When Tu Hai and Zhang Ying brought the "Legend of Shang" to see Kangxi Khan, it was already the spring of the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi's reign. And the place where they met Kangxi Khan was the Golden Arch Gate in Beijing!
Of course, this Beijing city and the Ming Dynasty Beijing Shuntian Prefecture at the foot of Yanshan Mountain are not the same Beijing city. The city of Beijing where Kangxi Khan is now located is located in the hinterland of Central Asia, and its original name was Samarkand. At the Kuritai Conference held last winter, Kangxi Khan announced that the name of Samarkand would be changed to Beijing Kaitianfu, and he would position it as the first capital of the Great Mongolia!
At the same time, he also announced that Lahore would be changed to Nanjing Pingtianfu, positioning it as the capital of the Indian Empire under the Great Mongolia.
In addition, Kangxi Khan also announced the construction of a Qitian Palace in Tashkent as the capital of the Western Qing Kingdom.
The new Great Mongolia that Kangxi Khan conquered was different from the original Qing Dynasty. The latter was a highly centralized central dynasty when it was handed over to him, while the new Great Mongolia that he conquered by himself was a A very loose alliance of countries, even looser than the loose Holy Roman Empire in Europe. After all, the Shinra family doesn't have that big a territory, and they still have the Germans as the main ethnic group.
The Great Mongolia of Kangxi Khan not only had an extremely vast territory, but also did not have a dominant ethnic group, and it still followed the path of being outnumbered. Although the "58-40 Banners" were established, the "58-84 Banners" were also internally divided. That is to say, the Qing Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Confucian Eight Banners in the "Five Eight Banners" can barely stick together.
In order to prevent the country that he had worked so hard to conquer from being divided into pieces after Kangxi died, Kangxi Khan took the initiative to stop the pace of expansion after conquering northwest India, and instead began to "subtract". .....That is to say, give up some peripheral territories, or relax control on some territories in order to concentrate on firmly controlling some core territories.
The area that Kangxi Khan positioned as the core of the Great Mongolia was the area from Pingtianfu in Nanjing to Kaitianfu in Beijing and then to Qitianfu in Shangjing. It was almost a crescent-shaped area with a length of three thousand miles.
If we expand it further, it would include Zhili with Kaitianfu in Beijing as the center, plus Shangjingfu, Suiyefu and Gudifu in the Western Qing Dynasty, as well as the Southern Zhili (original Punjab region) of the Mughal Kingdom. Gandhara Province, Plateau Province, Sindu Province and other places.
As for Junggar, Khoshote, Bukhara, Khiva, and the Golden Horde, they were all the "peripheries" of the Great Mongolia and had to revolve around the three cores of Zhili, the Western Qing Dynasty, and the Indian Empire.
Together with Kaitianfu in Beijing, Pingtianfu in Nanjing and Qitianfu in Shangjing, they are also known as the three capitals of Great Mongolia. They are the ruling center of the Great Mongolia and are the core of the core!
Among them, Kaitianfu in Beijing, the original Samarkand, is located in the middle of the three capitals of Mongolia. More than two thousand miles to the southwest is Pingtianfu in Nanjing, and more than five hundred miles to the north is Qitianfu in Shangjing. Therefore, Beijing Kaitianfu has naturally become the first capital of the entire Great Mongolia!
Since it is the first capital, it is natural to carry out some "major relocation" and "small infrastructure construction". Therefore, Kangxi Khan stayed in Qitianfu, Beijing, busy with "relocation" and "infrastructure" matters after last year's Kulitai Conference.
The so-called "relocation" is to move about half of the residents in the Zerafshan Valley area where Beijing's Qitianfu City (Samarkand) is located, including all the middle and upper classes, to the Delhi area in India in the name of going south to India to become lords. master.
Only by freeing up space can Kangxi Khan's confidants take over!
While these people were going south one after another to become lords, Kangxi Khan ordered some of the Mongolian Eight Banners, Qing Eight Banners, and Confucian Eight Banners to be moved to Kaitian Mansion in Beijing... It was still a way of occupying houses and enclosing land, and of course shaving their heads was indispensable. Heyifu - Although it is impossible for Kangxi Khan to do this in the entire Mongolian "Allied States", it is still possible to do it in Kaitianfu in Beijing and Qitianfu in Shangjing first, and then promote it to Pingtianfu in Nanjing when the time is right.
Perhaps in the future in Mongolia, shaving and changing clothes will become symbols of nobility!
While the “big relocation” is going on, “small infrastructure” must also keep up. It is impossible to build large-scale infrastructure. Although Kangxi Khan, who took over northwest India, is rich, there is not much population in Kaitianfu in Beijing now, and they are busy moving and settling down. It is simply unrealistic to carry out large-scale construction.
