Moreover, the Mongols used to rule cruelly against the Jurchen tribes. Letting the Jurchens monitor the Mongols on the Mulan Grassland could very well prevent them from colluding.
This suggestion was immediately approved by Guo Ying and others.
They now know clearly the strength of each Jurchen tribe in Liaodong.
After years of development and reproduction, the total number of these Jurchen tribes has reached hundreds of thousands.
If the Jurchens can be used to monitor the Mongols, they can also weaken the Jurchens.
Zhou Dexing said with a smile: "I heard that the Jurchens are very poor. I'm afraid it doesn't cost thirty silver dollars a month to recruit Jurchens as soldiers. I think ten silver dollars is enough."
Guo Ying and others also agreed with this statement.
After all, although the Ming Dynasty is rich now, it always feels a bit wasteful to give the Jurchens the same military salary.
Zhu Han didn't want to be so stingy, because Zhu Han had other considerations of his own.
The entire Liaoyang Province is too large, and there are not many Han people on the land. Zhu Han must quickly weaken the Jurchens' strength so that Ming Dynasty can have a stable dominance in Liaoyang Province.
Therefore, mobilizing some elite Jurchens is a measure that kills two birds with one stone.
"No less, just give them a military salary of thirty silver dollars per month, the same treatment as ordinary Ming soldiers, but they must obey the teachings of the Ming Dynasty and use Chinese names!"
"Eternal God Emperor"
Zhu Han not only wants to mobilize the Jurchens, but also assimilate them!
"Your Highness, the Jurchens are also Tatars after all. If they are treated like Ming soldiers, will other people be dissatisfied?" Luo Guanzhong asked with some worry.
Luo Guanzhong, as the commander of the Yingchang Guard of the Northern Parallel Capital Division, was already very clear about the likes and dislikes of ordinary soldiers. They were all jealous and disgusted with the Tatars, whether they were Mongols or Jurchens.
"Don't worry, as long as the Jurchens are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, there will be no Jurchens in ten years, only people from Liaoyang Province of the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Han was very confident in the Ming Dynasty's ability to assimilate barbarians.
The jurisdiction of the Northern Pingdu Division originally did not include Liaoyang Province.
Zhu Han immediately wrote to his brother Zhu Yuanzhang and took over the jurisdiction of Liaoyang.
Convenient for unified scheduling.
After Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Han's request, he immediately agreed without any hesitation.
Soon after, the Ming Dynasty's Northern Parallel Capital Division issued a recruitment order to recruit 10,000 Jurchen soldiers from Liaoyang Province.
Every Jurchen soldier who is hired will receive a military salary of thirty silver dollars, and all food, clothing, housing and transportation will be provided by the Ming Dynasty. The Jurchen soldiers will also receive a Han household registration granted by the Ming court.
That's right, Zhu Han regarded Han household registration as a reward and wrote it in the notice openly and honestly.
The purpose of this move is to tell everyone that the Han household registration in the Ming Dynasty is very noble and not everyone can obtain it.
After these Jurchen soldiers become Han Chinese, they will be rewarded with land and houses, making them no longer willing to return to their original tribes and live a miserable life.
A group of Jurchen soldiers are recruited every few years. Within a few years, most of the young Jurchen tribes will be hollowed out, and the Jurchens left behind among the white mountains and black waters will no longer have the ability to cause trouble.
Under the powerful assimilation power of the Ming Dynasty, those Jurchens serving as soldiers will quickly accept their Han identity, and no one will care about the tribes in the White Mountains and Black Waters.
The Ming Dynasty only needs immigrants to fill the area, and will soon turn the Liaodong area into a directly governed territory.
In the future, not only will there be no threat from the Northeast, but there will also be a treasure land in the Great Northern Wilderness that can alleviate population pressure!
Liaodong, Jianzhou.
The Liaoyang Province of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was vast, covering almost the entire Northeast region.
After the Ming Dynasty defeated the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the originally huge Liaoyang Province was re-divided from south to north into Liaodong, Songjiang, Yalan and Heishui.
Jianzhou belongs to Liaodong Province, and many Jurchen tribes live here.
Although these Jurchen tribes are called Jurchens, they have no inheritance relationship with the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom who were exterminated by the Mongols.
Most of the Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom had long been wiped out by the Mongols and the Southern Song Dynasty.
These Jurchen tribes today were savage tribes despised by the Jurchens during the Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, the Jurchens from the Jin Kingdom went to the Central Plains to enjoy the colorful world without bringing these poor and backward distant relatives with them.
Aqina and Seth Hei are two brothers from a Jurchen tribe at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
They originally lived a life of hunting and farming, and their life was very hard.
Because hunting is not only full of danger, but there is no guarantee of success. Often you go out hunting for a day or two without harvesting anything.
