In April of the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, the entire North China was covered with war clouds.
The Marshal's Mansion in the northwest gathered generals in Lanzhou. From Golmud in the depths of Qinghai to the bank of the Yellow River adjacent to Zhongwei in Ningxia, thousands of horses galloped everywhere, transporting grain, grass and ordnance for the army's Eastern Expedition eastward one after another.
On the other side of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, gathered the generals in Qingyang and decided to shrink the defense line along the Liupan Mountain to prevent the battalions from being divided and annihilated. Then they went north and south, each in the town of Ningxia.
Work with the Xi'an government to find ways to mobilize food and grass.
Huang Taiji in the northeast was also gearing up and once again ordered Horqin Baturukhan, Jinong Badali and Dorgon to prepare for the westward expedition to Monan. However, this time his target was not Xuanda of the Ming Dynasty, but entrenched in Ming Dynasty.
Monan is in Yang Qi.
And Yang Qi from the Marshal's Monan Governor's Mansion... In this tense atmosphere of preparing for war everywhere, Yang Qi's painting style is different from others, and no one can find him.
In this paradise where there was nothing but happiness, Governor Yang was busy deceiving the emperor, going crazy for smuggling, extorting taxes, and enfeoffing princes. Anyway, he did nothing serious about preparing for war. He led the Han army to build construction everywhere all day long.
Water conservancy, coercing and coercing Mongolians into farming on the grasslands, has been busy from last winter to now.
Even Guitu Taiji and He Huchen couldn't find Yang Qi. The communication between the two parties was completely one-way. Yang Qi wrote to them intermittently, telling them what to do next.
It's not that Yang Qi is stupid, he is as smart as a monkey, and he has a very clear understanding of the situation he is in. Given his situation, he has to laugh out loud every day when he opens his eyes: Hey fuck, I'm doing it again
Live a day!
To his southwest is the murderous town of Ningxia; to the south is Yansui Town, a place of great suffering and hatred; to the southeast is the plague-ridden Shanxi and Xuanda Town; to the east is Haha, who was beaten to a pulp by him last year and is struggling to survive.
Assashenbu.
And in its own hinterland, there are still 100,000 Mobei Mongolian troops who are so hungry that their eyes are red.
What kind of war is he preparing for, and who is he preparing for? It’s good to be alive, and everyone above, below, left, right, and in the middle is his fucking enemy.
So he had to move, taking his governor's office with him on the grassland at irregular times and in no direction: As long as I don't know where I am, others can't find me, and if they can't find me, they can't kill me.
——As long as I live, the Monan Governor’s Mansion will live.
The cruel reality did not allow him to consider the revenge of the Jin Army.
In order to fill his stomach, Yang Qi did everything possible. In the west, he sent Mongolian cavalry to the border of Ningxia to beg for food every day, and asked Hong Chengchou for food; in the east, he wrote eighty-eighty letters to Yang Sichang, the governor of Xuanda, in four months.
Many letters, full of good words, trying desperately to make Yang Sichang believe that they surnamed Yang are on the same side.
In those more than eighty letters, Yang Qi established himself as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty who was defeated and captured. He dedicated himself to serving thieves and endured hardships until he finally got the chance to leave the town. He now broke up with Liu Chengzong and never returned from now on.
Qinghai.
He analyzed a lot of specious information for Yang Sichang, such as Hou Jin's current strategic advantage over the Ming Dynasty, stated the reasons why the Monan Governor's Office could be used as a strong aid to the Ming Dynasty outside the border, and made a promise, so that Hou Jin would take a detour if he wanted to
If he attacks Xuanda, he will definitely defy all opinions and send troops to help Ming Dynasty.
After all, Yang Qi felt like a mirror in his heart. If Huang Taiji comes to Monan again, he will definitely be the one to beat him, and maybe he will join forces with Ming Dynasty to beat him.
Because Liu Chengzong told him that the most important thing for Hou Jin at the moment is to conquer Mongolia and collect the legacy of the demise of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. In terms of the legacy of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, which was founded by expelling the Tartars, is not a competitor at all. The only competitors are the Marshal's Mansion and the Hou Jin Dynasty.
Bulling a cow on the Monan grassland.
On the surface, Yang Qi said that he would be Daming's strong support. In fact, what he wanted in his heart was to wait for Hou Jin to beat him and let Daming help him.
What does it mean to eat a soft rice but not a soft rice? It means that people don’t think you are eating a soft rice.
Yang Sichang was almost annoyed by Yang Qi. He sent letters every day, as if he had endless things to say.
It would be fine in normal times. There was a plague in Shanxi this spring. The soldiers delivering letters to Yang Qi still took the letters to deliver to him and walked across the epidemic area with their eyes closed. Isn’t this fucking harmful?
Still unable to stop him, Yang Qi was accompanied by the eunuch Fang Zhenghua, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, Bingbi, and the soldiers delivering the letter all had customs clearance documents stamped with the seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies. No one dared to stop him. Yang Sichang didn't have to read the letter anyway.
, but Yang Qi will definitely guarantee that the letter can be delivered to him.
