For Fan Yixuan and the officials who made mistakes and were assigned from the original place, the Ferghana Basin is undoubtedly a fertile land to be developed. Although the Bukharans were already a politically stable kingdom in Asia, in the eyes of these Ming officials, the political rule here was still too rough.

If they are going to use troops to fight, these Ming officials are probably a small leader of the non-local tribes. However, if it is about how to govern the local collection of money and grain taxes, it is estimated that all the officials in the Fergana Basin together do not know as much as a Ming official.

The Ming officials who can be assigned to serve in front of the army are naturally not those nerds who only know how to endorse books. They either made political mistakes and opposed the new policy of the imperial reform; Either they made economic mistakes and embezzled the public money they passed by.

These people may have shortcomings of one kind or another, but they are not lacking in brains and courage. But if you don't have one, you won't have the courage to come to the front of the army to serve in exchange for the opportunity to make a comeback.

Although the officials of the Ming Dynasty were not treated as favorably as the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, they did not lose the joy of the countryside when they returned to their hometown, and without a certain amount of courage and intelligence, it was difficult for them to make such a determination and take the initiative to ask to come to this place thousands of miles away from the original.

For these officials, the Ferghana Basin is a stepping stone to their resurgence, and the local power here has nothing to do with the country, and the most important thing is that they rely on the most powerful local force behind them, so these officials' local governance is not only open to the original, not only the administrative efficiency, but also the political clarity, which is not the same as their performance in the country.

Of course, this is not because they have discovered their conscience after they have left home, but because this place is still a war zone, and if they cannot pacify the people under their rule and gain support as soon as possible, their lives will not be guaranteed, so they must not have the courage to take responsibility, rather than shirk everything like at home.

On the other hand, although they were still part of the Ming bureaucracy, the Ferghana Basin was too far away, so most of the decisions were made directly by the Overseer Fan Yixuan, which made the officials feel less nervous and could do things with peace of mind.

Under the combined force of these factors, in less than a year, although the Ming army did not continue to expand to the west of the Ferghana Basin, the main areas within the basin had begun to accept the rule of the Ming people.

Because of its special geographical environment, the Fergana Basin has been visited by countless ethnic groups for thousands of years, so although the people in this area are xenophobic, they are not closed off and are easy to submit to foreign rulers.

Moreover, compared with the Yarkands, Kyrgyz and Mongols, the Ming Dynasty's rule was much more modest. In this situation, the inhabitants of the Ferghana Basin were more than willing to accept the Ming rulers, whose customs were completely inconsistent.

So less than a year later, the Ming ruled area with Andijan as its heart not only completely restored the scars left by the war, but also showed vitality under the entry of the Ming caravan.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty supported the war to the west, and now that the war is not over, they have begun to enjoy the dividends of the war. In the areas under the control of the Ming army, they were no longer seen as fat sheep to be exploited by the local lords, the unreasonably harsh taxes imposed on them in the past were abolished, and they were given large tracts of land with the support of Ming officials, which they could use to build their own workshops and estates.

The Ferghana Basin was originally an extremely wealthy place, but when the number of Ming merchants increased, local commerce suddenly flourished. This not only allowed the local residents to obtain a large number of high-quality and cheap Ming goods, but also allowed the rulers of the Ming Dynasty to obtain a large amount of taxes, thus greatly reducing the burden of collecting materials from the Yarkand Khanate.

The stagnation of the coalition forces in this year not only did not weaken the fighting power of the coalition forces, but on the contrary established a solid base for the coalition forces in the Ferghana Basin. Especially after the Ming fulfilled his promise to the Kyrgyz leader Keli Shamilkhanov and gave him a large area of land north of Andijan, the Kyrgyz near Issyk-Kul Lake fled south to the Ming in the hope of gaining land and wealth by fighting for the Ming.

The originally divided Kyrgyz people began to slowly tend to unification, and Keli Shamilkhanov, who was canonized by the Ming Dynasty, also began to become closer and closer to the Ming Dynasty, and even sent his two sons and five or six nephews to Beijing to study.

With the example of the Kyrgyz, the peoples and small states that had been oppressed by the Bukhara Khanate began to make overtures to the Ming people, trying to win the independence of their own people and their own country from this war between the Ming and the Bukhara.

In Fan Yixing's view, the most important thing is the two groups of messengers. One group was emissaries from the northern tribes of Afghanistan, and the other was emissaries from the self-proclaimed Khiva Khanate.

Since the demise of the Ghwarazm dynasty for the Khorezm, Afghanistan has become a land of fish and meat for the surrounding powers. This is mainly because Afghanistan's geographical location is so important, not only connecting West Asia, Asia and South Asia, but also the mountainous territory and the situation is dangerous, which is the so-called geographical beauty.

