The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

The three of them continued to discuss some details.

After all, sending troops to Liaodong is not a trivial matter. If you are not careful, the situation will deteriorate.

However, at this time, the commander of the Jinyiwei, Mou Bin, suddenly came to ask for an audience.

Zhu Houzhao initially thought that the case was related to Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, because Ning Wang's rebellion case was handed over to the three judicial departments for joint trial, and the Jinyiwei was the jury.

Even if there were any other circumstances, it was just that a court official accepted Zhu Chenhao's bribes and colluded with him.

The reason why Zhu Houzhao asked the Jinyiwei to jury was to catch these borers and rice worms, so that they could be caught in one fell swoop, so there was nothing to say.

However, the first sentence Mou Bin said after entering the door directly frightened His Majesty the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, Jinyiwei urgently reported that the Mongolian prince was attacking the right wing of Mongolia and was about to win!"

As soon as this was said, Zhu Houzhao and Yang Tinghe could not sit still.

They looked at Tang Hao in shock, because the news first came from the mouth of this Zhongshan Marquis.

The Mongolian little prince refers to the Mongolian leader, not just one person. This is a derogatory term used by the Ming court. At this moment, it specifically refers to the leader of the Mongolian revival, Dayan Khan!

This true leader of the revival devoted his life to the cause of unifying Mongolia. In his early years, under the leadership of Manduhai, he led troops to conquer the Oirat and forced it to move westward to eliminate the threat from the west. After he became an adult, he focused on cracking down on powerful officials of different surnames who usurped power.

In the fifth year of Zhengde, Dayan Khan successively eliminated Yismain and Huoshai, defeated the right-wing separatist forces Yibula, Mandulai Agulehu (Altusi), etc., unified the various tribes in Eastern Mongolia, strengthened the military organization, consolidated the Khan's position, and incorporated the scattered separatist territories into 60,000 households, divided into left and right wings. The Khan led the left wing Chahar, Khalkha and Wuliangha 30,000 households, stationed in the Chahar Wanhu; one of his sons was named Jinong, commanding the right wing Ordos, Tumed and Yongshebu 30,000 households, stationed in the Ordos Wanhu.

Later, he enfeoffed his sons as Wanhu lords as vassals of the Khan; abolished the territories of feudal lords of different surnames in Eastern Mongolia, making them subordinates of the Khan and his sons; abolished the positions of Taishi and Prime Minister, changed the system of coexistence of taijis of the same surname and lords of different surnames since Genghis Khan, and ended the dictatorship, internal strife and feudal separatism of powerful officials of different surnames for a hundred years.

This Mongolian hero, who was quite ambitious, had his authority spread all over Mongolia in order to revitalize the Mongolian tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. He was able to command the Mongolians all over the world, unify the fragmented tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and develop the stagnant Mongolian society. His greatest contribution was to end the history of tyranny and dominance of lords of different surnames in various territories for more than 100 years after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, and to transform the Taishi who used to be in the upper echelons of the ruling class from feudal lords to subordinates of the Taiji lords of the Golden Family.

In other words, since Lan Yu smashed the orthodox court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the battle of Bui Er Hai, the vast Mongolian grassland fell into division and civil strife, and the tribes of all sizes fought and killed each other. The powerful lords took turns to support the puppet Khan and called themselves Taishi to take power. The legitimacy of Genghis Khan's Golden Family did not exist, and the unification of the Great Mongolia was far away.

Until the appearance of Dayan Khan, he defeated all the powerful lords who dared to challenge the status and authority of the Golden Family like a savior, and restored the Golden Family to the leadership position. He also carried out a series of in-depth reforms, and his authority penetrated into all parts of Mongolia, and was able to command the Mongolians all over the world.

Dayan Khan's grandson, Altan Khan, relied on the foundation and prestige accumulated by Dayan Khan to repeatedly invade the Ming Dynasty, and in the 29th year of Jiajing, he once again broke into the Ming Dynasty and surrounded the capital, creating the Gengxu Change, and once again trampled on the face of the Ming Dynasty!

