Gansu, Hezhou.

This place is the main road of the Silk Road, has always been valued by the dynasty, in the Tang Dynasty, this place was occupied by Tuyuhun, and later invaded by Tubo, deeply influenced by the head of the Buddha of Tubo.

To this day, the place is still full of Buddha style.

As a result, many of the Mongols, Uighurs, and Turks who believed in Buddhism who retreated from the Chagatai Khanate, collectively known as the Hui, multiplied and gradually intermingled in this area.

Dozens of cash trucks were escorted to the front.

Guanxi Qiwei, there are many Mongolian tribesmen who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in Gansu, and now there are many criminal officials from the south who have been degraded by the Yan Daiwei to come here to defend the border, so the transportation of money and grain is the top priority.

Yongchang Hou Lanyu is riding on a tall horse, inspecting the cash transport vehicles here.

Not far away, there is Ganlong's Tubo Fan'er, or Huhua Han'er, riding a horse barefoot, with a sword at his waist, watching from a distance, these young people are all cloaked, wearing leather jackets, and the horses are not tied to the saddle when they sit down, but they are skilled in equestrian skills.

The sharp weapons of the Ming army and the uniform dress are very attractive to teenagers.

"Master Hou, do you want to disperse these fans!"

The guards came up to ask.

Lan Yu shook her head.

Now, Zhu Biao, the son of the Great Tomorrow, has given great trust to Lan Yu, and he has lived up to expectations, and has made Shaanxi and Gansu very good, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty has been able to continue to the Hami generation.

But that's not a good thing.

According to recently received information.

The Timurid Khanate became stronger and stronger, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate could not withstand it, and many nobles of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate brought gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty, and brought intelligence and a large area of land.

The more the Ming expanded westward, the closer it became to the Timurid Khanate.

At this time, the Timurid Empire, after five years of conquest, gradually put down the endless rebellions in the country, and Timur was also the world's first-class hero, well versed in the principle of war to nourish war, he repeatedly recruited soldiers in the rebellion, followed him to fight elsewhere, and then used the war proceeds to reward the soldiers in the rebellion to win the hearts of the people.

Since then, the rebellion of the Timurid Khanate has been greatly reduced.

It's just that this has suffered the rich city-state lords in the West, and they have suffered one after another.

The Timurid Khanate has now also laid a huge territory of the Timurid Empire.

The reason why Timur did not go to the east to fight is actually related to the situation of the Chagatai Khanate at this time, after the great war there will be a famine, when the Chagatai Khan was in civil strife, several powerful ministers fought against each other, resulting in domestic disasters, the people were displaced, the pastures on which the herdsmen depended were destroyed, and the cattle and sheep were killed and injured heavily.

The plague was also epidemic because of the war, and a large number of livestock died of disease, and many people also died.

After the surrender of the Western Chagatai Khanate to Timur, Timur was not very interested in this place that could not collect too many taxes, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was temporarily spared.

And Da Ming ......

Although he is interested, but in the middle of Chagatai and Gansu narrow Gobi Desert, in this era, large-scale cavalry conquest, logistics supply is the top priority, unless he can lead more than 100,000 cavalry to conquer the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it is a refueling tactic, and as much as you come.

The Seven Guards of Guanxi in Gansu, and the Yellow Mongols of Timur and the Mongols of Heaven, although they are all Mongols, they despise each other in their beliefs and roots, and they cannot say that they have mortal enemies with each other, but they can only say that they wish each other died.

Therefore, the current Eastern Chagatai Khanate has a slit strategic buffer zone with the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the repeated westward expeditions of the Tianyuan Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in a vain attempt to conquer Chagatai, coupled with the gradual stabilization of the Timurid Empire, the Timurid Empire and the Ming Empire, two empires that rose at the same time, are about to encounter in Xinjiang.

Lan Yu looked at those Fan'er and said with emotion: "Fan'er here, whether it is the Tubo people or the Huhua Han'er, they are all brave and not afraid of death, they are really born wolf soldier seeds. ”

His eyes twinkled, and he looked ahead.

"The newspapers of the last half month have been hyping up that my Daming is going to marry the Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and His Royal Highness Zhu Yunwen was named the 'King of Meng' of the Ming Dynasty, and he joined the Golden Family of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and inherited the imperial system of the Great Yuan. When the guards beside him heard this, they hurriedly said, "Master Hou, this matter is mostly true. ”

Nowadays, newspapers are an important source of military and national information.

But most of the major national policies and state affairs of the Ming Dynasty will be serialized in the newspapers.

And Zhu Yunwen was named "King Meng" and joined the Northern Yuan Golden Family, inheriting the jade seal of the country brought to Mobei by Dayuan, which is indeed a shocking event.

