7. The general situation inside and outside the big dry
In the past few days, Zheng Wen has been familiar with the government and understands the inside and outside of the court.
Suddenly, he found that the situation in the DPRK was far less complicated and critical than he had imagined.
Originally, Yanjing was located in Yandi, close to the borderland, and was under the front of the nomads all the year round, so Yanjing was stationed with 300,000 troops all year round, divided into three parts. The first is the southern army and the northern army set up according to the Han rule, each with 100,000 people, they are all born in the north, fighting with the nomads all the year round, brave and brave, proficient in war, and are the elite army that grew up in iron and fire.
The second is the Beijing camp, which was set up at the beginning of the founding of the Great Qian, 100,000 people, belonging to the capital garrison troops, responsible for guarding the palace and the Beijing division, commanded by the Beijing Camp Jiedu Envoy, so when Zheng Wen named Qin Fei as the prince of the country, he would be so happy, because he never thought of rebellion, it was too difficult, the 100,000 people in the Beijing camp have been peaceful for too long, and they have never gone out to fight since the founding of the Great Qian, and the relationship is complicated, the factions are divided into many factions, the Beijing camp has long been a sieve, and Qin Fei can master the whole It is already very good.
The feeling that the Beijing camp gave Zheng Wen was that this was a group of veteran soldiers, and their role in the capital was equivalent to that of the police in later generations.
In addition to the forbidden army, the forbidden army is a quite elite army, 10,000 people, some of them are from the nobles, they are from military aristocracy, with high quality, part of them are selected from the northern and southern armies, and the northern and southern armies themselves are prepared for war, so they are still very elite, and the other part is from the border army, stationed in the land of the Yan Dynasty all the year round, and is the first line in the face of nomads, not to mention its elite.
The original change of the Daming Palace, just because the first emperor died violently, did not leave any last words, so as the personal troops of the first emperor, they can not have any position, their position is the reigning emperor, therefore, on the same day, they are neutral, otherwise as soon as the new emperor ascends the throne, they will be purged, and no emperor will keep a personal guard with his own ideas.
Zheng Wen summoned the commander of the forbidden army a few days ago, a burly, bearded Yandi man, who was his father's closest bodyguard, only forty-one years old this year, an orphan, called Li Wei, looks very arrogant, but he is honest, basically trusted by Zheng Wen, and Zheng Wen has no one to replace him now, let him do it first!
Therefore, Zheng Wen basically gained control of the palace, and in the palace, Zheng Wen was safe.
Moreover, through his understanding in the past few days, Zheng Wen found that the army of Daqian was more in the north and less in the south, and 80 percent of the troops were gathered north of the Yellow River. On paper, Daqian has 2 million troops, 300,000 stationed in Beijing, 100,000 in Shandong, 300,000 in Hebei, more than 1 million troops in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Shanhaiguan, and only 200,000 troops in the entire southern region.
Zheng Wen was speechless and helpless when he saw this situation, it seems that the rule of the great cadres over the south has been relaxed, although the south has always been a rich place, but militarily the north is still strong and the south is weak, he is not worried that the south will rebel, but he just thinks that this will make the southern forces raise their heads and will increase the difficulty of the great cadres ruling the south.
Zheng Wen wrote down this question deeply in his heart, and also wrote the following words in his notebook: The court has 2 million troops, 1.8 million in the north, 200,000 in the south, more in the north and less in the south, and be wary of the rise of southern forces. And it is also marked with an emphatic character.
Moreover, in the fifty-three years of his accession to the throne, he inspected Jiangnan six times, and sent his sons to inspect Jiangnan several times.
Many people who don't understand the truth in later generations still think that Zheng Wen likes Jiangnan so much that he has only gone to Jiangnan six times! Of course, Jiangnan also formed an indissoluble bond with Zheng Wen's life, and Zheng Wen also left a lot of legends in Jiangnan.
In later generations, he also made a documentary about "Emperor Qian's Six Visits to Jiangnan", as well as many TV series and movies about this, which have been well received by the public, and the ratings and box office are even more frighteningly high. Of course, that's another story.
At this time, Zheng Wen was a little frightened and gritted his teeth, why?
Because, he found that there were three regimes around Daqian at this time, one was Dali, one was Western Xia, and one was Mongolia.
Dali and Western Xia are just that, but Mongolia, Zheng Wen found out that it was a man named Kublai Khan who was the Great Khan of Mongolia. When he first saw this information, Zheng Wen was taken aback, isn't this the original historical ancestor Kublai Khan?
If you look closely, it's really true! This Kublai Khan's father was Tuolei, and his grandfather was Temujin.
Thirty years ago, that is, during the Longcheng period, Zheng Wen's grandfather and Temujin fought three large-scale wars for more than ten years, and the two sides used millions of soldiers, which also caused the reason why the southern troops of Daqian were transferred to the north, and there were only 200,000 soldiers left in the south.
In the end, both sides realized that no one could help the other, so they called off the truce.
And it happened that Zheng Wen's grandfather and Temujin both died in the same year, Zheng Wen's father was busy accepting power, Mongolia also fell into internal strife, and the border between the two sides was peaceful for more than ten years!
When the two sides recovered, they found that the other had recovered, and no one could help the other, so the two sides had to sign a peace agreement, and the big cadres were busy restoring their internal affairs and survival, and Mongolia was busy with the westward expedition!
Therefore, the two sides are truly at peace!
Seeing these situations, Zheng Wen suddenly felt a lot of pressure, because Mongolia at this time was at its peak, Zheng Wen didn't know if he could fight against Mongolia with the national strength of Daqian at this time?
Daqian has been established for more than 300 years, has fought against Liaojin and other nomadic forces, experienced a great victory and defeat, almost destroyed the Liao State when the great victory, but was defeated by the miraculous rise of Dajin, Dajin thus destroyed the Liao State, established Dajin, and resumed the previous confrontation with Daqian, and later when the whole army was ready to destroy Dajin, the Mongols miraculously rose, unified Mongolia, and destroyed Dajin, which caused more than ten years of war between Daqian and the Mongols, until now!
When Zheng Wen learned about these circumstances, he immediately decided that this was the deep malice of God, and looking at the founding of the country so far, he felt that the luck of the great cadres was not ordinarily bad!
Why?
Throughout the more than 300 years, the good fortune of the great cadres seems to have been exhausted at the beginning of the founding of the country, the founding emperor Zheng Wu raised troops for more than a year to ascend the throne and become the emperor, and then more than a year to wave troops to unify the Central Plains, this is the only good luck of the great cadres.
After that, there was a series of bad luck, when more than two years was in the prime of life Emperor Taizu died violently, when the army in the south was preparing to destroy Dali had to stop, Dali has been free to this day.
After that, there was the confrontation between Liao and Qian, which experienced several major wars, which led to the independence of Li Yuanhao in the northwest, thus establishing the Western Xia Kingdom.
Next, when he was about to attack the Western Xia Kingdom, the Liaoqian War broke out again! The Western Xia Kingdom has been at large ever since!
Next, when he was about to attack and destroy the Liao State, the Jin State rose again, forming a confrontation between Qianjin and Jin!
After recuperating and resting, they were preparing to attack the Jin Kingdom, and the Mongols rose again!
This led to a war between the Great Cadres and the Mongols, and it took more than ten years to fight!
The national power that has just been gathered has been consumed again!
Zheng Wen had a feeling at this time that this time the Mongols might send troops to attack Daqian! And it's a very strong feeling!