When he occupied the Huanggu Valley of the Four Hundred Miles River, he once laughed at Yarkand, saying that it was a separatist oasis, feudal, tribal, and khanate.
Indeed, Yarkand is a khanate composed of several oasis towns on the edge of a desert. It is said to be a khanate, but it is actually divided into two camps, with five chiefs below.
And he wasn't in any good shape either... His Generalissimo's Mansion was nothing more than a super Yarkant with enhanced power.
In general, looking at this map, Liu Shizi felt that as a leader who used force and begged for food with his sword, he was very successful.
Look at these terrains in your trouser pockets. The Tianshan Us-Tibetan Desert Southern Prairie is not only a battleground for military strategists, it is simply a place that even military strategists from ancient times have been unable to win!
Of course, it would be perfect if these were not the only places where farmers have to worry.
In short, with the arrival of Liu Chengzong in Xi'an Prefecture and the arrival of winter, the military disasters raging across Shaanxi subsided.
Ju Sirang, the prefect of Qingyang, originally wanted to sit on the wall and wait and see, but within a few days, news came that Xi'an Fucheng had fallen and Chen Qiyu had surrendered.
Qingyang Mansion also immediately changed its banner, and many officials in the United Mansion submitted a letter of surrender to Xi'an.
Liu Chengzong reciprocated by not directly dismissing them. He also exempted Qingyang from paying taxes this year, and also rewarded Ju Sirang and other thirteen Qingyang palace officials with a silver reward of 2,200 taels.
He comforted them to work hard, resettled the people into villages and villages, built canals to divert water and reclaim wasteland, and at the same time established and repaired social schools and worked hard to recuperate and recuperate.
Of course, this year is almost over, and even if Liu Shizi wants to accept it, Qingyang Mansion probably won't have the money and food to hand him over, so he might as well be nice to him.
As for letting these officials stay in Qingyang, it is naturally a bit of a risk, but there is no way, the Marshal's Mansion really can't take care of Qingyang Mansion.
Liu Shizi is presiding over a huge population migration and cannot take care of anything else.
Because not only the troops from Xi'an Prefecture, the hungry people in the Prefecture, and the Qin vassal clan were moving to the Hehuang area of Lanzhou, but also the troops stationed in various places in the Commander's Prefecture, as well as the yamen of Lanzhou and Xining and his family members were mobilized.
There are more than 100,000 people inside and outside. The army is okay, but the people inside are much more difficult to mobilize than the army.
What's more, Liu Shizi already felt indebted to the people who moved out of Xi'an Prefecture.
It is not wrong to say that they are hungry people.
But before he came to Xi'an, people were not hungry.
With fields, food, and money, my life was wonderful.
It was he who came to besiege the city. Chen Qiyu drove him out of the city. He was neither allowed to bring food nor money. The land outside the city was even taken over by the Marshal's Mansion.
If you really want to say it, they are actually Liu Shishi's benefactors.
If it weren't for these people, Liu Chengzong's vast army would beg him for food and they would kill him.
Now is a good time. Money and food are abundant as never before, and soldiers and horses are extremely strong.
Therefore, Liu Chengzong attached great importance to the hungry people in Xi'an. As soon as he picked out the gangsters, veterans and other strong people among them, he urged the soldiers to quickly escort the remaining people to the west.
Don’t celebrate the New Year in Xi’an.
This is of course not because Liu Shizi thinks they are an eyesore, but mainly because he considers the lives of the remaining 20,000 people.
There is definitely no place for them in Xi'an Mansion, and this is not negotiable, but there are still many places in the Marshal's Mansion that can accommodate them.
They are now on the road. Wang Wenxiu's army is in charge of food at Fengxiang, Gongchang, and Lintao along the way, and they can take care of them all the way to Lanzhou.
During this period, some people were resettled in the Qinzhou, Longxi, and Lintao areas along the way. In the end, the remaining few thousand men were all settled in Xining Guards.
