Bright Spring

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu also thought that these Oala captives were very lucky, and they really should thank the Ming court for their tolerance.They attacked the Ming army and almost slaughtered hundreds of Ming army guards, military officials, and Tatar remnants. It was right or wrong to say that the Ming court would not be wrong even if they killed them.But Zhu Gaoxu needed them to go back, so that the leader of Wala, Mahamu, believed in the conspiracy of the Tatars.

Zhang Sheng's voice said: "You tell those Wala people to get ready and leave early tomorrow morning. We will send troops to escort you, first to Datong Mansion, then to Dongshengwei (Hohhot). Then go to the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain and go to Ningxia Left vanguard (Baotou), right vanguard (Bayannur). Afterwards, the guard troops withdrew, and we will give you enough dry food and horses so that you can go north to find the Wala tribe.”

In Zhang Sheng's narrative, the places in the Hetao area, such as the left front guard and the right front guard in Ningxia, are newly established guards by He Fu according to the imperial court's intention in the past two years.

Originally, the Nine Frontiers of the Ming Dynasty did not include the Yinshan area as a direct garrison area. Among them, the Yansui defense line in the north of Shaanxi, and the government was located near Yulin; Dongshengwei near Yinshan Mountain was also an outpost.

Such a northern line of defense is mainly related to the Great Wall. The Great Wall is located in the north of Shaanxi, and it is sunken back to the south. This kind of construction is also related to the average annual rainfall. The ancients gained knowledge through years of experience.Such a line of defense, taking into account the farming and material sources, is a more reasonable defense idea.

However, after Zhu Gaoxu came to power, he mainly conspired with Qi Tai, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and spared no effort to restructure the northwest transportation routes and grain storage facilities, and expanded the defense line to the north, and began to expel the Wala people and occupy the entire Yinshan and Hetao areas.

This strategy is an aggressive strategy, the purpose is to reduce the living space of northern nomadic tribes in the Monan area by increasing their own consumption.No wonder Wala

When the people attacked the remnants of the Tatars, they didn't care about the guards of the Ming army at all. They were quite dissatisfied with the Ming court at that time, and they didn't care whether they were offended or feuded; because after He Fu went to the northwest, he had already formed a relationship with the Wala people.

At this time, Captain Jin Yiwei relayed Zhang Sheng's meaning in Mongolian.

Seeing the demeanor and demeanor of the Oala captives, Zhu Gaoxu immediately believed that the matter was mostly done.

When we returned to the old courtyard of the Wangfu, the sky was getting dark day by day.The old courtyard was almost deserted before, and there were only servants in charge of cleaning and guarding on weekdays. Naturally, there was no one who told the time, but judging by the light, it was almost midnight now.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't have dinner with the concubines, and called the accompanying nobles and civil and military officials in the front yard, and the monarchs and ministers had dinner together.

After drinking for three rounds, Zhu Gaoxu began to talk with everyone. He said in a casual tone: "Considering the defense of the north, the Beiping chief envoy is really important."

"Your Majesty is right, Taizong originally wanted to move the capital." Qiu Fu echoed.

At present, except for the former ministers of Jianwen Qu Neng, Shengyong, Pingan and others, most of the nobles in the imperial court are the military generals who made their fortunes in Beiping, so most of the nobles are willing to move the capital to Beiping; But they are not dissatisfied with not moving the capital.After all, the capital is prosperous, and everyone has resettled properties in the capital.

However, most of the civil officials obviously did not want to move the capital.When Zhu Gaoxu first came to the throne, in order to save money, he temporarily suspended various matters related to moving the capital.At that time, almost no one objected, and it was the same reason.

Qiu Fu's voice said again: "The court has slowed down in the past few years, does the Holy One still want to move the capital to Beiping?"

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said: "As I said on the banks of the Yellow River, prosperity in the future depends on water transportation, external sea transportation, and inland river transportation. Our Ming Dynasty is a fire sign, but we must rely on water. The lower reaches of the Great River are a good place. The Great River connects many The inland water system is not far from the sea. With the current draft of sailboats, seagoing ships can be docked in many places downstream, and many ports can be established. So in the long run, it may be better not to move at this time.”

