Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 145 Zhao Min: The Yuan Dynasty will end sooner or later...

Regarding the fact that the Empress Dowager Da Yuanqi is pregnant again and is about to give birth to a child, even if Kong Kejian and others tell the truth, Zhu Han will not believe the theory of the connection between heaven and man. He has already known the truth through the spies planted in Dadu. It was nothing more than Wang Baobaohe colluding with the Empress Dowager Qi to commit adultery, and then fiddled with this person's life.

"My lord, this Mongol also believes in the telepathy between heaven and man. It's really ridiculous." After listening to Zhu Han's explanation, Liu Sanniang, the concubine of the King of England, was also surprised at the pregnancy of this strange Mongol empress dowager. endlessly.

After following Zhu Han for such a long time, Liu Sanniang's cultural level can be said to have risen in a straight line, and now she is almost at the level of a middle-level intellectual.

So Liu Sanniang has also heard some traditional Confucian theories, such as the interaction between heaven and man.

"The Mongols are really well-learned. Over the years, they have not been fooled in the Central Plains for nothing. They follow the original habits of the Mongols. They don't pay much attention to the defense of men and women. Even if they make some children, it's nothing. There is no need to use so many means to cover up such a strange thing." Zhu Han's words can be described as a mockery of the Mongolian customs.

At this time, the expression on the face of a female official next to the concubine Liu Sanniang suddenly changed, obviously feeling very uncomfortable.

"Zhao Shanggong, are you feeling unwell?" Seeing this, Liu Sanniang hurriedly asked the female officer next to her.

"Your Majesty, I misunderstood. I'm not uncomfortable, but just a little tired." Zhao Min whispered beside him.

As a member of Yingtianfu Women's Taixue, Zhao Min's status is really special. Her household registration belongs to a refugee in Henan, but her grades are very good. She has won the favor of Empress Ma Xiuying of Ming Dynasty and recruited her into the palace many times. In the meantime, teach new things to the concubines.

After that, he was specially appointed as Shang Gong and sent to the British Palace as a female official of the Shang Palace.

Zhao Shanggong's identity is his newest identity in the British Palace. This does not belong to the sequence of wives and concubines, but belongs to the standard sequence of Ming officials, but it belongs to female officials.

But after getting along for such a long time, Zhao Min has become more and more aware of Zhu Han's importance to the people of the world.

Especially after a series of studies at Yingtianfu Women's Taixue, Zhao Min became more and more aware of how the Mongols' rule in the Central Plains was against God's will.

Zhao Min felt ashamed of the numerous atrocities committed by the Mongols recorded in those books, and at the same time his obsession with revenge could not help but fade away.

After arriving at the Prince Ying's mansion, facing the guards beside Zhu Han and his inner guilt, he gradually gave up these assassination thoughts.

Now I heard the news from Zhu Han.

The majestic Empress Dowager of the Yuan Dynasty actually hooked up with her courtiers and became pregnant with a wild child.

This really made Zhao Min feel a trace of desolate despair towards Da Yuan in his heart.

"This Great Yuan Dynasty will end sooner or later!" Zhao Min was thinking on the road as he quit the door.

Although the Ming army was tough on the enemy on the battlefield, as long as the Mongols or Semu people surrendered, they would generally receive good treatment, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all shrewd and capable wise kings, and the lives of the people in the world were in their hands It is better to go beyond.

Moreover, Zhao Min knows that the current Yuan Dynasty is troubled both at home and abroad. Just killing Zhu Han is not enough for the Yuan Dynasty to restore its rule in the Central Plains in an open and honest manner. Only by making the Mongols really strong can they resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty army. attack.

So Zhao Min has been looking for opportunities recently, wanting to restore contact with Wang Baobao in Dadu, and pass the information about the Ming army here to his elder brother Wang Baobao.

It's just that the palace of the King of England is heavily guarded, and if she, a female official, wants to pass on news to the outside, she must go through other people.

So Zhao Min has been looking for a suitable helper recently, and he has become a key pawn in helping the Yuan Dynasty counterattack the Central Plains.

Zhu Han didn't know that the Zhao Shanggong sent by his sister-in-law Ma Xiuying was actually a Mongolian, and also the princess of Mengyuan.

Zhu Han only felt that this was an inexplicable fate. After all, he and Zhao Min had met several times before, and recommended her to enter the Women's Taixue, and now he was assigned to his Yingwang Palace as a professor of Shanggong. British concubines learn new knowledge.

