Zhu Yijun subconsciously leaned on the backrest of the throne, changed to a slightly more relaxed posture, and muttered: "What Mr. Wang said is not bad... In this case, I would like to ask you gentlemen to discuss the future of this thousands-mile northern border." How should we deal with it?"
Since it was a new topic, the first person to answer naturally had to be Shen Shixing, the first assistant. Although Shen Shixing was Yuanfu, he was considered very young in the cabinet, and his reaction was quick enough. He immediately said: "Since we want to discuss the disposal of the lands outside the pass, I have something I need to ask first."
Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Mr. Shen, please speak."
Shen Shixing said: "It has been twenty-one years since I paid tribute. Now the left and right wings of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, Chahar, Tumote, Ordos, Inner Khalkha, Outer Khalkha, Nenhorqin and other tribes, They have all been destroyed, surrendered, or fled far away by me. The old land of Meng Yuan, except Oara, is all in my hands.
In this case, will Tumut and Ordos II still maintain the current tribute situation? Ah, what I mean is, should we simply let them annex us and unify the world? "[Note: The Inner Khalkha Tribe is the collective name for the Chaohua tribe that was destroyed in the previous Battle of Southern Liaoning. The Chaohua Tribe was the most powerful tribe in the Inner Khalkha Tribe at that time.]
"Unification of the world" is actually very attractive to Zhu Yijun, but he can't agree now because Gao Pragmatic had discussed it with him before the Battle of Fayuan broke out. Regarding the post-war situation, Gao Pragmatic actually has several principled suggestions, and these do not include premature "unification of the world."
The reason Gao Pragmatic gave at the time was that it would take some time to digest and absorb the newly acquired grassland territory, and in this way he could continue to strengthen the Ming Dynasty's cavalry power. As for when the "unification of the world" can be implemented, Gao Pragmatic also gave a relatively specific statement, that is, "when our Han cavalry is strong enough to overwhelm the Tumut and Ordos coalition forces."
At that time, Zhu Yijun still didn't understand this statement. He thought that even if the Ming Dynasty's cavalry could not do that, the Ming Dynasty's powerful infantry phalanx could completely defeat the two Mongolian coalition forces on the right. Why did the cavalry have to be "enough to overwhelm" them?
A highly pragmatic explanation is that the pressure is not for the sake of war, but precisely to avoid war.
According to his point of view, the Ming Dynasty's economic control over Tumut and Ordos is sufficient, but its military advantage can only be said to be half. Of course, the overall military strength has been surpassed long ago, but only by maintaining a crushing trend in the areas it is best at, the Second Right Wing Department will completely give up the option of armed confrontation and obediently follow the requirements of the Ming Dynasty.
Since we have to rely on the old Mongolian territory on the left to develop cavalry, it will obviously take some time, and the time is not yet mature.
Zhu Yijun thought for a moment, then took Gao Pragmatic's previous statement as his own, and then emphasized: "Since I have waited for twenty years, I am not afraid of waiting for two more years. Gentlemen, it is better to have unification of the world when it comes naturally. It leaves behind hidden dangers and dangers.”
The emperor's words really impressed all the cabinet ministers. His majesty, who was less than 30 years old, had such a clear understanding of the general trend of the world when he had just achieved the great achievement of destroying the residual Yuan. , it’s really amazing.
Shen Shixing immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "My Holy Emperor!" When he knelt down, others naturally couldn't sit still, so they all stood up and knelt down, kowtowed and said: "My Holy Emperor!"
To be honest, due to the rules and habits of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun did not have many opportunities to kowtow to "gentlemen", and it was even rarer to kneel down and kowtow in such a proactive manner, so his self-esteem was lost in a moment. A huge satisfaction.
Unfortunately, what all the ministers did not expect was that Zhu Yijun recorded this "merit" in his mind to Gao Panggang, secretly saying: My father was right back then. Pragmatic is indeed a great minister given to me by God. Over the years, he has How much credit you have done for me! Besides, he was demoted and sent to the scourge of Guangxi shortly after he became an official. It was because of me that he suffered the unreasonable disaster of his mother's anger. Now that we have the foundation to destroy the Yuan Dynasty, why can't we receive an exceptional reward?
Huh, join the cabinet? It's nothing to just join the cabinet. My father knew that he would join the cabinet a long time ago... But even my father probably didn't expect that he would regain Annan, defeat Burma, and destroy the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty for me, right?
"Gentlemen, please stand up and sit down." Although Zhu Yijun's heart was filled with thoughts, he only had a gentle smile on his face. After all the elders got up and sat down again, he continued: "Since none of the gentlemen objected, then It has been decided that Tumut and Ordos will maintain the status quo. What happens next? Gentlemen, please express your opinions."
