Chapter 368 The three-year period has come, and it's time to harvest again
In the ninth year of Longwu, the first autumn rain in early autumn finally dissipated the heat of midsummer, and once again enveloped the northern land in weather suitable for military use.
The peaceful period of peaceful development between the Ming and Qing Dynasties has passed in the blink of an eye for three years.
It was already the fifteenth year that Zhu Shuren came to this world. It was the sixth year of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the ninth year of the Longwu Dynasty. From an eighteen-year-old boy, he became a thirty-three-year-old middle-aged man.
Even his wife, Princess Zhu Yuchan, is already twenty-four years old, and their child, Zhu Ciyu, grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty, is seven years old.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Longwu Zhu Changzi, is several years older than the late emperor Chongzhen. He is now forty-eight years old and will soon reach the age of knowing his destiny.
For an emperor with absolutely excellent medical conditions, forty-eight is not considered old. However, Zhu Changzi did not like sports by nature and lacked exercise. He only liked chanting Buddha, playing the piano, and singing and dancing with women, so it was inevitable that he would always be in a weak state.
His uncle, Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun, lived to be fifty-eight years old, and his biological father, King Zhu Yijun of Lao Lu, lived to be forty-seven years old. It can be seen that their family's genes mean that under normal circumstances, the life span is only about fifty years old——
The old King of Lu, Zhu Yiliu, died in the forty-second year of Wanli, five years younger than his brother, but six years earlier than his brother. However, it is said that when Zhu Yiliu died, it was because he and the Queen Mother Li, the biological mother of Emperor Wanli, died of old age, and Zhu Yiliu because "
"It was too sad" and he died that year.
However, there are many rumors in the market that the old Lu King Zhu Yili was because Empress Dowager Li doted on his youngest son. When Emperor Wanli was young, Zhang Juzheng taught Wanli how to read. Once Wanli acted mischievously, Empress Dowager Li said, "If you don't listen to Zhang Ge,
I will depose you and let your brother succeed you" to scare Wanli. This caused Wanli to have a shadow in his heart and always wanted to liquidate his brother.
And Zhu Yixuan himself did have a lot of problems with being domineering, overstepping the rules, and being arrogant and extravagant. So when he heard that his mother was dead, he was worried that he would be punished by his brother without his mother's protection, so he was scared to death.
But regardless of whether Old King Lu really died of sadness because of his filial piety or was scared to death, he could die at the age of forty-seven due to emotional fluctuations, which shows that his natural lifespan will not be much longer. Even if no one scares him or
There was no cause for sorrow, and their family would only live to be in their fifties.
Zhu Changzi was not originally an ambitious person, and he did not want to deal with specific government affairs at all. However, after having been in a high position for many years, he always had some thoughts about making himself recorded in history as "one emperor through the ages."
This is not for real power, but purely for the sake of a good reputation after death, so that he will be praised and admired by future generations in the future, which is also human nature.
As long as a person gets older, who doesn't want to leave his name forever and be immortal?
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Therefore, in the early autumn of this year, Ming Dynasty is about to usher in another Wanshou Festival, which is the 48th birthday of Emperor Longwu.
Zhu Changzi was inevitably tempted to wish his son-in-law a birthday this year when he was going back to Nanjing to report on his duties. Zhu Changzi planned to take the opportunity to ask his son-in-law carefully about the timetable for his plan to regain Liaodong.
There is no need to mention the red tape in the daily routine of the Longevity Festival. After the birthday banquet, Zhu Changqi caught his son-in-law and asked a few questions.
"Have we had a truce with the Tatars for several years? This year is a good time to regain Liaodong? It seems that last year the North had sufficient preparations for military and financial resources. Recovering Liaodong and returning to the entire Ming Dynasty has been the long-cherished wish of several generations of Ming emperors for more than fifty years.
, you still have to pay attention."
Zhu Shuren naturally has his own pace of doing things, and he will not cater to his father-in-law, but the time is indeed ripe this year. The north is recuperating and recovering well, and there are sufficient reserves of military rations and other military supplies. There is a profound reason why he chose to return to Nanjing this year to report on his work.
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So Zhu Shuren immediately expressed his stance: "What my father saw coincided with what I saw, so I have many matters that need to be discussed carefully with my father and the Ministry of History. I also thought that this year I could give the Tatars the final blow."
