Chapter 18: Recent Developments in the Western Regions

Zhu Qizhen said: "I will urge the Ministry of Industry and the Shaofu to do it." Mr. is from the Western Regions, what is the situation of the two capitals of the Western Regions now? ”

This is also a question that Zhu Qizhen has always kept in mind.

The Western Regions are newly established, and various unstable factors are frequent. Shi Heng is not a peaceful one, and the Mongols are not all very obedient.

Maybe they are in Monan, a place only a few hundred miles away from Beijing, and they are naturally obedient when the Ming Dynasty is coming from the Ming Dynasty.

But it's not the same in the Western Regions.

Even if the Ming Dynasty reflects in time, it is estimated that it will take a month from the mobilization of cavalry to resist the Western Regions.

This is still the ideal state.

If we encounter such and such problems, reinforcements may not be able to reach the Western Regions in three or five months.

In the Han and Tang dynasties, such a thing occurred.

There was something going on in the Western Regions, and Chang'an didn't even have reinforcements half a year later.

You must know that the capital of the Han and Tang dynasties was in Chang'an, but now the capital of the Ming Dynasty is in Beijing. This kind of geographical transformation made the Ming have a deeper control over the south and north of the desert, and a more distant control over the Western Regions.

The reflection is now, that is, the Ming Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions is even weaker.

Yu Qian said: "Now Bai Gui, the governor of the Western Regions, is a capable minister, who is a capable minister, who commands soldiers and commands soldiers, and is quite prestigious. ”

Bai Gui is the secretary of the military department that Luo Tong values.

If it weren't for the suddenness of the events in the Western Regions, Bai Gui would now be the secretary of the military department, not Cheng Xin.

Bai Gui Nai is the orthodox seven-year jinshi, in the orthodox fourteen years, he served in Xuanda, when he organized the people to defend the city quite a military exploit, and later served in Liaodong and Guizhou.

Although he did not directly preside over the war, the place where he was a war zone. He was a good talker about military affairs, and sometimes even wanted to lead the troops himself.

If it weren't for Zhu Qizhen who reshaped the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, there were many young generals in the Ming army who didn't know how many wanted to fight, and they were all complaining that the reason why they didn't have the title of marquis was because of bad luck. If you don't get into the war, where can you give it to the civilian officials.

As for Feng Guogong, I don't want to think about it.

After all, now it seems that there must be a big war in the feudal country, or it will be a meritorious achievement.

Therefore, no matter how good Bai Gui is at talking about military affairs, he only does logistics work, and he has made too much peace with the army, so he can't say that he doesn't understand military affairs.

After the arrival of the Western Regions this time, Zhu Qizhen wanted to select a strong general to defend the town, and the fifty-year-old Bai Gui sent him over when he was in the prime of life and could do anything.

"It's just that the Western Regions are vast, and the southern Xinjiang is different from the northern Xinjiang. There are also differences within southern Xinjiang. ”

"Generally speaking, northern Xinjiang is outside, and southern Xinjiang is inside."

"What Baekyu has been doing is to consolidate Nam

Border. Promote tuntian, accommodate indigenous people, and divide pastures. Generally speaking, the current situation in southern Xinjiang is basically the staggered establishment of the guard and the Tusi. Canines are uneven. And the Ming Jingying camp was stationed in several large cities. ”

"They are in Yizhou, Gaochang, Qiuzi, and Shule."

"Among them, the Governor's Mansion of the Western Regions is in Yizhou, and the Governor's Mansion of Southern Xinjiang is in Shule."

"Generally speaking, there is no difference between Southern Xinjiang and Yunnan-Guizhou. The problem of the Western Regions is not in southern Xinjiang, but in northern Xinjiang. ”

As mentioned above, the topography of Xinjiang is sandwiched between three mountains and two plates, while the land in southern Xinjiang is located in a basin and is geographically closed.

Overall, it's still relatively easy to defend.

As for these place names, it was also the suggestion of the Confucian ministers in the DPRK and China, and some local names were named after the Han and Tang dynasties, which was a political move to emphasize Sinicization.

And Yizhou is Hami, Gaochang is Turpan, Qiuzi is Aksu, and Shule is Kashgar where the epidemic is happening now.

It is no different from Yungui and other places. This sentence should be understood in terms of both positive and negative aspects.

On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty's control over southern Xinjiang has been further deepened. Although there have been repeated disturbances in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, the Ming Dynasty's control over this region is basically relatively stable.

