As soon as Yuan Chonghuan thought of this Lin Dan Khan, he couldn't help shaking his head in his heart. At the beginning, when the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian left-wing tribes were wary of each other, and were separated by the Later Jin and the Mongolian right-wing tribes, Yuan Chonghuan inquired about the deeds of this captive king from some Mongolian tribes who came to Liaoxi to trade or merchants who had been to the Chahar tribe.

Whether it was when he inherited the throne at the age of 13, the Mongol tribes were in disobedience, and it seemed difficult to hold the authority of the Mongol Great Khan. Or did he rise in prestige, subdued all the troops on the left flank, and personally led tens of thousands of troops to attack the Ming defense line from Guangning to Jinzhou several times, these rumors made Yuan Chonghuan feel that this Mongol Great Khan was a Mongol lord similar to Altan Khan.

It was not until Lin Dan Khan was defeated by the Later Jin several times, moved west to escape the oppression of the Later Jin force, and tried to forcibly occupy the pastures of the right-wing Mongol tribes by force and turn them into his own slaves, that Yuan Chonghuan realized that the other party was actually far inferior to Altan Khan.

When the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the contradictions between the Mongolian left-wing tribes and the Mongolian right-wing tribes to annex and settle most of the Mongolian right-wing tribes in the area beyond the Great Wall east of Daqing Mountain, and encroached on these Mongolian tribes by dividing, co-opting, and indoctrining the Mongolian right-wing tribes, Lin Dan Khan only cared about bargaining with the emperor and wanted to get more benefits from the Ming Dynasty. Yuan Chonghuan felt that the other party was just a fool with no vision and ambition.

The more he came into contact with the subordinates of the Chahar Ministry, the more Yuan Chonghuan realized that Lin Dan Khan's feats when he was young were about just a breath of vitality for young people. When he was repeatedly frustrated in front of the Houjin army, and this vitality was dissipated, he was also unaware of everyone.

However, if Lin Danhan was just such an ordinary fool, although Yuan Chonghuan felt a little disappointed, he would not be able to arouse his thoughts.

It's really that Lin Dan Khan hasn't figured out until now, and the Chahar Department is now living under the eaves of the Ming Dynasty, not the Mongolian Great Khan who crisscrosses the southern Mongolian steppe.

However, this person still can't distinguish the reality, and still regards himself as the Mongolian Khan with supreme authority on the steppe. He forbade the Mongolian right-wing tribes to graze across the Daqing Mountains and Jining Haizi, but he refused to evacuate the tribes near Guihua City to distant pastures with abundant water and grass.

He feared the gods, but he demanded that his people convert to the Flower Religion. He coveted the city rewards of the Ming Kingdom, but he did not allow his subordinates to go to the Ming Kingdom to trade privately. He loves warriors, but he is obsessed with the title of the first Mongolian warrior awarded by the Ming Emperor. He kept saying that he was in favor of the Ming Kingdom and Mongolia both belonging to China, and that he would ally with the Ming Emperor in Zhangjiakou, but he was worried that new things such as Ming books, teachers, and even railways would destroy the simplicity of the Mongols' hearts, so he always opposed the popularity of these things among the Mongolian tribes and steppes.

Lin Dan Khan's actions not only angered the merchants who traded with the Mongols, but also angered the civil and military officials responsible for the education of the right-wing tribes of the Ming State, offended the Shanxi iron and steel merchants who controlled the construction of the railway, and even some of the tribal leaders on the left were extremely dissatisfied with Lin Dan Khan's actions.

easily forced everyone to the opposite side of himself, Lin Danhan's ability is really unattainable by ordinary people. When he left the naturalization to go on a crusade against the Khalkha right wing in Mobei, few people expected him to come back alive.

The merchant group formed by the Jin merchants wanted Lin Dan Khan to be killed, so that not only could the entire steppe be paved with railroad tracks, but they could also eat the Mongolian left-wing tribes that had lost their co-owners.

It's just that the Jin merchants, who relied on the rapid recovery of Shanxi's bank, border trade, railway, coal, and iron and steel industries, finally had three points of respect for the imperial power after accepting the lessons of the Zhangjiakou ultimatum, and did not dare to engage in any more private actions. After all, the border army generals and local officials who they had previously fed in Shanxi and Xuanda have now been purged, and only one Yuan Chonghuan is left to support them in the scene.

The Jin merchants knew that they wanted to prevent Lin Dan Khan from coming back alive unless Yuan Chonghuan made a move, but they didn't have the ability to instruct Yuan Chonghuan to do this now. However, in Shanxi's coal and steel industries, the current majority is controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Lin Dan Khan's blocking of the construction of railways on the steppe has undoubtedly harmed the interests of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Therefore, these Jin merchants couldn't help but blow the wind to the Huang eunuch of the Internal Affairs Government in Shanxi, thinking that the Huang eunuch should come forward to give Yuan Chonghuan a hint and solve the trouble of Lin Dan Khan.

When capital begins to operate, an independent will arises. For Lin Dan Khan, who hindered the expansion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' industry, he would naturally be monitored by Huang Tai as a trouble that should be eliminated. However, with the help of the Zhangjiakou Alliance last year, Eunuch Huang did not dare to openly hint to Yuan Chonghuan to get rid of Lin Dan Khan, because this may not be in line with the emperor's wishes.

However, when the news that Houjin sent troops to raid Lin Dan Khan, who was fighting in Mobei, came back, the Huang eunuch, who learned the news from the Jin merchants, finally couldn't sit still. He couldn't help but let his cronies visit Yuan Chonghuan with a message, suggesting that the governor of Fengda take advantage of this opportunity to let Houjin clean up Lin Dan Khan.

