Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 243 The Self-Humiliated Tumet
"Uludbu Saihan, please beg for your father's surrender to His Royal Highness King Qi!"

On October [-]th of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, with Saihan's begging to surrender, Zhu Youjian finally showed a Mongolian army who knew the terrain in the south and north of the desert.

"Uncle Yin Shan, you don't need to kneel down, just bow."

Under the city of Killing Hukou, Zhu Youjian, who knew about Du'er's resignation, helped Saihan who was kneeling on the ground, and held his hand tightly, and affectionately called him Uncle Yinshan.

Such a move made Saihan's nose ache and he was very moved.

He has dealt with officials of the Ming Dynasty quite a lot, but Zhu Youjian was the first official of the Ming Dynasty to let him know the words "corporate of courtesy and virtuousness".

He knew Zhu Youjian's position in Daming, so he was moved when faced with Zhu Youjian's enthusiasm.

The views of Huayi in this era are incomprehensible to future generations, and Zhu Youjian happens to be a person who does not discriminate.

"Come on, I've prepared the imperial wine and the imperial chef in Killing Tiger's Mouth, you can have a good taste."

Zhu Youjian enthusiastically took Saihan's hand, led him to the Shahukou, and specifically explained to the left and right:
"The generals in Ulutt don't need to stop them. They will lead them into the tiger's mouth, settle them down properly, and let the chefs accompanying the army show their cooking skills. They will have a good meal."

"Yes!" Cao Wenzhao and others responded, not worried at all that the Ulutt tribe was surreptitiously surrendering.

To put it bluntly, even if it was a false surrender, with the strength of more than [-] cavalry, before the northern captives attacked, the Ulut tribe with only more than [-] men was wiped out.

It can be said that Zhu Youjian and Cao Wenzhao are arrogant, but they also have confidence in their arrogance.

On the contrary, this kind of arrogance and tolerance relieved the tens of thousands of Urut tribes who were already uneasy. They drove cattle and sheep into the tiger's mouth, and Zhu Youjian also took Saihan's hand and brought a dozen An Ulutt general came to the garrison mansion where he temporarily lived.

Zhu Youjian enthusiastically untied Saihan's coat after entering the meeting hall, which made Saihan flattered, and hurriedly bowed and said:

"How can a savage outside Hanben deserve to be favored by His Highness..."

"Why not?" Zhu Youjian helped him up with a smile, glanced at the generals in Ulutt, and then said with a smile:

"How can there be any barbarians outside the Great Wall? As long as you enter the territory of Daming, you are all citizens of Daming, and all of you are the subjects of the emperor's brother."

After all, Zhu Youjian led Saihan to sit next to his main seat, then sat down himself, and said with a smile:

"I've asked you, Uncle Yinshan, and I know that you have learned Ming culture since childhood, so you didn't prepare delicacies from the grasslands, and specially asked people to prepare dishes from the Central Plains."

As he spoke, he said to many Ulutt generals who were sitting down:

"In the future, when you are free to move around in Daming, you can go to delicacies from all over the world, but you don't have to participate in the current battle of duplication."

"I just wrote a letter and sent it back to the capital. Yongping Mansion has more than one million acres of pastures with the Royal Horse Supervisor, which is enough for your family to live there."

"As for you, you will also be rewarded by the court in a few days, so you don't have to worry about life in the pass."

"His Royal Highness Xie Qi..."

Saihan took the lead in expressing his gratitude after hearing the words, and other Ulutt generals also expressed their gratitude.

Zhu Youjian laughed from ear to ear. After all, in his opinion, exchanging millions of acres of grassland, tens of thousands of taels of silver, and a title of Yinshan for thousands of Mongolian cavalry who are familiar with Monan Mobei and Moxi It's just a lot of money.

With them, when Zhu Youjian wanted to raise his troops to sweep north in the future, he would not have to worry about being ambushed in Saibei, because he had Saihan and his group of natural guides by his side.

If it is said that before today, the Ming army, who had not penetrated into Monan and Mobei for more than a century, was blind to the outside of the Great Wall, then after today, the situation of the Ming army in Monan and Mobei will be clear at a glance.

"Uncle Yinshan, I have ordered someone to build Uncle Yinshan's Mansion next to Prince Qi's Mansion in the capital. As for you and the six thousand men under your father's command."

"If you wish, you can organize them into two battalions or one battalion, and organize them into the Northern Army Governor's Mansion. Each person will be paid fifteen taels a year."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Hearing that Zhu Youjian's treatment was as generous as that of the Ming army, Saihan immediately expressed his gratitude.

