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Chapter 1425 Specifications
The Western Regions, Chen Mu mentioned the Western Regions in his letter.

This is the strangest part of the whole letter that Wanli and Zhang Juzheng felt after Zhang Xueyan and other ministers left.

Chen Mu's mention of the Western Regions in his letter was not mentioned in passing, but he used the ancient influence of the Central Plains Dynasty on the Western Regions to magnify it to the entire world to provide legitimacy for the World Congress he prepared for the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, he also emphasized in the letter the strategic significance of the land of the Western Regions to the Central Plains Dynasty, and even raised its importance to a level that surpassed that of the northern part of the Great Wall.

Emperor Wanli and Zhang Juzheng were taken aback for a while, because they both knew that there was a premise in the letter: Chen Mu had never been to the Western Regions.

There is not even Ma Bian, a general who is familiar with the Western Regions, around him.

Looking at the places where Chen Mu served successively, he has under his command the trilogy in the southwest and the battalion general in the southeast; the military attache in the northeast and the subordinates in the Central Plains; military.

The Northwest Road is far and difficult to travel, and the recruiting officers do not go there, and it is difficult for the flag army battalion soldiers to go to the east to apply for recruitment. The farthest places to join the army are the lands of Qin and Jin.

Further to the west, those who go to Beijing for nothing are basically generals and generals. They are all generals of Shixun Shilu. Go to sea and fight for your life.

Not to mention that Chen Mu has never been to the Western Regions, he has never even been to Shaanxi.

However, these words were said by the number one general of the Ming Empire who started out in coastal water warfare in the south and was stationed at the Xuanda Line of Defense.

Those who work in these two places will not be clear that Xuanda Jiliao is the defense barrier of the empire, and the southeast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is the foundation of the empire's prosperity.

Such a person, but the words in the letter are extremely afraid that the empire will give up because the strategic significance of the Western Regions is not important enough. This is a very interesting thing in itself.

Of course, it is only interesting to Wanli, he will not give up that piece of land, the three general officers of the Ming Dynasty are all leading the army on that piece of land, and Dong Yiyuan has written a memorial to the court to encourage childbirth, how can it be possible? give up.

But Chen Mu's thoughts on the Western Regions are very interesting to Yu Wanli, which makes him very... very responsible.

Everyone understands the strategic significance of the Western Regions. Although the Western Regions lost their economic value after the Yuan Dynasty, and the maritime trade has flourished so far, this relatively costly business route has also become meaningless, but this land is still incomparable in terms of strategic importance. The advantages.

It is the right arm of the Shaanxi-Gansu area. Surrounded by mountains on all sides, it is the only opening called the Hexi Corridor to the Central Plains. In the boundless desert, it is an excellent westward strategic buffer zone.

Chen Mu said that there are not many people there, the production capacity is insufficient, the construction cost is huge and the transportation is extremely inconvenient. When the Central Plains dynasty is strong, this place can be included in the protection. Once the Central Plains falls into chaos, the power of the Western Regions is not enough to protect itself.

This is the same as Dong Yiyuan's report. Dong Yiyuan also said that there are no Han children in the Western Regions, but Chen Mu also mentioned a key point that Dong Yiyuan had not mentioned.

That is, whether the Central Plains dynasty controlled the Western Regions or not, what difference did it mean to the people of the Western Regions?
Chen Mu gave Wanli the answer: peace.

The Central Plains dynasty can bring peace to the surrounding area, and save those small states with insufficient power from the scourge of war in the whirlpool.

Just like an invisible exam, the fact that the Central Plains Dynasty can control the Northeast and threaten the northern elbow and armpit means that its military strength is already extremely strong.

Because there are vast plains, rolling hills, and meandering rivers in the Northeast, the forces that can separate themselves in the Northeast often have diverse cultures, which can be used for farming, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting, and nomadic pastoralism.

The fact that the Central Plains dynasty was able to manage the Northwest meant that they already possessed the best discipline or logistical capabilities of their time.

Marching in the boundless desert has never been an easy task. Soldiers who are usually unstable will fall behind, desert, and desert. In the desert, these discouraged people will do everything possible to stay in the team.

The result is not as good as falling behind. Without extraordinary team and logistics capabilities, an army will fall apart before it reaches Hami from Xi'an.

It is the same even when using troops overseas. If the sergeants are not disciplined, they will be dejected and even fight among themselves during the several months of the voyage on the ship.

Once the Central Plains Dynasty took control of the Western Regions, many city-states in the Western Regions would no longer be fighting each other because of the various city lords fighting each other. Today you destroy the country and burn the city, and tomorrow I will kill the city.

Of course, in the eyes of Emperor Wanli, there is another most appropriate place in the Western Regions, that is, the army of the Central Plains Dynasty in Ye Province fought repeatedly for control.

Wanli knew this in his heart, and his destructive power was far greater than that of the princes of the Western Regions themselves.

He was originally a city lord, and with a thousand or eight hundred troops, he could occupy an area and become king. What size would his Ming army be once it left Jiayuguan?
Even from Wanli's point of view, it is impossible to reduce the scale. His troops have to go into the desert to have supplies, even if it is for a small fight, why not organize a [-]-humped camel team?
Seeing what Chen Mu meant now, it was to take advantage of the fact that the Eastern, Northern, and Western Sanyang military mansions could threaten the general situation of all parts of the world, so that Da Ming would set rules for the world that was still in war.

This idea is particularly interesting to Wanli, so interesting that it can even make Wanli push back the idea of ​​calling the newly recruited Beiyang Army—the group of recruits who were almost brothers with him—to Beijing City to have a look. up.

In the first year of Longqing, the news spread in the southeast that the emperor planned to choose a palace man in the south of the Yangtze River. The parents of the common people were so frightened that they married off girls who were over eight years old, and even did not hesitate to marry them.

Later, it was reported that widows would be selected and sent to the capital along with the selected palace servants, and the widows, young and old, also got married one after another.

At that time, because of the rumors that the married woman gave birth to a child, counting the days, now is the best time for a man to join the army.

But Chen Mu's matter is much more important than Wanli's personal pleasure, after all Wanli himself is a Confucian scholar.

Confucianism, perhaps a thousand years after its birth, has all kinds of bad things, it is pedantic, and it is imprisoned.

But it tells people: have a righteous heart, seek to make progress in life, and fulfill yourself instead of being self-sufficient.

To perfect himself, Wanli has to make the world sing praises to him, and let the people of all countries be grateful to him.

Therefore, the World Conference of Nations must not only be held, but also the standards must be improved. It cannot just be presided over by two oriental ministers.

The imperial court, the successor of the Minister of the East, had long thought of letting the important minister of Beiyang, Ye Mengxiong, replace Chen Mu, but it was not enough for Ye Mengxiong to go.

"The people on the boat are all the envoys of the kings. Daming is the host of Yazhou, so I just send a king there, hehe."

Wanli smiled and turned his head slightly.

Behind him, Lu Wang, who was full of greasy robes and was holding a wrench to Huode Xingjun, paused, raised his head stiffly and mechanically, and met Wanli's eyes: "Emperor, brother...you are not real!" Do you want my younger brother to go?"

　Sorry, I wrote very slowly today, I was not satisfied with the writing and deleted it, my brain hurts.

　　
　
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