stubborn thief

Chapter 400

Master Liu has been eyeing the people and places in Gansu for not a day or two.

It's just that the time was not ripe enough in the past, but now he thinks the time has come, and it's not waiting for me.

These successive battles in Qinghai, whether it was the early Weicha Battle or the later Yuanwei Battle, apparently had nothing to do with Ming Dynasty, but actually changed the strategic situation of Ming Dynasty's northwest frontier defense.

With the loss of Chahar, Hou Jin occupied Hohhot Guihua City, Ordos Wanhu between Yansui Town and Ningxia Town became a place of chaos, and the three sides of Shaanxi became useless border guards.

The frontier army is the army at the base of the border wall. The whole meaning of their garrison in the barren land is to guard against the Mongols on the north side of the border wall.

Now Monan Mongolia is falling apart and cut into three pieces, Houjin, Mobei Khalkha, and Marshal's Mansion each get one.

The rest of the small tribes who neither fought for Tumed, nor followed him thousands of miles away, were just left and right, wandering in the Ordos Wanhu pastureland where there is no Jinong.

The so-called heroes have great ambitions, have good plans, have the opportunity to hide the universe, and have the ambition to swallow the world.

Although Liu Xiangyu lived in the borderlands of Xining, as an official from the borderlands, he was very clear about the situation in the north, and after a little deduction in his mind, he came to his own conclusion.

From the perspective of the Marshal's Mansion, this war was just the Qinghai Campaign that started in May and ended in June of the sixth year of Chongzhen. Even with the Battle of Weicha, the entire war lasted only three months.

But jumping out of the perspective of the Marshal's Mansion, he realized that this war might involve all the Mongolian troops in the entire north, and the time span might start from the sixth year of the apocalypse.

That year, Lin Danhan and Huang Taiji attacked from both sides, and together they destroyed the five battalions of Chaohua in Neikarka. Until Liu Chengzong defeated the Oirat coalition forces, the battle line advanced from the Hetao of Liaohe River all the way west to the coast of Qinghai Lake.

All forces played their own roles in this war. No matter what happened, what Liu Xiangyu saw was that as the war came to an end, many victors who survived the war in the north would usher in the opportunity to snatch the spoils. links.

How big a stomach a person can eat is how much food he can eat.

From Liaohe to Guihua City, it has been acquired by Houjin, and Ordos between Guihua City and Ningxia is still an unowned land. This situation made Liu Xiangyu make two judgments.

First, in view of the fact that the power of the Kingdom of Jin has advanced to Jining and Zhangjiakou, when the army of the Kingdom of Jin bypasses the pass and invades Zhili in the north next time, the northwest, northeast, and south of Beijing will all become areas that are easily attacked by the Kingdom of Jin, and the capital will become an isolated city.

This means that from now on, the Kingdom of Jin will be in an advantageous position strategically against Daming.

Second, due to the loss of foreign enemies on the three sides of Shaanxi, the frontier battalions, guard posts, and military fort garrisons will be freed up, and more than [-] troops will be transferred to the Central Plains by the emperor to suppress the rebels.

The border town is a geographical area, and it is also a paramilitary organization. There are retired veterans, skilled soldiers, and guard soldiers serving as reserve field troops. There are also a large number of civilians with military traditions as paramilitary personnel. extremely strong.

Especially in Yulin and Ningxia, the two border towns are fully capable of dispatching a total of [-] to [-] troops within five years.

This means that starting from the sixth year of Chongzhen, the massive and vigorous uprising army will gradually sink into a low ebb under suppression and recruitment.

But this may not be a good thing for Ming Dynasty. The basic logic of lack of food will not disappear because the rebel army becomes the official army. The tug-of-war like a blood mill will completely smash Shaanxi, Shanxi and even Henan.

He began to believe that his son had prophesied that Jin Guo had the ability to conquer the world.

The so-called mobilization of the Gansu frontier army does not wait for everyone, that is, at this time they do not think of a way to mobilize the Gansu frontier army outward, and Emperor Chongzhen and his lackeys will rob them.

At present, the Marshal's Mansion is still unable to recruit the Gansu frontier army, and it is still unable to collect Gansu.

Otherwise, he would even want to set the border with the Kingdom of Jin in Monan.

But defeating Oirat created convenient conditions for them to mobilize the Gansu frontier army to enter the Tianshan Mountains.

The so-called mobilization is of course not that Master Liu gave Wang Ziyong an order, and the frontier soldiers who joined the Three Tribulations would pack their bags and charge northwest.

The Marshal's Mansion needs to prepare a full set of strategies to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Gansu frontier army and let them go by themselves.

For the caravan going to Tianshan, the Marshal's Mansion paid for it, and Sanjiehui contributed, and recruited guards from Gansu for the caravan going to Tianshan.

The Marshal's Mansion occupied land in the Ili River Valley, so they had to recruit tenants. As long as they were paid well, the caravan guards from the past could stay, and the remaining ones could take root there and establish the Tianshan Guard.

