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Chapter 526 Kangzang War

Jianwu nine years.

Into winter.

It is snowing heavily in Nanjing.

The military intelligence report from Sichuan and Tibet arrived in Nanjing via the Yangtze River, and Zhu Yijiong immediately summoned cabinet ministers for discussion.

Wang Li was so excited that he was the first to speak: "The puppet emperor of the Qing Dynasty vomited blood and fell into a coma. The remaining Tatars in Kangzang will definitely be in chaos. If our Ming Dynasty sends troops at this time, we will be able to succeed in one battle, completely destroy the Tatars, and recover the lost territory of Kangzang. .The best of both worlds!”

As the chief minister of the new Ming Dynasty, he had followed the emperor for so many years and had already figured out the emperor's thoughts. Therefore, this opening was about regaining lost ground, which could be said to speak to the emperor's heart.

Liang Wenxuan was also happy and said: "The remnants of the Tatars are exhausted, and sending troops at this time is in compliance with the destiny. Moreover, we can also recover Kangzang along the way, frighten Tibet, and serve as our barrier to the southwestern Sichuan of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Chengxun said: "Tibet blocks Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan. If the barbarians are allowed to steal the territory, there will never be peace in the border areas."

The cabinet ministers rushed to speak, their expressions and voices unable to conceal their excitement. After all, with such a great fighter opportunity, as long as they send troops, according to the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, victory is almost guaranteed. The remnants of the Tatars in Kangzang are already the last resistance force of the Tatars. As long as they are eliminated, the Tatar court will completely come to an end in history.

This is very important. Even though the Ming Dynasty has been shouting for the Tatar puppet dynasty, the history books are always fair. Even the Xin Dynasty and Wu Zhou who were not recognized were recognized by later generations as emperors.

There is a remnant of the Tatars who are struggling in Kangzang. For these cabinet ministers, it is always like a fishnet in their throats.

Now, the fish bone stuck in the neck can finally be taken out. Can they be unhappy?

Zhu Yijiong glanced at the memorial, pondered for a moment, and asked: "Have you received any news from the fine work in Qinghai?"

Zhu Chengxun said: "There is no news. However, the Qinghai Khan King Luo Bu Zangdanjin has issued an order before, ordering the Shaanxi-Gansu border army to support Qinghai. The other party was quite honest at first and only traded soldiers, armor and salt with us, but as time went by As time goes by, this guy's ambitions are getting bigger and bigger, such as grain, tea, and even firecrackers and artillery. The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu and General Zhou are reporting to Nanjing about this matter, asking the court for instructions on how to respond?"

Zhu Yijiong sneered: "This Luobu Zangdanjin is not very capable, but his appetite is not small. He only wants food and tea. He even dares to ask for artillery."

After that, he paused and said: "You can give them a small amount of tea, but not a pound of food and grass, and let the border inspection strengthen patrols. As for the firecrackers and artillery, you can sell some of our obsolete matchlock guns and old artillery to them." They can only sell it, not give it away, and they must use their war horses in exchange."

It is true that Luobu Zangdanjin is addicted to food. In order to deceive this guy into fighting with Junggar, the Ming Dynasty and the New Dynasty supported him with a lot of soldiers and salt.

Although they are all cold weapons, they are all good products. But I didn't expect that this guy has such a big appetite. He even dares to think about tea, grain, and firearms.

Tea and firearms can be given, but food cannot be sold, not even with war horses. The biggest problem in Luobuzangdanjin now is the lack of food.

Qinghai, a mostly desolate territory, cannot support his army of 200,000, and even 100,000 is not enough.

Once Ming Dynasty sells him grain and solves his worries, will this guy not go to heaven?

As for whether Luobuzangdanjin will be unable to defeat Junggar due to lack of food, don't worry, even if there is no shortage of food, this guy will definitely not be able to defeat it.

As Nian Gengyao defeated an army of 200,000 soldiers in four months, and spent the first two months transporting food on the road, the actual battle took less than two months, and he was beaten directly and had to dress up as a woman to escape.

Just from this, you can see what this guy is like. If you expect him to succeed, it is no less than letting a sow climb a tree.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty still uses him is purely to bleed Junggar and Qinghai.

If these religious fanatics are not allowed to die severely, how can we immigrate here in the future and Chineseize it?

It can be said that Luobuzangdanjin even reminded Zhu Yijiong to package and sell all the retired firearms of the Ming Army to Qinghai. Not only can it hollow out the war horses of Qinghai and Mongolia, but it can also further increase the intensity of the war between Qinghai and Zhun, making them fight longer and kill more people.

Wu Sidao suddenly asked: "Qinghai is like this, what about Kangzang?"

Zhu Yijiong said: "Luobuzangdanjin is so eager to ask for food and firearms. His appetite is not small, but it also shows that the situation in Qinghai has suddenly become serious. Something must have happened to the remnants of the Tatars in Kangzang. Yongzheng vomited blood and fell into a coma. There is a high probability of this happening. Nine should be true.”

Even if it's not true, it doesn't matter, because Ming will make it true through rumors.

By then, the lower-level Tatar generals in Kangzang will not know the truth. As long as the public is talking about it, the falsehood can become half-truth.

This is enough. The remaining Tatars in Kangzang say they are Tatars, but in fact at least half of them are Han soldiers who used coercion and inducement to pass. These Han soldiers had been away from Han for several years, and they did not enjoy the promised wealth in Kangzang. Instead, their women and land were all robbed by the real Tatars.

They, the Han soldiers of the two Tatars, had to participate in the Qingzhun War, leaving their lives in vain in a foreign country.

This was not because Yong Zheng was deliberately consuming them, but because there were no soldiers available. The Tatar soldiers did not want to fight desperately, and Yong Zheng also needed to rely on his own people to support him, so he could only drag the Han soldiers to die.

