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While the "big relocation" is going on, the "small infrastructure" must of course keep up.Large-scale infrastructure construction is impossible. Although Kangxi Khan, who won the northwest of India, is rich, there are not many people in Kaitianfu, Beijing, and they are still busy moving and settling down. Large-scale construction is simply unrealistic.
But fortunately, Timur, who was the capital of Samarkand earlier, was a bit of an infrastructure madman. While destroying people's homes everywhere, he vowed to make Samarkand the capital of Asia. The treasures of the people piled up in Samarkand, brought the most exquisite craftsmen from each city to Samarkand, and built the most splendid palaces and Tianfang Temple in the city.After decades of construction by Timur and his successor Shah Ruh, the city of Samarkand is full of magnificent and magnificent buildings.Although many of them have been in disrepair for a long time, they were carefully repaired and the materials used were very solid, so now they only need to be painted, and some decoration and small projects can be done to give them a new look.
Located in the center of Samarkand, the magnificent Registan Square is a key project of the "small infrastructure" of Beijing Kaitianfu-this square occupies a large area and is very suitable for holding court meetings.There are also three very imposing Tianfang Education Colleges around the square. The teachers and students in the colleges have already moved to Delhi to become masters, so they are vacant.So Kangxi Khan, who liked the spaciousness and grandeur of Registan Square, asked people to surround Registan Square and the three surrounding colleges with red walls, and regarded it as his imperial palace in Kaitianfu, Beijing.
And he also gave this palace a very Chinese name, called the Forbidden City.
The three colleges were also renamed the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Preserving Harmony.And the square surrounded by the "Three Great Halls" was renamed the Golden Arch Square - the reason for this name is that each of the three colleges has a huge arch facing the square.Originally, they painted exquisite and complex patterns with blue and green paints.But when Kangxi Khan took over, it had already fallen off and turned into a gray color, which was very ugly.So Kangxi Khan simply asked people to paint the three arches with gold paint mixed with gold powder, turning them into a golden look.
So the Registan Square that Tu Hai and Zhang Ying saw had become the Golden Arch Square surrounded by three golden arches.
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"Your Majesty, this is the memorandum attached to the request given to you by Zheng Gen, the lord of Annan... He led eight thousand people back this time, and they have already arrived in Madras. Many of them can sail boats. war, and there are several armed merchant ships bought from the Dutch. If our Great Mongolia can accept them, the Mongolian navy will be difficult to pull up. "
It was Tuhai who was reporting to Kangxi Khan under the golden arch of the local tyrant about the return of the Annan Zheng family.He is still wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, and he is walking behind Kang Mazi Khan, who is pacing and looking carefully at the gold powder paint on the golden arch.
Kangxi Khan seemed to be very satisfied with Tuhaojin's decoration style, nodded slightly, and then said to Tuhai: "Tuhai, your errands are doing well... Both Daming and Daming can explain and miss you Good. You are really a loyal minister of the two dynasties!"
Tu Hai immediately knelt down to Kangxi when he heard the words, "Your Majesty, I have always been in the Ming camp and my heart is in the Qing... I have always been facing the Qing Dynasty and the Great Mongolia!"
"I know, I know!" Kangxi Khan smiled and waved his hands. He is no longer a young emperor who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, but a middle-aged emperor in his 30s who has gone through ups and downs. He has long known that many things in the world are not black and white. That is white.
And he also understands that the cores of Great Mongolia and Daming are too far away to reach.As long as Zhu and Qi are not insane and they are not dizzy, they should not be able to fight together.
However, he still needed a middleman to negotiate with Emperor Zhu.Because the influence of Ming Dynasty has also entered India, everyone will bow their heads and not look up, and how to divide the fat if they do not coordinate well. At that time, both sides will be hurt, and it will not be beneficial to both sides.
He smiled and said to Tu Hai: "Get up... How can I not know your thoughts? What I want is a loyal minister like you who can deal with both sides."
As he spoke, his brows furrowed again: "A while ago, when the Kuritai Conference was held, Galdan and Zhen cried, saying that Zhu and Qi had robbed his Kedun Anu and colluded with Zewang Arab The three Tan brothers sent troops to attack him together. My elder brother, Sangye Gyatso, the chief lama, also told me that Zhu Heqi was stationing troops in Xining, and he also sent Lama Iraguk as an envoy to Qinghai to lobby for the surrender of Heshuote's ministries... It seems that we are going to march into the snowy land soon! I have already gone to Samarkand, why doesn’t the surname Zhu let me go?”
