Under the seemingly simple but to the point of discord, the situation in Ningxia City has become very dramatic.

The news of Bi Chengen's mobilization of the army was first learned by Tu Wenxiu, who was a close confidant of Bibai. Because Tu Wenxiu's mansion was close to Bi Chengen's mansion, and his relationship with Bi Chengen was also good, he didn't go to Bi Bai first, but went directly to Bi Chengen to inquire about the situation.

Bi Chengen didn't know that Tu Wenxiu had his own idea before, and when he saw an old friend visiting, he explained the plan and plan without saying a word, and encouraged Tu Wenxiu to work with him.

Just imagine, Tu Wenxiu, a person who began to think about his future as early as when the situation was still unclear, how could he still have the confidence to continue hanging himself from this tree when the rebels were trapped in Ningxia now? After he heard that Gao Pragmatic not only promised to let his father and son live, but even made a promise to Yongzhen Ningxia, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and agreed to do it with Bi Chengen on the spot.

The reason why Tu Wenxiu is so happy is not only because Gao Pragmatic has an excellent reputation, but because he thinks he sees the reason why Gao Pragmatic does this. What's with? The imperial court is short of money, and it is a big and urgent shortage.

Regarding this point, in fact, he had already figured it out on the way back to Ningxia, and the reason was not complicated, and there were many clues that could be seen.

First of all, the troops mobilized by Gao Shishi when he sent troops this time were not normal. Not to mention the Liaodong side around Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty, there are nearly 700,000 troops. In the face of the critical situation of the chaos in the northwest, Gao Pragmatic only brought more than 30,000 men and horses to the expedition of less than 40,000 people, which is not the consistent style of the imperial court, and the biggest possibility is that the imperial court has no money, so it does not dare to mobilize too many troops.

Secondly, Gao Pragmatic's style of play this time is also different from his past style. According to his previous style, he is actually a very cautious person, and insists that "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", not to mention that he will definitely not do such a thing as charging into battle, even if the front line is only slightly dangerous, he himself will not appear, and will only stay in the rear to coordinate and command.

But this time, he actually risked his life and personally led the army to the Hetao to lure Bo Shuoketu to take the bait, which is very abnormal. Although Bo Shuoketu has been defeated and lost now, you must know that in the field battle, no one dares to say that it will be able to defeat the Mongols, even if the combat power is obviously superior, the Mongols can run if they can't fight - Cheng Zu always encountered this kind of thing when he first attacked Mobei, so although the five expeditions to Mobei seemed to swallow mountains and rivers, in fact, they couldn't really do anything to the Mongols.

Gao Shishi's department is also dominated by infantry troops, and it must not be able to outrun the Mongols, which is equivalent to winning and may not be able to gain much, and losing is almost rushing to send people away. However, even in such a situation, he was still willing to use himself as bait to catch the big fish of Boshoketu, and the reason was obvious: he was very eager to take Boshoketu in one fell swoop and force the Ordos Ministry to withdraw from the war.

But here's a more insidious question: what if Gao Pragmatic ignores Bo Shuoketu?

In the case that the Ming Dynasty is not short of troops, as long as there is money and food, you can ignore Bo Shuo Ketu first, and directly mobilize several large armies to besiege Ningxia, Bo Shuo Ketu has no good way to do this, and can only look at the more than 100,000 Ming troops under the city and stare dryly.

However, Gao Pragmatic chose the most unnecessary battle, not only personally used the bait, but even used his personal connections to mobilize Tu Tu to come (this is Tu Wenxiu's personal judgment, the reason is that from the terms of the tribute conditions of the year, Tumut does not bear the obligation to help the Ming Dynasty fight). This was not satisfied, Gao Pragmatic also drew Ilduqi over, in order to quickly defeat Bosoktu and let the Ordos Department withdraw from the war as soon as possible.

Why? There may be more than one reason, such as the fear of Tumen Khan's interference, but Tu Wenxiu believes that the biggest reason why Gao pragmatic did this is not because he is worried about Tumen Khan, but because he knows that the Ming Dynasty cannot afford a protracted war that has besieged Ningxia for a long time.

If Ningxia is regarded as Luoyang, which was besieged by Li Shimin at the end of the Sui Dynasty, then Bo Shuoketu is actually equivalent to Dou Jiande, as long as this "Dou Jiande" is still outside and ready to rescue at any time, the "Wang Shichong" in the city of "Luoyang" has the confidence to continue to hold on, and the subordinates of "Wang Shichong" will not have their own thoughts because of despair.

In other words, as long as the elite of Boshuoktu's suite is still wandering around, Ningxia City has the confidence to hold on, while Gao Pragmatic came to Ningxia this time to obviously lack artillery, so he can only choose to besiege for a long time.

Therefore, Gao Shimin's pragmatic choice is actually the same as Li Shimin's back then, regarding the Huri and Huliang ambush as the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, first defeating the strong reinforcements, and then forcing the surrender with victory!

