In July of the eighth year of Jiajing, Wang Shouren led 50,000 elite soldiers to Jiayuguan!

"Strictly close the hundred-foot boundary Tianxi, and recruit people to station in the horseshoe.

The flying pavilion is far away and the Qin tree is straight, and the wall is oblique and the Longyun is low.

The Tianshan Mountains stand steeply and shoulder to shoulder, and the vast Hanhai Sea is in the middle of nowhere.

Who is in danger of the ages? Looking back, I saw only a pill of mud. ”

Wang Shouren stood on the tower of Jiayuguan City and muttered a poem.

"This poem is majestic, and it is a good poem." Jiayu guarded Liang Zhen in admiration.

Wang Shouren said with a smile: "It seems that General Liang is also a general."

Liang Zhen said with a smile: "The adults make fun of us, we are just rough people, but we have written a lot of poems in Jiayuguan, and we have heard some of them, so naturally we know a little."

"This poem was not written by this official......

Liang Zhen was stunned......

He is indeed a rough man, but he knows the urine nature of literati, civil officials like Wang Shouren like to chant poems the most, and if he doesn't come to such a Xiongguan, it may become a regret for the ages.

To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter if the writing is good or not, even if you hold back a song, you have to hold it out, otherwise how can you show your literary talent.

Let them read other people's poems in such a place, wouldn't that be a slap in the face, saying that they don't have that level, and they really can't afford to lose that person.

Liang Zhen touched his nose, feeling that he didn't shoot the horse's ass well, so he slapped the horse's leg directly, and his face was suddenly full of ridicule......

"This poem was written by His Majesty."

Liang Zhen was shocked!

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty! Liang Zhen didn't believe it, after all, His Majesty had never been to Jiayuguan, and he had never been there, how could he write such a poem!

Wang Shouren obviously didn't have any interest in dwelling on these, but just smiled casually, there are many incredible things in the Jiajing Emperor, what is a mere poem?

"Let's talk about the recent events outside the Guan."

Speaking of business, Liang Zhen's face was suddenly full of solemnity.

"After the surrender of Turpan Mansuer to the king of Zhongshun Baya, Hami has existed in name only, and now it is the Tulupan fire who occupies Hami, he is only Ding, Mansuer is ostensibly a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact he does not regard himself as a vassal at all, he only Ding also sends troops to loot from time to time, but Jiayuguan is majestic, and he can only show off his might outside the pass......"

Wang Shouren snorted coldly: "The loyal king lost India and abandoned the country, and he is no longer worthy of being the lord of the Western Regions of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty sent this official to expedition to the Western Regions, which is to expand the territory of 5,000 miles outside this Jiayu Pass, so that the people of the Western Regions can truly return to Wanghua!"

"Your Majesty is going to destroy Turpan?" Liang Zhen's face was full of melancholy.

Wang Shouren sneered: "The Ming army has gone on an expedition of thousands of miles overseas, and the destruction of the country is no longer counted, and the grassland has been cleared by the Ming Dynasty.

Liang Zhen said with a smile: "The small country in the Western Regions is not worth mentioning, it's just a ......"

"Just what?"

"It's easy to destroy Tulupan, and it's easy to expand the territory for thousands of miles, but this land in the Western Regions is vast and sparsely populated, and if you want to be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, you have to station a strong army."

Wang Shouren said with a smile: "The grassland is more vast than the Western Regions, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, but Your Majesty has built ten cities in the grassland, encouraged trade, and solved the livelihood of the nomadic people in the grassland, and the grassland people will naturally no longer fight to the death with the Central Plains Dynasty, Your Majesty's policy towards the Western Regions is the same, and there are many cities in the Western Regions, and it also saves the effort of building cities, and if the train can lead to the main cities of the Western Regions, if you want the Western Regions to prosper, what is the difficulty of completely returning to the Ming Dynasty."

"That's what my lord said." Liang Zhen smiled and said, "It's just that this train wants to go to the main cities, I'm afraid it's not easy."

"It seems that General Liang's news is quite well-informed." Wang Shouren nodded and said: "If you want to lay a railway, you need a lot of steel and wood...... His Majesty once said that even if the steel output of the Ming Dynasty is increased by ten times, a hundred times or even a thousand times, it will not be enough, and the officials and the vast majority of officials in the past felt that this was nonsense, but His Majesty said it, so he did not refute it.

It is difficult to pave the railroad tracks all over the Western Regions, but even if it is difficult, it is difficult to resist Your Majesty's ambition to transform the Western Regions, from now on, the Western Regions will be renamed Xinjiang, which means the new territory of the Ming Dynasty, the real territory, Your Majesty will send officials to govern Xinjiang, and return the land to the stream! ”

"Xinjiang?"

"Your Majesty's name!"

Liang Zhen immediately made another round of sycophants.

"General Liang is a native of Henan, and he has guarded Jiayuguan for so many years, has he ever thought of returning to the Central Plains?"

Liang Zhen was slightly stunned, and then his eyes were a little red.

As a Han people, the most difficult to leave is the homeland, if you can go back, who wants to stay in the Western Regions all day to drink wind and sand, but he stayed here for too long, since the Chenghua years were sent to Jiayuguan to become a centurion guarding the pass, decades step by step to climb up, until the position of the guard, he has a feeling for every grass and tree here, if Henan is his root, this Jiayuguan is not the branches and leaves of his hometown.

"As a guard, protecting the wings and borders is the mission of the warriors, if Your Majesty wants to transfer the last general back, it will be the same, but if the last general is chosen, the last will choose to stand at the head of this Jiayu Pass until the day of breath."

"Great." Wang Shouren laughed and said: "What the Ming Dynasty needs most is a good general like General Liang, and in the future, General Liang will guard Xinjiang, and Xinjiang should be worry-free."

"Guarding Xinjiang?" Liang Zhen was a little confused.

"Yes, this is what Your Majesty meant, General Liang has been guarding Jiayuguan for many years, and he knows the situation in the Western Regions best, and the Ming Dynasty wants to be in Wanghua in Xinjiang, so he naturally wants to find someone who is familiar with this place to guard, but it is all voluntary, if he resists, even if he guards it, it is just a vegetarian meal for the corpse."

Liang Zhen was silent, he basically knew what had happened in the past few years in the Ming Dynasty, and naturally knew about Emperor Jiajing's adaptation of the world's military forces.

Abolish the Tianxia Guard, set up a military region in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and almost all the senior generals in the army are the old soldiers of Yongwangwei who were tempered when Emperor Jiajing was still in Huzhou, so in Liang Zhen's view, even if the Ming Dynasty ruled the Western Regions and established a military region, the generals of this military region must be the people of Yongwangwei, how could it be their turn?

"General Liang doesn't need to think nonsense, Your Majesty's arrangement has His Majesty's deep meaning, and the general is acting according to orders."

"The last will obey!" Liang Zhen clenched his fists.

"Your Majesty said that most of the previous dynasties have incorporated the Western Regions into their national territory, but nominally the majority, this is also because the Western Regions are geographically complex, and the people's sense of belonging to the Central Plains Dynasty is not very strong, so like the grassland, if you want to really control the Western Regions, you have to continue to use the grassland policy.

That is, to encourage trade, so that the people of the Western Regions can live and work in peace and contentment, and then multiply, as long as the people of Xinjiang can be fed and clothed, their families have surplus food, and their hands have surplus money, then the people of Xinjiang will be grateful to the Ming Dynasty, so that they will have a sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and naturally there is no need to worry about rebellion. ”

"The last general understands!" Liang Zhen clenched his fists again.

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