"Da Ming is powerful, but we are not waste!" Diaphragm

When the news of Nagchuka reached the forces of Zangpa Khan, Tsangpa Khan Phuntsok Namgyal, who had already gathered 30,000 troops in Rasa, instantly turned bad.

The Tusi of Naquka had 5,000 soldiers and horses, but he didn't last even a day before he perished, so what about them?

Phuntsok Namgyal's mood was very complicated, but the other Tibetan nobles were ready to die.

Without him, it is all because the conditions of the Ming Dynasty for Zangba are unacceptable to them.

Sun Chuanting asked the monk to bring back five conditions, which are:

First, free all slaves.

Second, abolish serfdom, systematically follow the Ming Dynasty, accept the governance of the political envoy of the Wusi Zangcheng after the Ming Dynasty, and the common people pay taxes to the political envoy of the Cheng Xuan. Diaphragm

Third, the fields of all nobles and serf owners were to be given to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty would distribute the land in the Hexi Corridor to all the nobles and serf owners, and grant them scattered ranks and corresponding real power positions.

Fourth, private fighting should no longer be waged in the name of religion, and soldiers and horses need to be disbanded.

Fifth, after going to Hexi, you need to live in accordance with the "Daming Law" and the Daming New Deal, and pay taxes.

These five conditions, among other things, the first one alone demanded the lives of all serf owners.

The greatest wealth in the hands of serf owners and nobles is serfs, and if nothing else, the twenty-six nobles and nobles sitting in the palace at the moment have as many as 160,000 serfs in their hands.

Even if the 160,000 serfs were sold to the Mughal and the main kingdom in the south at the price of three taels per person, they could harvest nearly 500,000 taels of silver.

Now the Ming Dynasty has to let them give up more than 500,000 taels in a word? Diaphragm

You must know that whether it is the Great Yuan or the Ming Dynasty, their influence on Wusizang is very limited, so Wusizang is basically decided by the nobles.

Now the Ming Dynasty wants the Wusizang nobles to give up all their power and interests, and then they only get the rank and the empty position, such a condition is too funny.

"There are at least 100,000 slaves in Zangba, plus the main domain and the Zhe domain, at least 200,000, and you want us to give up more than 200,000 slaves? Which of you would like to? ”

A nobleman asked about the others, and the others shook their heads, and Phuntsok Namgyal, the Great Khan of the Tibetan Kingdom, also had a bad face.

What Daming wants this time is not simple benefits, but also to change their thinking and life.

For many nobles who were born into aristocratic families since childhood, freeing serfs and giving them freedom was more uncomfortable for them than robbing them of their silver.

Not to mention the value of these 200,000 serfs, there is another article, abolishing their right to tax the commoners, and the commoners instead pay taxes to the Uszangcheng Annunciation Envoy. Diaphragm

Phuntsok Namgyal didn't know if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty knew how many commoners there were in Uszang and how many taxes these commoners needed to pay, but he knew that not to mention serfs, it was the taxing power of commoners, and these nobles refused to hand it over.

In addition to farming, the commoners in Uszang also had to work on some handicrafts every year, and after these handicrafts were sold, they had to pay taxes ranging from 2 taels to 50 taels to the nobles.

Normally, this tax is levied from the age of 18 to the age of 60.

If you can't pay the taxes, you have to go to the serf owners and monasteries to borrow money, covering more than eighty percent of the serfs in Tibet.

These usury interest rates are extremely high, ranging from 30% to 50% for large quantities and as high as 150% for small amounts, and most of them are only allowed to make profits, not repay the principal.

Under the rolling profits, it is very easy to cause commoners to be burdened with debts that cannot be paid off for several lifetimes, and since then they have been knocked out of the class, and all the families have become slaves.

As long as they become serfs, they must be slaves of the serf owners for generations, and they must multiply so that future generations will also become slaves. Diaphragm

If anyone dares to run away, they will be put in a cell if they are caught.

In prison cells, forced hard labor was the lightest punishment, while gouging out eyes, cutting noses, cutting off hands, cutting feet, cramping, and skinning were commonplace.

In order to do so, the powerful monks of the old Uszzang would use a large number of human bones and human skins to make some "ritual weapons", and the source of these "materials" was captured slaves and selected slaves.

Abusing slaves who are lower than their own class is a means of pleasure for many nobles, and now the Ming not only wants to take their interests, but also wants to take what they are interested in, and they naturally will not agree.

