On September 18, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou arrived at Guihua City, of course, those huge captured prisoners were still slowly moving in the rear, and Wang Dou sent an army to escort them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The grassland always gives people the feeling that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are few settlements, when Wang Dou leads the army all the way, he sees the wild grass high everywhere, and from time to time from the mountains and forests out of more than ten yellow sheep, although the shape is like a sheep, but the hooves are as high as a deer, and its line is like flying.

Although there is also a drought phenomenon, but such an ecological environment, undoubtedly much better than the future generations, looking up at the sky, no industrial pollution sky is beautiful, but human beings want to develop, and the destruction of the environment is inevitable, but from the future generations he can choose to take less detours, choose the one with the highest cost-effectiveness ratio.

Coming down from Daqing Mountain, you can see a large area of land suitable for shepherding along the way, Omubu accompanied Wang Dou at this time, and introduced to Wang Dou quite complacently: "I Tumut people are the best at grazing, we Mongolians cherish livestock just like the Han people cherish crops, especially love horses, and when it comes to the autumn season of high horse fat, they must control the horses to make their mounts fat and strong." ”

He said: "I remember that the elders said that after the Longqing Peace Conference, the more horses exchanged between our Tumert Department and the Ming Dynasty every year, and after the sixth year of Wanli, only in the Zhangjiakou Horse Market, the annual horse exchange volume was 36,000 horses, and the war horses needed by the general in the future were wrapped up in our Tumerte Department." ”

Wang Dou laughed and said, "In the future, I will definitely bother you with the king of Shunyi." ”

Omubu smiled: "It should be, it should be, as the Marquis of Yongning said, the Han and Mongolia are reconciled, this is a matter of mutual benefit, and the Hou Ye is too polite." ”

Of course, Wang Dou would not be polite to Omubu. Grassland herdsmen, stocking in such a vast and sparsely populated place, naturally have their advantages, natural pasture stocking, but also save themselves a lot of money and food in the future.

What made Wang Dou interested was that the closer he got to Guihua City, the more farmland and ditches he cultivated.

Since the Jiajing period of Shizai, there have been settled towns in Monan, and before and after the five years of Longqing tribute, there have been thousands of hectares of Yuntian Fengzhou. Hundreds of villages. The situation of driving the Chinese to cultivate the fields and lose millet and oppose the use of capital, all the departments of Tumut relied on the food to reap the harvest.

Bansheng means village town. The Naturalization City is also known as Dabansheng by the Mongolian people. There are many kinds of crops such as millet, millet, herb, rice and millet in the surrounding area.

But judging from Wang Dou's eyes. Agricultural production in the Tumut Department is still very backward, and there is much room for improvement.

Soon the city of naturalization is in front of you, and it will be six years of Longqing. Altan Khan Xiaoyuan built Qingcheng, after four years of construction, the city was basically completed, Altan Khan sent an envoy, carrying saddle horses, bows and arrows, etc., to the Ming court to ask for the name of the city built, the Wanli Emperor gave the name "naturalization", and gave Buddha statues, scriptures, python satin and other things, it is the origin of the naturalization city.

In front of this city, the north pillow is majestic and majestic Daqing Mountain, the east is connected with the undulating Manhan Mountain, the west is connected with the Hetao, and the south is bordered by the Dahei River.

In the ninth year of Wanli, Altan Khan also built an outer city with a circumference of 20 miles, making the city larger.

Looking at this city, all the generals of the Jingbian Army had a strange look in their eyes, this is the first big city they have conquered, will there be more in the future?

Wang Dou listened to Gao Shiyin behind him exhale, and subconsciously stayed away from him, all the generals around him were like this, Gao Shiyin didn't know how to do it, he was fascinated by elegance recently, he chanted some sour poems, and liked to pretend to be knowledgeable, but he was always in his original form.

Sure enough, after he took a long breath, he praised loudly: "Ah, the pedestrians are fighting in the wind and sand, and the princess has a lot of grievances." There is no city for camping, and the rain and snow are in the desert. Hu Yan wailed and flew at night, and Hu Er's tears fell. ”

Omubu's cheeks twitched, but he didn't hear it, and when he arrived at the gate of the city, as the original owner, he respectfully said to Wang Dou: "Master Hou, please." ”

Wang Dou smiled and said, "King Shunyi, please." ”

At this time, the naturalization city was guarded by the new military camp of Datong Town, and the right battalion of the Xuanwu Army, the general Tian Qiming, led the second class army to guard, and there was the baggage battalion general Sun Sanjie to transport grain and grass.