Yang Sichang now felt sick to his stomach when he saw the seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies. He thought to himself that if he got sick and died suddenly one day, even if he delayed his reincarnation, he would have to take Yang Qi away first.
Yang Sichang didn't believe a word of Yang Qi's deceptive words.
Because those obedient words all point to one goal in the end - to get Ming to provide him with military rations.
But Yang Sichang really couldn't do anything to him, because this thing was out there, saying the same things as Lin Dan Khan, doing the same things as Lin Dan Khan, regardless of whether he was the Monan Governor of the Marshal's Mansion, or a Ming Dynasty man who worked hard on his salary.
Whether you are a loyal minister or not, it doesn’t matter.
If anyone is thrown into the Monan grasslands of this era, the role they play and the things they can do are already determined. He is the Beibei, and the Beibei can only do two things, either to exchange his life for food, or to risk his life for robbery.
Grain.
As far as this environment is concerned, it’s the same for everyone.
Yang Sichang was really afraid that Yang Qi would be desperate, so he turned against him and led the Mongolian cavalry to break into the border wall. Xuanda border defense was already under great pressure from Houjin, and he really didn't want to provoke another beggar.
What's more, the geographical relationship is here. If Yang Qi wants to live, he must take refuge in one of the Ming and Hou Jin Dynasties. No one in the court can trust Yang Qi's character as a thief. It's not surprising that this guy will defect to the Donglu if he is impatient, but
Fortunately, Yang Qi is not really a Northern prisoner.
When the north suffered a disaster, there was a precedent for the Ming court to sell grain. Even now, the Harashen tribe is still buying grain from the Ming court. This is a confusing account.
The Mongolian tribes are also human beings, and as long as they can survive, they will not seek death; but if they really have no food, they will have no choice but to take risks.
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In order to avoid this situation, the Ming court would choose to sell grain to various tribes. Although Emperor Chongzhen was full of sagacity, he was afraid that the grain would be transported to the enemy and would not allow Mongolia to be resold to Hou Jin, thinking that it was another trick.
Food rations are distributed and the number of hungry people is determined, but these methods are difficult to implement.
Because even if the number of hungry people in Mongolia is 50,000, and the Ming court provides food that will keep 50,000 people from starving to death, part of it will still be sold to Hou Jin.
The reason is very simple. Mongolia cannot defeat Hou Jin. This is just a simple multiple-choice question: a few people starve to death, or a whole group of people are killed.
When it comes to Yang Qi, this matter is much simpler. After Yang Sichang reported to the emperor, he clearly told him that the imperial court would not provide sufficient military rations. Since Yang Qi could allow the tribes to guard the border for the imperial court, he was allowed to use Tumote.
In the name of the Khalkha tribes, they went to Zhangjiakou to kill Hu and trade with each other.
Anyway, no matter how many horses you transport, Zhangjiakou and Shahukou can only provide a maximum of 20,000 stone grain per month.
This was Chongzhen's idea.
Zhangjiakou is surrounded by mountains and is the north gate of Beijing. Hukou is the north gate of Xuanfu. Only by setting the location of the mutual trade in these two places can Yang Qi ensure that his troops are deployed in the hometown of Tumut and Chahar.
, then beating him first when Hou Jin comes will make the food spent more valuable.
The most important thing is that Yang Sichang found out that Yang Qi's Mongolian tribes have more than 100,000 troops, and 20,000 stone grains per month are just a drop in the bucket. He has so many Mongolian nobles, and the initiative in mutual trade lies with the imperial court. Whoever obeys will win.
More; whoever is disobedient, less. If you control this Mongolian army with military rations, it is not impossible to ignore Yang Qi.
Of course, Yang Qi had already thought of this situation. It didn't matter to him, and he even wrote a special note to Chongzhen to express his gratitude.
Because he has more than 13,000 people in four towns. Even if he includes the Tumut and Ordos tribes, the number of soldiers is less than 20,000. In Monan, there is no need to worry about raising horses. 20,000 stone grain per month can
He was dying.
As for the 100,000 troops from the tribes in Mobei? What does Yang Qi have to do with that 100,000 troops?
The three Khans of Mobei are all planning to go home.
People went to the south to escape the drought and winds in the Mobei grassland. Although fighting in the south fertilized the land for thousands of people, it was better than starving to death in the north, not to mention that they also robbed a lot of things. Yang Qi had been tempting people with land, and Mobei
The army of Beisan Khan has remained in Monan.
But now that they have gone through a difficult winter, the Three Khans of Mobei dare not stay - all fools know that Hou Jin was beaten last year and will definitely be beaten back this year. Now they are running back to the north to give Huang Taiji a semblance of repayment.
I can make do.
If they stay in Monan and fight with Hou Jin, Huang Taiji may go directly to their hometown next year. By then, no one taller than a stroller wheel will be able to survive.
What's more, they can't make a living if they stay here. The Ming court did give them market rewards in Ningxia, but people can't live just by cooking silk in an iron pot.
But Yang Qi did whatever it took to survive. He contacted the nobles of the Mobei tribes and used grain to buy the silk back at a low price from the Mobei tribes.
