Chapter 287 Prime Minister (19) Strategy to Move West to Ordos
Gao Pragmatic's explanation obviously surprised Ma Gui. He asked again in disbelief: "The Ordos tribe is going to move westward to the Western Regions? Yuanfu, will this matter...Boshu Ketu and Yilduzi agree?"
And what does King Shunyi think?"
Gao Pingshi nodded slightly at him, then looked around at everyone and asked: "If you have any questions about this, you might as well ask them all so that I can answer them one by one."
An old acquaintance who had not appeared for a long time, Cao Yun, the current chief of staff of the Imperial Guard, said: "Boshu Ketu has been under house arrest for many years and was released not long ago. Logically speaking, he should not dare to oppose Yuan Fu's arrangements. Yilduzi and
The Chukukur brothers inherited their father's 40,000 control strings that cut off Huang Taiji, and they are the strongest force in the Ordos tribe besides the Jinong headquarters.
Among the two brothers, Chukukur, the second brother, is straightforward. I heard that he admires Yuan Fu very much, so he should not disobey orders. However, the eldest brother, Yilduzi, is a good person. According to General Yimo, if he hadn't
If there are enough benefits, it may be difficult for him to be willing to do so. So if Yuan Fu said that the general would ask questions, then the general would like to ask this: How can I persuade Ilduzi?"
Cao Yu is not young, and as chief of staff, he may be begging for his remains in another year or two. The question he is asking at this moment is indeed crucial, especially because it shows that he knows the Ordos Department quite well.
Speaking of which, Cao Yu was from the Liaodong Army. He spent almost the entire first half of his life dealing with Chahar and the Jurchens. He should not be very familiar with the Ordos tribe in the Hetao. In fact, this was not the case. After he was revived by Gao Pragmatic, his career began to decline.
Rejuvenated with a second youth, he served successively as Changping Commander-in-Chief and Taiyuan Commander-in-Chief in the years before taking up the post of Chief of Staff of the Imperial Guard.
Let’s not talk about the Changping General Soldier for now, then how could the Taiyuan General Soldier not get to know the Ordos Division? Don’t forget what Ma Gui just said, “Taiyuan Town is the main force to guard against the Ordos Mongolian troops marching eastward into the Hebei Plain.”
"That's a good question." Gao Pragmatic nodded slightly in affirmation, and then said: "But to explain how to convince the Ordos Ministry to move westward, I have to start from the beginning." He paused, clapped his hands and said loudly
: "Come here, please present the topographic map of the Western Region."
"Yes, sir!" A tall and pragmatic servant immediately answered outside. Then he saw two servants of the Gao family wearing brown trousers walking in carrying a map that was obviously very huge. This map used two sticks.
The pineapple flowerwood wooden shaft, which is nearly a person tall, has a skin on the back, which shows that it is well made.
The two men walked behind Gao Pingshi, directly erected the wooden shaft on the ground, and then turned it left and right, slowly unfolding the "Topographic Map of the Western Regions" that was as large as a screen.
Jinghua's mapping method has long been used by the Ming Dynasty's military over the years. This kind of proportional mapping is far more accurate than the maps of the past. Now everyone is very pleased with it and likes it very much. However, today's picture
But it is different from previous maps. The main difference is that it not only marks the area of mountains, rivers and lakes, but also displays mountains, plains, deserts and other features in an extremely straightforward form - to put it bluntly, it is the map of future generations.
Common "satellite-like topographic maps".
Gaowu Zhi naturally does not have satellite images now, but this does not prevent him from explaining what he wants to the cartography craftsmen. In recent years, as the customs trade of Jinghua Trading Company has grown larger and larger, the terrain of the Western Region has been painted long ago, but most of them used to be
It is a contour map, but now it is more straightforward to "visualize".
This map is not only straightforward, but it was also clearly "key colored" by Gao Pangshi before it was made. All the generals noticed that there were two places in this topographic map of the Western Region that were undercolored. One of them
The bottom color of the area is dark green, and the bottom color of the other area is dark blue.
These two places are not only colored, but also have text labels: the former place is marked as "Ili Valley and Qihe Area", and the latter place is marked as "Fergana Basin".
Gao pragmatic stood up and went to the map to prepare for explanation. When the generals saw him standing up, they all immediately stood up without any need to say hello, including Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang.
Gao pragmatic pretended not to see it, picked up a pointer, pointed at the "Ili Valley and the Seven Rivers area" and said: "Everyone, as shown in the picture, the so-called Seven Rivers area refers to the seven rivers flowing to the Balkhash Lake.
The areas it flows through include the south of Lake Balkhash, the east of Transoxiana in Central Asia, and the surrounding areas centered on Lake Issyk-Kul and the Chu River.
And the area in the east that looks like a "horizontal eight characters" will be the most important place for the Ming Dynasty to rule the Western Regions in the future - the Ili River Valley. Today we are talking about the Qihe area. You may not be familiar with it, but there are several places here.
Everyone should be familiar with it, for example, this is Tang Suiye City, this is General Pei City, and this is Talas."
