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Chapter 485: Zhang Huangyan goes to Mobei

The once-proud Lin Dankhan's troops were annihilated by most of the Imperial Guards in less than two months, but in these two months, the actual battle was less than ten days.

What is really time-consuming is the logistics allocation and intelligence system reconnaissance. It really involves individual combat. The Ming Dynasty's compound military service can already defeat this classic cavalry.

Of course, when the national strength was at its peak in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming army, which had the Shenji Camp and the Duoyan Guards, could also defeat the Tartar cavalry, and the real consumption and loss were also in the process of logistics and pursuing the main force of the enemy.

However, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Tatar cavalry did not have the confidence to fight directly with the Ming cavalry. Basically, when they saw the main force of the Ming Dynasty's northern expedition, they escaped directly, making it difficult for the Ming Dynasty to wipe out its troops and thus permanently solve the border problems.

But for the current Ming Dynasty, there is basically no need to worry about not being able to completely resolve the threat of border trouble. First, the Mongolian Tatars, such as Lin Dankhan's tribe, chose the Ming army to fight at the beginning because they ignored the great changes that had already occurred in the Ming Dynasty, and lost their main force. Secondly, the current military equipment and war concepts of the Ming Dynasty have long surpassed the entire era. Even a battalion-level imperial guard can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of cavalry under sufficient firepower. Therefore, these Tartar cavalry even avoided the decisive battle with the main force to defeat the Ming army in the movement. What's more, Zhu Youxiao's current re-occupation of the northern Mongolian Mongolia did not intend to continue to adopt a policy of restraining the northern Mongolian government, and then used the method of enfeoffing the kings to provoke internal struggles among the Mongolian tribes, thus achieving the goal of not being unified and threatening the Central Plains dynasty.

Just like the occupation of Mongolia in southern Mori, Jianzhou, Waixing'an Road and Miaotun, the occupation of Mongolia in northern Mori will not only end in the form of military occupation. Zhu Youxiao will continue to send officials to implement policies of land reform and mainstream culture in these places, and will adopt a severe crackdown on the stubborn and reactionary upper aristocracy. For the lower Mongolian herders, they will adopt the method of sharing grasslands and encouraging trade, and use some reward systems to lure the lower Mongolian herders to give up their support for the upper aristocracy and choose to transfer their faith to the Ming emperor and even integrate into and get used to the morals and customs of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao believed that as long as you do this, the historical phenomenon that the Central Plains dynasty could not completely eradicate the threat of nomadic forces outside the pass once and for all.

Except for the cavalry units of the Second Army of the Imperial Guards and some cavalry units in the border town remained in Mongolia in the northern desert to continue to sweep away the remaining cavalry of the Tartars, most of the Imperial Guards and the border troops began to evacuate one after another. This battle was indeed just a practical training for them.

At the same time, the court immediately began to dispatch officials to establish an administrative system in Mobei. After the court's decision, Liu Zongzhou, Shi Kefa and Guan Shaoning were appointed as the governors of the Mobei Chenggong Department, the Censor and the Inspector Censor. Among them, Shi Kefa also supervised the academic government. Among these three people, Liu Zongzhou and Shi Kefa have been officials outside the pass in recent years, as envoys in Jiannu, and as local officials in Monan. They have rich experience in how to manage nomadic peoples so that they can receive Confucian education and integrate into Han culture. Guan Shaoning went to the Capital University for further study after entering the Hanlin Academy. He was an advocate of pragmatism and cultural unity. He had a deep study on how to manage the barbarians and make them truly obedient to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it was appropriate to choose to promote these three people to preside over the government affairs of Mobei.

Originally, Yang Tinglin, who had certain experience in the transformation of land and the assimilation of the people in the non-Han cultural circle, was also the former governor of Mo Nan and graduated from the Royal Military Academy. However, Yang Tinglin has now become the Minister of the School of the Ming Dynasty, busy reforming the world's academic affairs, especially the establishment of an education system in some areas where Han and Yi live together, making it impossible for him to personally participate in the management of Mo Bei.

But Zhu Youxiao still asked him to take a busy schedule on how to better transform the land and return to the current, so that the first batch of local officials appointed by the imperial court in Mobei could have a better reference.

