Chapter 283: Moving the capital to Ili
At this time, in the far northwest, in the city of Yili Rangli, which was now part of the Su state, Zhu Ao was in a hurry to move to the wasteland, and the Uighur capital of Yili had been conquered, and their Khan Black Sons of Fire had died, so it can be said that the Uighur regime had been completely wiped out on the earth from now on.
Although there are still some sporadic armed forces loyal to the black firefighters in the Uighurs who are constantly resisting, and from time to time they create some terror and attacks, they are completely out of the woods, and the local security forces can completely deal with them.
His favorite generals, Wang Huchen and Qu Neng, had continued to lead his troops westward, and he wanted to seize all the Uighur territory, not just stop at Yili.
Wang Huchen marched northwest until he reached Lake Balkhash, a half-brackish and half-fresh lake that looked like a crescent moon. Lake Balkhash was called Yibohai in ancient China, it is the northwesternmost point of ancient China's geographical location, the Han and Tang dynasties have ruled this area, and during the Qing Dynasty, it used to be the dividing line between China and Russia, but because the Qing Dynasty signed an unequal treaty, the lake was divided, and it became a foreign lake.
Qu Neng marched until the Syr Darya, which is the bend of the ancient medicine to kill the water, to collect the soldiers and horses, because he would come into contact with the Timurid Empire when he went west, and the Su State and the Timurid Empire were nominally allies.
At this time, the state of Su had restored most of the area of the Anxi Protectorate during the Tang Dynasty, with a vast area and a large population, which could no longer be ignored by anyone.
Zhu Ao officially ordered Yili to be renamed Ili and decided to move the capital here. The reason for this decision was that Ili was a very suitable place to build a capital, and at least so far, there was no city in the country that could replace it.
Ili is located in the valley of the Ili River, which is the main recharge river of Lake Balkhash, originating from the Tianshan Mountains, with a total length of more than 1,200 kilometers and a basin area of more than 150,000 square kilometers.
In addition, there are 208 rivers in the Ili River Valley, including the Irtysh River, the Emin River, the Ulungu River, etc., which are rich in both surface water and groundwater, and the irrigation is very convenient, and it is definitely not a desert area imagined by ordinary people.
In ancient times, the two most important conditions for the development of agriculture were rivers and land, both of which were blessed with unique advantages in the Ili River Valley, and Zhu Ao from later generations knew that the Ili River Valley area had more than 17 million mu of land for crops to grow, of which more than 10 million mu could grow grain. In addition, the Ili River Valley region has ten times as much natural grassland for grazing.
It is really worthy of its wetland in the Western Regions, and it is plugged with the reputation of Jiangnan. In later generations, it is also a famous granary in the northwest region, echoing the Hexi Corridor area.
In addition, Zhu Ao once read a report that a huge gold mine was discovered in the Ili River valley area, worth more than 20 billion yuan, and this wealth naturally cannot be let go.
The only fly in the ointment was that the palatial Uighur palace had been burned down by the Black Sons of Fire, turning the place he wanted to live into a wasteland.
Whenever he looked at Adile's frightened expression and listened to her helpless and desolate begging for mercy, Zhu Ao's heart would find a little balance.
The topography of the Ili River valley is also very good, the north, east, and south are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the west is a plain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is really the best choice to establish the capital.
Zhu temporarily used a Uighur prince's palace as a royal palace, after all, the old Zhu had just died, and it was not very nice to build a palace now.
He was a resolute man, once he decided, he immediately put it into practice, ordered to participate in the siege of Yili to station all the 200,000 troops in the area, strengthen the control of the Han people in the Ili region, in addition, he immediately sent people to move the harem, the imperial court, and the families of the 200,000 troops from the interior, so that since then, there are more than a million Han people in the Ili River Valley, and the ruling power has been greatly strengthened, and you can live here with peace of mind, if you can defeat Timur in the future, if you can't destroy him, It's not bad to be the king and hegemon here for generations, anyway, with the current size of the Su Kingdom, no one can easily destroy it.
