Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 260 Recovering Duogan
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"Bang bang bang-"

On April [-]th, outside the west gate of Haibao in the west of Xining City, about [-] high-ranking iron cavalry were gathered here for training.

They ran back and forth, repeatedly practicing various tactics such as confrontation and strong charge.

Although the snow has stopped and the time has entered summer, the snow on the ground and the white snow in the mountains in the distance shows no signs of melting.

It's just that compared to the white snow, the Xining soldiers are excited about what is happening in Zhenhai Fort...

"Tibetan Jabul, come to pay homage to His Royal Highness King Qi..."

"Tibetan Sina, come to pay homage to His Royal Highness King Qi..."

"Tibetan Dajiu Shun, come to pay homage to His Royal Highness King Qi..."

"Tibetan Shenzhong, come to pay homage to His Royal Highness King Qi..."

In the Zhenhai Fort Garrison Mansion, when a Tibetan leader who was not fluent in Chinese bowed and saluted, Zhu Youjian, who was in the main seat, nodded slightly to express his understanding, and did not show any particular concern.

He glanced at the many leaders and calculated carefully. There were about twenty-six of them, and four of them belonged to the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai.

This group of people is almost all Tibetan and Mongolian leaders in western Sichuan and the entire Qinghai region.

In other words, here is the leader of most of the Dogandus.

The reason why it is said to be more than half, not all, is very simple. The remaining half and many forces in Uzang have already left the jurisdiction of Ming Dynasty.

For this, Zhu Youjian was not angry at all. After all, Daming had very low requirements for Qinghai-Tibet, as long as there was no disturbance.

However, Daming can be said to have very strict control over the Tibetans in Yanbian, and as a place with the most contacts with Tibetans, Xining can be said to have a great appeal to most Tibetan tribes in the Duogan area.

This kind of appeal did not start from the early Ming Dynasty, because the Xining Guard in the early Ming Dynasty had not been harassed by the Qing captives in Qinghai, and its main function was not to prevent captives but to recruit the Tibetan tribes of Duogan and Wusi.

Therefore, the defense level of Xining Guard at that time was not considered high, and Da Ming did not focus on this place.

However, with the beginning of the middle Wanli period, the three tribes of Mobei Khalkha and Hetao, as well as Oala and other tribes continued to invade, resulting in the emergence of many Mongolian tribes in Qinghai.

Due to lack of strength, the local Tibetan tribes in Qinghai were constantly bullied by the Mongolian tribes who invaded Qinghai, and they played to the Ming Dynasty many times.

However, at that time, Daming was in the midst of the Battle of Korea and the Battle of Ningxia in the three major campaigns of Wanli, and there was no time to take care of them.

However, with the end of the two major battles, the local Mongolian tribes in Qinghai still did not restrain themselves at this time, and even began to attack Daming.

After hearing the news, Emperor Wanli ordered Tian Le, governor of Gansu Province, to conquer Qinglu.

Tian Le is not stupid, knowing that the strength of the Ming army in Qinghai is not enough to fight against tens of thousands of cavalry Qinglu, so before the battle, he sent people to contact everywhere, and recruited tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers and horses in Duogan to encircle and suppress Qinghai Mongolia.

If there were not nearly [-] Tibetan soldiers to assist in the battle, it would have been more difficult for the Ming army to defeat the superior Mongolian army with inferior forces.

Therefore, when reporting meritorious service later, the Ministry of War also admitted that "in this battle, the interception of the officers and soldiers was the first achievement, and the flanking attack by the crowd was also a special achievement."

The battle of the three victories in Huangzhong basically hit several powerful Mongolian tribes in Qinghai in the [-]rd year of Wanli.

Tribes such as Tumedyongshaobu and Wacitabunang did not dare to stay where they were, and quickly migrated to the west of Yanchi, and Huoluochi also crossed the Dunhetao in the north of the Yellow River.

The main tribes that provoked the border trouble fled far away, and the small tribes that remained there were weak. The Ming Dynasty took the opportunity to appease them, and all the tribes reattached to the Ming Dynasty.

Tian Le also took the opportunity to use the majesty established by these three victories to try to build a city in the Duogan area and directly govern Duogan.

It's a pity that not long after the war ended, Yang Yinglong of Bozhou rebelled, and most of Tian Le's troops were transferred, and the matter ended without a problem.

