Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 617 Huang Taiji’s Troubles 3
Huang Taiji struck while the iron was hot and encouraged the Belles. Then the meeting ended. Everyone was busy with their own affairs, while he took Bao Cheng to the imperial study room to continue the discussion.

After entering the imperial study room, the contempt and arrogance on Huang Taiji's face immediately disappeared without a trace. He stared at Bao Chengxian with sharp eyes, and said word by word: "Brother Bao, please tell me everything you have seen and heard in the customs." Ben Khan said, don’t miss a single word!”

The fat man's expression now became extremely terrifying. Bao Chengxian's hair stood on end, and he did not dare to neglect. He mustered up his energy and told Huang Taiji everything he saw and heard in the pass.He has been wandering around the pass for half a year and has visited many places. He even entered the Daming Road himself to check out the situation there, and he is quite familiar with the situation in the pass.As he told the story, Huang Taiji's expression became more and more serious, and his face became more and more ugly.

"The main force of the rogue bandits was wiped out by the Heluo New Army and the Tianxiong Army as early as the end of last year. The remaining rogue bandits were scattered in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and they were also surrounded by officers and soldiers. The decades-long rogue rebellion in the country has temporarily come to an end. In March of this year, Chongzhen issued an edict to stop collecting and suppressing salaries and training salaries..."

"Lu Xiangsheng worked hard to farm in Xuanda, focusing on the development of Ningxia. It took only half a year to restore the irrigation and drainage system of the Yinchuan Plain, turning the Yinchuan Plain into a fertile farmland again. The servant has been to Yinchuan, and the rice fields that stretch for hundreds of miles are so impressive. People were shocked and couldn't believe that Yinchuan was there. Chongzhen had great trust in him, and introduced the government to encourage landless farmers to move to Yinchuan. The population of the Yinchuan Plain is increasing every day, and new villages are being built every day.”

"The Tianxiong army took the coal mining rights of Shanxi and Ningxia as their own, and found a huge coal mine in Ningxia to supply the entire Nine Borders area. Coal for heating and cooking!"

"The Tianxiong Army and the Mongolian tribes near the side wall trade each other every day, exchanging a large amount of tea, miscellaneous grains, and pig iron for cattle, sheep and horses in the hands of the Mongolians. They just sent a few glazed products to the leader of a Mongolian tribe, and let that The Mongolian tribe willingly attached and gave up a large salt lake to the Han people. Then the Han people built a factory by the salt lake, boiled refined salt with the bitter water in the salt lake, and supplied it to the Jiubian area. favorite……"

Hearing this, Huang Taiji frowned.

As we all know, there are quite a few saltwater lakes in the Mongolian prairie and the sand sea in the northwest. The scorching sun evaporates the lake water, leaving only salt.But the herdsmen still need to exchange a large amount of salt with the Central Plains with cattle and sheep, why?Because the salt in most salt lakes is very bitter, even poisonous, eating that kind of salt will cause bad luck.The herdsmen on the prairie did not master the technology of cooking salt to improve the taste. Even if they mastered it, they would not be able to develop a decent salt industry. One reason is that they are scarce in iron, and the iron they finally got is not enough to make weapons. Also used to make salt cooking equipment?Second, there is also a lack of fuel.Firewood is needed to cook salt, and the fire cannot be stopped all day long. There is only grass on the prairie, so where can I find so much firewood?If you really want to cook salt, you can only burn hay and cow dung. The former is the food for cattle and sheep, and the latter is the indispensable fuel in the daily life of herdsmen during the winter. Using these two to cook salt is really The most important thing is that the mouse serves as an escort for the cat-it takes money but not life.Therefore, herdsmen living on the Mongolian plateau can only stare blankly at the salt lakes. For more than 2000 years, only the small regime of Xixia has done the unnatural thing of exporting salt to the customs. Relying on the export of green salt to the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, Xixia has made a lot of money.After the demise of Xixia, everything returned to the original point, and the herdsmen continued to stare at the salt lake in a daze.Now the Tianxiong army has started to develop the salt lake on a large scale, which means that although they are at the border, they will never be short of money. They can use salt to exchange for excellent war horses from the Mongols, and recruit a large number of people from Shaanxi, Ningxia and other places Even if Hou Jin could drive a wedge between the Daming Center and the Tianxiong Army for hard-working civilian husbands and soldiers, and let the center cut off the food supply to the Tianxiong Army, the Tianxiong Army would not be able to do anything about it!On the contrary, as time goes by, Tianxiong Army's business will grow bigger and bigger!
Damn it, why did the Ming Dynasty have two outliers like Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Menglong!

"The remnants of Khalkha have also begun to contact the Tianxiong Army..."

Hearing these words, Huang Taiji finally couldn't bear it anymore, swung his hand, threw the teacup on the ground and smashed it to pieces, and let out a low growl from his throat: "Lin Danhan!"

