The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Dongsheng City.

Half a month has passed since Wang Qiong built the city. The steel city designed by Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao has gradually shown its unparalleled advancement, which is an advancement that is not in line with common sense!

On the foundation of the original Yulin City, the craftsmen only need to flatten the buildings above and lay cement hollow bricks to strengthen the foundation, and then start the construction of the steel city wall.

Cement is needless to say, and hollow bricks have many advantages. First, it can save materials, second, it can speed up the brick-making process, and third, it has high strength, good heat preservation, sound insulation and noise reduction performance.

In addition to these two things, there is the high-quality steel that is continuously transported from the first iron smelting plant in the Ming Dynasty in Jizhou, North Zhili!

All the major iron mills in the Ming Dynasty have been reformed according to the model of Laiwu Iron Mill. Not only has the iron smelting volume increased significantly, but the good steel produced is also intoxicating.

The design drawings of Dongsheng City were provided by Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao himself.

The reason is that the previous border walls and castles were too fragile.

The Mongols were nomadic people who lived by water and grass. They often fought for pastures with lush grass and water, and developed a warlike and tyrannical character. They lived by looting and regarded it as the glory of warriors.

But it is also because of this that the Central Plains dynasties have never conquered the grasslands, and have never completely wiped out the barbarians on the northern grasslands.

If you win, they will ride on horses and run away, and plunge into the vast grasslands. You can't find them at all, or other tribes will come to occupy this grassland soon. What should I do? Keep fighting.

However, the people of the Central Plains mainly farm, and the grassland pastures can't grow food except raising cattle and horses. There is no other use for the Central Plains dynasty!

If you lose, it will be a horrible disaster for the Chinese people, such as the tragedy of the Five Barbarians' Rebellion and the Migration of the Clothes and Mankind to the South!

The clothes and mankind have become dogs and sheep, and the country has fallen into the hands of the barbarians!

In short, these grassland peoples invaded in large numbers when they became strong, and fled thousands of miles away when they became weak.

Even if their young and strong tribes were killed, they would develop again after decades, just like the Tatar tribe led by Dayan Khan now, with a tenacious and terrifying vitality!

In those days, Emperor Yongle led the army five times in person, known as "six flights and five crossings", defeated the Tatars and Wala took advantage of the situation to rise, and led the army to fight Wala again. Wala suffered a heavy blow, and the Tatars rose again. Emperor Yongle sent troops to fight the Tatars again, but Zhu Di fought for his whole life and still failed to pacify the grassland forever.

The first time was in the eighth year of Yongle, when the Ming army defeated 50,000 Mongolian cavalry in the Feiyun Mountain Battle, and the Tatars of the Mongolian headquarters paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty; the second time was in the twelfth year of Yongle, when the Ming army defeated the Wala leader Mahamu who was defending in a dangerous place in Hulanhushiwen (now southeast of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), chased to the Tula River, and Mahamu fled. Wala was defeated, and Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty announced it to the world.

The third time was in the 20th year of Yongle, when Chengzu led his army from Beijing to personally attack the Mongolian Arutai. The Ming army marched northeastward through Kaiping and found a large number of baggage of Arutai in Kuoluanhai North Road. They sent troops to burn it and collect its livestock before returning.

The fourth time was in the 21st year of Yongle, when Chengzu personally attacked Arutai again. Hearing that Arutai was defeated by Wala, the army stayed and did not advance.

The fifth time was in the 22nd year of Yongle, when the Tatars invaded the border, and Zhu Di organized the fifth northern expedition.

The Ming Dynasty also paid a huge price for this, consuming countless manpower, material resources and financial resources, resulting in financial constraints and people's livelihood. The people had suffered from war for a long time.

However, after Yongle, Renxuan did not pursue long-term strategies, and Wala rose strongly until the "Tumu Disaster" broke out.

In the final analysis, the grassland barbarians cannot be completely eliminated.

Moreover, these grassland tribes took turns to recuperate and invade the south, which caused great headaches for the Central Plains regime.

The external threat from the northern border has always been an extremely difficult problem for the Central Plains regime!

Unless, the living space of the barbarians on the grassland can be compressed.

Wang Qiong also looked at the scene in front of him with some astonishment.

Hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and civilians took turns to build the city crazily, and the dense fires did not go out all night. These simple and lovely craftsmen used the hammers in their hands to cast a miracle!

"Jinglu Bo, is this too... extravagant?"

Wang Qiong looked at An Guo and couldn't help asking.

Just for a Hetao, the court spent so much manpower, material resources and financial resources to build Dongsheng City into a steel city. This was really difficult to understand for Wang Qiong, who was born as a civil official.

An Guo shook his head seriously.

"Not a single waste."

"This steel city will become a solid fortress for our army, and it is the confidence for our army to continue to advance into the depths of the grassland!"

"As long as our army stands firm in Hetao, and then builds cement bastions one by one according to the plan, and advances step by step in an orderly manner, these cement bastions will play an important role in resisting foreign enemies!"

"A steel city, coupled with dense cement bastions, is constantly compressing the living space of these barbarians in the Hetao Plain until they are completely driven out of Hetao!"

"Lord Wang, do you think the military expenditure of the Nine Frontiers is more, or the cost of building these steel cities and cement bastions is more?"

This truth is actually very easy to understand.

