Compared with Emperor Shengheng's calm and cold, the envoys and vassal kings of the Dayu Dynasty were all worried at this time.

By this time, almost all of their troops had reached the border.

Although these feudal envoys and vassal kings can have their own private armies, their numbers are strictly controlled.

And the Northern Division of the Dayu Dynasty also equipped each army with military horses.

There is a rule in the Beisi that all those who take up the post of local military Sima must go alone, and their families must stay in their hometowns, so as to ensure the loyalty of the military Sima to the imperial court to a certain extent.

In addition, the military horses are rotated every two years, and their military salaries are personally issued by the Dayu Dynasty, which can also greatly reduce the possibility of the military horses being bought by the feudal kings of the feudal towns.

However, even this could not completely limit the ambitions of the feudal envoys and feudal kings.

During the period of Emperor Shengshu, due to the increasing power of eunuchs in Emperor Shengyin, it has seriously threatened the imperial power.

After Emperor Shengshu ascended the throne, he was in a hurry to achieve success, so he began to suppress the eunuchs, and during that period, the power of the Northern Division was greatly weakened, and the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings began to skip the supervision of the military Sima and expand their military strength during that period.

By the end of the day, their military strength had far exceeded the number stipulated by the Dayu Dynasty, and the most exaggerated was that the number of troops under the command of the vassal king exceeded the regulation by dozens of times.

However, he was succeeded by Emperor Shengwu, who reigned for only five years, but he was indeed a master of great talent.

In addition to avenging his brother and destroying the Buddha by force, his greatest achievement was to limit the strength of the envoys of the feudal towns and the feudal kings.

Compared with his straightforward extermination of the Buddha, his means of restricting the festival of the feudal town and making the king of the Hohe domain are much more clever.

First of all, in his hands, the rights of the North Division were again commissioned, and the rotation system of the military Sima was also changed from five years to two years by him.

And in order to cut off the surplus soldiers and horses in the hands of the Jiedu envoys and vassal kings, he directly ordered that all the soldiers and horses of the feudal towns and vassal kings must go to Saibei every year to assist the border army to resist the raids of the grassland tribes.

As soon as this decree was issued, the world was shaken, and the envoys and vassal kings of the feudal towns said that their troops were for their safety, and that it was not their duty to go to the border to defend the border.

To say that this Emperor Shengwu is also a fierce man, in the face of the prevarication of the feudal envoys of the feudal towns, he directly summoned all the envoys of the feudal towns and the feudal kings to the imperial city to report on their work.

The envoys and vassal kings of the feudal towns did not think much about the edict of Emperor Shengwu, and they were strictly forbidden to leave their fiefdoms.

In their opinion, this time to go to Beijing to report on their work is equivalent to a publicly-funded tour, and the destination is still the most prosperous imperial capital in Dayu, so why not do it.

So they ran to the imperial capital in high spirits.

But before they could enjoy themselves for a few days, Emperor Shengwu took them directly to the northern border fortress.

It was not so much to take them to Biansai, but to say that Emperor Shengwu was escorting them to Biansai.

Originally, they wanted to enjoy the feudal town festival envoys and feudal kings, but they really didn't think that the prosperous imperial capital was not a destination, it was just a transit station.

And that cold and windy side plug is their real destination.

It was only at this time that the envoys and vassal kings of the wise feudal towns understood Emperor Shengwu's intentions.

Later, as they had guessed, Emperor Shengwu once again issued an edict ordering the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings to send troops to the border fortress to assist the border army in resisting the attack of the grassland tribes.

But it was written on the holy decree that he would go to the Lord who defended them at the Frontier.

In private, Emperor Shengwu also revealed that if there were Jiedu envoys and vassal kings who still did not send troops, then they could only ask for more blessings when they encountered danger when the grassland tribes attacked.

As a result, all the envoys and vassal kings of the feudal towns had to send their own soldiers and horses to the border fortress.

Next, Emperor Shengwu made a more ruthless move, he directly led all the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings to take the initiative to go north to the Great Wall and fight with the grassland tribes outside the pass.

Although all the envoys and vassal kings of the feudal towns strongly opposed it, Emperor Shengwu directly did not bargain with them, and directly coerced them out of the Great Wall.

Since the emperor went out of the city in person, the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings could only ride tigers.

Under the leadership of Emperor Shengwu, the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings led their armies to start a bloody battle with the grassland tribes.

It is said that the battle was directly strewn with corpses all over the field, dyeing hundreds of miles of grasslands red.