In this bitterly cold land, the harvest from farming is pitifully small. Only the Liaohe Plain area can produce good harvests, but the land there has long been enclosed by the Mongols as pasture and cultivated land, and it is not the Jurchens' turn to live at all.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has replaced the Mongols, the Liaohe Plain still cannot belong to the Jurchens.
However, Aqina and Seth Hei had no other way to change their lives. Originally, he thought they would continue like this for the rest of their lives.
But fate suddenly changed!
In April of the fourth year of Hongwu.
After the Ming Dynasty army drove away the Mongols, they set up many guard posts at the foot of Changbai Mountain and took control of all the surrounding Jurchen tribes.
The tribes of brothers Aqina and Seth Hei were under the jurisdiction of the Jianzhou Guards of the Ming Dynasty.
Under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens could continue to hunt or farm in the mountains, but they could not move freely between various guard posts and had to stay in one place.
If the Jurchen tribe wants to migrate, they must report it to the Ming Dynasty Guards.
Only after obtaining permission from Ming officers, the Jurchen tribe could move to other places.
Otherwise, they will all be punished as treason, ranging from being arrested and whipped, to being punished as slaves, to being annihilated by the Ming army.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army were all jealous of the military merits. If any tribe dared to disobey, their whole family would definitely have their heads chopped off in exchange for military merits.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the dense woods, a group of Ming troops wearing bright armor came to the Jurchen tribe at the foot of the mountain.
When Meng Ge, the leader of the Jurchen tribe, saw the Ming army coming, he immediately ran out to greet them with a smile on his face.
"Kowtow to the commander!"
Meng Ge plopped down on his knees and kowtowed to the Ming army officer.
This officer was Li Chengcai, the commander of the Jianzhou Guards of the Liaodong Capital Division of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Chengcai was from Huaixi. He was a member of the Ming Emperor's army. He was appointed as the commander of the Jianzhou Guard for his accumulated merits. He was not very popular among the Huaixi generals. However, for the Jurchen tribe under his jurisdiction, Li Chengcai was
He is a proper local emperor, and anyone who dares to be disrespectful in the slightest will be immediately beheaded!
Li Chengcai had long been accustomed to Brother Meng's respect. He had no intention of letting Brother Meng get up. He looked around the Jurchen tribe carelessly, and then said.
"His Royal Highness the King of England has issued a military order allowing you and other Jurchen tribes to serve in the army of the Ming Dynasty. After consultation between the Liaodong Xingdu Division and the Jianzhou Guards, your Tuwo Division can select ten people to recruit troops and go to the Peking Parallel Division to serve!"
The words of Jianzhou Guard Commander Li Chengcai immediately caused a commotion in this small Jurchen tribe.
Brother Meng's face changed, and he already had a faint angry expression.
For these tribes with white mountains and black waters, all dynasties have always taken precautions and made use of them.
Especially in the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, batch after batch of young men from these tribes were recruited to die on the battlefield.
Now, less than a year after the Ming Dynasty came, they asked their tribe to send ten young men to fight on the battlefield. Everyone was extremely angry.
However, Meng Ge and other Jurchens knew that the Ming Dynasty's army was extremely powerful, so no matter how angry they were, they did not dare to get angry.
"Sir, our tribe has a small population to begin with. If ten young men and women leave, the remaining women, old and weak will not be able to survive!" Meng Ge begged pitifully.
The Jurchen tribes live in deep mountains and old forests, and there are many conflicts and resentments among each other. Once any tribe is weak, it will immediately be attacked by other tribes. Even if the Ming army is stationed in Jianzhou Guard, it is difficult to ensure that the tribes do not fight among themselves.
The men, women, and children from the Towo Department had all gathered around at this time.
I want to plead with Li Chengcai, the commander of Jianzhou Guard, to let the young men of their tribe go.
This kind of military service often leads to a narrow escape from death. If you come back alive, you will be blessed with great fortune. The loss of ten young men is simply not something they can bear.
"Now in the big world, if any tribe dares to make mistakes, I will destroy them!"
"The King of England has decreed that every recruit should be given thirty silver dollars as a living allowance and a monthly military salary of thirty silver dollars. If you don't know how to commend someone, don't blame me for being rude!"
Li Chengcai interrupted Meng Ge and directly pointed out the recruitment treatment.
"What? Thirty silver dollars?"
When Brother Meng heard this, his eyes immediately widened in surprise!
Now the Ming Dynasty has just issued a silver coin called Hongwu Yuanbao. Thirty silver coins are equivalent to five taels of silver when converted into silver.
Such high military pay is simply unheard of for the Jurchens.
In the conscription of soldiers in the past dynasties, not to mention paying military salaries, even the Jurchens had to prepare their own food and clothing.
Nowadays, when the Ming Dynasty recruits soldiers, they actually offer such high military salaries. The entire Jurchens in the Towo Department are shocked.
Brothers Aqina and Seth Black also showed ecstatic eyes.
