"Wulut Saihan, beg to His Royal Highness the King of Qi on behalf of my father!"

On October 29, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, with the surrender of Saihan, a Mongolian soldier and horse who knew the terrain of the south and north of the desert finally appeared under Zhu Youzhen.

"Uncle Yinshan, you don't need to kneel, just do it."

Under the city of Tiger's Mouth, Zhu Youzhen, who knew about the matter of making the capital a knight, helped up Saihan, who was kneeling on the ground, and held his hand tightly, and affectionately called the other party Uncle Yinshan.

Such a move made Saihan's nose sour and he was very moved.

He has dealt with Ming officials a lot, but Zhu Youzhen was the first Ming official to make him clear about the words "Corporal Lixian".

He knew Zhu Youzhen's status in the Ming Dynasty, so when he faced Zhu Youzhen's enthusiasm, he would show emotion.

The Huayi views of this era are incomprehensible to later generations, and Zhu Youzhen happens to be a person who does not discriminate.

"Let's go, I've prepared the imperial wine and the imperial kitchen in the tiger's mouth, you can taste it."

Zhu Youzhen enthusiastically took Saihan's hand, took him to the mouth of the tiger, and deliberately explained to the left and right:

"The generals of the Ulut don't need to stop them, take them into the mouth of the tiger, settle down well, let the chefs with the army show their cooking skills, and the big guys have a good meal."

"Yes!" Cao Wenzhao and the others should be dispatched, and they were not worried at all that the Ulut Ministry was surrendering by fraud.

To put it bluntly, even if it is a fraudulent surrender, the strength of the 30,000 iron cavalry above the north, before the northern captives attack, this Ulut tribe with only more than 3,000 men will be annihilated.

It can be said that Zhu Youzhen and Cao Wenzhao are arrogant, but they are also arrogant.

On the contrary, such arrogance and tolerance relieved the tens of thousands of Ulut troops who were originally nervous, and they drove the cattle and sheep into the mouth of the tiger, and Zhu Youzhen also took Saihan's hand and brought more than a dozen Ulut generals to the garrison where he temporarily lived.

After Zhu Youzhen enthusiastically entered the hall, he untied the big fur for Saihan, which flattered Saihan and hurriedly said:

"The wild man of Hampense, how can he be worthy of His Royal Highness's favor......"

"How not?" Zhu Youzhen helped him up with a smile, glanced at the general of the Ulut, and then said with a smile:

"What's the Jungler? As long as you enter the realm of the Ming Dynasty, you are all the people of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the imperial brother. ”

After that, Zhu Youzhen led Saihan to sit next to his main seat, and then sat down himself, and said with a smile:

"I have inquired about you in Yinshan, and I know that you have studied Ming culture since you were a child, so you did not prepare the food on the grassland, and specially asked people to prepare the dishes of the Central Plains."

As he spoke, he said to the many Ulut generals who were seated:

"In the future, when you move around freely in Daming, you can usually go to the food from all over the world, but you don't have to participate in the current battle."

"I have just written a letter back to the capital, and the more than one million acres of grassland in Yongping Mansion is enough for your family to live there."

"As for you, you will also be rewarded by the imperial court in a few days, so you don't have to worry about life in the gate."

"His Royal Highness King Xie Qi ......"

Saihan took the lead in expressing his gratitude, and the other Ulut generals also thanked him.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't stop laughing at this, after all, in his opinion, with millions of acres of grassland and tens of thousands of taels of silver, as well as a Yinshan knighthood, in exchange for thousands of Mongolian cavalry who are familiar with the north and west of the desert, this is simply a lot of money.

With them, when Zhu Youzhen wants to raise troops to sweep north in the future, he doesn't have to worry about being ambushed in Saibei at all, because he has a group of natural guides like Saihan by his side.

If before today, the Ming army, which had not penetrated deep into the south and north of the desert for more than a century, was blind to the outside of the Saiwai, then after today, the situation of the Ming army in the south and north of the desert will be clear at a glance.

"Uncle Yinshan, I have asked people to build the Mansion of Uncle Yinshan next to the Mansion of King Qi in the capital, as for the more than 6,000 men under you and your father."

"If you want, you can organize it into two battalions or one battalion, and put it into the Northern Army Governor's Mansion, with an annual salary of fifteen taels per person."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Hearing that Zhu Youzhen's treatment was as generous as that of the Ming army, Saihan immediately expressed his gratitude.

You must know that this is in the Guannei, the fifteen taels inside the Guan, and the fifteen taels outside the Guan, the purchasing power is simply one in the sky and one in the ground.

