"Your Majesty, when Horqin returned to Dajin Nation, in order to prevent Horqin's rise, Dajin Nation stipulated that Horqin could only have 80,000 males. The excess males must be reduced. A thorough investigation will be conducted every two years and will expire this year. However, the Great Golden Kingdom is gone, can your Majesty abolish this rule?" Auba looked at Zhu Youjian, his hands, although they were resting on the jade cup, were still a little trembling.
"No!" Zhu Youzhen categorically refused, restricting the strong. This is the best way to limit the strength of the nomads. Without the strong, there would be no cavalry. It turned out that Huang Taiji had already figured out a way to deal with Horqin's growth. Zhu Youzhen had nothing to steal. Rejoicing, this Huang Taiji helped himself again after his death, "If Horqin is officially naturalized as a citizen of Ming Dynasty, this rule will be abolished naturally, but the current herdsmen have not been officially naturalized yet, and they don’t even have a Chinese name. , This rule must be implemented."
"Your Majesty, Daming has so many Han people and doesn't care about the population of Horqin." Auba Da Khan was a little disappointed and felt aggrieved.
"It's not a matter of population size. No matter how many Han people are, they are also the people of Daming. Auba sweats, don't you think?" Zhu Youjian's face had already recovered from severe frost.
"Your Majesty..." Oba muttered profusely.
"In any case, the policy of reducing jobs must be implemented," Zhu Youjian said in a slow tone. "However, I will not kill the redundant young men for the time being. I will give them a way to survive."
"Live? What your majesty meant..." Oba's eyes suddenly lit up with profuse sweat.
"All the extra strong men will be handed over to us. We will use these strong men to build roads. Five years later, the roads should be repaired. At that time, Horqin will also be naturalized Da Ming," Zhu Youzhen coughed, "but, in When building roads, life and death depend on heaven. As long as they can live for five years, I will release them."
"Really?" Auba Khan felt that his brain was not enough, "What road do you want to build?"
"In order for Horqin herdsmen to eat their food, the trade between Daming and Horqin must be strengthened. I plan to build a wide road between Daming and Horqin so that Horqin's cattle, horses and sheep will be transported to Daming. It is convenient for Daming's grain and tea to be transported to Horqin."
"Trade? This is good." Auba was overjoyed. Horqin had long been looking forward to trading with Daming to get back the grain, tea, pig iron and other materials they wanted from Daming, but in order to prevent these materials from flowing into the Golden State, Daming had to cut it off. All the trade with the outside of the pass has made the tribes outside the pass miserable.
The peace treaty between Daming and Horqin finally came into effect after Zhu Youjian, Auba and Sesang's signatures. The content of the treaty is extremely simple, leaving a lot of room for both sides to think about.
Zhu Youjian's army moved to Tanghalik. Under the supervision of the Ming army, Horqin started the "decreased Ding" movement.
According to statistics, there are more than 20,000 males in Horqin. More than 20,000 males were killed by the Golden Kingdom before. Now, their lives are saved, but they must be handed over to the Ming army to take care of them.
According to Horqin's habit, all males who were cut off were young men, and children were not included in the cut. Zhu Youzhen received more than 20,000 laborers at once.
At the same time, in accordance with Zhu Youjian's imperial decree, the Ministry of Industry began to recruit labor to build a cement road from the Gubeikou of the Great Wall to the north.
This avenue, from Jingshi to Gubeikou of the Great Wall, to Xilin, has a total length of nearly a thousand miles. Zhu Youjian named it the Third Avenue.
The Third Avenue is almost in the north of the capital, temporarily built to Xilin, and will extend northward in the future.
Xilin is located on the Xilin River, sixty miles to the west, is the famous Obao Mountain. Now it is still a grassland with only a few sparse yurts.
However, Xilin’s geographical location is very good, with mountains and rivers, very suitable for farming. It is also located to the west of Daxinganling, avoiding mountains and rivers, and the transportation is extremely convenient. Zhu Youjian intends to establish a government here in the future, in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Began to rule the prairie.
Zhu Youjian kept the 10th and 11th Divisions of the Fourth Army in Xilin.
The Tenth Division was responsible for building the city in Xilin. The labor for building the city was the five thousand strong men provided by the Auba Khan to Zhu Youjian. These strong men were not free labor. They changed their Chinese names in accordance with Zhu Youjian’s request. After that, he participated in city building labor and was paid one or two silver per month. Zhu Youjian estimated that Xilin would not need to build a strong city. Five thousand strong men would be enough. Two months should be enough.
After the completion of Xilin City, the Tenth Division will begin to build military camps and commercial areas in the city, and will be stationed in the city from now on.
The Eleventh Division, with the more than 20,000 young men cut by Horqin, began to build cement roads from Xilin to the Gubeikou of the Great Wall. Now Xilin has no cement and can only build roadbeds.
At the same time when Zhu Youjian sent the imperial decree to the Ministry of Industry last time, he also issued a notice to Conch Group, requesting personnel to build a cement production line near Xilin. It is estimated that the cement plant will be put into operation in half a month. The concrete road is officially watered.
The construction of Xilin was in full swing, but Zhu Youjian had no time to guide him. He took the rest of the Second Army and set out from Xilin to continue the Northern Expedition.