The ginseng, mink skins, bear skins and other goods that these Jurchen tribes trade every year can only be sold for thirty to fifty taels of silver in Jianzhou City.
Nowadays, a young man can earn a military salary of five taels, and no one wants to miss this opportunity to make a fortune.
"Sir, is it really the military salary of thirty silver dollars?" Meng Ge asked immediately.
Li Chengcai nodded, "Can that be false? Who dares to spread the military orders of His Highness the King of England! If your tribe can't get the ten quotas within three days, then I won't wait and leave the quota to Hai.
Western Division!"
"It's all together! It's all together!" Brother Meng said quickly.
The reactions of these Jurchens were all within Li Chengcai's expectations.
The military pay of thirty silver dollars is enough to make these Jurchens work hard.
Sure enough, after Li Chengcai and others left, fierce conflicts broke out among the Jurchens in the entire Towo Department in order to compete for these ten places. The Jurchens who had always been united actually broke out.
After a scuffle, under the auspices of the tribe leader Meng Ge, brothers Aqina and Seth Hei, who were bruised and bruised, were selected.
Two days later, the Jianzhou Guard of the Ming Dynasty sent people to the Towo Department.
The ten selected Jurchen recruits were examined and passed, and a large bag of silver coins was left behind.
The rattling silver coins immediately made the Jurchens completely surrender.
With these silver coins, the entire tribe will no longer be short of food, salt, medicinal materials and other life-saving things.
Under Zhu Han's silver coin policy, the Jurchens in the entire Liaodong region took the initiative to send out their most elite 10,000 young men. After receiving sufficient silver coins, the remaining tribes became docile and no longer had any
Tribes fight with each other.
In less than a month, the Ming Dynasty's Northern Parallel Capital Division recruited more than 10,000 troops in Liaodong, immediately filling a large number of vacancies.
Monan, Yingchang Mansion.
Zhu Han came to Yingchang Guards in person and said to Luo Guanzhong: "As long as you remember my strategy, build strongholds, fight wisely, and do not underestimate the enemy and rush forward, even if Wang Baobao comes to Monan in person, it is impossible to capture Yingchang!"
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the general will definitely remember this strategy!" Luo Guanzhong said quickly.
The Ming Dynasty's strategy in the Monan Grassland was to use solid fortresses and firearms to curb the Mongols' mobility.
If the Mongols cannot conquer these fortresses quickly, they will gradually lose control of Monan.
When the various tribes in the Monan Grassland lose their will to resist, Zhu Han will use subsequent tricks to completely eliminate the threat that has plagued the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years.
After Zhu Han inspected Yingchang Mansion, he first took a warship from Haihekou to Yingtian Mansion.
Many accidents have happened recently, which makes my brother Zhu Yuanzhang very anxious.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhu Han must go back to help solve the problem.
Although Zhu Han temporarily left the Peking Capital Division, he was not worried about anything going wrong after making all arrangements.
His deployment on the Monan grassland prevented the Meng Yuan court from having the slightest courage to go south!
Not to mention the many fortresses of the Ming army, the thousands of miles of food and supplies alone left the surviving Mongolian and Yuan court helpless.
After all, many of Wang Baobao's soldiers were Han and Jurchens, and they were not used to the nomadic marching style.
Wang Baobao would not do such a stupid thing when he traveled thousands of miles to the Monan grassland to kill the Ming army.
However, his old rival Wang Baobao was wary of the strength of the Ming army.
But some other Mongolians didn't know how powerful the Ming army was, and even thought it was the best time to invade the Ming Dynasty!
On the grasslands of Mobei, it is the time when horses are fat and strong.
A large army composed of tens of thousands of horses is stationed on the grassland.
"Khan, I went to check in front. The Ming army and horses in Lanzhou have retreated so much that no one can be seen."
A Wala man with a semi-bald hairstyle was talking excitedly to Tuolibuhua, the Wala leader in the tent.
"good!"
When Wala Khan heard the words, he immediately clapped his hands happily.
"These Central Plains people have been softened by fine wine and are no match for us."
"Now that he has become completely discouraged and has turned into a coward like a rat or rabbit, it seems that Lanzhou City will be captured soon."
With a proud look on his face, Wala Khan stroked his beard and said with a proud smile.
His beard is not only curly, but also exudes a yellow luster.
Coupled with a pair of green eyes, he does not look like an ordinary Mongolian, but looks like a person with colored eyes.
"Khan, our sons have almost rested. I think we should lead the army to pursue them immediately." A commander of the Wara tribe shouted loudly.
In the battle a few days ago, the Oara coalition led by Tuolibuhua defeated the troops of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate who underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly.
After this pursuit, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was almost frightened and fled for more than three hundred miles.
The Oara people also learned from the prisoners about the alliance between the Ming army and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and naturally wanted to retaliate against the Ming army.