Chapter 708: A Word

At noon on the 6th day of the first month of December, Li Banghua sent a telegram from the city of Guihua and presented it to Emperor Chongzhen through the hands of the military aircraft.

In this report, Li Banghua made several suggestions:

First, Li Banghua suggested that Emperor Chongzhen garrison a heavy army in the city of Guihua, and from then on include the Monan region outside the Xuanda border into the territory.

Li Banghua wrote in the report: "Tumochuan, where the Naturalization City is located, is actually the birthplace of Fengzhou, China. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the two Song Dynasty have been weak, first there is Liaojin, then there is Mengyuan, and the land of Fengzhou has been stained with blood for a long time.

"For hundreds of years, the fertile fields of Fengzhou have become the grasslands where Hulu went south to graze horses, and the sincerity of thinking is sad!

"Jinchen and others were ordered to pursue Jianyu, and went out of the north to the outside of the fortress, and the soldiers fought bravely, fortunately, not to disgrace their lives, and re-included the Tumochuan where the naturalized city was located into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"This place is connected to Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, Datong in the south, Xuanfu in the east, and the desert in the north.

"If Your Majesty builds this city, sets up a general army, sends a strong army, and recruits the exiles of Qin, Jin, Luyu, and Yu to be real, the Xuanda border can be attacked from now on, and the retreat can be defended, and you can sit back and relax!"

Second, Li Banghua proposed in this report that he should take advantage of the unprecedented opportunity of more than 20,000 cavalry from Zhao Shujiao Department in Shanhai Town, Zu Dashou Department in Datong Town, and Cao Wenzhao Department and Duolun Department in Rehe Fort to gather in Naturalization City to annihilate the Ordos Department in one fell swoop and regain the territory of Hetao to the territory of Huangming.

Li Banghua wrote in the recital: "The Ordos tribes occupied the Hetao and invaded the northwest frontier for more than 200 years, and it has been a disaster for China for a long time!

"Today, our army will march tens of thousands, chase the north to build captives, gather and naturalize, this is a good opportunity to destroy the captives and restore Hexi!

"Since ancient times, if you want to consolidate Shaanxi and Gansu, you must return to the Hetao! If Your Majesty wants the three sides and five towns in the northwest to be peaceful for a long time, this is the right time! ”

In addition to these two suggestions, Li Banghua also reminded Emperor Chongzhen in the report that after the slave chieftains fled north, the situation of the Xuan War had been decided, and the meritorious work of the soldiers of all departments should be rewarded, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to follow the precedent of the previous Dongjiang River and the southwest, and reward the generals and soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the war with the land outside the Xuanda Border.

Li Banghua wrote in the report: "In this way, Your Majesty only needs an edict to collect the hearts of the army, save the country, and use it outside the border, and kill three birds with one stone!" ”

After Li Banghua's recital was sent to Juyong Guanzhong, Xu Guangqi, the only auxiliary minister of the emperor's cabinet, greatly appreciated this suggestion.

And Emperor Chongzhen himself, of course, immediately agreed.

The extreme importance of the land of Mo Nan and Hetao was also very clear in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen.

Now, the elite divisions of Daming Border Town are gathered in the Naturalization City, and of course he will not let go of such a great opportunity.

As for the kind of claim that the land in the north was not enough to cultivate, and he was in vain to defend it, he had already scoffed at it.

Not to mention the grain production of Inner Mongolia in later generations, just the rich mineral resources of this vast region have been the top priority of China in later generations.

Therefore, even if the suggestions of the garrison naturalization and the recovery of the Hetao are not put forward in Li Banghua's report, now the Chongzhen Emperor from later generations will also pass on the order of Li Banghua and others to garrison and naturalize the Hetao as soon as he learns that Huang Taiji broke through the siege of Naturalization City and fled north to Mobei, and Li Banghua led the army into the important town of Naturalization City in the south of the country.

Therefore, as soon as Li Banghua's proposal was sent to the emperor, Emperor Chongzhen did not need to ask anyone's opinion at all, and immediately approved it.

At the same time, on the evening of the second day after Emperor Chongzhen received a report from Li Banghua from Guihua City, the Liaodong Jie Bao from Dongjiang Town and Denglai Town was also sent to Juyong Pass by Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, after he was transferred to Beijing.

That night, in Juyong Pass, from Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers accompanying him, down to the ordinary soldiers and soldiers in the city, and the soldiers and civilians were young and strong, everyone was happy and jubilant.

With the good news from Liaodong, the battle of building a captivity into the land of Kouxuan, even if it was the end of defeat and then victory, defense and then attack, the dust has settled.

