Mu's Tusi, as a force as far south to Lijiang, north to Wusizang Qamdo, east to North Tengzhou, west to Limasi (Kachin State, Myanmar).

It has more than 30,000 native soldiers of Naxi, Yi and Bai nationality, and is a veritable big toast.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen did not let the Qianguo Mansion restrain Mu Zeng was because the current Qianguo Mansion was really waste.

If he remembers correctly, in history, his own imperial brother asked Mu Changzuo and Mu Qiyuan to lead troops to suppress Yu Chongming, but these two people were actually afraid and did not move forward.

In contrast, Mu Zeng was much more powerful, inheriting the prefect of Lijiang at the age of eleven, while the Tibetans in Xiangcheng, Litang, Daocheng and other places were not convinced, and raised 6,000 cavalry to rebel south.

Compared with the two Mu clans who were dozens of years old, Mu Zeng led his family to defeat the enemy despite his young age, and personally beat the drum with the pole, recklessly advancing with stones.

Such bravery is that even the local Han officials have written the praise of "the husband is not a young man".

Seeing that the young lord was so brave, the soldiers of Mufu fought bravely one by one, and after winning a complete victory, they pursued to Muli, Xiangcheng, Batang, Mangkang, Yanjing and other places in Wusizang.

This is still the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, and now Mu Zeng is thirty-three years old, upright and prime.

In addition, Mu Zeng's ancestors advocated learning Han poetry and book culture, Mu Zeng loved books since he was a child, was familiar with books on scriptures and history, worked hard, and had lofty ambitions, so mobilizing Mu Zeng was to seek foreign aid!

Use Mu Zeng's soldiers and horses to deter Wu Sizang, so that Wu Sizang will stop internal fighting, and transfer troops to Mu Zeng's command.

This is the soldiers and horses that can really be dispatched in Yunnan, and it is also the only soldier and horse that Zhu Youzhen can see except for the eight passes in Yunnan.

In addition, if Mu Zeng established a meritorious service this time, it may also be time to use Mu Zeng to strengthen the Ming Dynasty's rule over Wu Si Zang and Duo Gan.

"The Sword Comes"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at his imperial brother, but found that the other party was frowning.

After perceiving Zhu Youzhen's eyes, Zhu Youxiao hesitated:

"It's okay to say that the Qianguo Mansion is okay, but the Lijiang Mu clan, although they are loyal to my Ming Dynasty, I am afraid it is not appropriate to transfer them and the soldiers and horses from Wusizang, Duogan and other places to participate in the encirclement and suppression......

Zhu Youxiao made a mistake, perhaps since the Tang and Song dynasties, the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty and the scholar class made a mistake.

That is, they do not dare to reuse foreigners, and they will not easily transfer foreigners to participate in internal affairs.

The Mu family is different from the Shizhu Ma family, and the Ma family can be traced back to the Fufeng Ma family in the Han Dynasty.

But the Mu clan is a real "foreign clan", if they also participate in the rebellion on the way, the loss to the Ming will be even greater.

Zhu Youxiao's worries were not unreasonable, but Zhu Youzhen knew that Mufu was reluctant to leave Daming at all.

In the Yuan Dynasty, they were at most arrogant in Lijiang Mansion, but with the support of the Ming Emperor, they were happy to open mines in the eastern part of Wusizang.

He only needs to bear a tribute of two thousand taels of silver every year, and the rest of the silver is his own.

So much so that sometimes Mufu felt that he owed too much to the emperor, so he actively donated silver and war horses to the Ming Dynasty, and sent soldiers to help the imperial court fight many times, becoming the head of the Tusi in the province.

Even if the Mu clan was cleared later, Zhu Youzhen didn't find it strange.

Donating salaries, donating horses, and sending troops, in the end, they were discriminated against by Ming Dynasty officials, and no one could stand it.

You don't see that Guizhou Tusi was only owed a few months before he was instigated to rebel, and in comparison, the Mu family was simply loyal.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen, who knew everything, could only sigh and say:

"Brother, don't worry about Mu Zeng, Mu Zeng and Lijiang Mu Clan are beneficial to my Daming."

Seeing that his younger brother said so, Zhu Youxiao could only frown and turn his head to Wei Zhongxian:

"Ordered the priest to draft the holy decree, conferred the title of Lijiang prefect Mu Zeng Zhongxian doctor, took the post of Yunnan political envoy to the right of the government, ordered him to stop the internal fighting of the Wu Si Zang departments, and then ordered Wu Si Zang and Duogan to transfer troops to Mu Zeng, and move to Beiteng Prefecture, and those who violate the order will cut off the tea and horse market!"

"Slave and maid lead the order......" Wei Zhongxian responded, smacking his tongue in his heart.

Cutting off the tea and horse market, this is the life of the Tusi of Wusizang.

Once the tea and horse market is cut off, at least tens of thousands of people die of illness every year due to the lack of tea.