As soon as Tian Qiming saw Wang Dou's face, he shouted loudly: "Congratulations to the general on the great victory of Saiwai and raise the prestige of my Jingbian army!" ”

Sun Sanjie is not good at expressing it, but the joy in his eyes has revealed the emotions in his heart.

Wang Dou laughed and said: "Lieutenant Tian You is still so good at talking, and he is worthy of being brought out by Ambassador Tian." ”

Tian Qiming was originally a family member under Tian Changguo, and these people from the old army generally have a much smoother temperament, but this is only a small section and can be ignored, after all, there are thousands of people, and they cannot be demanding.

The army continued to enter the naturalization city, Wang Dou, Wang Pu, and Omubu were in front, and soon after entering from the north gate, Wang Dou secretly shook his head......

All kinds of shantytowns, patches of ground nests, tents, piles in the east and west, vegetable fields and fields, cattle pens and sheepfolds, potholed streets in disrepair, many silted ditches, and some slightly ornate monasteries in between, are not planned at all.

Fortunately, because the Jingbian army and others were stationed, the streets were cleaned everywhere, and the road surface was quite clean, but it seemed that the residual smell of horse and sheep manure and the pungent smell of quicklime were still in the nose.

Altan Khan, though ambitious, had limited ability to do so, but in the eyes of ordinary herdsmen, the city was already magnificent and prosperous.

You have to plan it well in the future, after all, the shell of this city is still very good.

Wang Dou also noticed that inside and outside the city, there are still traces of fire and destruction everywhere, but when Chongzhen was in the fifth year, Huang Taiji defeated Lin Dan Khan and ransacked the city, and the Jin soldiers finally set fire to the city, in the raging fire, many houses and temples in the naturalized city were burned down, and most of the eight high-rise buildings and glazed gold and silver halls collapsed when the city was first built, and the rest were also dilapidated, and they have not recovered until now.

Looking at all this, Omubu also talked about it, and Wang Dou couldn't help but say: "This is really the destruction of civilization, Yidi led beasts to eat people, and the ancients did not deceive me." ”

Omubu remembered the destruction of the city by the Houjin soldiers at that time, and he was powerless. Gritted his teeth, he said: "Yes, hateful Manchurian tartars, real barbarians, barbarians!" ”

Omubu considers himself the heir of the Great Yuan, and he looks down on those Manchurians in his bones, although Nurhachi and others claim to be the descendants of the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, but who knows from which corner of the ravine they ran from? Although they were also called captives by the Han people in the Central Plains, the Tumut tribe still felt that they were more like civilized people, and regarded the eastern Manchurians as barbarians, just as the British treated the Americans in those days.

Of course, the generals of the Jingbian Army in the back did not have the feelings of Wang Dou and Omubu. Everyone just looked at it. The interracial mood intrigued them.

Although Wang Pu had been stationed in Naturalization City for a period of time, he was still not used to it, so he pouted and said, "Tattered, it's better to be the same." ”

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The Han Dynasty had long been looking for a place for Wang Dou to live in the city. Because the city of naturalization is in ruins. In particular, Gurug and others were devastated when they fled. In the end, it was decided to set up the general in the Silver Buddha Temple, which was the first Lamaist temple in the naturalization city, and the Ming Dynasty gave the name "Hongci Temple" in the seventh year of Wanli. And because the statue of Sakyamuni in the main hall is cast from pure silver, it is named the Silver Buddha Temple.

Wang Dou arrived at the door of the big temple, there are full, Mongolian, Han three kinds of words of the temple forehead, the Han name is "Wuliang Temple", the original Chong frame thirteen years Huang Taiji ordered to rebuild and expand the Dazhao Temple, after the completion of the Huang Taiji to give a new temple amount, "Hongci Temple" Han name became "Wuliang Temple".

Wang Dou ordered the restoration of the Chinese name of "Hongci Temple", and removed the Manchu text on it, asked those lamas to live back again, and issued a military order, this cultural relic needs to be properly protected in the future, and those who dare to demolish it without permission and take utensils without permission will not be lightly loaned.

The lamas are greatly excited, Omubu is also grateful, Dazhao Temple has been the sustenance in their Mongolian hearts, especially from the Mongolian tribe, when the fourth Dalai Lama Yundan Gyatso was on the throne, I don't know how many Mongolians came to worship and invite monks to learn scriptures, but unfortunately the grand occasion was not there.

Now that the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, who is being persecuted by other sects and is hiding in Tibet, it would be great if he could usher in the city of naturalization.

In the afternoon, Wang Pu saddle horse tired to rest, Omubu also returned to his dilapidated palace under the escort of the Jingbian army, looking at everything in front of him, Omubu burst into tears, compared to the treatment of Guluge and others in the past, at this time it is really a day, a land, such as in a dream.