——However, the war may continue for some time, and it may not be able to achieve full victory in the first year of the war.”
There is a difference between starting a fight and finishing it. The final military operation will definitely need to last for a while.
Of course Zhu Changzi understood, and quickly said: "Soldiers from all walks of life need to adapt to the situation and serve the country as to how to use it in a dangerous battle. Sun Tzu said, "The general will win if the general is capable but the king does not control him. I don't know the military, so I won't care about the details."
Isn't it next year's Wanshou Festival that I will celebrate my fiftieth birthday? The late Emperor Wanli was only over fifty years old, and Huang Kao lived to be forty-seven. Naturally, I have selfish motives. I just want to see the homeland of the Ming Dynasty in my lifetime.
Once everything is restored, there will be no shortage of gold in the world."
The ancients always celebrated nine rather than ten when planning their birthdays. They had to avoid a full birthday one year in advance. They would celebrate their fiftieth birthday at the age of forty-nine, so there was no problem with Zhu Changzi's algorithm. By the autumn of the tenth year of Longwu, he would be celebrating his fiftieth birthday.
Happy birthday.
Zhu Shuren hurriedly persuaded: "Why did my father say this? My father is now at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period. What's more, our Ming Dynasty has made rapid progress in medical technology and chemistry in these years. It will definitely extend the life of the people in the world. There is no problem for my father's Spring and Autumn Period to surpass Wanli and even Jiajing."
Yes, it is certainly not a problem to wipe out the Tartars in every area.
I dare not say it, but after the war breaks out again this year, it is expected that most of the territory in Liaodong will be recovered within the year, and even the city of Shengjing will be conquered in one fell swoop. What is left is nothing more than the pursuit of the nomadic fishing and hunting tribes in the extreme north of the White Mountains and Black Waters.
Annihilation will take a little more time."
Zhu Changzi signaled to him that there was no need to be formal, and Weng's son-in-law told the truth from the bottom of his heart.
Zhu Shuren also introduced to Zhu Changzi some small advances in medical technology in recent years, which convinced Zhu Changzi of his confidence.
Regarding the issue of Zhu Changzi's lifespan, Zhu Shuren still has common interests with his father-in-law.
Even Zhu Shuren felt that if his father-in-law only lived to be in his early fifties, it would be bad for everyone.
After all, he can only be the regent in this life, so he will never be like those princes who hope that their father will die early so that he can take over the throne as soon as possible.
A hundred years later, Zhu Changzi's position can only be passed on to the emperor's grandson Zhu Ciyu, and Zhu Ciyu is only seven years old now. When Zhu Changzi turns fifty, Zhu Ciyu will only be nine years old.
For such a young child, even if he has a biological father and a legal uncle as regent, there will be some trouble after all.
It would be much easier if Zhu Changzi could be delayed until he lived to be sixty, as long as Emperor Jiajing, who actually held power the longest in the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor's grandson could be delayed until he was nineteen years old. It really can't be delayed, it's just a little short.
The year is no big deal.
Seeing that his son-in-law agreed so readily and seemed very confident, Zhu Changzi felt more comfortable. Then he asked again:
"However, after all, the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty have actually had a truce for another two or three years. If the war starts again this time, do you want to find some excuses? Although the Ming Dynasty has never negotiated a truce with the Tatars, we are a country of etiquette after all.
"Bang, the Celestial Empire is a kingdom. Every time you send out troops, it is best to find a proximate cause and make the troops famous."
The Ming Dynasty wanted to destroy the Qing Dynasty. There was no need for an excuse. The Qing Dynasty occupied part of the original territory of the Ming Dynasty and had the revenge of regicide. This cannot be exaggerated.
However, it is still necessary to mention the internal reasons for mobilization, which will help boost morale and let the soldiers know why they are fighting. Any war requires a combination of remote and proximate causes to share the same hatred.
Fortunately, Zhu Shuren was also prepared for this problem. He took advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders at this moment and told the whole plan:
"I have already thought about this. In the past two or three years, although the Tatar tribes have ceased war with me, I, the Ming Dynasty, have continued to bleed the Tatars.