You must know that this is within the customs, the purchasing power of [-] taels inside the customs and the [-] taels outside the customs is simply the sky and the ground.

It is estimated that after the men in Ulutt heard the amount of military pay, even if he personally stopped them, they could not stop their desire to join the army.

"Hehe, Uncle Yin Shan can taste the autumn dew white in the Royal Winery of the Imperial City, which cannot be tasted outside."

Seeing Saihan's appearance, Zhu Youjian also raised his hand to signal that everyone can drink and eat.

During the dinner table, Zhu Youjian also took the initiative to drive the atmosphere, singing and dancing with the drunk Ulut generals, but during this period he remained awake and observed his surroundings.

In the middle of the night, the Ming army changed their personnel three times in a row before finally drinking the Mongolian men from the Ulutt tribe to the ground.

"vomit……"

"Wipe your mouth..."

The winter moon wind and snow made people's faces hurt, but at this moment, compared with the face, what hurt more was the overwhelmed stomach.

In the courtyard, a group of generals of the Ming army were sitting in the wind and snow with horse stools, and in front of them were wooden barrels for vomiting, while Zhu Youjian stood beside him knocking sunflower seeds like a normal person.

After all, his identity was kept there, and unless he took the initiative to find someone to drink, others would not dare to find him casually.

But in this way, Sun Shoufa, Cao Wenyao, Lu Xiu, Lu Xian and others suffered.

In order to show goodwill, they can be said to be skeptical of life being drunk.

On the contrary, Cao Wenzhao saw that the situation was not good, and shortly after the banquet started, he quietly withdrew from the wine table with the words of the tour camp.

So except for Zhu Youjian, Cao Wenzhao, and the generals in charge of guarding the camp, the rest of the Ming army generals experienced the feeling of being almost drunk to death.

After finally vomiting, Sun Shoufa and others got drunk in the snow, and then they were signaled by Zhu Youjian, and were carried back to the barracks by Jin Yiwei's Tiqi to rest.

On the contrary, when they were carried back to the barracks, Cao Wenzhao, who ran out with the name of the battalion patrol, rode his horse to the front of the courtyard. After getting off his horse and bowing to Zhu Youjian, he took out a handwritten letter from his chest:
"Your Highness, the matter in the capital is serious again."

As he spoke, he handed out the manuscript with both hands, and Zhu Youjian took it and opened it.

This handwriting was written by Lu Wenzhao who returned to the capital, and it mainly talked about the party struggle in the capital.

After Zhao Nanxing used Cui Yingyuan's help to attack a group of Qi, Chu, Zhe, Xuankun's backbone except Cui Chengxiu and others, Qi, Chu, Zhe, Xuankun naturally did not suffer.

Yao Zongwen and others united with officials from Jiangnan forces and took the initiative to build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian in order to please Wei Zhongxian.

Cui Chengxiu, who is in charge of Jingcha, also began to retaliate.

On October [-]th, Xu Dahua, the prime minister of Dali in the eunuch party, was instructed by Cui Chengxiu to take the initiative to falsely accuse Wang Wenyan, the secretary of the Donglin party in the Changchao, and even Zuo Guangdou and Wei Dazhong.

On the [-]th, Zhongshu Wang Wenyan was thrown into Zhenfusi Prison, where he was accused by Yang Huan and tortured...

"Ask someone to write a letter for me, telling Yang Huan, I don't care how Wei Zhongxian orders him, in short, if one of the people on my list is damaged, he is the only one to ask."

"As for the rest of the Donglin Party members who are doing nothing, they will all be dispatched to Yunnan and Nanyang."

Seeing that the party struggle had come to Wang Wenyan's step according to his plan, Zhu Youjian immediately crumpled up the handwriting, turned around and walked into the garrison mansion, and explained to Cao Wenzhao.

"Yes!" Cao Wenzhao responded, and the so-called list Zhu Youjian said was the capable officials in Donglin.

This group of people Zhu Youjian is still useful, especially people like Zhao Nanxing, Zuo Guangdou, Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua, and Yuan Keli.

But Zhu Youjian didn't intend to kill those Donglin talking guns, but wanted to throw them to Nanyang and Yunnan.

More than two hundred Donglin civil servants, plus thousands of petty officials involved, are all real scholars.

Zhu Youjian asked them to go to Nanyang and Yunnan to spread Chinese culture and Chinese characters, instead of solving them with a knife.

