My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 683

c670 another battlefield

Just as the two sides were intensively preparing for the final battle, the grassland.

Facing the Ming court’s envoy, Tumut Khan Huang Taiji, who was canonized as King of Shunyi by the Ming court, was very respectful.

Since replacing his father Anda Khan as the Mongolian Khan, Huang Taiji has been on pins and needles.

He never thought about how hot a potato this once-coveted position was now.

Mongolia is declining too fast!

The emergence of muskets and artillery greatly weakened the Mongolian cavalry’s room for performance. This change was not purely a matter of military victory or defeat.

In a decisive battle in the wild, when a cavalry and a group of musketeers met, the musketeers were more likely to win, but the muskets and artillery prevented the cavalry from attacking Han cities.

And city building is a unique skill “since ancient times”, and it is also the wisdom of the ancestors who built the Great Wall to resist the nomads starting from the pre-Qin Dynasty.

With firearms and muskets, as well as more modern fortifications, the Han fortresses became almost a nightmare for the Mongols.

I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional. After losing a lot of territory, the Ming court naturally made Mongolia a vassal for dumping goods and plundering resources.

What makes the Mongols most desperate is that this time the Ming court invaded the grassland, it was not the Ming court’s initiative, it could even be said to be unintentional.

The entanglement between the grassland and the Ming court began in the early Ming Dynasty. The north has been the main enemy of the Ming court for a long time. Since the capital was moved to the capital in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming court has been investing in strengthening the defense line in the north.

For thousands of years, the nomadic peoples that have emerged on the grasslands have become the enemies of the farming civilization in the Central Plains.

When Anda Khan was strong, he once led troops to break into the Great Wall, show off his power to Emperor Jiajing under the capital city, demand trophies, and force the Ming court to reopen the tribute market and trade on the grasslands.

This was only a dozen years ago.

But it’s completely different now.

The trading stations of the Ming Dynasty are scattered all over the grassland. These trading stations can only be defended with simple guns and artillery. These dotted trading stations pin each tribe to the grassland, and the grassland is no longer able to do without these trades.

Han merchants used horse-drawn carriages and muskets to form caravans. Some small and medium-sized tribes wanted to repeat their old tricks of pretending to be horse bandits to rob the Ming court’s caravans, but they were beaten to death by the musketeers hiding behind the heavy wooden carriages. sieve.

This also frightened the Mongolian tribes, and they no longer dared to provoke these Ming merchants.

With the deepening of trade, Huang Taiji discovered that the entire grassland was becoming increasingly scarce in materials, and the entire grassland was becoming a vassal of the Central Plains at an alarming rate.

And this change is so rapid, so rapid that it makes people desperate.

In some places relatively close to the Ming Dynasty, wool became the main demand of the Ming Dynasty. These tribes began to raise more sheep that could produce wool in exchange for trade with the Ming Dynasty.

However, sheep need a lot of grass. When there is no grass to eat, sheep will even eat all the grass roots in the field. Raising too many sheep will cause a huge burden on the pasture. In the past, various tribes in the grassland The purpose of regulating pasture through the General Assembly is to resolve disputes over pasture allocation.

Historically, before the advent of technology specifically for growing pasture, the ecological endurance of grasslands was very poor.

Pastures need a certain amount of time to recuperate before grass can grow again. If the number of livestock exceeds the capacity of the pastures, the pastures will degrade and even turn into deserts.

Before the emergence of technology specifically for cultivating pasture, grassland peoples migrated herds to give pastures a certain amount of time to recuperate. Through the arbitration and demarcation of a powerful grassland tribe, they gave grassland pastures space to recuperate.

In addition, tribes on the grasslands most of the time do not have the need to expand the size of their livestock populations.

The most important things on the grassland are livestock and human population, but both are in balance.

Without enough manpower, the tribe cannot raise enough livestock, and without enough livestock, it cannot sustain a sufficient population.

A snowstorm may cause the tribe’s livestock to decrease, and the decrease in livestock will make it difficult for the tribe’s people to survive. At this time, they can either rob other tribes’ livestock and continue to survive, or the robbery fails and the population decreases and they can still survive.

Grasslands, livestock, and nomadic populations constitute an ecological balance.

Most tribes have no ambition to expand their population too much, because too many livestock means the need for more people, and more people means lower ability to withstand disasters. Large tribes on the grasslands are good, but Some small tribes can also survive well, because these small tribes do not need to bear the responsibility of maintaining the entire grassland.

Therefore, each major tribe will only maintain the livestock that their own population can meet their needs. This is an ancient survival wisdom passed down.

Lambs that are not in good health and produce too many lambs are often killed, which is as cruel as the treatment of nomads on the grasslands.

But now this balance is broken.

wool.

Merchants in the Ming Dynasty purchased as much wool as they could get.

Wool can be exchanged for spirit-numbing spirits, sighing sugar, food, tea, and various convenient daily necessities.

The meaning of raising sheep has completely changed.

No matter how many sheep there are, as long as the wool can be exchanged for various useful resources, the Daming trading stations are all over the grasslands. As long as you are near the trading stations, you can enjoy a more convenient life.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty would encourage herdsmen to raise more sheep so that they could produce more wool.

All this has destroyed the order of the grassland.

A new order was established, and the small and medium-sized tribes would fight each other to compete for land, just to be able to raise more sheep and produce more wool.

The pastures divided by the Mongolian Royal Court are no longer boundaries, and the prestige of the Tumut Grassland Royal Court has plummeted.

This is just the impact of the ordinary wool trade, not to mention the increasingly rampant bootlegging trade, which poses a challenge to the order of the entire grassland.

Faced with all this, Huang Taiji, the new Khan, did not know how to deal with it.

In addition to these Ming merchants and smugglers, the rising Han power in Wuyuan City has also become a nightmare for the Tumote tribe.

Just after Lanzhou was assigned to China, the southeast had completely opened up the access to the grassland.

A large amount of supplies were transported to Lanzhou and then directly transported to Wuyuan through caravans. Yu Dayou received a large amount of supplies at once.

Xiong Kuang was also transferred to Yu Dayou’s command by a transfer order from the Ministry of War.

Although Xiong Kuang was rebellious, he did not dare to make any mistakes against Yu Dayou. After all, Yu Dayou was Yu Zigao’s biological father. Before the governor had rebelled, he was already a famous general who was powerful in the world.

“General Yu, shall we attack Bansheng City now?”