Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 241 Preparing for the Hetao
"Eight hundred miles, hurry up! The twelve guards of the navy have recovered Luzon, and I, Ming, will expand southward for thousands of miles!"

"Eight hundred miles, hurry up! The twelve guards of the navy regained Luzon, and my Ming Dynasty expanded southward for thousands of miles..."

In mid-October, after several days of homing pigeons flying south, Shen Tingyang of the Ryukyu Prefecture received the news that Luzon had recovered, and immediately sent pigeons to let the fast horses waiting in Fuzhou run from south to north with the news to deliver this exciting news.

More than a dozen horses rode fast for five hundred miles, leaving Fujian from Zhejiang, going south to Zhili, north to Shandong, entering north Zhili, and entering the capital, spreading the news to all the provinces along the way.

Such news made the maritime merchants in Jiangnan and Fujian and other places look gloomy, but at the same time they felt fearful, while the common people didn't care about anything, they only knew how to celebrate with drums and gongs.

Since the abolition of Liao pay, the life of the people of Ming Dynasty has finally returned to the level of the middle period of Wanli. It is a personal pleasure to beat the gongs and drums, but the officials along the way know that the king of Qi is going to relocate the people again.

Since the recovery of Ryukyu and the restoration of Liao Dynasty, officials have already figured out Zhu Youjian's temperament.

As long as an inch of territory is laid down, a family of people must be relocated.

Local officials don't want the people under their command to be moved away, because their salaries are related to the people to a certain extent.

It's just that even if they don't want it anymore, when Zhu Youjian's military order and Zhu Youxiao's will are issued, they still have to obey obediently.

With the desperation of the officials, the sentry cavalry entered the capital, entered the outer court of the imperial palace, and sent the urgent good news to Zhu Youxiao in the Qianqing Palace, and also to Cao Huachun, who was accompanying Zhu Youxiao to review the memorials here. In the hands of Wang Chengen.

"Change the map..."

When Cao Huachun got the military information, his first reaction was to change the "Daming Kunyu General Map", so that the emperor could more intuitively understand how much territory the Ming Dynasty had opened up.

Under his order, several young eunuchs were busy for a while, and brought a new map that Zhu Youjian had prepared long ago from Xuqin Palace.

Seeing this, Cao Huachun led them into the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and said to Zhu Youxiao who was processing the memorial:
"Long live, Luzon has been recovered, and now we can replace the "Daming Kunyu General Map"."

"Huh? Recovered? So soon?" Hearing Cao Huachun's words, Zhu Youxiao suddenly raised his head and asked suspiciously.

After all, in his impression, the civil servants during the Wanli period always talked about how difficult it was to send troops overseas. How could it be so easy to come to his younger brother?

"Yes, recovered..."

Cao Huachun responded with a smile, and Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to deal with the memorandum when he heard the words. He got up and walked to the side, watching with his own eyes that Cao Huachun led people to remove the former "Daming Kunyu General Map" and replaced it with a new map.

In the new map, Daming got the whole territory of Luzon, and when this intuition is presented in the form of a map, the Luzon seen by Zhu Youxiao is bigger than that of Zhejiang and Fujian.

"How big is this land of Luzon?"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking, and Cao Huachun nodded with a smile.

"How much good land can be cultivated in such a place? How much good land has Xiyi reclaimed?"

Zhu Youxiao's inquiry made Cao Huachun immediately explain:

"His Royal Highness said that Lu Song was only established for more than [-] years, and then it was destroyed. In addition, most of the land cultivated here was learned from the Sanbao eunuch when he went to Nanyang, so the cultivated land should not be too much, about hundreds of thousands of mu."

"However, if the people are relocated carefully, enough people will be relocated. In a few decades, tens of millions of acres of fertile land can be reclaimed here."

"Tens of millions?" Zhu Youxiao was stimulated by this number, and asked hastily:
"How many people are recruited by the Ryukyu Mansion right now? How many people are going to move to Luzon?"

"There are already more than [-] million people in Ryukyu. Your Highness means to first clarify the land that has been reclaimed in Nanyang, and then relocate it according to one person and two acres, and divide the land immediately after disembarking." Cao Huachun explained:
"According to His Highness's estimate, in the land of Nanyang, if only the small countries that don't respect my Ming Dynasty are conquered, and the small countries that respect my Ming Dynasty are left behind, more than two million mu of cultivated land should be harvested..."

