The eldest son of the leader of the Taining Guards treated his son as a child and respectfully showed himself to Zhu Houzhao. Wang Yuan kowtowed: "I treat your child like a child and pay homage to the Emperor of Heaven and to the Minister Wang!"
"Pingshen," Zhu Houzhao raised his hand and said, "Give me a seat."
The eunuch brought a chair and sat the child down carefully, but his eyes secretly glanced at Wang Yuan.
Zhu Houzhao asked casually: "How are the lives of the people in Tainingwei?"
The child looked around, not daring to answer.
Zhu Houzhao said to the rest of the crowd: "Everyone go out, Erlang stays."
Jiang Bin and Xu Tai are very speechless. Even though they are favored on weekdays, they have to go away at critical moments.
The emperor, Wang Yuan and the translator were the only ones left in the room. They knelt down with a pop and cried: "Your Majesty, please make the decision for Taining Guard!"
Zhu Houzhao asked with a smile: "Who bullied Tainingwei?"
Baodang'er said: "With Khalkha Mongolia in the north and Duoyanwei in the south, Tainingwei is having a hard time. Please expand the scope of mutual trade."
Poor Taining Guard, who was originally the strongest among the three Duoyan Guards, has now become the weakest one.
In the south, the territory and population of Tainingwei were frantically occupied and assimilated by Duoyanwei. In the north, the Khalkha Tatar Mongolian tribe captured Tainingwei and beat them wildly for decades, forcing Tainingwei herdsmen and farmers to continue southward.
move.
The Khalkha Mongols are the tribe of Dayan Khan's fifth son, Alchu Bolot.
Because it was too far away from the Ming Dynasty, Khalkha hardly came to the Ming Dynasty border to plunder. Whenever he had time, he went to rob the Taining Guards' pastures. Every time the Taining Guards were robbed, they invaded the Gubeikou area of the Ming Dynasty and tried their best to make up for the losses they suffered.
Loss.
Historically, the kid in front of me became the leader of the Taining Guards, but he invaded the Ming Dynasty and was hacked to death by Ma Yong. The Khalkha Mongols took the opportunity to go south, forced the Taining Guards to marry, seized the Taining Guards' seal, and pretended to be the Taining Guards.
Trade with the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, embarrassing content appeared in the history books of the Ming Dynasty, which mistook the leader of the Khalkha Mongolia, Hu Lahaci, the grandson of Dayan Khan, as the new generation leader of the Taining Guards.
Wang Yuan suddenly asked: "Duoyan Sanwei, what is the specific situation now?"
"Your Excellency, Sir, please..." Baodangzi immediately poured the beans into the bamboo tube and said a lot.
It turns out that after Duoyan Sanwei was stationed as a herder, there were not only herders but also many farmers engaged in farming in the area under his jurisdiction.
Some of these farmers were snatched away by Duoyan Sanwei, and some took refuge in the Ming Dynasty when they could no longer survive. The further south you go, the more farmers there are in the areas under the jurisdiction of Sanwei. In some places, Chinese has even become the common language.
The Taining Guards were attacked from the north and the south and could no longer hold on any longer, so they had no choice but to surrender to the Duoyan Guards.
The Fuyu Guards were also oppressed by the Duoyan Guards and could only continue to develop westward. Their tribes had reached as far away as Heilongjiang and Jilin, where they fought all day long with the savage Jurchens in the Northeast.
While being beaten by the Tatars, Duoyanwei bullied Taining and Fuyu, and occasionally came to the border of the Ming Dynasty to rob.
Wang Yuan asked again: "Do you know the news about Tatar Mongolia?"
The boy replied: "Buchi, the grandson of Dayan Khan, has succeeded to the throne as the Great Khan and is known as 'Bodi Khan'. The leader of the Mongols in Khalkha is Bodi Khan's fifth uncle, and it seems that he does not respect his nephew.
Although there is no open rebellion, they have taken away a large area of left-wing Mongolian pasture."
