"Why is the Western Regions unstable again?" Shoufu Wei Zaode just heard Wu Sanfeng mention the instability of the Western Regions, and now that the matter in Shaanxi was finished, he asked.

He was too comfortable in Japan, and he didn't know much about the affairs of China, especially the Western Regions.

"It's because of the continuous westward migration of the Khalkha Mongol and Horqin Mongol tribes."

The answer to the question was Zhu Cijiong, the "Mongolian expert" of the Ming Dynasty and the number one Cypriot king, whose princess was a princess of the Tumut Khanate, and was certainly familiar with the affairs of the Mongols.

Zhu Cijiong said: "The current Khalkha and Korqin Mongolia are not good at fighting, but they are very good at walking, and their tribes are not cohesive, but extremely loose alliances of various tribes. After being dispersed by the official army and the Tumut and Chahar tribes, most of the small and medium-sized tribes chose to move westward to take refuge in the Dzungar tribe. In spite of the imperial court's orders, the Dzungar tribe continued to cross the Altai Mountains and occupy the pastures that should have belonged to the Tumut Khanate. ”

"But why do they want to take refuge in the Dzungar Ministry?" "Why don't you take refuge in the Tumut Khanate and the Chahar Khanate?" They are the orthodoxy of the Golden Family! ”

Zhu Cijiong said: "This is because in recent years, the Dzungar tribe has subdued the Kazakh tribes of the Great Yuz and the Middle Yuz of the Kazakhs in the Mughestan steppe, and has begun to use troops against the Bukhara Khanate (Uzbek Khanate), which has gained a lot, and has also forced the Bukhara Khanate to pay tribute to the Chu Khanate of Zungar." The small tribes of the Khalkha Mongols saw that Dzungar had won successive victories in the Western Regions, their power was strong, and they had seized the fertile grasslands of Dayuzi and Zhongyuzi, so they naturally admired them and ran away to obey them. ”

In fact, it is to take refuge in Jungger and have meat to eat!

How can the grasslands of Khalkha be compared with the two grasslands of Great Yuz and Middle Yuz? And in the Khalkha steppe, nomadic herding has to honestly herd sheep, and there is no place to rob!

To the north of the Khalkha steppe is the Rakshasa country, and the "Santa Claus soldiers" of the Cossacks and Tsars killed the Mongols! The descendants of the Golden Horde are about to be killed......

South of the Khalkha steppe is even more unprovoked, it is the territory of the three towns of Shuofang, Anbei and Beiping, and the black spearmen of the three towns are as fierce as the Cossacks!

As for the east of the Khalkha steppe...... That's the territory of the two towns of Daning and Heilongjiang, and there is a Liaodong Army stationed in Shenyang and Liaoyang - they are the most fierce!

The surroundings of Khalkha are so fierce, and the Mongols who believe in Lamaism cannot compete with their ancestors, so of course they can only go to the monk Khan of Dzungar.

"The strength of Jungar is not because of the support of the imperial court!" Wei Zaode said to Emperor Zhu, "Your Majesty, we raised Zhungeer before because we were afraid that they would fall to the east and act as a tiger. Now that the East Captives are gone, it's no longer time to feed the jackal of Zhunger! ”

Emperor Zhu looked back at Wei Zaode, "Shoufu thinks that I raised Zhungeer because I was afraid that they would fall to the east?" ”

Wei Zaode was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Chen Lu is dull, I really don't understand what use Zhungeer is for my Daming?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Jungar is a trouble, but it is not the biggest trouble...... That's why I support it. ”

"Brother Huang, is the biggest trouble you said is the Rakshasa Kingdom?" Zhu Cijiong asked.

"Rakshasas, Mughals, and Persia are all greater troubles!" Zhu Cihong said, "The land of Mughestan and Bukhara today is not owned by Dzungar, but by Rakshasas, Mughals, and Persia. And I would rather give Dzungar the land of Mughestan and Bukhara than the Rakshasas, Mughals, and Persia to possess it. Because no matter how strong Jungar is, it can't keep up with the trend, there is no mouth to enter the sea, and it can't get rid of the nomadic system for a while, and it is still burdened by the Yellow Sect. There will be no more strength of Meng Yuan and Timur, and they will definitely be dependent on the Celestial Empire in the future. ”

Hearing Zhu Cihong say this, Zhu Cijiong, who knew very well about Mongolian affairs, couldn't help frowning. Although the Zhun Department does not have a sea port, it has a strong nomadic habit and does not pay much attention to the construction of the fundamental land.