As soon as this decree goes, it is estimated that the first people to be anxious are the inseparable Zangba Khan and the Gelug sect, as well as the Ten Sect Kings and the major ten thousand households.

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, it is not just tea, and it is enough not to drink it, but for the Tibetans of this era, no tea is equivalent to no water, and they can only suffer from skin diseases and die in pain.

This is one of the methods that Tibetans are most afraid of being used by the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty did not garrison Tibetans in places such as Wusizang, Wusizang and Duogan, and the Russian-Japanese military and civilian government for more than 200 years.

This method is so powerful that Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think after hearing it.

If you can really mobilize a sufficient number of Tibetan soldiers, even if there are not many, then you can use them for the Ming Dynasty after the war.

This concept is big, even if there are only dozens or hundreds of Tibetan soldiers alive after the First World War, as long as they are given the official position of the Ming Dynasty and let them lead the soldiers and horses, then it will be much simpler to solve the problem of the actual control of Wu Sizang.

To put it bluntly, the Tibetan people's embarrassment is due to the low temperature of the Xiaoice River, which makes the valley unable to support too many people, so the Tibetan population has been maintained at around one million.

But what if they were relocated? For example, migrating to the Western Regions and using the Living Buddha to deal with the Western Regions that have been greened is much simpler than letting the Han people and Taoists solve the Western Regions.

In the Western Regions, as long as the population structure of Han people as the main body, Tibetans as the secondary, and Mongols as the end, the problem of greening can be solved.

The bitter cold of the Western Regions was for the Han people in the Central Plains, but for the Tibetan slaves living in the plateau valleys, it was simply a turning serf and singing.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen had an idea in his heart, and then said:

"Brother, my brother wants to send someone to take charge of this Tibetan army."

"Huh? How? My brother has taken a fancy to these people from the West? Zhu Youxiao was very curious, but Zhu Youzhen smiled and said:

"Anyway, it's useful, my brother just said whether it was allowed or not."

"Okay!" Zhu Youxiao smiled and patted Zhu Youzhen's shoulder, and Zhu Youzhen also said to his imperial brother:

"Dispatch the Imperial Horse Supervisor guerrilla Cao Wenzhao to Beitengzhou, unify the Tibetan troops into the Duogan Battalion, and Cao Wenzhao is promoted to the General of the Duogan Battalion, how about the control of the Imperial Horse Supervisor?"

"Cao Wenzhao?" Zhu Youxiao went through his memories and had never heard of this person, but since it was his younger brother's idea, he agreed.

"Yes, yes, but my younger brother is afraid that he will have to raise this Ganying stomach money and food by himself."

"Brother, don't worry!" Zhu Youzhen pretended to be pretending, but Zhu Youxiao helped him up with a smile and said:

"Even with the intervention of the Mu clan and the Qianguo Mansion, there are only 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers at most in the southwest, can this little soldier solve the problem of extravagant Chongming?"

"Alas......" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen sighed and said, "This requires the help of the Imperial Horse Supervisor." ”

After that, he pretended to be reluctant and said: "If the three major toasts are really opposed, then the only way to let Sun Yingyuan take Teng Xiang and Wu Xiang to suppress it." ”

"You slippery ......"

Watching Zhu Youzhen play treasure, Zhu Youxiao knew that it was his younger brother who relieved him, so he deliberately enlivened the atmosphere.

He looked at Zhu Youzhen in front of him, couldn't help but smile and feel relieved, and then said with concern:

"Judging from the current training speed of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, it will take a few months to start dismantling the soldiers and horses of the three towns in Shanxi?"

It was very difficult for Zhu Youxiao to wait, after all, the arrears and military salaries of the three towns of Shanxi and Liaodong needed to be paid from within, and it would not be good if it dragged on for a long time and led to a rebellion.

However, Zhu Youzhen has no choice, there are still more than 20,000 new soldiers who do not have armor, and according to the speed of the armor factory, it will take three months.

In addition, they have only been training for more than two months, and it is unlikely that they will be pulled up and dismissed from the three towns of Shanxi at present, so he can only bite the bullet and say:

"It's going to take another three months."

"Okay...... Then I'll put it off a little longer. Zhu Youxiao sighed, and at the same time, a eunuch walked to the door of the Heart Cultivation Hall and said:

"Long live, Ye Ge Lao and Liu Gechen ask to see."

"Xuan!" Zhu Youxiao responded, and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"They must have known about my brother's return, probably coming to inquire."

"Shall I hide from it, then?" Zhu Youzhen looked around, but saw Zhu Youxiao smile and said:

"Hide? Face it all! ”

After that, he asked Wei Zhongxian to move a chair, sat in front of the big bathtub with Zhu Youzhen, said something wrong with the model, and made modifications.

After a tea time, footsteps sounded outside the hall, and Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiao appeared at the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and said:

"Chen Ye Xianggao (Liu Yixie), ask to see long live......"

