Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 264 The Exciting Clan Court Discussion

"Ugh~~~~"

At the end of July, with the sound of Humai sounding on the grassland, on the grassland at the foot of the southern foot of Harawen Mountain (Daxing'an Mountains), thousands of miles away from North Zhili, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered here and ran wantonly.

In a large tent that can accommodate hundreds of people, Lin Danhan, who was sitting on the main seat, raised his wine bowl:
"Ming people have been bullying me for too long, this time we are taking a breath of anger!"

When he said this, Tuxietu Khan, Chechen Khan and Zasaktu Khan from the three tribes of Outer Khalkha were sitting in the big tent.

As well as Bo Yunai of the Harqin tribe, and his son Subudi.

In addition to these five people, Huang Taiji, Fan Wencheng, Fan Wencai, Hu Erhan, Jierhalang and other five people who shaved money rattails were more conspicuous, as well as the leader of Horqin leader Oba beside them.

In short, when these people all appear, it means that the Mongolian tribes that exist in Monan, Mobei and Modong have gathered together.

Lin Danhan glanced at everything in the tent and was very satisfied. At this time, he finally felt that he seemed to be a Mongolian Khan.

It's just that he also knows that the reason why this group of people can get together is not because of his own strength, but because Daming is too powerful and puts too much pressure on the grassland, so they have to stick together.

And the reason why they hug each other is also because of one person...

Thinking of this, Lin Danhan took a special look at Huang Taiji.

At this time, Huang Taiji raised his wine bowl with a smile on his face, as if he didn't care that he was inferior to Lin Danhan.

When Zhu Youjian sent troops to Hetao, Huang Taiji was helping Horqin in the Horqin Grassland at the eastern foot of Harawen Mountain to help Horqin resist the invasion of Lindan Khan and the three major tribes of Mobei.

It was more than three months after the Battle of Hetao, and after Zhu Youjian went to Xiningwei, he learned the news that the three major tribes in Hetao had been wiped out.

When he heard the news, his first reaction was that Da Jin could no longer continue to fight with Lin Danhan.

So after asking Nurhachi for instructions, he took Auba to Lin Danhan's military camp, presented thousands of cows and tens of thousands of sheep as peace gifts, and took the opportunity to propose an alliance.

When hearing this idea, Lin Danhan's first reaction was not to think but to directly dismiss it.

Seeing Huang Taiji softened when he was young and energetic, he thought it was his own military power that suppressed Huang Taiji.

However, when Huang Taiji said something to him, he immediately changed his mind:
"Hutuktu Khan (Khan), now the Ming army has regained Hetao, and for more than two hundred years, once the Ming army regained Hetao, the Northern Expedition will be the first to bear the brunt. Do you still want to fight among yourself at this time?"

Just a simple sentence, Lin Danhan's thoughts were shaken, and then Huang Taiji hit the railroad while it was hot:
"I would like to ask the five tribes of Horqin to regard you as the Great Khan of Mongolia, and send troops to help you wipe out the fried flowers in Inner Khalkha, so that Harqin can return to your embrace."

After saying this sentence, Lin Dan Khan couldn't stand at all, just because if Huang Taiji could really meet this condition, then Lin Dan Batur would be the second deserted man after Dayan Khan in the years of Hongzhi and Zhengde. The Mongolian Khan of Southern Desert and Northern Mongolia.

Because of this, Lin Danhan and Huang Taiji attacked Neikalkha's fried flowers with the mentality of giving it a try, and he couldn't believe how smooth the process was.

Only one day later, under Fan Wencai's persuasion, Bo Yunai rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and after burning down the Baimaguan market, he went northward and came to Huimeng at the southern foot of Harawen Mountain.

It sounds very simple, but only Lin Danhan knows how difficult it is.

Counting from when he inherited the Khan throne at the age of thirteen, it took him thirteen years to master the Chahar tribe and let the three major tribes of Wai Khalkha in Mobei submit to him in name.

As a result, after forming an alliance with Huang Taiji, it took only two months for Horqin and Harqin to submit to him one after another. In this way, only Wala in Moxi was still outside his control.