"Hit!"

"I also support fighting!"

"We can pull up the main domain, Zheyu and Qiangtang, as well as Guge, Ladakh and Yaze in the west to defeat the Ming Dynasty." Diaphragm

"Although their army is close to 40,000 people, we are not without nothing."

"That's right! Unleash enough slaves, we can pull out a hundred thousand people! ”

For the sake of their own interests and privileges, the nobles began to instigate Phuntsok Namgyal without knowing the Ming army, but Phuntsok Namgyal was not carried away by their instigation, but said:

"The Ming army used rapid-fire firearms, and according to the monks, they could shoot three times in ten breaths."

"Plus they carry artillery, and if we want to fight them, we must be prepared for heavy losses."

Phuntsok Namgyal was doing psychological construction for the nobles, but after hearing this, the nobles not only did not feel timid, but thought of a way to deal with the rapid-fire guns of the Ming army.

"We can use a herd of yaks to open a formation, I don't believe that more than 400,000 yaks can't rush through the chariot formation of the Ming army." Diaphragm

Some of the nobles in Tibet, especially those close to northern Tibet, had followed the call of the Ming Dynasty to fight in Qinghai after their fathers, so they knew that the Ming army mainly used chariot formations to deal with cavalry.

Therefore, they pretended to be clever and thought that the current Ming army also relied on car formations, artillery, and muskets to fight, and they did not know the horror of breech guns.

"Qiangba, you have people go and inform the nobles everywhere, just say that the Ming Dynasty wants to annex the entire Wusizang, release all the slaves, and let the nobles get ready."

"On March 15, I hope to see their army in Lasa."

"Yes!"

Phuntsok Namgyal eventually decided to defend his interests by force, and his decision was supported by all the nobles.

However, the interests of the nobles are difficult to separate, but the temples do not have so many interests. Diaphragm

We can heed Manjushri's call and move to Hexi, Xining, and Yunnan, but we have to find out which faction Manjushri supports. ”

When Phuntsok Namgyal and the nobles decided to send troops, the monks of Uszang also discussed whether to submit to the Ming Dynasty in the Potala Palace.

After all, for monks and believers who believe in Tibetan Buddhism, the image of the Ming emperor's "Manjushri Bodhisattva" not only existed in the early Ming Dynasty, but continued until the end of the dynasty's rule.

At the beginning of last year, many monks from Tibet also went to the capital to pay homage to Zhu Youxiao and worship Manjushri in their hearts.

It is also because the monks in Tibet often travel back and forth between Tibet and the Ming Dynasty, so they can clearly feel that the Ming Dynasty is stronger than before, and Wu Sizang is not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty at all.

In the eyes of most monks, the Ming army's march into Wusi Tibet was mainly to compete with the nobles for interests, because Sun Chuanting's conditions did not restrict the missionary work in Tibet.

Not only that, but Sun Chuanting encouraged them to go to the Western Regions to preach, but they needed to change their doctrine. Diaphragm

How to change it, Sun Chuanting did not say, and the monks did not have a bottom.

However, since he knew that the Ming Dynasty could not be defeated, surrender was a sure thing.

Now they are more concerned about which school of Wusi-Tibetan Buddhism the Ming Dynasty supports.

You must know that in the process of the development of Tibetan Buddhism, there have been branches such as Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, Kyawnang, and Gelug.

From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug were three sects with great social influence, and the religious leaders or agents of the three sects were all enshrined by the Ming court.

For Tibetan Buddhism in the Ming Dynasty, it was extremely important to gain the support and recognition of the Ming Dynasty, after all, they had been brainwashing their followers that "the Ming Emperor was the incarnation of Manjushri Bodhisattva", so they had to justify themselves.

In addition, only the factions supported by the Ming court can obtain the qualification to enter the DPRK to trade, and this qualification is the key to the prosperity of a sect. Diaphragm

The monks of Lhasa were all Karma sects of the Kagyu school, but in the 37th year of Wanli, Emperor Shenzong abolished the qualifications of the Mahayana King of Wusizang, the Dharma King of the Great Treasure, the Protector King, Changhexi, and Dong Bu Hanhu, and only allowed the King of the Sect and the King of the Auxiliary Sect to pay tribute.

The disqualified Dharma Kings were the Gelug and Karma sects, while the Sakya and Zhigong sects were retained.

