stubborn thief

Chapter 377
After the Northwest War, the Marshal's Mansion held Hehuang inside and Qinghai outside, and finally had the foundation to settle down.

Liu Chengzong had all the money, food, population, land, army, and officials needed to establish a political power, but the internal and external environment he faced was more complicated.

War is like drinking poison to quench your thirst, because you can't feed 10 people, start a war and grab food that can feed 50 people, but when you look back, you find that there are 70 people behind you.

The most important thing for Liu Chengzong right now is to find a way to reduce the number of people under his command who do not participate in the production of food and need to receive food to the normal number.

The army, captives, officials, craftsmen, students, and orphans in the Marshal's Mansion are all full-time people, with a total of more than [-].

Their officials, craftsmen, students, and orphans had to be raised, so they could only find a way from the army and prisoners... However, the quality of the prisoners harvested in this Hehuang war was very good.

Liu Chengzong's solution is to return to the old road of Emperor Taizu, the Weisuo.

The Weisuo is a very excellent military farming system. The problem to be solved in essence is that the imperial court wants professional soldiers, but they don't want to pay or even can't pay.

This is the same problem faced by Liu Chengzong.

Emperor Taizu was a master at designing models. The military households relied on the guards to provide farm tools, farmland, cattle, and seeds for centralized production, breaking through the low productivity of the small-scale peasant economy, and one person supporting multiple people.

However, the models designed by Emperor Taizu were just right without leaving any margin. Once the court changed, the guard system would easily go wrong.

The biggest reason why the military households lost their combat effectiveness was that being a soldier was not profitable and deserted soldiers.

Therefore, as long as the imperial court pays, the battalion can still rely on the guards to recruit soldiers and quickly form combat effectiveness.

The Eight Banners of the Kingdom of Jin are the military households of Jianzhou's characteristic guards. It can even be said that the Eight Banners are the ideal model for the complete collapse of the guards.

Commanders and masters of thousands of households no longer need to be greedy and secretive, and directly drive back to become slave nobles; military households no longer need to be serfs, and go directly to capture slaves.

The slaves supported the military households who were close to professional soldiers, and the military households were drawn out to send troops to continue to rob to obtain more slaves and land.

Daming military households dreamed of living such a life, but Daming couldn't find so many slaves, and there was no enemy that Da Ming could rob.

Liu Chengzong's situation is different, and the Eight Banners cannot be used as experience for him to refer to.

His core area is narrow and densely populated, and the disadvantages of implementing slavery are much greater than the benefits; the overseas area is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a severe shortage of suitable arable land, which can only be used as pastures.

Therefore, Liu Chengzong planned to use Juerwan New City as the dividing line, station a guard battalion in the new city, five standing battalions in the east, and add a Marshal Standard Battalion to serve as the seven battalion field force of the Marshal's Mansion for payment and food. The military strength reached 5000 people.

On the vast land of Qinghai to the west of Juerwan, six local farm camps were set up, with Mongolian Western Fan troops as the main source and Han herdsmen as the supplement, to establish towns, nomadic production, lead military training, and guard the Gobi.

The most important purpose is to occupy the vast Qinghai no-man's land. There are not many places that can be used. If Liu Chengzong does not actively occupy it, the bordering area will be snatched by Yarkand sooner or later.

Liu Chengzong was naturalizing the distribution of the generals and soldiers of the thirteen battalions, so he heard a report and asked Ji Tutaiji, who had come back from Haibei County, to see him.

When Ji Tutaiji entered the Yamen, he said he wanted to borrow troops.

"Borrowing troops? I have already ordered the Bajiao City to be lent to your brother for defense. After I rectify the army, I will go south to help. What are you borrowing troops for?"

Ji Tutaiji is a smart man, and he participated in the Hehuang War with the army. He has long seen that bloodlines and legal principles are not easy to use in the Marshal's Mansion. This group of people only recognizes strength and reality.

Compared with Chahar and Oirat, who beat life and death to death, Liu Chengzong obviously paid more attention to the internal problems of the Marshal's Mansion. Even if the two groups of people beat their brains out overseas, the Marshal's Mansion would wait patiently and find an opportunity to deal with them. collected.

But Chahar can't wait until then, [-] female family members are in the hands of the Marshal's Mansion, and when they are beaten into a tribe of more than [-] people by Oirat, even if they barely survive, can Liu Chengzong return the female family members to them?
Even if they had [-] soldiers, Liu Chengzong might not return their female relatives to them. What's more...compared with the elite soldiers from Chahar, the sergeants of the Marshal's Mansion with a higher standard of living were obviously better targets for spouse selection.

Prolonging the war is beneficial to Liu Chengzong, but for Chahar, it is beneficial to resolve the war as soon as possible.

They have different positions.

Ji Tutaiji said: "Marshal, I'm afraid my brother won't last that long."

