Just as Colbert was inspecting the manure business, a fleet came up from the Yangtze River.

Before the fleet arrived in Nanjing, a fast ship arrived.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Han received urgent news and immediately summoned the ministers of the cabinet and the court: "Gushi Khan is dead, his eldest son and sixth son control Weizang, his eldest grandson controls Khamba, and the other seven sons divide Qinghai. These sons and grandsons are not convinced by each other, and they can't choose a new Great Khan ......"

Gushi Khan himself lived in Lhasa for a long time, and his eldest son and sixth son were stationed in the Tibetan garrison to guard against the local Tibetan rebellion. The main clansmen and seven sons herded cattle around Qinghai Lake. The eldest grandson ruled the Kham region, and most of the taxes collected here were used to support the Qinghai tribesmen.

Gushi Khan is over seventy years old this year, and it is normal for him to die, but he has not designated an heir.

Today, the Diba (the governor of the Tibetan region) controls Lhasa and demands that the sons of Gushi Khan must first elect a Great Khan before he can hand over all kinds of power. To put it bluntly, the chairman suddenly hung up, and the CEO didn't know who to listen to, saying that he would not get involved in family affairs and let the chairman's sons handle it themselves.

As a result, no one could take Lhasa until the Great Khan was elected.

The eldest son and the sixth son, who led the army to negotiate, are still facing off in Weizang, and have fought two battles on a small scale.

The eldest grandson was still stationed in Kham, which was the closest to Sichuan, and sent a team of envoys with a large amount of tribute to Nanjing to ask the emperor to canonize his father. Once his father became the Great Khan, he would have the right to inherit from now on. Even if he could not succeed to the throne of the Great Khan, he controlled the richest part of Qinghai-Tibet and could take advantage of the opportunity to free himself from the burden of sending taxes to Qinghai.

The other seven sons said that they would not be involved in the battle for the throne, but they were not allowed to go to Qinghai to make trouble. But this is impossible, the eldest son and the sixth son compete for the throne, and the one who loses will definitely retire to Qinghai as the governor (Qinghai King), and then make a situation of Qinghai Bataiji.

Song Yingxing said: "There are two ways. First, let the boss and the sixth fight by themselves, don't canonize any of them, the longer the fight, the better; Second, the eldest was canonized as the king of Weizang, and the sixth was canonized as the king of Qinghai, dividing the Heshute Khanate into two. ”

Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the map and said: "Kham must be taken and annexed to Sichuan and Yunnan." Xining, Nianbo and the northwest river valley (Menyuan, Datong) were all assigned to Gansu, and Gansu was separated from Shaanxi to form a separate province. ”

The Kham region includes Ganzi and Aba in Sichuan, Diqing in Yunnan, Yushu in Qinghai, and Qamdo in Tibet. It is currently the territory of Handu (the eldest grandson of Gushi Khan), and the Qinghai nobles enjoy their lives, all supported by Kham's taxes.

Xining and the surrounding areas, which belonged to Gansu Town in the Ming Dynasty, were occupied by Gushi Khan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and have not been taken back until now.

The Ministry of War and the Governor's Office had discussed for a long time that they would take Kham, divide and assign them to Yunnan and Sichuan, and immigrate troops to Qamdo, Ganzi, Aba and other places. Then they took Xining, Gannan, Menyuan and other places, immigrated to garrison, and assigned them to Gansu and separated from Shaanxi to establish a separate province.

As for Qinghai and the rest of Tibet, canonize the khans and lamas and let them contain each other.

You have to take it step by step, don't think about becoming fat in one bite, the situation in Qinghai-Tibet is too complicated.

The ministers deliberated repeatedly for a long time, and Zhao Han clapped his hand and said: "After the envoy of Handu comes, let it dry for a while. Immediately send an envoy to Qinghai-Tibet and inform the nine Taiji that whoever is willing to hand over the original Gansu town jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty and then donate the Kham region, I can canonize and support him as a Great Khan! ”

If you have a big fist, you can be unreasonable.

But this kind of thing can't be said explicitly, after all, the Khanate of Heshut has been canonized as a vassal. Even if the suzerainty wants to annex the subject country, it must give sufficient reasons, and the envoy must privately put forward conditions.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, it is enough to strengthen the control over Qinghai-Tibet while expanding the territory.

The Qing Dynasty government completely recovered Qinghai-Tibet, which was also a matter of the Yongqian period. For hundreds of years, he continued to build cities, increase garrisons, and repeatedly quell rebellions, and finally established the authority of the minister stationed in Tibet. The first batch of Qing troops who entered Tibet can only be said to be very miserable, because of the terrain and climate, the whole army was directly annihilated.

The province of Gansu to be established is very large, including the whole of Ningxia, and also includes Xining, Haidong, Menyuan and other places in Qinghai. At the same time, it seems very small, because west of Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Guazhou, and Yumen, these places are still in the hands of the Yarkand Khanate.

"Your Majesty, if most of Kham is merged into Sichuan, then Sichuan's tax retention will have to be readjusted." Fei Chun said suddenly.

Zhao Han nodded: "That's for sure." ”

Compared with the great Sichuan of the Ming Dynasty, the Sichuan of the Datong New Dynasty has been much smaller.

The land of Banzhou was all assigned to Guizhou. Wusa Mansion, Zhenxiong Mansion, Dongchuan Mansion, and Wumeng Mansion were all assigned to Yunnan. The western Sichuan Plateau is again in the hands of the Heshute Khanate.

