The food and salary paid on time can certainly ensure the obedience of the soldiers in the border towns, but only the land given by the Qin and sufficient land can tightly bind the interests of these border soldiers with the interests of the Ming Dynasty, and even the future and destiny.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, when land was a scarce resource and the greatest wealth that could be passed on to future generations, only by rewarding the land obtained through war in large quantities and free of charge to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the border towns and armies could it be possible to exchange their allegiance and followership.

Once a superior person detached himself from the consideration of the interests of his subordinates and talks about the loyalty of his subordinates, he is either stupid or he thinks his subordinates are fools.

However, whether it is the former or the latter, such a superior is destined to not last long.

Once such loyalty, when it comes time to accept the test of life and death, then the first unlucky person must be such a superior.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen from later generations can certainly see this truth clearly.

In his view, only unity or loyalty, based on common interests, is unbreakable unity and loyalty.

If the officers and soldiers can obtain the Shijue Shilu, or rich rewards, and a large amount of land through war, through military achievements, then the situation of the noble and the military will slowly change, and the status of the military generals or military class in the Ming Dynasty will naturally rise.

And from then on, he will spontaneously become an active defender of royal interests.

At the same time, once the war and the interests of the military are closely linked, the will to war of the Ming officials and soldiers will gradually be stimulated.

And this situation is exactly what Emperor Chongzhen hopes to see in the end.

Therefore, when Li Banghua sent an order to the border army guards in Gansu, Ningxia, Yansui and other trilateral lands to open the first-line passes of the Great Wall, and allowed or even called on the Han people in the trilateral lands to go out of the customs and enclosure to open up wasteland, and at the same time sent them, the feudal officials in the northwest, to the Beijing division and sent it to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen approved it without hesitation.

In the three areas of the northwest, Han, Hui, Qiang, Mongolian, Tibetan and other ethnic groups are mixed together, allowing a large number of Han refugees caused by the Musuman Rebellion to go out of the customs and settle for reclamation, which can avoid greater chaos in the northwest, and second, it can also take this opportunity to transfer the Han people who have always relocated to the land outside the Guan, and incorporate Hezhong, Shuofang, Jiuyuan and other places into the territory.

Moreover, by doing so, it can not only win the hearts of the Han people in the northwest, but also distinguish the Han people in the northwest from others, especially the white-cap Mu Suman, and prepare for the next war of counter-rebellion.

If you kill three birds with one stone, why not?

While approving the agreement of Li Banghua and others to open the mouths of the three-sided Great Wall and allow the Han people to go out of the customs and occupy land for reclamation, Emperor Chongzhen also approved Li Banghua and others to jointly submit a plan to quell the rebellion.

It's just that in the timing of the suppression of the rebellion, Emperor Chongzhen once again postponed the time by two months.

It should be said that there was no problem with the plans and arrangements for quelling the Taomin Mutiny and the Musuman Rebellion reported by Li Banghua and others.

Whether it is to press and attack from the east, south, and north, or to drive Gao Yingxiang and other bandit leaders to continue to advance westward, and then drive the tiger to devour the wolf and kill people with a knife, it is a good strategy.

However, today's Chongzhen Emperor considers the problem, but it can't just be limited to pacifying the rebellion in a corner of Taomin.

If the problem of the relocation and resettlement of the Mongols from the Ordos tribes under the command of the governor of Hezhong could not be properly resolved, then the combat operations of Li Banghua and others to lead a large army to suppress the original Taomin and the Musuman rebellion in the Hexi region could not be easily launched.

The plan and route set by Emperor Chongzhen and the Living Buddha of Samuteng Osir at that time was to go from Dongshengcheng to Yulinwei, then from northern Shaanxi to the south, through Guanzhong and Hanzhong, and then to the west, all the way to the Songpan area in northern Sichuan, and finally into Tibet.

Forty or fifty thousand Ordos Mongols drove their sheep on the road under the leadership of the living Buddha Samuteng Osir and the lamas, which was by no means an easy task.

