In the spring of October, the weather is getting cooler and cooler, giving people an inexplicable sense of comfort, but once another month passes, in November, the cold weather will make everyone get used to staying in the house.

At this time, Yunchun's Russian soldiers and the Qing soldiers who were incorporated into the Russian army began to prepare for drills, they were wearing colorful clothes, carrying all kinds of muskets on their shoulders, and some people had bayonets hanging from their waists, and the faces of those people were even more yellow and white - on the surface, this was not an army with combat effectiveness.

Emperor Qianlong stood on the command platform, staring at the army below, and because he was not used to the coolness of the moment, he put his hands in his sleeves, as if he had a thousand emotions to show in his heart - as for the Russians beside him, they all looked quite excited.

With a smile on his face, Count Sara Gula looked at Emperor Qianlong, who was like a weak chicken, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom, look at how strong our young men are!" ”

Emperor Qianlong looked at the pile of similar miscellaneous troops, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, frowned, and said, "However, I don't think they are enough...... It's that kind of momentum similar to Chu Rebellious........"

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom, you really don't understand military affairs!"

Count Sara Gullah obviously did not know as well as Qianlong's courtiers, he unceremoniously taught the young man in front of him, and said: "Those armies that only have fancy fancy, are not real warriors, the reason why the Qing Kingdom will lose is that it is lost on the surface, but now after the military training of the Russian Empire, the cowards of the Qing State can also become warriors." ”

Emperor Qianlong was silent, he was not sure whether he understood military affairs or not, but the attitude of Count Sara Tura reminded him of the boasting of the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty before, and under their boasting, the warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom were also invincible........

Seeing that Qianlong didn't talk back, Count Sara Wula snorted coldly and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom, then let you see how powerful they are!" ”

After saying this, Count Saragula did not wait for Qianlong's reaction, and immediately began to let the army conduct drills, only to hear a cannon shot, a large number of Russian soldiers began to line up in formation, and fired muskets in unison, which looked like that.

"Bang bang bang-"

The thick white smoke not only covered the Russian soldiers who were shooting, but also made Emperor Qianlong feel slightly stunned in his heart, he smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, looked at the Russian soldiers who were shooting in front of him, but there was an incomprehensible sadness, that is, he could never go back.

Emperor Qianlong deeply remembered that he also personally went to the firearms battalion to inspect that day, and the Qing soldiers on that day were so brave, it seems that their bravery can only be reflected in the training ground, and today's Russian soldiers are also very brave, but what is the performance of the real battlefield?

The Russian army's drill was not very long, at least Count Saragula obviously did not want to waste precious ammunition, and he saw Emperor Qianlong's happy face, so he immediately chose to stop the drill and sent Emperor Qianlong back to the palace.

The so-called palace is just a fairly spacious courtyard, with more than a dozen rooms in it, at least in Yunchun, it is a big mansion, of course, this palace was not given to Emperor Qianlong by Sara Wula, but Xu Yuanmeng spent 500,000 taels of silver to buy it from Savaura, in addition to the courtyard and the house, there are twelve horses.

In addition to the palace, Xu Yuanmeng and Zhang Tingyu were worried that the heirs of the Qing Dynasty would be completely extinct, and they spent money to buy more than a dozen mothers-in-law and aunts in Yunchun, all of whom were Manchurian women who had fled to Yunchun.

Emperor Qianlong didn't like this so-called palace and concubines at all, and he even felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart, this was almost a prison where he was imprisoned.

"Xu Yuanmeng, do I want to stay here forever?" Emperor Qianlong's face was puffed up, like a young man who had really entered a rebellious period.

The gray hair on Xu Yuanmeng's head was a little more, and he sighed softly: "Your Majesty, we can only stay in Yunchun for now...... Otherwise, if Ning Chu was caught, the emperor would inevitably suffer. ”

Emperor Qianlong had thought about it for a long time, and he retorted: "It is better for me to go to the Mongols than to suffer the anger of the Rakshasas here every day. ”

Mongol? It's so simple......

Xu Yuanmeng shook his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, let's not talk about how we go to Mongolia, but the current Mongolians are unreliable, even the Chahar Eight Banners have already gone to Beijing, they want to be a courtier for Emperor Ning, and they want to respect Emperor Ning as the Great Khan of Mongolia......."

