When Zhu Hexing, holding a dragon-headed stick, led a group of triad elders in the New World to pledge their allegiance to Zhu Yuanzhang's shrine and Zhu Hehao's portrait. In the far south of Central Asia, a large army was passing through.

Among the mountains of the Hindu Kush.

If you stand on the high slope next to the middle section of the army and look around, you can't see the end ahead or the end behind you. It's so vast that the number of people and horses has already exceeded 100,000. The front army is about to enter the battlefield.

The Bamiyan Valley, an important town in the Hindu Kush Mountains, and the rear army is still in the cloud mountains.

Zhu Cixuan, the Great Khan of the Great Mongol Kingdom, was among this team, riding a Persian horse, wearing a Mongolian hood, a Mongolian leather robe, and a gold belt tied around his waist. Although he was Han, but now

But he is wearing standard Mongolian attire. And the army he leads is basically Mongolian attire with hoods and robes. The reason why they are like this is of course to save money...

Because of the earlier Mongol conquests and subsequent wars that lasted for many years, as well as the endless conflicts that followed, the river under the rule of the Great Mongolia is now an out-and-out poor place. This includes Samarkand and Bukhara.

Cities including Khujand, Kokand, Tashkent, and Khiva are all in depression. The population of each city is not even half of what it was before this round of Mongol conquest. The sharp decrease in population certainly means that it was still prosperous.

The commerce and handicraft industry in the Hezhong area declined greatly. After the commerce and handicraft industry in the Hezhong area declined greatly, Zhu Cixuan, the great Khan, became very poor. Not only did he not have much business and tax revenue, but even daily necessities such as ironware and cloth were supplied from time to time.

Not on.

Therefore, Mongolian-style leather robes, which were easy to sew, became the military uniform of the expeditionary army led by Zhu Cixuan.

In the villages and grasslands in the Hezhong area, the population has not decreased much. But that does not mean that the long-term wars and conflicts have less damage to the villages and grasslands in the Hezhong area, but because 120 Mongolian and Han households have

The immigration made up for the loss of population. By the eighteenth year of Hongxian's reign, the population of these 120 Mongolian and Han thousand households had increased much more than when they first arrived. In the sixteenth year of Hongxian's reign, when the thousand households were reorganized,

The number of Mongolian and Han households in the river area has increased to 210, an increase of 90 from the original number. The number of Mongolian nomadic households on the Kipchak grassland has also increased from the original number due to the continuous migration of Mongolians from the east.

The number has increased from 100 to 180 now.

Although the entry of these Mongolian and Han households, and the Mongol households, supplemented the local population losses in Hezhong and Qinchak grasslands, these households only served in the military and did not pay for food. Therefore, Zhu Cixuan, the great Khan, naturally became poorer and poorer, but he still had no

Escape the fate of becoming a poor man.

What troubles Zhu Cixuan even more than becoming a poor man is that his name is likely to be included in the "blacklist of dishonesty" in the near future!

This is not because he refuses to repay the debt - of course, he, who owes a lot of debt, has never thought about paying back the money! But as long as his father Chongzhen is still there, the Salt Bank controlled by his eldest brother Zhu Cixang will always find a way

A moneylender for his great Mongolian country... But Chongzhen is almost eighty years old this year and may die at any time!

Moreover, Zhu Hehao, who succeeded Chongzhen in charge of the "Northern Army of the Ming Dynasty" eight years ago, had accepted inner Zen not long ago and became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although this "tycoon emperor" went to the Western Regions several times and fought side by side with Zhu Cixuan, the relationship between him and Zhu Cixuan was due to the ownership rights of Mobei Mongolia, as well as the rights of Mobei, Monan, Dongdao, Qinghai, Beiting and other places.

There were many conflicts over the ownership rights of more than a hundred Mongolian households - this was actually a trap dug by Emperor Chongzhen for his sons and grandsons. He hoped that the "powerful" Mongolia could become a threat to the western part of the Ming Dynasty, so as to avoid the Ming monarchs and ministers

Because he is invincible, he feels lazy.