And a few days ago, the resurgence of thieves and the mutiny of Taomin brought the hidden worries and uneasiness to Juyong Guanxing's ministers in the courtiers, and they were also swept away with the news of Liaodong!

On the morning of the 8th day of the first month of December, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been driving to Juyong Pass in person for more than a month, finally left Juyong Pass with the escorts of the three guards of the pro-army and the courtiers, nobles and civil and military officials of the imperial court, and began to return to Beijing under the repeated advice of the ministers.

Now Huang Taiji has not only withdrawn from the Xuanda border, but also has evacuated the Naturalization City and fled in the direction of Mobei.

As for the chaos in the northwest, Emperor Chongzhen has not taken it to heart for the time being.

Not to mention that after the thieves fled from Shanxi back to northern Shaanxi, it was difficult to have the original scale for a while, even if they developed again with the momentum of the Taomin mutiny, these poorly equipped rabble are now not thriving official and military opponents.

And the Hui rebellion that occurred in the original land of Taomin, Emperor Chongzhen was not worried.

There have been many rebellions in China's history, and some people have even said that the country will be in chaos if it is difficult to return, but any time there is a rebellion, only the life of being suppressed and expelled.

Mu Suman will never be able to threaten the imperial power in China, and he will never succeed.

Therefore, since the Xuanjian War has basically ended, the rest of the finishing work does not need to be commanded by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

However, on the first day of returning to Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen made a new arrangement for the situation in Xuanda, Monan, Hetao, and the northwest.

First, the Minister of Military Aircraft, Pingyang Bo Li Banghua, was dismissed from the post of Minister of Thieves and Supervisors of Shanxi Province, and ordered him to take the capacity of Cabinet Minister and Minister of Military Aircraft, and to lead all the Ma Army Infantry troops in Shanhai Town, Rehebao, Datong Town, and Shanxi Town in the vicinity of Guihua City, and take advantage of the freezing opportunity of the Yellow River to march into Ordos from the north and recover the land of Hetao.

Emperor Chongzhen clearly said in his will to Li Banghua: "If the Ordos tribes refuse to surrender, the army will encircle and annihilate and empty their land!"

"If he is willing to surrender, he will accept his leader, organize his people, move them all to Yungui, and hand them over to Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yungui, Jingnan Marquis, to settle in a place!"

Second, he ordered Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft, to lead the infantry of Rehe Fort, Jizhou Town, and Shanhai Town in Duolun City to the north of Ulan Hada, and closely cooperate with the cavalry of the Karaqin Tribes and the troops of Lin Maochun, the general soldier on the left side of Liaodong Town, to continue to block the road of the army led by the Nu chief Huang Taiji to return to the east, and wait for an opportunity to intercept and annihilate the enemy.

Third, he ordered Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, to remain in office, and ordered him to command all the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ning, and Yansui in the northwest in a unified and controlled manner, and make every effort to suppress the mutiny and civil unrest in Tao, Minguyuan, and other places, so as to atone for his crimes.

Regarding the big basket stabbed by Yuan Chonghuan, although Emperor Chongzhen has not yet received a detailed report, he knows the reason in his heart.

From the beginning of Long Huamin, Tang Ruowang and others taking a group of Western missionaries to the trilateral governor's area to preach with great fanfare, now this Chongzhen Emperor knows that the northwest region cannot be calm, and something like the Musuman riot will happen sooner or later.

The stinger is to be removed, and the abscess is to be removed.

It's something that has to happen sooner or later.

Now this matter falls on the head of Yuan Chonghuan, who is tough and fierce and easy to kill, it is still a little better than falling on other indecisive or women's hearts.

At least this Yuan Chonghuan from Lingnan has nothing to do with Mu Suman in the northwest.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also directly issued an order in Juyong Guanzhong to restore the position of governor of Xuanda, and promoted Yin Yanghe of Shuntianfu, who had made meritorious contributions to the resettlement of displaced people and the reform of the guard system, to the governor of Xuanda, so that he could implement the reform of the guard post as soon as possible in the Xuanfu and Datong lands that had been severely ravaged by the war, and provide relief and resettlement to the victims.

If it was left in the past, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to turn these ideas into the will of the imperial court, and he didn't know how many words he would have to waste to persuade the ministers around him to agree.

But this time, with the successive victories of the Ming army since this visit to Juyong Pass, these ideas that used to need to be wrestled with the courtiers to achieve are now all decided in one word.

No one dared to stand up to question or oppose the emperor's judgment and decision, and no one dared to stand up and say a word in front of the emperor.

Although the war between the Ming and Jurchens triggered by Jianlu's breakthrough has not yet completely ended, Emperor Chongzhen has once again established his authority through his role in this war.