Wang Dou did not care about fatigue, and led the generals of the Jingbian army to inspect the whole city, and climbed the south gate to look, and saw that the south and west plains were infinite, spreading far away, and here were all fertile land, convenient irrigation, suitable for cultivation.

This will be a piece of land that I completely control, and it is still so big, I can let my dreams run freely on it.

Wang Dou's eyes flashed with a strange light, his heart was surging, Li Zicheng was prosperous again, Cao and Wang were defeated, which reminded him that historical inertia is so huge, it is like a huge iron ball that is constantly rolling, to affect it and change its direction, it needs to have the strength to affect the overall situation, and block it with a rock several times larger than the iron ball, or even a high mountain.

But to be honest, do you have the strength to fight? Wang Dou doesn't think so, maybe the military force is very strong, but many things are not only based on the military, but also on civil affairs, otherwise he would have exterminated Li Chuang back then.

But is the civil power enough on its own? In terms of silver money, this seizure plus the original inventory, I have a total of about 20 million taels of silver, which looks very rich, but looking at the big picture, if you look at the overall situation, this money is nothing.

Zheng Zhilong Group in the south monopolized the coastal trade of the Ming Dynasty, and made an annual profit of more than 10 million taels of silver by selling the sea passage flag at a high price: "All sea ships are not allowed to Zheng Shi Ling Flag, and they cannot come and go, and each ship earns 2,000 gold, and the annual income is tens of millions, so as to enrich the enemy country." ”

Zheng Zhilong's prosperity, at this time the Dutch East India Company can not compete with it, whether in the military, or in trade, the history of Zheng Zhilong's subordinate members, all rich to 10 million, less than 1 million, household official Zheng Tai guarded the Golden Gate, the capital is millions, on the other hand, under the Ming Dynasty, the annual city tax is only 40,000 taels.

Zheng Zhilong's wealth, compared with him, is a small thing.

The Guanning Group in Liaodong has a salary of several million a year, and although nearly half of it has to be used for dotting and intercepting, the officers and generals of the forts will not lack silver.

Moreover, silver cannot be eaten, there is no food and grass, the homeless people are still homeless, and nothing will change.

As a traverser, he has the advantage of overlooking the overall situation, but the higher he stands and sees farther, the more shocking the result is, and he is surprised that there are many opponents in the future. It's hard to change.

Yes, this land is uneasy everywhere, the Northeast Manchu Qing Dynasty, not to mention the Central Plains Liukou, it is already a headache, that is, on the southern sea, the same power fights for hegemony, what Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, British come one after another, never give up the snooping of China's maritime frontier.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the British were taken away. Compensation of 3,000 taels of silver in Guangzhou. After the Dutch failed in Liuluowan in the sixth year of Chongzhen, they did not give up several times, and successively built castles such as Geranza and Chichicheng. In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he also fought naval battles with Spain. Occupy Taiwan as a victor's army. Eyeing China.

Wang Dou has the deepest understanding of these Europeans, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty or a strong civilization in the system, the Han people would be the second fate of the Indians. Don't look at the docile Spanish and Portuguese who were called Francos in Macao at this time, and the missionaries were all sanctimonious, but what did they do in the Americas?

Hanging the Indians alive is just an ordinary method, what picks out the pregnant fetus and chops it up, what hangs the child upside down and knocks it to death on a stone, what kind of competition to cut off the head and body, and swings horizontally and vertically, the cruelty of the means, the severity of the crime, which is shocking, and can be compared with the Japanese army invading China.

There is no difference between the missionaries and the missionaries, who either personally participate in or inspire the adventurers to continue the massacre of the infidels with peace of mind, and this is the standard prevailing in Europe, and the use of civilized means against civilized people and barbaric means against barbarians is in fact a kind of bullying mentality.

Sure enough, the missionaries who gave people the feeling of civilization in the Ming Dynasty were completely exposed at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which is enough to make people surprised, how can the missionaries at this time feel completely different from the missionaries in the Ming Dynasty? In fact, the person is still the same person, but the object of civilization is different.

Wang Dou is the most vigilant against these people, because he understands, so he is vigilant.

And this northern ......

Although Mo Nan is temporarily peaceful, the future is not without worries, and this worry is only known to Wang Dou in the whole Ming Dynasty, that is Tsarist Russia, an extremely greedy monster who only eats and does not vomit.

