My Daming New Empire

To the west of the Cordillera Mountains, this is the main waterway and rich in resources. The Baguio Gold Mine, the largest gold mine in Luzon, is also located here.

Because businessmen and mine supervisors are often dealt with here, and the personnel relationship is complicated, Zhu Zhanji does not want Xie Zhenqi to be blackened early.

Most of the area south of Baguio, Manila in later generations, centered on the current Beiming Street, was designated as Beiming Mansion, which was reserved for the Xu Chailao family.

Their family has developed here for nearly 20 years. The local agriculture and handicraft industry were all developed by Xu Chai Lao. If someone else is sent to pick peaches, it will cause a lot of conflicts.

Anyway, Xu Chai Lao was old and didn't have a good life for a few years. If he wanted to add sand to Beiming Mansion, it wouldn't be too late after he died.

And the large islands in southern Luzon, including the Kalamian Islands and large areas of Palawan Island, are still in the transition zone and are now set as the Thousand Islands State, which is now under the administration of the Navy.

This area is bordered by the Sulu Kingdom, which has now become the Minister of Political Envoy of Su Lucheng of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty only appointed a few officials to supervise it, mainly relying on the original three kings' jurisdiction.

Only the right to trade was taken over by the inner prisoner, because they have to rely on trade to make profits, so that they can be aided and helped.

The local leaders, headed by Du Mahan, did not realize the importance of economic power. For them, the merchant ships of Ming Dynasty continuously brought them supplies to improve their lives, and it was a good deal to rely on Daming.

Moreover, with the protection of the Ming Navy, they don't have to worry about the surrounding tribes rebelling, and they don't have to worry about pirates.

Now, under the temptation of the inner eunuch, they have also spent a large sum of money on spice planting, and have been completely corrupted by a group of eunuchs in the inner eunuch.

Xie Zhenqi was appointed as the magistrate of the state. This is the chief official of a state. If it was in the Ming Dynasty, it would be impossible to arrange such a high level.

But because it is in Luzon, not many people objected.

This is also because Xie's family has a great influence in the court. If it is an ordinary number one scholar, I am afraid that he would have been impeached long ago.

And the second place Liu Ju, Tanhua Yuqian, was arranged to be an editor at the Imperial Academy according to the usual practice.

Liu Ju, Yu Qian and Xie Zhenqi are different, they have never entered the officialdom, so it is impossible for the two of them to directly think of the bottom to practice like Xie Zhenqi.

For Xie Zhenqi, they only envy, but not envy.Because Xie Zhenqi's own conditions are incomparable to them. Few people can be like Xie Zhenqi. Not only are their parents at the center of power, but they also grew up with their grandchildren.

Liu Ju is a person who likes learning, and it is his own expectation to enter the Imperial Academy.

But for Qian, he is more willing to do some practical things, because the family education he received since he was a child is mainly about serving officials.

However, he didn't have the background of Xie Zhenqi, so he didn't dare to put forward his ideas to the officials.

In his mind, whether he entered the Imperial Academy or not, the three generations of his family had been away from the official circles in the capital for many years, and most of the relationships in the capital had been weakened, so he needed to re-establish a network of relationships in the capital.

With a network of connections, no matter whether you are an official or a foreign official, you will not be without help in the capital.

Yu Qian and the others entered the Imperial Academy, began to familiarize themselves with the officialdom, and worked through their qualifications, but the Jiezhen period was temporarily put on hold.

This is mainly because of Zhu Gaochi's death. Although Zhu Zhanji is the supervisor of the country, he has to keep his filial piety for seven or seven days.

During these 49 days, all procedural matters were decided by themselves. Except for major emergencies, the appointment of officials to such matters was temporarily suspended.

But Xie Zhenqi was not idle, because although his appointment was postponed, it did not mean that he was idle waiting for the appointment.Since he was going overseas to serve as the chief official of a state, and it was a newly established state, he needed to provide all the officials at all levels.

If the second-class or third-class Jinshi in the same discipline is not selected as a good scholar, he can directly seek a job, and he needs to make great efforts to win him over.

You also need to find an experienced guest secretary for yourself, plan for the development of Dongshan Prefecture, and so on.

Although Zhu Gaochi's death for Zhu Zhanji, it can be regarded as the removal of an obstacle to the throne.But his death did not have much impact on the entire capital city and Daming.