So Zhu Han has been very concerned about this Zhao Shanggong recently.

He wanted to find a suitable opportunity to bring this strange woman into his harem.

Of course, it is not a suitable opportunity to be in Shandong now. Now that my side concubine Liu Sanniang is pregnant, it is not the time to be jealous, it is better to let her raise the baby safely.

The news that "my husband has been dead for three years and will give birth to a fat boy" made by the Queen Mother Meng Yuanqi is nothing more than a joke to Zhu Han. He is now focusing all his energy on Shandong province. on recuperation.

It has to be said that because the timing of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty was appropriate, the cultivation of farmland in Shandong Province has not been affected. Now it will soon enter July, and after entering July, it will be the autumn harvest season. At that time, Shandong Grain and grass reserves will inevitably increase greatly.

"Your Highness, this year the states in Shandong have reported that the autumn harvest is very optimistic. I wonder how much your Highness plans to set Shandong's tax rate this year?"

In order to discuss the tax situation of Shandong Province this year, Liu Bowen came to Zhu Han's residence in person.

This mansion is only a temporary mansion set up in Jinan City. It is not large in scale, but there are pavilions, pavilions, gardens and so on inside.

Zhu Han sat comfortably on the rattan chair, sipping a cup of green tea from Jiangnan Hangzhou.

"I don't plan to collect taxes in Shandong Province this year. I will give all the people tax-free."

Zhu Han's words shocked Liu Bowen a lot!

Today's Ming Dynasty also fully understands the hard work of the people all over the world, and has adopted measures to discount taxes in various places. For example, if some provinces are relatively poor, they will implement [-]% of the tax, that is, the original tax Taxes are collected at a rate of [-]%.

If the harvest situation is more optimistic, then it will only increase to about [-]%.

Of course, if the situation in a certain place has suffered a serious disaster, the tax exemption is still tax-free.

However, the harvest situation in Shandong Province this year is very optimistic. According to the normal situation, it is reasonable to collect [-]% of the tax. Unexpectedly, Zhu Han will exempt Shandong Province from tax.

"Your Highness, Shandong's grain and grass tax is related to the great cause of the Northern Expedition. If there is no tax, where will the grain and grass reserves for next year come from?" Liu Bowen looked puzzled.

"This matter is very simple. The people in Shandong live too hard. If taxes are levied, every household will be very poor, and there will be no surplus money to buy various commodities. Now if taxes are not levied, We just use various commercial taxes and commodities to exchange grain from them, isn’t it all right?”

Zhu Han's words greatly inspired Liu Bowen.

"Your Majesty understands, Your Highness is planning to hide wealth from the people!"

For a smart person like Liu Bowen, Zhu Han just needs to speak softly.

He didn't need to speak clearly, he could fully understand Zhu Han's intentions.

Because this place in Shandong Province has not suffered too many wars, the population loss is not large, but because the Mongolian Yuan imposed a lot of taxes here before, every household is very poor. Although this year's bumper harvest makes this situation It has been relieved, but if Zhu Han collects all the taxes, then these people will fall into a very poor situation again. This is a bad move for the Shandong people who actively participated in the rebel army.

If this tax is collected too much, it will destabilize the people's hearts. If this tax is collected less, it will basically be useless. Therefore, Zhu Han directly exempted Shandong Province from the tax. Commercial taxes are used to exchange these grains into the hands of the government.

"Of course, this tax is not exempted in vain. After this year's autumn harvest, all states and counties will be ordered to urge the people to plant the latest wheat seeds."

Zhu Han's previous sign-in rewards obtained a large number of improved wheat varieties that are resistant to diseases and pests.

Just right for planting overwintering wheat after the autumn harvest.

Even without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the yield of this batch of improved wheat varieties can easily reach three to four hundred catties per mu, which is more than double the current wheat yield.

The autumn wind is strong, and the horses are fat and strong on the grassland. If the previous situation is followed, the various tribes in the grassland should gather together, and then they will go to the Central Plains to explore the grassland and rob the population and food.

However, since the establishment of Great Mongolia, the various tribes on the grassland have not done it for decades to rob the Central Plains of food and grass.

After all, the dynasty established by the Mongols ruled the land of the Central Plains, and they only needed to swear allegiance to the Mongolian Khan in the capital, and they could get sufficient rewards, not only a large amount of food, but also silk, cloth, beauties, gold and silver, etc.

But these generous rewards have indeed become less and less in recent years, so that this year there is no such thing.

