The Western Region is as vast as 20,000 miles. After the Shun army leaves Jiayuguan in the west, they will face countless large stretches of quicksand land.

After an expedition of thousands of miles, with food hanging outside, logistical supplies have reached an extremely difficult level.

What's more, the soil and water in the northwest are difficult, and the climate is even more miserable. Once the soldiers leave the customs, they will face unfamiliar lands that the Han people have not set foot on for almost a thousand years since the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Even if you are a well-educated Confucian and read through the history books, you will always turn a blind eye to the world of the Western Regions. After all, the world of the Western Regions recorded in various Han history books has lagged behind the rest of the world for hundreds of years.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Han family has been completely unfamiliar with this once familiar land. In the past thousand years, religious disputes, ethnic changes, environmental decay, and changes in trade routes have occurred in this hot land. The majority of the Han people have

Nothing.

The world outside Jiayuguan is indeed a blank land.

As a result, the expeditionary force was often attacked by strange enemies in a strange environment. Because they did not understand the cultural customs and living habits of the indigenous people, many generals of the Yijun army forcefully copied the mainland policies, which also intensified many contradictions and caused more conflicts.

Isn’t this the reason for the failure of the First Battle of Guazhou?

After Zhang Guowu's great victory in Shazhou, he pursued the enemy soldiers relentlessly and finally avenged the previous disastrous defeat of the Guanxi Jun army who was massacred in Guazhou.

However, due to unfamiliarity with the geography, customs, and climate of the Kansai region, the Shun army did not suffer many casualties in the battle. On the contrary, on the way back to Shazhou from Dangjin Pass, the soldiers fell behind due to the sand and dust weather, and even fell behind.

The casualties in combat with the Quasi Army were more than double.

Such shocking figures are really astonishing.

When Li Maoheng and Zhang Guowu returned to Shazhou City after a long and arduous journey, all the soldiers of the Dashun Army heaved a sigh of relief.

These invincible and invincible warriors of the Western Army showed no fear in the face of the quasi-cavalry, but now they looked at the patches of quicksand in the far west, but their eyes revealed timidity, panic and confusion.

Can the Shun army really conquer such a land?

Since the targeted military deployment, the army has often been suspended outside, transported thousands of miles away, and the people of the three northwest provinces have been upset, and the industry and commerce in one area have been depressed. The ministers of the DPRK and China asked the emperor to stop the troops and persuaded Li Laiheng to stop his expedition to the Western Regions. There are so many bullets.

Like heavy snow.

Many people have reiterated the Ming Dynasty's strategy for managing the Western Regions, believing that there was no need to exhaust manpower and material resources, go far beyond the gates, and drive across the entire territory.

We only need to take advantage of the internal contradictions of the Yi and Di, adopt the method of dividing one faction and fight against the other, focus on diplomacy and gentleness, and use the Yi and Di to control the Yi and Di. Naturally, we will not bother with large soldiers, and we can eliminate the threats of the Mongolian tribes in the desert.

At the same time, some ministers proposed that all the cities in the Western Regions depended on trade with China. As long as our government withdraws all troops, merchants, and personnel into the pass, and then completely closes Jiayuguan, there will be no trade with the Western Regions.

Then the people there will definitely not be able to hold on, and will take the initiative to raise troops to expel the quasi-minor in order to restore trade rights.

In this way, we can achieve the effect of calming the northwest without having to spend tens of millions of taels of huge military expenditures every year.

But this was naturally inconsistent with Li Laiheng's personal wishes, and also caused dissatisfaction among many Qin people and ministers.

Most of the distinguished ministers of the Qin Dynasty were military generals. Most of them were familiar with military affairs and had considerable knowledge of the science of geography.

After Shuofang Province was newly established in Dashun as a barrier to the Longxing Land in northern Shaanxi and the royal ancestral tombs, many ministers in the DPRK began to pay attention to the geographical situation in the Hetao area.

The Hetao protrudes to the outside, with few dangers on all sides. The Mongolian cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and there are many lush aquatic plants on the fortress. Once it is recaptured by the Mongols, it will easily become the path for the northern barbarians to attack the Dashun Ancestral Tomb.

base.

