Since Yang Lian and others put a lot of effort into helping Xizong ascend the throne, Xizong also trusted these Donglin Party members very much and followed their advice.

Unfortunately, the Donglin Party has few good things and many bad things. It is essentially a big landlord group. These people are not good for the imperial power.

In addition, Wei Zhongxian and the sudden appearance of Wei Jue Wei are both powerful figures.

Therefore, the Tianqi Dynasty is still peaceful at present, and the eunuch party is dominant according to normal history.

A few days later, the tribes of Neikhalk suddenly began to run towards Xifengkou and Gubeikou.

Although Jiannu had already received some news before, he did not take it seriously. Now tens of thousands of people from the Neikhalk tribe suddenly migrated on a large scale, which confirmed that they had reached an agreement with the Baojun.

The one who was most angry was not Jiannu, but Korqin's Zaisanbuhe, "This old guy Zhuoliktu is too cunning! He reached an agreement with Wei Bao in private and dumped us! I was the first to tell him that he wanted to contact Wei Bao, too cunning!"

"Father, maybe that old guy just kept pretending to be stupid. Maybe he had been in contact with Wei Bao for a long time! Now we are very passive. If Neikalkha defected to Wei Bao, how could our Korqin family provide huge grain for the Jin army?"

At this time, Zaisanbu and the ball that seemed to be deflated were very annoyed and regretful.

In fact, he could join the Baojun one step ahead of Zhuoliktu, because the Baojun not only had contact with Neikharkha, but also had contact with them. It was because he himself who had been swaying and missed the opportunity.

Zhuoliktu mainly has his sister and daughter on Jiannu's side, and he feels that he is closer to Jiannu, and he doesn't know Wei Bao.

In addition, the war in Liaodong was confusing, and although Jiannu suffered losses one after another, Baojun seemed to have no way to deal with Jiannu.

Jiannu must have more methods to deal with Mongolia than Baojun. The number of cavalry in Baojun is too small, which poses no threat to the grassland.

In addition, Zai Sangbuhe never thought of moving all his tribes to the pass, and he never thought so.

Under the two or three hundred years of attacks and divisions of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols were no longer the Mongolian that dominated the world during the Genghis Khan period, and it could not even pose a threat to the weak Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

Mongolia was divided in the late Ming Dynasty. Lin Dankhan, the strongest in the south of the desert, was known as the Great Khan of the Mongolian, but it was only recognized in the south of the desert. There were also Korqin, Neikalkha, Tumot, and Ordos tribes who were all in power.

The Mongolian Khan could only control the Chahar tribes of Liaohetao, which were divided into eight Etoks, Haozit, Naiman, Keshketten, Wuzhumuqin, Sunit, Aohan, Alakjot and the lord Xiti, and were only regarded as the nominal co-lords by the tribes in the south of the desert.

Mobei and Moxi don’t recognize him.

The strongest Lin Danhan only has 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry, and first of all, he has a great disadvantage in terms of military strength.

Moreover, under the economic blow of the Ming Dynasty, its equipment was backward and far inferior to the Later Jin Dynasty, which could continue to obtain supplies from the Ming Dynasty.

In history, Lin Danhan has been beaten by the Later Jin Dynasty and fled to death by the head of the army. He was finally beaten to escape from Monan and died of frustration.

After his son Ezhe surrendered the next year, the Mongolian Empire's Daotong was also robbed by the Later Jin Dynasty.

Huang Taiji flexibly used the method of "using barbarians to control barbarians" to win over some Mongolian tribes, give full play to the superiority of the "Eight Banners System", and gradually controlled Mongolia.

From an economic structure point of view, most of the Mongolian tribes in the northern desert were still nomadic, while the Jianzhou Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens were no longer pure fishing and hunting nations that the subject thinks are purely fishing and hunting nations, but half-farming and half-hunting nations that have cities to live in.

This is related to the geographical environment in which the two are located. The northeast has cultivated land very early, while the Mongolian Plateau is only suitable for large-scale farming, and the economic foundation determines the superstructure.