The most important method is to prohibit border trade, block the Tatars from obtaining strategic materials from the economic and key areas such as salt, iron and gunpowder, and slowly weaken the Tatars' national power.
However, the Tatars will definitely not give up. When the late emperor was there, there were eight traitors in Zhangjiakou and Datong, Shanxi merchants, collaborators with the enemy and the country. However, after the Tatars entered the customs, these people showed their identity through the streets.
Later, when the Ming Dynasty regained control of Shanxi and Hebei, we uprooted all the eight traitors, their gang members, and vassal families, and killed them all.
After those people were eliminated, the Tatars were once unable to obtain the strategic materials of the Ming Dynasty, including tea and salt bricks. I heard that the health conditions of some nomadic tribesmen on the grassland have deteriorated greatly in the past two years.
In order to set up an ambush and find an excuse to restart the war in the future, I secretly supported several border merchant families who had some dealings with the eight traitor families, but their crimes were not serious. I promised them that as long as they obeyed the king's instructions, they could be freed.
For the previous crime, you can still serve me in the Ming Dynasty and get an official status in the future.
Therefore, starting from last year, the new Zhangjiakou border merchants controlled by the ministers began to trade privately with the Tatars, mainly with the Mongolian tribes in Horqin and Karaqin grasslands. These Mongolian tribes will continue to resell at higher prices.
Some supplies that the Manchus were particularly short of were given to Shengjing and the Puppet Dynasty.
The sales standards of these border merchants are still well controlled. Last year, I only allowed them to sell salt bricks, tea leaves and a small amount of ironware. This year, they are gradually luring the enemy deeper and can sell ironware and even some black powder to set traps and win trust.
To people.
When it was time to close his mouth, I planned to follow the strategy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in Mayi, luring the Mongols to buy with a big deal, and then setting up an ambush to surround and annihilate all the buyers!
In addition, both the people and the people were stolen, indicating that the Mongols and Manchus once again stole the Ming Dynasty's military equipment during the truce, and were always preparing for war to seek revenge on the Ming Dynasty. Once these words are publicized, the soldiers will naturally share the same hatred with the enemy, and know that this Northern Expedition is for the Ming Dynasty.
The security of the Ming Dynasty is due to the barbarians around the Ming Dynasty constantly trying to increase their force to threaten the Ming Dynasty, so we have to take the initiative to defend ourselves."
After all, Zhu Changzi was a moral person, so of course he was happy to hear that his son-in-law had so many reasons for starting a war. But he was a little worried when he heard that the situation was too big and that the Mongols were also involved.
Zhu Changzi said worriedly: "With the Ming Dynasty's national strength today, even if we are enemies of the Mongols and the Manchus at the same time, we will not be unable to defeat them. But we have to eat one bite at a time and we can walk a few steps separately. Why should we rush for success?"
How about taking another step together?"
Zhu Shuren responded and clarified his father-in-law's doubts: "Father, I don't know. After these years of consumption, the Mongolian Karaqin and Horqin tribes have become extremely weak. I can cut off the Mongolian wings first, and then slowly discover the Mongolian and Manchu tribes."
The Qing Dynasty secretly connected with each other, and by the way, they attacked Liaodong again.
In terms of time, we will not fight two enemies at the same time, but first the Mongols and then the Manchus. Since Hauge killed Bumbutai, the Mongols have been separated from the Manchus. As long as they annihilate a few emerging ones, I think the Mongols will still be able to defeat them.
It can be fought for. As long as they surrender to the Ming Dynasty and promise to turn their guns to help the Ming Dynasty deal with the Manchus, they can stop."
Zhu Changzi heard that his son-in-law was so confident, so he played everything correctly.
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In the next few days, Zhu Shuren stayed in Nanjing and was naturally busy with everything. He controlled all the matters ahead. By the way, he learned about the details of the imperial government's affairs during his absence and inspected some work on the spot.
The provocative action against Mongolia does not require his personal intervention. In the initial stage, just let him stay with a few confidants in the north and handle it on his own, because the enemy is too small and unworthy.
Another important reason is that Zhu Shuren ultimately hopes that the Ming Dynasty can appear more just in the history of future generations, so he should try to be as just as possible. This is not a moral obsession of the world, but also to better make his own people share the same hatred of the enemy, and to serve as a warning to future generations.