For Liu Chengzong, it is not difficult to save Chahar, and it is not difficult to destroy Chahar, but it is difficult to make Chahar half dead just right.

Liu Shizi pondered, if I borrow soldiers from you, how can I guarantee that Chahar will not be alive after the war?
He asked, "How many people do you want to borrow?"

"Five thousand, farmers in the new city, or Mongolians on boats in the West Sea."

This is a well thought out number.

Liu Chengzong will definitely not give it if there are more, and it is useless to go to the south if there is less. 5000 people are not too many, and they can be used in any battlefield.

The most important thing is that Ji Tutaiji knew that Liu Chengzong had so many idle people in his hands.

Ji Tutaiji had long discovered that among the Mongolians under Liu Chengzong's command, many who were physically fit and skilled enough to be sent to the front to fight in the front line were left behind to do some unserious work.

For example, the sailors of the Qinghai Navy's wheel boats and so on, each of them was born five big and three thick, just spent two hundred miles on the sea with two bowls of fried noodles, got off the boat and set up a small stove to smoke salted fish and make tea, and lived a quite contented life.

What Ji Tu wants is this group of people, enough for him to form an army to turn things around.

Liu Chengzong wondered if you were daydreaming.

How difficult is it to train Tumed Huoluo Chibu Mongolian soldiers into qualified farmers and sailors?
This is much more difficult than training them to be soldiers. They can farm with hoes, puncture boats, pedal wheels on carts, and shoot arrows on horseback. They also speak Chinese with a Mongolian accent. It's all the hard work of the Marshal's Mansion.

Give you?I think you, Taiji, have a big face.

In Liu Shizi's heart, these survivors of the Tumed tribe should spend their lives turning Qinghai pastoral areas into farmland without worrying about food and clothing.

But if they go one step further, they will follow him on land, sail on rivers, and follow him into Guanzhong as the strongest navy in Qinghai.

"In this way, I will lend you the regular army that you participated in the battle, two battalions, one full and one vacant, sixteen artillery pieces and ammunition for you, [-] Mongolian soldiers."

Liu Shizi didn't blink his eyes, raised his chin slightly to look at Jitutaiji, raised his index finger in his ecstatic expectant eyes, and said, "There is a condition."

"Generalissimo, tell me!"

"The full battalion has [-] soldiers, named Khalkha Battalion, led by General Ahai Daiqing; the vacant battalion has [-] soldiers, named Chahar Camp, led by General Pitu, and General Tianzi Eight guns and eight five-hundred-jin Franco machine guns, I will provide the gunners."

Liu Chengzong fixed his eyes on Ji Tutaiji, and said: "You will be my general, and after the war, you will transfer two thousand households from the Chahar Department to join the Chahar Camp."

Ji Tutaiji didn't react for a while, and stared straight at Liu Chengzong for a long time before he understood what he meant: "Master, the generalissimo wants to seal me up? That's great!"

Between applause and laughter, Ji Tutaiji asked, "Can we change the name of the battalion, such as Dataiji Camp?"

Liu Chengzong was expressionless, watching Ji Tutaiji slowly shook his head.

The smile on Chahartaiji's face gradually disappeared.

Liu Chengzong's thoughts were not hidden, and he was not stupid to follow the plan who participated in the Hehuang War... Liu Chengzong's intentions for this move were extremely vicious, to actually split the Chahar tribe.

Jitu really thought about leaving a way out for himself in the Han Marshal's Mansion, but he just wanted a piece of pasture land, and he didn't intend to make every effort to divide Chahar.

Chahar already has this virtue, if he splits up again, does Chahar have a future?
But Liu Chengzong was very calm: "There are clouds in the mountains and seas, and the dog army is of the same species as the Xia people. They all came from the Yellow Emperor. Therefore, I always believe that at this time of natural disasters, regardless of Xia and Yi, we should work together to tide over the difficulties."

"The war between Oala and Tatar had nothing to do with me. I have no grievances with both sides. I decided to send troops to rescue Huhan for future consideration."

"I have the ambition to rule the Central Plains, and I have no intention of wasting my time in the Northwest. I heard from Chen Zhixian in Haibei that your elder brother always said that there was only one emperor in the Southern Dynasty, and he should be the only emperor in the North. I'll go."

Liu Chengzong slowly waved his hand and said: "You have been with me for a long time, and you must be able to see that under my rule, regardless of race, origin, or high or low, but tell me, after this battle, how to reconcile with your brother?" get along?"

Ji Tutai opened his mouth, this question is too difficult.

Although his brother's principle has always been to deal with the inside first, and then deal with the outside, but now Monan Mongolia has made his brother disappear, and he can only stay outside.

Obviously, through marriage and trade, Chahar will reach an alliance with the Marshal's Mansion after this war, but it is only a matter of time before the alliance breaks down.

