"If you want to make me a marquis, your emperor can make a decree, why do you want to do this?" Turns out you want me to get out of Mongolia. Do you think I, a descendant of the Golden Family, will break away from Mongolia? Don't even think about it. “

Zhou Yuji smiled: "It doesn't matter, Jinong think about it first." I think there will always be people in Jinong's family who are willing to cooperate with us. At that time, Jinong can go and die. Someone came, escorted him down, guarded him carefully, and killed him immediately as long as he wanted to escape. “

He knew that his younger brother Gu Yesu had always coveted his Jinong's position (Jinong is the deputy Khan), and if the Ming people went to him, he would definitely agree immediately, and at that time, not only would his own life be in danger, but his sons, wives and concubines, and ranch property would become Gu Yesu's property. What's more, their own persistence is meaningless at all.

He was about to start shouting that he was willing to surrender, but after thinking about it, he was silent. In his mind, his ready-made Jicheng is always stronger than the Taiji of Guyesu, so if he is reserved first, Mingren should value himself more.

At this time, the eradication of the entire Ordos tribe had been basically completed, and all the nobles were concentrated in a yurt. Xue Boling said to Zhou Yuji: "The three younger brothers and two sons of Ephochen were captured, as well as several of his mothers-in-law, and our army only suffered a few minor injuries in the battle, and killed about a hundred Mongols who resisted in total. “

Zhou Yuji nodded and said, "That's good, more than a hundred brothers have died on our side, and more than 300 people have been seriously injured, and even more have been lightly injured." It is not enough to collect the Mongol tents for the military doctors, so set up camp first, and this will become the center of the Loop. We will stay here for a while, and when this place is stable, we will go northeast and lay down the naturalization, and our first phase of goal will be completed. “

Xue Boling asked: "Do you want to bring those Taiji here and see if there are any who are willing to surrender, if so, we can do without Ephochen." “

Zhou Yuji said: "Before coming, the General Staff said that it was best for Ephochen to be obedient, if he insisted on not being obedient, then find other people, let's see if there is anyone who is willing." “

The two sons of Eb Phochen are younger, so Zhou Yuji first mentioned the three younger brothers of Er Phochen: "I, Emperor Daming, is going to implement Han and Mongolian co-governance in the Hetao area, and I need a leader, I don't know if the three Tai Ji are interested?" “

The eldest of the three Gu also said quickly: "General Daming, my Gu is also willing to return to Daming and guard this Hetao for Daming." "He is very shrewd, and he knows that the order of the first two words in the Han-Mongolian co-rule is very important, so he doesn't mention cooperation at all, and he is directly willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Yuji nodded when he saw that he was so knowledgeable. The other two were a step late, and they didn't want to show weakness, and they both expressed their willingness to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

After they retreated, Zhou Yuji said: "Actually, if you separate them, maybe it will be better." But this is a matter for the Ministry of War, we just need to make a suggestion, and the decision is in the hands of the emperor and the cabinet. ”

Xue Boling said: "Actually, it's best to drive them all out and let them kill each other, it's best not to keep the Mongols in the Hetao." ”

Wang Zuomin said: "There are some places in Hetao where grazing is more suitable than farming, and the emperor doesn't say that eating meat is always more fierce than eating grain, and in the future, Hetao will become the base of our Northern Expedition, and it is good for the Mongols to raise cattle and sheep for us." ”

Zhang Xinchen said in a cold voice: "There are no herdsmen left south of the Yellow River, if we want to eat meat, we can first occupy Guihua City, and then use it as the center to exchange with the Mongols or directly rob it." They have robbed us for so many years, what is wrong with us robbing them. ”

Zhou Yuji said: "It is impossible for Lin Dan Khan to watch us seize the Hetao, so now we must first stabilize the hearts of the Mongols here." What I'm worried about now is General Du Guangting, General Xue, and your troops will quickly go to naturalization to deal with a possible Mongol attack. And General Zhang went to the east and garrisoned along the Yellow River to prevent the Chahar army from attacking. First guard the front line of the Yellow River, the General Staff said that there will be reinforcements, and they will support from the water, but I don't have much hope for this, the Yellow River is no better than the canal, and we can't pin our hopes on reinforcements. ”

Although the right wing of Chahar let the Ming army pass, it immediately transmitted the news that the Ming army was going to attack the Ordos Department to Vazar Tucha Hancheng. Lin Dan Khan couldn't have imagined that the Ming army would really go to retrieve the Hetao by themselves. He immediately sent someone to Xuanfu to question Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong said to the envoy in surprise: "Didn't the Great Khan let us take the land of the Hetao for ourselves? Why are you questioning me again? ”

The envoy was bored and reported back to Lin Dan Khan, and at this time, the news that the Ming army had defeated the Dzungar tribe and crossed the Yellow River had also arrived. Lin Dan Khan had already summoned the leaders of the Mongol tribes to discuss countermeasures, but the leaders of the various tribes had different opinions on how to deal with the matter.

Horqin has a large population, stationed in the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains, east of Hulunbuir, Horqin is also divided into left and right wings, the left wing is 70,000 households, the right wing is 60,000 households, so there has always been a saying of 200,000 Horqin. They used to be very close to Houjin, and after Houjin was destroyed, they turned to fear that Daming would retaliate, so they have been actively moving closer to Daming. In particular, after the daughter of Horqin Jinong Zhaisang was named the eldest princess by the Ming Dynasty and married to Mangui, the Horqin people no longer took Lin Dan Khan seriously, and Zhaisang had told the Ming last time that he could help them recover the Hetao area. Of course, with the distance between Horqin and Hetao, this kind of help is obviously impossible to send troops to help, so now Zhai Sang feels that it is time to fulfill his promise to Daming.

Zhai Sang said: "I heard that the Great Khan once asked the Great Khan to let the Ordos Department give up the Hetao area, and the Great Khan replied at that time that he would let him take it for himself, but is there such a thing?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the various Khan, Jinong, Nuoyan, and Taiji were in chaos, Ordos was the head of the 30,000 households on the right wing, and Lin Dan Khan was the leader of the Mongolian communist family, and he even let the Ming army take Ordos by himself, this kind of behavior, in their opinion, was a betrayal.

Lin Dan Khan was embarrassed, he didn't want to offend Daming that day, so he cut off the road to the mutual market, so he went to Sun Chengzong to take it for himself. There are doubts about whether there is dissatisfaction with Ordos, but of course he won't admit it, so he said: "At that time, I just didn't want the Ming people to seize the handle, so I shirked it, but I didn't expect the Ming people to be so bold, so I called everyone to discuss the matter of the Ming people." ”