After all, the Mongolian and Yuan courts in the Central Plains now only have a few corner places such as Dadu, Liaodong, Hebei, and Shanxi, and there is not enough money, food, and grass to supply their own military officials. king.

Therefore, the leaders of various ministries on the grassland have long been dissatisfied with the Mongolian and Yuan courts. After all, there is a lack of supplies on the grasslands. If there is no reward from the court, their lives will be very miserable.

Especially when the news came from Dadu that shocked them, that the Queen Mother Qi, who had been widowed for two years, was pregnant. The blood of the emperor, but this kind of nonsense can't fool these straightforward guys on the grassland at all.

Using this excuse, the Biligutai tribe joined forces with the host vassals to raise troops, intending to lead the tribe to the south and enter Dadu to clear the door for the Mongolian Empire.

Sarenbuhua, the leader of the farewell Gutai tribe, stands in front of tens of thousands of Mongolian warriors on a tall and majestic white horse.

"Longevity God, we will go south to Dadu this time to seek justice for us."

"We have guarded the grassland for generations, but we have not received the rewards we deserve. There must be treacherous officials in the court who have deceived the emperor. This time, we will go to Dadu to seek justice!"

Sa Renbuhua shouted in front of the soldiers of various Mongolian tribes, and immediately got the response of tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers.

Tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry marched along the grasslands towards Dadu in the south like the tide.

The news that the Mongolian tribe headed by the Bili Gutai tribe raised troops soon spread to the capital city.

The civil and military officials in the metropolitan city suddenly fell into panic, and came to the residence of Taibao Wang Baobao one after another.

The Mongolian tribes on the grassland are different from the civil and military officials in the metropolis. Although they are all the same Mongols, the tribes on the grassland retain their original barbaric habits. For the civil and military officials in the metropolis, as long as they let If these tribes enter the capital, it must be a bloody storm.

However, in the face of this sudden emergency, Da Yuan Prince and Grand Master Wang Baobao did not panic in the slightest.

"Everyone, don't panic, I will deal with everything today, all you need to do is listen to me!"

Wang Baobao said loudly to a group of civil and military officials in his mansion.

Everyone was extremely afraid of the tribal vassals on the grassland. Now that they heard that the crown prince and grand master Wang Baobao had a way to deal with those terrifying host vassals, they all respectfully expressed their obedience to Wang Baobao's orders.

"Immediately order that martial law be imposed inside and outside the capital city, and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will!"

"All civil and military officials in Dadu must send a son to accompany the army. I will lead you to defeat these rebels!"

For these rebellious prairie lords, Wang Baobao directly chose to use force to deal with them, and never thought of resolving them in a soothing way.

As for the reason, it is naturally because the Great Yuan Dynasty will move north to the grassland in the near future.

At that time, there must be a strong prestige to be able to deter all the tribes on the grassland.

At this time, if the method of appeasement is adopted, even if it is to appease the rebellious vassal king, then when the Yuan Dynasty retreats to the grassland, what confidence will there be to order the various tribes.

To deal with these rebellious prairie lords, Wang Baobao decided to adopt a quick, precise and ruthless method.

He immediately mobilized all the soldiers and horses of the capital, and sent people to Liaoyang to mobilize more than 2 soldiers and horses under Alu Timur, and they marched mightily towards the northern grassland.

Alu Timur's Liaoyang army and Wang Baobao met in Huangzhou.

According to the information Wang Baobao got at this time, the strength of the grassland rebels headed by the Aligutai tribe had reached as many as [-] to [-].

After getting this situation, Alu Timur immediately expressed his concerns.

"Brother, Ali Gutai's military strength is twice that of ours. Are they going to wait for work here in Huangzhou and wait for them to come by themselves?"

Alu Timur's suggestion is actually very suitable for general marching and fighting, because nomadic armies such as the Alugutai tribe in Mobei must win the victory under Huangzhou City if they want to get supplies, and then enter and use the food, grass, luggage, etc. Complete the supply as a preparation for attacking Dadu, otherwise, the nomadic army that came all the way from Mobei would not have the follow-up force to attack Dadu.

Moreover, if you keep Huangzhou City, an important military fortress, at your back, once the defenders attack, the Biligutai and other tribes will be in a dangerous situation of attacking both front and back.

Therefore, Huangzhou City is a city that the ancient tribes in Bieli must conquer.

Alu Timur's suggestion was also aimed at the weaknesses of the Beligutai and other tribes, and wanted to defeat them here.

