More than a month later, the "Royal News" made a large-scale report - "Visiting China and Fusiyi", which was divided into three special reports: "Hai", "Animal Husbandry", and "Agriculture", of which the content of the first "Hai" was divided into four parts: "Nanyang", "East China Sea", "Tianzhu Sea" and "Western Ocean". Written by the first envoy Gu Hong, he described what he had seen and heard during the mission and the customs along the way, and with the help of envoys and interpreters from Annam, Phu, Malay, Johor, Polo, Chola, etc., he also introduced the religious customs, cultural specialties and historical origins of their respective countries. Combined with the mutual trade plan of the Royal Trading Company, many people saw the business opportunities at a glance, and sent their servants and clansmen to Nanyang to start investigating the situation, stationed in Pity, Thang Long, Saigon and other places.

When the auction of the Royal Trading Company was held, Daishoku and Pochoko were the biggest winners. The big cannibals have won the commercial rights of sixty percent of the goods in the Dayu export list, and now they have begun to hand over the goods in Longmen City according to the time and type listed above.

Other countries or wealthy merchants who have not harvested can contact merchants for transactions according to the "Yu Merchants Directory", or add money from the three companies that have purchased the goods. Among them, the Boqiu Ge people have the unanimous cooperation of Yu merchants, whether it is a discount or a type, they are better than any other country, and they can be regarded as the priority trading country of Dayu. It is foreseeable that after the Ottomans cut off the trade routes of the Fula, the Pochu Ge people could completely monopolize the sales of oriental goods throughout Europe from the sea. The Red Mauri is the preferred partner of the Bochu people in Europe, and if the Great Food does not strengthen its control over the Iberian Peninsula, Iberia will lose most of its European market share sooner or later if it becomes independent in the future.

Stimulated by such gains, except for some people of insight who continue to submit articles to express the view that 'when China is strong, there is no hidden Western Regions', Dayu public opinion focuses on shifting from the disaster of the Western Regions to the wealth of the sea, and the people who are struggling to survive in the Western Regions see the content of the newspaper, as if they have seen the realm of Western Heaven Bliss - such a national strength is not the Lord that the Mughal people dare to provoke.

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The eye-catching "sea" topic is not the main event, on the contrary, the "desert" under the "animal husbandry" section, the "Western Regions" and the "Northeast" topic under the "agriculture" section are the core parts of this report. The newspapers were only brief, and the complete special reports were presented directly to the emperor's desk, one of which was written by the empress, and the prince and princess contributed a lot.

Although the two children were not too old to analyze and discuss the classics, they took the change of geographical location as a clue to find out the origin and evolution of the entire northern desert and the northeast plain from the history books, that is, mainly the records of the Han and Tang dynasties.

This time and space has changed due to geographical elements, and the geographical situation of the North China Plain and north of Guanzhong is very different from the north that Gu Ci is familiar with, but the root cause is that the Jinwei Mountain on the Great Gobi Desert of Inner and Outer Mongolia has changed. The Jinwei Mountain Range rising from the ground in the west seems to be more towering and firm, not only the peak does not melt all the year round, but also extends directly into the southern foot of the hinterland of the plateau, the section of the mountain range should have been lower, desertified 'Gobi Altai Mountains', because of the change of height and volume, to ensure that the river formed between Jinwei Mountain and Yanran Mountain can continue to flow to the southeast, deriving the Zhuan River water system, and also dividing the whole Mongolian Plateau into two parts, north and south, the name is 'Mobei' and 'Monan'.

It is said that the Monan Plateau as a whole should be south of Jinwei Mountain-Zhuanjiang-Yinshan and Daxianbei Mountain, but in fact it is divided into two sections, east and west. Because the eastern part is located in the gap between Yinshan Mountain and Daxianbei Mountain, a flat grassland, it is simply the best battlefield tailored for cavalry, and has always been the best passage for nomads to go south. It is the place where Beiguan is guarded, so it is called 'Beiguan Plateau' alone. The southern boundary of the western half is the Tianshan-Beishan-Qilian Mountains, because the North Tianshan Mountains are close to the Jinwei Mountains, so they are dumbbell-shaped, the west is the Jungger Basin, and the east is a large area north of the Hexi Corridor and west of the Helan Mountains, which is the Monan Plateau in the narrow sense.

