After the Northwest War, the Marshal's Mansion captured Hehuang inside and Qinghai outside. Finally, he had the foundation to settle down and live his life.
The money, food, population, land, army, officials, everything needed for Liu Chengzong to establish his political power was ready, but the internal and external environment he faced was also more complex.
War is like drinking poison to quench thirst. You start a war because you cannot feed 100,000 people, and seize the food that can feed 500,000 people. When you look back, you find that there are 700,000 people behind you.
The most important thing for Liu Chengzong right now is to find ways to reduce the number of people under his command who are not involved in food production and who need to receive food to a normal number.
The army, prisoners, officials, craftsmen, students, and orphans in the Marshal's Mansion are all part-time workers, with a total of more than 70,000.
Their officials, craftsmen, students, and orphans had to be taken care of, so they had to find solutions from the army and prisoners... But the prisoners harvested in this Hehuang battle were all of very good quality.
Liu Chengzong's solution was to go back to the old path of Emperor Taizu and guard the house.
The guard station is a very excellent military fielding system. The essential problem to be solved is that the imperial court wants professional soldiers, but does not want to pay or even cannot afford it.
This is the same problem Liu Chengzong faced.
Emperor Taizu was a master in designing models. Military households relied on the guards to provide farm tools, farmland, cattle, and seeds for centralized production, breaking through the low productivity of the small-scale peasant economy, and allowing one person to feed multiple people.
However, the models designed by Emperor Taizu were just right without leaving any margin. Once there were changes in the court, the guard system was prone to problems.
The biggest reason why military households lost their combat effectiveness was that there was no profit in serving as soldiers and there were desertions. The remaining military households became serfs in order to meet the requirement of paying military rations to the guards.
Therefore, as long as the court provides money, the battalions can still rely on the guards to recruit soldiers and quickly form combat effectiveness.
The Eight Banners of the Jin Dynasty are the military households with the characteristics of Jianzhou. It can even be said that the Eight Banners are the ideal model for the complete collapse of the guards.
The commanders and masters of Qianhu no longer need to be exploited openly and covertly, and they can directly drive back and become slave nobles; the military households no longer need to be serfs, and can directly go to catch slaves.
Slaves supported military households that were close to professional soldiers, and military households were selected to send troops to continue robbing to obtain more slaves and land.
Military households in the Ming Dynasty dreamed of living such a life, but the Ming Dynasty could not find so many slaves, and there were no enemies that the Ming Dynasty could rob.
Liu Chengzong's situation was different, and the Eight Banners could not serve as a reference for him.
Its core area is narrow and densely populated, and the disadvantages of implementing slavery are much greater than the benefits; its overseas territory is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a shortage of suitable arable land, so it can only be used as pasture.
Therefore, Liu Chengzong's plan was to use Juerwan New City as the dividing line. A garrison camp would be stationed in the new city, five standing battalions would be stationed in the east, and a marshal's standard battalion would be added to serve as the field force of the seven battalions paid and provided by the marshal's mansion.
Some of the troops reached 25,000.
On the vast Qinghai land to the west of Juerwan, six local field camps were set up, mainly composed of Mongolian Western troops, supplemented by Han herdsmen, to establish towns, nomadic production, lead troop training, and guard the Gobi.
The most important purpose is to occupy the vast no-man's land in Qinghai. There are not many places that can be used. If Liu Chengzong does not actively occupy it, the bordering areas will sooner or later be robbed by the Yarkand.
Liu Chengzong was in the process of naturalizing the generals of the 13th battalion. When he heard about the issue of troop distribution, Guitu Taiji, who had returned from Haibei County, asked for a meeting.
When Guitu Taiji entered the Yamen, he said that he wanted to borrow troops.
"Borrowing troops? I have ordered the Bajiao City to be lent to your brother for defense. After I reorganize the army and then rush south for reinforcements, what are you doing with the borrowing of troops?"
Guitu Taiji is a smart man, and he participated in the Hehuang War with the army. He has long seen that blood and legal principles are not easy to use in the Marshal's Mansion. These people only value strength and practicality.
Compared to Chahar and Oirat, who were fighting to death, Liu Chengzong was obviously more concerned about the internal problems of the Marshal's Mansion. Even if the two groups of people had their brains beaten out overseas, the Marshal's Mansion would wait calmly and find an opportunity to deal with them.
Received.
But Chahar cannot wait until then. Thirty thousand female dependents are in the hands of the Marshal's Palace. When they are beaten by Oirat into a tribe of more than 10,000 people, even if they barely survive, can Liu Chengzong return the female dependents to them?
Even if they have 30,000 soldiers, Liu Chengzong may not return their female relatives to them, not to mention...compared to the wandering Chahar elite soldiers, the sergeants of the Marshal's Mansion with a higher living standard are obviously better targets for mate selection.<
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It would be beneficial for Liu Chengzong to prolong the war, but for Chahar, it is beneficial to resolve the war as soon as possible.
Their positions are different.