What Tang Hao and An Guo are doing now is a one-time thing!

As long as the Hetao Plain is occupied by the grassland barbarians, they can use it as a springboard to plunder the Nine Frontier Military Towns of the Ming Dynasty at will, and the Ming Dynasty needs to pay a painful price for this, and pay high military expenditures for the Nine Frontiers every year to ensure that the military and civilians of the Nine Frontiers guard the country's borders!

However, the problem is that these military expenditures are not static, but are increasing year by year!

National power will always be exhausted. By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, a full 80% of the imperial court's fiscal revenue was used for military expenditures. You can imagine what a terrifying figure this is!

For such a large dynasty, guarding the border is not the only important thing.

How to develop people's livelihood?

How to resettle the victims?

Without money and food, all this is empty talk, and the court can do nothing.

The final result will naturally be an increase in the number of refugees, mass gatherings to cause riots, uprisings... and the collapse of the dynasty!

In order to avoid this desperate consequence, the Ming Dynasty could only reduce military expenditures, or reduce the occurrence of wars. Then it must take advantage of the current Mongolian civil war to recapture Daning, Hetao and other strategic places and rebuild the northern Xinjiang defense line!

Wang Qiong figured this out and couldn't help but sigh.

"Marquis Tang and His Majesty are really far-sighted!"

"Stop sighing, we have a "guest"!"

An Guo chuckled lightly, with murderous intent in his eyes.

I saw a group of iron cavalry appearing on the plain not far away.

When Gullelao and the five thousand cavalry led by his children and grandchildren arrived, everyone looked at the scene in front of them blankly and fell into a long-lasting shock!

Tens of thousands of Ming people are building an extremely ferocious steel beast like densely packed ants. What makes them despair the most is that the steel wall in front of Dongsheng City is already three feet high and is filled with holes. A weapon that shines with sharp light!

"This is impossible!"

Greer stopped the horse's hoof and exclaimed, a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart that he had not experienced for many years.

This feeling is called fear!

With a sinister look on his face, he rode his horse to the eagle-taming warrior, knocked him to the ground with a whip, and shouted sternly: "Asshole! Didn't you say they only started building the city ten days ago?"

The eagle-taming warrior was full of grief and anger, and shouted angrily: "That's right! They really only started building the city three days ago!"

"Then tell me, where did this city in front of you come from?!"

It took ten days to build the city, including the travel time, and it only took about half a month to build a steel city. How the hell is this possible?

He held up his children and grandchildren and was about to whip them, but Gullecchiro grabbed the whip.

Under the puzzled looks of his children and grandchildren, Gullieiro frowned and shook his head, explaining: "The hunting eagle can't lie, and he has no need to deceive us!"

"We should be thankful that they only built the northern wall, and the east and west walls are still blank!"

When the children and grandchildren heard this, their eyes burst out with cruel eyes, and they nodded heavily!

Duoyan warriors are never afraid of fighting!

No matter how powerful the enemy is, they will be torn into pieces!

Because they are the favorites of Changshengtian!

They are blessed by the Immortal Heaven!

What's more, we must not let Ming people succeed in building the city!

They are not stupid!

If this giant steel beast spreads across the entire Hetao Ranch, or even the entire grassland, it will be the end of their prairie cavalry!

Apart from surrender, there is only one way to go, and that is death!

Greer turned his horse and led five thousand cavalry straight to the east of the city.

Because there is a blank space there!

Because there will be a breakthrough for them to enter the city and massacre!

Even though there may be defenders, the weak two-legged sheep can only flee like sheep in front of their sharp scimitars, leading to the slaughter!

Seeing the actions of the three guards of Duoyan, the smile on Anguo's face disappeared in an instant, and he smiled sinisterly and said: "Now that you are here, don't even think about leaving!"

"These five thousand elite cavalry should be the elite force of the three guards of Wuliangha. I have long wanted to kill these rebels, but I didn't expect them to come to my door!"

To be honest, for the rebellious and despicable despicable behavior of the Duoyan Sanwei, no one in Ming Dynasty likes them, they all hate them deeply.

The Ming Dynasty even distributed food support and relief to the Ulyanha tribe when they were plundered and massacred by the Tatars. However, these bastards turned around and became friends with Wala, hoping to avenge kindness.

When Grand Master Wala entered the Great Wall first, these bastards were the ones who led the way. It was precisely because of them that they could spy on the strength of the Ming Dynasty's border defenses, and they were able to enter the Great Wall so smoothly and deal a fatal blow to the Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, over the years, the three guards of Wuliangha have frequently looted and harassed the Jiubian Military Town of the Ming Dynasty and massacred the people of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that they have committed numerous crimes.

"You still have to be careful."

Wang Qiong said in a deep voice: "It is impossible for the Tatars to sit idly by, but they have not been found yet, so we cannot expose all our trump cards!"

"This battle must be won, but it must be won with difficulty. A long and fierce battle will give the Tatars enough time!"

What time?

It’s nature’s time to strike!

The Marquis of Zhongshan handed over the task, tried to make contact with the Mongolian right wing, and then supported him to continue the fight with Dayan Khan.

A Mongolia plunged into constant civil war is most beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ming Dynasty also needs time now, Zhongshan Hou is planning for Liaodong and planning for the Ming Dynasty!

And what the two of them have to do is to slowly figure it out and plan the Loop!