In Gu Ci's impression, the Monan Plateau is the western part of Inner Mongolia, this piece should be a string of deserts and Gobi, because the south is high and the north is low, the winter is dry and cold without rain, and the Qilian Mountains intercept water vapor in summer, making the plateau a rain shadow area, except for some rivers that are formed because of the melting snow and the summer flood and winter dryness, lack of rain and water, the vegetation is not abundant, and the ground is flat and gentle, which is naturally easy to fly sand and stones, forming the gravel Gobi with bedrock outcropping, and the desert where quicksand accumulates. Every time 'desertification' is mentioned in the news, most of the place names you will hear are concentrated here. Now although Jinwei Mountain blocks the cold current in the south, the Zhuanjiang River is really a bit far, and the south of the desert is cold in winter and hot in summer, and precipitation is scarce. Fortunately, the topography has changed, and no large-scale Gobi Desert has been formed, but it is still distributed in an arc from the North Tianshan Mountains in the northwest to the southeast in the Gobi, desert, sandy land, and grassland. In the easternmost part, because of its proximity to the Yellow River, vegetation began to flourish. The Yellow River meets Helan Mountain here, and the river channel makes a small turn out of the first right-angle bend of the word 'several', narrowing the distance between it and the Zhuan River, so this small grassland is a rare and controllable good pasture in the Central Plains, and is called the 'Hetao area'. Jingxi City under the arch of the Great Wall stands at the junction of the southern foot of Helan Mountain and the Hexi Corridor, which was called 'Helan Mountain is lacking' in ancient times, and the 'Battle of Monan' and 'Hexi Battle' initiated by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were all started from here.

The Yellow River crosses the Hetao area and then goes east, and the north of the Zhuan River water system is close to each other, although the next place seems to belong to the Loess Plateau where the soil and water should be seriously eroded, but there is still a lot of water that cannot stand it, and the talent attribute of the farming nation is too strong, and almost all of it is reclaimed as farmland. In order to protect the Hetao and the fields from the Xiongnu disaster during the Ji Dynasty, starting from Jingxi City, the Great Wall was built along Helan Mountain and went north until the foot of Jinwei Mountain, so far the Monan Plateau was isolated in the west of Helan Mountain. As for the Great Wall of Hanwai and the Great Wall of Qin, which went deeper into the south of the desert and even the north of the desert, they have been almost destroyed.

Of course, the Ji Dynasty, where many people gathered in water control, also organized the route of the Zhuan River, and built a tall embankment on the south bank of the main river, so that the water of the Zhuan River during the spring flood flooded to the north, just on this open plateau, drowning the cattle, horses and sheep of the Qianyi. Historically, the strategy of 'using water as a soldier' has not been used less, as far as Gu Ci knows, the Southern Song Dynasty blocked Jin and Lao Jiang resisted Japan, and they all dug up the Yellow River to make out the Yellow Flood area of Qianli Zeguo. While policymakers need to take some moral risk, this indiscriminate attack is powerful. There happens to be a section of low depression in Mobei, and every time the flood peak of the Zhuanjiang River crosses, the pan area can even reach the Saiyin Mountain. Because of the abundant water, the water and grass in this place are acceptable, and the nomads who are not good at predicting and judging floods like it here, even if they may drown every year, they are not willing to let it go. Of course, Qianyi can also get a raft to cross the water to the south, but after the river embankment has the Great Wall, it is difficult to break the city, and it is difficult to break the gap, and even people and horses swim over, if they are chased by the Han people on the return trip, they will be made dumplings by the river accidentally. Therefore, this section of the Great Wall almost extinguished the idea of crossing the river to the south. In view of the characteristics of the people of the Ji Dynasty who love water conservancy, we have every reason to believe that the Great Wall of the River is the focus of this project.

