Liu Ziguang was worried that he had no reason to leave the capital to avoid Liu Rushi. A great opportunity came to his door, and it was not enough if he did not go out this time. Countries in the east, west, north and west of the Ming Dynasty submitted war lists to the court at the same time. An unprecedented war was about to begin.
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The envoys who submitted the war form were Xixia, Manchu and Koryo envoys. They came with them to attend the Empress Dowager's canonization ceremony just as a drop-in. The main purpose was to declare war. However, they knew the rules very well. They were polite first and then sent troops. They attended the ceremony before submitting it.
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It goes without saying that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty. Even Kangxi’s children were disfigured by Liu Ziguang. This hatred could not be resolved in any way. A war was inevitable. As for Xixia and Goryeo, although they did not have a tragic war with the Ming Dynasty
, but it is also a potential threat.
Let’s talk about Xixia first. This name was given by the Ming Dynasty. They don’t call it that. The formal name is Daxia Khanate. It has the characteristics of the orthodox dynasty and the flavor of the Mongols. Yes, Xixia is mainly Mongolian.
During the dynasty, their king's name was Galdan. He was a legendary figure. He went to the Tubo Buddhist Kingdom to serve as a living Buddha since he was a child. When his tribe, the Erut Mongolian Junggar tribe, had internal strife and his brother Sengge was killed, Galdan
Erdan resolutely returned to his hometown, led Seng Ge's old troops to fight fiercely with the enemy and won a complete victory.
Although Galdan was born a lama, he was extremely talented in military matters. Whenever he encountered a war, he had appropriate strategies and tactics, decisive command, fearless, took the lead, and fought hard. Therefore, he was sure to win every battle, and he was "unprotected".
This established a high prestige. The purpose of his return to secular life was not only to avenge the monks, but also to create a unified Mongolian empire that was not attached to any political power like Genghis Khan's period. Therefore, he adopted a strategy of distant friendship and close attack, and attacked the surrounding small tribes.
He launched a series of conquest wars and continued to grow in strength.
When the Qing Dynasty entered the country and the Central Plains was in flames of war, the Western Regions were also shrouded in the clouds of war. The powerful Junggar tribe received great help from the Tubo Kingdom. King Jinlun gave Galdan the "Danjin Boshu Ketu"
Khan", and Galdan's regime also began to call itself the "Junggar Khanate".
But Galdan was not willing to be a small Khan. His ambition was higher than the wings of an eagle. On the one hand, he continued to seek assistance from Tubo and implemented the Tubo Yellow Sect in the ruled area. On the other hand, he vigorously
Carry out trade with the East and continuously obtain high-quality ironware, tea, cloth, grain, advanced technology, etc. from areas ruled by the Han. Shaanxi is his good partner. Galdan even sent a team to ensure the smooth flow of this channel.
The cavalry helped Shaanxi governor Zhou Zhenglong resist the Manchu attack.
The Junggar Khanate, nourished by the advanced Han culture, began to manage Huijiang and the areas farther west south of the Tianshan Mountains. Galdan personally led his troops to occupy Hami and Turpan, and then fought all the way to the Caspian Sea in the west. Successive years of brilliant achievements gave the Junggar tribe
It brought a lot of land, population, and wealth.
During this period, the nomadic lands of the Junggar Khanate reached as far as the Altai Mountains in the north, the vast Kazakh nomadic areas south of Lake Balkhash in the west, and the upper reaches of the Yenisei River in the east. They also ruled the vast area south of the Tianshan Mountains, and their influence reached as far as
The Samarkand, Bukhara, and Urgenzi regions in Central Asia have become a major power in Central Asia.
As his wings gradually matured, Galdan began to set his sights on the prosperous East. Although he was born as a lama and a nomad, he was very yearning for Han culture. He recruited many Han counselors and craftsmen under his command, and changed the name of his country to Xia.
He proclaimed himself the emperor of the Xia Dynasty. This Xia Dynasty was different from the Xia Dynasty established by the Dangxiang people during the Song Dynasty. It was only slightly related to the Xia Dynasty during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period. Galdan took Chinese culture as his orthodoxy, and the domestic buildings and official systems all adopted the Han system, and Han people were heavily used.
The intention is to march eastward and conquer the world.
At this time, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had already conquered the Chahar and Horqin tribes of Northern Mongolia. The Manchu and Mongolian families were related, and the Queen Mother of the Qing Dynasty was herself a princess of the Horqin tribe, so they were barely of the same culture as the Xia Dynasty. Although there had been
There is a small friction, but in the face of interests, everyone can still sit together and talk.
The country of the Han people has always been a big fat in the eyes of the nomads, and Nanming is no exception. Especially in recent years, Nanming's economy has developed rapidly, and a lot of money has been made from overseas trade, especially the land in the south of the Yangtze River, which has a large population and a developed economy.
The climate is also very suitable. The heroic knights who are accustomed to fighting in the bitter cold land need such a warm place to clean their boots.
As the strategic focus of His Majesty Emperor Galdan moved eastward, the capital of the Xia Dynasty also moved to Lanzhou Prefecture, not far from Xi'an. Galdan met with the Manchu envoys in Ningxia, discussed major world affairs, and unanimously agreed to target Nanming.
The war is imminent, because the Ming Dynasty has recently won several foreign and domestic wars, its energy has been greatly restored, and its morale is also very high. In the near future, it will definitely launch the Northern Expedition or the Western Expedition. Rather than waiting for the Ming Dynasty to be fully prepared, it will launch a war.