Thinking of this, he suddenly said:

"The great Mongolian Khanate now only lacks Moxi. If we can make Oirat (Wala) surrender, then there will be hundreds of thousands of warriors who can control the strings. The glory of Mongolia."

An embarrassing scene appeared. When Lin Danhan finished speaking, everyone looked at the people around them and did not talk to each other, which made Lin Danhan instantly dissatisfied.

At this time, although Huang Taiji looked normal on the surface, he scolded Lin Danhan for being an idiot in his heart.

At this time, if you don't show grace, and want others to contribute to help you fight against other tribes thousands of miles away, even Mangurtai can't do such a mindless thing.

It's just that there's no other way, the Kingdom of Jin doesn't have the strength to annex the grassland right now, and if Zhu Youjian finds out about Monan, he might rush back to North Zhili, so Huang Taiji can only speak kindly:
"What Khan said is very good, Oirat really needs a lesson, but..."

What Huang Taiji said before made Lin Danhan very useful, and when Huang Taiji cut off the conversation, he immediately realized that Huang Taiji wanted to say something about Daming:

"However, the trade between the Ministries and the Ming Dynasty has been cut off right now. Although I, Dajin, can provide ironware, there is not enough horse population to make so many ironware."

"If the army has no way to equip armor and weapons, then I am afraid that after the Qi Wang Zhu Youjian of the Ming court returns to Beijing with his troops, he will use troops against Monan in the spring of next year."

Huang Taiji's words made Bo Yunnai and Subudi feel like they were sitting on pins and needles. After all, they promised Zhu Youjian that they would never invade Mingtu, but now they played back stabbing. It's hard to imagine how Zhu Youjian would deal with them.

"What do you want to say?"

Lin Danhan looked at Huang Taiji who talked eloquently, and felt a little disgusted that the other party stole his limelight.

"Our country lacks livestock, but your country has a lot of livestock, so I want to exchange iron tools for manpower and livestock."

"Thirty catties of iron for a sheep, [-] catties of iron for a Han slave, [-] catties of iron for a horse, and [-] catties of iron for a cow..."

"Of course, you can also use a scimitar and a sheep, a suit of armor and a horse, a suit of cloth face armor with a knife, a bow and an arrow and an ox."

Huang Taiji's abacus was very good. He knew that Mongolia did not have very good armor making technology, so he started to seduce with armor directly.

He wasn't worried that Lin Dan Khan would go to Dajin for trouble after he got the armor, because they didn't have artillery.

Huang Taiji didn't intend to coax Lin Danhan to attack the Great Wall of the Ming army. What he wanted was that Lin Danhan would continue to consume the Ming army on the grassland.

He understands Daming's system, and also understands Daming's situation.

A simple military victory cannot deal a big blow to the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, if their expedition is delayed, the consumption will be enough to bring down the Ming Dynasty.

The Kingdom of Jin did not have such strength, but the Mongols were different. There were enough of them. As long as they could be equipped, or as long as they could continue to harass them, the Ming army would fall into a long-term passive defense war.

At that time, there will be beacon fires everywhere along the Yanbian of the Great Wall, and the Ming army will not have the heart to manage Dajin.

As long as Lin Danhan procrastinates long enough, Daikin will have more time to recover.

I have to say that Huang Taiji thought very well, but Lin Danhan's eyes flickered after hearing the words, and finally he said:

"I'll exchange [-] cows with you." After that, he looked at the other tribes: "As for you, you can figure it out..."

"..." Hearing Lin Danhan's words, not only the people in several departments were at a loss for words, but even Huang Taiji, Fan Wencheng and others were speechless.

As a big khan, at least the name khan of most of the southern and northern regions, you don't even want to pay any benefits, and you want others to work for you, which is really ridiculous.

Seeing Lin Danhan's appearance, Huang Taiji began to think in his heart how long he could serve as a shield for Daikin with this guy's personality.

It was a strategic mistake for him to form an alliance with such a fool.

