Chapter 166: Zhang Bo's Secret Plan (Part II)
Zhang Bo was transferred to Sri Buddha and before his death, he had submitted a plan for the layout of the Qarakhanid. Part of this plan is in the secret room of King Vigab of Gaochang. The main content is to use the barbarians and nomadic tribes with relatively strong combat effectiveness in the north to contain the northern part of the Eastern Qarakhanid, and take the opportunity to cooperate with the cavalry of the Tubo Autonomous Region to recover the eastern part of Khotan in the southern Xinjiang. Push the border to Khotan, the Aksu region, the Ili River valley, and the eastern end of Lake Balkhash. In this way, the territory of the Uighurs in Qochang could be increased by half, and the arable land and grasslands could also be more than doubled, greatly increasing the national power of Qochang.
Supplies and munitions for the war are already in the works, as are preparations for the training of cavalry and the purchase of nomadic tribes. Everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, and this east wind is the moment when the Eastern Qarakhanid Khan Hassan died two years later. As long as it is a good time to fish in troubled waters, Gao Chang is confident that he will be able to kill and cripple the old enemy who has suppressed him for a hundred years.
The military deployment of the plan was in the secret room of Vijab's jin, while the political and economic deployment was in the safe of Bai Jia and Li Ji.
Trade wars and currency wars that attempt to completely destroy the existence of the Qarakhanid are not understandable to ordinary people. A loose and bizarre Qarakhanid regime could easily be wiped out by a more advanced foreign political system. Gaochang had completed the most important step in the transformation of the feudal state into a centralized empire - the recovery of all military and financial power in the localities. Following Zhang Bo's advice, he used the newly expanded luxury palace to gather nobles from all over the country to the capital for pleasure, and gradually regained the power of military feudalism through coercion and inducement. Concentrate all military power in your own hands. The military system was also changed to a standing army with mercenaries and state financial burdens, and the backward system of temporary conscription of militias in wartime such as military service was abolished, and the combat effectiveness and centralization of power were greatly strengthened.
These reforms can greatly strengthen the political civilization of Gaochang, and after the conquest of the Eastern Qarakhanids, it can easily disarm the local nomadic tribes and read the surname, and completely eliminate the local separatist roots in the Western Regions.
After all, both the Qochang and Qarakhanid regimes were established by the Turks, and they were easily assimilated from ethnic backgrounds, and the Uighur script, which was almost identical to Sogdian, was the official script spoken in the northwest. The Islamization of the Qarakhanid was terminated and the situation of freedom of faith was restored.
The main economic aggression is to destroy the country's domestic industries by exporting cheap necessities and consumer goods at low profits, and only to allow the country to develop commerce, entrepot trade, animal husbandry, and mining. Then raise prices and urge the wealth they have accumulated to flow into China. Let it continue to lose blood and deflation, and when it is struggling to make a living, it can be pocketed.
While the traversal pursues the realization of interests and strategic layouts, Zhang Bo's plan pursues the stability and order of the Western Regions, and he regards force and contract as two equally important tools. Force is the bottom line and guarantee, the contract is the soft knife to promote the strategy of crossing the people, the treaties signed with the state have tied the hands and feet of the Qarakhanid and Gaochang, and the contracts signed with non-governmental organizations have also built a complete colonial economic comprador system. As long as too many people don't die, social stability is enough to smoothly control the super rear of the Chinese Empire and the core of the world island.
As for such a dispensable thing as sovereignty, who cares? In the eyes of the traversals, as long as the control is effective, the benefits of remote control far outweigh the painstaking direct rule, and no one will be foolish enough to learn from the British Empire's direct rule over a large number of multi-ethnic countries or colonies like India.
The forces around Qarakhanid and the northern ethnic groups are all backward guys who have not yet reached the level of the primitive tribal alliance, and they simply belong to soy sauce fighting. However, there is a great deal of space in the plan to introduce and explain the important names of their future Western strategy. The Yakuts, the Khakassians, the Bashkirs, the Kimaks, the Buryats, the Khamyu would all be important pawns. Although these peoples belonged to the primitive nomadic tribes living in the vast and sparsely populated steppe forests, they were the most powerful overlords in the cold-climate steppe regions of northern Central Asia. The vast area of 2 million square kilometers is a treasure land for generations to come, with countless minerals and forests, large tracts of undesertified grasslands and swamps. With just a little push, these nomads who yearn for a better life will burst out with amazing fighting power.
