Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2308 East and West Mongolia

On July 1696, 7, Qiu Daye and his party crossed the sea via Trabzon and arrived at Bayingoleng Port in the Oirat Khanate.In this crude port city full of Mongolian characteristics, the group received a warm reception—of course, they were honored by the army.

The East Coast government has spared no effort in supporting this small country with a population of only a few hundred thousand people.They give priority to buying local supplies to provide them with valuable foreign exchange.But there is also a problem, that is, the local Mongolians really don't have much to sell except cattle and sheep. At most, there are some Chechens who attacked the Caucasus mountains and plundered them.People on the east coast didn't really want to buy these slaves, but after much consideration, they bought them and used them as coolies for domestic construction.

But even so, the Oirat Khanate was still poor and financially unable to make ends meet, especially when they decided to build a new army.In desperation, the people on the east coast can only pinch their noses to give financial assistance. A series of combination punches such as low-interest loans, interest-free loans, and material donations can make this country rich enough to carry out various modern reforms. and building.

But these preferential loans also have a condition, that is, the East Coast Company must obtain the infrastructure contract and material purchase contract.In this way, the people on the east coast have brought back about [-]% of their loans back to China.As for the rest, let's pay it back slowly in the future. It doesn't matter if you can't pay the cash. Anyway, there are many ways to repay the debt, such as sending troops according to the will of the people on the east coast.

Qiu Daye met many people from the east coast in this port city.Some of these people are merchants. After talking to them, I learned that they are all second-level agents serving various trading stations. Their main job is to purchase goods from the trading stations and then sell them to the Mongols.This kind of thing should not have happened, because in other trading stations - such as the port of Smyrna - the agents are generally local merchants to make full use of their social connections and sales channels.But the Mongols are obviously not very good at doing business, so that the agents are controlled by the people on the east coast. They only collect taxes and don't care about anything else.

Although the East Bank government also opened temporary education and training institutions in Haji County to help the Oirat Khanate train quick officials, Ayuqi Khan also supported this.But the education level of these Mongols is really low, and they have no concept of modern civilization at all. They only know how to herd cattle and sheep and fight and kill, and they don't know anything else.There is no way, considering that those older Mongolian nobles are not able to accept, and they probably can't understand it. Haji County decided to send them consultants to give them advice when doing specific things.In addition, after obtaining the consent of Ayuqi Khan, the people on the east bank also recruited about 14 children of Mongolian nobles (under the age of [-]) to receive education in Haji County in order to contribute to the construction and development of their country in the future. make a contribution.

Enrolling young noble children for education is an important part of the East Coast plan, and it is also their usual policy against the natives.Far away, there are training cadres for the North American Indians, the Black Banners of the Free State, and New Courland. Nearby, there are Hanmeng schools that are blooming everywhere in Manchuria. Now Haji County has also begun to "run schools". This is also from the side It shows that the influence of the east coast is expanding day by day.

If there is no accident, the National Intelligence Agency will send a group of capable officers to Haji to teach these Mongolian children all kinds of knowledge.The most important thing is to subtly let them understand the civilization and strength of the East Coast, the rudeness and barbarism of Russia, and even the Ottoman Empire.

The name of this new school is Haji County Hanmeng School. Haji County has also planned to merge the school that originally trained talents for the Crimean Khanate and let them teach in the same class as the Oirat Mongols.Officials of the National Intelligence Agency believe that even after hundreds of years of mixed marriages, the Crimean Khanate is still dominated by people of yellow race. In this regard, they are much better than the Turks. Those who claim to be of Turkic descent The guy looks completely Greek in appearance-if they get along with the Oirat Mongols day and night and instill some "historical knowledge", they may not awaken their Mongolian consciousness, making them more lonely and out of place in the Black Sea area, In the end, they could only keep warm with the Turghuts in the North Caucasus. This is undoubtedly in the best interest of the east coast.

When talking about the Mongolians on the coast of the Black Sea, we have to mention another Mongolia tens of thousands of kilometers away, that is, Mobei Mongolia.It is said that since Galdan failed in Monan Mongolia and started to withdraw, the situation on the grassland suddenly became chaotic.After watching for a while, the people on the east bank decided not to let go of the opportunity, marched westward, and gained a foothold on the Mobei grassland as quickly as possible.

For this reason, except for the Barhu Mongolian tribes who stayed put and stayed where they were, the other three Mongolian tribes, including Ergun Khan, entered the Mobei grassland one after another and devoured the territory.They don't have many soldiers, but there are fewer local soldiers (the main force was brought to Monan Mongolia by the three major khans to mix with Kangxi), so it is difficult to resist the three tribes of Eastern Mongolia who are coming like wolves and tigers.

At the beginning of the spring of this year (1696), more than half of the original territory of the Chechen Khan was occupied by people from the east coast.The Manchu-Mongolian Pioneering Team specially sent people to the grassland and announced the establishment of the Mongolian Autonomous Committee. In addition to the three Khans who sent troops and 11 of their main ministries, there were also four representatives sent by the Manchurian-Mongolian Pioneering Team. The post of chairman was taken by Lu Xiaofeng, the captain of the Manchurian and Mongolian pioneering team, but it was actually the vice chairman and Lieutenant Colonel Sun Wu, the commander of the Hulunbeier Advancement Detachment, who presided over the specific work.

