The three brothers Zhu Cixuan, Zhu Cixuan and Zhu Cijiong have now returned to the Xiangshan Palace next to the Xishan Hunting Ground. They occupy a high pavilion with an excellent view inside the palace and watch the scenery and drink together.
The three sisters, Qiqige, Hasiqiqige, and Menggen Qiqige, found a piece of flat land next to the pavilion, dug a hole there to light a fire, and skinned and plucked the small animals killed by the brothers Zhu Cixuan, Zhu Cixuan, and Zhu Cijiong. , added various condiments and roasted it. After roasting, it was continuously served to the three people who were drinking and chatting.
Under the service of the three Qiqige sisters, the three brothers, who were proud of their lives, soon became full of wine and meat, and began to discuss the general trend of the world.
"Brother, don't look at the huge piece of land our father gave me. It's actually all rotten land... The Mongolian side of Mobei is covered in ice and snow for at least five months of the year, let alone the people. Cattle, sheep, and horses can’t stand it, and a large number of them freeze to death every year!
The remaining seven months are not very popular either, with summers being too cool and rainfall too little. Wheat and rice with relatively high yields are basically dead ends in Mobei. In other words, cold-tolerant oats and highland barley can grow, but only God knows how much they can produce.
My father and my mother have spent a lot of money on Helin and Daorduo over the years, doing immigration, city building, and reclamation. They are all messing around, and it won't work at all! If we still want to build Xijing now, we will lose a lot of money... Brother, I am an honest child and will not talk back to them.
You are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. You must guard the Ming Dynasty's treasury, but you must hold on and never spend this unjust money! "
I don’t know if the good guy Zhu Cixuan drank too much, and he dared to say that Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha were fooling around... But he was also telling the truth after drinking.
In Zhu Cixiang's view, Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha indeed invested too much in Mobei Mongolia!
In particular, the plan to build Helin in Xijing, Mongolia is simply a fool's errand... Let alone whether Helin can develop some agriculture and handicrafts in the local area. Even if it can develop, it will be at the level of an important border town. Just create some kind of General Ulyasutai and maintain a garrison of tens of thousands.
Immigrants of 10,000 to 20,000 households are not just fooling around.
Of course, Helin City is not completely worthless, otherwise Chongzhen and Wu Liangha would not be so persistent.
It's just that this grassland capital is only valuable to Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha... because Helin is relatively close to Beijing, only more than two thousand miles away. It is convenient for Zhu Youjian, the Mongolian Khan, to go there when he has free time, and it is also conducive for Concubine Wu Liangha, who is stationed in Helin, to receive support from China.
But starting from Zhu Cixiang, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty will no longer serve as the Great Khan of Mongolia, and the throne of Mongol Khan and the throne of Ming Dynasty will be completely separated. From now on, Ming and Mongolia will be countries of brothers, not father and son.
By then, the value of Helin will decline rapidly and it will once again become an important border town or a political symbol.
And the Xijing plan promoted by Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha, in Zhu Cixuan's view, is even more of a fool's errand... The only advantage of building a capital on the Kazakh grassland (Qinchak grassland) is probably that there The distance is relatively "close" to Lin, about 3,500 to 4,000 miles away.
But this distance would take at least a year for the nomads who are very capable of traveling. Therefore, it is impossible for the Khan's court to move back and forth between the two capitals. The only way is to have two Khans co-governing, one Khan in the East and one Khan in the West.
But would Zhu Cixuan be happy with this?
It was originally agreed that he would be the only Khan in Mongolia, but now there is another one... why don't they start a fight?
In addition, whether it is the sweat from the East or the sweat from the West, it is the sweat of the poor! It is impossible to fight today's gunpowder war - without muskets, artillery, and ocean horses, the poor Khans would take their children to play low-cost mounted shooting, and go to the farming areas of Central Asia and East Asia to grab some from time to time. It was a lively mix.
But now, the poor Khan cannot defeat the Rakshasa Kingdom in the west, cannot offend the Ming Dynasty in the east, and can still provoke the two rivers in Central Asia... Now he can still provoke it.