Therefore, the Gelug and Karma traditions, which are stuck in the middle, appear to be somewhat passive.

If they are a sect that has been allowed to pay tribute, then there is no need to say anything now, just wait for the Ming army to come, and then welcome the heavenly army with their followers.

But after Emperor Wanli forbade them to pay tribute, whether it was Emperor Taichang or the current Emperor of the Apocalypse, they did not reopen the tribute of the Karma sect, which made the monks hesitate.

"Maybe we can wait and see, maybe Manjushri didn't think about which faction to support."

An older monk tentatively spoke, and a monk next to him also nodded when he heard this: "Ahh

"According to the arrangement of Manjushri Bodhisattvas in the past dynasties, even if they don't support us, they won't suppress us, you can wait and try."

"During this period, it is better not to release "Buddha gold" to civilians

The monks referred to lending as "Buddha gold", and it is not known how the Buddha would feel when he heard it.

In short, as the nobles and monks had finished discussing each other, a sentry rushed out of Lasa and hurried to the land.

The first place where the news was conveyed was the Gelugpa in the Shannan area.

Because the system of the Gelug sect was too different from that of other factions, it was often targeted by the Zangba Dynasty and other sects, so the Gelug sect welcomed the entry of the Ming army into Uszang.

Both the Kagyu and Gelug sects welcomed the Ming army into Tibet, and the Sakya sect, as the only one with tributary qualifications, would not object. Diaphragm

Although Tibetan Buddhism in the Ming Dynasty also had a great influence, in general, the issue of local governance was still a matter for the aristocracy.

Due to the entry of the Ming army into Tibet, the process of integrating politics and religion was interrupted, and for a time the temples and nobles in various parts of Uszambi had two attitudes.

The temple was not strong enough and could only admit it, and the nobles chose to be tough.

These news were inquired by some Jinyi guards and handed over to Sun Chuanting, but Sun Chuanting did not take it to heart.

He was waiting for the grain to be delivered from Sichuan, and at the same time, Hong Chengchou, who was in Luchuan, also received a holy decree from the capital.

"Fengtian Hao said! The original Ping-Burma Jinglu Hong Chengchou meritorious service, Zi specially awarded Nan'anbo, Luchuan political envoy, Yao Ling's Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, Zhongji Temple University Scholar, and his wife Li Shi was the Lady of Nan'an, Wang'......"

On the sixth day of the first month of March, when the holy decree of the capital was delivered to Donghu City, Luchuan Province, Hong Chengchou, who had accepted the decree, heard the content of the holy decree, and his head went blank. Diaphragm

When he received the decree, his first reaction was......

"Hit the ......"

I don't know what kind of mood the eunuch sent away, in short, Hong Chengchou's heart was mixed at this moment.

"Congratulations to Uncle on his promotion to Wenxun!"

"Congratulations, uncle!"

At the gate of the palace in Donghu City, Mu Yi and others celebrated for Hong Chengchou for unknown reasons, but only Hong Chengchou knew that he was "played" by Zhu Youzhen.

Since the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, before the Tianqi Dynasty, there were three people who obtained the title as Wenchen, from the beginning to the back were Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji, Weining Bo Wang Yue, and Xinjian Bo Wang Shouren. Diaphragm

These are the three civil officials who were knighted for military merit in the Ming Dynasty, and they all lost their qualifications to enter the cabinet after receiving the title.

But now it's okay, he Hong Chengchou has become the fourth person in the Tianqi Dynasty to be knighted as a civil servant, after Xiong Tingbi, Yang Hao, and Yuan Yingtai.

But the problem is that not only did he get the knighthood, he also became the Six Scholars, and entered the cabinet and became a minister.

In the eyes of outsiders, Hong Chengchou can be said to be a very popular minister, except for Li Shanchang, Liu Ji and others in the early Ming Dynasty, there is no Wenchen who can compare with him.

But the question is, what happened to these two people?

In other words, after removing these two people, as the first person to enter the cabinet as a noble after the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, what will he Hong Chengchou experience?

It's okay to say it from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but Wenchen's attitude towards him is probably not so good. Diaphragm

In addition, what made Hong Chengchou most uncomfortable was because of Zhu Youzhen's move, as if he was paving the way for someone.

"Sun Chuanting ......"

Hong Chengchou is a human spirit, so he naturally knows who Zhu Youzhen is paving the way for.