Lin Dan Khan is regarded as Huang Taiji's old opponent. After the rise of Nurhachi, Hou Jin expanded rapidly to the Mongolian grassland, and a fierce conflict broke out with Lin Dan Khan, who claimed to be the co-owner of the grassland.Facing the aggressive Houjin, Lin Dan Khan wisely chose to unite the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty. While making good friends with the Ming Dynasty, he received food and weapon supplies from the Ming Dynasty, while constantly attacking Houjin and the Mongolian tribes who were pro-Houjin. Nurhachi had a headache.Of course, Nurhachi couldn't tolerate Lin Danhan's stabbing in the back. He dispatched a large army to conquer Lin Danhan many times, and Lin Danhan, the "Genghis Khan", was also very disappointing in fighting. It's just a persimmon that's easy to pinch.In fact, after the Battle of Daling River, Huang Taiji launched another large-scale offensive against Lin Dan Khan. He grabbed more than 7000 horses alone, and more than [-] herdsmen of the Khalkha tribe attached to him, making up for the large-scale attack. After the loss in the battle of Linghe, there is still surplus.However, Lin Danhan's human sandbag is not very good at fighting, but his life-saving skills are top-notch. He has been wiped out time after time, and has been beaten and defeated again and again. Until now, he is still alive and kicking, with good teeth and a good appetite.It's all right now, Houjin is in big trouble, Lin Danhan can't wait to jump out and sprinkle salt on Houjin's wound——Who told you to beat me up all the time?
Huang Taiji's emotions got a little out of control, and he roared: "We must not allow the Tianxiong Army to unite with the Khalkha! The Tianxiong Army is already strong enough, and if they get enough horses from Khalkha, the consequences will be disastrous! Bao Chengxian , Ben Khan has a sum of money here, not much, only 30 taels of silver, you will spend it when you enter the customs! Whether it is the central minister of the Ming Dynasty, the local officials of Shanxi, or even the Shanxi merchants, as long as they can be in front of Chongzhen children Don't let go of anyone who can talk, try to win them over, let them slander, sway them secretly, or even bribe assassins to assassinate them, I will not ask, I only want Lu Xiangsheng to die!"

Bao Chengxian was taken aback by Huang Taiji's frantic state, and didn't quite understand why Huang Taiji was so furious just by the news that Khalkha had contacted the Tianxiong Army.However, it is better not to ask some questions. He lowered his eyebrows and said respectfully: "Don't worry, King Khan, although Lu Xiangsheng is strong, he is not invulnerable. Education and so on have offended many people, but now that he is in the limelight, no one dares to pluck his beard easily. As long as his limelight is over, his political opponents will attack him! He is both civil and military, but he is a literati after all. Born, the method of dealing with literati is still very effective for him, and it is not difficult for him to die!" Speaking of this, he showed a trace of worry: "But Yang Menglong has a very deep friendship with him, and he will never let him die. Yes, the combination of these two people is too scary!"

Huang Taiji became more and more irritable: "That's why I want Lu Xiangsheng to die!" He sneered: "Yang Menglong is certainly difficult to deal with, but he is too impulsive and straightforward, and I don't know how many people he has offended! He can live until now, on the one hand, it is certainly Chongzhen's trust, on the other hand, is also inseparable from Lu Xiangsheng's constant good words for him in front of the Wenchen Group and reconciling the conflicts between him and the Wenchen Group. If Lu Xiangsheng dies, the conflict between him and the Wenchen Group will definitely explode. In the end, they turned against each other!"

As early as the end of the Battle of Dalinghe, Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng were hailed by many people as the "Empire Twins", and the Battle of Lushun also proved that once their two swords are combined, even if they are as strong as Houjin, they will have to kneel!This is a perfect combination. Yang Menglong is unconstrained and unconstrained, daring to act. With his efforts, new things and miraculous technologies emerged endlessly, while Lu Xiangsheng copied them all and followed suit; He won the trust of Chongzhen, and he also shared this trust with Yang Menglong, often speaking for Yang Menglong in front of Chongzhen; Lu Xiangsheng obtained advanced industrial technology from Yang Menglong, and Yang Menglong relied on Lu Xiangsheng to gain the trust of Chongzhen, each took what he needed, and wanted to overthrow the It was really difficult for these two people.But Huang Taiji is very clear that this combination is not perfect. Yang Menglong's apostasy and contempt for the scholar-bureaucrat group are fatal injuries. The contradictions between them will soon become irreconcilable!In the end, Yang Menglong will find out in despair that he is fighting against the entire empire. He has only two choices, either to be Yue Fei or Cao Cao. The former will make Ming Dynasty lose its last Optimus Prime, and the latter will make Ming Dynasty fall into No matter what kind of bloody storms the civil war or even the change of dynasty, they are all loved by the later Jin Dynasty.

If Yang Menglong is knocked down, Lu Xiangsheng may not be affected; but if Lu Xiangsheng is knocked down, the end of Yang Menglong will come!
Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng must die!

The situation was grim, and Huang Taiji didn't give Bao Chengxian too much time. Five days later, Bao Chengxian re-entered the border with tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the next two 10,000+ taels would be sent to him through various channels.In order to kill Lu Xiangsheng, Hou Jin spent a lot of money. You know, the silver they grabbed in the second year of the Chongzhen Battle was less than 200 million taels. It took a few years to spend almost all of it. Lu Xiangsheng and Huang Taiji almost emptied the treasury.

After sending Bao Chengxian away, Huang Taiji ordered the Eight Banners Army to intensify their armaments, ordering the Horqin, Chahar, Tumut and other departments to intensify their attacks on the Khalkha department, and at the same time launch a raid on Yinchuan and Datong, focusing on Yinchuan. Destroying those rice fields and emerging villages is of course the best, even if you can't do it, you can't let the Tianxiong Army develop with peace of mind——Anyway, even if you don't launch an offensive, it won't be long before the Tianxiong Army will come to trouble you !

After two orders, the smell of gunpowder smoke in the Liaodong area gradually became stronger again.Only this time, after receiving the order, Jin Qiding was not as excited as before. On the contrary, he was still a little worried.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that after the Battle of Lushun, Hou Jin has fallen into a passive position, and as time goes by, they will become more and more passive.

This is the first time Houjin has passively fought since the end of the Battle of Salhu!

Hou Jin was preparing troops, but their deadly enemy, Tianxiong Army, held a big banquet in Yinchuan at this time, and entertained a guest from the grassland—the last Genghis Khan of Mongolia, the precious son of Lin Dan Khan.

(End of this chapter)