Chapter 345: A Great Frontier Victory  Suspicious

On the grassland north of the Great Wall, Cha Khan of the Tatartan tribe led about 30,000 troops to start the largest invasion of the border in five years. After Emperor Zhengde's death, the Ming army rarely took military adventures. Whether it was Emperor Jiajing or the generals on the border, they adopted conservative military policies.

The conservative military policy is explained in more simple and easy-to-understand vernacular that neither the court nor the border army will attack. What they do is to defend their posts and put in close defense.

The range of activities of Tatan Mongolia and Watami Mongolia began to increase significantly, but the harsh climate and environment on the grasslands had no practical effect. If you want to pass better, you still have to enter the passive plunder. To put it bluntly, the passive defense of the Nine-Border Army is passively beaten, which made the Mongolian Tatars live very well over the years, but in the past five years, there have been some strange signs.

If the area is strictly calculated, the scope of activity of each Mongolian Tartar tribe on the grassland is equivalent to nearly half of the area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, and of course they are all grasslands and deserts. In the early Ming Dynasty, the continuous northern expeditions had already destroyed the gathering place of the Tartars on the grasslands. Nowadays, tribes are scattered and nomadic, and only when they are deployed on a large scale, are summoned by Khan's envoys everywhere.

In other words, the connection between tribes is actually quite unobstructed. If it were not for the regular robbery of the Ming Dynasty every year, both sides would be unaware of life and death.

When Chahan's own golden tent was sent to summon him, he suddenly found that many tribes disappeared out of thin air on Jizhen and the grasslands near the original Nurkandus. After roughly, five or six thousand people were missing. The human resources on the grassland were precious, and the loss of so many people was really painful like cutting flesh. The originally prepared to go south was postponed, and he tried his best to search for traces of these tribes on the grasslands.

The herdsmen and cavalry on the grassland were very magical in their judgment of the traces, so after a cavalry team of about a hundred people searched for cavalry, more than 40 people were killed by the slave hunting team of the reclamation manor outside the pass, and the rest were captured, they finally judged clearly what was going on with these missing people.

Cha Khan, who was extremely shocked and angry, immediately gathered more than 30,000 cavalry to regain the population. Moreover, this time, Cha Khan learned through some Shanxi merchants that the reclamation manors outside the pass were extremely rich places, with a large population and a large amount of money in it, and it was not the theoretical territory of the Ming Dynasty. According to conventional rules, the Ming Dynasty's army would not pay attention to it at all.

This time, the Mongolian Tartars' operation was the first time in nearly two hundred years that Mongolia's military operation went north rather than south, and the cause was not robbery, but to seek justice.

Such unusualness is not only on the grassland, but also on the border generals in Datong and Jizhen were under pressure from the court. In any case, the establishment of sea trade and slave manors made the Ming Dynasty's finances much more unconsciously. Moreover, the nobles who controlled the capital merchant regiment urgently needed war to plunder the population. The border generals in the nine border generals in Shanxi and Hebei also urgently needed a war to plunder the population and sell money.

Therefore, on the third day after Cha Khan's large group of troops gathered, he was caught up by the border troops in Datong. The two sides began to have small-scale contact and battles. Jizhen and Xuanhua's cavalry joined forces and were already surrounded on the other side. In the eyes of the Mongolian Tartar cavalry, although the combat effectiveness of the nine-sided border troops was not weak, they were not good at long-term battles and pursuits. These border troops in the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of fighting. As long as the opponent retreated, the border troops would not pursue them.

This time it was different. The Ming army seemed to be crazy and was pestering each other, but refused to let go, and Chahan's progress began to slow down.

Among the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers from the Jiubian were some of the most difficult people. If the officers and soldiers in the inland Ming Dynasty encountered problems such as quelling chaos, they could rely on looting to make up for it. However, the soldiers from the Jiubian fought against these barbarians, and the opponent was basically cavalry, and they were all poor troops. Something would be robbed there, fighting desperately and there was no benefit to get it. The spirit of fighting was naturally much worse.

However, during this time, the frontier generals made generous rewards, and they were very meticulous and clear, whether they were catching or killing a person, they were 500 texts.

It is not that the farming manor does not need slaves, but they also need a stable grassland to use as their own pasture. If the farming manor's animal power is used to plow ox like in the Guandi, it is already a bit luxurious, so using horses to pull plows and doing various jobs is the best choice.

