"Are you asking Heshuote's princess to come too?" Concubine Wuliangha was stunned for a moment, "But Heshuote is our enemy!"
In the ninth and tenth years of Chongzhen, Gu Shihan of Heshuote attempted to march south to capture Qinghai, and use Qinghai as a base to further capture the snow-covered plateau. As a result, this incident became Zhu Youjian's excuse for the Western Expedition. The Yeerqiang Khanate, which had nothing to do with this incident, was destroyed by Zhu Youjian because of this. Although the Oara Alliance headed by Heshuote and Junggar escaped the fate of destruction, they could not stay in the Moxi Grassland. They were expelled by the 40,000 Mongolian cavalry of Ulyanha and Ezhe, and fled to the Qinchak Grassland. The central and western regions occupied the territory of the Kazakhs.
After the Oara Alliance moved westward, Zhu Youjian did not launch further attacks against them. Instead, he moved thousands of Chahar households to the grasslands that originally belonged to the Heshuote Tribe and the Junggar Tribe. At the same time, the king of Tang was transferred to Anxi, and 60 thousand households (including the 20 thousand households of the king of Tang) were successively set up in Anxi, restoring the four towns of Anxi that had been lost for hundreds of years.
However, the Oara Alliance did not succumb to the Ming Dynasty because of the westward migration of thousands of Chahar households and the restoration of the four towns of Anxi. Instead, they continued to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty and did not recognize Zhu Youjian as the legitimate Khan elected by the Kuritai Conference. .
Moreover, after Zhu Youjian returned to the court, the Oara Alliance also formed an alliance with the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Bukhara Khanate (which once professed vassalage to the Ming Dynasty), and the Khiva Khanate to jointly oppose the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty and the Great Mongolia are not strong in Moxi and Anxi, and can really be used to fight the Bukhara Khanate and the Oara Alliance (the Rakshasa Khanate and the Khiva Khanate also stayed behind and did not directly fight the Ming Dynasty and the Great Mongolia). That is, the 8 thousand households of Tang Wang Zhu Yujian in the Chu River Basin and the 10 thousand households of Chahar in the Chu River and Ili River Basins.
Therefore, under the attack of the Oara-Bukhara coalition, the Tangfan-Chahar coalition has always been at a disadvantage. It's just because Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha built Suiye Fort in the Chu River Basin before Banshi returned to the court, and also built Yining Fort in the west of the Ili River Valley. Relying on these two large bastions and a series of small and medium-sized fortresses built by households in Tangfan and Chahar, the Tangfan-Chahar coalition withstood waves of offensives by the Oara-Bukhara coalition.
However, the advantage of the Moxi-Anxi battlefield has been controlled by the Wala-Bukhara coalition for several years.
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "If we are enemies, why can't we turn fighting into a marriage bed? I am a righteous king. It is not easy to fight and kill, so I have to convince others with virtue. This time I just want to take the path of marrying first and then fighting." , if the princess of Heshuote can come to the Degentala Palace, then I can turn enemies into friends with the Oara Alliance, and divide most of the Kipchak grassland to the Oara Alliance... and I can also give it to the Oara Alliance. The alliance compiled 100 thousand households.
If the Oara Alliance refuses to drink wine as a penalty, then it will be the Oara Alliance that the eldest son will deal with next time he goes to the west! "
"If Gu Shihan sacrifices his daughter, will we continue the Western Expedition?" Concubine Wu Liangha asked.
"Of course we have to go to the west!" Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "But we have to change people to fight... Second brother, if you marry Gu Shihan's daughter, naturally you can't send troops to fight against my father-in-law, so... We can only unite with Wala to fight against the Bukhara Khanate!"
In fact, Zhu Youjian's goal has always been the Bukhara Khanate!
Because the Bukhara Khanate occupies the best territory in Central Asia, the Samarkand Oasis, Bukhara Oasis, Hungry Steppe, and the richest Fergana Basin in Central Asia are all the territories of the Bukhara Khanate. .
Once the Bukhara Khanate is captured, the Ming Dynasty will be able to threaten the Mughal Empire in India to the south... Since ancient times, it has traveled south to Afghanistan from the Samarkand Oasis, Bukhara Oasis, Hungry Steppe and other places. The bandits who crossed the Khyber Pass from Afghanistan and entered India could always return with a full load, and could even establish their own empire in the rich India.
