[Today's second update]

Deng Haonan was deeply afraid that the northwest that had just stabilized would be in chaos, because he knew that the northwest was the death hole of the Ming Empire and the gravedigger of the Ming Empire.

Yang He pacified the three sides and stabilized the situation in Shanxi, and the relief and food allocated by Deng Haonan were also in place as scheduled, solving the temporary living problems of the people in the northwest, and the grain was enough for them to survive the winter.

In order to stabilize the northwest, Deng Haonan brought a large number of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other seeds and food from the wealthy Taiwan and Liaoning prefectures, and arranged for the common people to cultivate them in the spring of the next year.

In the beginning, the common people of Shanxi did not recognize these things, and they only grew wheat and rice. However, the local government told the people that rice and wheat are likely to be blind, and that if they do not want to continue to starve next year, it is better to grow these crops to provide food and clothing. The local government is not as merciful as Deng Haonan, and he painstakingly persuades the people to farm, saying that he knows the benefits and disadvantages. The local government is acting according to orders, and at the same time, the officials do not want to continue the famine next year, and the common people will rise up in rebellion, so it is almost semi-compulsory to let the common people farm.

For the common people, they are accustomed to the attitude of the government, as long as it does not harm them, they can accept it. In addition, these things are provided for free, so there is very little resistance from the common people, which makes the signs of war in the northwest be extinguished, and the chance of recurrence is greatly reduced.

Of course, there are still some diehards who are still fighting against the official uniform, but they have become small bandits, and the local government and local police can control the situation.

Affected by the climate of the Xiaoice River, it is late autumn in the north, but the temperature drops to midwinter.

The fighting in the territory of the country was extinguished, which disappointed the leaders of the Qiang and other large tribes in the northwest. Originally, they always took advantage of the Ming army's all-out efforts to suppress bandits in the country, and entered the country to rob. Although there are not many things to rob, you can get some every time, at least you can plunder people and livestock.

Now, the civil war in the Ming Dynasty is over, and the central government has ordered recuperation, so that the local government can no longer exploit the people, and the people do not have to pay grain and taxes, so naturally there will be more money and grain left at home.

The scrawny people have become a little oily, which naturally makes the nomadic tribes such as Tumut and Turpan red-eyed, so they moved to loot.

In mid-November, Tumut sent 20,000 troops to Linzhao Mansion - Lanzhou Mansion to rob, and once prepared to go south to Xi'an along Weishui, but when he arrived at Lanzhou Wei, he was stubbornly resisted by the Ming army. King Xin personally ascended the city to supervise the battle, and the Ming army, with less than 2,000 men, simply blocked the attack of Tumut's army and successfully delayed them. The leader Bo Gil could not defend Lanzhou for a long time, and was afraid of retaliation by the Ming army, so he retreated after looting the surrounding area.

At the same time, the Turpan tribe saw that the Tumut tribe sent troops to loot, and they were so jealous. The leader Mai Luke thought that the Ming army would take action against the Tumut department, so he confidently and boldly led his army of 10,000 to cross the mountain road of Qilian Mountain, and plundered near the Xingdu Division in Shaanxi.

Because the Yeerqiang Department does not border the territory of the Ming Dynasty, they can only watch the two departments of Tumut and Turpan go to the territory of the Ming Dynasty to rob and return with plunder.

Deng Haonan was most worried that the plundering of the frontier would intensify the northwest riot* that had just subsided, so after learning of the situation, he immediately issued an order urging the military headquarters and the general staff to take military action immediately.

According to the experience of previous years, these nomads usually loot at the end of December, before the heavy snow covers the mountains. Because then after they have returned from plundering, the Ming army will not be able to launch an offensive against them because of the heavy snow covering the mountains.

The General Staff also made arrangements in this way, but this time they acted ahead of schedule, so that the General Staff did not have time to prepare.

Deng Haonan personally inquired into the matter, and Lin Feng, the secretary of the military department, had to order the General Staff to take military action in advance.

On 20 November, the Ministry of War sent people to the three major Mongolian military regions to announce amnesty, mobilized 150,000 troops to attack Turpan and Tumut, and brought the three places of Yeerqiang, Duogansi and Uszang and Wusizang to attack Turpan and Tumut. At the same time, the military headquarters sent four additional lancer divisions to reinforce Xi'an to prevent the enemy from plundering and entering Shaanxi and igniting civil unrest.

The Ministry of War transferred 150,000 Mongolian troops to the expedition, paid 500,000 taels for the extraction, and allowed the Mongolian army to raise the rest on its own in the five tribes.

