My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 673

c661 Lanzhou Yizhi

After receiving the order, Zhu Huaye immediately rushed to Gansu to persuade King Su to surrender in Lanzhou.

In fact, after the southeastern army occupied Shaanxi, King Su of Lanzhou fell into long-term anxiety and constantly sent envoys to the Ming court to request rescue.

However, the Ming court is currently in a situation where it cannot protect itself and has no ability to support King Su who is far away in Lanzhou.

In Prince Su’s palace, Prince Su looked at his counselors with a look of despair in his eyes.

As a clan member, King Su was naturally unwilling to surrender, but the situation in Lanzhou was different from other areas. King Su’s position as a talker depended on the prestige of King Su in Lanzhou for generations, but in terms of influence Prince Su’s Mansion is only a force that affects Lanzhou, not an absolute force.

Lanzhou was actually abandoned by the Ming Dynasty very early.

Since the Tumubao Incident, the Ming Dynasty has basically lost its influence in the northwest. Shaanxi has become a border area where the Ming court has influence in the northwest. Gansu basically belongs to a state of restrained rule.

If we use the Tang Dynasty as an example, the Han forces in Lanzhou at this time are more like the Guiyi Army in the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty. They nominally belong to the Ming Dynasty, and the nominal leader Su Wang is the clan of the Ming Dynasty. But in fact, because they are in The border areas ruled by Ji Su belong to a semi-autonomous state.

The Ming court could provide limited support to Lanzhou, that is, it could allow Lanzhou merchants to trade on the Ming border. Military and political matters were basically negotiated between King Su and the local powerful factions in Lanzhou.

This is why Prince Su’s Mansion is different from other princes of the Ming Dynasty. King Su’s lineage in Lanzhou has never been like other Ming Dynasty clans, nor is it extravagant and wasteful in the fiefdom, nor does it harm the people, but will His own income was used to subsidize the construction of Lanzhou.

Because in a place like Lanzhou, if a prodigal son is born and the city is not built, it will really be lost.

The contemporary Su King Zhu Bihuan was originally a scribe who loved literature. After rising in the southeast, he quickly saw the value of the New Army. He opened a workshop and a trading station in Lanzhou, accumulated some financial resources through trade in the Western Regions, and founded the Lanzhou New Army. .

But Zhu Pihuan stopped here. Today’s Western Regions are different from those in the Tang Dynasty, and they have basically lost the ability to separate themselves.

All this is due to changes in geographical factors and natural environment.

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the Western Region was a fertile area. The Longyou area from Jiuquan to Lanzhou was a mixed agricultural and animal husbandry area with abundant water and grass. It could produce war horses and grow grain, and was known as the South of the Yangtze River.

At that time, a series of Western Region countries were dotted along the entire Western Region. City-states such as Qiuci, Yuezhi, and Loulan had already existed in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian as an envoy to the Western Regions in order to win over these Western Regions. The country worked together to deal with the Huns.

During that period, the Silk Road was a prosperous trade route. A series of cities relied on this Silk Road, and the rich farming area of ​​Longyou, had been divided for many years.

Ma Teng and Han Sui at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Qianliang and Houliang in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, these local regimes could last for many years, and some even lasted longer than the separatist regimes in the Central Plains.

But by this era, things had changed.

Most of the city-states dotted in the Western Region have disappeared, some of them disappeared in the war, and most of them were due to the expansion of the desert, which led to the collapse of the oases that these city-states in the Western Region relied on for survival. For example, the ancient city of Loulan has been covered by the desert.

The Silk Road is becoming more and more difficult to walk on the road. The Longyou area, which was once rich in water and grass, is gradually becoming deserted and cannot support a large population.

The Central Plains has been shrinking eastward in the northwest frontier, from Zhangye Wuwei beyond the Great Wall to Lanzhou. At this time, the Ming court can only rule Gansu region.

Prince Su Zhu Bihuan understood this truth. Not to mention that Prince Su’s Mansion was only the co-owner of Lanzhou’s many strengths. Even if Prince Su’s Mansion was unequivocal in Lanzhou, Lanzhou did not have the strength to confront the Central Plains.

If you want to separate one side, you must have this strength. Lanzhou does not have this strength.

Half a year ago, King Su Zhu Bihuan saw an envoy from the southeast heading west.

The envoy’s name was Gao Wuguan, and he claimed to be the son of Gao Gong, the former chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. Gao Wuguan stayed in Lanzhou for a while and had an interview with Zhu Pihuan.

Zhu Pihuan was deeply impressed by this southeastern officer.

Gao Wuguan did not persuade Zhu Bihuang to surrender, nor did he use any threatening words. He just painted a picture to Zhu Bihuang.

The picture painted by Gaowu Guan is that the Central Plains will be reunified, and the new empire will completely solve the problem of nomads in the northern grasslands. The Central Plains empire, rich in commodities, will restart the Silk Road on the Western Regions.

At that time, camel bells would ring throughout the Western Regions, and endless caravans would cross the desert to Lanzhou, where they would leave loaded with goods.

Gao Wuguan mentioned a means of transportation called railway. He described that this means of transportation would connect the north, south, and east and west, allowing goods from the south of the Yangtze River to be transported to Lanzhou as quickly as water transport, and then to Central Asia and Europe via camel bells.

Such a scene also moved the contemporary Su Wang Zhu Pihuan.

However, Gao Wuguan only left this picture behind and continued to lead people towards the Western Regions.

Next came the news of the fall of Henan and Shaanxi, which made the atmosphere in Prince Su’s palace even more tense.

No one in Lanzhou wants to go to war, especially under this situation. Lanzhou’s accumulation of nearly a hundred years may be completely destroyed by a war, just like this ancient city-state that has gradually disappeared on the Silk Road for thousands of years.

Such emotions reached their climax after Zhu Huaye entered Lanzhou City on behalf of Southeast.

Zhu Huaye’s father was a lieutenant of Fengguo in Shanxi before he was exiled to Fengyang Imperial City by Jiajing. He had no connection with the royal lineage of King Su.

The blood relationship between the two parties is already very weak, but Southeast’s willingness to send Zhu Huaye to negotiate terms with King Su has shown Southeast’s sincerity.

It was naturally impossible for King Su not to see this sincerity. He opened the city gate with great fanfare to welcome Zhu Huaye, and what followed was a day-long secret conversation in Prince Su’s mansion.

No one knows what Zhu Huaye talked about with Prince Su, nor what conditions was offered by Southeast, but then Prince Su’s Mansion announced that it would unconditionally lay down its arms and surrender to Southeast, and Lanzhou declared its return to justice!

After receiving the news, Xiong Kuang could only sigh. He thought he could get a military exploit in Lanzhou, but now it seems that there is no chance.

The army led by Xiong Kuang quickly took control of Lanzhou City, and Lanzhou successfully changed its flag without a fight.