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

Chapter 163 Hu Dahai Arrives in the New World of America

The situation on the northern border of Ming Dynasty quickly consolidated.

Formed a pattern in which Zhu Han led the northern parallel capital to guard the east, and Xu Da guarded the northwest.

All the Mongolian tribes on the Monan Grassland surrendered to the Ming army, and Wang Baobao, the last pillar of the Mongolian and Yuan courts, was helpless against the strong defense of the Ming army.

Only the leader of Moxi Mongolia, who has no clothes, doesn't know the real combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

He also wanted to find an opportunity to test the strength of the Ming army.

However, it was precisely because of the large-scale attack of the Ming army on the Monan grassland that Wang Baobao did not dare to leave the Mengyuan center by the Onan River easily.

Moxi Mongolia, headed by Wala, had no way to attack the Mongolian and Yuan courts.

A peace and tranquility formed on the grassland surprised everyone.

But the person who broke this peaceful situation was none other than the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which had just formed an alliance with Ming Dynasty.

In the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, March.

Khan Tuluheitimur of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate led an army of [-] to attack the Mongolian and Yuan forces in Turpan.

After capturing Turpan, he continued to attack the Tianshan Mountains occupied by Wala in the north.

On the misty sea, the fleet led by Hu Dahai finally saw a piece of land when it was exhausted.

"There is land!"

"Look! There's land!"

Several crew members who were watching from the mast let out trembling cheers!

Many Da Ming crew members had already passed out on the splints due to hunger and thirst, and they were also very slow to respond to these cheers.

After drifting for more than a month, Hu Dahai and the others once encountered an island and took a rest there. They had lost their way and didn't know where they should go. Continue eastward with the waves.

Because according to what Zhu Han told him before, the theory that the world is spherical.

As long as you can continue to move forward, you will always return to the original starting point.

"Quick, get ready to go ashore!" Hu Dahai ordered excitedly.

These people have been drifting at sea for a long time, and their bodies have already reached their limit.

At this moment, they saw a flat beach. Even if they had to walk, they would collapse on the ground halfway.

Seeing this situation, Hu Dahai shook his head helplessly and said, "Brothers, we must hurry up and land now. If we delay here for too long, we may be swept away by the retreating waves!"

Hearing Hu Dahai's words, many people stood up again.

After everyone went ashore, Hu Dahai and others found a place with fresh water and filled it up crazily.

At this time, Hu Dahai and others began to observe this strange land.

Unlike the Central Plains and Japan Island, many weeds, birds and animals on the ground are also very strange.

"Could it be a new continent?" Hu Dahai couldn't help getting excited.

Although it is said that Hu Dahai has also considered this issue, he has never really confirmed it. After all, this place is really far away from Daming.

"Boss, what shall we do next?" A man in military uniform asked.

This man is called Wang Hu, and he is an officer under Hu Dahai.

"Wang Hu, you lead 50 people and are responsible for searching the surroundings. The rest of the people will follow me to find food. We haven't eaten for a long time." Hu Dahai said.

"Follow!"

This Wang Hu is obviously better at fighting, and after hearing Hu Dahai's order, he immediately arranged for his men to carry out the task.

Hu Dahai led more than 300 people to search nearby and caught several big fish beside a small stream.

"Damn, I'm starving to death, I can finally eat something warm!"

"Yeah, there's nothing here, not even farmland!"

As soon as these people caught the fish, they all sat by the stream and grilled the fish on the fire.

"Let's find out what this place is first," Hu Dahai said.

"Well, what your lord said makes sense. This place looks very evil. We have to figure it out."

"Yes!"

Hu Dahai nodded, then cut the cooked fish with a dagger, and took a bite.

After some investigation, Hu Dahai and others found that although this place is close to the sea, it is not a small island, but a very vast land.

Hu Dahai and others discovered that there are many birds and beasts on this land, and many places are flat, which should have been fertile land. Planting grain would definitely bring a good harvest, but there is no trace of human habitation.

Obviously this is a very desolate land!

After two or three days of inspections, Hu Dahai and his team found a group of very strong cattle on the other side of the hill. Like a mountain, grazing leisurely on the grass.

These bison have a bad temper and are not afraid of people at all. After seeing Hu Dahai and the others, they rushed towards Hu Dahai and the others.