Otherwise, Qinghai will be destroyed, and Kangzang will not be able to survive alone.

According to the Ming Dynasty, through a large number of detailed works and merchants' inquiring information, the entire Kangzang, whether it is the Han people or the Tatars, or the indigenous Tibetans and Mongols, are full of resentment among the people. Even some real Tatars are quite resentful of living in Kangzang for a long time.

Zhu Yijiong thought for a while and said: "Draw up a decree! The Tatars in Kangzang have lived long enough. Now that the false emperor Yongzheng is about to die, it is time to send troops. The cabinet and the Privy Council immediately began to allocate and raise food and supplies, and drafted a Combat deployment. It is winter now, so it is not appropriate to send troops. When spring comes next year, we will ask the Sichuan army to cross the river directly and attack the Litang Tatars. The Yunnan army must fully cooperate. Before summer next year, I want to see the territory of the Ming Dynasty enter Kangzang. "

Sichuan is vast and sparsely populated. If we want to send troops, the logistics of civilians alone will be a huge problem.

According to the normal thinking, we should first settle the land in Sichuan and wait until the population increases before we can cross the river and send troops.

But this is a safe idea. Now that Yongzheng is about to die, the Tatars are not to mention internally divided, but they are definitely leaderless. Especially in the Kangzang area, the conflict between Tatars and chieftains is now acute, and the Tatars are divided into real Tatars and Han Tatars who are facing each other tit for tat.

If troops are sent at this time, as long as the cost is very small, the Tatars can be completely killed, and there are even many leading parties and surrendering factions.

If it had been a few years ago, when the Tatars had just entered Kangzang, this would certainly not have been the case.

But now...hehe.

If people's hearts are broken, it will be difficult to lead the team!

The saffron that Zheng Dingrui had been hoarding in the Chengdu treasury for several years was finally put to use.

Although there are still very few people in Sichuan, the people's livelihood has been basically restored, and even the relationship between the chieftains of Western Sichuan and the Ming court officials is relatively harmonious.

When the Ming army sent troops, they could not only recruit local civilian men, but also get help from the chieftains in western Sichuan. After all, the Ming army was willing to give money to take care of food, which was much better than the brutal Tatars.

After the strategy of sending troops to Sichuan and Tibet was decided, the next step was for the Cabinet and Privy Council to refine the details and raise military supplies and supplies. All of these had been planned in advance, so there was no sign of panic.

Several cabinet ministers bowed their heads and resigned. Zhu Yijiong did not return directly to the harem, but went to visit Yixi Gyatso, the seventh emperor who lived in Nanjing, and asked him for Tibetan Buddhism.

This is of course not that Zhu Yijiong believes in Buddhism, but that after the Kangzang War is over, he will definitely have to face problems in Tibet, Qinghai, and the Western Regions.

Especially in Tibet, this plateau is not only unsuitable for immigration because of its climate, but religious issues can also trouble the Central Plains dynasty.

In history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty spent decades and through continuous trial and error attempts, finally came up with the trinity co-management method of the minister in Tibet, the ambassador in Beijing, and the vassal council.

Moreover, Tibet still has a very high degree of autonomy. As long as Tibet does not rebel, the Manchu Qing will basically not manage the internal religious affairs of Tibet, but will take away the canonization rights of the Communist Party.

It can be said that if you control the **** and the corresponding canonization rights, you can basically control Tibet stably.

Zhu Yijiong does not plan to liberate slavery and productivity in Tibet immediately. Here, politics and religion are integrated, and magic can only be used to deal with magic.

When Kangzang surrenders, Zhu Yijiong will immediately send troops, select canonized envoys, escort Yixi Gyatso to Tibet for enthronement, and depose the original seventh emperor Kelsang Gyatso.

Anyway, Kelsang Gyatso has not yet taken charge of the government, and the fifth emperor Lobsang Yeshe is mainly responsible for Tibet, so there is a high probability that there will be no objections.

This was the case in Qinghai and Sichuan and Tibet. The news that a full-scale war would break out in the Mobei grassland next spring was finally spread back to Nanjing at the end of the ninth year of Jianwu.

The Ming Dynasty naturally knew the news about the two great Khans of Mobei, Chechen Khan and Tuxie Tu Khan, who were fighting hard. And they were immediately alert, and the Zhongjun Commandery Office in North Zhili was ready for war at any time.

Now, it is finally confirmed that Mobei Mongolia does not intend to go south, but instead wants a civil war.

While Zhu Yijiong couldn't understand it, he also didn't plan to care about it for the time being.

Either the Mobei Grassland will not fight, or they will decide the outcome in one battle and completely suppress the Khalkha Mongolia in Mobei.

Otherwise, it will be like what Ming Taizong did when he conquered Mobei three times out of five in vain, and the Ulliangha tribe surrendered and rebelled every three days.

In the end, Zhu Di got nothing but the reputation of conquering Shi Yanran and traveling far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties. Moreover, it was a waste of financial and material resources, and even directly led to the rapid collapse of Ming Dynasty Baochao.

Because the Ming Dynasty was short of money and food, a large number of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes were printed to serve as military expenses, causing the credit of the Ming Dynasty banknotes to quickly go bankrupt.

This also led to the two dynasties of Ren and Xuan, the central government's finances were exhausted, and there was no pay to quell the rebellion in Jiaozhi. We can only sit back and watch as Cochin becomes independent and turns into a broken Annan state.

Of course, Bei Yuan in Mobei also had a hard time. He was forced to migrate three times, many people and livestock died, and he also missed the grazing season.

If it is true, you will injure the enemy a thousand times and injure yourself eight hundred.

(End of this chapter)