Liu Chengzong and Dai Daozi sat opposite each other. He looked at Dai Daozi carefully. He didn't have any injuries on his body, but he was just a little thinner. Then he smiled and said, "It's good to come back. You were tortured a lot in the Wala Tatars?" Dai Daozi grinned happily and nodded: "I miss you, Marshal Lao. I have saved my life even in my humble position. It was a worthwhile trip. I was exposed in Heshuote for a while, and then I asked Junggar Taiji to take him away. It was much better."
He thought I was a Tumut Han who understood Mongolian and wanted to take me back to Tianshan to help him create characters."
Make up characters?
Liu Chengzong wondered: "Well, why did the Junggar tribe create characters? Don't the Mongolians have characters?"
"Yes, but the Wala have been independent of the Northern Yuan Dynasty for too long. They have too many dialects and not many people understand Mongolian. Moreover, the writing is unclear, the written words cannot be read clearly, and the meaning of the words is unclear."
Dai Daozi smiled and said: "In my humble position, I still got some information. Mongolian law is difficult to apply, and Mongolian language is also difficult to communicate. In fact, Huitaiji had long wanted the monk to do these things for him, but the two leaders of the Wala League, Heshuo
We are fighting against the Junggars on separate sides, so that no one can take the lead in building cities, enforcing laws, and writing."
Liu Chengzong thought for a moment. These situations sounded like Oirat was very primitive and backward, but in fact it was not because they didn't have it, but because the past things no longer apply.
This situation is actually very similar to that of the Marshal's Mansion in front of Hehuang. There are 30,000 Han Chinese who control the military force and mainstream culture, 80,000 Mongolians, and hundreds of thousands of other people. This kind of population structure will inevitably lead to difficulties if it encounters a slight setback.
To continue.
Even in order to convey government orders, culture must be promoted, and the Han people have an advantage in this regard.
The earliest public and private institution of higher learning in the world was the Jixia Academy of Qi, and the earliest private school principal was named Confucius. The largest ancient institution of higher learning had 240 rooms, 1,850 rooms, and more than 30,000 students.
In the Han Dynasty, the earliest vocational college was Hongdu Menxue founded by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.
From the pre-Qin feudal era to the unified dynasty, each country had its own imperial academy, then each county had its own county academy, then each county had its own county academy, until fifty families had their own social schools.
Learn.
This land has the largest concentration of schools in the world. This is the cornerstone for the prosperity and development of ancient Chinese culture, the rapid progress of science and technology, and its ability to occupy a place in the forest of the world.
If you have a chance to change your destiny, you must rely on reading. This is an unchanging tradition.
But Wala obviously does not have this advantage. From the information brought by Dai Daozi, it is obvious that their language and writing system have fallen into chaos, resulting in the inability to preserve and inherit their culture, and their existence is in jeopardy.
Regarding this situation, Liu Chengzong applauded and said: "I am here, why do they need to ask the monk for help... This information is very useful, what does he require for surrender?"
Dai Daozi didn't know why Liu Chengzong was so happy about this. He thought for a while and said: "He hopes that Junggar can lead Oirat to surrender the nobles and troops and return to Tianshan."
"If the commander-in-chief agrees." He glanced at Liu Chengzong, and sure enough, the commander-in-chief looked like he was laughing: "Is he willing to kill the horse and swear an oath, become a minister and pay tribute, kowtow and pay tribute every year, and never do it again?"
Of course Liu Chengzong seemed to be watching a joke, because he had the same request as the sixth son Dorji, the national advisor of the Shuo Special Department.
He clicked his tongue, shook his head and said with a smile: "I just discovered that this Oirat, their leader likes to dream."
"They came to our Qinghai to fight, lost, and wanted to send them all back. Who do they think I am, Liu Chengzong, a living Buddha on land?"
Dai Daozi knew that Liu Chengzong would react this way, so he smiled bitterly and said: "Commander, I told him the same thing, but what Huetaiji said is somewhat reasonable. He said that they marched five thousand miles to Qinghai and lost;
Even if we kill them all and march five thousand miles, it will be difficult to win. Even if we win, it will be difficult to control the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains."
Have courage!
Liu Chengzong stood up, knowing that Junggar Taiji was telling the truth.
Not to mention anything else, the long journey has to cross a desert. The worst part is that there is not even a city on the Tianshan Mountains. His sending troops to attack the Tianshan Mountains is similar to the Ming Dynasty sending troops to attack him, and he sent troops to Kham.
It might even be harder.
There are no road facilities, no baggage reserves, and even no villages to plunder. Even if the army is lucky enough to win a few battles, it will fall into the dilemma of losing without a fight if it is short of supplies for a long time.
Liu Chengzong walked a few steps in the tent, turned around and said to Dai Daozi: "Take out your notebook and write it down."
Dai Daozi quickly agreed and took out the small notebook he had just taken from his subordinates to record Tang Bing's achievements. He searched all over his body and couldn't find the pen, so he had to accompany Xiao and take a charcoal pen from the commander's case: "Big
Handsome, I’m ready.”
