My Daming New Empire

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However, because Daming bought them at half the price in the pass, many tribal leaders were willing to allow those serfs to earn more benefits for them besides grazing.

Different from Guannei, the grassland in Mobei is still a serf system, and the powerful tribal leaders enjoy all the glory and wealth.But those serfs were not only hard to eat, they didn't even have their own lives.

Even so, these serfs were unwilling to escape, because the grasslands were still ruled by wild wolves.They are the overlords of this grassland, even the tigers and black bears in the forest dare not fight against them.

Without the protection of the tribe, they can only become food in the mouth of wild wolves.

In the forefront of this 3000-man cavalry team, Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng rode on a tall horse with satisfaction.

This is a hard-earned horse from the Western Regions. It is much taller than ordinary Mongolian horses. Although its long-distance endurance is not as good as that of Mongolian horses, it is much faster.

From the Northern Expedition in the 12th year of Yongle, Zheng Heng has entered the seventh year of staying on this land.

In the past seven years, he has become the most envied object of the military generals of the entire Ming Dynasty, because he controls the entire Beimingshan Copper Mine and the millions of people gathered by this copper mine.

He has earned a lot of silver over the years, even so much that it scares him.

He also always wanted to apply for a callback, because he knew that he was too hated.

The Beimingshan Copper Mine supplies Daming with more than 20 taels of gold and hundreds of millions of taels of pure copper every year.The cavalry in charge of guarding here, in addition to their salary, can also receive a five-point subsidy every year.

Even if Zheng Heng is not greedy, he can lose ten thousand taels of gold every year.

The benefits were so astonishing that he even felt hot when holding them.

But because Zhu Zhanji, who was asked to guard here at the beginning, went to sea, and Zhu Di didn't have a more suitable person to replace him, so he stayed in this position.

He has already earned enough money, and now he wants to be like Liu Sheng and change his Marquis of Wu'an to Duke Wu.

Now, the opportunity has finally come.

The grandson returned to the country, and then supervised the country, and His Majesty went west.

He originally only wanted to be able to take off this heavy responsibility, return to Beijing to report on his work, and then use gold to win Zhu Zhanji's favor, arrange himself a noble position, and enjoy a few years of blessings.

But he didn't expect that the position of head coach of the North Route Army would be so lucky to fall on his head.

Before that, he had never had such expectations, because he had made other people jealous for several years, and no matter how he looked at it, the position seemed to have nothing to do with him.

But it happens to be him now.

And all of this, he knew very well, was because the grandson spoke for him in the middle.

As the first military general to take refuge in Zhu Zhanji, he has had the least contact with Zhu Zhanji in recent years, which has always made him a little uneasy.

But now that he can gain the power to lead the army, it shows that His Royal Highness still trusts him.

Through Zhu Zhanji's letter, he also understood why he could replace Liu Sheng and become the coach of the North Route Army.

What the court needs is not a general who can only fight and kill, but a general who can strategize and win over the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, including the tribes in the northwest.

Although Zheng Heng felt that it was not worthwhile for the imperial court to expend too much energy in the northwest, it was too poor there, and there was not much benefit at all, and the effort was greater than the return.

But this matter is what he is good at, and he is also sure that he can divide and subdue all those tribes.

This kind of confidence comes from his contacts with various ethnic groups in Mobei in the Beimingshan Copper Mine these years. He was able to firmly control the fat meat of Beimingshan in the hands of the imperial court, not only relying on the deterrence of [-] cavalry, but also It is by his clever wrist.

In his view, the grassland people are actually easier to rule than the Ming people. They are simple-minded, submit to the strong, and don't have too many bells and whistles.

With a knife in one hand and sugar in the other, he can control these people very well by using both soft and hard tactics.

It has been three months since he received the news that he was appointed as the head coach of the North Route Army, and Zheng Heng still did not go to the northwest to take up the post.

Daming has about 20 cavalry in the north, in addition to the [-] in Beimingshan, another [-] are in Beiping and Xuanfu, and [-] are in the area from Liaodong to Kaiping Qiantunwei.

Zheng Heng will transfer [-] soldiers to the northwest. Even if these soldiers do not train uniformly, they will need to reorganize the battalion.