Those who did not stay and returned to Gansu will continue to spread the news. Caravans continue, and immigrants with force continue.

Moreover, this group of people are disciples of the Three Tribulations. On the one hand, they have a military organization, and on the other hand, they also have an organization of the Daoist sect.

Liu Xiangyu thinks that this is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone. He carefully read Wang Ziyong's resume and concluded that the three calamities will not be terrible, but Wang Ziyong is the most terrible.

This person was born as a Taoist priest, majored in praying for rain, and was not good at studies. He only experienced rain once in his life, and that rain scattered the rebel army he had gathered in Yanchuan.

Went to Yan'an Mansion to join forces with Liu Shizi, and did not do any major things. His ability to win over the people is extremely outstanding. He has always been the largest and weakest part of the Lions Camp.

Later, this person entered Yan'an Guard, turned himself into an officer, and even followed the God of War in Yan'an to the capital to serve as the king. He made great progress in military affairs and leadership.

Wang Ziyong, who returned to Shaanxi, had a qualitative improvement in his talents, and he also thought more about the cause of rebellion. He learned the benefits of recruiting frontier troops from Liu Chengzong, the best rebel in the Ming Dynasty.

For such a character, Mr. Liu felt that it would always be a hidden danger to keep him in the mainland, but if he was placed in Tianshan, he could become the sharpest knife in the Marshal's Mansion.

The leader of the peasant army who dares to fight and kill is not to be feared, the leader of a cult who deceives the crowd is not to be feared, and the generals and officers who rebel are still not to be feared.

But the combination of the three is really a material for great things. His whole body is full of destructive rebellious skills. Is it possible to let him be content with the status quo?

Master Liu is most worried about the development of the Marshal's Mansion and the Three Tribulations Association, that everything will go well.

If all goes well, the Marshal's Mansion takes control of the Central Plains, and the Three Tribulations will perfect the theory, and in the end, swords and soldiers will definitely face each other.

So the cult should be thrown where he should go. Didn't Oirat also believe in Buddhism, so the Marshal's Mansion sent them a great national teacher.

Master Liu just took a break from his busy schedule to reply to Liu Chengzong's letter, and the second letter was sent to the yamen of Shuai's mansion.

At first glance, Liu Xiangyu knew that the things mentioned in this letter were not as easy as the first letter. The lion's first request was to let Hauge leave the marshal's mansion.

It is said to be leaving, but in fact it is expulsion.

This in itself is not a big deal, Liu Chengzong has never shy away from his hostility towards the Kingdom of Jin.

What's more, Liu Xiangyu has already agreed that Jin Guo is an obstacle for the Marshal's Mansion to take control of the Central Plains. Unless Jin Guo stays outside the customs, the two sides will break out of war sooner or later.

If it weren't for Ordos being too far away, Liu Xiangyu would now like to push the front line to Guihua City to prevent Jin Guo from occupying Monan.

However, the expulsion of Hauge at this time means that the preparation of the Marshal's Mansion to send envoys to the Kingdom of Jin will be put on hold forever, which will greatly hinder the Marshal's Mansion from grasping the information of the Kingdom of Jin.

Gao Xiandu was called back from Pingliang, but his mission as an envoy failed, which was very frustrating.

Liu Xiangyu didn't care about Jin Guo's information, he just saw from Lion's request that the next thing was very important, too important to let outsiders, especially Jin Guo know.

But he never expected that when Liu Shizi mentioned something important enough to expel the envoy, he would actually build a grand hospital.

This is almost the blind spot of Liu Xiangyu's knowledge, he only has very little understanding of Tai Hospital.

Because I have dealt with the medical professors in Mizhi County and the doctors in the county prison in the past, I know that this is a subordinate institution managed by the Ministry of Rites, which implements the emperor's orders on medicine, and is responsible for the registration, recruitment, selection, dismissal, and appointment of medical households. School, education, training, examination, management.

Medical households have their own examination system. If the imperial examination is an examination for civil servants, then the examination for medical households is the examination for medical qualification certificates. It is held every three years and the results are divided into three grades. The first grade is for doctors, the second grade is for doctors, and the third grade is unqualified. Supplementary examination next year.

If you still fail the make-up exam the next year, and still fail the make-up exam the next year, you will be dismissed as a citizen; if you are first-class in the five exams, you will be invited by the medical teacher to be promoted.

Moreover, after obtaining the status of a doctor or a doctor, they still have to study a specialty and take an exam, and the grades are divided into four grades.

In the first class, a doctor is promoted to a doctor, and a doctor is awarded a nine-rank crown belt, and those with a crown belt are promoted to a higher level of salary and sent to the inner hall for service.

For the second class, doctors are also promoted to doctors, and doctors are awarded ninth-rank crowns and belts, and those with crowns and belts are promoted to higher ranks.

The third class remains the same, and the fourth class has grade-level fines. Those with crowns will lose their crowns, and those without crowns will be demoted. After half a year, they will have to take the make-up exam.

