The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Nurgan City.

The main city of Nurgan Dusi in the past.

Tang Hao looked at the deserted city and felt a little tired.

The joint land and sea operations of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the cooperation of the Korean side, took half a year to successfully massacre the three major tribes of the Jurchens.

The Jianzhou Jurchens were once killed to the point of extinction. Even because of Tang Hao's bounty call, many Mongolian tribes also joined the grand event of encircling and suppressing the Jianzhou Jurchens. After all, the head of a Jianzhou Jurchen could be exchanged for an iron pot in the market, which was a big profit for the unproductive Mongolian tribes!

Under the joint suppression of the three parties, the Jurchens had no power to resist at all. One tribe after another was slaughtered, and one young and strong man after another fell in a pool of blood.

As for the remaining old, weak, women and children, most of them were captured by the Mongols, and a small number were gathered and thrown directly to the Korean Front Army for them to deal with.

After half a year of fighting, Tang Hao was also a little tired, not to mention the soldiers of the three armies who undertook the main combat tasks.

This kind of fatigue is not only physical, but also spiritual.

After a long period of bloody killing, especially the slaughter of the elderly, the weak, women and children, the soldiers of the three armies gradually became numb.

The Korean army could not help but tremble with fear when they saw this change.

After all, they had never seen such a bloody, brutal and disciplined terrifying army!

Fortunately, they are allies of the Ming Dynasty, and have always been!

Therefore, after arriving at the site of the old city of Nurgan, Tang Hao immediately ordered the army to rest for half a month and held a grand celebration banquet to appease the soldiers of the three armies.

Thanks to the gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep and horses seized from the Jurchen tribe, cattle and sheep were slaughtered and drunk at the banquet, and the soldiers finally smiled and got drunk one by one.

Alcohol is prohibited in the army during wartime. This is a ban.

However, the situation this time is special. If the soldiers of the three armies are not allowed to relax for a moment, I am afraid that their tense heartstrings will break in an instant. At that time, terrible incidents such as mutiny and camp bombing will occur, which will only bring trouble to themselves.

Tang Hao, Tang Mu, Zuo Yidao and other generals and officers are all here, as well as Nan Gun and Li Ju of the Korean Front Army.

Nan Gun took the initiative to pick up the wine glass and tried to show goodwill to the Ming Zhongshan Marquis.

After all, the domestic situation in Korea is complicated. Because of the support of Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao, Cui Tan is in charge of the East China Sea trade. Yiyue has become the leader of the old meritorious forces, with a high position and power, even Nan Gun and others are far inferior.

But before Cui Tan made friends with the Ming Zhongshan Marquis, he was just a Jeju governor and was squeezed out of the court.

This soaring situation all came from the Ming Zhongshan Marquis.

Nan Gun asked himself that his background and talents were not bad, so he also hoped to gain the friendship of the Ming Zhongshan Marquis.

Otherwise, Nan Gun would not have personally followed the army to fight.

"Lord Tang, we fought to the utmost in this battle and completely wiped out the Jurchen barbarians, all thanks to Lord Tang's wise command!"

This flattery was not very clever, but it made people smile.

Tang Hao glanced at Nan Gun, and then also raised the wine glass.

"That's not right!"

"This battle is the work of the three armies!"

"Drink this cup to reward their credit!"

The soldiers of the three armies echoed one after another, and the atmosphere of the banquet immediately reached a climax.

Tang Hao also saw Nan Gun's initiative to show goodwill, but the East China Sea trade was handed over to Cui Tan, which was based on the overall situation. There was no need to establish another political enemy for Cui Tan.

As long as Cui Tan was obedient, that would be enough.

Of course, if he was not obedient, Tang Hao would have many ways to deal with him.

The banquet ended soon, and Tang Hao summoned a group of generals to the central army tent.

"The campaign against the Jurchens can basically come to an end here."

