Chapter 272: The Situation in the Northwest
Such a number has made Zhou Yanru smile from ear to ear, but Zhu Youxiao is still not very satisfied. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's ten-year plan in the Americas was to gather at least three million Yin family members, occupy all the territory in the Americas close to the Ming side of the Ming Dynasty, and immigrate at least one million people from the interior to settle in the occupied areas. At the same time, most of the Yin family members can speak Chinese, which strengthens their identification with Han culture.
Zhu Youxiao deliberately proposed two places that must be completely occupied: Panama and California. He didn't know what the names of the two places were, but he took out a crude world map and drew a rough map of the Americas (thanks to the geography teacher), marking the places to be occupied. The so-called complete occupation means that the largest number of Ming immigrants should be resettled here, so that the ratio of Ming immigrants to the Yin family here will remain one to two or even higher.
Although the Panama Canal has not yet appeared, Zhu Youxiao knows its importance, just like the ocean-going fleet wants to occupy the Suez Isthmus in Egypt, these two most important canals must always be controlled by the Ming Dynasty, which Zhu Youxiao is very sure of.
As for Oceania, it does not seem necessary to occupy it now. Of course, the most important problem is that there is not enough population, there are only 100 million people in the country, although it is the most populous country in this era, but now the improvement of domestic conditions in the Ming Dynasty makes most people unwilling to immigrate to distant places.
This is a difficult problem to solve, Zhu Youxiao can't think of any good way, the reason why he wants to occupy California is to think that California seems to have gold mines, to see if they can be used to attract people, of course, he doesn't know where the gold mines are, so he can only explore slowly first.
Once the goal was set, everyone began to implement it according to the program and plan. Zhou Yuji's Northern Military Region was relocated to naturalization, and the troops of the Northern Military Region were expanded to four divisions, in addition to the original Wang Zuomin and Du Guangting divisions, and two more divisions were added, Wei Junru and Dai Bingyang. The largest living Buddha in the Khalkha Department of Mongolia Zhebuzundan Bahutuktu is called Ao Ersu (the meaning of the palace) by the Mongolians, Zhu Youxiao named this place Kulun, which means the grassland enclosed by the fence, Dai Bingyang Division was stationed in Kulun, and Wei Junru Division was stationed in the south of the Kyakhta River, about 300 miles away from Xiaohai.
Most of the people in Mobei Khalkha accepted the entry of the Ming army, but there were always some people who did not like the situation. Because Tushetu Khan's subordinates did not like the Yellow Sect, they had a good impression of Lin Dan Khan, who changed yellow to red, and he led his subordinates to rebel against Tushetu Khan and took refuge in Lin Dan Khan.
Lin Dan Khan, who was now weak, was naturally very happy with the move of the Tyuktu Taiji, and they formed an alliance with the Tibetan Zangba Khan and the Baili Tusi Yuedun Dorjee in the Kham region, because they did not believe in the Yellow Religion, so they were called the "Anti-Yellow Religion Alliance".
Da Ming had been watching this anti-yellow sect alliance grow and grow, but he did not attack them under the emperor's instructions. However, Lin Dan Khan attacked Shaanxi many times because of the bad harvest, but under the joint efforts of Hong Chengchou and Man Gui, he lost his troops and returned.
Zhang Xinchen's division had been assigned to the Northwest Military Region, and he watched Lin Dan Khan jump up and down on Yonggu City, but the emperor was not allowed to attack him, so he had no choice but to concentrate on training. At this time, Xu Pengmin and Liu Fangxiong came to his army.
As soon as the Anti-Yellowist Alliance was established, Dai Chunfeng received an order from the emperor that the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau would recruit new members in the Northwest Military Region and enter the two Propaganda Divisions of Wusizang and Duogansi, as well as Turpan and Yarkand, to collect intelligence for the future war. Xu Pengmin will lead people into the Liangxuanwei Division, and Liu Fangxiong will lead people into the Turpan and Yarkand regions.
The Military Survey and Statistics Bureau wants to recruit members in the military, and the military is of course very welcome. The Military Survey and Statistics Bureau is equivalent to the eyes of the Guards, and the information they collect has made the Guards die less in the battle and make more contributions, so Dai Chunfeng and his subordinates have a high reputation among the Guards.
Xu Pengmin and the two each brought more than a dozen backbone agents, and recruited more than 50 smart and flexible soldiers in Zhang Xinchen's army, and then entered the destination area respectively.
At this time in the northwest, the dominant person was Gushi Khan, who was the leader of the Wathorn people and the reverence of the Yellow Sect. Gushi Khan originally occupied the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but later he let his nephew Ozirtu Khan stay in his hometown and live in Qinghai with his own troops, preparing to enter Lhasa and attack Zangba Khan, who was an enemy of the Yellow Sect.
At this time, Lin Dan Khan fled westward, disrupting his plan, he was afraid that when he went to Lhasa, the pastures of Qinghai would be occupied by Lin Dan Khan, so the two sides formed a delicate and unstable confrontation situation here, and neither dared to rashly attack the other side. For a time, the northwest region entered a period of relative peace.
Xu Pengmin entered the Duogansi Xuanwei Division (in fact, the Xuanwei Division no longer exists, but the Ming Dynasty has always called Gansu, Qinghai and other regions in this way), and found out the reason for the peace between the two sides. He suddenly had a bold idea, and went to see Gushi Khan.
When he met Gushi Khan, Xu Pengmin greeted him with the etiquette of the Gelugpa (Yellow Sect), which immediately made Gushi Khan have a good impression of him. Gushi Khan said: "Guests from afar, I heard that you have good news to tell Ben Khan, can you say it now?" ”
Xu Pengmin said: "Great Khan, I am the envoy sent by the Ming Emperor to meet you. When the Ming Emperor heard that the Great Khan was the protector of the Gelug sect, he very much wanted to let the Gelug sect enter the Mongol tribes and expel the decadent Nyingma sect. ”
The Nyingma sect is the Red Sect of Lin Dan Khan, which is an older sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and the tantric sect that focuses on is named after Guru Padmasambhava before the Dharma Tsangpu was destroyed. Cultivators in red clothes and red hats can marry wives and have children, and pay special attention to hiding. Gelugpa, commonly known as the Yellow Sect, was founded by Lama Tsongkhapa on the basis of the Kadampa school, with yellow clothes and yellow hats, known for paying attention to precepts, attaching equal importance to sutra tantra, and implementing the reincarnation system of living Buddhas. Since the rise of the Yellow Sect, the Red Sect has begun to decline in power.
Gushi Khan liked to hear such words the most, he has always regarded himself as the protector of the Yellow Sect, and his name of Gushi Khan is actually the "National Teacher Khan", which is from the Eastern Korkhtu Tuktu III Jiawa Jiatso and the Khalkha Mongol Three Khans on behalf of the Yellow Sect to give him the title of "Great Teacher".
He laughed and said: "I heard that the Mongolian tribes have been subordinated to the Ming Dynasty, since the Ming Emperor is willing to promote the Gelug sect in the Mongolian tribes, then Ben Khan is willing to send people to implement the Gelug sect in the Mongolian tribes in the south of the country, and make friends with the tribes." After the Mongol Yuan was driven out of the Central Plains, the Waspur people called themselves "Oirat" and no longer regarded themselves as Mongols.