The Great Wall of the River came to an abrupt end in Fushun City in the east, because the flatness of the Monan Plateau reached the point where this area began to be rugged. Fushun here is not the coal capital of Liaoning, it is located in the north of the Zhuan River, south of the southern vein of Yinshan Mountain, and there is a small self-sufficient field between the mountains and rivers. Fushun was originally a material transit point for repairing the river embankment and the Great Wall, and it was built as a defensive stronghold like Beiguan, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Qiang Yi seldom had the idea of coming here, but hoped that the herdsmen who were engaged in the border trade would come to trade. The Zhuan River turns southeast here, enters a land of valleys and mountains in the Taihang Mountains, and goes to Shangjing. Yinshan is also east-west, with several small tributaries feeding into the river. The gap between Yinshan Mountain and Jinwei Mountain was blocked by the Zhuanjiang River, forming a complete defense chain and the dividing line between the south and the north of the desert.

The integrity of the chain of defense does not mean that it can perfectly block the nomads from moving south.

The Han Xiongnu formed the first steppe empire in the Hanhai Valley where Suwu herded sheep, and the royal court was located in the triangular basin between Yanran Mountain and Langjuxu Mountain on the south side of the Hanhai Sea, that is, where the city of Kulun was located. This place was chosen not because of the convenience of going south, even the Huns, who were familiar with the local springs and sparse vegetation, were reluctant to march through the Great Gobi often, but to balance the forces of the eastern and western plateaus.

In the west of Wangting Dragon City, there is a large area of lofty mountains and mountains in the north of Yanran Mountain and Jinwei Mountain, called 'Tangnu Mountain', and many large lakes and forest vegetation moistened by snow water between the three mountains occupy the scope of the grassland, so that the nomads in this area must change with the seasons, migrate and graze between the valleys, and at the same time, the Tuvan people who mainly fish and hunt also arise by the lake and the dense forest. The fiefdom of the Xiongnu Empire's Youxian King is here, and in order to find better pastures, the Jungger Basin and the Monan Plateau in the south have become the best strategic directions. There is also the Gobi in Monan, and it is necessary to cross the mountains and rivers and the Great Wall hard to see the grassland and farmland that are not too large, and it is okay to hit a grass valley, but it is not so happy to use this as a base for a long time, so entering the Junggar Basin is always the first choice of the right wing of the Xiongnu.

The eastern part of the desert plateau was the fief of Zuo Xian, the crown prince of the Han Xiongnu Empire, and apparently compared to the high mountains on the right, this side was the gentle and abundant Dalai Lake basin – as Gu Ci knew it, 'Hulunbuir Grassland'. What makes them even happier is that from here to the south, there is not only a philosophical grassland with abundant water and grass in the north of Yanshan, but also a rich agricultural 'hunting ground'. When the horses are fat in autumn, it is the time of grain harvest, and if you don't hunt, you are sorry for the horses under the crotch. These two grasslands are not terra nullius, and it was the Han Xiongnu who defeated the Donghu of this territory to win this 'northern jasper'. The Donghu people retreated to the mountains and forests, and the unyielding one entered the Great Xianbei Mountain, becoming the 'Xianbei people', and later entered the Central Plains, and the obedient part of the Wuhuan people got the Zhelimu and Zhaowuda regions, and became the horses of the Han Xiongnu invasion in the south, and when the Han Dynasty had the upper hand, they turned against each other and finally mixed with the Central Plains to fight for hegemony, and were killed by Cao Cao.

At this point, the Han Xiongnu formed a pattern of 'left-center-right', obtained two southbound passages, and fully invaded the Central Plains. Later, the Han Dynasty succeeded in crippling the Xiongnu Empire and dividing it apart, either cowering north of the royal court and not daring to go south easily, or accepting the canonization of the Han Dynasty and sending the palace queen Zhaojun to stay in Monan, forming a 'north-south split' situation with the Mobei base area. A huge plateau, with the support of the Han Dynasty, Mo Nan Dan Yu has absolute strength over Mo Bei Dan Yu, at least it is no problem to include the 'middle' and 'left' in the bag.

