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Volume 1: Crisis in Zhuxian Town Chapter 825: Methods to Destroy Mongolia (Part 2)

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    First, Yue Yun ordered the establishment of logistics support bases in peripheral areas close to the desert such as the Western Regions, Hetao, Xing'anling, and Youyan.  Provide supplies to the army and civilian armed forces attacking the desert.

    He was inspired by the Russian conquest of Siberia.  It is proposed to first establish strongholds in every place with abundant water and grass for the Kled and Naiman tribes who are pro-Chinese Empire.  A city should be built on a large one with plenty of water and grass, a fortress on a medium one, and a garrison on a small one.

    Regardless of whether it is a city, a fortress or a garrison, they all have city walls, soldiers are stationed, and officials are assigned to manage them.  In peacetime, it can be provided to the herdsmen on the grassland as a trading place. In case of attack, the city gates will be closed tightly and wait for help.  Since the Imperial Army has already popularized firearms and has no shortage of horses, there is no problem in holding the attacked stronghold until reinforcements arrive.

    Secondly, the method was to encourage the Mongols to kill the Mongols, and to incite the Naiman tribe, the Klei tribe and other pro-imperial tribes to attack deep into the desert.  Every time they occupied a land rich in water and grass, they would adopt the above-mentioned methods, build strongholds, station soldiers, and advance step by step.

    Of course, if the empire adopts this method of using barbarians to control barbarians, some leaders of the Mongolian tribes will definitely be unwilling to do so.  But Yue Yun believes that there is no need to worry when such a situation occurs.  Because the Mongolian tribes are not monolithic, there are many people who are eyeing the position of the leader.  If a certain leader disobeys the empire's orders, he can bribe his brother or other people who are disdainful of the leader's position, remove him, and replace him with someone more obedient.

    At the same time, for tribes such as the Tatar tribe and the Merqi tribe that stubbornly resist the Chinese Empire.  Take a resolute crackdown.  At this point, Yue Yun believes that the power of the people should be given full play.

    Yue Yun suggested.  An announcement was issued to the whole world, declaring that the Tatar tribe and the Merqi tribe were public enemies of the empire. Anyone who killed these two tribes could receive a reward based on their heads at the cities of the imperial army around the desert. Everyone  The head reward is ten taels of silver, and if it is the head of the two tribal leaders, the reward is ten thousand taels of silver.  Anyway, the appearance of the Mongols is very different from that of the Han people and the Khitan people in the Central Plains, so they are not afraid of admitting their mistakes.  As for whether anyone killed people from other Mongolian tribes.  Then taking their heads and pretending to be from the Tatar Tribe, Merqi Tribe and other tribes to collect the reward, that was not something Yue Yun considered.  Anyway, his purpose is to weaken the strength of the Mongolian tribes.

    Although for the people in Jiangnan, Lingnan, and the Central Plains, the reward of ten taels of silver is not much, and it is relatively unattractive.  But for the people in Hetao, Western Regions, Liaodong and other places, ten taels of silver is still a considerable amount of wealth.  It¡¯s enough for an old snack for the first half of the year.

    After the promulgation of the killing decree, desperadoes from various nomadic groups such as the Western Regions, Tubos, Dangxiangs, Jurchens, Koryos, and Khitans rushed into the desert one after another, all wanting to kill the Tatar and Merqi tribes.  People go to collect reward money.  However, they soon discovered that it was more difficult to find people from these two tribes to kill.  After all, they are not fools. Knowing that the Chinese Empire is looking for them, how dare they appear in public?  He didn't even dare to run to other tribes.

    Therefore, some cruel and cunning people discovered that the appearance of people from various tribes in Mongolia was similar.  Then they had an idea and simply killed all the Mongolian tribesmen within their sight.  Then he took the head to the frontier to see if he could get the reward.

    However, they soon discovered that doing so did not arouse the suspicion of the imperial officer who issued the reward. They did not even ask which tribe they were from, and allowed them to receive the reward properly.

    As a result, the news spread quickly, and everyone thought it was a good opportunity to make a fortune.  The number of bounty hunters pouring in from outside the desert increased dramatically, making the Mongolian tribes miserable.  But there is no way to deal with it. After all, the largest group of these gangsters who kill people indiscriminately only has a few hundred people. There are also many loners, and they are not subordinate to each other and have no unified command.  Completely overwhelming for them.

    Therefore, the Mongolian herdsmen who had surrendered to the Chinese Empire had no choice but to change their clothes and language to avoid being killed.  In this case, wearing Hanfu and speaking Chinese is naturally the best choice.

    At the same time, the empire sent agricultural experts headed by Chen Min to guide them in farming in areas rich in water and grass. They were also given agricultural tools and two new types of grain seeds, so that they could live a settled life.

    ??The two food crops that Chen Min brought that were suitable for growing in cold and barren lands were potatoes and corn that became famous in later generations.  Both of these food crops are produced in the Americas and were not originally found in the Central Plains.  But Yue Yun, a time traveler, is well aware of the great contributions of these two crops to the world.  Historically, the Central Plains Dynasty began large-scale reclamation in the Northeast, starting from the Ming Dynasty. This was also because potatoes and corn had been introduced to the Central Plains, so that suitable food crops for reclamation were available.

