Time!

The Great Qing Kingdom needs time, and for the whole of the Great Qing Kingdom, they even hope that they can wait for a while, at least in a few days, this summer grain will be collected, maybe they can collect another grain and taxes, but this is just a fool's dream.

For the Manchu officials who were up and down in Lanzhou, all of them knew very well that they had no time!

When the right-wing army crossed the Zuli River, which divided Jingyuwei (Jingyuan County) into two, and approached Lanzhou City, Lanzhou City would be in the same chaos, arriving in Lanzhou a month and a half ago, and once again embarked on the journey in these repaired imperial courts.

In fact, according to the original plan, after the imperial court rested here for a period of time, it would go all the way to Gulangsuo, to Liangzhouwei, and all the way to Jiayu Guanxi, but who would have thought that because there were rumors that the Ming army appeared in the area of Dasong Mountain, threatening Zhenlangwei, and Zhenlangwei and the place where the imperial court must retreat westward, before figuring out the situation, left in a hurry In case it was robbed by the Ming army halfway, then the Qing Kingdom would be completely finished, so the imperial court has been delaying until now before leaving Lanzhou.

"Finally leaving!"

Tang Bin, who was riding on a horse, couldn't help but sigh when the domestic servant was packing his luggage. He prayed secretly in his heart.

"God bless the Qing Dynasty and bless the emperor's ......"

When praying for the imperial court like this, Tang Bin's face was full of emotion. When the news of the Ming army's appearance in Dasongshan came, in the face of the current situation in Lanzhou, most officials in the imperial court advocated that the emperor lead the troops to take a detour to evacuate from Xiningwei first, although that way needed to cross the Daxue Mountain to reach Liangzhouwei, but compared to sitting in Lanzhou, it was indeed a better choice. But in this way, it means that most of the Han officials have to stay in Lanzhou, because the emperor is leading the troops to leave, and most of the Han officials who retreat west with the imperial court are civil officials, so they can only stay in Lanzhou for the time being.

Just when the Han officials were panicked and thought that they were going to be abandoned, the emperor did not agree, but sent scouts to investigate the big and small pine mountains, and after repeatedly confirming their safety, they still chose to leave Lanzhou as planned, which also allowed Han officials such as Tang Bin to leave Lanzhou with them, and no longer need to worry about being abandoned by the imperial court.

In fact, a month ago, Tang Bin asked the servants to buy a few horses, and he even thought about it, after the emperor left, he rode a horse and disguised himself as an ordinary person to Zhenlangwei all the way to the west, and the team of people and horses would be intercepted by the Ming army, but how could the Ming army notice how many of their masters and servants?

"Brother Kong......"

Riding a horse mixed with the people and horses of the retreating west, Li Boting looked at Tang Bin beside him and said softly.

"There is no reason for the west out of Yangguan, after this westward trip, I am afraid that there will be no more people in the Western Regions!"

The exclamation of his friend made Tang Bin smile.

"Why don't you have an old friend? Your benevolent brother, as well as Mingda, aren't all old friends! ”

Despite saying this, Tang Bin couldn't help but look towards the east, although he had long known that it was impossible to return to his hometown in Henan, but he still had some concern for his hometown in his heart, even if he Tang Bin was already listed as a traitor in his hometown and was ashamed of the villagers, he would still think of his hometown in his dreams.

"Brother Kong......"

Seeing that Tang Bin was silent looking at the east, Li Boting asked softly.

"If you could do it again, would you do it again? ……”

Li Boting's words were not loud, at best, the two of them could hear them, and even Tang Bin himself had some trouble listening to them. Coupled with the hustle and bustle of the carriage and horses, except for Tang Bin, no one could hear the conversation between the two.

“？”

Tang Bin was stunned for a moment, and then asked rhetorically.

"Brother Renli wants to ask, do you regret being a brother?"

Regret?

This word really appeared in Tang Bin's heart for the first time, he first pondered for a moment, and then shook his head and said.

"Brother Renli, the court has the grace of knowing for the brother, if there is no emperor, there is no court, how can there be today for the brother, this regret is never, there is only one thought in the heart of the brother, to serve the court, to repay the emperor, even if it is broken, it is not resigned!"

