According to incomplete statistics, there were as many as 22 secession forces in Tibet in the late Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the religious forces that are ready to move, the whole of Tibet seems to be torn apart.

Why does it seem?

Underlying the division lies the tendency towards unification.

That is, the vast majority of the estates and wealth in Tibet have been occupied by officials, nobles and monasteries.

Since they have given their subjects the management and protection of them, they have the right to demand that the burden of taxation be reciprocated.

This is precisely the basic characteristic of feudal lordship.

This trend has continued.

If we follow the historical trajectory, when a person similar to Gushi Khan succeeded in unifying Tibet, it would be completely finalized.

Yang Chengying would never allow this kind of thing to happen.

It was not conducive to his management, but also hindered the development of industry.

In his mind, he had already planned a route, and it would be best if he could provoke the infighting between Zangba Khan and Choktu Taiji.

If not, they will not give the Panchen and the Kuiketu Taiji a chance to get together.

In short, until he seized Gansu and other places, it was necessary to maintain the division of the situation.

For the messengers who came together, Yang Cheng should take different countermeasures.

In addition, he sent an order to Gushi Khan, ordering him to lead an army to attack and harass the Kyuktutaiji.

In this way, he demonstrated his authority in front of the major powers in Tibet.

There is no way, who let the Ming Dynasty only nominally unify the snowy plateau.

Tibetans are not afraid of Han Chinese.

To cite just one example, the Ming Dynasty emperor in Thangka is very small, and the living Buddha is so big.

During the Zhengde years, he also did a shameful thing in Tibet to his grandmother's house.

When Emperor Zhengde heard that the 8th Karmapa Living Buddha Mijue Dorje had strange abilities, he sent Liu Yun, an internal supervisor, to lead an army of 1,000 people into Tibet and invited the Living Buddha to Beijing to meet.

Mijue Dorje was only nine years old at the time, and he was afraid that he would be murdered when he arrived in Jingshi, so he went into hiding.

In order to fulfill the emperor's order, Liu Yun actually led an army to try to forcibly take away Mijue Dorje, and then was attacked by the leader and fled back to Chengdu alone.

By the time of Altan Khan, the situation was even more serious.

The whole of Qinghai became an "enclave" under Altan Khan's rule.

This is why the Gelug sect was keen to preach among the Mongols, and when something happened, they asked the Mongol nobles to borrow troops.

Yang Chengying asked Gushi Khan to send troops, in fact, he wanted to tell the Tibetans that the Mongols you rely on are all my subordinates, and you should weigh it.

It's just that the plan can't catch up with the changes, and the situation in the Central Plains is reversed in an instant.

Just when Yang Chengying was planning how to enter Tibet after seizing the world, great changes took place in the northwest.

Li Zicheng led the army to sweep the northwest.

After he successfully captured Tongguan, Liuguoyi's general Ma Shiyao led an army of 7,000 to defend Tongguan, and then personally led the army straight to Xi'an.

Hearing that the army was coming, the generals who stayed in Xi'an found Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, who was in Xi'an.

Things are still those things, and Zhu Cunji also expected to disagree.

The general looked, you are like this, Lao Tzu is still a ghost.

On 13 April, Li Guo, the vanguard of the peasant army, arrived at the city of Xi'an, and the general decisively led his officers and men to open the door to welcome the peasant army into the city.

After entering the city, Li Zicheng divided the military and civilians in the city into three groups.

The first group is the people, opening the granary of the Qin Wangfu to help the victims.

The second group was surrendered officers and soldiers, and Li Zicheng incorporated them.

The third group is the clan, and all of them are executed.

Only one Qin king, Zhu Cunji, was left and became a puppet in the army.

In fact, Zhu Cunji was one of the culprits who led to Sun Chuanting's rapid downfall.

Sun Chuanting desperately scavenged for grain in Shaanxi, but still couldn't feed so many troops, which directly led to the collapse of the army's morale after the food ran out on a rainy day, and was defeated by the intruding army in a battle.

However, Sun Chuanting never dared to touch the largest landlord of the Ming Dynasty in Shaanxi, the King of Qin.

