Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 157 Zhu Han One Sentence, Conquering the Monan Grassland【For further reading】

"Master, you are being polite, these are the things that a humble job should do!" Hawker said with a smile.

Wang Baobao followed Hawker all the way to take the driver who greeted the Empress Dowager Qishi. In a huge carriage pulled by twenty horses, a woman sitting on a soft couch was dressed gorgeously. She was the Empress Dowager Qishi of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

"Queen Mother!"

"Join the Empress Dowager!" Wang Baobao and Hawker immediately saluted Qi Shi respectfully after they entered.

"Get up!" Qi Shi waved his hand lightly.

Then he shifted his gaze, looked out of the car window, and asked Wang Baobao, "Is this the Onan River?"

"Yes! Queen Mother!" Wang Baobao said.

Hawker knew how to read words and expressions, and when he saw Wang Baobao and Empress Dowager Qi with passionate eyes, he immediately resigned and left.

After Hawker left, Qi's face in the carriage suddenly became serious, and he said to Wang Baobao: "Brother Bao, we are probably in a dangerous situation!"

"Why did the Queen Mother make such a statement?" Wang Baobao asked.

"Just now I have received the news that after the Ming army captured Dadu, they deployed an army of [-], and they will definitely not let us go!" Qi said with a worried expression.

"You don't have to be afraid, Queen Mother. With me, Wang Baobao, no matter what happens, I will try my best to protect you, Queen Mother." Wang Baobao said solemnly.

"It's a pity that the Ai family can't help you much!" Qi said with some shame.

"The Queen Mother, please don't say that! If there is no Queen Mother, where would I be today, Wang Baobao? I, Wang Baobao, will never let the Queen Mother down."

The Great Yuan court has now retreated to the banks of the Onan River in Mobei. Their only hope is to unite the various tribes on the Mongolian grasslands and unite around the Great Yuan court to resist the Ming army's future Northern Expedition.

And if you want to unite the various tribes on the Mongolian grassland, then the only sign is the blood of the golden family.

Genghis Khan left his glorious legacy to his descendants, the greatest of which is the nobility of the blood of the gold family.

Even after more than 100 years, the tribes on the grassland still respect the descendants of Genghis Khan as orthodox.

Now that Wang Baobao is on the same boat as the Empress Dowager Qi and the young emperor Aiyou, Wang Baobao will naturally do his best to ensure the power and status of the Empress Dowager Qi.

When the Empress Dowager Qi came to Mobei, all the important figures of the entire Dayuan court had moved to Mobei. Wang Baobao assisted the government in the name of the prince and grand master of the Dayuan Dynasty, and immediately gave orders to all tribes to let their tribal leaders Gather together to the banks of the Onan River in Mobei to hold the Nalegutai Conference.

Nalegutai means the meeting of kings.

Although more than [-] people in the Yuan Dynasty moved to Mobei, the other tribes had a larger population. If Wang Baobao wanted to unite the tribes of the Mongolian grassland, he had to give them full attention.

At the Nalegutai Conference, the crown prince and grand master Wang Baobao gave the tribal leaders full autonomy, and only asked them to provide the necessary troops to defend the Yuan court when the Ming army invaded.

As for ordinary taxes and tributes, Wang Baobao did not have the slightest rigid requirements for each tribe. If any tribe wanted to honor the Empress Dowager Qi or the Great Yuan Emperor, then it all depended on their personal wishes, and the Great Yuan court would never force it.

In fact, this is the reason why the Great Yuan court had limited control over the various tribes on the grassland.

For these grassland tribes, they did not buy Wang Baobao's account. They were able to live peacefully on the grassland. A large part of the reason was that the Yuan Dynasty court gave them generous rewards every year, whether it was food or cloth. It will meet their requirements for winter protection.

But now that the Dayuan court has retreated to the Mobei grassland, it is already difficult to protect itself, and it is impossible to give them generous rewards.

There is still no one-size-fits-all plan for how each tribe will survive the difficult winter this year.

How could anyone take the initiative to honor some cattle and sheep food to Emperor Yuan and the Queen Mother.

Isn't that full?
So after the Nalegutai Conference was held, although the tribes still respected the order and orthodoxy of the Great Yuan Emperor in name, after the leaders of the tribes returned, they were all extremely disappointed with the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Now that the weather has entered autumn, some tribes that lack food and grass to survive the winter have begun to sharpen their swords.

As the saying goes, when the neighbor stores grain, I store guns, and the neighbor is my granary.

Now the Ming army in the south is invincible, and they belong to the targets that the Mongolian tribes dare not provoke. Naturally, the Mongolian tribes dare not go south to raid grass valleys and rob.

In this way, their targets of robbery became their fellow neighbors on the grassland.

In just one month, more than a dozen tribes fell into chaos.