After fighting with the Datong border troops for three days, the border troops in Jizhen and Xuanhua arrived on the battlefield. After Chahan was attacked, he felt that this time was probably not the same as before, but it was obvious that the border troops could rush to attack from a long range would not be able to mobilize too many.

Although the 30,000 Tatar cavalry were at a disadvantage, they did not collapse. They just fought and retreated. The last straw that broke the camel's back was the three thousand soldiers and horses in Liaodong.

In the autumn of the fifteenth year of Jiajing, the Ming army defeated 30,000 Mongolian cavalry and captured nearly 20,000 people. After that, Tatar Mongolia basically only appeared as a geographical noun. The loose tribe either continued to flee to the west or hid in Tibet on the vast grassland, because the slave-catching team in Liaodong was like herders catching wild horses, catching scattered herders everywhere.

In Datong, Jizhen, Xuanhua, a total of 40,000 troops, 40,000 to 30,000, it was almost incredible to achieve such a victory. After Chengzu, the Ming army had not had such a victory for a long time. The entire government and the country were in an uproar. Yes, it was not a surprise, it was an uproar.

Many people do not believe such results. Eunuchs, censors, and spies from the Jinyiwei, who are both open and secret, are sent out to verify the results. These are naturally true. Suddenly, various public opinions that praise Emperor Jiajing's great martial arts and rule the world appeared one after another. Although Emperor Jiajing was not deceived by these memorials, he still couldn't understand in his heart that what he was doing at present was no more than what Zhengde or the previous emperors did, or had made any major changes.

But why did things change like this? However, during this war, Emperor Jiajing finally had a clearer understanding of the vague Liaozhen Pass outside the pass, knowing that there were manors opened by wealthy families of officials from the Ming Dynasty, driving slaves to work and were extremely wealthy.

Moreover, in these manors, Han men basically did not work, but were armed, guarded the manors and suppressed the slaves. Jiajing had no idea about the emergence of these manors because there was no such thing as before, but he did not have any kindness to these manors. Most of the manors were not under the control of the Ming Dynasty government. Moreover, it was said that the Jurchens in Nuergandus had basically become slaves.

The reclamation manor outside the pass has no tax collection, and there is force in his hands. In addition, independent of the Ming Dynasty, no matter the emperor, he would not think that such power would be a good thing to appear by his side. What's more, Emperor Jiajing felt a little uncomfortable was that he had been hiding this matter.

The emperor lived in the deep palace for a long time, and his eyes and ears were the Jinyiwei, the intelligence system of the East Factory, the news of the censors, and the reports of officials from all over the country. However, this time, Emperor Jiajing understood this from the words and phrases of the imperial guards. What does this situation mean? Emperor Jiajing knew that officials at all levels around him were involved, and they all had more or less interest relations in it. Only in this case can these forces with conflicts with each other be so amazingly consistent and compromise with each other.

What's even more strange is that the forces in the court were not distributed according to the same year as the disciples of that year, but were geographically distributed from the north and south. However, although these southern officials fought with the northern officials in various aspects, they kept silent on the reclamation manors and slaves.

Emperor Jiajing was so angry that he wanted to overturn the table, but he forced himself to hold back. He no longer believed in the little eunuchs around him. Dongchang and Jinyiwei had deceived him. Isn't this the world of the Ming Dynasty...

"Aren't the world of Ming Dynasty?"

At the port of Incheon, Liu Shunhua questioned Jiang Feng in anger, who came to greet him. He had no good temper on his face. Speaking of which, it has been a long time since no one talked to Jiang Feng. Zhang Liang, Yang Da and others following behind him all looked quite wrong, but they couldn't say anything about Jiang Feng's family affairs.

Liu Fangrui was not good at showing up in public, but Jiang Feng was very kind and said with a smile there:

"This is Korea, the vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally it is not the world of the Ming Dynasty."

Although his attitude is good, he lost a nail back without being soft or hard. Liu Shunhua was suffocated there and then he was furious. He was originally called sick at home because of Jiang Feng, but now he was invited by Jiang Feng, or to be more precise, he was arrested in Incheon. Even if he had no chance to resign from his post and act as a bully, would he have to be a rich man overseas? He is a dignified Hanlin and has also been a governor of the country!

However, just as he was about to say something, Zhao Xiucai and a group of civil and military officials of the Jiang family army hugged him with a smile on his face. He couldn't hear this. Jiang Feng respectfully helped Liu Shunhua, who was not weak, and said in a low voice:
Chapter completed!