Today, the Ming treasury is very rich.

Thanks to the Ming Royal Bank, the mutual market with the Mongolian tribes in various places, making a lot of money, and now the Semu merchants of the Chagatai Khanate also recognize the Ming treasure banknotes, basically holding the Ming treasure banknotes, passing through East Asia.

There is money, and the treatment of soldiers and generals has also improved.

With it, the confidence of the Ming Dynasty was also sufficient, and the Timurid Khanate also discovered the powerful empire in the east, which was gradually moving westward, and sent envoys to communicate with each other.

And Lan Yu was the first person to come into contact with the Timurid Empire.

"I read the newspaper that the Northern Yuan Dynasty would take the Mongol tribes of Southern Mo and Liaodong as a dowry, so to speak, Zhu Yunwen, the king of Mongolia, can be called the largest vassal king in my Ming fief now."

The Northern Yuan Emperor has not yet agreed, and Lan Yu has already regarded Liaodong and Monan as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The guard also said, "Yes, Master Hou."

"We can take back Liaodong and Monan a long time ago, we were not allowed to fight before, isn't it because we have no money, now that we have been in the market for a few years, Mongolia's food, clothing, housing and transportation are all controlled by my Ming Dynasty, and the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty doesn't know what to think, he voted for us early, and it doesn't smell good to come to us to eat and drink spicy food?"

Now that the Ming Dynasty has money, it will give more preferential treatment to the princes and nobles of the Mongolian tribes who surrendered.

Even Lan Yu's personal guards were envious.

So he didn't understand why Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty ran into walls everywhere in the desert, and he still insisted on not surrendering, and wandered around with tens of thousands of people.

Lan Yu's eyes flickered, and he shook his head lightly and said, "You are still young and don't understand the truth. ”

"The Mongolian accounts under the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty are not subject to him, because he has no money to buy the Mongolian princes, and I have it."

"His current cowardly Xue Chang is a Kipchak Slav, because he doesn't dare to use the Han, for fear of being tied up by the Han and sent to the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't dare to use the Mongols, for fear of being killed by the Mongols, the head is given to Timur, the Kipchaks and Timur have mortal enemies, and the Timurid country likes to plunder Slavic white women as slaves."

"Liaodong Naha didn't accept him, so the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan, although he had the pride of Genghis Khan's blood, had to bow his head, otherwise he didn't have to wait for my Ming to start, and the tribes on the grassland would also tear them apart."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, the enemy of an enemy is a friend."

"The caravans of the Military Intelligence Department have to find a way to contact the Kipchaslavs of the Golden Horde and secretly fund them."

"After the King of Mongolia takes up the domain in Monan, there will be a war between my Ming Dynasty and the Timurid Empire, and then the sea trade will be very profitable, and the Military Intelligence Department should pay more attention."

The guard's eyes lit up.

Yes, as long as the Ming and the Timurid Empire border, there are only two options for the industry and commerce of the Timurid Empire.

Either it was washed away by the powerful handicraft products of the Ming Dynasty and became a dumping ground for the handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty.

Either that, it is to set up its own banking and financial system to engage in official trade with Daming.

The countries further west of the Timurid Empire, because they were blocked by the Timurid Empire, could not trade directly with the Ming Dynasty, which would undoubtedly promote the arrival of the era of maritime trade.

Lan Yu looked at the market in the distance, there were not many people in Hezhou at the beginning of the recovery of the Ming Dynasty.

In the early years of Hongwu, there were only more than 30,000 households in total.

Nowadays, there are too many Han people settled in Hezhou, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, and this place is a major trade route, and it is necessary to stay in the city at this time to facilitate the settlement of Han people.

Thousands of Han Chinese, not far ahead, were ramming earth bricks with "huji" mixed with wheat straw and gravel from the Gobi to build the city.

Lan Yu's eyes flickered, and he couldn't help but be a little excited, this is a good thing, he is a natural general, he is particularly sensitive to the military, the rise of maritime trade, and it will inevitably be accompanied by the great war between the west and the Timurid Empire, Xijing Chang'an military is headed by him, he will naturally have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, after he was named the Marquis of Yongchang, he has been thinking about making meritorious deeds again, and he will be crowned a national prince.

Now, Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is about to become the father-in-law of Zhu Yunwen, the king of Meng, and the jade seal of the country, the land of Monan, and the land of Liaodong have all become dowries.

He Lanyu wants to be crowned the prince of the country, and he can only look at the battle between the west and the Timurid Empire.

He couldn't help but get excited, his eyes flickered, and he planned to make a layout in advance.

Martial artists, who don't want to seal the wolf Juxu, chase the deer to the north.