Chapter 157: Zhu Han conquered the Monan Grassland with one word
"Master, you're very polite. These are what you should do in a humble position!" Hawker said with a smile.
Wang Baobao followed Hawker all the way to meet the Empress Dowager Qi's carriage. Inside a huge chariot pulled by twenty horses, there was a woman sitting on a soft couch dressed in gorgeous clothes. She was the Empress Dowager Qi's family in the Yuan Dynasty.
"Queen Mother!"
"Join the Queen Mother!" Wang Baobao and Hawker came in and immediately saluted Qi respectfully.
"Get up!" Qi waved his hands indifferently.
Then he changed his gaze, looked out the car window, and asked Wang Baobao: "Is this the Onan River?"
"Yes! Queen Mother!" Wang Baobao said.
Hocker knew how to read people's words, and when he saw the passionate eyes of Wang Baobao and Empress Dowager Qi, he immediately resigned and left.
After Hawker left, Qi in the carriage suddenly turned serious and said to Wang Baobao, "Brother Baobao, I'm afraid our situation is in danger!"
"Why did the Queen Mother say this?" Wang Baobao asked.
"I have just received news that after the Ming army captured Dadu, they deployed a hundred thousand troops. They will definitely not let us go!" Qi said with a worried look.
"Queen Mother, you don't have to be afraid. As long as I, Wang Baobao, am here, no matter what happens, I will try my best to protect you, Queen Mother." Wang Baobao said confidently.
"It's a pity that the Ai family can't help you!" Qi said with some shame.
"The Queen Mother, please don't say that! Without the Queen Mother, I, Wang Baobao, would not be where I am today. I, Wang Baobao, will never let the Queen Mother down."
The Yuan court has now retreated to the banks of the Onan River in Mobei. Their only hope is to unite the various tribes on the Mongolian grasslands and unite around the Yuan court to jointly resist the Ming army's future Northern Expedition attack.
And if you want to unite the various tribes on the Mongolian grasslands, the only sign is the blood of the Golden Family.
The greatest legacy that Genghis Khan left to his descendants is the nobility of the golden family bloodline.
Even though more than a hundred years have passed, various tribes on the grassland still respect the descendants of Genghis Khan as their orthodox.
Now that Wang Baobao is on the same boat as Empress Dowager Qi and the young emperor Aiyou, Wang Baobao will naturally try his best to ensure the power and status of Empress Dowager Qi.
When Empress Dowager Qi came to Mobei, all the important figures of the entire Yuan Dynasty had moved to Mobei. Wang Baobao assisted the Zuo government in the name of the Prince and Grand Master of the Yuan Dynasty, and immediately gave orders to various tribes to let their tribes
The leaders gathered together on the banks of the Onan River in Mobei to hold the Nale Gutai Conference.
Nale Gutai means the meeting of kings.
Although more than 100,000 people from the Yuan Dynasty have followed and migrated to Mobei, the other tribes control a much larger population. Wang Baobao must give them full attention if he wants to unite the various tribes in the Mongolian grassland.
At the Nale Gutai Conference, Prince Taishi Wang Baobao probably gave each tribal leader full autonomy, and only asked them to provide the necessary troops to defend the Yuan Dynasty when the Ming army invaded.
As for ordinary taxes and tribute, Wang Baobao did not have any rigid requirements for each tribe. If any tribe wanted to honor Empress Dowager Qi or the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, it would all depend on their personal wishes, and the Yuan court would never force it.
In fact, this was the reason why the Yuan Dynasty had limited control over the various tribes on the grasslands.
For these grassland tribes, they did not buy Wang Baobao's account. They were able to live peacefully on the grasslands. A large part of the reason was that the Yuan Dynasty court gave them generous rewards every year, whether it was food or cloth.
All of them will meet their needs to survive the winter and keep out the cold.
But now that the Yuan Dynasty has retreated to the Mobei grassland, it is no longer possible to protect itself, and it is impossible to give them generous rewards.
There is no foolproof plan for how each tribe will survive the difficult winter this year.
How could anyone take the initiative to offer cattle and sheep food to Emperor Yuan and the Queen Mother?
Isn’t that what you eat when you’re full?
Therefore, after the Nale Gutai Conference was held, although nominally each tribe still respected the orders and orthodoxy of the Yuan Emperor, after the tribal leaders returned, they were all extremely disappointed with the Yuan Dynasty.
Now that the weather has entered autumn, some tribes who lack food and grass to survive the winter have begun sharpening their knives.
As the saying goes, my neighbors store grain and I store guns, and my neighbors are my granaries.
Nowadays, the Ming army in the south is invincible and is a target that the Mongolian tribes dare not provoke. Naturally, the Mongolian tribes do not dare to go south to clear grass and rob the valleys.
