"Heshut?" Zhu Cijiong didn't expect Zhu Cihong to ask about Heshuote...... That's too jumpy, isn't it? Just now, I was discussing how to solve the hometown of Daning Dusi, the easternmost part of Eastern Mongolia, and I went to Tibet after a while.

"Brother Huang," Zhu Cijiong thought for a while, "Just give him a foreign domain, Gu Shihan doesn't have much ambition, he has always been relatively peaceful, and he doesn't have much conflict with Wu Sangui." ”

"Really?" Zhu Cihong frowned slightly, "But the snowy plateau is the soul of the Yellow Sect Mongolia!" Mongolia is vast, stretching from the Nenjiang meadows in the east to the Mughestan in the west...... It seems that there is also a Turkut tribe that went to the Volga River basin, and it ran really far!

With such a large territory and so many tribes, it is completely impossible for us to conquer them one by one, but we can't ignore them. Otherwise, there will be one or two male lords on the grassland, and they will be mixed with all the departments, then our troubles will be endless!

So we have to pinch their souls! And this soul of the Yellow Sect Mongolia was just choked by Gu Shi Khan! ”

Mongolia in these years can be roughly divided into Yellow Mongolia and Green Mongolia, the Green Mongolia is Kazakh, Uzbek, and now the Yaerqiang Khanate, which is now fighting hard with the two families of Junggar and Wu Sangui, and the Mughal State that went to India is barely among them.

Except for the Yeerqiang Khanate, which is counted in the circle of the Celestial Empire, the rest of the Green Sect Mongolia has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, and even the Yeerqiang Khanate will not challenge the Ming Dynasty's position in the circle of the Celestial Empire. Because since the collapse of the Timurid Empire, the power of the Green Cult Mongolia has begun to decline rapidly, and it will no longer pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty.

And the Yellow Sect Mongolia is different!

At this time, the Yellow Sect of Mongolia was still very powerful, with a western spiral of Erga, an east to Horqin, a north from Siberia, and a south to the Great Wall. At least more than 10 million square kilometers of grasslands and deserts are all under the jurisdiction of the Yellow Sect of Mongolia. The population is more than 2 million!

It doesn't look like much, but there are hundreds of thousands of people with bows and armor.

And there are always people on the Mongolian side of the Yellow Sect who can't forget the story of Genghis Khan, and it was not completely stopped until the collapse of the Dzungar Khanate in history. Therefore, Emperor Zhu had no way to cut off the Yellow Sect of Mongolia - in the more than two hundred years of the Celestial Empire circle, except for the decades of the rise of Manchuria, the rest of the time was the Yellow Sect Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty competing for the position of boss.

Looking further, from the beginning of the Han-Hungarian War for hegemony, the tribes on the grassland fought non-stop in the Han Dynasty. The two sides have loved and killed each other for 2,000 years, how are you going to cut it?

And completely smashed something...... Whether it can be done is another matter, even if it can be done, Emperor Zhu will not do it. Because without the Yellow Sect of Mongolia to occupy this steppe, then the Green Sect of Mongolia and the Rakshasa Kingdom will take advantage of the situation - it is impossible to exterminate two million nomads on more than 10 million square kilometers! However, if Emperor Zhu did not spare anything, it was still possible to smash all the ten thousand households in Eastern and Western Mongolia and drive them westward as much as possible for a period of time. According to the tradition of the steppes, they will be absorbed by the green Mongols of the Mughestan, and the Kazakh Khanate or the Uzbek Khanate may grow stronger, and in the worst case, the resurrection of the Timurid Empire!

This Green Sect Mongolia will not let a good young man serve the Buddha as a lama, and let go of birth and raising, hehe......

Therefore, the solution that Emperor Zhu came up with is a very unpleasant plan that requires long-term continuous investment. First of all, four subordinate towns of Daning, Beiping, Anbei and Shuofang were established in southern Mongolia, and two towns of Hexi and Anxi were established in the west (it is possible to add Beiting Town, which is separated from Zungar).

Then use these towns to compress the activity space of several Huangjiao Mongolian households.

and then support a few more Yellow Sect Mongolian vassal states, let them control a wider territory, on the one hand, restrain each other, and on the other hand, use them to resist the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Green Sect Mongolia.

Finally, the Ming Empire also had to control the spiritual sustenance of the Yellow Sect Mongolia, that is, the Holy Land of the Yellow Sect on the snowy plateau.

