Through the land post station, Jiaqing received a recital from the Kunlun Nu State Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner Dutong Delentai, describing the local situation, and Jiaqing's heart finally let go.

He was no longer worried that the Great Zhou court would have malicious intentions towards them, and was sure that the Great Zhou really just wanted to send them away, and he didn't care where they went.

Now Jiaqing has monopoly power, and his master Zhu Qi has died, and died after the battle of Zhangjiabao, not in battle, but in heart failure stimulated by the battle.

After Zhu Jue's death, Jiaqing suddenly became stronger as if he had changed into a different person.

Especially last year, because of his strength, he almost went to war with Da Zhou again. The 100,000 troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty were divided into two routes, all the way from Mongolia and the Hexi Corridor, which had approached Ili, and finally through the mediation of the envoy Sheng Zhu sent by the other party, a military disaster was finally avoided.

Jiaqing still cares very much about Shengzhu's brother-in-law, because his favorite sister Shengzhu died of illness, but he never forgot her.

It's a pity that Sheng Zhu climbed the high branches, and refused to come to Jiaqing, let alone go to Kunlun Nu with them, which made Jiaqing angry, but in addition to lamenting the hot and cold world, he could only complain about his current situation.

The reason why Jiaqing had a bad relationship with Dazhou last year was because Jiaqing began to adopt a series of expansion policies in Ili, not to expand into Chinese mainland, but to strike at the surrounding forces that did not obey the king; even if Jiaqing fell to the present, he still had 100,000 troops in his hands, of which 50,000 were Shaanxi and Gansu Xiangyong, 20,000 Mongolian herdsmen, 20,000 green battalion soldiers with complex composition, and the real Zhengyin Eight Banners, but only 10,000.

Due to the weakness of the army, coupled with the successive defeats, the prestige of the Qing Dynasty in the vicinity of Ili was discredited, and the princes of all walks of life had different intentions. The greatest threat came from the Hui tribes south of the Tianshan Mountains, who had already broken out in the middle of the Qianlong Dynasty. Qianlong also did not carry out strong rule here, and has always been mainly fettered and has not been directly managed, resulting in the existence of rebel forces here. As a result, seeing that the Qing Dynasty was weak, the local lords once again rebelled and colluded with Andijan (Kokand Khanate) outside the country to plunder the Mongol tribes north of the Tianshan Mountains many times.

Jiaqing's situation has always been on the verge of collapse, and he has been enduring humiliation to maintain a precarious situation, just to keep the Zongmiao Society. The nomadic Turhut and other Mongol tribes north of the Tianshan Mountains were the biggest force that Jiaqing could rely on now, and he could not allow the Hui to harass the Mongols.

So Jiaqing in the financial situation is extremely tight, sent troops back to the department, his subordinate those who talked about the change of color, actually broke out quite combat effectiveness, in fact they are not weak, years of war baptism, coupled with the training of the Russians, the combat quality is there, but there is no heart to win. Huibu is a group of rabble, how much combat power can the bandits who take advantage of the fire to rob have, after the two sides meet, it quickly develops into a one-sided situation.

At this time, Jiaqing had more ideas, of course, he still didn't dare to break with the Great Zhou, he had the idea of expeditioning to Kunlun Nu and surviving the Qing Dynasty, so he always felt that the troops were insufficient. He has 100,000 people in his hands, but he can really fight only 20,000 or 30,000, he is worried that if the Kunlun slave country is strong, he will not be able to gain a foothold at all, after all, he recently collected Kunlun slave information from various channels, and found that the Kunlun slave army under the command of Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming Dynasty was quite strong.

So after suppressing the Hui rebellion, Jiaqing began to reorganize the Hui army. At this time, the population of the Uyur Hui in the Ili area was about one million, except for some of the Ugur people who planted and lived in Turpan and other places north of the Tianshan Mountains, most of them were nomadic in the south of the Tianshan Mountains, and there were more than 200,000 Dingkou. This is a force that cannot be let go.

Jiaqing's reorganization, the expansion of the army, was regarded as a threat by the Great Zhou regime, immediately sent people to question, a year is approaching, the Great Zhou even made military preparations, requiring the Manchus to lay down their arms and let the Zhou army enter.

At this time, Jiaqing behaved quite strongly and sternly refused, which led to the situation on the border of Chen Bing of the Great Zhou.

Later, Moriju came to lobby as an envoy, and through Morizumi, their attitude was transferred to the Great Zhou, and the other party gave up the military operation, and even after the end of the year, he did not enter Ili.

In fact, Jiaqing, the emperor, has the ability, he has endured humiliation and burden for so many years under the wings of Qianlong, and he is respectful to Heshen, he is able to bend and stretch, and the reason why he is tough is because in the military operation to conquer the Hui Department, he saw that the morale of the ministers of the Qing Dynasty suddenly increased, and a group of people who had already degenerated into gambling and blasphemy began to give advice to Jiaqing and began to be interested in political affairs.

Therefore, Jiaqing took this opportunity to start rectifying the rule of officials, and the rectification of the rule of officials must be carried out by a strong emperor, and weakness will only cause chaos. At this time, Da Zhou came over and asked them to lay down their arms, and if they really agreed, not only would they be in danger of being slaughtered, but also that the morale of the government and the opposition that had just been mustered collapse quickly.

