In the normal era of imperial power, such behavior is very dangerous, ordinary emperors will never allow their generals to hold such a meeting, such a private meeting means a prelude to rebellion, but these few of them will not have this idea now, Zhu Youxiao will not have such thoughts, because the local generals of the Ming army cannot rebel, first of all, their troops cannot be controlled by themselves, whether they are senior generals or junior generals, they are basically from the Ming Military Academy, they are all protégés of Zhu Youxiao, and they are loyal to the Ming Empire, this is the only object of allegiance, and it is impossible for the high-ranking generals to agitate them. The second is that they cannot guarantee the supply of military materials for the troops, which is the most important foundation, and it is also Zhu Youxiao's trick, which has no precedent in history.

In Urumqi in later generations, Yuan Chonghuan and the generals he summoned began to study the information passed by Yang Lin. First of all, Sun Chuanting told a series of stories about the Golden Horde collected by Yang Lin to everyone, and then Lu Xiangsheng introduced the situation of the Xiaoyuzi Khanate opposite to everyone, and Hong Chengchou also introduced the general situation of his jurisdiction, giving everyone the general impression that the situation is relatively stable, but there is still a certain hidden crisis, and the most important thing is that these neighbors in the west are absolutely not allowed to unite, if they unite to attack on three sides, it will be a huge crisis for the western border of the Ming Dynasty.

As the convener of the meeting, Yuan Chonghuan gave full play to his experience at this time, he not only read a lot, but also read more history, and didn't want the generals behind him to lead troops mainly in the army. Especially in the war with the Safavid Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan's reaction was even much slower than Hong Chengchou and Li Hongji, which surprised him very much, and it seemed that it was not possible to eat the old book. Therefore, from then on, Yuan Chonghuan not only tried his best to build the territory under his jurisdiction, but also devoted himself to studying the strategic issues of the entire Western Regions, so as not to be unable to deal with Zhu Youxiao's needs when he was needed.

After listening to everyone's introductions, Yuan Chonghuan had a general impression of the situation and history of the western countries, and then combined with his own research during this period of time, he had a general psychological plan, and he expressed his thoughts to these generals.

Yuan Chonghuan said: "After listening to everyone's introduction, I remembered the story in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the situation in the Central Plains was similar to the situation we were facing. We are like the Qin State, the most powerful existence in this part of the Western Regions, and the countries around us are like the other six countries, although His Majesty the Emperor does not intend to continue to conquer them, they may not have the idea of biting a piece of meat from us. Just like the people like Hua Lazimi that General Sun Chuanting just introduced, there may not be only one such person in the Western Regions, maybe there will be more, and now they plan to deal with the Tsarist Russian Empire, but it may not be against us in the future, this is a dangerous signal. Now we have to start to take this issue seriously, just like Su Qin and Zhang Yi's idea of combining vertical and horizontal, the idea is to control the pace of their development, and not to let them completely unite, not only to become a barrier against the Tsarist Empire on our western side, but also not to raise tigers and end up hurting ourselves. ”

Sun Chuanting continued Yuan Chonghuan's words: "Combining vertical and horizontal is a topic for the ages, we belong to a strong country, and it is relatively easy to implement the means of connecting and horizontal. However, how to support that country, or at what stage, is a complex issue, and we must carefully consider how to harm ourselves if we are not careful. ”

"Another question is how to support them, and what kind of support do we need to take to support them, financially or in weapons? If it is financially supported, it is also necessary to consider which aspect they are stronger in. If you support it militarily, you have to consider the supply of weapons? Or to provide troops in times of war? This also has to be carefully observed. ”

Hong Chengchou then said: "As far as I know, there are still many Uzbek tribes in our west, you can support them first, although we have fought with them before, but they are only the coercion of the Kazakh Khanate, let them become independent, can block the threat of the Ottoman Empire." Then we can find some other ethnic groups in the vicinity and use similar methods to establish a series of small countries, which can not be a threat to us, but can also become a strategic buffer, which is more conducive to our future stability. ”

Li Hongji said: "Before interacting with them, do you need to fight with them, let them understand our strength, lest they repeat it in the future and even blackmail us." ”

Timur Khan Jr. said: "I know some allusions to the Golden Family, as well as the loyal servant family of the Golden Family, what needs me to do, so that my son can come forward and contact them." ”

A few people are sitting here, you and I, each expressing their own opinions. There are both positive and negative sides to these ideas. They can't make decisions about things, but after continuous discussions, the problems can be constantly clarified, and Zhu Youxiao can provide a practical basis for formulating policies, which is their purpose.

After these people finished this research meeting, they recorded their respective opinions, jointly wrote a proposal report to Zhu Youxiao, and signed their names together, explaining that this was the conclusion of everyone's joint research, and as for how to do it, it was a matter for the emperor and the ministers of the court, and they did not want to arouse people's jealousy, or they were afraid of being criticized by others.

After careful reading, patient consideration, and combined with the various lessons and lessons of later generations, Zhu Youxiao finally made a decision on his own, and discussed with the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, they will inevitably value peace, and the traditional thinking still has a strong inertia at this time, and they still do not understand the tiger and wolf characteristics of Western Europe, especially the way of thinking of a big country like the United States in later generations, and the strategy and technical form of global hegemony, no one can understand it at this time.

First of all, we must support the Xiaoyuz Khanate, although there was a war with them not long ago, but this is a khanate composed of different tribes, and there are great contradictions between them, even if the Ming Dynasty does not start a war with them, in the near future, there will be a civil war between themselves. Just look at the commercial transactions that began after the truce between them and Lu Xiangsheng, which can also illustrate this problem, they can keep the survival of their tribal khanate is the best result, and if they are too greedy, they will also lose the country.

To support the continued development of the Lesser Yuz Khanate to the west, at least to establish a foothold in the lower reaches of the Volga River valley, where the later Turkuts migrated, and to have a central control area on both sides of the Ural River. In this way, if the Tsarist Russian Empire wanted to advance eastward, it could only cross the Ural Mountains, which had more complex terrain, and march from cold, winding paths, and march into the Ming Dynasty in this harsh environment.

Zhu Youxiao's strategy is to choose a two-pronged approach of economic and military methods, to control its industrial structure as much as possible, to make it dependent on the economy of the Ming Dynasty, to improve their weapons, and to make the weapon manufacturers lose the ability to manufacture.

Specifically in the economic means, to buy the special products of Xiaoyuzi at a good price, as the tradition of the nomads, its horses, cattle, sheep and other meat products are abundant, followed by the cotton planting area is large, but its shortcomings are that the follow-up processing means of these products are simple and crude, and the utilization rate of the products is very low. Zhu Youxiao asked Lu Xiangsheng to purchase these raw materials as much as possible, and then through some simple processing and anti-corrosion measures, they were transported into the territory of Daming, and then the next step of deep processing was carried out to manufacture a variety of daily necessities, which in turn were sold to them. Let its economic form develop in a single way, forming a dependence on Daming's living products.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the Ming Dynasty's firing rifles and small mortars were sold to them, but the guns and shells used in these weapons could not be produced there, and they could only rely on the supply of the Ming Dynasty, and could even supply some better rifles and medium mortars, so that they liked the weapons and equipment of the Ming Dynasty more, so that the weapons manufacturers of their own khanate would lose their jobs, and the final result would be the disappearance of the entire smelting industry, and the formation of weapons and equipment would be used by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty could completely pass the supply of weapons. Take control of his military power.