Shen Shixing said: "The next point is actually one thing: how to deal with the old lands of Chahar and Outer Khalkha. This is divided into two parts. One is which of them do I want, or what should I do? No; secondly, which lands should be awarded to the various tribes participating in the expedition."
Zhu Yijun's heart moved, and he suddenly glanced at Wu Dui and Liang Menglong, and said with a smile: "One of the two beloved ministers is in charge of the household department, and the other is in charge of the military department. The household department is in charge of money, food, household registration, and the military department is in charge of military equipment and garrison, which is most relevant to this matter. , I want to hear your thoughts first."
Wu Dui glanced at Liang Menglong and said: "Northern Xinjiang is no better than other places, military affairs should be given priority. Brother Mingquan invites you first."
Since he was one of his own, Liang Menglong casually said humbly, without any courtesy, and said to Zhu Yijun: "In my humble opinion, restoring the Daning capital is a top priority."
Zhu Yijun nodded lightly. Liang Menglong's words were reasonable and consistent with Gao Pragmatic's pre-war analysis. There was no doubt about the importance of Daning Dusi.
This is really depressing to say. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to attack and eliminate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in the north, the Ming army launched attacks more than once. For example, in the 12th year of Yongle, Chengzu personally led 500,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Wala Mahamu and chased them to the Tula River (today's Mongolia). Tulla River); in the 22nd year of Yongle's reign, he became an ancestor and went on a personal expedition, and returned to the Dalannamur River in the northeast of Helin (now Harhorin, Mongolia).
However, because the Ming army marched long distances, far away from the rear, and their opponents were nomadic peoples with high mobility, it was difficult to stay for a long time and impossible to complete their achievements in one battle.
Although the Ming Dynasty was unable to occupy the places reached by each military operation, due to its strong strength, the northern boundary of the Hongwu period was still advanced a lot, and the Daning Guard (stationed in the west of Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia) and the Kaiping Guard (stationed in Zhengzhou, Inner Mongolia) were successively established. Military garrison institutions such as Blue Banner (North Bank of East Lightning River), Dongshengwei (stationed in Tuoketuo County in present-day Inner Mongolia) and Xinghe Institute (stationed in present-day Zhangbei County in Hebei Province).
In the 20th year of Hongwu's reign, the Daning Dusi was established. In the following year, it was renamed the Northern Parallel Dusi. The administrative seat was Daningwei, and its jurisdiction included the Xiliao River, Xilamulun River, Inner Mongolia's Keshiketeng Banner, and Chagannuoer line in the north. To the west, the northern boundary of the Ming Dynasty was between the Yinshan Mountains and the Helan Mountains.
To the north of the Xilamulun River is the Wuliangha tribe. The Ming Dynasty set up three guards there, called the Wuliangha Three Guards.
In the first year of Jianwen, when King Zhu Di of Yan raised troops to overthrow Emperor Jianwen and seize the throne, he contacted the three guards of Wuliangha for support. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he renamed the Peiping Dusi to Daning Dusi and moved it to Baoding Prefecture (today's Baoding City, Hebei Province). ), the original jurisdiction was given to Wu Liangha as a reward.
The left and right guards of Dongsheng also moved to Lulong and Zunhua in present-day Hebei Province respectively. As a result, Kaipingwei and Xinghe became isolated strongholds. In the 20th year of Yongle's reign, Xinghe was attacked by Mongolia's Arutai and moved to Xuanfu. In the fifth year of Xuande's reign, Kaiping Guards also moved to control Dushibao (now North Dushikou, Chicheng County, Hebei Province).
At this point, the northern boundary of the Ming Dynasty in today's Beijing, Hebei, and Shanxi has retreated to the future line of the Great Wall.
On the other side, the Hetao area was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, but it lost support after the Dongsheng Guards retreated, while the Mongols continued to invade. After reaching Tianshun, it completely became the Mongolian sphere of influence.
During the Jiajing period, there was a preparation to recapture the Hetao, but failed. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's territory in today's Shaanxi, Ningxia and Gansu also has the Great Wall as its northern boundary.
Of course, the Great Wall as the boundary is not absolute. Like the Liaodong Border Wall, the Great Wall to the west of Shanhaiguan (also called the Border Wall in the Ming Dynasty) was not necessarily built exactly according to the territorial scope at that time. Moreover, because the Tatars and Oaras were mainly nomadic and their strength waxed and waned, sometimes approaching the Great Wall and sometimes retreating far away, the actual control area of the Ming Dynasty often went beyond the Great Wall, and there were still some overlapping forces or conflicts between the two sides north of the Great Wall. areas that are not controlled.