It is estimated that after the men of the Ulut Department heard the amount of military salaries, even if he personally stopped them, he could not stop them from joining the army.

"Hehe, Uncle Yin Shan can taste the autumn dew white in this imperial city wine shop, which can't be tasted outside."

Seeing Saihan's appearance, Zhu Youzhen also raised his hand to signal that everyone could drink and eat.

During the dinner table, Zhu Youzhen also took the initiative to drive the atmosphere, singing and dancing with the high-drinking Ulut generals, but during this period he kept awake and observed the surroundings.

In the middle of the night, the Ming army changed people three times in a row, and finally drank this group of Mongolian men from the Ulut Department.

"Vomit ......"

"Let's wipe our mouths......"

The wind and snow in the winter moon hurt people's faces, but at this moment, what is more uncomfortable than their faces is the stomach that overturns the river and the sea.

In the courtyard, a group of Ming army generals sat in the wind and snow with stools, with wooden barrels for vomiting in front of them, but Zhu Youzhen, this guy, stood next to him like a nobody, knocking melon seeds.

After all, his identity is there, unless he takes the initiative to find someone to drink, others don't dare to look for him casually.

However, in this way, it was bitter for Sun Shoufa, Cao Wenyao, Lu Xiu, Lu Xian and others.

In order to show goodwill, they can be said to be drunk in doubtful life.

However, Cao Wenzhao's gang saw that the situation was not good, and soon after the banquet began, he quietly withdrew from the wine table by taking advantage of the words of patrolling the camp.

So except for Zhu Youzhen and Cao Wenzhao, as well as the generals in charge of guarding the camp, the rest of the Ming army generals all experienced the taste of almost being drunk to death.

finally vomited, Sun Shoufa and others were drunk in the snow, and then Zhu Youzhen signaled that they were carried back to the barracks to rest by Jinyiwei's horsemen.

However, when they were carried back to the barracks, Cao Wenzhao, who ran out with the help of the name of the patrol camp, rode his horse to the courtyard, turned over and dismounted to Zhu Youzhen, and then took out a handwritten letter from his chest:

"Your Highness, the matter in the capital is serious again."

As he spoke, he handed over the handbook with both hands, and Zhu Youzhen also took it and opened it.

This handwritten letter was written by Lu Wenzhao, who returned to the capital, and mainly talked about the party struggle in the capital.

After Zhao Nanxing used Cui Yingyuan's help to strike at a group of Qichu Zhejiang Xuankun backbones other than Cui Chengxiu and others, Qi Chu Zhejiang Xuankun naturally did not suffer.

Yao Zongwen and others united the officials of the Jiangnan forces and took the initiative to build a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, in order to please Wei Zhongxian, and united with the Jiangnan gentry to raise 370,000 taels of silver, and bribed Wei Zhongxian, Keshi, Cui Chengxiu, Wang Tiqian and others respectively.

Choi Cheng-so, who was in charge of Jingcha, also began to retaliate.

On October 24, Xu Dahua, a member of the eunuch party, was instructed by Cui Chengxiu to take the initiative to falsely accuse Wang Wenyan, the secretary of the Donglin Party, in Chang Chaozhong, and connected with Zuo Guangdou and Wei Dazhong.

On the 28th, Wang Wenyan, a Chinese scholar, was thrown into the Zhenfusi Prison, and was tortured by Yang Huanluo on fabricated charges......

"Ask someone to write a letter for me, and tell Yang Huan, I don't care how Wei Zhongxian calls him, in short, if one of the people on my list is damaged, he is the only one who asks."

"As for the rest of the Donglin Party members who are doing nothing, they are all assigned to Yunnan and Nanyang."

Seeing that the party struggle came to Wang Wenyan's step according to his own plan, Zhu Youzhen immediately crumpled the handwritten letter, turned around and walked into the garrison mansion, and explained to Cao Wenzhao.

"Yes!" Cao Wenzhao responded, and the so-called list in Zhu Youzhen's mouth was the capable officials in Donglin.

This group of people Zhu Youzhen is still useful, especially people like Zhao Nanxing, Zuo Guangdou, Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua, and Yuan Keli.

However, Zhu Youzhen had no intention of killing the group of Donglin mouth cannons, but wanted to throw them to Nanyang and Yunnan.

More than 200 Donglin civil officials, plus thousands of officials involved, these are all real scholars.

Zhu Youzhen asked them to go to Nanyang and Yunnan to spread Han culture and Chinese characters, instead of killing them with one sword.

As for whether they will secretly carry smuggling goods during their lessons?

