Chapter 388: Oath
The army marched to the Naiman Department, and once again encountered the resistance of the tribal coalition led by Ezhe, and the Tianwu army defeated it with the strength of devastation, and cut off the back route of the coalition army, slaughtered the tribal alliance, and slaughtered the local tribes.
In order to promote force and deter the enemy, Zhu Cihong used the heads of the tribal alliance army to fold a super-large Beijing view on the grassland, and left a tablet, which read: The emperor will be the martial army of Yongzhen Monan!
Ten thousand heads, how huge, after the stack has a towering momentum into the clouds, the Mongolian tribes were shocked when they heard it, and they sent envoys to ask for annexation.
On the fifth day of the first month of November, the army arrived at the Ao Han Department, and the leader of the Ao Han Department, Ban Di, went out to meet thirty miles to show the sincerity of the city investment, and the eagle of Ban Lu was also there.
Looking at the murderous Tianwu Army, Ban Lu no longer had the ambition that he had when he was in the rear banner of the left wing of Horqin, threatening to unite the Mongolian tribes and let the Nanban crawl under his feet......
Ao Han Department is outside the Xifeng Pass, one thousand miles away from the Ming Jingshi, the territory of the tribe is one hundred and sixty miles from east to west, and two hundred and eighty miles from north to south.
Xiong Tingbi used a pacification policy against him during his tenure as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, which made him stop, and the Ming Dynasty had been worried about the nineteenth grandson of Genghis Khan for many years, and it was difficult to sleep and eat.
After several wars, the Ao Han tribe had been beaten by the Tianwu army, and the entire tribe was half dead, and Bandi was afraid that it would be wiped out by the Tianwu army like other Mongolian tribes, so he had to take the initiative to surrender.
Near the city of Manihan in the Ao Han Department, there are many tuntian fields and livestock farms, at this time the dragon flag of the Tianwu army is fluttering on the head of the city, and the noisy shouting in the castle can be seen everywhere, and the merchants who come to trade choose their favorite items in front of the mountains of cattle, horses, and furs, which are captured by the Tianwu army along the way, and put them in the city for sale.
In the center of the city, a wind-and-rain eight-sided exquisite tower stands tall, this is the tower builder invited by the little evil youth from the Ming Jingshi, and applied for the Ming Dynasty to allocate a certain reward silver to build the longevity white tower.
There is a huge table case placed directly below the tower, Zhu Cihong and Ao Han, Karaqin, Tumut, Weng Niute, Khalkha and other 28 Mongolian tribal leaders killed the white horse and black ox here to swear an alliance, and the Mongol tribes in the south of the Mo officially begged for peace with the Ming Dynasty and asked for annexation.
Kill and kill, rob and rob almost, Zhu Cihong accepted their begging and peace very happily, rather than letting them throw themselves into the enemy, it is better to take them for their own use, at least to ensure that the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty are stable for a certain period of time.
However, these Mongols were not stupid, and they also put forward some demands, such as opening up border trade.
There are certain reasons for the perennial harassment of the Ming Dynasty by the Mongolian tribes, first of all, the Ming Dynasty is not at ease with the Chahar gold family outside the border, plus the ministries do not know how to farm, and have the ancient habit of nomadic life tradition, plundering the Ming Dynasty is to make the Ming court submit, and consider the survival of the tribes to the greatest extent, after all, the Mongolian tribes are very backward in iron smelting and other technologies, and many times the first thing to rob in the south is the iron pot and other utensils of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Some shrewd tribal leaders knew that conquest and plunder were not a long-term solution, and that trade in the city was far more real than plunder, and the leader of the Ao Han tribe, Ban Di, had this idea.
The Naiman primeval forest of the Ao Han tribe is rich in resources, so why not exchange it for some needed items through trade, so as to avoid the loss of tribal warriors in the war, and make the people of the Ao Han tribe rich without going through the battlefield.
The Mongols were not wrong to think so, with trade in exchange for the necessities of life, who would fight a high-cost war?
The high-level of the Ming Dynasty also thought about such a problem, and also established a horse market to carry out trade, and the initial effect was not bad, with trade, the northern nomads did rarely go south to use troops, and there was no large-scale war, but it was this kind of trade that planted a bomb for the Ming Dynasty.
The Jurchen tribe in Liaodong was originally a small tribe, with no mature social mechanism, and it can even be said that it was slavery, and they were bullied by the Mongols and often cried for help from the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that they had an armed force against the Ming Dynasty.