The forces of the feudal envoys and the feudal kings also suffered heavy casualties in this battle.

In this battle, the number of the army of the feudal lord plummeted, and they no longer had the strength to compete with the central army of the Dayu Dynasty.

Afterwards, in order to appease these feudal envoys and vassal kings who had suffered heavy losses, Emperor Shengwu directly issued an edict to publicize the world and praised their great achievements in defending the country and defending the land and the country.

Since then, it has become a common practice for the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings to send troops every year to assist the garrison of the border fortress and defend the frontier.

Although there were also feudal envoys and feudal kings who resisted vigorously, they were all eventually deposed or imprisoned for various legitimate reasons.

So, eventually, this became a convention.

It's just that there are policies and countermeasures, and although the feudal envoys and vassal kings of the feudal towns have hard and fast rules on the number of troops to send, they can still make some fuss about the quality of the soldiers.

Many feudal envoys and vassal kings would send their elites to the front line with the old, weak, sick and disabled or directly replacing their elites with civilians before the expedition.

But there is also a limit, because after all, there is still a military Sima watching.

In addition, many feudal envoys and feudal kings will also do some tricks on the time to send their troops to the border fortress.

Many of them delayed the dispatch of troops for a day or two after receiving the edict, and it is said that preparation requires preparation time, but it is also necessary to grasp a degree.

This is a game between the feudal envoy and the vassal king and the imperial court, neither side can do too much, once one party does too much, it is easy to cause the tacit understanding that has been established with great difficulty to collapse instantly.

The envoys and vassal kings of the feudal towns in various places inquired through their own channels that there were as many as 150,000 grassland tribes that came to invade this year, which was one-third more than the 100,000 in previous years.

This means that this year's grassland tribe's attack on the Dayu Dynasty will be more intense, and the results will be more tragic.

So even if they arrive at Biansai a few days late, they will probably still face the army of the steppe tribes.

The palace of the king of Shanghai in the southeast of the Dayu Dynasty

In the palace, Mu Weizheng, the king of Shanghai, was discussing with his staff in the palace about the attack of the grassland tribe.

"This time, the grassland tribe dispatched 150,000 people, and the attack was delayed for more than a month, it seems that this time the war in the north will be very tight!"

Hu Wang Mu Wei was sitting on the top of the chair and said solemnly.

As one of the most powerful feudal kings, although he was suspicious of the imperial court, he still sent his elite to the border fortress every year to assist in the garrison.

This time, in addition to sending his own vassal army, he also sent another army attached to him.

This kind of army attached to itself was collectively called the "beggar army" by the feudal kings.

The reason why there is such an insulting-sounding army is because these so-called "beggar armies" are another means of counterbalancing the feudal towns and feudal kings that the Holy Martial Emperor came up with.

Most of these beggars were formed by the surrender or capture of the steppe tribes after their defeat.

Originally, the war between the grassland tribe and the Dayu Dynasty was all between the grassland tribe and the Dayu Dynasty to plunder the materials and population of the Dayu Dynasty.

But Emperor Shengwu is a guy who doesn't play cards according to common sense.

He changed from the previous mode of passive defense to active attack, and he also raided the steppe tribes everywhere in the steppe.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to shout: Kou can go, I can also go, this kind of words that hurt the emperor's face very much.

Therefore, after several years of war, the Dayu Dynasty also captured many grassland tribes.

Later, there were different opinions in the court on how to settle these steppe tribes.

The Wenchen believed that they should all be scattered and sent to different parts of the Dayu Dynasty, so that after several generations of indoctrination, they would become authentic Dayu people.

But the generals don't think so, they feel that the non-our race will have different hearts, if they are scattered, it will be difficult to manage, once the situation changes, these people will be a sword hanging over the head of the Dayu Dynasty, and there will be a rebellion at any time.

The Night Wolf Camp in the Border Fortress area is a typical example.

Just when the two sides were arguing, Emperor Shengwu suddenly had his own thoughts.

He decided to classify the captive steppe tribes into their respective tribes and send them to the various feudal towns and vassal kings.

Nominally, they were attached to the feudal towns and feudal kings, and the feudal towns and feudal kings were responsible for providing them with food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.

And the armies of these steppe tribes can resist the feudal towns and the vassal kings' own armies every year to go to the border to assist the border army.

In this way, the Dayu Dynasty not only solved the problem of the whereabouts of these grassland tribes, but also had some more powerful force against the grassland tribes.

What's more, these grassland tribes under the fence need to replace the feudal towns and the feudal kings' armies on the battlefield, so they have no sense of belonging to the feudal envoys and feudal kings.

