my days with tyrants

In fact, not only the king of Liao, except the king of Chu who could not go back to Annan and could only stay in Wuchang, other vassal kings who were willing to open up had already started their actions.

King Zhou has been heading to the plateau.

He was doing it before he signed that agreement.

After Zhou Fan moved to Xining, he took the map Yang Feng gave him, led his troops to Salt Lake, and then shipped back a large amount of green salt and sold it to Lanzhou and other places. Now his first caravan has gone to Uzang, And ready to continue south to develop Indian trade.

The other is Dogan.

He used the power to control Dogan and command envoys in Uzbekistan and Tibet, and sent troops to patrol Dogan.

Then those command envoys who were originally just custodians paid tribute to him one after another...

If he didn't pay tribute, he would beat others.

This area is actually very weak, and the current situation is better. After all, Hu Yuan was an important pastoral area. At the end of Ming Dynasty, the strongest chieftain Bai Li in the Duogan area was known as a hundred people and a hundred horses like stars.He has a hundred people and a hundred horses, but he is still the most powerful force. Although Mongolian herdsmen are not sensitive to numbers, it proves that he really does not have many people after using hundreds of people. He should have conquered a certain force in Qamdo. The latter put together more than 70 people. Warriors meet.So there was really no one in this area, so the king of Zhou sent a thousand cavalry to go around, and the chiefs who were carrying the command envoys immediately accepted their heads and bowed.But this place is an excellent pasture, so King Zhou's main business now is to herd horses and cattle in Hehuang, and then sell these to inland merchants.

Good business.

In fact, he is also a second-hand dealer.

It is to buy from those chiefs and then resell them.

Before that, Zhu Yuanzhang exchanged tea leaves from these chiefs. The latter actually suffered a lot, but tea is a seller's market, and they have nothing to do.

But Zhou Wang’s purchase is much more generous, and Zhou Wang’s reselling has nothing to do with the mutual market. He is an internal trade of Ming Dynasty, which is completely market-oriented, so after he handed over, those chiefs made more money instead. Zhu had cheated them too hard before.

In short, in Qinghai, he really has a sense of rooting. Although he will not be as rich as the king of Liao in the future, he will not be bad in Qinghai's resources and business.

As for India...

As long as he likes it.

How many years would he live anyway?
Keep working hard with a dream, so that he will not have nothing to do.

The king of Shu has also arrived in Yunnan.

He borrowed the palace of King Min, paid rent to his younger brother every year, and then sent his guards to the south in the name of trade to investigate the situation and prepare for further conquests. Gu Cheng and He Fu both supported him.

Although Mu Sheng remained vigilant, he didn't dare to do anything to him.

The king of Shu is not the king of Min.

It's no big deal for him to bully King Min.

But the King of Shu, as the son-in-law of Lan Yu, has the support of a huge military system behind him. The only thing Mu Sheng can do now is to fully support him to go south to conquer, or send him out of Yunnan early, otherwise Mu Sheng will be in fear.

The Mu family in Yunnan just wanted to dominate one side...

Originally, in history, Mu Sheng used Jianwen's hands to cut down King Min's vassal, and then pushed out King Min who was re-sent by Zhu Di, and then drove King Min to Wugang step by step, and the Mu family completed the monopoly of Yunnan.Although their family was loyal to Daming, they were also very determined on the issue of monopolizing Yunnan, so by the end of Ming Dynasty they could even put up cannons to face the governor's yamen.The reason why Yang Feng let the king of Shu go to Kunming was to take advantage of their mentality and force Mu Sheng to do his best to help the king of Shu send the latter out of Yunnan as soon as possible, so as to prevent his control from being threatened if the latter stayed for a long time.

Apparently it worked.

In that case let them play by themselves!

Yang Feng doesn't care much about these fringe forces anymore, and he doesn't even bother to solve Jianwen quickly...

It is to his advantage to keep it.

This can give the gentry of Daming an ideal sustenance.

Then they will fantasize about Wang Shi Beiding, so they will have the courage to resist.

If Jianwen is also destroyed, they will be completely desperate. At that time, what they think is to hibernate and endure, waiting for the opportunity, and then they will endure and hide in the dark, and when the opportunity comes, they will try to revive their souls in various ways. This is even more dangerous, after all, they are really good at endurance.

They have to rebel.

If they don't resist, how can we eradicate them?

As for the area controlled by the imperial court, it is enough to build it well. As long as the area controlled by the imperial court is well established, the rest will be ruined.