The next time the Ming Dynasty gathers an army in the northwest and Liu Chengzong raises his troops to the east, it will be the moment when the alliance breaks down.

In the final analysis, Qinghai is enough for the Marshal's Mansion and Chahar to live together, but Liu Chengzong will not give them the land that can support Chahar's survival.

Xiao Lazun and Gu Rutaiji's grazing land is enough to feed tens of thousands of people, but Liu Chengzong couldn't give them all the land.

Liu Chengzong didn't give Jitu Taiji a chance to choose, he said: "So I must have a Chahar camp, and the Chahar camp will get Dulan to Golmud as a pasture; I will lend the old place of Qu Xianwei to your brother .”

Hearing this, Ji Tutaiji frowned. The Generalissimo was trying to seduce him to become a general of the Chahar Battalion with a favoritism.

From Dulan to Golmud is the Gobi grassland, which is not suitable for farming, but for nomads, the land is large enough and there are enough rivers. Except for cold spots, it is a good place to live.

The hometown of Qu Xianwei is from Golmud to the northwest until it borders on Yarkand... As long as there are living people in that place, it will not be called the hometown.

As far as Patutaiji knew, there was nothing in that place but salt, stones, desert and desert robbers.

Anyone who goes there will become a bandit, either through the northwest mountain pass to rob the town of Yarkand, or go northeast to rob Golmud.

Therefore, Ji Tutaiji can predict that as long as he leads Liu Chengzong's Chahar battalion general, even if he does not make enemies with his brother, the Chahar tribe will have to accept the fate of being split in order to survive.

It is even possible that they will fight against each other in order to survive... The nomadic production method cannot be self-sufficient, and in the end they still have to rely on trade with Jurwan to obtain what they need for survival.

After all, Liu Chengzong has the final say on how to trade.

Embarrassment was written all over Ji Tutaiji's face, and he asked with difficulty: "Generalissimo, can marriage not dispel your worries?"

"Marriage can prevent war, do you believe it?" Liu Chengzong laughed and said, "If you don't want to be a general in the Chahar camp, I won't force you to go to Qu Xianwei with your brother. I believe in Chahar There will be other nobles who are willing to be this general."

In fact, Liu Chengzong has tried his best not to appear aggressive.

In fact, judging from the current situation and the future situation, among the four forces of Oirat, Chahar, Daming, and Jin, the diplomacy of the Marshal's Mansion is very uncomfortable.

Oirat had the least conflict with Jin Guo and the Marshal's Mansion. As long as Liu Chengzong nodded, there would be almost no resistance to trade, marriage, information exchange and even an alliance.

However, Oirat sent an envoy to the Kingdom of Jin to pay tribute, and it was impossible for Liu Chengzong to form an alliance with the Kingdom of Jin, so Oirat became an imaginary enemy that needed to be dealt with.

But the conflict between Chahar and Daming, and the Marshal's Mansion is truly irreconcilable.

Needless to say, Daming, Liu Chengzong cooperated with Daming, and sooner or later he was dragged to death; and Chahar is good everywhere, but the bad thing is that there is a big sweat from all Mongolia.

The Marshal's Mansion is west of Xining. Counting 14 Chahar women, there are [-] people, and there are [-] Mongolians in it. There is a Mongolian Khan lying beside him. Inside, Liu Chengzong didn't sleep well.

In a short period of time, Patutaiji envisioned all possibilities in his mind.

If he does not accept the appointment, Chahar will starve to death in Qu Xianwei's hometown, and it will be difficult to trade with the Marshal's Mansion after the war; if someone else accepts the appointment, Chahar will be split, and may even be split even more severely.

Accept the appointment, and when they enter the pasture, the elder brother will soon rob him; even if the elder brother does not rob, the elder brother's tribe will come to his pasture, and there will inevitably be conflicts between the two brothers.

The biggest contradiction on the grassland is why you eat my grass.

It doesn't even matter whether the Chahar camp will have the same heart with Liu Chengzong. As long as there is no miracle in Qinghai, the Chahar camp can only fight against the Chahar tribe.

Ji Tutai thought about it, scratched his head anxiously, and thought to himself why did he get involved in such a thing?

He asked: "The generalissimo... can't discuss it?"

"I can wait for Chahar to be defeated and attack Oirat alone without sending troops. They have [-] troops, and I have fewer people, but it is difficult for them to confront me overseas for a long time. I may not win, but I will not lose."

Liu Chengzong slowly shook his head: "But when the time comes, the victory or defeat has nothing to do with Chahar, there will be no Chahar."

"Conversely, give yourself a chance, and give Chahar Mongolia a chance. We will eventually fight our way in the world of natural disasters. It is neither Ming nor Beiyuan, a better country that belongs to us."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)