Chapter 1172 Galdan's Careful Thoughts
In early October, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty arrived in Almaty.
Due to the sudden cold weather, Zhu Cilang felt the cold and was unwell, so he gave up his plan to go to Turkestan, Kazakh Khanate.
The most important reason is that the prince and the cabinet frequently wrote letters, saying that there was no monarch in the Ming Dynasty for a day, and the work of the court could not be carried out. He tactfully advised him, the emperor, to go back and preside over the work.
In Almaty these days, Zhu Cixuan has slept the most peacefully in more than a month, and he didn't get up until afternoon.
More than 100,000 coalition forces were instantly destroyed, and the Kazakh Khanate, which had lost its main army, survived and even the country was easily captured by the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Cilang was in a good mood. As soon as he woke up, he summoned the Han King Zhu Heji who was invited to see outside the tent.
Zhu Cixuan was drinking rice porridge. When he saw the second child coming in, he hurriedly took a few bites, wiped his mouth and put down the empty bowl, signaled Zhu Heqi to avoid the gift, pointed to the couch opposite him and said, "Sit down."
Seeing that my father was so casual, Zhu Heqi hesitated for a moment, sat down opposite him, and said, "Father, my son has already inspected outside the city, everything is fine!"
Zhu Cilang nodded slightly: "You have been leading troops recently, and you look a little like you were when you were really young."
"Thank you for your praise!" Zhu Heqi showed joy on his face.
Seeing the old father smiling at him, Zhu Heqi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Father, I wonder when you plan to set off for a trip back to Beijing? The emperor's brother and ministers' request for advice today is here again..."
Zhu Cixuan said: "I have a rare visit to the border province, so I want to take a good look at the situation in this area."
"My father is wrong. Now my Ming Dynasty has defeated the four-nation coalition forces and destroyed the Kazakh Khanate with thunder. The Ili River Valley area is no longer a border, but it is considered the mainland."
Zhu Heqi pointed out the loophole in his father's words without hesitation and said, "My son read the "Comprehensive Map of Kunyu All Nations" yesterday. My new border in Ming Dynasty should be in the Beigao Sea (Caspian Sea)!"
"Yes, that's exactly!" Zhu Cilang laughed: "After this battle, I, the Ming Dynasty, have thousands of miles more land!"
After this battle, the Ming Dynasty completely opened up Central Asia and began to border Europe. It only takes a few years to stabilize the mess of the Kazakh Khanate and destroy the Bukhara Khanate.
In this way, the Ming Dynasty had only two enemies in Asia, one was the Mughal Empire in India, and the second was the Safi Empire in the Middle East.
Both empires were powerful dynasties and were in their heyday, with a large land area. For example, the Safi Empire at its heyday, its territory included later parts of Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Needless to say, the Mughal Empire controlled most of India as a place.
If the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Bukhara Khanate, it could border these two empires at the same time and compete for Asia!
Not only that, the Ming Dynasty bordered the Russian Empire in the north at the same time and looked across the Ottoman Empire in the west across the Caspian Sea. It was a great battle!
Thinking of the Ottoman Empire, Zhu Ciyang asked with a smile: "Second, do you know which country is opposite the Beigaohai (Caspian Sea)?"
Zhu Heqiu couldn't stop thinking: "Report to my father, opposite the Beigaohai is the Ottoman Empire, which is a powerful country with a vast territory, second only to our Ming Dynasty. They have mastered the land transportation of East and West civilizations for 200 years!"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Cilang was a little surprised. In his impression, the subjects of the Ming Dynasty did not know much about the Ottoman Empire and still called it Lumi Kingdom. It can be seen from the name of the Lumi gun that came.
Most people, including scholars, think that Lumi is just a small country located in West Asia, and do not know that it is a great empire with a territory of Asia, Europe and Africa.
Even the new education of the Ming Dynasty hardly mentioned the Ottoman Empire, and only focused on several European powers that sailed to the great voyage.
However, the Ming Dynasty also had official exchanges with the Ottoman Empire. During the Jiajing Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire delegation brought Suleiman I's diplomatic documents to the Ming Dynasty. They also brought gifts to the Ming Emperor - lions and rhinos.
These rare animals are not common in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty were not good at raising foreign animals. They felt it was troublesome, so they asked the envoys of the Ottoman Empire not to pay so diligently. They just need to come once every five years, and don’t send any lions or rhinos. It’s quite troublesome.
The first generation of Yongwei Camp equipped with Lumi guns was the Lumi gun in the 26th year of Wanli. Zhao Shizhen asked the Lumi envoy Duosima to ask the Lumi guns for the structure and production methods of the Lumi guns, which were improved.
Zhu Cixuan stared at his second son Zhu Heji for a long time before saying, "Second, this time you have made many military achievements. I will agree to you any reward you want, so you can tell me a few."
In this great battle, the western border of the Ming Dynasty urgently needed a big man to guard it. He immediately thought of his second son Zhu Heji.
He asked this question not to let Zhu Heqi recommend himself, but to test the second son's political awareness.
If Zhu Heqian answers that I want to guard the Western Regions, then Emperor Zhu will veto him without hesitation and bring him back to Nanjing and never let him go for the rest of his life.
Such a person who is so brainless and eager to take power is not suitable to guard the western frontier.
Zhu Heji said calmly: "Father, I am the prince, and there is no need to reward me anymore. I hope my father can reward Wang Dacao, Xu Mingwu, Zhu Daneng and others, as well as those soldiers who fell into battle, they fought to kill the enemy for my Ming Dynasty. Without them, I had already died eight times..."
