The Korqin Grassland, the birthplace of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, is rich in water and green as the sea, and is beautiful.

The most widely circulated here is the tragic love story between Huang Taiji and Chen Fei of Guan Ju Palace.

It is rumored that Huang Taiji and Guan Ju Palace Chenfei support each other and have good love and envy others.

Unfortunately, God was not good. In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Concubine Chen of Guanju Palace, who was only 32 years old, passed away suddenly. Huang Taiji was so sad that he was always strong. From then on, he suddenly became ignorant, sometimes she burst into tears, sometimes she became anorexia, and sometimes she became coma. After only less than two years of suffocation, he died of illness in Shengjing.

This story is actually not about Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, because Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is not Chenfei of Guanju Palace, but they are not at all related.

The Chenfei of Guanju Palace was named Hai Lanzhu, who was the elder sister of Empress Dowager Bumubutai of Xiaozhuang. There was originally an Empress Dowager Xiaoduan, who was also the elder aunt of Hai Lanzhu and Bumubutai.

In other words, three of Huang Taiji's five concubines came from the Korqin grassland.

As for why this happens, it has to start with the origin of the name of the Korqin Grassland.

Korchin actually means an archer, and this place was originally Genghis Khan's second brother, the territory of the Mongol Yuan led the bow guards to command Zhuochi Hasar.

Although Zhuochi Hasar was not very famous, the Mongol Yuan guards were an invincible hero who was famous all over the world, and the name of the Korqin grassland also came from this.

This is also the reason why Huang Taiji married three Korqin concubines, because Borjijit was a descendant of the Golden Family, and the four ten flags on the Korqin grassland were the top combat power of the Mongolian Yuan.

The reason why Mi Qing can rule the Mongolian Yuan tribes has a great relationship with this, because the Mi Qing emperors after Huang Taiji all had the bloodline of the Golden Family, and the Mongolian Yuan tribes were not very repulsive.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang took Emperor Shunzhi back to the Korqin grassland, which was like returning home. The Mongolian and Yuan tribes still obeyed them with their orders.

This is what Zhu Qizhu is most worried about. You must know that the boundary line between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian and Yuan tribes is tens of thousands of miles. If troops are not sent to garrison, the people in the Central Plains will definitely have no peace.

Ganzhou Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, Yulin Town, Taiyuan Town, Datong Town, Xuanfu Town, Jizhou Town, and Liaodong Town. Each of these nine major towns must have at least 50,000 troops stationed in order to barely defend against the invasion of the Mongolian Yuan cavalry. Moreover, because the border of Liaodong Town is too long, it may not be able to defend against 100,000 troops.

In other words, if you want to resist the invasion of the Mongolian and Yuan tribes, you must at least station more than 500,000 troops in the border gate!

A large army of 500,000 was more than one million taels per month, and more than one million taels a year. During the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty only had four or five million taels a year.

The Ming Dynasty could not afford such a large expense, which was also the fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty border was hit by the Mongolian Yuan tribes since the orthodox dynasty of Emperor Yingzong.

Now, he has to face this problem.

The elite troops of Jiannu's Manchu Eight Banners and the cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan tribes are even more unpredictable!

What to do?

Always passive defense is definitely not a solution. Even if he can afford the military expenditure of more than 10 million taels a year, the soldiers of the border will be exhausted and relaxed after being defended for a long time. If there is another Tumu Fort change in a hundred years, he will harm his descendants!

After thinking about it, Zhu Qituo decided to organize a large army to fight the Northern Expedition, destroy the Jiannu, and pacify the Mongolian and Yuan tribes, and solve this worries once and for all.

This is not an easy task.

Looking at the thousands of years, there are many Central Plains dynasties that can defeat the northern nomadic tribes. However, it is extremely difficult to completely conquer the northern nomadic tribes, because the nomadic tribes have too strong mobility and their activity space is amazing. If they can't beat them, they will run away and avoid fighting. What can you do?

I don't know how many emperors have organized large troops to fight in the north in all dynasties, including Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty. These are all famous kings who have never been able to defeat the word "有" invincible.

How to solve this problem?

It’s not that Zhu Qishi’s solution is impossible, but his method is a bit time-consuming.

He first ordered 250,000 Qin troops to return to the northwest and continue to defend Ganzhou Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town and Yulin Town. He ordered 150,000 Huguang troops to go to Shanxi and take over the defenses of Taiyuan Town, Datong Town and Xuanfu Town. He ordered 250,000 Southwest troops to take over the defenses of Jizhou Town, Shanhaiguan, Guanningjin Defense Line, Chenyang and Hetuala.

In this way, the border alone had as many as 650,000 troops. Although it might not be able to completely prevent the concentrated attacks of the Jiannu and the Mongolian Yuan tribes, there was no problem in defending each important town to wait for assistance.

As for reinforcements, they were naturally the Imperial Guards, Qi Family Army, Imperial Guards and other 160,000 elite troops. Zhu Qizhu directly arranged these elite troops in the front lines of the capital, Tongzhou and Tianjin Wei. In this way, the nearby important towns such as Taiyuan, Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhou, and Shanhaiguan can quickly support by land, and Liaodong Town can also quickly support by sea. In the northwest, it is far away from the Chahar and the Korqin grasslands. It is difficult for Jiannu and the Mongolian Yuan tribes to go, and with the 250,000 Qin troops, it is no problem to defend them.

There were still the remaining 100,000 Jianghuai troops, so he was transferred back to Jinling to be responsible for guarding the capital of Daming.

Regarding the positioning of the capital, no one jumped out to talk to him at this time. Everyone thought that he was the emperor in Jinling, so they designated Jinling as the capital. In fact, this is not the reason at all.

Because he knew very well that the next few hundred years would be the era of maritime hegemony, Jinling was closer to Nanyang and had developed water transportation, so he designated Jinling as the capital.

Jinling is the capital city, and the original capital can no longer be called the capital city. He deliberately changed the original capital to Peiping to show distinction and at the same time demonstrated his determination to pacify the north.

On this day, in the original Ganqing Palace imperial study room in the city of Peking, Zhu Qizhuo and his confidants Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng, Song Yingxing, Sun Chuanting, Ma Qiancheng, Qi Jin and others gathered again.

Liaodong has been recovered, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou have also submitted their support, and the world has been unified, so everyone is naturally happy.

However, Zhu Qizhe came to them not for any celebration.

Everyone greeted each other warmly for a while, and then he coughed and said solemnly: "Everyone, although the world is unified, Jiannu has not yet surrendered. The tribes of the Yuan Dynasty will be ready to move at the instigation of Jiannu. If we do not defeat them, there will be no peace in the borders of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, I am determined to organize a large army to fight the northern expedition and pacify the north in one fell swoop."

Well, this is right.

But it is not so easy to pacify the north and conquer nomadic tribes. Since ancient times, it seems that the Central Plains dynasty has not been successful.

At most, they can only fight the nomadic tribes and escape from the distance. When the Central Plains dynasty declines, they will still fight back.

When everyone heard this, they all looked solemn.

Who doesn’t think about pacifying the north and conquering nomadic tribes? Problem, this kind of thing cannot be successful by thinking about it.
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