The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 528 The Fate of the Mongols
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A huge drum was struck by a burly man with a red headband, and the sound spread throughout the Yinhe parade ground in Mulan Paddock.

As the drums sounded, teams of cavalry passed by the water pools near the parade platform, splashing a lot of water.

At the same time, the smaller drums carried by the cavalry began to respond to the rhythm of the drum.

These cavalrymen belonged to the Imperial Guards Longxiang Cavalry Regiment, the Imperial Guards Changshui Hu Cavalry Regiment, and the best of the three Beijing cavalry regiments of Huainan, Huaibei and Daibei, as well as the meritorious warriors who fought in the battle to quell the rebellion in the northwest.

Among them, the Royal Guards Dragon Horse Regiment flew a red flag with a golden dragon, and the five hundred cuirassier cavalry wore Chinese-style phoenix-wing helmets and large red cloaks.

The breastplate is an improvement on the Ming Guang Armor. The already large breastplate on the chest of the Ming Guang Armor has been made even larger. Its protective power is similar to that of the European half-body plate armor, but it looks more stylish.

Behind the cuirassiers were five hundred Chinese hussars. They wore bright red battle robes improved from the mandarin duck battle robes, and wore red eight-petal iron-pointed helmets with white feathers on the top of the helmets, which looked extremely conspicuous.

The Changshui Huqi Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guards continued the traditional Hungarian style. As for Huqi, they are naturally Hu people and dressed in Hu style.

Their five hundred cuirassiers wore European plate armor and Hungarian lobster helmets.

The five hundred Hussars wore dark red Hungarian robes, golden boots, and red round hats with fur turned outwards and gray-brown pheasant feathers on the brim.

As for the 1,500 men drawn from the three Beijing Camp cavalry regiments behind them, their attire was similar to that of the Hussars of the Longxiang Guards.

The only difference is that in addition to the Flying Leopard musket on the side of the horse, it also has a bow and quiver, which is quite retro.

At this time, the parade platform was surrounded by Mongolian tribal leaders of all sizes from the south and north of the desert and Qinghai.

They no longer had the majesty of the princes and beiles they had during the Qing Dynasty. They all stood there with anxiety in their hearts.

When the first rays of sunlight shone in the early morning, Mo Zibu, dressed in golden armor and a golden crown, rode his horse to the parade platform, surrounded by more than two hundred nobles of the new dynasty.

The Mongolian princes and nobles who had already arrived on the stage quickly prostrated themselves on the ground and shouted "Long live the emperor".

Thanks to the Qing Dynasty's domestication, a large number of Mongolian princes and nobles could speak simple Chinese, so at least communication was not a problem.

What's even more infernal is that the Qing Dynasty actually caused Han culture to penetrate deeply into the grasslands.

Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty itself had little culture, the so-called bannermen's clothing and language were largely copied from Mongolia.

So when they entered the Central Plains, they immediately dared not continue copying, because if they continued copying, they would become Mongols.

Therefore, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty gained a firm foothold in the Han area, it continued to push Han culture back to the grasslands.

The most typical feature is that Mongolian princes and nobles love drama very much, can sing along with drama in fluent Chinese, and are more familiar with the historical stories and celebrities of the Han nationality in the drama than those of their own ethnic group.

"Everyone, get up!" Mo Zibu waved to a large group of Mongolian princes and nobles, and smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"We Han people were overthrown and enslaved by the Bannermen for over a hundred years, and you Mongols have also been dogs for over a hundred years. This is really the eldest brother, let alone the second brother.

I asked you to come here today to see if it is now the Han people's turn to be the big brother in this world.

Mo Zibu said it calmly, but he was not calm at all in his heart.

If the Mongols had not been treated like dogs by the Manchus for more than a hundred years, they would never have been so obedient. They would have gathered in large numbers in Chengde with just a few people delivering the message, and would have even come to Chengde and put their lives in the hands of others so easily.

But after being trained by the bannermen, the Mongols seemed to have gotten used to coming to Chengde and Beijing and accepting the leadership of the central court.

It seems that the rule of the Bannermen not only greatly destroyed the self-confidence of the Han people, but also almost destroyed the self-confidence of the Mongols.

As a result, these Mongols, who would retain a little pride even if they were poor to death in the Ming Dynasty and would not be as obedient as dogs, had almost no dignity by the Qing Dynasty.

When the Mongolians heard what Mo Zibu said, they didn't know how to respond. They could only smile awkwardly and say some auspicious words. After standing up, they continued to nod and bow.

Mo Zibu had no time to care about them at the moment, because on the east side of his parade platform, his third brother Mo Zirong, dressed in the clothes of the Great Yu prince, was waiting for him.

Mo Zibu asked the eunuch to take off his ochre-yellow cloak, and strode towards Mo Zirong with his arms open.

"Third brother, it's been eight years, and we brothers finally meet again." Mo Zibu gave Mo Zirong a big hug.

Mo Zirong went to Europe for the second time at the end of 1773, and arrived in Europe at the beginning of September in the lunar calendar of 1774, so Mo Zibu said that they had not seen each other for eight years.

