Just when Kolber was inspecting the excrement business, a fleet came from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Before the fleet arrived in Nanjing, a clipper ship rushed over.
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Han received the urgent news and immediately summoned the ministers of the cabinet: "Gushi Khan is dead. His eldest son and six sons control Weizang, his eldest grandson controls Kham, and the other seven sons control Qinghai. These descendants, each other
If you are not convinced, you will not be able to choose a new Khan..."
Gushi Khan himself lived in Lhasa for a long time. His eldest son and his sixth son were stationed in Weizang to guard against the local Tibetan rebellion. The main tribe and his seven sons were grazing around Qinghai Lake. The eldest grandson ruled the Kham area, and the taxes collected here were
Most of it was used to support the tribesmen in Qinghai.
Gushi Khan was over seventy years old this year, so it was normal for him to die, but he did not designate an heir.
Nowadays, Diba (the chief executive of the Qinghai-Tibet region) controls Lhasa and requires the sons of Gushi Khan to elect the Great Khan before he can hand over various powers. To put it bluntly, the chairman died suddenly and the CEO did not know
Who should be listened to? He said that he would not interfere in family affairs and let the chairman's sons handle it themselves.
Therefore, no one could take over Lhasa until the Great Khan was elected.
The eldest son and the sixth son, who led the army to negotiate, are still facing each other in Weizang, and have already fought two small-scale battles.
The eldest grandson is still stationed in Kham, which is the closest to Sichuan. He sent a team of envoys with a large amount of tribute to come to Nanjing to ask the emperor to canonize his father. Once his father becomes the Great Khan, he will have the right to inherit in the future. Even if he cannot succeed the Great Khan
The position also controls the richest areas in Qinghai and Tibet, and can take the opportunity to get rid of the burden of sending taxes to Qinghai.
The other seven sons said they would not get involved in the struggle for the throne, but the eldest son and the sixth son were not allowed to go to Qinghai to cause trouble. But this was impossible. The eldest son and the sixth son were competing for the throne. The one who lost would definitely retreat to Qinghai.
Become the general manager (King of Qinghai), and then create a situation of great auspiciousness in Qinghai Batai.
Song Yingxing said: "There are two ways. First, let the boss and the sixth child fight on their own, without canonizing any of them. The longer the fight, the better; second, canonize the boss as King of Wei Zang, canonize the sixth child as King of Qinghai, and make both
The Shuote Khanate was divided into two."
Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the map and said: "Kham must be captured and merged into Sichuan and Yunnan. Xining, Nianbo and the northwest valley (Menyuan, Datong) will all be assigned to Gansu, and Gansu will be separated from Shaanxi and established as a separate province."
The Kham area includes Garze and Aba in Sichuan, Diqing in Yunnan, Yushu in Qinghai, and Qamdo in Tibet. It is currently the territory of Handu (the eldest grandson of Gushi Khan). The Qinghai nobles enjoy life and rely entirely on the taxes of Kham.
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Xining and the surrounding areas belonged to Gansu Town in the Ming Dynasty. They were occupied by Gushi Khan at the end of the Ming Dynasty and have not been taken back until now.
The Ministry of War and the Governor's Office had long discussed the idea of capturing Kham, dividing it between Yunnan and Sichuan, and immigrating and garrisoning troops in Qamdo, Garze, Aba and other places. Then they captured Xining, Gannan, Menyuan and other places, immigrated and garrisoned troops, and divided them into
Gansu separated from Shaanxi and established a separate province.
As for Qinghai and other places in Tibet, the kings and lamas were canonized and allowed to check each other.
You have to take it step by step. Don't think about becoming fat in one bite. The situation in Qinghai-Tibet is too complicated.
The ministers discussed repeatedly for a long time, and Zhao Han made the final decision: "After the envoy from Handu arrives, let it wait for a while. Then immediately send the envoy to Qinghai and Tibet to inform the nine Taijis who are willing to hand over the original Gansu town of Ming Dynasty."
If you donate the land to Kham, I can ennoble him and support him to become the Great Khan!"
If you have a big fist, you can be unreasonable.
But this kind of thing cannot be explained openly. After all, the Khoshote Khanate has been canonized as a vassal. Even if the suzerain country wants to annex the vassal country, it must give sufficient reasons, and the envoy must set conditions in private.
It is enough to take advantage of this opportunity to expand territory and strengthen control over Qinghai-Tibet.
The Qing government completely recovered Qinghai-Tibet during the Yongzong-Qianlong period. For hundreds of years, it continued to build cities, increase garrison troops, and repeatedly suppress rebellions, and finally established the authority of the ministers stationed in Tibet. The first batch of Qing troops who entered Tibet could only It's tragic that because of the terrain and climate, the entire army was wiped out.
The Gansu Province to be established is very large, covering the entire Ningxia, and also includes Xining, Haidong, Menyuan and other places in Qinghai. At the same time, it appears to be very small, because places such as the west of Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Guazhou, and Yumen still exist today. In the hands of the Yarkand Khanate.
"Your Majesty, if most of Kham and Ba are merged into Sichuan, then Sichuan's tax reserves will have to be readjusted," Fei Chun said suddenly.
Zhao Han nodded: "That's for sure."
Compared with the great Sichuan of the Ming Dynasty, the Sichuan of the New Datong Dynasty was much smaller.
The land of Bozhou was all assigned to Guizhou. Wusa Prefecture, Zhenxiong Prefecture, Dongchuan Prefecture, and Wumeng Prefecture were all assigned to Yunnan. The Western Sichuan Plateau was in the hands of the Kashote Khanate.
