I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 701 Dawan in Southern Xinjiang
Nanjing.

Zhu Yiling is holding a regular small meeting with cabinet ministers.

On their table, each person placed a plate of freshly cut cantaloupe.

In this hot season, having a piece of sweet and juicy cantaloupe will be a rare treat for future generations.

What's more, the cantaloupe as a reward from the emperor was not only chilled in the imperial kitchen in advance, but also the best horses in the army were specially mobilized to travel all the way from Hami County to the Imperial City of Nanjing.

To put it bluntly, what Emperor Zhu and his cabinet ministers are enjoying now are the first batch of freshly picked local melons after Hami was restored.

The taste comes second, the key is the meaning.

Otherwise, even if it is a regular cabinet meeting, there is no need to kneel down frequently, but the emperor will not ask everyone to sit down and give some fruits and drinks to the table.

Everyone in the cabinet is also a smart person, how could they not understand the emperor's intention, so they all cooperated and used some iced cantaloupe.

Not to mention, it is indeed quite sweet.

After all, the sweetness of the melon can reach 15. Under such conditions in ancient times, ordinary melons generally did not have excellent varieties bred by later generations, and all depended on natural growth.

Zhu Chengxun used a piece, then tasted it briefly, and got down to business: "Your Majesty, most of southern Xinjiang has been recovered. In the spring of this year, the Governor of Zhou Dynasty has launched troops on Congling. After taking Congling, he will cooperate with Rehai ( In the future, we only need to build cities and garrison troops in the two places to ensure that the southern border of the Western Region is safe."

Chen Ji also said: "After the southern Xinjiang is restored, the rest should be focused on recuperation. There is no need to rush to the north of the Tianshan Mountains, but it can be planned slowly."

Wang Yuan said: "There are also military intelligence reports in northern Xinjiang. Chaos broke out in Junggar Mongolia this year. The former Junggar general Dace Lingdun Dobu's grandson Dawaqi raised troops to launch a rebellion, and he also received support from many Mongolian tribes in northern Xinjiang. If Without the support of Ming Dynasty, Galdan could not quell the civil strife in less than ten years."

Wu Sidao added: "The Ming Dynasty may not be able to intervene in the civil strife in Junggar. Although they are evenly matched now, if they are in a stalemate for at most one or two years, they will definitely be unable to help but seek the support of the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Ji quickly said: "One or two years is too fast. Now the imperial court is heavily in debt, and there are private banks that are constantly absorbing Yinzhou and Japanese silver. But these silvers are all borrowed, and they still have to be repaid. In addition, The interest therein. If war breaks out again in a short period of time and gets involved in the war in northern Xinjiang, it will only make the national treasury unable to make ends meet. This is a sign of militancy!"

Want to be militaristic?

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is really interesting. As the territory becomes larger and larger, there are more and more wars to be fought, and the annual military expenditures are astronomical.

Moreover, from Mobei, to the Western Region... there have been several consecutive wars. Even though it is a pleasure to expand territory, it can easily lead to millions of square kilometers of land.

But the amount of money required and the subsequent immigration management almost drove officials in various cabinet ministries crazy.

Take the southern border of the Western Region this time. Although there is still a northern border that has not been captured, it is only half of the southern border. From immigration to reclamation, as well as transporting monks, building temples and schools, and educating local people of all ethnic groups, the money is simply Like running water, it can't be stopped at all.

Zhu Yiling thought seriously for a moment and said: "Now that the southern frontier of the Western Region has been restored, Rehai and Congling in the Tang Dynasty have also been restored to our Ming China. Let's not mention what will happen in the future. The current immigration and education in southern Xinjiang must be treated seriously. It is not necessary to rely entirely on the government for immigration. The Propaganda Department can also inform the people about the situation in southern Xinjiang. Anyone who is willing to go to southern Xinjiang can directly settle in the oasis land, and then the government will allocate southern Xinjiang. Foreign women are married to those bachelors. And I remember that there is Hetian jade there? This can also be used as propaganda to attract merchants to go to the Western Regions to do business. If merchants go there, then Southern Xinjiang will gradually prosper. ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" The ministers in the cabinet quickly accepted the order.

This set the tone for the development of southern Xinjiang and even the entire Western Region in the future. Everything that focused on promoting the prosperity of the Han people, including allocating foreign women to marry Han people, was intended to encourage the sinicization of southern Xinjiang.

North of the Tianshan Mountains, the emperor did not say anything clearly, but these cabinet veterans all knew the emperor.

If there is a chance, I'm afraid we will have to continue fighting.

If the emperor didn't speak out, it would be difficult for them to dissuade him, and it would most likely be useless. The previous battle in Mobei had been going on until now, and the fighting on the other side of Beihai had not stopped yet.

The ministers also sent letters to advise and remonstrated, and the emperor also responded one by one, telling them when to regain the Yenisei River and when to stop the troops.

The North Sea must be settled once and for all, and the same is true for the Western Regions.

After talking about the war in the Western Region and the subsequent immigration and civilization, the next step is how to distribute the newly restored southern land.

Before sending troops, the cabinet had already discussed this in detail and came up with concrete regulations.

First of all, places from Yumen Pass to the Great Wall were officially placed under Gansu.

The provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu were abolished, the chief envoy from Lanzhou was transferred to the chief envoy from Gansu, and the province of Gansu was merged. Shaanxi and Gansu were finally separated.

In Hami and Barkol areas, counties and cities were established respectively. Barkol was renamed Yihe County, after the commander-in-chief of Yihe during the Han Dynasty.

In the areas of Hami and Yihe counties, the core land was governed by Han county magistrates, while the rest of the surrounding desert Gobi tribal villages were under the jurisdiction of the Zhenxi Military and Civilian Office.

Turpan is no longer called Turpan. The city was re-expanded on the basis of Luqin City. The new city was named Pizhan County, directly using the Han people's name for Shanshan. The vast territory around Pizhan was also under the jurisdiction of the military and civilian government of Cheshi. The Cheshi also used the name of the Han Dynasty.

Aksu, Kashgar, Wushi, Yarkand and other places have successively restored the ancient names of the four Anxi towns in the Tang Dynasty, built cities and counties, and immigrated and garrisoned troops.

Congling and Jilijisi, these two lands are too far away from Shaanxi and Gansu, making it difficult to control immigration.

Fortunately, the Congling Military and Civilian Government and the Suiye Military and Civilian Government were directly established, and then cities and garrisons were built on several important pieces of land, and they were slowly civilized in the form of restraint rule.

All the counties, military and civilian offices established in the Western Regions were unified and placed under the jurisdiction of the newly established Western Region Capital.

In the future, when the north of Tianshan Mountain is captured and all the land in the Western Region is recovered, the Western Region Dusi may have to separate.

Hami and Turpan in the eastern part of the Western Region, after 10 or 20 years of Chinese immigration, we can consider establishing Hami Province.

The north and south of the Tianshan Mountains will continue to be under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions. When the civilization is almost the same and the Han people have a large enough population, new provinces can be established in northern Xinjiang and southern Xinjiang respectively.

The name of Xinjiang means a new homeland.

It may not be of much use in the future. By then, this place may have to be divided into three and three major provinces will be built respectively. This is not a split.

On the contrary, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties turned the Western Regions into Xinjiang from the beginning, which was a bit of a mess.

Because the terrain here is so complex, the Tianshan Mountains alone divide the Western Region into three parts. The three territories even have very different religious and ethnic groups.

Moreover, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties did not establish provinces in the Western Regions from the beginning. They continued to establish provinces in Xinjiang until the late Qing Dynasty.
The place of exile also uses the military system.

Many people say that the Manchus had 100% control over the territory, which is simply a joke. Their development of these lands in the Western Regions was even worse than that of the Tang Dynasty, which was "ruled by Jisi".

At least, the major Protectorate Offices of the Tang Dynasty actually controlled the land, and there were Han people living in and building cities, and they could collect taxes normally.

The development of Xinjiang today depends on the exiled "criminal official" Lin Zexu.

Immigration and reclamation in the Western Regions is a long-term policy, and it will be thankless for a long time.

Just the immigration expenses that the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Personnel and various provincial yamen have to spend are a huge amount of expenditure every year. They also have to dispatch officials from the Western Regions and literati who are responsible for promoting education.

After all, monks and Taoists can only take care of religious beliefs, and culture and education have to rely on scholars from the mainland. How can anyone be willing to go to the Western Regions if they are not given sufficient benefits?
Even if you give enough money, you may not be able to find many people, and you have to rely on the local officials to find a way.

In addition to the plan to immigrate to the Western Regions and build a high official period, there is also the problem of creating the Han Khanate that needs to be solved.

After weighing the matter, the cabinet felt that it was still not appropriate to engage in war without permission and could send envoys to confer the title first.

Instead of taking it back to the country of origin, it became the Xuanwei Division. They even thought of a name and called it Dawan Xuanwei Division.

This place is really too important. It controls the gateway from the Western Region to Central Asia. Even after the Manchus destroyed the Junggars, they have long and unremittingly wanted to accept the Kokand Khanate as a vassal state, and they did not hesitate to reward them with money every year.

As long as this place can be turned into the Xuanwei Division under the jurisdiction of the Western Region Capital Division, then there is no need to worry too much about the military rations in Congling and Beiye in the future. They can be supplied directly from the Dawan Basin.

This is fertile land that can feed a population of 40 million, and it can only supply food and fodder for a few thousand troops, which is more than enough.

However, these are all under ideal conditions. If the Haohan Wang is unwilling to be the ambassador of the Ming Dynasty, then Emperor Zhu can only be a little "military" and let Zhou Haizhong capture Dawan here.

Although the religion here is quite radical and xenophobic, if the Ming army insists on chewing it, it will not be impossible.

For the Bukhara people, the Dawan basin is difficult to fight, but they can face the powerful Ming army and artillery.

Hard hitting is just difficult, that's all.

Moreover, it is not really necessary to resort to knives and kill people. The religion here is radical and xenophobic.

However, there are also some relatively moderate national forces that are willing to accept external rule.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the Bukhara people to rule here for so many years. It took nearly twenty years from the time when the Kokand Khanate raised its troops to separatist rule, to the time when the country was truly founded and became a khan, freeing itself from the shackles of the name Bukhara.

(End of this chapter)