As for whether they will secretly carry private goods while teaching?
Hehe... The Jin Yiwei of Nanzhen Fusi has been watching them all the time...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also returned to the meeting hall, and Cao Wenzhao also walked in.

But when he walked in, Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said:

"Forget it, you go back and rest first, I estimate that Su Nang's envoy will arrive at the mouth of the tiger tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"I want to see what this messenger wants to say..."

Zhu Youjian squinted his eyes, his eyes were full of jokes.

He didn't expect that the news of the Mongols was so backward that they didn't even know how strong the Ming army's martial arts is now.

Thinking this way, after Cao Wenzhao left, Zhu Youjian also returned to the bedroom with a hint of drunkenness, and took a short rest overnight.

In the next few days, he was either monitoring news from the capital, or chatting with Saihan about the terrain and situation in Moxi and Mobei, and gradually learned about some things in Mobei and Moxi.

Generally speaking, Moxi is not peaceful now.

Oala (Oirat) and the Outer Khalkha Mongolia in Mobei fought fiercely, and a lot of contradictions accumulated internally because of the perennial battles.

In addition, Baibagas, the leader of the Wara League, advocated Tibetan Buddhism and promoted the Yellow Sect in the entire northern Xinjiang and Moxi areas, so he was not welcomed by the lords of various tribes who had a lot of greenery.

At this time, Oala had gradually split into four tribes: Junggar, Heshuote, Turhut, and Durbert. The strength of each tribe ranged from [-] to [-]. .

As for the Yarkand in the south, it has also split into dozens of khanates, large and small, and the Waikalkha in the north is still the same as the information obtained by Zhu Youjian. about.

Generally speaking, the forces in the entire Western Regions and Mobei are in a state of fragmentation. If there is no severe drought in the Little Ice River, Zhu Youjian can completely push through in a few years.

But now that the drought in the Little Ice River has not passed, he has no idea of ​​moving west or north for the time being. What he wants most at the moment is to recover Nanyang and Hetao first, and relocate the population.

After that, under the condition of stabilizing the Ming Dynasty, wait for the recovery of Liaodong's people's power, and then organize a wave of expeditions to take away Jianlu.

"In your opinion, with the [-] cavalry under my command, how many cavalry can I attack?"

Walking in the snow with Saihan, Zhu Youjian asked a question, and Saihan said after hearing it:

"If His Highness trusts, more than [-] people from the Ulutt Division can serve His Highness as an army grazing herd."

"As long as the flock is enough, and we prepare beans and grains, His Highness's [-] cavalry are enough to sweep across the Great Wall."

Saihan wasn't bragging, he dared to say that because he had seen clearly the family background of Shangzhi's [-] cavalry in the past few days.

First, there were [-] spare rifles, followed by two riding guns, and finally, the most terrifying thing was the one thousand five-jin Yanshan Great General's guns.

Their own army knows that because the Ming army has not used firearms to mix troops out of the fortress all year round, this also leads to the possibility that the horses may be frightened once the firearms are too loud during the battle.

Once the horses are frightened, the formation of the army will be chaotic, and at this time, once the straight iron cavalry equipped to the teeth confronts the formation, it will be impossible for a hundred thousand cavalry to resist.

Of course, the Hu Qi mentioned here is the Hu Qi without armor.

As for why Houjin didn't have this trouble in the fight between the Ming army, it is mainly due to Nurhachi's training of the Eight Banners, which is all training for the Ming army's tactics.

Nurhachi set up the horse farm next to the fire gun factory, the cannon casting field, and the blacksmith shop, so the post-gold war horses were frightened all the year round, so they naturally adapted to the artillery.

However, in the First Battle of the Liao Dynasty, the Ming army severely injured the most elite [-] horse infantry of Jianlu, and captured a large number of artillery-trained war horses. I am afraid that Houjin has not recovered until now.

Zhu Youjian was also clear about all this, and after hearing Saihan's words, he first analyzed the logistics methods of the Ming army's previous fortress departures.

In Hongwu and Yongle in the early years of the country, and the Northern Expedition in the Zhengtong period, most of them were transported by civilians, so there were a lot of people dispatched.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were only a handful of times the army went out of the fortress, and the distance they penetrated was limited. It only needed to carry a full month of military rations, and there was no logistical pressure.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, no one tried nomadic logistics, because this model was too slow, and when the distance between the army and the nomads was far, they would face the possibility of food shortages.

Besides, nomadic pastoralism is not possible everywhere, so Saihan is asking Zhu Youjian to follow the path of the grassland people.

