Ah, there's another Dzungar to the west!

As soon as Zhu Cihong heard Wu Guoyong's words, he remembered Galdan, who should still be a child, maybe a lama in Tibet. However, he and his Dzungar Khanate did not appear out of thin air, but had a process of accumulation and rise.

The Dzungar Khanate has not yet appeared, but its predecessor, the Śrīs, one of the four divisions of the Latmongols (Warat), should be mixing well by now.

In fact, since Huang Taiji defeated Lin Dan Khan, who was based on southern Mongolia, the power of Eastern Mongolia and Khalkha Mongolia in the north declined sharply, and they were successively ruled or subdued by the Qing Dynasty. The nomadic tribes of the northern and southern Tianshan Mountains were given the opportunity to take the lead and began to expand eastward, annexing some tribes of Khalkha Mongolia and Monan Mongolia.

Among them, the best mixed is the Heshute tribe, the leader of the four tribes of Warat, and the leader of the Heshuo tribe, Gushi Khan, was invited by the Tibetan Gelug regent Sonam Qunpei to send troops to Qinghai and Tibet to support the Yellow Gelug sect in the ninth year of Chongzhen. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gushi Khan successively destroyed the Khalkha left-wing Hongtai Jichotu Khan (a side branch of the Tushetu Khan line), Xikang Baili Tusi Dunyue Dorjee (who believed in Bon) and Zangba Khan, who controlled the headquarters of Weizang. He also established the Heshute Khan court in Qinghai, and became the supreme ruler of most of Qinghai, Tibet, Xikang, and the northern and southern parts of the Tianshan Mountains (Gushi Khan was still the lord of the Warat League).

If you just look at the map, the Heshute Khanate established by Gushi Khan is a great power that can compete with the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Your Majesty, although this Heshute Khanate has a vast territory and many people, it has no ambition to conquer the Xiongxiong with the east, and has sent envoys to Shenyang to pay tribute to horses and things long before Gushi Khan's eastward expedition. Last year, he even united with 22 leaders of various departments in Warat to jointly present a letter to the East to express their submission. The Eastern Imperial Court gave him armor, bows and arrows, and ordered the First Khan to rule over the tribes...... Therefore, Wu Sangui is now suffering from the enemy on his back, and there are tigers and wolves on all sides! ”

Wu Guoyong is Wu Xiang's godson, so he naturally wants to speak for Wu Sangui, and try to make the situation of this Qing Dynasty Green Flag **** as difficult as possible.

Zhu Cihong glanced at Wu Guoyong and smiled: "The Heshute Khanate is large and loose, and Gushi Khan must be unable to suppress the leaders of the Warat tribes, so he has to pull the tiger skin of Donglu to scare people." If Donglu wants to count on him to contain Wu Sangui, it is a fool's dream...... A Xiningwei is good enough to resist Gushi Khan. ”

"What the emperor said is extremely good," Wu Guoyong said, "but where does Wu Sangui have the spare power to run Xiningwei?" Gan Shaanxi has been intertwined with the door for more than 200 years, who will obey him, an outsider? ”

Zhu Cihong thought for a while and said with a smile: "This is easy to do...... I have a way! ”

Wu Guoyong said: Of course you have a way, but trapped in Shaanxi, Gansu and Wu Sangui is a bit desperate!

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The hat of Wu Sangui, the **** of the Qing Dynasty inlaid with a green flag, is actually not all green...... It's black-edged, red-wefted, ruby-topped, and only the eyes behind the hat are two bird feathers, with a little bit of green.

But just a little bit of green, Wu Sangui doesn't like it very much!

So he basically doesn't wear this slightly green hat, unless he meets with officials sent by Beijing, and he barely wears it. Otherwise, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty and the **** with a green flag, will either be bald and without a hat, or wear a black gauze hat.

To be precise, he wears a black gauze hat most of the time, wearing a red python robe, and there is a unicorn complement symbolizing the Duke of the Ming Dynasty in front of the python robe.

That's right, he is now dressed as a prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the hair on his head has been retained, and he has a small bun on the top of his head.

However, he did not return to the Ming Dynasty, although he was dressed like a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but he still had a bowl from the Qing Dynasty in his hand.

The little bit of land in the poor countryside that he occupies now is difficult to get the support of his brother-in-law Zhu Cihong; Second, he is also bordering on the forces of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, he and Li Zicheng have a deep enmity in the sea of blood, Lao Li originally wanted to dominate the world, but he asked Wu Sangui to toss and lose; Thirdly, his rule in Ningxia and Gansu is very unreliable, after all, he is an outsider, and he has no foundation in the local area, and he cannot do without the backstage of the Great Qing Kingdom.

