"Shi Heng, stand up for the cabinet department!"

Seeing Shi Heng's kneeling action, Shen Yichen immediately shouted angrily.

He would rather Shi Heng be unruly than grovel to the other party, a military general should have the dignity and pride of a military general, not to mention that he is the first assistant of the cabinet, even in the face of the emperor, he has gold under his knees!

This inexplicable angry shout made Shi Heng, who was halfway kneeling, subconsciously stand up straight, and then looked at Shen Yichen in front of him with puzzled eyes.

"Zhongguo Gong, this cabinet department doesn't need your thanks, and it doesn't need the military generals to be low in front of civil officials. Continue to maintain your pride and edge, and let the aliens of the Western Regions see the majesty of my Ming Kingdom and the bravery of my Ming soldiers. ”

"Winning the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions is the best reward for the Cabinet Department."

After leaving these words, Shen Yichen turned around and left in a dashing manner, with a deep taste of merit and fame.

Looking at the back of Shen Yichen leaving, the expression on the face of Zhongguo Gong Shi Heng was very complicated, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart. may be thinking back to being an official for decades, and finally seeing an outlier in the muddy officialdom.

Walking out of the gate of the Jinyi Guard's Imperial Prison, Zhao Hongjie, who had been standing silently behind Shen Yichen, spoke at this moment: "To the north, you made a promise to Shi Heng to split the soil and seal the king, can you really approve it through the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor?" ”

To be honest, when Shen Yichen was talking to Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, Zhao Hongjie felt a vague worry.

The main reason is that the conditions given by Shen Yichen are too exaggerated, even if he doesn't care about Shi Heng's "Qingjun side", can the royal family tolerate the ministers raising troops to force the palace?

Taking a step back, the emperor is young and has no decision-making power, and Shen Yichen relies on the identity of the first assistant of the cabinet and the emperor's division to forcibly give the loyal prince Shi Heng and the rebels a way to live. But the homeland that has not been recovered for more than 800 years, if you want to open up the Hexi Corridor all the way to the Western Regions, what price must be paid to do it.

Expanding territory is never something that can be done with lip service, and only a strong central dynasty in the Western Regions can come up with enough strength and financial resources to recover. The reason why the Han and Tang dynasties were able to get the honorific titles of "strong Han" and "prosperous Tang Dynasty" means that the national strength is strong.

It's not that Zhao Hongjie doesn't want to believe Shen Yichen, it's true that this plan seems so unattainable, and he has to provide astronomical financial and material support for Shi Heng's future "Western Army", maybe it will have to surpass the Luchuan Campaign!

"Back then, I had not yet stood in the position of a supreme minister, bearing the infamy of killing the king and punishing the king, and facing the jealousy and suspicion of the Daxing Emperor, but I still usurped the monarch's power and gave the conditions of King Ji Yongzhen of Jingyuan."

"Now I promise to be loyal to the prince Shi Heng and seal the king, who can stop me!"

Even in the face of low-level officials, Shen Yichen maintained the demeanor of Corporal Lixian many times, let alone showed coercion and power in front of his companions.

But this time, Shen Yichen's answer can be said to be sharp, just like the conditions that were given to Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji back then, on the road of opening up territory and fighting for living space for the nation, Shen Yichen will definitely not back down.

It doesn't matter if the other party is a civil official group, or a celebrant eunuch in charge of the seal, or the Ming Emperor.

No one can stop you!

Feeling Shen Yichen's sharp momentum, Zhao Hongjie instantly understood that there was no room for compromise in this matter.

To tell the truth, he is also a martial artist, why didn't he want to be the land of the Han Dynasty where the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go?

But sometimes ideas outweigh actual capabilities, and then this lofty ideal becomes a reckless force. Zhao Hongjie hesitated for a moment, but finally kept his sanity and asked: "To the north, the Tatars only committed the border at the end of last year, and the war on the Luchuan side has not ended for nearly five years, does the treasury have the ability to support the westward expedition of the Loyal Guogong?" ”

Zhao Hongjie raised a realistic question, which calmed Shen Yichen's mind as well, and replied: "After the imperial court issued the land enclosure order, about 100,000 households took the initiative to go to Luchuan Tunbian, which can greatly relieve the pressure of the Southern Expeditionary Army. ”

"In addition, I plan to combine rigidity and softness, allow the well-behaved Southwest Tusi to be included in the Ming household registration, and hold the Luchuan Imperial Examination to give them an upward channel, I believe that this war that lasted for more than ten years after three dynasties will soon be completely ended."

Blind colonial rule, unless you can kill all the local natives, otherwise when the other party feels discrimination after civilization, it will eventually fail.

This does not require any experience of later generations, and the rule of Annam in the Ming Dynasty was in a sense a disguised colonial rule, which adopted a class division for the Annamite people and did not allow them to participate in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty.

