Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 704 Governor's Authority, Take Monan

In the fifth year of Zhaowu, some new systems of Ming Dynasty gradually became clear.

For example, whether the governor is also in charge of the military.

In the interior provinces, generally speaking, the governor has no right to mobilize the garrison of the province.As for the garrisons in other provinces, as well as higher-level border guards and guards, it is even more impossible for a governor of a province to mobilize.

At most, it can mobilize the armed patrols in the province by influencing the provincial patrol police department.For this, the prestige of the governor is sufficient, the reasons for the deployment of troops are sufficient, and the patrol police are willing to listen to him.

If there is a major banditry in the province, or some forces rebel, the imperial court can grant the governor the right to temporarily dispatch the garrison, but the Military Affairs Council can also directly order the general of a certain town of the garrison in the province to be responsible for suppressing bandits and suppressing rebellion. Things.

Therefore, the main task of the governors of inland provinces is to do a good job in cultural governance, such as the administration of officials, transportation, water conservancy, people's livelihood, and economy in the province.

The governor of the border province is different.

When he is appointed, he will generally be given the title of Minister of the Ministry of War by the imperial court, and he will have the right to mobilize his own garrison after he takes office.

Of course, whether it is in terms of civil governance or military, the governors of border provinces are generally under the control of the governor.

Zhu Yu chatted with Zhang Kuang about the economic construction of Beizhili for a while, and then said to Du Yinxi: "I want to conquer Monan Mongolia in two or three years, what do Qing think?"

A free herdsman needs to face many difficulties if he wants to bring his family to survive on the grassland in the seventeenth century.

In addition, no matter whether it is the governor or the governor-general of the Ming Dynasty, there is a telecommunications team in the yamen, which can communicate with the center of the court and Zhu Yuxi at any time.

After Zhang Kuang became the governor of Beizhili, his work in the first one or two years was mainly to assist Du Yinxi in making military arrangements.One is to prevent captives, and the other is to prepare for the recovery of lost land.

Therefore, even if it is a transfer of troops within their authority, they will first report to the Military Affairs Council by telegram before taking action.

Some of the tribes whose leaders were smarter even sent envoys to apologize to Daming, expressing their submission, and wanting to avoid being retaliated by Ming.

After the Northern Expedition, the military strength of the nobles in Monan Mongolia was greatly reduced. Coupled with the sharp decline in the population of the various tribes, the pastures became relatively larger, which naturally gave the herdsmen a chance to break free from control and graze freely.

Northern Zhili and Shanxi are the border provinces that had the most contact with the tribes of Monan Mongolia, followed by Shaanxi.

Some clever Mongolian nobles even provided convenience for Ming merchants to achieve the purpose of communication and friendship with Ming Dynasty.

The new army of the Ming Dynasty was stationed on the side walls, as well as the inner and outer piers, and their fronts were directed at the Mongolian tribes in Monan. Even if they did not move a single soldier, the Mongolian cavalry who had been frightened during the Northern Expedition did not dare to look south.

The situation is not serious now, all the nobles in Monan Mongolia are licking their wounds and fighting for territory, regardless of these.

This grace refers to the nobles being able to protect the herdsmen when they are bullied by other tribes, occupying pastures, and robbing cattle and sheep.Otherwise, why should the herdsmen pay taxes to the nobles?And what to pay taxes to the nobles?

Most of them saw that the Qing Dynasty was afraid of dying, so they chose to stay in Monan.

After the Ming Dynasty regained Liaoxi and Liaodong in the third year of Zhaowu, Zhang Kuang shifted the focus of his work to cultural and political work such as people's livelihood and economy in the province.

Du Yinxi said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, if you conquer and suppress the grasslands by pure force like in the past dynasties, at most supplemented by marriage, it will definitely be difficult to subdue Monan Mongolia in a few years.

This not only caused the pastures originally belonging to Monan Mongolia to be invaded by Mobei Mongolia (Khalka) and Moxi Mongolia (Wala), but also greatly weakened the control of the tribal nobles over the herdsmen below.

In addition, some herdsmen found that horse bandits did not dare to plunder within [-] miles of the Daming side wall, and the new Ming army did not have the habit of looting herdsmen like the previous Daming frontier army did, making a safe area [-] miles away from the Daming side wall. area, they migrated here one after another.

After hearing Du Yinxi's words, Zhu Yuxi was quite happy, and said with a smile: "Du Qing's thinking is similar to mine - in two years, this Monan Mongolia will be like a ripe fruit, if I, Daming, don't pick it, It's going to rot."

As time goes by, more and more herdsmen will break away from the control of the nobles and come to Daming to settle in the future.