Guitutaiji said: "Generalissimo, I'm afraid my brother won't be able to last that long."
For Liu Chengzong, it is not difficult to save Chahar, nor is it difficult to destroy Chahar, but it is very difficult to leave Chahar half dead just right.
Liu Shishi thought, if I lend you troops, how can I ensure that Chahar is half dead after the war?
He asked: "How many people do you want to borrow?"
"Five thousand, whether it's a farmer in Xincheng or a Mongolian sailing on the West Sea."
This is a well-thought-out number.
If there are too many, Liu Chengzong will definitely not give them, and if there are too few, it will be useless to go to the south. Five thousand people are not more or less, and they can be useful on any battlefield.
The most important thing is that Gututaiji knew that Liu Chengzong had so many idle personnel.
Goututaiji had long discovered that many of the Mongolians under Liu Chengzong, who were physically fit and skilled enough to be sent to the front line to fight, were left behind to do some less serious jobs.
For example, the Qinghai navy's wheel boat paddlers and so on, all of them were born very tall and thick, and they just wasted 200 miles on the sea for two bowls of fried noodles. They got off the boat and set up a small stove to smoke salted fish and make tea, and their lives were quite satisfying.<
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What Can Tu wants is this group of people, enough for him to form an army that can turn things around.
Liu Chengzong wondered if you were just daydreaming.
How difficult is it to train Tumut Huoluo Chibe Mongolian soldiers into qualified farmers and sailors?
This is much more difficult than training them to be soldiers. They can farm with hoes, punt boats, pedal cars and boats, and shoot arrows when riding horses. Moreover, they speak Chinese with a Mongolian accent.
It’s all the hard work of the Marshal’s Mansion.
For you? I think you, Taiji, have quite a face.
In Liu Shizi's heart, these Tumut survivors should die at sea without having to worry about food and clothing, and spend their lives turning Qinghai pastoral areas into farmland.
But if they go further, they will march with him on land, sail on rivers, and follow him into Guanzhong as the strongest navy in Qinghai.
"In this way, I will lend you two battalions of the regular army that you have participated in in the war. One is full and the other is vacant. I will provide you with 16 artillery pieces and ammunition, and 4,600 Mongolian soldiers."
Liu Shizi's eyes didn't blink, he looked at Guitu Taiji with his chin slightly raised, raised his index finger in his eyes of ecstatic expectation, and said: "There is a condition."
"Generalissimo, tell me!"
"The full battalion has 3,600 soldiers, named Khalkha Battalion, and is led by Staff General Ahai Daiqing; the vacant battalion has 1,000 soldiers, named Chahar Battalion, led by Staff General Letu, accompanied by General Tianzi
Eight guns, eight 500-pound Fran machine guns, and I will provide gunners."
Liu Chengzong looked fixedly at Qututaiji and said: "You will be my general, and after the war, you will transfer 2,000 households from the Chahar tribe and merge them into the Chahar camp." p>
Ruitutaiji didn't react for a while. He looked at Liu Chengzong for a long time before he understood what he meant: "Da, the generalissimo wants to appoint me as an official? That's great!"
While applauding and laughing, Guitu Taiji asked: "Can you change the name of the camp, such as Dadaiji Camp?"
Liu Chengzong had no expression on his face and slowly shook his head while looking at Nuttu Taiji.
The smile on Chahar Taiji's face gradually disappeared.
Liu Chengzong's thoughts were not hidden, and he was not stupid to follow Zong Tu who participated in the Hehuang Battle... Liu Chengzong's move was extremely vicious, and was to essentially split the Chahar tribe.
Cantu did think about leaving a way out for himself in the Han Marshal's Mansion, but he just wanted a piece of pasture and had no intention of working hard to conquer Chahar.
Chahar already has this kind of virtue. If he splits up again, will Chahar still have a future?
But Liu Chengzong was very calm: "There are clouds in the mountains and seas, and the dogs and soldiers are of the same species as the Xia people, all descended from the Yellow Emperor. Therefore, I always believe that at this time when natural disasters are rampant, both Xia and barbarians should work together to overcome the difficulties."
"The war between Oara and Tatar has nothing to do with me. I have no grudges with either party. My decision to send troops to rescue Hu Khan is for the sake of the future."
"I have the ambition to rule the Central Plains and have no intention of wasting my time in the northwest. I heard from the magistrate of Chen County in Haibei that your brother always said that there was only one emperor in the southern dynasty, and he should be the only one in the north. As a great khan, he would not be willing to live in
I'll get off."
Liu Chengzong slowly showed his hand and said: "You have been here with me for a long time, and you must be able to see that under my rule, regardless of clan, origin, or rank, you can tell me how to make peace with your brother after this battle.
Get along?"
Ruitutaiji opened his mouth, this question is too difficult.
Although his brother's principle has always been to deal with the inside first and then the outside, but now Monan Mongolia has made his brother lose his place, so he can only deal with the outside.
Obviously, through marriage and trade, Chahar will form an alliance with the Marshal's Office after this war, but it is only a matter of time before the alliance breaks down.
