The sixteenth day of the first month of the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty.
Xingqing Mansion.
In the duty room of the newly built South Study Room, several ministers neatly wearing flower feathers were holding copies of the imperial edict sent all the way from Tashkent by Emperor Kangxi, their brows furrowed. Everyone's faces were pale. You looked at me and I looked at you, looking like disaster was about to happen again.
Their expressions are not unreasonable, because since Emperor Kangxi led the elites of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty to hunt in the west together with Horqin Mongolia and Tumut Mongolia. We can live a stable life here in Xingqing Mansion!
I originally thought that Zhu Heji would take advantage of the opportunity to attack Gansu, but in fact, Emperor Zhu Da never took Gansu seriously at all, but was busy with the expedition to Japan. It seemed that he did not want Gansu, a poor place. ——In fact, this order of Korea first, then Liaodong, and then Japan, then the northwest, was actually a matter of course for Zhu Heji, who had strong shipping capabilities but lacked enough civilians for transportation in the Central Plains and northwest.
If he wants to attack Gansu, he must digest Shaanxi, hoard grain and grass in Xiangyang, and then slowly transport it to Shaanxi. Only when the food and grass are ready can the army set off!
If Zhu Heji wanted to expedition to Japan, as long as he had a large fleet that could cross the East China Sea and the Korean Strait, there would be no logistical problems - the "delivery rate" of transporting grain and grass by sea and the "delivery rate" of transporting grain and grass by land. "Rate" is a difference between heaven and earth. After all, a large ship can carry thousands of stones, and it doesn't require many sailors to drive the ship. As long as the ship does not capsize, the consumption on the road can be ignored. If things go smoothly, you can travel thousands of miles in a day!
Therefore, Zhu Heji must first deal with Japan. What's more, he still has to use the 1683 siege of Vienna to hold back his ultimate move!
In the current calculations of Emperor Zhu Da, Ming Dynasty has only one enemy - the United States, the chosen country!
Although this chosen country will not be born for more than ninety years...but now is also the time when America is at its weakest!
It doesn’t exist. How can it be true? Therefore, Zhu Heji had to kill the United States while it was still there, cutting off the possibility of the emergence of a continental power on the North American continent.
Compared with this matter, the small imperial court in Gansu, Wu Yingxiong who went to Yunnan to lie down, Zu Zeqing who was a "free loyal minister" in Guangxi, and Galdan who had ulterior motives, were all nothing to worry about.
Therefore, the small court of the Can Qing Dynasty in Gansu has lived a stable and comfortable life for almost two years... What a peaceful and peaceful time it was!
So much so that several regents and political advisors in the Xingqing court thought that the Qing Dynasty had the fate of Xixia and could live in Gansu safely for 180 years. .
If that's the case, it's thanks to the blessing of our ancestors!
It's a pity that the ancestor's blessing has not come... It's not that Zhu Heji came to destroy the country, but the Emperor Kangxi of Xishou came to pardon him, asking everyone to clean up and prepare to leave home and go to the Western Regions together!
After only two years of stability, he was about to run away again...and if he ran away, he would never be able to return to the Central Plains.
The regent, Kong Shenggong, was sitting at the kang table, without raising his head, holding a copy of a personal letter written by Kangxi and reading it. The more he read it, the tighter his brows became.
The voices of the several ministers who discussed the affairs below also gradually became louder.
"...Kipchak Grassland, Land in the River, Stone City, these place names sound far away! How should we get there? We can't get there!"
"I can't even come back... I'm going to die in a foreign land, no, it's a foreign country!"
"The Supreme Emperor doesn't want people to live peacefully! How many days have Ansheng lived just now? He is here to torment us again... In my opinion, we can just stay peacefully in Xingqing Mansion. Got it!"
After hearing these discussions, Kong Shenggong slammed the letter and edict in his hand on the Kang table, and slowly raised his head: "What are you talking about? Do you think this Ansheng life can go on year after year? Ming Dynasty Do you think they don’t want Gansu anymore if they don’t launch the Western Expedition? They are holding back a big move to wipe us out in one fell swoop! Gansu is a barren land, and it has been plundered by the Supreme Being. There is no surplus food for a long time. The Ming Dynasty In the past two years, while vigorously promoting land equalization in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi and other places, at the same time building military camps and hoarding grain and grass in Yan'an and Fengxiang Prefectures... There is also news that starting from this year, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces The recruitment of troops is about to begin. It is said that one hundred thousand recruits will be selected.
