Today's Hehuang Land, after the sweep of Lin Dan Khan in the spring and summer of last year, there are not many robbery targets left for Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi.

Within a radius of 100 miles from Xining City, especially in the Haidong region, that is, the area east of Qinghai Lake, there are no border towns, or Mongolian tribes, Qiang tribes, or even Fan tribes, which can be robbed by later thieves.

Since the second year of Chongzhen, the Haidong region, which was once relatively populous, has experienced the Musuman Rebellion, the Hui-Han War after the Musuman Rebellion, and then the plundering of the remnants of the Chahar led by Lin Dan Khan.

Now on this land, the four fields have long been empty, and the small towns and villages that used to be dotted with stars have long been empty and clean.

Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Camp Division, if they want to grab enough materials from the nomadic tribes in the Qinghai region to survive in the future, I am afraid that they can only go to a more remote place from Xining City.

At the same time, the tribes available for them to loot are not only much fewer in number, but the remaining tribes are not the tribes that can be robbed.

Because those tribes who still dare to nomadize in the area around Qinghai Lake are not soft persimmons that anyone can pinch if they want to.

Either they had already submitted to Lin Dan Khan and were protected by Lin Dan Khan, who was stationed in Chakhano, or they had considerable strength and were not afraid of Lin Dan Khan or other foreign forces.

Such a tribe is not a tribe that anyone can rob when they say they can rob, or dare to rob if they say they can rob it!

For example, in order to avoid Lin Dan Khan, the largest group of the Qinghai Tumut Mongols who led their troops to migrate to the south of the Mangra River at the foot of the Anima Qing Mountain, that is, the Huoluo Chitaiji Division, still has good strength.

It has been more than a year since Lin Dan Khan came to Qinghai Chahannuo to live as a herd, and in addition to subduing the Mongol tribes of the Western Sea Tumut, he only plundered the Haidong region and extorted Ma Jinzhong from Hezhou.

As for the Huoluo Chisuo Division, which heard the wind and fled from afar, even if it was as rebellious as Lin Dan Khan, he did not dare to chase after it.

For another example, those nomadic Tang Wuti people who were nomadic in the north of the Tanggula Mountains, south of Qinghai Lake, and even in the vast area of the Ruoergai grassland in northwest Sichuan, the four major tribes of Xikang, Weizang, Baili and Dege, also had good strength.

Even Lin Dan Khan, who has always been arrogant, did not dare to provoke them easily, let alone Zhang Xianzhong, who had just arrived and had suffered a lot of damage to his strength before.

These Tang Wuti tribes, who lived an agricultural or nomadic life on the Xikang and Wei-Tibet Plateaus, also known as the four major Tangut tribes in the history books, have a deep relationship with the Mongols, but they are not of the race.

Of course, they are not all Tibetans, but the Tibetans, Qiangs, and the Dangxiang people who fled after the fall of the Western Xia, and even some Mongols, mixed together to form a loose community.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the Tanguts was not too large, and the total number of the four major departments together was only more than 100,000.

However, although the living environment of this ethnic group is a bit harsh, and the reproduction and growth of the population is relatively slow, their adult males are very brave and good at fighting.

Whether it is the Baili Tusi tribe and the Derge Tusi tribe, which are mainly agricultural settlements, or the more loose and backward Tangut tribes in Xikang and Weizang areas, which are still nomadic and predominant, they all follow the path of the Mongols in those days.

The backward slavery of the Tanguts, coupled with their belief in Tibetan Buddhism, made these Tanguts not only not afraid of death at all, but also yearning for the so-called Western Pure Land and Elysium.

Even Lin Dan Khan knew this, and it was not until he had gained a firm foothold in Chahanno, west of Qinghai Lake, that he only sent a few lamas as envoys to communicate with the Tanguts about trade with each other.

Instead of directly resorting to conquest, as in the Mongolian steppes, he sent men and horses to coerce the Tanguts into submission to him.

Zhang Xianzhong, who is a newcomer, may not know the depth and shallowness of the water on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at the moment, but if he dares to do what he did in Han before, he will soon know this.

As for the Mongolian tribes in the West Sea that are relatively close to Xining and have taken refuge in Lin Dan Khan, if Zhang Xianzhong really has the courage to loot, it will be even more lively.

Perhaps from now on, the two major forces outside Jishi Pass will no longer be able to pose a threat to the three sides of Longyou.

And this is also a situation that Emperor Chongzhen is asking for now.

As for whether Lin Dan Khan and Zhang Xianzhong will come together, Emperor Chongzhen is not worried at all.