Whether you have played "Europa Universalis" or "Victoria", you all know that the games closest to the real world have "over-expansion penalties". The larger the area directly ruled by a country is not better.
If the marginal returns are diminishing below the marginal cost of rule, then further expansion will bring down the empire, unless technology is first advanced to allow productivity and transportation and communication conditions to catch up and be worthy of the expansion of the empire.
Just like when China needed to unify its north and south, it first needed Emperor Sui Yang to build the Grand Canal. In order to securely control Siberia during the Rakshasa Kingdom, it needed to build the Trans-Siberian Railway first.
But this kind of scientific view of development may not be understood by the generations of Ming rulers after Zhu Shuren's death, so Zhu Shuren felt that he could provide an extra layer of insurance for the future Ming emperors——
If the Ming Dynasty had always followed the Han Dynasty's line of "those who offend the powerful Han will be punished no matter how far away", then it would be less likely to be punished for excessive military expansion. But if the Ming Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty's aggressive military line, it would be very dangerous.
Because a society that legalizes murder, looting, and looting will definitely form a positive feedback loop of using foreign troops, a flywheel effect, and in the end it will not be able to stop the car.
But in a society where "legitimate defense" and "bounty hunting" are legalized, that kind of problem will not arise, because killing and grabbing treasures in this context is unavoidable and is controlled by a negative feedback loop.
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This is not to say that the Ming Dynasty cannot expand in the future under such a big environment, but expansion must first have the barbarians who are not short-sighted. If they invade the Ming Dynasty first, then the Ming Dynasty can fight back until the enemy completely destroys the country. And the barbarians or the Western powers take the initiative to be short-sighted.
After all, the situation does not happen anytime and anywhere, so Ming Dynasty will not worry about overexpansion and self-destruction.
This kind of thing only needs to be done two or three times. Make sure to put up a sign saying that no one will offend me and I will not offend others. Let the people of the earth know that provoking the Ming Dynasty means annihilating the tribe and the country. In the future, there will be fewer and fewer barbarians who commit baseless crimes. Let's consider what to do.
What does it mean to solve Mongolia now? When Zhu Shuren does things, he must of course consider how the Chinese people will operate stably in the long term a hundred years from now.
As the saying goes, the way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more damage, and the way of man is to take away the deficiency and make up for the deficiency.
All the crazy positive feedback and expansion strategies of the Matthew Effect can only take effect within the life span of a generation of hero. If it is in the online novel, it means that the protagonist is very happy when he is alive, and the pleasure is stretched to the limit.
However, the sequelae of this kind of path dependence will be very serious. Once the intergenerational inheritance of power occurs, it will be easy to collapse immediately if the hero is not in power.
Because future generations cannot grasp this scale of expansion and cannot leave behind a set of expansion ethics that can serve as the law for all generations. If they expand too much, they will explode and die. This is how human civilization has flourished and declined one after another for thousands of years.
, the honor of a gentleman, beheaded in five lifetimes.
As long as it is a long time scale that exceeds human lifespan, the way of man will not be the main expression of the laws of nature, and will give way to the way of heaven.
If Zhu Shuren himself is in Beijing when he provokes Mongolia in the future, or if he makes trouble after rushing back to Beijing from Nanjing, conspiracy theorists will inevitably talk about it. Even if outsiders are not allowed to believe it, future emperors will believe it.
And if Zhu Shuren had a leisurely time in Nanjing to congratulate the emperor's father-in-law on his birthday, and seemed harmless to humans and animals, but something happened in the north first, and the news reached Nanjing, and the Nanjing court urgently sent people north, then everything would appear that the Ming Dynasty was very innocent.
It was definitely not a clumsy act like Mustache's "having a few German soldiers put on Polish military uniforms and sneak attack on the German border radio station on the eve of the attack on Poland".
Even future emperors had to believe it.
Of course, this level of consideration is only needed by people of Zhu Shuren's rank.
If you are a ruler with mediocre qualifications, for example, if your abilities are at best equal to those of Qin Shihuang, there is no need to think so far.
The mediocre founding monarch spent his whole life and wisdom, and it would be great if he could found a country. After his death, he would not care about the floods. If he spared a little bit of time when he founded the country and thought more about the long term and constrained his own means, he might not even be able to start the country.