    Therefore, Yue Yun had already issued a huge amount of money when he was in Taiwan.The reward order requires navigators to sail eastward to explore unknown continents and to find the seeds of the above two plants. Anyone who can find them will be rewarded with half a million copper coins.

    It is said that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Wu Jianchun, who switched from a brothel to a maritime merchant, was the first to discover Australia. After receiving the reward, he continued sailing eastward from Australia and finally discovered America two years ago.  Seeds of both plants were obtained.

    After Yue Yun obtained the seeds of corn and potatoes, he immediately handed them over to agricultural expert Chen Min for trial planting as if he had found a treasure.  The greatest agricultural expert in the pre-Song Dynasty also lived up to expectations. He first successfully tried planting in Jiangnan, and then extended it to Tubo, Shaanxi and the Central Plains.  And it has been greatly welcomed by local farmers because they found that the potato and corn yields are much higher than the original traditional food crops of rice and wheat, and they do not require so much fertilizer and water, and are not so delicate.

    After having the initial promotion experience, Chen Min naturally felt more confident. Since it can be successfully planted in high-cold places like Tubo and loess plateaus like Shaanxi, there will be no problem in grasslands.

    The herdsmen were originally worried that the food crops brought from the Central Plains would not be able to grow in the desert.  But after a year of trial farming, they found that the yield was very high and it was more cost-effective than grazing cattle and sheep.  After tasting the sweetness, they naturally preferred farming instead of grazing. After all, this was much more stable.

    Under this situation, more and more tribes surrendered to the empire in the desert, and all the tribes that surrendered changed their clothes and customs and became Han people, for fear of being killed by bounty hunters to collect their rewards.

    And they also think this is a way to make money. After all, they are more familiar with the terrain of the desert than those outsiders. They know where the tribes that are hostile to the Chinese Empire are, and they are more comfortable killing people.

    Later, according to the statistics of the border guards, 70% of the people who came to receive the rewards were from the original Mongolian tribe.

    And father and son Yue Yun and Yue Fei, whose bodies were always burning with the flames of battle, also participated in several battles attacking the Mongolian tribes.  All the ministers could not help but feel that the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor were really born to fight.

    After three years of attacking like this, most of the Mongolian tribes that did not submit to the rule of the Chinese Empire were wiped out. Only a few tribes have not yet surrendered, and Qin Hui's family has not yet been found.  This became the thing that worried Yue Fei and Yue Yun the most.

    In July of the third year of the Chinese Era, Yue Yun commanded the army to the banks of the Onan River, established a military fortress, and prepared to launch the final battle against the Mongolian tribes.

    Yelu Pusuwan didn't understand this very much. He thought that to deal with such a tribe with only a few thousand people, he only needed to send a general to go there, without having to go out personally.  But Yue Yun knew very well that the current leader of the Qiyan tribe, Sugei, was the father of the later famous Genghis Khan.  A few decades later, this unborn baby conquered almost all of Asia and the eastern half of Europe, massacring hundreds of millions of people, including tens of millions in the Jin Kingdom, Southern Song Dynasty, and Xixia.  Especially in Sichuan, Jingxiang, Jiangnan and other places where the resistance to the Mongolian invasion was relatively fierce, they were almost killed with bones everywhere, and there was no human habitation for thousands of miles.

    For example, before the Mongol invasion, Sichuan had a population of more than 12 million. Due to the stubborn resistance of the Sichuan people, they killed the Mongolian Khan Mengge in Diaoyu City, Hechuan. Sichuan suffered crazy revenge. After the fall, only Sichuan people were killed.  800,000, Chengdu has almost become an empty city.

    Yue Yun knew the history of later generations, so he was naturally particularly concerned about the destruction of Mongolia. He wanted to personally destroy all the Mongolian tribes, especially the Qiyan tribe that gave birth to Genghis Khan.  However, the various Mongolian tribes on the grasslands are also very cunning now. They all support the rule of the Chinese Empire on the surface. Even the Qiyan tribe, which Yue Yun wanted to take advantage of, has been broken into pieces, living in scattered places, and does not call itself the outside world.  They were from the Qiyan Department, which made Yue Yun a little bit difficult to deal with.

    One day in August, Yue Yun, Yang Xing, Xin Qiji and others led two thousand guardsmen to patrol more than a hundred miles away from the border fortress, searching for anyone suspicious.

    Not long after the army marched, they heard the sound of horse hooves, and several knights rode Mongolian horses to Yue Yun.

    After entering the desert, all the imperial cavalry replaced their original Arabian horses with Mongolian horses.  Although these Mongolian horses are short in stature, they are not as fast or explosive as Arabian horses.  But they are hardworking, very adaptable to the environment here, and easy to feed.

    "But after the Arabian horses arrived here, they were not accustomed to the climate. A lot of them suffered from diarrhea and vomiting. Even if there were horses that were not sick, most of them were languid.  After receiving the surrender of a large number of Mongolian tribes, Yue Yun naturally collected all the defected tribal horses and handed them over to the cavalry.
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