Everything is still going on in an orderly manner, and even Zhu Zhanji is not actually affected much.

And in the northwest, tens of thousands of miles away, the war between Daming and the Timurid Kingdom, after more than two months and thousands of miles of pursuit and interception, has entered the final stage of decisive victory.

Zheng Heng of the North Route Army knew exactly what his duties were.

Although he carried 17 cavalry this time, there were [-] cavalry in Daming alone.

But he also knew that he was not the main general in this battle with Timur.

Since he is not the chief general, he cannot steal the limelight from the chief general Zhu Di, otherwise, it is not a meritorious service, but a deed.

However, he could not dereliction of duty, and could not allow Ulugh Beg in Samarkand to accumulate strength and deal a fatal blow to the southern army from afar.

Along the north and south lines of the Silk Road, Zheng Heng sent a large army to carry out sweeping and containment tasks on the periphery, so that the enemy's forces could not gather together.

From Suiye City to Haokand Valley, the army has been sweeping the walls and clearing the fields, occupying every throat area.

And in the area from Suiye City to Shymkent and Turkestan, while attacking the power of the Timur Kingdom, he showed the power of Ming Dynasty to the major tribes of the Golden Horde.

Ming's cavalry completely blocked the Syr Darya Valley from Shymkent to Altar.Completely blocked the passage of the Timur country to the quilt.

With only [-] cavalry, Zheng Heng established a complete defensive front along the north bank of the Syr Darya.

The three major tribes in the north of Timur attacked three times in a row, each time leaving a large number of dead soldiers and retreating to the south.

The army surrounded Samarkand step by step. Today's Timur army only has the western and southwest passes, which are still in his hands.

In mid-March, Priest Qiuming and several apprentices, escorted by [-] cavalrymen, arrived at the outskirts of Kabul along the eastern route, and joined Zhang Xin, Mu Xin and the others.

Because of the harassment from Zhang Xin and the others, this important trading city now seems to have withered a lot.If they get rid of the army, Zhang Xin and the others will avoid fighting.

The Timurids were also unable to pursue them, and they had no effective defense against muskets.When fighting in the wild, the Ming people don't need to beat people at all. As long as they kill the horse, they will become lambs to be slaughtered helplessly.

When the troops had an absolute advantage, Zhang Xin and the others got up and ran.If fewer people were photographed, it would not be enough to deliver food to Zhang Xin and the others.

When the news of Herat's destruction came, Muhammad, the Fireman stationed in Kabul, was terrified and blocked the gate of the city, never daring to go out of the city to pursue Zhang Xin and others.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Xin and others drove straight to the north and occupied Charikal, the largest grain-producing area in Kabul.

Charikal is an alluvial plain between a large mountain and a hundred miles north of Kabul. Due to the many rivers melted by the snow mountains, there is abundant water here, and it is also one of the largest food-producing areas in Afghanistan.

When Zhang Xin and the others occupied this place, they not only obtained enough food, cattle and sheep, but also panicked the defenders in Kabul.

In early April, after nearly two months of marching, [-] infantrymen of Ming Dynasty arrived outside Kabul after a long journey.

These infantrymen did not carry any siege weapons, but everyone was confident of taking Kabul because they had new explosives.

Priest Qiuming lived up to expectations, and deployed another [-] catties of explosives outside Kabul.After a burst of shaking explosions, the southern city of Kabul City was completely blown down, and the defenders in the city fled in a hurry.

Zhu Di's army did not come to Kabul, which also allowed Muhammad and the others to flee to the north without encountering too much obstruction.

This was also intentionally done by Daming. It cost too much to bring the army to Kabul, and the supply line was too long.I want to gather the enemies together, gather and annihilate them.

The city of Kabul fell, and Ming soldiers looted a large amount of property, which was transported back to the south by the internal eunuchs, and the city was handed over to the Indians.

At this time, the Delhi Sultanate had completely succumbed, and they announced that they would abandon their belief in the Green Church and believe in Hinduism along with the Indians.

This also means that they will seek to integrate with the Indians, instead of relying on the Mongols and Turks to appear superior to the Indians.

In addition, they sent representatives to visit Zhu Di in Charzhu, express their surrender to Daming, and voluntarily paid a large amount of gold, silver and beautiful women.