However, the political and military significance of the three victories in Huangzhong remained until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like right now, since Zhu Youjian arrived in Xiningwei a month ago, the first military order he issued was to summon officials and tribal leaders at all levels, such as the Uzangdu Division, the Russian Force Military and Civil Mansion, and the Duogandu Division.

As a result, he waited for a month. As he expected, most of the forces were shirking. Only the leaders of the [-] Tibetan and Mongolian tribes near Xining chose to come to Xining City.

None of them are fools, so they naturally knew that His Royal Highness King Qi had pacified the three major parts of Hetao three months ago, beheading tens of thousands of people.

No one wanted to touch his bad head at this time. After seeing Zhu Youjian motioning them to sit down, all the leaders of the [-] ministries took their seats cautiously.

But after they were seated, Zhu Youjian also got to the point:

"Before the She'an Rebellion, the twenty-two ministries of the collectors chose to respond to my Ming Dynasty's call, and tens of thousands of ministries came out to fight the rebellion for my Daming."

"Gu came here this time, there are two things."

"The first thing is to reward the twenty-two parts, and the second thing is to recruit and reset Dogan."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian glanced at the people in the hall, and then raised his hand to take twenty-six thin volumes from Sun Chuanting's hand beside him.

"These documents are only measures to reform the Dogandus. You can read them first and then make suggestions."

"If you have any suggestions, you can safely and boldly mention them. After all, Gu is not a ghost."

When Zhu Youjian said this, there was a hint of a smile, and his sunny and refreshing appearance was hard to imagine. He was the one who leveled the three major parts of Hetao.

However, it was a matter of profit. Although the Mongolian and Tibetan leaders of the [-]th Ministry were afraid of Zhu Youjian, they still bit the bullet and took the document, carefully reading it.

The booklet is written in Chinese, Tibetan and Mongolian, which can be read clearly by everyone.

There are not many terms above, but each one is so harsh that it makes one's scalp tingle.

First of all, Zhu Youjian asked them to hand over military power, land, and pastures, and secondly, liberate all slaves.

But it's not that Zhu Youjian is blindly asking for it, on the contrary, he also gave these leaders a temptation that they couldn't refuse.

The leaders of the twenty-six ministries will all become generals of the Ming Dynasty, and they will move their families to Hexi, where Zhu Youjian will give each of them [-] mu of arable land or [-] mu of pasture.

Secondly, they can command the soldiers and horses of the Gongwei Battalion and take office in the Northern Army Governor's Mansion.

In terms of the reformed rules of the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies, the chief governor is the first rank, the governor is the first rank, the left and right counselors are the second rank, the chief soldier is the second rank, and the general is the third rank.

The salary of the third rank of the governor's office of the five armies is two thousand taels of silver per year, and this amount is also written in the document.

Many tribal leaders gasped when they saw the annual salary of two thousand taels of silver.

They were not as wealthy as the ranchers of the later generations. The biggest leader, Jabul, had only more than [-] tribesmen and [-] soldiers under his command. They were engaged in farming barley and grazing.

The number of yaks in the tribe is no more than [-], the number of sheep is no more than [-], and the number of horses is only over [-].

It sounds like a lot, but most of them belong to the little nobles, and only one tenth of them belong to him.

Although the annual salary of two thousand taels of silver may not seem much, but after moving to the mainland, this money will allow him to enjoy a better life than the current life.

In addition, the [-] mu of pasture is enough to keep some of his cattle, sheep and horses.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, it is obviously a wise move to give up the military power of only two thousand stragglers and accept the transfer from Ming Dynasty.

If Jabul can get such a big benefit, the other leaders will naturally get even greater benefits.

Therefore, at this time, most of them are in a state of excitement.

The only thing they worry about is the whereabouts of the little nobles below.

But when they continued to read, they realized that Zhu Youjian had even arranged for the little nobles to go.

They will become the guerrilla generals of the Ming Dynasty, with a fourth-rank official position, an annual salary of [-] taels per person, and [-] mu of arable land, or [-] mu of grassland.

Under each leader, there are five quotas, which means that the twenty-six Mongolian and Tibetan leaders can bring back one hundred and thirty guerrilla generals.