Following what Gao Pragmatic Pointer pointed out, sure enough, all the generals present were staring at these three places not far to the west of the Ili River Valley. It can be seen that Suiye City, General Pei City, and Talas, even if they are thousands of years old,
These generals in the future will also fall in love with this as soon as they hear it.
Next, Gao Pragmatic briefly talked about the history of the Qihe area.
The earliest residents of the Qihe area were the Sai people. After the Xiongnu became stronger, they defeated the Yuezhi people in the Hexi Corridor, so the Yuezhi people moved westward to the Qihe area, drove away the Sai people and occupied this area. Later Zhang Qian became the first
The purpose of his first mission to the Western Regions was to unite the Yuezhi people to deal with the Huns.
When Zhang Qian arrived at Qihe, he discovered that the Wusun people had expelled the Yuezhi people and established the Wusun Kingdom here. The Wusun Kingdom had a population of 600,000 and was the most powerful country in the Western Regions at that time. So Zhang Qian chose to form an alliance with Wusun.
Undertook his second mission to the Western Regions.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty later married Liu Xijun to the Wusun Kingdom for the purpose of forming an alliance with Wusun. The reason why the Wusun Kingdom was strong was inseparable from the superior climatic conditions in the Qihe area.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In 60 BC, the Western Region Protectorate of the Han Dynasty was established to control the countries in the Western Region, but could not control Wusun. In this year, Princess Jieyou and
The envoys of the Han Dynasty launched a coup in Wusun, but it failed. In 53 BC, civil strife broke out in the Wusun Kingdom. The Han Dynasty took the opportunity to attack the Wusun Kingdom. The Wusun Kingdom surrendered to the Han Dynasty and became a satellite state of the Han Dynasty.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wusun Kingdom was still in civil strife, and with the attack of Xianbei, its national power declined even more. However, Wusun Kingdom continued to exist until the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Rouran became stronger. They defeated the Wusun people, causing the Wusun people to migrate to the Congling area. They assimilated with the Sezhong and Yuezhi people who had arrived here before, and disappeared in the long river of history.
In the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Turks rose, and this became the ruling center of the Western Turks. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it continued to expand in the Western Regions, and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were successively included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty established Yi, Gao, and Ting in the eastern part of the Western Regions.
Three prefectures and four Anxi towns were set up in the Tarim Basin. However, the Qihe area is still controlled by the Western Turks.
In 657, the Tang Dynasty defeated Shaboluo Khan of the Western Turks in the Western Regions and pushed its sphere of influence to the Qihe area. At this time, the Wunu Shibi tribe and the Wudulu tribe in the Qihe region were forced to surrender to the Tang Dynasty
, the Tang Dynasty canonized them as the Protectorate of Mengchi and the Protectorate of Kunling respectively. But in fact, these two tribes were independent, and their leaders claimed to be the Khan of Jue and the Khan of Xingxi.
In 662, there was a civil war between the two major khans. The Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to attack and defeated the two major forces. In 679, the Tang Dynasty established a new stronghold in Suiye (Tokmak), which became one of the four new towns of Anxi.
However, the Tang Dynasty's control in the Qihe area was very short-lived. During Wu Zetian's period, a tribe from the Western Turks became powerful and established the Tuqishi Khanate. This khanate occupied the Qihe area for a long time and was strong for a while. Until 758,
Tuqi Shicai disintegrated due to civil strife.
In the late Tang Dynasty, the Geluolu tribe of the Turks replaced the rule of Tuqishi in the Qihe area. In 840, the Uighur Khanate in Mobei collapsed, and a large number of its Uighurs moved westward, part of which moved to the Qihe area and Gelu.
Luolu merged and established the Karakhanid Dynasty in the 10th century. In 1041, the Karakhanid Dynasty split into two parts: the east and the west.
In 1125, the huge Liao Kingdom fell, and the Khitan people moved westward to the Western Regions under the leadership of Yelu Dashi. In 1132, Yelu Dashi proclaimed himself emperor and established the Western Liao Kingdom. After annexing the Gaochang Uighurs, the Western Liao Kingdom began to march into Qihe.
area.
In 1134, Eastern Kara Khan became a vassal state of Western Liao. After that, Western Liao changed the name of Balashagon, the capital of Kara Khan, to Husi On'er, and it became the capital of Western Liao Empire. This city became the Kyrgyz Republic in later generations.
Burana City in Tokmaq.
By the way, it was precisely because the Western Liao Empire dominated the Western Regions and Central Asia that "Khitan" became the word "China" in Russian.
In the 13th century, the Mongolian Empire rose. In 1218, Mongolia destroyed the Western Liao Empire. After that, the Chagatai Khanate appeared on the territory of the original Western Liao Empire. The capital of the Chagatai Khanate was also in the Qihe area, called Alimari.
, located in what is now Huocheng, Ili, Xinjiang. In 1345, Chagatai was split, and its western region belonged to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, with its capital still in Alimari.
