Regarding the fact that the Empress Dowager Da Yuanqi is pregnant again and is about to give birth to a child, even if Kong Kejian and others say that the heavens will be broken, Zhu Han will not believe any heavenly induction, he has already known the truth through the secret agents installed in Dadu, which is nothing more than Wang Baobao and the Empress Dowager Qi hooked up with the Empress Dowager Qi, and then drummed up this life.

"Lord Wang, it's ridiculous that this Mongolian also believes in what celestial induction." After listening to Zhu Han's explanation, Liu Sanniang, the concubine of the British king, was also surprised by the pregnancy of the Mongolian queen mother.

has been with Zhu Han for so long, Liu Sanniang's cultural level can be said to have risen in a straight line, and now it is almost at the level of a middle-class intellectual.

Therefore, Liu Sanniang has also heard some traditional Confucian doctrines, such as this celestial and human induction.

"The Mongolians really learn a good way, and they have not been mixed up in the Central Plains for so many years, they are all in accordance with the original habits of the Mongolians, and they don't pay attention to the defense of men and women at all, even if they make a child, it's not an uncommon thing, how can they use so many means to cover up like now." Zhu Han's remarks can be described as a mockery of the customs of the Mongols.

At this time, a female official next to Liu Sanniang, the concubine of the British king, suddenly changed her face, and she was obviously very uncomfortable in her heart.

"Zhao Shanggong, are you not feeling well?" Seeing this, Liu Sanniang hurriedly asked the female officer next to her.

"Niangniang misunderstood, I didn't feel uncomfortable, but I was a little tired." Zhao Min whispered beside him.

As a member of Yingtianfu Women's Taixue, Zhao Min's identity is really special, her household registration belongs to the refugees in Henan, but her grades are very good, and she has been favored by Ma Xiuying, the queen of the Ming Dynasty, and has repeatedly recruited her into the palace to teach new learning to the imperial concubines.

After that, he was specially appointed as the Shang Palace and sent to the British Prince's Mansion as a female official of the Shang Palace.

Zhao Shanggong's identity is his latest identity in the British Palace, which does not belong to the sequence of the princess's wife and concubine, but to the sequence of standard Ming officials, but belongs to female officials.

But after getting along for such a long time, Zhao Min has become more and more aware of the importance of Zhu Han to the people of the world.

Especially after a series of studies by Ying Tianfu Women's Taixue, Zhao Min became more and more aware of how the Mongol rule in the Central Plains was against the will of heaven.

The atrocities of the Mongols recorded in those books made Zhao Min ashamed, and at the same time, the obsession with revenge could not help but fall.

After coming to the British Palace, in the face of the guards beside Zhu Han and the shame in his heart, he gradually canceled these assassination thoughts.

Now I heard the news brought by Zhu Han.

The dignified Empress Dowager of Dayuan actually hooked up with her courtiers and became adulterous, and she was pregnant with wild seeds.

This really made Zhao Min feel a trace of sadness and despair for Dayuan in his heart.

"This Great Yuan Dynasty will end sooner or later!" Zhao Min said goodbye and thought about it on the way.

Although the Ming army is tough on the battlefield, as long as the Mongols or Semu people surrender, they will generally be treated well, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are all shrewd and capable virtuous kings, and the lives of the people in the world are better and better in their hands.

Moreover, Zhao Min knew that the current Great Yuan Dynasty was in internal and external difficulties, and just killing Zhu Han was not enough for the Great Yuan Dynasty to restore its rule in the Central Plains openly, and it was necessary to make the Mongols really strong in order to resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty army.

Therefore, Zhao Min has been looking for an opportunity recently, wanting to restore contact with Wang Baobao in Dadu and transmit the information of the Ming army here to his brother Wang Baobao.

It's just that the British Royal Mansion is heavily guarded, and if she wants to pass the news to the outside world, she has to go through other people.

Therefore, Zhao Min has been looking for a suitable helper recently, and he has become a key pawn to help the Yuan Dynasty counterattack the Central Plains.

Zhu Han didn't know that the Zhao Shanggong sent by his sister-in-law Ma Xiuying was actually a Mongol, and he was also the county lord of Mengyuan.

Zhu Han only felt that this was an inexplicable fate, after all, he had several relationships with Zhao Min, and recommended her to enter the Women's Taixue, and now she was assigned to his own British Prince's Mansion as a professor of these British princesses' new knowledge.