The living environment of the Jurchen people is very poor, they basically rely on the most primitive hunting and gathering to obtain food, they rarely grow their own crops, there is no fixed source of materials, and the unstable food source is cut off, and they are hungry.
In order to support these poor households, the Ming Dynasty also taught them agricultural techniques, but they learned very poorly.
In order to take care of them and let them make less trouble, Ming Chengzu established the Kaiyuan Horse Market in the Fushun area, so that the Jurchen native products could be sold to the market in exchange for the Ming government's wealth rice, oil and salt and other daily necessities, and also got some products that the Jurchens felt advanced, such as iron pots, hoes and so on.
On the surface, this not only solves the problem of the northeast border, but also allows Daming to get luxury goods such as mink and ginseng, and the two sides win each other, but the problem lies here.
The trade brought together the Jurchen tribes who were originally scattered throughout the northeast and settled around the horse market, and felt that luxury goods such as mink and ginseng were profitable, and that money came faster than farming, so everyone turned to hunting and gathering again, and no one farmed.
Numerous tribes gathered together, and few have read books, all rely on fists and voices to speak, plus the market is one, there will inevitably be price competition between peers, conflicts between each other will appear, and the various ministries will begin to form armed forces to fight each other for their own interests, and even kill the Ming guards and rob the Han people.
Da Ming saw that this sign was wrong, and hurriedly sent troops to suppress it, but there were too many of those tribes, the Mongolian tribes had the Han Division, the Taining Division, the Duoyan Division, etc., and the Jurchen tribe had the Jianzhou Jurchen, the Haixi Jurchen, the East China Sea Jurchen, the Yehe Division, the Hada Division, etc., and the chaos was very large, and the defenders of Fushun in Liaodong at that time were not only unable to solve it, but were also booby-trapped.
It wasn't until Li Chengliang took over Liaodong that the situation was settled, Li Chengliang shot the first bird, and beat whoever was the strongest, while using a dividing policy to deal with them, supporting the more obedient tribes, letting them have internal strife, and taking the opportunity to send troops to pick up heads.
Within a few years, those tribes in Liaodong were almost cleaned up by him, but the armament of the tribes in Liaodong was there, and the combat effectiveness of the various tribes was enhanced through actual combat all year round, so there was a lack of a powerful tribe and leader, and the unified tribes formed a strong tribe.
Zhu Cihong knew very well that there are two sides to many policies, especially economic policies, the economy determines politics, politics is rooted in the economy, many policies are determined by economic relations, and the political contradictions between the various tribes in eastern Liaodong are, in the final analysis, to safeguard their own economic interests in the horse market, and the fundamental antagonism of economic interests will inevitably be concentrated in political struggle and even military struggle.
After some thinking and research, Zhu Cihong decided to trade with the Mongol tribes in the south of the city, and they would harass the Ming Dynasty after a while, once the trade was opened, the Ming Dynasty could contain the Mongolian tribes through the city, so that they would no longer loot, and the defenders of the nine sides could recuperate.
As for the life and death between them, it doesn't matter for the time being, with the development of Daming science and technology and the research and development of firearms, these Mongolian cavalry will only have a better and worse time in the future, and history is the best proof.
On the 8th day of the first month of November, the Ming Dynasty and the Mongol tribes of Monan swore an alliance, except for the Korqin Department, the 28th Mongol tribe of Monan Mongolia officially broke away from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and resubmitted to the Ming Dynasty.
Bandi, the leader of the Ao Han Department, even wanted to add the title of Mongolian Great Khan to Zhu Cihong, but Zhu Cihong is now only the crown prince, in order to avoid the anger of the current Ming Emperor, Bandi had to give up, and had to wait for the prince to ascend the throne in the future before mentioning this matter.
In order to consolidate his rule, Huang Taiji asked the Mongols to recognize him as the Great Khan of the Mongols, and since then the emperors of the Manchu dynasty have all served as the Great Khan of the Mongols, with a unique title.
The annexation of Mongol in southern Mongolia is extremely important to the strategic significance of the Ming Dynasty, with the Mongols north of the Great Wall of Pingbo, the defense line of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty will have an extra layer of protection, and the threat from the north will not appear again for a period of time.
The huge amount of silver spent on Jiubian and Liaoyu every year has also been saved, which can be used for domestic construction and the resumption of production and development.