In this way, the targets of their robbery became their compatriots and neighbors on the grassland.
In just one month, more than ten tribes fell into the chaos of fire.
The prestige of the Yuan Dynasty could not prevent these tribes from stopping their disputes. Except for the tribes from the east that were closest to the Yuan Dynasty, the entire desert and Mongolia fell into chaos.
At this time, winter is coming soon on the grassland.
The strong wind mixed with snowflakes was raging throughout the Mobei grassland.
In just one day, the Yuan Dynasty's camp in Mobei fell into a vast sea of snow.
Even before moving to Mobei, the Yuan court had prepared sufficient supplies of food, grass and cloth, but in the face of such a severe snowstorm, many people still failed to carry it through.
A few days later when the storm stopped.
In the entire camp of the Yuan Dynasty in Mobei, more than a hundred people froze to death.
Although most of these people who froze to death were old and weak, it was a heavy blow to the morale of these Mongolians who had just arrived from the Central Plains in the Mobei Grassland.
Wow wow wow!
With a burst of baby crying coming from a yurt, I remember that the Dayuan camp brought a touch of joy.
Empress Dowager Qi gave birth to a baby son when she was ten months pregnant.
"I'm a dad, I'm a dad!" Wang Baobao whispered excitedly in the camp.
The reason why I whispered it was because although everyone knew about this matter and Wang Baobao was the child's biological father, no one would come to pierce the window paper.
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After Empress Dowager Qi gave birth to her son, Kong Kejian, the Holy Duke of Dayuanyan, and many other Han civil officials braved the wind and snow to congratulate loudly outside the camp.
The Yuan Dynasty fled north from the capital city, followed by a large number of Han civilian officials.
Among them was headed by Yanshenggong Kong Kejian.
As for the large number of generals, whether they were Han or Mongolian, many of them surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and stayed in the Central Plains.
As long as the generals surrender their military power and territory, they can basically be exempted from the charges and punishments of traitors and traitors.
Confucian scholars were called traitors, but they had little capital to atone for their sins from the Ming Dynasty, so it was understandable that they ran away with the Mongols.
Although it is difficult to live in Mobei, I still have to grit my teeth and persevere.
Three years after the death of Tuohuan Timur, the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, the widow Qi gave birth to a fat boy.
Such a big happy event naturally deserves to be celebrated by everyone.
However, all materials in Mobei are very precious now. The prince and grand master Wang Baobao wanted to be generous but did not have the capital to be generous. In the end, he could only give each official a leg of lamb as a reward.
In the warm tent, Wang Baobao looked at the baby in his arms, with a new ambition in his eyes.
"My son, you are from the Yuan Dynasty royal family!"
"I will definitely make you the Lord of the Grassland in the future!"
Empress Dowager Qi, who was standing by, was unaware of her lover's change in mood.
Now she is only thinking about what kind of good name she should give her youngest son.
"Brother Bao, please give the child a name quickly!" Empress Dowager Qi said.
Wang Baobao thought about it seriously and then said solemnly.
"Bayan Timur!"
Empress Dowager Qi also knows some Mongolian, so she naturally knows that this is a good name.
"Bayan Timur, you will be the second prince of Dayuan from now on!" Empress Dowager Qi looked at her youngest son with a doting look on her face.
In recent years, except for her own son Aiyou, the other young sons of the dead emperor Tuohuan Timur all died of inexplicable illnesses.
Therefore, the royal bloodline of the Yuan Dynasty now only has one Aiyou, plus the newly born Bayan Timur.
Because of the birth of Bayan Timur, the Yuan Dynasty court on the Mongolian grasslands was filled with joy.
Yingchang City on the Monan Grassland does not have such a joyful atmosphere. Instead, a deep sense of depression and depression envelopes Yingchang City.
Yingchang Wall was originally the upper capital of other Liao Kingdoms, and it was also a very important city during the Jin Kingdom.
During the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, Yingchang City, although not the capital, still had a very important position. It was an area where nomadic herding and farming met. For various tribes, it was the most prosperous and prosperous city in the grassland.
It's just that Yingchang is too close to the Central Plains. The short distance of several hundred miles makes it possible for the Ming army to attack Yingchang at any time.
Therefore, all the troops of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties led by Wang Baobao fled to the banks of the Mobei River, and the only person defending in Yingcheng was Li Siqi.
Most of the troops led by Li Siqi were Han refugee troops from the Shanxi and Henan areas. After entering the grasslands, they experienced various unfit situations, so they did not follow Wang Baobao's army to the Mobei grasslands, but stayed and stationed in Ying.
Chang.
Now that the weather has entered winter, the strong winds and blizzards on the grassland have made Li Siqi's subordinates feel extremely uncomfortable. Moreover, because they are too close to the Central Plains, the news that the Ming army is preparing for war in Peiping also makes Li Siqi's subordinates in Yingchang very frightened.
