Chapter 526: Pattern

Shanhaiwei and Yuan Chonghuan came to greet him in person, and had a secret meeting with Macheng and the Mongolian leader Zaisai. Lord Yuan has not had a good time recently. Since Wen Tiren stepped down from the wing of the Liaodong governor, he has been sad. The emperor urged him to send troops to fight with slaves. The cabinet impeached him very much, and he has eaten a lot of bullets these days.

At the beginning of this spring, Huang Taiji personally led more than 100,000 troops to attack for a while. Yuan Chonghuan used all his skills to clear the fields, relying on sharp city defense and heavy artillery to repel the enemy army, and concocted a victory in Ningjin. His life was better. Yuan Supervisor Yuan was extremely energetic. His proposal was to give up the grassland to the Mongolians, Shanhaiguan and Kaiyuan to attack Liaochen. In Yuan Chonghuan's view, the grassland was irrelevant, and he could not grow land and food on the grassland. What's the use if he wanted it?

This is the lack of vision and pattern. After all, he is a scholar who reads the books of sages and has limited knowledge.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to explain: "Du Yuan didn't know that the tribes of Zhungeal and Tumot in the West Mongolian are now weak and do not take the opportunity to penetrate the grasslands. One is rising and the other is getting worse. If you pack it up in the future, it will be very troublesome to get it done."

This is the truth. The extreme climate of the Little Ice Age was hit by the Ming Dynasty. The Mongols were even more difficult and were tossed by the Little Ice Age. The Mongols are now at the weakest time. If they missed this time, it would be difficult to deal with it when West Mongolia and Outer Mongolia recovered. Later generations of the Junggar tribe survived the extreme climate and restored their vitality and rebelled repeatedly. The Qing Dynasty fought for seventy years to quell the West Mongolia rebellion. This was because of the internal strife of the Junggar tribe. If the Junggar tribe did not fight within the internal strife, it would not be known how many years the Qing Dynasty would fight.

The poison of the West Mongolia rebellion was terrible, and Outer Mongolia was even more a tragic problem. Outer Mongolia and the Russians reunite, but the battle began in the late Ming Dynasty. The Khalkha tribes in the north ended in the late Ming Dynasty, which had a long history. The pattern of Macheng was naturally not comparable to that of Yuan Chonghuan. He focused on the generations and could not leave a Mongolian mess for his descendants, and the poison was endless.

Ma Cheng advised: "Duke Yuan, Liao affairs cannot be rushed, so we must slowly plan for it."

After a disagreement, he parted in disagreement. Yuan Chonghuan left, and Ma Cheng was also full of anger.

After leaving Shanhaiwei, he went to the grassland, but there were dozens of cavalry waiting in front. Dozens of cavalry were wearing Ming uniforms, and their personal soldiers rushed forward to guard and asked.

A general of the Ming Dynasty smiled and said, "Guan Ning Zu Da Bao, please see Ma Shuai."

Ma Cheng was relieved, Zu Dashou, Guanning Zu family was a real local snake in Ningyuan. The landlord, Zu family was a huge family, but not Yuan Chonghuan's confidant. Yuan's army was mainly composed of two parts, part of which was the old foundation of the town army he brought out from Shanxi, and part of which was the Guanning army controlled by the generals of the Zu family. The two sides were considered cooperative relations, not the direct line.

The traitor Wu Sangui is Zu Dashou's nephew. Zu Dashou married Wu Sangui's aunt. Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang married Zu Dashou's sister. Zu Dashou is Wu Sangui's uncle and part-time uncle. Wu Xiang is Zu Dashou's brother-in-law. Similarly, Zu Dashou is Wu Xiang's brother-in-law. Guanning Mingjun is controlled by these complicated and indescribable military heads, the real Liaodong warlords.

The Zu family of Guanning, Zu Dashou's brothers, and dozens of nephews all served in the army, from the position of deputy generals to the generals, and guerrillas, they could not count them. So Yuan Chonghuan died unjustly. Is Yuan Chonghuan able to command these two families? Is it enough to be so flirted with Huang Taiji? It's not Yuan Chonghuan. He took the blame for these two families. The Ming Dynasty cannot believe even a punctuation mark.

When Jianlu entered the pass, it was not Yuan Chonghuan who was slow to move, but Zu Dashou who was slow to save the capital. Yuan Chonghuan was not slow to move. He rushed to send his confidant Zhao Rujiao to lead the cavalry to rescue Zunhua, but the entire army was wiped out outside Zunhua City, so the commander Yuan was really a strange injustice for all eternity.

