Chapter 485: Zhang Huangyan Goes to Mobei
In this way, most of the Janissaries were annihilated by the Praetorian Guard, and in these two months, the time actually used for the battle was less than ten days. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, what is really more time-consuming is the deployment of logistics and the reconnaissance of the intelligence system, which really involves individual combat, and the composite arms of the Ming Dynasty can already defeat this classical cavalry branch.
Of course, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when the national power was at its peak, the Ming army with the Shenji Battalion and the Duoyan Sanwei could also defeat the Tartar cavalry, and the real attrition and loss were also in the process of logistics and the pursuit of the enemy's main force.
However, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Tartar cavalry did not dare to have the confidence to fight a direct decisive battle with the Ming cavalry, and basically fled directly when they saw the main force of the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition, which made it difficult for the Ming Dynasty to completely annihilate its troops, and then permanently solve the border problem.
But for the current Ming Dynasty, you can basically no longer worry about not being able to completely solve the threat of border troubles, first of all, Lin Dan Khan and other Mongolian Tartars because they ignored the great changes that have taken place in the Ming Dynasty and chose the decisive battle of the Ming army at the beginning, so that its main force was lost, and secondly, the current army equipment and war concept of the Ming Dynasty have long surpassed the entire era, even a battalion-level Praetorian Guard can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of iron cavalry with sufficient firepower, Therefore, even if these Tartar cavalry avoid a decisive battle with the main force and adopt the strategy of defeating the Ming army in the movement, it has been ineffective, not to mention, the current Zhu Youxiao does not intend to continue to adopt a policy of restraint on Mobei Mongolia for the reoccupation of Mobei Mongolia, and then use the method of dividing the kings to provoke the internal fighting of the Mongolian tribes, so as to achieve the goal of threatening the Central Plains Dynasty without unification.
Just as the occupation of Monan Mongolia and Jianzhou, as well as the Waixing'an Road and Miaotun, the occupation of Mobei Mongolia will not only end in the form of military occupation, but Zhu Youxiao will continue to send officials to implement the policy of changing the land and returning to the mainstream culture in these places, and adopt an attitude of severely cracking down on the stubborn and reactionary upper-class aristocracy and not tolerating it. For the low-level Mongolian herdsmen, it was to divide the grassland and encourage trade, and through some reward systems, the low-level Mongolian herdsmen were lured to give up their support for the upper-class nobles, and then chose to transfer their faith to the Ming Emperor, and even to integrate and get used to the morality and customs of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youxiao believed that as long as this was done, the historical phenomenon that the Central Plains Dynasty could not completely eradicate the threat of nomadic forces outside the Guanxi once and for all would completely cease to exist.
Except for the cavalry units of the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard Army and some cavalry units in the border towns that stayed in Mobei Mongolia to continue to sweep up the remnants of the Tartar cavalry, most of the Praetorian Guards and border troops began to withdraw one after another, and this campaign was indeed just a combat training for them.
At the same time, the imperial court also immediately began to send officials to Mobei to establish an administrative system, after the court decided, Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa and Guan Shaoning were respectively appointed as the political envoy of the Mobei Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, according to the inspection envoy and the patrol of the imperial history, of which Shi Kefa also supervised the study of politics; Among these three, Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa have both served as officials outside the Guanwai in recent years, as envoys in Jiannu, and as magistrates in Monan, and have rich experience in how to manage nomads so that they can receive Confucian education and integrate into Han culture. Guan Shaoning went to Beijing Normal University to study after entering the Hanlin Academy, and was an advocate of pragmatism and cultural unity, and had a deep study of how to manage the people to make them truly become the people of the Ming Dynasty, so it was appropriate to choose to promote these three people to preside over the affairs of Mobei.
Originally, Yang Tinglin, who had some experience in changing the land and assimilating the people in the non-Han cultural circle, was also the former governor of Monan and a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, but Yang Tinglin has now become the scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and he is busy reforming the world's academic politics, especially the establishment of the education system in some areas where Han and Yi live together, so that he can no longer personally participate in the management of Mobei.
But Zhu Youxiao still asked him to take a note on how to better change the land and return to the river in his busy schedule, so that the first batch of real power magistrates appointed by the imperial court in Mobei would have a better reference.