In such a predicament, Mobei Danyu began to attack the Western Regions and further west on the basis of the area of Jinwei Mountain and Yanran Mountain, which the Han army had never invaded. In the future, the losers on the desert plateau, whether they were squeezed out of Mobei by the Xianbei people or divided by the Sui Dynasty, all took the same path to the west, which was also the east-west pattern formed by the Turks in the Tang Dynasty in the future.

If the desert is the world of nomads and the source of national threats, then for the people of the Central Plains, the Western Regions are essentially different from the foreign lands such as the Annam Pyu Kingdom, and are more like the 'land of glory'. From the Han Dynasty beat the Xiongnu, the Western Regions were included in the Chinese territory, and the Tang Dynasty advanced to the west of the Green Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains, and the history recorded the nine surnames of Zhaowu. The Ding Dynasty almost restored the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and even migrated the Han people to each oasis to multiply, and the peoples on horseback were either assimilated by the countries of the Western Regions and established themselves in the city like the Dangxiang people, or continued to look westward like the Turks in search of grasslands. At the end of the Ji Dynasty, the border line retreated more and more, and even the Hexi Corridor was lost, opening the door to the Huns, so they had to set up three passes in the area of Longxi County in the Warring States Period, and regarded the Western Regions as a buffer zone. Although Taizong recovered the capital, he was close to the year of knowing the mandate of heaven when he ascended the throne, and his longevity was limited, so he didn't have time to recover the Hexi Corridor, and he played with them as a big rear area. It's like when the fence is broken, others can go in and out of your garden at will, break a flower here, dig a hole there, or even defecate anywhere! Bury more people!

Even if the terrain has not changed much after thousands of years, the choices that the people living in it can make will not make much difference. If the experience of the Han and Tang dynasties is to show that the Xiongnu from the west relied on the Western Regions to base themselves on the west, encroached on the Western Regions, and repeated the conventional path of threatening the Central Plains in the last years of the Ji Dynasty, then Gu Ci also supplemented Shenzong with the 'great achievements' of the Dzungar Department of the Qing Dynasty - in addition to the two basins of Junggar and Tarim, not only unified Mobei from west to east, but also entered Weizang, infiltrated the northeast, and comprehensively threatened the central state. In addition, with the familiarity of the imperial court and the people with the Western Regions, she could not make any useful suggestions, but could only mark the capital of the string of 'stans' west of the Tianshan Mountains, as well as the Dawan Basin and the Ningyuan River Valley, which are the most populous, and, of course, the border disputes with various stans, Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan on the Green Ridge.

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After reading the report, Yuan Yi praised his eldest son, took out the supplementary text written by Gu Ci separately, rewrote it according to the map, and convened a meeting of the Privy Council to determine the western boundary of Dayu's future territory.

I have to say that although the experienced Privy Council generals are fully capable of deducing the situation that Gu Ci said, they do not have detailed information on the terrain and ethnic groups to this extent, especially in places such as Hanhai and Tangnu Mountain, which have always been considered uninhabited, and I did not expect that there are still races like Ebe that live by fishing, hunting, animal husbandry, and farming. Although all she could provide was a rough sketch, at most a few well-known tourist attractions, and even the names of the mountains and rivers were strange, it was a remarkable achievement for the history of China, which lacked a military map of the region. Purposeful verification is more efficient than rambling exploration.

Now the Xiongnu came from the west, the beggars went south from Jinwei Mountain, and the Lieman tribe was in Dalai Lake, indicating that the Mengwu people had replaced the loose Qianyi alliance and unified the Mobei Plateau. In view of the existence of the 'people in the forest' who are mainly fishing and hunting peoples in Tangnu Mountain and Hanhai, it is impossible for the Mugwu people to abandon the Mobei royal court and make room for these people, so there must still be a team of housekeepers. If the Mughals replaced the Huns, or if the two joined forces, it would be perfectly fine to replicate the success of the Dzungar tribe. Now, although the two sides have formed a feud, but driven by common interests, it is not surprising that they shake hands and make peace, coupled with the restless Tibet, once the situation of encirclement is formed, the border of Dayu is in danger.