However, Alu Timur's seemingly reasonable suggestion was rejected by Wang Baobao without hesitation.

"No, these people in Bili Gutai are a group of bandits. They don't need much food and grass for marching and fighting. They have a lot of horses, and they can graze on the grassland outside Huangzhou City. As long as they can graze, they will not If there is any danger of insufficient food and grass, even if Huangzhou City cannot be conquered, they can still divide into two groups and one way to contain us in Huangzhou, and continue to go south to Dadu. Therefore, if you want to defeat the people like Biligutai, you must take the initiative to attack. Let them step into the Monan Grassland."

When Wang Baobao said this, he couldn’t help but feel a little sad, because the tribes of Beli Gutai and Alu Timur and the Central Plains Mongols had lived separately for only a hundred years, yet they didn’t understand each other’s living habits so much.

Alu Timur even forgot the nomadic way of life of the grassland tribes.

I thought they relied heavily on food and supplies like the Han army.

"Besides, the Ming army is now eyeing the south, and the distance from Shandong, which is close at hand, is only five or six days away. If we delay on the grassland for too long, let alone the possibility that Biligutai and other tribes may flee back at any time, we will The attack of the Ming army alone will easily put Dadu in a dangerous situation, we must fight quickly against Biligutai!"

Wang Baobao quickly settled down.

Take the initiative to attack the strategy of fighting against the rebels of various tribes such as Bili Gutai on the Monan grassland.

He only left a small number of troops to garrison Huangzhou City to prevent the rebels from going around and attacking the rear. Then he led [-] main forces and marched rapidly towards the northern grasslands, fighting for the victory of the tribes such as Biligutai who had just crossed the Gobi Desert. When Tan came to the Monan Grassland, he fought the enemy when they were tired from marching.

The news that the imperial army led by Wang Baobao marched northward was quickly monitored by the scouts of the Beligutai rebels. These scouts immediately reported Wang Baobao's movements to Khan Sarenbuhua, a tribe in Beligutai.

At this time, Saren Buhua has been elected as the leader of the alliance by various tribes, and his title is the Grand Master of the Mongolian Kingdom.

After receiving the news that Wang Baobao had only led more than 1 people to intercept him, Sa Renbuhua, the grand master of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, immediately let out a mocking laugh.

"Hahaha, Wang Baobao is such a hairless kid, it seems that he really doesn't know what it's like to die."

"Now we have more than 4 warriors under our command. One soldier of Wang Baobao will fight four Mongolian warriors. If they don't kill them, they won't leave a piece of armor. .”

The confident words of Sa Renbuhua, the grand master of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, immediately won the unanimous approval of all the tribal leaders and generals.

You must know that the life on the grassland has not been very easy in the past two years. Just like the Central Plains, there are frequent disasters. If it were not for the rewards from the Yuan Dynasty a few years ago, their life would have been difficult.

But since last year, the Yuan court has no surplus food to reward these tribes of the same tribe on the grassland, so the life of these nomadic tribes is also difficult every day.

Now it's hard to get an opportunity to go south to Dacaogu in an open and above board manner.

All the tribes moved after hearing the sound, and they all contributed vigorously.

Before entering the Monan Grassland, Saren Buhua's army had expanded again, doubling to more than 4 soldiers and horses, and there were more than 20 accompanying horses.

Commanding such a large-scale army, Sa Renbuhua's heart is full of pride. You must know that when Genghis Khan fought on the grasslands, there were only 2 troops in his headquarters. Now Sa Renbuhua's troops belong to Genghis Khan. More than twice as much, even if it is only half of Genghis Khan's ability, he can easily defeat Wang Baobao and enter Dadu.

Wang Baobao's 4 soldiers and Sa Renbuhua's [-] nomadic army soon met on the grassland north of Huangzhou.

Both sides did not flinch, one side wanted to defeat the enemy quickly, and then return to Dadu to defend the safety of the court.

The other side wants to quickly invade the Central Plains to plunder food and supplies, and replenish the tribe with supplies for the winter.

"Grand Master, this little boy Wang Baobao has formed a strange formation. It seems that he is about to be beaten."

The rebel generals who were scouting ahead quickly brought the news that Wang Baobao's army had put up a solid formation.

"Hahaha, this Wang Baobao is indeed an inexperienced kid."

Great Mongol Grand Master Sa Ren was not overjoyed, and immediately commanded his troops to form a three-sided attack formation.

(End of this chapter)