If this path can work for the Ming army and guarantee logistics, then the logistical pressure on Zhu Youjian to recover the Northeast, Western Regions and Monan and Mobei will be greatly reduced.

But even so, the luggage that should be organized still needs to be organized, but it doesn't need to be as large as before.

At this point, it is still necessary to develop horse-drawn carriages to connect the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the northwest.

As long as he can transport grain along the Huaihe River, Daming can actually control the Western Regions.

Things like carriage rails don't need too much steel, they only need thick iron to wrap hardwood to keep it running.

As long as such an iron-wood track is built, it only takes more than ten days to transport grain from the Huaihe River to Jiayuguan, and if two horses are used to pull it, it can pull a heavy object of forty stones.

Two horses go back and forth for a month, and at most they can eat two stone beans, and the remaining thirty-eight stones can be used to transport grain.

Based on the number of draft horses and rough horses that Zhu Youjian had on hand, tens of thousands of them were randomly assigned.

If you use a horse-drawn carriage to transport grain, you can transport millions of stones to Jiayuguan in a month...

only……

"Iron materials are a bit difficult to handle..."

Zhu Youjian had a headache because he had investigated the ironworks run by the Daming government.

The government-run ironworks only operate a hundred days a year, producing tens of thousands of tons of iron each year, and if it is fully fired, it will produce at most [-] to [-] tons of iron each year.

[-] to [-] tons of iron materials have to be used to make cannons, firecrackers, and armor, and the rest will be used to build iron and wood tracks. I am afraid that five or six hundred miles of roads can be laid every year.

It will take at least five years to lay the road from Henan to Jiayuguan...

"It doesn't matter, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge head. If it doesn't work, wrap the wood with iron sheets. Anyway, Xiyi has done this before..."

"Your Highness..."

Just when Zhu Youjian was thinking about "cutting corners", Cao Wenzhao, who was in armor, brought people to the courtyard, and bowed to him after a few steps:
"Your Highness, the envoy of Su Nang is here."

"Huh? Okay, just to see what ridiculous things this Su Nang can say." Hearing the arrival of Su Nang's envoy, Zhu Youjian also had a playful smile on his face.

"Your Highness, the last general will not show up?" Saihan said cautiously, and Zhu Youjian also nodded and said:

"Go back to your room and rest, I'll go see how Su Nang's envoy will perform."

After all, Zhu Youjian took Cao Wenzhao and others to leave, and headed for the meeting hall of the garrison mansion.

And when he led people through the long corridor to the side door of the meeting hall and entered, he immediately saw the envoy of Su Nang holding a scepter, and the envoy of Su Nang was also amazed at Zhu Youjian's maturity and appearance.

For the envoy who was only over five feet tall, Zhu Youjian was very tall, not to mention handsome and resolute, and his bearing was also very extraordinary, so he knew at a glance that this person was King Qi of the Ming Dynasty.

"Finally, what did Su Nang tell you to say?"

Zhu Youjian Dama Jindao sat in the main seat, while Sun Shoufa's Cao Wenzhao stood sideways on the left and right, and there were dozens of Ming army generals on the left and right sides of the meeting hall.

The people in armor and Zhu Youjian in a blue round-neck robe brought great pressure to the messenger, and this was only part of the pressure.

His real pressure still came from the [-] straight troops he had seen.

Since it was the snow season, the war horses were all in the stables, so the envoy didn't know that these [-] people were cavalry, otherwise they would never have carried out Su Nang's order.

It was precisely because he didn't know, so he bit the bullet, resisted the pressure and said:
"His Royal Highness King Qi, Su Nang Khan hopes that Daming will give up the set, and canonize him as the new Shunyi King, acknowledging that he is the Great Khan of the Tumote Department."

"If you can meet our requirements, we will guarantee that these two films will not infringe Mingtu again."

"Otherwise, you will have to face the southward movement of three of my cavalry with more than [-] cavalry, and Guanzhong will become Su Nang Khan's horse herding land..."

"Pfft..." Zhu Youjian couldn't help but sneered when he heard the words "more than one hundred thousand cavalry", and his smile instantly made all the generals in the hall burst into laughter.

Everyone knows the civil and military affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and the most direct generals are the most rebellious.

Now [-] Shangzhi Iron Cavalry stationed troops to kill Hukou, only [-] miles away from Bansheng City, only need Zhu Youjian's order, and [-] Shangzhi Iron Cavalry will come to Bansheng City within three days.

