It has indeed become a tradition for the Mongols to fight each other. Many descendants of the Mongolian Khanate have fought for hundreds of years in such a vast old territory from Northeast Asia to Eastern Europe, from Russia to West Asia. It is really hard to beat the brains out.
The various khanates fought among themselves, each khanate fought within itself, and each khanate fought with outsiders... In short, it was just fighting, fighting at random, almost without stopping.
Gao pragmatically said that these descendants of the Mongol Khanate lack political wisdom, which is true. However, Gao pragmatically said this not entirely out of strategic contempt for his opponents, but because he knew that Torgut had happened in the original history.
Things. Overall, this tribe is really unlucky.
To make a long story short, first of all, the location of the Turgut tribe's territory is very important. It is surrounded by Junggar in the east, Keshote in the southeast, and is surrounded by the Kazakh Khanate, which was still very powerful at that time, in the west and south. Only the Turbot tribe in the north seems
A little weaker.
But it seems that it is just a seeming. In fact, the Dulbert tribe is also one of the Wala (also known as the Weitra Alliance), but this tribe does not cause much trouble and is less famous in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, in terms of strength, the Dulbert tribe
It is stronger than the Huite tribe, which has been repeatedly attacked by Tumut and Ordos.
From this, we can see how awkward the position of the Torgut tribe is - they are surrounded by powerful neighbors, and none of them are fuel-efficient lamps. Because of this, historically, Torgut soon fell into the civil war because he wanted to avoid being invaded by Oara.
(mainly the dispute between Junggar and Heshuote), the whole family simply moved westward. About thirty years later (referring to the time in the book), they passed through the Kazakh grassland, crossed the Ural River, and came to the lower reaches of the Volga River.
grazing.
They were stable there for a while, but the good times did not last long. When Tsarist Russia expanded its territory to the banks of the Volga River, it began to oppress Turgut. At that time, the tribe tried to return to their motherland several times.
In 1712, Torgut Khan Ayuqi sent an envoy to Siberia and went to Beijing to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty. On January 5, 1771, the Torgut people set out to return home and began an arduous journey. Empress Yekaterin of Russia
Na II immediately sent troops to pursue them.
After many battles and enduring hunger and disease, Torhut finally entered Xinjiang at the end of June and early July. When Torhut set out to return to China, there were more than 30,000 households and more than 170,000 people. In just a few months,
Within a short period of time, half of the people died on the way home. After receiving the report, Qianlong immediately issued an edict and placed the Torgut troops in Xinjiang - a rare human deed.
The highly pragmatic judgment comes from this: the reason why Torgut moved westward is because Torgut was either unwilling or unable to intervene in the Oara Civil War, so he could only avoid it. Now is the time when they moved westward in history.
It has only been about thirty years, which is only one generation for the Mongols. In less than two generations, the strength of the Torgut tribe will not change much.
Well, by now they should have felt the smell of gunpowder between Junggar and Shuote, and maybe they have already started thinking of migrating. But one thing is very important here: there is a prerequisite for the westward migration of Turghute in history, that is
The "Mongolian Headquarters (actually the Tumut Ordos Alliance)" in the east was too strong, and they in Wala had long been afraid of being beaten, so they never thought of moving eastward.
The reason for not moving east is because the opponents in the east are too strong, not because they don't want to go east. The east is the hometown of Mongolia, who doesn't want to go home? Even the Mongols are attracted by spiritual totems - Genghis Khan's tomb is in Ordos.
This is easy to handle, because although the Turgut and Ordos Alliance are insurmountable mountains for them, this alliance has already surrendered to the Ming Dynasty! As long as the Ming Dynasty speaks, the hundreds of thousands of Turgut people can do it at any time
go home!
Ah, of course, Gao Jingshi does not intend to let them return to the Mongolian Plateau. What he means is that you can just go south to Yarkand - follow my Heavenly Soldiers. When the Heavenly Soldiers defeat Can Yuan, the territory they gave up will be
It's your share.
Why is this arrangement necessary? Because the Western Region is so large, although the Ming cavalry is well equipped, its mobility is definitely not as good as that of the Mongolian cavalry because it is half-equipped. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic needs to have a Mongolian cavalry that can be driven to quell the general situation for the court.
rebellion, or doing some work that requires soldiers and quick speed.
In the highly pragmatic plan, the future force ratio in the Western Region is that the Ming army's infantry and cavalry will serve as the core force, mainly stationed in the Ili Valley and several important cities, while the surrendered Mongolian cavalry will be dynamically deployed as mobile forces.
In this way, the two sides cooperated in fighting the war, and the Mongols settled the small battle, while the court could save trouble, effort and money, which was a great win. Of course, the specific situation still needs to be treated on a case-by-case basis. In short, this is the grand strategy.
According to this plan, the number of Mongolians needed to guard the Western Regions in the future cannot be too many, nor too few. If all the Oara tribes are incorporated, then the number of people in each tribe may be more than 500,000. In order to frighten so many almost all the people,
The Mongols were all soldiers. The imperial court had to station at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops in the Western Regions, not to mention 100,000 troops. This was absolutely unacceptable financially.
