The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 677 The good days of the Three Khanates are coming
In the imperial city of Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture, Mo Zibu received Li Xianwen's report. The whole story was copied down, even the speeches of the generals were copied word for word.

Moreover, this was not written by Li Xianwen, but by the military officer of the Ningxia Prince's Mansion.

This position is generally selected from the Hanlin Attendants in the Inner Court and the Hanlin Academicians in the Outer Court. The main purpose is to serve as a secretary to Li Xianwen, which can also be regarded as a means of supervision.

Of course, this candidate may be bribed by Li Xianwen, but the bribery will definitely be quite drastic.

Because he is a Hanlin, he has a bright future in the court. For example, the current Imperial Ambassador to Europe, Cao Zhenyong, once served as a military attendant of Li Xianwen.

To attract such promising talents, it is certainly not something that can be achieved with just a little bit of resources, and once more resources are mobilized, it is impossible not to leave traces.

If traces are left, the court will know that Li Xianwen is bribing the military officials and will start to be wary of this guy.

In other words, the Bingmashenren is like an alarm placed by the court next to Li Xianwen. If the court does not bribe you, you will be considered a meritorious official of the court. If the court bribes you, it means that you have ulterior motives.

At the same time, the moral integrity of the outer court civil servants was also further restored. Officials despised those who could be bribed by money and power. At least that was the surface trend, which made it more difficult to be bribed.

After reading the memorial, Mo Zibu basically confirmed what had happened. Then he asked Chen Xu, the governor of the Northern Pacification Division of the Jinyiwei, to take a look at the secret report sent back by the Northern Pacification Division.

Even though he was his brother-in-law and a shareholder, Mo Zibu never relaxed his supervision and checks on the Ningxia Palace.

Among the leaders of the thirty-six Huiliang clans under Li Xianwen, and even among the Huiliang people themselves, there were spies of the Jinyiwei.

Endless favor and utmost trust are one thing, and secret surveillance is another. There is no conflict at all.

"How much of an impact does this incident have on the Zhenjun Army?" Mo Zibu asked Commander Chen Xu while reading the secret report from the Jinyiwei, because there were also Jinyiwei in the Zhenjun Army.

Well, this really took a lot of thought. Even though it was the Jinyiwei, Mo Zibu had to listen to several different reports to distinguish and infer, for fear that he was kept in the dark.

"The impact wasn't significant. The generals of Suzhou, Lanzhou, and Dingxi garrisons didn't participate in the Ningxia Prince's military meeting. Only three of their lieutenant generals and guerrillas went."

This time, Li Xianwen seemed to have sent out more than 80,000 troops, but most of them were Huiliang people. The real regular army was only the 10,000 people of the three guards of the Ningxia Prince and the 9,000 people of the Gansu Town Army.

Mo Zibu nodded and said, "Although Hexi and Longyou are extremely poor now, they have a small population and the land has been developed. The per capita cultivated land is more than that in the Northeast. The garrison troops all have industries in the local area, just like the government soldiers.

Their greatest desire should be to achieve merit and be rewarded, and to snatch a few women from the river and bring them back to Hexi and Longyou to serve them and bear them children."

Seeing that Mo Zibu didn't get angry, Chen Xu immediately relaxed and agreed with a smile:
"Yes, cultivating two or three hundred acres of land, earning a reward for meritorious service, buying a couple of oxen, and then snatching two or three women from the river to sleep with, that's a life like heaven. Who would really want to go to the river and fight with the disciples of the Tianfang Sect every day?"

At this point, Mo Zibu sighed. The biggest problem in Dahe now is who will defend this area for the empire after it is conquered.

The Western Regions might still be governed by imperial officials, but Transoxiana certainly could not.

If the task of killing people is given to the current officials of Dayu, they will definitely mess it up. They are temporary officials who will be rotated every three to five years. He is too full of himself to do the thankless job of suppressing the local disciples!

Mo Zibu was sure that once the officials went there, as long as the locals did not cause trouble, they would never assimilate.

Even if the locals cause trouble, they will help cover it up so that nothing goes wrong during their term.

Thinking of this, Mo Zibu shook his head again and again. He definitely couldn't use the Liuguan to go into the river, otherwise all his previous efforts would be wasted.