Zhu divided the 200,000 troops he brought with him into two parts, of which 100,000 were stationed near the Ili River valley to guard the new capital; 30,000 people were sent to be stationed in the area of Broken Leaf City in the west of Ili, which was the Broken Leaf Town of the Four Towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, and also the place where the great poet Li Bai was born, controlling the western gate of the country. Another 30,000 men were stationed in the town of Shule, located in the southwest of the Ili River Valley, to control the Pamir Plateau and control the gateway of Central Asia to the Western Regions.
Of the remaining 40,000 men, 20,000 were sent to Qiuci to strengthen their control over the hinterland of the Western Regions, and finally, 10,000 were sent to Khotan, the gateway to the interior, and 10,000 to Khotan, the gateway to the southwestern border, to strengthen their power.
After all the work was scheduled, Zhu Ao stretched a big lazy waist on the big throne, it is really not easy to manage a big country, especially such a country where Hu and Han live together, and it is necessary to spend more time on national integration.
Di Linaza, the concubine who was standing on the side, saw that Zhu Ao had finished correcting the last note, took a cup of tea, walked up to Zhu Ao, gently placed the tea in front of him, and then curled around behind him, rubbed his shoulders with hands whiter than green onions, and said with a smile: "The king has been tired these days, the Uighurs are a big country, although they have declined in recent years, but in the end there are a hundred years of history, if you want to eat it all and digest it, it will take some more time." ”
Zhu Ao took a sip of the hot tea, then slowly put down the teacup, leaned back, slowly leaned back on his great throne, enjoyed the massage service of the concubine, and said with a comfortable face: "Yes, it is easy to defeat the Uighurs, but it is not easy to completely occupy it. What is the best plan for the concubine? ”
Di Lina Zawan smiled, turned her hands into fists, gently slapped Zhu Ao's shoulder, raised her eyes and looked out of the house, and said thoughtfully: "The concubine is stupid, and she doesn't have any tricks, but the concubine thinks that our country has just occupied the Uighurs, and its foothold is not stable, so everything should be based on peace, and do not easily intensify the contradictions. ”
When Zhu Ao's heart was spoken, he raised his eyes to look at Di Linaza's beautiful face, and said with a look of appreciation and doting: "The words of the concubine are exactly what I want, and the widow intends to use Hu to govern Hu, and use the nobles before the Uighurs and the squires in the countryside to maintain order. The widows would continue to give them certain privileges to help the widows oppress the common people in the Uighurs. ”
Hearing Zhu Ao say so frankly, Di Linaza couldn't help but smile and said, "The king is wise. The concubines suggested that the Uighur armor protection system should also be used to control all the Uighurs, but the Uighur squires could only serve as the first and deputy chiefs at most, and the chief and the chief of the capital could only be filled by the Han Chinese. ”
Zhu Ao nodded slightly while listening, Di Linazha's opinion coincided with him, from the deepest part of his heart, he still didn't believe in these Uighurs, the so-called non-our race, their hearts must be different, foreigners are foreigners, no matter how good they are to him, they can't be cooked, isn't An Lushan a typical example?
However, his current strength has not yet reached the point where he can completely suppress the Uighur natives to the point where they cannot move, and it is unrealistic to kill all the people here, it is completely a two-pole approach, there were more than 2 million Uighurs before, and now after a series of major battles, many people have died, and many people have escaped, but there are still more than a million people left, and it takes a lot of courage to kill all these people.
Besides, Zhu Ao occupied this place to enslave the people here to do coolies for him, what is the use of killing them all and occupying a no-man's land?
He has always liked Di Linaza very much, in addition to her peerless beauty, but also because of her good strategy, she can help herself in many major things, and she has the most common language with herself.
Zhu had the same intention in mind, moving Han Chinese from the interior in large numbers and letting them live with the local Uighurs, and then slowly changing their lineage through intermarriage.
