Did I agree?
King Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty felt dazed after hearing Zhu Youjian's words. He didn't think that he had promised to go west to Jiayuguan to fight with Turpan (referring to Yeerqiang)!
But Lord Long Live is a joke. If he says he agrees, then he definitely agrees!
When King Tang was in a daze, Zhu Youjian had already pulled him into the hall and reached a hanging map. Zhu Yujian took a look and found that it was a map of the countries in the Western Regions...but this map was different from what he had seen before at the Tang Palace in Lanzhou. Not only is the painting more refined, but the country's territory on the map has also changed.
This map of the Western Regions was drawn westward from Hamiwei, which fell in the Ming Dynasty, to the Khazar Sea (Caspian Sea) in the west. This area was originally the territory of the Yerqiang Khanate (Chagatai), the Bukhara Khanate (Uzbekistan) ), the Kazakh Khanate, the Khiva Khanate, and the Oara Alliance had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. But now it has become a pattern where the south belongs to the Ming Dynasty and the north belongs to the Mongolia.
The part belonging to the Ming Dynasty was divided into east and west parts. The east part was marked for the inner vassal, which was the territory of the Ming vassal without a country name; the west part was marked for the outer vassal, which was the territory of the Ming vassal state with a country name.
However, no matter whether it is internal or external vassal, there is no distribution, it is a very general large area.
Zhu Youjian pointed to the "inner vassal" land on the map and said to Zhu Yujian: "King Tang, this area now belongs to the Yeerqiang Khanate, a descendant of the Chagatai Khanate... The Western Region is the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The Chagatai Khanate is one of the four major khanates under the Great Mongol Kingdom. The legal system of the Ming Dynasty is inherited from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the Great Mongolia is the suzerain of the Chagatai Khanate, so this land must be recovered !
In addition, Yeerqiang Khan also convened the Kuritai Conference to elect the Great Khan without authorization, in an attempt to take the Great Mongolia away from me! Just based on this, I can't spare them. "
The Kuritai Conference of the Yeerqiang Khanate was actually a closed-door internal strife meeting. There was no possibility of seizing the Great Mongolia if it was held one after another... However, the Yeerqiang, Kazakhs, and Bu The three small Mongolian khanates in Hara who converted to Tianfang religion are indeed a separatist force within the Great Mongolia. It is impossible not to suppress them!
"Long live my lord," King Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty looked at the area marked "Inner Domain" on the map, "Is the goal of going west to Jiayuguan this time Turpan (Yeerqiang)?"
Zhu Yujian simply did not dare to think about the "outer vassal" land on the map. It was too big and too far... Only by recovering the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, or taking a step back and recovering the territory of Hamiwei, could he It is more realistic.
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "Concentrate our efforts to take the land of Anxi first, and then see if we can scare away the people from the Oala Alliance... In this way, we can take the land of Beiting.
With the oases in Hami and Turpan, the new military households in Gansu will have a way to survive...With the pastures in Beiting, dozens of thousands of households can be moved from Mobei, Monan, and Dongdao. Mongolia The herdsmen on the grassland will also be able to have enough to eat. "
It turns out that Zhu Youjian's goal is still very simple to beg for food. The reason why he wants to attack Yeerqiang and the Wala Alliance cannot be because he wants to regain the lost land in the Western Regions to resettle the hungry people in Gansu - it is only 1,000 miles from Gansu to Hami. Turpan is only 1,700 miles away. From Gansu to the Guanzhong Plain, it is almost 1,500 miles. If you want to go to Huguang to beg for food, you have to walk 3,000 miles!
The hungry people support the old and the young, but they can't walk very fast. It takes 30 miles to reach the sky in a day, and 3,000 miles in 100 days. Moreover, walking 30 miles every day and having to carry it to salute is very expensive. If you walk for 100 days, you will have to eat a stone and a half of wheat or rice. If there are 200,000 people who want to walk 3,000 miles, they will consume at least 300,000 stone of grain.
Most of the 300,000 shi of grain must be supplied by the states and counties along the way... Now before entering Hubei, the states and counties along the way are experiencing disasters, and they have been thinking about it for many years. They themselves have to How can we provide for the hungry people in Gansu after they have fled? If there is no supply and 200,000 relatively strong hungry people rebel together, it will cause disaster to a large area.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian weighed it again and again and decided to let the hungry people in Gansu and Lintao go west... As long as he could recapture Hamiwei and Turpan and drive away the troops of the Yeerqiang Khanate, he would not have to worry about running out of food. have eaten.