In order to prevent large-scale rebellion in the early stages of the transformation of the land and the relocation, due to resistance to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to directly hire a large number of students and juren outside the pass, such as Monan and Jianzhou, and went to Mobei to serve as prefectures, prefectures, counties and other local officials. Instead, he asked the Ministry of Personnel to continue to select a large number of Han people, Miao, Tujia, Yi and other non-Meng, and Manchu scholars went to Mobei to serve as local officials. For example, Shizhu Tusi, because of Qin Liangyu's outstanding achievements, many of his husband's family, Ma family and his mother's family, Qin family, were appointed as county magistrates and other officials by Zhu Youxiao to manage the local area in Mobei.

Zhang Huangyan, the former judge of the Shanxi Salt Transport Department, who was born in a juren, was directly promoted to Helin Prefecture because of his outstanding political achievements and the Ming Dynasty's urgent need for a large number of local officials to enrich the local area. In other words, he will now announce that the first prefecture of the Political Envoy Department is the largest population density and the largest territory.

Zhang Huangyan was not dissatisfied with this because he went to serve as the prefect of the pass outside the pass. On the contrary, he was quite excited and had the ambition to serve the Ming Dynasty and the court.

As soon as he received the transfer order from the Ministry of Personnel of the court, Zhang Huangyan went directly to Datong from Shanxi, and did not even have time to send a letter to his home. When he arrived at Dashun, the first snow in Mobei had just arrived.

Zhang Huangyan rode a small donkey, followed by an old slave carrying an official seal document, and was walking very easily in Datong.

When he looked at the white grassland in front of him and the steep mountains behind him with a layer of white burrs, Zhang Huangyan couldn't help but sigh, and a mighty aura suddenly arose in his heart. He never imagined that from now on, this vast land under his feet would become a region where he could display his political ideals.

But this is true. From the moment he stepped out of Datong Pass City, every inch of land under his feet was under his jurisdiction and the Lin Mansion.

"The Supreme Lord Zhang, Han Jun, the officer of the Mobei Gendarmerie Corps and Lin team of the Imperial Guard Army, will be ordered by the Second Army and the General of Mobei Ao to protect your safety. Please get on the car!"

At this time, a cavalry officer, a captain of the Imperial Guard wearing a steel helmet and a unique Great Wall ejaculation on his shoulders, appeared on Zhang Huangyan’s face on a horse and saluted Zhang Huangyan solemnly.

Zhang Huangyan was busy and bowed to the officer named Han Jun: "Thank you for your hard work, I don't know how long it will take to Helin City."

It turned out that because the land outside the pass was changed and returned to the land shortly after, although the Ming Dynasty tried to promote the rule of Han culture by first persuading and then using force to resolve the situation, it would still be resisted by some more stubborn reactionaries. Of course, there were also many Mongolian upper nobles who were unwilling to lose the privileges of slave owners, and often carried out sneak attacks or assassinations of the imperial officials.

Therefore, considering the safety of local officials who went outside the pass to implement the policy of reforming the territory and returning to the imperial court, Zhu Youxiao decided to establish four newly established political and envoy departments outside the pass to establish a military police corps composed of soldiers of the Imperial Guards as members.

After the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Khalkha tribe and the Korchin tribe, recaptured the Hexi Corridor, recovered the Hami Guards, destroyed the Jiannu regime and the current Lin Dankhan tribe, and defeated the Massac cavalry to achieve absolute occupation of East and West Siberia, the Ming Dynasty successively established four departments of the Southern Demon, Liaodong, Gansu and North Demon. Except for the relatively small management area in the southern Demon, the other three departments under the jurisdiction of the Political Demon are extremely vast.

Among them, Liaodong's jurisdiction is not only the three eastern provinces today, but also includes the Outing Xing'anling Mountains, Miaotun areas and the East Siberia. The Mobei Chengxuan General Office went directly to Datong and Hetao in the west, which almost stretched across the entire northwest of the Ming Dynasty. The newly divided Gansu General Office was not what we call Gansu now, but included the areas from the north to Hamiwei and south to Qinling Mountains.

The four army troops of the Imperial Guard were also stationed in the four newly established Chengxuan Government and organized a military police corps, which were responsible for maintaining public security in the jurisdiction, clearing out the remaining resistance forces, and guarding local officials at all levels.

Among them, officials of different ranks have different gendarmerie quotas, and at least they can reach the county level to protect a gendarmerie quota. However, Zhang Huangyan is a fourth-rank prefect, so his quota is a gendarmerie team.