"In this way, it is not difficult to move a million people to Nanyang, and Governor Huanglong will lead the navy to Siam to discuss the grain trade between Siam and our country, and at the same time escort the teak back to Ryukyu Prefecture."

Cao Huachun's explanation made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied.

In places like Nanyang, even if they have the strength to build ships, they cannot build shipyards there.

To put it bluntly, once Nanyang owns a shipyard, it will be easy to form a separatist force and rely on the sea to fight back against Ming Dynasty.

Not only can there be no shipyards, but also things like forts cannot be built.

Judging from the "General Map of Daming Kunyu", only the old port can build forts, and the rest of the islands cannot.

As long as Daming holds the shipyard and cannon factory in his hands, it will be difficult for Nanyang to rebel...

On this point, Zhu Youxiao is still very satisfied with his younger brother's actions, but after knowing the benefits of Nanyang, Zhu Youxiao's mind also got up, and asked:
"In four months, are you sure you can conquer the entire Nanyang?"

"According to Huanglong's estimation, it should be enough..." Cao Huachun said:

"At present, the big Frangji has been captured, and there are only Frangji, Anelia, Frangcha, and Red Maoyi in Nanyang. Dare to fight against me, Ming, after all, they have a quarter of their troops in Haojing (Macau) right now."

"In addition to this, other disrespectful countries will also be wiped out, and respecting my country of Ming Dynasty, His Highness means that you want to use knighthood to reduce them to territories."

"It's not impossible to be knighted, as long as they are willing to accept my Da Ming to rule them, there will be a lot of rewards..." Zhu Youxiao said, then walked back to his seat, and continued while sitting down:

"It seems that things in Nanyang will not be difficult. Right now, we have to wait for the heavy snow to pass and recover the Hetao."

"Yes..." Cao Huachun responded, but didn't say much, and after Zhu Youxiao knew that Nanyang could reclaim the vast fields as long as there were enough manpower, he couldn't bear it for a while, and said after a while:

"Zhongxian, allocate two million taels of silver from the internal funds, and then issue an order to send all the prisoners and their families to Nanyang!"

"The maidservant takes orders..." Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Wei Zhongxian quickly responded.

A whole world of prisoners, at least hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly relocated to Nanyang, but Zhu Youxiao didn't care about these, what he wanted was Nanyang to become the cornucopia of Ming Dynasty.

However, after the decree was issued, Zhu Youxiao continued to deal with the memorial.

The reason for dealing with the memorial is very simple, that is, after Zhao Nanxing organized the impeachment of the eunuch party last time, Zhu Youxiao punished a large number of eunuch party officials and subordinates.

Except for the eunuchs such as Cui Chengxiu and Yang Huan who were not implicated, some eunuchs and officials from the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan, and Kun parties who later defected to the eunuchs were exiled for their crimes.

However, temporary leaders of various parties such as Yao Zongwen, Tang Binyin, and Gu Tianjun were still saved by him.

Although he also wanted to deal with all the officials of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan and Kun, if he dealt with them too harshly at once, they would transfer their hatred from Donglin to the imperial power.

A large number of officials were exiled to the southwest, and the rebellion in the southwest was also suppressed by Hong Chengchou.

Before the large number of chieftains in Xingdusi of Sichuan rebelled, they were suppressed by Qin Bangping, Qin Liangyu and others.

For a time, many chieftains in the Southwest who intended to rebel were put down as a result.

The She'an Rebellion was put down, and Wu Bikui was forced to surrender by Mu Changzuo. The only powerful chieftains in the southwest were Long Zaitian, Pu Mingsheng, Sha Dingzhou and others.

Long Zaitian had no intention of rebelling, and Pu Mingsheng was killed by Hong Chengchou in the rebellion on the sixth day of the rebellion. Now only Sha Dingzhou is left.

Once Shadingzhou is resolved, the reformation of the entire southwestern chieftain can be declared over.

However, the land in the southeast of Yunnan and west of Guangxi is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are many miasmas. It is estimated that they may need to be prepared for a protracted war to put them down.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao immersed himself in the state of processing memorials again, and when Cao Huachun saw this, he also saluted and left, and then asked Jin Yiwei to send the news of Lu Song's recovery to Datong Mansion to kill the tiger.

