Jinghua Mining is a very important department within Jinghua Group, which was only established a few years ago, and its headquarters is located in Kaiping, but it manages and directs the exploration and production of all Jinghua Mining.

After the complete surrender of Tumut, Jinghua Mining's development in Daming began to expand from focusing on North China, Central China and Eastern Liaodong, and the first batch was the Northwest Region.

Politics is the main factor in the first batch of key developments in the northwest region, because the basic base of the Shixue School or the Gao Party is still biased towards the northern region. Especially after Zhang Siwei came to power, the Jin Party was almost integrated into the Gao Party, so that in addition to Shanxi, the power of Zhang Siwei's main ally Ma Ziqiang's family in Shaanxi was also used by Gao Shishi, which created the necessary conditions for Jinghua Mining to open up the northwest.

Another key factor here is that the submission of Tumut has suddenly calmed down the northwest region, which had been in an unfavorable situation of "encircling and capturing all the people", and has the basis for large-scale development.

At that time, Jinghua Mining's focus was on the coal mines in northern Shaanxi, that is, the Shenmu and Yulin areas in later generations. The coal mines in this area, together with the Tumut Iron Mine (later Baotou, which was opened by Jinghua and employed some Mongols) and Ordos Mangni (same as Baotou), formed the basis for Jinghua to build a new weapons factory in Shaanxi, so Jinghua opened the Yansui Arsenal in Jiazhou, where the governor of Yansui was stationed, mainly to produce muskets and a small amount of light artillery to supply the military needs of the northwest.

There is no problem until this period, the problem lies in the next step. After the Yansui Arsenal was completed and put into operation, Jinghua began the second step of its western expansion. It happened that at this time, the Jinghua Trading Company had heard local rumors in Gansu in the course of its business - it was rumored that it was an important source of minerals discovered during this period - that the military households of Yongchangwei in Gansu Province often found copper ore.

This news attracted the attention of Jinghua Mining, and soon sent people to inquire and explore near Yongchangwei, and it turned out that a large copper mine was really discovered.

The news soon spread to Gao Shishi, but he didn't know much about Gansu and couldn't make up his mind, so he wrote to Liu Xin to inquire. Liu Xin replied soon after, believing that the copper ore discovered by Jinghua Mining was likely to be the Jinchang Baijiazuizi Copper Mine in later generations, and the reserves were not small.

This greatly boosted the spirit of high pragmatism, because the Ming Dynasty was very short of copper, and he now needed copper mines to build artillery and supply the fleet, so as soon as he heard that there was a large copper mine, he immediately approved the plan to develop in Yongchangwei - although the place is remote, but no matter how remote it is, it is also on the Silk Road, and it can run horses here, can it be more difficult than Yunnan transportation? Now most of the copper mines in the Ming Dynasty look at Yunnan.

Yongchangwei this place is the Jinchang of the later generations, located in the northwest of Wuwei not far away, of course, the current Wuwei is generally called Liangzhou. The situation faced by the Ming Dynasty here in Gansu is like the "Huan Gan and Gan are captured", with Tumut to the north, Turpan and Qinghai Tumut to the west and south.

Turpan is a little better, due to its limited strength, it has always been more deferential to the Ming Dynasty. Qinghai Tumut is different, they were relatively honest at the beginning, especially during the reign of Alta, because of the fear of Alta's prestige, Qinghai Tumut has always followed Meda's proposition: I Da beat the Ming Dynasty, and they followed to harass Gansu; I agreed to accept the seal, and they did business honestly.

After the death of Alta, the Great War of Mo Nan broke out, the Ming and Tumut joined forces to defeat Tumen and Xin Ai, and Huang Taiji, the head of the Ordos Department, led the fire to fall and cast Hannaji, which was the last period of peace.

After Hannaji was crowned King of Shunyi, the status of Che Du, Huo Luochi and others did not change much. Because the Ordos Department is the Jinong of Mongolia, its status is only slightly inferior to Hannaji, and Huo Luochi and others are not good, including his brother Zhu Litu, all of them are just a commander - it is better to be a commander.

Of course, this can't satisfy Huo Luochi, who was once one of the "five consuls" under Tumen, and even Litu is very dissatisfied, thinking that at least a commander should be given.

The two brothers are combined, this is still a busy fart? In the end, it was a big difference compared to Hannaji's "hairy boy", and it was a shame to say it!

So the two began to divide Hannajisheng, and gradually disobeyed the control. Hannaji then contacted Huang Taiji as usual, and prepared to send troops to teach the two brothers a lesson, but he did not want to see the Mongols continue to kill each other, so he expressed his willingness to intercede.

Che is my nephew, who was very valued by me in his early years, and was still relatively prestigious in the Mongolian left wing.

