In 1206, the Mongol beggars chieftain Temujin proclaimed himself Genghis Khan at the source of the Nan River and established the Great Mongolian State.

The unified Mongol Empire had a total of four khans.

After Temujin, his third son, Ögedei Khan.

Then there was the eldest son of Wokotai, Guiyu Khan.

After the death of Guiyu Khan, who had only reigned for three years, the Golden Family began to experience a certain degree of internal strife, and in the end, it was Montke, the eldest son of Temujin's youngest son, Torre, who prevailed.

In 1258, Möngke Khan was hampered by the Diaoyu City in Sichuan during his attack on the Southern Song Dynasty and could not be conquered for several months. The following year, he suddenly died violently.

Because the death was so sudden, there was no time to appoint an heir.

The Mongol Empire once again experienced civil strife.

Möngke's second brother Kublai Khan and fourth brother Ali Buge fought for five years for the throne of Khan.

The result of the civil war was the victory of Kublai Khan and the establishment of the Yuan dynasty in East Asia, but Kublai Khan's self-enthronement and his advocacy of Han law caused strong dissatisfaction among most of the Mongol sects.

As a result, the Mongol Empire split into the Chagatai Khanate, the Golden Horde, and the Ilkhanate.

The Yuan Dynasty founded by Kublai Khan was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang in 1368.

The Chagatai Khanate split into East and West in 1346, with the Timurid Empire forming the West and also being influential in Central Asia.

The eastern one formed the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

In 1365, the already divided Eastern Chagatai Khanate was divided again, and to the east was the Turpan Khanate, founded by Yunus Khan. The approximate area is today's Turpan City.

The west still claimed to be the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and in 1514, in the ninth year of Zhengde, it was annexed by the Yarkand Khanate.

At this time, the Turpan Khanate had passed to the third Great Khan, Sutan Mansuer.

Mansur (also known as Mansur) reigned for a long time, in terms of the era of the Han people, that is, from the seventeenth year of Hongzhi to the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing, which happened to completely cover Zhengde.

He is wise and prudent. Suppress dissent internally and actively expand externally.

In history, in the same ninth year of Zhengde, the king of Zhongshun Baiya suddenly rebelled and annexed Mansuer, and the Hami Kingdom was destroyed. Later, Mansuer repeatedly invaded Suzhou, causing the Jiajing Emperor to finally move the Guanxi Qiwei back to the interior and give up all the land west of Jiayuguan.

The so-called Seven Guards of Guanxi are the seven guards set up by the Ming Dynasty in the west of Jiayu Pass, because the leaders of the guards are all Mongols, which is actually a country within a country.

After Emperor Jiajing moved them back to the mainland, this part of the 'Mongolian refugees' was basically unhappy, and the historical records recorded: planting melons and lending money, making a living, and they did not want to return to their homeland.

The whole is to regard Gansu as a paradise on earth.

Therefore, in history, the Ming Dynasty wanted to rely on these locals to restore the Hami Kingdom, but it was simply a no-brainer.

And because the Kansai Qiwei has a tradition of fettering rule, he is not valued by the current Zhu Houzhao at all, and he doesn't want to come to a country within a country again.

Five years after Zhengde, he gradually sent Han troops to enter the city of Hami with them as Hami guards.

This curbed Mansuer's ambitions to a certain extent, but it also did not seem to have the effect of the heavenly soldiers sitting there and the enemy fleeing from the wind.

This is all the background for Zhou Shangwen to suddenly have this performance.

Ten years of governance, the Ming Dynasty is no longer the original Ming Dynasty, Gansu is far away from the Central Plains, and the population is only one million, and the environment is relatively harsh, it is difficult to gather strength.

But now, Zhou Shangwen not only has more than 40,000 elite soldiers, but also in his rear, the imperial court has the strength to continuously transport all kinds of materials.

The phrase 'doubling the guilt' is even more of a great political support.

Zhu Houzhao has not done such a thing, when the blockade of Tatar was carried out, there were still merchants in the mainland who secretly financed the enemy, and the whole family was arrested and beheaded.

Capital.

The cabinet was Yang Yiqing and Wang Wei sitting together, and news came from Huai'an Mansion in the afternoon of this day.

Wang Wei'an couldn't sit still, he got up and asked urgently, "What did Your Majesty say?" ”

Yang Yiqing read it word by word: Hami is the hometown of Tang Yizhou, and the old county of Tuntian can be donated. The prosperity of the unification of the country, all the pearls are included in the household, and it is said that it is outside Yizhou? This name cannot be renounced. His Majesty means that the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties cannot be lost.