"Come in!" Zhu Youxiao responded and said to Wei Zhongxian: "Give the two of you a seat." ”

"Yes......" Wei Zhongxian ordered someone to bring chairs, and then asked the eunuchs in the Qianqing Palace to also retreat.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao motioned to Wei Zhongxian to take the handwritten letter to the two, and explained by the way:

"As expected by the King of Qi, the luxury Chongming in the southwest is really uneasy and kind, and is now secretly exchanging letters with the Shuixian clan and the Shuidong Song clan, trying to rebel, and the Guinan region has privately responded to Tusi a lot."

"This matter needs to be dealt with immediately." Ye Xianggao's long beard trembled, and his facial features were almost wrinkled, which was enough to show that he attached great importance to this matter.

After all, during the Battle of Banzhou that year, he had also studied the Southwest Toast, and knew that these three people were the three largest Toasts in Guizhou, and understood their horror.

Once they raise their troops, there will be problems with the finances of the Ming Dynasty, which will then lead to a worse situation.

"King Qi has already transferred troops...... Zhu Youxiao said, and by the way, he told Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiao some of the things that Zhu Youzhen said just now.

If the cabinet and the six ministries are there, he will definitely not give it all up, but if there are only these two people, he can still be entrusted.

Sure enough, when they heard that Mu Zeng and Wu Si Tibetan soldiers were going to be transferred, a trace of unnaturalness flashed on their faces.

For this, Zhu Youzhen can see it clearly, but there is no way.

To put it bluntly, because of the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been living in the shadow of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was weak in diplomacy, and the Ming Dynasty was tough in diplomacy, even brainless.

Obviously, against the Mongols, it was possible to use the policies of the Tang Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty just didn't do it, because the humiliation of the Song Dynasty made the officials maintain a superficial toughness.

In addition, there is the problem of the north and the south, the Tang Dynasty was not so serious, but after hundreds of years of separation between the late Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the Jiangnan people looked down on the northerners, the northerners looked down on the Liaodong people, and the Central Plains people looked down on the northwest and southwest people.

This kind of situation, which has been governed for hundreds of years and is only slightly better, is a situation within a nation.

Let the people who have internal contradictions selflessly accept foreigners, which is even more ridiculous.

Thanks to Zhu Youzhen, he doesn't have to go to the court, otherwise as soon as he says this in the court, it is estimated that he will be attacked by the Yanguan and the imperial historian.

Fortunately, Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiao were still able to distinguish between right and wrong, and they also knew that there were not too many soldiers and horses loyal to the Ming Dynasty in the southwest region that could be mobilized except for the Mu clan, so they didn't say much.

It's just that after learning about this matter, Ye Xianggao said:

"If this is the case, the minister suggested that Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier of Suizhen, be transferred, lead 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and go south to Sichuan."

"What's wrong with Du Wenhuan?" Zhu Youxiao was puzzled, and when Liu Yixiao saw this, he handed the song to Zhu Youxiao and asked him to look at it.

Zhu Youxiao frowned at a glance and looked at it, and handed it to Zhu Youjian.

This move made Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiao frown slightly, but they didn't say anything.

Zhu Youzhen also finished reading all this, and then said:

"Although there are a large number of northern captives in Hetao, they are not enough to trouble because they belong to forty-two branches, each of which has only four or five thousand soldiers and horses, and only a thousand horses."

"This robbery, obviously saying that he was making trouble with Du Wenhuan, but he has been avoiding Du Wenhuan's troops."

"The blame is also the poor garrison of Guyuan Town, so the general army of Guyuan Town can be dismissed, and Li Rubai can be punished for meritorious service, and Li Ruzhen will follow as a deputy general."

"Guilty of meritorious service?" Hearing this, Ye Xianggao understood that King Qi didn't want to kill Li Rubai.

However, this is not surprising, for those who know the soldiers, although Li Rubai is not handsome, there is no problem in being a pioneer.

It is very suitable for a place like Guyuan to be guarded by him, but it is a pity to kill it.

Ye Xianggao bowed slightly, and this action made Liu Yixiao a little resentful.

As a member of the Donglin Party, although Liu Yixiao is sensible, he inevitably has a temper, that is, he thinks that those who calamity to the country should die, and those who are defeated should be shrouded in horse leather.

Therefore, he opened his mouth: "Releasing Li Rubai like this may cause discussion among the government and the opposition." ”

"In the battle of Sarhu, although the army was defeated, I don't blame everyone, it's me who underestimated Nurhachi." As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, he wanted to calm down the matter of Salhu.

What he said was also against his will, Salhu fought a battle, how could Daming have no problem? From the emperor to the cabinet, the six ministries, Yang Hao, and the generals, if one counts as one, there are problems.

But Zhu Youzhen is very embarrassed at the moment, in the current time that Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou's generation have not grown up, he must use veterans to stabilize the basic plate of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally he will not let go of anyone who has use value.

Therefore, he did not feel that he was saying anything, but continued:

"In addition, when Yang Ho is reinstated, he will be ordered to go to North Korea to supervise and inspect whether North Korea has fornicated trade with Houjin."