Mo Zirong's eyes turned red. After accepting the emperor's hug, he immediately knelt down on his knees and held up a thick book in his hand.

"Your Majesty, I, Mo Zirong, have been ordered to travel across Europe for eight years and have been granted marriage by Your Majesty to a princess of the Holy Roman Empire. Returning today, I have written down my eight years of travels in a book titled "A Brief History of the Western World," which I respectfully invite Your Majesty to peruse."

Hearing what Mo Zibu said, a young man with brown hair and a big nose who looked quite sunny among the Europeans behind Mo Zirong muttered something in a voice that only a few people around him could hear.

"The Grand Duke of Transylvania never knelt before Joseph II."

Mo Zibu helped Mo Zirong up with great emotion, and his eyes naturally glanced behind Mo Zirong.

It’s not that Mo Zibu heard the muttering, but he knew that the members of the English delegation were hiding in there. After the parade was over and the strength was displayed, he would have to meet with these people secretly.

When the emperor glanced at him, little William Pitt, who had been mumbling just now, fell to his knees with everyone else.

This time was different from the time when Macartney came to China more than ten years later in history. At that time, China's weakness was already obvious and had been noticed by Europeans.

Macartney's excuse for kneeling was obviously a test.

It was an attempt to put England on an equal footing with the Qing Dynasty or even a slightly higher position, so Qianlong insisted that Macartney kneel in public.

At this time, regardless of whether China is weak or not, given the current situation, the Chinese Empire is qualified to make the Kingdom of England kneel down.

"Third brother, you've been away from China for over eight years. You must not know what great things we've accomplished over the years. Come with me, and let's review our Chinese athletes together."

Mo Zibu deliberately spoke a little loudly, and Mo Zirong understood and echoed loudly. Sure enough, all the English in the crowd were attracted over.

So, besides a large number of Dayu nobles and some Mongolian princes and nobles from the south and north of the desert, Mo Zibu and Mo Zirong were surrounded by the English envoys that Mo Zirong secretly brought back.

As for the others, they were squeezed to the edge of the parade platform.

The battle drums sounded again, and two thousand guards cavalry passed the parade platform first. They changed their formations according to the sound of the drums, and transformed into square formations, arrow formations, crane wing formations, etc. very familiarly, which dazzled the people on the parade platform.

The cuirassiers of the Longxiong Guards and the Changshui Hu Cavalry all held Chinese lances, their tips pointed skyward, their cold gleam gleaming like a forest of spears. The Longxiong Guards' armor was particularly eye-catching, their golden helmets and armor paired with bright red capes making them look particularly majestic.

When they were about to approach, the two thousand cavalrymen, like one, quickly gathered into a large horizontal formation with two hundred men in a row in front of the parade stand under the command of the rapid beats of the cavalry drums.

These two thousand cavalrymen were not only majestic, but their war horses were also decorated with red ribbons and had hidden dung bags specially designed behind their butts to prevent them from defecating or farting on the spot.

When they arrived in front of the parade ground, Pierre Ney, Lieutenant General of the Longchamp Guards Cavalry, gave a loud roar, and all the cavalrymen suddenly pointed their lances at a 90-degree angle to the sky.

Then everyone shouted "Serve the country with loyalty and utmost loyalty, and restore the glory of the nine provinces" three times, and then shouted "Long live the country" three times.

Following the Imperial Guards Cavalry were the Huainan, Huaibei and Daibei Regiments of the Beijing Camp.

Before they reached the parade ground where the emperor was, they practiced light cavalry's methods of concealment, reconnaissance, pursuit, and response to surprise attacks, under the command of drums, gongs, and flutes in the distance.

The drums and drums responded in unison, the tension and relaxation were measured, the military discipline was solemn, and the strong fighting spirit and powerful self-confidence almost condensed into substance in the air.

Seeing these cavalrymen, the ninth Tushetu Khan of Outer Jasak Mongolia, Chedendorji, and the eleventh Chechen Khan, Qiwangdorji, looked at each other and turned pale with shock.

Others may not be able to see how powerful these cavalry teams are, but they can see it.

Moreover, they understood a very important truth: if the Central Plains dynasty wanted to control the northern desert, it actually did not need to be able to personally conquer the northern desert at any time. It only needed to be able to control Mongolia south of the desert.

Because since Emperor Wu of Han, the biggest difficulty for the Han army to go out of the border was not whether they could win, but whether they could find the target.

The key to whether the Han army can find people lies in the Mongolian desert south of the Gobi Desert. As long as the local tyrants in the Mongolian desert south of the Gobi Desert lead the way, the Mongolian people in the northern Gobi Desert will have nowhere to hide.

This was the common tactic used from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties to fight against the tribes in the northern desert. Elite cavalry were used to control the tribes in the south of the desert, and then the tribes in the south of the desert were used as auxiliary troops and guides to follow the water source to fight against the tribes in the northern desert.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was unable to solve the grassland problem was actually because after Emperor Chengzu abandoned Daning, Dongsheng and other guards, he was unable to control the Mongols south of the desert, and thus completely lost the ability to expedition to the grassland.