If the kingdoms of Asia and West Asia had taken control of Afghanistan, they would have access to the rich Indian continent. And if the dynasty of the Indian continent had mastered Afghanistan, it would have stifled the invasion of a powerful enemy from the north.

Thus, since the fall of the Ghor dynasty, the Afghans have never been able to control their own destiny.

After Timur's son Babur defeated the Afghan chieftain of Khar and the heir of Ibrahim Lodi at Patna, the Afghans were once again divided. At this time, most of Afghanistan was being divided between the Mughal Empire and the Safavid Empire, and the rest was given to the Bukhara Khanate.

Under the alternate rule of these powerful neighbors, the Afghans saw no future until the Ming led a coalition army into the Ferghana Basin, easily driving the Bukharans out of the region.

After observing the movements of the Ming people for nearly a year, the Afghan tribes at the foot of the Hindu Kush finally couldn't help but send people over the mountains to show goodwill to the Ming army, hoping to gain the support of this powerful force that had just appeared in Asia, so as to restore the independent status of the Afghans.

As for the other group of emissaries who claimed to be the Khiva Khanate, they were actually the emissaries of Abulkhaz Bahadur, the son of the former Khiva Khan Arabu Muhammad Khan. Although the Khiva Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate were both Uzbek-ruled kingdoms, relations between the two countries were not harmonious.

The Bukhara Khanate had long hoped to annex the Khiva Khanate to form a larger Uzbek kingdom, while the Khiva Khan had countered the Bukhara's invasion by introducing Turkmens. This method of luring wolves into the house finally brought disaster to the Khiva Khanate.

In 1622, with the support of Turkmen nobles, Arab Muhammad Khan was deposed by his sons Habash and Iribars. Although the eldest son, Isfendiar, raised an army against his two younger brothers, who had rebelled, he eventually surrendered to the Turkmen in order to gain the throne. Abulkhaz Bahadur, who had been on the side of his brother Isfendiar in his crusade against his two brothers, was disappointed and left his homeland to live in Persia.

Although Abulkhaz Bahadur left the Khanate, he was not indifferent to domestic affairs. However, at this time, the northern part of the Khiva Khanate was controlled by the Turkmen nobles, and the southern part was garrisoned by the Bukhara Khanate.

However, with the outbreak of war between the Ming coalition and the Bukhara Khanate, the Bukharans, who had lost the Ferghana Basin, had to withdraw their troops stationed in the southern part of the Khiva Khanate to deal with the Ming coalition forces in the south, which gave Ablkhaz Bahadur an opportunity.

Although only the Turkmens were left in the land of the Khiva Khanate, the Turkmen, who ruled the Khiva Khanate under the orthodox name of Isfendiar, were not able to deal with it alone, and Abulkhaz Bahadur, who had lived abroad for a long time, could cope with it on his own.

If it is more safe, it is natural that after the death of Khivakhan Isfendiar, Abulkhaz Bahadur will have a better chance of winning. But he could not wait so long, because he feared that once the Ming made peace with the Bukharas, the troops of the Bukhara would return to the land of the Khiva Khanate, and then he had little chance at that time.

After much deliberation, Abulkhaz Bahadur chose to travel to the Ming people, and as long as he had the support of the Ming people, he would no longer have to worry about the Bukhara Khanate attacking him from the rear, nor would he have to worry about facing the military pressure of the Turkmen alone.

And the wolves in the near future, the tigers in the distance are obviously more suitable as allies of the Khivas. It was with this in mind that Abulkhaz Bahadur sent his most loyal men to the city of Andijan through the tight blockade of the Bukhara army.

After careful consideration, Fan decided to do his best to support Abulkhaz Bahadur rather than the closer Afghans. Despite the geographical importance of Afghanistan, the Ming army could not cross the mountains into Afghanistan and had to make a detour through the Turan lowlands in the western part of the Bukhara.

The two sides looked close on the map, but in fact they were quite far away, and it was really difficult for the Ming army to support each other. But the Khiva Khanate was different, as long as the Ming army broke out of the western border of the Ferghana Basin, it was not far from the Khiva Khanate.

With such an ally as the Khiva Khanate, not only did the Ming army find a fulcrum in Asia, but also controlled Samarkand in the south and the Kazakh steppe in the east, and it also allowed the Ming caravan to have direct access to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, which was the ally that the Ming really needed.

Fan then called his staff and asked him to meet with the representatives of the Afghans and give them some verbal support. And he personally met with the envoy of Abulkhaz Bahadur, wanting to determine whether the prince of the Khiva Khanate had the qualifications and strength to become the ally that the Ming needed.

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