"After this encirclement and suppression, only one in ten Jurchens survived, and all the young and strong men were killed. It is difficult for them to survive in the future."

"But our mission is not over yet."

Tang Hao looked at the generals and smiled.

"First, it is the Nurgan Dusi!"

"Liaodong's geographical location is very important. It is an important part of controlling the Mongolian grasslands. Using Liaodong to clamp down on the left wing of Mongolia is a major national policy of the Ming Dynasty for border defense."

"And Liaodong also has the strategic significance of protecting the capital of the Ming Dynasty - Beijing. The tribute of Korea must go through Liaodong. Therefore, whether from the military, border defense, or diplomacy, Liaodong is an important frontier town of the Ming Dynasty."

"Once the Liaodong region is not peaceful, the rule of the Ming Dynasty will not be stable, so how to manage Liaodong has become an imminent problem for the court!"

Tang Hao circled Liaodong on the geomancy map.

"But when it comes to managing Liaodong, we have to mention the Nurgan Regional Military Commission."

"The vast Nurgan region is indeed a key place, and its existence is no less than that of the Western Regions."

"The Nurgan Regional Military Commission, from the Greater Khingan Range to southern Liaoning, is equivalent to the right wing of our Ming Empire. The right wing Nurgan Regional Military Commission bears almost the same important military significance as the Western Regions. The direct cooperation between the right wing and the Ming Dynasty can not only threaten the Mongolian regime in the grassland, but also effectively broaden the strategic depth of the Liaoxi Corridor to ensure the safety of the capital."

"In addition, now that our Ming Dynasty has conquered Japan, we can restore the Silk Road of the Bohai Kingdom in Northeast Asia since the Tang Dynasty, because there are a large number of barbarian tribes in the Heilongjiang River estuary, Kamchatka Peninsula, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island and even Hokkaido. They will come here to trade. Although the economic value is not worth mentioning, it will obviously help to enhance the influence of the Ming Dynasty here."

The eyes of all the generals lit up, and they stared at Tang Hao with burning eyes.

"So, if our Ming Dynasty can continue to develop and cultivate this vast land of Nurganwei, the benefits will be far beyond imagination!"

"First, the Ming Dynasty can maintain military suppression of the Mongolian tribes from the right wing and the front to prevent the situation where the grassland barbarians can easily attack the capital; second, if the Nurganwei is cultivated, the fierce warriors in these places can be used for their own use, which is an effective supplement to our Ming Dynasty cavalry; third, if Nurganwei can become a self-sufficient cultivated land after deep cultivation, then our Ming Dynasty's territory will expand a lot in an instant..."

Nurgandusi, this is a vast and fertile land, and it is also a strategic location.

In the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Taizong Zhu Di, he ordered eunuch Yishiha and others to lead more than a thousand official troops and 25 giant ships to escort Kangwang and other officials to the Terlin area on the other side of the Henggun River estuary to officially open the Nurgandusi.

Even Zhu Di repeatedly emphasized that the Heilongjiang River Basin was the "key place", and Yishiha was ordered to go to the North Sea nine times. During this period, the Ming Dynasty built a shipyard on the Songhua River and pacified a number of Jurchen tribes through the system of control.

However, Renzong and Xuanzong began to work on the internal governance of the Ming Dynasty, abandoned the military conquest policy against Mongolia, and maintained the tributary relationship with Mongolia through a series of diplomatic and economic means. Although Mongolia was still in a state of division, it was pregnant with factors for unification, and was busy with the pace of unifying Mongolia and had no time to look south.

Under this circumstance, both sides tried their best to maintain peaceful relations.

In addition, after abandoning the military conquest policy, Renzong and Xuanzong began to work on strategic contraction, abandoning Annan, moving Nurgan inland, and disbanding the personnel who went to the West.

The inaction policy of Emperors Renzong and Xuanzong on Mongolian military affairs created a strong external environment for the formation of Mongolian unification and laid the groundwork for the Tumubao Incident. The northern bandits in the Hetao area, which had long threatened the Ming Dynasty, also appeared after the Tumubao Incident.

