The cold wind of the first month mixed with flying snowflakes blew in the land of Sanqin in the middle of the night. In the midst of a snowstorm, one large and two small, a total of three strong castles, from east to west, lined up on the bank of the Weishui River. These three castles are the remnants of the glorious ancient capital of Chang'an.

A generation of heroes, now no longer exists. Now standing on the ruins of ancient Chang'an is the late Tang Dynasty in the turbulent times, by the Youguo Army Jiedu Han Jian on the basis of the Chang'an Imperial City rebuilt Chang'an New City, as well as on both sides of Jingzhaofu City built Chang'an County, Wannian County. However, even the greatly reduced Chang'an New City has a circumference of eighteen and a half miles, and the city walls are tall and the city walls are strong, so it can still be called a majestic city.

And at the end of the fourth year of the Great Heavenly Dao, at the beginning of the fifth year of the Heavenly Dao. In the former capital of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the residence of Tian Khan was once again rejuvenated. The dragon flag of the sun and moon, which symbolizes the Son of Heaven, appeared at the head of the inner city of Chang'an New City!

At the same time that the situation in the West is changing and a world war is brewing. On the Shenzhou Continent, the wheel of history was also rolling forward, and there was a light clanging sound.

Bang bang ......

Such a sound lingered in the ears of the great master of the Uszang Sakya sect, Vajra Yilin, the true prisoner, and the heir of the Tibetan Prison. At the age of 20, he was only 20 years old, and he had attained the position of King Dabao Sakya and Dabao Xi Vajra, and became the third person of the Tibetan Mi Sakya sect who had become the Great Mambaha Vajra, for a night. As a result, he neither had the mind to recite the scriptures, nor could he sleep.

Who invented this carriage with iron wheels and rolling on iron rods? It was very strange that the young horse-headed King Kong arrived. Why did you leave the ground on good ground, and let the carriage move on iron rods, and make this noisy "clang" sound that makes people unable to sleep?

The big BMW head King Kong is now sitting on this strange carriage. He got on the bus at Fengxiang Mansion and drove most of the night. The inside of the carriage is quite spacious and comfortable. There was a thick blanket and a low table. A bed that sleeps three people and a huge luggage locker. Blankets were hung over the papier-mâché windows to protect them from the wind and snow, and a crystal lamp (an oil lamp with a glass cover) hung on the top of the carriage to emit a dim light.

If you look at it from the outside, you can see that it is a very wide carriage, with four iron wheels (actually made of Nanfen steel), all resting on two slender iron rods (not iron rods, but iron sheets of wood), and the iron rods are resting on a strange pavement made of gravel and wooden strips. The sticks are laid horizontally. They were all about three feet long, and each one was half a foot apart, slightly above the gravel floor, and iron rods rested on top of these wooden bars. The gravel floor, which I don't know what kind of paste (cement, of course), turned into a whole piece, and the horses' hooves trampled on it with a soft clattering sound.

"What a bitter horse." When he heard the sound of the horse's hooves, which were almost drowned out in the sound of "clanging", he sympathized with the horse pulling the cart.

Such a huge carriage, there is only one horse pulling. And on top of the carriage sat a horse-headed King Kong, four empty mothers. There was also a lot of luggage and a gift from the Great Treasure Sakya King Phags-pa to the Son of Heaven - 10,000 taels of gold! And the horse didn't know what kind of good horse it was, and it didn't look like it was exhausted all night.

What surprised the horse-headed King Kong even more was that there were two identical iron rods right next to the carriage he was riding. The iron bars were equally huge with carriages passing through, innumerable, one after the other. Each carriage was stacked high with sacks full of goods, and these carriages were only two horses.

What kind of spell is this! Horse-headed King Kong thought to himself. The spell of this Ming Sage Son of Heaven is really powerful. There are not only flying balls, but also cylindrical magic weapons that shoot iron bullets to destroy the city walls. There is also this spell that can make horses infinitely powerful. No wonder he could defeat the mighty Great Mongol Empire...... I heard that this Ming sage Son of Heaven is also a reincarnation, and compared to him, the reincarnation of Wusizang (that is, the living Buddha said by the Han people, the correct meaning should be reincarnated according to his own wishes) is not worth mentioning at all. It seems that his elder brother Dabao Sakya Dharma King Phagsipa chose to surrender is still very wise, but can such a surrender be exchanged for the courtesy of the Ming Sage Son of Heaven?

The big BMW head King Kong was a little depressed when he thought of this question, and he waved his hand at a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl wearing a monk's robe next to him, "Open the window, I want to look outside." ”

This woman in monk costume is an empty mother, from the noble Tibetan aristocratic family, received strict training since childhood, is to be able to serve the Sakya sect of the Dharma King and Vajra - the great lamas of the Sakya sect are all women, and the Sakya sect practices the "reincarnation within the clan", from the ancestor to the heir, the throne of the Dharma is only inherited within the Kun family, as if it is a feudal dynasty with the integration of politics and religion. And this Sakya dynasty is still the lord of Uszang!

