When the news of Zhao Guoliang's suicide was delivered, Liu Jun just nodded in response, and then was silent for a long time. Zhao Guoyu is a very good young man, the first group of people who followed him were brave and smart enough, and they were lucky enough.

I fought for several years, and fought no less than 100 battles, big and small, and I was injured and lost, but I have always survived. Although he is only a little younger than Liu Jun, Liu Jun has always regarded him and Zhang Guodong, old subordinates from Macheng, as his protégés and confidants. He didn't let himself down in the past, but who knows, by the time the new dynasty was established, it would only be less than a year, and he would have lost himself.

Zhao Guoliang will not be the first, nor will he be the last.

"Give him a tablet in the Martyrs' Temple." Liu Jun said a little lonely in the end. Although he made mistakes, took a crooked path, and was given death, after all, he was a lord who fought the world with him, and he made a lot of meritorious contributions, one yard to one yard, Liu Jun still made an exception to order that Zhao Guoliang could enter the glory hall of the martyrs after the death of the soldiers.

Liu Jun is also tearful.

I hope that this incident can sound a wake-up call for everyone.

The day was getting colder and colder, the Liaohai Sea froze again, and it began to snow in western Liaoning.

The officials accompanying the driver once again asked the emperor to return to Beijing, and it was about to reach the end of the year, and it was impossible for the emperor to stay outside the pass. Moreover, all the people from all over the country have entered Beijing, and this year's imperial examination will start soon, and then there will be a palace examination after the examination, which must be presided over by the emperor himself, and the imperial scholars, which are inseparable from him.

Things outside the customs are going well.

After the Mongolian princes carved up the Horqin steppe, they all had a great appetite, and now they all want to grab another big one. Even if it was already cold, they couldn't care about it.

Liu Jun was very satisfied with their enthusiasm, and the armies of the Mongol princes did not need him to provide food, grass, ammunition and weapons anyway. He didn't even need to be paid.

On the contrary, the territory laid by the Mongols in Liaodong had to be his, even the money and grain looted by the Mongols had to be his, and he would also share a part of it.

At most, he only needs to send a staff advisory group, and then send intelligence officers to provide information. Send out some artillery to provide artillery support.

When the Mongol princes were newly victorious, their momentum was flourishing, but the Jurchens were the main force heading north, and the defense of Liaodong was empty.

As the Privy Council had predicted, the Mongol princes' attack went smoothly, they easily crossed the Liaohe defense line, and the Jurchens did not dare to come out in the field at all, and they retreated in some city strongholds such as Shenyang and Liaoyang.

As a result, the Mongol tribes were simply divided into several divisions. Attack from multiple directions, cut and encircle, first sweep the perimeter, and finally close the siege.

Many cities in Liaodong have been bombarded by the artillery of the Han army, and the fierce cavalry of the Mongol princes, coupled with the sharp artillery of the Han army, this combination is more than enough to deal with the weak Qing army.

In a short period of time. They had already taken many castles one after another, and finally the Qing army had to be surrounded in several large cities such as Liaoyang and Shenyang.

The Mongol princes listened to the advice of the Han army staff. He was not in a hurry to immediately send troops to attack the city, but while besieging the city, he continued to sweep the periphery.

This time, the Mongol princes were smarter, although Liu Jun still offered a reward of 20 yuan for each Jurchen young man's head, and set the price of the prisoner and the head at the same price, but they still no longer slaughtered in a hurry like last time.

They're now starting to search for them. Regardless of whether it is a man or a child, when he finds it, he pursues and arrests him. Unless it is a fierce resistance, in desperation, kill a few to deter.

The Mongol princes have now redivided their territories and newly divided large areas of grassland in the east, especially the imperial court has also canonized many knights and warriors directly under them. The princes also divided many knights and samurai, and these new little nobles, after having their own territories and fiefdoms, were in urgent need of population.

Without herdsmen, the Jurchens could only be captured as slaves.

Many Han merchants followed closely behind the Mongol princes, and every time the Mongol soldiers conquered a city or village, they followed. They brandished silver dollar coupons and bought all the spoils of war from the Mongol princes and soldiers.

At the same time, they also presented a lot of supplies to the princes, such as food, swords, and so on.

However, these businessmen have obtained the franchise certificate of the Han Dynasty, and they have paid a lot of capital to obtain this qualification, and although there are many profits in this business, the taxes are also high, and it especially requires a lot of capital turnover.

But it's a lucrative one.

People say that demolition is full of business opportunities, but in fact, war is the most business-rich.

Now outside the customs, the most sought-after goods are no longer weapons, and the first place in the list of the most popular goods is the prisoners of war. A young Jurchen warrior can be sold for fifty silver dollars, and if he is a good knight, someone will even give up a hundred. A young Jurchen woman is worth at least forty yuan.

This price exceeded the purchase price given by the Han Dynasty, so no Mongol warrior was willing to kill the Jurchens, they would be very careful to capture the Jurchens with ropes or nets, and then they would not abuse them, on the contrary, they would also dress them warmly and well.

Some people will hand over the captives to the merchants to take care of them temporarily, pay a foster care fee, and they will help you adopt the Jurchen captives, raise them for you, and then come back to pick them up when you are free.