Although these people are nominally guarding themselves and being their subordinates, Zhang Huangyan also knew that these people could not be easily provoked and could not be called around like the yamen runners in ordinary yamen, because these military policemen who followed him were all from the Imperial Guards, and these people were His Majesty's personal army, and the officers among them were students who graduated from the Royal Military Academy, and they enjoyed the same treatment as those of the Imperial College students and even had a higher status, so naturally they could not afford to offend them.

What's more, now that Mobeicheng announced that the Political Envoy Department has just been established, although the entire Mobeicheng has a basic administrative framework system and a large number of local officials have successively taken office, and has begun to become the first group of people-friendly officials in this area, there is still a lack of a large number of grassroots officials and yamen runners, which has forced the entire Mobeicheng announced that the Political Envoy Department to temporarily implement a ruling method of semi-military management and semi-local officials, and among them, only public security and criminal prisons are handled by the military military.

However, the military police's way of controlling public security and prisons is very simple and crude. No matter how small it is that someone steals a sheep or that someone attempts to launch an ordinary herder's rebellion and get rid of the Ming Dynasty's control, there is only one way for the military police to deal with it, that is, to shoot it directly!

However, the iron-blooded policy of the military police team was very obvious in the stability of a large number of places like Mobei, where non-Han people lived, and basically greatly shocked those who were ready to move.

"It's time for General Zhang to be the first time." Zhang Huangyan said, and then rode a horse from the Korean army and ran directly to Helin's mansion.

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On the way to Helin City, Zhang Huangyan occasionally saw Mongolian herders driving her sheep together, also gathering in the direction of Helin City.

Because, according to the Ming Dynasty, there were signs all over the way, and it was also spread by Jinyiwei and everywhere, and the herdsmen in the south of the desert secretly said that after the Ming Dynasty occupied this area, officials would be selected to start the establishment of counties and prefectures, and the grasslands in the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction were divided according to the number of people and cattle and sheep in each household.

The people in the same city dreamed of having their own land, and ordinary herders outside the city also hoped to have their own grassland. For them, being able to grazed their cattle and sheep in their grassland was simply the happiest thing.

Before this, they didn't dare to think so. In their past consciousness, not to mention the grassland, the cattle and sheep they grazed themselves, and even the people they belonged to the upper-class slave owners, and only the upper-class slave owners would own their own private property.

If it were in the past when nomadic peoples could plunder at will, the exploited ordinary herders could still accept the drive of the upper nobles and follow them to the pass to plunder. Although they would die, this plunder could also be rewarded from the upper nobles, and even they could obtain some property by plundering themselves.

At that time, plundering within the pass was the only magic weapon to maintain its ruling foundation. However, with the strengthening of the border defense capabilities of the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for nomadic people to obtain means of production through plundering the people of the Central Plains, so that the internal contradictions of their rule did not intensify.

The reality is that with the increase in the cost of plunder, the internal conflicts between these nomadic peoples have become increasingly intensified. In addition, the comparison of the lives of herders in Monan and other places after the Ming Dynasty has led to a large number of ordinary herders no longer expecting their master Lin Danhan. Instead, they began to secretly hope that the Ming Dynasty could come this morning and divide grasslands and cattle and sheep in their area as soon as possible.

This also led to the beginning of the war, a large number of ordinary herdsmen actively provided a large number of main action paths for the Jinyiwei and the Ming Dynasty's upper nobles, which helped the Ming Dynasty to quickly flatten Lin Dankhan's tribe.

Now that the war has been over, it is time to promote the kindness of the Ming Dynasty to the common people. At this time, Zhang Huangyan could see a large number of ordinary herders gathered actively and consciously at the Lin Mansion. They were all going to the county government office and waiting for the officials to officially spread the grassland for them.

There are many military police among these herdsmen. In order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from implementing land reform in the areas outside the pass, some reactionary forces that were ready to take down completely cut off their way to make a comeback. Sometimes they would kill a large number of ordinary herdsmen to deter ordinary herdsmen and the Ming court. Therefore, some military police had to be mixed with herdsmen and respond to the attacks of the remaining Tartar cavalry at any time.

Despite the potential threat, Zhang Huangyan could see that most of these herdsmen were smiling on their faces, which made Zhang Huangyan feel that the burden on them would become very heavy. It is indeed not something that can be accomplished overnight to distribute such a vast grassland appropriately and fairly.

But Zhang Huangyan was excited at this moment. He could imagine how much change the life of nomadic peoples outside the pass would be changed once these ordinary herders get rid of their fate of enslaved. At least the way of survival of these herders will be transferred from direct plunder to obtaining survival information by themselves.
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