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Although Li Zicheng came from a lower-class background, had not read many books, and had only learned about the history of various dynasties in recent years, but since he became emperor, he naturally hoped that his Dashun territory would be as large as possible.

Today, the south and east of Dashun are Damei's territory.

It is an indisputable fact that his Shun army could not defeat the Yi army.

Therefore, it would be good if the south and east sides could hold on to their existing territory without losing it, and there was no hope of expansion—at least for now, there was no hope.

If you can't compete with Dawei in the south and east, you have to compete in the west and north. Although these two directions are mostly bitter and cold places, as long as you occupy them, you can always harvest some money, food and products, which is better than not occupying them.

When the matter of border demarcation was raised, Li Zicheng and other Dashun monarchs and ministers thought they would have a dispute with the Qing envoys, but they did not expect that the other party would be so easy to talk to.

In this case, Li Zicheng was not prepared to be polite, and immediately asked someone to bring a map seized from a certain prince's palace, and discussed the Shunqing border issue with Sony in the Chengyun Palace...

Li Zicheng was established twice in Ziyang and Xi'an, and ascended the throne again in Beijing. The organizational structure of the Dashun court is now not considered sloppy.

Dashun basically had all the main departments owned by Daming before, but the names were changed.

For example, the center of the imperial court has a writing room, military office, cabinet, six ministries, Hongwenyuan, admonishment chamber, magistrate's department, horse inspection temple, etc.

The writing room is similar to Da'e's secretariat, equivalent to Li Zicheng's personal clerical assistant team.

The military government has left and right military advisers to assist him in handling military affairs; the cabinet has official positions such as prime minister, Zuofu, and Youbi. Nowadays, these officials have also added the title of bachelor, which is not much different from the Ming Dynasty cabinet.

However, the prime minister of the Dashun cabinet looks like the chief minister, but actually does not have much power. It is more like an honorary position. The person who really holds the real power is Zuo Fu Niu Jinxing.

As for the six departments, they were all renamed to a certain government, such as the government of officials, the government of rites, etc.

Hongwenyuan is equal to Hanlinyuan.

The Admonishment Council is equivalent to the Metropolitan Procuratorate plus six sections - the six sections were renamed Admonishment Officers in Shizhong, and the Censor was renamed Direct Instructors, and other positions were also changed accordingly.

The Zhizheng Secretary is equal to the General Affairs Department.

Yanma Temple is equal to Yuanma Temple. Of course, Yuanma Temple in Ming Dynasty was later merged into Taipu Temple. Li Zicheng attached great importance to war horses, so he set up a separate structure for horse administration.

At the local level, the governor was changed to Jiedu Envoy, the Chief Envoy was Tonghui, the Military Bei Dao was Defensive Envoy, the Magistrate was Fu Yin, the Zhizhou was the Prefectural Mud, the County Magistrate was the County Magistrate, and so on.

In August of this year, Li Zicheng even opened a test in Xi'an to obtain scholars, and also made some changes to the imperial examination - he directly canceled the eight-legged essay and replaced it with an essay. The other aspects were not changed much.

With a relatively sound court organization, Li Zicheng did not turn a blind eye to border matters, but had some understanding of them.

It's just that some situations are not clear.

For example, Li Zicheng knew that the Qing Dynasty had conquered some grassland tribes, but he didn't know which ones they had conquered. Li Yan, Niu Jinxing and others he had always relied on also didn't know much about this, so they could only seek refuge with the Qing Dynasty. I learned more about it from the former Ming border generals and local officials in Shun.

Now, the Qing envoys can come here to gain more understanding or verify certain information.

Of course, they would not all believe what the Qing envoy said.

No, as soon as the map was brought over, Li Zicheng began to test it.

"I heard that all the grassland tribes are now surrendering to your Qing Dynasty. Is it true or not?"

Sony smiled and said, "Both true and false."

"how to say?"

"To discuss this matter, we must first talk about the different parts of the grassland." Sony said, then stepped forward and pointed to the large blank area in the north of the map. "Today, the grassland can be roughly divided into four major parts, namely Eastern Mongolia, Mobei Mongolia. , Monan Mongolia and Oara (Mosel Mongolia, later Oirat Mongolia).

The eastern Mongolian tribes, such as Horqin, were originally adjacent to our Qing Dynasty, so they submitted to our Qing Dynasty very early.

Monan Mongolia such as Chahar, Inner Khalkha Five Tribes, Tumut, Ordos, etc. were also conquered by the late emperor ten years ago.