Even if the parts of the Mongolian Plateau were not divided at that time, they could not have gathered a "horse of hundreds of thousands".

Even in the Genghis Khan era, it was the most prosperous era in the Mongolian Plateau, with only 50,000 or 60,000 registered households.

Mongolia only had tens of thousands of troops each time in the four western expeditions.

In terms of organizational structure, the regimes established around the ancient Central Plains are divided into two types: one is a tribal aggregate composed of tribes dominated by tribes in the inner surname, tribes in the outer surname are servants, and multiple nomadic tribes.

It is generally called "nomad Khanate".

Their chiefs were generally called "Khan" or "Shanyu", and were directly elected by the chiefs of the tribes in the inner surname, and were military democracy.

However, in actual operation, they often lead to hereditary inheritance by breaking the rules.

This can easily lead to internal friction caused by inheritance issues, such as the "rebellion among brothers".

When the strength of the Nei surname tribe in the grassland declines due to internal friction, the newly rising strong tribe will replace it as the new grassland overlord and establish its own Nei surname tribe group to dominate the grassland again.

Such pure nomadic regimes, such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic, Tuyuhun, Xueyantuo, Uighurs, Khagas, and even the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty were nomadic Khanate packaged with empty shells in the Yuan Dynasty system.

They have a common feature that the "balloon" seems very strong, but in fact it will break once it is pierced.

The rule of the Nei-seng tribe over the grassland depends on prestige, and this prestige is based on the strength and influence of the Nei-seng tribe.

Therefore, as long as you focus on the decisive battle between the tribes in the inner surname, consume its vitality or destroy its majesty, the grassland will naturally "change dynasty".

The Han Dynasty stared at the decisive battle of the Huns, wishing to attack as many as shotguns. It would rather be a group of people lost their way in the vast grassland and Gobi Desert and return without success. As long as you find the core tribe of the Huns all the way and force it to fight to the decisive battle, you can defeat the Huns until they collapse.

The Tang Dynasty also stared at the decisive battle of the Eastern Turks, and then defeated the Turks until they lost their power and hid in the south of the desert. Xue Yantuo took the opportunity to rise and occupy the northern part of the desert.

Then he fought a decisive battle to weaken Xueyantuo's power. The Uighur Khan Tudumi took the opportunity to lead the troops to join forces to destroy Xueyantuo, and then asked the Tang Dynasty to take control of the northern part of the Mo, which led to the protection of Yanran.

Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty conquered the north of Mobei, and chased the Grand Tutor Alutai tribe three times, and may have killed thousands of people in total.

However, Alutai's prestige in the grassland was declining rapidly because of this.

Soon, Tuohuan of the Ola tribe became the most popular man in the grassland, defeating the Arutai forces, and the Ola temporarily unified the grassland.

And his son was the younger fan of Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty, "Yesian".

Another regime is more terrifying, its system basically plagiarizes the Central Plains dynasty.

In the territory of the Han people's farming, they used the Central Plains dynasty to establish prefectures, counties, military governors, bandits, encourage farmers and sericultures, and set up schools in the local area.

However, in grassland nomadic areas, households and people are allocated and the pastoral areas of each department are reasonably allocated according to the division of labor.

Their rulers are generally called emperors or kings, and they all implement a hereditary inheritance system.

Compared with the former nomadic Khanate, the organizational structure of this regime is more stable, the national cohesion is stronger, and internal conflicts are not prone to eruption.

Even if you are beaten by foreigners and destroyed, you may have a second spring. For example, the Liao Dynasty and the Western Liao Dynasty are likely to rekindle and have strong resistance to strikes.

Such regimes include Goguryeo, Jin Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, Western Xia Dynasty, Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms, Great Mongol Kingdom during the Genghis Khan period, and Later Jin Dynasty.

This kind of regime is absolutely impossible to defeat in a few decisive battles. On the contrary, it will continue to grow and absorb the essence of various civilizations during the rising period, achieving great unification.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Ming government severely damaged the Mongolian grassland regime.

In the 28th year of Zhizheng, in July 1368, Ming generals Xu Da and others led their troops to capture Dadu, and Huizong rushed north to Shangdu.

