Chapter 602: The kingdoms come to the court, and everything changes
At noon on this day, countless soldiers and horses gathered at the Temple of Heaven on the outskirts of Beijing.
The sound of hooves rolled, and the cavalry that could not be seen at a distance appeared in front of him.
Dressed in crimson chain vests and wielding shiny silver swords, they were skilful horsemanship, armed with short squirting muskets at their waists, half of the Forbidden Army's horsemen.
The next moment, from the other side, there were rolling iron hooves again, and the other half of the horsemen came one after another, and soon, the two horsemen merged into one, forming a large circle under the Temple of Heaven that was constantly rolling.
If you think that's all there is to the enthronement, you're very wrong.
The infantry army was divided into two teams, the soldiers of the first team wore iron helmets, wore crimson armor, held up steel tiger spears in their hands, and slowly walked out from the two gates on the east side.
At the same time, another group of infantry soldiers walked out of the Shuangzhi Gate on the west side, these people looked murderous, and the first few rows of soldiers were wearing three layers of heavy armor, holding a huge shield in one hand and a large sword in the other, step by step.
The rest of the soldiers held axes and guns in their hands, and advanced step by step, they were the forbidden army led by Wang Zheng himself, and they were the elite of the elite in the Qi army, with a quota of 100,000 people, but the momentum caused was like a million divisions.
The two teams gradually gathered together, standing at the bottom of the Temple of Heaven like more than 100,000 wooden stakes, and this was not over, and soon two teams walked out of the east and west straight gates.
One of them was the cavalry of more than 500 people, these cavalry were different, they were all Mongols, and after receiving the order, the Khan of Tumut did not dare to slack off, and in order to show his sincerity, he immediately let his son choose 800 warriors from the tribe to participate.
The standard equipment of these Tumut Mongol cavalry is a shiny full moon scimitar, a woolen felt hat on their heads, and they are dressed in willow leaf armor left over from the Yuan Dynasty.
Vulture is a person who understands and knows that every time the Han people rise in the Central Plains, they are unstoppable.
At present, the general trend of Wang Zheng's struggle for domination of the world is already unstoppable, and Tumut's confrontation with the Northern Fifth Department is only in the stalemate stage, and there are Heshuote to the west, and Chahatai and other departments to the north, if you want to gain a firm foothold in the long-divided grassland, you must curry favor with the Qi army.
On the other hand, Balmatun did not dare to resist Wang Zheng's order because of what Wang Zheng had done over the years.
Judging from the various achievements and behaviors of the Qi army that they have heard about now, everything is easy to say if they cooperate, but if they disobey or even rebel, when the Central Plains is stable, Tumut will definitely not have any good fruits to eat in the future.
The Qi army was fighting in the north and south, but it had not yet been able to defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
When the world was settled, it would be easier to defeat the mere Tumert, and the young Khan of Tumut was a little reluctant at first, but when he came here, he saw the prestige of the Qi army, but he was deeply glad for the wise decision of his father Khan.
Not to mention anything else, half of the soldiers and horses present were not able to resist Tumut, not to mention that the Qi army still had a large number of garrison guards in various places.
Even if they didn't use the means of war, there were countless ways for Wang Zheng to put Tumut to death, and they couldn't afford to just forbid them to trade with the Central Plains.
Moreover, the Mongols had different views on submission to the Han Chinese and the Jurchens.
The Han people have been the masters of the Central Plains since ancient times, the strong Han and the Tang Dynasty, which is not a powerful empire with the power of the four seas, the Jurchens have only been many years, and even they are inferior to Mongolia, how can they become their own masters.
Especially the current Tumut Khan Vulmadun, he made a fortune with the support of Wang Zheng, and he was originally inferior to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's domination in Tumut, but now he has conquered many small tribes that originally submitted to the Manchu Qing, not to mention more scenery.
