, Hearing that the emperor said that he was going to tour the river west, a group of veterans were a little surprised.
In the river, few of these old handsomes here have been there, let alone the emperor.
At that time, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty Yang Guangxi toured Zhangye, which was already the farthest western tour among the emperors, and that time Yang Guang suffered a big loss, and the palace maids and soldiers who accompanied him encountered a snowstorm and did not know how many froze to death.
"Your Majesty, Han Kyung" Zhang Chao waved his hand, "Han Jing doesn't have to worry about it, the prince is in Beijing to supervise the country, and there are Chu Xiang, Wei Xiang, Fang Gong, Ma Gong and other elders in the court, nothing can happen." ” The emperor is very relieved of the crown prince, and Zhang Jing is almost thirty years old, and he is no longer a reckless person.
From the youthfulness of the management of Ryuqiu, to the decisiveness of the conquest of Korea, and then to the six years of careful management of the town and Fusang, the prince has grown step by step, becoming more and more stable and mature.
Ten years of experience, it can be described as quite beautiful, basically no big mistakes, what to do is clear-sighted, more and more decisive and wise.
This year, the prince entered Beijing to supervise the country, and Zhang Chao patrolled.
He stayed outside for more than half a year, and the prince also got along harmoniously with the cabinet, the Hanlin Yuan, the parliament and other ministries in Beijing, and none of the old ministers said that the prince presided over the government inappropriately.
To be honest, even if Zhang Chao gives up the throne to Zhang Jing now, the crown prince is capable enough to bear this burden.
Qin Qiong persuaded the emperor not to tour the west, the river was not Chang'an.
Chang'an is only 800 miles away from Hanjing, there is a smooth Danba Road, the waterway is transferred to the rail carriage by boat, and then enters the Danshui Canal to Hanjing, in fact, you can return to Beijing soon.
But the river is different, thousands of miles away.
Even if the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Western Regions and the grasslands are now under the control of Dahua, they are too far away after all.
Between Hanking and Hezhong, even if the fastest pigeon station is used to deliver the news, it will take several days to make a round trip.
Not to mention, Hezhong is already a border province between Dahua and Arabia, and the Arabs' iron cavalry can quickly move north.
They can't let the emperor take this risk, in case he is besieged by hundreds of thousands of Turkic horsemen like Yang Guang's patrol of Yanmen.
What's more, Li Shimin was also a Turkic expedition to the west, and he led the army to the Western Regions, but a fire broke out in the backyard.
Emperor Li Yuan was restored, and the Central Plains was in turmoil.
If it weren't for Zhang Chao waiting for the king to raise troops quickly, and waiting for Li Shimin to rush back to Hanjing all the way, I don't know what kind of chaos would be.
Even if the crown prince is now benevolent and filial, and the important ministers in the court are loyal, the emperor is easily away from the Central Plains, which still makes them not feel at ease.
It's a long way to go, and they can't afford anything that happens.
However, Zhang Chao had already made up his mind and planned to go to the Western Regions.
"Your Majesty, both Zhongnan and Tianzhu have not yet been conquered, and now they really want to start a war with the Arabs, is it not a diplomatic mediation?"
Dahua has been established for ten years and has been fighting foreign wars for ten years.
On the Indochina Peninsula, a decade ago there were only a few large countries and a group of small states.
The four countries of Shui Zhenlu, Lu Zhenla, Bi Kingdom, and Langya Xiu were the strongest, and then the remaining group of small countries were basically vassal states of the four countries.
In the past few years, Dahua has directly let them go together.
One to beat a group.
Anyway, one is fighting, two are also fighting, and a group is still fighting.
Up to now, ten years have passed, and the former Zhancheng, Funan, and Qiandi have all been merged by Dahua, and even Shui Zhenla was attacked by Cui Yan this year and captured the king alive.
Wolf Tooth Repair was also breached last year.
From Jiaozhou to Lijiapo in the Strait of Malacca, the long coastline has been completely opened up by Dahua in ten years.
