In the summer of the sixth year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the political situation in the Central Plains was in a strange harmony. First, Princess Ajige of Gulun of the Qing Dynasty married away to Nanjing and was buried in a grand ceremony. No,

It was a glorious wedding! The Ming Dynasty was also very considerate and gave Ajige extremely high courtesy. It was even more glorious than when Donggu Gege arrived.

Moreover, both parties seemed to have reached an agreement. During the process of Ajige's marriage, no one mentioned the "Ajige dowry", as if there was no such thing as the transfer of Zhongzhou land at all.

Of course, it is impossible for Ajige, who is only 13 years old this year, to enter Zhu Cixiang's harem immediately. Like Dongguo Princess back then, she was arranged to live in Laoshan Palace and began to receive four years of re-education.

Only then will he officially enter the palace

At the same time that Ajige arrived at Laoshan Palace, Emperor Zhu also changed his past "not very womanizing" style and began his first "draft" after taking power.

It seems that this rare wise king in the Ming Dynasty is ready to develop into a debauched and unethical path.

In addition to marrying Ajige and the draft, two major events happened in the first few months of the sixth year of Hongxing. One was that Zheng Chagu gave birth to a son for Emperor Zhu at the beginning of the year, named He Zeng. Now

Zhu Cihong already has five sons, Hehao, Hejiang, Hezhen, Hexing, and Hezeng. It seems that he has no worries about having no one to take over.

Another major event was that the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty successfully issued a 10-year bond with a face value of 20 million taels of silver, with a coupon of only five cents (annual interest).

With such a low interest rate and such a long term, there was actually a "supply exceeded demand" situation, and it was sold out in less than a month!

At this time, in the northwest of the Central Plains, the originally peaceful situation suddenly changed dramatically. The three Khans of the Khalkha Mongolia and the fifteen coalition forces of the Monan Mongolia began to move to the Hetao grassland outside the Great Wall in Yulin Town.

This is a rare joint troop dispatch by Mongolia from Monnan and Mobei! According to the secret envoy report sent by the Yikezhao League, which is attached to the acting king Zhu Cijiong, the total number of Mongolian troops currently assembled in the northern part of the Hetao Grassland is likely to exceed 100,000!

And soon there will be a Mongol Khan leading his "Qixue Army" from Dadu, and the Mongol army gathered in Hetao will eventually reach 120,000!

The idea of ​​a Mongol Khan and a 120,000 Mongol army seems a bit like traveling through time and space.

However, Zhu Cijiong, the acting king in Yulin Town, did not dare to take it lightly.

Although Yulin has not been afraid of the Mongols for many years, what comes back this time is a Mongol Khan! And he has as many as 120,000 troops, which sounds a bit intimidating.

"The Great Khan of Mongolia? Old man, that must be your relative, right?"

"A distant relative, a very, very distant relative, but I am quite close to you, Your Majesty."

"What? Are you related to this king? That is"

"This is Erzhasak Khan, your eldest brother's wife-in-law."

"It turns out to be Fulin!"

In the Prince Dai's Mansion in Yulin City, Zhu Cijiong was talking to an old Mongolian man at this time. The old man was chubby, cheerful, and not intimidating at all. He was accompanied by a little Mongolian girl who looked somewhat similar to him.

, with his head lowered and his face red, he couldn't help but look at Zhu Cijiong, the "third prince", secretly!

This old Mongolian man has some origins. His surname is Bo'er Jijin and his title is Linchen. He is a descendant of the "little prince" Dayan Khan. He is a descendant of the serious Golden Family and is qualified to be the Great Khan of Mongolia.

However, his strength was not good enough. He had ten thousand households in Ordos in his hands, and he was called "Jinong", which means prince. In the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and granted the title of "Ji Nong" in Ordos.

Later, Zhu Cijiong came over from Shanxi. When he first came here, E Linchen thought that Prince Zhu was easy to bully, so he once sent troops to invade. As a result, he was beaten to pieces by a gang of murderers from Luliang Mountain and Datong Prefecture.

He no longer served as the "Jinong" of the Qing Dynasty, but became the "Jigong" of the third prince. Zhu Cihong himself was the king, so of course he couldn't give the king to the people below him, so he protected E Linchen, the Ordos County Duke, who is now the Ming Dynasty.

There was no such thing as a Duke, but Zhu Cijiong was listed on the list, so Zhu Cihong approved it easily.

