I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 704 Unification of the world

The Governor of Bengal made such a big move in India, which directly turned the entire North India into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

It also successfully disrupted the court's original colonial deployment, but the benefits were obvious. The happiest people were the merchants in the coastal areas, especially those operating in the cotton textile industry.

Xu Fengjun won them the exclusive right to purchase all cotton in North India. The supply of cotton from North India can greatly make up for the raw material gap in the cotton textile industry in coastal cities.

European businessmen are in trouble!

Originally, Chinese businessmen overseas were well-known as the kings of fraudsters. They not only engaged in fraud externally, but also engaged in fraud internally.

Businessmen from European countries are completely unable to keep up with the pace of Chinese businessmen. Whether they are engaged in price wars or raw material wars, they are all beaten by Chinese businessmen.

A few decades ago, they could have solved this problem through massacres and physical means. Even a hundred years later, the British would still have opium to alleviate this trade deficit problem.

But now, in the eyes of European countries, China is simply too powerful and unreasonable, and the Chinese emperor is an "extremely authoritarian" war maniac in their eyes.

massacre?

As long as anyone dares to take action, the country may not be destroyed... No, it may really be.

It is true that China cannot conquer Europe, but Europe still has established powers such as the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Spain as allies of China.

There are no eternal enemies, only real interests.

We can't fight again and again, we can't do business, we can't sell opium...China has banned drugs, and opium can't be sold. Emperor Zhu will send troops to fight whoever dares to sell.

Slowly died.

Just when the Ming Dynasty incorporated North India into China's colonial zone, South India fought a four-nation war for several years. Finally, under the mediation of the Governor-General of Bengal, the four countries formally signed an armistice agreement in Bombay.

There is no way, the melee in South India has been going on for too long, not only the four countries of Britain, Portugal, Denmark and the Netherlands are exhausted, but it has also seriously affected China's maritime trade in South India.

The Governor of Bengal, Xu Fengjun, couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply took advantage of this opportunity to send envoys to mediate and get some benefits and tariff concessions from South India.

At the same time, also beat up these British guys who were getting more and more excited.

The British are angry but dare not speak out. Originally, they should have owned the complete South India, but now because of China's intervention, although they still occupy the largest piece, it is also the hardest piece to chew.

The redrawn British colonial area belonged to the Maratha Empire. These Marathas were also the last group of Hindus in the Indian subcontinent. They were not very obedient to the British, but the Maratha Empire was in its period of strength.

The British will definitely be able to deal with them, but it will probably take longer than the original colonization of India.

In order to make up for the losses caused by the war in South India, the British turned their attention to Yinzhou as expected.

Incidentally, just five years earlier, George Washington had been born in Virginia.

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In the twenty-two years of Jianwu's reign, there were no major events.

In the twenty-third year, the countries of Demassa, Arakan, and Manipur successively sent envoys to the Nanjing court to ask for the title of Hajj.

King Demasa among them even presented the great seal of Demasa, the son of the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle period.

Emperor Zhu Longyan was so pleased that he not only generously gave King Demassar a new seal, but also gave all comers gold-seal robes and robes.

At this point, everything from the Bengal Basin to Myanmar and Southeast Asia has become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the current Ming Dynasty in China is composed of all the barbarians and all the nations have come to court.

Twenty-four years later, Dawaqi, who launched a rebellion in Junggar, was still defeated.

This guy retreated to Urumqi in embarrassment with the remaining troops, and sent an envoy to request that the city be allowed to annex China.

Urumqi is not only a bridgehead from northern Xinjiang to southern Xinjiang, but also an important hub on the northern route of the Overland Silk Road.

During the Tang Dynasty, four Tingzhou counties were built here, among which Luntai County was located in Urumqi. The ruins of the ancient city of Luntai County can still be seen in the southeastern suburbs of Urumqi.

After receiving the news, the Ming army quickly sent troops across the Tianshan Mountains to take over Urumqi.

Galdan Celing, who had just defeated Dawaqi and reintegrated all the ministries in northern Xinjiang, was shocked and angry when he heard the news. Only half of northern Xinjiang was left in his current territory, which was still dilapidated and had just experienced war and civil strife.

What if the Ming army captured Urumqi, the strategic bridgehead leading to northern Xinjiang?
At the turn of summer and autumn that year, Galdan mobilized 30,000 cavalry to attack the city of Urumqi.

