Chapter 1190

The news of the Ming army's fiasco came back to the capital, shocking the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, and also caught the emperor and Zhenguo Gong, who had just won the victory in the struggle against Xungui, into a situation of surprise!

Since Emperor Hongwu, it has always been the Han people who have pressed the Mongols to fight, so that their mothers can't recognize them! The invincible army of the Ming Dynasty, how many years has it not suffered such a loss?! The anger of the government and the opposition can naturally be imagined, and those civil and military generals who were still fighting to the death suddenly became a tune, beating their chests and feet one by one in the court, shouting hoarsely, to immediately teach those Mongolians who do not know whether to live or die! Let them pay their blood debts and pay them back a hundredfold!

However, as the decision-makers of this imperial court, Zhu Gaochi, the Hongxi Emperor, and Wang Xian, the Duke of Zhenguo, were difficult to speak at this juncture...... The Ming Dynasty is now in a period of crisis of extreme weakness and emptiness of national strength, and what it urgently needs is to rest and recharge with the people, rather than start a war with the Tatars......

The so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first, and military supplies are money and food for fighting wars. In particular www.biquge.info when he went deep into the steppes to fight the Mongols, he needed countless military money and food. The defeat of the Tru River was too miserable, nearly 20,000 elite Ming troops were killed, and a large number of grain and baggage were taken away by the Tatars. The Tatars were at their peak in terms of strength and morale. After three days of exhaustive thinking with Wang Xian, Zhu Gaochi did not overturn the previous conclusion -- he really did not have the ability to send troops at the moment. The only way to do this was to strengthen the nine-sided defense first, and at the same time order the attached Mongol tribes to form an alliance and protect each other to prevent the Tatars from continuing to cause trouble......

As expected, as soon as this decision was announced, Emperor Hongxi and Zhenguo Gong were drowned in the saliva of the government and the opposition. The civil officials and military generals in the court were better, and they were afraid of Wang Xian's obscenity, so they only dared to stage a bitter drama of crying and grabbing the earth, and they did not dare to spray directly against the emperor and Wang Xian.

The common people in the market don't have so many worries, and in the teahouses, restaurants, and streets and alleys, there are indignant shouts and scoldings everywhere. They scolded Emperor Hongxi as a weak lord who lost power and humiliated the country like the emperor of the Song Dynasty, and an unscrupulous descendant who could revive Emperor Taizu Taizong.

Even Emperor Hongxi, who has always been loved, can be scolded so badly, and it is conceivable what extent Wang Xian will be scolded. His original good image in the hearts of the people all collapsed all of a sudden, coupled with the secret promotion of people with intentions, he became Qin Huijia and the like in the mouths of the people, a traitor and villain who was insidious and vicious internally, cowardly and traitorous externally.

In this regard, although Wang Xian and the emperor were aggrieved and helpless, they could not open their mouths to defend themselves. They know that in this case, everything is in vain, and only by proving themselves with actions can they wash away their grievances and re-establish their reputation.

Overcome and stand strong.

Therefore, in the past three years, this pair of monarchs and ministers have endured humiliation, tried their courage, developed production, and reorganized their army to practice martial arts, in order to restore their national strength as soon as possible and fight the Tatars who are becoming more and more arrogant as soon as possible!

Yes, after three years of not waiting for the revenge of the Ming army, the Tatars' fear of the Ming has completely dissipated, and their raids on the Ming border have become more and more unscrupulous, forcing the tribes that have been annexed to them to belong to them. The slightest disobedience from those tribes was slaughtered by the clans. Those tribes had no way to appeal to the court for help, so they could only submit to the obscenity of the Tatars and become their subjects.

Naturally, many Mongols are happy to see the Tatars regain their strength, and although the Tatars are not descendants of the Golden Family at all, it is always better to restore some of the former glory of the Mongols.

So the Tatar tribe swelled rapidly, in just two years, it returned to the heyday of more than ten years ago, and the ambitions of the Arutai father and son naturally swelled rapidly, and in the winter of the second year of Hongxi, they supported the descendants of the golden family, the prince of Atai, that is, the Great Khan of Mongolia, known as the Adai Khan.

Then Ah Dai, who was named Khan and was a puppet, named Arutai as the prime minister and the title of Taishi, and ordered him to command the Mongolian tribes and restore the Mongolian Yuan as soon as possible!

With the banner of Adai Khan, Arutai was even more free to conquer the Mongol tribes, and after unifying the north and south of the desert, he set his sights on the Hetao region.

The Hetao is the bend of the Yellow River and its surrounding basins, and is a large plain formed by the impact of the Yellow River, which is composed of the Yinchuan Plain of the 'West Loop' and the 'East Loop' Loop Plain. The 'Dongtao' Hetao Plain, which is usually divided into the 'Qiantao' Tumochuan Plain and the 'Houtao' Bayannur Plain, covers an extremely vast area, and more importantly, the water and grass are abundant and the land is fertile, which can be called the south of the Yangtze River.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that 'the Yellow River is harmful, only one set of wealth', the Yellow River and its many tributaries surround the vast Hetao Plain, in the arid and rainless northwest region, the land is barren, creating this land of fish and rice suitable for farming and grazing.

