My father is Jiajing

Chapter 216: Ming Dynasty Loyal Dog
Zhu Zaigui looked at the frightened Yingke with amusement, and finally said gently: "What's wrong with you, Governor? Did I scare you?"

Yingke immediately prostrated himself on the ground and said in fear: "I dare not. Your Majesty treats me like a spring breeze. I am so excited and happy..."

Looking at Yingke's expression and hearing Yingke's answer, Zhu Zaigui laughed again.

"Just be happy. I thought you were worried that I would kill you."

Ying Ke was frightened again, "I didn't think so!"

Zhu Zaigui smiled again and said, "It's okay to think this way, because I was going to kill you in the first place. But now you look so loyal, so I'll be kind and ask His Majesty to spare your life."

"So...how are you going to repay me?"

Zhu Zaigui's last glare at Yingke put him under immense psychological pressure.

Ying Ke kowtowed again and said, "I will obey your Majesty's arrangements in everything."

Zhu Zaigui stood up and patted Yingke on the shoulder, "Since you are willing to listen to my arrangement, then stand up and talk."

Yingke stood up tremblingly and stood carefully in front of Zhu Zaigui, waiting for Zhu Zaigui's decision.

Zhu Zaigui said: "Now that Anda has pledged his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, I wonder what Duoyan is going to do?"

Yingke said quickly: "Duoyan has always been the most loyal hound of the Ming Dynasty. I have been a loyal hound of the Ming Dynasty since my ancestors. If it weren't for Anda's wolfish ambition to bully others, I would not dare to offend the majesty of heaven and become an accomplice to the tiger."

Zhu Zaigui chuckled: "You use idioms quite skillfully. But who said you were offending the majesty of heaven and aiding the evil? You should be the hero who cooperated with the Ming Dynasty from inside and outside to lead Alda into the trap."

"So, this is the fundamental reason why you are alive."

Yingke was completely stunned when he heard what Zhu Zaigui said. Is this true?
However, Zhu Zaigui's meaningful look made him dare not disobey.

But Yingke was not a fool, he immediately understood what Zhu Zaigui meant.

Zhu Zaigui wanted to make him the "insider" of the previous defense of the suburbs of Beijing, to completely separate him and the Doyan tribe from the grassland forces, and to make him a loyal dog of the Ming Dynasty.

So now that he understood this meaning, Yingke also realized that if he wanted to survive, he had to cling to the Ming Dynasty. If Duoyan wanted to live forever, he had to follow the Ming Dynasty to the end, otherwise he would be the common enemy of the Ming Dynasty and the grassland.

By then, not only him, but even the Duoyan tribe that has been passed down for hundreds of years will disappear into thin air, becoming a wisp of smoke in the historical records, no longer existing in the world!

Ying Ke said quickly: "It is all thanks to your planning that I have the opportunity to serve you. From now on, I and Duoyanwei will follow your lead!"

Zhu Zaigui listened to Yingke's quick response and expressed his loyalty, and immediately laughed again, and then said: "It is not me who is in charge of the strategy, but your Majesty; it is not me who is following your lead, but the Ming Dynasty who is following your lead."

Yingke bowed again hurriedly and said, "I understand, I understand."

Zhu Zaigui hummed again: "Now that you understand what's going on, you should be a good governor of the Doyan Guard of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and stop looking around and trying to please everyone."

Ying Ke replied: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I am a dog of the Ming Dynasty, and I will be a dead dog of the Ming Dynasty when I die!"

"Okay, that's good of you. Go and have a good chat with Teng Xiang later, he will give you a big surprise." Zhu Zaigui said this finally and sent Yingke away.

Zhu Zaigui asked Yingke to find Teng Xiang, but in fact he also had his eyes on the position currently occupied by Duoyanwei.

They now graze between the northeast of Shanhaiguan and Xifengkou and Datong Xuanfu. This area later belonged to Chahar Province and Rehe Province during the Republic of China, as well as parts of Inner Mongolia and Beijing. It can be said to be a vast area.

However, due to the constraints of geographical conditions, this place has no strategic location, so it is much more difficult for Duoyanwei to survive in this land.

If they wanted to survive, they had to either submit to the Ming Dynasty, or join the Tatars, or go to the northeast to seize the Jurchens' territory. However, the Jurchens in Liaodong were not ordinary tough, so the Doyan Guards had not made any progress in seizing the Jurchens' territory.

So he could only try to please both the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty has always valued culture over military power, and after the development of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, the narrow nationalist and xenophobic flavor became increasingly strong.

There is none of the spirit of a great country that was open to all and tolerant since the Han and Tang dynasties.

Therefore, since the Song and Ming Dynasties, during the hundreds of years with Confucianism as the main doctrine, Confucian culture has become increasingly conservative, turning into a "stingy" country with the temperament of a superior country but not the magnanimity of a superior country.

Internally, the government uses the nearly inhumane Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues to restrain the people, brainwash and restrict their freedom, causing countless poor people to become insignificant untouchables with lives fragile than paper from generation to generation.

The tributary states from outside continued to boast that they were the central empire and gave these tributary states great benefits.

So much so that in the second year of the Jiajing reign, two tribute missions from Japan fought each other in Ningbo, sparking a war for tribute that also involved the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the death of a thousand households in the battle and causing the people of Ningbo to suffer unprovoked disasters.

It can be said that this kind of tributary-style diplomatic relations after the Ming Dynasty was an extremely stupid face-saving diplomacy with no benefits at all.

At the same time, he was mysteriously confident and looked down upon all the surrounding countries and tribes, believing that they were all barbarians without etiquette and education.

As a result, they were harassed by the "barbarians" in the north for two hundred years, but they were unable to do anything about them.

In his final attempt to show off, he offended all the grassland tribes in the north.

So much so that even a vassal tribe like Duoyanwei, which had already submitted to the Tatars, also followed the Tatars. What the hell was going on?

Therefore, now that Emperor Jiajing has adopted Zhu Zaigui's suggestion to restore the worship of seedlings by Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, among the emperors of all dynasties, he has also adopted Zhu Zaigui's suggestion to build the "Ming Dynasty Industrial Grand Cycle".

Then Zhu Zaigui would certainly take the initiative to participate in it and make the grassland tribes like Duoyanwei, which originally relied on the Ming Dynasty for survival, submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Yingke was able to survive. In fact, it was to focus Yingke's current fear of the Ming Dynasty and make Duoyanwei return to his allegiance.

However, simply relying on strength to gain the support of the Duoyan Guards will not last long.

Therefore, this time Zhu Zaigui planned to use the economic advantage of kidnapping to make Duoyanwei a transit station for the Ming Dynasty to connect the grassland and Liaodong, and build a city for it in a small place called Zhangjiakou to settle the nomadic Duoyanwei.

In this way, whether now or in the future, the Duoyan Guard will be firmly tied to the chariot of the Ming Dynasty.

And this new city built for Doyanwei will also become a bridgehead for Ming Dynasty to further expand its ties with the grassland and Liaodong in the future!
(End of this chapter)