For this reason, he also formulated a special decree that the Hu people who did not have military merits were not allowed to take concubines, otherwise they would have to pay a huge fine, while the Han people could marry more Hu women as concubines, and through this means, the Uighurs were slowly digested, because in ancient times, in general, the race of children was still with their fathers.
However, he also knew in his heart that this kind of thing would definitely arouse the opposition of the Hu people, especially those rich and powerful Hu people, who could have embraced left and right and experienced a luxurious life.
Therefore, Zhu Ao also gave them certain privileges, allowing them to be the chief of the first and the deputy chief of security in the local area, managing the public security, military service, and conscription in the local area, giving them the feeling of being officials, and letting them work for the new dynasty.
In this attack on the Uighurs, many men died in the Uighurs, and the women were suddenly surplus, about more than 300,000 more, and among these more than 300,000 people, a considerable number of them had been snatched back as slaves by the Ming army who participated in the battle.
The rest of the people were also assigned to the soldiers who had not yet married, and then there was a surplus, so they were given to the Han civilians of the Su State as wives, and his benevolent government was unanimously supported by the people of the Su State, and many people in the Central Plains heard about it, and they moved their families to the Su State, especially those singles, who didn't want anything, and came to the Su Country with their bags on their backs, because they heard that they had heard that the king of the Su State would arrange a job and solve the problem of his wife, such a good thing, where to find it in the world? Hurry up and get on the road, it's too late to be robbed by others.
Seeing that his think tank was in line with his own opinion, Zhu Ao made up his mind, straightened his back against the chair, sat straight in front of the table, spread out a piece of paper, picked up the pen to prepare to write a fold, just dipped in ink, and wrote a word on the paper, suddenly had an idea, handed the pen to Di Linaza behind him, and said with a smile: "Aifei, this idea was made by you, and this will will be written by you." ”
Di Linaza was startled, her body trembled involuntarily, and she smiled at Zhu Ao and said: "Don't joke about the king, the concubines are already beyond their duty to talk about state affairs, how can they write an edict?" ”
Zhu Ao glanced at her angrily, handed the brush to her stiffly, and said majestically: "If you want to write, you will write, you and I live and die together, we have supported each other for so many years, what else do you share with each other?" ”
Di Lina's heart is sweet, every girl likes sweet words, especially listening to the people they like, although it has no effect, but it will make them feel happy in their hearts, no matter whether Zhu Ao said it is exaggerated or not, he can say this sentence, it has already made Di Linaza very happy, smiled slightly, stretched out his right hand involuntarily, gently held the brush, and said with a happy face: "Thank you for the king's favor, it is the king who has mercy on the concubine, and the concubine has today." Since the king ordered his concubines to write edicts, the concubines wrote them once on behalf of the king. ”
After finishing the last word, Di Linaza glanced at it first, and felt quite satisfied, so he presented it to Zhu Ao and said with a smile: "Is it okay?" King. ”
Zhu Ao didn't even look at it, so he threw the edict aside, hugged Di Linaza's slender waist, and smiled evilly: "Yes, how can it not be written by Concubine Ai." Then, he picked up Di Lina and put her on the royal table, ripped off her shirt, and began to move her hands up and down.
"Don't, my lord. What if someone comes in. Di Linaza was taken aback by Zhu Ao's sudden move, her cheeks instantly turned crimson, and she unconsciously hugged Zhu Ao's right arm that was stretched into her clothes with both hands and exclaimed.
Zhu Ao pushed her hands aside with a little force, pressed her to the ground, and said with a majestic face: "What are some people afraid of, this is now the territory of the widow, besides, you promised the widow to give the widow a little prince, what?" Want to pay today? ”
I don't know why when it comes to giving birth to a child, Di Lina will have a trace of anticipation in her heart, maybe she wants children too much, she suddenly gave up resistance, and her whole body softened.