In this way, they only accept about 200,000 Mongolians, and the cavalry they can usually gather is probably less than 50,000. In this way, the imperial court's troops can range from 30,000 to 50,000, which is enough to support the sky.
Considering that Gao Pragmatic also had an economic "Ili Valley Development Plan" and stationed 30,000 to 50,000 troops at that time, this scale should not put too much pressure on the central government's finances, and the total strength of both sides was eight to ten.
Wan, relying on the advantages of the Ming army's weapons and equipment, is enough to deal with all threats further west, including Tsarist Russia - the core of Tsarist Russia is west of the Urals, and its transportation capacity also limits their power projection.
Gao pragmatically confessed these thoughts to the emperor, and Zhu Yijun nodded repeatedly. He thought that the issues he considered as a junior chief minister were really in line with his own wishes. He took one step at a time and considered three steps at a time, and planned all the long-term governance issues to the best of his ability.
It’s clear, you just need to nod your head when you hear it.
If all the ministers of the imperial court could achieve this level, why should I worry? What a pity, pragmatism is just that...
"I agree with all your considerations, but I still have a question: If the imperial court only has two tribes, Turghut and Huite, what will happen to the remnants of Canyuan, Heshuote, and Junggar? Is it possible that you want to eradicate them all?
?”
"There is no way to eradicate the Mongols." Gao Pragmatic shook his head: "The most difficult battle today is probably to annihilate the Mongols... This is almost impossible, even if the Mongols are defeated
No matter how miserable it is, it is impossible for the whole army to be wiped out, some of them will definitely escape."
Now it was Zhu Yijun's turn to frown. He seemed to have lost his appetite. He put down his chopsticks, took a white towel from the side and wiped his mouth. He frowned and said: "I have chased the enemy for thousands of miles, but I still can't annihilate them all..."
"There are advantages to not annihilating everything." Gao Pragmatic said, both comforting and explaining: "Chahar, Junggar, and Heshuote are all strong forces. Even if they suffer a major defeat, as long as someone can integrate the remaining forces
, you can continue to flee westward... This is a good thing."
"A good thing?" Zhu Yijun couldn't understand it for a while.
Gao Pingshi said: "Of course it's a good thing. Once they flee west, they have to have a place to stay, right? But after the defeat, the losses were too great, and they probably won't be able to escape far. So they can only rob other pastures nearby...that is Kazakhstan and Buha.
La, the Three Kingdoms of Khiva are in trouble. Oh, once these forces start fighting, won’t our Ming court have time to reorganize the Western Regions?”
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun immediately turned from worry to joy and laughed and said: "Okay, okay, Rixin has thought carefully. This is really the best way to drive away tigers and swallow wolves, which is better than cutting off the roots!"
Gao pragmatic smiled and said nothing, but Zhu Yijun seemed to think of something when he said this. He rolled his eyes and asked Gao pragmatic: "Speaking of eradicating the roots... Do you now know what your good son did in Chittagong? How about,
Is it as I said?"
Zhu Yijun said at that time that Gao Yuan had done some things in southern Xinjiang, and the things themselves were done well, but Gao pragmatically's hope of naming him "Yuan" might have come to nothing.
Zhu Yijun's understanding of "Yuan" is probably that he has a relatively calm personality. This is not surprising. In his opinion, Gao Pragmatism's character is that of being immature in youth. As an adult, he becomes more calm, emphasizing one decision before taking action. Therefore, he believes that Gao Pragmatism gives
Naming the eldest son "Yuan" is a hope that the son will be "like his father".
However, Gao Yuan "killed more than 10,000 prisoners" in Chittagong. This incident certainly proved that Gao Pragmatic's hopes were in vain. This boy was not "calm" at all, but was very decisive in his killings, which was more evil than his father.
Much heavier.
However, Gao Wuzhi has now figured out the causes and consequences and even some related issues: First of all, Jinyiwei must have deployed some people in southern Xinjiang, but these people should not have reached too high a level, so the information the emperor received was not comprehensive, and
Without going in-depth, one would not know that Gao Jing was actually responsible for the incident in Chittagong, and Gao Yuan just hesitated and failed to stop it in time, seeming to acquiesce, or simply took the lead in the matter.
Secondly, Zhu Yijun had no objection to this incident, but simply felt that Gao Yuan was quite evil. This was confirmed by his repeated emphasis that Gao Yuan "actually did a good job."
Of course, although Gao Pragmatic may not agree with the emperor's views, he can understand it - the Ming Dynasty is famous for its strength to the outside world, and things like Chenghua Liting will not only not be criticized by scholarly public opinion in the Ming Dynasty, but will be greatly praised.
In the final analysis, the underlying logic of the Ming Dynasty's social public opinion is based on revenge against Mongolia. Generally speaking, it is a strong Chinese-Barbarian debate thinking - look at the good things the Mongols did back then, it can be seen that there are barbarians outside China, and they are not interested in China.
These barbarians must not be soft-hearted.
Finally, the emperor seemed to have a faint worry about Gao Yuan: This boy will inherit various legacies of Gao Pragmatic in the future - including political legacies, wealth legacies and even military legacies. He is so evil that he will not wait until he inherits such a strong legacy in the future.
Inheritance, nothing will happen, right?
Although Gao Pragmatic has figured out the question, but now the emperor asks, how should he answer it?
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