If we really want to use them, we'd better have to look for those before the separation of civil and military officials in the Han and Tang dynasties. It would be great if we could have a Ban Chao or Fu Jiezi.

It’s a pity that Mo Zibu doesn’t have it.

"This Mao Xiangxin is not very well-read. Not only has he not mentioned that the Hui people have always been part of the country, but he has also established two centers across the Tianshan Mountains.

"It's taken a whole year to go back and forth. How can we subdue the locals? If we keep going to Kashgar, how can we leave Khujand and attack the three Transoxiana Khanates?"

Mo Zibu couldn't help laughing when he saw Mao Xiangxin's strategy.

This guy was probably afraid that Li Xianwen would not agree, so he created a strange-looking double-headed eagle vassal state, with the intention of making Li Xianwen feel that he was still within the country and had not been completely driven out of the country.

"Chen Xu, go and tell the principal of Hongwu Imperial College to select a few people who are able to endure hardships, can ride horses and shoot guns, and can speak, and send them to the Western Regions to study for a few years.

Let them give remedial classes to people like Mao Xiangxin and the backbone of the Huiliang people, and don't let them just figure things out all day and come up with something that's not quite what it used to be."

After waving his hand to let the spy chief leave, Mo Zibu asked the eunuch to summon Liu Yong and Ji Yun to the palace.

If you want to ask about such matters concerning the state's official system and policies, you have to find these old bureaucrats who have been immersed in Confucian culture for decades. They are more likely to come up with some practical and insidious suggestions.

Others, such as Prime Minister Luo Fangbai, were nicknamed the Roasted Lamb Prime Minister.

It’s not that Luo Fangbai likes to eat roasted whole lamb, but Luo Fangbai is good at major policies and has strong capabilities in guiding industrial development and promoting foreign colonization.

But when it comes to the technical skills of governing a large country, which is like cooking a small fish, Luo Fangbai's knowledge, which made him fail the imperial examination, is obviously not enough.

Therefore, this "Roast Lamb Prime Minister" means that Luo Fangbai can make big dishes like roasted whole lamb, but he cannot make small delicacies like boiled cabbage and peony fish fillets.

Ji Dayanpai is sixty-seven years old this year, but he is still in good spirits. It’s just that he is no longer capable of being an official.

He is currently serving as the principal of Jiangnan Imperial College, and is also responsible for the preparation and collection of the Royal Library.

Mo Zibu showed Li Xianwen's memorial to Liu Luoguo and Ji Dayandai, and drank some tea himself. When they had almost finished reading, Mo Zibu asked:

"You two are both veterans of the court, and Ji Yun even spent a few years in Yili. I would like to hear your opinions."

Ji Dayanpai's mouth curled up slightly. Eighteen years ago, he tipped off his in-laws and was exiled to Yili by Emperor Qianlong to raise horses for several years. He was indeed more familiar with the local situation.

So he began by saying, "I congratulate Your Majesty that the Prince of Ningxia is willing to take on this important responsibility. Just like the story of Mu Ying, the Prince of Qianning in the Ming Dynasty, this is a story that will be passed down through the ages."

“I agree. If we really want to control Hezhong, we must divide it into fiefdoms.

The world is bustling with people all for the sake of profit. Things that are not beneficial will never last long. This has been the truth since ancient times.

"Hezhong is far from the Middle-earth, surrounded by wolves. Even simply enfeoffment won't work. The imperial court must send a large amount of supplies. It will take ten years to achieve even a small success. It will take at least a generation to stabilize it." Liu Yong agreed and gave his reasons.

"But during the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, it was enough to control the Western Regions by simply stationing generals and ministers there. Why do we have to enfeoff vassal kings in Dayu?" Mo Zibu asked after thinking for a moment.

“Your Majesty, the Qing dynasty actually also divided the land into different territories, but they did not enfeoff the bannermen but the Mongols.

The old and new sixteen northern and southern Torghut banners of the Junggar tribe, the four central Khoshut banners, and the Hui princes of Hami, Turpan, and Aksu were all vassals.

Of course, the most important thing is that the biggest demand of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty in the Western Regions is to prevent the emergence of a Dzungar Khanate that can compete with it for the leadership of Mongolia.

