nanming man

Chapter 679 Opening Up the Southwest

For the Western Wei State, the best result is to be able to incorporate the Western Army, but now that Sun Kewang has fled into Guizhou, Gao Yihuan can only accept the fact that he is temporarily unable to destroy the Western Army.

One of the greatest historical achievements of the Ming Dynasty was the development of the Southwest.

Although the Central Plains Dynasty had controlled the Southwest before, it was only in name and did not change the population structure of the Southwest. The Ming Dynasty suppressed the Tusi rebellion through several wars, weakened the power of the Southwest Tusi, and moved a large number of Han people into the Southwest. , Laid a solid foundation for the Central Plains to control the Southwest later.

In the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao State was in the southwest, and in the Song Dynasty it was the Dali State, neither of which was under the regime of the Han people.

Although the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was large, the Han people did not go out. On the contrary, many places were still occupied by the Semu people brought by the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, who brought the green religion, which made the Han people continue to shrink inward in the late Tang Dynasty.

The situation of the Han people shrinking inward and withdrawing their influence from the surrounding area was gradually reversed during the Ming Dynasty, and began to continue to expand outward.

Entering the age of great voyages, the barbarians in the west expanded rapidly. In fact, the Ming Dynasty also changed the trend of the Central Plains Dynasty shrinking inward since the late Tang Dynasty, and instead expanded outward, opening up the Southwest and immigrating to Liaodong. These are the two major achievements of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, due to the increase in population and the intensification of internal land conflicts, people in the southeast coast spontaneously went to Nanyang. The Han people are expanding their living space from three directions.

Looking at history, Chinese dynasties have always been caught in a cycle of dynastic unification, population growth, land annexation, intensified conflicts, dynasty collapse, and then wars to reduce population, land conflicts weaken, and new dynasties to unify again.

The way for the West to solve this problem is to expand outward, and farmers who lost their land go to colonize overseas. While alleviating internal conflicts, they can also obtain more resources for the country.

China is limited by the terrain, the grasslands and deserts in the north are not suitable for farming, and the mountains and Gobi are in the west. There is only one Hexi Corridor connected to the outside world. The Han people are trapped in the Central Plains, so they cannot direct the contradictions to the outside.

After the Song Dynasty, with the development of navigation technology, the Central Plains dynasty had a way out, but was constrained by the perception that China was in the middle and barbarians were everywhere.

The Ming Dynasty did not realize this, but continued to seek a solution to the contradiction between population and land from within, which made the Central Plains Dynasty miss the good opportunity of overseas expansion.

From the three routes of outward expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the expansion of the Southwest and the emigration into the Liao Dynasty were all dominated by the imperial court, but only the South Seas were not supported by the imperial court, so we can see the difference in understanding.

Although Southwest and Liaodong are border areas, they are still China, but Nanyang is completely barren land.

However, these barren lands in Nanyang, because they are far away from China, their civilization level and technological level are far behind China's surrounding areas, their production capacity and organizational capacity are extremely low, and there are many small countries and tribes, which is undoubtedly a good way to open up the situation.

Xiyi is not far away, and a few hundred people can control a vast area. If there is the support of the imperial court, there is no reason why the Han people cannot gain a foothold in Nanyang.

Now with the decline of the Ming Dynasty, Eastern Liaodong fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty early, and the strategy of opening up the Northeast led by the Ming Dynasty government failed completely. More than three million Liao people became the dead souls of the Qing Dynasty, and the survivors also became slave.

Due to the policy of banning the sea, the Han people who went to Nanyang were regarded as pirates. They were massacred in Nanyang repeatedly, and suffered heavy casualties in Luzon. Without the support of the imperial court, it was extremely difficult for Han people in Nanyang to survive.

Also because of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest, the chieftain rebelled again, and Yunnan had already separated from the Central Plains Dynasty.

At this time, the influence of the Han people began to shrink again, and the three roads were all blocked.

Now that the Western Army has entered Yunnan and Guizhou, to a certain extent, it is beneficial to the control of the Southwest by the Han regime, and to preserve the achievements of the Ming Dynasty's more than 200 years of Southwest development.

At this time, the Wei army was unable to destroy the Western army, and after the Western army poured into Yunnan and Guizhou, it would immediately become the most powerful force in the Yunnan-Guizhou area.

Sun Kewang is good at fighting local tyrants and eating big families. As long as he gets through the initial difficult period, he will be able to gain a firm foothold in the southwest and establish a Han Chinese separatist regime.

In the short term, the Western Army will definitely threaten Sichuan, but in the long run, Sun Kewang's occupation of Yunnan and Guizhou will definitely accelerate the Sinicization of Yunnan and Guizhou. If the Western Wei Dynasty occupies this place in the future, it will save a lot of trouble and can directly enjoy the development of Sun Kewang. later results.

Therefore, after Gao Yihuan realized the fact that there was no way to take Sun Kewang at the moment, he decided to agree to Sun Kewang's conditions for becoming a vassal, and formed an alliance with Sun Kewang.

Although this was Sun Kewang's plan to slow down the army, Gao Yihuan believed that when he really agreed, Sun Kewang would be willing to attach himself to the Western Wei State and use the Western Wei State to restore his strength.

Although the Southwest is now in a vacuum, it is under the threat of the Ming and Wei armies after all. If the Western army wants to make a difference, it must choose a good side.

Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and his like hit the Ming Dynasty vassals and gentry landlords hard, and they were naturally politically opposed to Nanjing. It was determined that even if he put his face on the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing would not pay attention to him, so he had to choose the Western Wei Dynasty. .

In this way, Gao Yihuan can obtain the copper mines in Yunnan and Guizhou, and at the same time use Sun Kewang to contain Nanjing.

In order to avoid the embarrassing situation that the Western Wei State has no helpers in the future, when the Western Wei Dynasty is strong and the Ming and Qing Dynasties are weak, Nanjing will once again move towards alliance with the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, in this way, Sun Kewang will inevitably become bigger, and it is not impossible to get rid of the Western Wei Dynasty in the future.

But now Gao Yihuan has nothing to do with Sun Kewang, so he doesn't need to consider whether Sun Kewang will become a big issue, but needs to consider whether he should get what he needs right now.

It is undoubtedly in Gao Yihuan's interest to stabilize Sichuan first, reduce Sun Kewang's threat to Sichuan, and at the same time obtain the copper mines in Yunnan and Guizhou so that Wei Jun has enough copper to realize the transformation of weapons.

Out of various considerations, Gao Yihuan decided to agree to Sun Kewang's condition, but whether Sun Kewang still accepts this condition, then he doesn't know.

At this time, after the Western Army withdrew from southern Sichuan, the Wei Army quickly took control of eastern and southern Sichuan. Under the control of the chieftain.

Gao Yihuan didn't immediately deal with these Ming soldiers and chieftains, because most of them were located in the mountains, and they could only slowly disintegrate and disintegrate, and it was difficult to decide in a single battle.

At the end of October, after the scouts reported that Sun Kewang had captured Guiyang and the main force moved southwest, Gao Yihuan left Wang Deren to guard Chongqing and southern Sichuan, and sent Jin Shenghuan back to Huguang.

Gao Yihuan also returned to Chengdu with his army, preparing to integrate Sichuan. However, as soon as he arrived in the capital, news came from Guanzhong.

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