But once Zhu Cixuan's group of evil-minded "Mongolian brothers" were granted the title of king, what would Zhu Cixuan do after Chongzhen's father died?
"This..." Zhu Cixiang looked at the pitiful honest brother, and then glanced at Haschigge... I have to say, this girl is more beautiful than Zhu Cixiang's twelve golden hairpins!
This shows that brother Zhu Cixuan still has a big brother in his heart!
This is a good brother! So you have to help!
"Second brother, what do you want?" Zhu Cixiang asked, "It is easy to stop our father from building Xijing in Mongolia, but with just He Lin, it will be difficult for you to maintain the great Mongolian country, right?"
"Brother, it's the eldest brother who is nice to me!" Zhu Cixuan's honest and honest face was full of moved expressions, almost to tears, "Brother... I feel that in today's world, Mobei, The grasslands of Moxi can no longer support a large Mongolian country!"
This is a fact!
Mongolia will be like that in the 21st century. As for Kazakhstan, it is living a good life by selling oil and natural gas... But the industrial revolution has not yet come, and oil and natural gas cannot be sold for much money.
Without the support of handicraft industry, commerce and agriculture, relying on herding sheep on the grassland, it is just a nomadic tribe. How could it become a great Mongolian country?
Zhu Cixuan continued: "After the four great khanates, the only Mongolian king who could barely support a huge country was Timur, a descendant of the Chahar Dynasty!"
Do you want to be Emperor Timur? You kid is so ambitious!
Zhu Cixuan looked at the loyal-looking Zhu Cixuan and frowned slightly: "Second brother, the territories of Samarkand, Fergana, Bukhara, and the Famine Steppe will all be divided among the fifth, seventh, eighth, and fourth sons. Lao Shi and the others gave their... to you, what will they do?"
Zhu Cihong's fifth, seventh, eighth and tenth brothers all have a Mongolian noble concubine as their mother! The mother of Zhu Cifeng, the fifth child, is Na Mu Zhong, the noble concubine of Duoluo, also known as Lin Dan Batur Dafu Jin. The mother of Zhu Cican, the seventh child, is Concubine Sutai, the biological mother of Prince Ezhe of Chahar. The mother of the eighth Zhu Cishuo is Concubine Siqintu. The biological mother of Zhu Ciyu, the tenth old man, was the noble concubine Wu Liangha, and his adoptive mother was Batma Hong.
Because these four people have their mother's power to rely on, they all have ten thousand Mongolian households to rely on, and Zhu Youjian will also give them ten thousand military households as feudal households. Their strength is not inferior to Zhu Cixuan's.
"Brother," Zhu Cixuan said sincerely, "They are all my subjects... Only when I am good can they be good! If I am not good, none of them can think of a good thing!"
This may sound harsh, but it is also the truth! If Zhu Cixuan's Great Mongolia is not doing well, even if the vassal states below are temporarily better, they will still have strong branches and weak trunks. This is a chaotic feudal order, in which top and bottom are turned upside down, and the leader is weak and the minister is strong. Of course, it is impossible to avoid conflicts between masters and slaves, and outsiders will take advantage of the chaos to get in. In the end, no one will get better!
Zhu Cixiang thought for a while and then asked: "Then what do you plan to do with the fifth, seventh, eighth and tenth children?"
"I will first lead them to level out Samarkand, Fergana, Bukhara, Famine Steppe and other places," Zhu Cixuan said. They were stationed in Ergana, Bukhara, the Famine Steppe and the Kipchak Steppe. They first occupied the territory and took root... Wait ten or eight years before sending them to fight against Persia and the Kipchak Steppe. Tianzhu, the territory they conquered will be theirs to rule, just like the Ili Khanate back then!"
Having said this, Zhu Cixuan looked at Zhu Cixuan and said, "Brother, I don't want to get into trouble with my brothers...and only you can help me with this matter. You are the eldest son in the family, and you also control the world." Wealth. My mother dare not not listen to what you say, and the fifth, seventh, eighth, and tenth children dare not not listen! If you don’t help me, once my father...then the Western Regions will My brother is jealous!"