Got married.
Someone who is at least two or three times more intelligent than Qin Shihuang must be able to found a country without having to exert all his efforts. Only then can he have the energy to eliminate hidden dangers for the long term and rule in a way that looks better and is more self-consistent.
As the saying goes, there is no establishment without civil and military power, and it will not last long without military power. Those who cannot establish themselves are not worthy of thinking about the question of how long it will take. That is for those who have more than enough to establish.
Before Zhu Shuren appeared, there were no more than two and a half rulers in Chinese history who were qualified to have a first look at this problem, and there was even less one who could understand it. But this is not surprising. If they could understand it, there would be so many
Change of dynasty?
Even if Zhu Shuren himself had hundreds of years of experience, he would not dare to say that he could understand it all. He just knew that he was qualified to give it a try for the long-term plan, that's all.
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The days in Nanjing passed quickly. While waiting for Shanxi merchants and Shanxi frontier troops to seduce the Mongols, the last thing Zhu Shuren needed to do in Nanjing was to compensate his side concubine Fang Ziling, who had been neglected and idle for three years.
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Fang Ziling was also pitiful. Originally, her family started discussing marriage for her when she was eighteen years old. However, due to a lot of changes in the last years of Chongzhen, it took more than three years for her to get married at the age of twenty-one.
After marriage, they lived a stable life for more than three years and gave birth to a son. But as soon as the son turned two years old, the husband took the princess and his wife to stay in Beijing. After a while, he left her to stay alone in the empty boudoir for two or three years. Now she is two years old.
I am seventeen or eighteen, and the total number of days I have been with a man is only more than three years.
In the past three years, Zhu Shuren naturally had no shortage of women in Beijing. Princess Zhu Yuchan, who already had a son and a daughter, also gave birth to Zhu Shuren another son in Beijing, who is not yet one year old.
Other concubines have also given Zhu Shuren another son and a daughter in the past few years. Now the "Four Beauties of Qinhuai" finally have children, and their old age will not be miserable.
Zhu Shuren now has four sons and six daughters. If his family's business was not big enough to inherit, it might not have ended well.
As the princess gave birth to her second son, it was obvious that Fang Ziling's son could no longer inherit the title of Prince of E, and could only be inherited by the princess's son.
Moreover, the second son born to Zhu Yuchan cannot be named "Zhu Ci", because the format of Zhu Ci is for Zhu Changzi's grandson. Zhu Yuchan's second son is still the emperor's grandson legally, he just follows his father
The given national surname Zhu was not the same as the emperor's surname Zhu. It was different in nature.
Therefore, after the birth of this legitimate second son, Zhu Shuren even had to go to great lengths to change the surname of Fang Ziling's bastard son back to his original surname of Shen before he was given the surname, so that Fang Ziling's children could inherit the title of their grandfather Shen Tingyang.
All this made Zhu Shuren feel very ashamed of Fang Ziling. It was five years after his son was born before he changed his ancestral name back to his ancestral name. The child can remember things, so I wonder if there will be any psychological shadow.
In addition, Zhu Shuren will go north in person this time, and it is estimated that he will not come back to stay with her until the Manchu Qing Dynasty is completely wiped out. Naturally, he will increasingly want to compensate Fang Ziling.
During his stay in Nanjing, he almost only favored Fang Ziling, and did not touch any other concubines.
"I can't inherit the title from the palace anymore. Don't you blame me? You've suffered so much in the past few years. If you go north this time, it will take more than a year at most, and we can stay together forever."
Not long before leaving, Zhu Shuren couldn't help but put his arms around Fang Ziling and comforted him after finishing work late at night.
Fang Ziling was still very indifferent: "I follow my husband, and I only want to know each other. Wealth, honor, and entertainment are all secondary. Although I have not been able to live with my husband in the past few years, I can still raise my children, enjoy a peaceful family relationship, and live my life."
What I learned is not a surprise.
Your Majesty also gave me a title, which is considered as the adoptive mother of the emperor's grandson. I declined it myself, so I didn't want it. Everyone in the palace respects me, so that's enough."
Fang Ziling mentioned that she was obviously very satisfied with the courteous treatment given to her by the royal family. However, she really didn't want the title of "Mrs. So-and-so" for the adoptive mother of the emperor's grandson. Mainly because these names were all used in bad taste in the late Ming Dynasty.