In the original history, Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings, and Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and others, who also belonged to the gang of thieves and belonged to a trench, could not pee in the same pot, which is enough to explain his personality.

How could such a person come together with the same urine Lin Dan Khan?

It would be good if these two people could not fight upside down, at best, they would maintain a situation where they were wary of each other and did not fight too much.

Zhang Xianzhong, this person, is neither Gao Yingxiang nor Li Zicheng, if you want him to condescend to Lin Dan Khan, and wear a pair of pants with Lin Dan Khan, you don't have to think about it in this life!

And Lin Dan Khan, not to mention, is already so arrogant that he doesn't even pay attention to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how can he get together with a rogue of the Ming Dynasty, and even bow his head to him?

Therefore, after some calculations, Emperor Chongzhen finally let go of his worries about the northwest, and did not take any other further actions after all, except for sending a message to the cabinet and the military aircraft department, posthumously praising Li Hongsi and Li Zhensheng and other soldiers and civilians defending the city in Xining.

Instead, everything was still in accordance with the previous established strategy, and Li Banghua, Minister of Military Aircraft, and others continued to be fully responsible for the war in the northwest.

It was only to once again send an edict urging Nan Juyi, the secretary of the military department, and Bi Bi, the secretary of the household department, to be strict and continue to step up the transfer of guns, ammunition, and other arms, money, and food materials to the northwest region, so as to prepare for the needs of the various units of the military department in the northwest to continue to besiege Lanzhou and seize Jishi Pass.

Say a thousand things and ten thousand, and in the end, the war will be fought to the end, and it still depends on the finances.

Especially now, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the thieves and the Northwest Mu Suman has been going on intermittently for a year and a half.

Whoever can hold out on to this war to the end will be victorious.

And the factor that can finally determine the outcome of this war is mainly a financial problem for the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, the armaments and weapons of the officers and troops in the northwest are much more advanced than those of the thieves and Mu Suman, and strategically they are also making progress step by step, seeking steady progress, just to drive the thief army in Lanzhou across the Yellow River, and there is no room for error.

As long as the guns and ammunition provided by the Jingshi Military Armament Institute and the grain and grass materials provided by the Tobu Kurachang can be continuously supplied, then it will only be a matter of time before the final victory is achieved.

After letting go of the affairs in the northwest, the time of March of the fourth year of Chongzhen was also in the intersection of all kinds of sorrows and joys of Emperor Chongzhen, and soon became a thing of the past.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, as in the past, there were three exams, each three days, and the examiners and Guozi supervisors who participated in the exam, during each exam, ate and lived in their own examination booths in the examination room.

During the nine-day Spring Examination, Emperor Chongzhen once thought of taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the Tribute Courtyard in the inner city to have a look and see with his own eyes what the examination of this era was like.

However, as soon as this idea was proposed, it was stopped by Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the Wenhua Temple and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, who once again supported Chunyu.

Wang Kun, the eunuch who was sent by Emperor Chongzhen to the Tribute Courtyard to preach the message, came back to report to Emperor Chongzhen and said:

"Emperor! Mr. Xu claimed that the emperor drove in person, and the teacher moved the people, the movement was too big, and the impact would be widespread, and the move to participate in the examination in the Gongyuan was afraid that it would have a collision impact, so it was impossible to insist on it!

"However, the slave maid thinks that if the emperor really wants to go to the Tribute Courtyard to have a look, Mo Ruo will only bring three or five attendants for a private visit!"

This Wang Kun is also a eunuch who was recommended by Wang Chengen and promoted, this person is articulate and clever, and now he is serving as a eunuch in the court, and he is often ordered to convey the emperor's dictation to the yamen of various ministries and courtyards of the imperial court.

Originally, Emperor Chongzhen had a good impression of this nimble eunuch, but after this incident, his perception changed greatly.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen not only did not pay a private visit to the Ministry of Rites, but also immediately dispelled the idea of further reusing him for this Wang Kun.

As for these eunuchs in the palace, the current Emperor Chongzhen has very simple requirements for them, only requiring absolute loyalty and reliability, and everything else is not important.

It doesn't matter if you are talented or not, it doesn't matter if you don't know how to read words and emotions to cater to your wishes, or even if you are greedy for a little money.

And the most important thing is to be loyal to the fundamental interests of the emperor.

If you don't know where the emperor's fundamental interests are, then the most important thing is to learn to obey the emperor's rules.

And the most important point of this is that you are self-righteous and smart.