"The Great Khan of Mongolia? What kind of Mongol Khan should he be a Han Chinese? ”

Emperor Qianlong's mouth has grown, and he really doesn't understand why this good Emperor Ning wants to be the Great Khan of Mongolia.......

Xu Yuanmeng said in his heart that Tiancong Khan was not a Manchurian back then, and it is not surprising that the Han people are now a great sweater, but the appearance of Emperor Qianlong made him more determined, that is, to let Qianlong have a few more sons, so that a suitable emperor can be elected in the future.....

Just when the two of them were thinking about each other, Zhang Tingyu hurriedly walked into the palace, with a little excitement on his face, and knelt down with a flutter when he saw Qianlong.

"Congratulations to the Emperor, congratulations to the Emperor! Daqing is finally saved! ”

"Why is it saved again?"

Regarding the question of whether the Qing Dynasty was saved or not, not only Qianlong did not understand, but even Xu Yuanmeng was confused.

It's over in a while, and it's saved in a while, so let's play with people!

Zhang Tingyu hurriedly said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, I heard that Junggar has sent troops, they want to unify Mongolia, and they will attack Ningchu, when the time comes, when the time comes, when the two of them fight, my Qing Dynasty will naturally be able to profit from the side!" ”

"Wait? Dzungar wants to unify Mongolia? ”

Emperor Qianlong's expression changed suddenly, but he knew that this matter had started since the time of his holy grandfather, although Zhungar had not succeeded, but in the heart of Emperor Qianlong, Zhungeer had always been an enemy.

"That's right, Arabutan has already sent troops to attack the three Khalkha departments, and when the time comes, whether it is the Russians or Chu Rebellion, we must focus on him, and I, Daqing, can take the opportunity to secretly develop myself, and maybe take advantage of it......" Zhang Tingyu's confident smile on his face made Emperor Qianlong begin to be confident.

Xu Yuanmeng had just learned the news, and he was surprised: "But once the three Khalkha tribes are taken by the plot, our last bit of influence on Mongolia will be gone.......

"Hmph, what influence doesn't influence....... Chechen Khan has evil intentions, and they have already begun to hook up with the Russians and Ning Chu, thinking about the price of both sides and then deciding which side to take refuge into. ”

Zhang Tingyu snorted coldly, continued to look at Emperor Qianlong and said: "Your Majesty, we don't care who wins or loses at the moment, this Mongolian matter has nothing to do with us, it is better to create a powerful enemy for them, and when the time comes, whether it is the Russians or Ning Chu, they will not easily do anything to the emperor......."

Emperor Qianlong was a little confused when he heard this, and sighed slightly: "I can't do anything here, even if I don't want to wait, I can only wait." ”

Zhang Tingyu shook his head, knelt down and said: "For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, please also ask the emperor to have more children, so that there will be hope in the future!" ”

........

While Qianlong was sowing seeds for the Qing Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, Ning Yu took his second assistant Li Fu, the privy envoy Ning Zhongyi, and the left attendant Zhao Xiantai of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss the future governance of Mongolia.

Judging from the current situation, Ningchu's recovery of Southern Mongolia has become a foregone conclusion, and since Sun Jiagan's mediation in Northern Mongolia and the invasion of Zungar, if it is a bit of a business, it is not a big problem to recover Northern Mongolia, and it is very likely that Western Mongolia will be won in the future...... Then, how to govern it is a bit of a headache.

Mongolia is different from ordinary places, like the Guannai regime really has a strong influence in Mongolia, there is really only one Qing Dynasty, even the Ming Dynasty can not control Mongolia, although the development of the Mongolian tribes has been suppressed, but later there was a change in the civil fort, it can be said that until the fall of the Ming court, it was also in the stage of falling in love with Mongolia.

On the contrary, the Qing court's control over Mongolia was quite deep, and the policy of "marrying and repairing temples" almost completely disintegrated the Mongol forces in southern Mo, so that it really no longer had an impact on the Qing court, and the blow to Zhungar also increased the control of Mobei Mongolia to a certain extent.

However, there are also great drawbacks in the policy of "marrying and repairing temples", and Ning Yu doesn't really want to adopt it, he still has some ideas of his own.

"After setting the Southern Mongolia of the Desert, for the 16 departments and 49 banners, they were each named the prince of the county, and rewarded the residence of the Jingshi, so as to stabilize the people's hearts. As for the implementation of counties and new policies in Mongolia, it should be done as usual, and those who violate the rules or those who question and oppose it should be punished. ”

"It's just that now there is one more Jungar, and there are Russians plotting behind it, I'm afraid that this move will be too strong and soft......" Li Fu was still a little worried in his heart.