As long as the territory is not lost, he doesn't care much about the rest, so he only needs a few generals and ministers to suppress the local people and prevent unrest. If Your Majesty only wants to achieve this, there is naturally no need to enfeoff the Ningxia County Prince."

Mo Zibu figured it out and realized that he had been dwelling on a dead end. The Qing Dynasty's policy in the Western Regions had always been a mixture of feudal fiefdoms and itinerant officials. This was also the usual method of governing both the Western Regions and South-Central Xinjiang from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty.

"If I don't want to bring back those people, what should I do?" Mo Zibu dropped another bombshell.

This scared both Ji Dayanpai and Liu Luoguo. It was not the topic that was scary. Over the years, Dayu had fought wars in the south and the north and conquered so many places. Killing a few people was no big deal, so much so that civil officials like them had become somewhat desensitized.

They were surprised that the emperor would ask them such a question.
However, Ji Xiaolan quickly realized that the emperor was not going to treat the Hui people the same as the Junggar people. If he really wanted to implement Zhao Hui's policy towards the Junggar people, there was really no need to ask them.

"Your Majesty, the total population of the Hui people is only around 420,000 or 430,000. Li Xingtai, the second son of the Prince of Ningxia, defeated 50,000 Hui rebels in Luntai and eliminated some of them.

I think there shouldn't be many people left in the Hui tribe now, especially the young and strong ones. It is very likely that there are less than 100,000 of them.

In this case, in my opinion, it would be better to order the Prince of Ningxia to take all these people away when he goes to Andijan.

Then, transfer another 100,000 men from Shanxi, Henan, and northern Zhili. No other places are needed. Just towns like Aksu, Kashgar, Khotan, and Yarkand (Shache). Then, 100,000 men will be enough to defend and cultivate the land."

Yes, this is a solution. Don't let Li Xianwen stay in Huibu. Let him take the Hui people to occupy the entire Fergana Basin. If there is a shortage of people, take away all 300,000 or 400,000 people from Huibu.

This would kill two birds with one stone. Li Xianwen would have enough manpower available, and the rebellion in the Hui tribe could also be quelled.

Now that all the people are gone, peace will naturally come.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that the military model used in Hexi and Longyou can be replicated in the Zhun and Hui tribes. Since Your Majesty is unwilling to confer titles of nobility, then we should confer titles on all the warriors in the world.

Thirty thousand households of prefectural soldiers may be enlisted in the Hui and Zhun tribes, with Hui and Zhun governors appointed as their superiors, to serve as the imperial court's regular troops in the Western Regions. Furthermore, a governor-general of the Western Regions may be appointed as a temporary official to oversee administration and command the troops."

Well, the method is feasible, but if it does so, his Great Yu Dynasty will become really weird, and even the Protectorate of the Western Regions will be set up.

. . . .

October 1791, 10, was the 27th year of Emperor Guangzhong of the Chinese Empire, formerly the th year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and the first day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar.

The biting cold wind began to blow across the land of the Western Regions, and snowflakes continued to fall. Although there was no heavy snow blocking the roads, it also foreshadowed that human production activities in the Western Regions were about to come to a halt.

Taking advantage of this brief window of opportunity, starting with the Urumqi counterattack in early September, the Dayu Northwest Army and the Western Expedition Army worked together and finally basically recovered the territory.

In the Junggar tribe, Chen Guangyao led the main force of the Western Expedition Army of 20,000 people to enter the city of Yili for rest and recuperation. The light cavalry of the Yuzi in the left wing of the Western Expedition Army was deployed forward to the vicinity of Tashkent, keeping an eye on the Bujibek people in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins.

Li Xianwen's Northwest Army took control of the right wing of the Great Juz from Chen Guangyao. The entire family of Borot Khan of the Great Juz was taken to Dihua City as hostages. Li Xianwen then ordered him to lead 5,000 light cavalry to Aksu and wait for orders.

In the Hui tribe, Li Xianwen's second son Li Xingtai took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy. It took him only nine days, running an average of more than 80 kilometers a day, leaving the defeated army behind and quickly reaching Kashgar.