There are wasteland, cultivated land, and irrigated fields along the way, all the way to Xiningwei in the west, where there is the Yaoshui River military field that Liu Chengzu led his troops to cultivate.
Go there early and get the cattle from Xincheng so as not to delay next year's spring plowing.
If you eat military rations for the first half of the year, you will be stable by next summer.
In fact, the biggest winner of Liu Chengzong's Eastern Expedition was not him, but Dalai Taiji, who trained as a military guard, Baohu, a thousand-household returner, and Chen Shiwen, the chieftain of Hehuang.
As soon as the news of the fall of Xi'an reached Lanzhou, Liu Xiangyu sent the three of them to run over without stopping.
They arrived at Fengxiang Mansion, and Li Wanqing there sent a message to Xi'an.
When Liu Chengzong knew they were coming, he laughed out loud on the spot.
Of course he knew what these three guys were doing here in such a hurry. His father wrote to him.
The marshal's army launched a mighty eastern expedition, which wiped out all the troops in Hehuang's belly, and caused a lot of chaos in the rear.
At the same time, they also continuously sent prisoners and clan members to the new city, which directly led to the unprecedented expansion of the power of these three people.
Needless to say, Chen Shiwen used to be the Hehuang Little Chieftain, which was really small.
It has more than 600 native people under its jurisdiction, and its establishment includes one chief native officer, two chief native officers, and 25 horse and infantrymen.
But when Liu Chengzong first entered Hehuang, this little Han chieftain was the only one who came to greet him with a sheep.
Bao Hu was the deputy Qianhu of the Guide garrison. When Oirat invaded the east, he captured eighteen heads. The court wanted to give him twelve taels, but he didn't give them.
When Liu Chengzong won a great victory, he called him over. After learning about this, he was rewarded with one hundred and eighty taels. He also gave Bao Hu and other six people promotions to one full thousand households and five deputy thousand households.
Dalai Taiji is the most prominent of the three, the leader of the Oirat Dulbert Tribe, with tens of thousands of tribesmen under his command.
After a military defeat in Heka Grassland, he was left with a psychological shadow by Marshal Tangqi. After the war, he took over Duerbo from Marshal's Mansion and stayed at Xincheng Academy to learn the Tang soldiers' tactics thoroughly.
As a result, Liu Chengzong arranged for a training guard commander to train the Tianshan Army, and the commander was Li Bei.
However, Li Bei retired from illness and recuperated after not working for long, and all the matters related to the military training fell on Dalai Taiji's shoulders.
Originally, this was nothing, just training a few thousand recruits a year, which was no more or less for Dalai.
However, as Liu Chengzong sent troops to the east, groups of troops were sent to the Heka Grassland. Before the old Tianshan Army had passed, new training guards arrived.
Dalai Taiji couldn't manage it, so under the instruction of Mr. Liu, he took Bao Hu's guide and Chen Shiwen's chieftain of Bajiao City to devote himself wholeheartedly to the cause of military training.
A few days ago, Mrs. Liu wrote a letter to Lion Liu. The letter mainly talked about moving.
But other than that, it just describes the achievements of Dalai Taiji and other three people.
In the past six months, the troops of the Marshal's Office were transferred from the Hehuang Valley, and horse bandits broke out in Qinghai. The puppet officials of the Gongchang Prefecture of the Ming Army and the Ningxia General Tu Shixian also sent troops to threaten Lintao Prefecture and Lanzhou.
When Duerboda came to Taiji, he became Liu Xiangyu's first choice for looking after his family and nursing home.
Suppress the horse bandits in Qinghai, drag Duerbo who is training troops in the Heka grassland and kill them nearby.
To fight against Gong Chang's soldiers, it's easy to bring out Du'erbo's training guards.
To defend the Ming frontier army, it is also necessary to mobilize Du Erbo's training guards and know the troops.
In short, Liu Xiangyu stated in his letter that the Marshal's Office had granted so many titles to the Oirat nobles, so the Dulbo in Taiji was worth every penny.
The whole heart-felt love.
The old man even mentioned that Du'erbo's Chinese was so good that it would be no problem even if he was sent back to Tianshan to replace Liu Chengzu.
