"I have traveled across thousands of miles of grasslands from Handu Lei Xiya Totuo for more than thirty years. Since twelve years ago, I followed the Great Khan into the Ming Dynasty. I have fought more than seventy times in large and small battles. I have seen all the people of the Ming Dynasty.
There are countless important ministers and generals, but none of them, like today's Gaoqin Envoy, make people...have nowhere to use their strength."
In the yurt outside Yunzhong Ancient City, Qia Taiji sat in the first place and sighed. There was a large bowl of mare's milk wine on the short bed beside him. It is still full to this day, so it was obvious that he had no intention of drinking it.
There are four other people in the tent, who are the four generals under Qataiji's command. They are Yatou Zhi, Ding Shibu, Niu Zhihao, and Yuan Chichi (I really admire this Ming Dynasty translation). The expressions on these four people's faces are:
They were all very ugly. They looked at each other, but they didn't know where to start.
After a while, Yatou Zhi tugged at her beard and said: "Taiji, do you think this imperial envoy has nothing to do? Who among us Tumote will be Chechen Khan? It's none of his business. He should come."
A rip-off?"
It seems that he got his name very badly, and he really only has the IQ of a girl.
Chatterji had long been used to it. Hearing this, he just shook his head slightly and said: "Xian? This is not idle. This is a demonstration. Maybe there is a bigger intention."
"Demonstration?" Niu Dexi interjected and asked: "Are you trying to scare us with the Tonggong Mutual Market? What are you afraid of? It's amazing that we just went to Mingren to rob it like we did more than ten years ago!"
"Shut up!" Chataiji said angrily: "The Great Khan has spent so much effort to have this mutual trade for more than ten years. Do you want the Great Khan to waste all his previous efforts!"
The most powerful general in Mongolia was so angry that even Niu Zhizhi, who was a close confidant, could not help but shrink his neck in fear, lowered his head and did not dare to say anything more.
However, Qataiji refused to let him go, and continued to curse: "You also said that we would rob Ming people. Did we rob it back then? Tell me, we robbed it every year at that time, but in which year did we rob it?
Can people not starve to death? Now, in your tribe, no one has starved to death in several years, and no one has frozen to death? Tell me?"
Niu lowered his head deeply and did not dare to argue with Chatterjee.
Ding Shibu coughed lightly and said, "Tai Ji is right, robbery is not possible. It was not possible when the Khan was here, and it is even less feasible now."
Yuan Chichi also nodded in agreement and said: "Yes, it is better to trade with each other. You can exchange for anything you want. As long as there are enough cattle, sheep and horses, there is nothing that cannot be exchanged. Everyone in the tribe will be very happy."
Qia Taiji didn't say anything, but Yatou Zhi spoke up again, saying: "Not everything can be exchanged, except iron. Only those pots from Jinghua can be considered iron, but they can only be used for cooking, not for making arrows.
, let alone make a machete...why didn’t Gao Foye open all of them back then?”
Gao Foye refers to Gao Gong, because he presided over the opening of the market and persuaded the emperor to agree to sell pots to the Mongols. After the Yellow Sect was introduced, the Tumut Mongolians regarded him as a Buddha and a Bodhisattva.
When Gao Gong was mentioned, Qia Taiji's heart moved, and he suddenly said: "There is also a Buddhist temple in Totuo City, and there is a statue of Gao Buddha in it. How about... tomorrow I will take Gao Qin's envoy to pay homage?"
Seeing that he stopped scolding him, Niu quickly came out to save some points for himself and said hurriedly: "Taiji, this is a good idea. I heard that Ambassador Gao Qin is the nephew of Lord Gao. If he goes to the Buddhist temple to see us, we will treat him
If my uncle admires him so much, he will definitely feel good about him, and maybe he won't care who is Chechen Khan."
The other three people immediately applauded upon hearing this, but Chaterji himself, who proposed the idea, shook his head and said: "Taking him to worship Gao Buddha will make him feel good. I don't doubt this. However,
Because of this matter, he doesn’t care about Chechen Khan’s ownership, that’s impossible.”
Everyone hurriedly asked why, and Qia Taiji sighed: "In the words of the Han people, paying homage to Gao Buddha is his private matter, but coming to confer King Shunyi is a public matter. Judging from his performance today, it is impossible for him to combine private matters with
Confused about official business."
"Does Taiji still want to take him to worship Gao Buddha?"
Chatterji thought for a while and said: "Go, why not go? It is better to make him feel good than to make him feel bad. Besides, don't you all trade with Jinghua Trading Company? Then you have a better relationship with him, the owner of Jinghua.
, it can’t be a bad thing.”
When everyone heard this, they suddenly understood and praised him for his kindness.
At the same time, in a mansion where Gao Jingshi temporarily stayed in Tuotuo City, Ma Gui was explaining to Gao Jingshi the current changes in Tumote's troop deployment in front of a map provided by Jinghua.
