Chapter 318: The capital Yushu

The soldiers untied South Kabugun and brought pen and paper, and South Kabugun signed an order demanding that the army abandon resistance.

"Nanka participates in politics, can this document you sign restrain the military everywhere?" Mu Qiyuan was not too reassured, Nankabugun was not the king of Ladakh after all.

"General rest assured, my king's seal is in the palace of Mangyu, with the prestige of the old man in the army, and then cover the seal, the armies of each city will definitely surrender to the Ming army."

"Then there is Raunanka in politics."

The Ming army entered the cities of Dabolu and Bidi, and the whole territory of Ladakh fell.

Mu Qiyuan detained Senganjang and the main officials of the Ladakh dynasty and waited for the imperial court to be released.

At the end of the Ladakh War, Mu Qiyuan's task of quelling the rebellion against Usizang officially ended, and he successfully completed the task assigned to him by the imperial court.

But Mu Qiyuan didn't know that he had privately pacified Ladakh, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't know what it had brought to him, whether it was a blessing or a curse for his future.

Mu Qiyuan wrote a military newspaper to pacify the matter of Wu Sizang, and passed on Zhu Youzhen of the Beijing Division to detect the flying pigeon.

He didn't dare to hide the affairs of the Guge Dynasty and the Ladakh Dynasty, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to, and there were Ming detectives in the army, who not only provided the army with information about the enemy, but also provided information about the front-line army for Zhu Youzhen and the National Defense Yuan.

In addition to the military newspaper, Mu Qiyuan also attached a message about the causes and results of the Ladakh war, and in order to explain in detail the causes of the war, he also attached a sketch of the Guge dynasty and the Ladakh dynasty.

Regarding the kings and officials of the Ladakh dynasty who were seized, Mu Qiyuan asked the imperial court to make a ruling.

When the news of Mu Qiyuan's pacification of the Wusi Zangdu Division reached the Jingshi, the riot in the Duogandu Division had been subsided for a month.

For quelling the riots in these places, Zhu Youzhen didn't have anything to worry about, the Ming Dynasty is now using troops, only this one, if Mu Qiyuan and Zuo Liangyu can't win, he will send more troops.

But Mu Qiyuan Festival had extraneous branches, and even pacified the Ladakh Dynasty, which made Zhu Youzhen a little painful.

Zhu Youzhen searched his brain again and again, the Guge Dynasty and the Ladakh Dynasty, he had no impression at all, and in later generations, he was just an engineering student, and he was not very professional in history and geography.

Zhu Youzhen did not reply directly to Mu Qiyuan, he ordered Foreign Minister Fang Fengnian to search for relevant information first, and wondered if he could find some clues from the pile of old papers.

Fang Fengnian really found out some information about Ladakh from the pile of old papers in the Ministry of Rites in the early Ming Dynasty, sorted it out, and handed it over to Zhu Youzhen.

Ladakh is located in the southeast of Kashmir, at the southern foot of the Himalayas, and northeast of the Kashmir Valley, which is the western edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the westernmost part of Usz-Tibet, with an area of 45,000 square kilometers, and the earliest inhabitants were Aryans.

Around the first century AD, Ladakh was annexed by the Kushan Kingdom of India, and in the seventh century AD, Xuanzang's records also mentioned this place, and in the eighth century AD, the northern part of Ladakh was controlled by the Tang Dynasty.

During the expansion of Tibet, Ladakh was inevitably involved in the Tang and Tibetan disputes, and its suzerainty changed hands between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet many times.

In the second year of Huichang of the Tang Dynasty (842 AD), Jidni Magong, a member of the Tibetan royal family, fled to Ladakh due to the unrest in the royal family and established an independent Ladakh dynasty, followed by a large influx of Tibetans.

In the thirteenth century, Ladakh was included in the territory of the Mongol Yuan, and the Mongol Yuan court sent officials to Ladakh and stationed troops to administer Ladakh in an all-round way.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, defeated the remnants of the Mongols in Uszang, Ladakh was gradually controlled by the Ming Dynasty, as the westernmost part of the territory of Uszang, the imperial court set up the Oris Military and Civilian Marshal's Mansion in the Ladakh region, entrusted the local head to govern on behalf of the local head, Ladakh at this time, is still a relatively independent kingdom, between the vassal state and the territory.

However, the influence of the Ming Dynasty on the Ladakh region was very limited and almost negligible, and after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the military and civilian marshal's palace of Oris had been abolished.

Seeing these messages, Zhu Youzhen's heart was surging, and what he valued was not this land, but the important geographical location of Ladakh.

The territory of Us-Tibet is mountainous and river-wide, the roads are extremely difficult, and the connection with the outside world is limited by many mountain ranges.

Its south is the Himalayas, which basically blocks the communication with the Indian subcontinent, otherwise, Xuanzang would not have to make a detour to the Western Regions, he obviously went to India in the south; To the north, separated from the traditional Western Regions by the Hoh Xil Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains, there is no man's land and no roads at all. To the southeast of it is the Hengduan Mountains, which block the connection with Sichuan and Yunnan.

In the present Wusizang, only a narrow and difficult ancient tea horse road connects to Yunnan Province in the east.

If you go from Lhasa in Wusizang to Kashgar (now Kashgar in Xinjiang) of the Yarkand Khanate in the north, you need to go east from Lhasa, enter Dali in Yunnan along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, then go all the way east to Nanning and Guangzhou, then turn north, go along Nanchang, Luzhou, Jinan to Jingshi, and then turn west, follow the Second Avenue, pass through Taiyuan, Xi'an, Hexi Corridor, and Turpan to reach Kashgar, and the whole journey is more than 15,000 miles.

