It's just such a thing. It's useless for Zhu Qizhen to fantasize about it.

If he were in the Qianqing Palace, he could naturally get all the information about Luchuan, but now, Zhu Qizhen can only think about Luchuan by himself.

There will be no Luchuan country in later generations. This does not mean that Luchuan is not strong.

On the contrary, Luchuan is quite powerful.

First of all, the prosperity of Luchuan did not originate from today, but existed in the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in the land of Yunnan, the king of Yunnan Liang and the Duan family were fighting for power and had no time to take care of Luchuan.

This is how Luchuan Sijia made his fortune. He was recruited by the Yuan Dynasty and became one of the six governors of Yunnan Province.

This is also a characteristic of the Yuan Dynasty. In fact, the borders of the Yuan Dynasty seemed vast, but in fact, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was quite crude, and many general offices were independent and semi-independent regimes.

This was during the reign of Si Renfa's great-grandfather, Si Kefa.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Sikefa's grandson, who is now the father of Sirenfa, the head of the Sijia family, was in the reign of Silunfa.

During this period, Silunfa promoted Sijia's family business and became the overlord of the southwest. How strong was his strength? The area ruled by Luchuan reached Tibet in the north, Jingdong in the east, and Myanmar in the south.

It can be said like this.

Judging from a modern map, it occupies most of northern Myanmar, part of Laos, part of Yunnan, and naturally part of Thailand.

It is said that at its peak, the army numbered as many as 300,000.

Many people regard Luchuan as Nanzhao and Xixia.

There was even a conflict between Lucchuan and Myanmar. In many decisions, Myanmar should have won. No, the result was that Lucchuan pinned Myanmar to the ground and rubbed it.

However, the core area of ​​Luchuan is today's Ruili County, Yunnan Province. The imperial court did not allow such a powerful separatist regime.

Thus, in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the first contest between the Ming Dynasty and Luchuan began.

On the one hand, Silunfa paid tribute to the court to express his obedience, and on the other hand, he secretly continued his strength and prepared to march eastward. However, Silunfa was certainly not a weakling, but Emperor Taizu was an old fox.

They had already prepared a strong formation, especially in this battle, Mu Ying used 30,000 troops to defeat hundreds of thousands of troops in Luchuan. He used fire blunderbuss to deal with the elephant soldiers and defeated them.

Silunfa was defeated and asked the court for peace.

While Emperor Taizu agreed, he did not hesitate to canonize the areas east of Luchuan as chieftains one by one. As a result, the powerful Luchuan was divided into pieces.

This was also the reason why Emperor Taizu saw Luchan's fatal weakness.

That is, the ruling tribes of Luchuan are actually subordinate to the leaders of various places. The number of people in Luchuan itself is quite limited. Muying's weakening of Luchuan is also uninterrupted.

Even Si Renfa grew up as a proton in the Mu family.

In the eleventh year of Yongle, Si Renfa came to power.

Si Renfa knew how powerful the imperial court was, so he showed great courtesy and paid tribute continuously. But on the other hand, Si Renfa was not willing to do this. Therefore, during the Yongle period, while he was respectful to the imperial court, he was different in other aspects. Then, he conquered the east and west, and annexed the chieftains in the west and south one by one.

After Renzong succeeded to the throne, Ming Dynasty's strategy changed from external expansion to contraction.

As a result, Sirenfa carefully tested the court several times and found that even if he annexed the chieftains who were loyal to the court, the most the court would do was to blame him.

As a result, he became bolder.

With the death of Renzong and Xuanzong, Annan abandoned the defense. This series of actions encouraged Sirenfa's courage. So starting from the early years of Zhengtong, his series of actions exceeded the bottom line of the court's tolerance. But he did not care at all.

, and now, he has restored the territory of Luchuan in its heyday.

It can be said that there are 300,000 soldiers.

Of course, the imperial court has always despised the fighting ability of the southwestern chieftains.

At the beginning, Mu Ying used 30,000 soldiers to defeat Luchuan.

There were only a few Mu Yings in the Ming Dynasty, but even behind Mu Ying there was a steady stream of reinforcements. At that time, Taizu was already preparing to send hundreds of thousands of troops to Yunnan.

It's just that before the reinforcements arrived, Mu Ying had already announced the victory.

Nowadays, the military strength of the imperial court is far lower than before. In the third year of Orthodoxy, the Ministry of War officially reported a shortage of 1.2 million. The combat strength of the local armies is also far lower than before.