At the beginning, Hu Dahai and the others were scared away by these bison, but after they figured out the habits of these bison, they set up traps around them and captured dozens of fat bison in one fell swoop. Put the realization of the beef free.

Hu Dahai and the others quickly replenished their physical strength with the beef.

Then some big trees were cut down on land and the ships were repaired.

This is a vast and desolate strange continent.

After discussing with others, Hu Dahai and others decided to continue to explore the inland area. After leaving more than 100 people to guard the ship, the rest of the people all went to explore in three different directions.

They used wolf smoke to communicate with each other, and there were a few surviving horses on board, so that they would not only rely on two pairs of legs when they were exploring.

Hu Dahai, Hu Guanzhu, and Wang Hu set off in different directions with three teams.

Hu Dahai led hundreds of his men to explore along the wilderness. The more they walked, the more surprised they were, because there were fertile land and strong bison herds everywhere.

"It's a pity that there is no such a good piece of land?" Hu Dahai and the others saw only some bison after walking for two days.

There were other strange-looking beasts, but no one was seen.

Hu Dahai rode a steed from Liaodong and galloped forward along the vast grassland, but there was still no sign of people living there.

Together with his men, he prepared to return to the place where the ship was moored.

Although this piece of land is fertile.

But it is desolate, there is not even a shadow of a ghost, and it is just the same desolation if you walk any further.

When Hu Dahai led his men back along the original road.

Suddenly, they saw a faint blue smoke in the distance, suddenly rising over the wilderness.

Hu Dahai and the others were immediately surprised.

At the beginning, they thought it was Hu Guanzhu or Wang Hu's men.

But after getting closer, they saw a few savages wearing wild animal skins lighting a fire and grilling their prey, not Hu Guanzhu and Wang Hu.

In this vast and desolate continent, there is such a group of savages.

Hu Dahai and the others immediately became alert.

After approaching quietly, Hu Dahai took out his sword and prepared to fight with a group of subordinates.

But when they saw the weapons in the hands of those savages, their vigilance was greatly relaxed.

Because those savages didn't have any decent weapons in their hands.

It's just a few thick wooden sticks with some sharp stones inlaid on them.

With such a crude weapon, not to mention Hu Dahai and his elite soldiers, even the old peasants in the Central Plains may not be able to defeat them.

After all, when the peasants rioted, they still had a few dung forks in their hands, which could stab their enemies to death.

At this time, this group of savages also discovered Hu Dahai and the others by virtue of the vigilance of their own hunters.

There were probably seven or eight savages, and when they saw Hu Dahai had hundreds of people, they immediately turned pale with fright when they approached them, and started screaming.

After seeing Hu Dahai and the others approaching them, these savages immediately raised their sticks and made a posture of wanting to fight Hu Dahai and the others. There was another savage behind them, sneaking away , obviously wanting to report to his clansmen.

How could Hu Dahai let this savage go back to report the news? He immediately flew on his horse and galloped towards the escaping savage. With just one breath, the horse under his crotch caught up to the galloping savage. Hu Dahai grabbed the handle with one hand. The savage was caught on the back of the horse abruptly.

These savages seemed to have never seen a horse. After seeing the galloping horse, they were all terrified. Some even threw away the wooden sticks in their hands, knelt on the ground and prayed non-stop to the horse.

Facing the approaching Hu Dahai and others, these savages completely gave up resistance and fell to the ground one by one.

It was as if he had encountered a god in the sky, fearful and pious.

Only then did Hu Dahai realize that the savage he caught on horseback was a child, only in his teens, and looked thin and weak, like a monkey.

After Hu Dahai saw the face of this savage child, he was even more surprised, because he found that the appearance of these savages was [-]-[-]% similar to them Ming people, or in other words, except for the difference in clothing and appearance superior.Not much difference at all.

Hu Dahai was suddenly amazed, did he come to a certain island in Haidong?

After all, these savages look very similar to those Jurchen ministries.

It's just that it's a little behind the Jurchens.

Northern Parallel Capital Division.

Zhu Han is holding a military meeting with a group of generals including Zhou Dexing, Guo Ying, Qi Xiang, and Luo Guanzhong. The main content is the progress of setting up forts on the Monan grassland.