Hehe...... Nanzhen Fusi's Jinyi Guard has been staring at them......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also returned to the hall, and Cao Wenzhao also walked in.

It's just that when he walked in, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said:

"That's it, you go back and rest first, I estimate that the envoy of Su Nang will arrive at the mouth of the tiger tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

"I want to see what this messenger is trying to say......

Zhu Youzhen squinted, his eyes were full of banter.

He didn't expect that the news of the Mongols was so backward that he didn't even know how strong the martial arts of the Ming army were now.

Thinking so, after Cao Wenzhao left, Zhu Youzhen also returned to the bedroom with a hint of drunkenness and rested for a short night.

In the next few days, he was either supervising the news of the capital, or chatting with Saihan about the terrain and situation of Moxi and Mobei, and gradually learned some things about Mobei and Moxi.

In general, the current Moxi is not peaceful.

Warat (Oirat) and the Trans-Khalkha Mongols in Mobei were inextricably linked, and a large number of internal contradictions had accumulated because of the perennial conquest.

In addition, Baibagas, the leader of the Warat League, advocated Tibetan Buddhism and promoted the Yellow Religion throughout northern Xinjiang and the Moxi region, so it was very unpopular with the lords of the various tribes who were heavily greened.

At this time, Warat had gradually divided into four divisions: Dzungar, Hoshute, Turgot, and Durbot, with the strength of each division ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 people, and the total strength of Warat was about 50,000 or 60,000.

As for Yarkand in the south, it was also divided into dozens of khanates, large and small, while Transkhalkha in the north was still divided and ruled by three major lords, with a strength of about 30,000 to 50,000, just like the information obtained by Zhu Youzhen.

In general, the forces in the entire Western Regions and Mobei are in a fragmented state, and if there is no great drought in the Xiaoice River, Zhu Youjian can completely push it over in a wave within a few years.

But now that the Xiaoice River drought has not passed, he has no idea of moving troops to the west and north for the time being, and what he wants most at present is to recover the Nanyang and Hetao first and relocate the population.

After that, under the condition of stabilizing the Ming Dynasty, he waited for the recovery of the people in Liaodong, and then organized a wave of expeditions to take away the Jianyu.

"In your opinion, how many Hu cavalry can I attack north with these 30,000 iron cavalry under my command?"

Walking in the snow with Saihan, Zhu Youzhen asked with concern, and after Saihan heard it, he said:

"If His Highness trusts, more than 15,000 people from the Ulut Department can graze for His Highness's army."

"As long as the sheep are sufficient, and then the beans and grain are prepared, His Highness's 30,000 iron horsemen are enough to sweep the outside of the fortress."

Saihan is not boasting, he dares to say this because he has seen clearly the family background of the 30,000 iron horsemen in the past few days.

First of all, there were 30,000 spare rifles, followed by two cavalry, and finally the most terrifying, the 1,000 five-pound Yanshan General Cannons.

The army knows that because the Ming army has not used firearms to mix into troops all year round, this also leads to the possibility that once the firearms are too loud during the battle, the horses will be frightened.

Once the horses are frightened, the formation of the army will become chaotic, and at this time, once the upper straight iron cavalry equipped to the teeth rushes into formation, it is impossible for 100,000 Hu cavalry to resist.

Of course, the Hu Qi mentioned here is a Hu Qi without iron armor.

As for why there was no such trouble in the battle between the Houjin and the Ming army, the main thing was Nurhachi's training of the Eight Banners, which was all aimed at the training of the Ming army's tactics.

Nurhachi set up the horse farm in the fire hammer factory and the cannon casting yard, next to the blacksmith shop, so the Houjin war horse was frightened all the year round, so it naturally adapted to the artillery.

However, in the First Battle of Fuliao, the Ming army inflicted heavy losses on the most elite 40,000 horse infantry in Jianyu, and also captured a large number of war horses trained in artillery.

Zhu Youzhen was also clear about all this, and after he heard Saihan's words, he first analyzed the logistics methods of the Ming army's previous exits.

At the beginning of the country, Hongwu and Yongle, as well as the Northern Expedition during the orthodox period, most of them were transported by people, so the number of dispatches was extremely large.

By the late Ming Dynasty, the number of times the army went out of the fortress was only a handful, and the depth distance was limited, so it was enough to bring enough military food for one month, and there was no logistical pressure.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, no one tried the logistics of nomadism, because this model was too slow, and the army and the nomadic herding were far away, and they would face the possibility of running out of food.

Besides, nomadism is not available anywhere, so Saihan is asking Zhu Youzhen to follow the path of the grassland people.