By the way, let the common people see what free capitalism is.

This kind of thing has to let them understand that Ambassador Yang does encourage industry and commerce, but if the industrial and commercial gentry really have no restraint, in fact they are on the same level as the land gentry, and even surpass the land gentry in terms of cruelty, but the common people now Not sure about this.They just see the prosperity brought about by this change, but they don't know that they are really let go because of the protection of Ambassador Yang's system. That is not a good day.

They have to see it.

Now Guangdong is obviously developing in this direction.

In order to earn more money, the landed gentry all over Guangdong began to plant a large number of cash crops, such as sugar cane.

At this time, sucrose is the absolute first export.

Because only Daming has sugar technology.

Although sugar cane is not rare, nor is sucrose, but white sugar is a luxury, even in Southeast Asia, India is also a luxury, the Arabian Peninsula and even Europe where they handed over, white sugar is a top luxury, and it can be used as a luxury in Europe placebo.

The Cantonese gentry who are currently going overseas with all their strength, of course, would rather grow sugar cane than grain.

At the same time, this artificially reduces Guangdong's grain production, creates food shortages, and then raises prices to get wages back from workers through grain prices.

will play.

As long as there is no restraint, these gentry's brains are easy to use, and they will learn all kinds of exploitation methods without a teacher.

It is also good to let the common people of Ming Dynasty see it.

And right now.

far west.

"Damn, after walking for so long, I finally saw people!"

Tan Yuan, who was dressed in wind and sand, was stationed on the grassland in the early spring of the horse, watching a group of herdsmen fleeing in panic.

And behind him are more than 2000 cavalry who are also dressed in wind and sand, but not all of them are the guards of King Yan. In fact, he is only commanding Tongzhi, leading a guard of a thousand households, together with the following Kunling Commander's cavalry, Together they marched westward along the Chu River and inspected the people along the way.

As for the cavalry of Kunling Commander...

It's actually Wala.

Department of Choros.

After the death of Haohai Dayu, the remaining tribe of Chuoros led by his son Mahamu surrendered to the King of Yan and in the final division of the territory, he got the position of commander of Kunling, and then got the command of the Seven Rivers. land as pasture.

His Kunling City was established in Haiya.

That is, in the northwest of Ili, between the western foot of the Tianshan Mountains and Balkhash Lake, the entire Choros and the tribes attached to them were split into more than a dozen guards, and then scattered in Balkhash Lake, Chu River, and all the way to the Taros River. Vast pasture.However, Suiye does not belong to him, but is a fiefdom of the King of Yan. The city of Talas is not his, but he sent troops to garrison it. From Suiye to Talas, there are a series of imperial post stations. East all the way to Beiping Prefecture.It's just that these post stations are not stationed by Han people, but are stationed by people from all over the Western Regions on a rotating basis to maintain the commercial road from Beiping Prefecture to Hezhong, and then from Beiping Prefecture to Gaochang, from Gaochang to Hami and then to Jiayuguan.

The long post road connects Daming and the Western Regions in this way, and now, with the order of the imperial court, it can be sent all the way from the capital to Talas.

Of course, it will take several months.

The first step in King Yan's westward expedition was to integrate the tribes of the Kunling Commander and Envoy.

The first step in integration is inspection.

Therefore, the generals like Tan Yuan each lead a team of cavalry, together with the Oirat cavalry as guides, patrolling separately.

Tan Yuan is along the Chu River.

But he walked along the Chu River to the end, and continued to cross the desert, and then came here.

"Where is this?"

He asked the guide beside him.

The latter was a chief of the Choros Department.

"It's called Kamster Kara in Turkic, which means City of Reeds."

said the latter.

"There is still a city here?"

Tan Yuan said in astonishment.

"It is also a city surrounded by earthen walls, but it used to count the Khan of the Golden Horde here, but now it is used by Timur to house Hoyerchak, the son of Urus Khan. Ilchak defected to Timur, and since then he has been fighting for Timur, and Timur made him nomadic in the Aral Sea, and this area and the south of the Amu Darya River are his."

said the guide.

"Where does he count as the Golden Horde or Timur? When our court draws up territory, where should we draw here?"

Tan Yuan said.

The officer next to him with a map stepped forward...

"Ours, the lower part of the Syr Darya is ours, and the lower part of the Amu Darya is theirs."

said the officer.

"Are you sure? We have to have a reason."

Tan Yuan said.

