"Waste, waste, everything is waste!" Zhasak Tutumen Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, was furious in his tent near Pangu Town outside the Ming Dynasty Monolith Fort, and he cursed almost without any image.
"Hurry up and get rid of this waste Hai. This Khan asked him to put down the Tumote Rebellion. He didn't come. Instead, he insisted on pursuing the idea of Shanhaiguan Baggage Transport out of greed. Even after Dong Hu's repeated warnings, he abandoned Chahanhot and went south.
Joining Dong Fox - he had a good idea. He thought that after joining Dong Fox, the two soldiers and horses would be together. Not only would Li Chengliang not dare to move lightly, he would even be able to continue to rob the Shanhaiguan baggage team..."
"What's the result? These two losers used their brains to make Li Chengliang, Li Rusong and his son famous! I can think with my toes that the Han emperor will definitely want to worship his ancestors again after hearing these two news, and maybe even more
Build a view of the capital!"
Everyone in the tent, including the four governors and a group of Mongol generals, all had gloomy faces and remained silent.
Tumen couldn't get rid of his anger, and continued to curse: "Although they are useless, they still died in the battle, but what happened to Chang'ang? Qi Jiguang could only send more than 10,000 troops, and Chang'ang's cavalry
There are more than 10,000 people, but they just abandoned the huge town of Daning and ran away after just a small battle? If I had known that this guy was like this, I shouldn't have kept him in Daning!"
Everyone in the tent let out a long sigh and were speechless.
Tumen Khan's face was filled with anger mixed with unspeakable fear, and he said in a cold tone: "Who can tell me, with Qi Jiguang's move, does the Emperor Zhu want to reopen Daning Town?"
As soon as Tumen said this, everyone in the tent did not sigh, but were stunned, and their faces instantly turned pale.
Reopen Daning Town?
Daning is located outside Xifengkou. It is the land of ancient Huizhou. It is connected to Liaozuo in the east and Xuanfu in the west. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was a giant town. The town had 90 cities, 80,000 troops and 10,000 revolutionaries.
There are six thousand cars, and the three guards of Duoyan were under the command of King Ning who had left Daning in the past.
If it weren't for Zhu Dijing's subsequent victory, he was worried that the strength of Daning Town was too strong, and its geographical location was critical, and there were three elite guards of Duoyan to obey orders, so he moved King Ning inland and Daning Town was abandoned and could not be restored in the past two hundred years.
If so, it is not certain whether the Chahar tribe could successfully move eastward to Chahanhot.
Therefore, when Tumen mentioned that the Zhu family emperor might want to reopen Daning Town, all the Mongolian nobles in the tent were shocked.
Reopen Daning Town, and then "unify the Ninety Cities" again? What about us Mongolians? Move north to Yuerhai (Lake Baikal), that ghost place where even bears can freeze to death?
However, the thinking of this group of Mongolians is still too simple. They know that reopening Daning Town will be very oppressive to them, but they do not know how difficult reopening Daning Town will be for the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, as the "mastermind" behind the series of wars in the Monan region, Gao Pragmatic has no plans to restore Daning Town now.
It’s not something you don’t want to do, it’s something you can’t do.
This matter can only be explained clearly by starting from the Battle of Jingnan.
In the first year of Jianwen, the Battle of Jingnan broke out. Before launching the Battle of Jingnan, in order to prevent King Ning from outflanking his retreat, King Yan Zhu Di raised troops to attack Daning and took King Ning Zhu Quan and his troops back.
In later generations, academic circles have different opinions on the reasons for the internal relocation of Daning's capital. In some historical records of the Ming Dynasty, it is believed that the three guards of Taining, Duoyan and Fuyu of Wuliangha served in the Jingnan rebellion and followed the Yan king Zhu Di to fight with meritorious deeds. Ming Dynasty
Zhu Di, the founding father, took the land of the guards of the Ningdu Division with it. This statement can be found in "Fu'an Dongyi Ji", "Wuxuebian", "Sanweikao", "Siyi Kao", "History of Ming Dynasty", "Reading History"
It is recorded in books such as "Minutes of Public Affairs".