"We have to win over some Mongolian tribes as soon as possible..."

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji squinted his eyes and glanced at everyone.

Lin Dan Khan's political stupidity also put the entire alliance into an embarrassing situation.

After the meeting, the leaders of various ministries found Huang Taiji privately, basically to exchange armor and weapons.

For the leaders of various ministries, Huang Taiji also took the opportunity to express his goodwill, and kept erasing some odds and ends in business, which made a group of leaders have a good impression of him.

Of course, this approach also made Lin Danhan jealous of him in private, so he issued an order to expel Huang Taiji in disguise the next day, asking him to go back to Assassin Guards to prepare armor and weapons.

Huang Taiji also knew the other party's dissatisfaction, but in this transaction, what he got was far more valuable than what he looted from the native tribe.

The orders for tens of thousands of cattle and two hundred thousand sheep are enough to speed up Daikin's development of Ciluwei.

However, their deal was spread among various ministries with their own ulterior motives, and some tribes that secretly supported Ming would naturally not let this information go.

In just half a month, the news was sent to Zhu Youjian.

"Huang Taiji is planning to temporarily transform the economy..."

Looking at the information sent by some small tribes through Beizhen Fusi, Zhu Youjian, who had already arrived in Taiyuan Mansion, was sitting on the carriage and couldn't help squinting his eyes.

More than [-] cattle and more than [-] sheep, the former can release more than [-] laborers, and the latter can feed Houjin's current population for a month or two.

Houjin's food seems to be insufficient, and the effect of attacking Beishan Jurchen has begun to decrease, otherwise Huang Taiji would not have exchanged so many sheep...

Zhu Youjian saw the situation very clearly. Huang Taiji just wanted to arm the Mongols to cultivate an ally and defend Houjin from the Ming army's offensive.

The current situation is like the Three Kingdoms, the Ming army is Wei, the Jin army is Han, and the Mongols are Wu.

However, this situation is weaker, because the Han of the Three Kingdoms can partially suppress the Wei State, but in fact, with the same number of people, the current Ming army can suppress the Jin army.

The death of tens of thousands of real captives directly disrupted the combat effectiveness of the Jin army for a generation, and it would take at least ten years to cultivate them.

It's been two years now, and I'm afraid they haven't recovered even a sip of blood.

In addition, they plundered a large number of Han people to develop the Northeast, and the arable land could not support so many people, so they could only carry out economic transformation and obtain food from Mongolia.

Exchange armor for cattle, sheep and horses, restore the mobility of the army, reclaim more arable land, and obtain meat.

These three points are linked together, and in history, Huang Taiji and Nurhaci also survived until the seventeenth year of Chongzhen through continuous attack and absorption of Mongolia and Beishan Jurchen, as well as multiple entry into customs.

If Li Zicheng had been stronger and Wu Sangui had been stronger, they would have fallen apart in a few years.

The difference is that due to the broken backbone in the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty, the current Jin army does not have the strength to swallow Mongolia. It can only obtain livestock steadily by cultivating allies and form a front line.

Faced with such a situation, what Zhu Youjian has to do is very simple, that is, to observe the positions of the various ministries, and then decide whether to sweep the North and how to sweep the North.

According to the current information, after the looting, Bo Yunai went to Harawen Mountain. This place is thousands of miles away, and the burden of sweeping the north is very heavy. Naturally, it is best not to sweep the north for the time being. it is good.

No matter how powerful Mongolia is, Zhu Youjian doesn't care. After all, it is no longer the era of pure cold weapons.

He is more concerned about the Jianlu in the Northeast, and if he wants to clean up the Jianlu in the Northeast, he must wait for the stability of Liaodong.

However, this time is not too long. Since the people moved to Liaodong in the second year of Tianqi, the first batch of Henan people who arrived in Liaodong will be able to harvest grain this year, and the newly cultivated land will gradually increase to a relatively stable output.

After next year's autumn harvest, Henan will move to Liaodong, and the [-] million local people in Liaodong will tend to stabilize their production.