Even Zhu Di himself suffered greatly from this. Several of his expeditions to the northern desert turned into armed marches because the Mongols in the southern desert did not serve him wholeheartedly.

And now, the newly born emperor of the Dayu Dynasty obviously possesses this ability. Although he has only a thousand cuirassier cavalry now, his approach is correct. With the manpower and resources of the Central Plains, it will be easy to train tens of thousands of cavalry in the future.

Not to mention that he also had the Black Banner soldiers composed of captured Bannermen and other Han light cavalry.

With such a configuration, only 3,000 heavy cavalry with breastplates are needed to force the Mongols south of the Gobi Desert to kneel down. Once the Mongols south of the Gobi Desert kneel down, the Mongols north of the Gobi Desert will have no choice but to kneel down as well.

The Chechen Khan Qiwangdorji looked at the Tushetu Khan Chedengdorji and said, "I heard that the Russians have just begun to oppress the Kazakh Khanate of Transoxiana. They have nowhere to go and are constantly encroaching on the lands that were once the Dzungarians."

Tushetu Khan Chedendorji knew what Chechen Khan meant. In the past, if the Mongols could not defeat the enemy, they could go west.

But if they go west now, not only will they be unable to defeat the Kazakh Juz, but behind them is the even more ruthless and inhumane Russian Empire.

Now, the Mongols, who originally had a lot of room for strategic maneuvering, were directly blocked from migrating westward, like a mouse trapped in a hole.

"Yes, Khan, we are from the east after all, and we cannot bow to the Kazakhs, our former herdsmen and slaves.

Not to mention the Russians. The Golden Horde we built tortured them for hundreds of years, and they hate us to death.

The fact that the Torghut people were willing to die half of their people in order to return east clearly demonstrates the hatred the Russians harbored.”

Tushetu Khan whispered to Chechen Khan, and then looked thoughtfully at a group of women from the Mongolian chiefs' families in the northern desert who had round faces but were strong and enthusiastic, and who kept cheering and winking at the neat cavalry under the parade stand.

At this time, Zasaktu Khan and Kobdo Durbert Khan, who were not far away, also came over.

Zasaktu Khan whispered, "The Han emperor's cavalry is too powerful. If he is willing to treat us well, we will serve him. After all, we are just dogs. What difference does it make whether we serve the Bannermen or the Han people?"

Dürburt Khan of Kobdo saw it more clearly and said more directly: "Even if the emperor is unwilling to treat us well, do we have any choice?

We are almost being driven back out of the northern Tianshan Road. If we don’t rely on the Central Emperor, who else can we rely on?

Since you have chosen to be a dog, don't worry about whether you are treated well or not. Whether you can be treated well is not a question for the dog, but a question for the owner. "

The Mongolians around him glared at him because of what he said.

You guys are from the fucking Choros family, descendants of Taishi Yesen, and you once captured the Han emperor. Why do you always talk about dogs and half-dogs?

Durbert Khan Maksuljab didn't care about their opinions, because his granddaughter Xina had an oval face, which was rare among the round faces in the Mobei grassland. She was as beautiful as a flower.

Moreover, he had sent his granddaughter Xina to the palace to be seen by the queen through Lawangdorji of the Khalkha Right Banner.

The queen was very satisfied and immediately let her stay in the palace. It was almost certain that she would become the imperial consort.

The military parade at the parade platform was still going on. The cavalry was for the Mongols to see, while the infantry was for William Pitt the Younger and other British people to see.

No matter how elite these cavalrymen are, they will wilt in the terrible weather in India. However, humans have much better endurance than livestock, and they are capable of withstanding the high temperatures and continuing to attack India.

Then, William Pitt Jr. and others saw a scene that terrified them.

More than 15,000 soldiers, under the command of officers, marched in neat rows from a distance.

They wore red or black uniforms, carried flintlock rifles, and pulled three to six-pound field guns with draft horses. There was a clear distinction among the troops, including line infantry, light infantry, and grenadiers.

In the eyes of William Pitt the Younger and others, they were not particularly elite, but it could be seen that they had received sufficient training. Their weapons and equipment were not very sophisticated, but were also in place.

"Count, you have been in the East for a long time. What do you think of the emperor's army?" William Pitt the Younger asked Lord Charles, the chief envoy of the secret mission who had just been conferred the title of Earl.

Lord Charles received the earldom, although it was empty, but it also made him very motivated, so after a little thought, he quickly said:
“According to our understanding, these are not the emperor’s most elite guards, but rather part of the capital’s garrison troops and local garrisons.

But they alone are stronger than many European armies, and considering the size of the Chinese population, they are invincible in the East."

William Pitt the Younger nodded upon hearing this and said, "Try to see the Emperor as soon as possible. I heard that the army in India is the more elite Guards.

I'm worried about Fort William; if they fall before we can come to terms with the Emperor, it will be troublesome."

(End of this chapter)