Moreover, the surrounding Mongolian tribes had no sense of identity with these Han armies.
They often robbed and stole the grain, grass and sheep hoarded by Li Siqi's men.
After the winter entered, the two sides broke out more than a dozen conflicts, large and small. In the end, they were all suppressed by Li Siqi's strong tactics.
But as a result, the Mongols around Yingchang became very hostile to Li Siqi and others.
Li Siqi's army had nowhere else to go except Yingchang.
The information that the Mongolian and Yuan troops were panicking in Yingcheng was quickly sent to the Peiping Dusi.
After Xu Da, the chief governor of the Ming Dynasty's Beipingdu Division, learned of this information, he immediately sent someone to report the information to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han of Yingtian Mansion.
After receiving the information, Zhu Han immediately suggested to his brother Zhu Yuanzhang to send people to Yingchang to instigate rebellion.
"The tens of thousands of troops under Li Siqi were basically Han people. They joined the army at that time just for a living job. Now, when the Ming Dynasty regains the Central Plains, we need manpower. If we can recruit these tens of thousands of Han people to the Ming Dynasty again,
That will not only strengthen our strength, but also weaken Meng Yuan's momentum."
Zhu Han's words were immediately approved by Zhu Yuanzhang,
After the two brothers completed their discussion, they immediately asked their second brother-in-law Li Zhen's Qihai Trading Company, which is now the Ming Dynasty's secret intelligence agency, to send envoys and caravans to Yingchang Mansion.
After several years of business operation, the second brother-in-law Li Zhen is no longer the honest and humble businessman he was before, but a full-fledged intelligence expert.
After sending out several more waves of caravans and spies.
Second brother-in-law Li Zhen quickly understood Ying Chang's situation clearly.
Li Siqi and others in Yingchang were in a difficult situation, and Wang Baobao in Mobei was no longer able to take care of them. Therefore, it was natural for the Mongolian and Yuan armies composed of Han people to want to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and it was not a conspiracy to surrender.
Faced with this situation, Zhu Han immediately sent his most capable general to contact Li Siqi.
The two sides quickly decided on the time and contact information for the uprising.
It was October 29, the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty.
The Mongolian Yuan general Li Siqi led 30,000 soldiers. He raised an army in Yingchang and killed more than 20 officials of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty who killed the local general. He announced that he would change his banner and submit to the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Da, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty's Beiping Dynasty, personally led 30,000 troops from Peiping.
Rush to the grassland to respond to Li Siqi.
In less than three days, Yingchang and the surrounding lands and tribes for hundreds of miles were all controlled by the Ming army.
The entire Monan grassland was shaken. The Ming army took over Yingchang, deployed defenses here, and then issued an announcement to the surrounding Mongolian tribes.
The Northern Dusi of the Ming Dynasty declared sovereignty over the Monan Grassland. If the various tribes on the grassland want to continue to live and graze here, they must send people to Yingchang to swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty. If anyone does not come, they will be regarded as
Those who are enemies of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be suppressed and expelled by the Ming army in the future.
All the tribes on the Monan Grassland suddenly panicked and ran out of ideas.
These tribes have lived on the grasslands for hundreds of years and have never thought of leaving this land, but if they were to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, it would be very difficult for them.
After all, the Ming Dynasty was a ferocious existence to the Mongols, and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty on the Mobei Grassland also had hundreds of thousands of troops. Once these tribes surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, would they be attacked by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty on the Mobei Grassland in the future?
His criminal charges are also unknown.
Therefore, these grassland tribes are in a state of hesitation and wait-and-see.
At this time, Yingchang's general Li Siqi had led his men back to the Central Plains. From then on, any grudges and grudges on the grassland had nothing to do with Li Siqi.
Li Siqi was sent to Yingtian Mansion along with Li's family papers by Xu Da's troops.
After entering Yingtian Mansion, Li Siqi wore white clothes and met Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty as a guilty person.
In front of all the civil and military officials of the dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang magnanimously ordered that Li Siqi be given a red official uniform, which symbolizes the display of nobility by high-ranking officials.
In order to show the world the tolerance and generosity of Ming Dynasty.
When Li Siqi fought against the Red Turban Army in Shanxi and Henan, he had a lot of blood debt on his hands. He not only slaughtered the Red Turban Army soldiers, but also looted local people. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's original thoughts, he was
Even if he raises an army to revolt, he must be punished severely.
But Zhu Han persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, it's really not worth damaging Ming's reputation for tolerance and generosity for such a small role.
Therefore, under Zhu Han's persuasion, Zhu Yuanzhang still awarded Li Siqi an earl.
Then he was given a sinecure as the commander of the Goryeo Protectorate.