If nothing else, let's just talk about it

The palace of the king of Qin, covering an area of 450 acres, ranks first in the scale of the palaces of the feudal princes.

Previously, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, saw this, and even played Chongzhen, hoping that Chongzhen could follow the precedent of the Tang Dynasty when Prince Feng was the marshal and the deputy marshal was actually in charge of the army, and canonized Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, as the marshal, and used the private wealth of the palace to expand the army to resist Li Zicheng.

The prince in charge?

Chongzhen didn't want to refuse.

Li Zicheng received a large amount of wealth from the Qin Palace, and he could easily reward officials and soldiers, appease the people, and collect surrendered officers and soldiers.

Just seven days later, on 20 April, Li Zicheng convened a military meeting and deployed troops and horses to seize the three sides of Shaanxi.

"Where is General Quan's Tian Jianxiu?"

Li Zicheng sat on the main seat of the main hall of the Qin Palace, giving orders.

"The end will be." Tamishu got up.

"Order you to lead your army south, pursue Gao Ruli, who is fleeing, and capture Hanzhong by the way!"

Li Zicheng pulled out an arrow from the lottery in front of him and handed it to Tian Jianxiu.

Tian Jianxiu responded with a "obey", stepped forward, took the arrow with both hands, turned around and retreated.

"Liu Zongmin, He Jin, Yuan Zongdi!"

"The end will be." The three of them got up and went out of the ranks.

"With Liu Zongmin as the marshal and He Jin and Yuan Zongdi as the left and right lieutenants, they advanced westward, pursued Zheng Jiadong, who fled westward, and captured Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai."

"Command!" Liu Zongmin stepped forward and took the arrow with both hands.

Li Zicheng advised: "Zheng Jiadong took away the elite of the Ming army, you have to be careful."

"King Chuang's teachings, the last will remember." Liu Zongmin and the other three retreated.

Troops and horses were sent in both the west and south directions, the east was their own, and only the north remained.

"Li Guo, Liu Fangliang."

"Yes."

"The two of you will reorganize your army and horses, and go north with me to deal with the most difficult Gao Jie, and seize all parts of northern Shaanxi."

"Great." Li Guo was overjoyed, "This *** Gao Jie, Lao Tzu wants to kill him, and he has been thinking about it for several years!"

"Go and prepare."

Li Guo and Liu Fangliang stepped back.

Li Zicheng ordered the rest of the people to stay in Xi'an and seize the time to rest. He also told the officials to renovate and repair the water conservancy facilities in various parts of Xi'an.

"The meeting is adjourned!"

After saying trivial things, Li Zicheng waved his hand.

The crowd left the main hall one after another.

At this time, a soldier came from the crowd in the opposite direction, "King Chuang, there is a person who claims to be your friend of life and death who is outside asking to see you."

"Oh? See you."

Li Zicheng sat back in his chair.

After a while, I saw a middle-aged man with a thin figure, surrounded by his own soldiers, walking step by step into the main hall.

Without the introduction of his own soldiers, Li Zicheng was already in tears: "Passing through the stars!"

"Break ...... King." The visitor glanced up at Li Zicheng and lowered his head again.

Li Zicheng got up suddenly, walked around the table quickly, set aside his own soldiers, and walked excitedly in front of the visitor.

He grabbed the visitor by the shoulder and said happily, "You kid is finally back!"

"King Chuang!" The visitor looked up and burst into tears.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.

"I, I'm sorry for you." The visitor bowed his head again.

"Don't say that, good brother, if only you could come back."

"King Chuang...... What do you think of this brother?"

"Back then, you and I climbed the snowy mountains and crossed the meadows, and how much hardship you endured. When you leave, you leave me all the food, and only a few rations for yourself, where else in the world can you find a good brother like you!"

"King Chuang!"

"My good brother......

Li Zicheng hugged the visitor and cried loudly.

The person who came was none other than the "Heavenly Star" Zhang Tianlin.

Because he couldn't bear the hard march, he finally chose to surrender to the Ming army.

Hong Chengchou, who was the governor of the three sides at the time, did not kill him in order to quell the thief army as soon as possible

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kept messing around until Li Zicheng returned to Shaanxi.