Emperor Wanli has been too busy lately.

While reading the incomprehensible long letter sent by Chen Mu to draw what can be used from it, and on the other hand, he accepted the shock and thinking brought to him by the military and civilian changes in Hangzhou, and finally caught up with the attack of Qi Jiguang, who launched a sweep, and the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty died in the first battle.

In the last case, the killing of the Great Khan by the Heavenly Thunder was not a big deal for the courtiers, but it was extremely uplifting for the Wanli Emperor.

Originally, the Northern Yuan Khan Court had long been not an enemy worthy of the attention of the Ming Dynasty, and after losing almost all Han culture, the Cypriot Mongolians degenerated into the same as before Genghis Khan established the legal code to form an alliance, the same brave and fierce, the same aggressive, the same short-sighted, and the same poorly equipped.

But they haven't changed, times have changed.

Just as the Mongol army in the era of Genghis Khan, after going south to defeat the Western Xia and Jin Kingdoms, its military strength, theory, and equipment reached the peak of the Cold Weapon Age, they not only had Mongolian iron hoof horses with excellent endurance suitable for expeditions, but also Central Asian healthy horses from Western Xia suitable for impact, Mongolian light and fast tendon and horn riding bows, and heavy armor called Tiefutu in the Song and Jin dynasties, and even siege weapons such as Hui Hui cannons.

Even so, Genghis Khan did not have the idea of conquering more distant lands on his agenda, and there was almost no desire.

As a result, the 500 caravans sent by Genghis Khan to the west to trade with Khorezm were killed, and Genghis Khan said that as long as the murderer was handed over and compensated, it would still be safe, but Khorezm refused to pay compensation.

For Mongolia, where there are only a few hundred strong men in the country, what hatred does it mean to be killed by 500 strong men?

only to trigger the next war of annihilation and the western expedition.

And the current Saibei Mongols are the same as before, they still have Mongolian horses with excellent endurance and suitable for expeditions, and they still have light and swift muscles and horn bows, but they have forgotten the iron armor that their ancestors had been armed with when European knights were still wearing chain mail, and they can't even do it if they haven't forgotten it, because they can't do it without iron.

As for the return cannon, who remembers what it was?

This is also the reason why the once mighty and invincible Mongol army was beaten to pieces in the early Ming Dynasty, whether it is weak in strength or in culture, once it encounters stronger strength or culture shock, it is easy to lose its combat effectiveness.

This was true of the Mongol Empire's khanates in Asia, and the faster they were localized, the faster they collapsed.

As for the fact that the northern territory has become like this now, it is not that Mongolia is not weak enough, but that the great empire south of the Great Wall has rotted more completely after the founding of the country a hundred years ago.

They faced the same situation, with the Tumen Khan setting up a legal code in the hope of turning the tide of chaos; Emperor Longqing's opening of the sea to ban the revival and reform of the malpractice is also to reverse the political environment that is waiting to be killed.

Reform is only in progress, never complete.

It's just that the process south of the Great Wall is faster, because the productive forces are stimulated enough under conditions that are already progressive.

Mongolia is still Mongolia, but the Ming Dynasty has a new look.

When the bows, knives, and horses still stood under the sunset of the Great Wall and looked south with the old faces of the nomads of the northern Saibei for thousands of years, they were greeted not by the majestic heavy armored soldiers with southern spears and crossbows, but by the cold and ruthless General Zhenshuo.

Therefore, the Mongolian Khan's court has long been not the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been so frightened by Qi Jiguang's victory that he has not dared to go south for ten years.

The scholars and generals of the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to this so-called Khan Court at all, they were more concerned about the freaks who were sandwiched between the Ming and Mongolia and occupied the 400 mm isoprecipitation line suitable for cultivation and grazing.

It was the person who was most likely to rebuild the great cause of Ghis Khan if he was born in troubled times and excluded his bloodline.

But now that the man is dead, the youngest son is growing up happily in the Forbidden City, and his wife is waiting for the follow-up arrangements of the Son of Heaven in Beijing.

Not to mention the mood of the Wanli Emperor at this time, on the occasion of the day of the opportunity, the Ming Empire even went to the early dynasty, the emperor took the civil and military officials on foot to the suburbs of the Temple of Heaven and Earth, humming a song all the way to run away The hat ran away and also bowed down in the temple to tell his father the good news.

Grandpa Jiajing, I thought that Altan Khan, who had held you in Beijing for eight days and was so scared that he didn't dare to fight back, was boiled to death by his grandson.

Longqing's father, I want Altan Khan, who made you endure humiliation and burden, and didn't even dare to eat one more cake, and his son has already educated you on your behalf.

After kowtowing, he returned to the palace and began to prepare for a funeral worthy of this title for King Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty.

What a happy event.

However, just as Altan Khan's siege of Beijing city Sogong during the Jiajing period caused a chain reaction of the Ming Dynasty's nine-border army and military cultivation, Qi Jiguang's achievements in Saibei far exceeded the previous ones, and the generals of the nine border towns were ready to move.

"Where did Ding Shiqing go?"

In the military room of the Qianqing Palace, Wanli was tired of reading the handbook, yawned boredly, and put the cabinet vote that had just been clad in red in the stern, and the trusted eunuch Wang An immediately took out a book from the deck and handed it to him, causing the emperor to show a reproachful look, and then looked up at the map of the world hanging on the wall.

During the Chinese New Year this year, taking advantage of the gap between Wanli training soldiers in Tsinghua Garden, Wang An took the eunuchs and palace ladies to rearrange the military affairs, and the Wanli ship was refueled, and the past Wanli two years of the world map was replaced by the Wanli nine years of the world map, which was hung on the wall facing the emperor's seat.

It was as if this would fulfill the emperor's wish to sail the seven seas on a warship.

"The telegram from half an hour ago, they can rest in Zhending Mansion tonight...... Grandpa, don't approve it? ”

Wang An was about to put the handbook back on the deck, but Wanli raised his hand and held it down: "Approval, late approval is better than early approval, anyway, it's all my business, I'll see Ding Shiqing after the approval of these two days...... How about the West Factory, the recruitment is complete. ”

Hearing this, Wang An smiled and put the handbook back in front of Wanli, then shook his head and said, "Not yet." Thousands of households have already been elected, and the stall leaders have also been selected among the clan's concubines, Jinyi, Dongchang, the forbidden army, and the Beijing camp. ”

"If you have chosen, why don't you recruit?"

"The slave has to wait for grandpa's stack of votes to be approved before recruiting, otherwise the total number of fans will not be determined."

Wang An's words made the emperor scratch his head embarrassedly.

He wanted to come out one at a time, and began to ask Wang An to recruit thousands of people, but seeing that Ding Shiqing was out of the matter, it was expanded to ten people in each county, not to mention another 10,000 people.

And at present, these border generals are shouting for war one by one, from Jianzhou Wei to Hamiwei, almost everyone is clamoring to fight for the imperial court, such a magnificent scene has not even appeared when Altan Khan's soldiers besieged the Forbidden City.

The most direct result is...... It is Wang An's West Factory that is about to be expanded again.