Even with the emperor's will, with the official documents of the imperial court, accompanied by Jiang Dejing, the minister of the imperial court's envoy to Tibet, and even the musketeers of the Shenji Battalion led by Liu Zhaoji to escort them all the way, this is still a huge project.

Although the Mongols, due to their nomadic nature, have no insurmountable resistance to driving their sheep from one steppe to another, it is difficult to ensure that everyone can reach their destination after this journey.

Today's Mongols in Ordos do not know how the land of Hetao is different from the newly given Tibetan grassland by His Majesty the Ming Emperor, and once they find that the living conditions in Tibet are far inferior to those of Hetao, will they honestly move to Tibet to settle down?

All of this, the current Emperor Chongzhen, must be considered in advance to rest assured.

Otherwise, once these forty or fifty thousand Ordos Mongols suddenly made a mess on the way to migration, then Emperor Chongzhen's whimsical sword this time would really lift a stone and hit himself in the foot, which would be self-defeating.

After all, the places that these people passed through on the way to Tibet, such as Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and even the Songpan area in northern Sichuan, were all places that could not be chaotic for a while.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Chongzhen was not in a hurry to let the officials and troops advance in a big way after the Taomin Mutiny, which had gone through a chaotic war between different ethnic groups and temporarily fell into a stalemate stage.

In his opinion, the northwest advance of the Ming Dynasty, heavily deployed troops from the east, south and north, implemented a blockade and siege of the army, cut off all its personnel and trade exchanges, and cut off all its imports of grain, salt, tea and other materials.

At the same time, the strength of the bandit battalions is now growing because of the large number of Han refugees in the northwest, and once the official army in the northwest advances too fast, then Gao Yingxiang and other bandit leaders will be forced to join forces with the leaders of Musuman.

In this way, it increases the difficulty of attacking.

And if the official army is only carrying out a strict blockade and siege at the moment, then after the strength of the thieves in northern Shaanxi grows, if they want to feed a large number of people and horses under their command, sooner or later they will attack the hereditary local official class of Musubarians in the land west of the Taomin River, as well as those rich and wealthy large and small scripture halls, Moluo mullahs and imams.

At that time, Fang is the real best time for the official army to advance and suppress it on a large scale.

During this period, the officers and troops of Gansu, Ningxia, Dinglu, Hezhong, Shaanxi, and Hanzhong took the opportunity to keep their promises, on the one hand, they reorganized their armies and accumulated strength for the pacification of the rebellion, and on the other hand, they were ready to guard against the sudden chaos of the Ordos Mongols when they were driving their flocks through their own defense areas.

The time of March of the third year of Chongzhen passed in a blink of an eye, and the spring in the north of the Ming Dynasty finally came to the world again after surviving the five-month winter.

The grass on the side of the road in the field drank the water from the melting snow and ice and stubbornly burrowed out of the ground.

Poplars and willows also grow tender green leaves and new branches in the warm sunlight.

Beizhili, Xuanfu, Datong, and the newly established province of Rehe area, between the fields, are all a busy scene of spring ploughing.

The burning of the wasteland, the ploughing of the land, and the people who started relatively early, have already begun to sow seeds in the new year.

Far away in the northwest of the river, entering April, also ushered in spring.

Under the watchful eye of Zhao Shujiao, Cao Wenzhao, and Liu Zhaoji's subordinates, the activities of the Living Buddha of Samuteng Osir and his subordinate Usutu summoned the lamas went smoothly.

The Living Buddha Samuteng Osir led the lamas to perform a grand prayer ceremony in front of the Eight White Chambers in Yijin Holo.

Then, the Living Buddha and the lamas claimed that the ancestor of the Mongols, Genghis Khan, who was said to be buried under the Eight White Chambers, summoned the Living Buddha to Usutu and provided a new paradise for the Ordos Mongols, who had lost their master, and entrusted the Ordos Mongols to Manjushri Bodhisattva for protection.