But fortunately, Timur, who had made Samarkand his capital earlier, was somewhat of an infrastructure maniac. While he was destroying people's homes everywhere, he vowed to make Samarkand the capital of Asia, so he looted buildings from all over Asia. His treasures were piled up in Samarkand, and the most exquisite craftsmen from each city were brought to Samarkand to build the most splendid palaces and Tianfang Temple in the city. After decades of construction by Timur and his successor Shaharul, the city of Samarkand is filled with beautiful and magnificent buildings. Although many of them have been in disrepair for a long time, they were carefully repaired and the materials used were very solid. So now they only need to be painted and decorated, and they can have a brand new look.
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The magnificent Registan Square, located in the center of Samarkand, is a key project of Beijing Kaitianfu's "small infrastructure" - this square occupies a large area and is very suitable for holding court meetings. There are also three very impressive Tianfang Colleges around the square. The teachers and students in the colleges have all moved to Delhi to become masters, so they are vacant. So Kangxi Khan, who liked the spaciousness and grandeur of Registan Square, had Registan Square and the three surrounding colleges enclosed with red walls, treating it as his imperial palace in Kaitianfu, Beijing.
And he also gave the palace a very Chinese name, the Forbidden City.
The three colleges were also renamed Taihe Hall, Zhonghe Hall and Baohe Hall respectively. The square surrounded by the "Three Halls" was renamed the Golden Arches Square - the reason for this name is because each of the three colleges has a huge arch facing the square. Originally, they were painted with exquisite and complex patterns using blue and green paint. However, when Kangxi Khan took over, it had already fallen off and turned into a gray color, which was very ugly. So Kangxi Khan simply had these three arches painted with gold paint mixed with gold powder, turning them into a shining golden look.
So the Registan Square that Tu Hai and Zhang Ying saw had turned into the Golden Arch Square surrounded by three golden arches.
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"Your Majesty, this is the memorial attached to the request given to you by the leader of the Annan Kingdom, Zheng Gen... He is returning with eight thousand people this time, and they have already arrived in Madras. Many of them are They can use ships to fight on the water, and they also have several armed merchant ships bought from the Dutch. If Mongolia can capture them, it will be difficult for the Mongolian navy to pull them back."
It was Tu Hai who was reporting to Kangxi Khan under the golden arch of the local tycoon the arrival and return of the Annan Zheng family. He is still wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, following behind Kang Mazi Khan who is pacing and carefully looking at the gold paint on the golden arches.
Kangxi Khan seemed to be very satisfied with the decoration style of Tuhao Jin. He nodded slightly, and then said to Tuhai: "Tuhai, you did a good job... Both the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia can explain it. They all think of you. You are truly a loyal minister to both dynasties!"
Tuhai immediately knelt down to Kangxi after hearing this, "Your Majesty, I have always been in the Ming Dynasty and my heart is in the Qing Dynasty... I have always been towards the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia!"
"I know, I know!" Kangxi Khan smiled and waved his hand. He was no longer the young emperor who could not tolerate sand in his eyes, but a middle-aged emperor in his thirties who had gone through ups and downs. He had long known that many things in the world were not wrong. Black and white.
And he also understands that the current core of Mongolia and Ming Dynasty is far out of reach. As long as Zhu Heji is not stupid and he is not dizzy, they should not be able to fight together.
However, he still needed a middleman to negotiate with Emperor Zhu Da. Because the Ming Dynasty's forces have also entered India, everyone will bow their heads but not look up from now on. If they don't coordinate how to divide the fat, then both sides will suffer losses, which is not good for both sides.
He smiled and said to Tuhai: "Get up... Do I still know what you are thinking? What I want is a loyal minister like you who can deal with both sides."
As he spoke, he frowned again: "When we held the Kuritai Conference a while ago, Galdan and I cried and complained that Zhu Heji had robbed his Ketun Anu and colluded with Cewang Arab. The three Tan brothers sent troops to attack him together. My senior brother, Sangyi Gyatso, the chief lama, also told me that Zhu Hezheng was stationing troops in Xining, and he also sent Lama Yinlaguk as an envoy to Qinghai to lobby the Hoshuote tribes to surrender. ....It seems that we will march into the snowy region soon! I have already gone to Samarkand, why doesn't the man named Zhu let me go?"