With him Hong Chengchou as the first person, it will be much easier for Sun Chuanting to enter the cabinet as a noble.

There are good and bad things for the nobles to enter the cabinet, in the era when it is necessary to expand the territory, the civil ministers who started with military merits, the power behind them is also the army, so even if they enter the cabinet, they still need to care about the feelings of the people below.

This also led to the fact that the ministers needed to find some battles for the army, so as not to make the generals in the army eager to see through the war.

In addition, the generals tempered in the army will be better at controlling the war than purely civilian officials, and they know how to grasp the war. Diaphragm

It can be said that Zhu Youzhen picked out all the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty in the past 200 years, and then used various methods to make up for them.

Hong Chengchou can get a signal from this, that is, the position of the first assistant is still his.

This made him a little happy, but at the same time, he was very uncomfortable with Zhu Youzhen's move to pave the way.

The discomfort of others may be due to Zhu Youzhen's attitude, but Hong Chengchou's discomfort lies in the fact that he is at the mercy of others like a chess piece.

He wants to be a chess player, not a chess piece......

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou tightened the holy decree in his hand, and then exhaled a breath of turbidity, calming his mood a little.

"How's the encirclement going?" He asked Mu Yi, and Mu Yi hurriedly replied when he heard this: "Dongwu's defeated army has been hiding in the mountains, and from time to time let the Burmese people help them. "Ahh

When Ping Burma succeeded, Hong Chengchou immediately waved a butcher's knife at the Tusi and nobles in Luchuan, and thousands of people were beheaded, not to mention the nine clans involved with them, they were also put into the labor force, and the labor camp period was 15 years.

The number of the Nine Clans with thousands of people can be described as huge, and the number of people involved before and after has reached nearly a million.

As for the fields in their hands, they were naturally taken over by Hong Chengchou and returned to the political envoys.

"Have you calculated the yellow books of the toasts?" Hong Chengchou walked back to the palace, although it was the palace of the king of Donghu, but in fact it was about the same size as the palace of the county king of the Ming Dynasty.

"It's all calculated, according to the calculation of the yellow book of the Luchuan toasts, there are more than 3,460,000 acres of ripe fields in Luchuan." Mu Yi said, and explained:

"However, looking at the topography of Luchuan, it really needs to be reclaimed, and I am afraid that the number of acres of land reclaimed can exceed 10,000."

"Well, what happened to Akhum and the little Brahmin kingdom to the north?" Hong Chengchou walked into the palace and asked a chair to sit down under the throne. Diaphragm

He is not the same as Huang Long's arrogant personality, he will not do things that are easy to be grasped by people such as sitting on the throne.

"The two Qin generals have already sent troops, and it is estimated that they will be wiped out in ten days, but uncle, should the name of this Luchuan be changed?"

Mu Yi put forward a proposal to change the name of the place, and Hong Chengchou nodded when he heard this:

"His Royal Highness's handwritten letter was sent back, and someone in the capital had already escorted Song Mu Ticha south, and His Royal Highness was ready to let Huang Wenlu send troops to land directly in the big city of Siam, and support Song Mu Ticha to ascend to the throne with the orders of the Qing monarch."

"You should always pay attention to this matter, and once Huang Wenlu has news, then immediately mobilize the troops and horses that can be mobilized to the south, Chen troops on the frontier, and attract Siamese troops."

"As for the name change, I will send it to His Highness again, and ask His Highness and Banzai to set up a mansion for Luchuan and change the name of the county."

"The million labor reformers, for the time being, let them build the roadbed from Shalian to Longchuan, whether it is a railway, a government road, or a county road." Diaphragm

Hong Chengchou arranged all the affairs of Luchuan in a few words, and at the same time as he finished arranging, Zhu Youzhen, who was far away in the capital, was frowning at a piece of information in his hand.

"Tiger Rabbit Dun has moved north?"

In the carrying hall of the Qi Palace, when the weather in the capital gradually warmed up in March, Li Ruolian of the Fusi Division of Beizhen brought a piece of news, that is, Lin Dan Khan of Mobei moved north.

"Returning to His Highness, it can be said that he has moved north."

Li Ruolian stood in the carrying hall that looked like a large library, and replied respectfully:

"We rebelled against some of the small lords of Karaqin, according to them, after the last year's raid, Hudun Rabbit obtained a lot of craftsmen and food, but he has always been afraid of His Highness's retaliation by leading the troops, so he has a plan to move north before the autumn harvest."