In later generations, Chongqing was full of chieftains at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they were repatriated, they were still extremely poor. After taking back the Western Sichuan Plateau (Kangba area), they had to invest heavily in construction, and Sichuan's finances were no longer able to afford it. Support other provinces.
Comparatively speaking, Yunnan is really big. The land of the Four Prefectures was allocated from Sichuan, and a large piece of it was swallowed up from Myanmar. In the future, after the Ruan family is destroyed, some mountainous areas in northern Vietnam will be allocated to Yunnan and Guangxi. Prevent Vietnam from becoming independent in the future.
When the conditions are ripe in the future, the Pingnan Military and Civilian Government will fully reorganize the land and return it to its original position, and the central, northern and eastern parts of Myanmar will definitely establish separate provinces, and then take the opportunity to return the area of Yunnan to normal levels.
After the plan was confirmed, the cabinet and ministries became busy.
The three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Yunnan have begun to mobilize supplies. There will definitely be no war this year, but there will be a few wars in Qinghai-Tibet next year.
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"He doesn't want to?" Zhao Han was a little unhappy.
Fei Rulan said: "He thinks the British princess is too old."
Zhao Han complained: "You're too old, so he doesn't like the old woman. No matter what, we have to get married and give birth to a son and a half."
Charles' younger brother and younger sister did not come to China with the ship because they were too young, but went to the Netherlands with his mother.
The sister brought to China was named Elizabeth Stuart, the same name as the Winter Queen. But this Elizabeth did not leave a name in history because she died of illness in exile at the age of 15.
For unknown reasons, Princess Elizabeth survived and followed her brother Charles to China.
Poor Prince Zhao Kuanghuan, for the sake of the country, was once again forced to open a business and take a 20-year-old foreign woman as his concubine.
The sedan chair was carried to a courtyard, and Princess Elizabeth was full of curiosity. She didn't have anything else on her mind. All European royal families had to marry, and those who couldn't marry were the most miserable, and could only die alone.
The moonlight is bright and the red candles are swaying.
Zhao Kuanghuan has already broken the pot, and his father has given him a concubine, so he will accept it. Anyway, he has already married three, so it doesn't matter if he marries another one.
Lifting the hijab, Zhao Kuanghuan looked at it carefully and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She is not ugly, at least she is more beautiful than the foreign woman he imagined. The only drawback is that the bridge of her nose is a bit too high, which makes her face look thin. This kind of face is relatively unlucky.
"Can you speak Chinese?" Zhao Kuanghuan asked.
Elizabeth said: "I know a little bit, I learned it on the boat for more than a year."
Zhao Kuanghuan said: "Your name is too long, you can call it Eliza from now on."
"Okay." Elizabeth nodded. She was also sizing up the crown prince, who was more handsome than she thought, although she was still somewhat blind to Chinese people.
The two of them really had nothing in common, so Zhao Kuanghuan said: "Go to sleep."
Prince Charles was very happy and was having a wedding banquet outside the palace at this time.
The imperial concubine or the princess's family also has to serve wine, and the royal family pays for this.
Zhao Han asked officials from the Ministry of Rites to attend the banquet, invited envoys from various countries to participate, and invited theater troupes and jugglers to add to the fun. The scene was quite grand, and Charles had a great time. He especially liked jugglery performances and planned to raise a court magician when he returned to China.
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It was a pity that no noble ball was held, which made Charles a little regretful.
This guy still hasn't figured out that his sister is just the crown prince's concubine, and he thinks that she can become the Queen of China in the future.
If he hangs around for a while, Charles will definitely know the truth, but by then the rice has been cooked. No matter how angry he is, he has to hold his nose and admit it. When he returns to Europe, he can make up whatever he wants. European nobles are unlikely to come anyway.
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At night, the wedding banquet dispersed.
Charles held a globe and called the two country boys into the room: "This is a gift from the emperor to congratulate the marriage between the two countries."
"A globe? I saw it in London," Thomas said.
Charles said: "This one is different. It marks the latest Chinese territory. On the European globe, the Chinese territory is out of date more than ten years ago."
"Is the red one China?" John asked.
Charles nodded: "Yes."
Thomas asked: "What about the blue one?"
Charles said: "A vassal state of China."
The two country boys were shocked: "It's so big!"
Of course it’s very big. This is a newly released map. Not only does Eastern Siberia appear as Chinese territory, but even Sakhalin Island is included in it. In addition to the southern islands of the Philippines, the entire Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia are either China’s red territories.
, or a blue vassal state of China.
Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, Japan, North Korea, including parts of Russian territory and Central Asia, are also marked as blue affiliated forces.
Charles said excitedly: "What a powerful Eastern overlord! Britain and China have been married. Britain will definitely dominate Europe in the future!"
Thomas asked: "I heard that there is a military school in Nanjing. China's military is very powerful. Can we study in the military school?"
Charles shook his head and said: "No, we can only enter Jinling University."
"That's a shame," said John.
Charles said: "I met with the emperor again yesterday. Although he is not willing to borrow troops, he can fund me to form an army. He will give me some weapons and then let me go to Arakan to recruit troops. There are many fierce pirates there, and I can definitely form an army."
A king's guard. Moreover, I have contacted the Portuguese envoy. Once I have organized the guard, the Portuguese are willing to lend me a ship to take me back to England to regain the throne."
"What do the Portuguese want?" Thomas asked.
"Marriage," Charles said. "The daughter of the King of Portugal is already engaged to the Chinese royal family. He will marry his niece to me."