Zhu Youjian knew that there was no such thing as a country in front of him. He left all the heavy artillery in Xilin. The soldiers, like the First Army, only carried flintlocks and sabers.
Bumbutai also flew with Zhu Youjian. Originally, Zhu Youjian felt that the climate in the north would be very cold, and the barracks were not suitable for women, so she was not allowed to follow, but Bumbutai insisted on following the army. She believes that all the nomadic tribes in the north are related to the Mongols. She is familiar with Mongolian, and she happens to be an interpreter for the Ming army.
Zhu Youjian also felt that Bumbutai was Horqin’s gege, with the same origin as the Mongols, and might be able to help the Ming army regain the remaining Mongolian tribes, so he agreed to let her go with her.
From Xilin to the north, there was nothing on Zhu Youjian's marching map. Daming basically had a black eye on the terrain here.
While Zhu Youjian was marching, he made people draw a topographical map. In order to investigate the living conditions of the surrounding nomadic tribes, the cavalry on the two wings stretched out for hundreds of miles.
At the beginning, Zhu Youjian met basically the various tribes of Horqin. Daming and Horqin had already concluded a peace treaty. They and the Ming army basically did not violate the river.
The army traveled north for ten days and traveled nearly a thousand miles until it reached the vicinity of the Klulen River before leaving the territories of the Horqin ministries.
The left-wing cavalry found the herdsmen, they also captured two prisoners, brought them back to Zhu Youjian.
Bumbutai, who had learned part of Chinese, temporarily acted as an interpreter. After interrogation, he basically figured out their ownership.
"Bumbutai, are they the herdsmen of that tribe?"
"Your Majesty, they are the herdsmen of Chechen Khan." Bumubutai swayed in front of Zhu Youjian like a skylark.
"Chechen Khan? Who is it?" Zhu Youzhen thought of Chechnya in later generations, but that was in Central Asia, and the position was obviously wrong.
Bumbutai smiled and asked, "How much does your Majesty know about the various Mongolian ministries?"
"Not much," Zhu Youjian thought. Now that there is such a person who understands Mongolian history in front of him, it is better to study hard. "You can tell me what is going on in Mongolia. They have so many tribes. Remember clearly."
"The slave and maid will tell your majesty?" Bumbutai is full of expectation to be Zhu Youzhen's teacher. Her small eyes have already caught Zhu Youzhen's tiger eyes.
"Long story short." Although Zhu Youjian doesn't understand Mongolia's history, the various parts of Mongolia are too complicated. I really have to start from the beginning. I am afraid that it will not be finished in three days. "You can talk about Mongolia in the Ming Dynasty!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Bumubutai lightly opened his pale red lips, "Meng Yuan court, since it was defeated by Da Ming's Sapphire General in Yuerhai, it has never recovered. Mongolia's ministries are also in a split state, although occasionally One or two strong sweats appeared to unify Mongolia for the time being, but the time will not be too long."
"Fishing in Erhai?" Zhu Youjian remembered. Sapphire had defeated Meng Yuan in fishing in Erhai. He knew a little bit that Yuerhai would be Lake Baikal in later generations. Since Sapphire can fish. Erhai, Zhu Youjian also wants to see it.
"Fishing in the sea." Bumubutai kept nodding, saying that his memory could not be wrong. "The Mongolian tribes are mainly divided into three parts, namely Monan Mongolia, Mobei Mongolia, and Moxi Mongolia. This is because The desert is the center."
"Oh!" Zhu Youjian was somewhat impressed, but the exact location is still unclear.
"These Mongolian tribes are all on the grassland now, let the slaves say one by one?" Bu Mubutai wondered if Zhu Youjian thought she was procrastinating.
"Let's talk, I'm listening!" Zhu Youjian had long wanted to surrender to the Mongolian ministries and permanently solve Daming's northern border.
“Let’s talk about Monan Mongolia first. Your Han people are called Tatar.” Bumubutai glanced at Zhu Youjian and found that Zhu Youjian was listening carefully. “They are the authenticity of the Genghis Khan Golden Family. High, but they are also in the midst of a split. Now there are mainly Chahar, Tumote, Ordos, and Horqin."
"Aren't you Horqin in the east of the desert?" Zhu Youjian felt that his sense of orientation should be correct.
"Monan is very extensive and can also be understood as the authentic descendants of Genghis Khan. Therefore, it includes Eastern Mongolia." Bumubutai did make a long story short. "In this part of Mongolia, Lin Dan Khan of Chahar has the highest prestige, but Lin Dan Khan has the highest prestige. He has fought many times with the Great Golden State, and refused to submit to the Great Golden State, and has been driven to the west by the Great Golden State."
"Oh, you keep talking."
"Moxi Mongolia, your Han people are called Wala. On the left wing of the Mongolian plateau, they are now divided into the Junggar tribe, the Turhute tribe, and the Heshuote tribe. They are not authentic Mongolians, but other tribes naturalized by Genghis Khan, so Even if they are sometimes very powerful, they cannot unify Mongolia."
"Junggar tribe? Turhu special tribe?" Zhu Youjian has heard of these two terms. Junggar is the later Xinjiang, while the Turhu special tribe returned to the Qing Dynasty from the Volga River area during the Manchu period. It has also become a century-old story.