In such a situation, Su Nang is still bragging about the nonsense of "crossing the Yellow River and drinking the Wei River".

In this case, how can Zhu Youjian and the generals not laugh?

"Hehe..." Zhu Youjian gradually put away his sneer, but with a contemptuous expression on his face, he said to the messenger:
"There is no need to say more about the more than one hundred thousand cavalry, you can tell Su Nang for me..."

"After the snow season is over, [-] soldiers from the Ming Dynasty will be recruited soon, and we will clear Hetao and Ningxia."

"As for Su Nang, tell him to stay in Bansheng City."

"Your Highness..." The envoy became anxious when he saw this, and said quickly:
"Don't you really care about the lives and deaths of millions of people in the Northwest?"

"I don't care!" Zhu Youjian's voice suddenly became louder, and all the generals of the Ming army also closed their mouths at this moment. There was a dead silence inside and outside the meeting hall, and the sound of people's breathing could be heard quietly.

The messenger was also stunned by Zhu Youjian's sudden action, and did not dare to do anything else for a while, and Zhu Youjian also put away his smile, with cold eyes in his eyes, and suppressed his anger and said:
"In the first month of the second year of Tianqi, Huo Luochi took advantage of my Daming's suppression of the rebellion in the southwest, and led troops into Yan'an, Huanghuayu and other places, going deep six hundred miles, killing tens of thousands of people in my Ming Dynasty."

"In July of the first year of Tianqi, Huo Luochi and Ji Neng knocked on the border of Ningxia, and captured thousands of people from our Ming Dynasty..."

"In February of the first year of Tianqi, Ji Neng and Caritas took advantage of our Daming Liaodong rebellion, personally led troops to attack Guan Guyuan, killed more than [-] of our soldiers, and plundered more than [-] of our people..."

"In September of the first year of Taichang, the Hetao and Ningxia Fifty-Four Branches took advantage of the death of Emperor Shenzong Xian and Emperor Guangzongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to lead their troops to plunder Gansu and Su, taking away more than [-] people."

"Forty-seven years in Wanli..."

"Forty-four years in Wanli..."

"Forty-one years in Wanli..."

Zhu Youjian recounted all the crimes committed by the two parts of Hetao. Hearing this, the envoy felt hot all over and his mouth was dry. He didn't know how to refute for a while.

Under his uneasiness, finally, it seemed that Zhu Youjian was tired of talking, he stopped, leaned on the chair, and said to the messenger with a flat face:
"Killed so many people, kidnapped so many people, now you say you can control them? Stop fighting? It's too late..."

With a cold face, Zhu Youjian spoke again while the atmosphere froze:

"Since Su Nang can't control them, let Daming help discipline them."

"Your Highness, Emperor Mu Zong once had a relationship with my department, I Da Khan..." The envoy wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhu Youjian:
"When I answered the tribute, the agreement between Emperor Muzong and King Shunyi was naturally valid, but the agreement also stipulated that King Shunyi should control Hetao and Ningxia."

"Now Bu Shitu can't control it, and Su Nang can't control it either. Should they be allowed to plunder me in the Northwest of Ming Dynasty? Has the previous account been written off?"

"Will not……"

"Da Ming must repay favors, and revenge must be revenged. The people of our country should not be humiliated, and those who humiliate will destroy their country."

"Before the dust rises in Hetao next year, there will be no Hetao and Ningxia in the world..."

Zhu Youjian's attitude was tough, and the messenger was also angered by Zhu Youjian's words, and retorted the threat:

"You will regret it! If you are still so stubborn, then we have no choice but to send troops..."

"Okay!" Zhu Youjian interrupted the messenger, got up and said with a hearty smile:

"You tell Su Nang for me to prepare a coffin for him. If he is a little courageous when he loses the battle and dies in the coffin, Gu will bury him under the shadowy mountain."

"If you are cowardly, don't worry. I am a state of etiquette in the Ming Dynasty. He went to the capital with Gu, danced your barbarian Hu dance in front of the Taimiao, and made a big ceremony with my ancestors in Ming Dynasty. Sorry, that Gu I can still reward him with an official position, so that he can live comfortably in Daming."

"Humph!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's humiliation, the messenger left angrily, but was stopped by the general at the door when he was about to leave the meeting hall.

Only then did he remember that he was on Zhu Youjian's territory, and Zhu Youjian waved his hand to signal the general to put away his sword, and when the envoy turned his head to look at him, his face suddenly became gloomy:

"Tell Su Nang and Huo Luochi, see you on the battlefield..."

(End of this chapter)