Judging from the situation in Ningxia City, Tu Wenxiu also has to admit that Gao Pragmatic's hand is indeed very effective.

Later, a Chinese military wizard once proposed in his writings that "whether you win or lose, you just don't make peace with it", this view is very suitable for a country with a vast territory like China, but the Bibai rebels in Ningxia obviously can't do it. They do not have such conditions for "exchanging space for time," let alone such far-sighted strategic vision.

Therefore, once the reinforcement on which they had high hopes failed, the courage of the Ningxia rebels to resist the imperial court had actually disappeared long ago under the pressure of the official army and the encirclement on all sides.

However, for Tu Wenxiu at this moment, it is no longer of much significance to understand Gao Shishi's hidden worries, and the only effect is to make him believe that Gao Shishi's promise should be true: a long-term siege may lead to more troubles, so of course the matter in Ningxia should be ended quickly, and forcing to surrender is the best choice, as for giving Yu Bibai and his son such generous conditions, it is just an accessory.

After all, according to Tu Wenxiu's point of view, Ningxia's handing over to Bijia Yongzhen is not his pragmatic business. He is a civilian official, as long as he retains the governor of the three sides and the governor of Ningxia, it doesn't matter who is the chief soldier of Ningxia, anyway, whoever is the chief soldier has to listen to the governor and governor - unless you rebel again, but that is already someone else's business, and it can't be relied on by him.

Since it was determined that Gao Pragmatic was sincerely persuading him to surrender, Tu Wenxiu was not polite, and when he returned to the mansion, he began to take active action, and dispatched troops to prepare to cooperate with Bi Chengen to take action against the generals who were not descendants of the Bi family.

However, Tu Wenxiu was careless this time, he didn't know that when he went out to Pingyu City, Liu Dongyang, the "Ningxia General Soldier", took the opportunity to quietly install a fine work in his mansion. At this time, Tu Wenxiu's every move, Liu Dongyang only needed half an hour to know clearly.

Liu Dongyang, as the first person in the "Four Battalions" who rebelled with Bibai at that time, had a deep foundation in Ningxia, otherwise he would not have been appointed as the "Ningxia General Soldier" by Bibai - you must know that the Bibai rebels originally only mastered one Ningxia town. Liu Dongyang's status and strength are second only to Bibai in the rebels.

Liu Dongyang not only discovered Tu Wenxiu's movements, but also quickly discovered Bi Chengen's movements. And Zhou Zhe is right, there is more than one lobbyist sent by Gao Pragmatism, and Liu Dongyang also has it, and Liu Dongyang is also moved.

At this moment, Liu Dongyang found that Bi Chengen and Tu Wenxiu really didn't miss the old love, so naturally they would not be polite, and immediately mobilized troops and horses to kill Tu Wenxiu's mansion.

At this time, Tu Wenxiu was still transferring troops, and the government did not have much defense at all, and the family of more than 200 people and the whole of the house, including himself, were quickly killed, and Tu Wenxiu's head was also cut off by Liu Dongyang, leaving only the regret of "unpaid ambition" for 10,000 years.

At this time, Bi Chengen also made a move, but he was different from Tu Wenxiu's "division of labor" at that time, so he killed Xu Chao's mansion first. Xu Chao had just received urgent information from Liu Dongyang at this time, and because there were not many soldiers and horses in his house, he himself happened to be on the way to the barracks, but he was blocked by Bi Chengen. 168

There is nothing to say about this result, Xu Chao was hacked to death on the spot, Bi Chengen stepped forward to cut off his head that was cut to the point where he could only be vaguely distinguished, and ordered someone to hang high above the city tower, and at the same time went in the direction where Liu Dongyang was.

A fierce battle broke out between Bi Chengen's department and Liu Dongyang's department, and they fought for nearly two hours, and in the end, the Cangtou army of the Bi family was more powerful and defeated Liu Dongyang's department. Bi Chengen concocted the same method, hung Liu Dongyang's head on the city tower, and then sent people out of the city to discuss the surrender with Gao Pragmatic - of course, the rhetoric is not surrender, but reform.

The matter of negotiations between the two armies will not be listed for the time being, because on the day of the outbreak of civil strife in Ningxia, there were other major events that had to be mentioned elsewhere.

On this very day, Tumen sent troops.

However, the direction of Tumen's troops may be unexpected by everyone, he did not send troops to the west to conquer Tumut, nor did he take advantage of the financial difficulties of the Ming court to pull out the nail of Daning City, but inexplicably launched the Eastern Expedition, and the object of his Eastern Expedition was even more strange, it turned out to be Yehebu.

This is so strange, when did the Mongols become interested in the Yehebu to which the Haixi Jurchens belonged?

But don't worry, Tumen Khan is not the only one who started the war on the same day, there is also a Jurchen leader who has been in high spirits recently - Nurhachi.