The main force of the Ming army's original western expedition had dispersed after the recovery of southern Xinjiang.

Among them, 10,000 troops returned to the Shaanxi-Gansu region, and the remaining 20,000 troops were divided into two groups. One group went to Dawan Xuanwei Division to build the city and guard the border, while the other group continued to divide its troops and garrison the military and civilian offices in counties in southern Xinjiang. As for the cavalry of the coalition forces of various ethnic groups in Qinghai, they went back wherever they came from.

The southern frontier of the Western Region is too poor, and now the imperial court is encouraging civilians to immigrate to reclaim wasteland and build new cities everywhere. In terms of money and food, there is no way to keep too many troops in the southern frontier.

Twenty thousand troops stationed in various places is already the limit.

The Ming army that recaptured Urumqi only had 2,000 troops, and they had to divide their troops from Turpan. Facing the attack of Galdance's 030,000 troops, they could only defend the city.

Galdan Celing fought for a long time, but failed to defeat him. He had no choice but to bypass the Tianshan Mountains and go south to plunder and collect food.

Fortunately, the soldiers and civilians of Turpan had already learned the news in advance, and under the arrangements of the officials, the Han immigrants gradually evacuated and entered the city for defense.

Those that are too far away are all organized into villages as units, and they gather to form strongholds. The Mongolian rangers who usually raid are unable to do anything against these strongholds.

If you can't gnaw at the wealthy Han villages and big cities, then go and rob the lesser people of all ethnic groups.

The people of all ethnic groups in the Turpan area finally turned their backs from serfs and took charge of their own affairs, and they were given the authority to allocate their fields to the government. They were looking forward to their days. As a result, when the Mongols came, they not only stole their food and livestock, but also burned, killed, and looted them wantonly.

A large number of people of all ethnic groups had their food plundered, and many of their people were kidnapped and killed. Such brutal behavior made the people of all ethnic groups and the Turpan government very angry.

The battle report was quickly sent back to Nanjing from the Western Regions.

Emperor Long Yan was furious and ordered the Western Regions Commander-in-Chief and the Xi'an Right Army Commander-in-Chief to jointly send troops to conquer Junggar in northern Xinjiang.

The ministers did not even give symbolic advice. Five or six years had passed since the last battle in the southern border of the Western Region.

Now that the opportunity has come, it would be better to solve the problem as soon as possible and let the Western Region be settled once and for all.

In the twenty-fifth year, the snow melted in spring, and the Ming army launched a counterattack.

Zhou Haizhong already roughly knew that this should be his last battle before resigning as the Governor of Xi'an.

The Western Regions Dusi and the Xi'an Dudufu recruited civilians on the spot in the Western Regions, but the people of Turpan were quite active. They were robbed by the Mongols last year, so they were all in a food shortage crisis this year, and they also hated the Mongols who brought them suffering.

Not only to be a civilian husband and receive food rations, but also to fight for the Ming army sincerely, so as to avenge the Mongols.

Zhou Haizhong mobilized 15,000 cavalrymen from Yunzhong Dusi and 15,000 infantry troops from Shaanxi and Gansu Province. A total of more than 60,000 people of all ethnic groups, including Han people, were recruited, as well as a large number of mules and carriages.

Either we don’t fight, or if we fight, we must completely destroy the Junggar people and we cannot let them linger.

Nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians gathered in Luntai City, which was originally the city of Urumqi. Emperor Zhu ordered the restoration of Luntai County in the Tang Dynasty. After the war, a new city had to be built.

After the Ming army assembled in Luntai, they immediately marched westward and attacked Guleza (Ili), the capital of Junggar.

Galdan Celing saw that the Ming army took the initiative to attack, but did not abandon the city and flee westward. He felt that the Ming army had few soldiers and was deep into northern Xinjiang. Unlike southern Xinjiang, it was the territory of the Mongols, so it might not be impossible to fight a dozen.

Of course, he definitely didn't take the initiative to face hard steel. This guy has suffered so much, no matter how stubborn he is, he should learn to behave better.

If you can't fight head-on, then make a surprise attack to cut off the Ming army's food routes, force the Ming army to return, and then take the opportunity to ambush and make a surprise attack.

I have to say that the idea is very good. If he meets the "elite" Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he might really be able to succeed.

But it is a pity that the Ming army had more dealings with the Mongols. The Ming army had basically known about the Mongolian cavalry's three-axe axes on the Mobei and Monan battlefields and had almost dismantled them.