Why did Yuan Chonghuan take the blame? Because Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui are all founding generals of the Qing Dynasty. It is hard to slap themselves, so he pressed the blame on General Yuan. Can General Yuan completely control the Guanning Army and the big and small troops in Jinzhou have a local tyrant? It is not realistic.

Zu Dashou led a group of Guanning local snakes to wait on the roadside, which was a deeper meaning and worth pondering. It was difficult for the governor Yuan to talk about it. Zu Dashou put down dozens of boxes of heavy gifts and led dozens of nephews to say goodbye. Ma Cheng understood in his heart that this was the Guanning local snake Zu's initiative to show his goodwill. This is not a trivial matter. He has to think carefully and handle it carefully.

The sixth year of Chongzhen, August.

The grassland was in chaos, and the five major divisions of the Wala tribe in West Mongolia and the Khalkha tribes in Outer Mongolia all launched 200,000 cavalry to sweep away the Eastern Mongolia and expedition the Chahar king's court in the east. They came in full force. The Later Jin raised 100,000 troops in Liaodong, gathered in Fushun, and attacked Kaiyuan, Baicheng, Kaiyuan, and Baicheng.

Kaiyuan, northwest.

The northwest of Kaiyuan City is a twenty-li mountain road. It has been widened this morning and has been repaired into a channel, cavalry, carriage, and caravans. The dense flow of people is unhindered, which makes people amazed the amazing vitality of private capital. Kaiyuan's active private capital built the twenty-li mountain road into a road. It opened mountains when it came to a mountain and built bridges when it came to a water. Beacon towers, military forts, and various strategic places were garrisoned by Kaiyuan Town Army.

Surrounded by mountains, caravans from Kaiyuan, Shanxi and the prosperous areas on the nine sides are moving back and forth, becoming increasingly prosperous.

Kaiyuan is now a commercial port, hanging alone in Liaodong, and its radiation range is extremely amazing. It radiates north to the northern desert and north Mongolia, southwest to Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu. The fur produced in Mongolia is processed in Kaiyuan and transported to Shanxi and Shaanxi for sale. It can be sold as far as Guangdong, North Korea, and Japan, and has formed a complete set of huge industrial chains. Because this trade route is not peaceful, the caravans sent by armed escorts, and even large merchant groups.

The armed merchant groups roamed under the grassland, traveling inside and outside the Great Wall, and even the horse bandits and giant bandits dared not easily provoke them.

Of course, there are some outlaws who want to bite a piece of meat from these large merchant groups, but the outcome is mostly not great. These merchant groups are well-equipped, and although they are not as good as the Kaiyuan Town Army, they can still deal with horse bandits, not to mention that the Kaiyuan Town Army cavalry wanders on the grassland every day, providing protection for caravans entering and leaving Kaiyuan. Fewer and fewer horse bandits dare to rob this commercial road, which has gradually turned this commercial road into a golden road.

Early in the morning, northwest of Kaiyuan.

The cavalry came out to warn, beacon towers on the mountains on both sides, and the military fort was also ready for battle.

Ma Cheng rode on the high-headed horse and talked and laughed with Ni Yuanlu. He patrolled the commercial route along the way, and was also scared by the amazing vitality and creativity of private capital. The private capital of the Ming Dynasty has been suppressed and dormant, and he only dared to make some small moves in secret. Now, once it explodes, its huge energy is shocking. This is the situation that even Mongolia has to eat in one bite, and the radiation range has already penetrated into the grassland.

This is not an empty talk. Caravans have to eat, live and rest when they come and go, so they have to set up supply points on the grassland.

At the beginning, it was a small supply point. I set up a few tents and surrounded by a large cart to camp. Over time, some people built earthen forts at the supply point that they often settled. More and more earthen forts were built. The shopkeepers of several large chambers of commerce discussed raising funds to connect the earthen forts where each chamber of commerce settled, and finally formed a logistics center. Naturally, Kaiyuan Admiral's Office was also supported by the support of the three major chambers of commerce and sent troops to garrison and protect them along the way.

The forts were connected and gradually evolved into grassland towns. In order to protect these towns, military forts were built around them. Now, there are five large logistics towns along the Great Wall, each with Kaiyuan Iron Cavalry, and the town soldiers were stationed. These military forts gradually penetrated into the grassland and went deep into Baicheng in the north. As soon as Lin Danhan died, the leaders of the grassland were all in a mess and were unable to stop the expansion of the Ming armed merchant group.

From Kaiyuan to Xifengkou, Baicheng, trade exchanges became more and more prosperous. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!