On this day, Nurhachi also launched a war aimed at the Hada tribe. His reason for starting the war was that Mengebulu was responsible for the death of his father-in-law, Nurhachi.

Ah......h Didn't you kill your father-in-law yourself, why is it Mengeblu's turn to be responsible?

However, Nurhachi has always been a very reasonable person, and his method of reasoning is mainly to make the other party unreasonable, which is very easy to do: just kill it, and the dead person is unreasonable.

It is obviously no coincidence that Tumen and Nurhachi raised troops together. That's right, this matter is part of the grand strategy of Buzhhatu.

According to Burihatu's conception, or his statement to Nurhachi, that is, Ye He has already formed a mortal enmity with Jianzhou Zuowei because of the deaths of Qing Jiatong and Yang Jitong, and sooner or later he will meet in the future. The reason why there is no movement on Ye He's side now is simply that Ye He has not recovered from the last loss, and once they regain their strength, the first target to be attacked will definitely be you Nurhachi.

The reason is clear: let Ye He find Daming for revenge, and he will definitely not dare to borrow their ten bear-hearted leopard guts, and the object of their dare to attack can only be you Nurhachi. As for why he didn't look for Hada's Menggebulu, the reason was the same: Hada was originally a puppet pushed out by the Ming Dynasty, and there was a fart difference between them beating Hada and beating the Ming Dynasty? You beat someone's son, but the father of the other family didn't come to beat you?

But this alone is not enough to convince Nurhachi, because Nurhachi also knows that he has just been warned by Gao Pragmatic, although he quickly withdrew his troops after receiving the letter, but his previous actions may have left a bad impression on Gao Pragmatic, it is better to be well-behaved at this moment, don't jump out and cause trouble.

However, the envoy of Burzhhatu told Nurhachi that there was a greater benefit for the Mongols and Jianzhou to join forces to defeat Yeh and Hada, and this benefit was the trade route.

As long as Chahar defeats and annexes Yehe, and Nurhachi defeats and annexes Hada, then the trade routes of Liaodong's specialties will be monopolized by both of them, and the Ming Dynasty will no longer be able to get Liaodong's goods without passing through them.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is short of money, it is definitely unwilling to cut off the Liaodong trade road, and then Mongolia and Jianzhou will no longer be like in the past, so they can only rush to ask the Ming Dynasty to open the tribute market, but it is the turn of the Ming Dynasty to find them in a hurry to exchange markets.

As for how the benefits of this trade route were to be distributed, Burihatu did not take advantage of his power and deliberately mistreated Nurhachi, he said that in principle, Chahar could monopolize the trade in antler velvet and furs, while Jianzhou mainly monopolized the trade in ginseng - that is, the deer antler and fur market was set up in the "Beiguan" near the Mongols, and the "Nanguan" near Jianzhou was set up as a ginseng market.

In this situation, even if the Mongols have ginseng in their hands, they have to go to Nanguan Mutual Market, while the Jurchens have deer antler velvet and fur in their hands, they have to come to Beiguan Mutual Market.

Although it seems that the Mongols have mastered the two trades of deer antler velvet and fur, because deer antler velvet and fur did not form a complete monopoly on the Ming Dynasty, the profits are not higher than the almost completely monopolized ginseng, so this idea is generally very fair for Nurhachi, and Nurhachi can accept it in his heart.

But Nurhachi has other worries, that is, what if Da Ming comes back to his senses, such as Gao Pragmatic, who will come to crusade at that time?

Nurhachi is really a little afraid of Gao Pragmatic, whether it is in terms of wisdom or strength, Nurhachi now has an obvious fear of Gao Pragmatic, which was formed when Gao Pragmatic was planning to kill Yehe Erbeile in Kaiyuan, and this fear is now even worse than his fear of Li Chengliang.

However, Burihatu gave a reassurance and promise, and his envoy told Nurhachi that the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil in the northwest, and even after it was pacified, it would take time to recover. And the primary enemy of the Ming Dynasty has always been Mongolia, to be precise, their Mongolian left wing, since the Mongolian left wing has also launched an attack on Yehe in this battle, then in the future, even if the Ming Dynasty wants to retaliate, it must be to find them first, and it is impossible to find Nurhachi first.

And once that time comes, even if you Nurhachi go to Daming to surrender, I Mongolia will not blame you, presumably at that time it is impossible for Daming not to accept your surrender, so what else do you have to worry about?

Nurhachi felt justified after hearing this, and he was really itching to control the trade route proposed by Burihatu, so he agreed. As for why Da Ming took the initiative to find them to exchange markets, he didn't have much hope, and he also knew that even if there was a day, it would only appear after Da Ming found that he couldn't defeat them and restore Ye He and Hada, and it was too early to think about that.

What should be done now is to take advantage of the turmoil in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty and conquer Yehe and Hada first!

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