Is the Western Region bitter?

The Western Regions are very difficult.

In the concept of Ming Dynasty, the Western Region was a typical barren land.

The Western Region has the most vast desert in the world, but there are very few oases and green spaces.

The celestial phenomena in the Western Region are changeable. It's extremely hot during the day and freezing at night. People are killing each other for a place to live.

The weather, the right place, the right people, nothing.

Chaos has been a dilemma caused by the geographical environment of the Western Regions since ancient times.

Before the Han Dynasty arrived in the Western Regions, the Western Regions were known to have sixteen kingdoms, and they were constantly fighting each other. After the Tang Dynasty left the Western Regions, there was no peace in the Western Regions.

In the military, horse bandits were rampant, and feudal lords were unable to suppress the bandits. They colluded with the bandits and colluded with each other everywhere.

Politically, warlords and tyrants emerged one after another, because seven countries in one place, a small country like Zuer, could only rely on others. One day, they would seek refuge with the Ming Dynasty, tomorrow they would seek refuge with Oara, and the next day they would seek refuge with the Timurid Khanate. The situation was uncertain.

Economically, due to military and political disadvantages, the economy is in a sluggish state. The only trade routes are still facing layers of exploitation. The people will be exploited by feudal lords, military leaders, horse bandits, and landlords if they gain even a third of the harvest.

very.

Culturally, various cultures have repeatedly collided, and religious disputes between Buddha and I have seen blood. The holy wars continue while people are still breathing. It is not an exaggeration to use the saying that people’s hearts are not ancient, and rituals and music have collapsed. This makes this country

The hardship of the people in the Western Regions was even worse.

Yu Qian deeply understands the principle of preferring to be a dog in a prosperous age rather than a man in troubled times. Therefore, Yu Qian also knows that Mi Lihuo said that the Western Regions are bitter.

Yu Qian said tentatively and calmly: "Where is the suffering in the Western Regions?"

Ye Mili Huo Zhe was a little confused. He repeated blankly and said, "Where is the suffering?"

"Yu Shaobao, a few days ago, we, the Turpan Khanate, annexed the Liucheng State and the Huozhou State. Firstly, we, the Turpan Khanate, worked hard to govern and had thousands of elite soldiers and strong horses; secondly, the Liucheng State and the Huozhou State were unable to protect themselves, and we

The Turpan Khanate is just huddled together to keep warm."

"The country of Hami has a Gasilan. He is a fearful man. The country of Hami has no owner. Gasilan's methods are cruel and he commits all kinds of crimes, including burning, killing, looting and looting."

Yu Qian understood what Ye Milihuo said a little, and found out that this Gasilan was a warlord tyrant.

In Ke Qian's memorials, Yu Qian saw the name Jiasilan more than once. As Ye Milihuo said, this guy is indeed rampant.

"I know this Garsilan." Yu Qian said with a smile.

Ye Mili Huo Zhe said a little strangely: "Does Yu Shaobao know this person?"

A small military leader thousands of miles away, Yu Qian, who was regarded as the Shaobao of the Ming Dynasty, actually knew this person?

Those who are passionate about fire have to lament that the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty.

Yu Qian knew this person because in September of the seventh year of Jingtai, Jiasilan organized about 20,000 people to harass Guazhou, which happened to fall into the hands of the Ming guerrilla general Dong Jinde.

Dong Jinde only had less than 700 men in his hands. Facing the menacing Garsilan among 20,000 men, Dong Jinde was not afraid of the danger, commanded flexibly, made multi-party arrangements, and faced the difficulties. In the end, he killed two enemies at the cost of 24 casualties.

More than a hundred people defeated Gasilan.

This small-scale battle of Guazhou ended somewhat inexplicably. Garthlan was defeated without even seeing the walls of the new Guazhou City.

After many inquiries from Duntai Yuanhou, the reason for the end of the battle became clear.

