Daming Yuanfu

How to deal with this treasure land of Fergana? Not to mention Qi Jiguang's curiosity, who among the generals here is not curious?
Looking at Yuan Fu's current arrangements, the Ili First Army is arranged to be stationed in the Ili Valley, and it will definitely not leave easily under normal circumstances. The two Mongolian divisions are also relatively similar. The Ordos division will be arranged in the Qihe area, and the Tumote Western Post will be arranged in the Oara area. The locations of the two divisions are basically parallel to the Ili River Valley, and the other is further north of the Ili River Valley.

However, the Fergana Basin is about [-] miles southwest of the Ili River Valley (a straight-line distance of [-] kilometers, but it is basically impossible to travel in a straight line). This means that the two of them probably cannot take care of the Fergana Basin.

To be honest, Gao Pragmatic himself is very hesitant about how to arrange the future of the Fergana Basin. What he is certain about now is that the Fergana Basin must be won first because it is too important.

Long before Columbus drove his sailboat almost crazily across the vast Atlantic Ocean and discovered the American continent, the world that people knew was basically limited to Eurasia (except North Africa). Eurasia is the largest continent on earth. The history and civilization it carries basically constitute the main body of human history.

Eurasia is the world. This should be the understanding of most people before the discovery of the New World. If Eurasia is the entire world, then where was the "center of the world" in Eurasia at that time? At least at a geographical level, Central Asia must be the region where the center of the world is located.

For Central Asia, which has been mapped by Jinghua, a city in the Fergana Basin can basically be regarded as the center of the world - it is called Andijan.

The trade routes created by trade can drive the development of areas along the way. The development and growth of Andijan, once the hometown of the Stygian people, is obviously inseparable from the opening of the Silk Road.

Andiyan was built very early and had the size of a town in China's pre-Qin era. However, because there was no large-scale trade, it was only a residential area in the Fergana Basin. This situation changed fundamentally with the opening of the Silk Road by Zhang Qian to the Western Regions during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The Silk Road was a trade route that the Han army forcibly opened up with powerful force after cutting off the right arm of the Xiongnu. It connects the East and the West and is a channel for the westward transmission of Han commodities and culture. Although the Silk Road is called a road, it actually has no fixed route. After leaving the Yumen Pass of the Han Dynasty in the west, merchants would basically go westward along the north and south roads of Tiannan, and after a certain intersection in Central Asia, they would separate again and move towards the southwest and west. At the intersection of Central Asia is the Andijan region.

Trade laid a solid foundation for Andijan's development. Since its development in the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road has been prosperous for nearly a thousand years. Until the Anshi Rebellion broke out in the Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road was blocked by Tibet and weakened. It can be said that the smoothness of the Silk Road is the foundation of Andijan's prosperity.

So, did Andiyan decline after Tubo blocked the Silk Road? not at all. The baptism of thousands of years of trade has given this city a strong commercial atmosphere. Although it lost its reputation as a world center due to the interruption of the Silk Road, as a former world trade hub, it was able to quickly find its place and gradually found its new position. —Regional Trade Center.

Indeed, whether it is the powerful Tibet or the small countries that emerged after the collapse of Tibet, they all need trade to meet the needs that cannot be met by domestic production, and this is the value of Andijan's existence.

In history, does the hero create the situation, or does the situation create the hero? It can only be said that they complement each other. Andijan, as a regional trade center, is obviously a place where heroes can easily come out. There is no need to review the history that is too far away. The latest heroes in Andijan have actually been mentioned before in this book.

Yes, this man is Babur, a descendant of Genghis Khan and the founder of the Mughal Empire in India. Babur's full name is Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur. This name contains both the customary name of the Turkic people "Zahir al-Din" and the common name of the Y religion "Mohammed". It can be seen from this name Chubabur is a Turkic Mongolian who believes in Y religion.

This is indeed the case. Babur's ancestor was the cripple, Tamerlane the Great, who was a powerful figure in Central and Western Asia. Timur traveled across Central and Western Asia, defeating the unstoppable Ottoman Turks, and even once intended to conquer the newly established Ming Dynasty eastward. However, he died on the way to the Eastern Expedition, and the imaginary collision between the two empires of the East and the West came to an unexpected end.

With the death of Timur, the Timur empire he founded fell apart among his descendants. By the time Babur was born, the former glory of Timur's empire was like yesterday's flowers and could not give him any help at all. The prestige of the Timur Empire in the past could not provide any help to Babur's business. At this time, he could only rely on the base of his maternal family - Andijan to start his business!

