After five days of trekking in wind and snow, this huge camel team finally arrived in Duolun City.
An Sanxi also breathed a long sigh of relief. These Han people worked hard and got here, and they were completely safe.
As the new general manager of Duolun, Zhao Shuigen immediately mobilized Duolun's civil and military officials to start resettling these 100,000 people. He set up a separate camp for them in the city. They first settled in with cotton tents and stoves, then distributed food and organized doctors to inspect them.
Body.
Before An Sanxi could take a breath, he received Yang Fanxin's order.
The order was simple, give him two days to rest and recuperate. Then, he led five regiments and 70,000 camels to raid Zhangjiakou Fort City. He arrested all eight giant smuggling merchants and swept away their goods and gold and silver. Transported them all to
Go to Toronto.
For this reason, Yang Fan has sent Zhu Zhu with 300 people disguised as a caravan, and has secretly stationed in Zhangjiakou City as internal agents.
After Yang Fan's army left Tumubao, they resumed their march to Zhangjiakou.
Zhangjiakou was under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town in the Ming Dynasty. Xuanfu Town was one of the first four border towns established in the Ming Dynasty.
"History of the Ming Dynasty" records that "the four towns of Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, and Yansui were initially established, and then the three towns of Ningxia, Gansu, and Jizhou were established, and the general army of Taiyuan was in charge of Piantou (Note - Piantou Pass), and the three-sided government was established.
Zhu Guyuan, also known as Erzhen, is Jiubian."
This shows the importance of Xuanfu Town.
Xuanfu has seven road cities and one post city under its jurisdiction. The seven road cities also have sixty forts under its jurisdiction. Zhangjiakou, whose official name is Zhangjiakou Fort, is one of the sixty forts.
The only post city is the well-known Jiming Post.
The ancient city of Jiming still exists today, and it forms an interesting contrast with Jiming Mountain on the edge of the city. It is a classic tourist attraction and the best-preserved Ming Dynasty military fortress and post station integrated castle.
There were many road cities and guard posts under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu, which developed in the subsequent historical development and are well known to us. One of the cities under its jurisdiction was named "Longqing Zhoucheng". During the Longqing period, in order to avoid taboos,
It was renamed Yanqing Zhoucheng after the emperor's reign, and it is now Yanqing County, the imperial capital.
The origin of Zhangjiakou is also quite interesting. In the earliest days, some people with the surname Zhang lived at the foot of the Great Wall at Wanquanyouwei on the northwest side of Xuanfu.
Because this is the place that guards the throat of North China and beyond the Great Wall. It is the only way to trade with Mongolia. Later, more and more people moved there. Gradually, a small town was formed, which was named "Zhangjiazhuang" after the main surname of the residents.
Therefore, in the fourth year of Xuande (1429), Wanquan Youwei commanded Zhang Wen to build a fortress here. He named it "Zhangjiakou Fort".
With the development of trade between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, this fortress gradually prospered, and it became the city of Zhangjiakou later.
By the time of the Republic of China, after six hundred years of development, Zhangjiakou's prosperity reached its peak.
The annual transaction volume reaches 150 million taels of silver. There are more than 7,000 merchants and more than 30 banks.
After several days of trekking, Yang Fan's army arrived at Jimingyi Castle, the second of the three major castles in northern Beijing.
Yang Fan directly ordered the army to enter the city to rest and recuperate. For a time, the officers and soldiers of the three armies and hundreds of thousands of civilians were delighted and thunderous in joy.
After all, the Beijing camp has been in peace for a long time. Marching in the snowstorm this time is really hard.
And it was extremely cold this year. Fortunately, we had briquette stoves and cotton tents when camping at night, so we didn’t cause a lot of frostbite. Not to mention the civilians, their treatment was not as good as that of soldiers.
After the army entered Jiming Fort and everyone settled down, a director of the Ministry of War and a supervisory censor came over to ask how long the army would stay here.
"There is a blizzard blowing outside the country now. We must wait for the blizzard to stop before we can continue to move forward. Otherwise, if we enter the grassland rashly, not only will the soldiers be prone to frostbite, but it will also be very difficult to transport food and grass."
They couldn't refute Yang Fan's words. Along the way, although they didn't leave the Great Wall, the wind and snow were very strong. The road was difficult to travel, and the road could only be bigger. If they left the customs hastily, they would run out of food due to bad weather, which would be troublesome.
Already.
They couldn't bear the responsibility either, so they had no choice but to retreat.
Zhang Shize pouted on the side, these civil servants are all idle and have no talent for talking. They don't understand the military at all. Why rush? As long as they arrive at Guihua City in the spring next year, there is no need to rush. There is plenty of time.
Jimingyi is very prosperous. There are many shops inside, and you can buy everything. This is a key transportation node for leaving the fortress. Both the army and merchants have to rest here before going to the capital.
The city is lined with shops, restaurants, inns, fireworks lanes, gambling houses, theaters, and bathhouses everywhere. After Yang Fan announced a five-day holiday, the officers and soldiers happily went out to have fun.
After the reform of Chongzhen, the benefits of the Beijing camp were greatly improved. More importantly, military salaries were paid by Xinghe Bank. They were paid directly into the private accounts of officers and soldiers, or banknotes were issued directly. In fact, military salaries in the Ming Dynasty were not low, and they were enough to support a family.
Live a full and warm life.
The reason why officers and soldiers are so poor and unable to survive is entirely caused by official corruption.
Yang Fan's banknotes are the soft sister currency contact coupons sent from later generations. They cannot be imitated in this era. Whether it is color printing, special cotton paper, color-changing ink, or watermarks, it can drive those gangs who forge treasure banknotes crazy. After all,
The technical gap is too far.
Nowadays, these practice coupons can be purchased at will, because they have special coupons for counting money printed on them. Yang Fan saves trouble. He directly issues practice coupons and then goes to various places to redeem silver coins.
There is already an outlet of Xinghe Bank in Jimingyi. After all, like Datong and Xuanfu, it is a stationing node for caravans. The Xinghe Bank in Jimingyi is crowded with people holding passbooks or banknotes to exchange silver coins.
of officers and soldiers.
Yang Fan's waiting for the blizzard to stop was just an excuse. His real purpose was to wait for An Sanxi to escort 100,000 Han slaves to Duolun City, and then let these five cavalry regiments composed of a large number of Mongolians raid Zhangjiakou. They would copy the so-called Eight Emperors of the Qing Dynasty.
Shang's lair.
I haven't moved, Mao Wenlong, so I can't move you. Yang Fan has long disliked them. Now that the grassland has fallen into Yang Fan's hands, these profiteers who cheated on others and colluded with Jiannu have become very annoying.
Zhangjiakou's great development occurred during the Jiajing period.
Anda Khan wrote to the Ming court many times, requesting the two sides to communicate with each other. During the Longqing period, the "mutual market" was finally approved, and transactions began in some border areas.
"Mutual markets" are divided into "official markets" and "private markets".
The former mainly involved the Mongolian tribal rulers donating horses to the Ming court in exchange for cloth, silk and other materials rewarded by the Ming court. The latter mainly involved transactions between the people of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolian herdsmen.
It was precisely because of the opening of the mutual market that it became possible for Zhangjiakou to transform from a military town to a commercial town. By the Wanli period, Zhangjiakou was already highly prosperous.
