Chapter 941: Mongolian Guards
Ji Rentai, the leader of the Dalat tribe, Sukhbaru, the leader of the Hangjin tribe, Seleng, the leader of the West Urat tribe, and Hazar Geril, the leader of the Dalhut tribe, who was specially ordered to stay in the Yijin Horo area to continue to guard the eight white rooms of Genghis Khan's mausoleum, saw the wind and took refuge in the Ming Dynasty.
These originally inconspicuous marginal small tribes, because they took refuge relatively late, and only followed the army of the Ming Dynasty to fight some tailwind battles, so they only got the official position of Wei Commander.
Including the Dalhut Division, which has a total quota of only 500 households and a total population of only more than 4,000 men, women and children, because of the particularity of its status, it was not only left in the original place of Ijin Holo, but also set up a separate guard.
And by the 500 families of the Dalhuts themselves, a hereditary Dargu (the one who presided over the sacrifice) named Hasargeril was elected to serve as the commander of the Dalghat Guard.
In addition, the Dalat Department was renamed Dalat Guard, and its head Ji Rentai was named the Commander of Dalat Guard.
The Hangjin tribe, a Turkic tribe of the Semu people who had been conquered and assimilated by the Mongols, was renamed Hang Jinwei, and its leader Sukhbaru was named the commander of Hang Jinwei.
The West Urat Ministry was renamed Uratv, and its chief, Seleng, was made the commander of Uratwe.
With the official position of the Ming court, he also has the opportunity to have an annual reward and a tribute exchange.
According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty against the Mongolian foreign vassals in the past, there was an indispensable prerequisite for these Mongolian foreign vassals to successfully obtain the annual reward and smoothly trade with the Ming Dynasty.
That is, at the time of the annual Zhengdan Dynasty, he went to Beijing to make a pilgrimage and pay tribute to show his loyalty to the Ming Emperor.
This condition, of course, does not have any psychological obstacles for the Mongolian tribes who are now "leaderless" and impoverished in the steppe.
The legend of the mountain city of Ulan Hada has long been spread throughout the Mongol tribes from east to west on the Monan grassland.
Now not only the Kulun and Duolun tribes in the east, with the support of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion and the Xuanda Governor's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, respectively, learned the practice of the Karaqin Department and built strong castles in the core area of the grassland where they were stationed in the pasture, and even Dalatwe, Hangjinwei, and Uratewei, the Mongolian tribes that were sealed under the Shuofang Town Shoufu and the Jiuyuan Town Shoufu, also began to seek the support of the Ming Dynasty to build castles in their newly acquired vast grasslands.
Because these newly sealed Mongolian guards in the west of Shuofang or north of Jiuyuan were either facing the threat of the Moxi Mongol tribesmen's cavalry, or the threat of the Mobei Mongol cavalry.
If there is no strong castle to rely on, their fate will depend entirely on the Ming army behind them.
Although these tribal leaders had previously attached themselves to the Ming Dynasty, they were still trying to maintain their relative independence, and at the same time, they also wanted to firmly hold on to the vast grasslands they had shared.
They thought that after they had a strong castle to hold onto, they not only had the power to resist the invasion of the Mongol tribes in Moxi or Mobei, but also had a certain amount of self-protection power for the Ming Dynasty army behind them.
However, what they didn't know was that whether it was Cao Wenzhao, Liu Zhaoji, or even Sun Chuanting, the governor of Hezhong, and others, they not only did not oppose their idea of building a castle on the grassland, but also expressed their support.
It's just that the Shuofang Town Shoufu of Cao Wenzhao, an Yuan Bo, is building Shuofang Fort in the center of the Houtao Plain (north of Dengkou County in Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia in later generations), that is, in the northwest corner of the Yellow River.
Liu Zhaoji's Jiuyuan Town Guard, relying on Baoketu (later Baotou City, Inner Mongolia), was building another Jiuyuan Fort on a piece of high ground outside the Tucheng, and there was no surplus manpower, craftsmen and resources to fully support them.
Including Sun Chuanting, the governor of Hezhong, He Shiyu, the chief military officer of Hezhong Town, and Li Changling, the commander of Hezhong, also only verbally supported.
Since the Mongols of the Ordos tribes left the Hetao, Sun Chuanting and others began to work in Dongshengcheng and other places in the river to provide relief for work, supervising a large number of soldiers and civilians in the Hezhong area, and building the acropolis of the five guards before and after Dongsheng.
The newly built Dongsheng Five Guards are mainly used to relocate and resettle a large number of battalions that originally belonged to Yansui Town and the hereditary guards of the 36 forts along the border of Yulin Wei, as well as the families of the original Yansui Town battalions and the hereditary guards of Yulin Wei who moved north to the border outside the river.
Among them, Sun Chuanting took the former site of Dongshengwei, that is, the later Inner Mongolia Ordos City, as the acropolis of Dongsheng Zhongwei, and at the same time became the station of the Yamen of the Governor of Hezhong and the General Military Office of Hezhong Town.
