The white clouds are floating in the blue sky, and the horses are running under the white clouds.

In autumn, the grass has begun to wither and yellow, and the sun is still shining during the day, but in the morning and evening, it is already cold and frozen.

At the southern end of the Horqin grassland, by the Huolin River, the central banner of the left wing of Horqin, a city composed of tents is continuous, like white clouds in the blue sky.

There are tens of thousands of people, horses and vehicles, and tents of all sizes are like mushrooms rising on the grassland after the summer rain.

In this tent-filled grassland, there is a town in the middle.

It is a town built in the Wanli period, and the center of the town is the palace of the Prince of Dahan. The owner of the palace is Manzhu Xili, the leader of the left wing of Horqin, the uncle of the Qing Dynasty, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Zhezhe of the East Palace, and the elder brother of the Empress Dowager Mubumutai of the West Palace.

It is also the birthplace of Zhezhe and Mubumutai, and is the residence of Manggusi and Zaisang.

Because the Manzhu Xili was later named Prince Heshuo by Jin.

The town is divided into three construction areas, the middle, the west and the east, there are shops and some blacksmith shops and other shops, and the middle road is the palace. The front hall and the back bed, by the palace gate, the instrument door, the printing office, the silver palace, the apse, the dormitory, the back cover floor and so on a total of seven courtyards.

The west road is composed of buildings such as the Zasak Yamen, the Internal Affairs Yamen, the palace martial arts field, and the stables.

The east road is composed of buildings such as the Meilin Guard of the Royal Palace, the Post House, the Small Garden of the Royal Palace, the Princess's Mansion, the Academy Study, and the Cangli.

At this time, this town focused on countless people, far more than the people and horses of the middle banner of the left wing of Horqin, the two banners of the left wing, the three banners of the middle and front of the right wing, and the other three and four banners of Zhelimu, which were also led by the leader.

The landlord here, the prince of Horqin Dahaner, the leader of the left wing of Horqin, and the uncle of the Qing Dynasty. Here we greet the leaders of the various ministries and flags.

The eldest brother of Manzhu Xili, the leader of the right wing of Horqin, Zhuo Liketu, Prince Wukeshan, dressed in hunting clothes and walked into the hall of Manzhu Xili.

"Big brother!" Manzhu Xili waved back, "The Han people promised us to surrender." ”

"They believed it so easily?" Ukshan asked.

Manzhu Xili smiled bitterly, "It's not easy to believe, although they agreed to our surrender, but they asked our brother to lead the leaders of the four divisions and ten banners of the Zhelimu League to personally go to the alliance to meet the Han Emperor." ”

Wu Keshan touched Guangguang's head, it seems that the Han people are not so easy to deceive.

This reply from the Han people is obviously not fully believed in them.

They want to deceive the Han Chinese. Pretending to surrender, the Han people may also be deceiving them, trying to lure them to go by taking the opportunity of the alliance, and then catch them all.

"It seems that you can't deceive the Han people." Wu Keshan shook his head and asked him to go to the alliance at this time, he didn't dare to go. When it comes to other people's territory, is it round or flat, or do they have to knead it?

Manzhu Xili's face was very anxious.

Horqin has six flags on two wings, and his left wing is in the southwest. Once the Han army and the Mongol allied forces attacked, he would be the first to bear the brunt.

"I heard that Liu Jiye transferred nearly half of the elite of the four armies of guards, guards, garrisons, and garrisons to the north, and in addition, the towns of Monan and Yanbei of the Saishang Military Region and the Liaoxi Town of the relevant foreign military regions were all transferred elites. The southern and northern parts of the desert are also elite, and Liu Jiye is in the Red Summit Alliance. At least 200,000 Han and Mongolian elites can be gathered."

Not to mention 200,000 elites, even if 20,000 Han troops attacked, it could also make Manzhu Xili panic. The strength of the Han army has been known to all the tribes outside the Guan, and they are no longer the Ming army of the past. The firearms of the Han army are strong and unparalleled in the world. Their military discipline, the well-trained training of their soldiers. They are well-equipped, and their officers are well commanded, all of which are feared by Manzhu Xili.

The Manchu army was defeated repeatedly under the Han army, and it can be said that it never won favor.

How could they stop the Han army, and it was still the Han and Mongolian 200,000 coalition army?

"If we can't beat it, we can still withdraw." Wu Keshan did not dare to say that he was not afraid of the Han army. In that case, it is okay to say it to the soldiers below, it can stabilize the morale of the army, but to your own brothers, there is no need to say it.

"Are we really going to Linghui?" Manzhu Xili looked unwilling.

Don't talk about Halwin, even if they are asked to withdraw Harwin, he is not willing, Harwin is already extremely cold, and more than a thousand miles to the north, to the Heilongjiang River, that place is not crowded at all.