So Zhu Han has been very concerned about this Zhao Shanggong recently.

I want to find a suitable opportunity to include this strange woman in my harem.

Of course, now in Shandong is not a suitable opportunity, now her side concubine Liu Sanniang is pregnant, but it is not the time to be jealous, it is better to let her raise the fetus safely.

The news that the Empress Dowager Meng Yuanqi made out that "my husband has been dead for three years, and then I want to give birth to a big fat boy" is just a joke for Zhu Han, and his main energy is now focused on recuperation in Shandong Province.

I have to say that because the timing of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty was appropriate, the farmland cultivation in Shandong Province was not affected, and now it is about to enter July, and after entering July, it is the autumn harvest season, and the grain and grass reserves in Shandong will inevitably increase greatly at that time.

"Your Highness, this year, the states of Shandong have reported that the autumn harvest situation in various places is very optimistic, I don't know how much Your Highness intends to set the tax in Shandong this year?"

In order to discuss the tax situation of Shandong Province this year, Liu Bowen personally came to Zhu Han's mansion.

This mansion is only a temporary mansion set up in Jinan City, the scale is not large, but there are pavilions, pavilions, gardens and so on.

Zhu Han sat comfortably on a rattan chair and sipped a cup of green tea from Hangzhou, Jiangnan.

"I don't plan to collect the taxes of Shandong Province this year, and all the people are exempt from taxes."

Zhu Han's words startled Liu Bowen!

Today's Ming Dynasty also fully understands the hardships of the people in the world, and has taken measures to collect taxes at a discount, such as some provinces are relatively poor, and they will implement a three-percent tax, that is, the original tax will be collected according to the proportion of three-percent.

If the harvest is optimistic, it will only increase to about 80%.

Of course, if the situation in a certain place is seriously affected, it is still tax-exempt.

However, this year's bumper harvest in Shandong Province is very optimistic, according to the normal situation, it is reasonable to collect eighty percent of the tax, but I didn't expect Zhu Han to come up and exempt Shandong Province from taxes.

"Your Highness, Shandong's grain and grass tax is related to the great cause of the Northern Expedition, if the tax is not levied, then where will next year's grain and grass reserves come from?" Liu Bowen looked puzzled.

"This matter is very simple, the people of Shandong are living too hard, if taxes are levied again, then every household will be very poor, and there will be no surplus money to buy all kinds of goods, now if there is no tax, we will use all kinds of commercial taxes and commodities, from their hands to exchange the grain on the line!"

Zhu Han's words greatly inspired Liu Bowen.

"Your Highness understands, Your Highness is preparing to hide the wealth from the people!"

For a smart person like Liu Bowen, Zhu Han only needs to speak lightly.

He didn't need to speak thoroughly at all, he was able to fully understand Zhu Han's intentions.

Because Shandong Province did not suffer too much war, the population loss is not large, but because Meng Yuan imposed a lot of taxes in this place before, so every household is very poor, although this year's bumper harvest has alleviated this situation, but if Zhu Han collects all the taxes, then these people will fall into a very poor situation, which is a bad move for the Shandong people who actively participated in the righteous army.

If this tax is collected too much, it will basically be a plug between the teeth and has no effect, so Zhu Han directly exempted the taxes of Shandong Province, and exchanged these grains for the hands of the government by using commodity and commercial taxes.

"Of course, this tax is not exempted in vain, and immediately after the harvest this autumn, the prefectures and counties around the country were ordered to urge the people to cultivate the latest wheat seeds."

Zhu Han's previous sign-in reward received a large number of disease-resistant and pest-resistant wheat varieties.

It is suitable for planting overwintering wheat after the autumn harvest.

Even if the yield of this batch of wheat varieties does not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, it can easily reach a yield of three or four hundred catties per mu, which is more than double the current wheat yield.

The autumn wind is fierce, and the grassland is the time when the horses are fat and strong, if it is according to the previous situation, the various tribes of the grassland should gather together, and then try to go to the Central Plains to fight the grass valley and rob the population and grain.

However, since the establishment of Great Mongolia, the various tribes on the steppe have not done anything for decades to rob grain and grass in the Central Plains.

After all, the dynasty established by the Mongols ruled the Central Plains, and they only needed to swear allegiance to the Mongol Khan in Dadu, and they could get sufficient rewards, not only a large amount of grain and grass, but also silk cloth, beautiful women, gold and silver, and so on.

