"Western Regions?" Yinzhen was slightly stunned, but he immediately reacted and suddenly felt a little happy on his face.

Yinzhen is different from ordinary people. Ordinary princes or officials pay more attention to the court and politics, and their preferences are power and tricks, while Yinzhen pays more attention to and hobbies on weekdays, but Western culture, scientific research and business.

In the early years, Yinzhen, who was proficient in business, was in charge of the money bags of the Eighth Master Party, including dealing with those merchants. Therefore, when Emperor Jianxing mentioned the Western Regions, the first thing Yinzhen realized in his mind was the Silk Road, and then thought of the folk customs of various parts of the Western Regions.

"Brother, do you want to fight the Western Regions?" Yinzhen asked tentatively.

Emperor Jianxing did not expect that Yinzhen guessed his thoughts in an instant, and nodded immediately and said, "The court has shortage of money and food. Although our court can buy food through other methods, it will be useless without silver. Now that there is a severe drought in Shaanxi and Gansu, if this continues, major problems will happen. No matter what, we have to find a way to solve it."

After a pause, Emperor Jianxing said again: "Besides, the Central Plains was defeated, and the people in the court and the country were in panic. Our Qing Dynasty also needed a great victory to unite people's hearts. Moreover, the new army of firearms trained also needed field training, so it can be used more. I wonder how you feel?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yinzhen slapped his thigh and said, "This is a good idea!" He said excitedly: "Although the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, that place is not a barren land. You must know that the Silk Road was famous at that time, and the countries in the Western Regions made great profits. More importantly, when our dynasty conquered Galdan three times, the Junggar had long been defeated by our Qing Dynasty. Now it is just a matter of respite. According to my brother, once we take over the Western Regions, there are many benefits."

Then, the somewhat excited Yinzhen made suggestions for Emperor Jianxing. He told Emperor Jianxing that he could unite the Hoshuot Khanate to attack the Western Regions, and that would be even more certain. As for the main target of attack, of course, the area controlled by Junggar, that is, Xinjiang in later generations.

At present, most of Qinghai and eastern Xinjiang are already in the hands of the Qing court, but the Qing court has not ruled effectively. It has sent troops in the name of strengthening the rule. The Qing court is justified in doing so. In addition, Junggar had previously provoked the Qing Dynasty and was even more famous for his troops.

More importantly, Yinzhen also mentioned the incident of Mobei. After the Rakshasa Kingdom captured most of Mobei, he did not go south. This made many people in the court extremely dissatisfied with the alliance with the Rakshasa Kingdom. Some princes and nobles who were originally close to the Mobei three tribes felt that Emperor Jianxing's decision was a big mistake. Not only did he not gain any benefits, he instead betrayed the Qing Dynasty's territory.

Now, once the Western Regions are completely conquered, it will not only expand the border for thousands of miles, but also solve the confusion of lack of gold and silver. In addition, it can also train troops and block the mouths of those dissatisfied people. It can be said that it will be a success in one fell swoop.

To put it bluntly, the Qing court has now vaguely abandoned the so-called benevolent government. Although the "benevolent government" implemented by the Qing court before was only nominal, whether it was Shunzhi or Kangxi, the surface appearance must be done to show the grand atmosphere of the Celestial Kingdom.

But now the Qing court has lost the Central Plains. If it still claims to be benevolent politics as before, then the destruction will be not far away. Even if you can't live a happy life, why do the Qing court still care about so much? Why not take the means of our ancestors, that is, use the barbaric combat power to plunder and give yourself blood transfusions?

The Qing court could be said to have been defeated again and again in the battle with the Ming Dynasty, but this does not mean that the Qing army has no combat effectiveness at all. In fact, the Qing army is still not weak at present. There are many reasons for the defeat in the Central Plains. On the one hand, it is that the military and training are not as good as people, and on the other hand, it is that the general situation is hopeless. In addition to the rebellion of Yue Zhongqi and others, this led to the Qing army's defeat.

If the Qing army was really unbearable, it would not have been stalemate with the Ming army in the Central Plains for such a long time until after the final battle. Therefore, although the Qing army could not defeat the Ming army, there was no problem in fighting the tribes and small countries in the Western Regions. Both Yinzhen and Emperor Jianxing had this confidence in this regard.

Yinzhen's analysis made Emperor Jianxing feel very moved. He was already moved. Now, with Yinzhen's words, he has made a decision in his heart.

"It seems that this matter can be done?"

"Can do!"

Emperor Jianxing finally made up his mind to send troops to the Western Regions to solve the urgent problems at present. But with a good determination, how can this army be launched?

Ortai's troops were absolutely not allowed to move. His army needed to stabilize the inside and outside of the Great Wall, including Shanxi, as a barrier to defend against Xi'an, and at the same time was responsible for monitoring and guarding the movements of the Ming army and Mongolian troops of Zhili. What if the Rakshasa Kingdom suddenly agreed to the coalition forces to send troops or turn against each other? Once his troops were transferred to the Western Regions, wouldn't this be a big deal?

The Rakshasa Kingdom has no faith at all, and he should be much more at ease with Ortai there.

But if Ortai's troops were not moved, where would the Qing court dispatch troops? Could it be that the troops were dispatched from Sichuan? After the defeat of the Central Plains War, hundreds of thousands of troops were destroyed, but in the end, tens of thousands of people fled back. These people are now in Sichuan, with three people, Longkodo, Prince Guo and Cheng, re-training, and recruiting new soldiers to retrain for defense preparations.

Therefore, at best, the troops in Sichuan were mobilized at most one unit, with a staff of about 10,000 or 20,000 people. The army of 20,000 people seemed to be quite large, but it was not enough to conquer the Western Regions. After all, the troops in Shaanxi and Gansu could only be used. In order to ensure the safety of the Qing court, Emperor Jianxing has not stopped recruiting and training troops in the past two years, especially the establishment of new firearm troops.

To this day, this firearm unit has a considerable scale. In addition to the new construction of other Eight Banners Cavalry and Green Camp, the unit directly held by Emperor Jianxing has about 80,000 people. This is his trump card and the core of ensuring his emperor's status and rights.

After thinking about it carefully, Emperor Jianxing finally decided to withdraw a firearm unit of 3,000 people from the 80,000 people, plus one of the Eight Banners cavalry and one of the Green Camps, and then Sichuan transferred 20,000 troops, and then added local forces from the Green Camps in Shaanxi and Gansu to form an army of 50,000 people.

This army was about to go to the Western Regions, shouldering the heavy responsibility of looting property. Naturally, Emperor Jianxing also knew in his heart that it was not so easy to attack the Western Regions. The Western Regions were so vast, and many tribes were still nomadic peoples, so it was almost a dream to destroy them.
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