Chapter 1269 Malacca has fallen
After the cabinet agreed, the order began to be executed, and the nearly 40,000 Mongols captured by the Ming army, as well as the 60,000 Mongols who surrendered, were organized into 20 guards by the Ming Dynasty, distributed in the Monan and Horqin grasslands.
However, because there are only more than 100,000 people left, the strength is far weaker than that of Mobei Mongolia, in order to avoid being annexed by many tribes in Mobei, so these guards can only be distributed near the Great Wall and Ningliao, and cannot control the entire Monan and Eastern Mongolian grasslands, and many of the original pastures have become no man's land.
Of the millions of cattle and sheep harvested in the Ming Dynasty, 400,000 sheep were left by the military department, 200,000 sheep and 10,000 cattle were sold by the people, and the rest were handed over to the Mongolian guards for grazing.
Of the 400,000 heads of the military department, only 100,000 heads were taken away and distributed to the towns, and the other more than 300,000 heads were also handed over to the Mongolian guards for free-range, but in the next three years, the guards needed to send 100,000 cattle and sheep to the military department every year, and after three years, the military department was enough to buy 100,000 cattle and sheep per year at market prices for the army.
If this method is implemented well, not only will the Ming army's war horses not have to worry, the cavalry will be strengthened, and the soldiers' physique will also be improved.
During the reorganization of the tribes and captives, several Taiji and more important nobles of the Mongol tribes were sent to Nanjing, where they were given houses and fields to be nurtured, and the Mongols who were selected as the guards of the Thousand Households had to send a son to Nanjing to learn Chinese characters, Chinese dialect, and military affairs, which was not only to be used as hostages, but also to train them.
After all, the Mongols who belonged to the Ming Dynasty were only a minority, and they belonged to the weaker side in the steppe, and they were divided into a number of guards, so their forces were even more dispersed, and they were easily targeted by other large tribes, so they needed to improve their ability to protect themselves.
Otherwise, after the Ming Dynasty spent effort to cultivate, it was annexed by other tribes that did not surrender, and did not play the role of a barrier for the Ming Dynasty, it would be in vain.
After organizing the guards and dividing the pastures, the imperial court ordered all the Mongols who belonged to them to be given the status of Guiyi, and then gave them the Ming nationality according to their performance.
At this time, according to the order, the first of the heads of Fu Lin was to pass it on to these Mongolian guards, and to publicize the shameless act of Nurhachi who was originally a domestic slave, but rebelled and killed his master, so as to warn the Mongolian guards.
After the Mongolian transmission, the head was passed to the Manchu captives who were building Jinzhou City, so that they would never resist, honestly atone for their sins, and in the future, like Guiyi Bo Tan Tai, earn a good identity and start anew.
These captives who worked day and night actually had some illusions about the former glory of the Qing Dynasty, but when they saw the heads of Fulin and others, they were completely desperate.
When the Ming Dynasty was ruined and the family was destroyed, there were loyal people, crying blood and pain, and other nationalities actually had it, many Manchu people saw their emperor's head, and some people couldn't help crying, and some even committed suicide for this, but the vast majority of people quickly returned to normal after being injured, and continued to work.
After all, compared to Fu Lin's death, their current situation is still more important, and if they can't complete their daily tasks, they have no food to eat.
When the head is passed to the Guannai, it is much more festive, just like the festival, the transmission of one city after another, from the north to the south of the Yangtze River.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty also sent Wu Keshan a reply, allowing him to lead his troops south to Horqin, but he and the nobles of Horqin must go to Nanjing to live, and the troops will be handed over to the Ming Dynasty for reorganization.
Entering Nanjing is equivalent to house arrest, and if you hand over your subordinates, you will lose your power, which Wu Keshan can't accept, and after all, he is Fulin's uncle, plus the queen and princess of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are her relatives, he is not sure whether the Ming Dynasty will really let him go.
If he lived in Nanjing, he would inevitably have trouble sleeping and eating, and he would not be at ease for a day, so he would not go to Nanjing.
However, they had reached the point of killing horses to satisfy hunger, and finally after discussion, more than 20,000 Horqin people gathered near the fishing sea, leaving most of the supplies, and 15,000 people followed Wu Keshan's brother to accept the conditions of the Ming Dynasty and moved back to Horqin, making the number of Mongols who submitted to the Ming Dynasty reach 120,000.
This number, combined with the subjugated Mongol tribes in the Qinghai region, then at least 150,000 people became Guiyi.
