The third thing Zheng Haizhu wanted to do when he came to Daning Town this time was to supervise the effectiveness of the Ming court's appeasement of the Mongolian Haraqin tribe.
More than half a year ago, after Zheng Haizhu concluded the tripartite meeting between Ming, Mongolia, and Russia in the Chahar tribe, he took He Zhuo, who could speak Mongolian, and turned south to envoy Duoyan of the Karaqin tribe.
Duoyan, from the era of Taizu to Xuanzong, was a Duoyan guard stationed outside the Great Wall for the Ming Empire to prevent the Northern Yuan from counterattack. They themselves were all Mongols.
After the Ming court's control over these mercenaries in the north weakened, the Duoyanwei divided into thirty-six small tribes, known as the "Thirty-Six Families", which intermarried with the Golden Family, the direct lineage of Genghis Khan, and merged into the Mongolian Karaqin.
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However, unlike the Kalaqin family of the Golden Family who lived outside Xuan Dakou in the west, the thirty-six Duoyan family still herded in the east and lived outside Xifengkou of the Great Wall in Jizhou Town, Ming Dynasty.
For the thirty-six Duoyan families, the Ming court still gave them annual silver rewards just like it did for Chahar, and named their leader "Duoyan Guard Commander".
Today, the governor of Duoyan Guard is named "Subudi".
After Zheng Haizhu actually entered Duoyanwei's sphere of influence, he understood more and more why the Later Jin Dynasty tried its best to win over Duoyanwei in Subudi.
Because Gaotaibao, where Duoyanwei received annual silver rewards from the Ming Dynasty and traded with the Ming Dynasty every year, was very close to Ningyuan, a military center in western Liaoning of the Ming Dynasty, and not far from Guangning further north.
This means that areas actually controlled by the Mongols such as Duoyanwei are more important to the Later Jin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty than Lin Dan Khan in the Chahar tribe in the north.
If the Ming Dynasty suppressed Duoyan, when Nurhaci or Huang Taiji crossed the Liao River to the west to attack Guangning and other important towns, Duoyan would not stab the Ming army in the back.
If the Hou Jin Dynasty and Horqin Alliance were to get Duoyan's support, then Guangning, Ningyuan, Dalinghe and other places outside Shanhaiguan may be attacked by Hou Jin and Duoyan. Even, because Duoyan belongs to Kara
Qin Tribe, Subbudi is the "Tabu Nang" of the Haraqin Tribe, which is equivalent to a first-class prince. It would be much easier for Hou Jin to use Subbudi's good offices to reach an alliance with the entire Haraqin Tribe. Then, Hou Jin's
The actual control power extended from Liaodong to the entire Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Xuanda in the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, the time window that Zheng Haizhu came through was her biggest golden finger, allowing her to come forward for the Ming Dynasty and truly win over Duoyan Wei five years earlier than Huang Taiji before he became the Great Khan of the Empress.
When he met Subudi, the leader of the Duoyan tribe, at the beginning of the year, Zheng Haizhu followed Zhu Changluo's previous promise. On the basis of the annual reward of silver, he promised Subuti that every spring, the Ming Dynasty could transport grain from Xifengkou to Subuti.
The king's tent was placed on the ground to alleviate the food shortage that the tribe often encountered during this season.
But in exchange, in addition to the Duoyan tribe siding with the Ming Dynasty, Subudi also allowed the Ming Dynasty officials to lead craftsmen to explore for mineral veins in the mountains within the territory of the thirty-six families of Duoyan.
Of course, Subudi was not an ignorant child, so he wanted to ask a question: "You smart people, do you know that there is gold buried in our Duoyan tribe?"
Zheng Haizhu wrote lightly: "Where there is any gold, the governor can always send your subordinates to look for it. We just want to get some more lead to use in making firecrackers for the border army. Moreover, prospecting and mining are all in the mountains. It won’t affect your pasture.”
After listening to He Zhuo's translation of Zheng Haizhu, Subudi thought that if he was close to the Ming Dynasty, if Lin Dan Khan of Chahar wanted to invade the left wing of Karaqin, he could treat the Ming Dynasty as his suzerainty and seek asylum, so he agreed. After meeting Zheng Haizhu's conditions, he stamped and stamped the certificate of credence of the Ming Dynasty.
Now, eight or nine months have passed, and Zheng Haizhu has returned to Daning Town again, and is also waiting for He Zhuo, who has been traveling between Duoyan and Daning.
