Chapter 200: The City of Karasar

Gao Junshan ordered Zhou Shichen and Jiang Guorong to lead the Mongol cavalry division of Meng Uliji and Sun Dahai's marine brigade to Aksu, and then cross the Tianshan Mountains to reinforce the Great Yuz Khanate.

In Kulongle, due to the arrival of the transport personnel of the logistics department, it was very crowded, so Gao Junshan decided to find a suitable place to build a city in this area, and build a city for the logistics personnel to live.

The task of surveying the terrain was naturally undertaken by the disciples of Chongwen, and after twenty days of surveying, they selected a piece of land about fifty miles northeast of Kulongle.

It was originally a pasture, and it is close to Bo Lake, rich in water resources and convenient transportation. After seeing this place, Gao Junshan decided to build a city here, and named it Karasar.

Karasar, Uyghur means "black city".

To build a city, it is not a day or two can be completed, Gao Junshan mobilized 100,000 migrant workers from the interior to Tibet, adopted the method of moving in while building, and gradually immigrated to Karasar, at first the main construction workers entered Karasar City, then the personnel of the logistics department, then the local nomadic families, and then the families of the soldiers.

Due to the reasonable planning of the new city, it is very comfortable to enter the city, the greening of the city is very good, the roads are wide, and the well-shaped streets divide the residential quarters into tofu blocks, which is very neat.

The city was designed by Chongwen's disciple Pan Zide, who was the chief engineer of the building, and on the day he received the task of building the city of Karasar, he rushed from the capital to Karasar without stopping, and fought day and night on the construction site of the city.

From June 1646 to October, the first phase of the project was successfully completed, and the foundation stone of the city wall had been laid, waiting for the second phase of the project to be built. The streets have been paved with stone slabs, and the vacant lots on both sides of the streets are waiting for the construction of houses in phases, and the first houses that have been erected have moved into the new inhabitants of the city of Karasar.

The headquarters of Gao Junshan was still in Kulongle, and because the headquarters needed a quiet environment, there was no rush to move to Karasar.

The weather after October is unusually cold, so the construction of the city will have to wait until the next year.

In this summer when Gao Junshan was busy building cities, Zhou Shichen and Jiang Guorong entered the Great Yuz Khanate, and made great progress militarily, and after their summer offensive, the Mongolian cavalry division of the Eastern Route Army hit Lake Balkhash, and the Marine Brigade of the Western Route Army hit the Aral Sea. The Great Yuz Khanate was officially incorporated into the territory of the Huaxia State, and Gao Junshan placed her under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang.

As early as the Western Han Dynasty, the vast area east and south of Lake Balkhash had the government of the Han Dynasty. That is, the people who lived east and south of present-day Lake Balkhash and in the Pamir region were Wusun, Dawan, Wulei, etc. According to the "Book of Han", during the reign of Emperor Wu Yuanjiao, Zhang Sai arrived in Wusun as a representative of the central power, and in the second year of Emperor Yi's Shenjue (60 BC), the Western Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions Protectorate in Wulei, which covered the above-mentioned vast areas and effectively implemented the Western Han Dynasty decrees.

So, the Mongol cavalry divisions and marine brigades were just regaining lost territory.

Abdullah's Xinjiang Legion is also very powerful, since getting the equipment of the Rakshasa Country, he has collected the four or five thousand old troops that have been scattered, and his seven thousand men and horses are chasing Colonel Reinhardt of the Rakshasa Country, Colonel Reinhardt is called the Legion Commander, at this time he only has two or three hundred people left, where is Abdullah's opponent, only to withdraw from the seized northern frontier, and go back to his hometown Rakshasa Country There is a way to go.

Abdullah took advantage of the victory and pursued and recovered hundreds of cities such as Dihua, Maras, Kurkha Lawusu, and Tarbagatai in one fell swoop, and the entire northern Xinjiang was included in the territory of the Chinese State.

