Chapter 51: Shape wins
"Mongolia is also divided now," King Yan frowned and said: "It is obvious that the Khan court cannot control the rise of the western region, and it will be divided into one in the east and one in the west. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Speaking of what the Mongols who retreated to the north of the desert are like now, but also from the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Huizong Tuhuan Timur, he abandoned most of the capital and ran to Yingchang, in the three years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Huizong died of dysentery in Yingchang, the prince Aiyu Zhiridala ascended the throne as Yuan Zhaozong, called Biliktu Khan, the year name Xuanguang, during the reign of trying to revive the Yuan Dynasty, re-use the expansion of Timur, repelled the Ming army's northern expedition, but also could not restore the Central Plains, forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south. After his death, his younger brother Timur ascended the throne as the Great Khan, and in the twenty-first year of Hongwu, he was defeated by the army led by Lan Yu, and dozens of horsemen including Timur and his eldest son Tianbaonu fled. This defeat made the Mongol tribes less important, and the Great Yuan regime of the Kublai Khan family, the Golden Family, lost its status as the supreme central khanate among the Mongols, and most of the Mongol tribes declared independence from it. Five months later, Timur was attacked and usurped by the descendants of Ali Buge, the brother of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, and became the eighteenth Great Khan of Mongolia, known as Driktu Khan.
Ali Buge has always opposed the use of the Han law, as his descendant of the Khan throne, he no longer set up a name for Timur according to the Han law, nor did he establish the era name, and the country name also changed back to Mongolia from Yuan. After the death of Sudier, his younger brother Elbok ascended the throne and became the nineteenth Great Khan of Mongolia, with the honorific name Nikosu Keqi Khan, and now it is this Elbok who is in power.
"It's not that I mean," Xu said: "The Moxi Mongol nobles, that is, the Hui Yira, submitted when Genghis Khan founded the country, and there were 4,000 households in the Kudu Hebei beggar domain, and they had a hereditary marriage relationship with Genghis Khan, and they have always enjoyed the special status of 'looking down on the kings' in the Great Mongolian State -- the Yuan Dynasty treated them well! Now that the Khan's court is in decline, does the Hui Yira want to replace them? Who is the leader of the Hu Yira today?"
"Last year it was still Mengke Timur. King Yan said: "This year it is his son Mahamu." ”
"Brother Meng, Timur!" Xu was surprised: "Isn't this the leader of the Jurchen Duoduo Mercy Tribe!"
"The name is one word off, but it's two people. Zhu Di slowly explained to him: "The fierce brother Timur of the Jurchen Duoduo Mercy Department is surnamed Jiawen, and the Mengke Timur of Moxi Mongolia is surnamed Yuros, and he also has a name, called Haohai Dayu, who is the son of Ulinda. ”
King Yan had been fighting against the Mongols for many years and was very familiar with this, and he said to Xu: "Now this Erlebak Great Khan is a mediocre and easy to take advantage of, I have heard that he once seized his half-brother's wife Huoahatun under the slander of Haohai Dayu, and killed his half-brother Harguchuk Dugulent Mur Hongtaiji. Huoahatun stooped down and married, but he hated in his heart and wanted to avenge his husband, so he persuaded Erleboke to kill Haohai Dayu. ”
"Haohai Dayu is the leader of the Western Mongols," said King Yan: "After killing Dayu, the people of Haohai were furious, and Erlebak could not explain it, so he had to appease Haohai Dayu's three sons, grant his eldest son the official title of Mahamu Taishi, and let him lead Warat." After all, it is the revenge of killing his father, and I think that although Mahamu is favored, he must not forget it, and it is a matter of time before he becomes independent. ”
"The division of the East and the West in Mongolia has weakened their own strength," Xu stood up and washed off the medicinal oil in his hands, and said, "Let's sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and take advantage of the gap to send troops." ”
"So," Zhu Di also sighed: "The country can't be single-minded, and there will be foreign enemies eyeing it." When I think of the Zhao and Song dynasties, there were also constant party struggles, and there were only Jurchens watching day and night, stealing China. Li Min's soup fire will not rest in peace. The shame of Jingkang, the pain of the cliff and mountain, especially not far away, and the disaster of Mongolia is in front of us, how not to learn from it!"