He Zhuo reported to Zheng Haizhu: "From spring to autumn, the Duoyan tribe did not harass the Ming villages near the border wall, but the craftsmen from Yunnan and Zhejiang sent by Zhang Shen had just arrived in the Duoyan tribe. In the Shuangjianzi Mountains area, the Mongols still made things difficult for them. Fortunately, General Man and I escorted Mr. Wang to meet with that Subbudi, and the situation became much better. The Mongols really gave Mr. Wang face."
The "Master Wang" in He Zhuo's mouth is Wang Xiangqian.
This heavyweight figure in the late Ming Dynasty, a civil servant with a Jinshi background, traveled from Xuanda to Sichuan and then to Jiliao, working on the front line to defend the Ming Dynasty against the Northern invaders and the Eastern Yi, and to put down the rebellion in the southwest.
Zheng Haizhu was not familiar with every important military minister in the late Ming Dynasty, but before she went to Xuan Da to see Governor Cui Jingrong, she paid a special visit to the chief minister, Ye Xianggao, to ask for advice from Ye Xianggao, a civil servant in the empire who had always been a deterrent to Mongolia. The first one mentioned was Wang Xiangqian.
Ye Xianggao, who did not insist on fighting to the end in border affairs, saw that Zheng Haizhu did not have a radical stance towards Mongolia, so he specifically pointed out to her that although Wang Xiangqian had won many victories for the court, he had never preached "Those who are not of our race must be punished quickly", and they even proposed to the court the strategy of treating the various Mongolian tribes differently and trying to appease Monan Mongolia.
Zheng Haizhu kept Wang Xiangqian in mind, and after returning to Beijing, he asked Zhu Changluo to resurrect him. After fighting against Confucius in Shandong, he also visited Wang Xiangqian, who was begging for leave at home, and humbly asked for advice on how to deal with the Mongols.
Although Wang Xiangqian was seventy years old, he still had some old-fashioned thoughts. He finally responded to the call of the emperor and the court and returned to the capital, but he was unwilling to take charge of the military affairs. He was more like Xu Guangqi, becoming a member of the think tank who provided advice to Zhu Changluo. .
This time, after Zheng Haizhu made preliminary preparations in Duoyanwei, he felt that Wang Xiangqian, a veteran of the Ming Dynasty who had shocked the Mongols on the grasslands, still had to go to Subudi to show his face, so he proposed to Zhu Changluo that he should give Boss Wang He holds the title of Censor of the Capital, and represents the Ming Dynasty as an envoy to Duoyanwei, where he kills a white horse, drinks a glass of wine, and makes an oath and so on.
Sure enough, Subudi still followed this pattern.
Zheng Haizhu then told He Zhuo: "If the prospecting goes well and we start digging mines, I will emphasize it again with Mr. Huang and General Ma. We must recruit people from the Ming Dynasty to send them there, even if they recruit refugees from Shanxi and Shaanxi. , don’t use the Mongols from Duoyanwei. Secondly, bring the excavated ore back to Daning and give it to Mr. Song Yingxing, Mr. Song, to smelt it. You must not build a furnace in Duoyanwei to fry silver for the sake of convenience.”
Silver mines are often associated with lead. It is said that if there is lead on the mountain, there is silver below. Therefore, when Zheng Haizhu deceived Subudi, he said that the Ming Dynasty was here to dig for lead. Naturally, the work of frying and refining silver could not be done near the mine.
As for the future, if Houjin is really driven to the upper reaches of Huerha to seize territory from Russia, who is looking for an outlet to the sea, and the military strength of the Ming Dynasty surrounding Duoyan Guard continues to increase, then there will be no need to let Subudi or his successor
Know the truth about silver mines.
Just like in Yunnan today, the production of silver mines is under the absolute control of the Ming court. The local chieftains can only open a few small mines near the big mines and dig a little, but they dare not ask the Ming court for distribution.
A cup of soup.
At the end of the day, you still have to be tough with your fists.
Before Zheng Haizhu left Daning Town, he finally held a small-scale meeting with Huang Zunsu, Ma Xianglin and Man Gui.
"There are always spies sent by Nurhachi outside the Great Wall, and the Mongolians in Horqin will also come to spy on them disguised as merchants. In the next half year, rumors gradually spread in Daning Town that they were willing to help Lin Danhan to fight westward, so that
Nurhachi believes that when spring comes next year, the seven to eight thousand people in Daning Town outside the Pass will not be able to support Kaiyuan Tieling."