If this road can be taken through for the Ming army and can also guarantee logistics, then Zhu Youzhen's logistical pressure to recover the northeast, the western regions, and the south and north of the desert will be greatly reduced.

But even so, the burden that should be organized still needs to be organized, but it doesn't need to be as large as it used to be.

At this point, it is still necessary to develop a railroad carriage to connect the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the northwest.

As long as he can transport grain through the Huai River, the Ming Dynasty can actually control the Western Regions.

Carriage rails don't require much steel, just thick iron to wrap the hardwood to keep it running.

As long as such an iron-wood track is built, it will only take more than ten days to transport grain from the Huai River to Jiayuguan, and if you use two horses to pull it, you can completely pull a weight of forty stones.

Two horses go back and forth for a month, eating at most two stone beans, and the remaining thirty-eight stone can be used to transport grain.

Based on the number of horses and horses that Zhu Youjian had at hand, tens of thousands of horses were randomly divided.

If you use a railroad carriage to transport grain, you can transport millions of stones to Jiayuguan in a month......

It's just that......

"Iron is a little difficult to do......"

Zhu Youzhen had a headache because he had investigated the ironworks of the Ming Dynasty.

The government-run ironworks only operate for about 100 days a year, and the output of iron is tens of thousands of tons per year, and if it is at full power, it will at most produce 30,000 or 40,000 tons of iron per year.

Thirty or forty thousand tons of iron materials are also used to make artillery and firecrackers, armor, and the rest are used to build ironwood tracks, and I am afraid that five or six hundred miles of roads can be laid every year.

It will take at least five years to lay from Henan to Jiayuguan......

"No matter, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, if it doesn't work, use iron sheet to wrap wood, anyway, Xiyi has done this......"

"Your Highness......"

Just when Zhu Youzhen was thinking about "cutting corners", Cao Wenzhao, who was wearing armor, took someone to the courtyard and said to him a few steps apart:

"Your Highness, the messenger of Su Nang has arrived."

"Huh? Okay, just see what kind of sneering and generous things this vegetarian bag can say. Hearing the arrival of Su Nang's envoy, Zhu Youzhen also showed a playful smile on his face.

"Your Highness, the last general won't show up, right?" Saihan cautiously spoke, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed his head and said:

"Go back to your room and rest, and I'll see how the envoy of Su Nang will perform."

After that, Zhu Youzhen left with Cao Wenzhao and others, and headed towards the hall of the garrison mansion.

And when he led people through the corridor and entered through the side door of the hall, he immediately saw the envoy of Su Bao holding a scepter, and the messenger of Su Bao was also surprised by Zhu Youzhen's maturity and appearance.

For a messenger who is only five feet old, Zhu Youzhen is very tall, handsome and resolute, not to mention his bearing, so he knows at a glance that this person is the King of Qi of the Ming Dynasty.

"Anyway, what do you want to say?"

Zhu Youzhen sat on the main seat, while Cao Wenzhao, who was law-abiding, stood on the left and right, and dozens of Ming army generals were on the left and right sides of the hall.

The crowd dressed in armor and Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in a cyan round-necked robe, put a lot of pressure on the envoy, and this was only part of the pressure.

His real pressure still comes from the 30,000 straight soldiers and horses he has seen.

Since it was the snow season, the war horses were all in the stables, so the envoy did not know that the more than 30,000 people were cavalry, otherwise they would definitely not carry out Su Nang's orders.

It was precisely because he didn't know that he stiffened his head and withstood the pressure and said:

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi, Su Nang Khan hopes that the Ming Dynasty will give up his entry into the trap, and canonize him as the new King of Shunyi, recognizing him as the Great Khan of the Tumut Department."

"If you can meet our requirements, we will guarantee that these two will not infringe on Ming Earth again."

"Otherwise, you will need to face the southward movement of my three more than 100,000 iron horsemen, and Guanzhong will become the horse grazing land of Susang Khan......"

"Puff ......" Hearing the words more than 100,000 iron horses, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but laugh, and his smile instantly caused the generals in the entire hall to laugh.

The Ming Dynasty is known to both civil and military forces, and the generals are the most unruly.

Now 30,000 Shangzhi Iron Cavalry Soldiers are killing the tiger's mouth, only 400 miles away from Bansheng City, only need Zhu Youzhen's order, 30,000 wolf-like Shangzhi Iron Cavalry will come to Bansheng City in three days.

In such a situation, Su Nang is still boasting about the nonsense of "crossing the Yellow River and drinking Ma Wei water".