It has to be admitted that the extreme expansion of Emperor Yongle caused a certain burden on the finances, and the border affairs also made the court quite complicated. Zhu Zhanji often dealt with it in the simplest way, that is, to give up directly.

There were two Zhili and fourteen Chengxuan Zhengshisi in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, he directly gave up Jiaozhi Chengxuan Zhengshisi and returned it to the people of Annan.

In the northeast direction, during the reign of Emperor Taizong Zhu Di, the development was very far, and the Nurgan Dusi was set up at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. The jurisdiction was as far as southern Siberia. The land was extremely cold in the north and the roads were inconvenient. At the end of Xuande, Zhu Zhanji gradually gave up the plan to develop Siberia and moved the Nurgan Dusi to Sanwanwei (Kaiyuan, Liaoning).

As a result, the expansion of the Ming Empire in the northeast stagnated, and Liaoning was directly managed, while the Jurchen tribes to the east and north were ruled by the system of vassal guards.

The final result was that under the rule of the vassal guards, the Jurchen tribes gradually became stronger by exchanging resources with the Ming Dynasty, while the Ming Dynasty was on the decline and was finally stolen by the wild boars of Jianzhou.

Zhu Zhanji, the good grandson of Emperor Yongle, was worthy of being a wise monarch in terms of civil governance, but his military achievements were not commensurate, and even many hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty were caused by him.

Giving up Jiaozhi and stopping Zheng He's voyages to the West, the Ming Dynasty's ruling power in the Southeast Asian countries declined sharply, and the overseas tribute system built by Zheng He throughout his life across the ocean collapsed.

Abandoning the strategy of governing the Northeast and moving the Nurgan Regional Command inland, directly giving the vast fertile land of Nurgan to the Mongols and the Jurchens, the result was that the Northeast became a hotbed for the rise of the Jurchens. In the end, the Ming Dynasty paid a heavy price for this and directly lost the country!

It is indeed difficult to evaluate this Emperor Xuanzong.

"By the same token, the Western Regions are the left wing of our Ming Empire."

"In terms of military, the Ming Dynasty can send troops from the right wing of the Western Regions to deter the grassland regime and reduce the military pressure on the dynasty. After the outbreak of the war, the dual military deterrence on the flanks and the front makes the grassland regime lose sight of the other. In terms of economy, the Western Regions are also an important part of the Silk Road. The Ming Dynasty can not only exchange what it needs with the West through the Silk Road, but also collect objective taxes."

"So the Western Regions and Nurganwei have the same strategic value, and the Ming Dynasty is indispensable."

"Of course, for Nurganwei, economic taxes are a small matter. The important thing is the strategic value. After firmly controlling this place, the court can also rebuild the shipyard in Jiangyu, which will become a water and land transportation hub and material distribution center connecting Nurgandusi and Liaodongdusi, strengthening the connection between this remote northern land and the Ming Dynasty. In addition, it can also become one of the bases of the Ming Navy, echoing the Japanese Navy base. In this way, our Ming Dynasty can firmly control the East China Sea!"

Tang Hao looked at the generals and stated his request.

"I intend to rebuild the Nurgan Dusi, and the Emperor has also agreed. He is sending civil officials such as Guo Xun and Mao Ji to lead 10,000 soldiers."

"When Guo Xun arrives, one of you will lead the front-line soldiers to stay in Nurgan and cooperate with the court to restore and rebuild this place!"

This time, it was Xu Tianci who took the initiative to ask for the job.

His temperament is like this, he doesn't fight or compete, but when Tang Hao needs someone to stay, he can trust him with his back.

After confirming the candidate, Tang Hao immediately stood up and circled a place on the geomancy map.

There is no doubt that this is the next target of the Ming army!

And that is...Daning!