During the battle, Jiasilan's most capable general, Li Hu, bravely led the charge, but was shot to death by an arrow from a Ming soldier, and Jiasilan had to retreat.

Yu Qian briefly talked about the small-scale battle of Guazhou. Even if Li Hu was not accidentally killed in battle, the Ming Dynasty could still defend Guazhou.

The policy pursued by the Ming Dynasty in the Western Regions was that of Emperor Taizu Gao, take every inch and take only one inch. Although the process of reopening the Western Regions was slow, it was done step by step and every step was taken very solidly.

Even a guerrilla general with only 700 men was enough to defeat Gathlan.

"The Ming army is mighty!" Yemi Lihuo Zhe sincerely praised the bravery of the Ming army. In the eyes of Yemi Lihuo, the harassment of 20,000 people was a major event that made the Khanate rise and fall. Here in the Ming Dynasty

, but so simple.

Yemi Lihuo said with a painful expression: "Dear Yu Shaobao, please allow me to tell a story."

"A long time ago, when a herdsman arrived in Turpan, he only saw a desert. The local old man told the herdsman: Don't bother, the water cannot flow to Turpan, because when he walked halfway, he was covered by the sun and the

The Gobi is divided."

"The herdsman who rushed to Turpan was unconvinced and said: Green grass and clear springs are a natural couple. As long as you find green grass, you can find clear springs."

"Smart shepherds dug vertical shafts every few dozen steps along the terrain, which is high in the north and low in the south, and then used the shafts as exits to dig underground culverts to connect the shafts and culverts, forming a long stream of water that flows all the way to Turpan.

Low, outcropping."

"Year after year, generation after generation, the karez was finally dug, bringing beautiful spring scenery and fruitful gardens to Huozhou and Turpan."

Yu Qian patiently listened to the story of the Yemi Lihuo Man. This kind of story is very similar to the fable of Foolish Old Man Moving the Mountain.

Karez is a particularly typical underground water conservancy project in the Western Regions.

When the sunshine in the Western Region is strong and the water storage capacity of the Gobi beaches is insufficient, rainwater, snow water, and river water are introduced underground, and water is ensured through shafts, culverts, open channels, staggered channels, etc., and the desert is turned into an oasis.

Yu Qian smiled and said: "I know karez."

"Now there is a Roman envoy named Nicholas who is in the Ming Dynasty. This envoy is proficient in the languages ​​​​of the countries in the Western Regions. Our minister of rites, Hu Xi, and Nicholas once argued about the origin of the karez that appeared in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions still originated from the Central Plains Dynasty."

In Yu Qian's opinion, this debate is unnecessary.

If the Ming Dynasty occupied the Western Regions, no one would dare to say no even if Karez was said to be the enlightenment of the wise and powerful Ming Emperor Emperor Zhenwu in his dream.

After all, after Emperor Zhenwu was consecrated by Emperor Taizongwen of the Ming Dynasty, he had become the only second son of Pangu and had once incarnated as Fuxi.

"What's the result of the argument?" Yemi Lihuo asked curiously.

Yu Qian said with a smile: "During this debate, Nicholas thought that there was a word karez in Persian, but Hu Shangshu immediately took out historical materials and proved that as early as the time of Duke Mugong of Qin, there were records of drilling through wells.

The well in Guanzhong is also called Karez."

""Historical Records: Biography of Dawan" also records that the karez in the Western Regions came from the Qin people."

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, it has a rich history and a long history, which is due to Nicholas's own overestimation.

There are some historical materials and some empirical evidence from the Ming Dynasty to prove that Qanat came from the Guanzhong area.

In Yu Qian's view, this is a question of the right to speak. As long as Ming Dynasty is strong, these problems will not be a problem.

The Ming Dynasty was not tyrannical enough, and even though the people of the Western Regions did not recognize it, and Rome did not recognize it, there was nothing the Ming Dynasty could do about it.

Ming Dynasty was tyrannical enough to put a blunderbuss into these people's mouths, and they would nod in agreement.