Liu Chengzong nodded and began to pace in the tent. As he walked, he said: "It is necessary to make an oath by killing a horse, becoming a vassal and paying tribute, and never commit another crime again. Since we will never commit another crime again, it is better to form a friendship forever. The Marshal's Mansion will be stationed in Tianshan, and a government will be established."
The counties and tribes learned Chinese and drew topographic maps of the Oara mountains and rivers."
Dai Daozi's eyes widened and he called out, "What a good guy." The charcoal pen almost broke when he pinched it. This is not a permanent friendship, it's his mother's Tu Qiong Dagger.
He thought about the marshal and said that the leaders of Wala liked to dream, and their marshal was not far behind.
It is nothing more than that the Oara leaders have lost the battle and dream of a draw, while their generals have won the battle and dream of occupying the country. This is all excessive.
"It's not over yet, keep writing."
Liu Chengzong walked a few more steps, turned around and said: "Khan, the national advisor, is recuperating from his injuries in Xining and will not go back. Heshuote will have a pasture in Qinghai. The Junggar tribe will join the war army and select 3,600 people. The rest will be led by him."
Go back, as for the surrendered leaders and nobles, I will consider his surrender attitude and I can bring back a few."
"When there is a war in the Commander's Mansion, the Oirat tribes need to be called up by General Tianshan to fight. The noble officials of the Oirat will all receive official titles in the Commander's Mansion, and their wives will give them official orders. They will all be under the care of the Commander's Li Yamen. They will report their work to the Commander's Bay every year, and they will be given an annual salary.
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Dai Daozi was full of doubts and did not dare to ask, which department is the Shuaifu Li Yamen?
Not to mention that the Yamen no longer exists, I'm afraid the bricks to build the Yamen haven't even been burned yet.
Not to mention that if there is a war in this commander's mansion... Before the war, he will travel five thousand miles to the northwest to deliver orders. The Tianshan generals will recruit troops from the land that stretches thousands of miles. After recruiting, they will run five thousand miles from Tianshan.
It takes only three or four months for the army to march sixty miles a day.
"When the Oirat tribes are at war, General Tianshan also has the responsibility of assisting the tribes in defending their territory. In all prefectures and counties, General Tianshan will allocate land to build cities, build offices and schools, and select 1,000 hectares of land for prefectures and 500 hectares of farmland for counties.
The government hires people as tenants to mine and quarry, and the nobles are not allowed to interfere with it."
After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he lowered his eyes and noticed Dai Daozi's expression.
It was an expression that looked like someone was daydreaming, which Liu Chengzong expected.
He smiled and then said: "The two places are engaged in trade. Twenty caravans are issued every year, and each business name is given a bronze medal. Those without a license are not allowed to trade. Those with a license are not allowed to trade all kinds of goods, gunpowder, guns, weapons, and armor. According to Currwan
The market sets the official price for sale and purchase...the bronze medals will be issued by the commander's office."
When Liu Chengzong said this, he paused and said: "There are ten branches in Fajurwan, and there are ten branches in total of the leaders of the Oirat tribes."
At first, Dai Daozi thought that the Generalissimo's conditions were nonsense, but after the condition that all trade was prohibited, he felt that the matter might actually be negotiated.
But this also made him a little worried. Could this thing belong to... the enemy?
The Marshal's Mansion armed Oirat, and then Oirat had enough guns and cannons to come back and beat them.
Liu Chengzong saw Dai Daozi's concerns and comforted him: "It's okay, just go talk to Junggar Taiji and see his reaction."
Selling guns to Oirat is naturally risky, but the gun trade can feed back the manufacturing capabilities of his arsenal and cultivate more skilled craftsmen, so he can always suppress the opponent.
Moreover, there were only ten caravans sent by the leaders of the Oirat tribes in a year, and they could not transport a few cannons back. The long distance also made the transportation of heavy artillery a phantom.
What Liu Chengzong planned to provide to Oirat were monkey-style guns with a slightly less scientific specification than the weapons of the Commander-in-Chief. They were smaller in caliber, shorter in length, and heavier in weight.
If you take such a risk and turn Oirat, which is impossible to control, into a vassal state, and then gradually semi-control it through culture and trade, then for Liu Chengzong, it will be worth it.
It would be a fool's errand to have complete control without going through a conquest battle that took place in Tianshan itself.
But his focus is not on conquering Central Asia westward, but on conquering the Central Plains. At present, he only has two requirements for Oirat. One is not to stab him in the back, and the other is to stop Russia from continuing to expand eastward.
As long as he can accomplish these two things, it is enough for him.
Liu Chengzong believed that the Central Plains dynasty, in its normal form, was not afraid of any opponent in the world.
Dai Daozi wrote down all the important points, bowed to Liu Chengzong, then returned from his tent and walked towards the Junggar camp, which was besieged by heavy troops.