Tuhai smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the Emperor of Ming just wanted to take the Yeerqiang Khanate and the Snowy Plateau to entrust the Ming-friendly Mongolian ministries to defend the heartland of the Central Plains... The progress of the Khanate and the Heshuote Khanate did not go west. The Ili Grassland located to the west of the Yeerqiang Khanate and the Heshuote Khanate has long been in the hands of Tserwang Allah Butan. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty’s attack on the Yarkand and Qinghai is a Go south, not west. And I can assure you that Daming will never march west again."
"How do you know?" Kangxi asked.
Tu Haidao: "Because Emperor Zhu has set his sights on the New World now, and he is tossing about going to the East, and even sent the Mongols across the ocean to the New World. This is quite a waste of time and money, almost comparable to Zheng He's voyages to the West. And if Emperor Zhu wants to march westward into the Kazakh grassland, he must use a limited number of Mongols who are loyal to him. Now that he has sent all the Mongols to the New World to graze, how can he go westward on a large scale?"
These days, the population of Daming is still too small to fill even a land of abundance like Sichuan. Of course, it is impossible to develop the Western Regions.Moreover, the local population in the Western Regions is not large. The territory of the Yeerqiang Khanate has been washed back and forth by the Mongols several times, and the total population is only a few hundred thousand.The population of Qinghai and Xueyu is even smaller... The Little Ice Age, the Central Plains were like that, and the plateau can support people?As for the Kazakh grassland further west, the same is true. There are no more than 10 people on the vast and endless grassland.Normal troops have no way to gain a foothold when they enter these places that can be regarded as "no man's land".
Therefore, only the Mongolian tribe army with its own tribe, who can march while herding sheep, can conquer those places.
But Emperor Zhu is now sending the limited Mongols to the New World!
Kangxi was stunned after hearing Tu Hai's words, "Send the Mongols to the New World to graze?"
Of course he knew about the New World, and he also knew that the land there was quite large, rich in gold and silver, sparsely populated, and rich in products.But he really couldn't figure out where Zhu and Chi wanted to send the Mongols for Mao?
Wouldn't it be okay to send some Han people with seeds and farm tools?
How much would it cost to send the Mongols over there with cattle, sheep and horses?It sounds like a stupid thing to do!
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is true." Zhang Ying took the question and said to Kangxi with a smile, "And I heard a strange thing related to this when I was in Madras."
"How weird?" Kangxi asked.
Zhang Ying said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I heard that there is a Shang Fang Kingdom in the New Continent, and they also herd horses and sheep."
"What?" Kangxi was taken aback, "Shang Fangguo?"
"It's the Shang Dynasty that was destroyed by King Wu's defeat... It is said that they are their descendants," Tu Haidao, "it is said that they ran over 600 years ago, and they have been squinting in the northwest corner of the New World. Discovered by Westerners."
"Then Westerners didn't destroy them?" Kangxi felt very strange, "The group of Westerners like to do this thing the most, and they have destroyed many indigenous countries in the New World in the past!"
"It didn't go away this time," Tu Hai shook his head, "it won't go away... because these merchants are very powerful. Not only can they be nomads, but they also have flintlock guns and smoothbore guns!"
"What? There are guns and cannons? How is it possible..." Kangxi Khan was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, "Those, those are the Mongols that Zhu Heqi brought to the New World?"
Tu Hai laughed and said, "I guess they are the Junggars captured in the Battle of Ulan Butong."
Kangxi nodded, "It must be them... These Junggars are very fierce. If they have sugar gunpowder, flintlock guns, and rocket launchers, and they can become nomads, it will be unlucky for all New Spain and New France!"
He paused, and said again: "It seems that Zhu Heqi's plan is big!"
Although Kangxi Khan is not an authentic Mongol, he became a Mongolian Khan after all, and he knows how powerful the Mongols are... They didn't settle down scattered, but the whole tribe moved together.The whites who settled in the New World lived scattered, not to mention those settlements, even ordinary towns with only a few thousand people, how could they reach tens of thousands of Mongols who were concentrated in action?
So once more than [-] Junggar Mongol households immigrate to the New World, the hard days of New Spain will come!
Kangxi stood still, and looked back at Tuhai and Zhang Ying, "Tell me, what should I do? Should I hold Zhu and Qi back, or push them forward?"
Tu Hai smiled and said, "Push! Of course we should push... Let Zhu Heqi go to compete with the Westerners for the New World, so that we can be safe."
Zhang Yingdao: "Your Majesty, I think so too! I think it's best to push and arch!"
Chapter 804: Mountains of Perjury, True and False Ama!
"What do you mean by pushing and arching?"
