Kunming Prefecture City, Yunnan-Guizhou Governor's Office.
The map of Yunnan and Guizhou was hanging high, and Yan Shun stood in front of the map with his hands behind his back. However, there was no joy in calming Yunnan and Guizhou, but instead he had deep worries.
He has never presided over civil affairs, nor has he managed a single place and province, but... as long as someone who knows a little about military affairs, he can see what a mess the place in Yunnan and Guizhou is.
Yunnan and Guizhou are mountainous and have many steep terrain. Although there are many Han people, most of them live along the official roads and live in the cities of various prefectures and counties. Outside the cities, most of the steep places are the territory of chieftains from various places.
These chieftains all have their own customs, their own language, and their own rights structure. They are all a country in the country!
The steep terrain of Yunnan and Guizhou is destined to be the battle of the large corps that Daheng soldiers are best at, and it is difficult to carry out.
Moreover, the steep terrain brought about rugged and steep roads, which defeated Mu Tianbo in Guizhou, but it kept allowing Mu Tianbo to escape to Kunming. The reason was that it was the rugged roads.
Moreover, there were not many Han people, and most of the chieftains were in the country, which means that taxes and self-sufficiency in the two provinces were probably problems, let alone meeting the needs of tens of thousands of troops stationed.
At present, the food and wages for the conquest of Yunnan and Guizhou are all transported from Sichuan, Guangxi and other places. The rugged roads bring terrifying losses of grain transport on the road. One stone of grain can be transported from Sichuan to Kunming, which is considered good.
In this way, it is destined to be impossible to maintain the existence of large-scale elite garrisons for a long time. They can only maintain the self-sufficiency of the army by garrisoning the border. By garrisoning the border, they control important places in various places, and then erode step by step from multiple aspects and even assimilation.
But it is obvious that this is destined to be an extremely long process, and Daheng also needs to maintain its strength in the Yunnan and Guizhou area.
Can……
At this point, Yan Shun suddenly shook his head. He knew that this was impossible.
Just like in Liaodong, the imperial court almost lost the total tax revenue of several years to get into it, which led to the Liao Province today!
But the premise for the imperial court to invest money and material resources in such a sea border is that hundreds of thousands of troops were massacred for half a year, and tens of thousands of garrisons patrolled day and night, plowing the courtyard and sweeping caves again and again, and the entire Liaodong was almost thundered three feet!
It was the success of the battle! It was the complete elimination of future troubles! It was the manpower and material investment in the sea border.
Only a powerful Liaodong can better deter North Korea and maintain stability.
This is naturally clear.
But, where is the place of Yunnan and Guizhou?
There are endless hidden dangers, and it takes a long time to make ends meet to affect assimilation. There may be countless conflicts in this process, and if you are not careful, all your efforts may be wasted.
He didn't have to think about this kind of thing, and the emperor would never do it.
With the emperor's usual style, I'm afraid he would rather smash the Yunnan and Guizhou into pieces, and like Liaodong, he would spend a lot of manpower and material resources to rebuild it, rather than slowly assimilate it.
"So... what should this Yunnan-Guizhou Governor do?"
Yan Shun frowned and murmured to himself. It took a long time for his brow to relax slightly.
It’s not what he wants to do, but the general environment determines how he does it.
With the current situation in Jiangnan, it will be difficult to stabilize in just a few years.
Without stability in Jiangnan, he could not support his big moves in Yunnan and Guizhou.
What he had to do was to stabilize the situation in Yunnan and Guizhou before the stability of Jiangnan, win over and divide the chieftains from all over the country, expand their advantages, and prepare for big moves.
Then, when it is time to move, the emperor will inevitably issue a decree, and then he will follow the decree and do it...
Thinking of this, Yan Shun couldn't help but breathe a long sigh, his eyes circulating on the map, and finally circulating on several vassal states bordering Yunnan for a moment, then looked at the coastal territory of several vassal states.
Expand territory...
The governor of this frontier seems to have great potential in the future...
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The winter is cold, and Daheng is more or less turbulent, but this turbulence is completely insignificant than the grasslands under the cold winter.
In fact, this vast grassland is in turmoil every winter, even every moment.
However, before a unified overlord appeared, no one would care about this cruel turmoil.
After all, the grassland has been a cruel environment for survival of the fittest since ancient times.
But with the defeat of the Later Jin Dynasty, Daheng was too busy to take care of himself. Lin Danhan took advantage of the situation to rise. A nearly unified grassland was naturally extremely turbulent.
Just like the turbulent times in troubled times and the turbulent within the unified dynasty, the meanings of the two are obviously completely different.
And in today's Mongolian grasslands, it is obviously a turmoil under great unification!
He was defeated many times and went south for many times without success, which greatly affected the prestige of Lin Danhan, the Mongolian Khan.
In addition, Daheng is strictly guarding the border and prevents any material from leaving the border.
If it were in the past, Lin Danhan naturally only needed to take good care of his fundamental Chahar tribe.
But Mongolia has long been unified, and Talin Dan Khan is the Great Khan of Mongolia. In the past, there was Daheng border trade, which allowed Talin Dan Khan to win over the hearts of the people and fight against dissatisfaction in winter.
The most important thing is that hundreds of thousands of troops went south but did not get any results and suffered heavy losses.
Now, Daheng has one level of market share, Daheng border is blocked, and everything on the grassland seems to have suddenly become a rootless source.
The entire grassland, with the cold winter and lack of food, became chaotic like a virus spreading.
In this cruel environment, we cannot take out food and meat that allows each tribe to survive the cold winter. The prestige of the Mongolian Khan will naturally be useless!
At the beginning, Lin Danhan used thunder to extinguish the turmoil of several tribes, but as the crisis of survival spread, Lin Danhan was both determined but powerless.
In the end, I could only sit and watch the tribes fight each other, hoping that this winter would pass quickly.
Of course, it is inevitable to send envoys to Daheng, bring valuable gold and silver items, and ask Daheng for help.
However, this mission was stopped before entering the Daheng border.
消息至京城,却只有天子的一声嗤笑.
In the past, the opening of mutual markets was to stabilize Mongolia so that Daheng had time to sort out the internal affairs and clear out the Later Jin Dynasty.
But now that the Later Jin Dynasty has been destroyed and Jiangnan has settled, it is obvious that the next one to deal with is Mongolia. He wants to open a trade to rescue Mongolia, which means he has a brain problem.
The result was obvious, and the emperor naturally did not respond at all. Instead, he ordered the Ministry of Law to send several inspection teams to patrol the borders and strictly crack down on smuggling.
Then the emperor convened the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and the General Staff Department to discuss strategies against Mongolia again.
At present, Daheng's strategy for Mongolia is already very clear. Of course, it is still the same old tricks from all dynasties.
First, it is naturally to block the border and cut off the most important source of materials on the Mongolian grassland.
The second is to provoke differentiation and win over, so that the Mongolian grasslands will become more chaotic as possible!
A very simple and old-fashioned strategy, but it is extremely effective for Mongolia.
After all, for most Mongolian tribes, there has never been much sense of ethnic groups, let alone the threat of tribe death.
Without internal drag, a unified dynasty, even if it is just a shady move on the grassland and uses conspiracy, is enough to make the grassland desert...
Chapter completed!