As early as the 34th year of Wanli, the Russians invaded the Balabin steppe, and in the following decades, from the Tara region to the Irtysh River and the Yenisei River basin, the Tsarist Russians encroached on whales again and again, built castles in various key places, and constantly sent missions to the Mongolian ministries to lobby, trying to persuade them to submit to Russia, and at the same time collecting information from the Mongolian ministries and the Ming Dynasty.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Russians established Yeniseisk, and in the first year of Chongzhen, they established Krasnoyarsk, after which they had two directions of invasion, to the south and to the east.

However, the southward Mobei steppe was inhabited by the Erut Department and the Khalkha Mongols, each of which had a large population, and had strong resistance to the intentions of Tsarist Russia.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Russians established the Yakutsk Governor's Office, the Cossacks conquered a large area around the Lena River, and built Irkutsk on the west side of Lake Baikal, forcibly seized pastures on all sides of the lake, established fortresses, and entered into fierce clashes with the Buryat Mongol tribes stationed east of Lake Baikal.

After about twenty-five years of war, the Buryats would be completely subjugated and subjugated to Russia, and some of the Buryats would move south into the Khalkha territory.

For Wang Dou, he could not tolerate the Russians coming to Lake Baikal, the world's deepest and largest reservoir, accounting for one-fifth of the world's freshwater resources.

The Russians, again, are a future adversary, whether they want it or not.

However, if you want to change, you need strength, so that no matter where the situation in the Ming Dynasty goes, you can be calm, but you need time to accumulate.

Dreams, just in this land.

He woke up and looked at the generals of the Jingbian Army beside him, all of them were looking at him like him, and many people were still talking excitedly, saying that this place outside the fortress was very different from the impression, just looking at the front of him, he couldn't imagine that there was so much land that could be cultivated, and many of them seemed to be very fertile.

Wang Dou smiled and said loudly: "Yes, you may not imagine that from this Tumo River to the Hetao Plain, there are tens of millions of acres of cultivated fields!" We can resettle and farm, and in the coming year, the wheat will flourish and feed the people of several provinces, and here. It will become the granary treasure of my Ming Dynasty! ”

Surprised, Qin Yi said in a trembling voice: "What the general said is true? ”

Wang Dou nodded heavily: "Yes!" ”

Yes, this land.

According to the statistics of later generations, the arable land area of Inner Mongolia is more than 100 million mu, most of which is concentrated in the Tumochuan Plain and the Hetao Plain, which have abundant water resources and dense rivers of all kinds, even if the grasslands are dry during the Xiaoice River period. But there are still plenty of places available for irrigation.

And underground. As much as shallow water is distributed, it is not necessary to dig deep wells, and there are still many traces of reclamation by the Han army in the past in the Tumochuan and Hetao Plains. Repair use. It's easier than starting from scratch.

Wang Dou described his plan in a dreamy tone. On these two plains, a large number of crops such as wheat, soybeans, rice, millet, sorghum, and wheat can be grown, and the yield of these crops can be cultivated. Later generations often rank first or in the top three in the country, with a high possibility, this land is also a lot of pasture, can vigorously implement breeding, horse herding, cattle herding, sheep herding, not to mention anything else, dairy products alone are very promising.

This land, mineral resources are also very rich, iron, copper, lead, zinc, coal, etc., marble, granite, graphite, crystal, etc., are everywhere, and there are extremely rich wild plants, animals and plants, etc., here a white paper is good to paint, a series of industry planning can be carried out calmly.

This piece of land will be the beginning of a series of ideas for the Jingbian Army.

With the arrival of Wang Dou, everyone was so excited that they touched their ears and cheeks, completely lost the calm demeanor of the generals in the past, and many people also understood why Wang Dou tried his best to lay down the land of Monan, such a treasure land, if God does not take it, he will be blamed!

Wang Dou said loudly: "Qin Zanhua was right that day, the most important thing to suppress thieves is civil affairs, military affairs are only supplemented, if there is no food in your hands, you can't draw wages from the bottom of the thief's cauldron, and the officers and soldiers come and go, and they are just tired of running for their lives!" Therefore, internal affairs should be the first priority of our Jingbian Army, the future of our Ming Dynasty, and the future of our Jingbian Army are in front of us! ”

Gao Shiyin's face turned red with excitement, and he suddenly realized: "No wonder the general appeased Ombu, this is calm?" I'm still thinking about killing them all. ”

Wang Dou said: "No, we can't just try to be happy, we have to take into account the overall situation, Monan Mongolia is a role model, it is a sharp weapon to attract all the tribes in the north of the desert, my strong army is in hand, the Tartars dare not move, plus the tribes of the south of the desert are living a good life, they will definitely be naturalized!" ”

For Wang Dou, it is impossible to fight Mobei now, just considering the logistics, from Guihua City to Kent Khan Mountain, and the area around the Yinma River, the road is more than 2,000 miles, and along the way there are also vast deserts, swamps, quicksands, all kinds of snow nests and other dangerous places, unless you find most of their nests and come to a pot, it will be a disaster.