However, the good times did not last long, and he suddenly fell ill last year, and he was sick like a mountain, and he quickly became disillusioned, and even gathered the leaders of his subordinates to explain the future.

At this time, Huo Luochi and the thoughts of the Rabbit came alive. In their opinion, the face of cutting off is to be seen, but it doesn't matter if Han Naji is treated, this kid has a low rank and is not outstanding in ability, and the battle of Mo Nan seems to be his great merit, but in fact, it is not.

On strategy, it is a highly pragmatic handiwork; On combat, it's a personal show of detachment - what's the matter with Hannaji?

As a result, the two of them germinated, began to be unstable again, began to harass the Gansu border, and were "expelled from the city" by the Ming Dynasty, that is, banned from trade.

However, the elimination of the city reward is not only harmful to the fire and the rabbit, but also harmful to the Ming Dynasty itself. The concrete manifestation of this is that the Jinghua Trading Company's business in the northwest has become more difficult, not only to lose the business of Qinghai Tumut, but also to prevent the fire from falling red and focusing on the robbery of the rabbit in doing business with Turpan.

In this situation, in order to make up for this "loss", Jinghua had no choice but to increase the development of Yongchangwei Copper Mine, so it made an important decision: reduce the employment of labor, and use gunpowder to mine copper.

With this in mind, Jinghua Mining began to transport gunpowder to the northwest, and a large amount of gunpowder was sent to Yongchangwei's copper mine to be used.

Huo Luochi and Zhili Rabbit didn't have much interest in this because they didn't have muskets and artillery, but a guest happened to come and help them come up with an idea.

This guest is really an old acquaintance, it is none other than Buzhihatu, the son of Xin Ai.

Of course, there is something important about Buzhhatu's journey from Mobei to Qinghai, which is to say that the Rabbit brothers are fighting against Hannaji's "perverse behavior".

It doesn't matter whether Hannaji is perverse or not, the important thing is that Buzhihatu brought the Khan edict of Tumen, and Tumen canonized Huoluochi and Zhuli Tu as the ruler of the Great Mongolian State, and at the same time said that as long as they can cooperate with the Tumen to destroy Hannaji in the future, although the left and right wings of Mongolia must be unified, but as long as Tumut is headquartered, the position of Jinong of the Great Mongolian State reserved by the Ordos Ministry will be given to Qinghai Tumut.

This canonization basically moved the Huoluochi and Zhuli Rabbit brothers, but the two brothers also had a request, that is, Qinghai is not complete now, and the most important Xining region is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

The two brothers proposed that if the Great Khan could help them recapture Xining and make up the whole Qinghai, then not only could they immediately declare their independence from the jurisdiction of Hannaji and start harassing the Ming Bian, but they were also willing to make an alliance with their blood, and when the Tumen launched a unified war against Hannaji in the future, their two tribes would definitely "serve the Great Khan regardless of age and age."

In this way, the problem shifts to Buzhhatu.

The Tumen are thousands of miles away, separated by the Tumut headquarters, and of course they have no ability to send troops to help, so Buzhihatu can only find a way to help the two of them take the important town of Xining by himself.

This difficulty sounds not much lower than that of King Xuance of the Tang Dynasty when he fought India.

But after all, Buzhhatu is Buzhihatu, and he is the mastermind who can be treated by the Tu people, and he gathered information in Songshan while thinking carefully about the plan, and he actually came up with an idea. Bibi eBook

Soon, Huo Luochi began to send people to contact Yongchangwei, ostensibly to continue to ask Daming to reopen the market, but secretly to contact Yongchangwei, saying that he wanted to have a private market with them.

As we all know, the Ming border army is poor and can't take care of the ban, or the effect of the ban will be greatly reduced, Xiang Yongchangwei, a border army far away in Gansu, of course doesn't mind the private market.

However, in the past, the border army would also skew the price of the private market very much in the face of the ban, and the Mongols were usually not very willing to be "exploited", so generally speaking, the scale of such private markets was not large.

However, this time is different, Huo Luochi said that he and the two brothers are going to wage a big war against Warat, and to completely establish the status of "Heroes of the Western Regions", so they need a lot of supplies - in other words, the scale of this transaction is far larger than the usual private market.

Yongchang Wei District a health center, of course, will not have such a high strategic thinking to pay attention to the "Western Regions" this kind of problem, for them, the Mongolian willingness to be the head of the wrongs is the best news, trading this kind of thing is really not afraid of your business is big, I am afraid that your business is small.

The big one is also a violation of the ban, and the small one is also a violation of the ban, the court law does not blame the public, and it is impossible to cut off the head of Yongchangwei up and down, so why not do a big one?