If the other party does not realize the value of class rise brought about by the imperial examination, then the problem of doing so is not obvious. However, Annan had already received the baptism of Confucian culture during the Han Dynasty a thousand years ago, and this would inevitably lead to a struggle against the scholars and doctors, who did not want to become inferior slaves.

Learning from the lessons of the past and giving the southwest Tusi a channel to integrate into the Ming Dynasty will greatly reduce the cost of governance. With the assimilation efforts of several generations for hundreds of years, we will complete the land reform and return to the river a hundred years ahead of schedule, so that it can become a permanent land!

Hearing Shen Yichen's answer, Zhao Hongjie breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that the decision to reclaim his homeland in the west was well thought out, rather than acting rashly on impulse.

"Since you have an idea to the north, then I won't say more, if the great cause of the westward expedition is completed, it will definitely last for a hundred years!"

"I hope it works."

Shen Yichen smiled, after all, the homeland has been lost for more than 800 years, even if the Qing Dynasty recovered it in later generations, it was after the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties, and the successive destruction of the Dzungar Khanate, which could be regarded as officially laying the territory.

This is the same as the process of destroying Goguryeo in the Sui and Tang dynasties and Luchuan in the Ming Dynasty, which requires the relay of several generations of emperors to complete the final unification of the world. Shen Yichen couldn't guarantee the idea of the follow-up emperor, he could only rely on his own strength to complete this great cause with the rest of his life.

After a brief chat with Zhao Hongjie, Shen Yichen prepared to leave, and at the same time began to plan in his mind, how to convene a cabinet meeting to persuade the cabinet ministers to reach a consensus on his crazy idea of "splitting the earth and sealing the king".

After all, Shen Yichen could predict in advance that this proposal would inevitably encounter great resistance in the court. Regardless of what happens to the civil government and the celebrant of ceremonies, it is possible for the cabinet to reach a consensus to promote the passage of the court.

But before that, Shen Yichen has one more thing to do, and that is to set off a public opinion offensive to help his plan. So after returning to the carriage, he immediately instructed Bian He, who had been waiting for a long time, to say, "Mr. Bian, there is something that needs to be troubled for you to run." ”

"Proprietor, just say."

"You go to the headquarters of Wenbao and ask He Wendao to publish as much history as possible in the last few issues of the newspaper about the loss of the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and also focus on describing the loyalty of the Guiyi Army and the desire of the Han people to pray for the Heavenly Soldiers of the Central Plains."

At the beginning, Shen Yichen asked He Wendao to establish the "Wen Bao", which has now become the newspaper with the largest circulation in Beijing and even in the Ming Dynasty, and its influence can be said to be the one who holds the bull's ear in the entire scholar class.

Shen Yichen has the historical experience of later generations, and is well aware of the power brought about by the offensive of public opinion and the rise of nationalism. It can even be said that there is no need to fan it yourself at all, just objectively let the people know that the history of the fall of the Western Regions, as well as the tragedy and grandeur of the Beiting Metropolitan Mansion and the Anxi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, are enough to mobilize their determination to share the same hatred.

Shen Yichen has been fighting in the court for so many years, and he has deeply understood a truth, whoever controls the general trend of the world will be invincible.

Public opinion is a kind of "potential".

"Yes, my subordinates will do it."

The plan of "tearing the earth and sealing the king", Shen Yichen has discussed it with Bian He several times in the mansion in the past few months. The attitude of the other party has changed from initial opposition, to gradual acceptance, and then to firm support.

Hearing Shen Yichen's explanation, Bian He instantly understood that the proprietor had reached a "cooperation" with Shi Heng, the prince of Zhongguo, in the edict, and now the plan has advanced to the execution stage!

With the impetus of Shen Yichen, the big hand behind him, the Jingshi set off a wave of discussion on recovering the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions in the next few days.

Not only did various articles appear on the "Wen Bao", intensively popularizing the past history of the Ming Dynasty, so that the people of Daming understood that this was not a strange alien land, but carried the blood and glory of their ancestors.

Even storytellers in the streets, restaurants, teahouses, etc., have made up all kinds of jokes and stories, telling the tragedy and tragedy of the loss of land, arousing the common hatred of people from all walks of life!

The Ming Dynasty is fermenting public opinion on the Western Expedition, but the entire northern Xinjiang is in a situation full of war clouds.

Mengke, the king of Shunyi, received a secret order from the court, allowing him to take the initiative to attack Korea and have his own territory. In the face of this edict, Meng Ke almost cried with joy, you must know that he seems to be respected in these years, and he has been canonized as the "King of Shunyi" by the Ming Dynasty, and he has also inherited the title of the Great Khan of Mongolia.

But in fact, he was closely monitored by the Liaodong Army and lived a life under the fence.