He thought about it and said to Xu: "Now the imperial court treats the Jurchens and doesn't care about it, there is only one place in Liaodong, Tielingwei, which is responsible for dealing with Jurchen matters - this is really hasty, Liaodong must be well planned here, at least to set up a command envoy here near the Jurchen Heishui River, when I led the troops through the Heishui River, I checked the terrain, there is a place on the east bank of the lower reaches of the Heishui River called Nuergan, Linasu River and Songhua River, it is a place of beauty and can be established. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly got up, walked to the table and began to polish his pen: "I will immediately go to the top and ask that the slave be set up as the commander of the capital - even if it is to establish a guard station, in short, a military and civilian government must be built here." ”
"You've finished writing this song," Xu reminded beside him, "Don't forget to let Brother Liao sign it, and you two will hand it in together." ”
Zhu Di had just written a beginning, and when he heard this, he sighed again: "King Liao!
He threw his pen and said: "When I went to Guangning, the soldiers under the King of Liao were still building the palace for him, and he was smart! This time, he still went his own way, but when he reported it to his father, he said that he was repairing the pheasant moat to strictly guard the border. These soldiers under the King of Liao were all brought by Fu Youde, how heroic they were! Now they have been used to carry bricks and tiles for him!"
As he spoke, he said: "Looking at the elite soldiers under the King of Liao, I think of how brave the Wuliang Ha Sanwei under the brother of King Ning are! These attached Mongolian elite cavalry can only be regarded as useful if they can be used on the battlefield against the Mongols! I think that the less than 10,000 soldiers under my Zhu Di are the result of ten years of training, but the elite soldiers under the King of Liao and the King of Ning can be directly sent to the battlefield!"
Zhu Di was ordered to help train King Ning's generals this time, but in fact, he also secretly paid attention to the soldiers and horses of several vassal kings in Liaodong and how the domains were-
According to his observations, the emperor chose a good location for several feudal kings in Liaodong to build royal palaces, for example, the fief of the Liao king was in Guangning, from Goryeo to the Yalu River, and the Yalu River was like a canal; Another example is the King of Shen, who has not yet become a vassal and has a fief in Shenyang Zhongwei Yuan Shenyang Road. There is Dongmu Mountain in the east. There is the Hunhe River in the south, the Liao River in the west, and the Fushun Thousand Households in the northeast.
These good places make Zhu Di seem to be suitable for camps, because they can train troops to defend against invaders, and the emperor also wants to come to this meaning, that is, let the vassal king train troops to defend the border in order to become a fence. But if it is handed over to Zhu Di, Zhu Di can naturally make good use of it, and hand it over to these young brothers who have just come out of Beijing and have never seen a fighting scene to guard, Zhu Di feels that it is a waste.
There are also army soldiers and horses, the army of the King of Liao is all elite soldiers, but he is repairing the palace room for the King of Liao, and it is also very magnificent and huge, which simply makes Zhu Di even more unbearable. Zhu Di looked at the soldiers and horses of several vassal kings in Liaodong, and thought that maybe next year or this autumn, the emperor would order him or the king of Jin to bring a belt of soldiers under King Ning, even if he let King Jin take it, he could also take a look, after all, there are nearly 30,000 people in Wuliangha Sanwei under King Ning, this is a real Mongolian iron horse.
Zhu Di thought so, felt that this trip was still very rewarding, he wrote a few words, and suddenly heard the sound of "squeak", and looked up to see that it was Xu sitting on the rocking chair he was sitting in just now, swaying back and forth casually, with his eyes closed and very pleasant.
Zhu Di couldn't help laughing and said, "You also think this chair is useful! Gao Chi will think about how to figure out how to make this thing!"
"When this thing shakes back and forth, it makes people drowsy," the princess also laughed, "You really made it with high blazing?"
"Isn't it him?" said King Yan in surprise.
"It should be your good son-in-law who came up with it," Princess Xu said with a smile: "I watched her run to Gongzheng every day for a while, and I don't know what is going on, but now I think I should be planning to make this thing, I think I told her that it is a little difficult for you to sleep peacefully, it is a problem left by your marching and fighting, and you can't sleep when you lie down." She must have kept it in mind that she made such a chair to honor you. ”
Zhu Di said with satisfaction: "I said how can this chair be called the sleeping man's chair, it turned out that it was me! I really should be a housemaker! Anyway, with such a daughter-in-law, I can enjoy my old age in peace!"