After the collapse of the Tibetan Empire, the Tibetans, which had been in turmoil for nearly three hundred years, were finally united a few years ago by the Sakya sect, which was supported by the Great Mongol State - of course, this was only a superficial unity.

The Sakya sect ruled far less powerful than the Tibetan dynasty, and the Tibetans, who were almost obsessed with Tantric Buddhism, lost their martial spirit and could no longer organize a powerful army. Unable to recreate the glory of the Tibetan Empire, it had to rely on religion and culture to deal with the barbarian Mongols from the steppe—although the culture and religion of the Usz-Tibetan were not as good as those of the Central Plains, they were extremely attractive to the Mongol conquerors who were unwilling to fully assimilate Han Chinese civilization.

This is also the main reason why the Sakya sect and Uszang were able to receive preferential treatment from the Mongols!

But now, the Mongols have been defeated in the Central Plains. The Ming Empire, the Han Chinese regime that rose up in their place and invaded the territory of Us-Tibet, did not need the religion and culture of Tibet. Will the sage of the Ming Dynasty, the Son of Heaven, treat the Sakya sect and Uszang as favorably as several Mongol Great Khans?

A biting cold wind and dazzling sunlight poured into the carriage together, interrupting the thoughts of the big BMW head King Kong. He glanced outside the carriage, as if he had arrived at some lively place, outside the window on the right side of the carriage, people were very lively, and it seemed that he had arrived at some lively place.

Seeing that the window of the car was open, the leader of the guards of the horse-headed King Kong hurriedly stepped forward and shouted loudly into the window: "Venerable King Kong, we have arrived in Chang'an, and we will soon be able to enter Chang'an New City and see the Emperor of the Ming Sage!" ”

"It's already in Chang'an!" The horse-headed King Kong took a deep breath and fell into deep thought once more. What can Sakya and Uszang give to the Ming Sage Emperor? I'm afraid that a simple surrender will not be exchanged for any benefit, right? I heard that this emperor is completely different from the previous kings of the Central Plains who were kind to distant people......

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Chen Dexing's current residence is in the original court of Kublai Khan, which naturally cannot be compared with the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty, but it is not much smaller than Chen Dexing's imperial palace in the north and south of Beijing.

When the Mongols fled in panic, they didn't have time to set fire to it, but now it has been cleaned up, and tens of thousands of dollars have been spent on renovation and some furniture. It became the base camp of Chen Dexing's first expedition to the west.

After Jiangnan and Liangguang were pacified, only Yinxia, Gansu, the Western Regions, Qinghai-Tibet and Dali were left in the mainland of the later republic. In Chen Dexing's plan, the mainland of the Republic plus the Outer Northeast, the Mongolian Plateau, and Eastern Siberia all belonged to the mainland of the future Ming Empire.

On top of this, a number of important places (Viceroyalty) and Oceania (Dominions) that controlled the world's maritime hubs were added as overseas possessions of the Empire. It should be enough for the Ming Empire to become the ruler of the world for a long time. In his opinion, these territories were already the limit of what an empire could control.

The basis for maintaining the unity of an empire, in addition to the military and financial resources of the central power, as well as a common sense of cultural and national identity, is to ensure that the elite classes of all components of the empire share common interests. In the traditional Chinese Empire, this common interest was the imperial examination. In the Chen Ming Empire, this common interest was the common market and the right to participate in the management of the state, in the formulation of policies and laws - that is, aristocratic and elite democracy!

But too far distances, in the age of sailing, were the biggest obstacle to restricting the participation of elites in remote areas in the management of the country and the common market. Therefore, in the great empire of the same culture and the same people, separatism basically arose due to some factor that limited the participation of elites in some regions in the common market and the management of the country!

Therefore, Chen Dexing would not allow the Ming Empire to occupy areas in distant regions that could reproduce large populations - because more people meant more power, more trouble, and greater possibility of independence. And the territory that can't support a few people, at least in the era when the world is still pursuing the law of the jungle, is unlikely to be independent from the world hegemon.

Uszang is such a vast and sparsely populated remote plot of land that seems to be relatively easy to rule. The premise, of course, is to turn the Uszang into a part of the Chinese ethnic and cultural circles. A common language, culture, religious belief and national identity are absolutely essential.

Therefore, the Tantra of Uszang must be left! Go to Tianzhu to preach the Dharma and liberate tens of millions of Tianzhu people who are confused by foreign ways! If they are not willing to take on this great mission, then ...... You can only use the strong!

This is the reason why Chen Dexing personally went to Jingzhao Mansion to sit in the town - on the one hand, it is convenient to negotiate with Uszang's Basipa ; On the one hand, it is also convenient to deploy an all-out offensive ...... If the negotiations break down, the expeditionary force will immediately set out and advance into the hinterland of Uszang, wiping Tantra from Uszang's territory by force! (To be continued......)