He thought for a while and then said: "However, Beiping can be the center of most of the nine borders. If there is no such a central city, the north will inevitably be top-heavy. Therefore, I am planning to promote Beiping's chief envoy to Beizhili, and Beiping city to Beijing. As the auxiliary capital of the Ming Dynasty, set up the central government office here, and when the time comes, our monarchs and ministers will be able to come and live for a while when we go north to hunt."

Wang Bin said with a smile: "That's a good thing, I will spend more time with the Holy Majesty." The honorable generals enthusiastically agreed and agreed with Zhu Gaoxu to do this.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "After returning to Beijing, I will discuss with everyone again."

If you don't move the capital, but only set up an accompanying capital, it will indeed save money.The ready-made Yanwang Mansion can be used as an imperial city after repairing it. It is nothing more than building a few more government offices and appointing some officials from the six departments and five temples in Beizhili. Compared with the large-scale relocation of the capital, it is a drop in the bucket.

With Beiping as the accompanying capital, the reform of the military system in the eastern section of the Nine Frontiers that Zhu Gaoxu had envisioned before also had institutions and personnel for local decision-making and management.

Zhu Gaoxu's heart also gradually eased up a bit, things were complicated, and he finally found a way to sort out a line slowly.

Chapter 945 Fertile Soil

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When the generals under Liaodong Dusi were reporting their duties, Zhu Gaoxu also asked about the situation of Wuliangha Sanwei one after another.These sides will have to take into account the safety of their own territory, and they probably know something about the Wuliangha tribe not far away.

Then Zhu Gaoxu summoned Guo Ang who lived in Beiping.Guo Ang was an official of the Northern Department of the Imperial Guard in Beiping. It was Guo Ang who reported to Beijing about the meeting between Zhao Wangfu's chief Shi and the Mongolian courier flower girl.

It is difficult for the North Department of the Defense Department to get much information about the distant Asut Department of Alutai Headquarters, or even the Horqin Department of Tatar.But Guo Ang should be able to find out a lot of things about the Wuliangha tribe not far from the Liaodong capital.

In this way, after many inquiries, Zhu Gaoxu confirmed the words of General Ji'er from Wuliangha.It is the fact that the Wuliangha people and the Horqin tribe have had close contacts.

Zhu Gaoxu judged that the Horqin Department has fully penetrated into Duoyanwei and Tainingwei. Horqin leader Adai not only married the Wuliangha people, recruited many Wuliangha people from the two guards, and sent many people Shepherds live on the site between the two guards.At this time, the Wuliangha Sanwei grazing area was mainly between Heilongjiang and Jilin, as well as at the eastern foot of the Greater Khingan Mountains. )

The tribe that once helped Emperor Taizong in the civil war in the "Battle of Jingnan" is now breaking away from Daming and alienated from the imperial court.

Zhu Gaoxu felt very troubled by this, and couldn't think of a way to restore the Wuliangha tribe for a while.

Guo Ang had already answered Zhu Gaoxu's inquiry in detail, and he was standing in front of him bowing.Because Zhu Gaoxu didn't say a word, Guo Ang didn't dare to speak lightly in front of the emperor, and stood there silently.The main room became very quiet, and Zhu Gaoxu was a little distracted at this time.

The peaceful environment makes people think too much. Zhu Gaoxu didn't quite understand the mentality of Wu Liangha's leaders at first, so he thought a little more.

I don't know if Emperor Taizong promised the Daning area at the beginning, but at most he gave Wuliangha people a piece of land, and other rewards. Zhu Gaoxu believed that the emperor would not be stingy.It stands to reason that the leaders would not want to be an enemy of Daming just because of one thing.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly had a whim, thinking that perhaps it is almost an instinct that whether it is the Wuliangha people or other tribes, they are willing to plunder the Ming Han people together with the Tatars subconsciously.After all, the Ming Dynasty had the largest population and a very rich output; as long as these tribes could hold down the Ming people in the south, the huge benefits would be enough for their few people to resolve their conflicts.Of course, whether it can be done or not depends on the state of the Central Plains Dynasty.

This is just his own thinking, and no one knows what the reason is.But there has to be a reason.

Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses, saw Guo Ang still standing beside him, and said, "Commander Guo is doing his best, you've done a good job."