Besides, in order to deal with the Russians in the future, it is necessary to make peace with Mongolia, and to support the Buryat Mongols will also be on the agenda of Wang Dou, and if possible, he will also incite the Khalkha Mongol tribes to attack the Russians, and Irkutsk must be uprooted.

Although Wang Dou is not able to get his hands on Siberia now, it does not mean that he is happy to see the Russians encroach on the whale swallow there, which is one of the reasons why Wang Dou is determined to make friends with the Khalkha tribes in Mobei.

In the future, he will use more proxy tactics, like the British, supporting, suppressing, provoking, and personally going into battle depends on the timing.

Han Chao muttered: "Indeed, when Chengzu went on a northern expedition to Mongolia, each expedition was to transport hundreds of thousands of stones of military rations, and my Jingbian army was not able to catch it now, but it was just ......."

He said: "Yidi people are beast-hearted, capricious, although Emperor Gao is full of words, although the surname is different, the word is the same, but it is also forbidden to speak the surname Hu, and the Mongolian people are not allowed to marry this kind, and the offender will be punished, Emperor Chengzu is the same, the general appeases the Mongolian people, but I don't know if it will be repeated? ”

Wang Dou's eyes were deep, and he said lightly: "Don't worry, they can't come up with any tricks." ”

Wang Dou was confident that he would turn the Mongol tribes into Chinese Cossacks and fight for the Central Plains.

He did not mention this question: "The most important thing now is food, there is food in your hands, there is no panic in your heart, there is food, there is a strong army, everything is not to worry about!" ”

There is another thing close at hand, which makes Wang Dou worried.

He leaned on the city wall, looked at the southeast, and said slowly: "Daming is not worrying, natural and man-made disasters are endless, I estimate that next year from Shanxi to Jingshi, there is a great possibility of a major plague, which is related to the survival of the people, and the shogunate has to prepare early!" ”

All the generals were shocked and woke up from their state just now: "The Great Plague? ”

Wang Dou nodded heavily: "Yes, the Great Plague!" ”

He sighed, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the northern provinces were always full of disasters, not to mention drought and locust plagues, plagues were also one after another, especially the great plague from Shanxi to Beijing in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, which was even more frightening.

The notes of the contemporaries recorded: "In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the great epidemic in Beijing, from February to September, inside and outside Beijing, the plague was prevalent, and the disease was called pimple. One person feels it, the whole family is passed on to the trouble, the noble and the low, the old and the young, the sick and the young, do not leave a moment, even the door is closed, and there is no coffin. Nine doors of sunrise and ten thousand coffins, the travelers all hang their heads, drowning ......"

And in Shanxi, the same whole territory of the epidemic, as well as Tongzhou, Changping Prefecture, Baoding Mansion are like this, the dead carry the road, zombie servants one after another, in fact, this is the plague, causing the Beijing camp to go nine times out of ten, the tall Beijing city did not even hold for three days.

After Li Zicheng's army entered Beijing, he was not without bad luck, and the later Qing soldiers were the same, and it is recorded in history: "When the Manchurian soldiers first entered the customs, they were afraid of pox and died." ”

In history, the Dingkou of the Eight Banners, originally reached its peak when Huang Taiji was on the throne, and there were about 65,000 Ding, and in the early years of Shunzhi, it dropped to more than 55,000 Ding.

At that time, the people of Beijing said that there were many filthy people in Beijing, people from all over the world, and there were many flies and gnats.

Of course, the generals of the Jingbian army are convinced of what Wang Dou said, this has been proven again and again, the horror of the plague, everyone also knows, Gao Shiyin clenched his fists, and said viciously: "Kill any mouse that can be seen, and sweep away all garbage!" ”

Han Chao said: "We need to prepare more doctors, and besides, the otters on the grassland can't be beaten, and the poor herdsmen want to spend the winter, so they can get their food!" ”

Grain, and grain, if there is food, this great tomorrow, things will be much easier, and all the generals of the Jingbian Army feel that the internal affairs are very important, and the production of grain should be the first priority in everything.

Wang Dou held on to the city wall and looked at the earth, yes, grain, I hope that this land can let him have food.

I've done my best, Wang Dou thought to himself.

At the same time, I was thinking, the good news has been sent, and Li Chuang has also forced Kaifeng, I don't know if there is a fight, what will be the final battle situation? (To be continued.) )