousand Houses of Ordo can defend the palace with very few troops.
Once Daigantala freezes over, the surrounding mountain roads will also be blocked by heavy snow, making it difficult to pass.
Therefore, this palace became Zhu Youjian's stronghold under the eyes of Guihua City. Before Zhu Youjian's army arrived, Princess Ulyanha issued an order to purchase grain and fodder from the people under the Daigentala Palace. A total of nearly 20,000 stone oats and 100,000 bundles of hay were purchased. The warehouses of Daigentala Palace were full of piles, waiting for Zhu Youjian's army to arrive.
The army that had been marching for 40 consecutive days, even the elite soldiers, were very tired. That's why Zhu Youjian did not choose to enter the country in one go. Instead, he rushed into the Daigentala Palace and began a seven-day rest.
According to Zhu Youjian's plan, he had to adjust his army to the best condition before taking him to Guihua City to take care of Lindan Batur's wife and children... lest others see that Zhu Youjian's army was exhausted. , began to look down upon her, and was unwilling to accept care.
However, the development of things was a bit beyond his expectation. On the afternoon of the second day after he arrived at Daigentala Palace, a cavalry brigade of thousands of riders rumbled outside the west wall of Daigentala Palace. !
If you stand on the watchtower on the west wall of the palace and look out, you can see that driving along the valley from the west is a rather impressive group of elite cavalry.
Walking in front were nearly 1,000 cavalrymen wearing soaked cloth armor. Everyone was carrying a long spear with shining spear points - these cavalrymen were probably the elite Iron Connaught Cavalry who had joined the Han Dynasty!
During Lin Dan Batur's last expedition to the east, most of the Iron Konot cavalry should have been taken away. The ones now appearing near the Daigentala Palace should be the Iron Iron cavalry rebuilt based on a small number of seed troops. Conot cavalry.
Although I don’t know how effective they are in combat? But being able to pull out such an elite team shows that Liang Fujin in Guihua City is still working very hard.
Behind this iron cavalry are dozens of blue eagle flags of the Han tribe (the Mongolian military flag is a flying eagle), billowing in the wind. Thousands of nomadic light cavalry followed. Although they were nomadic light cavalry, they all had uniform uniforms and wore white armor.
This cavalry should be the biggest asset of Sutai Dafujin and Dou Tuman Fujin in Guihua City!
The large group of Mongolian cavalry did not get close to the outer wall of Daigentala Palace, and were blocked by the cavalry in front of the guard post.
Then I saw a woman with gorgeous clothes and quite beautiful appearance, surrounded by dozens of iron cavalry, stepping out of the crowd and reaching the Ming army knights who were blocking them. Then I heard this woman speak loudly in Chinese with a Shanxi accent: "This is Dou Tuman Fujin Batma Hong of Hutu Dunhan. I heard that the Emperor of Heaven led his troops here, so I came to serve on the pillow mat!"
What she said was so open and generous that everyone in the cavalry standing in front of her tent was dumbfounded. What was going on? Where did this Mongolian woman come from? Why did you bring thousands of cavalry... to serve the emperor? Why do you need to bring so many cavalry when you sleep with the emperor? What exactly is this rule?
After a long while, a cavalryman in front of the tent reacted and replied loudly: "What you, a female Tatar, said...but do you want to sleep with the emperor? Does your rabbit know that? He agreed. ?"
Dou Tuman Fujin laughed when he heard this and said: "Don't the strong man know that the Great Khan has passed away and became a Buddha? Now he is a widow, but he is also the second master of Guihua City. When I heard that the emperor was coming to Guihua as a guest, he felt that he should fulfill his duties as a landlord. Please treat the emperor well. I also ask this strong man to inform you that Dou Tuman Fujin from Guihua City has come to sleep with you!"