Self-financing is to allow burning, killing and looting, and the leaders of the fifteen Mongolian troops did not care about this verbal order without a formal official document.

Five days later, the 150,000-strong Mongolian army assembled in Ulaanbaatar and marched south to the Turpan front the next day.

Central Mongolia borders on Turpan and Yeerqiang, and 150,000 Mongolian cavalry galloped across the desert, crossed Hangai Mountain, and arrived at Jinshan on the 30th.

Crossing the Golden Mountain is Hami of the Turpan Division, where the 150,000 Mongolian cavalry is divided into two teams. Zeha and other eight commanders attacked Hami upstream along Jinshan, and Siqin Hari and other seven commanders made a detour to attack Shazhou, and the two sides agreed to meet in mid-December to join Befu Bali (Urumqi), where the Turpan Khan Banner was located.

Zeha was the closest, and in the evening of the next day, he rushed into Hami. Since the surrender of the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty, Deng Haonan armed the Mongol cavalry. At this time, the Mongol cavalry was equipped with a simplified suit of the black-armored elite cavalry, using a sharp war knife forged from stainless steel, and other weapons were not restricted, and they were assembled according to the Mongols' own habits.

Although the armed Mongolian cavalry is not as effective as the black-armored elite cavalry, it is still more than enough to deal with the Turpan Qiang people.

In terms of numbers and weapons, the Mongolian cavalry far surpassed the Turpan Qiang cavalry.

When the 80,000 Mongolian cavalry arrived in Hami, there were still more than 10,000 Qiang cavalry in Hami City, and they were distributing the looted spoils.

The Qiang have not been attacked for a long time, so long that for generations they have considered them the strongest, and only they rob others.

At this time, the black clouds of the Mongolian cavalry pressed the border, and the Qiang people were unable to defend themselves, and there was a great chaos for a while.

The Mongol cavalry entered the flock like a tiger and a wolf, and a charge overwhelmed the Qiang cavalry, followed by an unprecedented massacre.

In Zeha's words, they had just defected to Daming, and they had not given Daming any gifts to express their heartfelt submission. This time, Turpan entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty and robbed, which was an opportunity for the Mongols to express their sincerity.

At the same time, the military department acquiesced to the fact that they could loot, which was a rare opportunity. Because since they joined the battle sequence of the Ming Empire Army, the constraints of rules and regulations are too boring. The Mongols had just surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and their looting habits could not be overcome at once, so during this operation, Zeha had an extra thought, that is, to turn the Turpan Department into a grazing ground for the Mongols.

The massacre lasted for a day and a night, and Hami, one of the three khans of Turpan with a population of more than 30,000, was slaughtered and all its belongings looted.

In order to cover up the evidence, Zeha ordered the burning of the Hami Khan, and the fire burned for three days and three nights before it was extinguished.

Zeha thought so, and so did Siqinhari, who arrived at Sandbank two days later with the remaining seven thousand men, and similarly slaughtered the sandbank, robbed him of all his wealth, and set fire to the evidence of the crime.

On December 17, the two Mongol armies met at Turpan Befu Bali. At this time, the Turpan chieftain Mai Shuke had learned that the Mongol army was coming. He knew that this was the revenge of the Ming court, and he regretted it too late.

There are only more than 90,000 Qiang people in the Turpan tribe, distributed in three khanate tribes. Now Hami and Shazhou have been leveled by the Mongolian army, and there are only more than 10,000 cavalry in Befu Bali, where the Khan Banner is located, with a population of less than 40,000, and the city wall is also rammed up, which is not enough for the Mongolian army to dry their teeth.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to surrender in Kaesong.

Zeha and the others originally wanted to refuse to buy the surrender, but there were many staff officers in the army, all of whom were sent by the imperial court to train and supervise. However, Mai Luke claimed that there were hundreds of captive Han slaves in the city, and the Han staff officer in the army demanded that Zeha and others accept Mai Luke's surrender.

So Zeha and the others had no choice but to do so and accepted the surrender of Mai Shuke. However, Zeha and the others did not give up plundering, and when Mai Luke handed over the captive Han Chinese, Zeha still ordered a robbery for three days, and the Han officials in the army did not object.

Three days later, under the sack of 150,000 Mongol troops, there was nothing left in the city of Befu Bali. Mai Luke has been squatting on the base of the city wall and crying, and he has hated the Mongolian army in his heart.

On the fourth day, the Mongol army marched and continued to attack the Yeerqiang tribe. The Mai Luke officially accepted the canonization of the Ming Empire, and since then Turpan has been incorporated into the territory of the Ming Empire and placed under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province.