So he is still the king of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty, the general of Pingxi, the **** with the green flag, and he is still a big traitor!

And the reason why he dressed up as a prince of the Ming Dynasty was to show that he had a heart for the lord and was ready to return to the Ming Dynasty as a third minister. Only in this way can Wu Sangui temporarily stabilize the gang of Ganshan army leaders under his hands.

These people are all from the Northwest Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty, they are not so afraid of Manchuria, and they are not in the same system as Wu Sangui, why do they recognize Wu Sangui as the boss? Isn't it because Wu Sangui came here under the banner of the Ming Dynasty?

At first, everyone thought that Wu Sangui had become a third minister, and he was ordered by Zhu Cihong to revitalize the northwest border army of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Li Zicheng's Dashun was not mixed well, and it was about to collapse, and everyone had no way out, so they wanted to make progress together - the ancestors of these local snakes in Shaanxi and Gansu followed the Ming Dynasty for generations, and when Dashun did not call, they didn't think the Ming Dynasty was good? Therefore, there were not many people who resisted desperately, and most of them surrendered to Li Zicheng. But after the surrender passed, this group found out that Da Ming turned out to be good!

At that time in the Ming Dynasty, they ate the bottom and took the top, and they could also shelter Shaanxi merchants from smuggling, although they couldn't make a fortune, but they had a good life.

But as soon as Dashun came, the Shaanxi merchants in Shaanxi pounced, and there was no supply of goods and no market for smuggling! The Dashun court above is even more ineffective - people's own old battalion soldiers can't take care of it, will they take care of you two ministers?

As for below...... When the king comes, he won't pay for food!

Although these ministers who voted for Dashun will not be exempted from taxation below, the difficulty of looting has increased a lot.

So the days of the big guys are not as good as day by day, and they miss Daming more and more. As soon as Wu Sangui came, of course, they all rushed to take refuge.

But who knew that Wu Sangui, the three ministers, was pretending! He was also a despised retainer...... Now the generals of the Northwest Frontier Army who are barely following him have all served in the Ming Army, served as the Shun Army, and now they are the three ministers of the Qing Army, and they all plan to return to the Ming Dynasty as a fourth minister.

You, Wu Sangui, have only been a second minister so far, how can you convince the public?

So Wu Sangui had to pretend to be an alternate minister every day!

And the soldiers with green flags under him are not green, but red, and ordinary soldiers are still wearing Mandarin duck battle jackets of the Ming Dynasty. The official is issued with two official uniforms, one is from the Qing Dynasty and the other is from the Ming Dynasty, and they can be changed at any time depending on the situation.

There were also times when I made mistakes, and I was startled when Zu Zepu accompanied the Qing delegation to Tibet to pass through Ningxia last autumn.

The cavalry led by Liu Sheng to greet Zu Zepu and others were all dressed in the Ming Dynasty, and Zu Zepu thought that Wu Sangui had rebelled back, and was about to abandon the darkness and turn to the light together, only to know that it was a mistake.

He was followed by the university scholar Sonny who was even more unlucky, just got out of the carriage and was about to accept Wu Sangui's bribe, but he didn't expect to see three thousand Ming iron horsemen lined up in front of him, and he was scared and cried at that time. The knives were pulled out, ready to fight with Wu Sangui, a repeated villain.

Fortunately, Zu Zepu stopped it in time - an old punch knocked him to the ground! This avoided the fate of Sony being hacked to death by the other party.

Later, Zu Zepu learned that the day after he arrived in Ningxia, it happened to be the day when Zhu Dingshan, the envoy of the acting king Zhu Cijiong, visited the king of Zaoqiang, and somehow he was confused, and the result was that he frightened the angels of the Qing Dynasty...... What a misunderstanding! I don't know if Dolgon will send troops to fight against Wu Sangui because of this?

And Zhu Cijiong has been forced to make a lot of progress in these days in Luliang, and he has done a good job on Luliang Mountain, not only withstanding the encirclement and suppression of the Qing soldiers several times, but also collecting many wandering Ming Dynasty relics and clans, including Zhu Dingshan of the old dynasty king system.

This Zhu Dingshan has no other skills, that is, he can fool with a clever mouth, and he can also watch people cook, so he sent Zhu Cijiong to run around and pull people to fight with the Qing Dynasty. Everyone knows that the northwest border army of the Ming Dynasty has a lot of things that can be fought, so Zhu Dingshan ran to Wu Sangui every three or five days.

And Wu Sangui didn't stop him or arrest him, he entertained him well every time - he had to let the Ganshan army leaders under his command know that he was loyal to Daming! Moreover, there is a surplus of martial artists on Ganshan's side, and Wu Sangui has no place to arrange it, and he can't afford to raise it, so it's good to let Zhu Cijiong take some away.