At this moment, Wang Wenxiu came forward with a young soldier. The man only wore a piece of mail and did not look like a regular soldier of the Shuai Mansion.
The soldier stepped forward and saluted: "Handsome sir, the younger one is personally accompanied by the third master. When he returns, my brother calls him Sheng Sheng."
"What a name!"
As soon as Liu Chengzong praised him, he took out a letter from his waist when he came back, presented it with both hands: "This is the letter written by the third master to the handsome master."
When Liu Chengzong saw the letter, his eyes narrowed involuntarily. Chengyun knew that there was a war here, and if there was nothing wrong, it was unlikely that he would write a letter during the war.
Liu Chengzong thought something had happened to He Huang, so he opened the letter and couldn't help but laugh easily.
Chengyun excitedly told him in the letter that he had found the Lintao guard who imitated the crime during the Lanzhou raid, and his name was Shi Xiang. He had previously been a commanding officer of the Lintao guard without actual instruction.
Just half a month ago, Lanzhou General Kong Xiaochen, who had received a thousand taels of silver bribe and sold Li Wanqing 23,000 kilograms of gunpowder for a price of 1,500 taels of silver, was dismissed from his post due to his failure to defend Lanzhou.
Typical escort to the capital.
And this Lintao Guard Commander, Qianshi Shixiang, spent a generous sum of three thousand taels of silver and went to the military department. He dug out some old heads from nowhere. He first obtained the Lintao Guard Commander who had no actual training, and then took them.
The real shortage of generals in Lanzhou.
In the northwest officialdom, this is a very strange person.
At this juncture, it is too expensive to seek military power and gain wealth by keeping an eye on Lanzhou's general. In the vast northwest, where can we not find a general?
Who doesn’t know that the position of Lanzhou Commander-in-Chief is a terrible job nowadays!
However, Shi Xiang asked for Lanzhou General.
But in Liu Chengyun's eyes, Shi Xiang was not a fool.
He sent people to Lanzhou and Lintao to inquire about Shi Xiang's background. It was easy to find out that he was born in a distant branch of a wealthy Lintao family but was poor. His father earned a hereditary command post by relying on three victories in Huangzhong, but Shi Xiang's succession to the official position was not smooth.
, failed several exams.
Later, he sold all the land in his family and inherited his father's duties as he wished, becoming a commanding officer without actual teaching.
For such a person, Cheng Yun is sure that he will have to work for at least five lifetimes to save three thousand taels of silver with the help of an untrained director. If he suddenly has so much money to make connections, he must have come from something wrong.
Therefore, Chengyun sent two brothers who returned from the victory and went to the General's Office in Lanzhou to test the division's general. The news they brought back made Chengyun so happy that he wrote this letter in a hurry.
Liu Chengzong folded the letter, turned to look back, and asked: "Chengyun said, I want you two brothers to tell me the rest. Tell me, what happened next?"
When I return, I smile very honestly, and I don’t look like the ruthless guy who planted mines in the toilets and blew thousands of households in Yazhou into the sky with urine propellers.
He said: "The teacher-counselor did not deny his temptation to the two of us. He also invited us brothers to eat and drink. He took good care of us for several days. Finally, he asked us to bring a message back to the third master. The third master was young and he would come back and bring it to us.
Marshal."
"What words?"
"Shi Xiang said, let the third master suffer, ask the handsome master, do you want Lanzhou?"
Liu Chengzong laughed out loud. This guy was quite interesting, and he kept pace with every step.
At that time, Liu Chengzong gave him cattle and sheep, and he knew that this man would show his flaws in the future. Unexpectedly, this man was more courageous than he thought, and directly sought the dangerous position of Lanzhou General.
By this time, when he asked himself whether he wanted Lanzhou, Liu Chengzong knew his plan very clearly.
It's very possible that this kid has wanted to change jobs a long time ago, and what he's doing now is just following the plan.
He participated in the looting on the day of the incident, so he directly sought a key position as a general in Lanzhou, and then sold Lanzhou to the Marshal's Mansion. With the Marshal's Mansion as his back, he could cleanly clear his guilt in the imperial court. p>
Jin Chan escaped from his shell and got a real official position. He is a ruthless person, with a tail in his butt, and he is smarter than a monkey.
Liu Chengzong smiled at the return and said: "Go back and tell Chengyun that there is no rush to get to Lanzhou. If you have nothing to do, you two brothers can run to Shixiang and inquire more about the news."
After returning, he cupped his fists and responded, suddenly remembering something, and said: "By the way, handsome man, the Han River is flooded. The third master said that when the eight kings entered Hanzhong, they would probably bring the hungry people into Sichuan."
"Eight Kings?"
Liu Chengzong felt that the name was quite familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while. When he came back and saw him frowning, he added: "The third master said that we are old acquaintances. The year you and the uncle were recruited to join the army, the Yan'an policeman ate it at home."
Seat."
Hearing this, lightning-like memories flashed across his mind.
Yan'an policeman Zhang Xianzhong has entered Sichuan.