Tiqi hurriedly sent the news to Killing Tiger's Gate, but when they just entered the boundary of Xuanfu, they saw scattered people on both sides of the official road also rushing towards Killing Tiger's Gate.

These people grew more and more with time and the distance from the Killing Tiger's Gate. When Tiqi arrived at the Killing Tiger's Gate after a day and a night of raiding, the Killing Tiger's Gate was full of people.

Shanxi, Shaanxi...

The land of the two provinces issued a notice to recruit civilian husbands a few days ago, and the notice was to recruit civilian husbands with a daily salary of [-] cash.

If only this is the case, there will only be some people who lack money among the people.

What really made the men in the two provinces sign up enthusiastically was the last line of the notice.

"Recover the Hetao, restore my peace..."

With just eight words, for the common people living in the northern captives who invaded the south all the year round, it can be said that they drank a sip of strong wine.

Especially the people in the Sanbian area of ​​Shaanxi who are plundered by captives every year. They hope for peace on the three sides, but the imperial court has never recovered Hetao, so they can only suffer from looting all year round.

There are many people in Ming Dynasty who are afraid of death, but there are also many people who are not afraid of death.

It was just a few simple words, and immediately mobilized some passionate men to go north.

Not only them, but also a large number of people who enjoyed the treatment of dividing the land. After learning that the complex was commanded by the "King of Qi", they also signed up at the root of the city walls in various places, and then rushed to the five major gates.

Such as killing the tiger's mouth, when the former military households from all over Shanxi learned that King Qi was coming, they enthusiastically brought their own dry food and came to sign up.

Up to now, behind the [-] Ming army cavalry who killed the tiger's mouth, there are [-] black civilian husbands, and this number is still increasing with the passage of time.

"Your Highness, the number of civilians in the five major gates has exceeded [-], but it is still mid-October, and we have to feed and drink them for two and a half months. Each month is more than [-] shi..."

"Your Highness, why don't you stop recruiting civil servants first, if this goes on, the Imperial Horse Supervisor won't be able to hold on..."

Killing Hukou, Sun Kefa, the general soldier of Northern Zhili, and Cao Wenzhao and Cao Wenyao of Duoganying are admonishing in the camp of Shahukou, while Zhu Youjian, the object of their admonition, is sitting in the main seat without conscience, tasting with tea...

"Disband? No, the more civilian husbands, the better..."

Zhu Youjian smiled unconscionably after hearing the three people's remonstrance, and such a move made everyone stunned.

You must know that this year, after repaying the debts owed by the Liao War, and paying the salaries and military salaries of the [-] troops, the Yumajian, and the hundreds of thousands of clerks in the Five Army Dudufu, the current Yumajian There are only more than two million taels of silver and more than fourteen million stones of grain left.

This also includes the reclamation grain after the re-set, so it is really necessary to support the peasants for three months, and the monthly expenditure may not be less than [-] taels of silver, and it will increase with the number of people.

It was precisely because of this that the three of them did not understand why His Royal Highness wasted money and food in such a vain manner.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian glanced at them, and then sighed in his heart.

Shanxi, Shaanxi...

These two places are where the severe drought broke out, and the reason why Zhu Youjian used this method of spreading money and food to support the people is to improve the people's resistance to risks.

More than [-] civilians seem to have no role in the five major ports, but right now they only need Zhu Youjian to speak, and they will soon have something to do.

Relieve disasters with work, relieve disasters with war, and relocate people with war...

The three simple points are the most important thing for Zhu Youjian to fight the Hetao in this battle.

"Order the five major gates, and the civilians who have arrived at the five major gates will be covered by the army to leave the gate, and the road to the gate will be repaired."

As soon as Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, he found work for the [-] army and made preparations for the army to go out.

Seeing this, the three of Cao Wenzhao could only respond, and at the same time, the news of the sentry cavalry also reached Zhu Youjian.

But facing the recovery of Luzon, Zhu Youjian was not as excited as others imagined. He just replied lightly that he understood, and then he didn't have any other instructions.

Only after everyone left, Zhu Youjian leaned back on the chair, and said to the door: "Officials of Chuanqin Tianjian!"