Kangxi didn't understand Zhang Ying's words very well—Mr. Zhang was also a military adviser who was familiar with "Anti-Classic", and he was not very smart when he was in the Central Plains. When he came to the Western Regions and India, it seemed that he had read "Anti-Classic". The bad water in the stomach started to play a role, so Kangxi can always come up with some good strategies.Otherwise he would not be ambassador to Madras.
"Your Majesty," Zhang Ying said, "this 'push' is of course trying to push Ming's power to the New World."
Kangxi frowned: "Push to the New World? How?"
Zhang Ying said with a smile: "If my expectations are correct, Emperor Zhu asked the Mongols to pretend to be some kind of Shangfang Kingdom, in order to create the illusion that merchants have been in the northwest corner of the New World since ancient times, and then use the shell of Shangfang Kingdom to enclose the northwest corner of the New World. Westerners have not explored the northwest corner of the New World in the past, and they can’t figure out the reality of the Shangfang Kingdom. They are afraid of provoking this big country that has been in the northwest corner of the New World since ancient times and has flintlock guns and cannons. They must not dare to act rashly. In this way, Zhu and Qi will be able to transport Mongols to the New World one after another. After a few years, if one or two thousand households go to the New World, then the New World will be very lively."
Kangxi nodded: "Zhu and Qi are very happy, and they want to open up new territories. They must feel that the northwest corner of the New World is sparsely populated, and the Westerners did not occupy it. Send the Mongols over there."
"Your majesty is wise," Zhang Ying said, "I suggest that we not expose Emperor Zhu's tricks now. Not only do we not expose them, but we can also help him deceive the foreign devils into believing that there really is a Shang Fangguo. In this way, Emperor Zhu Then he will have the opportunity to keep sending Mongols to the New World...there are only a few Mongols under him, and if they go to Xinda, there will be nothing to do in the Western Regions. This is the so-called push!"
Kangxi nodded: "Okay! This is a plan to divert disasters to the east. As long as Zhu and Qi's Mongolia disasters go to the New World, I can concentrate on governing my world."
He now has a new world.But this new world is very chaotic, basically a world in bulk.If it is not managed well, then sooner or later it will be "divided by Emperor Kangma"!
So the top priority for Kangxi now is how to turn the bulk of the Mongolian Kingdom into a somewhat centralized new Qing Dynasty!
To achieve this goal, Kangxi needed a relatively stable external environment.And now the enemy that may threaten the Great Mongolian Kingdom is the Great Ming Dynasty.
If Daming doesn't come to trouble him, he can govern his world with peace of mind, and maybe he can manage a peaceful and prosperous world.
Thinking of this, Kangxi asked again: "What does the arch mean?"
"Gong is the way of fire." Zhang Yingdao, "I feel that the most worrying thing for Westerners is that Da Ming and Shang Fangguo will collude with each other, and Da Ming will pay for and arm Shang Fangguo to compete for territory with New Spain and New France. We can help Daming to fool the Westerners; at the same time, we can release news that Daming is sending guns and powder to the Shangfang Kingdom, with the purpose of capturing the entire New World. In this way, the Westerners will definitely send troops to the New World to oppress the so-called Shangfang Kingdom... and Daming In order to keep its territory in the New World, it will definitely place more bets on the New World.
And once the Westerners confronted Ming Dynasty, the battlefield would not be limited to the New World!At that time, our Great Mongolia will be able to profit from it, and maybe we can even unify North India! "
Kangxi nodded, Zhang Ying's strategy really came out of his heart!
If he can manage a peaceful and prosperous age of great Mongolia, then he must march along the Ganges River to conquer the lingering Hindustan Empire and the entire North India... That's an annual income of [-] million rupees!
"Then how can we help Zhu Hechi deceive foreign devils?" Kangxi then asked how to deceive foreign devils.
Zhang Ying said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I can make some ancient books that record Shang Fang's journey to the east to deceive the foreign devils, and maybe you can also make some tributes from the overseas Shang Fang country and show them to the foreign devils."
Tuhai added: "Your Majesty, I suggest recreating some memorials from the Kingdom of Korea to report on the situation of the Eastern Overseas Merchants and send them to Westerners."
"Can it work?" Kangxi asked, "Don't let people see it!"
"Okay, definitely!" Zhang Ying patted her chest and said, "I will wrap it on my body. I will go to Beijing. There are a few masters of antiquities in the Shenggong Mansion in Shangjing... I also know a little bit about this."
When Kangxi heard Zhang Ying mentioning Shangjing, he couldn't help but frowned... He was thinking of his son Yinreng and Empress Dowager Bumbutai.
