When Zhu Yue Ma Jiayuguan Castle, looking at the castle demolished by the Western Domain, there was no feeling of righteous indignation in his heart, and he demolished it, anyway, now the king can be self-sufficient, and will not be as passive as before, this Jiayuguan is not so much a barrier to defend the Western Domain, but rather a checkpoint that chokes the king to open up his territory to the west, from now on, the king will not be repairing this Jiayuguan.

It was about 750 miles from Jiayuguan to Dunhuang, where the king of Shazhou was located, and Zhu Ao ordered his men to hurry up and advance at full speed in order to catch up with the king of Shazhou, Aluge, in order to annihilate his main force in the field.

There are also two smaller Mongolian tribes between Jiayuguan and Dunhuang, from east to west are the Chijin Mongolian Department and the Handong Mongolian Department, these two tribes are the younger brother of the king of Shazhou, and they were beaten by the Ming army under Jiuquan City, and suffered heavy losses, and everyone is scolding the king of Shazhou in their hearts for being a big pit.

Now seeing the strong and strong Zhu Ao coming, he immediately looked at the wind and surrendered, and contributed a lot of grain and horses to the Ming army, and also led the way for the Ming army, which made the Ming army like a tiger with wings, and finally caught up with the main force of the king of Shazhou in Guazhou, which is more than 230 miles away from Dunhuang.

Zhu Ao was not polite, and ordered Qu Neng to be the vanguard, with 5,000 elites to rush and kill, and outflank the two wings with a large army, the sandbank army, which was already like a frightened bird, as Zhu Ao said, had no heart to resist at all, and most of the people surrendered after throwing down their weapons.

The king of Shazhou, Aluge, threw down thousands of soldiers, and only ran back to Dunhuang with a dozen retinues, which can really be said to be only spared, and he originally wanted to make a fortune, but this time he even lost all his old capital.

Zhu Ao did not intend to let him go, and continued to lead the army to Dunhuang, but after arriving in Dunhuang, he found that the city had already hung a war free card.

In order to grab a big one, the king of Shazhou took the main force out, and there were only less than two thousand old and weak soldiers left in the city, and he knew very well in his heart that in front of the main force of the Ming army equipped with artillery, these people were not enough to stuff his teeth, and he had no choice but to ask for peace.

The king of Shazhou sent his prime minister Aruwen to Zhu Ao's Chinese army tent to sue for peace, Aruwen just walked to the gate and bowed three times and nine times, and then did not dare to stand up at all, kneeled forward, rubbed to Zhu Hao's side, kowtowed to the ground and said: "Shazhou Prime Minister Aruwen greets His Royal Highness King Su, His Royal Highness Chitose, Chitose!" ”

Zhu Ao looked at Aruwen's cat-like appearance, and his heart was extremely refreshed, it turned out that this was the feeling of conquest, and he deliberately reprimanded with a straight face: "Your sandbar master has violated my country's land for no reason, and now he can be convicted?" ”

Aruwen didn't dare to raise his head at all, and knelt on the ground and said: "The king of my family's sandbank listened to the instigation of the king of Hami, and dared to attack the heavenly kingdom of the Heavenly Empire without his own strength, and offended the king's heavenly might. ”

Zhu Ao was very satisfied with his attitude, deliberately pretending to compare, and teasing him: "Do you Shazhou Department dare to fight with this king in the future?" ”

Aruwen knocked his head several times with a "bang", and almost cried: "The king Tianwei can destroy mountains and rocks, and we and other small states will not dare to offend." If the king lets me go, I will be willing to be the king's concubine in the future, and the whole country will support the king. ”

Zhu Ao snorted coldly, the purpose of his coming here was to completely occupy the Shazhou Department, not to teach them a lesson, and said angrily: "You invade our land and kill my soldiers, and you actually want this king to let you go like this?" ”

Aruwen raised his head, and the etiquette of the Central Plains scholars arched his hand and said, "If the king does not give up, I am willing to offer all the treasures in the treasury and all the beauties in the kingdom for the king to enjoy." ”

Zhu Ao smiled slightly, looked at Aruwen with extremely sharp eyes, and Aruwen shuddered all over his body, and said unhurriedly: "I can break this city with my backhand, and after breaking the city, the treasures and beauties will naturally be given by me, do you still need to give them?" ”

Aruwen was stunned for a moment, this word meant that they had no bargaining chips anymore, and they couldn't help but freeze there.

Zhu Ao looked at his appearance, his heart was very happy, and he said in an extremely majestic tone: "Go back and tell you the king of Shazhou, if he is willing to surrender, this king can save him from death, if he resists stubbornly, his clan will be destroyed!" ”

Aruwen sighed, and after kowtowing to Zhu Ao a few times, he retreated, he knew that the sandbar had no choice, but who could blame him, he did his own sin, and he couldn't live.

An hour later, the king of Shazhou, naked, with a seal on his neck with a white cloth, took all the civil and military officials and soldiers of Shazhou out of the city and surrendered.