In this way, it means that Zhu Youjian needs to spend nearly [-] mu of arable land, or nearly [-] grasslands, and nearly [-] taels of silver every year to appease them.

At first glance, this is not a good deal, but Zhu Youjian does not feel that he is losing money by exchanging such a little thing for the ownership of Qinghai.

To put it bluntly, this little thing is just less than half a year's annual income of the Shibo Department.

It is undoubtedly very cost-effective to use this little thing to exchange hundreds of thousands of herdsmen and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in Duogan.

"how?"

Zhu Youjian looked at the many leaders of Duogan in the hall, and asked enthusiastically. When everyone saw this, although they wanted to agree, they still resisted the temptation and bowed:
"Your Highness, please allow me to go back and discuss with the people."

"This is natural." After hearing that not only the [-] Tibetan tribes agreed, but also the four Mongolian tribes that he regarded as enemies, Zhu Youjian was a little happy.

"Okay, I'm busy with official business, so the banquet will be accompanied by Cao Zongbing and Sun Zongbing. Please think about it after you enjoy yourself."

"His Royal Highness, I am ashamed..."

Zhu Youjian got up and motioned to leave, and the leaders of the [-]th Ministry also bowed to apologize.

"Wen Zhao, abide by the law, entertain you well for me."

"Yes!"

With one word of explanation, Zhu Youjian left the meeting hall, and Sun Chuanting followed closely behind.

After they left, Cao Wenzhao and Sun Shoufa took the leaders of the twenty-six ministries and the hundreds of guards they brought with them to eat and drink in the meeting hall.

Just comparing them, after Zhu Youjian took Sun Chuanting back to the backyard, he asked:

"How many of them do you think would agree?"

"About ninety percent..." Sun Chuanting gave an uncertain answer, and continued:

"Most of the tribes who participated in the three victories in Huangzhong have no problem. After all, our Ming army stationed [-] troops here, and they dare not refuse."

"The ones that really need to be concerned about are the three tribes near Uzang."

Sun Chuanting told his conjecture, and his conjecture was similar to what Zhu Youjian thought.

In fact, in Zhu Youjian's view, the problem of Qinghai-Tibet is very simple. You don't even need to go straight up. You only need to expand the Duogan Camp and expand the number of people in the Duogan Camp to nine battalions, which is enough to recover Qinghai-Tibet.

If the Duogan Battalion is used to send troops, then the entire Qinghai-Tibet can be taken down by the method of border herding and fighting, because the forces above Qinghai-Tibet are really too weak at the moment.

What can be pulled out of Qinghai-Tibet is only tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers in leather armor and no armor. I am afraid that even [-] people with iron armor cannot be pulled out.

This also led to Gushi Khan easily taking over half of Qinghai-Tibet in history.

Gushi Khan's strength was at best similar to that of Huo Luochi, not even comparable to Su Nang.

Zhu Youjian wasn't even going to take action himself, he just needed to stabilize Dogan, then expand the ten battalions of Dogan, and then send Cao Wenzhao or Qin Bangping and others to go out.

Now it seems that the difficulty of stabilizing Dogan is far easier than he thought.

Most of the leaders were already moved, because they had no intention of fighting the Ming army.

Even among the twenty-six tribes, there are three chieftains living in the big and small Jinchuan.

After all, the three departments at the moment don't have the funds and time to build bunkers, and besides, the current Ming army is not a waste green camp during the Qianlong period.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was difficult to fight Jinchuan, big and small, because a large number of bunkers were built in the local area, and raid tactics were added.

However, the Qing army in the Qianlong period...

Zhu Youjian estimated that Nurhachi, Huangtaiji, and the rest of the group who had been disabled by him were thrown over. As long as they had artillery, they could blow up Junggar and Jinchuan several times, not to mention the so-called Gurkha ( Nepal).

This is not because he looked down on the Qing Dynasty, but the peak of the Qing Dynasty's horizontal comparison of force, which was actually during the Songjin Battle commanded by Huang Taiji.

Artillery, horse and infantry are also world-class, not to mention the quality and strategy of the generals, and the political means of the ruler.

The so-called tyrannical Sauron soldiers are being used as dungeons by Amin at the moment.

Comparing this way, we can also understand why the big and small Jinchuan are so obedient in front of Zhu Youjian.

