The Yellow River is far away among the white clouds, and there is an isolated city with thousands of feet of mountains.

Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not cross the Yumen Pass?

The song "Liangzhou Ci" tells the magnificent scenery of the northwest border, and also reveals the hardships of the living environment of the soldiers guarding the border.

Why does it mean that the spring breeze does not cross the Yumen Pass?

It probably means that the wind in Yumenguan is either dry and cold or dry and hot, without the warm, warm and full of vitality like 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 to the east.

Zhu Cijiu had no grievance at this moment. Although the spring breeze did not blow to Jiayuguan, the envoys from various countries in the Western Regions ran over one by one. The Ming Dynasty finally regained control of the Western Regions after the Han and Tang Dynasties. This was a great thing for the whole world to celebrate together, and Zhu Cijiu was naturally very happy.

Since the countries in the Western Regions have surrendered, the most important thing now is to send generals to collect their military power, disband their original army, and reorganize them into vassal state legions.

Whether it is a first-class vassal state or a second-class vassal state, the army must be controlled by the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of War. This is the basis for controlling them, so it is naturally unscrupulous.

To this end, Zhu Cijiu specially recruited Minister of War Sun Yuanhua to Jiayuguan to discuss the establishment of legions and the selection of generals in various countries in the Western Regions.

Based on previous historical records and analysis of the situation of the Chongzheng Dynasty, Sun Yuanhua concluded that a problem that predecessors understood but did not pay attention to was that the nomadic people were actually soldiers of the people, and their tribes were equivalent to the nature of the Ming Dynasty's ward.

To make nomadic people surrender completely, this situation must be changed. For example, the grassland in the south of the desert is a very successful example. All young and middle-aged people let them mine to earn their living needs, and they are concentrated together to be managed by officials of the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty. Over time, their wildness will be smoothed out and they will never think about the rebellion and hegemony again.

Zhu Cijiu agreed with his point of view. If they were allowed to continue to live a nomadic life like a Tunwei, and when their population was prosperous and they mastered gunpowder weapons, they might rebel again, or even peek at the Central Plains, they had to change their living habits of Tunwei, so that the northwest of the Ming Dynasty could stabilize.

It is difficult to train civilians into civilians, but it is much simpler to turn civilians into civilians.

The easiest way to prevent them from nomading everywhere is to gather them together, that is, build a city.

In fact, the population of countries in the Western Regions is not large. The largest number of Watsai, Yuejibe and Kazakhs are only more than one million people. For example, Yarkand and Khalkha are only hundreds of thousands of people now. Just build a few big cities with hundreds of thousands of people, migrate most of the population and completely change their living habits.

As for how to change their living habits, it is actually very simple. They worked hard to nomadic around, just to survive, to eat enough, to wear warmth, in the words of later generations, just to make money.

As long as they can eat more and wear warmer without having to use nomads, their living habits will gradually change.

Speaking of making money, Zhu Cijiu just thought about it and came up with many ways.

For example, it is a bit unrealistic to let them grow cash crops with the climate characteristics of the Western Regions at this time, but there are many cash crops that are very suitable for growing here. The Ministry of Personnel has sent a group of experienced officials to plant cash crops and make sure they make more money than they did when they were nomadic.

With cash crops, they can also promote primary processing, finishing processing, and even commercial activities. In this way, they will make more money. A few people will work hard to go to nomadic areas. It is estimated that when the time comes, few people will be willing to go to raise horses and cattle.

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

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

If calculated based on population ratio, whether it is based on Japan, Korea and Ryukyu in the east, or the population ratio of Siam, Donghu and Annan in the south, their population size can be recruited at most 20,000 to 30,000 people.

However, the number of troops in the Western Regions is far more than this. Now they are all soldiers, and they can easily bring out 100,000, or even 200,000 to 300,000 troops.

If calculated based on the actual number, the four Western Regions, the total number of troops in Kazakhstan, Khalkha and Yarkand is at least 500,000 or 600,000. How many legions are appropriate to reorganize so many troops?

Sun Yuanhua finally proposed to change, starting from now on, just no matter what month, Kazakhs, Khalkha, and Yarkand, only formed a Western Regions Legion, and all the other extra troops were disbanded for him!

This proposal is indeed very good, but it is a little difficult to implement. The two small countries, Khalkha and Yarkand, may not object, because they do not have many armies, and like Yuejibe and Kazakhstan, they may be a little unwilling to do so, because their original army is more than 200,000.

However, since they have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they have no choice but to do whatever they want. What they do is most beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, so they will naturally do whatever they want.

Zhu Cijiu thought about it for a moment, then accepted Sun Yuanhua's suggestion and formed a Western Regions Legion to suppress them at one time.

It is a bit difficult to form this legion. It requires a capable general, and the Ming army must cooperate and the army is approaching, so that they will obediently disband the army.

Regarding the candidates for the main generals of the Western Regions Legion, Sun Yuanhua provided a lot, such as Huang Degong, Sun Zushou, Heiyunlong, Ma Dengyun, etc. These are all long-time generals of the Ming army, and they have served as generals, and their qualifications are fine.

If Zhu Cijiu comes to choose, he naturally chose Huang Degong because he knew him. When he was fighting all the descendants of the founding fathers of Jinling, the Jiangnan Scholars and the Donglin Party, he made great contributions, and his loyalty was even more unspeakable.

Zhu Cijing should have been promoted to such a general whom he knew, but he has been staying in Fengyang and is too far from the capital. In addition, Zhu Cijing is also busy, so he actually forgot about him!

Fortunately, Sun Yuanhua included him on the list of candidate generals this time, and it was all he had no choice but to say.

Regarding the personnel configuration of the Western Regions Legion, Zhu Cijing decided to conscript 40,000 each in the month and Kazakhstan and 10,000 each in Khalkha and Yarkand, all of which were cavalry, and all generals above the division were allocated from the regular legions of the Ming army.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijing began to issue an order to ask Huang Degong to come to Jiayuguan to give him a face-to-face message. He also ordered Sun Chuanting and Hou Shilu to send three legions to enter the month and leave, and to send two legions into Kazakhstan. To cooperate with Huang Degong, the army of these two vassal states will be reorganized first.

As for Khalkha and Yarkand, they directly ordered them to choose 10,000 elite cavalry to go outside Hami Acropolis to obey orders, and all the remaining troops were disbanded. If they were disobedient, they could think about the consequences themselves!
Chapter completed!