Wu Keshan did not accept the conditions of the Ming Dynasty in the end, but he also exchanged a way out for more than 15,000 Horqin people who were about to run out of food.
After the main force moved back to Horqin, Wu Keshan took less than 5,000 people and walked north to the area of Hulun Lake, sacking a village of the Beishan Jurchen, but it caused the Beishan Jurchen to counterattack.
Wu Keshan could not gain a foothold, so he could only continue to move north to the area of Nebuchu.
During this time, three or four hundred of his 5,000 people died in the battle with the Beishan Jurchens, and then more than 2,000 people left the ranks and returned to Horqin to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and the rest starved to death in Nebuchu, and finally only 1,500 people were left to establish villages here and start a life of fishing and hunting.
Wu Keshan, as a tribal leader of more than 100,000 people, finally fell to the bitter cold land, from the Great Khan to the pavilion chief, and it is really impermanent, and he has experienced ups and downs.
In April, the climate in Malacca, South Seas, begins to become hot and humid as the sun leaps over the equator and shines directly over the Northern Hemisphere.
From February onwards, this climate had reduced the Ming army by nearly 2,000 men, and the number of sick and dead was close to the casualties of the entire campaign.
The increasingly hot weather was unbearable for the Ming army, but at this time, the Dutch main fort, which had been besieged for seven months, finally surrendered to the Ming army in the midst of food shortages.
When Moschel, the president of the East India Company, led a group of smelly and distracted Heyi out of the fortress, it can be said that the Ming army was shocked, and even Li Dingguo did not expect that the red-haired ghost would have such an ability to endure, and he was surrounded for seven months before surrendering unconditionally.
On the route from Malacca to Luzon, a three-masted ship rode the wind and waves on the sea, and Gao Yihuan lay comfortably on the deck, basking in the most poisonous sun.
After being locked up in a dark fort by the Dutch for three or four months, as soon as he came out, he had a bad habit of basking in the sun, and the skin on his body was peeled off several layers, and it was so black that it was almost as black as the black slave he bought, but he still had to bask for a moment every day.
In fact, as early as three months ago, they were released by the Dutch, but Gao Yihuan did not leave by boat, but helped the Ming army to do some chores, he was not for anything else, but to get his goods back.
He has worked hard for more than a year, and all his net worth is pressed on this trip, if all the goods are gone this time, then he really has no chance to turn over.
He waited in Malacca for three months, and finally waited for the red-haired ghosts to come out and surrender, and these red-haired ghosts' bookkeeping skills were still very fine, and each one was remembered clearly, according to the accounts, the Ming army returned him and other merchant ships' goods, but his more than 100 black slaves, but only fifteen people died, but anyway, the other goods were saved, and he did not lose money this time, but he could earn several times.
At this time, Gao Yiyan sat beside him and said, "Second brother, after going back this time, will you still go to sea?" ”
Gao Yihuan suddenly sat up, looked at him and smiled: "What, are you afraid?" ”
"Sort of, it's too dangerous at sea!" Gao Yiyan was really a little afraid, he almost died at the hands of the Dutch.
Gao Yihuan patted him on the shoulder, "Then you will stay in Luzon, I will not sell these black slaves, I will leave them to you to farm, but we will not grow rice, but sugarcane, sugar is more valuable than rice." ”
"Don't! I'm just asking, don't you go back to farming. Although the sea is dangerous, there are also great opportunities, I follow the second brother! Gao Yiqian hurriedly said.
Gao Yihuan smiled, "What do you know, this time let me understand a truth, eggs can't be put in one basket." In the past, we had no capital and had to fight, but this time the goods were sold, and our capital was more. I decided to leave a few brothers behind to grow sugar cane on the island, set up a business, and help me buy and sell goods, so that even if I go to sea and encounter accidents, I will still have you at home to take care of me. ”
Gao Yiyan heard him say this, so he nodded, and they went to sea together, like this time, if something happens, there will really be nothing.
When Gao Yihuan returned to Luzon, after the Ming army accepted the surrender of the Dutch in Malacca, most of the Ming army returned north to Guangzhou, leaving only the soldiers of Liangguang and Yungui to continue the war against the Dutch.
Li Dingguo left Yu Youming to lead a battalion to garrison Malacca and repair the fortress, while he took two battalions and nearly 6,000 people by boat to the camp of the Ming army in Surabaya, preparing to take Java.
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