If you continue to look northwest, in the early years of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty had acquired all the territory of the Yuan Dynasty in the northwest, namely Yiji Nai Road (the seat of governance is southeast of Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia today), Shazhou Road (the seat of governance is now Dunhuang City, Gansu), Suzhou Road (the administrative seat is now Jiuquan City, Gansu Province) and Ganzhou Road (the administrative seat is today Zhangye City, Gansu Province), occupy the western part of present-day Gansu and Inner Mongolia. But it didn't take long for them to abandon the west and retreat to Jiayuguan.
At that time, there were seven Jisu Guards outside the pass. After Chenghua, Turpan in the west became increasingly powerful and annexed these Jisu Guards. The territory of the Ming Dynasty was limited to the Great Wall east of Jiayuguan.
If compared with the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's management in the southwest was better than the Tang Dynasty, but it was obviously not as good as in the north and northwest. In the northeast, that is, Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty was barely better. However, although the northeast and southwest are dominant, since China's dangers have always been in the north, the Ming Dynasty's border military pressure was generally greater than that of the Tang Dynasty.
In Gao Pragmatic's view, a big reason for this was that Zhu Di moved inland to the Northern Guards Station, and the most serious one was Zhu Di's inland move to the Daning Capital Division.
Da Ning was in the Ming Dynasty, Beiping was on the right side of the Han Dynasty, and Beijing was in the middle of the Liao Dynasty. How important is its position?
In the hands of the Han people, just like this time's highly pragmatic attack on the Yuan Dynasty, the three roads of west, north and east, figuring out which way out, can be said to have strangled the hub of northern Xinjiang. Especially for the eastern part of the Northern Territory, it was a condescending look down from above, enough to intimidate a territory thousands of miles away.
However, once Daning is in the hands of the nomads, it will be the outpost of the southern invasion of the Han Dynasty. Historically, after Anda paid tribute, the Chahar tribe and the Nekarka tribe invaded and plundered from the south. This can be seen from the fact that they often went to Daning (the other part went to Liaodong).
And from another perspective, if Daning had been in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, Chahar's eastward migration might not have happened at all. In that case, I might have had a life-and-death fight with the Chahar tribe in the early years, and Ming Dynasty might just reap the benefits.
However, to a certain extent, Zhu Di had to move the Daning Capital Division inward. At that time, the person guarding Daning was Ning Wang Zhu Quan. His political acumen could only be said to be average, but because he controlled the capital of Daning and had three elite cavalrymen of Wuliangha under his command, his military power was quite impressive. Later, due to Zhu Di's military and political manipulation, the three guards of Wuliangha were lent to Zhu Di and made great contributions in the Battle of Jingnan.
After the war, Zhu Di was worried that after he became emperor in Nanjing, Prince Ning would not be able to lose his tail, and he might even be able to copy his way of seizing the country. Naturally, he did not dare to leave Zhu Quan in Daning, so Prince Ning moved to Jiangxi and was put under his nose. Stare. Wu Liangha Sanwei then took advantage of it, became a serf and sang songs, and directly obtained Daning and surrounding areas as pasture.
Since Daning was awarded to the three guards of Ulliangha, the remaining guards in northern Xinjiang lost their core support, so each one began to be unable to hold on, and had to move inward one by one. Finally, what was said above That kind of virtue.
After the Battle of Monan, Gao Pragmatic regained Daning and insisted on garrisoning troops in Daning. At first, this plan almost failed because Tumen sent troops to attack the Ming army's supplies.
Later, relying on his own face, Gao Pragmatic borrowed money from Tumote to go east from Tottoqatai Kyi's headquarters and stationed it between Daning and the border wall of the Ming army. This was considered as blocking the black hand extended by Tumen. . Then the Ming Dynasty continued blood transfusions and vigorously constructed, and then rebuilt the new Daning City, once again extending its hand steadily to the north of the Great Wall.
However, even so, Daning City alone is not enough. Only by capturing the entire Chahar can the Ming army use this large grassland as their own pasture to train war horses and strengthen cavalry. Otherwise, if we only have Daning City, and we have to worry about Tumen coming to kill us when we go out to raise livestock, how about cultivating a ball?
Liang Menglong's current view is obviously that the Daning Dusi should be re-established and the entire eastern Mongolian grassland should be re-controlled - roughly the old Chahar land, or perhaps a little larger, equivalent to eastern Inner Mongolia in later generations.
Since his views were basically consistent with Gao Pragmatic's pre-war analysis, Zhu Yijun immediately wanted to express his agreement, but Xu Guo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly interrupted and said: "The truth is good, but if the old land of Chahar is restored to the capital of Daning, Under the jurisdiction of the army, what reward does Horqin want? Speaking of which, they have worked hard this time without any credit. How many troops did their troops send... maybe ten or twenty thousand? "
Zhu Yijun said nothing when he saw this, and only looked towards Liang Menglong. Liang Menglong seemed to be prepared for this, and said: "It's easy to handle, just give them the title of conquering Alhorqin."
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