Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1276 Management of the Western Regions
The big reason why Taungoo and Jin came together was actually related to the expansion of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang.

Not long ago, the Toungoo Kingdom took advantage of the chaos in Nanyang and invaded Siam. The army attacked Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam, and was about to break through the city. The troops of the four kingdoms of Latex, Chen Bing on the border between Siam and Chenla, demanded that Toungoo should withdraw its troops. Under pressure, Toungoo had to withdraw from the siege of Ayutthaya.

Siam was right between the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty and Toungoo. The Ming Dynasty naturally did not want Toungoo's forces to enter the Gulf of Siam and threaten Chenla and other dependent countries.

The actions of the Ming Dynasty allowed Siam to escape a catastrophe, and also ensured the safety of the subordinate countries and stabilized the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty.

This incident made Dong Yuguo very indignant, after all, the duck in his mouth flew away, and Dong Yu must have great resentment.

But the Ming Dynasty was powerful after all, even the Dutch were defeated, and the little overlord of Nanyang dared not speak out.

The rise of one side is always accompanied by the decline of the other side. The sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty will only expand further outward with the increase of national power, while the traditional little overlord in Nanyang can only shrink back step by step.

In fact, it is not just the Toungoo Kingdom, but for the Dutch and Spaniards, or other forces around the Ming Dynasty, as long as they do not back down, they cannot avoid a war with the Ming Dynasty.

In history, the same was true of the First World War. For a newly rising power like the Ming Dynasty, its sphere of influence will inevitably continue to expand.

If Toungyu doesn't back down, there will inevitably be a time when the conflict will erupt.

Toungoo's retreat from Siam was a concession, but it was only the beginning, and another conflict between Toungoo and the Ming Dynasty broke out again.

However, this time it was not the Ming Dynasty who was going to pick things up, but the Guangnan vassal state. Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan saw the weakness of the Toungoo Kingdom during the Siam incident, so soon after, they surrendered their power to the vassals of the Toungoo Kingdom. The Nanzhang Kingdom infiltrated and created friction on the border, obviously intending to control Nanzhang, which made Dongyu Kingdom furious.

At this time Jin Guo came to the door, how could Dongyu Kingdom not agree to this alliance.

However, although there is an alliance between the two countries, communication is inconvenient after all, and it is really unknown how effective it will be. But for the Kingdom of Jin, finding an ally with [-] armor in the south is something worth celebrating matter.

After destroying Yarkand, it will take some time for the Jin Kingdom to digest it. The current national policy of the Jin Kingdom is to unite the forces around the Ming Dynasty as much as possible to contain the Ming Dynasty.

Zhungeer used to be the enemy of the Kingdom of Jin, but now Dajin needs an ally. If the Ming Dynasty jumped over the Kingdom of Jin to contact the Kingdom of Jin to attack the Kingdom of Jin, it would be a troublesome thing.

After negotiating, the Kingdom of Jin quickly agreed to Zhungeer's request, and offered to let the Mongols exchange livestock and wool.

After the decision, the [-] blunderbusses in the early stage were transported from Chang'an to the west. Later, they felt that the cost was a bit high, so the Kingdom of Jin simply sent craftsmen to the Anxi Governor's Mansion, and directly opened furnaces in the Western Regions for smelting and casting.

After Sun Kewang established the Anxi Palace in Shache City, he gradually gained a firm foothold by taking advantage of the conflict between the Black Mountain faction and the Baishan faction in the Western Regions.

His strategy is actually very simple, that is, if the Black Mountain faction is strong, he will pull the White Mountain faction to suppress the Black Mountain faction, and if the White Mountain faction is strong, he will pull the Black Mountain faction to suppress the White Mountain faction.

He kept provoking conflicts between the two factions. When pulling one faction against the other, he was also manipulating behind the scenes. At that time, the balance of power in the Western Regions had already changed. After the Jin people who had moved to the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountain gained a firm foothold, even if the two factions united, they would have no chance to resist.

There are 50 Jinren who followed Sun Kewang into the Western Regions. It is not easy to gain a foothold, and the most critical point is the issue of food.

Although Jin Guo is farming here, the effect is not ideal. Sun Kewang has thought of many methods for this, the most common method is still his original method, which is to kill and eat big households.

Since Sun Kewang entered Shache, he first took one of the daughters of the leaders of the Black Mountain and White Mountain factions to show Dajin's tolerance in religious and ethnic policies, and asked everyone to live in harmony, but behind the scenes, he was completely different. set.

At the beginning of the Kingdom of Jin's occupation of the Western Regions, the power of the Yarkand people here was still very strong, and the Kingdom of Jin could not completely control Yarkand, and many affairs of the Yarkand were actually said by the leaders of the Black Mountain and White Mountain factions Calculate.

If the two factions are united, it will be difficult for the Kingdom of Jin to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions. However, the conflict between the two factions has been going on for decades, and the Baishan faction hates the Black Mountain faction for luring the Jin people into Yarkand and killing Rabdu Rahan, and the Black Mountain faction also hated the oppression of the White Mountain faction for many years, and the dispute between the two factions over the pope made their conflicts irreconcilable.

Sun Kewang took advantage of this point to stir up battles between Black Mountain and White Mountain from time to time, killing a few nobles or religious leaders almost every once in a while, and relying on the assets of these big families, he survived the most difficult one year.

After the Kingdom of Jin managed to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions, the upper class nobles and religious leaders of the entire Yarkand almost died in the internal strife.

However, eating big households is not a long-term solution after all. Sun Kewang went from establishing the Great Western Kingdom, to the failure of the Great Western Kingdom, to invest in the Jin Kingdom, to run the Hexi Corridor, and finally to sit in the Western Regions now.He has already summed up a relatively complete set of internal affairs experience from past failures and experiences, breaking away from the original three-axes of rogues and rich families.

After the death of a large number of nobles and religious leaders in Yarkand and the decline of the original two factions in Yarkand, the old order in the Western Regions basically collapsed, and Sun Kewang began to build it up in the Western Regions.

There was not enough food in the field, so he organized personnel, took advantage of the wool products in the Western Regions, recruited excellent craftsmen from the Kingdom of Jin, transformed the textile technology, and transported the produced blankets and cloth to Mongolia, and even to Samarkand in the west. Then it turned to the south and sold it to the Sasanian Dynasty and the Mughal Empire in exchange for grain and livestock to solve the problem of grain storage in the Western Regions.

Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia and an important hub city on the Silk Road. It connects Persia, India and China and is the most important node on the Silk Road.

If the Kingdom of Jin can control this place, then the entire Silk Road will basically be cleared.

At this time, the taxes that the Kingdom of Jin received in the Western Regions were actually not much, and they even needed subsidies from Guanzhong. However, because of the smooth trade routes, the goods in Guanzhong could enter the Sasanian Dynasty and the northwestern Mughal region, and the Kingdom of Jin still made a profit. .

However, with the development of ocean trade, the cost of transportation on the road has indeed limited the development of the Kingdom of Jin. The Silk Road of the Kingdom of Jin is obviously far inferior to the Maritime Silk Road of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not as convenient and fast as the Ming Dynasty.

The merchants of the Kingdom of Jin were only able to compete in the northwestern part of India and the northeastern part of the Sasanian dynasty. Further south, they were dominated by the Netherlands, Britain, Portugal, and the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, the Kingdom of Jin had to relocate some craftsmen to the Western Regions to reduce costs.

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