But this time, E Linchen brought his granddaughter Saren to be Zhu Cijiong's concubine, and by the way, he wanted to explore the confidence of the third prince Zhu.

Zhu Cijiong’s confidence looks very strong!

He returned to Yulin from Nanjing with guns, gunpowder and cloth worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. As soon as he came back, he summoned the generals and announced the method of reorganizing his troops. There were more than 40,000 households in the Daiwang army, all in Yulin.

Yan'an, Ningxia, etc. have disposed of their land. According to the standard of one soldier per household, they can gather about 40,000 troops. Because the sources of these troops are a bit mixed, internal rectification has always been a problem. Zhu Cijiong, Li Jiantai, Jiang Yu, Gao Di, Luo Xiushen

These people have been struggling for several years before they finally have some clues.

Taking advantage of Zhu Cijiong's return from making up lessons this time, he still had the opportunity to gain a lot, and he just made a drastic reorganization. The army of more than 40,000 people was organized into 16 regiments according to the standard of 2,500 men per regiment, 4 of which were

The cavalry regiments (not traditional cavalry, but musketry cavalry) and 10 infantry regiments were equipped with muskets as much as possible according to the standards of the new Ming army. The barrels were long enough, but the breastplates were a little less.

While reorganizing the army, Zhu Cijiong learned that the Mongolian army had gathered on the grasslands in the northern part of Hetao, so he issued an order to E Linchen, who was attached to him, and asked him to send his granddaughter Saren to Yulin to be his concubine.

This is actually forcing E Linchen to express his position. If he refuses to send his granddaughter, then Zhu Cijiong will immediately send troops to massacre the Ordos tribe!

In the past few years, the Ordos tribe has been working as a second-rate dealer, selling muskets and ironware on the grasslands, and horses here in Yulin. They have made a lot of money. If they return both ends, they will be able to grab a handful!

However, E Linchen is also an old fox. He has already found out clearly that if the brave King Duduo of the Qing Dynasty does not come, at most the "Mongolian Khan" Shunzhi will come to the Hetao Grassland for a visit. Maybe he will not get close to Yulin and will be stationed in Guihua City.

After a while, the matter was dealt with.

So E Linchen took his granddaughter and came to Yulin in a hurry.

"Is Duduo really not coming?" Zhu Cijiong was still a little worried. Fulin was not afraid of him, but Duduo was still a bit scary.

"I won't come." E Linchen said with a smile, "There has been trouble in North Korea recently, and Duduo has to go and quell it."

"What happened to North Korea?" Zhu Cijiong asked quickly.

E Linchen said: "What else can be done? The untouchables are making trouble. In order to build a grain transportation station from the Liaohe Hetao to Xuanfu, Duduo wants to recruit 80,000 Korean civilians to build roads, farm fields, and build forts, and they are not allowed to bring their families!

This is forcing people to die! How could the North Koreans not fight back?"

Dodo's oppression of the Koreans seemed to go too far. After the latest "Conquest Order" was issued, there was commotion in all eight provinces of North Korea. So Dodo mobilized 12,000 troops to enter the North Korea. He also stationed in Yiju, North Korea, and personally

Supervise the recruitment of civil servants.

"If Duduo didn't come, why did Fulin come?" Zhu Cijiong was still a little doubtful.

"Of course he has to come!" E Linchen said, "Now Wu Sangui and Zhungeer are attacking the Yeerqiang Khanate. The Yeerqiang Khanate is in such chaos, how can it stop it? And the Kazakh Khanate is also there.

The war was broken up last year, and Bukhara did not dare to move. Of course, the Khoshote Khanate would not be able to support the Yerqiang Khanate. Once the Yerqiang Khanate collapsed, the connection between Tibet and Mongolia would be in the hands of

The Ming Dynasty has it in his hands! How can Fulin be the Mongol Khan when the time comes? Today's Mongolia is not like the time of Genghis Khan. The lama has the final say! If he dares not to come, the Mongolian Khan may have to do it if the Tibetan Great Lama issues a decree.

It’s time to replace him.”

It seems to be the case

Zhu Cijiong squinted his eyes and was silent for a while, then turned his eyes to the slightly rounder little girl Saren, and smiled: "Today is a great day, so I won't talk about national affairs. Saren, come here and let me take a closer look.
Chapter completed!