"Recover Duogan, use the Tibetan soldiers from the plateau to train the seven battalions, and then I will let Cao Wenzhao lead the army to attack Uzang. What do you think?"

After lamenting the changes in the vicissitudes of life, Zhu Youjian began to ask Sun Chuanting's views on Uszang.

Regarding this, Sun Chuanting was also silent for a moment, and after thinking about it, he replied:
"General Cao led ten battalions to crusade against Uzang. The subordinate officials didn't think there was anything wrong with it. They just thought that he might not be able to control the ten battalions. Giving him ten battalions would be better than giving him five battalions. well played."

Sun Chuanting pointed out a problem, that is, Cao Wenzhao did not have the ability to control an army of [-].

Instead of giving Cao Wenzhao ten battalions with [-] soldiers and horses, it is better to have more than [-] soldiers and horses in the fifth battalion to fight well.

This, perhaps, is what he saw from the double set battle.

Cao Wenzhao has a violent personality and doesn't have so many careful thoughts, which means that he is easily ambushed and impulsive.

As a commander, impulsive character is a defect, and as a vanguard, impulsiveness is also a defect, but it is unlikely to kill the three armies.

"You mean to let Qin Bangping restrain Cao Wenzhao?"

Zhu Youjian asked tentatively, but Sun Chuanting hesitated to speak, and finally could only bite the bullet and say:
"Even Dudu Qin, I'm afraid he can't command the Tenth Battalion well..."

"..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian was silent.

Commanding the tenth battalion and controlling the third battalion are two different concepts. Temperance is normal, as long as you play well, Zhu Youjian believes that Qin Bangping can do this.

But commanding the tenth battalion means wielding it like an arm, and such a talent is also the talent of a commander.

Qin Bangping's ability to control the Tenth Battalion at this age is already very good, but his age and physical aging hindered his ability to learn.

If he had such a platform when he was young, perhaps he could achieve the leadership that Sun Chuanting said.

"What if I keep you?" Zhu Youjian wanted to see how Sun Chuanting would answer, but he didn't want Sun Chuanting to answer:

"Even if you are a low-level official, you only have half of your ability right now."

Sun Chuanting's answer was very sincere. After all, he calculated carefully and only led an army of [-] to fight two battles, and they were not tough battles.

But he is very confident, as long as he is given another chance, he can reach this level.

"You don't want Gu to lead the army here, do you?" Zhu Youjian looked at Sun Chuanting suspiciously, and Sun Chuanting seemed hesitant to speak.

"Okay, needless to say, I know." Seeing Sun Chuanting's appearance, Zhu Youjian knew that he wanted to say that he didn't have that ability either.

But Sun Chuanting never thought about it, but shook his head and said: "No, His Highness has such ability, but His Highness can't lead troops up."

"The plateau is dangerous. Although His Highness is good at cavalry combat, if something goes wrong, Ming Dynasty will be in danger."

"I thought you were caring about me..." Zhu Youjian replied helplessly when he heard this, and then said with a headache:
"Then who do you mean to call?"

"Man Du Du, Heng Jiu, Sun Du Du, Qi Du Du, Xiong Jinglue, all five of them are fine." Sun Chuanting spoke confidently, but Zhu Youjian gave him a speechless glance.

Sun Chuanting actually felt that Hong Chengchou was better than him in leading the army, which Zhu Youjian did not expect.

"It is estimated that this is his self-effacing. In fact, he has the confidence to lead the tenth battalion to defeat Qinghai-Tibet."

Zhu Youjian thought about it, and then said:

"Mangui, I need him to deter the Northwest, Sun Yingyuan needs to guard against Jianlu, Hong Chengchou needs to prepare to recover Annan, and Qi Jin also needs to accompany him, that guy Xiong Tingbi is old, so let's go to Liaodong honestly."

Having said that, Zhu Youjian glanced at Sun Chuanting:

"Combating on a plateau is a rare experience. If you don't mind returning to the capital for a year or so before being sent to Xining by me, then you can try..."

"Your Majesty is willing!" Sun Chuanting saluted and answered loudly.

He is not willing to give up this opportunity to recover Wusi Tibet. Compared with this opportunity to be famous in history, what is the back and forth?
"Okay..." Seeing that Sun Chuanting dared to shoulder the burden, Zhu Youjian nodded in approval, and then said:

"I will report to Brother Huang, and leave you to settle Duogan's matter in Xining before returning to the capital."