So Jiaqing chose to be tough and made an image of a strong monarch, which won the respect of many young officials. But privately, through Sheng Zhu, he explained to the Great Zhou that the reason why they reorganized the troops and horses was to prepare for the expedition to Kunlun, and they never had the ambition to compete with the Great Zhou.

Da Zhou accepted this statement and temporarily abandoned his intention to enter Yili, giving Jiaqing plenty of time.

At this time, the group of young officials began to instigate Jiaqing to organize the Hui tribe into eight banners according to the method of ruling Inner and Outer Mongolia. It is managed by officials sent by the imperial court, so that the Hui Ministry will never be chaotic. Just like the outer Mongolia, the imperial court moved west to Ili, and under an order, a large number of Mongolian soldiers and horses still came to King Qin, the reason is very simple, the military power is not in the hands of the local princes, but in the hands of General Uriya Sutai and General Kobdo, whether they are willing or not, the army has to come.

Jiaqing had this intention, so he took the opportunity to implement the Eight Banners system in the Hui Department, retained the status of the Hui princes, reduced their powers, and sent a large number of Eight Banners generals and generals to manage the Hui people. Draw young and strong people from the Hui Department and form the Eight Banners of the Hui Department. At one time, Jiaqing's army increased greatly, of course, there was resistance, the only way was to suppress it, the conquest on the grassland was always extremely cruel, Jiaqing came up with the method of Qianlong to deal with the remnants of Jungar, according to the tradition on the grassland, the rebels were slaughtered, and the men with high wheels were all killed.

After this bloody conquest, the population of the Hui was greatly reduced, but the soldiers and horses under Jiaqing reached 200,000, of which there were 100,000 of the new Hui Eight Banners. With the growth of strength, there are also new troubles, and the young officials under Jiaqing have begun to be ambitious, most of them used to be at the bottom, and they are not clear about the secret agreement between the upper echelons of the imperial court and the Great Zhou, and they do not know that they still have to go to a foreign country, which is why these people can still maintain their fighting spirit. Many of the high-level civil and military generals knew that they were going to Kunlun Nu and had no hope of returning to the country in this life, especially some Hanchen, who hated to die in Yili, at least they left their bones on the land of the Qing Dynasty.

These ambitious Shaozhuang faction officials began to instigate Jiaqing to send troops, first to recover the outer feudal Mongolia, to seize the homeland of Manchuria, and then to enter the customs to fight for the world with the Great Zhou.

At this time, Jiaqing did not dare to really start a war with Da Zhou, nor was he willing to extinguish the fighting spirit that these officials had easily raised, so he began to use troops frequently. The object of conquest has become the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, which was originally a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, but seeing the current predicament of the Qing Dynasty, it fell into the trap and threatened to release the descendants of Hezhuo to establish a state in Huibu, so as to blackmail the Qing Dynasty to give the Kokand Khanate trade privileges in Kashgar. After Jiaqing refused, the Hui began to be chaotic, and it was clear that the Kokand Khanate was behind it. So now that Jiaqing's strength has increased, he immediately decided to use troops against the Kokand Khanate, first, to attack this restless vassal state, and secondly, to exercise the newly built Huibu Eight Banners.

In addition, he also had an idea that he couldn't say, once the Kunlun slave country was strong, instead of crossing the sea to compete with an unknown strong enemy, it would be better to seize the Kokand Khanate nearby, and then the Qing Dynasty would take the whole country away and save the country in Andijan, wouldn't it be better than going to a foreign country.

It's just that if it's too close to Da Zhou, I'm afraid Da Zhou will still not let him go, it's just a back road. If Kunlun was too strong, he would be forced to take the risk of trying it in the Kokand Khanate. However, the Kokand Khanate has been strong in recent years, and the leader Alim began to call Khan, who had previously been attached to the Bukhara Khanate, and now established himself as Khan, and repeatedly went to war with the Bukhara Khanate.

Jiaqing then contacted the Khanate of Bukhara in western Andijan, and the Khan of Bukhara Haidar Tula promised to raise an army together to destroy Andijan. In recent years, the Kokand Khanate has expanded frequently, not only with great ambitions for returning to the territory of Ili, but also in many conflicts with the Bukhara Khanate, snatching places such as Khozhant and Urachube from the Bukhara, which has long caused unease in the Bukhara Khanate.

The battle was fought with great brutality, and Alim had all the characteristics of the leader of the emerging steppe peoples, with strong military qualities and personal bravery, and personally led his troops to fight against Bukhara and the Manchus. However, the gap between forces was too great, and countless tactical victories were achieved, but they could not stop the advance of the two major enemies step by step, and finally they were shot and killed in the decisive battle of Andijan, and Andijan was destroyed.

Together with the Bukhara Khanate, the Kokand Khanate was annexed, the Ferghana Basin east of Andijan belonged to the Qing Dynasty, and the Syr Darya valleys such as Tashkent and Shymkent belonged to the Bukhara Khanate.

With the military victory, not only the old troops have been trained, but the Eight Banners of the Hui Department have also shown good combat effectiveness, and proved the effective management of the nomads by the Eight Banners system.

It was at this time that he received a recital from Africa, Delentai.