All prefectures, prefectures and counties at all levels set up medicine in addition to official schools and yin and yang studies. The chief official of prefectural medicine is called Zhengke, which means sub-disciplines of medicine, and it is from Jiupin;

Moreover, the Tai Hospital is also responsible for selecting and dispatching doctors to the good medical institutes of the king's mansions, all the prefectures, states, counties, prisons, Imperial College, Huitongguan, border guards, villages and towns across the country.

It is not difficult for Liu Xiangyu to establish a Tai Hospital. Allocate funds, allocate land and people, build the Tai Hospital, register all medical households, and select officials to manage it. Xining itself has a medical department, although it is only a health-level medical officer. , After all, he is a knowledgeable person.

However, the Infection and Epidemic Prevention Bureau and the Infection and Epidemic Prevention Division that Liu Chengzong mentioned in his letter were new things to Liu Xiangyu.

But it's not hard to guess.

Compared with establishing the imperial hospital, Liu Xiangyu was more concerned about what Liu Chengzong's expulsion of Hauge meant.

Liu Chengzong believes that in the future, the respective major epidemics will cause great obstacles to the Marshal's Mansion's entry into the Central Plains, and this obstacle will also affect the Jin Kingdom thousands of miles away.

In order to avoid such an impact, Shiwa wanted to set up a Tai Hospital and add a bureau and a department, but in order to prevent Jin Guoxue from going, he had to drive away Jin Guoxue's envoy Hauge.

On the day Liu Xiangyu received the letter, he first contacted the army and then summoned Hauge.

Hauge has gotten used to the life outside the new city, and when meeting each other, he is still respectful and respectful. He salutes and greets him, and asks Liu Xiangyu with a smile, "Grandpa, is the war in the south decided?"

Liu Xiangyu frowned, shook his head and said, "Haoge, you have to go back."

"what?"

Hauge seemed to be hit by a bolt from the blue, and asked: "Why is this? I haven't seen the generalissimo yet."

During this period of time, he has been paying close attention to the martial arts of the Marshal's Mansion. Generalissimo Liu Chengzong crushed the Allied Forces of the Five Towns of the Ming Dynasty in a devastating manner. At that time, he had not yet arrived, and he still has not accurately assessed the military capabilities of the Marshal's Mansion.

Seeing that he received the news that the Marshal's Mansion and the Oirat Allied Forces had already fought, he would soon know the exact military strength of the Marshal's Mansion.

Not to mention that he doesn't want to go back, even if he wants to go back, he can only go back after confirming the military strength of the Marshal's Mansion. At least there is something that can return his father to Khan.

Liu Xiangyu wanted him to leave at this time.

What is it like to leave the Marshal's Mansion at this time, as long as he didn't persuade the Marshal's Mansion to make any agreement with Jin Guo, nor did he have accurate information on the Marshal's Mansion's military capabilities, it would be a waste of time for him to come here.

How could he be willing?

Unexpectedly, Liu Xiangyu said two words with a solemn expression: "Smallpox."

Hauge's complexion changed drastically. Han people and Jurchens had almost different attitudes towards smallpox. The Ming army always dared to fight against smallpox, but Jurchens avoided smallpox like a tiger.

Even in the battle against Ming Dynasty, if the intelligence learned that the Ming Realm was suffering from smallpox, the troops going to the battle would have to specially select people who had already had acne to join the battle.

This is not only because the Kingdom of Jin has the initiative on the Liaodong battlefield, but also because smallpox is completely different in people's eyes.

If the Jurchen Zhushen contracted this, they would almost die.

Hauge, on the other hand, never had smallpox.

"Hey, where did the smallpox come from?" Haug was very surprised: "I heard that the smallpox in Hehuang is over."

From this sentence, Liu Xiangyu thinks that Hauge still doesn't know about the large-scale vaccination in the Marshal's Mansion,
"It's not Hehuang. It's on the battlefield in the south. I don't know where it came from. I only know that it's a letter from this morning, saying that the number of soldiers infected with smallpox in the south has flooded."

Liu Xiangyu said nine truths and one falsehood, coaxing Hauge into a daze: "On the day of the army's class division, Xiaopox will follow you. After all, you are the son of the Kingdom of Jin. I know you are very brave, but if you die here, I am worried about you. Father misunderstood."

Hauge also nodded, misunderstanding or misunderstood, don't say anything, if this happens, everyone else will die, what's the use of misunderstanding or not?

"Then before I leave, can I meet the Generalissimo?"

Liu Xiangyu said in his heart that the lion baby wanted to see you and had already met. You wanted to ask some questions and get some answers, but not seeing is also an answer.

It was only because Liu Shizi was supported by his father that this answer was not so blunt.

Mr. Liu shook his head and said: "He also came to the battlefield in person. Smallpox doesn't care who is the grand marshal and who is the heir. I think you should not take this risk and set off immediately. I have prepared five hundred guards for you, led by the commander-in-chief Gao Xian." , escort you to Guihua City."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)