The tribal lords and warriors of the Tumut Mongols, as well as their families, made a fortune in the Mongol-Han trade, and now they have moved to the big cities to enjoy life without even living in the humble yurts.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty was divided, but the threat to Mongolia was still very great, and after Wang Zheng ascended the throne and became emperor, he swept the group of Kou inside and conquered Liaodong outside, which must be something that must be done.
Bald Ma Dun clearly knows that the Han people have never had a good impression of the Jurchens, and after the Jurchens are defeated in the future, what will happen to the people and livestock of the Jurchen tribe, and they will be able to follow suit.
In addition to people and livestock, the Central Plains is rich in resources, and the rewards that can be given every year are also very attractive to today's Tumut Mongolia.
Mongolia has been oppressed by the Jurchens for so long, it's time to return even the profits with interest, and even Balmadun is still thinking about how to make Wang Zheng hand over the disposal of the remnants of the Jianzhou Jurchens to himself.
Therefore, Bald Madun did not dare to have the slightest rebellious mind against Wang Zheng.
The current Tumut Mongols are subordinate to the Qi army, which is from the heart, and they are inferior to others in terms of force and trade, and they dare not resist if they have the courage.
Besides, don't you still have a lot of benefits, who is full and will go to death.
No matter which dynasty or generation, no Han people will have any thoughts about the Mongolian steppe, at most they will subdue and fight and then let them govern, which also echoes the consistent practice of the Han people in the Central Plains.
If Vulmadun wants to become the new Mongol Great Khan, this requires Wang Zheng's help, but whether Wang Zheng can help him to the end is still two words.
Except for the Mongols, the other cavalry team was unseen by everyone, and the number was very small, they were only wearing leather armor, they wore chain mail gloves on their hands, they were both cold protection and high, and they carried the rifle of the wheel, only more than thirty people.
True, these people came from the Netherlands, and they were all European cavalry.
Why did the Netherlands send people all the way to participate in the founding ceremony of the Great Qi, which has to start from the current situation in Europe, the Qi army and the Dutch can be said to be unfamiliar with each other.
Europe was now in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire was in decline in the late Middle Ages, and the Reformation was followed by a sharp opposition between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Coupled with the rise of neighboring countries, a large-scale war inevitably broke out, which lasted for 30 years.
At that time, the East was still at the end of Wanli, the Later Jin had just risen, and the Ming Dynasty was gradually weakening, but until now, when the Qi army was founded, the civil war in Europe was still in full swing.
This 30-year European civil war, also known as the "War of Religion", was basically involved in more than half of the Western countries, and this war was mainly fought by two blocs.
One of them was the group of German Protestant princes and Denmark, Sweden, and France, which were supported by the Dutch, British, and Russian.
(France was Catholic, but it sided with the Protestant countries in order to dominate Europe.) )
The Holy Roman Emperor, the German Catholic princes, and Spain, as the other side, were equally supported by the Pope and Poland.
In the modern sense, the war led to the formation of European nation-states, the beginning of modern European history, but it wiped out about sixty percent of the population of the German states.
Also because of this civil war, the development of Western science and technology once stagnated and fell into the weakest period.
The Dutch, as the passive party, was not angry when the East India Company reported the loss of colonies such as Taiwan and Bohai.
Because at this time, they basically didn't care about the overseas colonies, and only cared about how to win the war that they were going to lose, so in the eyes of the Dutch, they just noticed the new empire that was rising in the East.
The western states are fighting, but the situation in the east is very clear, and the main empire is obviously this Great Qi Empire headed by Wang Zheng, and the reason why the Netherlands signed the "Taiwan Treaty" is also a major reason.
In order to curry favor with the incoming emperor, the Netherlands sent a small team of musketeers on behalf of the West, which was an eye-opener for Wang Zheng and the Qi army.
This European cavalry team of only 30 people, as well as the successive vassals and envoys of Korea and Mongolia, made Wang Zheng's claim to the emperor have an atmosphere of the beginning of a strong and prosperous atmosphere.