On the other hand, there are many hidden dangers in southern Xinjiang.

Compared with Yungui, there are countless large and small toasts, especially in Guizhou, the power of toast is greater than the power of the government. If there is no support from other provinces, relying on the strength of Guizhou Province alone, they will not be able to defeat the Tusi below him.

Zhu Qizhen said: "This is already good, the Western Regions fell into the hands of Yidi, hundreds of years, and now it is newly determined, don't be in a hurry." ”

Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty is wise, but the trouble of the Western Regions is not in the south but in the north, although there are some natives in the south who are restless, but they are afraid of the great tomorrow's prestige, and they will not dare to act rashly within a few decades." ”

"But it's a different story in the north."

"Northern Xinjiang can be divided into two parts, one is the Zhongguo Gongzhi Department, and the other is the Maoli Children's Department."

Yu Qian glanced at Zhu Qizhen, there was a deep meaning in his eyes, then he lowered his head, directly skipped Shi Heng, and talked about Mao Lizi. Said: "Zhongguo Gong garrisoned Ili, tens of thousands of elite soldiers against the tile thorns, and Maoli children sat on the Jinshan Ranch, and Mongolia from all over the country defected, and now there are tens of thousands of accounts." The other ministries were headed by Maori children, and the ministers feared that in a few years, another Mongolia would take place. ”

Shi Heng is very out of line in many things.

Almost up with take and seek, with kill and take. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the domineering energy is up again. But after Zhu Qizhen's beating, Shi Heng still made a little progress in politics.

Therefore, although Shi Heng built his own independent kingdom in Ili, he was very deferential to the imperial court. At least it makes Da Ming feel extremely submissive.

And the Ili River flows in a northwesterly direction. That is, in terms of topography, Ili is facing the northwest to the southwest

, is relatively open, so Shi Heng's side has borne more national defense pressure.

Therefore, although Yu Qian was dissatisfied with Shi Heng, he didn't say anything. After all, the country needs Shi Heng now, even if Shi Heng is a mad dog, and his position is also appropriate.

Even what Shi Heng is doing now, in Zhu Qizhen's view, is still an advantage.

Ili is the most northwestern place of the Ming Dynasty's control of the northwest, because it is too far away, and the Ming Dynasty's control of Ili is already the pole of weakness.

If Yang Hong is in this place, he can do a good job, but he will think a little more. Only Shi Heng would be so unscrupulous.

Now the geographical location of Yili makes it so that as long as Shi Heng does not rebel, many things can be tolerated by the civil officials of the Ming court, which is completely different from in Longcheng.

So Yu Qian's worries are more on Maoli children.

After the Mongolian tribes surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen let Mao Lizi live in Beijing for a while.

The wife is a Han girl, and she is taught to write poetry.

This Maoli child is still very well-behaved and obedient, if you just look at Maoli's behavior in Beijing, you can't see that he is a Mongolian who grew up in the grassland, but seems to be a Ming person.

This time the mobilization of 100,000 Mongolian cavalry to go on the expedition, it is impossible for Zhu Qizhen not to compromise the Mongols at all.

One of the compromises was to distribute some of the pastures in the Western Regions to the Mongol tribes.

The second compromise is to release some people from the Xiao'er Jinjin family who are under house arrest in Jingshi back to the grassland.

In these two points, Zhu Qizhen has no psychological burden.

The reason is simple.

First, after all, it is useless for Daming to have so much grassland. The main source of war horses in the Ming Dynasty is still the Mongolian ministries. It's not that there is no horse farm in the Ming Dynasty, but in the same horse farm, the horses raised by the Mongolians are different from the horses raised by the Han people.

The horses of the Han people were kept and raised, and they became pack horses and livestock.

This seems to be a national identity.

Therefore, as long as livestock, horses, wool and other materials are produced, this pasture is not in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, which is not a very important thing.

After all, the Mongol tribes now have little strength to compete with the Ming Dynasty, let alone the economic control of the Ming Dynasty.

Second, Zhu Qizhen doesn't think that among the dozen or so big cats and kittens in the family, there are any more powerful talents, and even they are contradictory to each other.

It seems to be the contradiction between the Tang dynasty and the Gui dynasty at the time of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen didn't expect that there was still a talent in the Bo'er Jinjin family, and this talent was the Maoli child who was only in Beijing and seemed to be greedy for wealth and nobility.

Except for Maori, most of the other Mongolian generals were very ordinary and did not have anything outstanding.

It's just that now is no longer the era of the Sons and Daughters family.