These two have been very dissatisfied with Kangxi since the Qing Dynasty disappeared.Kangxi wanted to invite the old lady to Beijing Kaitianfu to enjoy the blessings, but the old lady preferred to stay in Shangjing Qitianfu.Recently, news came that the old lady's health was deteriorating and she could not last long.So Kangxi has long been thinking about going to the capital of the Western Qing Dynasty... On the one hand, he can send his grandmother to die, and on the other hand, he can stay a little away from his beloved wife Sofia.
Well, a little goodbye is better than a newlywed!
In addition, Kangxi also wanted to get in touch with his son Yinreng.
Although Kangxi did not intend to hand over his most valuable "industry" - the Mughal Kingdom (also known as the Indian Empire) to Yinreng to inherit, he still liked this son-in-law very much.And he also intends to let Yinreng inherit the Khan throne of the Western Qing Dynasty and Great Mongolia!
In the future, the co-lord of the Mongolian Kingdom will still be Yinfeng!
But the child Yinfeng and Kangxi were born very differently, and he refused to come to Beijing to open Tianfu on the pretext of taking care of his great-grandmother. Kong Shenggong was also appointed as the proxy for the election of the Great Mongolian Prince at the Kuritai Conference last time, and he was unwilling to show up.
With this attitude, does he look like a dutiful son?Will he be able to govern the Great Mongolia well in the future?
No, you must bring him by your side and educate him well.Otherwise, what should I do if I become an unfilial son when I grow up?
Thinking of this, Kangxi could only let out a long sigh, and said to Zhang Ying: "I will take a trip to Beijing with you... The Empress Dowager is dying soon, I have to go to see her old man's death!
In addition, I haven't seen Yinfeng for a few days, so I don't know how knowledgeable he is?What happened to politics? "
Hearing Kangxi mentioning Yinreng, Zhang Ying sighed in his heart.
Zhang Ying is a big brother of Confucianism, and most of the people who assisted Yinfeng in the upper capital of the Western Qing Dynasty were Confucian high-level officials. Of course, he knew that there were some legends about "true and false Kangxi" in the upper capital of the Western Qing Dynasty... this "true and false Kangxi" There are two versions of the rumor. The first version is that Kangxi who was beheaded by Zhu Heqi in Jiangxi was actually true.And the current Kangxi is actually Kangxi's elder brother Fuquan in disguise!
The second version says that the Kangxi who surrendered in Beijing was the real Kangxi, but the present Kangxi is actually Chang Ning in disguise!
The empress dowager Bumbutai, who originally loved Kangxi, had a cold attitude towards Kangxi Khan in the past two years, which seemed to prove that the current Kangxi was a counterfeit.
And Yinfeng, who is only 14 years old this year, must have heard of these two rumors...
Of course, Kangxi Khan himself did not know these two rumors.
No one dared to tell him!Even Xiao Guizi, the leader of the sticky pole, dared not tell Kangxi about it!After all, the old lady's attitude towards Kangxi is very cold now, which can be described as cold.
And Yinfeng probably also believed these two rumors, otherwise why would he be so indifferent to his Ama?
What would you tell Xiao Guizi to say about this kind of thing?
Just pretend you don’t know!
Zhang Ying, who is familiar with the "Anti-Classic", will not be boring himself, and he does not answer Emperor Kangxi's words, but he thinks in his heart that he should give it to the man who is still waiting in Madras for the iron proof of Shang Fangdongdu. What's up with that Baron Churchill?
I’m afraid it’s not easy to forge the bamboo slips from more than 600 years ago. Why don’t we get some bronze wares and engrave a clock of Ding Wen on the bronze wares!
What kind of bronze utensils are good?
It probably won't work to have a bronze front-loading smoothbore gun from the Western Zhou Dynasty, right?
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Ming Dynasty Nanjing Yingtian Mansion, the Forbidden City.
When Zhang Ying was thinking about what kind of bronze ware to forge to deceive John Churchill, Zhu Heqi, the grand prince of the Ming Dynasty, was talking with the Supreme Emperor, Zhuge Military Advisor, Yang Qilong, Zheng Jing, Qiu Hui, Mr. Yu, and Chen Shangchuan. , Eunuch Pang, Su Yong, and Zhao Zhongyi, several veterans, discussed the matter of Shang Fangguo in the New World together.
In fact, he got the news more than a month ago, on his way back to Nanjing from Guangzhou.
The reason why his news is not psychic, of course, is that the transportation between the two sides of the Pacific Ocean is really inconvenient-not only is it far away, but also subject to climate and seasonal factors, it is necessary to avoid the winter with strong winds and waves in the North Pacific Ocean.
