Daming Military Empire

Chapter 534
The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and there is a lone city Wanrenshan.

Why bamboo flute complain willow, spring is not degree Pass.

The song "Liangzhou Ci" expresses the magnificent scenery of the northwest frontier, and at the same time expresses the hardships of the living environment of the soldiers on the border.

Why do you say that the spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass?

The general meaning should be that the wind around Yumen Pass is either dry and cold, or dry and hot, without the warm, moist and full of vitality of the spring breeze.

Of course, Liangzhou was called from the Western Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called Shaanxi Xingdusi. In the Ming Dynasty, the key passes of the Silk Road in the Western Regions were no longer Yumen Pass and Yang Pass, but closer to Jiayu Pass in the east.

At this moment, Zhu Cijiong didn't feel any sorrow. Although the spring breeze didn't blow to Jiayuguan, envoys from various countries in the Western Regions came running over one by one. Daming finally regained control of the Western Regions after the Han and Tang Dynasties. This is a great thing to celebrate. Zhu Cijiong naturally I am very happy.

Now that the countries in the Western Regions have surrendered, the most important thing now is to send generals to take over their military power, disband their original armies, and reorganize them into vassal state legions.

Regardless of whether it is a first-class vassal state or a second-class dependent state, the army must be under the control of the Daming Ministry of War. This is the basis for controlling them, and naturally it cannot be sloppy.

For this reason, Zhu Cijiong specially recruited Sun Yuanhua, Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, to Jiayuguan to negotiate the establishment of legions and the selection of generals from various countries in the Western Regions.

Based on past historical records and the analysis of the previous wars of the Chongzheng Dynasty, Sun Yuanhua came to a conclusion that the predecessors understood but did not pay attention to, that is, the nomads are actually all soldiers, and their tribes are equivalent to the nature of the Daming Guards.

In order for the nomads to completely surrender, this situation must be changed. For example, the Monan Grassland is a very successful example. All the young and middle-aged people are allowed to mine mines to earn their living needs, and they are gathered together to accept the management of the officials of the Ministry of Industry. Over time , their wildness will be smoothed out, and they will never think about those issues of rebellion and hegemony again.

Zhu Cijiong agrees very much with his point of view. If they are allowed to continue to live a nomadic life like guards, when they become prosperous and master gunpowder weapons, they may rebel again and even spy on the Central Plains. The living habits of the Wei nature can make the northwest of Daming stable.

It is very difficult to train civilians to become garrison guards, but it is much easier to train garrison guards to become civilians.

The easiest way to stop them nomadic is to gather them together, that is, to build a city.

In fact, the populations of countries in the Western Regions are not very large. The largest populations of Wacha, Yuejibie, and Kazakhs only have more than 100 million people, and Yarkand and Khalkha have only a few hundred thousand people at the moment. Only a few tens of thousands of people can be established. It is enough to move most of the population there and completely change their living habits.

As for how to change their living habits, it is actually very simple. They are nomadic and hardworking, not just for survival, for food, for clothing, or in the words of later generations, for money.

As long as they can eat more food and wear warmer clothing without being nomadic, their living habits will gradually change.

Speaking of making money, Zhu Cijiong came up with many ways to think about it.

For example, let them grow cash crops. Given the climate characteristics of the Western Regions, it is a bit unrealistic to promote food planting at this time, but there are many cash crops that are very suitable for growing here. Let the Ministry of Officials send a group of experienced officials to come over and transfer the cash crops. When they planted, they definitely made more money than when they were nomads.

With cash crops, primary processing, finishing processing, and even commercial activities can be promoted. In this way, they will earn more money. There are still a few people who will work hard to go nomadic. It is estimated that they will be invited to go Few people are willing to go to raise horses or cattle.

Of course, these are all things to say later. It will take a long time to change people's living habits. The most important thing now is to reorganize the army and establish a vassal state army.

How many legions are suitable for the countries in the Western Regions to form?

If calculated by population ratio, whether it is based on the population ratio of Dongying, North Korea, and Ryukyu in the east, or Siam, Donghu, and Annan in Southeast Asia, with such a small population, they can recruit up to 3 to [-] people.

However, the number of troops in the countries of the Western Regions is far more than this number. Now they are all soldiers, and they can easily pull out 30, or even [-] or [-] troops.

If calculated according to the actual number, the total number of armies of Yuejibie, Kazakh, Khalkha, and Yarkand in the four countries of the Western Regions is at least 60 million.

Sun Yuanhua finally suggested that to change, from now on, simply, no matter what Yue Jibie, Kazakhs, Khalkhas, and Yarkands, only form a Western Region Army, and all other redundant troops should be disbanded by him!
This proposal is indeed very good, but it is a little difficult to implement. The two small countries of Khalkha and Yarkand may not object much, because they do not have many troops. Not willing, because their original army did not even exceed 20.

However, since they have surrendered to Daming, they can't help them. They will naturally do what is best for Daming.

Zhu Cijiong thought about it for a while, then accepted Sun Yuanhua's suggestion, and formed a Western Region Legion to subdue them all at once.

It is a bit difficult to form this legion. It needs a capable general, and it also needs the cooperation of the Ming army. When the army is overwhelming, they will obediently dismiss the army.

Sun Yuanhua provided a lot of candidates for the commander-in-chief of the Western Region Legion, such as Huang Degong, Sun Zushou, Hei Yunlong, Madengyun, etc., these are veteran generals of the Ming army, and they all served as commander-in-chief, so there is no problem with their qualifications.

If Zhu Cijiong was to be elected, Huang Degong was naturally selected, because he knew him well. He made great contributions when he wiped out the descendants of the founding fathers, the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrat group, and the corrupt officials of the Donglin Party in Jinling, and his loyalty was even worse. Gotta say.

Zhu Cijiong should have been promoted a long time ago for such a well-known general, but he has been staying in Fengyang, too far away from the capital, and Zhu Cijiong is also busy, so he forgot him!
Fortunately, this time Sun Yuanhua included him in the list of candidate generals, so he was the only one left.

With regard to the staffing of the Western Region Legion, Zhu Cijiong decided to recruit [-] each in Yuejibie and Kazakhstan, and [-] each in Khalkha and Yarkand. transfer.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijiong began to promulgate the decree, ordering Huang Degong to come to Jiayuguan to teach the opportunity face-to-face, and ordering Sun Chuanting and Hou Shilu to dispatch three legions to enter the month and two legions to enter Kazakhstan. .

As for Khalkha and Yarkand, they were directly ordered to choose [-] elite riders to go outside Hamiwei City to listen to orders, and the rest of the army was disbanded. If they didn't obey, they would think of the consequences themselves!

(End of this chapter)