Gao Pangshi listened expressionlessly until a certain moment when he suddenly interrupted: "You mean, the current Daban Shengcheng is different from what it was twelve years ago. It has built city defenses now?"
"Yes, although the last general has never visited it in person, according to Jin Yiwei's detailed report, it is probably equivalent to a palace."
The Ming Dynasty was divided into three levels of counties and prefectures: middle, lower and upper levels. Zhongfu is also a middle-level prefecture.
However, Jin Yiwei’s words do not know whether he refers to the Zhongfu in the Mainland or the Zhongfu in Jiubian. Although in terms of the division method of the Ming Dynasty, there is no difference between the Zhongfu in the Mainland and the Zhongfu in Jiubian, but this no difference refers to the population.
Acres of land, taxes, etc., but not city defense.
The nine-sided Zhongfu is much stronger than the city defenses of the inland Zhongfu. For example, Fenzhou Prefecture in Shanxi and Qingyang Prefecture in Shaanxi. If the city defenses are compared to those in the mainland, both of their city defense systems may surpass Wuchang Prefecture.
.
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic felt that even the city defense level of the inland central government could be considered extremely strong for Tumote.
That's enough.
Then he asked again: "You just said that Xishao is more powerful than other tribes because, in addition to the strength of the headquarters, Xishao also has at least 50,000 Han'er in the city?"
The western post refers to the soldiers and horses led by Han Naji, and its derived meaning is the tribe and territory he leads.
Here it is necessary to briefly explain the situation of Dongxi Shao at that time: Anda Khan divided the part of Tumote into two parts, namely the East Shao and the West Shao. His Khan Court was located in the East Shao, which was Feng Shao.
The royal court of Zhouchuan, and the command of the western post, Anda Khan handed over to Bhan Naji (this is also a historical fact).
This is because Han Naji went to the Ming Dynasty in anger. No matter what the cause of the incident, the final result was that the Ming Dynasty and Tumote realized the exchange of tribute and trade, and Anda Khan was also named the King of Shunyi.
This is the purpose that Anda Khan has been fighting against the Ming Dynasty for more than 40 years. Because the cause of Han Naji was finally realized, Anda Khan not only did not blame Han Naji for Nantou Ming Dynasty, but also Anda returned
The command of the Western Post was handed over to him. History records: "At the beginning, when I returned Han Naji, I ordered the main board to be promoted, and the name was Dacheng Taiji, and his wife was called Dacheng Biji, and the soldiers and horses were strong in all tribes."
Of course, the "troops of troops and horses" here do not include the entire Dongshao, but refer to Han Naji's troops and horses. Except for the headquarters led by Ada Khan, they have no rivals. Among them are
Including the tribes led by Xin Ai.
However, Anda's headquarters troops are not particularly concentrated. For example, among the six thousand cavalry here in Qataiji, 3,000 are from Anda's headquarters. However, after Anda's death, Zhongjin Hatun, who was actually in the regent position, had no control over Anda.
This army only has nominal jurisdiction, and in fact it cannot be mobilized at all - unless Chataiji agrees.
At the same time, because Qataiji had been the "first general" under Anda for a long time, the troops assigned by Anda were very useful before Anda himself died and the new Chechen Khan was not selected.
May be more willing to act on Chatterji's orders.
Therefore, the current troop strength of Tumut Headquarters (excluding Dongtao, Xitao, and Qinghai) is as follows: Assuming that the strength of the east and west posts originally answered by me is "100%", then Hannaji will be in sole control from the beginning
About 40% of the total, and the remaining 60% were originally under Anda's direct control, but in fact, Anda began to believe in Buddhism and did not care much since the sixth year of Wanli.
Even the affairs of the Tonggon and Mutual Markets were handed over to Zhongjin Hatun and Bahannaji according to the east and west posts respectively.
Now I answer that there is no problem with Xishao, because Xishao has always been under the sole control of Han Naji, and no one has shared power with him.
But the problem of Dongshao is huge, and there is a trend of splitting into three: the Guihua City where the royal court is located is controlled by Zhongjin Hatun, which is considered to be 20% of the strength; the territory in the east that borders Mongolia on the left is in the hands of Xin Ai, accounting for
20% of the strength, but since Xin Ai still has some members of the Ulyanha and Yongxiebu tribes, the real strength is a little stronger; the other 20% belongs to the free forces, among which Qataiji has the highest prestige.
Therefore, in terms of military strength on paper, Han Naji must be one of the "male tribes" because he has 40% of the strength of the Tumut headquarters. Zhongjin Hatun, Xin'ai and Qataiji all theoretically account for 20% of the strength.
, but their respective advantages and disadvantages are different.
In addition to having the seal of King Shunyi and being the nominal regent, Zhongjin Hatun also had the advantage of having a naturalized city, which was later to be Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia.