The prestige of the Yuan court could not prevent these tribes from stopping their disputes. Except for the tribes from the east that were closest to the Yuan court, the entire Moxi Mongolia fell into chaos.

At this time, winter on the grassland is coming soon.

The strong wind mixed with snowflakes raged across the entire Mobei grassland.

In just one day, the Yuan court's camp in Mobei was plunged into a sea of ​​snow.

Even before moving to Mobei, the Dayuan court had prepared sufficient food, grass and cloth, but in the face of such a severe snowstorm, many people still did not carry it through.

A few days later when the blizzard stopped.

The entire Dayuan court camped in Mobei, and more than 100 people froze to death.

Although most of these people who were frozen to death were old and weak, it was a heavy blow to the morale of these Mongols who had just arrived from the Central Plains to the Mobei Grassland.

Whoa whoa whoa!
With the sound of crying of a baby, it came from a yurt, remembering that the Dayuan camp brought a ray of joy.

Empress Dowager Qi, who was ten months pregnant, gave birth to a young son.

"I'm a father, I'm a father!" Wang Baobao whispered excitedly in the tent.

The reason why he said it in a low voice is because although everyone knows about this matter, Wang Baobao is the child's biological father, but no one will pierce the window paper in the open.

"Heaven and man are in touch, heaven and man are in harmony, the former emperor blesses the Great Yuan Dynasty!"

After the Empress Dowager Qi gave birth to her son, a large number of Han civil officials, including Grand Duke Kong Kejian, braved the wind and snow, congratulating loudly outside the camp.

The Yuan Dynasty fled north from the capital city, followed by a large number of Han civil officials.

Among them is Yan Shenggong Kong Kejian as the head.

As for the large number of generals, whether they were Han or Mongols, many of them surrendered to Ming and stayed in the Central Plains.

As long as the generals hand over their military power and territory, they can basically be exempted from the charges and punishments of traitors and traitors.

Confucian scholars put on the name of traitors, but they don't have much capital to atone for their sins from Ming Dynasty, so it is understandable to run away with the Mongols.

Although the life of running away to Mobei is not easy, you have to grit your teeth and persevere.

Tuo Huan Timur, the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, died for three years, and the widow who remained behind, Qi Shi, gave birth to another fat boy.

Such a big happy event should naturally be celebrated by the whole world.

It's just that all the materials in Mobei are very precious now, and the crown prince and grand master Wang Baobao wanted to be generous, but he didn't have the capital to be generous. In the end, he could only reward each official with a leg of lamb, which was considered a reward.

Inside the warm tent, Wang Baobao looked at the baby in his arms, with a new ambition in his eyes.

"My son, you belong to the Great Yuan Royal Family!"

"I will definitely make you the Lord of the Grassland in the future!"

The Empress Dowager Qi at the side was unaware of the change in her lover's mood.

Now she only thinks about what kind of good name should be given to her youngest son.

"Brother Bao, hurry up and choose a name for the child!" Empress Dowager Qi said.

Wang Baobao thought about it seriously, and then said solemnly.

"Bayan Timur!"

Empress Dowager Qi also knew some Mongolian, so she naturally knew it was a good name.

"Bayan Timur, you will be the second prince of Dayuan from now on!" Empress Dowager Qi looked at her youngest son dotingly.

In recent years, apart from her own son Aiyou, the other young sons of the dead ghost emperor Tuohuan Timur all died of inexplicable illnesses.

Therefore, the royal blood of the Yuan Dynasty now has only one Aiyou, plus a newly born Bayan Timur.

Because of the birth of Bayan Timur, the Yuan court on the Mongolian grassland was full of joy.

In Yingchang City on the Monan Grassland, there is no such a joyous atmosphere, instead, a thick depression is shrouded in Yingchang City.

Ying Great Wall was originally the upper capital of other Liao Kingdoms, and it was also a very important city in Jin Kingdom.

In the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, although Yingchang City was not the upper capital, it also had a very important position. It belonged to the area where nomadic and farming intersected, and it was the most prosperous and affluent city on the grassland for all tribes.

It's just that Yingchang is too close to the Central Plains. The short distance of hundreds of miles makes it possible for the Ming army, who is close at hand, to attack Yingchang at any time.

Therefore, all the Mongolian and Yuan court troops led by Wang Baobao fled to the bank of the Wo River in Mobei, and Li Siqi was the only one defending Yingcheng.

Most of the troops led by Li Siqi were Han refugee troops from Shanxi and Henan provinces. After they entered the grassland, they had various unsuitable situations. Therefore, they did not follow Wang Baobao's army to the Mobei grassland, but stayed behind and stationed in Yingying. Chang.