When such sworn words came out of Tang Bin's mouth, he did not doubt that he was telling the truth, looking at Tang Bin, who was righteous and strict, Li Boting, who had long regretted it in his heart, just sighed in his heart, it was too late for him to regret it, but Tang Bin had never regretted it.

Compared with Li Boting, who regretted it late, Tang Bin stared at the east, stared at the direction of his hometown, and sighed after a long time.

"Such a great river and mountain, all of them were lost at the hands of thieves, how innocent are the people of the world, they are actually made by thieves! I'm so incompetent! I'm sorry for the emperor, I'm sorry for the people of the world......"

After such a sigh, Tang Bin turned his head, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and followed the army all the way to the west, with a resolute expression, without the slightest nostalgia......

Maybe Tang Bin, the 'great Qing official' who likes to wear shabby official uniforms and stage a Qing official show, has no nostalgia for the Central Plains, just a mindful minister of different races, willing to be a lackey and a slave, but for Xuan Ye, who once regarded himself as the "Son of Heaven of the Central Plains", he was reluctant to the Central Plains, even when he left, he turned back in three steps, and bowed his head in five steps, this road was very difficult, at least for Xuan Ye, when he looked at the mountains on both sides of the road becoming more and more desolate, looking at the desolate barren mountains and bald ridges without trees, Breathing in the dust that came to his face, Xuan Ye's expression was a little depressed.

Because he noticed that the emperor was in a low mood, no one went up to touch his brows, but just let the emperor himself walk forward on horseback there.

Because no one bothered, Xuan Ye was able to take a closer look around, although after leaving Xi'an, he found that the further west the mountain became, the more desolate it became, and after leaving Lanzhou, what he saw was a barren land with only some barren grass, and his mood became even more dull.

Although he had long been mentally prepared for the barrenness of the Western Regions, he did not expect that it would be so barren. What would this barren mountain and bald mountain place where even plants and trees could not grow?

Could it be that the future Great Qing Kingdom will be established in such a desolate place?

Because of this, on the way out of Lanzhou, Xuan Ye's mood became more and more dull, and he was depressed several times with the idea of not wanting to go west, but this thought was only a fleeting thought.

If you don't go to the Western Regions, where can you go?

Are you just waiting here to die?

Not to mention the emperor, even the ordinary soldiers under his command are not willing to wait for death in this place, the only thing that supports them now is that at least their family has arrived safely in Shengjing - it is a new city located at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the new capital of the Great Qing Kingdom, the land in that place is fertile, as long as they get there, they can live a peaceful life......

With thoughts like these, tens of thousands of people marched westward.

In the following month, this mighty team, first through Zhenlangwei, then through Liangzhouwei, then Shandanwei, Ganzhou Wuwei, after a few days of repairing in the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and then rushed to Gantai, and finally arrived at the northwesternmost Suzhou Wei.

"In the spring and autumn period, this place is the land of Xirong. Qin is the land of the Yuezhi country. In the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the hussar general Huo went to the evil king of Hun to break the disease, and his people were attached. In the first year of Taichu, Jiuquan County was placed...... After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Wei was also Jiuquan County. Sui Kaihuang abolished the county. Renshouzhong, Suzhou. …… In the second year of Tang Wude, he analyzed the Fulu of Ganzhou and the Yumen of Guazhou, relocated Jiuquan County of Suzhou, led the third county, and found Jiuquan, Fulu and Kinmen in Japan. When Xuanzong, Zhang Yichao returned to the state and placed the righteous army, and took the righteous tide as the envoy of the righteous festival, and found it but did not find it in Tubo. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was based on the Uighurs. At the beginning of Zhenzong, the Khitan broke Suzhou Prefecture and captured its people. During the reign of Renzong, Li Yuanwu invaded the Uighurs and took them. During the reign of Emperor Lizong, the Mongol Temujin cut down the summer and had its land. In the seventh year of Yuan to Yuan, Suzhou Road was placed, and it was attached to Gan (Zhou) [Su] Xingzhongshu Province. In the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Feng Shengping, the Duke of Song, was the land. In the twenty-eighth year, the Suzhou Wei Command Department was opened, leading 7,000 households in the left, right, center, front, back, center, right, and middle, and was subordinate to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division......"

