327 @6 5] C RS [x ظ2@ u2xi" p շ | [ v t 3!7B v P+x The capital division is located in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, governing the Ganzhou Wei, leading the twelve guards, and guarding the palace of thousands of households, 2,645 miles away from the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, and is subordinate to the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army.

These are the official records of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division before the Chongzheng Dynasty, but since the Chongzheng Dynasty, especially since Sun Chuanting guarded the northwest, the guards under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division have been far more than these.

Since the eleventh year of Chongzheng, Sun Chuanting began to garrison the northwest, and according to Zhu Cijiong's instructions, he continued to expand westward, and recovered the Chijin Mongolian Guard, Shazhou Wei, Handongwei, Hami Wei and other guards along the way, so that the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division was nearly doubled.

To say that Hamiwei, Chijin Mongolian Guard, Handongwei and other guards were not actually subordinate to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, but by the Ming Dynasty designated by the King of Fan to garrison the guard, that is, the local military and political are controlled by the King of the Ming Dynasty, a bit similar to the nature of Tusi.

Hamiwei and other places were actually under the jurisdiction of the Zhongshun King canonized by the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, the Zhongshun King was derived from the Chagatai Khanate in the Mengyuan period, the Ming Yongle two years, stationed in Hami Chagatai Khanate mighty King Anke Timur returned to the Ming Dynasty, was edicted as the King of Zhongshun, since then the Zhongshun King line has been stationed in the northwest gateway of the Ming Dynasty Hamiwei, has continued for eleven generations.

In the Zhengde years, the Ming Dynasty was declining, Hamiwei was occupied by the nearby Tubo Khan, and then after several gains and losses, many ministers were implicated in the loss of Hamiwei, and were killed, and gradually no one dared to ask about Hamiwei, and the Ming army retreated to Jiayuguan from then on.

It was not until the eleventh year of Chongzheng that Sun Chuanting was responsible for guarding the northwest, and the Ming army began to set foot outside Jiayu Pass again.

At this time, Tibet had already been wiped out by the Chagatai Khanate, and the Chagatai Khanate was also destroyed by the joint efforts of the Waspur Heshute Department and the Gygar Department.

The reason why Gushi Khan has not attacked Hamiwei is because Hamiwei has been the territory of the Ming Dynasty since the Yongle period, and he is afraid that the rash attack will cause the Ming Dynasty to retaliate.

The Tile Spur Department did not dare to come, just cheap Sun Chuanting, the rest of the Chagatai Khanate entrenched in Hamiwei and other places is rootless, how dare they fight against the Great Ming Army, they chose the same strategy as the ancestor of the mighty king Anke Timur: surrender to the Ming Dynasty!

However, this time the Ming Dynasty was not so polite, Zhu Cijiong did not edict their leader as the king, and Hamiwei and other places were no longer autonomous by them, but were directly assigned to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, which was controlled by Sun Chuanting.

At this time, the headquarters of the Qin army has been moved from Xi'an Mansion to Ganzhou Wei, and the military and political power of the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division was taken over by Sun Chuanting, who not only had 100,000 Qin troops under his command, but also led 18 guards, and four guarded about 100,000 guards.

Of course, the burden on his shoulders is not light, the entire northwest region is now left with his army, he is not only responsible for resisting the invasion of the Mengyuanwa Thorn Division, but also responsible for deterring the Tusi forces in the northwest, fortunately, after the Tatar was conquered, Monan became a province of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, he had to defend the west, and to deter the south, and to guard against the north, so he had to be busy to death.

Since Sun Chuanting guarded the northwest, the changes in the Shaanxi Xingdu Division have been earth-shaking.

The biggest change here is the construction of the Northwest Railway, with the joint efforts of him and Chen Zilong, the Northwest Railway has been opened from Xi'an to Jiayuguan.

In the past three or four years, he has not only nailed the army in Ganzhou, but he has not pulled down the local construction at all, and the Xi'an Mansion to Jiayuguan can be described as a heavy mountain, and he took 100,000 guards across the thousands of mountains and built the railway.

After the construction of this railway, it will not only facilitate the transportation of grain, grass and baggage, but also greatly benefit the common people.

Now, Suzhou Wei in Jiayuguan has become a gathering place for Ming merchants, pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, clothes, shoes and hats, silk and satin, glass mirrors and so on produced in all parts of the Ming Dynasty can be bought here.

Guazhou Wei outside Jiayu Pass has become a gathering place for Hu merchants, and spices, leather goods, medicinal materials, horses, etc., which are abundant in various parts of the Western Regions, can also be seen everywhere here.

Every day, the caravans from Suzhou Wei to Guazhou Wei are endless, lined up in a long line, and the ancient Silk Road has been reborn since then.

Of course, if the railway can be repaired from Jiayuguan to Hamiwei, it will have a huge effect both militarily and economically, but the wind and sand outside the pass are too big, and after the railway is built, if there is no protection, it is possible that a strong wind will cover the railway line, and it will be troublesome to clean it up at that time.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting was not in a hurry to build the railway to Hamiwei, but asked Chen Zilong for advice, and found a variety of flowers and trees with super drought resistance, and after three or four years of trial planting and promotion, a yellow-green channel about 100 miles wide has been formed between Jiayuguan and Hamiwei.

All kinds of drought-resistant plants grow tenaciously in the wasteland outside the gate, the sandbar is no longer a vast yellow sand, there are more and more green spots in the middle, and there is a tendency to cover the entire sandbar, perhaps, in a few years, the railway from Jiayuguan to Hamiwei can be started.

Although Hamiwei has not yet opened the railway, Sun Chuanting's defense outside the pass has not relaxed at all, and the guards everywhere have been renovated or rebuilt by him, and the Qin army has also been divided into five parts by him, scattered in various important passes of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division.

When the Ming army just recovered Hamiwei, the residents of Hamiwei were only three or four thousand, and most of them were the descendants of Mengyuan.

After the Qin army came, it not only expanded the number of guards to three or four times the original size, but also built 10,000 new houses on the periphery, allowing the guards to try to grow various drought-resistant crops and strive to achieve self-sufficiency in grain and grass.

Now, there are 10,000 Qin infantry, 5,000 artillery, and more than 10,000 garrisons in the entire Hamiwei area, plus the original households, the population has almost reached 100,000!

In addition, Shazhouwei and Handongwei have also been renovated and expanded, and there are 10,000 Qin infantry and 5,000 tunwei respectively, so that there are 35,000 Qin troops and 20,000 tunwei stationed outside the entire pass.

The border town of Jiayuguan also has 10,000 infantry and 5,000 artillerymen, and the remaining 50,000 elite cavalry are all stationed near Ganzhouwei.

The reason why Sun Chuanting arranged this way is mainly to defend against the attack of the Mengyuanwa Spur Division, as for other places, there are 50,000 fine cavalry is enough, and now the railway line of the Ming Dynasty has reached various provinces, and if the Tusi of the northwest provinces is not honest, they will directly use the railway to transport the cavalry to the vicinity, and then run wildly, they will basically just start a few days, and they will encounter a catastrophe!