Luo Guanzhong has already sorted out the Mongolian tribes on the Monan grassland in a unified way. Almost every tribe needs to set up one or two new bastions, each bastion is equipped with [-] to [-] people, and there are about ten doors small artillery.

This scale is simply not worth mentioning for Daming's finances. After all, Daming's tax revenue has been increasing steadily. The commercial taxes of a few city ship divisions alone can support all the military expenditures of a northern parallel capital. .

"Your Highness, although there is no financial problem in the construction of this bastion, the shortage of personnel is still insufficient. A lot of reserve soldiers and military households have been recruited from Huaixi and Henan, but there is still a serious shortage! Many military households I heard that these fortresses set up by the Northern Parallel Capital Division do not allocate land, and they are not willing to come here, and it is almost difficult for follow-up recruitment!" Guo Ying said to Zhu Han.

As a typical example of courage and resourcefulness among Huaixi generals, Guo Ying is now the deputy commander of the Northern Paradise Division, mainly assisting Zhu Han in building a new type of bastion on the Monan grassland.

"I remember that there are many military households in Huaixi and Henan. They have many children. Except for the eldest son, the rest cannot inherit the status of military households. Why are they unwilling to come to Beijing to parallel the capital? Is it because they have no land? "Zhu Han asked with some incomprehension.

In fact, Zhu Han still underestimated the people's passion for the land in this matter.

Those military households were able to fight desperately on the battlefield without the need for military officers to use military laws to restrain them, because all of these military households had at least one hundred acres of land.

This one hundred mu of land can make the whole family of this military household have no worries about food and clothing, and it can be passed on to future generations.

Once they surrender or are punished on the battlefield, they are very likely to be fined for land reduction or directly confiscated.

Military households are very afraid of these punishments, so they have such high morale.

This shows the importance of land to the morale of military households.

Therefore, even though Zhu Han paid a high salary of [-] silver dollars a month for the garrison personnel needed to set up these new fortresses in the Northern Parallel Capital, he still did not recruit enough soldiers.

The military households of the Henan and Huaixi generations all wanted land.

He is not very interested in being a soldier on the Monan Grassland but not being able to allocate land.

In the entire Huaixi Henan area, only about [-] soldiers were recruited, and there was still a gap of [-] for the fortress tactics on the Monan grassland.

The shortage of so many personnel is a big problem for consolidating the Monan Grassland.

If the fortress tactics cannot be perfected on the Monan grassland, then the Mongolian ministries on the Monan grassland cannot be fully controlled, which will leave a security risk for Beiping.

The most urgent task now is to recruit enough soldiers to complete the layout of the fort on the Monan grassland.

"Now that the imperial court is recuperating, many people are no longer willing to serve as soldiers and fight. They may still have some interest in being a military household, but they are not very interested in serving as soldiers on the grassland to garrison fortresses." Zhou Dexing also said beside him .

Several people were at a loss as to how to replenish the shortage of soldiers in the Northern Parallel Capital.

After all, there can't be much arable land on the grassland, and it's impossible to divide the grassland to soldiers.

However, this did not trouble Zhu Han.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Han said.

"Since the people in the Central Plains are unwilling to come to the grasslands, it means that the living conditions of the people in the Central Plains are relatively good. They are unwilling to give up their happy life and come here to endure hardship. In that case, we will find some people from poor places and come to Monan Wouldn't it be enough to serve as a soldier on the grassland?"

Zhu Han's words immediately inspired Zhou Dexing, Guo Ying and others.

They thought about it for a while, and they all felt that this was a good idea, but where to recruit soldiers was indeed a question worth thinking about.

"Actually, you don't need to think too much about this question. I have a ready-made good idea to ensure that I can recruit many good soldiers," Zhu Han said when they were puzzled.

Hearing Zhu Han's words, Guo Ying, Zhou Dexing and others all cast inquiring glances.

The place Zhu Han mentioned was the Liaodong region that had just been captured by Ming Dynasty.

There are many Jurchen tribes in Liaodong. They live in the deep mountains and old forests of Baishan and Heishui. There must be no problem if the city is stationed on the Monan grassland to guard against the Mongols.

(End of this chapter)