It is better to take the initiative and push the war into the enemy's territory.
I heard that the Ming Dynasty has produced several fierce generals and invented advanced weapons in recent times. This makes Galdan dare not take it lightly. You must know that it took a lot of effort for the Yuan Dynasty to destroy the Song Dynasty. The tenacity of the Han people should not be underestimated. For
To ensure the victory of the war, he chose to form an alliance with the Manchus and destroy the Ming Dynasty together. After the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, everyone tacitly understood it.
The Xia Dynasty's army was powerful and numerous. In addition to the Mongols, there were also many foreigners with concave eyes and high noses. They were all soldiers forcibly recruited from the Western Regions. Most of them were from nomadic tribes and had strong physical endurance. In addition,
After years of fighting, they have rich experience, their combat power is extraordinary, and their momentum is unmatched by the Manchu lovers who suffered consecutive defeats. So when the Manchu Qing envoy Mingzhu, after reviewing the Xixia cavalry, he had some doubts about whether it was a wrong decision to form an alliance with Xixia. Let’s see.
From this point of view, it seems that the right path should be to form an alliance with Nanming to fight against Xixia.
Another ally is the Koryo Kingdom located to the east of the Shandong Peninsula. Koryo is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. The top leader is called the King of Koryo. He must not call himself the emperor. His wife can only be called the princess. Even the reign name is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty.
When the old king dies and the prince takes over, the Ming Emperor must send an envoy with an imperial edict to confer the title on him before the formalities are officially completed. Every year, the emperor sends an envoy to appease the vassal king. At this time, the king personally greets the vassal.
In the capital, he knelt at the Cheng'en Gate outside the city to pick up the envoy from the previous country.
Goryeo was often bullied by the Japanese country in the east, so it needed Ming's assistance. However, since the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ming had no energy to take care of this younger brother. The current King of Goryeo is named Li Jie, and he is an extremely wise monarch.
Both the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were willing to give in, secretly accumulating strength and plotting to become bigger. It was his order to send spies to steal the advanced technical data of the Ming Dynasty. The Korean Imperial Hospital Mission who lived in Nanjing also learned from it on the surface, but secretly
Spies who steal various advanced technologies.
The King of Goryeo had a very ambitious ambition, which was to establish the great Goryeo Empire and conquer the Japanese, Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this was just a secret buried in the minds of some of Goryeo's "Shilin Sect" elites.
In the secret discussions, Li Zhu only said that he wanted to get rid of his status as a vassal and wanted the title of emperor.
After three rounds of secret discussions between Xixia, Manchu and Qing Dynasty, and Goryeo, a written agreement was finally formed in Beijing. The three countries jointly sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty. Xixia attacked from the west, focusing on Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan; Manchu and Qing Dynasty suppressed from the north.
, went south along the Shandong line; Goryeo sent out naval forces to contain it. Immediately after the incident was completed, the three countries will always be a brotherly country, sharing the Han people's children and flowers, and the colorful world.
Whether it was Galdan of the Xia Dynasty, Kangxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or Li Zhu of Goryeo, they all felt that they were dignified heroes and did not bother to make a sudden attack, so they sent envoys to pay homage first and then send troops to participate in a decent manner.
They attended the canonization ceremony of the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty, and then showed their ferocious faces and announced war against the Ming Dynasty.
To be honest, their decision is right. Even if they don't come to fight Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao will fight them. According to the original plan, when the situation in the country is calmed down, food and pay are sufficient, and the soldiers are trained, they will take them one by one.
They are opening the knife, but since people don't want to just wait to be hacked, there is nothing wrong with striking first.
However, the ministers in the cabinet still cited classics and scolded the three envoys who declared war from foreign countries. Especially the envoy from Goryeo was scolded. The Ming Dynasty had not been kind to them over the years. They were scolded by the Japanese several times.
The country was about to be destroyed. It was the Ming Dynasty that sent troops to help them clean up the mess. It's good now that kindness has been avenged.
Zhu Youxiao was also very angry. He didn't expect that others would take action first. He was not ready yet. He originally planned to develop a high-cross-country four-wheel vehicle suitable for use in the Gobi Desert in the west, but he just played with it and did not improve it at all.
, now that everyone is knocking on the door, how can it be so good?
The envoys of the Three Kingdoms did not leave even after declaring war. They stood in the main hall waiting for Ming's reply, because their declaration of war came with conditions. If Ming agreed to their conditions, the war would be fine.
The conditions offered by Xixia were to cede Shaanxi and Sichuan to them, and to pay an annual tribute of 10 million two-year-old coins to Daxia. The conditions offered by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were to cede Shandong and Henan provinces and the head of the war criminal Liu Ziguang. In contrast,
The Korean people were much more kind. They only needed the Ming Dynasty to recognize their identity as the great emperor of the Korean Dynasty and pay tribute of two million taels of silver every year.
I deliberately made this condition just to show my justice in starting the war, and to show that I didn't give you a chance, and I beat you because you didn't cherish this opportunity. Zhu Youxiao maintained the demeanor of an emperor despite his anger.
, sneered and said: "You have a big appetite. I actually heard someone wanted to kill Marquis Wu. Come on, go and bring Liu Aiqing and ask him if he is willing to give it."