The next time the Ming Dynasty assembles an army in the northwest and Liu Chengzong raises his troops to the east, it will be the moment when the alliance breaks down.
In the final analysis, Qinghai is enough for the Marshal's Mansion and Chahar to survive together, but Liu Chengzong will not give them the land that can support Chahar.
The grazing land of Xiao Lazun and Guru Taiji is enough to support tens of thousands of people, but Liu Chengzong cannot give them all that land.
Liu Chengzong did not give Qu Tu Taiji a chance to choose. He said: "So I must have a Chahar camp. The Chahar camp will get Dulan to Golmud as pasture land; I will lend Qu Xianwei's hometown to your brother."
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When Zhututaiji heard this, he frowned. The generalissimo was trying to seduce him to become the commander-in-chief of the Chahar Battalion with a favorable attitude.
From Dulan to Golmud is the Gobi grassland, which is not suitable for farming, but for nomads, the area is large enough and there are enough rivers. Except for cold spots, it is a good place to stay.
The hometown of Qu Xianwei is from Golmud to the northwest until it borders Yarkand... As long as there are living people in that place, it will not be called the hometown.
As far as Gotutaiji knows, there is nothing in that place except salt, stones, desert and desert bandits.
Anyone who gets there will turn into a bandit and either pass through the northwest mountain pass to rob Yarkant towns, or head northeast to rob Golmud.
Therefore, Ruitutaiji could foresee that as long as he took over Liu Chengzong's Chahar camp, even if he was not an enemy of his brother, the Chahar tribe would have to accept the fate of being split in order to survive.
It is even very likely that they will fight against each other in order to survive... The nomadic production method cannot be self-sufficient, and in the end they will still have to rely on trade with the Irvine to obtain their survival needs.
After all, Liu Chengzong has the final say on how to trade.
Qututaiji's face was full of embarrassment, and he asked with difficulty: "Generalissimo, can't marriage dispel your concerns?"
"Marriage can avoid war, do you believe it?" Liu Chengzong laughed and said: "If you don't want to be the general of the Chahar Battalion, I won't force you to go to Quxianwei with your brother. I believe Chahar
There will be other nobles in the department who are willing to serve as generals."
In fact, Liu Chengzong has tried his best not to appear aggressive.
In fact, judging from the current situation and the future situation, the diplomacy of the Marshal's Office is very uncomfortable among the four forces of Oirat, Chahar, Ming Dynasty, and Jin Dynasty.
Oirat has the least conflict with the Kingdom of Jin and the Marshal's Mansion. As long as Liu Chengzong nods, there will be almost no resistance to trade, marriage, intelligence exchange and even alliances.
However, Oirat sent envoys to pay tribute to the Jin Kingdom, so it was impossible for Liu Chengzong to ally with the Jin Kingdom, and Oirat became an imaginary enemy that needed to be dealt with.
The conflict between Chahar, Ming Dynasty, and the Marshal's Mansion is truly irreconcilable.
Needless to say, the Ming Dynasty, Liu Chengzong cooperated with the Ming Dynasty, and was dragged to death sooner or later; while Chahar is good everywhere, the bad thing is that he has the Khan of all Mongolia.
The Marshal's Mansion is to the west of Xining. Counting 30,000 Chahar women, there are 140,000 civilians, including 100,000 Mongolians. Next to it lies a Mongol Khan. Let alone the Eastern Expedition to Guanzhong, as long as the Khan is here
Within a thousand miles, Liu Chengzong could not sleep well.
In a short period of time, Qututaiji imagined all the possibilities in his mind.
If he does not accept the appointment, Chahar will starve to death in Qu Xianwei's hometown, and it will be difficult to trade with the Marshal's Office after the war; if someone else accepts the appointment, Chahar will be divided, and may even be more divided.
After accepting the appointment, when they enter the pasture, the eldest brother will soon rob him; even if the eldest brother does not rob, his tribe will come to his own pasture, and then the brothers will inevitably have conflicts.
The biggest contradiction on the grassland is why you eat my grass.
This doesn't even matter whether the Chahar camp is of the same mind as Liu Chengzong. As long as there is no miracle of earth-shaking, landslides and earth-shattering in Qinghai, the Chahar camp can only confront the Chahar camp.
Ruitutaiji thought about it over and over again, scratching his head and head anxiously, wondering why he had gotten into such a thing?
He asked: "Generalissimo...can't discuss it?"
"I can not send troops, wait until Chahar is defeated, and attack Oirat alone. They have 40,000 troops and I have fewer people, but it will be difficult for them to confront me overseas for a long time. I may not win, but I will not lose." Liu Chengzong slowly shook his head: "But by then, victory or defeat will have nothing to do with Chahar. There will be no Chahar."
"In turn, give yourself a chance, and give Chahar Mongolia a chance. We will eventually fight our way out in the age of natural disasters. We will be neither the Ming Dynasty nor the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but a better country of our own."