Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Although Aimee Zhu wanted to swallow Nanzhang, Siam, Vietnam, and Chenla one by one, she also knew that this matter could not be accomplished in a short period of time, and it would take at least a few years to achieve it.

What's more, as Hao Guangming said, among the four countries, Siam and Nanzhang are strong.

If Daming forcibly embraces it, even if it succeeds, the process will not be so beautiful, and it may cause many soldiers to die in southern Xinjiang.

Therefore, after some deliberation, Auntie Zhu decided to take over Vietnam and use her economic and cultural strength to influence the two countries. When the country's power declined and the relationship with Daming became closer, she would submit to Vietnam.

As for sending troops to take over Vietnam, Auntie Zhu is going to delay for a year and wait until next year to take action.

After all, Southwest only mobilized an army of 10,000+ to take over Burma in the 20th year of Zhaowu. If another [-] million troops are mobilized this year, it will definitely have some negative impact on the Southwest's economy. This is what Auntie Zhu does not want to see.

Anyway, she is still young and has a lot of time, so there is no rush.

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Auntie Zhu thought that if she didn't move troops, Daming's territory would not increase.

Turns out she was wrong.

In the tenth year of Zhaowu, on the third day of April, the diplomatic embassy of the Ming Dynasty in Yaergan, the capital of Yaerqiang, sent a telegram to Nanjing, saying that Abdullah Khan of Yarkand asked to lead the khanate to surrender to Ming Dynasty.

To Aimee Zhu, the occurrence of this incident was both unexpected and reasonable.

Nanjing, inside the Hall of Martial Heroes.

Auntie Zhu looked at the telegram sent by the Ya'ergan embassy, ​​with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

Since the eighth year of Zhaowu, Abdullah was "protected" by the Daming Mission led by Yan Ermei, and Daming sent another battalion of elites (Li Guoti Biaoqin Barracks) to strengthen his "protection", now it has passed Nearly two years.

In the past two years, the Yarkand Khanate has undergone many changes with the help of Ming Dynasty.

For example, Ming officially established an embassy in Yaergan, the capital of the country, and dispatched a telecommunications team to make it easier for Abdullah and the embassy personnel to contact Nanjing at any time.

For another example, in the fall of the year when Abdullah accepted Daming's "protection", he officially returned the five guards including Hami and Shazhou who had invaded Daming, making the relationship between Daming and Yarkand more friendly and harmonious.

Later, feudal lords who refused to accept Abdullah's rule rebelled in various parts of the Yarkand Khanate, but they were suppressed one by one by the Ming army, and all the remaining cities were subdued.

In the ninth year of Zhaowu, many government-run companies of the Ming Dynasty entered Yarkand, either bringing various useful and cheap commodities, or building factories, or signing purchase contracts with civilians such as cotton and wool to guarantee their income .

Coupled with the influx of private merchants from Ming Dynasty, it also brought many business and employment opportunities.

In just one year, the relationship between the Yarkand Khanate and Ming became inseparable.

For example, more than 30.00% of the farmers in Yarkand now mainly grow cotton, and their cotton can only be swallowed by Daming.

And the large-scale cotton planting made Yarkand more dependent on the food from Ming Dynasty—from the princes and nobles to the common people, they may eat food from Ming Dynasty.

To give another example, more than 40.00% of the middle and lower class in the cities of Yarkand are now working for the Ming court (official companies) or Ming businessmen.

Without Daming, these people would lose their livelihood and have nowhere to go.

In the end, the army directly under King Khan and the private armies of the feudal lords in each city, through the anti-insurgency battles in the autumn of the eighth year of Zhaowu and the spring of the ninth year of Zhaowu, all became afraid of the Ming army.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was a saying in the Western Regions that there was a Han who served as the Five Hu; now in Yarkand, there is a rumor that a Ming army can beat ten soldiers of the Khanate.

It is the influence of culture and ideology, which has not yet been revealed because the time is too short.

But when Abdullah saw the above things, he knew that the khanate no longer belonged to him.

What's more, in the past two years, Yan Ermei, who was still working at the diplomatic embassy in Ya'ergan as a diplomatic attache, had asked the merchants of Ming Dynasty to bring Abdullah a lot of good things.

For example, Daming’s various popular novels, opera troupes, fine wine and delicacies, etc., can be said to have allowed Abdullah to enjoy many things that he could not enjoy when he was the real Khan.

But actually being "protected" by the Ming army always made him feel unsafe, as if a big ax was hanging above his head, and he didn't know that it would fall one day and cut off his head.

This feeling of enjoying the beauty but being in danger all the time, without freedom, made him suffer a lot.

He can survive for a year or two, which is already considered extraordinary.

This spring, the Ming Dynasty dispatched two 10,000+ troops to attack the Toungoo Kingdom from the north to the south, and received the news that Burma was taken. While Abdullah was greatly shocked, he also completely gave up the idea of ​​​​keeping the Khanate.

Because he already knew that as long as Daming was willing, it would be very easy to send troops to destroy Yarkand.

Coupled with the fact that he is getting older, lacking in ambition, and feeling powerless in many things, he expressed his intention of submitting to Aimee Zhu through Ya'ergan's diplomatic embassy.

"I really didn't expect that Daming would expand thousands of miles while I was sitting in the Hall of Martial Heroes without doing anything." Auntie Zhu said with a smile after putting down the telegram.

Although Hao Guangming on the other side knew that this was for the people at the Hall of Martial Arts, he still couldn't help saying: "Your words sound too Versailles, right?
In my opinion, it was a matter of course for Yaerqiang to surrender, and it was a matter of course. "

"It's possible that this matter can be accomplished, and I, Da Ming, have put in a lot of hard work." Aimee Zhu said.

Since Abdullah asked to lead Yaerqiang to surrender to Ming Dynasty, she has no reason not to agree.

However, this made the number of Daming reserve officials tense up again.

Therefore, the next day, Zhu Yuxi called together the military ministers and cabinet ministers to discuss how to set up a provincial government after Yeerqiang's return, and how to arrange officials to manage it.

There are too many things involved in this, and the meeting was intermittent, and it took nearly a month before the main things were settled.

Finally, it was decided to add two provinces, Qinghai and Anxi.Qinghai Province is governed by Xining, which is the former Acropolis of Xining; Anxi Province is governed by Shache, which is the former Yaergan.

And select officials from other provinces of Ming Dynasty who are willing to serve in these two provinces, and go to establish government agencies at all levels, so as to realize the actual rule of Ming Dynasty over the Western Regions as soon as possible.

After the Ming court held the meeting to add Qinghai and Anxi provinces, the time came to May of the tenth year of Zhaowu, and the relevant news spread to the people, which made the people rejoice and elation, and at the same time, it was a heated discussion.

"Since the Tang Dynasty, except for the Yuan Dynasty, my Shenzhou has lost the Western Regions for thousands of years, and now I have finally regained it. It is really gratifying!"

"I used to talk about the history of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but now my Ming Dynasty is far ahead of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the country is at the height of the sky, even the first in the world. I am afraid that if people talk about history again, they will put my Ming Dynasty above the Han and Tang Dynasties ,Hahaha···"

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