In the 29th year of Zhizheng, in 1369, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong captured Shangdu, and Huizong went north to Yingchang.

The left deputy general Li Wenzhong and others led the east road out of Juyongguan, directly conquered Yingchang, the grandson of Huizong, the concubines, the kings, officials and others were captured and transferred to the capital.

At that time, Emperor Huizong of Yuan had already died, and the prince defeated Helin with only dozens of cavalry. He ascended the throne in Helin, with the year name Xuanguang, and next year was the first year of Xuanguang.

In the first year of Xuanguang, in 1371, the Ming army divided into three groups and attacked the northern part of the Mo.

The middle and east roads were defeated by the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and the battle was in a stalemate after that.

In the eighth year of Xuanguang, in 1378, the Northern Yuan Khan died with the temple name Zhaozong. His son succeeded him as the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, known as Usahar Khan, and his reign was Tianyuan.

In the tenth year of Tianyuan, in March 1388, Lan Yu led his troops to advance northwards for 150,000.

In April, I arrived at the sea of ​​fishing and rushed to the Northern Yuan Khan tent.

In the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Usaharkhan brought the prince Tianbaonu and the Zhiyuan to the scoundrel. dozens of people including Prime Minister Shiliomen fled to Helin and walked to the Tula River area and hanged them by his general Yesudier.

He came to the harsh gate and went south and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

After this battle, Usaharkhan's second son Di Baonu, had 123 concubines and princesses, more than 3,000 officials and more than 77,000 people, and were captured by the Ming army.

At this point, the rule of the Golden Family over the Mongolian Plateau has come to a temporary end, and the Ming Dynasty successfully achieved decentralization of the grassland.

But at the same time, the Ming Dynasty also fell into the same dilemma of the Central Plains dynasties of the previous generations, how to establish effective rule on the already broken grasslands.

This is the problem that the Central Plains dynasty has to face, and it is also the problem that Wei Bao has to face.

First of all, we must never let it go. In the context of Inner Asia, the power vacuum in pastoral areas will not last long, and a new power center will always occur spontaneously, which has been reflected in previous generations.

For example, if the Han Dynasty destroyed the Huns and the Xianbei prospered; if the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, the Uighurs arose.

Even if a nomadic regime can be eradicated, new opponents may appear in less than ten years.

Secondly, Ming was unable to directly rule the pastoral areas. The core of direct rule lies in controlling population and land, and in pastoral areas, this has exceeded the Ming government's circle of capabilities.

In farming areas, as long as cities are established on major transportation roads, households are allocated and people are counted, a grassroots taxation and group training system can be established.

However, in pastoral areas, tribes migrate by evacuating water and grass. Even if they can be imprisoned for a while, people can escape, but they are everywhere in the pastures.

Finally, the Ming Dynasty tried to adopt a strategy of indirect rule.

Build the Great Wall and guard the Nine Borders.

The Great Wall has two purposes: one is military defense and the other is trade control.

The tribes that were vassal to the Ming Dynasty were allowed to trade with each other regularly and trade blockade against hostile tribes.

This is quite successful. In order to obtain trade rights, many tribes formally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and achieved peaceful coexistence.

The kings were widely granted, and the people were built to divide their power. We tried our best to avoid a unified power center on the grassland, and strive to form a multi-center balance of power system in pastoral areas.

This strategy in the Ming Dynasty was actually mixed.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was indeed possible to achieve peace of borders with Mongolia, Tatars and Oirat in most of the time through trade control.

On the other hand, Zhidayan Khan actually means Dayuan Khan.

After the unification of Mongolia in southern desert and Tatars in 1506, the Mongolian Plateau still re-formed a unified center of power.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian Khan rebuilt by Dayan Khan was inherited from Lindan Khan.

Lin Dan Khan directly under the Chahar tribe, and is the general khan of the entire Eastern Mongolia and Tatars.

After the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, it conquered Mongolia, except for the Weila tribe, which was also called Ola in the Ming Dynasty.
To be continued...