Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 480 Zhang Huangyan Goes to Mobei

In this way, the once-famous Lindan Khan was mostly wiped out by the Imperial Guards in less than two months, but within these two months, the actual time for fighting was less than ten days.

But what really took more time was the deployment of the logistics and the investigation of the intelligence system. When it really involved individual combat, Ming's compound army was already able to completely defeat this classical cavalry.

Of course, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when the national power was at its peak, the Ming army with the Shenji Battalion and the Duoyan Sanwei was able to completely defeat the Tartar cavalry.

However, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Tartar cavalry did not have the confidence to dare to fight directly with the Ming cavalry. Basically, when they saw the main force of the Ming Dynasty’s Northern Expedition, they fled directly, making it difficult for the Ming Dynasty to wipe out all of them and permanently solve the border crisis. question.

But for the current Ming Dynasty, there is basically no need to worry about not being able to completely solve the threat of border troubles. First of all, the Mongol Tartars, such as the Lindan Khan, chose the decisive battle of the Ming army from the very beginning because they ignored the great changes that had taken place in the Ming Dynasty and lost their main force. Secondly, the current military equipment and war philosophy of Ming Dynasty have already surpassed the entire era. Even a battalion-level Imperial Guard can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry with sufficient firepower. Therefore, these Tartars Even if the cavalry avoids a decisive battle with the main force and adopts the strategy of defeating the Ming army during the movement, it has failed. What's more, the current Zhu Youxiao does not intend to continue to adopt a restraint policy on Mobei Mongolia for the reoccupation of Mobei Mongolia. The king's method provoked internal fighting among the Mongolian tribes, so as to achieve the goal of being unable to unify and threatening the Central Plains dynasty.

Just like the occupation of Monan Mongolia, Jianzhou, Waixing'an Road and Miaotun, the occupation of Mobei Mongolia will not only end in the form of military occupation, Zhu Youxiao will continue to send officials to carry out land reform in these places The policy of reunification with the mainstream culture, adopts a severe attack on the stubborn and reactionary upper class nobles and will not tolerate the attitude, and adopts the method of dividing grassland and encouraging trade for the bottom Mongolian herdsmen, and through some incentive systems to lure the bottom Mongolian herdsmen to give up the pursuit of With the support of the upper class nobles, they chose to transfer their beliefs to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and even integrate and get used to the morals and customs of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao believes that as long as this is done, the historical phenomenon that the Central Plains dynasty could not completely eradicate the threat of nomadic forces outside the customs once and for all will completely disappear.

Except for the cavalry unit of the Second Army of the Imperial Guards and some cavalry units of the border towns who stayed in Mobei Mongolia to continue to sweep the remnants of the Tartar cavalry, most of the Imperial Guards and border troops began to withdraw one after another. It's just a practical training.

At the same time, the imperial court immediately began to send officials to Mobei to establish an administrative system. After the decision of the court, Liu Zongzhou, Shi Kefa, and Guan Shaoning were respectively appointed as the chief envoy and inspector of the Mobei Cheng Xuanzheng Envoy Division. Among them, Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa have served as officials outside the customs, envoys in Jiannu, and local officials in Monan. He has rich experience in accepting Confucian education and integrating into Han culture; and Guan Shaoning went to the Imperial University for advanced studies after entering the Imperial Academy, and is an advocate of pragmatism and cultural unity. Daming Shunmin has deep research, so it is appropriate to choose to promote these three people to preside over Mobei government affairs.

Originally, Yang Tinglin, the former governor of Monan and a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, had some experience in reforming natives and assimilating non-Han cultural circles. However, Yang Tinglin has now become the Minister of the Ming Dynasty and is busy reforming the world. Government, especially the establishment of the education system in some areas where Han and Yi live together, made it impossible for him to personally participate in the management of Mobei.

But Zhu Youxiao still asked him to make a statement on how to better reform the land and return it to the people in his busy schedule, so that the first batch of local officials with real power appointed by the imperial court in Mobei would have a better reference .

In order to prevent a large-scale rebellion due to resistance to Ming Dynasty in the early days of land reform, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to directly recruit a large number of students and recruits from outside the customs, such as Monan and Jianzhou, to Mobei as prefectures and counties. Instead, let the Ministry of Officials continue to select a large number of Han or Miao, Tujia, Yi and other non-Mongolian and Manchu scholars in the Guan to serve as local officials in Mobei. Many children of the Qin family of her natal family were specially appointed by Zhu Youxiao as magistrates and other officials to go to Mobei to manage the place for the court.