As a trade center in Central Asia, Babur accumulated a large amount of entrepreneurial capital through trade taxes. With capital, Babur's ambitions began to expand. But was there a stage for him to show off in Central Asia at that time? not at all!
The Uzbek tribes, who were oppressed by Tsarist Russia and moved south in large numbers, quickly gained control of Central Asia with their powerful force. Faced with Uzbek tribal armed forces, large and small, although Babur had good intentions, no matter how strong the tiger (Babur was called the tiger) could withstand the siege of a pack of wolves. In 1501, Babur, who finally recaptured Samarkand, the former capital of the Timurid Empire, unwisely provoked the Uzbek leader Shaybani Khan who was heading south. The outcome of this battle was not good. Babur was defeated and fled south, thus starting his exile career.

However, Central Asia was, after all, his hometown and the base of his ancestors' entrepreneurship, and Babur was not willing to hand it over to an outsider, Shaibani Khan. Therefore, nine years later in 1510, taking advantage of the opportunity of Shabani Khan's death, Babur once united with the Persian Safavid Empire to "recover" Samarkand.

However, the long absence eventually caused Babur to lose all his prestige among the people of Central Asia. Unable to win the support of the people, Babur had no choice but to return to his hometown, turned around and began to conquer the Indian subcontinent, and finally established the powerful Mughal Empire in three generations. Akbar, the current emperor of the Mughal Empire, is the grandson of Babur.

Babur's success may also be Andijan's success, but the mutual achievement of the hero and the city is like a meteor streaking across the sky. Where will Andijan go after it shines?

After Babur went south to the Indian subcontinent, Andijan quickly declined as if it had lost its soul. At that time, the Uzbek tribes who went south mainly focused on the river area from Tashkent in the west to Samarkand in Andijan, and had no intention of paying attention to this area that is related to the Yarkand Khanate in the east (or the "Mongolia" that is now occupied by the Chahar Magpie Nest Dove). The border land bordering the Khanate").

As a result, cities without the protection of heroes can only embark on the path of independent development. Fortunately, Andijan's heritage as a trade hub still exists, and merchants from and through Andijan have brought everlasting fireworks to the city.

Following the trade routes of the Silk Road in the past, merchants from Andijan rushed eastward carrying all kinds of goods, providing the people in the Yarkand region with necessary daily necessities and specialty commodities. The Mongols took away the goods they provided.

The exchanges between these merchants closely bound Andiyan to the Yarkand region. Because of the success of Andiyan merchants, the local Mongolians and original residents of Yarkand habitually refer to merchants who carry goods on the go as "Andiyan merchants."

Yes, it is always the bottom-level merchants and hawkers who make Andijan survive in the end. However, the efforts of the small traders did not make the rulers who controlled the commercial land of Andijan recognize themselves. On the contrary, the increase in wealth made their ambitions expand.

In the original history, the last country to control Andijan was the Kokand Khanate, which got rid of the control of the Bukhara Khanate through the destruction of the Junggar Khanate. The rulers of the Kokand Khanate were extremely ambitious and tried to control Southern Xinjiang with the help of Hezhuo, a rebel leader in Southern Xinjiang.

However, there is no need to talk about these now. What Gao Pragmatic is concerned about is now. Since the trade routes between the Yarkand region and Andiyan, that is, the Fergana region, were so closely connected, he always doubted that if Chahar was defeated by Liu Wei's Western Expedition, would there be another attack like the last time? To make a huge turn, simply charge into Andiyan and occupy the Fergana Basin?

If this is the case, it would be very bad, because the terrain of the Fergana Basin may be more difficult to defend and difficult to attack than the Ili Basin to a certain extent. If the Chahar Ministry can gain a foothold in the Fergana Basin, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have to fight a difficult battle.

This battle must be fought for two reasons: First, the evil must be eradicated. As long as Chahar still clings to the name of "Mongol Khan", the Ming Dynasty will have no choice but to pursue him to the end. This is a matter of concern to the Ming Dynasty. Legitimacy is an irreconcilable contradiction; secondly, once the Fergana Basin is captured, it can form two strongholds in the north and south with the Ili Valley. It is like the two hands stretched out by the Ming Dynasty in Central Asia, which can serve as horns for each other. This will prevent one of them from being isolated and helpless, and the strategic situation will be greatly improved.

The trouble now is that although Gao Pragmatic's goal is ambitious, it is obviously impossible for Liu Wei's tribe to attack Andiyan in one go - after winning the Western Region, it will definitely take time to stabilize it, and wait until the Western Region, especially the Ili Valley, can provide logistical support to the Ming army. It is possible to continue the war against Andijan.

However, the problem turns back: once Chahar chooses to continue to flee west to capture Andiyan when he cannot resist Liu Wei, and it will take at least several years for the Ming Dynasty to continue the attack, then by the time the Ming Dynasty attacks, Andiyan may have been captured by Chahar The whole building is like a copper wall and an iron wall. What will the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force do then? Stacking heads? This is not good...
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