In the acropolis of Suzhou, Xuan Ye looked at the Jiayu Pass, outside the pass is the Western Regions, and inside the pass is the Han land, although this Han land has left the Han dynasty for hundreds of years, until the Hongwu period was relocated for the Han people again, but it is always the land of the Han people, the land of the Han people.

After leaving here, if you go west, you won't be a Han land again!

It's finally still going to go!

Xuan Ye sighed, then closed his eyes, if someone looked at his face at this time, he could even see the tears in his eyes, and he could see the reluctance on his face.

"There is no one in Yangguan in the west...... Let's go, let's go......"

Waving his hand, when he said this, Xuan Ye's body even shook a little, from then on, he was no longer the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains, he, the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, was just the chief Hu Huang......

It's all just a dream......

Although he was in great pain in his heart, Xuan Ye still gave the will to get out.

On the ninth day of June in the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty (the seventh year of the Qing Dynasty), with the issuance of a will, tens of thousands of Manchu officials and people left the customs from Jiayu Pass and rushed all the way to the Western Regions.

This also marks that the Manchus were completely driven out of the Ming Dynasty!

When tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians began to move to the camp, Xuan Ye, who was sitting in the cart, fell into deep thought, and he was a little depressed, this time he was reluctant to ride a horse, perhaps because he didn't want to see the desolation of Kansai and the sadness when he left.

But even so, he had to think about something. Before issuing the order to leave Suzhou, he issued several secret orders, asking the Qing troops in various places to leave the garrison in turn, withdraw to Jiayu Pass, and then withdraw to the Western Regions, and at the same time not allow unauthorized withdrawal, so as not to damage the great plan of the imperial court.

It's just that these tens of thousands of horses can get out of here safely?

Xuan Ye then thought of the placement of them, and prepared a thousand grain trucks for them along the way, which was enough to feed the 30,000 army behind, but if the Ming army cut off their retreat, wouldn't this grain be equivalent to the enemy?

Grain!

If the Ming army wants to enter the Western Regions, it must solve this problem, they only use chariots and horses to transport grain from Guanzhong and from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, and transport grain for thousands of miles, and transport a stone of grain on the road to consume more than a dozen stone of grain, or even dozens of stone of grain, even if it is as rich as the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it will not be able to support the military needs of hundreds of thousands of troops.

But what if they get these grains, take the opportunity to fight all the way through Jiayu Pass, and then defeat the Guanxi Seven Guards that were lost during the Jiajing period?

"Guanxi Seven Guards" is the Ming Dynasty in the west of Jiayuguan set up seven guards, because the leaders of the Seven Guards are Mongolian nobles and also known as the "Northwest Seven Guards" and "Mongolian Seven Guards", perhaps this "Mongolian Seven Guards" was completely annexed by the Turpan Khanate after Jiajing.

But even if the Ming Dynasty included the capital of Nuer Gandu Division as its headquarters province, why couldn't it recover the "Mongolian Seven Guards"?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder. Suddenly, there was a whimpering sound outside the tent. The sound of the wind made Xuan Ye's heart tighten.

"It's hard to make this place ...... too"

Xuan Ye said to himself as he walked out of the tent. The eunuch and a few attendants hurriedly put a cloak on him and followed. He just walked around the camp, frowning and thinking as he went, he had left the Han Land, and even now, he still couldn't adapt to the desolation of the Western Regions.

At this moment, he faintly heard a sound of Xiao, under the bleak stars and moon, on the grassy beach of the desert, he saw a person standing there blowing Xiao. Xuan Ye walked in front of him.

"Oh, it's a pearl, the song is good, it's just too bleak, but it's the right thing."

Mingzhu, who was originally blowing Xiao, was heard by the words behind him, and hurriedly turned around, and saw that the person who came was actually the emperor, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to ask for sin.

"The slave alarmed the Holy Hearing, it is really a sin that deserves death......"

Seeing him kneeling on the ground and pleading guilty, Xuan Ye shook his head and said.

"Well, what's that? Now I'm waiting to stay in the wilderness, when I'm bored, it's human nature to blow Xiao, and this Xiao sound also responds to the current scene, get up! ”

"The minions obey."

