"Waste, waste, all waste!" The Great Khan of all Mongolia, Zasaktumen Khan, jumped like thunder in the sweat tent near Pangu Town outside the Daming Monolithic Fort, and almost broke out without any image. ，

"Hurry up and put Hai this waste, Ben Khan asked him to calm down the Tumut rebellion, he didn't come, he had to be motivated by the desire to fight the Shanhaiguan baggage idea, and even after Dong Fox repeatedly warned him, he threw down Chahanhot and ignored it, and went south to join Dong Fox He had a good idea, thinking that after converging Dong Fox, the two soldiers and horses were in one place, not only Li Chengliang did not dare to move lightly, but even continued to rob the Shanhaiguan baggage team"

"The result? These two wastes used their own brains to fulfill the prestige of Li Chengliang and Li Rusong's father and son! Ben Khan could think with his toes that after the Han emperor heard these two news, he must have to worship his ancestors again, and maybe he would also build a Beijing temple! ”

All the people in the tent, including the four consuls and one Mongol general, all had gloomy faces and did not speak.

Tumen Khan was angry and continued to scold: "But although the two of them are wastes, they still died on the battlefield, but what's going on with Changang's house? Qi Jiguang sent more than 10,000 troops, and there were more than 10,000 cavalry under his Changang, but he just left Daning Juzhen in a small battle and fled? If I knew that this pustule was like this, I shouldn't have left him in Daning! ”

All the people in the tent sighed and could not speak.

Tumen Khan's face was mixed with indescribable fear, and he said in a cold tone: "Can anyone tell me that Qi Jiguang's move is that the Emperor of the Zhu family wants to reopen Daning Town?" ”

As soon as Tumen said this, everyone in the tent did not sigh, but were stunned one by one, and their faces instantly turned a little white.

Reopening Daning Town?

This Daning, is outside the mouth of Xifeng, is the land of ancient Huizhou, east of Liaozuo, west of Xuanfu, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty is a giant town. The town is stuffed with ninety cities, with 10,000 armor, 6,000 leather cars, and Duoyan Sanwei was under the command of King Ning of the town of Daning.

If it weren't for the fact that after Zhu Dijing's victory, he was worried that the strength of Daning Town was too strong, and the geographical location was critical, and there were Duoyan Sanwei Jingqi to listen to the order, so King Ning was moved inward, and Daning was abandoned Town, which could not be restored in the past two hundred years, and it was not certain whether the Chahar Department could move east to Chahanhot smoothly.

Therefore, when Tumen mentioned that the Zhu Emperor might want to reopen the town of Daning, all the Mongol nobles in the tent were stunned.

Reopen Daning Town, and then "unify the ninety cities" again? And what about us Mongols? And moved north to fish in Lake Baikal, where almost even bears can freeze to death?

However, the thinking of this group of Mongols is still too simple, they know how oppressive the reopening of Daning Town is for them, but they do not know how difficult it is for Daming to reopen Daning Town. ，

In fact, as the "mastermind" behind the repeated wars in the Monan area, Gao Pragmatic did not plan to restore Daning Town now.

It's not unwanted, and it's beyond your power.

This matter can only be explained clearly by starting with the Battle of Jingjing.

In the first year of Jianwen, the Battle of Jingyan broke out. Before launching the Battle of Jingyan, in order to prevent King Ning from outflanking his back road, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised troops to attack and trap Daning, and coerced Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, and all the troops to return.

In later generations, there were different views on the reasons for the internal relocation of the Daning Division. In some historical books of the Ming Dynasty, it is believed that the Taining, Duoyan, and Fuyu Sanwei of Wuliangha were in the Jingnan Mutiny, and followed the Yan King Zhu Di to fight meritoriously, and Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty took the land of the Great Ning Dusi Zhuwei with it, which is recorded in the records of Fu'an Dongyi, Wuxue, Sanwei Examination, Siyi Examination, Ming History, and Reading History Fangyu Minutes.

Among them, the Ming History Chronicle pointed out that since Zhu Di attacked the Ning Domain in order to relieve his worries, threatened the King of Ning to return, and "pulled out the cavalry to return to Beiping" The Ming History said that Zhu Di went straight to Daning at that time, robbed the King of Ning and his family, and collected his elite, especially the most brave and good at fighting with Duoyan Sanwei. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he abandoned Daning, but in fact, he was rewarded for the three guards of Wuliang Ha to help him seize the throne.

In the study of the history of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, there are similar statements, such as the general history of the Mongolian people, which believes that Zhu Di defeated Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who guarded the Great Ningwei, with the support of the Mongols of Wuliang Ha Sanwei before launching the Battle of Jingjing. Later, he borrowed 3,000 elite soldiers from the Wuliang Ha Sanwei as the backbone of his Jingnan army.

Therefore, after Zhu Di became emperor, in order to reward the Wuliangha Sanwei Mongols who had made meritorious contributions to the war, it was decided to cede Daningwei to them. At the same time, he also made the lord of Sanwei decide to open mutual markets in Kaiyuan and Quang Ninh with the positions of governor, commander, thousand households and hundred households, so that the Wuliang Ha Sanwei Mongols and the Ming Dynasty could exchange markets.

However, this view has also been questioned by many scholars, who believe that Zhu Di moved the northern parallel capital to Baoding in order to ensure the safety of Beiping and focus on consolidating the defensive strength of Baoding.

There is a further view that during the period of Emperor Jianwen, because Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingjing, he had no time for the northeast border affairs, and the focus was on the use of troops in the south, so he tried his best to draw Daning troops, which greatly damaged the combat power of the guards under the jurisdiction of the Daning Metropolitan Division, and the personnel and supplies originally stationed in the station were seriously insufficient, and it was difficult to shoulder the responsibility of guarding the border.