At the same time, Sun Chuanting rebuilt the Dongsheng Right Guard with the former site of the original Dongsheng Right Guard outside the East Road of Yansui Town, that is, the Twelve Liancheng (later Inner Mongolia Ordos City Jungger Banner), and rebuilt the ancient city of the Twelve Liancheng after the reconstruction, which was the location of the Acropolis of the Dongsheng Wei Right Guard.
In addition, Yulin City, the acropolis of the former Yulin Guard, was used as the location of the acropolis of the new Dongshengwei guard.
Those Jiangmen families in northern Shaanxi who were born in Yulin Wei military households but were unwilling to move their families north to the border continued to be incorporated into the Dongsheng Guard located in Yulin City.
For example, the You Shiwei family, the Wang Shiqin family, the Hou Shilu family, etc., these characters from the Yulin Weijiangmen family, they themselves are not officials in the original Yansui Town, that is, the current Hezhong Town, and they are all high-ranking generals, for these people, let alone Sun Chuanting, even Emperor Chongzhen, will not insist that these people move their families and clansmen who live in Yulin to the north of the Great Wall.
In addition to resetting the Dongsheng Zhongwei and the Right Guard in the river, Sun Chuanting, the governor of the river, He Shiyu, the chief military officer, and Li Changling, the commander of the capital, also rebuilt the fortress with work relief in the area of Xishanzui Town, where the Dongsheng Qianwei was first established in the Hongwu period, as the acropolis of the Dongsheng avant-garde.
At the site of the Acropolis when the Dongsheng Left Guard was first established, that is, the location of the Etuoke Banner of Ordos in Inner Mongolia in later generations, the Dongsheng Left Guard was rebuilt to relocate and resettle the Dunbao battalions and guard soldiers in Dingbian, Jingbian, Hengshan and other places.
Although the Dalatwei, Hangjinwei, and Uratewei outside the river are also subordinate to the command of the Hezhong Metropolitan Commander, their status is obviously far from that of the Dongsheng Wuwei under the jurisdiction of the Hezhong Metropolitan Division.
Therefore, when the acropolis of Dongsheng's left guard and right guard did not have many strategic materials such as cement and concrete to use, Sun Chuanting and others, of course, could not have materials like cement to support these Mongolian guards who were sealed by the imperial court outside the river.
Speaking of which, things like cement concrete are no longer in short supply in the northwest region.
Founded by Ma Maocai, the former supervisor of Yansui Town and the current political counselor of Shaanxi, the Ganquanyu Reclamation District has not only become an important granary in northern Shaanxi, but also a supply base for strategic materials in the entire northwest trilateral region.
In addition to having the only fierce fire oil production area and the second fierce fire oil bomb production plant in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Ganquanyu Fierce Fire Oil Factory, the Ganquanyu reclamation area has also become the only place in the entire northwest trilateral region that can produce new cement in large quantities, that is, the Ganquanyu Cement Factory.
This area of Yan'an Province in northern Shaanxi Province is rich in minerals such as limestone, coal, clay and gypsum, which are the natural raw materials for firing cement.
Since the Northwest Musubarian Rebellion and the thieves in northern Shaanxi fled from Pingliang to the west, Emperor Chongzhen thought that the situation in northern Shaanxi was safe enough, so he sent a eunuch Ma Jing, who had been serving by his side for several years, as a supervisor and minister, and brought a few craftsmen from Baiyecheng and Huangming Institute of Technology, as well as several skilled cement kiln workers from Jiading Bofu, to Ganquanyu and set up Ganquanyu Cement Factory.
In this way, it can be regarded as alleviating the extreme shortage of cement, a strategic material in the northwest region.
It's just that after Ma Whale arrived in Ganquanyu, he worked hard day and night with Ma Maocai and other local officials, and only built and put into operation six cement kilns.
And these cement kilns, even if they burn the prepared raw meal and cement clinker day and night, there is still a huge gap between their output and demand.
In such a situation, not to mention those Mongolian guards outside the river, even the Dongsheng Wuwei rebuilt in Hezhong Town cannot guarantee that they can get sufficient supplies.
After all, among the many big names in the northwest region, there is also a great eunuch Gao Shiming in Xi'an above Ma Jing, and Ma Maocai, who participates in politics in Shaanxi, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi who is also in Xi'an.
In particular, above all these people, there is also Li Banghua, the Minister of Military Aircraft of Dongsheng, who is now ordered to sit in Pingliang and lead the military and civil affairs of the northwest.
Including the commanders of the trilateral towns such as Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, among these characters, which character has a much greater face than the commanders and envoys of the Mongolian Guards in the Northern Fortress!
Not to mention that there is no spare strength, even if there is spare strength, it is impossible to give priority to them, the commanders of the Mongolian guards.
Even if you can give priority to them, these Mongolian guards and envoys, they don't have anything to exchange or buy!
After all, although the cost of cement clinker produced by the Ganquanyu cement plant is not high, it cannot be given to them in vain.