"Biao Xia takes orders!" As soon as he opened his mouth, the hundred households at the door sent someone to call the officials of the Qin Tianjian, and the officials of the Qin Tianjian came to the big tent after a quarter of an hour.

This time Zhu Youjian was going to repeat the set, and by the way, he also inspected the northwest, so he brought more than ten officials from the Qin Tianjian, and prepared a dozen simple astronomical telescopes for them.

"You have all seen clairvoyance, let's talk about astronomy."

Zhu Youjian looked down at them, and the doctor who was the leader among them also stood up and bowed:
"His Royal Highness, ministers and others observe astronomy with clairvoyance, and only feel that the yin and yang and qi are out of balance between the heaven and the earth. According to the records of the Qin Tianjian in the past, there may be a severe drought this year..."

"..." Hearing Dr. Qin Tianjian's words, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly.

The last thing he wants to hear is the word "severe drought", so he can only ask, "Is it Shanxi? Or is it Shaanxi?"

"Um... this... the lower officials can't judge, I only know that the scale should not be small, but not too big..." The doctor responded cautiously, which made Zhu Youjian a little unhappy.

Such ambiguous words sound like a liar.

If it wasn't for Qin Tianjian's ability, he would have dismissed this group of people a long time ago based on his temperament.

"Yin qi rises, yang qi drops, I'm afraid the heavy snowfall in the north will continue, and there will be yang within yin..."

Seeing Zhu Youjian's displeased look, the doctor tentatively expressed his conjecture, and Zhu Youjian also frowned and said, "Be clear."

The doctor was quite frightened, so he could only step forward and explain:

"This... I am also talking about it based on the experience of Qin Tianjian in the past dynasties, but I have never seen such a celestial phenomenon in the two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty..."

"Even if you go back to the previous dynasty, or the past dynasties, there is no such astronomical phenomenon..."

"Okay, let's back down." Zhu Youjian found that he couldn't hear anything, so he could only wave his sleeves and let everyone back down.

For a moment, he wondered if he had been cheated. He couldn't understand the yin and yang.

If yang is severe drought and yin is heavy snow or rain, then what is yang in yin?Drought while snowing heavily?is it possible?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian stopped being entangled, but continued to bow his head, and began to conduct tactical deduction on the Hetao sand table on the table.

It's just that when he was deducing, he glanced at the residence of the seventy-three lords of Tumote's department, his eyes flickered a few times, and he suddenly smiled and said:

"There is a way to show it first, maybe it can achieve miraculous effects..."

Zhu Youjian was chuckling, and at the same time, changes were taking place on the grassland.

The tribes in Monan are not blind or deaf. The news that Zhu Youjian deployed [-] troops with great fanfare and clamored for a repeat has already spread throughout the tribes in Monan.

Dozens of scattered Ordos tribes in Hetao united after learning the news, and held a meeting in Hongyanchi during the heavy snowfall.

Forty-two leaders came in response, and they arrived at the Red Salt Pond with their soldiers and horses. For a while, the Red Salt Pond was very lively, crowded with Mongolians in all kinds of clothes.

"kill!"

"Moo-"

With a sound of "kill", the cattle and sheep were killed by the red salt pool, and the forty-two Ordos Mongolian tribes also gathered one after another to drink the blood of the cattle.

When the ox blood was drunk, everyone knelt down to a sixty-year-old Mongolian nobleman, and this old Mongolian nobleman was the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the west since the middle Wanli period.

The fire is red...

Huoluochi, he and his father and brother were originally stationed six or seven hundred miles away from Pianguan in Shanxi Province. After Altan Khan rose up and occupied this place, he had to move westward to Liangzhou and Suzhou with his brothers.

He was only in his teens at the time, and together with his father and brother he expressed his surrender to Daming, but in fact he had an affair with Al Dahan, and then he and Al Dahan joined hands to fight through Hexi and entered Qinghai.

Not only that, he and Al Dahan welcomed the third Dalai Lama at that time, trying to make Qinghai-Tibet abandon Ming Dynasty and submit to Al Dahan.

It's a pity that the Dalai Lama directly rejected this, with a tough attitude.

