The Western Regions now are no longer the Western Regions they used to be.
Jiang Liangping fully learned the vicissitudes of the Western Regions in the hundreds of years after losing control of the Western Regions in the middle and late Tang Dynasty in the senior officer training class.
He learned that the countries in the Western Regions have long since disappeared in the long river of history. Except for the Xixia occupied part of the Western Regions, most of the remaining lands are under the control of the Western Liao. To the south of the Western Regions are the Tubo tribes.
Of course, today's Tubo has lost the strength it had during the Tang Dynasty due to climate change. Along with the average level of East Asia in the twelfth century, it has become weak and has no threat.
At that time, Tubo was able to occupy the Hexi Corridor, invade Chang'an, cut off the Tang Dynasty's control of the Western Regions, and cause the Tang Dynasty to bleed. Their martial arts were so impressive that the Tang Dynasty was never stable.
And now Tubo can't even do anything to a small Xixia, which is almost half disabled. Even if there is no active military attack, they will be finished in the future and will no longer be a threat.
Therefore, the main enemy that the Hexi Corps faced after annexing Xixia was Xiliao.
What a significant historical mission.
Since the Tang Dynasty, since the group of white-headed soldiers, the political power of the Han people has not set foot in that land for a long, long time. After the white-headed soldiers were completely annihilated, that land has not been directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Empire for a long, long time. .
The Central Plains regime that had been running the Western Regions since the Han Dynasty had already injected the genes of Han culture into the local area. However, the Northern Song Dynasty was too decadent and could not take over the banner of the Tang Dynasty and continue to run the Western Regions.
At this moment, Jiang Liangping felt that he was standing at a historical node, that he was experiencing a great and magnificent era, and was about to contribute to it.
Han Wei specially asked Jiang Liangping to let him know the importance of the Ningxia Plain and the Hetao Plain, and asked him to fortify these two important essence areas in future actions to protect the safety of these two areas, so as to facilitate these two areas. The plains became an important production base, providing enough food for his army.
Jiang Liangping had already known about the fertility of the Ningxia Plain before, and now under the guidance of Ulage, he galloped on the Hetao Plain, feeling the nourishment and kindness of the Yellow River water to the Ningxia Plain and the Hetao Plain.
As he watched, Jiang Liangping suddenly felt a little resentful towards Huang He.
Why does the Yellow River, which is so gentle to the land west of Hexi, treat the middle and lower reaches of the river so harshly?
Why can we irrigate the Hetao but cannot be gentle to the people in the downstream areas?
After a while, Jiang Liangping felt funny again for his behavior.
What's wrong with the Yellow River?
The fault is obviously the people themselves who caused chaos. It is the people themselves who turned the Qinghe River into the Yellow River. The inaction of the superior people turned the Yellow River into an above-ground river.
However, all this will come to an end at the hands of their generation, who will do their best to make up for the mistakes of their ancestors and solve the Yellow River problem from an overall perspective.
Once the Yellow River problem is solved, the huge hidden benefits it will generate will be enough for the Ming Dynasty to truly take off and gain unprecedented vitality.
At that time, it will be the time for Ming Dynasty to truly liberate itself and the world.
Jiang Liangping believed that Su Yonglin would definitely be able to solve the Tiancan start that the Yellow River had brought to the Ming Dynasty.
Su Yonglin will certainly not let down people's trust and reliance on him.
His purpose has never changed.
So when the Xixia rebels headed by Ren Dejing arrived in Zhongdu, Su Yonglin ordered them to be beheaded outside Zhongdu city to show the great prestige of the Ming Dynasty.
Before the beheading, Su Yonglin took some time to meet with Ren Dejing and look at this oligarch who, as a Han, had reached the top of the Xixia regime dominated by party members.
What makes Su Yonglin a little disappointed is that Ren Dejing is no different from an ordinary old man now. His hair is gray, his eyes are depressed, he has no energy, and there is a deathly air all over his body. He feels like he is about to die - which is true. in this way.
"I thought you would give me some different feelings, but it turns out you are no different from the people I defeated before."
Su Yonglin asked his subordinates to move a chair and sit in front of Ren Dejing's cage. He asked everyone to disperse, leaving this space for the two of them.