Among them, "The Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty" points out that in order to relieve his worries, Zhu Di attacked Ning Fan, threatened King Ning to surrender, and "returned all his horses to Beiping"; "History of the Ming Dynasty" said that Zhu Di went straight to Daning at that time and robbed Ning.
The king and his family gathered their elites, especially the three Duoyan guards who were the most brave and good at fighting. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he abandoned Daning, which was actually to reward the mediocre Wu Liangha three guards for helping him seize the throne.
In later studies on the history of the Ming Dynasty, there are similar statements. For example, the "General History of the Mongols" believed that before launching the Jingnan Campaign, Zhu Di relied on the support of the Mongolians of the Three Guards of Uliangha to defeat Ning Wang Zhu Quan who was guarding the Daning Guard. Later.
He also borrowed 3,000 elite soldiers from the three guards of Wuliangha as the backbone of his Jingnan army.
Therefore, after Zhu Di ascended the throne as emperor, in order to reward the Mongolians of the three Uliangha guards for their meritorious service in the war, he decided to cede the Daning Guards to them. At the same time, he also granted the three lords the title of governor and command, Qianhu and Baihu.
and other positions; decided to open mutual markets in Kaiyuan and Guangning so that the Uuliangha Sanwei Mongols and the Ming Dynasty could trade with each other.
However, this view has also been questioned by many scholars. They believe that Zhu Di moved the Peking capital to Baoding in order to ensure the security of Peiping and focus on consolidating Baoding's defensive power.
Some further believe that during the Jianwen Emperor's period, because Zhu Di launched the Jingnan Campaign, he had no time for border affairs in the northeast, and his focus was on deploying troops in the south, so he exhausted all Daning's troops, which greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the guards under the Daning Dusi.
The personnel originally stationed at the station were severely lacking in supplies and could no longer shoulder the responsibility of guarding the border. As a result, the three guards of Ulliangha took advantage of the Ming government's internal strife and began to gradually move southward, almost regaining their independence.
This view shows that the three guards of Wuliangha were already operating near Daning at that time. However, according to the records in Volume 40 of "History of the Ming Dynasty", during the Jingtai period, the three guards once begged to live in the abandoned city of Daning.
But what was Daming’s reaction?
"No, I ordered you to live two hundred miles away." In other words, the activities of the three guards of Wuliangha in the Daning area were illegal. The Ming court did not allow the Mongolians of the three guards to move south to the Daning area to station their herdsmen.
They are still required to return to the area north of Huangshui.
In fact, in the face of the Uuliangha tribe that coveted the southward movement, Zhu Di adopted a policy of combining military strikes and political softness during the Yongle period. On the one hand, he adopted a variety of strategies to appease the Uuliangha tribes, and at the same time accepted the Oara, Tatar
He paid tribute and granted their lords titles; on the other hand, he used military conquest against the Mongolian tribes that did not obey the Ming Dynasty, and personally conquered Mobei five times.
Not only that, after Zhu Di came to the throne, he also began to manage the border defense, and ordered the Ministry of War to review the three guards of Daning, Yingzhou, and Xingzhou, and formulate various methods to try to restore the farming system and repair the production of each guard station, but it was too late
In the late period, it was recorded in "Records of the Ming Dynasty" that Zhu Di moved King Ning to Nanchang on the grounds that "after the war with Ning, the people and property were withered".
Zhu Di's move was, on the one hand, a response to the reality of Daningwei, and on the other hand, it was actually to further weaken the vassal.
Station the guards of Daning around the capital, strengthen the military deployment around Beijing, build a new political and military center, and then transfer the kings of Gu, Ning, Dai and others to other places to weaken the strength of the frontier vassal kings.
However, these measures actually undermined Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of establishing various vassals and controlling the northern frontier, causing the Ming Dynasty's northern border defense line to shrink inward.
However, Zhu Di's apparent reason for moving to Daning was "to improve people's livelihood". This was not just a random talk, but it was indeed true.