Guo Ang was overwhelmed with flattery, and hurriedly cupped his hands respectfully and said, "It is my duty to be loyal to the Holy One."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded his head.

Guo Ang then said, "If the sage doesn't have him to ask, please leave."

Zhu Gaoxu said, "You go back first, and report to Hou Zuo envoy on business."

Guo Ang bowed his head to thank him and left the main room.

The next person Zhu Gaoxu wants to meet is General Ji'er from Wuliangha.Ji'er and the generals of the Ming army at Bianguan came to Beiping to report on their duties, and they would not stay here for too long.Zhu Gaoxu promised before that he would find a solution to Fu Yuwei's situation, and it's time to come up with an explanation now, and he can't continue to procrastinate.

But before calling someone to summon Ji'er, Zhu Gaoxu re-examined his thoughts.

These days, Zhu Gaoxu thought of two options for Fu Yuwei's strategy.

One of them is to maintain the position of Fuyuwei, using them as a wedge between the Wuliangha tribe and the Horqin tribe, while Daming echoes in the south, and conducts a north-south pincer attack on Tainingwei and Duoyanwei.

Zhu Gaoxu had this kind of tough strategy idea, it was because he felt that Alutai and Horqin tribe Adai had already been too entangled with Wuliangha people.Since it is impossible to continue to reconcile, it is better to take the initiative to strike.

But this has some side effects. First of all, the strength of Duoyanwei and Tainingwei is not weak, and there are also many cavalry that can be mobilized. In addition, there are reinforcements from the growing Horqin Department.The scale of this war launched by Ming Dynasty will not be too small, regardless of the outcome, the cost must be huge.However, this campaign is not very necessary. It will further increase the military expenditure, and the expenditure has been rising recently, and it will be opposed by the ministers.

The most important thing is that even if the Ming Dynasty captured these places, it would not be easy to gain a firm foothold for a while, because the local Han population is too small.For such a decision, of course you have to think about what to do in the future, and you have to think about it from the beginning to avoid a temporary dilemma.

In most areas of Eastern Liaodong, the Central Plains Dynasty has been unable to directly control it for many years.For hundreds of years from the Song Dynasty, the Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongols took turns occupying this land, and there were basically no Han people; don't worry about it in the Yuan Dynasty, the north was dominated by the Mongols.

It was after the Hongwu years that the Ming forces entered Liaodong.The Ming army attacked the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in Liaodong, attacked several times before and after, and then forcibly moved the military households to garrison fields, so that the current Liaodong Dusi, Nuergan Dusi, and Daning Dusi existed (Daning Dusi has existed in name only).Among them, the largest Han population is Liaodong Dusi, but the place where the Ming army directly stationed in the Liaodong area has just reached Zhongwei, Tieling, and Sanwan in Shenyang; the population is also mostly military households and exiled prisoners.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu had to face the reality. In the short term, if he wanted to really occupy the territories of Jilin and Heilongjiang, the population of Liaodong might not be enough.The safest thing is to gradually develop the population and gradually digest it.

Zhu Gaoxu carefully considered again and finally decided to adopt the second strategy.

After sending eunuchs to summon General Ji'er, Ji'er came to meet him not long after.The old courtyard used to be the Gaoyang County Prince's Mansion. The scale of the County King's Mansion is of course far from that of the Jingshi Palace. People would have to walk for a long time to come in to meet the saint.

The chicken is very respectful, first kowtows outside the door, then comes in and salutes again.Because the weather is getting colder, curtains have been hung on the door, and there is dark red charcoal in the brazier in the room, which makes the air in the room very warm.In the relatively closed and hot air, the strong smell of General Ji'er immediately rushed towards his face.However, Zhu Gaoxu knew that their living customs were like that, and he didn't have the slightest intention to dislike them.

Zhu Gaoxu said, "General Chicken is exempt."

He then said directly, "I have made arrangements for Fuyuwei. When you return to the station, take the imperial decree back. Move Fuyuwei to the south and live on the land south of Tainingwei. The three guards will change places. After the south, the pastures of Tainingwei will belong to you; Tainingwei will move northward one by one, to the place of Duoyanwei; Duoyanwei will take over your pastures."

After hearing this, Ji'er said without thinking, "My lord, Duoyan Wei and Tai Ning Wei may not want to move."