Chapter 393: Mobei surrenders
After Zhu Chenggong took the town, a large area of land in Taiwan was reclaimed, and the Han immigrants planted large tracts of rice on the land, and they did not waste any land, and even planted potatoes and sweet potatoes in the relatively barren places and mountains.
These grains not only fed them, but also enriched the warehouses of the Taiwan government, and also fed the Zheng army, which was reorganizing the army in Taiwan.
Although Su Yan had seen these changes from the memorabilia sent by the Taiwan prefect before, after listening to Zhu Chenggong's mouth, he still had a special feeling, he knew that as long as it was more than ten years later, when the next generation arrived, Taiwan would completely integrate with the Celestial Empire and become a loyal treasure island, and there would be no people who forgot their ancestors in the future and spoke of independence.
After reporting this, Zhu Chenggong asked Su Yan again, when the army would be able to cross the sea to expedition to Luzon, Zhu Chenggong has not been idle in these years, he has not been idle in addition to the army, he also sent many meticulous works to follow the caravan into Luzon, spying on Luzon's military strength and customs.
He mentioned that the armament of the Franco-Rang people in Luzon was weak, with only about 1,500 to 2,000 soldiers, and the quality of the soldiers was extremely poor, and the military discipline was bad, so it was necessary to rely on the armed assistance of the local natives and Japanese ronin, and once the army of the Celestial Empire sent troops, it would be able to take the whole island of Luzon in a few days.
Su Yan was convinced of this, he granted Zhu Chenggong the right to act cheaply on the spot, and allowed him to decide whether to start a war with the Francophone at his own discretion, Zhu Chenggong hurriedly received the order of thanks, and assured Su Yan on the spot that at the end of this year at the earliest, the victory over Luzon would be reported to the emperor's imperial case.
Zhu Chenggong attacked Luzon, Su Yan was looking forward to it, on the eve of Zhu Chenggong's death in history, he still remembered to prepare to attack Luzon, in order to "punish" the Spaniards, if it weren't for his baby son Zheng Jing is too strange, maybe Luzon is very likely to become a ......
After leaving from Su Yan's side, Zhu Chenggong did not leave the palace immediately, but went to Kunning Palace to visit his sister and nephew, Queen Zheng was very happy with the arrival of her brother, she took the babbling prince and Zhu Chenggong to ask for warmth, and finally forced Zhu Chenggong to stay in the palace and have dinner together before letting him go.
After that, on the first day of the sixth month, the palace banquet was carried out as scheduled, and the liveliness and pomp of the palace banquet naturally needless to say, the birthday gifts sent from all over the country and overseas subject countries were almost piled up into a small mountain, and there were many rare treasures among them, which Su Yan had never seen.
It is worth mentioning that the overseas subjects who came to congratulate this time were Korea, Ryukyu, Cham, Nanzhang, Donghu, Ayutoya, etc., and the Mongol tribes were not considered subject countries, but they also paid tribute to the best furs and horses.
Not only that, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, far away from the sea, also sent people to send birthday gifts, and the aggressiveness of the new and powerful new dynasty in the Central Plains made the Tokugawa shogunate feel a hint of crisis, and sent envoys to the first to establish good relations with the new Central Plains Dynasty, and secondly, to inquire about information in advance.
After the first birthday of the first year passed, Su Yan also pointed out the marriage to the three clan relatives, he married the youngest daughter of Wu Zhongluan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to Su Dingyuan, the Duke of Rongguo, and the granddaughter of Zhang Kentang, the cabinet assistant, to Su Fu, the governor of North Korea.
At the same time, Su Yan used Su Fu to pacify the chaos in North Korea, canonized him as Anton Bo, and gave him a mansion in the city of Jingshi.
Marriage naturally can't start immediately, during this period, you have to go through the traditional process, choose a good day and auspicious day, the fastest of which is three months later, after going through the traditional engagement process, the three of them stayed in Beijing for a while, Su Dingyuan was relieved not to go to the front line, so he returned to Liaodong in advance.
After Su Ding left, the other two did not continue to stay, and returned to Liaodong one after another.
The four Khalkha Mongol tribes did not arrive in Beijing on their birthday, but finally arrived a few days later, and together they asked the court to submit and expressed their willingness to become the pawns of the Great Xia Emperor and fight for the emperor.
Like the Mongol tribes in Monan, they went to the throne of Khan and respected Su Yan as the Heavenly Khan together.
Su Yan is naturally a dragon face Dayue about this, although the system has been emasculated after completing the ultimate task (1), but as long as the other party expresses submission, the ability to be affected by the system still exists, and after the four divisions of Mobei say surrender, they will go by over time
Loyalty to the emperor grew.
The Khalkha Mongols surrendered, and there will be no enemies north of the empire, to be precise, the north of the Khalkha Mongols has fallen into the hands of the colonial army of Tsarist Russia for several years, as early as 1650, when Su Yan just crossed into this world, the Russian army had captured Yaksa and forcibly built a castle.
At that time, the Qing court did not regard these foreigners from the cold and frozen land of the northeast as enemies, and allowed the Russian army to build castles, and continued to expand southward, and then the Qing court's energy was all focused on dealing with the counterattack of the Han people in Guannei, and in 1656, the Han people were beaten and had to stick to Shengjing City, so naturally they had no time to take care of the northeast border.
Su Yan will not tolerate Tsarist Russia's continued eastward expansion and occupation of the eastern lands, before he was beyond his reach and could not fight back against the Russian army, but now that all the four parts of Mobei Mongolia have surrendered, he can finally directly start a war with Tsarist Russia.
However, the Xia army was still unable to directly engage the Russian army through the vast steppe, and Su Yan was ready to use the Mongol tribes as the vanguard to fight with the Russian army first to fight for control of the vast land of Siberia.
Until then, he needed to be fully prepared, and the Russians had built scattered fortresses in Siberia to consolidate their dominance there, and the Mongols, known for their cavalry archery, could not conquer the forts, so they had to leave it to the Xia army, which had to be handed over to the powerful artillery.
From the north of the Great Wall to the Tangnu Wuliang Sea, there is a vast flat grassland, which is not suitable for infantry marching, so if you want to send the Xia army to Mobei, you can only rely on war horses, unless you unlock steam locomotives and rail technology later, you can only march with war horses.
Before officially starting a war with Tsarist Russia, Su Yan still had a few things to do.
First, more independent cavalry brigades should be formed, and the two cavalry brigades that were ordered to be formed before are still on standby in Shaanxi, because the Mongol tribes are very aware of the current affairs and surrendered, and they will have no place for the time being.
Second, to wipe out the countries of the Western Regions, whether it is the Heshute Khanate that occupies Qinghai and Uszang, or the Yarkand Khanate and the Dzungar Department that dominate the Western Regions, which were all established by the Mongols, and are not friendly to the Han people, if Russia sends envoys to persuade them to jointly send troops to attack the Xia Dynasty, the western border will be in danger.
Third, it is necessary to organize new armies in various localities as soon as possible, unify the mobile corps throughout the country into new-style armies equipped with Type II rifles, and eliminate the old-style armies that still use alternating hot and cold weapons to the second line and become local garrisons.
Su Yan's first target was naturally to occupy the Heshute Khanate in Qinghai, but the Heshute Khanate occupied the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and took a condescending posture towards the territory of the Xia Dynasty.
If it wants to start a war with the Hoshut Khanate, the imperial court must make a complete strategy, and dispatch troops from Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan to go to war.