In the 30th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Broken Leaf City.
This legendary city that had disappeared in the long river of history since the decline of the Tang Empire has now reappeared on the banks of the vast and desolate Chu River. However, the Suiye City that reappeared did not have the bustling scene of the former Silk Road town, but instead became a military city where troops were stationed in the fields.
The Suiye City built by the Western Qing Dynasty's Eastern Expedition Army led by Yin Feng and Kong Shenggong was actually not an isolated city, but a castle system consisting of a main city and four branch cities in the southeast, northwest and northwest. The main city and four branch cities are all very solid rammed earth bastions. The main city is an octagonal bastion, and the four subsidiary cities are triangular bastions. There are four in one, with a total of twenty "corners". Each "corner" is a fort. A total of more than two hundred cannons, mortars, and sub-cannons are deployed, which is enough to form an almost impregnable cannon. Describe the solid fortress system.
But it was this fortress system that completely exposed the true thoughts of the group of powerful people around Yin Reng - although everyone was under the banner of opposing the Ming and restoring the Qing, it was obvious that no one really wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty. Everyone is thinking about how to separatize the regime!
The slogan of opposing the Ming Dynasty and restoring the Qing Dynasty was only used to fool those fools below who thought about it day and night and wanted to fight back to the Central Plains.
Aixinjueluo Yinreng was originally one of those fools. When he first arrived in Suiye City, he was still thinking about taking Ili first, then marching to Junggar, Khovd, and Khalkha, and finally going south to attack Beijing. .
But as time goes by, he gets older and knows more and more things, and his enthusiasm for restoring the Qing Dynasty gradually dissipates... The Ming Dynasty is too powerful! And his own capital is too thin, let alone fighting the real Ming Dynasty soldiers, even the Mongolian nomadic cavalry of Cewang Alabutan, one of the seven vassals of the Ming Dynasty, nor Yinreng's Western Qing soldiers And the Horqin cavalry on the Kazakh grassland can defeat it.
What makes Yinreng even more discouraged is that his Ama Kangxi Khan, who does not know the truth or falsehood, mainly relies on words to support the cause of countering the Ming Dynasty and restoring the Qing Dynasty.
Except when the old queen died, she spent some real money and brown sugar to support Yinreng, and then she kept using empty words to support him.
It's so beautiful to say that imperial edicts of various awards were sent to the Suiye Mansion for free.
However, there is very little help that is really useful!
What chilled Yinren the most was that the various aids Kangxi Khan had sent to Tsar Peter of the Rakshasa Kingdom in recent years were more than the aid given to his son!
What does this mean? This shows that Kangxi Khan valued Yinyu far more than Yinreng, so much so that he loved the house so much that even Yinqi's uncle Peter benefited from it.
In addition, people in the Confucian secret hall also obtained accurate and reliable information from the court of Pingtian Mansion in Nanjing. Although Yin? was young, he showed extraordinary talents. This child was extremely smart, had a particularly good memory, and learned Things were very fast and he grew big. Kangxi Khan liked him more and more... He had told people more than once that the position of the Great Khan of Mongolia could be occupied by brothers!
When Yin Reng heard these words, it sent chills down his spine!
He is only seventeen years old... and is about to "die"?
Because he felt that he was facing the risk of "brother's death", Yinreng made up his mind to find his dear Ama... It would be better to kiss this Ama!
Sitting in his study in the impregnable Suiye City, Yinreng was so frightened when he saw the secret report just sent from the Confucian Secret Hall about Kangxi Khan's "husband and wife love, father and son are happy"!
Just when he was worried that Kangxi Khan was poisoned and wanted to eat his children, his "brother" Manduhu's voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Your Majesty, Sima Shang is back!"
This Manduhu was the second son of Chang Ning. Because Chang Ning surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in the name of Kangxi, he and his brother Yongshou had always been hated by Kangxi. Fortunately, with the protection of the old Queen Bumu Butai, the brothers were not harmed by Kangxi Khan. Since the two brothers had been living with Bumbutai, they were also with Yinreng. The three brothers have always had a good relationship, but the "eldest" Yongshou among the three died of an unknown illness five years ago, so only Yinreng and Manduhu were left to depend on each other.
Now, Manduhu, who is only 18 years old this year, has become Yinreng's military guard commander. Together with Yinreng's attendants Sima Shang and attendant Huang Tiren, they are also known as the "Three Belly Hearts of the Qing Lord". The three of them are helping Yinreng find his father.