Ren Dejing raised his eyes and looked at Su Yonglin.
"It is said that Emperor Ming is young. Now that I see it, it is true. If I lose at your hands, I will really have wasted my years."
"Whether you are young or not is not the most important thing. The most important thing is whether you use your life to do the right things. Otherwise, no matter how long you live, you will just be an old thief."
"What's the meaning?"
Ren Dejing looked at Su Yonglin.
"It means, have you benefited the world? Have you used your life and power to do some good things, such as reducing taxes, distributing land, stabilizing order, exterminating bandits, or building the Yellow River."
Su Yonglin slowly said: "I rebelled for three years, founded the country for three years, and six years before and after. Although it was not a long time, I thought I had done a lot for the people of the world. I overthrew the Jin Dynasty, abolished exorbitant taxes, and distributed land. , so that farmers do not have heavy burdens and have land to cultivate.
I built water conservancy projects so that dry rivers could flow again, and dry land could grow food again. I built roads and wiped out bandits so that business travelers could travel smoothly. The country's economy was rising steadily. I used a strong army to attack the Hulu in the north, making The barbarians did not dare to go south, and the people at the border could thrive and live in peace. "
After saying that, Su Yonglin looked at Ren Dejing and asked: "So, my six years have not been wasted, right? Although I am only twenty-five years old, I have achieved a lot in these six years. Right?"
Ren Dejing was silent for a while, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a while, Ren Dejing sighed deeply.
"When you overthrew the Jin Kingdom and established the Ming Kingdom, some people there said that although you are not the emperor, you are a heavenly being. If you are not a heavenly being, how could you overthrow such a powerful Jin Kingdom at such a young age?
Now I am even more convinced that you are not an ordinary person, you are a heavenly being. If you were not a heavenly being, how could you have accomplished so many things in just six years? You actually want to build the Yellow River, you... Su Yonglin, tell me, are you a heavenly being? What is it like in heaven? "
Ren Dejing put his head against the cage and stared at Su Yonglin's face, seemingly eager to get the answer from his face.
Su Yonglin smacked his lips and thought for a while.
"Ugh! Whoever destroys the six kingdoms is the six kingdoms, not Qin; whoever belongs to Qin is Qin, not the world. Sigh! If you make the six kingdoms love their own people, it will be enough to reject Qin; if you make Qin love the people of the six kingdoms again, , then he can be king for three generations and be king for eternity. Who will get it and his family will be destroyed? Qin people have no time to mourn for themselves, and future generations will mourn for them; future generations will mourn for them and ignore them, which will also cause future generations to mourn for future generations again... "
"Afang Palace Fu? What does it mean?"
Ren Dejing didn't understand.
Su Yonglin looked at Ren Dejing with a sneer.
"Don't you understand? Those who destroy the Six Kingdoms are also called the Six Kingdoms, and those who belong to Qin are also called Qin. Those who destroy the Jin Kingdom are also called the Jin Kingdom, and those who belong to the Ren clan are also called the Ren clan!"
"Did I destroy me?"
Ren Dejing's head was full of questions: "Why do you always speak strangely? How could I destroy myself? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Under my leadership, the Ren family has gone from a precarious situation to a The most powerful family in the entire Xia Kingdom! They have clearly grown in strength!"
"Then what?"
Su Yonglin shook his head and sighed: "You have never understood, or in other words, you simply don't want to admit why you failed, and why I succeeded so quickly. It's not how strong I am, but how bad you are." .
Starting from the Chanyuan Alliance, the former Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom began to rot. Both countries were rotten, and then Li Yuanhao rose. Then Li Yuanhao became complacent and began to rot. Once he died, he was already weak. Of course, the Xia Kingdom quickly decayed.
The Jin Kingdom, which destroyed the Liao Kingdom and the former Song Dynasty, was very strong at the beginning. After the Shaoxing Peace Treaty, it also collapsed. Together with the Song Kingdom in the south, the Xia Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, and the Song Kingdom were three countries on the same land that did not want to destroy each other. Isn’t it strange that we want to coexist peacefully?
Forget about me, which king in the past dynasties has not worked hard to eliminate the separatist forces in this land? Which one doesn't want to unify the world and become the emperor of the world? Why are you three countries so weird? "
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