Not only that, he also promised the Third Khan that Monan is a spoil of war for our joint operations, and we cannot keep it all to ourselves, not to mention that your Khalkha city reward must be claimed by someone, leaving 50,000 troops, and I will go out.
Pasture land, they send troops when there is a war, and at other times they are allowed to roam around on the grassland, each going his own way.
Yang Qi discussed this matter with the Three Khans of Mobei four times. By the second time, the three Khans were a little moved. The third time, Yang Qi had already started to be active in various armies, promising that as long as he stayed, the soldiers would be given a hereditary ten
Households, the heads of ten households are promoted to the heads of twenty households, twenty households are promoted to forty households, forty households are promoted to hundreds of households, and hundreds of households are promoted to thousand households.
The hereditary nobility of Otok in the Northern Yuan Dynasty was greatly devalued.
By this time, the large number of lower-level officers and nobles in Mobei could no longer hold themselves back and were rushing to stay. Shuolei and the others had no choice but to settle for the next best thing. They could each keep 6,000 men, but Yang
Qi De ensured that these 18,000 people could survive.
He just promised the title of a hereditary noble. In fact, there is nothing but land on the Monan grassland. Just one Ordos asked Yang Qi to seal out 60,000 households, and there were only 4,000 men in total. This man seemed crazy.
Likewise, even Shuolei, who cares least about the military strength, is reluctant to leave the army to him.
Yang Qi said that this was easy to handle. It was just food rations for 18,000 people. I would take care of half of it, and the rest would be dealt with by nomadic hunting. I didn’t want anything else. I wanted Khalkha to get it from Ningxia in exchange for city rewards.
Silk.
"Don't you think that stuff doesn't taste good? I'll replace it with grain, rice, fried noodles, or dried noodles."
This is easy to say. In exchange, Yang Qi's price is quite high. However, in the Monan grassland these days, rice and noodles are hard currency, which are more valuable than iron knives and iron pots. Mobei Sanhan took the market reward in exchange for it.
Shanxi Lu'an poplin satin, holding my nose and exchanging fried noodles with Yang Qi.
Yang Qi turned around and asked Bai Wenxuan to rush into the defense area of Fu Renxi, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu: "Commander Fu, your soldiers, do you want silk or satin? Lu silk, the best Lu silk from Lu'an Mansion!" p>
The circle trade emerged in the seventeenth century.
The Ming court transported the silk from Lu'an Mansion to Ningxia to deal with the Mobei nobles who wanted to buy grain. Yang Qi exchanged the grain for the silk at a low price, then passed it on to Fu Renxi's soldiers and sold it to Shanxi at a low price.
Fu Renxi's frontier soldiers were exchanged for food.
The Shanxi border soldiers were all so hungry that their eyes glowed green, but the more they were like this, the more enthusiastic they became about the smuggling trade.
Although there is only a border wall between them, the price of Lu silk and grain is already the same. The grain is exchanged for silk outside the border, and you can buy more grain from merchants when you return to the border.
Shanxi Bing frantically lowered the price, and Yang Qi earned half of it with tears. The Ming Dynasty's market reward of 490,000 taels of silver forced him to use circle trading to generate a GDP of 2 million taels.
Shuolei and others left with the large army. Governor Yang, who had made a lot of money, had already asked the four general military headquarters to find farmland on the grassland and began to clear the acres.
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The Guihua City of the Tumut Tribe was originally Bansheng. It was originally the richest place on the grassland, but the years were unfavorable. The Tumut Tribe lost successive battles year after year. There were not many people left, and the fields were left uncultivated.
It was in disrepair. After Yang Qi broke into Guihua City, he was extremely jealous of the land in Fengzhoutan.
As early as the Chinese New Year, he put down his words: Even if I die tomorrow, I still have to plant this land today.
In order to lead this army to survive, Yang Qi has been so desperate that he has lost his face, but even if he uses all the methods he can think of, he still knows in his heart that whether this army can survive until autumn mainly depends on luck.<
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If he couldn't survive Hou Jin's offensive, no matter how much food he deceived and abducted from Ming Dynasty, it would be of no avail.
Because he was confident that he would use more than 13,000 of his men to fight against Hou Jin. He would have a greater chance of losing, but he was not without the strength to fight. But as soon as this battle started, he would definitely lose in the end, even if he was lucky enough to win against Hou Jin.
The Jin and Monan Governor's Mansion will also cease to exist after the war.
And if we place our hope of victory on the Xuan Daming Army, it obviously depends on luck.
However, in the spring of the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, the most desperate person on the Monan grassland was not Yang Qi, but another thirty-year-old Mongolian nobleman, Sa Nang Chechen Hong Taiji.
In the whirlpool of the times when Mongolia was falling apart, Sa Nang Chechen Hong Taiji was out of tune with this era. He took off his clothes and returned to the Eight White Room of Genghis Khan's mausoleum in his hometown of Ordos. With the strong hope born of despair, he wrote a pen for his
A nation, a nation that was born in war and will soon perish in war, writes history books.
The name of the book is Hadun Wendusunu Erdenitobchi, also known as - Mongolian Origin.