More importantly, he not only wanted to take the Ming soldiers to the northwest, but also drew cavalry from the Oala, Tatar, and Duoyan Sanwei who had already surrendered.

On the one hand, it is to consume their military power and prevent them from growing up.On the other hand, it is also to balance the troops in Mobei, so that the troops of the Ming Dynasty will not be empty after the soldiers are transferred, so that they can take advantage of it.

However, it is easy to pay them and let them work, but it is difficult to pay them and make them work hard.

In the past few months, Zheng Heng has been kind and powerful, threatening and luring at the same time, and finally persuaded the tribes that they can dispatch a total of [-] cavalry and [-] servants.

And Montenegro (Hulunbuir) is his last destination.

200 years ago, Temujin entrusted Heishantou to his eldest brother Zhuochi Hasar, and the rest to his second brother Hechiwen Erlechi and his relative De Xuechan family. Lingdong area (Daxinganling Edong) was entrusted to his younger brother Timuge Wochijin.

After 200 years of ups and downs, the Mengyuan people have lost most of the Lingdong area. Although this grassland is still controlled by the Mengyuan tribe, it has changed owners repeatedly.

In the seventh year of Yongle, Alutai of the Tatar tribe and the puppet Khan Ben Yashili led their troops to attack Oala. They were defeated by Mahamu and others, and they retreated to the Luqu River (Kerulun River). It became the world of the Tatar headquarters.

Although Alutai was defeated, it did not suffer a major blow, and was still strong in self-sufficiency, making it an enemy of the Ming Dynasty.In July, Guo Ji, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, was killed.

In August, Zhu Di ordered 10 cavalry to conquer Alutai and Benya.Qiu Fu advanced alone and was defeated by Alutai and Ben Yashili in the upper reaches of the Luqu River, and his entire army was wiped out.

This is also the biggest failure since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Di was furious and exiled the whole Qiu family.

In March of the eighth year of Yongle, Zhu Di led an army of 50 to conquer Alutai and Benya Shili.

Arutai and Benya lost their faces and split, Benya led his troops westward, and Arutai led his troops eastward.In the first battle of the Ming army against Benya, the Mongolian army was defeated. Benya escaped with only 7 cavalry, and entered Oirat in the west.

Zhu Difu led his troops to the east, defeated the Arutai tribe in Xing'an Mountains, and occupied Heishantou.In the winter of the same year, Arutai was forced to send an envoy to Gongma to repair the Ming Dynasty.In the 11th year of Yongle, the imperial court granted Arutai the title of King Hening.

The second Eastern Expedition, that is, the 12th year of Yongle, was the first time His Royal Highness Taisun made his voice on the battlefield, and it was also the first large-scale application of Daming firearms.

In this battle, the Oala tribe who fought suffered countless casualties and fled in a hurry.

Then Alutai of the Tatar tribe took the opportunity to go westward, captured Mahamu, and gave Mahamu to Daming.

Mahamu was beheaded for public display in Yingtian Mansion, Oala's power was greatly damaged, some tribes fled westward, and the other part belonged to Daming.

Alutai wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of it, but the Beimingshan stronghold established by Da Ming in Mobei made his plan come to nothing.

Over the past few years, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty has become stronger and stronger, especially after all the muskets were installed, the Tatars now have no idea of ​​​​rebelling at all.

However, Zheng Heng knew very well that Alutai was not a good person, this person was the evil wolf of the grassland, he surrendered to Daming now, but because he was inferior to others, if he was given a chance, he would become a confidant of Daming.

In the past few years, he has been vigorously suppressing the Tatar headquarters and supporting other tribes.

Alutai is just a Mongolian Turkic. He is not in harmony with the tribes in the Mongolian Yuan headquarters. He seizes this point and promotes it in various ministries so that Arutai dare not rebel casually. This is what Zheng Heng has been doing in recent years It can maintain the stable foundation of the grassland.

When a wide lake appeared in front of him, as well as the forest of military flags beside the lake, Zheng Hengcai breathed a sigh of relief, and his stern face became more relaxed.

He had already spent more than half a month in order to persuade Alutai to send troops this time.

Although Arutai allowed him to lead troops into Montenegro, he only allowed him to bring 3000 people.In order not to panic Alutai, he complied with the other party's wishes.