Ning Yu smiled, "Now that Southern Mongolia has been fully involved in my hands, if they dare to resist, I will not mind punishing them with heavy hands, as for the three Khalkha tribes, if they are not stupid, I will keep their heirs in the future, but if they dare to get involved with the Russians, I will naturally not be soft-hearted." ”

Hearing the emperor's shouting and killing, Zhao Xiantai, the left attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was a little worried, and he said softly: "It's just that this move can recover Mongolia, but it can't be retracted......"

"I believe that even if we blindly apply benevolence and righteousness, it will be difficult to change the current status quo. It took nearly a hundred years for the Qing court to gradually turn Monan into its own use, and I may not have been able to take a longer time. ”

Ning Yu snorted lightly, but said: "The matter of ethnic integration is the right way, and I can spend a longer time to completely and gradually dilute the Mongolian population, so as to promote ethnic integration........

"This is not a 100-year ........"

"But I think that in this way, I can completely establish the Taoism of the king of my Great Chu."

Ning Yu pursed his lips, "After Mongolia is settled, I will send all those Confucian students in the Confucian Academy to Mongolia, educate my people well, and completely control Mongolia after hundreds of years." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Fu was overjoyed in his heart, and he suddenly recalled the words and deeds of countless sages in his mind, among which educating the common people is a great merit.

And the Confucian scholars who made efforts and sacrifices for this matter are naturally also the pioneers who dedicated themselves to the great path of the sages, and their sacrifices are still very meaningful.

Ning Yu nodded and said, "The real problem at the moment is how to fight on the grassland in the future. ”

Strictly speaking, since the establishment of the Fu Han Army, it has been crisscrossing the southern swamps and waterways for a long time, and has only fought in the north once in the Northern Expedition, of which the Mongol war has never been there, and what is missing for this is extremely difficult to make up.

The privy envoy Ning Zhongyi sighed, it was obvious that he had been studying this issue for a long time, and said: "Your Majesty, the current problem of our army is always that the number of horses is insufficient, in addition to the lack of horses themselves, even the cavalry with rich experience is not many, if it really competes with the Mongols in the steppe in the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with it.......

"But didn't our cuirassiers, during the previous Northern Expedition, destroy the Mongolian cavalry one after another?" After all, Li Fu really knows too little about military things.

Of course, Ning Zhongyi understood the secret, and said with a wry smile: "We only have three thousand cuirassiers now, and the rest of the eight thousand are horseback infantry, and although the cuirassiers are powerful, they are not particularly threatening in the wide grasslands........

Ning Yu naturally understands the problem, strictly speaking, it still belongs to the different positioning of the cavalry, during the Northern Expedition, the Mongolian cavalry has been charging into battle, so the casualties are extremely heavy, but after all, it is a battle, and once it is on the grassland, thousands of cuirassiers can easily become the sesame seeds sprinkled on the surface, which seems to have a sense of existence, but the role is indeed limited.

In addition, compared with the Mongolian horses with rough skin and thick flesh and easy to feed, it is almost a nightmare for Arabian horses to be placed on the grassland, because the ordinary forage grass on the Mongolian steppe cannot meet the needs of Arabian horses at all, like the Fu Han army when feeding Arabian horses on weekdays, they are fed alfalfa grass and oats, wheat bran, corn and bean cakes, the food standard is not comparable to Mongolian horses at all, and the output of the Mongolian steppe itself cannot meet the needs of Arabian horses.

Secondly, the Mongolian horse has a very strong endurance on the Mongolian steppe, it can run long distances, which is a common way for the Mongolian cavalry to attack, but the Arabian horse does not have good stamina, it is better at sprinting, so it is also beaten by the Mongolian horse in terms of endurance.

To put it bluntly, fighting on the steppe, the terrain and climate are always factors that cannot be ignored, maybe the cuirassiers are indeed elite, but as long as the Mongolian cavalry is good at dragging, they can drag the delicate Arabian horses to death, and in this process, maybe the battle is impossible at all.

"Da Chu needs a larger number of Mongolian horses, and they must be used to form mounted infantry."

Ning Yumo rubbed his chin, his face thoughtful.