Zhang Huangyan, a former judge of the Shanxi Salt Transportation Department, who was born in Juren, was directly promoted to the prefect of Helin because of his outstanding political achievements and the current shortage of a large number of local officials in the Ming Dynasty. The first prefect of the largest prefecture in the territory.

In this regard, Zhang Huangyan was not dissatisfied because he was going to serve as the prefect outside the customs. On the contrary, he was quite excited, and he also had an ambition to serve the Ming Dynasty and the court.

As soon as he received the transfer order from the imperial court, Zhang Huangyan went directly to Datong from Shanxi, and he didn't even have time to send his family letter home. When he arrived in Datong, the first snow in Mobei had just fallen.

Zhang Huangyan rode a little donkey, accompanied by an old slave who carried official documents, and walked easily in the territory of Datong.

When he looked at the vast white grassland in front of him and the rolling majestic mountains behind him covered with a white fur-trimmed cloak, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and a sense of grandeur suddenly arose in his heart. This boundless land will become the region where he displays his political ideals.

But the fact is true, from the moment he stepped out of Datong Pass, every inch of land under his feet is under the jurisdiction of him and the Lin family.

"Master Zhang, I am Han Jun, the officer of the Mobei Gendarmerie Corps and Lin Branch of the Imperial Guard Army, and is hereby ordered by the Second Army and Mobei Ao Commander-in-Chief to protect your safety. Please get in the car!"

At this time, a cavalry officer Han Jun, a captain of the Imperial Guard with a steel helmet on his head and the epaulettes of the Great Wall unique to the military police, appeared on horseback against the wall facing Zhang Huangyan, and gave Zhang Huangyan a military salute solemnly.

Zhang Huangyan hurriedly bowed his hands to the officer named Han Jun as well: "General Han has worked hard, I don't know how far we have to go to Lincheng."

It turned out that because the land outside the pass had been reformed and returned to the local people not long ago, although the Ming court tried its best to implement the rule of Han culture by persuading first and then resolving it by force, it still encountered resistance from some stubborn reactionaries. Many of them were upper-class Mongolian aristocrats who were unwilling to lose their privileges as slave owners, and often engaged in sneak attacks or assassinations of court officials.

Therefore, considering the safety of the local officials who went outside the customs to implement the policy of reforming land and returning locals for the imperial court, Zhu Youxiao decided to establish a gendarmerie corps composed of soldiers from the imperial guards in the four newly established political and envoy divisions outside the customs.

After the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Khalkha and Horqin tribes, regained the Hexi Corridor, regained Hamiwei, wiped out the slave regime and the current Lindan Khan tribe, and defeated the Massak cavalry to achieve absolute occupation of East Siberia, the Ming Dynasty Four Chengxuan Political Commissioners, Monan, Liaodong, Gansu, and Mobei, were successively established. Except for the relatively narrow management area of ​​Monan, the territories under the jurisdiction of the other three Chengxuan Political Commissioners are extremely vast.

Among them, the jurisdiction of Liaodong is not only the three eastern provinces today, but also includes the Outer Xing'an Mountains, Miaotun area, and East Siberia. Mo Beicheng announced that the Political Envoy Division goes directly to Datong in the east and Hetao in the west, almost across the border. The entire northwest of Ming Dynasty, and the newly separated Gansu Chief Envoy is not what we call Gansu now, but includes the area from Hamiwei in the north to Qinling in the south.

The four Marine Corps of the Imperial Guard are also stationed in the four newly established Chengxuan Political and Envoy Divisions, and part of the troops are allocated to form the Gendarmerie Corps. These Gendarmerie are responsible for the maintenance of law and order in the jurisdiction and the elimination of the remaining resistance forces. There are also guards for local officials at all levels.

Among them, officials of different ranks have different quotas of military police. At the lowest level of county magistrates, there will be a quota of five military police for protection, but Zhang Huangyan is a fourth-rank magistrate, so his quota is one military police.

Although these are his own guards in name, they are his subordinates, but Zhang Huangyan also knows that these people are not easy to mess with, and they can't be shouted and shouted like ordinary yamen servants, because these gendarmes who follow him are all guards People in the army, these people are all close to the army of His Majesty, and the officers among them are students who graduated from the Royal Military Academy. They enjoy the same treatment as the students of the Imperial College, and even have a higher status. Naturally, I can't afford to offend them.