However, the Čūros family had always had ambitions, and they had the dream of replacing them with the Golden Family and leading the Mongols to rebuild their empire...... And they have been stuffy in the prairie of the Western Regions, in fact, they don't have much knowledge, and it's still very troublesome to really make trouble!

Zhu Cihong also seemed to be worried about preparing to provoke a war, and said to Wu Sanfu: "Sanfu, in the name of the Generalissimo's Mansion, you can protect the Anxi Metropolitan Mansion, let them guard the mountain passes and fortresses, and be careful to guard against the invasion of the quasi-troops." ”

Daming's "first herald" said: "The minister's decree." ”

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The text of the Generalissimo's Mansion was sent on the second day of the fourth month of the twelfth year of Hongxing, and was sent by the 600 li of the Right Tong Political Division, and five days later, on the afternoon of the seventh day of the fourth month, it was sent to Wu Sangui's Qishan camp.

Wu Sangui was working hard to become the Ming Cao Zhen at this time - in fact, he didn't have to work so hard, as long as he held the Qishan camp, and then watched a few Qinling mountain passes, blocking Li Dingguo's northward journey.

And Emperor Zhu wants this effect as well, otherwise he could grit his teeth and mobilize heavy troops to aid Ganshan regardless of the cost - although Ganshan is short of grain, where is the base of 20 or 30 million mu of cultivated land and a population of several million, everyone can eat less, and there is no problem in supplying 200,000 troops to fight a few.

200,000 elite soldiers have been fighting for a few months, and they are still afraid that they will not be able to defeat Li Dingguo?

But Zhu Cihong also knew that this Zhuge Liang could go on five Northern Expeditions, and Li Dingguo could fight again and again. Because Dashun is now a feudal militaristic state! There are two major things in the country, one is to fight; The second is farming.

This kind of country is stumbling hard! And he is not afraid of the dead...... They are not Dongyu, there are not tens of thousands of strong men in total, and they will not die well. Dashun has more than 200,000 military households, one household supports three sons, and the next generation is more than 700,000! If you don't die a little, how can you divide the land? A government soldier gives 40 stones, how much does 750,000 get? 30,000,000 stones! The Dashun court still has to take at least 15 million stones (including the cost of taxation). How much land is there in Sichuan and Yunnan? How can you afford 45 million stones?

Moreover, the practice of Dashun State is a policy of supporting the people - egalitarianism is the best way to support people! Therefore, the birth rate of Dashun must be higher than that of Daming. Moreover, the current Sichuan has not experienced the three-way tug of war between the Ming and Qing dynasties and the west, and the population base is quite large. It is estimated that today's population is over 30 million! In another decade or two, there will be forty or fifty million.

At that time, the main business of Li Guo and Li Laiheng's generation will be gone, and it will be time for the peasants to revolt......

So Zhu Cihong's way to deal with Dashun is one word - block! Block them, suffocate them!

is the same as Sima Yi's method of blocking Zhuge Liang back then.

But Wu Sangui didn't want to be Sima Yi, he felt that he was Cao Zhen Cao Zidan of the Ming Dynasty!

After the defeat of the Xihe army in the last round, Wu Sangui was very unwilling and tried to draw troops from Guanzhong, Hexi, Shuofang, and Xining, preparing to fight another Xihe before May.

When the generalissimo's mansion was delivered, he was in the marshal's mansion in the Qishan camp to discuss with Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun, who had just arrived, how to fight Xihe again.

Seeing that Wu Sangui had finished reading the text, Kong Tingxun asked with a shy face: "Liang Guogong, what did the Generalissimo's Mansion say in the text?" Do you want to reward us? How much is a rogue's head worth? ”

Wu Sangui glanced at him and snorted: "This dynasty doesn't count the first work now, so don't think about it...... Moreover, the rogue Li Dingguo is a strong soldier, which is not easy to deal with, and his head is not so easy to cut. In this battle, we don't seek to kill the enemy, but we want to seize the land. We only need to take every step of the way, push 60 miles south from Qishan, and seize the west and farmland of the Liukou, and we will win. ”

"Xihe farmland?" Kong Tingxun didn't understand, "Where?" ”

"It's Xihe County," Wu Sangui said, "Liukou has opened a lot of terraced fields there, and only by destroying these terraced fields can we force Li Dingguo to withdraw his troops, and as soon as he retreats, we will be able to receive the reward." ”

Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun looked at each other, and they both breathed a sigh of relief, it was good to do it step by step, so as to save yourself from working hard with the rogue, it would be too dangerous...... Everyone is paid in the army, and they can't fight with those crazy people.