Mingzhu then kowtowed again, and then stood up tremblingly, after he got up, Xuan Ye looked at Mingzhu, only to see that he was skinny and skinny, not only was his beard messy, but even the short hair on his head that should have been shaved was probably like this now!

Thinking of this, Xuan Ye's mood couldn't help but become a little sad. Alas, the Great Qing Kingdom, which was in charge of the Central Plains back then, actually fell into such a fate, could it be that this is the number of gas?

When Emperor Yuan Shun fled into the grassland, I am afraid he was also in such a hurry!

Thinking of this, Xuan Ye said.

"Mingzhu, you've been working hard all the way these days, and I think you've suffered a lot of sins."

Being so concerned by the master, Mingzhu's heart suddenly became hot, tears flowed down, and he quickly knelt down and replied.

"Master, the slave guards the master's safety by the master's side, and it is nothing to suffer a little. It's just that the slave looks at the depressed appearance of the master all day long, and it is really heartbroken, and the slave thinks that this time I moved to the Western Regions in the Qing Dynasty, and it is already God's blessing to be able to preserve this. The slave dared to say that as long as the emperor cheered up, my Great Qing Kingdom would definitely be able to rise again in the Western Regions. ”

This sentence was touching the worry in Xuan Ye's heart, he looked at Mingzhu and said.

"I'm afraid it's not that easy! We have left the Han land now, but didn't Emperor Yuan Shun also flee to the grassland? But how could Zhu Hongwu never let him go, didn't he continue to send troops to attack the grassland. ”

Listening to the emperor's worried words, Mingzhu hurriedly replied.

"Master, the slave thinks that this Western Regions is different from the grassland, the Ming Dynasty army can enter the grassland, but can not enter the Western Regions, just like I waited for ten days out of the customs, if there is not a post station along the way, there is grain and grass early, not to mention others, I am afraid that even drinking water may not be able to drink, this Western Regions, by no means who wants to come, out of Jiayu Pass to Shengjing, there are thousands of miles, which are full of Gobi and desert, even if the Ming army wants to fight, how can it be so easy? Master, do you think that's the truth? ”

"Well, go on."

Xuan Ye nodded.

"Yes. Please think about it, the Ming Dynasty may be strong and strong, but to the Western Regions, it is not possible to achieve thousands or tens of thousands of people, our Qing Dynasty armor is not less than 150,000, if the Ming army wants to attack the Western Regions, at least 150,000 troops, how much food does this 150,000 army need a day? How much grain and grass do you have to spend to transport so much grain in these thousands of miles of wilderness? Therefore, in the view of the slaves, now in our Qing Dynasty, the most important thing is not others, but people, now we have 150,000 armor, the Ming Dynasty has to use 150,000 people, if you wait another fifteen years, when this little generation grows up, but there are three or four hundred thousand armor, or even five or six hundred thousand armor, when the time comes, even if the Ming army can mobilize the world's soldiers and horses, what can it do? Hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of miles of march, grain and grass all need to be transported from thousands of miles away, even if they come, it is just another battle of Sarhu, but it is just a gift to our Great Qing Kingdom...... So the slave asks the master to take care of his body! ”

Mingzhu finished chokingly, knocked down with one head, lay on the ground, and never looked up again.

At this moment, Xuan Ye's heart fluctuated. Mingzhu's words are not unreasonable, indeed, the Western Regions is too far away, and it is too desolate, this place is so desolate that even the grass eaten by horses has to be transported from thousands of miles away, and it is so desolate that any wells can be blocked to kill the army to death.

This place is indeed not suitable for large armies.

As long as there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers, it is enough for the Ming Dynasty not to dare to attack easily!

Isn't this exactly what Wang Huaxing said to him at the beginning? Even he already had a plan in his heart, but Mingzhu had mentioned it again in front of him now, thinking that he was just blindly sad for a while, he sighed softly and said.

"Alas, Mingzhu, you're right, I've been in love for a while...... As long as I am determined to forge ahead, how can I be afraid of the Ming Dynasty? ”

After speaking, Xuan Ye turned around and left. When Mingzhu came back to his senses and looked up, the emperor had already left, and under the starry sky, he was the only one kneeling there in the vast grassland......

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