At the same time, the transportation between the mainland of Ming Dynasty and the northwest coast of the New World is still a "secret route". There are no regular ships, and there are only more than [-] sailing ships from the New World that go together and return together.It takes a few months to run a trip!
When Zhou Peigong designed fake merchants to fool foreigners, the last wave of the New World Fleet had just left, so Zhou Peigong and the others had no way to report this to Zhu Heqi on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, so they had to wait patiently for the New World Fleet to return the next year .By the time the New Continent Fleet arrived again, several months had passed, and then Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, Chen Tingjing and others handed over the drafted inscriptions and secret books to Chen Anping, the admiral of the Eastern Fleet, and Chen Anping handed them over to Chen Anping. When this memorial was brought back to Daming and handed over to Emperor Zhu, more than a year had passed.
In contrast, the speed of news transmission from the Kingdom of New Spain is much faster.Less than two months after Bishop Raul Torres made his second visit to Shang Fang, he had already returned to Spain on the order of the Marquis of Mendoza.
Later, the news of the ancient oriental mysterious country Shangfang was discovered in the New World, which shocked Western Europe!
The news spread to India as quickly as possible... So John Churchill and Zhu Heqi learned about it almost at the same time.
And when Zhu Heqi received the report from Zhou Peigong and others, he was touring Fujian and Zhejiang while rushing slowly to Nanjing.Therefore, it is not convenient to discuss this matter with the important ministers below, so I can only think about it myself.
He was really surprised by Zhou Pei's clever trick of using Shang Fangguo to fool Westerners.To be honest, he really didn't expect that this "Military Master of Losing Light" would have great luck when he arrived in the New World, and even his brain became more flexible, so he could come up with such a clever plan.
However, he also knows that relying on a fake Shangfang Kingdom will not be able to fool him for too long... If Daming cannot transfer the Mongols and the "villains" to the New World as soon as possible, once the Europeans find out the details of the Shangfang Kingdom, Then they will definitely launch an attack, in order to drive the colonists of the Ming Dynasty away from the land of the New World... or even wipe them all out before their strength grows stronger!
In the map room of the Wuying Hall in the Forbidden City, Nanjing, Emperor Zhu was standing in front of a huge topographic map of the New World spread on a map platform with his hands behind his back. Rise and death are tied together, and there is no room for loss!"
"Your Majesty," Prime Minister Zhuge approached, waving a goose feather fan, "although this new continent is vast and has a lot of gold and silver reserves, it can't be called a chosen country... If there is a country chosen by heaven, it's still not me. belongs to!"
Yang Qilong also said: "Yes, I also think that Daming is the only one who can be called the chosen one in the world. But my lord... If you feel that New Spain poses too great a threat to our Daming, it is better to send troops to crusade as soon as possible. Plan. I heard that although this New Spain has a vast land and a population of more than 1000 million, among them there are only hundreds of thousands of white people. This number is not too much. As long as we can send tens of thousands of troops, it is possible to defeat it in one fell swoop. "
Destroy Mexico in one fell swoop?
Zhu Hechi shook his head. Although he has always declared the "Mexico threat theory", it was just a cover...he can't talk about the United States threat theory!This country is still 90 years away from opening!
Neither Zhu nor Qi could live to that time.He can't regard a country that doesn't exist yet and will appear in a long time as the biggest threat to Ming Dynasty, right?
If he really said that, the people below would think he was crazy!
"Of course we have to prepare for war with New Spain now," Zhu Hechi said, "but it is not necessary to station troops on the other side of the ocean for a long time... Tens of thousands of troops stationed there will cost a lot of money, and most of the soldiers will not feel at ease stationed in the New World .
So I think, we still have to scare people with the signboard of the Shangfang Kingdom...We have to convince the Spaniards that there is a Shangfang, and that this Shangfang is still a big country! "
As he spoke, he looked at the big guy with burning eyes: "Everyone, what good advice do you have?"
"Your Majesty, the veteran has a plan." Zhuge Sanhe twitched his beard and said, "If you want to make Westerners think that Shang is a big country, you have to strike first!"
Zhu Hechi was taken aback for a moment, "It's better to strike first, do you want to start a war?"
Zhuge Sanhe nodded and said: "Only by acting first can Spain overestimate the country and power of Shang Fang...Even if our troops in the New World are relatively weak, we should take the initiative to attack as much as possible. Spain is placed in a passive position to be beaten, so we can develop that golden kingdom in the New World with peace of mind."
Chapter 805
Hearing Military Adviser Zhuge mention the "Golden Feudal Kingdom", Emperor Zhu chuckled twice and said, "Advisor, do you also know about the discovery of gold in Fugui Bay?"