As soon as Zhu Youzhen listened to Song Yingxing's report on the northward relocation of the Daming Ordnance Institute, he saw Xu Zhaohua hand over a note:

"Congratulations to my father!"

"I'm glad?"

Zhu Youzhen was quite surprised, smiled slightly, and handed half a plate of ruddy cherries to Xu Zhaohua.

"Daming has one more Qingsong County, and the current cabinet is tentatively under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu."

Xu Zhaohua put half a cherry into his lips and said with a smile.

Zhu Youzhen looked at it carefully for a while before he spoke: "Very good, but it is not suitable for Qingsong County to be classified as Shuntianfu, and now that place is equivalent to building a city outside Guancheng;

There are no mountains and rivers to hinder, and they will be plundered by the Tartars at any time;

Not only Qingsong County, but also the newly built cities after leaving the customs had to consider military security issues, and summoned Ma Shiying, the privy deputy envoy and director of the General Political Office of the Generalissimo's Office, and Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet. ”

Zhu Youzhen suddenly realized that the outside of the pass was not as safe as the inside of the pass, and the military pressure of the Mongolian tribes still existed, and if the Ming Dynasty took the liberty of building a castle and reclaiming a base outside the pass, it would be easy to be harassed by these Mongolian cavalry.

However, the Ming Guards were field troops, and it was impossible to defend every castle base.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen wanted to strengthen the military functions of these places, so Zhu Youzhen immediately summoned Ma Shiying, the head of the internal organization of the army, and Gao Hongtu, the head of the internal political organization of the Generalissimo's Office.

"Outside the Guan, not as well as inside the Guan, each prefecture, county, and even province must have a sufficiently strong garrison, and the chief officer of these places must be skilled in both military and political affairs, and must be able to deal with military strikes against the Mongol cavalry at any time;

Therefore, I think that there should be a governor outside the border instead of a governor, and that the governor should be in charge of the military and political power of the whole province, and the governor should be responsible to the generalissimo in the military and the cabinet in the political aspect. ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he asked Xiang Ma Shiying and Gao Hongtu.

"Wechen agrees with Your Majesty's opinion, but the officials of the newly established prefectures and counties below the governor must be appointed and dismissed by the cabinet, and the taxes must also be handed over to the cabinet, and the food and salary must also be allocated by the cabinet, so as to distinguish them from the temperance envoys of the Tang Dynasty and avoid the appearance of feudal towns."

When Gao Hongtu said this, Zhu Youzhen had no opinion.

According to his meaning, the governors established outside the customs should indeed be different from the Tang Dynasty's temperance envoys, and the power to pay taxes and appoint officials was still in the hands of the imperial court, including the appointment of officials in the military system, but the governor could control military and political affairs in a province with full powers, and there was little difference between the governors in the theater system.

The only difference is that the Governor General is in charge of the internal political and ideological work of the army during the theater system.

At present, the governor outside the border has all the responsibilities of the general army and the governor, and there is no limit to the number of troops and horses that the governor can lead.

The governor could recruit his own soldiers and horses and report to the generalissimo's office, and the court appointed and dismissed his officers.

This is similar to Li Chengliang in the Wanli period, and his power is definitely greater than that of the governor of Guannei.

In the later period, after the decline of central control, there may also be a phenomenon of self-respect for troops, but this is unavoidable.

Now, in order to coordinate forces and maintain the fruits of expansion, the only way to do so is to increase the power of local officials outside the Guanxi area.

As for the future expansion of the local area, it can only be the result of the incompetence of the central government, perhaps the central government can change this method through various means, Zhu Youzhen can't think about it that far.

He now has only one purpose, which is to extend Han culture to a wider area.

Even if the central court of the Ming Dynasty was really replaced by other Han people in the future, it didn't matter, at least at that time, the entire Han nation had a wider country than now.

That's enough.

Soon.

The Cabinet then demarcated the area south of the Kent Khan Mountain, and the area west of today's Ulaanbaatar to the Datong line was the province of Monan, and the governor of Monan was appointed in Shuangquanhai.

That is, what is now Ulaanbaatar.

Chen Zilong was appointed by Zhu Youzhen as the first governor of Monan.

The full name is Zishan Dafu, Hussar Generalissimo, Generalissimo Mansion, Commander of the Desert Metropolis and the Right Capital, Imperial History and Military Department, Left Squire Lang, Commander of the Desertan Military Administration.

The second grade of the official residence.

After all, he proposed the expansion of immigration first, so Chen Zilong naturally became the first governor of Guanwai.

Looks like a lot of power.

However, in the early days of the Ming Dynasty's foreign expansion, even the Monan adjacent to the Guannai was just a sparsely populated grassland and desert Gobi area.

……

The area of Monan is not just the Karaqin region of Mongolia.

But now the nobles of the Karaqin tribe have the most obvious feeling about the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

They instinctively thought that the Ming army's expedition to Horqin would return as it did when the Ming army went out of the customs and expeditions, so they chose to avoid the Ming army's edge and moved the royal court to a place a little farther away from the old official road of the Ming Dynasty in advance.

But what the nobles of Karaqin did not expect was that their tribal herdsmen were disappearing, sometimes even hundreds of herdsmen disappeared within a day or two.

This figure is not a small number for the Karaqin region, which has a small population base.

At first, it was the merchant groups in Qingsong County who forcibly abducted these herdsmen, but later I don't know who began to spread the word that they could eat enough to eat and earn money in Qingsong County, so that these herdsmen began to flee to Qingsong County on their own initiative.

The Mongol aristocracy of Karaqin, like the landlords in Guannei, were also supported by the herdsmen at the bottom, and the fewer the herdsmen, their wealth would naturally decrease, and even their military power to plunder the wealth would shrink.

Therefore, the Mongol nobles of Karaqin panicked, and at first they only strictly forbade the herdsmen to flee and even did not hesitate to warn their own herdsmen by killing them.

However, Mongolia's household registration management has never been as perfect as the Ming Dynasty, and herders still flee in large numbers.

In addition, the Ming merchant group now has territory, and what they lack most is the population and labor, and they still continue to plunder the herdsmen through various means.

That's it.

The Mongol nobles of the Karaqin tribe really couldn't stand it, and they became more and more aware that this phenomenon was related to the Ming Dynasty.

The Karaqin Department no longer avoided the Ming army, but sent people to take the initiative to understand what the Ming were doing in Monan.

They didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty did not leave the Karaqin Department, but built a city and built roads in the area of Qingsongyi, which borders the Karaqin Department and Gubeikou, and even a large number of villages have appeared by the Liuhe River.

"Great Khan, this is the Qingsong City of the Han people, they want to turn our grassland into their town farmland, you see that there is all their new cultivated land."

The leader of the Karaqin tribe, Polo Huli, quietly came to the vicinity of Qingsong County under the guidance of one of his commanders.

Polo suddenly couldn't help laughing and said: "These Han people are quite bold now, farming is not planted in the pass, come to our territory to plant, are you not afraid that our cavalry will rob them of the essence, it just so happens that now there are many fewer herdsmen, and there are a lot fewer cattle and sheep, Ben Khan is thinking about crossing the Gubeikou to fight the autumn wind, now it's good, just fight the autumn wind here, and don't need to fight those Han officers who defend the city, immediately gather our tribe, tomorrow surprise attack Qingsong City, and snatch all the people and livestock here!" ”

Polo Huli began to covet the wealth of Qingsong County in the Ming Dynasty, so he gathered a large army and prepared to attack Qingsong County.

After all, now that the main force of the Ming army has gone north, in his opinion, this Qingsong County is like meat sent to his mouth.

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