Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 264 Chapter 264, Ping Tibet set the country and set the tone, Queen Zhou suddenly attacked
The atmosphere in the study room began to become lively.

Both Zhu Cihong and Li Dingguo are young people, and both are young people who like to fight very much and are good at fighting. When such two people gather together, they naturally have a lot of common topics.

Zhu Cihong said: "In your opinion, if I send troops after the spring of next year, what is the most appropriate number of troops to use?"

Li Dingguo said without hesitation: "For an ordinary army, at least [-] or more. But if His Highness is willing to lead the Musketeers to go out, [-] Musketeers are enough!"

Obviously, Li Dingguo had a very high opinion of the Musketeers.

Zhu Cihong patted his thigh and said with a smile: "Since you have said so, then I can rest assured."

Li Dingguo's military ability is still very strong, and he has also given the Manchus several major defeats in history.

Li Dingguo said: "The common people still have an immature battle plan. I wonder if His Highness the Crown Prince is interested in it?"

Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "But it's okay to say."

Li Dingguo pointed to the map and said, "Caomin thinks that if you really want to destroy Heshuote, you should actually focus on Qinghai."

Zhu Cixiang was a little surprised: "Qinghai?"

Although this plateau is called the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, everyone knows that Tibet occupies most of the area, and the area of ​​Qinghai is about one-third of the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Li Dingguo said sternly: "That's right. After observation, the grassroots found that Gush Khan was actually from the Khalkha Mongolia in the north. Although Vatu Khan was dead, other tribes in the Khalkha Mongolia were still alive. It is possible to go south from the grassland at any time, so Gushi Khan entrusted ten sons and asked them to lead most of the elite to guard Qinghai."

Zhu Cihong understood, and said: "So, as long as the ten sons of Gushi Khan in Qinghai are wiped out, then the elite of the Heshuote Khanate will basically disappear."

Li Dingguo smiled and said: "Exactly. Once the Heshuote army in Qinghai is wiped out, the eminent monks in Tibet will be able to take action. Even if Gushi Khan cannot be captured or killed, it should be enough to help us march smoothly." Lhasa, and destroyed the entire Khoshot Khanate."

Zhu Cihong looked at Li Dingguo, his eyes were full of appreciation: "Li Dingguo, you have done a good job, very good. How about it, from today on you will be a military officer in the prince's mansion of the palace, and wait until next year when the palace goes to war. There will naturally be a place for you around me, what do you think?"

Li Dingguo immediately stood up and bowed to the ground: "It is an honor for Caomin to fight with His Royal Highness, and it is also the last wish of his adoptive father before his death. How could Caomin refuse? From now on, Caomin will die for His Highness!"

Zhu Cihong laughed loudly, encouraged Li Dingguo, and then asked Fang Gonggan to take Li Dingguo to arrange accommodation.

After Li Dingguo left, Zhu Cixiang's heart was also a little surging.

From a geographical point of view, the conquest of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is very necessary.

As we all know, the terrain of modern China is a "three-level ladder" that decreases from west to east, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the first and highest level.

Due to its condescending advantage, once the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is controlled by a big country, it will be difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to defend.

A specific example is Tubo. When Tubo was at its most powerful, it moved south from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and directly occupied the Hexi Corridor of the Tang Dynasty, which cut off the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions. It was not reconquered until the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years later. Western Region.

On the other hand, if the Ming Dynasty completely controlled the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the situation would be completely different.

After controlling the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to the north is Central Asia and Xinjiang, which is also commonly known as the "Western Region".

The Ming Dynasty sent troops from the Hexi Corridor and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it was very hopeful that the Junggar tribe would be wiped out, and the Western Regions would be brought back into the rule of the Central Plains.

In addition, there is another advantage of Ming's control of Central Asia, which is to avoid Russia, which is extremely fanatical about expanding its territory, from reaching into Central Asia.

Looking at the south, the south of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the South Asian subcontinent. At this time, the Mughal Empire dominated the South Asian subcontinent, fighting with many southern states.

After a while, the Portuguese and the British will come one after another, and eventually this place will become the territory of the British East India Company.

If the Ming Dynasty had taken control of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it would not have been possible to go south to compete with the Portuguese and British for the dominance of the South Asian subcontinent.

You must know that the unified South Asian subcontinent in history, that is, the British Indian colony, was called "the jewel in the crown of the British Empire". If Ming Dynasty put this jewel on the crown of China, wouldn't it be even more powerful?

Today's world is no longer a closed world of the five continents. The arrival of the age of great navigation has increased the number of exchanges between people, and also allowed more colonists from Europe to appear in Asia. Around Daming.

If everything develops according to history, then the Manchu Qing has established Beijing as its capital and started to eliminate the remaining Ming forces in the south.

Then, after the destruction of Junggar, the Manchu Qing would be complacent, close the country, and watch the colonists eat up the whole of India and Southeast Asia without doing anything, and finally be bombarded by the colonists' strong ships and open the country, starting a history of losing power and humiliating the country.

Zhu Cihong absolutely does not allow this kind of thing to happen.

What he wants to do is to drive all these colonists out of Asia.

Asia should be the Asia of Asians, the Asia of the Ming Dynasty. When will it be the turn of those Western European barbarians who have just emerged from the barbaric Middle Ages to cause trouble!

In the following time, Zhu Cixiang had one more thing to do besides his daily life, which was to gather with Li Dingguo to study how to attack the Heshuote Khanate based on the intelligence that Dongchang kept collecting.

On this day, when Zhu Cixiang was happily studying the battle plan with Li Dingguo, a female officer suddenly arrived.

"His Royal Highness, Empress, please go over immediately."

Zhu Cihong was obviously reluctant, and asked, "Why did the queen mother ask me to go?"

The female officer smiled and said: "Your Highness will know when he arrives."

For some reason, Zhu Cihong could clearly feel that the female officer's expression was quite subtle.

Now that things have happened, Zhu Cihong has no other choice, so naturally he can only follow this female official.

Soon, Zhu Cihong came to the palace of Queen Zhou.

"I've seen the mother, I don't know if the mother has anything to ask Erchen?"

Empress Zhou looked in a good mood, and said with a smile: "Why, I can't find you if I have nothing to do. It seems that you are busier than your father, right?"

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "That's not true, but it's impossible for the queen mother to suddenly send someone to find Erchen when she has nothing to do?"

Empress Zhou smiled, and her expression became serious: "My son, I came to you today just for your marriage!"

(End of this chapter)