In this case, how could Zhu Youzhen and the generals not laugh?

"Hehe......" Zhu Youzhen gradually put away his sneer, but there was still a contemptuous expression on his face, and said to the messenger:

"There is no need to say more than 100,000 iron horses, you tell Su Nang ...... for me"

"After the snow season, my 150,000 soldiers in the Ming Dynasty are about to enter the set, sweeping the Hetao and Ningxia departments."

"As for Su Nang, tell him to stay in Bansheng City honestly."

"Your Highness......" Seeing this, the envoy was also anxious, and hurriedly said:

"Don't you really care about the lives and deaths of millions of people in the northwest?"

"Alone!" Zhu Youzhen's voice suddenly became louder, and all the generals of the Ming army also closed their mouths at this moment, and there was a dead silence inside and outside the hall, and the sound of people's breathing could be heard quietly.

The envoy was also stunned by Zhu Youzhen's sudden move, and he didn't dare to do anything else for a while, and Zhu Youzhen also put away his smile, his eyes were cold, and he suppressed his anger and said:

"In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, Huoluochi took advantage of my Ming Dynasty to quell the rebellion in the southwest, and led the troops into Kou Yan'an, Huanghuayu and other places, penetrated 600 miles, and killed and captured tens of thousands of people in my Ming Dynasty."

"In July of the first year of the Apocalypse, Huoluochi and Ji Neng knocked on the border of Ningxia and plundered thousands of people in our Ming Dynasty......"

"In February of the first year of the Apocalypse, Ji Neng and Caritas took advantage of the rebellion in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty to personally lead the troops to knock on Guyuan, killing more than 400 of our soldiers and plundering more than 8,000 of our people......"

"In September of the first year of Taichang, the 54 branches of the Hetao and Ningxia divisions took advantage of the death of Emperor Zongxian and Emperor Guangzongzhen of our Great Ming Dynasty and Emperor Guangzongzhen, and led the troops to plunder the two places of Gan and Su, and plundered more than 10,000 people."

"The ...... of the forty-seventh year of Wanli"

"Wanli forty-four years ......"

"Wanli forty-one years ......"

Zhu Youzhen counted all kinds of sins in the two parts of the Hetao, and when he heard it, the messenger was hot and dry, and he didn't know how to refute it for a while.

Under his uneasiness, finally, as if Zhu Youzhen was tired of talking, he stopped, leaned back in his chair, and said to the messenger with a calm face:

"Killed so many people, took so many people captive, and now you say you can control them? Don't fight? Late ......"

Zhu Youzhen had a cold face, and said again while the atmosphere froze:

"Since Su Nan can't control them, then Da Ming will help discipline them."

"Your Highness, Emperor Muzong has had a ...... with our Altan Khan" The envoy wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhu Youzhen:

"When I agreed to pay tribute, the agreement between Emperor Muzong and the king of Shunyi was naturally valid, but the agreement also stipulated that the king of Shunyi needed to control the Hetao and Ningxia."

"Now that Bu Lost Rabbit can't be controlled, and Su Sang can't be controlled, can he just let them rob my northwest of the Ming Dynasty? Is the previous account written off? ”

"No......"

"If the Ming Dynasty has kindness, it will be repaid, and if there is revenge, the people of my kingdom must not be humiliated, and those who insult will destroy their country."

"Before the dust of the Hetao rises next year, there will be no more Hetao and Ningxia ...... in the world."

Zhu Youzhen's attitude was tough, and the messenger was also angered by Zhu Youzhen's words, and retorted and threatened:

"You'll regret it! If you're still stubborn, we're going to have to send troops......"

"Good!" Zhu Youzhen interrupted the envoy's words, got up and smiled heartily:

"You tell Su Nang for me, tell him to prepare a coffin for himself, if he has some courage when he is defeated, he will die in the coffin, and he will be buried at the foot of the Yin Mountain."

"If you are cowardly, don't worry, I am the state of etiquette in the Ming Dynasty, he went to the capital with Gu, danced your Hu people's Hu dance in front of the Taimiao, and made a big gift with my ancestors and ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

"Humph!" The envoy listened to Zhu Youzhen's humiliation and walked away angrily, but when he was about to walk out of the hall, he was stopped by the general at the door drawing his sword.

Only then did he remember that he was on Zhu Youzhen's territory, and Zhu Youzhen also waved his hand to signal the general to put away his knife, and when the messenger turned his head to look at him, his face suddenly became gloomy:

"Tell Su Nang and Huo Luochi, see you on the battlefield ......"

82 Chinese Net