"I'll leave the military training to Cao Wenzhao, and he's pretty good at training."

"As for the matter of Duogan, I plan to make Duogan a separate province, move the Tibetans to Hexi, and move the Han people from Shaanxi to the Qinghai area."

Zhu Youjian has his own plans. First, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans will not disturb the ethnic proportions in Hexi. Second, it is necessary to increase the number of Han people in Qinghai.

Qinghai is not so bitterly cold, and the few river valleys are still very suitable for life.

The Han people can also learn to herd herds, and then move further to the Uzbek area in the future, and move the people of Uzbek to the Western Regions and Yunnan.

The so-called bad environment is nothing more than wealth is not attractive enough.

Zhu Youjian didn't believe it. If he opened a family with a [-]-acre grassland relocation condition, would there be people who would resist the relocation?

Among other things, there are more than [-] Han Chinese in the northwestern plateau of Yunnan and Yunnan alone. Migrating them is enough to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Qinghai-Tibet.

Don't forget that apart from them, there are other Sinicized minorities, such as the Naxi people like the Mu family.

What's more, Zhu Youjian doesn't need them to stay on the plateau for the rest of their lives. After winning the three propagandas and six comforts, enfeoffing and enfeoffing overseas feudal vassals, the army can go down to the plateau, and the people will live in the Ganges Plain.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian also returned to the study with his hands behind his back, while Sun Chuanting bowed to his back to thank him.

After Zhu Youjian left completely, Sun Chuanting did not regard himself as a literati, but lowered his figure, went to the meeting hall and started a dialogue with some Tibetan leaders who knew Chinese.

From their mouths, he learned about the situation of Dogan and Uzang.

The understanding of these situations gave Sun Chuanting a better solution in his mind.

He asked people to write down the news, and after the banquet was over, he personally sent the leaders out of the garrison and went to the post to rest.

After finishing everything, he returned to his room and began to study how to solve the Qinghai-Tibet issue.

In the next few days, he went back and forth between Qinghai and Zhenhaibao, and some tribal leaders near Xining also sent envoys a few days after returning to the tribe, expressing their willingness to join.

In just half a month, nineteen of the twenty-six books that came to seek refuge at the beginning have already come to attach.

But Zhu Youjian's mind was not on this anymore, just because the heavy snow that had stopped started to fall again...

"Is it still snowing in Shaanxi and Hetao..."

In the study of Zhenhai Fort Garrison Mansion, Zhu Youjian looked at the snow outside the window, feeling very uneasy, and Jin Yiwei Qianhu who stood in front of him also said:

"The heavy snow has not stopped, and it continues to fall. Many places have delayed the busy farming. Now only the winter snow in Xi'an Prefecture has melted, and the people have not delayed the reclamation."

"That is to say, except for Xi'an Mansion, it's snowing all over Shaanxi?" Zhu Youjian had an ugly expression, and Jin Yiwei Qianhu could only bite the bullet and said:
"Indeed..."

"..." Hearing the other party's confirmation, Zhu Youjian couldn't tell what it felt like.

It's already May [-]th, and logically speaking, it's midsummer, but it's been snowing non-stop, causing the whole of Shaanxi to suffer from white disasters.

"Is there any problem elsewhere?" Zhu Youjian continued to ask behind the desk, and Qianhu also said:
"There hasn't been a single rain in the Jinan and Qingzhou areas of Shandong since the beginning of spring, and last year's winter was full of little snow."

"Short snow...no rain..." Zhu Youjian frowned unconsciously listening to the other party's words.

This posture looks like it is going to be dry, and the insect eggs will not be frozen to death if there is little snow in winter, shouldn't it be...

Thinking of the possibility of a locust plague breaking out in such a situation, Zhu Youjian immediately ordered Qianhu:

"Let people call the water of the Yellow River and Jishui. If there is a drought in Jinan, tell Yuan Keli to pay attention to preventing locust plagues."

"Humble post takes orders..."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian stopped talking, Qianhu retreated immediately, and Zhu Youjian also walked to the window after a moment of contemplation, looked at the heavy snow and sighed:

"Just finished playing the Loop, is there going to be another severe drought and heavy snow..."

　There is one more at four o'clock in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)