"Has Bodi Khan's third uncle, the Mongolian deputy khan, established himself as khan?" Wang Yuan asked again.
The boy shook his head and said: "I don't know, right-wing Mongolia is too far away from us."
Wang Yuan turned to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, it seems that Tatar and Mongolia have been divided into three."
Zhu Houzhao was very happy and said with a smile: "This is the result of you and our monarchs. Once the little Mongolian prince dies, Tatar will definitely decline!"
Jian Dangzi quickly flattered him: "The bravery of the Holy Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is known to all the people in the grassland. It can stop children from crying."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
This flattery made Zhu Houzhao feel good. He liked to be praised as "martial and brave", and words such as "sage" did not scratch the emperor's itch.
Baodang'er took the opportunity and said: "I beg the mighty and brave Holy Emperor to allow Taining Guards to trade more goods with each other."
"That's right!"
Zhu Houzhao was very happy and directly expanded the scale of trade with Tainingwei.
Wang Yuan did not stop him. Supporting Taining and Fuyu was now the correct strategy. To the north, he could stop the expansion of the Khalkha Mongols, to the west, he could suppress the development of the Jurchen tribe, and to the south, he could defeat the arrogant Duoyan Guard.
Wang Yuan only added: "After expanding mutual trade, the Taining Guards are not allowed to invade the south again, otherwise trade will be cut off directly!"
"Don't dare," Baodang'ao kowtowed repeatedly, "Since I have received the grace of the Holy Emperor, Taining Guard will never betray you again, and will only serve as a grassland barrier for the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and smiled: "Let's go down."
After the man left, Zhu Houzhao asked, "What do you think of Erlang?"
Wang Yuan said: "If what you are telling the child is true, then the Taining Guards must support you. Even if your Majesty sends his troops to the north, he should focus on recovering the cities in Jibei and cannot directly eliminate the three Duoyan Guards. The force is too much at once.
Ruthless, they will either defect to the Khalkha Mongols or the left-wing Mongolia, and the Ming border will be under greater pressure. Therefore, our future combat goal is to regain Kuanhe and Daning cities, weaken the strength of Duoyan Wei, and let Duoyan defend
Yan Sanwei's internal forces are once again balanced and restraining each other."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "Erlang is right, we will act according to this strategy."
Duoyanwei sent Proton Boge, Tainingwei sent Proton Bao as a child, Fuyuwei was too far away and could not react for the time being.
Zhu Houzhao was still planning to continue hunting on the grassland, but news came from the capital that the Empress Dowager had died of illness, and the emperor was asked to go back to pay his respects as soon as possible.
The Empress Dowager, whose surname was Wang, was very beautiful when she was young. Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen wanted to make her the queen. However, the eunuch probably took bribes and interfered with it, so he made Wu the queen instead. Empress Wu only served as queen for a month, and was
Zhu Jianshen made a fuss and had her abolished, but finally let Queen Wang take the position.
It's a pity that Queen Wang met Concubine Wan Gui. If she hadn't been patient and virtuous and had not made any mistakes for more than 20 years, Queen Wang would have been abolished.
Zhu Houzhao's father, Emperor Hongzhi, was raised by Queen Wang and he loved Zhu Houzhao very much.
Although Zhu Houzhao had a falling out with his mother, he respected his grandmother very much, and he had to go back to mourn her.
Wang Yuan was required to go back and attend the funeral of the Empress Dowager.
But the emperor showed mercy this time, and Wang Yuan only had to wear plain clothes to express his condolences, and then he could immediately go south to Guizhou. Fortunately, it was the Empress Dowager who died. If the Empress Dowager died, officials across the country would not be allowed to marry for a hundred days (for civilians, it would be one month).
Wang Yuan and Song Ling'er's wedding will continue to be postponed.
When Wang Yuan left Beijing, he also took the Wang Ming Flag with him, and it was a very special Wang Ming Flag. In case of local rebellion, he could mobilize troops nearby, or even lead military operations across provinces.