On December 24, the Mongol army was divided into two routes, Zeha led a 100,000-strong army to the west to attack the Yeerqiang department, and Siqin Hari led a 50,000-strong army to continue southward and enter Qinghai to attack the Tumut department.

Strictly speaking, the Tumut tribe is a branch of the Mongol ethnic group, but the blood relationship is more distant. But it is for this reason that when the Tumut chieftain surrendered to Siqinhari, Siqinhari accepted him. After the Tumut chief handed over 10,000 taels of gold and 30,000 sheep, Siqinhari gave up the idea of plundering the Tumut tribe.

However, the Han officials in the army were opposed, and demanded that Siqin Hari severely punish the Tumut soldiers who burned and looted in the invasion of the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, Sichenhari beat the Tumut chief Bo Gil fifty boards, and beat his ass to the flesh. He also asked Bo Gil to write a letter of plea and give it to the Han official to take back to Beijing. At the same time, Tumut Khan was abolished, and the Tumut Department was incorporated into the territory of the Ming Empire and placed under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province. Tumut Khan was canonized by the Emperor of the Ming Empire to be effective.

Where did Bo Gil dare to object, until this time he was afraid, after seeing the power of the Ming Empire, Bo Gil faced north, bowed to the Ming again and again, and swore to the sky to be loyal to the Ming forever.

As compensation for the Ming Dynasty, Bo Gil released all the captured Han Chinese and civilians and doubled the damages. At the same time, the Tumut tribe donated a horse of sweat and blood and ten white elephants to Deng Haonan as an annual offering.

Because the Yeerqiang tribe lived in the west of the desert, 100,000 Mongolian cavalry lost thousands of people when they went deep into the desert, but fortunately they found the Tarim River and walked along the Tarim River, until the end of December before they came out of the desert, and suddenly appeared under the city of Seliku, the Khan banner of the Yeerqiang tribe.

The Ye'er Qiang tribe did not provoke the Ming Empire, but they and the Turpan tribe were both Qiang people. Zeha pointed to the deer as a horse, and insisted that the Turpan Qiang and the Yeerqiang were a gang, so they launched a war.

The Yeerqiang army had less than 20,000 troops, all of them were camel troops, and compared with the Mongolian cavalry, the mobility was too poor. The two sides started to fight, and in less than half an hour, the camel army of the Yeerqiang tribe was defeated.

Yeerqiang Khan immediately surrendered to Zeha Kaicheng and gave Zeha 2,000 camels as compensation, but Zeha was not satisfied and robbed 5,000 camels.

On January 7 of the first year of Tongzhi, Zeha successively eliminated the other opposing Great Khans of the Yeerqiang Tribe, and the territory of the Ming Empire expanded to the banks of the Pendong River in the Pamir Plateau. On the south bank of the river is the Mughal Empire, and Zeha hopes to continue the attack and fight all the way to the Indian Ocean, but the Mughal Empire is not a small tribe, with a population of tens of millions no less than the Ming Dynasty, so Zeha had to swallow his saliva and stop.

There is no snow in the desert in winter, but the mountains are covered by heavy snow on the Tibetan plateau to the south. Zeha and Siqin Hari joined forces with Balti (Kashmir) and inquired, and if they wanted to enter the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Usizang Xuanwei Division, they could only wait until the snow melted in June next year, otherwise they would lose more than half of the 150,000 Mongol army by climbing the snow-capped mountains.

So Zeha sent people over the snow-capped mountains to Sidazang and Lingzang to listen to the news, but unexpectedly, the people who came back reported that the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division had agreed to submit to the Ming Empire.

It turned out that when Deng Haonan mobilized the Mongolian cavalry for an expedition to Turpan, he had already sent an envoy to Tibet to negotiate with the leaders of the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division, and obtained the consent of the Living Buddha. So the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division stopped surrendering to the Ming Dynasty for 70 years, and once again submitted to the Ming Dynasty.

This time the result was different, the Ming Empire clearly stated that the living Buddha must be canonized by the Emperor of the Ming Empire, and the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division became the Qinghai-Tibet provinces of the Ming Empire, and would be stationed in the Ming Empire's army.

In this regard, the leaders of the Duogansi Xuanwei Division and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division objected, but the envoy bribed the Living Buddha, and the Living Buddha liked the luxury goods given to him by the envoy very much, so the Living Buddha was willing to accept the canonization of the Ming Emperor.

In this way, the leaders of the Dogansi and Usizang Commanders had to accept the reality because they could not resist the will of the Living Buddha.