There were also Mongol warriors who did not need Jurchen slaves themselves, and when they captured them, they immediately traded them with Han merchants. The Jurchen captives had become a sought-after commodity, and as soon as they were taken out, many merchants rushed to buy them.

Although the Han Empire had laws that prohibited slavery, the slave trade was prohibited. However, this is outside the border, so there is no one to control this activity, and on the contrary, the merchants have to pay a very expensive tax.

For this change, Liu Jun thought about it for a while, and then went with him.

The Jurchens, who fell into the hands of the Mongolian aristocracy and became slaves, could not make any waves. And even if they get Jurchen slaves, the cost of slaves is not low, and their strength will not increase much.

At the end of November, in the howling cold wind, Liu Jun finally set off and entered the customs from Shanhaiguan through the coastal corridor of western Liaoning, and returned to Beijing.

Sitting in the car, Liu Jun was not hard.

The carriage was very large, and the space in the carriage was also very large, but it was a mobile RV, and Liu Jun could even meet courtiers and hold meetings on the carriage.

This time, the effect of the northern tour of the Sai Sai was excellent.

For the first time, it made an alliance with the Mongolian tribes and formalized its relations with Mongolia. Although the imperial court dispatched 100,000 soldiers and horses, it only went to the north to show off its might, and did not really use troops.

The imperial court used the Mongol princes to directly destroy the four divisions of the Zhelimu League, which had 500,000 people, and the southern and northern Mongols were reduced by one-fifth at once, and one of the Jurchen's arms was broken.

The imperial court also expanded its influence to the Great Xing'an Mountains and the Little Xing'an Mountains, and through the canonization of more than 1,000 knights and warriors, more than 1,000 elite soldiers were dug up from the Mongolian tribes.

And now the Mongol princes are conquering Liaodong again.

Liu Jun can wake up happily in his dreams these days, this feeling of driving tigers and devouring wolves is really refreshing.

Although there was another anti-Han alliance in the west, Liu Jun was not too worried. The east side is stable, and these wild wolves in the west can't make any waves.

"Let Zhang Shan, Cai Yuan, and Zheng Zhilong stabilize the current line of actual control first, and there is no need to advance westward for the time being. Defend the four provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Xikang, and Ningxia, and let Gushi Khan and them come over. ”

A battle is not something that can be fought, although Gushi Khan and his people have reached an alliance and made a plan to send troops to the coalition army, but this coalition army is composed of various departments, among which the expeditionary force sent by Turghut has to come from the distant Volga River.

Therefore, at the fastest speed, it will take at least half a year for this coalition army to be assembled.

The Han side could not just fight, but had to collect intelligence, make preparations for war, dispatch troops, transport supplies, build castles, roads, military stations, and so on.

Liu Jun planned to defend first, let the Moxi troops attack first, and pull them to Qinghai to fight.

For Mongol tribes like Moxi Mongols, a defensive counterattack would be a very effective means.

"We might be able to send someone to contact the Tibetan Zangba Khan."

Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the military department, proposed to Liu Jun that the so-called enemy of the enemy is the ally, and Gushi Khan, the leader of the Heshute tribe of Oirat, originally wanted to annex the Qinghai-Tibet region, and Zangba Khan was the original enemy of Gushi Khan.

However, Liu Jun did not agree to this proposal immediately.

Because there's another issue involved.

Eastern Mongolia is now annexed to the Han Dynasty, but Eastern Mongolia, like Moxi Mongolia, now has a deep belief in Tibetan Buddhism, especially the Yellow Sect.

However, the Yellow Sect is now allied with Gushi Khan, while Zangba Khan is a branch of the White Sect of faith and is hostile to the Yellow Sect.

If Liu Jun supports Zangba Khan, there will inevitably be trouble.

In any case, Mongolia, from the nobility to the herdsmen, has a strong support for the Yellow Sect, and Liu Jun does not want to affect the relationship with the eastern Mongolian tribes because of this matter.

"Don't be in a hurry to support Zangba Khan yet." Liu Jun finally said that although Zangba Khan was the secular ruler of Qinghai-Tibet, his strength was not strong, and he could not resist Gushi Khan's invasion of Tibet at all, and he was soon defeated.

For such a weak person, Liu Jun didn't bother to support it.

Liu Jun can't get around the Yellow Sect, at least now.

If the Han Dynasty wanted to conquer Mongolia, it still had to vigorously promote Confucianism, after all, the Yellow Sect was not controlled by the Han Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he remembered another important thing.

"There is one thing to be done immediately, go back and let the Department of Education select a group of teachers, and immediately start to establish schools in the territories of the princes in the south and north of the desert, and we will implement five-year compulsory education in the territories of the Mongolian princes, so that all Mongolian children can learn Chinese, learn to write Chinese characters, and learn the Confucian culture of the Han people from an early age. Every Mongolian child is required to receive at least five years of compulsory education. ”

This was the most basic system of colonial rule by colonial powers.

Liu Jun felt that this article was very effective, if you want to rule Mongolia for a long time, and even completely assimilate Mongolia, you must first unify the language and writing.

All provinces in the Central Plains are now implementing a three-year compulsory education system, and every child will receive at least three years of junior primary education. However, Liu Jun believes that Mongolian children need to receive two more years, at least five years of compulsory education.

To assimilate, you have to start with the doll. (To be continued.) )