Helpless, Altan Khan had no choice but to return east to Tumed, while Huo Luochi stayed in Qinghai, and led troops to harass the local Tibetans continuously.

In the seventeenth year of Wanli, he continued to attack Minghe Prefecture, Taozhou, Minzhou, Xining and other places in Hexi, defeating the Ming army many times, and was regarded as a huge disaster by the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, he had a vendetta with Wala, and led his troops to aid Ningxia's deputy commander, Qian Bai, who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, but was repelled by Li Rusong.

While the Ming Dynasty was engaged in the Korean War with Japan, he began to hunt down the Tibetans in the Qinghai area and attack the Ming territory at the same time.

Emperor Wanli, who was in a fit of anger, launched the Battle of Huangzhong that year, mobilized tens of thousands of Tibetan cavalry in Duogan, and cooperated with the Ming army to achieve three victories in Huangzhong, and then expelled him from Qinghai.

After tossing and turning, he finally led the tribe back to Hetao, and led the Ordos tribe in Hetao and Ningxia to invade Hexi and Shaanxi of Daming many times.

Until last year, Huo Luochi led people to plunder Hexi.

However, he did not expect that this generation of emperors of the Ming Dynasty would be so courageous and ask the prince to prepare to conquer him.

[-] troops...

"The Ming army said that there are [-] troops, but I am afraid that only [-] to [-] will be able to go out."

As the leader of the alliance again, Huo Luochi began to speak out to comfort people, but Taiji from other tribes was not satisfied with this:
"This time is different from before. The leader is Qi Wang Zhu Youjian, who defeated Nurhachi in Liaodong."

"It's just defeating a group of wild women who live in the mountains. What's there to be afraid of?" Hearing what the Taijis said, Huo Luochi didn't take it seriously.

After all, since ancient times, most of the time, the grassland has suppressed female straights. Even during the Jin Kingdom period, female straights could only bully them by taking advantage of the scattered tribes in the grassland.

Especially Wanyan's female straights were almost killed. What ability can Nurhachi, a mongol and female straight bastard, have?
Huo Luochi's idea won the favor of many aristocrats who were proud of being Mongolians, and they all began to speak up for Huo Luochi.

But even with their participation, Taiji from other tribes still said:
"Even if the King of Qi only has [-] to [-] troops, what about us?"

A question reveals the crux of the matter.

The Hetao Department is not that powerful. Although it is said to have a hundred thousand people, there are only [-] men, and only [-] people who can wear armor.

It is obviously unwise to confront the [-] Ming army with [-] troops.

Not to mention the [-] armored Ming army, even the [-] armored cavalry led by Du Wenhuan before made them suspicious of sneak attacks.

Now they have to face the [-] to [-] Ming army who may be wearing armor, this is destined to be an unwinnable battle...

"I will ask for help from Buyan Yamato and Su Nang Taiji. When the time comes, we will attack from three sides. No matter how powerful they are, they will not be able to defeat our three parts head-on."

"But..." At this point, Huo Luochi glanced at the crowd, and then continued:
"If we want Su Nang Taiji to send troops, we must submit to him and recommend him as Tumed Khan."

"What's the problem with this? Surrender is surrender, unite and defeat the Ming people first!"

"That's right! Defeat Mingren and turn Guanzhong into our horse grazing land!"

"Guanzhong is rich in water and grass, many times better than this Hetao sandy land, I am willing to surrender!"

"me too……"

Huo Luochi's words instantly won the support of the other [-], and when he saw that these people were willing to submit to Su Nang, he also thought of the conditions for his own benefit.

He is old and can no longer keep fighting Su Nang.

It would be better to take advantage of this time to reconcile with Su Nang, and then form an alliance with the three departments to restore the momentum of the Tumote Department back then.

Back then, I Da could enter the capital, and so could they.

As long as they enter the Xuanfu and enter the capital, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty will definitely accept their conditions and reopen the mutual market just like the previous generations of emperors.

At that time, he can also take the opportunity to propose to return to Qinghai with the Huoluochi tribe, and stay away from Su Nang...

Thinking of this, Huo Luochi also felt complacent.

He thought he was my answer, and Zhu Youxiao was Long Qing, but he forgot that the current Northwest Ming Army is not the Northwest Ming Army in the Longqing period...

(End of this chapter)