stubborn thief

Chapter 524 Not bad
The letter asking for the title of king came from Uszang, and it was Huo Luochi's brothers Guru, Razun, and Bai Yan who came together to ask for the title of king.

Liu Shizi was thinking in his heart, I am not a fucking king yet, you are better off, let me make you king first.

In his heart, Wu Sizang is in the best state right now, with the Kangning Mansion blocking Qamdo outside and the Huoluochi brothers in town there, there will be almost no incidents that will involve too much energy in the Marshal's Mansion, which will free him up. Fight east.

But the three brothers asked him for the throne... It's not that Liu Chengzong didn't want to give it to him, he just felt that Brother Huoluochi was in a hurry.

In the Chengyun Hall of King Su's Mansion, he held the letter and looked at Yang Dingrui with a surprised face: "Sir, are these brothers out of their minds?"

Yang Dingrui knew that he was talking about the three Huoluochi brothers.

He was the magistrate of Kangning earlier, and he is most familiar with the matter of Uzang, not to mention that this is the letter sent to Xincheng this summer. Yang Dingrui and Liu Xiangyu have studied it several times.

The result of their research is very simple: "Without the support of the Marshal's Office, the Huoluochi brothers would be defeated sooner or later."

"Defeated?" Liu Chengzong asked in surprise, "They don't seem to have suffered a big loss when they entered Tibet to fight. How did you know that they are bound to be defeated?"

"From Corning Mansion."

Yang Dingrui said it as it should be, and said: "The pirates have entered Tibet several times in the past, and each time they marched smoothly, but after a period of time, they will show signs of failure. This is because of insufficient supplies and unstable morale. The two-year stay in Tibet is also because of the material support provided by the Kangning government.”

Liu Chengzong had heard about Yang Dingrui's support. Strictly speaking, it was not support, but trade.

To put it bluntly, Taiji transported the human, livestock, and goods obtained from the war into Tibet to Qamdo County via Leiwuqi, and then purchased the required armor, gunpowder, and wood cannons from Kangning Prefecture, as well as dried noodles and pickles needed by the sergeants to go out. And every few months, the Kangning Mansion repairs a batch of weapons and armor for them.

Every few months, Kang Ning Mansion would send a report on Wusi Tibet to Xining Mansion through the post station. In fact, on the eve of Liu Chengzong's northern expedition to Gansu, he had just read a report from Kang Ning Mansion.

What he analyzed from the report was that the three Huoluochi brothers had gradually gained a foothold in Uzang, and they already had craftsmen who repaired the armor, which could meet military needs.

Because they no longer send waste soldiers to Qamdo.

But what Liu Shizi imagined was not the truth. Yang Dingrui spread his hands and said, "When I was in Kangning, I sent some monks to Uzang to find out the situation in the name of worshiping Buddha. Those monks came back at the beginning of this year. Huo Luochi's situation is not as optimistic as the battle report shows."

"Sir, you mean that Huo Luochi sent me false information?"

Liu Chengzong frowned and said: "The battle report says that they have already occupied most of the land in Uzbekistan. The cavalry has wiped out the aristocratic territory over and over again. Only the Shigatse Zongshan Fort occupied by Zangba is still stubbornly resisting."

"Ugh."

Yang Dingrui sighed helplessly, nodded and said: "Huo Luochi is not lying, it is because we did not do a good job of informing Wu Sizang, they controlled the grasslands in Dangxiong, Nagqu and other places, relying on the monks of the Yellow Sect to control Zangba Suppressed south of the Lhasa Valley."

"Even if you look at the entire topographical map, Huoluochi controls four or five times more land than Zangba."

Yang Dingrui couldn't help showing a wry smile as he said: "But in the world, whoever has more land has never won. If we take the Marshal's Mansion as an example, it is equivalent to Zangba ruling the Hehuang Valley, and Huoluochi occupying Heka and Golmud. Marshal thinks who is stronger and who is weaker?"

Liu Chengzong blinked: "I understand when you say that, Mr. Huo Luochi occupies barren land."

"Yes, although Zangba is invincible on the battlefield, they control millions of acres of irrigated fields in the Lhasa River Basin, with land and population; Huoluochi's offensive is like fire, but their Mongolian soldiers and Mongolian horses are numerous. One death is one less."

Yang Dingrui shook his head slightly: "It won't be long before they will become nomadic tribes on the Dangxiong grassland. At that time, in order to survive, they will plunder all the surrounding places that can be robbed, not only in the Lhasa Valley, but also in Qamdo and even Kangning. "

Liu Chengzong frowned instinctively, wanting to ask: How dare they rob me?
But he was relieved immediately, and even felt that his mentality was a bit funny... He is a rebel of the peasant uprising, and he should understand the behavior of the dying person holding on to the straw.