But it is true that these bounty rewards have become less and less abundant in recent years, so much so that this year there are simply none.

After all, the Mengyuan court in the Central Plains now only has a few corner places such as Dadu, Liaodong, Hebei, Shanxi, etc., and the money, grain, and grass to supply their own army officials are not enough, how can there be surplus grain to reward the leaders of the various tribes on the grassland.

Therefore, the leaders of the various tribes on the grassland have already been very dissatisfied with the Mengyuan court, after all, the materials on the grassland are expensive, and if there is no reward from the court, their lives will be very hard.

Especially when there was a news that shocked them extremely in most of the capitals, that is, the Empress Dowager Qi, who had been widowed for two years, was pregnant, although Yan Shenggong Kong Kejian and others put forward some theory of heaven and man induction, making it clear that this was the blood of Emperor Daxing, but this kind of nonsense could not deceive these straightforward men on the grassland at all.

Taking advantage of this pretext, the Beligutai tribe joined forces with the host vassal kings to raise troops, intending to lead their troops south and enter the capital to clear the door for the Mongol Empire.

The leader of the Gutai tribe, Saren Buhua, rode a tall and majestic white horse, standing in front of tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors.

"Immortal Heaven is above, we are going south to Dadu this time to seek justice for us."

"We have guarded the grassland for generations, but we have not received the rewards we deserve, there must be traitors in the court who have deceived the emperor, we are going to Dadu to seek justice this time!"

Saren Buhua shouted in front of the soldiers of various Mongol tribes, and immediately received a response from tens of thousands of Mongol soldiers.

Tens of thousands of Mongol cavalry marched like a tide along the steppe towards Dadu in the south.

The news of the Mongol tribes led by the Belgutai tribe soon spread to the capital.

The civil and military officials of the capital city suddenly fell into a panic and came to the mansion of the Taibao King Baobao.

The Mongolian tribes on the steppe are different from the civil and military officials in the capital, although they are all the same Mongols, but the tribes on the steppe retain their original barbaric habits.

However, in the face of this sudden emergency, Wang Baobao, the prince of Dayuan, did not panic at all.

"Don't panic, today's affairs are all handled by me, you just need to listen to me!"

Wang Baobao said loudly to a group of civil and military officials in his house.

Everyone was extremely jealous of the vassal kings of the various tribes on the grassland, and now when they heard that the crown prince and the prince had a way to deal with those terrible host vassal kings, they all respectfully expressed their obedience to Wang Baobao's dispatch.

"Immediately order, martial law inside and outside the capital, no one is allowed to enter and leave at will!"

"All the civil and military officials in Dadu, each family must send a son to accompany the army, and I will lead you to defeat these rebellions!"

For these rebellious grassland vassal kings, Wang Baobao directly chose to deal with them by force, and did not think of resolving them in a pacifying way.

As for the reason, it is naturally because the Great Yuan Dynasty will move all north to the grassland soon after.

At that time, it is necessary to have a strong prestige to be able to intimidate the various tribes of the steppe.

At this time, if the method of appeasement is adopted, even if it is to appease the rebellious vassal king, then when the Great Yuan Dynasty retreats to the grassland, what confidence will there be to order the various tribes.

To deal with these rebellious steppe vassal kings, Wang Baobao decided to adopt a fast, accurate and ruthless way.

He immediately mobilized all the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Division, and sent people to Liaoyang to mobilize more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under Aru Timur, and slaughtered them towards the northern grassland.

Aru Timur's Liaoyang army joined Wang Baobao in Huangzhou's capital.

According to the information that Wang Baobao obtained at this time, the strength of the grassland rebels led by the Aligutai tribe had reached as many as 40,000 or 50,000.

Upon receiving this information, Aru Timur immediately expressed his concerns.

"Brother, Aligutai has twice as much military strength as ours, are they going to wait for them to come here in Huangzhou and wait for them to come by themselves?"

Aru Timur's suggestion is actually very much in line with the general march to fight, because the nomadic armies such as the Alugutai tribe in Mobei must win under the city of Huangzhou if they want to get supplies, and then enter and use the grain, grass and baggage inside to complete the supply, as a preparation for attacking Dadu, otherwise they will have no follow-up strength to attack Dadu if they come from all the way from Mobei.

Moreover, if you leave the important military fortress of Huangzhou City on your back, once the defenders attack, then the tribes such as Beligutai will fall into a dangerous situation of being flanked between the front and back.