Liu Shishi pretended not to see this metaphor at all.
Dalai Taiji was his defeated general, and he was also close to him in the Hehuang Valley. He knew his level and experience well.
Dalai was trusted by his father and became a close and beloved general, as he should be.
This is his old father's insight into people.
First of all, he is one of the four leaders of Oirat, and because of his outstanding talents, as the third son of his father, he was supported and succeeded by his two elder brothers and one younger brother.
Secondly, although they suffered a loss at his hands, they had often made expeditions in the Tianshan Mountains in the past, organized many expeditions against Nogai and Kazakhstan, and also dealt with the Russians.
It is no exaggeration to say that when Liu Chengzong led the Eastern Expedition, Dalai Taiji was a famous Hexi general in the Marshal's Office.
After all, apart from being young, Basang and Xie Erhu are indeed inferior to Dalai Taiji in all other abilities.
These two, together with Ren Quan'er, were born in the Han and Mongolian tribes. They were the little brothers that Liu Chengzong watched growing up. They mainly focused on the fun of training and were not on the same track as other generals.
Liu Chengzong had a banquet held in the palace and personally welcomed Da Lai Taiji, Bao Hu and Chen Shiwen outside the west gate moat with Ren Quan'er and other new faces.
When the three of them saw that he had made a special trip to greet him outside the city, they were flattered and thanked him one after another.
Unexpectedly, Liu Shishi just told them to mount their horses, and while pacing into the city, he said with a smile: "The palace has been changing its furnishings and decorations in the past few days. It is a mess during the day, and there is no point in staying here."
"In the past few days, I have been doing exercises at the school grounds outside the west gate. If the guards had not been stationed in the palace city, I would have simply slept in the school grounds."
The guards he was talking about were the Huben and Yulin battalions.
On the way, Liu Shizi introduced several people to each other, praised their achievements in stabilizing the rear when Hehuang was empty, and talked about their experiences in the battle formation in the past half year.
It wasn't until he entered the palace for a banquet and drank for three rounds that he asked Dalai Taiji: "Brother, you have made great achievements in suppressing bandits and resisting the rebels in the past six months. I listen to my father's wishes and want you to go to Tianshan Mountain."
What do you think about taking over as the governor?"
Dalai Taiji was holding a blue and white wine glass given to him by Emperor Hua Nian, and was giggling. Hearing this, a smile condensed on his face.
Bao Hu and Chen Shiwen, who were joking, suddenly did not dare to speak.
After being stunned for a moment, Dalai realized that he was being called.
He thought to himself that the old Liu family was really good at talking about different matters. He was Liu Chengzu's father-in-law. In Lanzhou, the old man called him brother; in Xi'an, the Great Khan called him brother.
Of course, he didn't want to be the uncle of the Great Khan. He was older than Liu Xiangyu, so he was quite comfortable being called "younger brother."
He was stunned. On the one hand, Chinese was not his native language and he had to translate it in his mind. Secondly, he had to consider what answer Liu Chengzong wanted to hear when he said this.
Dalai Taiji put down his exquisite wine glass, suppressed his smile, and said respectfully: "I listen to the Khan."
But in response to this statement, Liu Chengzong just held the wine glass and chuckled: "Brother, there is no need to be so serious. It is not a big deal. You have made great achievements. I just want to ask what you mean."
Da Lai had a smile on his face, but he was complaining in his heart, thinking that the old lady had harmed me.
Your son is more like a tiger than Huitaiji, and he is a smiling tiger who is not easy to fool. I didn’t say that I wanted to go back to Tianshan. What should I answer?
"Everything is fine in Xining when I return to Khan, but I really miss my hometown, customs, wife and children."
Dalai was still respectful, looked at Liu Chengzong and said with a smile: "But I am getting older and my body is not as strong as before. I am afraid that I will not be able to withstand the long distance march and the wind and rain in the Tianshan Mountains."
Liu Shizi gave a thumbs up in his heart. He is worthy of being a noble leader. He talks like farting, a master!