Gal Dance Lingqin led the army to cut off the Ming army's food route, and the Ming army's cavalry also advanced first, preparing to attack the home of the Junggar Mongolia.

The marching routes of both sides were almost the same, and they collided halfway. Galdan Celing brought 20,000 cavalry, but the Ming army's dragoons only came with 8,000 people. Theoretically, the Junggar cavalry still had a great advantage.

Since it was unavoidable, it was time to fight directly. Galdance Ling personally led 20,000 cavalry to launch a strong attack. The result was embarrassing. The horses of the Junggar cavalry could not keep up with the retreating Ming army cavalry.

Moreover, the Ming army cavalry all carried muskets and grenades. Not only could the Dzungar cavalry not keep up with the speed, they would also be bombarded by grenades when they got close, and then use muskets to attack their faces at close range.

The forward cavalry was bombarded and shot by firearms, and was beaten to pieces.

The Ming cavalry took the opportunity to launch a countercharge. Eight thousand dragon cavalry formed a cavalry wall and charged directly into the chaotic 20,000 Dzungar cavalry.

Without even engaging in battle, the 20,000 Jungar cavalry were defeated.

Galdan Celing finally woke up and knew that he was finished. He didn't even dare to go back to Yili, so he took several thousand remaining troops who were still loyal to him and broke out to the west to escape.

The cavalry of the Ming army collected the defeated troops on the battlefield and sent back the battle report to the rear.

Zhou Haizhong received the news of the vanguard cavalry and immediately led the main force to attack the empty Ili City. Ili was captured in just one day.

Ili was lost, the Great Khan fled westward without a trace, and all the Junggar and Mongolian tribes in the Ili Valley fell in despair.

Zhou Haizhong immediately stayed in Yili to take charge, and dispersed his cavalry to recruit and recover the remaining tribes in northern Xinjiang.

The northern frontier of the Western Region fell due to this battle, while Galdan Celing fled all the way to the Balkhash Lake area, where he gathered and forcibly recruited cavalry from various ministries in order to regroup.

Semek Khan of Zhongyuzi was canonized by the Ming Emperor, and finally obtained the legal title to unify Kazakhstan. As a result, the remnants of the Yarkand came to the south first, and then the Junggars were defeated and fled to Yuzi.

As China's canonized Kazakh king, Semek Khan, how could he tolerate so many outsiders in his territory? All of them were lost dogs who were defeated by the Ming army.

He first displayed the flag of the Great Khan, the leader of the Kazakhs, and gathered troops from various ministries in Zhongyuzi. In a short period of time, he gathered more than 30,000 Kazakh cavalry.

After all, Junggar is the mortal enemy of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan’s former great khan was killed by the Junggar Mongols. How could the Kazakhs not hate the Mongols?

As long as they are fighting the Mongols and have the legal authority given by the Ming Emperor, the Kazakh ministries are still willing to help.

Galdan Celing's troops were only a few thousand, and they were all defeated and exhausted. They encountered tens of thousands of Kazakh cavalry with high morale.

Not surprisingly, the Junggar cavalry was defeated again.

Galdan Celing was killed on the spot. Less than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry and 1,200 Kazakh cavalry were massacred by 30,000 Kazakh cavalry. They did not accept any surrender at all.

Galdan Celing's head was driven forward by Semekhan on horseback, and he personally chopped it off from the corpse.

After this precious head was prepared, it was quickly sent to Ili as a gift to the Ming Emperor.

Envoys were also sent to discuss the future territorial demarcation issues between the two sides.

Kazakhstan, as a vassal state, naturally cannot overstep its authority.

Logically speaking, Lake Balkhash should be regarded as Kazakh territory, because there is Dayuzi here, but it was conquered by Junggar before.

Semek Khan was very sensible and directly stated that since this place was conquered by the Junggars and the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Junggars, he should inherit and occupy this land.

The new border between the two countries will be drawn from Lake Balkhash, and will extend northward according to the mountains and rivers.

With this demarcation, Semek Khan really gave in. He had sold 60% of the Great Yuzi, and also cut off part of the land from his own Zhongyuzi, and they were all strategic points.

If a war breaks out in the future, China can be condescending, while Kazakhstan must storm the mountain pass and use human lives to fill it.

Emperor Zhu was very satisfied with Semek Khan's awareness of current affairs, and immediately issued a decree to reward him with two thousand matchlocks, plus orders for cold weapons such as swords, guns and armor.

