Chapter 67: The Importance of Espionage
is secretly cooperating with Huang Taiji to subvert Mongolia.
And the two sides plan to join forces and send elite forces to attack Xuanfu, one of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, the northern border town!
Seeing this, Zhou Xian understood.
After doing it for a long time, Huang Taiji Chen Bing Liaoyang was to attract the attention of the Ming Dynasty.
The real goal is to attack Xuanfu.
No!
Zhou Xian felt that Huang Taiji's appetite was definitely not a Xuanfu military town.
His appetite was to prop up a puppet khan within the Mongol tribes.
In this way, he can let down his guard against Mongolia and go all out against the Ming Dynasty.
Such a judgment is by no means a whimsical of Zhou Xian.
After all, the Ming Dynasty is now in dire straits.
However, within Mongolia and Jiannu, there are many hidden conspirators and careerists.
Like hungry wolves, they treat the Ming Dynasty, which is rich in land and resources, as a Chinese meal, and meat on the table!
Zhou Xian put down the letterhead and paced back and forth in the palace with his hands behind his back.
He's thinking about his next steps.
First of all, there were indeed many wars between Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty.
The largest scale dates back to the Mingdezong period.
The change of the civil fort in front of him made the hatred of the Ming Dynasty against the Mongolian Warat Department increase rapidly.
Later, Warat attacked the city of Beijing.
In addition to a young Yu Qian, the Ming Dynasty saved the precarious national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty.
Forcibly renewed the life of the Ming Dynasty for 200 years!
Subsequently, although the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia often had constant friction.
But the Mongolian side also intends to make friends with the Ming Dynasty.
to deal with the Jurchens rising to their east.
Looking at the north, Mongolia and the Jurchens are like old enemies.
Dating back to the Great Song Dynasty, the Jurchens destroyed Liao.
The Khitan people of the Liao State then reunited into the Mongol tribe.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty joined forces to destroy the Jurchens.
almost made the Jurchens taste the catastrophe no less than the shame of the Great Song Jingkang.
So now, they don't like each other.
In other words, Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty can fight a little.
But when necessary, we have to rely on each other.
Especially under the premise of the growing Jiannu, Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty also tended to establish good diplomacy.
Therefore, Zhou Xian believes that at this juncture, if there is chaos within Mongolia, it will be harmful to the Ming Dynasty.
Because the Khan, who now controls the Mongolian Ministry, advocates friendship with the Ming Dynasty.
But the Hazier who was bewitched and secretly supported by Huang Taiji was an ambitious exterminator.
He has always longed for the land and people of the Ming Dynasty, to put it simply, he is eager to get the taxes of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhou Xian must stop Huang Taiji's conspiracy from succeeding.
Since Zhou Xian sent Jinyiwei's predecessor, the general Qi Yue Ling, to the outside of the gate.
Yue Ling lived up to expectations and set up an efficient spy agency in Mongolia and Jiannu.
This made Zhou Xian more aware of the situation in the outside world.
At least he could get the exact news as soon as the thieves made their plans.
It is no exaggeration to say.
Now on the road from the Mongol tribes to Wucheng.
Nine times out of ten, the people of the Central Plains that people see have something to do with Yue Ling's spy network.
Even the in-depth consideration of the extreme fear.
Just in the grasslands of Mongolia, among those herdsmen who are riding horses and galloping, there is also Yue Ling's eyeliner.
Even, the secret letter that the great Han Gegemu of the Mongolian tribe is kept in the dark today is now understood by Zhou Xian in advance.
This means that Zhou Xian can provide information to Gegemu before Hazier usurps power.
In that case, Hazir's conspiracy would be exposed in advance.
Huang Taiji's wolf ambition was naturally dissolved.
It can be said that Zhou Xian now has the dominance of this information station.
At this moment, you can understand why Zhou Xian spent a lot of money to build an overseas spy center at all costs under the premise that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty.
Hazir of the Mongolian tribe, the younger brother of the former Mongolian Han.
He is also the uncle of today's Mongolian Dahan Gegemu.
Although the current Mongolia has been divided and disintegrated by the Jiannu in the east, it is not as good as before.
But the Mongolian nomads were ready to be armed and used as wolf cavalry.
Hazir, in particular, was also the powerful minister of Mongolia.
In history, it is not uncommon for uncles to kill emperors and nephews and replace them.
Even Hazir was no exception.
However, one thing is certain, even if Hazir has strength, he has not dared to test on the dangerous road all these years.
The reason why he was so bold this time was because Huang Taiji agreed to his conditions.
As for what the conditions, Zhou Xian didn't know at the moment.
All right!
It's time to make a decision.
Now Zhou Xian must prepare for the worst.
He also felt that Huang Taiji led 150,000 troops to Liaoyang, which was a little unbelievable.
After all, this season is a strategic period for the Jurchens to reserve supplies.
Therefore, Zhou Xian also felt that there was a high probability that he would not be able to fight in Liaoyang.
He used to dispatch troops, but it was just a posture of resisting the Ming Dynasty to the end.
But now, it's a different story.
Zhou Xian had to mobilize troops to settle in Xuanfu.
The change of power within the Mongolian ministry is, in the final analysis, the chief director of Huang Taiji.
Starring Hazier.
And the real big Han Gege is still in the dark.
But in seconds, Zhou Xian had already mastered their conspiracy in advance.
Then Zhou Xian quickly formulated a two-step policy.
First of all, Gegemu, who is pro-Daming, must not be allowed to be deprived of his authority, and Gegemu will be exiled like that.
The north of the Ming Dynasty once again has one more real enemy.
Secondly, he wanted to go north in the name of the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and it was best to conquer Hazir in the name of helping Gegemu.
After all, Mongolia under Gegemu was more favorable to the Ming Dynasty as a whole.
The Ming Dynasty sent troops to help him at this time, and it would not arouse the disgust of the Mongolian tribesmen.
After all, everyone has to huddle together to keep warm.
Except, of course, conspirators like Hazier.
In order to achieve this tactical effect.
Zhou Xian had to dispatch the elite into Xuanfu's martial city.
This is Zhou Xian's current comparison category.
For a long time, the army of the Ming Dynasty was only good at defense.
Now we must take the initiative to go deep into Mongolia to attack and quell the chaos.
At the very least, the quality of the army must be excellent.
Otherwise, it would be sent out to send warmth to people.
Besides, with Daming's current family background, such a human blood steamed bun can't afford to lose.
Although the soldiers are in a nest, Emperor Chongzhen is reluctant, and Zhou Xian is also reluctant.
Because, before the Forces nouvelles were trained.
There were so many armies in the Ming Dynasty!
Whom will they send?
Zhou Xian knew very well that even if the current Xuanfu border army was managed by a fierce general from Liaodong like Qi Zhaohu, it would be impossible for it to rejuvenate its roots in a period of time, and it would become a roaring bloody soldier from the previous straw bale.
Therefore, the idea of using the Xuanfu border army was suppressed by Zhou Xian.
After thinking about it, he could only start his own Jin Wuwei.
Commanded by Lu Delin, let's make Lu Jiajun famous in the world once!
This is a military means.
Secondly, we need to go through the diplomatic process.