After these soldiers are trained, can we still stay in Xingqing Mansion?
By the way, there is also that Galdan, who is now the King of Shunyi and a loyal minister and filial son of the Ming Dynasty. The last time he sent troops to Japan, not only did his nephew Cewang Taiji go to Japan, but also his wife Anukedun... ..That’s really a filial piety! "
Another reason why Zhu Heji has not touched Xingqing Mansion in the past two years is that most of the hundreds of thousands of troops used to attack Huguang, restore the Central Plains, and capture Liaodong in the last round retired from the army and went home after the war. The small days are gone.
Therefore, when Zhu Heji went to Japan, he used Korean soldiers who were willing to serve for a long time in order to "anti-Japanese" and Ming Eight Banners who were similar to the early guardsmen. However, he will not overuse these foreign soldiers or semi-foreign soldiers (the Korean soldiers are now nominally Han soldiers, but there are still differences), lest they lose their tail. Therefore, in the battle to pacify the northwest, people from Shaanxi and Shanxi must be allowed to fight!
After hearing what he said, the few ministers below fell silent.
Now that the War in Japan is over, the Xingqing Prefecture received military reports before the New Year and learned that Zhu Heji had returned to the court in triumph. The 100,000-strong army accompanying him except for the Ming Eight Banners who were stationed in Nagoya and Ezo, and other troops All have been withdrawn one after another. Zhu Heji himself also returned to Beijing before the New Year... The first capital of the Ming Dynasty was Nanjing!
Emperor Zhu Da did not return to Nanjing, but returned to Beijing... What does it mean, everyone still doesn't understand? This means sending troops from Beijing to attack Xingqing Mansion from the northern front!
And the Junggar Khan King Galdan, who was invited by Emperor Kangxi to be a "human shield" to control the Hetao Grassland, was also a coward. When he arrived at Guihua City, he seemed to be frightened by Zhu Heji. Not only did he not dare to send troops into the Great Wall to rob, He was also granted the title of King of Shunyi, and even asked his wife Anukotun and his nephew Cewang Alabutan to lead five thousand troops to participate in the Battle of Japan... It was just a matter of letting his nephew lead the troops to help boxing. , let your wife go too, what kind of method is this? Are you afraid that Emperor Zhu Da will be lonely on the road?
Galdan is like this, how can he be expected to help the Qing Dynasty resist the soldiers of tomorrow?
After listening to Kong Shenggong's analysis, several political advisors also lowered their heads and no one said anything. In the past two years, Kong Shenggong's prestige has been established!
Because Kangxi took away the Mongols from the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and Horqin, Tumote and other tribes. So Kong Shenggong’s Lu Yong...oh, now he is called Ru Yong, the brave among Confucianism! He became the main force of the Xingqing government, and Kong Shenggong became the person with real power in the Xingqing government, a proper second emperor.
Just when everyone lowered their heads and prepared to continue listening to Emperor Kong Er's lecture, they heard the sound of footsteps outside the door and saw Yue Le striding in.
Yue Le, the emperor's uncle, was now the second most powerful figure in the Xingqing court after Emperor Kong. Kangxi kept him in Xingqing Mansion with the intention of restricting Kong Shenggong.
Yue Le looked happy at this moment, and he was holding a red-covered box in his hand. He didn't know what was inside?
Kong Shenggong raised his hands to him and said, "Your Majesty, what are you holding?"
Yue Le said with a smile: "This is a wedding invitation. Someone wants to get a wife."
"Who?" Kong Shenggong asked with a smile, "Is it an elder brother in your family?"
Yue Le waved his hand, "No, the Supreme Emperor is getting married!"
"The Supreme Emperor?" Kong Shenggong was stunned again, "My wife's family is..."
"She is the princess of the Golden Horde, her name is Sofia, so-so-na, so-so baby..."
"The Golden Horde?" Kong Shenggong was even more surprised, "Is it still there?"
Yue Le smiled and said: "It's not the original one, it's the newly renamed one...it's the original Rakshasa Kingdom! By the way, what's the relationship between the Queen of the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor?"
Kong Shenggong scratched his head and said, "Yes, the Emperor has another mother!"
He stood up, picked up his hat, and then said to everyone in the room: "Everyone, it's almost time. We should go to the South Study Room to report the good news to the Supreme Queen, the Queen Mother, and the Emperor!"
This is really a great happy event. Emperor Tongzhi would be so happy!