By the way, Kong Shenggong didn't know anything about Yinreng's visit to his father, otherwise he wouldn't have let Yinreng do anything wrong. In fact, Kong Shenggong has been very busy in the past two years, busy taking care of the government affairs of Qitian Mansion in Beijing, and also busy competing with the Tianfang Sect and Lamaism for believers... Tianfang Sect is a monotheistic religion, Lamaism is a polytheistic religion, and Confucianism is No matter how it was changed, it was still a philosophical school, so when it came to the struggle for theocracy, Confucianism always lacked confidence and could only rely on the relationship between Kong Shenggong and Horqin Mongolia and the method of convincing people with virtue to expand the market.
Therefore, he neglected to teach Yin Reng, and left all Yin Reng's education issues to Wang Guan, Sima Shang and Huang Tiren. As a result, if he was not careful, Yinreng was ruined by the teaching, and he actually suspected that his Ama was not in love with Ama.
"Quickly, bring Sima Shang into the palace," Yinreng said, "and call Huang Tiren here too."
"嗻!"
Manduhu responded, and then there was the sound of footsteps getting lighter and lighter.
After a while, there was another sound of thin footsteps, followed by Manduhu's voice: "Your Majesty, Sima Shang and Huang Tiren are here."
"Come in! Come in quickly!" Yin Reng couldn't wait any longer. Sima Shang's mission was related to whether he would be "brother killed"!
"嗻!"
The three people outside responded, and then there was a creaking sound of the door being pushed open, and then the three people filed in. Walking at the front was Manduhu, a young man of eighteen or nineteen who looked a bit tiger-like. Then there are two middle-aged men in their early thirties, one is elegant and the other is dusty. The gentle man was Huang Tiren, Yinfeng's confidant and advisor. Of course, he was also a disciple of Confucianism and followed Kong Shenggong to move westward. The man in trouble was Sima Shang, who was on an envoy to Yili this time. He did not follow Cewang Alabutan to Xi'an, but stayed in Yining to wait for news. After waiting for several months, I finally met Nalan Mingzhu and Kangxi General Chang Ning in Yiningcheng.
"Your Majesty, I have met your Majesty in Yining!"
After entering Yinreng's study, Sima Shang knelt down and announced the good news to Yinreng.
In fact, he was not sure that General Kangxi was Yinreng's biological father... but he gave him too much!
"Really?" Yinreng seemed a little unbelievable, and at the same time a little excited, so much so that his voice trembled.
"Really! It's absolutely true..." Sima Shang took out an autographed letter from Chang Ning and a list while signing the guarantee, and handed it over with both hands.
At this time, there were no eunuchs or maids on duty in the study. So Yinreng stood up from behind the desk, walked to the kneeling Sima Shang, and took the letter and list.
Chang Ning's autographed letter was still stuffed in a sealed envelope, and the list was just a fold.
So Yinreng unfolded the folding book and started reading. At one glance, he immediately felt a strong fatherly love.
"Two hundred thousand silver dollars a year plus two hundred thousand kilograms of sugar, and so many muskets and cannons at once. Amma...wuwuwu..."
Yinreng cried.
This grandma is indeed a good kisser!
In fact, Kangxi Khan could also get these things on the list, but he was just unwilling to give so much.
Because in Kangxi's view, Yinreng's so-called Eastern Expedition was just a child's nonsense and had no chance of success.
And with so many benefits, Yin Reng, the Western Qing Khan, might pose a threat to Yin Reng in the future...
"Your Majesty," Sima Shang said again at this time, "The True Emperor has now arrived in Yining and is living in the palace of Cewang Alabutan. Also coming with him is the Mingzhu Mingxiang... Do you want to Meet him?"
"Of course I want to meet you!" Yin Reng said categorically, "That's my dear grandmother! Sima Shang, have you made an appointment with my dear grandmother on a time and place to meet?"
Is he your pro-Amma? Sima Shangxin said: "You said this, I said so...and that General Kangxi has no pockmarks!"
Thinking of this, Sima Shang took another look at Yin Reng secretly. Yin Reng didn't have pockmarks either - he had smallpox when he was a child, but he didn't "inherit" Kangxi's pockmarked face, and he didn't look much like Kangxi. Kangxi was a bit cunning, while Yinreng had a round face, somewhat similar to General Kangxi.
It seems that this Amma is between being close and not being close!
"Your Majesty," Sima Shang said, "Cewang Alabutan suggested that we meet on the water in Temur Tunuor. The time is up to us."