In later generations, the boundaries of Chongqing were all over the country at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and now even if they change the land and return to the stream, they are still so poor that the bell rings. After taking back the western Sichuan Plateau (Kham region), it had to invest heavily in construction, and Sichuan's finances were no longer able to support other provinces.

In comparison, Yunnan is really big. From Sichuan, he divided the land of the four provinces, and swallowed a large piece from Burma. In the future, after the destruction of the Nguyen clan, some mountainous areas in northern Vietnam will be assigned to Yunnan and Guangxi to prevent the Vietnamese region from becoming independent in the future.

When the conditions are ripe in the future, the military and civilian government of Pingnan will be completely renovated and returned to the river, and the north-central and eastern parts of Myanmar will definitely be established as separate provinces, and then take the opportunity to return the area of Yunnan to normal levels.

The plan was confirmed, and the cabinet and ministries were busy.

The three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan have begun to mobilize materials, and there will definitely be no war this year, and there will be a few in Qinghai and Tibet next year.

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"He doesn't want to?" Zhao Han was a little unhappy.

Fei Rulan said: "He thinks the British princess is too old. ”

Zhao Han complained: "The age of the fart is old, and he doesn't look down on the mother-in-law." In any case, the marriage must be completed, and a son and a half daughter must be born. ”

Charles's younger brother and younger sister, who were too young to come to China with the ship, went with his mother to the Netherlands.

The sister who brought China was named Elizabeth Stuart, the same name as the Winter Queen. But this Elizabeth did not leave a name for herself in history, because she died of illness in exile at the age of 15.

For unknown reasons, Princess Elizabeth did not die and followed her brother Charles to China.

The poor prince Zhao Kuanghuan, for the sake of the country, was forced to open his business again and accept a 20-year-old foreign woman as a side concubine.

The sedan chair was carried to a courtyard, and Princess Elizabeth was full of curiosity. She doesn't have anything else to think about, all European royal families have to marry, and those who can't marry are the most miserable, and they can only die alone.

The moonlight is bright and the red candles are flickering.

Zhao Kuanghuan has already broken the jar, and his father stuffed him with a side concubine, so he will accept it. Anyway, I've already married three, and it doesn't matter if I marry another one.

Picking up the hijab, Zhao Kuanghuan looked at it carefully, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not ugly, at least it's more beautiful than he imagined the foreign woman. The only drawback is that the bridge of the nose is a little too high, and the face looks thin, which is relatively thin.

"Do you speak Chinese?" Zhao Kuanghuan asked.

Elizabeth said: "I will learn a little, I studied on the ship for more than a year. ”

Zhao Kuanghuan said: "Your name is too long, you can be called Eliza in the future." ”

"Okay." Elizabeth nodded. She was also looking at the crown prince, who was more handsome than she had imagined, although she was still somewhat blind to the Chinese.

The two really didn't have anything in common, Zhao Kuanghuan said: "Sleep." ”

Prince Charles was very happy and was drinking wine outside the palace at this time.

The imperial concubine or the crown princess, the mother's family also has to set up wine, and the royal family pays for it.

Zhao Han asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites to go to the banquet, and let the envoys of various countries participate, and then invited the troupe and tricks to help the fun. The scene is quite grand, Charles plays very happily, he is very fond of trick performances, and plans to return to China to raise a court magician.

It's a pity that the noble ball was not held, which made Charles a little regretful.

This thing has not yet been figured out, his sister is just the crown prince's side concubine, and he thinks that his sister will be the queen of China in the future.

After a while, Charles will definitely know the truth, but by then the raw rice will have already been cooked. No matter how angry he is, he has to pinch his nose and admit it, and when he returns to Europe, he can make it up as he pleases, anyway, it is impossible for European nobles to come to China to verify.

In the night, the feast dispersed.

Charles held a globe and called the two country boys to the room: "This is a gift from the emperor to congratulate the two countries on their marriage." ”

"Globe? I've seen it in London. Thomas said.

Charles said: "This is different, marking the latest Chinese territory. The globe on the European side, the territory of China is obsolete more than a decade ago. ”

"Is the red one China?" John asked.

Charles nodded, "Yes." ”

Thomas asked, "What about the blue ones?" ”

Charles said: "A vassal state of China. ”

The two country boys were shocked: "It's so big! ”

Of course, it is very large, and this is a map that has just been released, and not only Eastern Siberia is marked as Chinese territory, but even Sakhalin Island is included in it. And except for the southern islands of the Philippines, the entire South China Sea and Southeast Asia are either red territories of China or blue subjects of China.

Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, Japan, and North Korea, including parts of Russian territory and Central Asia, are also marked as blue subordinate powers.

Charles said excitedly: "What a powerful hegemon in the East, Britain and China have been married, and Britain will definitely be able to dominate Europe in the future!" ”

Thomas asked: "I heard that there is a military school in Nanjing, and the Chinese army is very strong, can we study in the military academy?" ”

Charles shook his head and said, "No, we can only enter Jinling University." ”

"That's a shame." John said.

Charles said: "I met the Emperor again yesterday, and although he did not want to borrow troops, he could finance me to form an army. He would give me some weapons and then let me go to Arakan to recruit troops, where there are many fierce pirates who could form a king's guard. Moreover, I contacted the Portuguese envoys. When I have finished my Guard, the Portuguese are willing to lend me ships and take me back to England to reclaim the throne. ”

"What do the Portuguese want?" Thomas asked.

"Marriage," said Charles, "the daughter of the King of Portugal, who is engaged to the Chinese royal family, will marry his niece to me." ”

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