Whether to die now, or die after robbing, no one really cares at that time.

"Because of this, Huo Luochi urgently needs stronger support from the Marshal's Office... such as the Marshal's Army's entry into Tibet." Yang Dingrui said, raising his hand and tapping on the table: "But how can the Marshal's Army's tiger and wolf division enter Tibet? Huo Luochi's dominance in Uzang?"

Liu Chengzong raised his hand to cover the letter sent by the three Huo Luochi brothers, and replied along the way: "Accepting the title of the Marshal's Mansion, being the king of the Marshal's Mansion... really worthy of them."

Huo Luochi's three sons have dealt with the Ming army for half their lives, and they are very familiar with the ritual system of the Central Plains. Besides, they have always lived in Qinghai, and they have many contacts with Hexi, which was ruled by the Ming Dynasty. They are very familiar with the political system of the Central Plains , and entered Uzang, a place that has always had the tradition of inviting foreign aid.

Combining the two, the Marshal's Mansion is the easiest foreign aid they can attract.

It's just that Liu Chengzong's words heard Yang Dingrui's ears, but he thought of something else, which made Yang Dingrui laugh and said: "That is, after all, it is normal for you to be the king for the first person who persuaded you to become emperor. "

Liu Chengzong laughed when he heard the words.

Needless to say, although the goal of the entire Marshal's Mansion is to make Liu Chengzong emperor, it was the Han generals in the Marshal's Mansion who supported him and declared him the Great Khan of all Mongolia; Be emperor.

Emperor of the Great Yuan Empire.

After laughing, Liu Chengzong changed his face, frowned and said: "It's easy to be crowned king, but it's difficult for the three Huo Luochi brothers to appeal."

The real purpose of their request for the title of king was to hope that the Marshal's Mansion would send troops into Tibet, but even Liu Chengzong and Yang Dingrui knew very well that simply sending troops into Tibet was just a sequel to Huoluochi's entry into Tibet and could not solve the problem.

To completely solve the Uzang problem, the Marshal's Mansion has limited capabilities at this stage, and this is not cost-effective.

To put it simply, U-Tsang is very special, because of geographical barriers, as an independent geographical unit, the historical process of U-Tsang is actually not behind.

From the first generation of Zanpu of the Yalong tribe to the second generation of No.30 Zanpu Songtsen Gampo, Songtsen Gampo, who is already relatively powerful, unified the whole of Tibet in two generations, divided U-Tibet into four regions, and has a population of 2806 million population, and established a powerful centralized slavery state on the snowy plateau.

Inconvenient transportation, language barriers, different customs, war victories, prisoners of war, aborigines, debtors, criminals, all countries in the world that conquered large areas of land in a short period of time, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to Rome, from Rome to England, from England to America, have adopted slavery.

Tubo is not far behind.

After that, Uzbek developed even more rapidly. In the ninth century when Tubo was destroyed, a large number of civilians and slaves revolted, forming a long-term chaotic separatist regime and entering the era of feudal serfdom, which is not far behind in the world.

But after that, U-Tsang ushered in the most special place - the Liangzhou Huimeng.

More than 300 years of separatism and turmoil have caused the population of Uzbek to drop sharply. It was the heyday of Mongolia. In the north, when Genghis Khan surrendered Uighur and destroyed Xixia, it was even bordering on the border.

The Mongolian army encircled the entire Uzang on three sides, and the situation of the encirclement was even tighter than the current Marshal's Mansion's encirclement of Uzang.

Then a Mongolian army marched into Uzang and burned down the temples, stationed there for two years, ascertained information, and then invited the most powerful religious leader Sakya Pandita to Liangzhou to discuss the ownership of Uzang, and finally the entire Uzang Hidden into the layout.

This was a compromise made by the two sides to avoid war, and it was a great achievement in shaping peace, but it also caused a problem—the social problems within U-Tsang have not been resolved.

History spirals up. In every era of the Central Plains Dynasty, there will be a lot of waste at the beginning. After the damage caused by the war is repaired, rapid development will be achieved. The happiness and satisfaction that people gain can bridge the problems brought about by development until land conflicts become more and more serious. Intense, and finally social unrest, returning to the war years.

Only at this time, people will enter the time of reflection in pain, and finally the most capable person will stand out from the chaos and killing, lead the most powerful army and unrivaled prestige in this land, and start to solve the legacy of past development. Solve the problems in the future, get rid of the long-standing disadvantages, and create a new foundation for the next dynasty.

The Liangzhou League interrupted the process of Tibetan Tibet. The social problems of the Tubo period were left over to the Yuan Dynasty due to the intervention of external forces. The Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty solved the problems of the Mongols themselves.

