Let’s not talk about Liaodong for now, the plan for Liaodong has been decided long ago. Although there are changes in the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong at present, Zhu Yicheng does not intend to change the plan.

As for the other northwest, which is the central part of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yicheng considered that the overall situation would not touch him for the time being, and only restricted it by blocking materials.

Therefore, apart from these places, the rest is Mongolia in the north. For Mongolia, it was an unsolvable problem in the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di wanted to completely conquer Mongolia, but several northern expeditions still failed to achieve their goal.

During the prosperous period of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes fled everywhere when they saw the Ming army coming, or pretended to surrender. Once the Ming army left, these Mongolians returned to their old appearance and did whatever they should do. When they had nothing to do, they came to the border to grab a hand and killed a few more people, and did not take the former Ming army seriously at all.

Of course, this also has the conditions and restrictions at that time. Mongolia is too big, and the Han people farm, while Mongolians make a living by grazing. There is a huge difference between the two. Therefore, for nearly two hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, they have always wanted to conquer Mongolia but failed in the end. This has to be said to be a regret.

Therefore, in addition to the Qing Dynasty, Mongolia was also an opponent that the Ming Dynasty had to solve. Originally, Zhu Yicheng planned to take it step by step, first solve the Qing Dynasty and then attack the Mongolians, but now because of the sudden changes in the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, Zhu Yicheng changed his original plan. In addition, the situation reported by Zhang Ran of the Jinyiwei added, which identified Zhu Yicheng's idea of ​​targeting Mongolia.

In fact, Mongolia is much weaker than the original Mongolia. First of all, during the Kangxi period, I had just fought several battles with the Mongolian Junggar tribe. These battles made the rising Junggar tribe almost unable to take care of itself, and even its great khan Galdan was eventually defeated and died.

After the Junggar's power in Mongolia was curbed by the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi took advantage of the situation and weakened other Mongolian tribes, leaving Mongolia no more heroes.

This incident is a good thing for the Qing Dynasty's rule in Mongolia. In addition, the so-called Manchu and Mongolian policy of the Qing Dynasty, if there is no accident, the Qing Dynasty's dominance in Mongolia will be stronger, thereby completely eliminating the harassement and plunder of the Central Plains dynasty by the northern nomadic peoples for hundreds of years.

But this incident happened. As soon as Kangxi put down Mongolia, divided and disintegrated Mongolian tribes, the Central Plains began to be full of war.

With the Jiangnan Uprising and Zhu Yicheng conquered Nanjing and restored the Ming Dynasty rule, the Qing Dynasty could not care about the Mongolian side? Not only did they mobilize troops and generals everywhere to encircle and suppress rebels from all over the country, but later mobilized Mongolian cavalry to go south to completely eliminate all rebels and maintain their rule.

But no one expected that the rise of the Ming Dynasty would be so rapid, and the Ming army also changed from the original rebel army to the new army with extremely strong combat power.

Recovering Beijing City, standing in Jiangbei, and the Central Plains Battle... In a few years, the main force of the Qing army and some Mongolian cavalry were destroyed by the Ming army one by one. At the same time, due to the joint efforts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the win over the Russians, they directly sold the Mobei Mongolian Mongolia, which caused the three powerful tribes of the Mobei Mongolian tribes to be destroyed in the hands of the Manchu Qing and the Russians.

By this time, the Mongolian tribes had been severely damaged, and the Mongolians did not have the heroic lords who could command each tribe like Galdan, so they naturally became a mess of sand.

This is also the current reality in Mongolia. It is precisely because of this that Ortai can gain a foothold in Mongolia and hold troops to force the Mongolians.

In name, Ortai was still a member of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, he was now similar to the warlords, holding troops in his hands, and dividing and winning over a group of Mongolian princes and princes, excluding and attacking opponents. Now most of the Mongolians are controlled by him, and most of the Mongolian cavalry are also under Ortai's subordinates.

Ortai was a smart man. As a minister promoted by Emperor Jianxing, the Qing court was under the regent of Prince Yong. At this time, no matter he went east or west, he did not get good results. Moreover, Prince Yong and the Ming army did not move him for the time being, because he held heavy troops and relied on Mongolia. Once these were gone, Ortai knew that he was not even as good as an ordinary person, and he would face the fate of death and destruction.

It is precisely because of this that Ortai sent people to Beijing with the intention of finding a way out for the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, as long as the Ming Dynasty was willing, he simply broke away from the Qing Dynasty and became independent, and then transformed from the Manchus to the Mongolian Khan.

Anyway, the so-called Manchu and Mongolian family is reasonable to find this reason. In addition, if they are converted to Mongolia, they will be subject to the Ming Dynasty according to the examples of the previous Ming Dynasty, and then they will be appointed as a minister of the Ming Dynasty who obeys the king or something?

Emperor Jianxing, who was kind to him, now has no idea of ​​life and death. The Qing Dynasty has long been the same as before. The surname of Ortai is Xilin Jueluo, not Aisin Jueluo. Moreover, he has done his best for the Qing Dynasty before, so he can't destroy it with the Qing Dynasty now.

Zhang Ran reported all these to Zhu Yicheng. In addition, Zhao Huoluo, who had defected to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yicheng knew very well about Ortai's thoughts.

However, Zhu Yicheng did not want to subdue Mongolia. At present, he wanted to recover Mongolia first to recover Ortai. However, after the recovery, what the Ming Dynasty needed was long-term peace and stability in Mongolia, that is, to completely annex Mongolia and become the real territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the time is not yet ripe. Annexing Mongolia not only requires long-term planning, but also a series of actions. Moreover, the Eight Banners in Liaodong are abnormal movements, and it is not appropriate to attack Mongolia now.

This is also the reason why Zhu Yicheng was not interested in Ortai's envoys before, but because of the changes in Liaodong, Zhu Yicheng suddenly thought of Mongolia. Maybe he could do something with the power of Mongolia at this time. More importantly, the Russian power in the north of Mongolia is slowly moving southward, which must contain the Ming Dynasty. However, from the perspective of political, military and geographical location, it is impossible to directly conflict with Russia directly, so Mongolia is a good replacement at this time.

"Ma Gongcheng is about to return to Beijing. As the Minister of Military Affairs, he has been leading troops outside. It is a helpless move."

Zhu Yicheng pointed to the north: "Now that the war in Liaodong has come to an end, the old land of Jiubian in the Ming Dynasty has basically been restored, but I am not planning to reset the important city of Jiubian, and plan to divide it by war zone. In addition to the Liaodong theater, the Shaanxi-Gansu War Zone is set up in the northwest. As for the former four towns of Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and Biedouguan, I have set up the new Northern theater. What do Dongmei think?"
Chapter completed!