Under this trend, it means that the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse means that the Ming army will have a supply point of [-] million people and [-] million mu of cultivated land.

The people in Liaodong can not only support themselves, but also produce some food to provide military rations for the Ming army.

In this way, the expedition can be formed.

But judging from Huang Taiji and Nurhachi's methods, and Lin Danhan's stupidity, they obviously won't let Daming survive the six years of the apocalypse next year.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian closed the military situation of Beizhen Fusi, and at the same time said to Jin Yiwei Qianhu who was following outside the car:

"Since Nurhaci does not allow other Han and Koreans to enter, he can consider training some Jinyiwei from the Jurchen who moved to Zhenjiang before."

"Commander Lu has been training for a year, and after a while, he will be able to send them to Beishan, and take the initiative to join the old slaves in the form of a small tribe." Qianhu replied respectfully, and handed over a military report by the way. road:

"Your Highness, you also need to know about this matter."

"The twenty-nine princes and eighty-two princes of the world have come to the shuffle, please long live to hold a meeting to go to the west."

"In addition, Prince Rui, Prince Hui, and Prince Gui in the capital have also gone to school one after another. It seems that they can't wait to go overseas."

"It's okay if you can't wait..." Zhu Youjian took a look at the military situation, and then asked, "Did the emperor agree?"

"Long live has been approved. At present, nine princes and seventeen county kings have gathered in Beijing, and the rest of the clan are on their way." Qianhu replied, and Zhu Youjian nodded slightly.

Zhu Youjian is not surprised by the urgency of the clan, even he thinks such urgency is normal.

After all, when the old port was recovered and the news that so many acres had been obtained was sent back to the capital, many people also knew that although overseas was bad, it was not as bad as imagined.

This group of princes dared to go to the capital in person, which was enough to see that they were anxious about taking over the feudal domain overseas.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian didn't feel a lot of pressure. On the contrary, he only felt that this was a good opportunity to gather the wool of the clan.

Even if the voyages are organized this year, the voyages don't just go and come back.

They have been in contact for at least a year, and when they come back, the twelve guards of the Navy will go out again to take down the places they fancy, and that will be at least a year later.

Zhu Youjian is confident in the combat power of the twelve guards of the navy. It may be a bit difficult for them to fight the Mughals in the north, but there is no pressure at all to attack some Deccan plateaus and coastal states.

In other words, before the severe drought in the second half of the seventh year of the apocalypse, the kings could organize overseas vassals.

In the capture of overseas feudal lands, Zhu Youjian was able to collect a fortune from them, and when they were about to move and gain a foothold, the severe drought began to break out.

The disaster victims that Daming couldn't digest were digested by them.

Not only can it increase the proportion of Han people in South Asia, but it can also feed back a large sum of money to the court to help the court survive the next seventeen years of severe drought.

Population migration is not a one-time deal, and the kings are not capable of spending millions of taels to relocate hundreds of thousands of people in one go.

To relocate a commoner, the feudal king needs to give the court ten taels of relocation silver.

Asking a navy to help open up the territory and conquer the feudal land will cost more than [-] taels of silver a year.

After conquering the feudal land, the feudal land needs to be defended, right?At that time, the Gongwei Battalion of the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion will be transferred to Tianzhu, with a battalion of [-] people, and the annual cost will be nearly [-] taels.

These are all profitable transactions.

That is to say, the vassal king spent money to help Daming relocate the victims, and spent money to buy military equipment from Daming, and finally asked Daming’s guard battalion to help defend the vassal state and train the new army.

Moreover, this training is tricky.

Because the training of the new army is over, the number of guard battalions of the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion in Tianzhu will not be less than twenty at least.

These [-] guard battalions will not return to the old port after training, but will be transferred to the coast of Toungoo to cooperate with the Western Army's Governor's Mansion to recover three propaganda and six comforts.

In short, Zhu Youjian's idea is one link after another, and no resources will be wasted.

Under the severe drought, Daming's strength would never be enough to support tens of millions of victims.

Even expansion and migration require enough food.