In order to prevent a large-scale rebellion in the early days of land reform and return to the Ming Dynasty because of the resistance to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to directly hire a large number of students and people from outside the Guan, such as Mo Nan and Jianzhou, to go to Mobei to serve as local officials such as Fuzhou County, but let the officials continue to select a large number of Han people in the Guan, or Miao, Tujia, Yi and other non-Mongolian and Manchu scholars to go to Mobei to serve as magistrates.
Zhang Huangyan, the former judge of the Shanxi Salt Transportation Division, was directly promoted to the Helin Prefect because of his outstanding political achievements and the current shortage of a large number of local officials in the Ming Dynasty.
In this regard, Zhang Huangyan was not dissatisfied because he went to Guanwai to serve as the prefect, on the contrary, he was still quite excited, and he also had the ambition to serve the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court.
As soon as he got the order of the imperial court, Zhang Huangyan went directly to Datong from Shanxi, and he didn't even have time to send a letter to his home.
Zhang Huangyan rode a small donkey, followed by an old slave carrying official seals, and traveled very lightly in Datong.
When he looked at the vast white grassland in front of him and the rolling and white wool edge of the Xiongguan Mountains behind him, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but sigh, and the aura of grandeur in his heart suddenly appeared, he never imagined that from this moment on, this boundless land under his feet would become the area where he displayed his political ideals.
But it is true, from the moment he stepped out of Datong Guancheng, every inch of land under his feet was under the jurisdiction of him and the Lin Mansion.
"Zhang Fuyin, Han Jun, the officer of the Mobei Military Police Corps and the Lin Branch of the Praetorian Guard, is specially ordered by the Second Army and the Chief Military Officer of Mobei Ao to protect your safety, please get in the car!"
At this time, a cavalry officer of the Praetorian Guard, a captain of the Praetorian Guard, wearing a steel helmet and a gendarmerie-specific Great Wall epaulette on his shoulder, appeared on the wall facing Zhang Huangyan and solemnly saluted Zhang Huangyan.
Zhang Huangyan was also busy and bowed to the officer named Han Jun: "General Han is hard, I don't know how far there is to go to Lin Cheng." ”
It turned out that because the land outside the Guanxi was changed and returned to the river not long ago, although the Ming court tried its best to adopt the method of first persuasion and then force to solve the problem to implement the rule of Han culture, it would still be resisted by some more stubborn reactionaries, of course, there were also many Mongolian upper-class nobles who were unwilling to lose the privilege of slave ownership, and often engaged in sneak attacks or assassinations of court officials.
Therefore, in consideration of the safety of the local officials who went to Guanwai to implement the policy of changing the land and returning the land to the imperial court, Zhu Youxiao decided to set up a military police corps composed of soldiers of the Praetorian Guard in each of the four newly established political envoys outside the Guanguan.
From the Ming Dynasty to destroy the Khalkha and Korqin Departments, recapture the Hexi Corridor, recover the Hamiwei and the Dangping Jiannu regime and the current Lin Dan Khan Department, plus defeat the Masak cavalry to achieve the absolute occupation of Eastern Siberia, the Ming Dynasty has established four Chengxuan political envoys in Monan, Liaodong, Gansu and Mobei, and in addition to the relatively small administrative area of Monan, the territory under the jurisdiction of the other three Chengxuan political envoys is extremely broad.
Among them, the jurisdiction of Liaodong is not only the three eastern provinces today, but also includes the Outer Xing'an Mountains and Miaotun areas and Eastern Siberia, while the Mobei Chengxuan Political Envoy Department is directly east to Datong, west to Hetao, almost across the entire northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and the newly separated Gansu Political Envoy Division is not what we now call Gansu, but includes the region from the north to Hamiwei and the south to the Qinling Mountains.
The four marines of the Janissaries were also stationed in the four newly established political envoys, and part of the troops were set up to form a gendarmerie corps, which were responsible for maintaining law and order in the area under their jurisdiction, eliminating the remnants of the resistance, and guarding local officials at all levels.
Among them, officials of different grades have different military police quotas, and the minimum military police quota can be as low as one military police quota at the county level to protect them, but Zhang Huangyan is the prefect of the fourth grade, so his quota is a military police.
Although these are nominally guarding themselves and are considered to be his subordinates, Zhang Huangyan also knows that these people are also easy to provoke, and they can't be like those officials of the ordinary yamen, because these gendarmes who follow him are all members of the Praetorian Guard, these people are His Majesty's pro-army, and the officers among them are students who graduated from the Royal Military Academy, enjoying the same treatment as the students of the Guozijian, and even having a higher status, so he naturally can't afford to offend.
