Chapter 454: The First Client State
In the 66th year of the Han Dynasty, the Han Empire basically completed the occupation and rule of the original territory of the Manchu Empire, except for the Xinjiang region, the Tibet region, the Mongolian region and part of Qinghai Province!
The fierce war between the Qing Empire and the Han Empire has also entered the final stage!
Emperor Qianlong, who fled to the Mongolian steppe, no longer had any intention of continuing to fight, and the Mongols were also frightened by the combat effectiveness of the Han army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Emperor Qianlong even said that as long as Zhao Du Tianken no longer started the war, he could do whatever he wanted, and even Emperor Qianlong was willing to sell his head for the survival of the children of the banner people!
Emperor Qianlong's promise made the children of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners who followed him flee to Mongolia moved to tears, and under the emotional card of the Qianlong Emperor who did not care about his own life and death to keep the fire for the Eight Banners, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners in Mongolia united unprecedentedly, and used the stocks of firearms purchased from the Russians to re-establish a Eight Banners Praetorian Guard at an astonishing speed!
This Eight Banners Praetorian Guard and the Eight Banners soldiers who had no fighting spirit in the past are almost two kinds of creatures, the soldiers in the Eight Banners Praetorian Guards are all the children of the banner people who endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, flee in defeat, and feel that the country is ruined and unwilling to die, and almost all of them are full of Mongolian Eight Banners, it is difficult to see the figure of the Han Eight Banners!
After all, there are not many Han people living in Mongolia, and the Han Eight Banners are naturally pitiful, and the Han Empire has also agreed to the policy of returning the Han Eight Banners to the Han people's origins, and there are not many people in the Han Eight Banners who really worked for Emperor Qianlong......
The strength of the Eight Banners Janissaries has reached more than 30,000 people, including almost all the young and strong soldiers of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners in Mongolia.
It can be said that after the establishment of the Eight Banners Janissary Army, it immediately suppressed the arrogance of some ambitious princes in Mongolia, thanks to the strong pressure of the Han Empire, the Mongolian region was quickly integrated by the Qianlong Emperor, and even had the meaning of re-establishing the legal system of the Manchu Empire, of course, all this depends on whether Zhao Dutian of the Han Empire agrees!
As long as there is peace, even if the name of the Qing Dynasty is thrown away and stepped on two feet, Emperor Qianlong will recognize it!
Of course, if Zhao Dutian really asked Emperor Qianlong to sacrifice his head...... Hehe, this kind of thing, the parties say that it is one thing, and Zhao Dutian wants it to be another meaning!
The remnants of the Eight Banners, who have been fooled by Emperor Qianlong, will definitely fight with the Han Empire, which does not give people a way to live!
And, they desperately will never be a mantis arm as a car and the Han army head-on duel, the remnants of the Eight Banners have been played by the Han army experience, played a lesson, their current combat effectiveness has already been reborn in repeated defeats, if the Han army marches into Mongolia, the Eight Banners Janissary Army will definitely not cause any obstacles to the main force of the Han army, but it will definitely make the Han army lose a lot!
Guerrilla tactics are not only played by the great leaders of the 20th century!
The earliest guerrilla tactics can even be traced back to the Roman Empire!
Zhao Dutian naturally understood Qianlong's old man's emotional card routine of retreating into advance, but Zhao Dutian also couldn't look down on the impoverished territory of Mongolia, where in addition to producing war horses, there really didn't have any resources worthy of the Han Empire's eyes......
However, in the era of the popularization of machine guns and high-power artillery, cavalry has long been withdrawn from the main force of the battlefield and has become an auxiliary branch of harassment and reconnaissance.
Therefore, the Mongolian steppe, which was very awesome in the era of cold weapons, was just a chicken rib for Zhao Dutian, and the Mongolians living on it also had their own unique culture, and it would undoubtedly take a lot of effort to convert and integrate......
Zhao Dutian, who was busy digesting the fruits of victory and taking advantage of the Han people's population advantage to expand his army, hit it off with Emperor Qianlong, who was knocked off his backbone and only thought about retaining the fire of the Manchu Qing Dynasty of the Eight Banners, and successfully signed an unequal treaty......
In the treaty, Qianlong, the core figure, naturally cannot die, unless the Han army launches another all-out war and flies all the way to the Mongolian steppe!
The Manchu Qing was completely banned in the treaty, and the Mongolian steppes controlled by the Eight Banners Janissary Army, under the leadership of Qianlong Lao'er, officially bowed to the Han Empire, becoming the first real client state since the rise of the Han Empire!
Qianlong Lao'er in the Mongolian steppes was no longer the emperor of the Manchu Empire, but was demoted to the king of the Mongol Kingdom......
Under the pressure of Zhao Dutian, Manmeng finally completed the transformation of the family......
In fact, after becoming a client state, the treaty is no longer meaningful, because the client state has too many obligations to serve the Han Empire......
For example, it is necessary to provide a group of Mongolian young and strong laborers every year, and when the Han Empire launches a war with foreign countries, it is necessary to send a sufficient number of cannon fodder servants to fight under the command of the Han Empire!
Moreover, every year, the client state also has to pay tribute on a regular basis, which is actually a disguised collection of protection money......
The most important thing is that the Mongol kingdom, as a vassal state of the Han Empire, was limited in the size of its army in peacetime!
In the entire Kingdom of Mongolia, including the security officials, there are absolutely no more than 50,000 armed men!
In the definition of the Han Empire, even if you go to the street with a big sword and spear, you are considered an armed person......
In addition to these, the Han Empire also imposed many restrictions on the Mongol kingdom, and the priority of resource exploitation was even more commonplace!
The only thing Qianlong Lao'er won was probably the agreement that the 30,000 Eight Banners Praetorian Guard had not been revoked......
The Mongolian steppes are not all Mongolian Eight Banners, and some Mongolian indigenous princes don't want to have a Qianlong suppressing them above their heads!
If Qianlong Lao'er didn't have the Eight Banners Janissaries and didn't use the Han army, those Mongolian princes would have a way to make Qianlong Lao'er die silently......
In fact, after agreeing to the peace treaty of the Mongolian Kingdom, Zhao Dutian collected a batch of indemnities, cut off some Han settlements on the border of the Mongolian steppe, and secretly sold a lot of obsolete flintlock pistols to those ambitious Mongolian princes!
Even the backward front-loading smoothbore guns were sold a lot to the Mongolian prince!
Zhao Dutian didn't have the time to fight guerrilla warfare with Qianlong Lao'er, so he simply gave the Mongolian steppe a reassurance, and then funded the instability of the Mongolian steppe by the way, as for whether there would be a civil war in the Mongolian kingdom and a large number of Mongolian herdsmen killed and injured, it was not in Zhao Dutian's plan......
All Zhao Dutian wants is to let the Mongol kingdom take care of itself and continue to weaken, his eyes have already set his sights on Tibet and Xinjiang!