This is the lord of the revival of the Great Mongolia!

He created a powerful Mongolian Empire again with his own strength.

Zhu Houzhao's face turned pale, and he subconsciously asked: "What is the situation of the right wing of Mongolia?"

Tang Hao took over the conversation and briefly explained the current situation of the grassland.

Dayan Khan's father was defeated and killed in the internal strife of Mongolia. His mother Sigil was abducted by the powerful official Yismain as his wife. Dayan Khan became an orphan and was adopted by Bagai and Temurhadaq. After Mandulu Khan died without an heir, Dayan Khan became the legal heir to the Khanate and was accepted by Mandulu's widow Manduhaihatun. The following year, he married Manduhaihatun according to Mongolian customs. With her help, he inherited the Khanate and was called the Khan of the Yuan Dynasty.

Yismain was one of the noble leaders of the Oirat. He used power tactics to displace and alienate people and became a powerful official of Mongolia. He appointed himself as the Grand Master and monopolized power. After Dayan Khan ascended the throne, he fought hard for three years and finally eliminated Yismain's power. However, the territory of the Yongshebu tribe of the right wing of Mongolia and the territory of the Ordos tribe of the right wing, which originally belonged to Yismain, was occupied by the brothers Yibula and Yeliyas, grandsons of the Great Khan Yesen from the Oirat, who led more than 10,000 people to the east.

The Yibula brothers colluded with Mandulai, a noble of the Ordos tribe, to oppose Dayan Khan's social reform measures. They constantly provoked and disturbed public order, and then dispatched troops to launch a rebellion. Dayan Khan's second son Urusbolot, who had just been transferred to Jinong, the Right Wing of the 30,000 Households, was killed in the war.

The Right Wing of the Mongolian 30,000 Households were stationed in the Hetao, Ordos Plateau, the north and south of the Yinshan Mountains, and the border areas of Datong and Xuanfu. The strategic position of this area is very important. At the same time, the Right Wing of the 30,000 Households has hundreds of thousands of Mongolian people, which can be regarded as half of Mongolia. The news of the rebellion of the Right Wing and the murder of Jinong reached the Mongolian Khanate, which shocked Dayan Khan.

This wise and capable leader of the Restoration immediately realized that the rebellion of 30,000 households on the right wing was directly related to the success or failure of the cause of unifying Mongolia, whether the Khan's power could be consolidated, and whether Mongolia could be revitalized. Therefore, Dayan Khan had to devote all his strength to a decisive battle with noble lords such as Yibula and Mandulai.

In the fifth year of Zhengde, Dayan Khan personally led his troops to conquer the right wing. As a result, at night, the people of the right wing Darat drove cattle to harass Dayan Khan's camp. Dayan Khan's team thought that the right wing army was attacking and was panicked and lost their footing. They retreated in a hurry, and the first attack ended in failure.

Soon, Dayan Khan organized a coalition to start the second expedition against the right wing. That is, this time, Dayan Khan, who has learned from experience and lessons, is about to complete his success in one battle, completely defeat the right wing army of Yibula and Mandulai, and then unify the entire Great Mongolia!

But this news is fatal to the Ming Dynasty.

A powerful Mongolia, a barbarian tribe with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, if all the troops were to attack southward, could the Ming Dynasty really resist?

His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao felt a great pressure.

He subconsciously looked at Tang Hao.

"Lord Tang, can we send troops to Hetao now and reap the benefits?"

Zhu Houzhao mentioned a place, that is... Hetao!

"Today's Hetao is Zhou Shuofang, Han Dingxiang, and Helian Bobo Tongwancheng."

"Tang Zhangren is willing to build three cities for accepting surrenders and set up 1,800 beacons, so that the Turks dare not cross the mountains to graze horses!"

"The surrender is based on three dangerous sides, which is a thousand miles of protection."

"At the beginning of the country, it abandoned the surrender and defended Dongsheng, and lost one dangerous side. Later, it gave up Dongsheng and went to Yansui, so it blocked more than a thousand miles of rush with one side, and thus the fertile land of Hetao was abandoned as a nest of bandits!"