Those Jin merchants complained in front of Yuan Chonghuan, and he could still turn a blind eye, but a eunuch from the Internal Affairs Office sent someone to pass a message to him, and Yuan Chonghuan really couldn't sit still.

Although the governor of Fengda is high and powerful, Yuan Chonghuan does not feel that this position is the end of his career. Not to mention that since the General Staff implemented the army reorganization plan, his power as a governor has also been greatly restricted.

By October of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the three-level armed forces system proposed by the emperor had faintly taken shape. In the past three or four years, the Beijing Battalion and the Northern Frontier Army have been reorganized into seven infantry field armies and 12 cavalry field divisions. The establishment of each field army is 250,000 men, and the establishment of each cavalry division is about 1,500 men, or about 1.93 million men. Together with one guard to protect the emperor, it was 2.13 million people. The Imperial Guards have been separated from the army and are only responsible for the garrison of the imperial city and the capital, and are led by the emperor himself.

These 2.13 million people are the most effective field army in the Ming Dynasty, and the military expenditure on them this year has reached 12 million yuan. Then the remaining nearly 2 million Ming officers and troops will be organized into a local garrison army, and their combined military budget this year is only 36 million yuan, but only 28 million yuan is actually distributed.

These field armies are not those old official armies controlled by the generals of Liaoxi, who take the military salary of 30,000 people to support 3,000 families, and less than 300 people can actually go to the battlefield. These armies are all new-style armies reorganized by the General Staff with military academy graduates as the backbone, strictly drilled in accordance with the training plan issued by the General Staff, and tested their combat effectiveness one by one.

In the Fengda Governor's District, there is a field army and 3 field cavalry divisions, as far as Yuan Chonghuan's eyesight is concerned, the combat effectiveness of these field armies is already on par with the family members around the Jiangmen of Liaoxi, as for whether they can defeat the Jurchens, it still needs to go to the battlefield to compete.

However, there is one thing that Yuan Chonghuan is very sure of, no matter whether these field armies can defeat the Jurchens or not, the immediate collapse of the Jurchen army will definitely not happen. Because the first lesson of the training plan issued by the General Staff is how to save one's life on the battlefield.

After enumerating the results of dozens of wars in ancient and modern times, the training plan concludes that defeating the enemy is the best way to preserve oneself on the battlefield; In an unwinnable situation, always maintaining a formation and relying on the cover of your companions to withdraw from the battlefield is the second best way.

Laying down your arms in the face of an enemy, or dropping them and running away is the worst way to go. This has been proven in several battles between the Ming army of Liaodong and the Later Jin.

Yuan Chonghuan originally felt that this training plan was really a bit ridiculous, and the purpose of the imperial court's preferential treatment of these warriors was naturally to ask them to go to the battlefield to fight hard, and then take the enemy's head to repay the imperial court, rather than educating them on how to save their lives on the battlefield.

However, after nearly a year of training for these field troops, he realized that these soldiers were not only willing to accept hard training, but also improved their combat ability extremely quickly. Sure enough, the honor, the service to the court, and the credit of Bo Yi's wife and shadow son are not as good as the motivation to train to save his life.

The steady increase in the combat effectiveness of the field army also made the right-wing Mongolian tribes and the reorganized reserve army begin to be honest, and there was no longer any arrogance in the past. Previously, some powerful Mongol tribes and eliminated border soldiers felt that the imperial court still needed them to defend the western border wall, so they were always dissatisfied with the treatment they had received.

However, when they saw the drills of these field troops, they all became honest. Whether the soldiers of these field armies can beat the Jurchens is a matter of two questions, but there seems to be no problem with using them against them.

To be honest, with such a force under his command, it is impossible for Yuan Chonghuan not to do something. It's just that although he is the governor of Fengda, he can't move these field armies.

As the governor of Fengda, he can have the leadership power of all the armed forces in the territory, but the field army only accepts the orders of the Fengda Governor's Office, that is, the orders of the Governor Cao Wenzhao. Without Cao Wenzhao's consent, he didn't want to use every soldier of this army. Even if Yuan Chonghuan went crazy and killed Cao Wenzhao for a while, this force would fall into the hands of the deputy governor in charge of military discipline, and the main and deputy governors were not allowed to leave the army at the same time.

After Sun Chengzong and other civil servants became the head of the General Staff, local civil servants could no longer interfere in the internal affairs of the army, otherwise they would be regarded as rebellion. Although the Governor is not an ordinary civil servant, it is precisely because the Governor has too much power that he is first guarded against by the General Staff, and without the authorization of the General Staff, the Governor's attempt to get his hands on the military power of the field army will be regarded as a rebellion.

Although Yuan Chonghuan was very arrogant, he never thought of trying to defy the law. Wenchen killed Wenchen, but he would not be soft. But let him sit outside the plug and watch the sun rise and set on the grassland, and he will not do it.

Although Fengzhen is far away from Houjin, there is still a Mongolian Chahar Department that has not been completely annexed. Last year, the emperor did not allow him to destroy the alliance, but it does not mean that Lin Dan Khan should not die at the hands of the Jurchens this year.

He admits that it was a good idea to use Lin Dan Khan's fame to rally the Mongol tribes to join the Ming in fighting against the Houjin. But in such a strategy, he will not have any credit to speak of.

On the contrary, Lin Dan Khan's death in Mobei allowed him to take over the strength of the Chahar Department at the first time, thus making the Fengda Governorate the core of leading the Mongolian tribes to resist Jin. For Yuan Chonghuan, this is the broad road to establish immortality.

After a day of thinking on the loess cliffs, Yuan Chonghuan descended the mountain and returned to the governor's palace in Fengzhen, where he summoned his henchmen and told him to tell the merchants that they could be prepared to prevent Lin Dan Khan from returning to Monan, but that no Mongols should be involved in the plan.