Zhu Ao rode on the horse, looking at Alu Geli who was kneeling in front of him, where did he still look like a king, it was clearly a bad old man whose family property was taken away, and said in a very disdainful tone: "Are you guilty? ”

The king of the sandbank, Alugo, knelt on the ground, kowtowed a few times, and said, "The criminal minister is guilty, please spare the life of the criminal minister." Ironically, not long ago, he fantasized that Zhu Hao could kneel in front of him like this and beg for mercy. The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

Zhu Ao showed a smug expression, his mind turned, and said: "This king will do what he says, and he will never kill you." I will also entrust you with important responsibilities. ”

A trace of brilliance appeared on the face of the king of Shazhou, Alugo, who was already like ashes, he was used to being powerful, if he lost his power all of a sudden, it was really better to live than to die, and now Zhu Ao is willing to give him an official, although he is not as comfortable as being the king and hegemon, but he can continue to be majestic, and immediately kowtowed to Zhu Ao happily and said: "Thank you king, dare to ask what the king commands?" The sinner must do his best to do it. ”

Zhu Ao smiled and said, "This king has built a few new granaries in Wuwei, and he is worried that he can't find someone to manage them, so I'll leave one of them to you." ”

As soon as these words came out, the unkind Qu Neng laughed out loud, from a majestic king to a petty official in charge of the granary, this kind of gap is not something that ordinary people can bear.

However, Arugo had no other choice, and if he did not accept it, he and his people would all die, so he could only bow down to the ground with a depressed face, and say, "Thank you for the grace of the king, and the sinners must take care of the granary for the king." ”

One sentence caused the Ming army to laugh again. Zhu Ao first sent Wang Huchen, who had performed well in the early stage, into the city to maintain order, and only after controlling the entire city did he slowly enter the city with his men and horses.

On the streets of the city, the people of all ethnic groups living on the sandbar spontaneously came out one after another, kneeling on both sides of the street with various foods, to welcome the Ming army. Zhu Ao knew that they did this not because of love, but because of fear, most of the people in history who ate pot pulp to welcome the king were this mentality, because they were afraid of military disasters, they could only use this way to tie up the army.

This is the feeling of conquest, Zhu Ao rode on the horse and enjoyed this feeling very intoxicated, and entered the palace of the king of sandbanks with his head held high.

The sandbank occupied by Aluge Lost, known as Dunhuang in ancient times, is now Dunhuang, one of the five counties of Hexi during the Han Dynasty, since it was occupied by foreigners in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it finally returned to the embrace of the Central Plains Dynasty after hundreds of years.

The first order issued by Zhu Ao was to restore the sandbar to its ancient name of Dunhuang, and from then on, the sandbar was changed to Dunhuang.

Zhu Ao gained a lot from this battle, capturing the treasures and materials accumulated by Alugo for several generations, and transporting most of them back to Zhangye.

In the royal palace of Dunhuang, Alu Geli's favorite concubines and daughters and nieces all knelt down at Zhu Ao's predecessor and let him fall. The conqueror had the right to possess everything of the vanquished, including his wife and daughter, and Temujin was a good one.

Zhu Ao is not a saint, and he is also happy to exercise this power of his own, because he knows that if he is defeated today, then the thieves of Shazhou and Hami will definitely not be polite to him.

It's a pity that Zhu Ao didn't find a particular favorite after turning around, but he just picked two people who were barely able to get by to relieve the loneliness of the night, and the rest were rewarded to the meritorious soldiers.

At present, in addition to the small population, there is another more serious problem, that is, the imbalance of the population, his subordinates are all military men, and there are too many people who are not married, and in the long run, it is easy to cause very serious problems.

In this surprise attack on Dunhuang, many men died in the Shazhou tribe, and the women suddenly became rich, so Zhu Ao rewarded them to the meritorious soldiers. In addition, he also ordered the aristocratic rich of the former Shazhou to hand over a certain percentage of female slaves and concubines to help him solve the physical problems of the soldiers. In the end, Zhu released a large number of female prisoners who performed well, allowing them to freely combine with the sergeants, and solved the personal problems of many sergeants at once.

These soldiers already have the consciousness of beating singles, so as long as they are women, they like them, and they will not pick and choose because they have been slaves and maids. As a result, the army's heart was happy, and everyone was grateful for Zhu Ao's kindness.

At night, Zhu Ao lay on the luxurious king bed of Aru Geli, enjoying the meticulous and thoughtful service of the two women he had just selected.

Zhu Ao pillowed his head on a woman's lap and asked her to help him massage his head, while the other woman knelt beside Zhu Ao's leg to help him massage his legs, Zhu Ao had already asked, the girl who helped him massage his head was the daughter of the former Shazhou King Alu Ge Li, who was going to get married next month, and the woman who helped him massage his legs was Alu Ge Li's favorite concubine. Zhu Ao thought that their Mongolian names were difficult to remember, so he gave them a new nickname, the daughter is called Momo, and the favorite concubine is called Qiqi. Anyway, Zhu Ao doesn't particularly like them, he just uses them to dispatch loneliness, so the name is very arbitrary.