What's more, now that Mobeicheng has announced that the Department of Political Envoys has just been established, although the entire Mobei has a basic administrative framework system, and a large number of local officials have successively taken up their posts, and have begun to become the first batch of people-friendly officials in this area, there is still a lack of A large number of grassroots officials and yamen servants have forced the entire Mobeicheng Announcement Political Envoy Division to temporarily implement a governance method that is half military and half local officials, and only public security and prisons are handled by the gendarmerie representing the military.

However, the gendarmerie's methods of controlling law and order and prisons are very simple and brutal. Whether it's as small as someone stealing a sheep from someone else's house or as big as a conspiracy involving ordinary herdsmen trying to rebel and get rid of Ming's control, There is only one way for the gendarmerie to deal with it, and that is to shoot him directly!
However, the iron-blooded policy of the gendarmerie has a very obvious stabilizing effect on Mobei, a place where a large number of non-Han people live, and basically greatly deterred those opponents who were ready to move.

"I'm sorry, General Zhang," Zhang Huangyan said, and rode a horse from the Han army and ran directly to Helin's mansion.

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On the way to Helin City, Zhang Huangyan occasionally saw Mongolian herdsmen driving sheep in twos and threes, also gathering in the direction of Helin City.

Because, according to the Ming Dynasty, the notice boards have been planted along the way, and it is also spread by Jin Yiwei and the four places, and the herdsmen on the side of Monan secretly pass it down, that is, after the Ming Dynasty occupies this area, officials will be selected to start setting up counties Build a government, and divide the grassland in the counties and counties under its jurisdiction according to the number of people and the number of cattle and sheep in each household.

Just as the people inside the pass dream of having their own land, the ordinary herdsmen outside the pass also hope to have their own grassland. For them, being able to graze their cattle and sheep in their own grassland is simply the happiest. thing.

But before this, they didn't dare to think like this. In their previous consciousness, let alone the grassland they grazed, the cattle and sheep they grazed, and even themselves belonged to the upper-class slave owners, and only the upper-class slave owners to have their own private property.

If it was in the previous era when nomads could plunder almost at will, the exploited ordinary herdsmen could still accept the drive of the upper-class nobles and follow them to enter the customs to plunder. There are rewards there, and even you can secretly obtain some property through looting.

At that time, plundering the customs was the only magic weapon to maintain the basis of its rule, but now with the strengthening of the border defense capabilities of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for the nomads to obtain means of production through plundering the people in the Central Plains, so that the internal contradictions of their rule will not intensify Effect.

The reality is that with the increase in the cost of plundering, the internal conflicts among these nomads have become more and more intensified. Coupled with the comparison of the life of the herdsmen in Monan and other places after they joined the Ming Dynasty, many ordinary herdsmen have no longer counted on their masters. Instead, Lin Danhan began to secretly hope that Daming would call over this morning and distribute the grassland, cattle and sheep in his area as soon as possible.

This also made it possible for a large number of ordinary herdsmen to actively provide Jin Yiwei and Daming's Yebushou with a large number of main action paths related to the upper Mongolian nobles at the beginning of the war, which also contributed to Daming's ability to quickly wipe out the Lindan Khan tribe.

But now that the war is over, it's time to publicize the kindness of Ming Dynasty to the common people. At this time, Zhang Huangyan can see a large number of ordinary herdsmen actively and consciously gathering in the court and Lin's house. They are all going to the county government, waiting for the officials and gentlemen Formally allocate grass to them.

And there are many gendarmes among these herdsmen, and some reactionary forces who are ready to move, in order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from reforming the land outside the customs, completely cut off their retreat, and sometimes kill a large number of ordinary herdsmen to deter ordinary people. The role of the herdsmen and the Ming court forced some gendarmes to mix with the herdsmen to deal with the attacks of the remaining Tartar cavalry at any time.

Although there are potential threats, Zhang Huangyan can see that most of these herdsmen are full of smiles on their faces, which makes Zhang Huangyan feel that the burden on his shoulders will become heavy, and it is necessary to properly and fairly manage such a vast grassland. It is true that it is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

But Zhang Huangyan is excited at the moment. He can imagine that once these ordinary herdsmen are freed from the fate of being enslaved, the life of the nomads outside the customs will be greatly changed. At least the way of survival of these herdsmen will change from relying on direct plunder to Obtain the means of subsistence and all transfer to the way of producing the means of subsistence by oneself.

(End of this chapter)