There are three main responsibilities of the Mongolian Self-Government Committee.The first is to continue westward, control more Mongolian territory, rule more Mongolian people, and completely expel the forces of Manchu Bogd Khan and the Tsar from the Mongolian grassland.The second major article is the so-called "Revitalization of Mongolia" plan. The main purpose of this plan is to conduct trade with the East Bank, establish a strong local self-government under the guidance of East Bank consultants, and develop trade with the East Bank to promote Economic prosperity.

As for the third major point, it is military. Given the harsh situation in the Mobei Grassland today, this is also the most important one.The Mongolian Governance Committee controlled by the people on the east bank decided to reorganize the three major Mongolian armies that sent troops and establish the first, second, and third front armies of the Mongolian Self-Defense Forces.Among them, the commander of the first front army is Jiri Mutuhan Nahai, who has about 1500 Mongolian cavalry under his jurisdiction, and there are about 500 people in reserve. The entire front army has more than 1200 muskets and 15 cannons; the commander of the second front army is Erguna Khangardi, under the jurisdiction of more than 2400 Mongolian cavalry, and more than 500 reserves, has more than 700 muskets and 5 cannons; There are 1800 Mongolian cavalry, and there are more than 400 reserves, with more than 600 muskets and 4 cannons.

It can be seen from this that the Eastern Mongolian tribes that have incorporated a large number of Buryat Mongolia, Balhu Mongolia, and Khalkha Mongolia are very strong.If you count Bateer's troops who are still encroaching on the rest of the Balhu and Mongolian troops on the Hulunbeier Grassland, the total force may have reached about 1, and the growth rate is astonishing.Of course, this does not mean that they can only draw 1 people. In fact, all the grassland tribes have been soldiers since ancient times, and all adult males can be counted as fighters.It's just that after the people from the east coast came, they implemented a strategy of elite soldiers, requiring all ministries not to make up for their numbers. Even if they couldn't completely separate the soldiers from the people, they should try their best to make the soldiers half-time, so as to distinguish them from ordinary herdsmen.

Moreover, the subsidy of the people on the east bank to each ministry is distributed according to the number of soldiers.They send people to check once a year to check the number of soldiers, equipment, and horses in each department, and they are not allowed to expand the army at will.According to regulations, each Mongolian cavalry can receive a cash subsidy of one yuan per month. In addition, there is a pack of gunpowder, 50 lead bullets, and 20 arrows. They can also receive a set of summer and winter military uniforms and a set of saddlery every year.If you don't find out the number of people, it's really shameful to let someone impersonate you.

In general, the Manchurian Pioneering Team spends about 40 yuan on the four parts of Mongolia every year.As for the harvest, through the cattle and sheep trade and the distribution of spoils, it can probably make up more than 20 yuan a year.In other words, the Manchurian pioneering team only needs to spend 10,000+ yuan a year to control tens of thousands of elite riders and a large piece of territory in the four parts of Eastern Mongolia, which is a typical example of small investment and large output.

However, with the retreat of Galdan and the expansion of the four territories and population of Eastern Mongolia, the annual investment will also increase greatly.Among other things, Lu Xiaofeng has already decided to increase the Mongolian cavalry allowance to two yuan per month in order to better control the various ministries.

Of course, this is not to say that the monthly income of these Mongolian cavalrymen is only two yuan, so they may not even be able to support war horses.In fact, their biggest source of income was the rewards from the Great Khan and the sale of the family's cattle and sheep.After all, you are still "self-governing" now, do you understand what it means to be self-governing?You can't just ask the East Coast consultant for money.

Compared with the four tribes of Eastern Mongolia, which were either supported by the east bank alone or poorly invested, the Oirat Mongolian Khanate is quite different.They are really self-governing. Although the people on the east bank have sent many advisers, they still have certain restrictions on their interference in internal affairs and foreign affairs. It is impossible to be as thorough and handy as the four tribes of Eastern Mongolia.Moreover, their size is also much larger, with a total of 50 to [-] tents and a population of [-] million. They have many years of war experience (fighting with surrounding tribes or Cossacks, and sometimes plundering Persia). Not all cats and dogs can do it Than.People on the east coast are currently trying to find ways to increase their influence, but they are far from successful.

Of course, the East Coast people will not give up on this.In fact, they are very patient, and their plans are also long-term, that is, to deepen economic ties through bilateral trade first, and then to deepen political ties by training cadres and successors (children of nobles).Such a two-pronged approach, if you don't believe them, they will not give in!You know, the old Maozi is watching the north across the river, and the Caucasus mountain people who can't be beaten to death in the south are also a big hidden danger. It's hard to say what attitude the nominal suzerain Ottoman Empire has towards them.Therefore, the entire external environment is actually conducive to the people on the east coast gradually deepening their control over the Oirat Khanate.

Once the situation changes in the future, if the Turghut people want to gain a firm foothold and survive, it is very simple, just hug the thighs of the people on the east coast!

(End of this chapter)