Is the country too big to manage?
Su Yonglin smiled and shook his head, not agreeing.
The Ming Dynasty has not yet reached its limit. Even without the appearance of the train, the Ming Dynasty's rule has not yet reached its limit.
Not to mention that once the train appears, Ming's rule will extend to wherever the rails are laid. The rails will continue to extend, and the roads will not continue to extend.
Therefore, Daming will never stop!
That's it!
"Hundreds of years ago, the Tang Dynasty that ruled China expanded its territory to a larger scale than the current Ming Dynasty. Its armies spread all over the world, and they never mentioned the hardships of rule. Tiger Tower, I will tell you a Ming Dynasty proverb, called the world Nothing is difficult, as long as there are people who are willing.
What the Tang State can do, the Ming Dynasty can also do, and will do better than the Tang State. The east of Congling, including the land of Congling, I must occupy, let me see... Well, how about this, here, There is a large lake. Here is the location of the capital of the Liao Kingdom. Here is Congling. "
Su Yonglin clicked three points on the map with his finger.
"Let the line connected by these three points be used as the dividing line. The east of these three points, including these three places, belongs to the Ming Dynasty. To the west, it belongs to the Khwarezm Kingdom. The Ming Dynasty will never interfere. What do you think of the distribution method?"
The three points Su Yonglin pointed to were Lake Balkhash, the capital of the Western Liao Dynasty, Husi On'er'er, and Congling. The three westernmost points formed a line. The east belonged to the Ming Dynasty and the west belonged to the Khwarezm Kingdom. This was Su Yonglin seems to be a more reasonable distribution method.
Because the absolute main force in destroying Xiliao must be the Ming Dynasty, not you, a vassal state that has not yet broken free from the control of the suzerain state.
As a vassal country, we are negotiating cooperation with a superpower to help you get rid of control. No matter what, you have to share more benefits with the superpower, right?
Su Yonglin only had so many demands.
Huta and Alan looked at Su Yonglin's map and felt Su Yonglin's desire for territory. They swallowed and wanted to say something, but they felt that there was nothing to say from their own standpoints.
After all, I am the one who wants things from others. Now that others are asking for the price, I really have no bargaining position.
Unless he can break free from Xiliao's control by his own strength, he can talk to Daming on an equal footing.
Looking at it now, it is still difficult to talk to Daming on an equal footing.
Huta completely conveyed Su Yonglin's intention to Alan. As the special envoy of King Ile Arslan, Alan agreed to Su Yonglin's request after carefully weighing the pros and cons.
"As long as the Ming Dynasty can send troops to help us relieve the enslavement of the Liao Kingdom, recognize the Khwarezm Kingdom, and establish an equal and friendly relationship with us, then we can accept this condition and will never regret it."
Su Yonglin looked at Alan with a half-smile.
"As an envoy, do you have such authority? Is this authority granted to you by your king?"
Huta translated, Alan nodded.
"For the Khwarezm Kingdom, the first goal is to get rid of control, and then other things. If it cannot get rid of the control of the Liao Kingdom and is controlled by others, it is meaningless to talk about other things."
Pertinent, practical, and encouraging.
Su Yonglin smiled and nodded.
"In this case, I think we can make an agreement. I will write a personal letter to your king, and you will take it back to him. We will agree on a time to raise troops together to destroy the Liao Kingdom, and each of us will get what we need."
"This is the best!"
Huta and Alan were both very happy that risking their lives to come to Zhongdu was not in vain. They did not spend this year in vain. They accomplished what they wanted to accomplish.
Afterwards, Su Yonglin held a banquet for them to have a meal, and bought them some simple gifts. Then he arranged for a cavalry team to escort them out of Zhongdu and headed towards Hexi Province, entering from Hexi Province. Great Gobi, embarking on the road back.
After they left, Su Yonglin began to prepare his own grand strategic plan.
Attacking Xiliao requires the use of a large number of cavalry units. It requires a decisive battle with the main force of Xiliao cavalry. If they are destroyed in one battle, the victory of the Ming army can basically be established.
However, after the victory, the Ming army still needed a considerable amount of troops to garrison the local area, annihilate some tribal forces that were unfriendly to the Ming Dynasty, and began to gradually restore normal governance of the local area.
Although the Western Regions is a place that all unified governments throughout the ages have managed, fundamentally speaking, there are still relatively few dynasties that have carried out normal rule over the Western Regions in the true sense, and the period when an administrative system was actually established was Not much.
For most of the period, the central government exercised control over the Western Regions.
Su Yonglin planned to seriously manage these places and integrate them into the mainland of China in a true sense, so he had some thoughts about the places occupied by Xiliao, including the Qiangtang land.
In order to run the business seriously, it is of course best to set up a province.
He planned to refer to the Tang Dynasty's management and rule of the Western Regions and use the Tianshan Mountains as the dividing line. Beiting Province would be established to the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and Anxi Province would be established to the south of the Tianshan Mountains. These two provinces would be divided into the Western Regions and built here. A relatively complete administrative management system.
In order to further take root here and survive and completely assimilate into the local area, Su Yonglin also plans to establish an existence similar to the Production and Construction Corps.
He planned to use the army, military families and inland immigrants as the basis for the Ming Dynasty to govern and assimilate the local area, develop agricultural production, build water conservancy projects and transportation in various livable oases, and vigorously develop local business attributes, using geographical advantages to develop and develop with Khwariz Commercial trade in countries such as the Mo Kingdom and the Gur Dynasty.
By then, he planned to establish two very complete and safe commercial transportation routes, the Tianshan South Line and the Tianshan North Line, to attract businessmen from Central Asia to travel extensively here, drive economic development along the lines, and further consolidate the Ming Dynasty's local influence. rule.
People of all ethnic groups who are willing to participate in this large-scale production process can be accepted and become part of the large-scale production action.
Those who are ambitious and try to destroy all of this must be completely eradicated and exterminated to make them the "nutrition" of the large-scale production movement.
As for the Qiangtang area further south, it is actually not enough to fit into Su Yonglin's grand strategy.
In short, it has no united front value.
Since the global climate change at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the agricultural production situation in the Qiangtang land has plummeted, and it is no longer able to support a country with a population of tens of millions like the Tubo Empire, which can compete with the Tang Dynasty. The climate change has made the Qiangtang land The land gradually became a snowy plateau-like existence.
The climate is cold and highland barley cannot be grown in most areas. The Hehuang land, an important population settlement during the Tubo Empire, is now completely ruled by the Ming Dynasty and cannot provide any production support for the plateau. Therefore, the current Qiangtang land is really No noodles.
Su Yonglin estimated that the current total population of the Qiangtang land was only about one million. It could not be more, and it would be impossible to support more people.
As for the political situation, it is even worse.
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