"I'm sure. This border is a straight line drawn lazily. It starts from the foot of the mountain over there and ends in the middle of the Aral Sea. This area is right in Kunling, and the upper reaches belong to the river."

said the officer.

"Go, ask them for food!"

Tan Yuan said with satisfaction.

Indeed, there must be reasons and evidence. Those who command envoys in Kunling are subject to the restraint of King Yan. When he leads the army to patrol here, the local government must provide them with military rations.But the commander of the Hezhong capital is the restraint of King Kang Ju, and they have no right to eat or drink here. In fact, the main task of their quick trip is to blackmail.These tribes had to pay taxes, and King Yan decided to collect taxes in the area under his jurisdiction for the Western Levy. Simply put, each tribe offered cattle and sheep, and then distributed them to the guards he brought.

At the same time, we have to draw young and strong, and then rush to Suiye Huihe, and then King Yan will go north.

Target Chengji-Tula.

That is Tyumen.

The Golden Horde is the largest city in the East.

Following Tan Yuan's order, the [-] cavalrymen behind him immediately became excited. These guys who had just crossed a nearly [-]-mile desert finally saw some living people, and they were all waiting for good wine, food and even women.

As for military discipline...

It's all here and there is a fart military discipline.

They followed King Yan all the way to this foreign land, just to burn, kill and loot, and restrain them with military discipline. Why didn't they stay in the east to live a stable life?
In fact, Zhu Di is also very aware of this point. They are different from last time. The last time was to perform a mission, but now he really wants to let the soldiers stay, so he has to accommodate the soldiers.

Burning, killing, looting...

Burning, killing and looting is the only magic weapon to maintain the morale of an army.

This wolf-like legion quickly formed a torrent sweeping across the grassland, and soon a small city surrounded by a small earthen wall appeared in front of it, and the herdsmen were rushing in in horror. The limitation is also obvious.But the problem is that these are not nomadic cavalry. For Tan Yuan and his men who have lived in Beiping for more than ten years, this kind of earthen wall and city gate are simply paper. Pulled out the short gun.

The cavalrymen on the galloping horses held short guns, and while skimming the city wall, they kept firing at the soldiers guarding in a hurry.

Overwhelm them with rounds of firecrackers.

Immediately afterwards, a cavalryman rushed straight to the city gate with a side horse. The side horse was a specially made gunpowder bag. After rushing in, he ran out immediately.

He had just run less than [-] paces when the fire, gunpowder, smoke and dust sprayed out in the city gate, and the huge explosion made the earthen walls tremble.

When everything dissipates, the inner light is immediately revealed.

"on!"

Tan Yuan roared.

The Oirat cavalry howled excitedly and rushed forward like crazy. They ignored the arrows and death shot at them on the city wall, and soon the forward rushed into the city gate.

Then came the Oirat cavalry who kept rushing in.

When these Oirat soldiers appeared on the city wall, Tan Yuan led his men into the city...

This is cooperation.

This is also the rule.

The heavenly soldiers were responsible for opening the city gates, and Wala was responsible for charging the first wave, and then the heavenly soldiers entered the city to share the harvest equally.

"Commander, it seems we haven't identified ourselves yet."

The officer rushed and shouted.

"Didn't we identify ourselves?"

Tan Yuan said.

"Returning to the commander, haven't you already sent someone to tell them? You told them that we were sent by Daming King Yan to inspect the place, and asked them to open the door to greet them and prepare food, but they said they didn't recognize any Daming King Yan. , this is their place, they belong to the Golden Horde, we Daming can't control them."

Chief Wala quickly reminded him.

"Ah, yes, yes, I am a person who tends to forget everything when I start a war. Fortunately, you reminded me, yes, they said that they belonged to the Golden Horde. Since they are from the Golden Horde, they are dissatisfied with the king. The savages who do not accept the transformation of the Ming Dynasty, we are going to exterminate these savages who do not accept the transformation of the king of Ming Dynasty, and pass down the order to severely punish these savages who do not accept the transformation of the king, and those who dare to resist will be killed."

Tan Yuan said with satisfaction.

The officer looked at them speechlessly.

But this kind of thing is also inevitable. After all, everyone has run so far and have not gained much, otherwise they would not have run all the way here.

Although this small city is not big, it is enough for two thousand cavalry.

The excited King Yan guards and Oirat cavalry rushed into this small town like a group of hungry wolves, just like the Mongolian army that marched west, they began their slaughter...