Xin Ai's advantage is that he is always in a state of war preparation (because he is facing left-wing Mongolia), and he himself can be regarded as a veteran general for many years. In addition, there are also some "bonus" troops from Uliangha and Yongshebu, and his actual military strength is second only to
Yu Bahannaji.
At first glance, Qataiji's side is undoubtedly the weakest side. He has no strong cities such as Dabansheng City and Guihua City to defend, and he has no military advantage. He relies entirely on his personal prestige to call on the wandering forces.
, which is actually slightly inferior.
However, his personal prestige is too strong - to what extent?
For example, in the 29th year of the Jiajing reign, Qia Taiji had just turned 20 years old, and he was already a Tumote general who had won the title of "Zhebie Shenshe", and was even powerful throughout the Ming Dynasty.
In this year, Qiu Luan, the commander-in-chief of Datong, said this in his border report to Emperor Jiajing: "Xuan Da is the most urgent when it comes to raids from all sides... I answer the four major raiders, Tuo Tuo, Xin Ai, and Wu Shen."
The bandit camp has divided up the piers and platforms of our big border and is in charge of them. The captives are on duty for the Dun army to look out, and the army is for the captives to herd their horses. Therefore, the captives in the interior know everything about what is real and what is not true..."
Look, the four "Captains" - Tuotuo, also known as Qiataiji, is ranked second only to Anda, and even before Anda's eldest son Xinai Huangtaiji!
Why did Gao Pragmatic come here to pay tribute instead of going to Guihua City first, but instead came to Qataiji? It was because Qataiji had now become the key to the changes in the strength of Tumut headquarters.
If Qataiji chooses to side with Bahannaji, then Bahannaji and Zhongjin Hatun plus him will directly account for 80% of the strength of Tumut headquarters. In addition, with the support of Ming Dynasty represented by Gao pragmatism,
Xin Ai can't win this battle even if he is possessed by An Da.
At this time, Ma Gui also replied, saying: "Your Excellency, the saying that the city was raised to 50,000 men was still the situation ten years ago, and it may have increased a lot now."
As he spoke, his eyes flickered - it has increased a lot, how much is it? He did not dare to say it directly, for fear of offending Gao Pragmatic, because according to his understanding, there may be one hundred thousand Han people in the city now.
This is also one of the reasons why Hannaji is so powerful, because the Han people are much better at farming than the Mongols, so more Han people means more food, and because the Han people are also better at business, they have more wealth.
In fact, it is better to say that Hanna Ji is a military leader than a wealthy man. Financial strength is the most stubborn part of him.
In addition, Dabansheng City is not only rich, but after the completion of Anda's tribute, the original reason why Dabanshengcheng was not allowed to build city defenses no longer exists due to the transfer from the hands of the White Lotus Congregation to the hands of Han Naji (
This matter is described in detail in Volume 1 of this book), now it has been renovated and has a city defense level equivalent to that of the "Ming Dynasty Central Palace", which is even more incredible - this means that Hannaji can be attacked and defended, and it has already been
Almost invincible.
In history, the third wife had several attempts to conquer the city through a big board, but she always failed to take it by force. One of the important reasons was that she could not win the city through a big board.
The Mongolian cavalry can be used in field battles, but the attack on fortified areas is far inferior to the period when the Mongolian Empire was the most powerful - they used to have return artillery brought back from Central Asia, but now... they can only buy iron pots from the Ming Dynasty, what else?
Easy to say?
But Ma Gui didn't know that there were many Han people in the city. Although it was a very shameful thing in the eyes of the whole world, he was too pragmatic to care about it, and he might even be secretly happy in his heart.
Because the more Han people there are, it means the higher the degree of Chineseization in Daban Shengcheng. If Han Naji is surrounded by Han people all day long, his love for the Han people will never be weakened.
"Let's set off tomorrow to Daban Shengcheng..." Gao Jingshi just started to speak, but was interrupted by the messenger outside.
"Report! The imperial envoy, Beilu Qataiji's envoy came to report, and asked to take the imperial envoy to Zhongyi Zhao to worship tomorrow."
The call is the temple.
Gao Pragmatic was stunned. Go to the temple to worship? Buddha is not my ancestor. Even if you go to worship Buddha, you can't say worship. Are you, Qia Taiji, so awesome that you actually found out that Buddha is your ancestor?
Gao pragmatic frowned and asked: "Did you tell the wrong thing? Even if I go to worship Buddha, how can I say worship?"
"Imperial envoy, I am not wrong. This is what the people of Qataiji said. They said that there is a separate side hall in Zhongyi Zhao, and in the side hall is the statue of Gao Wenzhenggong..."
Damn it!
Gao Pragmatic was stunned: You Mongolians are really awesome. Even if you worship my third uncle's portrait in private, you even dare to erect statues of gods in temples. Are you really going to turn my third uncle into a Buddha?
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