This is located in the west side of the Wuying Palace's so-called Yutu Pavilion, is the past to store the Emperor Ming Yudi sand table of the side hall, not long ago was named by Emperor Chongzhen Yutu Pavilion, and ordered the cabinet ministers among the calligraphy can be called a unique Xu Guangqi, inscribed "Yutu Pavilion" three-character plaque.

Nowadays, in the middle of the spacious hall of the west side hall of the Wuying Palace, there is a huge sand table of the emperor's Ming land, and all kinds of "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu" and "Huangming's map of the land" are hung around the main hall, and there are a number of maps of Beizhi, Xuanda, Liaodong, Yunnan-Guizhou, North Korea, Shaanxi and Gansu and other places drawn by the Ministry of War and the Huangming Geographical Society in recent years.

This side hall of the palace, which had been idle before the Chongzhen Dynasty, has now become one of the most important places in the court outside the Forbidden City.

Early in the morning of this day, Emperor Chongzhen came to the Yutu Pavilion with a few attendants and military attachés, and stared at the three places in the northwest, especially the Hehuang land where the Hexi Corridor and Xining are located, and looked at it for a long time.

At this time, the Minister of Military Aircraft, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and the people of the Imperial Court all arrived, and after everyone saw the ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen asked everyone to get up, and then said:

"The military report sent by Dongsheng Hou, you must have read it! Xining City fell into the hands of thieves, and the land of Hehuang outside Jishi Pass was lost in one fell swoop!

"At the time of the incident, the Marquis of Dongsheng and other northwest governors were besieging Lanzhou, although there was a fault for taking care of this and losing the other, but when this time of urgent employment, I don't want to hold them responsible!"

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen came up, he first blocked this opening, so as not to argue back and forth, but put the focus of the discussion on accountability.

After all, the few important ministers who are now in the northwest were all installed by Emperor Chongzhen back then.

Unless they made an extremely serious strategic mistake, Emperor Chongzhen would not easily replace these people.

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, he glanced at the courtiers standing in the hall together, and then said:

"Xining City fell into the hands of thieves, the guards in the city died, and the people suffered.

"The purpose of summoning the secretary and others here today is to discuss the future northwest strategy of the imperial court! What are the corresponding opinions, you can come to me one by one! ”

Minister of Military Aircraft Ning Chengcheng, Sun Chengzong, Minister of War, Shangshu Nan Juyi, and other ministers had already read the transcript of the military report delivered to the Beijing Division shortly after last night, and knew that since the emperor did not summon the minister for advice last night, he would definitely summon him today.

Therefore, these people also thought about it in advance, and now when the emperor asked, Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft, took the lead and said:

"Your Majesty! On the same day, the city of Lanzhou fell, the king of Su was killed, His Majesty has not yet changed the commander, and now the lonely city of Xining is lost, and there is no reason to change the commander in the battle!

"The previous governor of the Northwest Fu Jiangchen has not been rewarded for his efforts in recovering the land, but now the responsibility for losing the land is coming, and the merits and demerits of the two sides are offset by the merits, which can also be said!"

After Sun Chengzong was activated by Emperor Chongzhen, he has been holding an important position in front of the emperor for a long time, and he is already very familiar with the temperament and personality of the current Emperor Chongzhen and his military and political ideas.

He already knew that Emperor Chongzhen would not hold Li Banghua and others accountable for the fall of Xining City, so he came up and gave the emperor a step, which was regarded as fooling this matter.

After Sun Chengzong finished asking this, he saw Emperor Chongzhen nodding heavily, knowing that the emperor approved, and then continued:

"Among the ministers, the current situation in the northwest is unprecedentedly chaotic, counting, in addition to the officials and troops of the imperial court, there are still three forces intertwined with each other: one is the northwest thief, the second is Mu Suman, and the third is Lin Dan Khan!

"If the imperial court is heavily armed in the northwest and persecuted too much, these three may join forces against me, and if the imperial court stabilizes one place and slowly plots it, these three may be broken separately!

Therefore, in the opinion of the ministers, the imperial court's army in the northwest should still take step by step as the camp and fight steadily as the best policy!

"Now that Hezhou and Lintao have been restored, the land of Longyou Gannan is determined, and the imperial court should quickly move the Han people of the Central Plains to the west to fill it, and then defend Ningxia in the north, coerce Lanzhou, and drive thieves to Hexi!

"If the thieves enter Hexi in the west, they will not be able to stand side by side with the Mu Suman who gathers in the west of the river, and the thieves in the west are entrenched in Xining, and the situation will be eased, and they will not be able to stand with Lin Dan Khan! All of this is beneficial to my court! Your Majesty! ”

After Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft, finished speaking, he bowed to the emperor, and Emperor Chongzhen also got down from his seat after letting him flatten down, led everyone to the sand table of the land, and after watching for a while, he ordered Ma Gan's successor, Sun Qishu, the newly promoted military aircraft housekeeper, to mark the several forces that Sun Chengzong said on the sand table one by one.

After marking, it is clear at a glance.

Sun Chengzong's remarks were quickly approved by several other ministers.

Nan Juyi, the secretary of the military department, said: "The minister grew up in Shaanxi since he was a child, and when he became an adult, he also traveled to study in the land of the Taomin River, so he completely agreed with what Sun Ge said!"