Now that the weather has entered winter, Li Siqi's subordinates in Yingchang feel extremely uncomfortable with the strong wind and snowstorm on the grassland, and because the distance from the Central Plains is too close, the news that the Ming army is preparing for war in Beiping also makes Li Siqi's subordinates in Yingchang very panic.

Moreover, the surrounding Mongol tribes did not have any sense of identity with these Han troops.

They often rob and steal the grain, grass and sheep hoarded by Li Siqi's subordinates.

After entering the winter, the two sides broke out more than a dozen conflicts, large and small, and in the end it was all suppressed by Li Siqi's tough methods.

But in this way, the Mongols around Yingchang became very hostile to Li Siqi and others.

Li Siqi's army had no other place to go except Yingchang.

The news that the Mongolian Yuan army was panicking in Yingcheng was quickly transmitted to the Northern Parallel Capital.

After Xu Da, the governor of the Northern Parallel Department of the Ming Dynasty, learned of this information, he immediately sent someone to report the information to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han in Yingtianfu.

After Zhu Han got the information, he immediately suggested to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang to send someone to Yingchang to instigate rebellion.

"The tens of thousands of troops under Li Siqi are basically Han people. They joined the army at that time just to earn a living. Now that we are in need of manpower for the restoration of the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, if we can recruit these tens of thousands of Han people to the Ming Dynasty, That can not only strengthen our strength, but also weaken Meng Yuan's momentum."

Zhu Han's words immediately got the approval of Zhu Yuanzhang,

After the two brothers finished their discussion, they immediately asked their second brother-in-law Li Zhen's Seven Seas Trading Company, which is now Daming's secret intelligence agency, to send envoys and caravans to Yingchang Mansion.

After several years of operation, the second brother-in-law Li Zhen is no longer the honest little businessman, but a proper intelligence expert.

After sending out several waves of caravans and spies.

Second brother-in-law Li Zhen quickly got a clear picture of Yingchang's situation.

Li Siqi and others in Yingchang are in a difficult situation, and Wang Baobao in Mobei is no longer able to take care of them, so it is natural and reasonable for the Mongolian Yuan army composed of these Han people to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and it is not some kind of conspiracy to surrender.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Han immediately sent his most capable officers to get in touch with Li Siqi.

The two sides quickly set the time and contact method for the uprising.

Ming Hongwu three years, October 29th.

General Li Siqi of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty led 20 soldiers under his command. More than [-] officials including Mongolian Yuan officials who killed the local general in an uprising in Yingchang announced that they would change the banner and surrender to Ming Dynasty.

Xu Da, the governor of the Northern Parallel Department of the Ming Dynasty, personally led [-] troops and set off from Peiping.

Go to the grassland to respond to Li Siqi.

In less than three days, Yingchang and the surrounding lands and tribes for hundreds of miles were all controlled by the Ming army.

The entire Monan Grassland was shaken, and the Ming army took over Yingchang, deployed defenses here, and then issued an announcement to the surrounding Mongolian tribes.

The Northern Parallel Commander of the Ming Dynasty declared sovereignty over the Monan Grassland. If any tribes on the grassland want to continue living and grazing here, they must send people to Yingchang to swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty. Being an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, they will inevitably be suppressed and expelled by the Ming army in the future.

All the tribes on the Monan Grassland panicked and lost their minds.

These tribes have lived on the grassland for hundreds of years and never thought of leaving this land, but if they were to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, it would be very embarrassing for them.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is a vicious existence to the Mongols, and the Mongolian Yuan court on the Mobei grassland also holds hundreds of thousands of troops. Once these tribes surrender to the Ming Dynasty, will they be attacked by the Mongolian Yuan court on the Mobei grassland in the future? Criminal charges are also unknown.

So these prairie tribes are hesitant to wait and see.

And Li Siqi, Yingchang's general, had led his subordinates back to the Central Plains at this time. From then on, any grievances and hatreds on the grassland had nothing to do with Li Siqi.

Li Siqi was rushed by Xu Da's army and sent to Yingtian Mansion together with Li's family.

After entering Yingtian Mansion, Li Siqi was dressed in white and met Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty as a criminal.

In front of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang magnanimously ordered Li Siqi to be bestowed with a red official uniform that symbolizes high officials.

In order to show the world the tolerance of Daming.

When Li Siqi was fighting against the Red Turban Army in Shanxi and Henan, he had a lot of blood debts on his hands. He not only slaughtered the soldiers of the Red Turban Army, but also plundered the local people. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention, he was considered a If he raises his troops to revolt, he will be dealt with severely.

But Zhu Han persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, for such a small role, it is really not worthwhile to damage Daming's reputation of tolerance and generosity.

So under Zhu Han's persuasion, Zhu Yuanzhang awarded Li Siqi an earl.

Then he was given a spare position as the commander of the Goryeo Protectorate.

(End of this chapter)