When Wei Zhongxian was in power before, Emperor Tianqi's wet nurse, Hakka, was named the "Holy Lady", but she ended up colluding with Wei Zhongxian.
Fang Ziling naturally just hoped that his identity as the concubine of King E would be pure and not tainted with other identities. Anyway, the royal family's courtesy and respect for her could be reflected in other ways.
Zhu Shuren chatted with Fang Ziling for a while about the education of the emperor's grandson and other sons. Fang Ziling also told him on a whim that she didn't feel empty at all in the past three years because in order to educate her son and the emperor's grandson well, she had made up a book in the past three years.
Although this book is an enlightenment book, adults can also read it for common sense and literacy.
Zhu Shuren returned to Nanjing for more than a month. He was originally busy with government affairs and had no knowledge of children's education. Now he heard Fang Ziling mention it and became concerned about it. Only then did he realize that Fang Ziling had compiled a set of natural history encyclopedias.
In addition to the animal, plant and mineral illustrations, there is also the most basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and even the atomic theory and molecular theory that Zhu Shuren has discussed and verified with her in the past few years.
The mathematical knowledge in the book can also be verified with simple astronomical and geographical knowledge, such as "how to see the masts of ships at sea disappear on the horizon after leaving a certain distance", combined with the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the diameter of the earth, and use mathematical methods
It proves that the earth is round. Other basic geometric principles are also combined with astronomical and geographical phenomena to explain it in a simple and profound way.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty's own printing technology, in addition to movable type, was still at the woodcut stage. However, woodcuts were really difficult to use for drawing, were high-cost, and were not wear-resistant.
Nowadays, Zhu Shuren has introduced a large number of Western technicians to learn from each other. There are also engineers in the national research institute who are studying improved printing technology. They combine Chinese and Western skills, combined with the Western Gutenberg printing technology, and created "clay carving, copper pouring"
"Casting" printing plates are printed with inks containing castor oil, replacing the traditional water-based ink printing of printing plates.
As for the cost of engraving and the expensive copper templates, it doesn't matter since they are only engraving a few popular science books that can be circulated for eternity and have a large circulation.
Moreover, these books were originally printed using royal funds. The original purpose was to educate the emperor's grandson in science and engineering, so of course a huge amount of money was spent.
After teaching the emperor's grandson well, he would print tens of thousands more copies and buy them for ordinary scholars and common people for five taels of silver a set, which would be regarded as benefiting the common people.
People in later generations who read this set of natural history illustrations and general knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry will also be grateful for the overflow of royal education.
Zhu Shuren was amazed after learning about the results of his concubine's work over the past three years.
Indeed, for a woman to be able to do this is a sign of great virtue. Presumably her life and soul will be very fulfilling. What does it matter if she has a husband who can accompany her for a long time? Some women are born to be career-oriented.
Zhu Shuren accompanied Fang Ziling in Nanjing to discuss science popularization and cultural and educational work. Two months passed before he knew it.
One day in September, military news finally came from the north. It was sent back by Liu Guoneng, who was in Shanxi.
The trap deployed by Zhu Shuren to imitate the "Mayi Conspiracy" was indeed very successful, and the Mongols fell into the trap.
This is also due to the fact that Zhu Shuren was more patient than Wang Hui when he was the emperor of Han Dynasty, and took a long time to catch big fish.
In any case, according to Liu Guoneng's battle report, Mongolia's Horqin and Karaqin tribes each had a tribe. Because they privately purchased large amounts of military supplies banned by the Ming Dynasty, they were ambushed and annihilated by the Ming Dynasty's border troops during the delivery. The evidence is conclusive.
Subsequently, Ming Dynasty took this as a trigger and launched a full-scale attack.
The final battle against the remnants of the grassland has begun.
One hundred thousand Ming army cavalry rushed towards the grassland in small numbers and began to divide and disintegrate, defeating the loose and wavering Mongolian tribes one by one.
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PS: The timeline spans a long time, so the running account is a bit fragmented, please forgive me. This is how the timeline goes by very quickly in the later stages.
Within one or two chapters at most, Manchuria and Mongolia as a regime will be solved. Please be patient, we won’t delay.