I am the Empress Dowager!

Chapter 249 Expedition to the Northwest!

"Your Majesty is preparing to go on an expedition to the northwest?"

When Liang Jin learned about Liu Long's future movements, he couldn't help being surprised.

But after a brief moment of surprise, Liang Jin couldn't help but nodded.

"But it is indeed the case at this time. Your Majesty should go there at this time."

"General Du Liao also thinks that I should go to the northwest?"

"It's not that Your Majesty should go, but that you must go!" At this time, Liang Jin couldn't help but sigh, "If Your Majesty doesn't go, I'm afraid the northwest will be completely corrupted.

and"

When Liang Jin said this, he couldn't help but smile, and then chuckled towards Liu Long.

"And doesn't His Majesty want to rectify this northern border? To be honest, although the northwest is also troubled by those few families.

But if His Majesty really wants to compete for Northern Territory, then he must borrow several families from Fufeng."

"How many families are there in Fufeng?"

"Of course, the Fufeng Ban family and the Fufeng Ma family, the two newly rising families in our Han Dynasty, can be said to be the generals of the northwest today.

Your Majesty came to look for me today, presumably because I was a general in the northwest, right? "

"Of course!" Liu Long was not polite at all at this time and directly stated his intention, "The chaos in the northwest is really unpredictable.

Although I did not personally experience the war a few years ago, I still know it from many records.
Please also ask the general to explain in detail how the northwest became like that."

"Northwest." When Liang Jin mentioned the word northwest, he was silent for a while, and finally sighed helplessly and shook his head, "Actually, your majesty has seen the northwest, but he has never seen the origin of the northwest.

The chaos in the northwest is not just caused by the Qiang, it is the Western Region that really caused the chaos in the northwest! "

"Western Region?"

"Yes, the Western Regions!" Liang Jin nodded very seriously, "The reason why the northwest of our country is in such chaos is ultimately because of the withdrawal of troops from the Western Regions, which resulted in our country having no actual control over the Western Regions.

Your Majesty, don't think that this Western Region has much to do with the Yongliang land in the northwest, or think that I am just being alarmist.

If your Majesty takes a closer look at the map of the Yongliang land in the northwest, you will be able to discover why the northwest is like this. "

When Liang Jin said these words, he also asked someone to bring a volume of his own treasured map of the northwest directly in front of Liu Long.

Looking at the long and narrow terrain on the map, Liu Long seemed to have some insights, but before he could speak, Liang Jin had people bring out many things again.

There is sand, soil, dead branches, leaves and many other things.

"Your Majesty, these are all things I brought back from Yongliang in the northwest.

In fact, I have been to many places over the years. In my early years, I also traveled to Jiaozhou, Kuaiji and other remote places, and saw many wonderful sceneries with abundant rainfall but complete deserts.

Among them, he has some understanding of the word "terrain".

But it wasn't until I went to this northwest land, to the two states of Yongliang and this huge Liangzhou, that I finally understood what a real desert is, what a land abandoned by heaven is, and what a glimmer of life is.
I am a great man with abundant resources and abundant people, and there are many strange sights, but when it comes to this land of Liangzhou, it is desolate!
In the land of Liangzhou of the Han Dynasty, there is almost no rain throughout the year. There are countless people in the southeastern land of the Han Dynasty. There is fertile land and sufficient water sources.

But on the other side, in this northwest land, it is mostly inaccessible.

Perhaps the population of a county is not as large as that of a county in a rich land such as Runan or Nanyang.

The lack of rain all year round has resulted in deserts and many plateaus, making it even uncomfortable for outsiders to go there.It is extremely difficult to farm on this land.

Your Majesty thinks that the desolation in Liangzhou in the northwest is due to the laziness of the local people?

If you think so, Your Majesty is looking down on my Han people too much.

The people of my Han Dynasty, or from the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, etc., the people of our land in China are all the most diligent people.

As long as it can survive and be cultivated, it will definitely be a green scene.

But for thousands of years, this land in Liangzhou in the northwest has remained desolate, which only means that it is impossible to farm here.

But if the people just can't survive here, then that's it. I, a big man, won't care about them at all.

And this glimmer of hope is here.

I don’t know if it was because of the curtain hanging down from heaven that I, the Han Dynasty, needed to expand our territory westward, so I gave Liangzhou a shot of life.

That is Tianshan!
It can be said that there is a lot of life under the sky and the Hexi Corridor.

As for the specific reason, I don't know, but maybe it's because the towering mountains and rivers have a lot of water falling down every year.

Thus nourishing this piece of land.

From then on, the land of Liangzhou, my Han Dynasty, was derived.

At the same time, there is also Helan Mountain outside the Great Wall, which is also rich in aquatic plants and is also pregnant with good vitality.

This is why the Huns set up a royal court here.

And because the Yellow River flows upstream, it bypasses an area and once again forms an extremely fertile land of water and grass.

This also gave birth to the Xiongnu and today’s Qianghu!

But as I, the big man, have been fighting and conquering over the years, I, the big man, have been able to control the Western Region step by step, in order to stabilize the Western Region.

Liangzhou was included in the territory of my Han Dynasty. In order to support my Han Dynasty's soldiers and horses, I established four counties in Hexi and Jincheng, Wuwei and other places based on this area.

Slowly stationed heavy troops to protect the northwest border of our great Han Dynasty.

But when we took over these places, we could say that we invaded the land and pastures of the Xiongnu, Qiang and Hu and many other foreign peoples who originally occupied this place.

If the situation in the northwest is the same as that in northern Xinjiang, there are still many places with abundant water and grass deep outside the Great Wall, places where they can live together.

Maybe they won't be so crazy.

but!

Most of the land outside the Great Wall in the northwest is such a desolate land, even so desolate that people can only feel despair.

Therefore, whether it is the Xiongnu in the north or the Qianghu who are causing trouble in the northwest, they can almost survive only around the land of Liangzhou.

And their population is constantly increasing, and so are our people.

Slowly, conflicts between the two parties will inevitably arise.

At this time, the Western Region has become the most critical place! "

(End of this chapter)