One of the biggest troubles was food shortage. Since the establishment of Daning Guards in the 20th year of Hongwu, ensuring the supply of military food has become a heavy burden for the court.
In March of the 20th year of Hongwu, the imperial court mobilized people from Shandong, Beiping, Henan, and Shanxi provinces to go to Daning to transport grain. Those who participated in transporting grain were exempted from summer taxes.
In July of the same year, Daning's grain reserves were 310,000 shi, Songtingguan 580,000 shi, and Huizhou 250,000 shi, which added up to more than 1 million shi. But only two years later, Daning's grain reserves were exhausted.
" As a result, we had to adapt it and changed it to the merchants to accept millet with salt, "Every Daning will lose five measures of millet and give Huai and Zhejiang one measure of salt."
Due to effective policies, by the first month of the 31st year of Hongwu, Daning's millet accumulation had reached 620,000 shi. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to stop exporting millet to Daning and ordered merchants to transfer millet to Dongsheng and other places.
From the above sporadic records, we can see how heavy the grain transportation pressure was in Daning. In order to ensure the food supply to Daning and other northern military towns, the imperial court used a large amount of manpower and material resources to transport grain from the south to the north. Among them, the Guangdong Liaodong Shipping continued
More than thirty years.
In the early years of Yongle, in order to restore the dilapidated economy of the north, sea transportation had to be resumed, but it stopped gradually after a short time. The ships and personnel transferred to the voyages to the West. The northern military food was changed to "mainly farming, supplemented by Chinese salt"
” solution.
However, the situation in Daning is different. Since the early years of Hongwu, there have been no residents here. After Hongwu established a guard in the 20th year, there was a good opportunity to restore the population, but the Ming court immigrated here.
After the Battle of Jingnan broke out, Zhu Di moved all the population southward, and this area once again became a no-man's land.
As for now, not to mention, Daning has been the pastureland of the Mongols for more than a hundred years. How easy is it to restore Daning and ensure the food supply for the more than 100,000 garrison troops?
From a highly pragmatic point of view, if we reset Daning Town, it would be better to set up "Dabansheng Town"... At least there are almost 100,000 Han people in Dabanshengcheng, and the degree of farming is getting higher and higher now.
, it can be regarded as having a farming foundation, not to mention being completely self-sufficient, but at least most of the food supply can be guaranteed. The remaining part will be left to the court to find a way to solve.
But there were no Han people in Daning at all, and there was no farming. Even if it became Ningcheng County in later generations, it was not a good place to grow food. Until the 21st century, "high-efficiency water-saving irrigation" and "conservation farming" were still practiced.
these jobs.
Now reopen Daning Town, unless Zhu Yijun plans to invest one million taels in Daning Town every year to ensure supply and revitalize the agricultural economy.
Zhu Yijun has so much spare money? Definitely not.
What's more, if he really had so much money, he wouldn't do this! For example, the armies of the nine sides uniformly changed to the new Wanli-style bayonet style muskets. Isn't it delicious?
Even using this one million taels for disaster relief seems more reliable than "expanding territory" and "restoring old lands". After all, reopening Daning Town is not a one-time deal, it is a continuous investment.
One million taels per year, who knows when Daning will be self-sufficient?
Gao Pragmatic would not recommend Zhu Yijun to do this kind of loss-making business, at least not when he can't afford to lose money.
Naomao Da suddenly slapped the table and said angrily: "Chang Ang deserves to be killed!"
Huang Taiji glanced at him, then looked at Tumen Khan, and said: "How to deal with Chang'ang? I might as well put this matter aside for now. Now I have a more serious problem. Let's deal with Hai and Dong Hu."
After dying in battle, Chang'ang abandoned Daning and fled, leaving Chahanhot without any protection. The land of Duoyan Three Guards was almost completely lost in one day, leaving only Chaohua (the only remaining leader of Duoyan Three Guards).
But it’s still far away in the Liaohe Hetao..."
He sighed and asked: "Excuse me, Great Khan, do you want to continue the western expedition to Tumut?"