The Ming Empire's control of the living Buddha is equivalent to the control of the Tibetans.

Fortunately, in order to appease the leaders of the Duogansi Propaganda Division and the Uszang Propaganda Division, the envoy gave them a large number of gold, silver, treasures and luxury goods, which made them also obsessed with a luxurious life and could not extricate themselves.

In this way, Deng Haonan took the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau bloodlessly, and the territory of the Ming Empire expanded by a quarter again, bordering the Mughal Empire, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

When dispatching the Mongol army to expedition to the Western Regions, Deng Haonan also ordered the beheading of Wang Jin, the guard general of Suzhou, and Li Qi, the guard general of Xining. Regarding the matter of King Xin's supervision of Lanzhou Wei, Deng Haonan wanted to put it on hold, but his staff member Zhang Pu asked Deng Haonan to reward King Xin. The reason is that he just took the opportunity to attack the king of Chu. In this way, on the one hand, he dealt with the King of Chu and set an example for killing chickens and monkeys, and on the other hand, he rewarded King Xin, highlighting Deng Haonan's attitude and style of rewarding and punishing, which can just block the mouths of people in the world.

Deng Haonan thought about it, so he issued a decree to praise King Xin, and gave King Xin gold silk and other things as rewards.

At the same time, the military department had an excuse to transfer troops, and transferred the 50,000 horse infantry troops trained by the king of Chu to Suzhou and Xining to guard the border passes. The king of Chu knew that he could not compete with Deng Haonan, so he had to hand over the military power.

On the second day after the 50,000 horse infantry troops left Wuhan, Deng Haonan announced the 20 charges of the king of Chu and ordered the king of Chu to be punished. On the third day, Yin Lai Youguang of Wuhan Prefecture mobilized more than 200 officials to break into the palace of the king of Chu, arrested the king of Chu and his cronies, and confiscated the property of the palace of the king of Chu.

The property confiscated by the Chu Wangfu was worth 30 million taels, and there were countless rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings that could not be estimated. After these things were confiscated, Lai Youguang embezzled as much as 20 million taels by himself, and the remaining 10 million taels of silver and some rare treasures were sent to the Liao Wangfu in Beijing.

"Bastard thing!"

After reading the bill and the investigation report sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Deng Haonan was immediately angry.

"Someone! Take it right away! ”

"The prince is angry! It's best not to take Lai Youguang for the time being! ”

Zhang Pu hurriedly came out to stop it. Deng Haonan looked up and saw that it was Zhang Pu, suppressed his anger, but asked very unhappily: "Why did Zi'an say this?" This is the audacity of Lai Youguang, who dares to embezzle so much money, and doesn't take this king in his eyes at all! ”

Zhang Pu knew that Deng Haonan was very annoyed now, but he still had to remind him.

"Lord Wang, this depends on Youguang to be a talent!"

“……”

Deng Haonan looked at Zhang Pu in amazement, how to say it for a while.

Zhang Pu said with a smile: "The prince is angry, according to this view, this Lai Youguang is not only an officialdom gunner, but also a master of accumulating money." In this way, his role as a pawn of the prince will be even greater! ”

Deng Haonan was still confused and asked, "What does Zi'an mean?" ”

Zhang Pu replied: "The prince now needs a gunner to bombard those officials who are not subject to the prince's control!" And Lai Youguang dared to be greedy for more than 20 million taels of silver, which shows that he is bold. And he was able to come up with twenty charges against the King of Chu at once, which shows that he is well versed in the rules of officialdom. ”

Deng Haonan frowned and said: "But no matter how bold he is, he is greedy for so much money, how can this king not treat him?" How can you explain to the world in that way? ”

"It's not that it's incurable, but it's not timely!"

Zhang Pu said meaningfully: "The prince indulged Lai Youguang this time, and this Lai Youguang must think that he has become the prince's henchman!" Is the prince still afraid that his greedy silver will fly? He is a fat sheep, when the prince is short of silver, or needs to kill to establish his prestige, that is the time to slaughter this fat sheep! ”

"It's-"

Deng Haonan shook his head and smiled bitterly, he already understood what Zhang Pu meant.

"If the prince wants to be a Ming Jun of the past and the present, he must have some sheep in his hands that are ready to be slaughtered at any time!"

Deng Haonan knew that Zhang Pu had taught him another trick of the emperor's mind, and immediately said, "Thank you, Mr. for your advice!" ”

Zhang Pu smiled and nodded when he heard this, his face full of a sense of achievement.

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