What's more, now that the political envoy department of Mobei Chengxuan has just been established, although the entire Mobei has a basic administrative framework system, and a large number of local officials have taken up their posts, and they have begun to become the first batch of pro-people officials in this region, but there is still a lack of a large number of grassroots officials and servants, so that the entire Mobei Chengxuan political envoy department has to temporarily implement the rule mode of semi-military management and half-local official management, and only public security and criminal prisons are handled by the gendarmerie on behalf of the military.
However, the gendarmerie control of law and order and prison is very simple and crude, whether it is as small as someone who stole a sheep or as big as someone trying to launch an ordinary herdsman rebellion and get rid of the Ming control of the rebellion, there is only one way for the gendarmerie to deal with it, that is, to shoot directly!
However, the iron-blooded policy of the gendarmerie had a very obvious stabilizing effect on a large number of non-Han Chinese inhabited places like Mobei, and basically greatly deterred those who were ready to move.
"There is General Lao Zhang", Zhang Huangyan said and rode a horse from the hands of the Korean army and ran directly to the Helin Mansion.
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On the way to Helin City, Zhang Huangyan occasionally saw Mongolian herdsmen driving their sheep to gather in the direction of Helin City.
Because, according to the Ming Dynasty, there have been full of billboards along the way, and it has also been spread by Jinyi Wei and everywhere, and the herdsmen on the other side of the Mo Nan side have been secretly passed on, that is, after the Ming Dynasty occupies this area, officials will be selected to start setting up counties and governments, and the grassland in the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction will be divided according to the number of people and cattle and sheep in each household.
Just as the people in the customs dream of having their own land, the ordinary herdsmen outside the customs also hope to have their own grassland, and for them, being able to graze their cattle and sheep in their own grassland is simply the happiest thing.
In their previous consciousness, not to mention their own grazing grassland, their own cattle and sheep and even their own people belonged to the upper slave owners, and only the upper slave owners would own their own private property.
If in the previous era, when nomads could plunder almost at will, the exploited ordinary herdsmen could still accept the drive of the upper nobles and follow them into the pass to plunder, although they would die because of this, but this kind of plunder could also get rewards from the upper nobles, and even they could secretly obtain some property through looting.
At that time, the plundering of the Guannei was the only magic weapon to maintain the foundation of its rule, but now with the strengthening of the border defense capacity of the Ming Dynasty, it has been difficult for the nomads to obtain the means of production through the plundering of the people of the Central Plains, so as to make the internal contradictions of their rule not intensify.
The reality is that with the increase in the cost of plunder, the internal contradictions between these nomads have become more and more intensified, coupled with the comparison of the life of the herdsmen in Monan and other places after they joined the Ming Dynasty, so that a large number of ordinary herdsmen have long not counted on their master Lin Dan Khan, but began to secretly hope that the Ming Dynasty can come over this morning, and divide the grassland, cattle and sheep in their own area as soon as possible.
This also made it so that at the beginning of the war, a large number of ordinary herdsmen took the initiative to provide Jinyiwei and Daming with a large number of main action paths related to the Mongolian upper-class nobles, which also contributed to the Ming Dynasty to quickly eradicate Lin Dan Khan.
And now that the war is over, it is time to promote the kindness of the Ming Dynasty to the common people, at this time Zhang Huangyan can see a large number of ordinary herdsmen actively and consciously gathering towards the Lin Mansion, they are all going to the county office, waiting for the officials to officially distribute the grassland to them.
In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from changing the land and returning to the Guanwai area, some reactionary forces completely cut off their retreat from making a comeback, and sometimes killed a large number of ordinary herdsmen to achieve the role of deterring ordinary herdsmen and the Ming court, so some gendarmes had to be mixed with herdsmen to deal with the attacks of the remnants of the Tartar cavalry at any time.
Despite the potential threat, Zhang Huangyan could see that most of these herders had smiles on their faces, which made Zhang Huangyan feel that the burden on his body would become very heavy, and it was indeed not something that could be done overnight to distribute such a vast grassland to the herders appropriately and fairly.
But Zhang Huangyan was excited at the moment, he could imagine how much change the life of the nomadic people outside the Guanxi would be once these ordinary herdsmen were freed from the fate of enslavement, at least the way of survival of these herdsmen would shift from relying on direct plunder to obtain the means of subsistence to relying on their own means of subsistence.