So the matter was quickly discussed, and the people of the fire fell and Yongchangwei conducted a private market at the foot of the city wall somewhere that was inaccessible.

This kind of thing in the private market is an unspoken rule, and reputation is more important than anything else, so in the past so many years, both sides will not break this tacit understanding. However, this time there was an accident, and in the middle of the transaction, a large group of people from Huoluochi and Zhuli Rabbit suddenly appeared, killed and captured the Yongchang guards who were conducting the private market, and then found some people who could speak Chinese and looked like Han people, wore their clothes, and took their tokens to detain the customs......

Yongchangwei was attacked and broke through the border pass at that time, and retreated to various dock forts - this is not a new thing, in addition to the wall of the border army, there are also a large number of dock forts, which are useful in case one wall is broken, and they can also retreat to the dock fort and wait for the army to rescue.

But unexpectedly, the large army of Huo Luochi and Zhuli Rabbit did not gnaw on the impregnable dock forts, but went directly to the Yongchang Copper Mine in Jinghua - they were not going to grab the ore, although this thing was good, they could hardly handle it, they couldn't get any copper, they went to the warehouse on the mine.

Jinghua had a mine protection team in the copper mine, but because Yongchangwei did not warn them in advance that there was a foreign invasion, they did not react at all at that time, and they were still working in the mine.

When they picked up their weapons and organized their teams to defend the copper mines, they found that the other party was not coming for the copper mines, or even for the copper ingots that had been refined, and these Mongols roared to go to the warehouses and looted them, especially the gunpowder used to blow up the mountains and quarry, and the bags were snatched by the Mongols.

After Huo Luochi and Litu snatched the gunpowder, Yongchangwei concealed the situation while arguing with the Jinghua Yongchang Copper Mine, and even alarmed Cao Gan, the chief treasurer of the Jinghua Trading Company in Xi'an. After Cao Gan learned the news, he was also puzzled, what is the use of the Mongols in Qinghai for grabbing gunpowder? They don't have firearms, and they don't know how to blow up mountains and open mines, so are they going to sell them to other forces in the Western Regions?

However, Cao Gan had to take care of so much gunpowder that his family had been robbed, so he rushed to Liangzhou in person to understand the situation, and even prepared to wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

As a result, he was surprised by the news he received: Huo Luochi and Zhu Litu did not go to the Western Regions at all after getting the gunpowder, but went directly south, all the way to Xining.

Cao Gan was shocked, and while sending fast horses to inform Xining, he personally led the team and led a horse team of more than 3,000 people to the south to chase after him.

But this must be late, he came all the way from Xi'an, and was delayed in Liangzhou for half a day, where can he catch up with the main forces of the two Mongolian tribes, Huoluochi and Zhulitu?

As soon as he crossed Qilian Mountain, he got the news that Xining had been lost!

What shocked him even more was that the reason why Xining was lost was because Huoluochi and the people of Litu rushed to the city of Xining to confront Xiningwei, and on the night of the same day, the Mongols dug a tunnel to "dig half" and buried a large amount of gunpowder under the walls of Xining City, which blew down the west gate of Xining City in one fell swoop!

How could the Mongols do this?

Cao Gan didn't care a lot, so he used all the means he could use, and spent thousands of taels of silver to find an inside piece of information: Tumen Khan's military advisor Buri Hatu had been in charge of the Huoluo Red Army for more than a month, and this method was his idea from beginning to end, and even the idea of blowing up the city with gunpowder was also thought up by him.

The shopkeeper Cao Da was shocked, but he didn't care how Bu Rihatu could understand this, so he hurriedly sent a fast horse and sent a letter to Gao Shishi to report the situation in an urgent manner for 800 miles.

According to his thoughts, this matter went wrong at the beginning, and the responsibility certainly lay with Yongchangwei, but the large amount of gunpowder lost by Jinghua was actually the main reason for the fall of Xining City. Without this batch of gunpowder, even if Buzhihatu had all the ability, he would not be able to pry open the strong Xining City. Therefore, he thought that the imperial court would not be able to hold Jinghua responsible, so the lord must be prepared in advance, and he could not wait for the news of the fall of Xining to reach Jingshi before putting out the fire urgently.

Gao Pragmatic is not afraid of how much trouble this incident will put Jinghua in, after all, Jinghua himself is also a victim, and he is a "no-fault party", even if someone in the court wants to find trouble, he is enough to deal with it.

He was anxious about the whole situation!

Because the current situation is too much in line with Buzhihatu's plan, this situation must be reversed, otherwise the Ming Dynasty has not yet completed the matter of "opening the feudal ban", and Buzhihatu outside has successfully planned to besiege Tumut.

If Tumut can't stand it, won't all his previous plans for more than ten years be in vain?

It's tolerable, it's unbearable!

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