Of course, it takes a lot of effort to achieve this set of goals!

Don't look at Emperor Zhu's 200,000 troops gathered around Beijing, and disintegrated the Qing Dynasty, intimidating the powerful factions in Manchuria and southern Eastern Mongolia. However, he also did not have the ability to fully control the more than 1 million square kilometers of southern Mongolia, and there was a long process for the four towns that were to be established or had already been established, including Daning, Beiping, Anbei, and Shuofang, to really develop.

Because these four towns are now very empty, with only a few troops and no armed peasants, Zhu Cihong could not rely on a single decree to make millions of Han Chinese peasants leave their homes to reclaim and graze in the bitter cold land of the north during Xiaoice the fire period...... Four square towns, at most 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, most of whom are infantry, how can it be possible to control more than a million square kilometers of grassland and not let people enter?

To achieve this goal, either the Great Wall was built on the grassland, or at least hundreds of thousands of armed Han Chinese people had to go to the grassland to open up thousands of settlements.

However, during the Xiaoice period, it was difficult (not impossible, but only a few places were reclaimed), and the cost was too high. If thousands of strongholds were spread out at once, then the Ming court would have to prepare to send a large amount of grain to the grassland to help the settled peasants.

In addition, the Ming court also needs to issue other living subsidies to hundreds of thousands of settled farmers, and the current Ming Dynasty will definitely not be able to bear such expenses - there is so much money to burn the desert of Southern Mongolia, and to go to the Americas and Australia if it is smashed in the Pacific Ocean!

Even if Emperor Zhu was desperate and incurred a huge amount of money to develop the Monan grassland, it was only one-tenth of the living space of the Yellow Sect Mongolia.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu can only be prepared to have a long-term relationship with Huangjiao Mongolia...... And if you want to have a long-term relationship with Huangjiao Mongolia, you must master the snowy plateau!

Because there is the "Holy See" of the Yellow Sect Mongolia!

Hearing Zhu Cihong talk about the soul of Mongolia, Zhu Cijiong also understood a little, and he thought for a while: "Brother Huang, as far as my brother knows, all Mongolian banners that believe in the Yellow Sect will send people into Tibet to make tea, which is actually to give money to the great lamas of the Yellow Sect. ”

Zhu Cihong asked: "How much does it cost to go once?" ”

"It doesn't cost a lot of money," Zhu Cijiong said, "those Mongolian banners are so poor, how much can they give to the great lamas?" Brother Huang, do you also want to send someone into Tibet to send money to the Grand Lama? ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, and before he could speak, Emperor Chongzhen on the side suddenly spoke: "Send money into Tibet?" I'm afraid that's not right, right? I am a dignified celestial court, how can I take the initiative to send money to the lama? If those lamas want the reward of the Celestial Empire, they should also send someone to ask for a reward from the Celestial Empire! ”

Chongzhen's words are good!

But the Great Lama will not be so active, because the Great Lama and the Great Shun Dynasty are neighbors, if they take the initiative to curry favor with the Ming Dynasty, what will Li Guo think?

And what Emperor Zhu wanted was not the kind of painless tributary relationship, his goal was to bring Tibet, the sacred and inalienable territory of the great motherland, under the direct control of the central power!

Tibet is too important to exist as an external domain, at least as an internal domain!

And this goal is bound to conflict with the pursuit of the Heshute Khanate, so before the Ming canonization of the Heshute Khanate, Gushi Khan will not allow the Great Lama to pay tribute to the Ming court - Tibet is a dual regime, if the Great Lama pays tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and Gushi Khan has no way to achieve the same status, then Gushi Khan's authority will be shaken.

"Father is right!" Zhu Cihong did not refute Emperor Chongzhen's words, "It is indeed inappropriate for me to come forward...... However, the father can come forward to send someone into Tibet to boil tea and send money to the great lama. ”

"What? I came forward? But I don't believe lamas! ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "It's okay, we didn't send money to Tibet because we believed in the Yellow Sect, we sent money to the Yellow Sect because the Yellow Sect holds the soul of Mongolia, and we have to spend money to buy peace through the Yellow Sect!" He turned his head and glanced at Zhu Cihuan, the king of Chongqing, "Old Five, now that my father is going to send someone into Tibet to make tea, should you mention that my father is leaving?" Are you a dutiful son? ”