This feeling is so cool, live in your house, sleep in your bed, play with your woman, your daughter, King of Shazhou, don't blame my brother for being ruthless, it's all your own fault.

Dunhuang was still very hot at this time, and Zhu Ao also felt the slightest heat, and subconsciously moved his body to breathe.

As soon as Zhu Ao moved, Mo Mo and Qiqi were immediately frightened, both women knew that their lives were between Zhu Ao's thoughts, if they didn't serve Zhu Ao comfortably, I was afraid that they would be better off living than dead.

Qiqi immediately knelt up straight, and said to Zhu Ao in great trepidation: "Is the king unwell? Are the slaves and maids too stupid? ”

Zhu Ao looked at her cautious look, and was very happy in his heart, and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little hot." ”

As soon as Qiqi heard this, she seemed to have picked up a treasure, and immediately said happily to Zhu Ao: "Don't worry, the king doesn't worry, the slave knows a good place to go and guarantee the king's summer vacation." ”

Zhu Ao's eyes lit up, and he smiled slightly: "Oh? What's your best place to go? ”

Seeing that there was an opportunity to perform, Kiki immediately raised her spirit and introduced: "There is a stream in the backyard of the palace, which flows all year round and is very cool. King of Sandbank, oh no, Arugo often goes there to escape the heat. ”

Zhu Ao was overjoyed, very satisfied with this place, sat up suddenly, and said to Momo and Qiqi: "You two lead the way, and we will spend the night there tonight." ”

Momo and Qiqi immediately kowtowed in fear and said, "Yes, the slave obeys." Slaves and maidservants are willing to serve the king and sleep in peace. ”

Subsequently, the second daughter prepared some pillows, blankets and other utensils, and served Zhu Ao to the stream in the backyard of the palace. As soon as he approached, Zhu Ao felt a trace of coolness, it was really a good place to escape the heat, and the old boy of Alu Geli would really enjoy it.

However, all of this is now the king's.

Zhu Ao and the second daughter frolicked in the stream, then fell asleep with their arms left and right, and had a sweet dream.

The feeling of conquest was so refreshing, and Zhu Ao found that he couldn't do without this feeling anymore.

The next day, it turned out that all the officials and tycoons of Shazhou Kingdom came to the palace to meet their new masters, and the sky in Dunhuang City changed, and if they did not hurry up and be loyal at this time, they were likely to be attacked as dissidents.

Zhu Ao sat on the big throne of the former Shazhou King Alu Ge Li, quietly waiting for all the people with heads and faces in Dunhuang City to come and pay their respects. The former Shazhou King Alu Ge Lili and his children and grandchildren have been sent to Wuwei by Zhu Ao's starry night, so the one who led the court to meet the army was the former prime minister Aluwen who went to Zhu Ao's account to sue for peace at the beginning.

Aluwen led the high-ranking officials and wealthy men of Dunhuang to enter, and when he walked to Zhu Hao's seat, they all knelt down and kowtowed three times in accordance with the etiquette of the Central Plains people, and said: "The ministers welcome His Highness to Dunhuang, His Highness is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!" ”

Zhu Ao was very proud, their kneeling meant that their territory had expanded to the west for another eight hundred miles, harvesting a lot of fertile land and a large number of people, and said with a smile: "Let's be even." Everyone was able to understand the current affairs, surrendered to the Celestial Empire, and saved the people of Dunhuang from the flames of war, which is still meritorious. ”

Being able to get Zhu Ao's affirmation, the group of so-called Venerable Masters below were like taking a reassuring pill in their hearts, and they breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Your Highness Xie." Then he stood up very unneatly.

Zhu Ao swept around these Dunhuang bigwigs, and said to Aruwen: "Aluwen, how many people, land, troops, and food did the original Shazhou country have?" ”

Aruwen knew that the new master would ask these questions, so he had done his homework last night, took a step towards the middle, and arched his hand: "Your Highness, the original population of Dunhuang County in the Ming Dynasty was 47,600 people, 30,000 acres of land, 12,000 strong soldiers, 20,000 stone of grain, 30,000 cattle and sheep, and more than 5,000 horses. ”

Zhu Ao nodded slightly, it seems that the gains in this battle are not small, the ethnic minorities are all soldiers, and there are as many strong people as there are troops, so the ratio of soldiers to civilians is very high. Their agriculture was very underdeveloped and relied mainly on animal husbandry, so they seized far more cattle and sheep than they could produce.

At this time, Zhu Ao was thinking about how to completely digest the fat that he had eaten in his mouth, and he would never be stupid enough to be open and honest with these people who had just surrendered, and let them manage their own affairs, so that the battle would be in vain, and he would firmly control these people and wealth in his own hands.

Zhu Ao said to Aruwen with a kind face: "Aruwen is very serious about his work, I hereby praise him, let's step back first." ”

Aruwen looked happy, although Zhu Ao did not give him a substantial reward, but this sentence has already shown that he has passed the test safely here in Zhu Ao, and his net worth can not only be saved, but he can also brag to others that the new king has praised me, so as to improve his value in the circle, and after making a gesture, he slowly retreated.