But the problem is that Zhu Cixuan's Great Mongolia is not strong at all, and it is also heavily in debt. It is surrounded by enemies on three sides and has no power to threaten the Ming Dynasty. And Zhu Hehao's hostility makes Zhu Cixuan feel a great crisis (in fact, Zhu Hehao's rule

The Ming Dynasty has always maintained friendly relations with Mongolia). It is not that it is worried that it will meet with the Ming Dynasty in war, but that it is worried that the Ming Dynasty will use the debt problem to get stuck in the neck of Mongolia... In the past few decades, Mongolia has not only

The borrowed money was not repaid, and not even a penny of interest was paid. If Emperor Chongzhen had not been putting pressure on Zhu Cihong, the credit rating of Mongolia would have been downgraded to "Gui" (the highest level) by Shanghai Interbank Bank.

It's Class A), and by then you won't be able to borrow a penny.

Chongzhen, who already knew that his time was running out (he could not live for long, only 12 years), wrote to Zhu Cixuan at the beginning of the year, telling him that he must raise some money and pay off some of the interest owed to the Salt Industry Bank.

, otherwise when he dies, it will be difficult for Mongolia to borrow money again.

Zhu Cixuan was forced to have no choice but to order troops in March this year, summoning 100,000 troops to go to India to collect protection fees to repay the interest...

Going to India to collect protection fees is actually not easy!

First, the weather in India is too hot and humid, and the Central Asian troops who crossed the Khyber Pass from the north are not used to it and will easily get sick if they stay for a long time.

Second, the Afghan Plateau, which must be passed from Central Asia to India, is a mountainous area full of nail houses. It is not difficult for Zhu Cixuan's army to pass there, but it is not easy to firmly control the mountainous areas leading to India. It requires a lot of costs.

There are repeated battles for power and time - there are many valleys in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan, and most of them have difficult terrains, and there are heavy snowfalls in winter and relatively dry summers. Except for the local people who have lived there for who knows how many years

, it is very difficult for outsiders to enter and take root.

Therefore, it was not easy for Zhu Cixuan to collect protection money in India for a long time. Therefore, in the past twenty years, although he entered India several times through the mountains of Afghanistan, he did not stay for a long time, but just took a handful and left.

The money he made was not used to pay off debts, but was used to conquer the mountainous areas of Afghanistan. After more than 20 years of bloody war, Zhu Cixuan now controls more than half of Afghanistan, and the road to India is basically unimpeded.

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His army marched into the Hindu Kush Mountains without encountering any resistance, not even a single harassing attack.

However, Zhu Cixuan's brows became tighter and tighter. The quietness along the way seemed a bit too much! Aurangzeb still controlled half of Afghanistan!

In addition, he has not yet seen the messenger from Bamiyan Tuntian Qianhu Chahar Unger... The Bamiyan Valley is not only an important passage from Central Asia to the heart of Afghanistan, but it is also a place where

The treasure land of farming.

Therefore, as early as ten years ago, Zhu Cixuan established thousands of households in Bamiyan and built a city in the Bamiyan Valley. He also moved 1,000 Mongolian and Han military households to garrison in the valley, and also built a

Large granary, storing hundreds of thousands of stones.

Zhu Cixuan's army turned a corner on the mountain road and appeared in front of it, but there were still many bare mountains. Seeing the endless road ahead, the elderly Khan was inevitably a little restless - if he could not conquer India this time

In the northwest, he is afraid that the huge debt he owes will be passed on to his descendants...

At this moment, a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats came from ahead, and dozens of Mongolian knights were seen, holding an eagle flag of the Great Mongolia, galloping towards Zhu Cixuan's four black flags, until they were killed by one of Zhu Cixuan's timid Xue Changfei

Go and stop it immediately.

The timid Captain Xue had a few words with the visitor, then came to Zhu Cixuan on Pegasus with a brocade box and loudly reported: "Great Khan... the Bamiyan Valley is safe and sound!"

In addition, Aurangzeb’s Governor-General of Afghanistan, Aamir Khan (the ancestor of the Indian star) died last winter!”

"Amir Khan is dead..." Zhu Cixuan burst into laughter, "Blessed by the eternal God! Aurangzeb is firmly bound to the Deccan, and Afghanistan is entirely presided over by Amir Khan. Once he dies, I will wait and see again.
Chapter completed!