There are hundreds of princes and princes of Ming Dynasty, even if each feudal kingdom only absorbs [-] disaster victims, they can solve millions of disaster victims for Daming.

The strength of powerful feudal clans such as Zhou Fan, Fu Fan, Chu Fan, Qin Fan, Jin Fan, Zhao Fan, etc. is not yet known. I am afraid that it will be easy to absorb hundreds of thousands of people.

Moreover, it only consumes their silver deposits. If the military strength of their vassal states is trained, they may attack many states in the Deccan in the inland area.

Not only the Tubang, maybe even collide with the Mughals in the north.

Twenty-nine princes, even if there is only one battalion of soldiers in a country, they can pull out nearly [-] soldiers, not to mention there are more than [-] county kings...

The vassal kings moved overseas, and the Ming Dynasty could only benefit, and it would be a hundred years before the backlash.

The only thing Zhu Youjian wants to control is the issue of the vassal land of hundreds of princes and county kings.

They don't actually have much to go, because Levia (Africa) and North America (North America) are too far away. With the current navigation technology, it takes at least two years to go back and forth from Daming.

The vassal kings dare not go, and it is impossible to go, and they want places that have already been basically developed.

Such a place must accommodate hundreds of vassals, so only Tianzhu in South Asia is left.

However, for better defense, their vassal lands were doomed from the beginning and must be connected together.

Because only in this way, the guard battalion of the Southern Army's Governor's Mansion can better protect them, and they can also advance inland as each other's horns.

But in this way, the territory of some vassal kings is destined to be a big deal.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian must come up with a way to get many vassal kings to sign a "Mutual Non-Aggression" treaty before this Zongyi meeting.

And it will inevitably involve many vassal kings changing their vassal land after the war.

But no matter what, the South Asian Peninsula with more than [-] million square kilometers and a population of hundreds of millions is definitely enough for them to toss.

As for the farther places, with Daming's navigation technology and supply issues, I'm afraid it will be difficult in the short term.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to the side without raising his head: "Dingguo, bring me the map I read this morning."

"Eh!"

A childish voice sounded, and Li Dingguo, who was sitting opposite and yawning, stood up suddenly, then walked to the bookshelf, took the map Zhu Youjian needed, and handed it over with both hands.

Zhu Youjian, who took the map, glanced at Li Dingguo. Although he was relatively young, he could still see that he was well-groomed and looked good.

This is not surprising, if the strength is not enough, it is impossible to be recorded as a character who singled out the elephant by the literati of Nanming and Burma.

Although Zhu Youjian thought it was a literati's bragging, but Li Dingguo's nickname "Little Yuchi" appeared in his teens, so it can be seen that he is not bad in martial arts.

It's just a pity that personal bravery is nothing in the torrent of the next era.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian opened the map, and then glanced at the map of South Asia. After thinking about it, he drew places on the map where he could become a fan one by one.

After finishing the painting, he circled the place that could be used as a supply point for the Ming Navy's Xiaoxiyang in the future.

Needless to say, the Andaman Islands in the southern part of Taungoo Myanmar Sea, Huanglong has sent people to conquer the local dwarf blacks.

In addition to this archipelago, there is also Ceylon in the south of South Asia, which is currently divided into several small countries. After it is taken, it can be used as a military base to monitor many vassal kings.

After taking Toungoo, gather a large army from the south to fight from east to west, and recover the area north of the Ganges.

From this, one south and one north, it can also control hundreds of vassal kings on the peninsula very well.

As long as they maintain a certain number of troops in South Asia and a certain combat effectiveness, they can become Ming's bridgehead against the enemies from the Atlantic Ocean.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian circled the Mughal Dynasty in the north with a Zhu pen.

This dynasty ruled by the Christianized Mongols has maintained an army of hundreds of thousands of light infantry + war elephants + artillery + cavalry in less than a hundred years since its founding, and its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

If you want to win it, you have to rely on the cannibalism of the vassal kings...

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian put down the red pen:
"I'm looking forward to the imperial court meeting after returning to Beijing..."

　There is a chapter at four in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)