The war in Annam progressed significantly, and the captured Li Dynasty king Li Weiqi and his harem concubines, princes, and ministers were escorted to Jiangning City.

After the king of the Li Dynasty was sent to Jiangning City, Su Yan received him at the court meeting, and in front of Li Weiqi and the civil and military officials, he ordered his attendants to read out the holy decree he had prepared, and announced that he would resume the direct rule in Annam with the legal principles since ancient times.

He announced the deposition of Li Weiqi as the monarch of Annam, demoted him to a concubine, rewarded the concubines of the harem to meritorious soldiers, and assigned his princes and ministers to Taiwan.

At the same time, Su Yan also announced that Tokyo, the capital of Annam, would be restored to its ancient name, Thang Long, and that it would be governed by the political envoy of Jiaozhi Bu, and that experienced bureaucrats from within the imperial court would be transferred to govern it.

With the promulgation of Su Yan's holy decree, after a lapse of 227 years, since the Ming Dynasty Xuanzong Xuande three years of the Ming army completely withdrew from Annam, canonized Li Li as the king of Annam, and re-established the Jiaozhi Political Envoy in the second year of Xia Wu'an, this piece of Qin and Han Dynasty has been incorporated into the homeland and finally returned to the rule of the Han people again.

Not only had the empire restored its rule over Cochin, but in the north, the 1st Cavalry Brigade, led by Anding Bomabao, had crossed the Great Wall and was the first to attack the Mongols in the north under the leadership of recruited Mongol guides.

Until the beginning of November, the Xia army attacked and destroyed three Mongolian tribes in a series of raids before the Mongol tribes reacted, capturing a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, old and weak women and children.

After Wu Yingzhi became emperor from Datong Mansion, he fled into the Mongolian steppe with a large number of strong men, but they did not flee all the way north, but fled all the way to the west, in the direction of the Western Regions, and fought a few battles with several Mongolian tribes who were eyeing them along the way, and the latter did not get any advantage, so they could only let Wu Zhou's army continue to go west.

All the way to the west.

After receiving the information reported by Ma Bao, Su Yan immediately ordered someone to get a map to check how the situation in the west was, at this time, the Dzungar Khanate, which had plagued the three generations of kings of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, was in the midst of civil strife, and no one would believe that this divided khanate would become a common problem for the Qing and Russia in the future.

In the original history, in 1655, the Yarkand monarch Abdul Rakha Khan sent an envoy to the Qing Dynasty to pay tribute, and the Shunzhi Emperor gave a special reward and issued an edict to praise, and the two countries established stable and friendly relations.

However, in the current world, the Yarkand Khanate did not send an envoy to the Central Plains, and Abdullaha Khan, known as the "Lord of Zhongxing" of the Yarkand Khanate, learned from the original merchants that a new Han Chinese empire had expelled the Tatars and rebuilt the country, and was full of vigilance against this emerging empire and did not take the initiative to contact it.

Moreover, although the Dzungar Khanate north of the Tien Shan Mountains was still mired in civil strife, they still did not reserve their desire to expand south of the Tien Shan Mountains, which forced Abdullaha Khan to focus more on the Dzungar Khanate.

This is the current situation in the Western Regions, Su Yan does not think that Wu Zhou's remnants of the defeated army will be able to play a brilliant record in the Western Regions, and he is not in a hurry to pursue Wu Zhou's remnants, in his opinion, Wu Zhou is just a dog with a broken backbone, there is no threat, and the current priority is to completely subdue the Mongolian tribes in the north and completely solve the threat in the north of the empire.

If you want to deal with the Mongols in the north, history has told Su Yan that blind force will not work, and he needs to use both grace and power, but some of the methods of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are not applicable, and the interests of the Manchus and the Mongols in history are tied together, and if they want to sit in a stable position, they must hug each other tightly and suppress the huge Han people.

And now, the emperors and ordinary people of the Xia Empire are Han Chinese, and the status of the Mongols is destined to be impossible to overpower the Han people, they can only be the ruled class.

The only way was to assimilate the Mongols, force them to sinicize with fire and sword, learn Chinese, wear Hanfu, obey the laws of the Han people, and become loyal subjects of the empire.

Although with the assistance of the system, Su Yan can easily make the Mongols submit to him and will not have the idea of rebellion against him, but he also has to think about the long term, he cannot guarantee that once he dies, the constraints of the system will not exist, if the system also disappears together, the relationship maintained only by the system will collapse in an instant.

Su Yan's current idea is to borrow from the Qing Dynasty in history

The method of division was also to implement the alliance flag system among the Mongol ministries, stipulating a fixed territory for each flag, and dividing the Mongol ministries into fragments, so that they could not unite and unite against the empire.

The flag system was only the beginning, and the religious management system established by the Qing court in Mongolia was the final priority, which could only be implemented after the control of the Mongolian region was stabilized.

The results of the First Cavalry Brigade in the Mongolian steppe made Su Yan taste the sweetness, and he decided to continue to form the Second Cavalry Brigade in Shaanxi to participate in the battle against the Mongolian departments, and he immediately formed two cavalry brigades in Shaanxi in one breath with the template of the First Brigade, and invested nearly 100,000 taels of silver.

At the same time, Su Yan also took advantage of Ma Bao's prestige of slaughtering the three tribes in the Mongolian steppe, and sent many envoys to the Mobei Plain, while demanding that the Mongolian tribes submit to the imperial court and accept the control of the imperial court, and those who surrendered first would receive rich rewards, while threatening that if they did not submit to the imperial court, the imperial army would soon set foot on the royal tribes.

Most of the Mongol tribes scoffed at the envoys sent by the Xia Dynasty and the naked threat, and although they heard about the achievements of the Xia cavalry, they did not think that the small number of Xia cavalry could continue to be arrogant on the steppe.

Some of these tribal leaders even began to secretly collude, preparing to unite against this Xia cavalry, annihilate the Xia cavalry on the grassland, and let the Han people in the south see that the grassland is still the Mongol world after all.

However, there were still a few weak Mongol tribes who were afraid of the strength of the Xia army, and several of the Mongol tribes closest to the Great Wall were the first to respond, and they immediately expressed their willingness to submit to the envoy and led the tribe south.

For these Mongolian tribes who were the first to submit, Su Yan showed great generosity, he ordered a lot of rewards, and used these Mongolian tribes as the basis for the implementation of the alliance flag system, he deliberately assigned the pastoral areas of the Mongolian tribes who were unwilling to submit to these small tribes, so that they were completely tied to the warships of the imperial court, and led the army with Ma Bao to attack those large tribes who did not want to join, killing chickens and monkeys.

At the same time, considering that Ma Bao's First Cavalry Brigade might be insufficient, he ordered Li Laiheng, the governor of Xuan, to lead the Fourth Town to attack and attack the Mongol tribes who chose to resolutely resist the imperial court.

With the military order issued by the imperial court, the Mongolian steppe was ignited by the war again, Ma Bao led the alliance with the attached Mongolian cavalry to take the initiative to attack, and in just half a month, he successively defeated two Mongolian tribes who were unwilling to submit, which greatly deterred other tribes.

In order to protect themselves, the EEDS Department, which had been divided into six banners by the Qing court, united and jointly elected the EEDS Wanhu Erjin Baalsborot Fifth Sun Xiaoer Zhijin Ephochen as Khan, and the latter organized a large coalition army to kill the army led by Ma Bao.