However, the envoys of the feudal towns and the vassal kings innocently took out a large amount of money and grain every year to support these grassland tribes, so they did not have a good impression of these grassland tribes.

In fact, Emperor Shengwu made such an arrangement to take advantage of this to have an additional force to contain the feudal towns and feudal kings.

That's a lot of money.

And the subordinates of Hu Wang Mu Weizheng are attached to a beggar army of the Chuyue clan.

The leader of this beggar army of the Moon Clan was originally called the Great Sand Tiger.

This big sand tiger was originally a very famous general of the Chuyue clan, and he was a rare fierce general with courage and strategy.

But this kind of thing is not only in the Dayu Dynasty, but also in the grassland tribes.

At that time, due to the initiative of Emperor Shengwu, the grassland tribe suffered heavy losses, and unfortunately, the khan of their Yue tribe was killed in the attack of the Dayu Dynasty.

After his death, his throne was inherited by his six-year-old son.

The reason why this six-year-old child was chosen to inherit is because the steppe tribe has been adhering to the tradition of keeping the business of young sons since ancient times.

And when this six-year-old little khan ascended the throne, various struggles began within the Chuyue clan.

These people, in addition to several other princes, also have the Yan family.

They can be said to do everything for the power of the Moon Clan.

And the big sand tiger, as the general of the Chuyue clan, is a good friend with the eldest prince, so he naturally belongs to the camp of the eldest prince.

Since the eldest prince had the support of most of the army, the other princes and the Yan clan were very jealous of him.

So several other princes and the Yan clan joined forces to deal with the eldest prince in private.

Eventually, the Great Prince was assassinated by the Assassins, and the Great Sand Tiger, his ally, was not spared their clutches.

But they were afraid of the strength of the Great Sand Tiger, so they made up the absurd statement that the Great Sand Tiger was the murderer of the Great Prince to slander the Great Sand Tiger.

As for the reason why the big sand tiger killed the eldest prince, it was that the big sand tiger fell in love with the eldest prince's woman, and they were discovered by the eldest prince during a private meeting, and the big sand tiger would burst out and kill people.

As a result, the people and soldiers who did not know the truth began to curse the Great Sand Tiger and demanded that the Little Khan execute the Great Sand Tiger.

Subsequently, the little Khan, under the prodding of the Yan clan, really ordered to kill the big sand tiger.

Fortunately, the Great Sand Tiger has some loyal subordinates, and they successfully escaped from the Chuyue Clan under the protection of the Great Sand Tiger.

It's a pity that except for one son who he has always been with him, all his other relatives were killed.

At this point, the Great Sand Tiger vowed that one day he would slaughter the clan of the Khan of the Moon Dynasty, and also slaughter the clan of the poisonous woman of the Yan clan.

After that, they surrendered to the Dayu Dynasty with a part of their clan loyal to them.

Since surrendering to the Dayu Dynasty, the Great Sand Tiger has fought to the death on the battlefield, and his bravery is extremely brave, which makes Emperor Shengwu very fond of him, so he transferred him to his own guard camp.

In one battle, Emperor Shengwu was surrounded by the army of the steppe tribe because he had charged, and the situation was extremely critical at that time.

The Great Sand Tiger stepped forward at this time, and he led the few guards battalions to organize into a charging death squad, protecting Emperor Shengwu in the center, and finally succeeded in breaking out of the encirclement.

And in this battle, nearly half of the guards battalion was sacrificed, and the Great Sand Tiger also blocked two arrows for Emperor Shengwu in this battle.

One of the arrows hit him in the left eye, causing him to be called the Cyclops.

Afterwards, Emperor Shengwu was grateful for his bravery and loyalty, so he gave him the surname Mu on the spot and named him Mu Yizheng.

Then Emperor Shengwu kept him by his side to teach him carefully, and he lived up to Emperor Shengwu's high expectations, showing bravery in the battle against the grassland tribes every year.

It wasn't until Emperor Shengwu planned to organize the army of the grassland tribe to contain the feudal towns and vassal kings that Mu Yizheng was arranged by Emperor Shengwu to go to Shanghai.

At that time, Emperor Shengwu promised Mu Yi that he would wait for two or three years, and he would replenish Mu Yizheng's troops, so that he could become an independent powerful cavalry force that only belonged to Emperor Shengwu himself.

It's a pity that Emperor Shengwu died young and died suddenly, and after Emperor Shengwu's death, Mu Yizheng could only continue to send people to the fence to snort.