When the Yuan Dynasty perished, the problems of the Xifan people were still unsolved, and they were left over to the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang solved the problems of the Han people, but he would not solve the problems of the Mongols, Semu people, and Xifan people.

Because even if a person has the supreme imperial power in the world, he can only and only solve the social problems he has seen with his own eyes, because there is no other reason for a person to move a stone, because the stone blocks his way.

It’s hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. How can I solve it if I don’t see it, don’t know it, and can’t empathize with it?

Everyone has their own problems to solve. Some people have more and some people have less. This has something to do with the environment in which they live. Zhu Yuanzhang has the most experience and solves the most problems.

He realized that his son didn't have so much social experience, but he was very capable. The biggest problem was his great nephew - and it was solved.

When it comes to Lord Chongzhen, he is not very good. He lacks social experience, but his advantage is that he is diligent and capable, and he is good at finding problems and solving them.

High-ranking officials are a problem, which can be easily solved; the common people are a problem, and they fall apart;

Anyway, solved.

But social problems are like cancer. The earlier they are discovered, the easier they are to be solved;

The centuries-old feudal system left over from Uzbek is the reason why Uzbek soldiers are weak. They are all the same people. Zangba Khan’s army is even better equipped than the Mongolian army of the three brothers. This is the root of the problem.

On the surface Zangba Khan occupies Tibet, but in fact there are many earth kings under his command. Some dare to fight, some enjoy pleasure. A hundred nobles have a hundred hearts. What will he use to fight the Huoluochi brothers who have lost their hometown?
Yang Dingrui said: "Actually, I thought it would be easy to send troops into Tibet, but it is very difficult to confer kings... What kind of king is suitable for them. Now there is no prince in the Marshal's Mansion, and Huntaiji is just a state uncle. Even if brothers Huo Luochi are conferred knights, The title should also be under Batur Huntaiji."

Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said: "It's okay, the lower title given to Batur Huntaiji is because I still want to give him a title in the future, and the three Huoluochi brothers may not need to be promoted in the future—not to mention, if it is difficult, it will be fine." What to do."

Liu Shizi said with a smile: "I wrote back to tell them that I remember their support for me, but now that I have not become king, it is a bit too early for them to ask me for a king. Ji, let’s all be made county counties first, and the affairs of Uzang will be handled step by step, and their titles will be raised little by little, and it is not impossible to confer hereditary princes in the future.”

Yang Dingrui shook his head and said, "Are you really planning to establish a Mongol king in the Central Plains?"

"of course not."

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "I don't want to be too stingy with these leaders who have their own soldiers and horses and want to submit to them, but of course I will not confer a Mongol king in the Central Plains... Sir, the world is so big!"

After all, Liu Chengzong sorted out the documents and said: "This reply letter is sent to Uzang. It is estimated that it will not be long before Taiji will ask the Marshal Army to enter Tibet. Kangning's garrison cannot be moved, and the fortress of Zangba will be pulled down." , It should be enough to transfer a battalion of soldiers and horses, and the Kangning Mansion has the ability to transport artillery into Uzang, right?"

Yang Dingrui wanted to nod in response. After more than two years of development, Kangning Mansion has the ability to be self-sufficient and has sufficient manpower. He is also familiar with delivering supplies to Uszang from Qamdo.

However, thinking about the changes of the Marshal's Mansion Expeditionary Force in Gansu still made him hesitate: "You mean how many guns are there?"

"Thousand catty cannon."

Yang Dingrui thought it was okay, it wasn't the big monster Liu Chengzong cast in the north, nodded and said: "The road is difficult, but it's not impossible to transport."

Liu Chengzong thought about the list of generals in his heart, then shook his head and said: "Forget it, let Li Laozhen's battalion be promoted to a big battalion, equip craftsmen and go to Changdu before casting, and I will add another one for him with only a thousand soldiers. Battalion, go to Kangning Mansion to replenish the soldiers."

A battalion of more than a thousand soldiers?

Yang Dingrui asked: "There is still a small camp with more than a thousand people in the Marshal's Mansion?"

"For Zhang Xianzhong's new troops in the north, I plan to send General Feng Shuangli to follow Li Laojie into Tibet to explore the way."

Liu Chengzong has been thinking about the benefits of entering Tibet. The manpower and material resources that Uzbek can provide are almost offset by the long distance. Many mineral resources on the plateau are difficult to mine with current technical means. The biggest advantage is probably the proximity to India. .

Tubo once pushed the border to the Ganges River, and Liu Shizi did not plan to dig the ancestral grave of Emperor Taizu, but he thought to himself, if Zhang Xianzhong had the courage and ability to enter Fengyang in the hinterland of Ming Dynasty, and capture Xiangyang along the Yangtze River.

After those few years, relying on the integrated Uzang, it might not be an option for him to go down the mountain to the Ganges River for a walk.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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