This point of view shows that at that time, the Wuliang Ha Sanwei was already carrying out activities in the vicinity of Daning. However, according to the records in the 40th volume of the Ming Dynasty, during the Jingtai period, Sanwei once lived in the abandoned city of Daning.

But what was Daming's reaction?

"No, let me go to live 200 miles away." In other words, the activities of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei in the Daning area were illegal, and the Ming court did not allow the Mongols of the Sanwei to move south to the Daning area to settle for herding, and still wanted them to return to the area north of Huangshui.

In fact, in the face of the Wuliang Habu, which coveted the south, Zhu Di adopted a policy of combining military strikes with political softness during the Yongle period. On the one hand, he adopted a variety of tactics to appease the tribes of Uliangha, and at the same time accepted tributes from Warat and Tatar, and gave them the title of lord, on the other hand, he adopted military conquest for the Mongol tribes who did not obey the Ming Dynasty, and had personally conquered Mobei five times.

Not only that, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he also began to work on 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 tuntian system and restore the production of each guard, but it was too late. It is recorded in the Ming Records that Zhu Di moved the king of Ning to Nanchang on the grounds of "after the Daning soldiers, the people and goods withered".

Zhu Di's move, on the one hand, was forced by the reality of Daningwei to take a countermeasure, and on the other hand, it was actually to further reduce the domain.

The Daning Zhuwei was stationed around the Beijing Division, the military configuration around Beijing was strengthened, a new political and military center was built, and then the Gu Wang, Ning Wang, Dai Wang and others were resealed elsewhere to weaken the strength of the Biansai vassal king.

However, these measures actually undermined Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of building all feudal domains and suppressing northern Xinjiang, resulting in the shrinkage of the northern defense line of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the reason for Zhu Di's internal relocation to Daning is "people's livelihood adjustment", which is not a casual remark, but a real thing.

One of the biggest troubles is food shortages. Since the establishment of the Daning Guard in the twentieth year of Hongwu, ensuring the supply of military food has become a heavy burden for the imperial court.

In March of the twentieth year of Hongwu, the imperial court once mobilized the people of Shandong, Beiping, Henan, and Shanxi provinces to go to Daning to transport grain, and those who participated in the grain transportation were exempted from summer tax.

In July of the same year, Daning stored 310,000 stones, Songtingguan 50,000 stones, and Huizhou 250,000 stones, adding up to more than 100,000 stones. However, only two years later, Daning's grain was exhausted, and "the military reserve did not give it", so it had to be adapted, and the merchant took millet salt, "Fandaning loses five buckets of millet and gives Huaizhejiang salt a lead." ”

Due to the effective policy, by the first month of the 31st year of Hongwu, the accumulation of millet in Daning has reached 620,000 stones. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to stop the export of millet to Daning, and ordered the merchants to transfer millet to Dongsheng and other places.

Through the above sporadic records, it can be seen how heavy the pressure of grain transportation in Daning is. In order to ensure the supply of grain to Daning and other important military towns in the north, the imperial court used a lot of manpower and material resources to transport grain from the south to the north, of which the Liaodong shipping alone lasted for more than 30 years.

In the early years of Yongle, in order to restore the ruined economy of the north, it had to be transported by sea again, but it was stopped one after another after a short time, and the ships and personnel transferred to the activities of the Western Ocean.

However, the situation in Daning is different. From the early years of Hongwu, there were no residents here, and after Hongwu was set up for 20 years, there was a good opportunity to restore the population, but the Ming court had immigrants here.

After the outbreak of the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di moved all his population south, and it once again became a no-man's land.

As for now, not to mention, Daning has been a grassland for the Mongols for more than a hundred decades, and how easy is it to restore Daning and ensure the supply of military food for more than 100,000 town defenders?

From a highly pragmatic point of view, it is better to set up a "Dabansheng Town" to re-establish Daning Town, at least there are almost 100,000 Han people in Dabansheng City, and now the degree of agriculture is getting higher and higher.

However, there are no Han people in Daning at all, and even if it becomes Ningcheng County in later generations, it is not a good place to grow grain, and until the 21st century, it is still engaged in "efficient water-saving irrigation" and "conservation tillage".

Now reopen Daning Town, unless Zhu Yijun intends to invest 1 million taels a year in Daning Town to ensure supply and revitalize the agricultural economy.

Zhu Yijun has so much spare money? Definitely not.

Besides, if he really had so much money, he wouldn't do it! For example, if the armies of the Nine Sides are uniformly dressed with a new type of Wanli bayonet, isn't it fragrant?

Even taking this million taels for disaster relief looks more reliable than going to "expand the territory" and "restore the old land", after all, this reopening Daning Town is not a one-shot deal, this is a continuous investment, one million taels a year, who knows when Daning will be able to be self-sufficient?

This kind of loss-making business, Gao Pragmatic will not recommend Zhu Yijun to do it, at least at the moment when he can't afford to lose money, he can't do it.

Brain Mao suddenly slapped the table, and said angrily: "Changang should be killed!" ”

Huang Taiji glanced at him, then glanced at Tumen Khan, and said: "How to deal with Changang, this matter might as well be put aside first, now I have a more serious problem, quickly kill Hai and Dong Fox, Changang abandoned Daning and fled, Chahanhot has no protection, the land of Duoyan Sanwei is almost lost, and there is only one fried flower Huayan Sanwei is now the only leader of the Yiwei, but it is still far away in the Liaohe Hetao"

He sighed and asked, "May I ask the Great Khan, do you want to continue the western expedition to Tumut?" ”11