After the Northern Expedition in the first year of Zhaowu, the Monan Mongolian tribes that had all submitted to the Qing Dynasty actually split.

Such a new policy not only significantly increased the income of the people in the border provinces, but also benefited a lot from the tribes of Monan Mongolia, from nobles to ordinary herdsmen. Their living standards were significantly improved, and their ability to resist disasters and risks was also improved. improve.

Now all the Mongolian tribes are close to our Ming Dynasty, especially the ordinary herdsmen below, most of them have fled to our Ming Dynasty and settled down - this can be described as a lure for profit.

When the counties on the border of northern Xinjiang began to recruit refugees to enrich their population, some herdsmen seized the opportunity to settle down through the border wall and become common people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, freedom comes at a price.

This prestige refers to the ability to deter the herdsmen, make them pay taxes honestly, and dare not flee easily and escape the control of the nobles.

Even though Monan Mongolia was still no match for the Ming army at that time, it was indeed possible to migrate far away with herdsmen, cattle and sheep.

Feeling that the Ming court and the army were reliable, the merchants became more courageous, especially some small merchants who wanted to seize the opportunity to make a fortune, and dared to take the risk of selling their goods to those free herdsmen, or even herdsmen under the nobility.

Du Yinxi realized something after hearing this, and couldn't help nodding and said: "That's true."

For example, salt, cloth, tea, iron pots and other items needed for life, in the past, merchants directly transported them to the tribes to trade with the nobles, and then the nobles resold them to the herdsmen.

If the garrison is dispatched, as long as the number reaches a town, you must ask the governor for permission.That is to say, the governor of the frontier province cannot mobilize the commander-in-chief of the garrison, only the governor.

It should be noted that the control of herdsmen by the Mongolian nobles also required both kindness and prestige.

But if after seven or eight years, or more than ten years, these nobles regained a certain strength, and even a new Monan overlord tribe appeared in the competition, they would certainly not turn a blind eye to the fleeing of the herdsmen.

However, starting from the spring of the second year of Zhaowu, the above-mentioned things changed as Ming regained control of the northern provinces.

According to the report from Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusi, in the past few years, tens of thousands of herdsmen in Monan have no tribe affiliation and have become free people, or wanderers.

As a result, those wandering free herdsmen who want to obtain the necessities of life are naturally suffering so much that they cannot survive for long.

Therefore, whether it is kindness or prestige, the nobles need to have sufficient force, that is, military strength.

Therefore, in the past, merchants on the grasslands did not dare to trade directly with herdsmen.

What's more, I, Ming Dynasty, have never been close to each other. I have always treated the Siyi with prestige, bound them with righteousness, and suppressed them with an army.

Combined with the first three items I mentioned earlier, it can be said that the time for my Ming Dynasty to conquer Monan Mongolia is ripe.If this is done, it will be a matter of course! "

On the grassland, not only horse bandits and other nobles will rob you, but if you are not strong enough, even wolves and other herdsmen will come to bully you and turn you and your cattle and sheep into their rations and wealth.

Because a part of Shaanxi is in contact with the Oala forces, and the north is the vast desert, and there is less contact with the tribes of Monan Mongolia.

Although the conditions in Beizhili are good, and it is also a province that the imperial court mainly supports for construction, Zhang Kuang, the governor, must have used his heart to make the people feel that their lives are better than those in Wanli.

Originally, the Mongolian tribes in Monan followed the Qing captives to enter the customs, and lost many soldiers, horses and soldiers, and their strength was greatly reduced.Later, when it split again, the strength of the Monan Mongolian tribes became even worse.

A small number of those who had a deep relationship with the Qing Dynasty followed Dorgon and others to Liaodong and were incorporated into the Eight Banners Mongolia.

Another example is security issues.

Under such circumstances, some bold merchants of the Ming Dynasty entered the sphere of influence of the various tribes in Monan to do business, which was equivalent to having an invisible protection on their bodies, so that the nobles of the various tribes did not dare to make things too difficult.

Therefore, being a free herdsman means dying at any time, and there is no safety at all.

Today, the provinces in northern Xinjiang, under the guidance of the imperial court, have opened factories for wool spinning, dairy products, and meat products; at the same time, they have increased the number of horse markets and relaxed restrictions on mutual markets.

If a merchant does not sell to a noble, but violates the rules and sells directly to herdsmen, it will be difficult to get out of the noble's territory alive.

If there are no herdsmen in the Monan Grassland, what good will it be for Daming to get it?

If you want to manage it well and develop it, I'm afraid it will take more than ten or twenty years.

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