In the thirteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di gave the Hetao to the Borzigit Department who had returned thousands of miles south to settle in the Hetao, which had been a full ten years ago. In the past ten years, the eldest princess of Heshun, Baoyin Qiqige, backed by the support of the Ming court, especially Wang Xian's full help, the Borzigit Department naturally grew rapidly, and now it has grown from 20,000 or 30,000 people to more than 200,000 people. Coupled with the continuous attraction of Mongolian tribes, there are more than 400,000 Mongolians under the banner of Baoyin, the eldest princess of Heshun.

More importantly, with the assistance of Wang Xian, Baoyin built two cities, 'Dawangcheng' and 'Baoyincheng', in Tumochuan and Kundulun respectively, and declared that they would be exempt from all taxes for doing business in these two cities. Millions of acres of land suitable for cultivation were distributed to Han people who were willing to settle in Hetao, and cattle and seeds were provided to them free of charge.

This was undoubtedly very attractive in the last years of Yongle, when people's livelihood was difficult, and many people who could not survive in the interior moved to Hetao with their families and settled in Hetao. After making sure that Bao Yin was not lying, some people even returned to the interior and brought the whole village with them.

In just five or six years, there are four or five hundred thousand Han people in the Hetao area, and the permanent population of Dawangcheng and Baoyin City has exceeded 100,000, which can catch up with the general county seat of the Han region.

Moreover, in the peak trade season of autumn every year, the merchants who poured in from outside the mouth, as well as all kinds of people who came to beg for a living, were as high as two or three hundred thousand. At that time, Baoyin was stationed in the Dawang City, which was really called a gathering of business travelers and a prosperous industry, with a south-to-north diversion and shoulder to shoulder, which was not much better than the commercial cities in the mainland.

Prosperous commerce and trade brought abundant goods, and many Han Chinese who moved to the Loop from the interior were themselves carpenters, blacksmiths, doctors, veterinarians, and so on. When they set up shops in Dawang City and Baoyin City, they naturally did not only serve the Han Chinese, but also the Mongols in the set could also seek medical advice from them and buy daily necessities from them.

Therefore, it is very different from the poor life of the Mongolians outside the suit, the Mongolians in the suit are well fed, warmly dressed, have iron pots for cooking, have tea bricks to relieve greasyness, and some people look at them when they are sick. And the family has a herd of cattle and sheep, and they live a very nourishing life.

This is just the life of ordinary Mongolians, those large and small aristocratic leaders, usually wear silk, use porcelain, women's face gouache and head jewelry, all made in Jiangnan, by the inland merchants to the mouth. This kind of life, even in the mainland, can be called rich.

In short, the Hetao is like a strange flower, where the Mongols and the Han live in harmony, and the people of both ethnic groups live very stable and comfortable, and the degree of wealth even exceeds that of the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention the Mongol tribes who drank the wind and ate the soil and starved.

Baoyin Qiqige is naturally innocent and guilty. She knew very well that those hungry wolf-like Mongolian tribes had long coveted the richness and richness of the Hetao. In order to defend the Hetao and defend her homeland, she divided the people in the loop into two parts, the Mongolian and Han Provinces, stationed in the east and west, and divided them into four routes, east, west, north and south, with a total of more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and ordered the owners of all banners and generals to conduct regular drills throughout the year and not to waste their armaments.

The set looked strong and strong, and it really suppressed the Mongolian tribes who wanted to hit their attention, and no one dared to invade the Hetao for many years, which made the Mongolians in the set more assured to live their good life......

Until last year, Arutai supported the establishment of Adai Khan and established the Mengyuan court, intending to unify the Mongolian tribes, so he naturally set his sights on the fat of Hetao. Arutai first sent a letter to Baoyin, asking her to pay tribute to Adai Khan and pay homage to the Khan in Hulan.

Baoyin naturally ignored this, but sent it to Beijing in the future. This gave Arutai an excuse to use troops against the Loop...... Although the Mongols never needed any excuse to fight...... In February of the third year of Hongxi, Arutai raised his headquarters and 40,000 cavalry, known as 150,000 soldiers and horses, led by him and his two sons respectively, and slaughtered the Hetao in three ways.

Baoyin received the news of the Tatar attack, and immediately gathered four troops and horses with ten banners, and personally led 30,000 cavalry to meet the enemy at Tumo River. The two sides won and lost a fierce battle, and when it was difficult to separate, the Warat people, who had been obedient to Baoyin for many years, suddenly rebelled, which caught the Borzigit troops by surprise and defeated them.

It turned out that the treacherous and cunning Arutai had secretly contacted the Warat people a long time ago, promising that as long as they were willing to submit to the Great Khan and cooperate with them to kill Baoyin, he would give them the Hetao for grazing. Although Baoyin has always been kind to the Warat people, the hearts of the people have always been insufficient to swallow elephants, and the Warat people can't resist the temptation at all......

And there is another layer, the Warats have always regarded the Borzigit as their slaves, and they have to rely on the snorts of the former slaves all these years, which makes them extremely unhappy. No matter how nice the Borzigit are to them, they are still just as unhappy......

In the end, the Warats defected, and Baoyin's army suffered a great defeat......

Seeing that the situation was not good, Baoyin had no choice but to pack up the remnants of the army and retreat to Dawang City, and ordered all ethnic groups and tribes to retreat to the two cities of Dawang and Baoyin, hold on to the city, and ask for help from the Beijing court.

When the news reached Beijing, it naturally caused an uproar, which is why Yang Shiqi came late...... (To be continued.) )