In the tenth year of Tiancong (1636), the Chechen Khans of the three tribes of Mobei, Mongolia, and Outer Khalkha, etc., offered the "Nine White Offerings" to our Qing Dynasty, and jointly respected our late Qing emperor as "Bokda Chechen Khan". This is my Qing vassal.

Even the Oara tribes sent envoys to be on good terms with the Qing Dynasty and recognized the title of Khan, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that they became nominal vassals of the Qing Dynasty. " Speaking of this, Sony showed a little pride appropriately, as if to say: Look, all the grassland tribes have basically surrendered to me, the Qing Dynasty, are they bullshit or not?

If it were before conquering the three guards of Xining, Liangzhou and Yongchang in Gansu Province, the Dashun monarchs and ministers might really have been bluffed by Sony.

But at this time, Li Zicheng sneered and said: "Wala also surrendered to your Qing Dynasty? Are you boasting too much?

Did you know that not long ago we, Dashun, took control of Gansu, and the transportation was in trouble? Do you think I don't know whether the Oara tribes surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? "

Has Dashun taken Gansu?

Sony was stunned for a moment.

Although Mo Xi's news has not been blocked, if it happened not long ago, he would indeed have no time to know.

He can barely be regarded as a cultural figure in the Qing Dynasty. Now that his cowhide has been torn apart, he feels a little embarrassed.

Soon, he said shamelessly: "I only said that Wala nominally surrendered to me, the Qing Dynasty, but I didn't say that it truly surrendered. In addition, it is true that Wala recognized my title of Emperor Khan of the Qing Dynasty."

In fact, not only did Oara not submit to the Qing Dynasty, but the three Mongolian tribes in Mobei also submitted in name only - roughly equivalent to a vassal relationship.

Dashun Junchen obviously didn't know about this matter, and Sony would not explain it.

Li Yan spoke up at this time, "Since Oara has no vassal relationship with you, then you are afraid that you can't get involved in defining the border between Dashun and Oara in the west, right?"

"Not necessarily. If your country needs it, it's okay for me, the Qing Dynasty, to be the intermediary to negotiate peace."

Hearing this, Li Zicheng exchanged glances with Li Yan and Niu Jinxing, and nodded slightly, indicating that he recognized Sony's words.

Then, several people began to discuss the border definitions of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Monan Mongolia.

Although there is a Great Wall in this area, when the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were weak, the Ming army could basically only defend the Great Wall. But now that the Ming Dynasty is gone, it is definitely impossible for their Dashun to only use the Great Wall as their boundary.

After a lot of debate, the border between Shun and Qing was finally demarcated - Dashun's territory mostly extended unexpectedly four to five miles to the Great Wall. Although it was not as good as before the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, it was still barely acceptable to Li Zicheng. .

Later, the monarchs and ministers of Dashun discussed the joint attack (resistance) against Damei.

This matter is easier than defining the border between Shunqing and Qing Dynasties.

With the communication conditions at this time, even if the two parties sincerely formed an alliance, it would be difficult to carry out specific and detailed joint military operations. It's probably just a matter of making an appointment in advance to attack Da'ei together on a certain day.

Or, whichever side the Yi army attacks, the other side needs to send troops to attack elsewhere to contain the Yi army's strength, etc.

After the discussion, both parties in Shunqing were quite satisfied.

Sony couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I don't know if all the south has been conquered by the Yi army. If there are still Qian Ming forces left, let them join our alliance, maybe it will be easier to deal with the Yi army."

After hearing this, Li Zicheng said in a very disdainful tone, "Most officials and military generals in the former Ming Dynasty were selfish people. Even now, they have not been defeated by the Yi army, and I am afraid they will not last long.

Expecting them to contain the strength of the Yi army is not as good as Gushi Khan from the alliance as you said before. "

After the debate and exchange with Sony, Li Zicheng opened his eyes a little more and set his sights on the Qinghai-Tibet region.

Sony shook his head, "Although there is no barrier between the land of Shunqing and Qinghai-Tibet, the journey is difficult and long. Even if we go from your country, it will probably take more than half a year to go back and forth.

If your country is interested, you can send an envoy to contact Gushi Khan to give it a try. We, the Qing Dynasty, will not interfere. "

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It was the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of Qianyuan.

The snow has not yet fallen in Nanjing, but it is already very cold and may even freeze at night.

After breakfast, Liu Sheng met several military ministers and several important ministers from the Government Affairs Council at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, and then led the guard group out of the city and headed south.

The destination is a small place outside the city formerly known as the Seven Bridges Urn.

The reason why I say this is because now there is another name there - "Nanjing South Railway Station"!

Liu Sheng and his ministers went there this time to witness the official opening of the first railway in Dalei! (End of chapter)