Zhu Heji wanted to praise his generals more, but suddenly heard the voice of the imperial guards on duty outside the tent: "Your Majesty, Galdan, the sixth son of Batur, the former Khan of Junggar, requested an audience!"
Zhu Cixuan paused the conversation between father and son and said lightly: "Xuan!"
After a while, a young man who looked around walked into the tent under the guidance of the Imperial Guard, bowed to his head, and said with a strong voice: "Gardan, pay homage to His Majesty the Great Emperor! I wish the Ming Dynasty the dominance of the Western Regions and the power of my emperor all over the world!"
Zhu Cilang nodded, Zhu Heqiu understood and raised his hand and shouted, "Let's flat."
As he said that, he began to look at the prince of the Junggar tribe in front of him. In Zhu Heji's impression, Galdan was much taller than when he was in the capital eight years ago, and his voice became much more crazier.
As soon as Galdan came in, he bowed his head and bowed. At this time, he heard the young voice and was stunned for a moment. He slowly looked up and saw two people in dragon robes in the tent.
He immediately understood that the young man was His Royal Highness, who had played with him when he was young.
Galdan was two years older than the prince and the Han King. When Zhu Cilang personally fought for Japan, it happened that when Junggar Khan Batur ascended to heaven, Galdan entered the capital to report his death. He stayed in the capital for more than a month, and also fell with the prince and the Han King.
At that time, Galdan was considered by the senior officials of the Tibetan Yellow Sect to be the third incarnation of Yin Zahutuktu. He was full of energy and thought that he was very awesome and was somewhat disdainful of the two sons of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, a few years later, my family was in decline, my brother Sengge was assassinated by his half-brother, and the Junggar Khanate rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and was destroyed, and he was nothing...
Zhu Cixuan looked at the grown-up wolf cub and said lukewarmly: "Galdan, I have let you go to Tibet to study sutras, and I have been a disciple of Panchen Lama Bokdu and received Buddhist education. Why did you leave Tibet?"
Seeing that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty looked bad, Galdan knelt directly and said in horror: "Report to the Emperor, the fourth-class teacher Panchen Lama passed away last year. The little monk... Following the imperial decree, the little monk went to the Dalai Labamen to study the scriptures..."
He continued: "Unexpectedly, during his study, I received bad news from my tribe members. I said that my brother was killed and the evildoer Zhuotba incited Junggar to fight against the Ming Dynasty. After the consolation of his mentor, the young monk rushed back, hoping to help the Ming Dynasty to quell the rebellion..."
If a person is really awesome, he can make a comedy even if he is a monk. During his studies in Buddhism, Galdan performed extremely well and achieved success in his studies. He was highly appreciated by the fifth Dalai Lama.
In recent years, Galdan not only studied Buddhism, but also translated a large number of Tibetan classics in Mongolian, but also presided over important religious ceremonies many times and also worked part-time to hold a salvation ceremony for Galdama, the son of the deceased Ezirtu Chechen Khan.
It can be said that he has almost reached the level of a monk, almost meeting Zhu Cilang's expectations.
However, things changed so much that the Junggar tribe was in chaos, and this guy couldn't sit still and rushed back in a hurry.
In fact, Galdan had already rushed back two months ago, and the four-nation coalition forces entered the Ili River Valley.
The reason why he delayed so long before he jumped out to meet was that he saw the Ming army win a great victory. In the face of the Ming Emperor's inquiry, Galdan had already prepared a speech, and even the reasons for persuading the Ming Emperor to let him manage the Junggar tribe were compiled.
Zhu Cilang glanced at Galdan who was kneeling on the ground and said, "Get up and talk about your purpose of coming to see me, so be happy."
So, Galdan expressed his gratitude and thanked him all the words he prepared, using the expression of finding a breakthrough from the flattery, and said it the same as a flower.
The overall profile is: The main thing is that I, Galdan, took over the Junggar tribe, directly removed the Khanate and the Khanate system, and just existed in the tribal situation. The Junggar was completely dependent on the Ming Dynasty and was loyal to the Ming Emperor. If you let me fart, I will never dare to shit! If you want me to go north to beat the Russians, I will never go south to beat the third brother!
Naihe Galdan slapped his chest and slapped Zhu Cilang just smiled and said, "The Junggar Khanate no longer exists. It has nothing to do with your rebellion. After all, you are not the head of the army, so I will not pursue you."
Zhu Cixuan's [Bay 1 Chinese website www.x81zw.xyz] directly removed the relationship between Junggar and Galdan, and Galdan could not refute it.
If he said it had nothing to do with me, then he would be in trouble!
What? It has something to do with you? So you admit that you have rebelled against the Ming Dynasty?
Galdan wanted to explain, but Zhu Cilang shook his head and said, "Galdan, you are a great monk, how can you kill easily? I have already thought about it. Just build a monastery for you in Almaty, so that you can promote Buddhism here and save the people of the Western Regions. It can be considered a curve to serve the Ming Dynasty! What do you think?"
Galdan was speechless and couldn't say anything about his pain. He wanted to refute but did not dare, worried that he would be dragged out and buried.
After Galdan left with his head down, Zhu Heqi said in confusion: "Father, my son-in-law, I believe Galdan is a capable man, why don't my father?"
Zhu Cilang showed a kind fatherly smile and said, "I don't like people who are ambitious with wolfs. If you want to use him, you should conquer him first. If you can't conquer, then get rid of it."
Chapter completed!