In April of the sixth year of Tianshun, Datong Town, Shanxi Governor's Mansion.

At this time, it is equivalent to May in the future, the climate is suitable, the rain is increasing, the temperature on the prairie is also warmer, and the grasslands everywhere are no longer dry in winter, but abundant water and grass.

By now, the Ming army no longer had the opportunity to go north to the grassland to burn the wasteland, and now the grassland is full of water sources and can no longer burn it.

Liu Juntao was also angry, and when the time came, he had written to the imperial court several times to urge him to send specific troops, but he had always been in the sea, and there was no response, so that he missed the fighter.

According to the information sent by the Ministry of Intelligence, even now, the ministers of the DPRK and China have not reached an agreement.

Even the military department was divided into three or four factions, and they quarreled with each other constantly.

In the end, Emperor Tianshun finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he gave up the plan to go north to burn the wasteland.

After Liu Juntao learned the news, he also sighed, the Tatar Department has been repelled by himself, it can be said that he has been injured, if at this time before the arrival of the spring rainy season, there will be a big burn, it will definitely make the Tatar Department hurt the muscles and bones, and may even cause a series of chain reactions, so that the Tatar Department "is in pain".

But now it is useless to say anything, everything has become a piece of paper and cannot be realized!

Before Liu Juntao came to his senses, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Military Affairs successively sent urgent reports, which made Liu Juntao furious.

Just over a month ago, the loyal king of Hamiwei fell ill and died!

The name of the loyal king of this generation was Brig, the son of the former king Tasuri. This person was very deferential to the Ming Dynasty, and even paid tribute several times a year, so that most of his subordinates were knighted by the Ming Dynasty, and made great efforts to stabilize the Western Regions of the Ming Dynasty.

Now the loyal king of Blegr is dead, and the most worrying thing is that he has no heirs!

The current Hamiwei is the main task of the Queen Mother's crossbow, which makes Hamiwei's subordinates increasingly scattered and unconvinced.

Most of these information are still collected by the Ministry of Intelligence, with the assistance of many industries and caravans of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Intelligence has deployed spies and hidden piles to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, and the scale is very large.

And the news sent by the military department afterwards made Liu Juntao even more shocked!

According to the intelligence of the military department, the northern captives of the Western Regions, Gasilan, took advantage of the instability of the people and the chaos of the regime in Hamiwei, and suddenly led the army to attack Hamiwei, and it only took a few days to capture Hami.

The people of Hamiwei were massacred by Gathlan, and many young people were forcibly dragged into the army, which led to a large number of exiles of Hamiwei's people in Guannai, which made the Ming Dynasty more and more turbulent.

For this Gathlan, Liu Juntao vaguely remembers in his mind that this person can be said to be a generation of heroes in the Western Regions, and in Liu Juntao's cognition, this person is the same as the Yexian of the Warat Department and the Tatar Department, and they are the life and death rivals of the Ming Dynasty.

This Ghaslan is the leader of the Ghakri tribe, also translated as Berg Luxun, Bogezan, etc., this Grakli tribe is different from the Warat tribe and the Tatar tribe, not the Mongols, but the Uyghur tribe, that is, the descendants of the Uighurs, the Uyghurs in later generations.

He is in the prime of life, the soldiers and horses are strong, and he fights everywhere all the year round, and his subordinates tens of thousands of iron cavalry can fight well, although the troops are not very many, far less than the Tatar Department and the Warat Department, but they are all warriors who have survived a hundred battles, which is also the reason why Liu Juntao is afraid of him.

As early as a few years ago, Liu Juntao intended to send people to the Western Regions to deploy in advance to see if he could contain this Gaslan in advance, but he didn't think that he had been entangled by the Warat Ministry and the Tatar Department, and did not spare his energy to turn to the Western Regions.

Now it's okay, the Tatar Ministry hasn't been cleaned up yet, and this Gaslan has jumped out again, and the current Western Regions and the desert are really lively!

The Minister of the Military Department also reported to Qun and said: "Governor Xian, now it is estimated that the imperial court has received the news of the loss of Hamiwei, so I don't know what the imperial court will do." ”

Liu Juntao sighed and said, "How else can I deal with it?" Now that the court's external center of gravity is in the north, and the main enemy is the Tatar Ministry, I guess Your Majesty can't take care of Hamiwei now! ”

Everyone sighed when they heard this.

At the same time, Emperor Tianshun was arguing with the Manchu civil and military forces in the court, and now the court and China were divided into two camps, arguing endlessly about whether to immediately recover Hamiwei, and finally the opinion of "going to the book to reprimand and not mobilizing troops" prevailed, after all, now the Tatar Ministry is rearming and fighting, and the Ming Dynasty cannot easily fall into a two-front battle.

Therefore, Emperor Tianshun could only issue an order to properly resettle the queen mother, ministers, and people of Hamiwei who had escaped, and then sent someone to send a holy decree of reprimand to Gaslan, ordering him to immediately apologize and lead his troops to withdraw from Hamiwei.