The more respectful the identity, the more soldiers and horses of the tribe who returned to Shunyi, the more unwilling Wang Mengke of Shunyi was in his heart. Obviously he is a descendant of Genghis Khan, the supreme khan of the steppe, but why is he under the jurisdiction of a commander of the Ming Dynasty?

But to raise troops to rebel, Shunyi Wang Mengke did not have the determination, let alone the courage.

The reason is that even after so many years, Shen Yichen is always a lingering shadow in Meng Ke's heart, he knows how powerful and wise this guy is, even if he can temporarily defeat the Liaodong Army, he will definitely not be able to defeat the follow-up expedition of the Ming Dynasty.

Raising troops to rebel is a dead end!

As a result, there was no end to the road, and the Ming State actually took the initiative to loosen the shackles around his neck and allowed the attack on North Korea to gain territory.

The Tatar Ministry can't beat the Ming Dynasty, and if it can't beat the Warats, can't it beat a weak North Korea?

King Shunyi almost did not have the slightest doubt or hesitation, and led the Mongolian soldiers and horses who had returned to Shun over the years, and crossed the Yalu River to march into Korea. At the same time, on the side of the Liaodong Army, facing the back of the Mongolian soldiers and horses leaving, they also waited for the Korean letter for help.

Once the time was reached, the Liaodong Army would unite with the Daming Naval Division stationed in Seoul and the Korean soldiers and horses of King Li Yao to attack Mengke's Tatar troops from the east and west.

This time there will be no more surrender scenes, and there will be no next Shunyi king, the Tatar and Kublai Khan's golden family bloodline, will forever become history!

The attack on Korea by the Tatars of Mengke triggered a chain reaction of the situation in the entire northern Xinjiang. The Jianzhou Jurchen Sanwei, who had previously faced the Liaodong Army's conquest, finally gained a breather of time, and they realized that they would not be able to continue to resist the Great Tomorrow soldiers on their own.

So he simply ran out of the deep mountains and old forests of the former slave Gandusi and migrated in the direction of the Western Mongol Khanate, hoping to be blessed by the Heavenly Sage Khanate. After all, compared to the physical eradication of the Ming Dynasty, the annexation of Mongolia is at most a spiritual death.

The news of the return of the three guards of the Jianzhou Jurchens made Tiansheng Khan overjoyed for two main reasons.

One point is that the annexation of the three Jurchen tribes has always been one of the goals of the Warat tribe, but before the Mongolian orthodoxy was in the Tatar department, the father and son could not put their hands into it.

It wasn't until the former Mongol Great Khan was killed that he finally had the opportunity to fully annex the Northeast Tatar Division, the Jurchen Three Divisions, and the Uliangha Three Guards. As a result, who would have thought that Shen Yichen would be killed halfway, but Tiansheng Khan also lost the battle of Liaodong first, and since then the dream has come to naught.

Another point is that he has been stubborn and self-serving for many years, and he has been extremely harsh and brutal to the Mongolian tribes under his command, and has played the game of prospering those who follow me and perish those who oppose me.

You must know that the political structure of the Mongol Khanate was different from that of the Central Plains Dynasty, and after they retreated to the steppe, they played the tribal system, and the Great Khan did not have the absolute authority of the emperor.

Yexian's brutality and arrogance aroused the dissatisfaction of many tribal leaders, and his former prestige and achievements continued to decline and decline. Coupled with the treachery of the Arazhiyuan and the poisoning of the other party's two sons, the internal pressure of the Mongol Khanate reached a critical point.

The annexation of the Jianzhou Jurchen Sanwei to the Mongol Khanate can almost be equated with the Ming Dynasty's Wanbang Dynasty, which can once again enhance the prestige of the Heavenly Sage Khan Yexian, and has eased internal contradictions and pressures.

So Tiansheng Khan also decided on the spot that he would personally greet the Jurchen leader Dong Shan, and the two sides would hold a "Nine White" ceremony to sacrifice Changshengtian, anyway, they would try to develop in a grand and grand direction.

Here, Tiansheng Khan also gathered the tribal soldiers and horses, and prepared to go to the border area of Liaodong to hold a great ceremony with Dongshan. On the other hand, the Elder Governor secretly met with the leader of the Karaqin tribe, Xiao Lai, and the two discussed the matter of killing and seizing power first.

The Karaqin tribe was once a branch of the Tatar tribe, and after the death of Tokhtobuhua, it submitted to the Warat tribe, which was also a common practice of the Mongol tribes. It's just that this time, Tiansheng Khan also wanted to complete the real unification and restore the glory of the Great Yuan back then, rather than the Mongolian tribal system.

This meant that the tribal leaders of the mountains would be eradicated one by one, and the old Tatars would be the first to be among them.

I didn't want to become an outcast, and it just so happened that Arazhiyuan needed a strong ally, and the two hit it off and finally waited for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do it!

Some people died, but not completely......