Tuhai smiled and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty just wanted to seize the Yerqiang Khanate and the Snowy Plateau to enfeoff to the Ming-friendly Mongolian tribes to defend the heart of the Central Plains... And the Ming Dynasty Advancing towards the Yeerqiang Khanate and the Heshuote Khanate is not a westward advance. The Yinli grassland to the west of the Yeerqiang Khanate and the Heshuote Khanate has long been in the hands of Cewan Alabutan. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty attacked Yeerqiang Khanate. Erqiang and Qinghai are marching south, not west. And I can guarantee that the Ming Dynasty will definitely not march west again."
"How can you see it?" Kangxi asked.
Tu Haidao said: "Because Emperor Zhu has now set his sights on the New World, he is tossing up the matter of his voyage to the East, and even sent the Mongols across the ocean to the New World. This is a considerable waste of people and money, and it is faster than Zheng He's voyage to the West. . And if Emperor Zhu wants to march westward into the Kazakh grasslands, he must use a limited number of Mongolians loyal to him. Now that he has sent all the Mongols to the New World for grazing, how can he continue to march westward on a large scale? "
These days, the population of the Ming Dynasty is still too small, and even the land of abundance like Sichuan cannot fill it. Of course, it is impossible to develop the Western Regions. Moreover, the local population in the Western Regions is not large. The territory of the Yeerqiang Khanate has been washed back and forth by the Mongols several times, and the total population is only a few hundred thousand. The population in Qinghai and the Snowy Region is even smaller... Well, the Little Ice Age, the Central Plains was like that, how can the plateau still support people? As for the Kazakh grassland further to the west, the situation is similar. There are only hundreds of thousands of people on the vast and endless grassland. Normal troops would have no way to gain a foothold in these areas, which can be regarded as "no man's land".
Therefore, only the Mongolian tribal army, which has its own tribe and can march while herding sheep, can conquer those places.
But Emperor Zhu is now sending the limited Mongols to the New World!
After hearing Tuhai's words, Kangxi was stunned again and again, "Send the Mongols to the New World to graze?"
Of course he knew about the New World. He also knew that it was a large territory, rich in gold and silver, sparsely populated and rich in products. But he really couldn't figure out where Zhu Heweimao wanted to send the Mongols?
Can't we send some Han people there with seeds and farm tools?
If you send the Mongols there, you still have to bring cattle, sheep and horses. How high is the cost? It sounds like a stupid thing to do!
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is true." Zhang Ying took the question and said to Kangxi with a smile, "Besides, I heard a strange thing related to this when I was in Madras."
"Why is it weird?" Kangxi asked.
Zhang Ying said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I heard that there is a Shangfang Kingdom in the New World, and it can also herd horses and sheep."
"What?" Kangxi was stunned, "Shang Fangguo?"
"It's the Shang Dynasty that King Wu conquered and destroyed... It's said to be their descendants," Tuhai said. "It's said that they ran there 2,600 years ago and have been squinting in the northwest corner of the New World. Last year, they were I wonder if it was only discovered by Westerners the year before last."
"Then the Westerners didn't destroy them?" Kangxi felt very strange. "Those Westerners like to do this thing the most. They destroyed many indigenous countries in the New World in the past!"
"It's not destroyed this time," Tu Hai shook his head, "It can't be destroyed...because these merchants are very powerful. Not only are they nomadic, but they also have flintlock guns and smoothbore cannons!"
"What? There are guns and cannons? How is it possible..." Kangxi Khan was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, "Those, those are the Mongols that Zhu Heji brought to the New World?"
Tuhai smiled and said: "I guess they are the Junggar people who were captured in the Battle of Ulan Butong."
Kangxi nodded, "It must be them... This group of Dzungars are very fierce. If they have sugar powder, flintlock guns, and rocket launchers, and can become nomadic, all New Spain and New France will be in trouble!" "
He paused and then said: "It seems that Zhu Heji has a big plan!"
Although Kangxi Khan was not an authentic Mongolian, he was a Mongolian Khan after all, and he knew how powerful the Mongols were... They did not settle in scattered places, but moved together as a whole tribe. The white people who settled in the New World all lived in scattered places. Not to mention those settlements, even ordinary towns only had a few thousand people. How could they accommodate tens of thousands of Mongolians who were concentrated in action?
So once more than 10,000 Dzungar Mongolian households immigrate to the New World, the hard days of New Spain are about to come!
Kangxi stopped and looked back at Tu Hai and Zhang Ying, "Tell me, what should I do? Should I drag Zhu Heji back, or push him forward?"
Tu Hai smiled and said: "Push! Of course we should push... Let Zhu Heji compete with the Westerners for the New World, so that we can be stable."
Zhang Yingdao: "Your Majesty, I think so too! I think it's best to push and arch at the same time!"
