Chapter 144: Whose Western Regions?

What Zhu Qizhen said to Shi Heng is true, but not all true.

Whatever is pre-planned is immediately established, and if it is not pre-planned, it will be wasted.

Regarding Zhu Qizhen's statement that the prince sealed the country, it is naturally true, and it is indeed the five princes who went to the Western Regions, without him, the five princes are the princes of many princes except the crown prince, and the princes have their own power, which is also helpless.

Through his mother's line, the fifth prince implicated most of the Mongolian nobles, and even had a relationship with his son, and maybe he could even climb into a relationship with Wassho Aci Timur.

You know, the Rose family and the Sons of the Jin family can be said to be a generational marriage, in the era of the Great Yuan, the Rose family has always been a candidate family, and even in the early Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Ross family is also very closely connected, supporting the children of the Sons of the Jin family who are close to them as Khan, and in the period of dehuan, they also married with the Tuo Buhua.

So the relationship between the two sides was very close at the beginning. Only later----。

The Mongolian aristocratic forces behind the five princes made Zhu Qizhen feel very uneasy.

Although Zhu Qizhen imposed a lot of restrictions on the Mongolian nobles, the power of these Mongolian nobles could not be eliminated for a while in southern Mongolia.

After all, these Mongols have followed these families for many years, how can they change their ways in a few decades.

But if you are ruthless and these Mongolian nobles are eliminated, Zhu Qizhen will not be able to do it.

Don't get me wrong.

Zhu Qizhen is not because of Concubine Zhuang's gentleness, and he can't lift a knife and can't kill anyone.

But he knew very well that although the Mongols had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, it seemed that there was harmony inside and outside the original border wall. Menghan is like a family.

Stop dreaming.

Not to mention anything else, in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the Mongols almost killed the land of Xuanda into white land, and how many families were separated because of the Mongols, and even were exiled to the grassland, from the side wall to the north, there have always been white bones.

But the people taken by the Mongols, those who could not walk halfway, those who were sick, those who fled, were killed here and became food for wild beasts.

It's only been more than ten years.

For the border people, it seems to have come yesterday.

The same is true for the Mongols, the Ming Dynasty fought several times with the Tile Thorns, and the Tile Thorns drove these Mongols as the vanguard, and counting them carefully, the strong men of every Mongolian family died at the hands of the Ming army.

It is as if after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our country occupies Japan, so the government calls on us to be friendly with Dongying Province.

Even if we know that the government's intention is also for long-term peace and stability, how is it possible?

Nanjing's blood hasn't dried up yet?

The same is true today.

The Mongols, as losers, were wary of what they feared. However, in the past few years, there have been many cases of the situation in the Monan region, that is, the Han people killed the Mongols in order to do so

It's revenge.

Although the Mongols and the Han Chinese are close to each other in terms of economic interests and political positions, there is an abyss between each other's public opinion.

This trust is very weak.

If Zhu Qizhen kills these Mongolian nobles.

What will happen next can be imagined.

Therefore, it is also a solution to use the method of fiefdom of the five princes to migrate a large number of Mongolian nobles and a group of Mongolian people who have a greater hatred for the Han people to the Western Regions.

So, it's true.

It's just not all true.

First of all, this includes Zhu Qizhen's disposal of the Western Regions.

Although I don't want to admit it.

But it has to be admitted.

After the loss of the Western Regions in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, for hundreds of years now, the Han army has not set foot in the Western Regions.

Today's Western Regions is very different from the situation between the Han and Tang Dynasties.

It is no longer the Western Regions of the Han people.

Even the Ming Dynasty had no foundation in the Western Regions at all.

The operation of the Western Regions should start from scratch.

It is unfortunate that it is not possible or appropriate to set up a county in the Western Regions. Zhu Qizhen felt that the best way was to use the old system of the Han and Tang dynasties to set up institutions such as the Western Regions Protectorate or the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

No. Even such an institution may not be suitable.

Most of the people in the Western Regions no longer speak Chinese, everything has to start from scratch, and the best way is to use one person to do a big cleaning.

Shi Heng is a suitable candidate.