Then there is the intelligence and future layout of the Seljuk and Ghaznavid Empires. The Seljuks, like countless peoples who conquered the Persian plateau, were short-lived. However, this was the heyday of the fire cooking oil, and thanks to the butterfly wings that traveled through the crowd, a large number of advanced life enjoyment facilities and medical technology were able to flow into West Asia. The third Seljuk sultan, Malikshaw (full name Muezoddin al-Din), who was supposed to die 7 or 8 years ago. Abu. Fatah. Marrick Shaw. Hassan. Root. Alb. Arslang survived, avoiding the competition for the throne among the princes of the royal family, the infighting of the royal family, and the division of military feudal lords in various places; ruled out the possibility that the Ismaili Assasin would occupy many fortresses in Persia and Syria, attack dynastic armies, and carry out assassinations, thus disintegrating the Seljuk Empire; extinguished the ambitions of the Romansultan state in Asia Minor (the predecessor of Ottoman Turkey).
Its court doctors and a large number of service personnel are infiltrators who have crossed the crowd's arrangement. In order to maintain the stability of West Asia, there must be no chaos before crossing the crowd and marching into West Asia.
Zhang Bo found a lot of information about the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1299 AD), the Duchy of Antioch (1098-1268 AD), the Kingdom of Edessa (1098-1200), and the Armenian Kingdom of Silesia (1078-1375 AD) in the local intelligence network. Under the arrangement of the cross-cutting people, the magnates and officials of the inner line all encouraged the Sultan to first destroy the Ismaili tribe of Assasin, who assassinated the prime minister Nizam. Mullek (real name Hassan. Root. Ali. Root. Ishihag. Tutsi) went on to exterminate the small crusading states.
This suggestion has a bit of the meaning that China's efforts to conquer the outside world must first be settled at home. Malekshaw, who was also stimulated by the death of the former prime minister, agreed.
The Crusader states were an important node in the process of Islamization of Western Asia, and they must not be eliminated by Malekshaw. So it was crucial to keep Marekshaw's attention focused on Assasin. Assasin is the serpent of the Islamic world, the first master organization of assassination and terror. They launched raids around Almaty, plundering property and seizing territory. They only talked about the end, not the means, and for a time developed assassination into an art. In order to achieve the strategic goal of crossing the masses in the Western world, it is best not to destroy those ultra-reactionary forces by themselves, and they will not hesitate to use the necessary resources and force if necessary.
Maintaining Malekshaw's rule was very conducive to the strategic layout of the Traverses, and a stable Seljuk Empire met the social needs of the West Asian region and the needs of the Traders' economic colonization. Chaos and division will only increase the cost of colonization, and a unified political situation will be the best way to cooperate and promote bilateral trade.
As for the declining Ghaznavid, it is a broiler country that has nothing to mention, and it will probably perish soon, so Zhang Bo did not spend a lot of space to introduce this country called Bo Xishan, and the layout is simply to establish trading outlets, increase the volume of freight on the ocean, and make more money from this poor country.
It is worth mentioning that the feudal empire established by the Turks was very important and of great significance to the spread of Islam to the East. It can be said that the value of dismantling this country is greater than maintaining the interests of this country, as long as this bridgehead of Islamic expansion into South Asia is destroyed, India will not have a chance of unification in the future. At the same time, the Sunset Empire, which is in an extremely bad situation, has serious internal and external difficulties. Although there was no immediate possibility of its demise, it also lost large territories in Iran and Central Asia, Khorasan and Khorezm fell into the hands of the Seljuk Empire, and a number of small Muslim dynasties began to emerge in India. Only Afghanistan, the base camp, still has a little control.
In other words, it is very easy to destroy this country, but it is very difficult to make this country prosperous. Destroying it can gain the support of the surrounding forces, and ZTE will not make it pay enough price. Therefore, in order to extract profits to the maximum, ignite the flames of Ghaznavid's civil war, sell a large number of arms and materials, and expand the colonial power is the most in the interests of the Chinese Empire. However, this plan was sealed by Li Ji, and it was not too late to wait until the problem of Qarakhanid and the coastal strongholds in the Indian Ocean was settled.
As for the affairs of India, it is not Zhang Bo's heart, he is only in charge of Western affairs and not South Asian affairs. It only mentioned a few suggestions in the plan to use Tibet's geographical advantages to deter and arms exports to open up trade with India.
When I saw the Crusader countries mentioned in the plan, I remembered the magnificent Crusader wars that were sealed in my memory, and I remembered the many actions and changes launched by distant Europe in the 12th century AD, and how many legends and epics would be produced in the next new century (according to the chronology of the AD) or the wave of the times that would take place in the second half of the 20th century.
In order not to be distracted by the poor ghosts of Europe before the unification of Asia, the Travelers sorted out and sealed a lot of information about Europe in the confidential database in advance, at least until they saw the Europeans arrive in the Chinese Empire to establish contact, the Travelers would not take the initiative to interfere in European affairs.
Zhang Bo's plan reminded Li Ji and others that butterfly wings have now become airplane wings, and if you are not careful, the air currents that disturb history may really lead to the early arrival of the storm. If not well prepared, it could change the fate of the world completely. (To be continued.) )