Zhu Qizhen reviewed the history of Luchuan and then looked at the situation in front of him.

We must fight, but if we want to conquer Luchuan, we will need at least three to four hundred thousand troops. These troops must not be empty.

So the current military strength of the imperial court is not enough. The Ming Dynasty's heavy troops are not elsewhere, but only in Jiubian. However, Wasi is strong. Under the leadership of Tuo Huan, Wasi has been expanding and integrating internally in recent years, especially

It was the death of Adai Khan.

Although Adai Khan died in the hands of Ming people, in any case, Adai Khan died, and Tuo Tuo Bu Hua became the only great Khan on the grassland.

All the grassland tribes supported him one after another.

In this way, the strength of Tuohuan is greatly increased.

Immediately afterwards, his pressure on Jiubian increased day by day. At this time, Zhu Qizhen did not think it was a rational act to mobilize troops from Jiubian.

The focus of the Ming Dynasty's national defense has never changed, which is the Nine Borders.

Even if Yunnan is lost, it will be very sad for the Ming Dynasty, but if the nine sides are broken through by tiles, it will be a matter of life and death.

But if we don’t mobilize troops from Jiubianjing Camp, where can we?

As mentioned before, the only way to go to Yunnan in this era is through Guizhou, and Guizhou's thousand-mile post road is not easy to walk. The Ming Dynasty's rule over Guizhou is also quite weak, and most of them are ruled by chieftains.

Therefore, the best way is to send tens of thousands of elite troops to defeat Luchuan in one fell swoop.

This is a contradiction.

Without deploying the elite troops in Jiubianjing camp, the imperial court could not guarantee a quick victory in Yunnan. But if the elite troops were sent out, the north would be empty. If Wa Ci went south, it would be very bad.

This is the first difficult question.

The second thing that worries Zhu Qizhen is that he is worried that the Yunnan War will be protracted. Some people may have said that elite troops have been sent in the previous campaign in order to achieve a quick victory.

This is just Zhu Qizhen's expectation.

But in fact, most of today's Luchuan is located on the China-Myanmar border in later generations, and even in northern Myanmar.

What is the terrain of these places? Thanks to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, Zhu Qizhen still knows a little bit about it. In such deep mountains and old forests, if you want to decide in a battle, it is easy to plow the courtyard and sweep the holes?

Zhu Qizhen was more worried about this than Dapoluchuan.

Zhuge Liang defeated the Southern Barbarians and captured and defeated them seven times. After Mu Ying defeated Luchuan, he still guarded Yunnan for life. However, the elite of the Ming Dynasty were determined not to hang on to Yunnan for long.

In this way, it is very likely that once the army leaves, the situation in Yunnan will change again.

Countless thoughts passed through Zhu Qizhen's mind. Although Zhu Qizhen looked at the soldier shooting willow in front of him, he was absent-minded. Even the nobles at all levels had no thoughts on shooting willow. They were all discussing in private.

There are many people. There are even quite a few people who have a close relationship with the Mu family. They are confused and sympathetic to Mu Sheng's experience.

Only the soldiers below who were struggling to shoot arrows were unaware of the changes.

Although Zhu Qizhen was still in Nanhaizi and did not return to the capital, Wang Zhen and Jin Ying were not idle. Almost every hour someone came to Nanhaizi from the capital and reported to Zhu Qizhen everything about the situation in Beijing.

Sure enough, on the next day, all the civil and military officials in the capital knew the news.

Regarding the Lucchuan War and Peace, it immediately became the biggest hot topic in the imperial court.

In fact, this kind of discussion is not the first time. At least in Zhu Qizhen's memory, the imperial court has discussed the Luchuan incident at least forty times since the first year of Zhengtong.

It's just that the specifications have been rising step by step. At first, it was just an internal discussion within the Ministry of War. Later, there was a peace negotiation between the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Office, and then there was a cabinet meeting. But this time, the Empress Dowager sent news, asking Zhu Qizhen to prepare.

When you go back, the court meeting will begin. The people participating this time include the cabinet, the Sixth Ministry, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Fifth Military Governor's Office, and the distinguished ministers.

Almost all the court officials were captured.

Even during the Northwest War, no such meeting was held. After all, no prince died as a result of the Northwest War.

Although the Empress Dowager did not say it explicitly, she also hinted at it. This was another opportunity for Zhu Qizhen to show his face among the ministers.
Chapter completed!