"We just went there to temporarily avoid the edge of the Han army, and when the Han army can't pounce on us, they will definitely not be able to brave the cold to go to the Heilongjiang River, and then they can only withdraw their troops, then we will come back."

"But what if the Han army occupies our pastures and waits here for the rabbits to leave?" Manzhu asked in a courtesy.

Ukshan can't answer this question either, it's quite possible.

Manzhu Xili didn't want to move to Linghui, he knew the coldness of that place, and now at this time, the Horqin grassland was still very warm during the day, and it was only a little cold in the morning and evening.

But in Yuanhui, it has already snowed there, and it has even entered winter, and the river surface of Heilongjiang has even begun to freeze. Suddenly, if you want to take the tribe there, not to mention the thousands of miles on the road, let's just say that in such a cold season, how can you get through with your family?

How to solve the fodder for cattle, sheep and horses on the road, how to live after arriving, and how to carry through the cold winter.

Of course, there is one most important question, once the Han people occupy the Horqin grassland, will they not come back in the future? The winter of Yuhui may make it impossible for the Han army to march, but there will also be summer, when the Han army will kill the north again, where will they flee?

Manzhu Xili hesitated to speak, "The southern and northern parts of the desert, only the four of us are left to confront the Han army." ”

"The Jurchens are also our allies." Wu Keshan said.

"It is precisely because of the alliance with the Jurchens that we are in such a worrying situation today." Manzhu Xi Li no longer has scruples, and there is no one else here.

"Big brother, I think it's time for us to think about it. The Jurchens have declined, and they can't beat the Han Chinese. If we keep following the Jurchens against the Han Chinese, I'm afraid that we won't have a good result. ”

"What do you think, fourth, what do you have to say?"

Manzhu Xili raised his head and looked at his brother, "It is said that good birds choose trees to perch, big brother, I think we should leave the Jurchens behind and make a clear relationship with them." The Han people are too powerful. is no longer the original Ming Dynasty, we will never be able to defeat them. Today's Han people are like the Jurchens who had just risen back then, and the current Jurchens are like the Ming Kingdom back then. ”

In that year, Horqin and Ye Hu and other troops formed a nine-division alliance to attack the Jurchens, but they were defeated. Manzhu Xili's grandfather was very clever, his grandfather and uncles surrendered to the Jurchens as soon as they were defeated and captured, and after returning to the tribe, he sent his daughter to marry the Jurchens, and has been following the Jurchens ever since. Later, he followed the Jurchens to fight the Haixi Jurchens, attacked Korea, fought Chahar Lindan Khan, and finally attacked the Ming Dynasty.

The Jurchens became stronger step by step, and they Horqin also became stronger and stronger.

But now, the situation is different.

The Jurchens were betrayed and embattled, but the Han army was powerful and invincible.

There was no reason for Horqin to accompany the Jurchens to death.

Ukshan frowned. "But we are married to the Jurchens for several generations"

"Big brother, what was we marrying the Jurchens for, marrying the Jurchens was to keep Horqin and make our clan strong. But now. What can the marriage relationship with the Jurchen bring us? Don't care if we marry or not, if we were able to marry the Jurchens at the beginning, we can marry the Han people again today. I propose that we immediately choose two daughters to send to Daming. ”

Wu Keshan smacked his tongue, "I'm afraid that the Han people may not be willing to believe us." ”

"Then we'll send our eldest son to be a proton." Manzhu Xili gritted his teeth. I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf. At this time, I can't care about that.

After pondering for a long time, Wu Keshan finally nodded, "Go and ask the other banner masters to come over immediately." ”

Wu Keshan also felt that there was no future for following the Jurchens, and it was also a matter of time to change the master. As for the Han people, he has also been paying attention to the movements of the Han Kingdom recently. Knowing that the Han people were expanding their borders in the southwest and northwest, especially in the southwest, and were fighting with the Yi, Miao, and Zhuang people, the Han army dispatched more than 200,000 soldiers and horses.

Despite the successes, he believed that the Han Chinese would be willing to surrender as well.

As long as they could lower their posture, send their daughters to marry, send their sons to be protons, and pay more tribute to cattle and horses, he believed that the Han people would be able to accept their subordination.

As for the other flags, they were definitely not willing to follow the Jurchens to hide in the cold Heilongjiang.

Chifeng, known to the Mongols as Ulan Hada. It is located at the intersection of the three provinces of Yanbei, Mo Nan and Western Liaoning, and is also the provincial capital of Mo Nan Province.

At the beginning of October, Liu Jun led 100,000 elite Han troops to meet with the Mongol tribes in the south and north of the desert.

At the alliance meeting, Liu Jun officially conferred knighthood and knighthood on the Mongolian tribes and gave them golden seals.