In 1455, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate split again. Its northern part became the Turpan Khanate, and its southern part formed the Yarkand Khanate. The center of gravity of the Turpan Khanate shifted to the Turpan region.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Turpan Khanate collapsed and its territory was occupied by the Mongolian Mongols (the Oirat tribes, also known as the Oara tribes). At this time, a powerful country in Central Asia - the Kazakh Khanate. Oirat Mongolia
There were many wars with the Kazakh Khanate. In the original history, it was not until 1615 to 1652 that Kazakhstan won the victory and occupied the Qihe area relatively firmly.
However, during the Galdan period, the Oirat Mongols became stronger and established the Junggar Khanate. Galdan defeated the Kazakh Khanate, recaptured the Qihe area, and made Ili the capital of the Khanate.
After Galdan's death, Cewang Alabutan became the Great Khan of Junggar. He defeated the Kazakh Khanate in 1699, causing the Kazakh Khanate to split into three khanates: Dayuzi, Zhongyuzi, and Xiaoyuzi, all of which surrendered to
Junggar. What follows is the battle between the Tatars and Junggar, etc., which I won’t go into details here.
The highly pragmatic "talking about the past" naturally does not talk about the Junggar Khanate, but only talks about "the present". By the way, the current situation of the Oara tribes is also told to the generals. [Note: These situations have been mentioned previously.]
Finally, the practical pointer pointed at the Qihe area and drew a large circle, and then drew a small circle in the Yili River Valley in the easternmost part of the Qihe area, and concluded: "The Qihe area is the most important area in the Western Region, and also the most important area in the Western Region.
The area must be controlled by the Ming Dynasty. However, there are almost no Han people there now, so we cannot attempt to control such a large area from the beginning, but must make distinctions.
To put it simply, the most elite part of the Qihe region and the most convenient for the Ming Dynasty to defend is the Ili River Valley - please look at the terrain of the Ili River Valley: it is a horizontal figure-eight shape, with high mountains and dangerous terrain in the north and south. The east part is connected to the interior of our Western Region and opens up.
Smaller; the west is connected to the entire Seven Rivers area and the opening is slightly larger.
All forces in the Western Region are mainly engaged in cavalry operations, and it is impossible to cross the glacial chasm in the north and south of the Ili Valley. There is no risk of loss in these two routes. There is a long and slender valley in the east of the valley that leads to the east, which means that our army's rear supplies are relatively small.
Easy. Therefore, if you want to defend Ili, you only need to defend the army towards the west and be able to defeat the enemy attacking from the front. There is almost no need to worry about other conspiracies and tricks."
Gao Pangshi paused for a moment, seemingly giving the generals time to digest what he just said, and then continued: "At this point, you may have already guessed how I want to convince the Ordos Department...
Yes, our method of persuading them is very simple - we are prepared to give them the most lush pastures in the Western Regions, and the entire seven-river area except the Ili River Valley!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! These words were very pragmatic and powerful, but as soon as he said them, he felt that something was wrong, and immediately added: "I believe that with my emperor's majestic talent and great strategy,
You will definitely be able to see the secret of this strategy and will happily agree to it."
What a risk, what a risk!
The Ordos tribe was "gifted" such a large piece of geomantic treasure land. How could a minister say this casually? Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic reacted quickly and made remedial measures in time. He quickly pulled out the emperor's tiger skin to serve as a banner.
In fact, the generals didn't care about Gao Wushi's problems at first. After all, everyone was attracted by his plan and were thinking about serious things. On the contrary, it was his last words that made everyone come to their senses.
, and then each of them felt a little scared... This kind of statement is indeed risky, but it is also very troublesome for them.
Why bother? First of all, the high pragmatic holy family and prestige are obvious. If any of them take this to complain to the emperor, the emperor may not believe it, and even if he does, he may not care. Then they become
God knows if Yuan Fu will use his head to scare the monkeys as a gossip.
Secondly, Yuan Fu's current prestige and strength are indeed astonishing. If...I mean if, if something terrible happens in the future, then wouldn't it be a felony if he didn't report today's incident to the Holy One?
?Maybe it will turn into a "rebellion and rebellion", then no one knows what will happen... Maybe we can only hope that Yuan Fu will win?
Bah, bah, bah, don’t think about such fatal things! It’s so scary!
"Ahem!" It seemed that Qi Jiguang had the most magnanimous mind, or he simply didn't think Gao Pragmatic had any disloyal intentions, so he broke the strange atmosphere in the field and said: "If so, the Ordos Department has indeed taken a big advantage.
, Logically speaking, they should not refuse, but this matter may still be a little difficult... The Ordos tribe is a special tribe of the Mongols who guard Temujin's mausoleum. If they are to be transferred, will King Shunyi agree?"
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PS: Considering that Eastern Mongolia has almost completed the "integration", this move cannot be said to be using barbarians to control barbarians, but it should be regarded as "cavalry to control cavalry"? I think the idea is okay. Of course, there must be some supporting facilities.
Means to ensure the loyalty of the Ordos Ministry, this will be written later.