Therefore, Huangzhou City is a city that the ancient tribes of Beli must conquer.

This suggestion of Aru Timur also saw the weakness of the Beligutai and other tribes, and wanted to defeat them here by waiting for their work.

However, Aru Timur's seemingly reasonable suggestion was rejected by Wang Baobao without hesitation.

"No, these people in Beligutai are a group of robbers, they don't need too much grain and grass to march and fight, they have horses, they can graze on the grassland outside Huangzhou City, as long as they can graze, there will be no danger of insufficient food and grass at all, even if they can't conquer Huangzhou City, they can also divide their troops into two ways to contain us all the way in Huangzhou, and continue to go south to Dadu. Therefore, if you want to defeat Beligute, these people must take the initiative and not let them step into the Monan grassland. ”

When Wang Baobao said this, he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, because the tribes of Beligutai had lived separately from Aru Timur and the Mongols of the Central Plains for only 100 years, and they had been so ignorant of each other's living habits.

Aru Timur even forgot about the nomadic lifestyle of the steppe tribes.

I thought that they were as heavily dependent on grain and grass as the Han army.

"And now the Ming army is eyeing the south, and the distance between Shandong and Dadu is only five or six days away, if we delay on the grassland for too long, not to mention that the tribes such as Beligutai may flee back at any time, just the attack of the Ming army will easily put Dadu into a dangerous situation, and we must quickly defeat Beligutai!"

Wang Baobao quickly settled.

The strategy of taking the initiative to attack on the Monan grassland to meet the rebels of various tribes such as Beligutei.

He left only a small number of troops to garrison the city of Huangzhou to prevent the rebels from bypassing and attacking the rear, and then led 15,000 main forces to march rapidly towards the northern grasslands, striving to engage the enemy when the tribes such as Beligutai had just crossed the Gobi desert and came to the Monan grassland.

The news of the march of the imperial army led by Wang Baobao to the north was soon monitored by the rebel horses of the Beligutai rebels, who immediately reported Wang Baobao's movements to the tribe Khan Sa Ren Buhua of Beligutai.

At this time, Saren Buhua had been elected as the leader of the alliance by various tribes, and his lord was called the Great Mongolian Taishi.

After receiving the news that Wang Baobao had rushed to intercept him with only more than 10,000 people, the Great Mongolian Grand Master Saren Buhua suddenly let out a mocking laugh.

"Hahaha, Wang Baobao, a kid who hasn't grown all his hair, seems to really don't know what it's like to die."

"Now we have more than 40,000 warriors under our command, and a soldier of Wang Baobao will fight four Mongolian warriors.

The confident words of the Great Mongolian Grand Master Saren Buhua were immediately unanimously approved by the tribal leaders and generals.

You must know that the life on the grassland in the past two years has not been very good, just like the Central Plains, disasters are frequent, if it were not for the reward of the Great Yuan Court a few years ago, they would have been unable to live a long time.

But since last year, the Great Yuan Court has no surplus grain to reward these fellow tribes on the grassland, so the life of these nomadic tribes is also difficult day by day.

Now I finally got a chance to go south to fight grass valley openly.

When the tribes heard this, they all made a strong contribution.

Before entering the Monan grassland, the army of Saren Buhua had already expanded again, doubling to more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 200,000 accompanying horses.

Commanding such a large-scale army, Saren Buhua's heart is already full of pride, you must know that Genghis Khan's expedition to the grassland, the headquarters of the soldiers and horses is only one or two hundred thousand people, and now Sa Ren Buhua's soldiers and horses are more than twice as many as Genghis Khan, even if he only has half of Genghis Khan's ability, then he can easily defeat Wang Baobao and invade the capital.

Wang Baobao's 15,000 soldiers and horses and Saren's army of more than 40,000 nomads soon met on the grasslands north of Huangzhou.

Both sides did not flinch, and one side wanted to defeat the enemy quickly and then return to the capital to protect the imperial court.

The other side wants to quickly invade the Central Plains to loot grain and grass and baggage, and replenish the tribe's material reserves for winter.

"Taishi, this kid Wang Baobao has put on a strange formation, it seems that he is about to be beaten."

The rebel generals who were scouting at the front soon brought the news that Wang Baobao's army had set up a solid formation.

"Hahaha, this Wang Baobao is really a miscellaneous child with no experience."

The Great Mongolian Taishi Saren was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately commanded his troops to set up a three-sided attack formation.