As the Minister of Rites, Hu Hui was more truthful about this matter, which was just to prove that the Western Regions had belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, just as Hu Hui proved that the title of King of Kings was given to Tang Gaozong Li Zhi by the Prince of Persia.

This is a declaration of legal authority and a great cause of justice.

Yemi Lihuo's face was extremely miserable, and he said with a certain degree of helplessness: "In the Western Regions, whoever gets the karez will be the king of the Western Regions."

"The Qanat has been occupied by the Qasilan. We cannot take back the Qanat. We have to offer a jar of human gallbladder every year in exchange for water."

"A jar of courage?" Yu Qian frowned and looked at Ye Mi Li Huo Zhe. This was something he didn't know.

The Ming Dynasty's intelligence on the Western Regions has become fragmentary since Yongle, especially when Oala became bigger and stronger, and the Seven Guards of Kansai defected to Oala. The Ming Dynasty has always had only a half-knowledge of matters in the Western Regions.

The corner of Yemi Lihuo's mouth twitched, as if he was thinking of some cruel scene, and he said with a pale face: "A jar of a thousand people's courage, dare not take away the bright person."

A jar of human courage is the courage of a thousand people. As the Ming Dynasty gradually recovered its strength in the Western Regions, even Jiasilan did not dare to take the courage of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there was a jar of a thousand people's courage.

A wise saying.

Yu Qian frowned, the Western Region was indeed miserable, unspeakably miserable.

Yu Qian didn't know whether Gasilan was a cannibal, but it was obvious that Gasilan used such cruel and violent methods to maintain his deterrence.

Sometimes, it cannot be blamed on the literati of the Central Plains Dynasty. When writing books and biographies, they described the foreign barbarians in the Liuhe and Eight Wastelands as monsters and ghosts, which were worthless.

In fact, the things they sometimes do are indeed unworthy of being human beings.

Yu Qian said with emotion: "The suffering in the Western Regions is unspeakable, suffering from heaven, suffering from earth, suffering from people, suffering from disorder, suffering from lack of Tao."

"Suffering is because there is no Ming Dynasty!" Yemi Lihuo took over the conversation and said loudly.

From the perspective of Yemi Lihuo, the changes in Shaanxi Xingdusi in the past eight years are what he yearns for.

Since the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty came to the throne and the Ming Dynasty regained the land of Hetao, the prosperity and order in the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division is what Yemi Lihuo people are looking forward to.

This is Princess Elena's second impression after entering Jiayuguan. This is the order.

To a certain extent, Yemi Lihuo's statement is correct, and quite correct. The Western Region lacks a strong political power to rule, sort out, and save.

When the Han Dynasty was stationed in the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty established the Jingsai Army and the Long Marchers in the Western Regions, it was the best time in the Western Regions.

Yu Qian agreed with Ye Mi Lihuo's statement, nodded and said: "The Western Regions indeed need the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty also needs the Western Regions."

Why did the Ming Dynasty need the Western Regions?

Ke Qian's memorial hits the nail on the head.

[Therefore, those who focus on the Western Region must protect the Tatars, and those who protect the Tatars must defend the capital. The northwest arms are connected, and the situation is complete, so there is no gap to take advantage of. If the Western Region is not consolidated, the Mongolian tribe will be uneasy, not especially in Shaanxi and Gansu, and all sides of Shanxi will be invaded by Yu.

Yi, there is no way to guard against it, even if you go to Guanshan in the north, there will be no day for Yan to sleep.] (Quote from Zuo Zongtang's "Ziuzhi and Coordinating the Overall Situation".)

The security of the Western Regions directly affected the Ming Dynasty's transformation of the Tatars into kings, and the Tatars posed a real threat to the Ming Dynasty's capital. Moreover, if the Western Regions were unstable, the Mongolian tribes would be unstable. This was a geopolitical consideration.
To be continued...