Gou in Daming, I was overheard by Zhu Yuanzhang

Xu Huaijin understood that King Wu changed Yilie to Yili, which not only meant to inherit Yili from Tang Dynasty, but also meant to transform and shape it.

Yilie used to be a nomadic area, changing to Yili means plowing the land with oxen, changing from nomadic to farming!
That is to say, let them obey the rule of my Central Plains regime!
Xu Huaijin exclaimed: "King Wu, this name is well changed!"

""Hanshu·Xiongnu Biography" once said: Gu has plowed his court, swept his house, and put it in the county and county. This is the origin of the word "plow the court and sweep the hole"."

"Tingzhe, the place where the Huns sacrificed to the gods. Plow the base camp of the Hu people and sweep the lairs of the Hu people."

"Ili, Yili, also has the meaning of opening up land and opening up borders."

Zhu Yuanzhang once heard from his third grandson that if he wanted to control the Western Regions, he had to make the nomadic peoples relatively stable!

Let them be like some ethnic groups south of the Tianshan Mountains, half-grazing and half-cultivating.

The stabilized tribes will further restrain their wildness, reduce their aggression against the Chinese nation, and gradually integrate into the great river of Chinese civilization.

Also, at the Xiannongtan established by Sansun in Hami, he wants to put the seeds of that kind of genetically modified food.

Change their habits and control their lifeline with this fertile seed!
Sansun's strategy of occupying and controlling the Western Regions is both literary and military, soft and hard. It can be said to be all-round and three-dimensional!
This kind of strategy, I am afraid that the ministers of civil and military affairs may not be able to come up with it!
I really don't know how the third grandson's brain grows!

"King Wu, why is Yili the key gate of the Western Regions?" Xu Huaijin asked: "As far as I know, Yili is the extreme west of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is not in the middle and the center. How can it be the vital gate of the Western Regions?"

"It can be the gate of life without being in the middle of geography."

"As we understand it, the belly button is the gate of life, which is just close to the middle."

"But in fact, the real life gate of a person lies above the head."

"Whether it is the gate of life or not depends mainly on its status and role."

"Let's put it this way, the richest place in the entire Western Region is Ili!"

"In the entire Western Regions, this place has the most rainfall and is most suitable for Han people to live in."

"Because it is suitable for Han people to live in, we can take root here for a long time, and we can implement long-term governance of the Western Regions."

Pointing to the map, Zhu Yunxi said, "This place is at the traditional geographical connection point between the Western Regions and Central Asia. To the east, you can take the Balikun Lake or Luntai Mountain Road along the Tianshan Mountains to enter Yumen Pass or the southern Xinjiang area."

"To the west, you can avoid the towering Pamirs, and take the 'Two River Basin' (Ili River, Chu River) southward to enter the core area of ​​Central Asia, which is an undoubted geographical hub of transportation."

"Because of occupying and controlling Ili, Genghis Khan could continue to march westward and wipe out Europe."

"This place is the new base and headquarters of Genghis Khan, and also the relay station and transshipment place of Genghis Khan's army. This is the key to the invincibility of Genghis Khan's army!"

"Without the geographical support of Yili, without the material support of Yili, Genghis Khan would not be able to rule the world!"

"Ili is not only the geographical center where Genghis Khan founded his empire, but also his strategic center and material supply base."

When the generals heard this, their blood was already boiling!

God, Yili is so important!
For the unenterprising Central Plains dynasty, Hami and Yili have nothing to do with us.

Our center will always be in the Central Plains, always in the imperial city and the capital.

However, at this time, King Wu let go of his eyes, opened his mind, and mentioned Genghis Khan!

The size of the territory laid down by Genghis Khan is simply unimaginable.

It turns out that Yili is the center, center of gravity and base of Genghis Khan!

King Wu had already aimed at Yili!
Everyone looked at Zhu Yunxi in amazement again. Could it be that the king of Wu was planning not only the Western Regions?