But actually Dalai Taiji is very sincere.
He had never thought about this before.
Because he had seven sons, among whom he liked the most and had the most outstanding talents, the fourth was Emu Budaiqing and the seventh was Sonomu Cheling.
After the defeat, he stayed in Qinghai and divided the tribe's property among his seven sons, with the fourth and seventh sons being the most numerous.
When Liu Chengzong asked just now, when he thought about it, this was indeed what he had in mind.
Xining is very good, and life in Xining is very comfortable, but homesickness is inevitable.
After all, it was fine when I arrived, but I didn't expect that it would never come back.
But he didn't want to go back either. Oirat's armament support came from the Marshal's Mansion. The core of the military industry of the Marshal's Mansion was in Hexi, and Hexi was currently under the control of his in-laws, Mrs. Liu.
What's more, the master in charge of the government office, Shi Chengwo, is his mentor and friend.
He was in Xining, and his Dulbert tribe, led by his seven sons, had great say in Oirat.
Of course, sincerity is only relative. He knows very well that it doesn't matter what he thinks about it.
What the Great Khan Liu Chengzong thinks is important.
So I reminded Liu Chengzong in a very subtle way, I have been away for several years and I miss my son. It is human nature. Doesn’t Mr. Liu miss his son?
His reminder is very powerful.
Liu Chengzong put away his temptation.
But let Dalai Taiji return to Tianshan and replace his brother Liu Chengzu?
Don’t even think about it!
When Dalaiji went back to Tianshan and sat in the Yamen, Oirat, which was never stable in the first place, was about to go to war.
Dulbert's troops were already very strong in Oirat, and the Tianshan Army was still trained by him. How would they deal with Hutaiji when they returned to Batur?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! What's more, his brother Liu Chengzu has no problem coming back to live for a year or two.
Liu Shizi did have this consideration at first. He thought about giving Sunday a wave of epic reinforcements and sending Madman He there with his troops. If the two of them cooperated well, he would transfer his brother back.
Let Zhou Qiang, the fanatical enthusiast of pioneering new territories, be the governor of Tianshan Mountain.
But later I thought it was impossible. Even if I could get Liu Chengzu back, I would have to get Liu Chengyun over.
The nominal leader of the Marshal's Mansion in Tianshan must be named Liu.
Because Oirat didn't dare to kill.
And the best candidate is Liu Chengzu.
Because even if someone takes a desperate risk, his eldest brother is not easy to kill.
It's just that Liu Chengzong didn't need to explain these things to others.
He sighed and said sentimentally: "The vast territory and inconvenient transportation are indeed a problem. I also miss my brother very much."
"In this case, I sent a message to Huitai Ji, asking him to send a son from among your heirs, lead some tribes back, and allow him to be a herder in the pasture land of O'er on the sea and serve his subordinates."
"In exchange, the land that can be cultivated over there will also be given to the Tianshan Army to secure and live in, what do you think?"
Liu Shizi is good at thinking from others’ perspective.
There were few soldiers in Tianshan, so Oirat diluted the troops.
Then if I draw the people from Oirat, won't they be diluted by him? If I send people over there, the one will be eliminated, and the other will be reduced, which can also reduce the trouble for my brother and Sunday Qiang.
Dalai Taiji was naturally ecstatic about this. The pastureland in Or'err, Haibei, was no worse than the pastureland in the Tianshan Mountains.
He immediately thanked him and said, "Thank you, the Great Khan, for the land! Please allow your youngest son, Che Ling, to lead his troops to station in Mu Hai."
Liu Chengzong naturally agreed to this.
When Dulbert's tribe came to station as pastoralists, they naturally had to replenish the Mongolian generals of each brigade according to the rules. During the campaign, the tribes moved inward and eventually became one family.
As for the Ming Dynasty, we have hundreds of thousands of people with royal bloodline, so they are not easily assimilated.
In Liu Shishi's hands, they can inherit Emperor Taizu's legacy and expel the Tartars in another way.