"If the imperial court wants to obtain the land of the Western Regions, it must first determine the west of the river, but if it wants to determine the west corridor of the river, it must first fix the Tao Min River! As for the first solid Taomin River, you must first return to Lanzhou!

"The minister thinks that the strategy of the Marquis of Dongsheng Li Ge and the governor of the northwest to pacify the ministers of Xinjiang cannot be described as sober and incorrect! If the court can be distracted and consistent, the recovery of the lost territory in the northwest will inevitably be realized in the long run!

"Even if the ministers of the Northwest Governor sometimes make mistakes, as long as there is no mistake, please be lenient with Your Majesty, and don't mess with yourself!"

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen himself understood these things these people said, and what they said was right, but it was not what the emperor wanted to hear the most.

Just as he was hesitating whether to go into battle shirtless and make his thoughts clear, he suddenly heard Dorzidarhan, the right deputy envoy of the Imperial Court, say:

"Your Majesty! Dorzidarhan, the deputy envoy of the court, has something to say, I don't know whether to say it or not? ”

At this time, Dorzidarhan was no longer the Chahar Mongol dress when he first entered the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to his big plate face, which is still full of short beards and shows a roughness that is different from that of civil officials, the hairstyle on Dorzidarhan's head and the clothes on his body have all been changed to the crown clothes of the court officials of the Ming Dynasty.

This also happened to the Shunyi king Bu Lost Rabbit, the Feng'en Marquis Erlinchen, and other Mongolian tribal princes and nobles who settled in the Ming Dynasty.

It's not a problem for them.

Because on the side of the Ming Dynasty, there have been countless precedents for such things, not to mention far away, let's just say that the family of Wu Weiying, the Marquis of Gongshun, who is now reused in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and the marshal Mangui of Liaodong Town, are all from the Mongolian tribes of the outer domain.

Now on the side of the Ming Dynasty, if they don't say that they are Mongols, no one can tell that they will be Mongols.

And such a situation is also a result that Emperor Chongzhen is happy to see now.

At that moment, Dorzidarhan, the deputy envoy of the Imperial Court, suddenly bowed down and spoke, and Emperor Chongzhen was not surprised, and immediately said to him:

"Duo Aiqing has something to say, I just want to hear your thoughts!"

"Your Majesty! Since the minister entered the Ming Dynasty, he has been unabandoned, appointed to the important position of the Imperial Court, and often thinks about how to repay the trust of His Majesty. ”

When Dolzidarhan had finished speaking, he saw the emperor nodding at him with a smile, and immediately continued:

"The minister has served under the account of Chahar Khutuktu Khan for many years, and he knows a lot about Khutuktu Khan, that is, Lin Dan Khan, who is talking about the elder!

"Lin Dan Khan is now at the end of his rope, moving west to the Great Grass Beach in Qinghai, the people under the tent fled, and the strength of Chahar was greatly damaged, so he could only rely on the Mongolian tribes in the West Sea to provide for him, so he could save his life!

"The Mongolian tribes of the West Sea, the ministers also know a lot, except for the Qinghai Tumut Huoluo Chitaiji Division, which is not weak, the others are poor and small, and there are not many people.

"The minister heard the fire and fell to the Chitaiji department, because Lin Dan Khan went west, he had moved south, and refused to give in to Lin Dan Khan!

Therefore, in the opinion of the ministers, Lin Dan Khan took the remaining men and horses of the Chahar Department and moved west to the big grass beach in Qinghai, but it was just a matter of surviving!

"If Your Majesty can send an envoy to contact him today, and still respect him as the Great Khan of the Mongol tribes, in exchange for the reconciliation between the Chahar and the Qinghai Mongol tribes and the Ming court, then the Chahar and the Mongolian tribes of the West Sea will not only no longer be a disaster in the future, but also the thieves will not be able to move after entrenched in Xining City!

"If this can be the case, this chess game arranged by His Majesty in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty will soon be able to live all of it! This is a little superficial opinion of the minister, please Your Majesty to see it! ”

After listening to Dorzidarhan's rhetoric, Emperor Chongzhen nodded at him, then looked at the others, and said:

"What Aiqing said is exactly what I want! Li Banghua, Hong Chengchou, Yuan Chonghuan, Wang Tingchen and others previously determined the northwest strategy, do not change, continue to implement!

"However, since the land of the Xining River has fallen into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, Lin Chengcheng and other thieves, then there is a common enemy between the imperial court and Chahar Lindan Khan in the northwest!

"What Duo Aiqing said is exactly what I think in my heart, the Military Aircraft Department and the Li Fan Yuan can choose the right person, rush to the northwest as soon as possible, find a way deep into Qinghai, and find the place where Lin Dan Khan is stationed in the pasture.

"If Lin Dan Khan himself and his Chahar subordinates are willing to cooperate with our Ming court, I am also willing to coexist peacefully with it!

"In addition to the land of Monan, I can admit that Genghis Khan's descendant, Lin Danbatur, is the Great Khan of the Mongolian steppes!

"If he is willing to cooperate with me, I can even admit that the Moxi Mongol tribes and the Mobei Mongol tribes are all Lin Dan Khan's subordinates!

"If he can fight with the Ming official army to attack the thieves entrenched in Xining, I can also provide appropriate funding on top of their grain and grass military needs! And help it to unify the various ministries of Moxi Mongolia in the future! ”