The "mountain" in these words is the famous Yinshan Mountain!

South of the Yinshan Mountains is the Hetao, and north of the Yinshan Mountains is the world of nomadic tribes!

Since the Han Dynasty, the Hetao area south of the desert has been stationed by the Xiongnu royal court as early as two thousand years ago.

The Hetao area, with its fertile land and beautiful water, has always been "a place for farming and grazing".

The Hetao area can be nourished by the Yellow River, and the Yinshan Mountains block the wind and sand of the Great Gobi Desert on the Sino-Mongolian border and the cold current from the north. It can also be used as an excellent base for plundering to the south. Therefore, it has always been a core area in the eyes of the northern forces of the desert!

Any farmer who cultivates in the Hetao area must be prepared to face the nomadic cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty who come and go like the wind.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan forces retreated to the base of the Mongolian Plateau. The Ming and Mongolian sides fought several times and won and lost. Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang realized that relying solely on military means could not eliminate the threat of Mongolia, so he began to adopt a border defense policy based on defense.

Therefore, in order to consolidate the northern border defense, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang not only sent troops to the grasslands many times to attack the Northern Yuan forces, but also established a relatively complete defense system along the northern border, especially in the Yinshan Mountains-the southern foot of the Daqing Mountains-Xilamulun River in the south of the desert, setting up dozens of garrisons for defense, including Dongsheng Guard, Yunchuan Guard, Guanshan Guard, Quanning Guard, Laoha River Guard, etc.

However, during the Jingnan period, Taizong Zhu Di transferred troops from the border garrisons to the south, and the Ming Dynasty's Daning Dusi and Dongsheng Guard were withdrawn to the inland one after another, which caused loopholes in the defense system planned by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the Hetao area, and the Hetao area was directly exposed to the Mongolian army.

After Yesen's death, the Wala tribe weakened, but the Tatar tribe on the eastern grassland became strong again.

During the Xuande reign, Mongolian tribes began to enter and leave the Hetao region. In the fifth year of Tianshun, the Tatar tribe's Bolai invaded Yongchang and Ganzhou, and was defeated by Liangzhou Governor Mao Zhong. Bolai then sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to seek peace and beg for tribute. When Bolai paid tribute, he asked to enter the interior from Lanxian County, Shaanxi, instead of Datong, a border defense area that he had to pass through before. However, Lanxian County was a must-pass place to enter the Hetao grassland. The Bolai delegation paid tribute through Lanxian County, and then settled directly in the Hetao Plain, and no longer returned to the grassland. As a result, the Hetao region was gradually occupied by the Mongols who migrated there.

Since then, Hetao has become the main departure base for the Mongolian tribes to harass the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Hetao bandits" have also become the main border trouble in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongolian tribes penetrated deep into the interior of the Ming Dynasty every year, burning, killing and looting. However, after the Battle of Tumu, the Ming Dynasty weakened rapidly and was unable to recover the Hetao area. In response, the Ming court took actions such as "searching the Mongolian tribes", "smashing the nests" and "recovering the Mongolian tribes" in the Hetao area, trying to expel the Mongolian tribes and bring the area back into the rule of the Ming Dynasty. However, the army was corrupt and had low combat effectiveness, so the results were minimal.

Not long ago, Yang Yiqing proposed the suggestion of recovering the Mongolian tribes. The fundamental reason was that "those who did great things in ancient times always worked hard first and relaxed later"!

"Those who did great things in ancient times always worked hard first and relaxed later", this is the fundamental reason why the hawks in the court supported "recovering the Mongolian tribes".

Even though the Hetao area is directly adjacent to the Mongolian tribes, this is a great cause that will benefit future generations. We cannot leave this hidden danger unattended and leave endless harm to future generations.

Looking at the emotional Zhu Houzhao, Tang Hao shook his head expressionlessly.

"It's unlikely!"

"Even if we take it back, we can't keep it!"

"We can adopt a policy of support and differentiation and try to persuade Nayibula and Mandulai to surrender!"