Temur Tunaur is Lake Issyk-Kul, located in the north of the Tianshan Mountains. It is a large mountain lake with an altitude of five to six hundred feet. It is more than 300 miles long from east to west and more than 100 miles wide from north to south. It does not freeze all year round. Moreover, the eastern area along the coast of Temur Tunaur receives extremely heavy rainfall, which is definitely a rare area suitable for farming in the arid Western Region.
Before Yinren's eastward expedition, the area around Temurtu Nur was completely controlled by Cewang Alabutan. However, because it was nearly a thousand miles away from Cewang's Yining City, Cewang did not station any troops there. Therefore, after the construction of Suiye City was completed, the western part of Temurtu Nur was controlled by Yinreng's army, and they built a bastion called "Rechi Fort" there. After Cewang found out about this, he built a bastion on the east bank of Temur Tunaur and named it "Qingchi Fort".
However, neither side tried to attack the other side's bastion. They just maintained the state of confrontation at Jiahu. After all, the bastion was not that easy to fight, and neither side of the "oil and water land" of Temur Tunaur would let go easily. Really If there's going to be a fight, it must be a decisive battle between the Western Qing Dynasty and the Yili Palace...
"It's the twelfth lunar month of Kangxi's 30th year now," Yinreng counted the days, and then said with expectation, "Then it will be March next year! Sima Shang, please work hard and go to Yining City again after the new year. , make an appointment with my Amma and Cewang Alabutan to meet!”
"嗻!"
...
In the twelfth lunar month of the 30th year of Kangxi's reign, it was already covered with ice and snow in Suiye City north of the Tianshan Mountains, but in Pingtian Mansion, Nanjing, in the Mongolian Kingdom, it was in the most pleasant season of the year. The temperature in Pingtianfu in the twelfth lunar month was neither high nor low, and there was plenty of sunshine. The weather was always very clear, which made Kangxi Khan couldn't help but think of spring in Beijing...
He now also owns a completely Chinese-style palace, located in Qitianfu Banner City, north of Qitianfu City and close to the Ravi River. The flag city of Qitianfu is also a very strong fortress, but it does not occupy a large area. It is similar to the imperial city of Beijing, so the palace inside can only be a pocket-sized one, not as large as the one in Qitianfu City (Lahore). Lahore Fort. But the construction is very exquisite, no less than the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Because the New Year is approaching, the yamen in Nanjing Pingtianfu City have already taken the annual holiday, but those civil servants who returned to the Eight Banners, Indian Eight Banners, Sikh Green Camp, as well as the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Tianfang Sect and Sikhs who came from the imperial examination did not It is the custom to celebrate the Spring Festival, so for them, the annual holiday is just a day for them to prepare for migration.
The imperial court of the Indian Empire now actually implements a two-capital system of winter and summer. Nanjing Pingtianfu, that is, Lahore, is the capital in autumn and winter every year. In spring and summer, I move to Kabul on the Afghan plateau... By the way, Kabul now also has a name with Chinese characteristics, called "Summer Resort"!
Because the distance between Nanjing Pingtian Mansion and Summer Resort is more than 1,200 miles. Moreover, every time Kangxi moved, he would visit the five core provinces of the Indian Empire: Delhi, Punjab, Indus, Gandhara, and Afghanistan, so the actual itinerary was more than two days. A thousand miles often takes one and a half months to complete. Therefore, Emperor Kangxi actually spent three months on the road every year, lived in Pingtianfu, Nanjing for four and a half months, and spent most of the remaining four and a half months at the Mountain Resort, with a small amount of time spent in the mountains north of the Mountain Resort. Spend time in a paddock by the Amu Darya River.
Kangxi would meet with leading figures from Kaitianfu in Beijing, Bukhara Khanate, Khiva Khanate, Western Qing Khanate, Kazakh grassland and other places in the paddock by the Amu Darya River, and accept their pilgrimages.
But Kangxi had not seen his son Yinreng in the paddock by the Amu Darya River for two years... The Khan of the Western Qing Dynasty and the crown prince of Mongolia always stayed in Suiye in the name of being busy with military affairs. Don’t miss his Amma.
Thinking of his son, Kangxi sighed, and then the voice of his eldest son, Prince Yinti of Zhijun, rang in his ears: "Huang Ama, why should you sigh? Do you miss your second child? Why don't you take a trip? Ye, take my second son to the Amu Darya paddock to kowtow to you?"
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