"Long live my lord, as far as I know, Turpan's strength is not weak. Although I have 20,000 military households, they can only fight with 2,000 cavalry. I'm afraid they are no match for them!"
Zhu Youji glanced at Zhu Yujian, feeling a little disappointed. He inquired with Wu Liangha and found out that Said, the ancestor of Yerqiang Khan in his early years, only relied on 4,000 Mongolian cavalry to conquer the current territory. Now the King of Tang himself has 2,000 cavalry. Why can Zhu Youjian finance another three or four thousand cavalry? Why can't he defeat them?
"King of the Tang Dynasty," Zhu Youjian paused and said, "I will give you a more powerful king's title, called Overlord of the Western Tang Dynasty! You will lead your 20,000 households under the title of Overlord, and I exchanged the dried sweet potatoes for other Gansu military households, and together we went west to Jiayuguan, first restored Shazhou, Guazhou, and Dunhuang, and then bluffed and waited for Yeerqiang Khan to march eastward... I will let Wu Liangha led the camel army to raid their lair!"
Overlord of the Western Tang Dynasty!
It sounds quite powerful... But with such a powerful name, can a Gansu military household that relies on a bunch of dried sweet potatoes be able to afford it? Zhu Yujian said in his heart: It would be more reliable to call him the beggar king of the Western Tang Dynasty, right?
However, the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian camel soldiers of Imperial Concubine Uliangha is reassuring...With her on board, the Yeerqiang Khanate will definitely not be an opponent.
Zhu Youjian looked at the Tang Dynasty King's face and said with a smile: "The Yeerqiang Khanate is nothing, it is just the foundation of 4,000 Mongolian households. Although they have multiplied for more than a hundred years, they themselves are always fighting among themselves and killing each other. Coming and going, the population is not growing fast, and there are definitely not 10,000 households. Moreover, they do not manage the urban oasis of Anxi City very much. They only dominate some arable and grazing land for grazing, and then collect some tribute from the surrendered cities and oasis. From time to time Also let me grab it.
Only the city of Yeerqiang near Kashgar was under their firm control and became the capital of the Khanate, hence the name of the Yeerqiang Khanate. Therefore, for the local people in Anxi, it is a dream for our army to move in. As long as you can restrain your troops and don't take too much, settling down won't be difficult. "
The Yerqiang Khanate is different from the Bukhara Khanate to the west and the Timurid Khanate (Indian Mughal) who entered Tianzhu. This khanate has a strong nomadic habit and is very divided internally. Civil wars are extremely frequent. . What's more, the Mongols of the Yeerqiang Khanate started looting and looting, and they refused to recognize their relatives. They wanted to grab the enemy's territory, but also their own territory.
Therefore, under their rule, the local people and nobles in Anxi had a very difficult life. No one knew when they would be robbed by these Mongolians who did not recognize their relatives.
Therefore, the rule of the Yeerqiang Khanate in the Western Regions has no foundation at all. As long as the camel soldiers of Concubine Wu Liangha can drive them away, Zhu Yujian, the overlord of the Western Tang Dynasty, can swagger in and take over the territory.
This level of "conquest" would have little impact on the oasis economy of the Western Regions. Therefore, the Western Tang Overlords could obtain offerings and supplies from various oases, and could easily conquer the land originally occupied by the Yeerqiang Khanate. Settled down.
After Zhu Youjian finished explaining the general plan, he began to focus on the key points and said to Zhu Yujian: "The King of Tang, the main force of the Yeerqiang Khanate, the camel soldiers of Concubine Wu Liangha will naturally be dealt with. But Guazhou, Shazhou, Your people must defeat Dunhuang and other places by yourself! Otherwise, you, the overlord of the Western Tang Dynasty, will be too weak!"
Zhu Yujian nodded repeatedly, but thought in his heart: I just want to be the rice king, and I also bring a group of sweet potato soldiers with me, how can I dare to be the king?
Zhu Youjian added: "Gansu is a border area. The people are tough, simple and dare to fight... Don't be reluctant to give up money. Prepare some armor, swords, and firearms. They will definitely be used when the time comes!"