Shi Heng launched a ruthless attack, don't look at Guo Deng's beheading of 300,000 in the Battle of Langshan, Shi Heng also has this ruthlessness. Even more than Guo Deng, he doesn't take human life seriously.

Guo Deng will also think about what cause and effect revenge, what three generations are generals, and the military family is unknown.

But Shi Heng will never think much about it.

He will only think that those who follow me will prosper, and those who oppose me will perish.

As for whether Shi Heng will be independent in the Western Regions in the future, Zhu Qizhen does not think it is possible. First of all, Seok Hyung's age.

Although Shi Heng is younger than Yang Hong, he is not young anymore. How many years can you live if you are full? Even if you are still alive when you are old in the future, you can still fight as you are now.

Shi Heng is not opposed, in fact, he does not look at Shi Heng, but the second generation of the Shi family, but among the second generation of the Shi family, the most capable Shi Biao has no objection and no ability to rebel.

Although Shi Biao is also very fierce in fighting and can be very brave, compared with Shi Heng, he lacks a kind of spirituality and a kind of ability to fight skillfully.

Don't look at Shi Heng's recklessness, it's just dead, but play the way of the soldier's hypocrisy, and don't let others.

Shi Biao's ability is still outstanding, who will Shi Heng give up his inheritance to in the future?

Shi Heng's mind is naturally not so long-term. When he gets old, he will naturally think about it.

But Zhu Qizhen can see that this is also Zhu Qizhen

The reason for putting Shi Heng on the horse, if Shi Biao really has the posture of being better than the blue, what the result will be, it will be another matter.

Another impossibility is the economy of the Western Regions.

Zhu Qizhen has calculated that if you only count the economic battle, it is not a cost-effective thing to fight the Western Regions, and it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to open up the Western Regions and stabilize the Western Regions.

At least one or two million taels of annual investment. In the future, grain will be transferred from the northwest to support it for a long time.

But the very real question is that today's northwest is no longer the northwest of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and is there grain in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty?

Now there is a point, after all, Yu Qian has been operating for many years, and he has built a water conservancy system in the northwest. Created the Tuntian of the Great Northwest.

But since the Hundred Years War of the Song and Xia Dynasty, the ecological damage in the northwest is almost irreversible, and even if Yu Qian works so hard, he can only recover 23 out of 10 of that year.

Therefore, the northwest itself does not have enough food, and it is still difficult to be self-sufficient, not to mention supporting the northwest, and the lengthening of the grain road will increase the cost of operating the western regions.

But to get the benefits of the Northwest?

If you want to collect agricultural taxes in the Western Regions, don't mention it, that little grain transportation to Beijing is not enough for travel expenses. During the Han and Tang dynasties, the Western Regions were operated, mainly along the Silk Road.

Although the Silk Road is still there, the scale is far from what it was at the beginning.

Because there are middlemen who make the difference.

Wasn't one of the causes of the Great Voyage the impossibility of trade in the East?

Moreover, the consumption of land is several times that of the sea route, and the transportation volume of the sea route is several times that of the land route.

In the future, with the great development of navigation, the value of the Silk Road in the Western Regions will only be lower.

Today's Silk Road may be a strong financial support for the Western Regions, but it is only that, compared with the trade of the 36 countries that enriched the Western Regions, it is not an order of magnitude at all.

Under such circumstances, the Western Regions are inseparable from the support of the Central Plains. I really want to occupy the Western Regions and stand on my own, so I really think too much.

This is the same reason, which made Zhu Qizhen dispel the idea of opening up in the northwest, so he simply exiled Shi Heng to the Western Regions, so that Shi Heng would also settle down. Second, he is ready to build a gallop road to the Western Regions, and wait for more than ten years. After this gallop road was repaired, Shi Heng was also old. When the time comes, there is a way to change Shi Heng.

In addition, it is naturally impossible for the five princes to use the entire Western Regions as a feudal country, it is nothing more than a place at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the specific situation will not be too late after more than ten years.

Anyway, the five princes are still young, and now they are more of a name, and they are just used to hang Shi Heng. Of course, by the way, in this name, let the Mongols contribute to this western expedition, after all, they have also recovered some vitality.

No need for nothing.

Zhu Qizhen's plan to conquer the west of Mongolia and reduce Ding can always be remembered.