Because he arrived too quickly, the Kokand people in Kashgar had no time to react, and Li Xingtai's cavalry entered the city.

The moment Li Xingtai's army entered the city, the ancient town of Kashgar immediately underwent earth-shaking changes.

Seeing him enter the city, the bullied people of Kashgar immediately became violent. They took the initiative to lead the court soldiers to search for the Kokand people in Kashgar.

These Kokand people bullied them badly and treated them like slaves.

This wave quickly spread from Kashgar to other cities and rural towns. With the help of them, Li Xingtai basically wiped out the surrounding Kokand people in just over ten days.

Li Xingtai was very excited, he finally had the opportunity to build a Jingguan!

Under his order, more than 9,000 Kokand invaders who were killed were beheaded, and their headless bodies were buried in pits, while their heads were placed in a huge mausoleum outside the west gate of Kashgar.

Well, in other words, the people of Kokand at this time cannot be considered invaders in the strict sense, because before Kokand became a Khanate, it had always been a vassal of the Qing Dynasty.

Although it was only in name, it was still a vassal state, and it also gave the Dayu army an excuse to enter the Fergana Basin.

In early November, 420 captives including Aliklik, the leader of the Kazakh right-wing Great Juz rebellion, and Muhammad Omar, the governor of Kashgar sent by Kokand, were escorted eastward.

They will be used as props to offer captives to the Taimiao. As to whether they will become sacrifices, it depends on the emperor's mood, but it is estimated to be a high probability event.

In mid-November, before the heavy snow closed the mountains, Dong Jinfeng's 30,000 men arrived at the Junggar tribe, further strengthening the strength of the Dayu Dynasty in the Western Regions.

In total, Chen Guangyao's Western Expedition Army had 38,000 people, Li Xianwen's Northwest Army had 19,000 people, and Dong Jinfeng's Dingxi Army had 30,000 people.

There were about 87,000 people, a scale far exceeding any of the battles fought by the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors in the Qing Dynasty to pacify the Dzungars.

Because these 87,000 people are only the regular troops, the rest of the Mongolian vassal soldiers in the western desert, Hui people, White Lotus Sect monks, etc. are not included. If all are counted, there are as many as 170,000 people.

At this point, the military power of the Dayu Dynasty in the Western Regions and Hezhong had begun to surpass that of the Three Khanates of Hezhong.

At the end of November, Mozibu's imperial edict reached the Western Regions, and officers and soldiers at all levels were rewarded. It was also clarified that Li Xianwen's vassal state would be directly placed in the Fergana Basin.

Mozibu also ordered that the ancient names of various places in the Western Regions be restored, such as Hami was changed back to Yizhou, Turpan was changed back to Shanshan, Kashgar was changed back to Shule, etc.

At the same time, the Fergana Basin was named Dayuan Basin, setting the tone for further attacks.

Li Xianwen took the imperial edict and smiled bitterly. His brother-in-law, the emperor, was still as good at ordering people around as ever.

Not only was he only allowed to become a vassal in Dayuan, but he was also given a new task, requiring that more than half of the Hui women be left for future immigrants from the Central Plains.

As for where to find wives for Hui Liangren and other women under his command, they would naturally rob them from the territories of the Nine Zhaowu Clans.

"Father, the Dayuan Basin is not an ordinary place. It is already great that our Li family can occupy it and build a Qianning Palace in the Western Regions."

Li Xingtai said excitedly, pointing to the contents of the imperial edict and continuing to say to Li Xianwen: "Father, do you see, after we become a vassal, we can also receive supplies equivalent to 800,000 silver dollars every year."

Li Xianwen smiled bitterly in his heart. It was not easy to get these 800,000 silver dollars. They would have to be exchanged for the heads and land of the Bukit Bek people in Hezhong.

If you do well, you get it; if you don’t, you get nothing. It’s like a carrot dangling in front of a donkey’s head.

The emperor had a good calculation. Without the Silk Road, the Western Regions and Transoxiana would inevitably lose money. But in this way, the court's money was spent on Li Xianwen, which was like getting back two cents of capital for every penny.

All right, from now on, this vassal state of mine will be the fangs and claws of the empire in the west.

(End of this chapter)