To shield the ancestral mausoleum, we must ensure the Hetao, and to ensure the Hetao, we must prevent Monan Mongolia from forming a strong power.

Nowadays, the power of the Eastern Mongolian tribes has been extremely declining due to the continuous attacks by the Qing army and the Shun army for many years. However, due to the rise of Junggar, the Mongolian tribes have shown some signs of establishing a new khanate.

Once the Junggars establish a khanate and march eastwards, the current strength of the Eastern Mongolian tribes will be impossible to resist them, and it is estimated that they will soon be annexed by the Oirat people.

In this way, the Mongolian tribes will be reunited and the Hetao will not be defended.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the ancestral mausoleums of the Shun Dynasty and the hometown of the founder's sangzi, Dashun must ensure that the Mongolian tribes are leaderless and remain scattered forever.

Li Laiheng already had some ideas in this regard. When Liu Fangliang went to the fortress several times to search for traps, he had already brought a large number of envoys familiar with the Mongolian language. For the Mongolian tribes who surrendered to the Shun army, they were awarded various princes and counts of the Shun Dynasty.

Titles are given to people to build tribes and divide their power.

Li Laiheng intends to implement this policy for a long time. As time goes by, the Mongolian tribes will be able to keep their flooded areas safe. If conflicts and disputes arise between tribes, they will have to seek the support of the Governor of Dashun and Anbei for resolution.

The Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office was the first metropolitan governor's office established during the Shun Dynasty. It was the superior agency of the general governor's office and had great power.

After Liu Fangliang searched for traps and Shuofang established the province, the Shun Dynasty formed the rule of sending troops out to patrol the fortress every few years, and the leader was the Governor of Anbei.

Initially, the administrative seat of the Anbei Governor's Office was located in the Ningxia area within the pass, and was later changed to Datong. After Shuofang was established as a province, the imperial court sent troops to the fortress again. The then Anbei Governor Liu Tichun led the troops to occupy the Guihua City area and rebuilt the city there.

, the people were moved to open up land and stick to it, so the administrative seat of the Anbei Governor's Office was moved north to Guihua City.

However, after Shuofang was established as a province, the Government Council considered that the area of ​​Shuofang Province was too small to support the many expenses of provincial establishment. Therefore, it was decided to include Dongsheng, which was originally under the direct jurisdiction of the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the naturalized area into Shuofang Province.

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After the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely destroyed by the Shun army and crossed south to Japan to cause trouble for the pirates, the imperial court followed the Tang system and established the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Office to take over Heilongjiang, Jilin, Korea and other places.

Located in Hunchun, Jilin, close to North Korea.

In the Ming Dynasty, Hunchun Guards were set up here, which has always been regarded as an important border village. In the Ming Dynasty, the Mila Guards, Wuerhun Mountain Guards, Tongkuan Mountain Guards, etc., subordinate to the Nurgan Du Commandery Division, were all located in the Hunchun area.

The Shun Dynasty followed the ancient name of Hunchun, which was Longyuan Prefecture in Tokyo during the Bohai Kingdom period, and changed Hunchun to Longyuan, making it the center of the Andong Governor's Palace that ruled Heilongjiang, Jilin, Lelang and other vast areas.

After the establishment of the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Office, the leaderless Eastern Mongolian tribes gradually surrendered to the imperial court, but the imperial court was never able to restore stable rule and garrison in the Daningwei area, the hometown of the Ming Dynasty.

The level of the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office was repeatedly lowered than that of the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Office. Soon Liu Tichun no longer held the fictitious position of the Anbei Governor's Office, and was replaced by Huining Prince Li Chunhe, the son of the eldest princess Li Huirou.

It was not until later that Senggehun Taiji took advantage of the imperial army being trapped in the snowy area to put down the Galdan Rebellion. He suddenly led the army to take the northern Altai route and detoured the entire Mobei rear before heading south to Saihan Mountain and directly into the old Kaipingwei and Daning.
Chapter completed!