In order to consolidate the results of the battle, Gao Junshan sent his 1st Mixed Brigade to advance to the border of the Rakshasa Kingdom to defend the Talas River and the Egus River. At this point, Lake Balkhash, the Egus River, and the Talas River formed a border line, cutting off the illusion of the eastward expansion of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The news of the victory continued to come to the side of Gaojun Mountain through the transmitter, and in the south of the Yangtze River, the horn of burying the small court of Jinling was also sounded.

This summer, the Jinling Imperial Court in Jiangnan was also dealt a devastating blow, because the undercover agents Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang, with the cooperation of the General Affairs Bureau, created three major suspicious cases in Jinling: "The Great Compassion Case", "The Fake Prince Case", and "The Tong Concubine Case".

The so-called "Great Compassion Case" is to find a monk, the legal name is "Great Compassion", this person is surnamed Zhu, a native of Huizhou, and Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, is acquainted with him, and is also recognized by the king of Lu as his own family. He was found by the people of the General Affairs Bureau and sent to Jinling, outside the west gate of Jinling Shui, the monk of Great Compassion claimed to be the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and was once named the king of Qi by Chongzhen. He also claimed that "King Lu is kind to the people, everyone obeys him, and he should be on the right throne", which means that now this Zhu Youxiang is not qualified.

Zhu Youxiang was originally suspicious of King Lu, suspecting that this compassionate monk was here to spy on King Lu, so he sent someone to arrest him, and sent a message to Zhao Zhilong, Feng Kezong and Cai Zhong, who were in charge of military affairs, and "three halls of trial" to strictly extort confessions.

This compassionate monk could not stand the torture, and confessed to Zhu Youxiang a large list of people, this list was also handed over to him by the General Affairs Bureau in advance, a total of 143 people, involving Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Zhang Shenyan, etc., the purpose is to muddy the waters.

Zhu Youxiang was afraid that the situation would expand, and he did not want to be involved too widely, so he tied up the monk of Great Compassion and sent him to Xishi to ask for beheading, and the matter was over.

The "fake prince case" was first caused by Gao Mengqing, the young secretary of Honglu Temple, who secretly played to Zhu Youxiang, and Gao Mengqian said in the transcript: Prince Zhu Cihong is in Zhejiang.

After Zhu Yousong learned of this, he was restless, and ordered the eunuch Li Jizhou to go to Zhejiang to find out, and sent the internal official to hold the imperial hall to summon and bring a young man back to Xingshan Temple, which was placed in the Taiping Gate.

After the young man was taken to Jinling, Zhu Yousong sent two eunuchs to identify, and when the two eunuchs saw the young man, they hugged their heads and wept, and took off their clothes to keep them warm, and then reported to Zhu Youxiang, the person he saw was indeed the prince Zhu Cihong, and the scene of the meeting was also reported to Zhu Youxiang.

Zhu Yousong was furious when he heard this: "The truth and falsehood have not been argued, how can you do it." ”

The two eunuchs swore to the sky that the person they saw was indeed the real prince, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but say, killed the two eunuchs, and then took out his anger on Li Jizhou, and wiped his neck together.

Subsequently, Zhu Youxiang pretended to tell the ministers: "There is a childish son who said that he is the first emperor of the East Palace, if it is the son of the real first emperor, that is, the son of me, he should be raised and compassionate and not let him be lost." ”

Then he ordered Hou, Bo, Jiuqing, Hanlin, Ke, Dao and other officials to go together to check the authenticity.

With the lessons of the past, the officials who went to identify them all said that this prince was a fake.

At this time, the civil and military officials of Jinling heard about this and rushed to Xingshan Temple one after another, "enthusiastically seeking advice", and Zhu Yousong had to hand over the fake prince to Feng Kezong of Jinyi Wei to take care of.

This incident directly involved the legitimacy of Zhu Youxiang's throne, and those who were dissatisfied with Zhu Yousong's succession took the opportunity to stir up trouble and spread rumors, causing an uproar in the court.

The more Zhu Youxiang said that the crown prince was fake, the more he doubted his true ministers, and this incident also caused the consequences of the protests of the ministers such as Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiangfang, and Liu Liangzuo, the governor of Guangchang.

And the "Concubine Tong Case" pushed Zhu Youxiang's small court in Jinling into the abyss.