Even if you avoid Jingshi and take the Sanmenxia and Xi'an Ancient Road, the journey will exceed 12,000 miles.

If there is Ladakh, the result will be different, from Lhasa to the west, out of Ladakh, through the Karakoram Pass of Karahurum, directly north to Kashgar, the whole journey is less than 3,000 miles.

Ladakh can not only strengthen the connection between Us-Tibet and the Western Regions, but also the only passage from Us-Tibet and even the Ming Dynasty to India and Central Asia, and is the transportation gateway of the western Ming Dynasty.

Now that Mu Qiyuan has seized the opportunity to destroy Ladakh, how can Zhu Youzhen let it return to the country?

Importantly, Zhu Youzhen has a historical basis for the conquest of Ladakh.

In the Tang Dynasty, Ladakh had surrendered, as for this kind of submission, whether it was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty or a territory of the Tang Dynasty, because the era was too old, no one could tell, Zhu Youzhen directly regarded it as a territory from a psychological point of view.

In the Mengyuan era, the imperial court sent officials and garrisons to the Ladakh region, is it better than the Mengyuan who was driven away by it?

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court set up the Oris Military and Civilian Marshal's Office in Ladakh, indicating that Ladakh was still subject to the Ming Dynasty, but the center of gravity of the Ming State has always been in the north, first Mongolia, and then Jiannu, which ignores the management of the southern land.

Although the Oris Military and Civilian Marshal's Mansion is the same as the Nuer Gandu Division, they are entrusted to the local Tusi and the head to govern on their behalf, and the Ming Dynasty has never had a garrison, but the land that Taizu has worked so hard to build, if the descendants of the future generations lose it, wouldn't it be unworthy?

Finding a basis from history and convincing himself from the heart, Zhu Youzhen happily sent a secret letter to Mu Qiyuan.

In the letter, Zhu You reported that Ladakh dared to challenge the Ming Dynasty, this kind of unscrupulous country, if it is destroyed, it will be destroyed, and it will be a scourge to stay sooner or later, and the imperial court will open a county in the Ladakh region.

In order to strengthen the management of the Ladakh region and prevent the recurrence of unscrupulous people, the Ming Dynasty must garrison troops in the Ladakh region, and until the arrival of the new army, the 19th Army will temporarily be stationed in separate forces.

Regarding the Guge Dynasty, before the Ming army entered Tibet, it had destroyed the country, the royal family had been separated, so there was no need to restore the country, there were many small countries, wars would be frequent, and the imperial court would also set up prefectures and counties here to benefit the local people.

For the king of Ladakh and the civil and military officials captured by Mu Qiyuan, Zhu Youzhen also gave instructions to escort them to Beijing on a certain day.

Zhu Youzhen's meaning, I believe that Mu Qiyuan can understand, if these people are really taken to the Beijing Division, the imperial court will not be able to deal with it, and they cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment, if they die in Ladakh or on the road, they will be a hundred.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen praised Mu Qiyuan, commanding the troops to make a decision, and he could give a head-on blow to the unscrupulous state that offended the power of the Ming Dynasty, and promoted the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty, setting an example for other armies.

After replying to the letter, Zhu Youzhen began to worry about the future of Wu Sizang and Duogan.

These two divisions must establish provinces, send officials, and garrison troops, and the Wusi Tibetan capital division was renamed Tibet Sheng, which has long been in the history of later generations, only this flower is sweet, but it is a little different.

Most of the Duogan Dusi is Qinghai Province in later generations, but the current Duogan is very different from Qinghai in later generations.

Qinghai Province in later generations was named after Qinghai Lake, but the current Duogandu Division does not include Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Lake is still there, but it is not subordinate to Duogandu Division, but belongs to Shaanxi Xingdu Division, that is, Gansu Province in later generations.

The changes in the administrative divisions of this area are also related to the arrival of "Zhu Youzhen".

In the Ming Dynasty, the Duogandusi is approximately an inclined rectangle, and its northeastern border is the Tarim Basin and Animaqing Mountain, the northwest is the Altun Mountain, the southwest crosses the Tanggula Mountain, the Hoh Xili Mountain borders with Wusizang, and the southeast is adjacent to Sichuan, but it includes the Ganzi region of Sichuan Province and the Hamu area of Wusizang.

Obviously, the current Dogandusi does not include Qinghai Lake and cannot be called Qinghai Province.

Zhu Youzhen recalled that on the map of later generations, Qinghai Province was close to the Qilian Mountains in the northeast direction, and Qinghai Lake was also included, because after the Heshuo tribe of the Warat Mongols entered the Tibetan area, they unified the two Tibetan regions (Wusizang and Duogan), and continued to erode the land of the Han people until the Qilian Mountains blocked the road.

"Zhu Youzhen" was born, which is a tragedy of his contemporaries.

Tulu Baihu, the leader of the Heshute tribe who was later known as "Gushi Khan", had already died early under the flintlock pistol of the Ming army.

The current Duogan is very different from the Qinghai Province in later generations.

Zhu Youzhen stared at the map in front of him silently, he felt that the government of Duogandusi was placed in Kemu, which was too remote, and Kemu was in the southeast corner of Duogandusi, as the government of a province, it was really out of place.

In the future, Kemu may be the transportation center of this area, and the economy may be developed, but as a prefecture, it cannot radiate to the whole province, and the new prefecture must be placed in the center of Duogan.

Zhu Youzhen measured the map with his hand, and suddenly, in front of his eyes, a name jumped: Yushu.