The Mughal dynasty of India itself was defeated by the Bukhara Khanate (Uzbek Khanate), then went south to Afghanistan and then to India to make a fortune.
Therefore, facing the threat of the Ming-Mongol forces that occupied the Bukhara Khanate, the Mughal Dynasty in India was bound to have no choice but to grovel.
The surrender of the Mughal Dynasty in India will win more economic benefits for the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands!
At the same time, with the protection fees paid by the Mughal Dynasty in India, the Ming Dynasty could establish four vassal states in the Samarkand Oasis, Bukhara Oasis, Hungry Steppe, and Fergana Basin.
"Father," Zhu Cixuan asked with a smile at this time, "After the Bukhara Khanate is destroyed, who will give that territory to?"
"Divided into four," Zhu Youjian laughed, "the Hungry Grassland will be left to your future son, and a small kingdom will be built on the three sites of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Fergana, all for you. My younger brother...arrange a kingdom for each of the princes born to Concubine Doluo, Concubine Taining, and Concubine Fuyu."
Concubine Doluo is Duoluo Dafujin, the Zheng clan of Hutu Dunhan. Concubine Taining is Sutai Dafujin, the biological mother of Hutaiji Ezhe, Wanhu, Chahar. Concubine Fuyu is a descendant of Duoluo Dafujin. Zhu Youjian captured Siqintu Fujin alive. These three concubines all gave birth to sons for Zhu Youjian.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian had to arrange a kingdom for the sons of these Mongolian noble concubines, and the three territories of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Fergana were just granted to them.
There is also a Duoyan noble concubine Batma Hong who also joined Zhu Youjian's harem together with these Mongolian concubines. She is also particularly favored, but she has no choice but to live up to her expectations and has not given birth to a child yet. Therefore, Zhu Youjian could only let her adopt a son of the great noble concubine Wu Liangha so that he could inherit the beautiful family and thousands of households in the future, but this time he would not arrange a feudal state for him.
As for the noble concubines such as Wuyuta and Taisong who later joined Zhu Youjian's Mongolian harem, although they all have sons, because they are relatively young, they will not be granted kingdoms for the time being.
In addition, there are three Mongolian concubines who joined Zhu Youjian's harem together with Concubine Duoluo, Concubine Taining, Concubine Fuyu, Concubine Duoyan and others (also Fu Jin of Hutu Dunhan). Although they all have their own achievements, but Because their status is relatively low and they do not have their own Huoerduo, their sons are not eligible to obtain a feudal state...
Concubine Wu Liangha was quite satisfied with Zhu Youjian's distribution plan - Hungry Grassland was not small, and it was not as poor as its name sounded. Moreover, the connection between the Fergana Basin and the Bukhara Oasis and Samar Oasis must pass through this grassland.
So she nodded and said to Zhu Youjian: "Long live my Lord, you can ask Wu Youta's brother Wu Keshan to make a trip. Nen Horqin and He Shuote are of the same race, so they should be able to talk."
The Heshuote tribe was from the Horqin tribe. Because they lost in the internal strife of the Horqin tribe, they went to rely on Oara, and now they actually got into the position of leader of the Oara alliance.
Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "Okay, let Wu Keshan go!"
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Yangzhou, Shugang, Pingshan Hall.
Zhu Cixiang has now returned to his residence in Yangzhou and has begun to deal with a lot of troublesome matters related to the Salt Bank, Dadu Salt Transportation Department, Yangzhou Governor's Yamen and Yangzhou Magistrate's Yamen.
And after the rainy spring day came in March, Emperor Chongzhen, the "loving father of the Ming Dynasty", gave him another decree - asking him to try to bring together the marriage between Zhu Cijiong and Emperor Mingzheng...
Zhu Youjian also said in his decree - as long as the third child can marry the emperor, no matter how much money he spends!
Marrying the emperor...Zhu Cixiang didn't even know what to say, and he could spend any amount of money...it was Zhu Cixiang, the traitor, who had to pay for it!
Zhu Cijiong is his half-brother, and he is also Zhu Youjian's theoretical eldest son!
If Zhu Cihong is no longer the foundation of the country, Zhu Cijiong should be the one!
Therefore, Zhu Cijiong's ability to marry the emperor eliminated Zhu Cihong's biggest threat. Why shouldn't he spend some money?
But the question is, can we spend money to chase the emperor?
If this thing is so easy, Tokugawa Iemitsu himself married the emperor, and it was Zhu Cijiong's turn to be the third prince?