In addition, on the premise of not taking any substantive action, the imperial court just asked the Ming army near Hamiwei to strengthen the defense.

After Liu Juntao got the relevant information sent by the Ministry of Intelligence, some historical materials in his memory also appeared in his mind.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was recorded in the Western Regions: "The queen mother led her relatives and tribes to go to the bitter valley, and she sent tribute to pay tribute, and she was in trouble." The imperial court can't help, but the people of the country are just talking about the successor. Its country is ruined, and the people who come are numerous. ”

At this time, Liu Juntao's heart was already full of anger, and now the opponents facing the Ming Dynasty have changed from one to two, but the imperial court still can't deal with it quickly!

Now is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty can still fight on two fronts, and the Ming army can also deal with two or even three enemies at the same time, but this is based on the premise of drastic consumption of the Huaxia family, in Liu Juntao's view, it can be described as painful!

Therefore, Liu Juntao played the imperial court in the name of the governor of Shanxi, proposed to recruit soldiers and horses from Shandong Town, mobilize all the soldiers and soldiers of the Tiance Army stationed in Shandong, and go to Hamiwei to quell the rebellion, and strive to recover Hamiwei before winter, defeat Jiasilan, and invigorate the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also suggested that the imperial court dispatch the Shanxi garrison led by himself, including the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army, including the Longxiang Army, the Yingyang Army, the Tiger Ben Army, and the Changshui Army, to go north to the grassland as soon as possible to deal a devastating blow to the Tatars, so as to prevent the Tatars from continuing to swell and becoming a major problem for the Ming Dynasty.

But after Liu Juntao's recital was submitted, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news for nearly a month.

On the contrary, it was the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of War that sent urgent information one after another!

According to the intelligence, now Gangaslan has been in contact with the Tatar Ministry of Uketu Khan, and the two sides even brought 500 iron horsemen each to have a secret meeting at the junction of the Tatar Department and Hamiwei!

As for the specific content of this secret meeting, neither the Ministry of Intelligence nor the Ministry of Military Affairs could do anything about it, and they could not find out any information at all.

After Liu Juntao read the two pieces of information, he also frowned.

Even if the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Military Affairs failed to find out the specific content of the secret meeting between Uketu Khan and Yu Gathlan, Liu Juntao could imagine that the matter discussed by the two of them must be how to deal with Da Ming, and there is no second thing for the two to meet urgently!

If you want to say that the forces that can make Uketu Khan and Gaslan feel nervous at the same time at this time, it can only be Da Ming!

Since Uketu Khan had already met with Gasilan at this time, Liu Juntao concluded that the two must have reached some kind of agreement, or even reached an offensive and defensive alliance, and according to the current situation, this situation is very likely.

So, Liu Juntao also reported his thoughts to the Ministry of War, but then the reply he got was "guard Shanxi and monitor the Tartars".

Just when Liu Juntao was secretly angry, the military department sent another bad news: the iron cavalry of the Tatar Department and the Gan Kaslan Department appeared in Gansu, constantly harassing various tunbao in Gansu, and the Ming army in Gansu could not stop it!

After Liu Juntao received the news, he immediately convened the officials of the shogunate of the Shanxi Governor's Mansion to prepare to discuss countermeasures.

But then the Ministry of Intelligence also sent a bad news, which was sent from Shandong, and Feng Xiang, the commander of the Dongping Island Navy, sent someone to send an urgent military report: Recently, when the Dongping Island Navy was operating in the open sea, it kept encountering Xiyi's warships, and the two sides clashed at sea several times, but the Dongping Island Navy lost more than it won, and the losses of each detachment were not small!

Now, Shandong Town has begun to increase its support for the Dongping Island Navy, both in terms of human and financial resources, and has begun to greatly improve its strength, which is to prepare for those Xiyi who came out of nowhere.

Receiving this news, Liu Juntao suddenly became alert, although there is a commotion over there now, it can be regarded as a product in a bowl, and the sea is in a pot, and those Xiyi can run over and intervene at any time!

As a result, Liu Juntao began to realize that the situation was not good, and he couldn't manage his affairs for the time being, as long as he guarded Shanxi, the situation would not deteriorate.

However, the Dongping Island Navy must intervene in its own affairs, not only because the Dongping Island Navy is its own painstaking efforts, and it has contributed a lot to the income of Shandong Town and Shanxi, and is an important source of wealth for itself, but also the talents in the Dongping Island Navy are even more precious!

Therefore, Liu Juntao urgently ordered Tang Yu, minister of commerce, to mobilize materials and money, immediately increase investment in the navy of Dongping Island, immediately recruit sailors in the coastal areas, and at the same time issue orders for warships and sea ships in various coastal areas, and order the military bureaus in Shandong and Shanxi to rush to produce artillery for the navy.

Perhaps Liu Juntao has not yet realized that under the pressure of those Xiyi, he has stimulated the war potential of Shanxi and Shandong.

The first naval explosion of the Ming Dynasty was when Zheng He went to the West, and the second time was the great development promoted by Liu Juntao!