Nurhachi fell. Logically speaking, this is the time to pursue the victory. Many generals also thought so. However, Kublai Khan had a different view on this.
"Your Majesty, there is a saying among the Han people that brothers are jealous of each other by fighting against their enemies. If we attack again at this time, we will help the Qing Dynasty!" Kublai Khan said in a deep voice.
For the Yuan Dynasty, people may first think of Temujin. But, in fact, this was the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan's ability is no worse than Temujin's. To be more precise, these are two equally powerful figures, but their strengths are different.
From the perspective of the rise of the Mongolian nation, Genghis Khan is the greatest, but from the perspective of the development of the Mongolian nation, Kublai Khan is the greatest.
In history, it was actually quite difficult for Kublai Khan to become the Great Khan of Mongolia. Because there are several huge mountains lying in front of him.
First, the royal power at that time was in the hands of San Bo Wokuotai. After Wokuotai's death, the throne will definitely be passed on to his descendants. This was also the request of Genghis Khan, the "God of Heaven".
Second, even if it were passed to the Tuolei family, Kublai Khan had an older brother, Meng Ge. Obviously, the throne could only be passed to Meng Ge, not Kublai Khan.
After Meng Ge obtained the position of Great Khan, even if he wanted to pass on the throne, he could only pass it on to his own descendants, or to his youngest brother Alibu (it is a Mongolian tradition to pass it on to the youngest son and younger brother). Kublai Khan, the second oldest, has a very low chance of obtaining the position of Great Khan.
Therefore, according to the traditional way of passing the throne, Kublai Khan could not have any hope.
In this case, Kublai Khan took a special path. The special path Kublai Khan took was to develop into the Han region and rely on the strength of the Han people to help him gain a dominant position. However, the Mongols at that time were opposed to sinicization and alliance with the Han people, but in the end, Kublai Khan still successfully completed the counterattack with the help of sinicization.
After Kublai Khan successfully succeeded to the throne, he still actively used Han landlord class intellectuals to carry out reforms and continued to implement a series of Sinicization policies. The essence of Sinicization policies was feudalization. The Mongolian nation quickly entered from a slave society to a feudal society. This series of means greatly increased the strength of the Mongol Khanate, and it can even be said to have completed a historical leap.
He actively restored and developed agricultural production in the Yellow River Basin, quickly restoring the destroyed economy. He established the Agriculture Department in the central government to manage and guide agricultural production; he promoted the book "Agriculture and Mulberry Collection" throughout the country as a popular science on agricultural production. Book.
Politically, the centralization of power was strengthened. The central government established a province-based and six-ministry system, which improved administrative efficiency; it established a provincial system at the local level, which strengthened local management; and the Central News Agency Propaganda Council managed the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region. Directly managing Tibetan affairs at once is of great significance to the unification of a multi-ethnic country.
He also organized manpower to create Mongolian characters. Throughout the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian characters, together with Chinese characters, served as the common script across the country, promoting cultural exchanges across the country.
In terms of military affairs, Kublai Khan continued to encircle and attack the Southern Song Dynasty until the Yuan army occupied Lin'an in 1276 and the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
In this life, Kublai Khan was no longer Temujin's grandson, but was implanted into Temujin's youngest son. Although he is young, he has already shown his outstanding vision and can often see places that others cannot see.
"In addition, my Yuan Dynasty is pressing hard, and Wei and Qing can only unite. If my Yuan Dynasty lets go of the army, Wei Qiang will be weak. Now that the Qing Emperor is dead, how can Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao be safe?" Kubi Lie continued.
Today, among the three forces on the grassland, they are equivalent to the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. Although Wei is strong, conflicts will still break out between Shu and Wu when they unite. It just depends on whether there is any chance. This is the case in Jingzhou and the same is true in Yiling.
The same is true on their grasslands. Temujin has been pressing forward step by step. As the weaker parties, the Wei and Qing Dynasties must unite together. But if Temujin postpones his military offensive, and now such a change occurs in the Qing Dynasty, then it is not certain what will happen next for these two parties!
"What if we don't conquer Wei?" Although Temujin already had an idea in his mind, he still wanted to hear Kublai Khan's thoughts. To be more precise, he wanted to test Kublai Khan against him. .
"Your Majesty, I heard that King Jin of the Han Dynasty sent Su Dingfang, the former governor of Liangzhou, to go to the Western Regions. Why don't I, the Yuan Dynasty, also take a hand in it!" Kublai Khan had obviously planned this for a long time, and he answered directly.
"Your Majesty, I also think that the Jin army cannot be allowed to capture the Western Region!" Murong Ke also said loudly. If the Jin army is allowed to get the Western Region, it will be even more troublesome to deal with the Jin army.
The Western Regions have played a very critical role in the Central Plains dynasties from ancient times to the present. Let’s not talk about the times when the dynasty was strong. Let’s just say that the Song Dynasty, which was relatively weak in combat power, still had the feat of Xihe opening up the border and trying to open up the Western Regions; the cowardly and incompetent late Qing Dynasty also put down the Agub invasion and regained Xinjiang.
As the heartland of the ancient dynasty, the Western Region retains sufficient strategic depth as a barrier to the western threat in the Guanzhong region. In ancient times, China was basically a land power, so before the Tang and Song Dynasties when overseas trade was not developed, the economic and military significance of the Western Regions could even rise to the level of core strategy.
For example, when the Qing Dynasty's coastal defense and fortress defense were fighting that night, Zuo Zongtang once said that abandoning the Western Regions would put Shaanxi and Gansu in danger, which would then affect the hinterland of the Central Plains. Therefore, the barrier function of the Western Regions to the Central Plains must not be underestimated. Therefore, after completing the basic unification, all dynasties in the past dynasties will move towards the goal of merging the Western Regions and crossing the Congling Mountains.
For the nomadic grassland forces, the Western Regions were the left hook of the Central Plains Dynasty, which always maintained military deterrence against the nomadic grassland forces. The Western Region is like a sharp sword hanging over the grassland, always under military threat from the Central Plains dynasty.
And if the grassland holds the Western Region in its hands, even if it is purely engaged in guerrilla warfare with the Central Plains Dynasty, and continues to retreat westward and northward without a decisive battle with the Central Plains Dynasty, it will sooner or later bring down the Central Plains Dynasty.
But once the Central Plains Dynasty has the Western Region in its hands, it can not only block the Xiongnu's escape route to the west. If the grassland peoples do not want a decisive battle, they can only flee north. But the temperature is very low too far north, and even nomads are unwilling to stay in the cold zones of high latitudes for a long time. In this way, the strategic space of the grassland peoples will be compressed, so they will be forced to fight decisively with the increasingly powerful Central Plains dynasty army.
Even if they are not in a state of war, because the Central Plains Dynasty's garrison in the Western Regions, the grassland peoples must always pay attention to the thousands of kilometers of border lines from the Western Regions to Youbin and other governors, and the Central Plains Dynasty may launch an attack at any time.
As long as Temujin still has thoughts about the Han Dynasty, he must not ignore the problem of the Western Regions. Even if Temujin had no idea about the big man, he could not ignore the problems in the Western Region just for his own safety.
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