The Yu army is currently confronting the Xiongnu's Haosu Wang Zhili Lake at the end of the war, and this person is the Xiongnu king who was defeated in Yangguan in the past and suffered a great loss under Gu Yao, and his status has plummeted. Now the enemies are very angry when they see each other, and the war is about to break out. It's no problem to win him, but how to fight in order to prevent the Hungarians and Mongolia from joining forces to attack Yu is the focus of preparations. Under the instructions of the Privy Council, the Jingxi army advanced the pass to Dunhuang - to guard the gate of the Western Regions, and to deal with the two forces of Ruoqiang and Kang-Tibet Plateau, in order to avoid direct conflict with the Muguls, only a part of the troops were sent to Yiwu to the east of the Hami ruins.

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After the incompetent Gaozong and the heavy defense and not the main attack, Dayu has been established for more than 70 years, and finally ushered in the opportunity to recover the Western Regions, how can people not rush to it?

The change of the border line means the expansion of the territory, and the people who want to come to the new land this time are more enthusiastic than when they expanded to the north of the country. The emperor looked at the job requirements and application forms of the officials after the end of the Spring Festival, and remembered that when the first official examination, almost no Jinshi was willing to go to the north, and now, the champion Wu Shenyang, whom he hand-picked, was vying to go to Dunhuang with his brother Wu Shenzhou, and there were also people who voluntarily went south or north, and there were even people who advised to adopt a divide-and-rule policy on Tibet, and were willing to shave as a monk and go to Kangzang, 'to suppress the Yi with teaching'. It really responded to what the little girl said back then, 'enlighten the people's wisdom, select talents, open up new trends, and rejuvenate the country'.

He looked sideways at the jade man on the table next to him, who was already the mother of four children, still pink and tender like a flower, delicate as water, and so beautiful that he was not like a real person. I suddenly thought of the current cabinet, Cen Lao is Li Zong's mentor, the family is good at financial management, Shen Lao is a master of strategy, Tang Lao has the ability to know people and use people, Zhang Lao is proficient in water conservancy projects, and his uncle is good at managing soldiers. Could it be that she takes her foresight as a standard, so that she feels that no one is qualified? It's a pity that his little baby has to be well hidden under his wings, and he can't let people judge and talk about it at will.

Gu Ci handed in his homework and planned to sort out the situation in the East China Sea again, after all, it was the three daimyos of Dongying who took out a large amount of silver this time, and they did not have the share of the shogunate and the emperor, which showed that they were still in chaos internally. After the Dongying who were seen as Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty's eastward crossing, many people regarded them as another Ryukyus, completely unaware that once they became perverted, they were no less than the Mughu. We must find a way to make everyone face the madness and danger in their bones. For every Chinese who has experienced the eight-year anti-Japanese war history education or loves anime, Japan is definitely one of the most familiar countries, even if their history has changed a lot, but the national character formed according to geography will not change. While studying the history of the Dongying Kingdom that she had just handed in, she was thinking about how to write, and she didn't notice the gentle and burning eyes of the people around her.

It wasn't until the emperor couldn't help it, and gently walked behind his daughter-in-law, and when she put away the pen and paper, he put it on his waist and stroked his chest, biting his ear and discussing business with her, "Obediently, these things are not busy, let's do the removal of clothes first, and then we can go to the Qingliang Pavilion in a proper ......name."

The queen, who was soft into a puddle of water, reached out in shame and pinched the dishonest place behind her buttocks, "...... You, speak well. ”

After waiting for half an hour, when the two of them were nesting on the soft couch and talking well, Gu Ci, who was weak, suddenly remembered that after filial piety, Gu Yi's ** annoyance should be solved, and hurriedly asked, "Brother, how to deal with the fifth sister?" ”

"I'm seriously ill. If Lao Jiu doesn't come out of a moth, let him choose a wife by himself. If it doesn't stop, the Maiko will be right, just a natural pair. ”

In fact, Yuan Nian is quite pitiful, Aunt An is a real admirer of the emperor, and her fiancée, who has liked her for many years, is willing to be the emperor's concubine and does not want to marry him. It is understandable that he was able to have a son with the former, but he couldn't accept the latter's remorse! I hope he will honestly choose a daughter-in-law and live a good life.