This is the core principle that is clear from the beginning.

And then there's that.

Wang Wei received it, "...... Bao Hami so protect Gansu, protect Gansu so protect Shaanxi also, if it is difficult to say that Hami is difficult to code and abandon Hami, then Gansu is difficult to keep and abandon Gansu? Because of the abandonment of Gansu, then the abandonment of Lintao and Ningxia can be huh? The two sides of the northwest are neighbors with captives, and the size of the retreat is lost, so the discussion of abandoning the frontier must not be careless. ”

This was the emperor's response to the argument that the northwestern frontier was sparsely populated, useless, unharmed, and inherently difficult to defend.

At this point, the meaning has come out.

The following is the meaning of Feng Zhoushang's title.

Yang Yiqing did not delay in the slightest, he said: "We will immediately follow the will of the Holy Lord, Jizhi, you personally draft the text, and then we will report to the emperor's eldest son with the seal, and then send it to Zhou Shangwen in an expedited manner of eight hundred miles." ”

"Yes."

"Someone," Yang Yiqing shouted outside, "With my warrant, Wang Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of Transmission, He Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and Wang Hua, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, will be on standby in Fengtian Palace." ”

This kind of important event should be announced in the Fengtian Temple in front of the eldest son of the emperor who is in charge of the country. Although it is actually just a process, because the emperor in Huai'an Mansion has already decided the general direction, this process cannot be missing.

Jaegen is already nine years old and can understand the basic truth, but the child is a little unbearable to sit on it motionless for several hours in a row.

However, today's atmosphere is not right, and the chamberlain has already told him that today is a major military event, and the emperor has personally made a will, and he must not lose his honor.

After Wang Jing, Wang Hua and He Jian arrived, they felt a little worried when they saw that there were only two people, Yang Yiqing and Wang Wei. Wang Hua said: "There are only five of us? Whether to send troops or not is a big matter, should we call the rest of the people to discuss together? ”

Yang Yiqing replied to him, "There's nothing to discuss." A few days ago, the military reported that he arrived at His Majesty's palace, and His Majesty's will had arrived. Zhou Shangwen is the general of the expedition to the west, and from today on, the imperial court has officially used troops in the northwest to deter the ministers. In accordance with His Majesty's will, the Ministry of War was to be responsible for coordinating the towns of Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Shuofang to transport surplus military rations to Gansu from the date of the order, and to order the Taifu Temple to send war horses to Gansu. However, the surplus military rations in the towns could only be used for emergencies, and the household department had to urgently allocate 1 million taels of silver to let Shaanxi continue to supply military supplies by purchasing and raising funds on its own. The matter was entrusted to Wang Qiong, the governor of Shaanxi. ”

In this way, Zhou Shangwen is in front and Wang Qiong is in the back.

Wu is a generation of famous generals, Wen is a generation of famous ministers, and Zhu Houzhao wants to lift all the heavenly spirit covers of the waste in the Western Regions.

"A million taels?" He Jian was taken aback when he heard this.

Yang Yiqing's eyes flickered, "The household department should have enough silver, right?" ”

"Yes, yes. There are still more than 3 million taels of silver left in the household department, but there are already stored military grain and grass in various parts of the northwest, and weapons and war horses have consumed a lot of silver to maintain every year. Moreover, His Majesty is still preparing for next year's personal expedition, and the expedition to the northwest will cost 1 million, and next year's expedition to Mongolia will not be much, and there will not be much left in the treasury. ”

There is not much left in the treasury, there is still the treasury of Shaofu and the emperor, and silver is only one aspect, and the storage of grain in the past few years has been so much that it is going to rot.

However, He Jian also has a reason, he only manages the treasury, and he can't manage the rest.

Yang Yiqing naturally knew that the cost seemed to be a bit much, but how to say it, "The old man can understand what His Majesty means, the forces in the Western Regions are chaotic, and there are Warat and Qinghai tribes in the north and south, so this battle is to want the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

His words are more elegant.

In fact, what Zhu Houzhao wanted to express was that the Han people were fucking back in this competitive land!

Wang Wei took out the words he had prepared, that is, the words that the emperor said to reward Zhou Shangwen, several old ministers read them one by one, and the core meaning was the same as what the Son of Heaven said, so they had no opinion.

In the end, Yang Yiqing took it in his hand, and the other four people followed him, and they knelt down together to the eldest son of the emperor who was sitting on it.

This is the last step, please use the seal.

In ancient times, in order to prevent the loss of such important orders, they were sent together in several ways and several groups of people. So in the evening, on the official road to the west outside the capital, Pegasus began to chase the wind and run non-stop!