He wants to lay down a country like Genghis Khan?

If this is the case, don't we soldiers who follow the king of Wu want to leave a name in history? !

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was fortunate that he was wearing a face scarf, otherwise, the excitement on his face would have been seen by others.

"Although the Ili River Valley is deep inland, the westward terrain has an opening facing the low Kazakh hills, which is conducive to the entry of humid ocean air brought by the westerly wind from the North Atlantic Ocean, and orographic rain on the windward slopes of the mountains. "

"The Ili River Basin is bounded by the main and offshoots of the Tianshan Mountains on three sides."

"Most mountains are above 4000 meters above sea level. Keguqin Mountain, located on the north side of Ili, is undulating and winding. Borokonu Mountain is even more majestic and vast."

"Nalati Mountain on the southeast side is shaped like a horn, piercing the sky."

"These tall mountains are surrounded on three sides from the north, east, and side, forming a trumpet facing the west, forming a super rain collector."

"Ili is surrounded by high mountains on three sides, and the flat European plain and Eurasian steppe in the west. The moisture from the Atlantic Ocean, which is more than [-] kilometers away, can go all the way to the east and reach here directly."

"When the water vapor enters the valley, the super rain collector starts to work."

"The annual precipitation on the windward slope can reach 600-800 millimeters, and a large amount of precipitation is retained in solid form on the high mountains, forming glaciers."

"At the highest altitudes, lakes are often formed by meltwater from glaciers, and they are scattered among the mountains like jewels."

"As a result, many rivers developed in the mountains, rushing down from the high mountains, passing through forests, flowing through grasslands, cutting out canyons, widening into wide valleys, and finally converging into the most abundant river in the Western Region - the Ili River. "

"Sufficient moisture, coupled with the fact that the Ili River Valley is deep and narrow, easily forms an inversion zone where the outside is cold and the inside is warm, making the vegetation here extremely prosperous."

"The famous Xueling spruce has a diameter at breast height of up to one foot and a maximum of 20 feet. With this single tree species alone, a forest belt of more than [-] kilometers has been formed on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains."

"Where trees could not grow, grasslands began to spread freely, forming alpine meadows, foothill meadows, slope grasslands, and valley savannahs."

"Ili is known as the Wet Island of the Western Regions and Jiangnan Beyond the Great Wall!"

"In order to own the Western Regions, the Chinese have worked hard for more than 2000 years!"

"From Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, to Ban Chao and Ban Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, to the famous generals Su Dingfang and Gao Xianzhi in the Tang Dynasty, all of them worked hard to manage the Western Regions."

"However, as powerful as the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Western Regions still cannot avoid surrender and rebellion, and rebellion is uncertain."

"Even during the hundreds of years of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the central government basically lost its effective governance of the Western Regions."

"It is precisely because this situation continues for a long time that we may lose the Western Regions forever."

"In the autumn of crisis, a vital door to manage the Western Regions appeared."

"In 1755 AD, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty sent a large army into Ili, and the entire Western Region gradually returned!"

"The distant Ili, which has never been paid attention to in previous dynasties, has actually rewritten history."

"There is a classic book "Prairie Empire" at the end of which it is written: Emperor Qianlong's annexation of the Yili River Valley marks that after 18 centuries, China has achieved the goals set in the Banchao era."

"This goal is: the counterattack of the settled people against the nomadic people, and the farming area against the grassland."

"Without the Qing Dynasty's ambitious management of Yili, there would be no territory for future generations."

"Emperor Qianlong, who completed the "unrivaled martial arts", was also listed as one emperor through the ages because of "sweeping the court and sweeping the land and unifying the Western Regions."

"The first three emperors through the ages are: Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong, and the last one is the most controversial."

"Some say it's Zhu Yuanzhang, some say it's Emperor Qianlong."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was a little unconvinced. We drove away the Hulu, but it was still not worth the Western Regions?