After solving the problems of the Western Regions and Qinghai, it will be Uszang's turn next. However, due to climate, geography and other reasons, it is still very difficult to implement direct rule on Uszang now. Li You naturally would not have to send a large army to conquer Uszang, so he made other arrangements for Uszang. .

In the Yuan Dynasty, local forces in Uszha must accept the rewards from the central dynasty to consolidate their political and religious status. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he also took advantage of this feature to reward Uszha's religion and political leaders. When political and religious leaders from all over Uszha came to pay tribute and request tribute, on the one hand, they "built many seals" politically, and on the other hand, they gave generous rewards economically to expand their influence on the Tibetan area, strengthen their ties with local forces in Tibet, and achieved good results.

As the leaders of a district in the Ming Dynasty, monks and lay officials in various places must contribute local products and handicrafts such as livestock, fur, Tibetan velvet, medicinal materials, Tibetan incense, copper Buddha, scroll painting Buddha and other local special products and handicrafts to the court within the prescribed time. The court followed the convention and gave them to the tributers with generous gifts of gold, silver, banknotes, silk, satin, cloth, tea, grain, etc. several times the value of the tribute to the tribute to show their concern for remote areas. Due to the rich gifts, the tribute personnel can obtain profits once, resulting in the increase in the number of Us Tibetan people entering the court to pay tribute year by year. This special economic exchange between the court in the form of tribute and the monks and lay leaders in the Us Tibetan area played an important role in the central government of the Ming Dynasty to implement the governance measures to govern Us Tibetan areas.

The Ming Dynasty successively conferred three Dharma Kings and five local kings. They all attached great importance to the title given by the Ming Dynasty and used this to suppress other political and religious leaders who had ill-hearted intentions.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty also set up tea and horse departments in Linxia, ​​Tianshui, Lintan, Ya'an, Songpan and other places to uniformly manage the tea and horse market and be responsible for the tea and horse trade in the Uszang area. It also set up two command departments in Uszang, namely the command department of Uszang and the command department of Doganwei. It also set up the command department, Xuanwei envoy, Recruitment Department, Wanhu Mansion, Qianhu Institution and other institutions to conduct military and civil affairs, build a post road from Yazhou to Uszang, and set up post stations, which greatly facilitated the transportation between Uszang and the mainland.

But this was not enough for Li You. Today, Uszangdushi is still served as the highest-ranking Dharma King in the local area, rather than a general of the Ming Dynasty. Now there is a good opportunity to formally intervene in Uszang. Now the powerful faction in the Uszang area, the feudal lord of the Karma Kagyu sect, Xinshaba family and Tsukuhan formed an alliance with Dunyue Dorje, intending to jointly resist the rapid development of strength of the Yellow Sect.

If it were not for Li You's interference, the leader of the Huang Cult at this critical moment of life and death, in order to avoid a catastrophe, he sent an envoy to Heshuot Mongolia and asked Gushikhan for help. After detailed investigation, Gushikhan decided to lead a large army from the Western Regions to Qinghai, first destroy Ketu Khan, then destroy Bailitus Dunyuedorji, and then marched into Uszang to eliminate Disizangba. Unfortunately, Gushikhan's Heshuot Mongolia has been defeated by Li You, and he himself has become a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty, but this plan cannot be implemented.

Wherever they were, under the utmost necessity, they had to put the target of seeking help on the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and hurriedly sent an envoy to ask Li You for help, hoping that Li You could send a large army to protect his safety; Li You of course was happy to see this, and he was willing to send a large army into Uszang, but a little different from what the political and religious leaders thought that Li You did not intend to withdraw his troops this time. He wanted to take this opportunity to confirm the status of Uszang Dusi and establish a permanent garrison site in Uszang area to directly manage things in Uszang area.

Of course, the envoys who asked for help were not very willing, but if they did not agree to Li You, they would not send troops. Without the assistance of external forces, they would be defeated by the opposition. The temple they built would be burned and the monks would be killed. In the end, they would not be able to leave anything. So after a difficult choice, they had to agree to Li You's conditions.

"Wuszang is a barren land, and the climate is harsh. General Mao has worked hard here." In order to encourage Mao Chenglu to complete this task better, Li You directly gave him the title of Earl, and agreed that as long as the Wusizang Dusi can complete the task better in the future, someone will take over Mao Chenglu as the position of Usizang Dusi in a few years, and his title will also be promoted to marquis, which is almost something that the Ming generals can reach. Moreover, the Ming soldiers who followed him into Usizang will also enjoy double salary and priority promotion, thereby offsetting people's fear of the bitter and cold land.

"The last general thanks the emperor's kindness, and the last general will definitely do this." This treatment is even more generous than Cao Wenzhao, Man Gui and others who made great contributions before. Mao Chenglu did not expect that he would receive the reward of titles earlier than them. He was very excited and hurriedly thanked him and vowed to truly establish Uszangdusi.

"I have already said about how to deal with Uszang things. In the past few days, I will send some people who are familiar with Uszang's internal situation to your army for training. You can go down and prepare for this matter first." Among these people are members of the Jinyiwei, merchants who go in and out of Uszang, and local monks.

Mao Chenglu took the order and left. After he was ready, Li You immediately sent Mao Chenglu to lead 30,000 elite troops into Uszang to help them block the attack of the Xinshaba coalition, but did not kill them. Instead, he summoned the leaders of both sides to conduct peace talks, forcing them to temporarily accept the mediation of the Ming Dynasty and re-sign the alliance. According to the alliance provisions, both of them were the people of the Ming Dynasty and were under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. Any conflicts arise in the future must go to Uszangdusi's office to appeal to Uszangdusi's in the Ming Dynasty. If there is any violation, the Ming Dynasty will unite with the other party to punish the party that violated the alliance.

In this way, the Uszangdusi Prefecture can gain a foothold with the contradictions within the Uszang area and the forces in its hands. In addition, it will control the tea-horse trade and tribute, and will subtly intervene in the Uszang area, and eventually turn it into the direct jurisdiction of the Ming court.
Chapter completed!