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"However, after discovering that Your Highness did not send troops, Hudun Rabbit ordered to graze horses in the fishing sea, and barely survived a winter." Diaphragm

"After the beginning of spring this year, Hudun Rabbit gave up the pasture around the fishing area to Subudi in Karaqin, and he was preparing to move westward."

"They are going to go to Moxi by the Gilligis Division, and then go south into the realm of Warat."

Li Ruolian told Lin Dan Khan's plan, while Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes: "Enter the realm of Warat?" Interesting......"

If Zhu Youzhen remembers correctly, the situation in Warat is not good now.

The Warat in the Ming Dynasty was the Oirat Mongol of the Qing Dynasty, and at present, this Warat, which has lived in the northern part of the Tianshan Mountains for a long time, is mainly based on the four tribes of Dzungar, Heshute, Dulbert, and Turgot, as well as small tribes such as Huite.

It can be said that Dzungar is only a part of Warat, and the strength of the entire Warat is not strong at the moment.

At present, the leader of the alliance of Warat is the Heshute Ministry, and the Great Khan of the Heshute Department is currently Gushi Khan. Diaphragm

At present, the Warat has begun to rise under the leadership of Zagushi Khan, but they have the three major Khalkha tribes in the east, the Kazakh Khanate in the west, and the Yarkand Khanate in the south, while the Tsarist Russia in the north is also relying on the river to advance eastward, constantly encroaching on the land of Warat.

As all the tribes of Warat multiply and thrive, the already tight pastures became even more stretched.

Faced with such a crisis, Gushi Khan began to send envoys to Ufa to contact the officials of Tsarist Russia, and internally to pacify the growing Dzungar tribe.

According to the original historical trend, Gushi Khan would try to transfer internal contradictions to external contradictions, and constantly use troops against the Kazakh Khanate.

However, as they became stronger, Tsarist Russia began to clash with them, and Warat fell into a struggle with Tsarist Russia, unable to get out for a while.

This situation would continue for several years, until the Gelug monks invited him to take charge of Qinghai-Tibet, and Gushi Khan began an expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with a large army of Wara, leaving his nephew to hold on to the homeland of Heshute in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

After that, the leader of the alliance of Heshute was deprived by the Galdan of Dzungaria, and Dzungaria fell into a war with the Qing Dynasty, and the Heshute Khanate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau completely became a soy sauce existence. Diaphragm

Zhu Youzhen remembers this string of history clearly, however, because Monan Mongolia was disabled by him with his troops, the three divisions of Mobei were also trembling, and he asked Cao Wenzhao to train twelve battalions in Qinghai, and now Wusizang will also be recovered by Sun Chuanting, so Gushi Khan is estimated to stay in the northern part of the Tianshan Mountains in his life.

Now Lin Dan Khan is trying to snatch the pasture of Warat, although I don't know if the three major tribes of Mobei and Subudi will go with him, but even if he is the only one who goes, I am afraid it will be enough for Gushi Khan to drink a pot.

Lin Dan Khan looks like a rookie, but it was on the battlefield of Mengqing and Mingmeng.

If he really dragged his hundreds of thousands of troops to go, I am afraid that the current Warat will fall into a war with Lin Dan Khan.

If Lin Dan Khan not only went by himself, but also took the three major tribes of Mobei and Karaqin with him, then in terms of the current Wara, I am afraid that they will be forced by Lin Dan Khan to move west.

The population of the Western Regions has been decreasing since the Han and Tang dynasties, and in the Yuan Dynasty, after experiencing the slaughter of the Mongols, it was even more uninhabited.

Even if Dzungaria unified the Western Regions and involved Central Asia in history, its troops were only 600,000 and its soldiers were less than 60,000. Diaphragm

The Dzungaria, which unified the Western Regions and controlled Central Asia, was still like this, not to mention the current Warat and Yarkand.

Lin Dan Khan's westward migration this time is estimated to be a headache not only for Warat and Yarkand, but also for Tsarist Russia.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Youzhen figured it out, he didn't want to fight Tsarist Russia at the moment, because his main task was Annei.

However, if some cruel words are released, and then troops and horses are mobilized to scare the three major Khalkha tribes and Karaqin, and let them all follow Lin Dan Khan to move west, it will probably be very interesting......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen raised the corners of his mouth lightly, revealing a smile.