This is equivalent to buying from Semek Khan, and Semek Khan did not suffer too much in the short term, and even made a small profit.

He is now nominally the Kazakh king canonized by the Ming Emperor, but in fact the only one he can control is Zhongyuzi. He has just subdued the disobedient leaders of various ministries, and is preparing to invade Yuzi and Yuzi in the next step to completely unify Kazakhstan.

He exchanged the big jade that did not belong to him in exchange for China's military strategic assistance. This transaction would not make him lose money anyway.

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In the twenty-sixth year of Jianwu's reign, Semek Khan, who had received military assistance from the Ming army, marched south to Dayuzi.

As early as a few years ago, Dayuzi had been fighting a civil war. Daniel, who was scared away by the Ming army, led the remaining Yarkant troops into Dayuzi.

Someone came to seize the territory, and it was the hated Montenegrin faction. The nominal co-leader of Dayuzi, Great Khan Dzorbalus, immediately led the coalition forces of various ministries to conquer.

Then he was defeated.

Not only was he defeated, but he himself was captured and killed.

Without the nominal communist leader, the Great Khan, the various tribes in Dayuzi were unable to organize a coalition and could only reluctantly defend the city. Large areas of land were annexed by the Yarkand Black Mountain Faction.

Semek Khan led his army south to Dayuzi, and immediately received warm welcome and response from various ministries.

Well, they didn’t know yet that Semek Khan had sold half of the Great Yuzi to the Chinese emperor.

Semek Khan fought three battles with the remnants of the Yarkand tribe in Dayuz.

Relying on the firearms and armor provided by the Ming Dynasty, Semek Khan managed to achieve a record of three battles and three victories.

In the third decisive battle, Daniel wanted to make a desperate move, but he was defeated twice in a row. The morale of the army had dropped to a low point, and the cities he conquered in the rear were also looking for opportunities to rebel.

Under attack from the front and back, Daniel was defeated and died, and the remaining Yarkant army was wiped out.

With the power of victory, Semek Khan annexed the western part of Dayuzi in one fell swoop.

In the twenty-seventh year of Jianwu's reign, Semek Khan brazenly sent troops to conquer Xiaoyuzi westward.

Xiaoyuzi Abu Khair Khan has been dead for many years, and now his son Nurare Khan succeeds to the throne, unlike his father who is a pure licker of Tsarist Russia.

The young new Khan was very ambitious. He couldn't bear to see that Tsarist Russia did not give any substantial benefits, but continued to build cities and garrison on his own territory and encroached on Xiaoyuzi's pasture territory.

Historically, Nuralei Khan even took advantage of the civil strife in the Khiva Khanate to annex it to Xiaoyuzi, although it was soon boycotted by various ministries of the Khiva Khanate.

Today, Tsarist Russia is just in the west, being attacked by the Ottomans and the Turguts, and the French are looking for Austrian reinforcements.

After suffering a huge defeat, its power in the Far East and Central Asia was sharply reduced.

Semek Khan also had an astonishing record of continuously defeating the two great powers of Junggar and Yarkand, as well as the canonization of the Chinese emperor.

Strength and righteousness are all there.

Moreover, Semek Khan is also very smart. He actually knows that in order to win over people's hearts, he cannot just act recklessly.

While marching into Xiaoyuzi, they also continued to spread news, promising to help Xiaoyuzi expel the Tsarist Russian Cossacks and not annex and plunder their pasture rights.

With such favorable conditions, almost all of Xiaoyuzi's tribes, including Nurarehan, turned against him.

Semek Khan easily unified Kazakhstan without much fighting.

In the spirit of coming, Semek Khan simply gathered and absorbed the coalition forces of Xiaoyuzi tribes, gathered 80,000 troops, and stormed the newly built castles built by Tsarist Russia on the grassland river bank in the west of Xiaoyuzi.

The Cossacks stationed at the castle were caught off guard by these Kazakhs.

The war lasted for more than a month, and the Kazakhs did not have enough artillery to hit the Cossack bastion.

But they also had a way, which was to besiege the city and directly surround the Cossacks until they starved to death.

Tsarist Russia's tentacles reaching out to Central Asia were cut off by the Kazakhs.

In Siberia in the Far East, the Ming army was also working step by step, uprooting the castle strongholds in Tsarist Yenisei's military district inch by inch.

(End of this chapter)