Liu Jun canonized a total of nine marquises, in addition to the former Chahar Prince Ezhe, and the three Khans of Mobei were all marquis, Liu Jun also made Ezhe's half-brother, Namu Zhong's son Abunai, and Ezhe's two concubines all marquis.

Ezhe's brother and son were both under the age of ten, and Liu Jun divided the fief for them, but due to his young age, his fief was temporarily managed by the provincial and county officials of the Han Dynasty and his Mongolian subordinates.

In addition to the three khans of Mobei, Liu Jun gave one brother and one son of the three khans to the marquis, so that Mobei increased from three marquis to nine marquises.

There are four marquis in the south of the desert and nine marquis in the north of the desert, a total of thirteen marquis.

The thirteen marquis were divided into fiefs, and Mo Nan was attached to twenty departments, each of which was canonized with two counts, and each department in Mobei was canonized with sixteen counts.

Liu Jun was extremely generous and bold at the league meeting.

A total of thirteen marquises, fifty-six counts, one hundred and eight viscounts, three hundred and sixty counts, and one thousand and eighty lords were conferred.

Whether it was a marquis, a son, or a lord, Liu Jun declared that their titles were hereditary, and divided each title into territories.

Both the Marquis and the Princes had their own domains, and they were not subordinate to each other, regardless of their titles. Even the marquis is only in charge of his own marquisate and does not have direct authority over the lord.

The territories between them are also divided separately and do not belong to each other, and only the yamen at all levels of provinces, prefectures, and counties stationed by the Han court in various parts of Mongolia have the right to dominate the Mongolian territories.

Liu Jun divided the south and north of the desert into more than 1,000 territories that were large and small and did not dominate each other. It was granted to these large and small Mongol nobles, and at the same time these territories belonged to the provinces established by the Han Dynasty on the steppe.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty ordered craftsmen to carve these territorial maps on a boulder, and at the same time gave each feudal lord a gold seal and a territorial atlas, and swore an oath with all the Mongolian nobles, the Mongolian princes' fiefdoms were hereditary and sacrosanct, and the Mongolian tribes were not allowed to cross each other's borders, and if anyone ignored the imperial laws and the oath of the nobles, the Han Empire had the right and obligation to convene all the tribes to jointly crusade against the nobles who crossed the border and invaded other noble territories.

The oath of the Red Alliance was recorded and became the cornerstone of the Han Divine Empire and the Mongol princes. From then on, whether it was Monan or Mobei Mongolia, they were all feudal princes of the Han Empire.

The princes had autonomy within their own territories, but at the same time, the princes were parallel to the provincial capitals of the imperial court, similar to the parallel system of the county states in the early Han Dynasty. Princes were allowed to have their own armies, but there were limits on the number of troops according to the rank of each prince.

At the same time, for the territories of the princes, the laws and taxation system of the Han Dynasty were uniformly implemented, and the taxes collected belonged to the princes of the territory, the local provincial governments, and the central government.

At the same time, the armies of the princes were also subordinate to the military department of the imperial court and the privy council, and were prepared as reserves, and the princes' armies were required to obey the dispatch of the state once the country needed it.

However, under this feudal vassal system, Liu Jun left many places in the south and north of the desert without feudal to any Mongolian nobles, and these places, under the agreement between Liu Jun and the Mongolian princes, were classified as the central territories of the empire. It is managed by officials sent directly by the empire and can station troops.

This is also an insurance measure left by Liu Jun when he was a feudal Mongolian prince.

With the possession of the land and the presence of an army, the Mongol princes could be closely monitored, and even if necessary, they could quickly quell conflicts and wars between the nobles by force, and prevent the princes from rebelling against the imperial court.

These Zhili territories were built on important access routes, and were formed by dots. The territory of Zhili is not large, but there are many of them, which can be connected into several important trunk lines, and the Han army will build fortresses, castles, military stations, post roads, etc. here.

In the south and north of the desert, only the Horqin grassland has not been divided, this is the reward that Liu Jun left to the Mongolian princes to send troops to recruit the four parts of Horqin, who contributes more and makes great contributions, who can get the most fertile piece from this fertile grassland for thousands of miles.

As for the Jurchen territory further east, it has not been discussed for the time being, and the Mongolian princes also know very well that those Jurchen territories in the east must be monopolized by the Han Dynasty.

The result of this alliance was a happy outcome for all.

The Mongols were afraid that the Han Dynasty would be strong at this time, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's northern expedition to the Xiongnu, such as Ming Chengzu's four expeditions to the grassland. Now that the Mongol tribes were subjugated, and the Han divided them into vassals, they pledged allegiance to the Han in exchange for hereditary vassal domains.

You don't have to live or die, everyone is very satisfied!

The emperor of the Han Dynasty married the daughters of the princes of various Mongolian families, and now the Han and Mongolian families are relatives, and everyone is a relative. (To be continued.) )

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