The Red River Delta, the Mekong River Delta, the Chao Phraya River Delta and other fertile lands have been conquered, and along the long coastline, all the good harbors have established the colony of Dahua, and those wide inland bays are also colonial stronghold castles that extend to the past.
Lu Zhenla and the Bi Kingdom retreated to the inland mountains, and they were still resisting stubbornly, relying on the rainy season and jungles of the Indochina Peninsula to resist.
In Nanyang, there is only one Sri Buddha left in Jinzhou who is still resisting.
In Tianzhu, most of the 36 vassal states after the internal strife of the Jieri Dynasty have been conquered by Dahua.
Although Donghui and Shaqi are still at war with Dahua, in the overall situation, Dahua is constantly devouring their land, and their territory is expanding day by day.
According to the deployment of the Privy Council, they estimated that in the original ten years, they would be able to defeat Lu Zhenla, the Kingdom of Fat, the Death of Sri Buddha, the Kingdom of Shalouqi, the Kingdom of Donghui and the Kingdom of the Ring of the Sun, and in another ten years, they would be able to conquer and stabilize them.
Twenty years later, it will move westward and take North Africa.
"Whether it's in Central South China, the South Seas, or South Asia, those countries are no longer in the climate, but they are still using geography to survive, and all we need is some time to slowly clean them up.
So that side doesn't really affect the big picture. ” Indochina has not been conquered for ten years, not because of how strong Zhenla and Bi are there, but only because of the transportation, climate and other reasons that limit the progress of the conquest.
The jungle in the rainy season is still quite annoying.
Jungle and deep mountains, this is not something that can be solved in a short time.
The plan of the imperial court is to first follow the coast, then the plain, and then the banks of the inland river, and connect the coast along the river, forming a line of noose.
Occupying the coastline, river banks, and plains, in fact, Dahua has already occupied the central and southern regions, and it is only a matter of time before the remaining ones are annihilated by the enemy.
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Donghui was originally a vassal state of Dahua like Tubo, and they originally submitted to Dahua, but in the end they turned against Dahua like Nibora.
The South Asian subcontinent has been fighting for ten years, and there are many wars everywhere.
The Jieri Dynasty, which once dominated the northern part of Tianzhu, is now completely falling apart, with dozens of large and small feudal states, both destroyed and conquered by Dahua, and those who have annexed Dahua, as well as those who resist stubbornly, and those who are still attacking and annexing at this time.
In recent years, the imperial court's strategy towards Central South and the subcontinent has actually been relatively cruel, and it has not been in a hurry to engage in any battles such as smashing the royal city, but more of devouring.
With a little bit of conquest, most of the conquered natives were not treated as well as they were when they conquered Korea and Fuso, and they were more often sent back to the Central Plains as prisoners of war, and most of them eventually became slaves.
There are also many ordinary people who have been relocated to the Central Plains, and they have been given their own share of free people, but leaving their homeland and hometown is actually equivalent to losing all their roots, no property, and no freedom.
When they arrived in the Central Plains, they had no land to divide.
They didn't get a piece of land, they got a job.
He was assigned to one manor and one workshop after another, and became a farmer in the manor, a worker in the workshop, and a salary to live and support his family.
Of course, this kind of day is not good, but no one in the court will be lenient to them.
Because Dahua expanded so fast, it was no longer possible to immigrate in Zhenla, Langyaxiu and other places, and it was extremely difficult to control these conquered people by relying only on expeditionary forces.
Just as there was a shortage of people in the Central Plains, the unruly ones were reduced to slaves, and many Yi people were moved back to the Central Plains, which greatly relieved the labor tension in the Central Plains and at the same time, it could also reduce the pressure on Dahua to control the newly conquered areas.
The relocation of the original owners of the newly conquered land was also just right to provide land for the new Han Chinese immigrants.
The newly conquered lands were now full of castles and manors, and the plantations, all owned by the land's former owners, were now slaves or hired laborers.
Only a very small part of the indigenous people, only about two or three percent, because of their better attitude, and not the upper class of the past, were able to retain their own house property land.
This kind of conquest was cruel, but Zhang Chao and the ministers also knew that it was also inevitable.
Dahua does not use this method, and it is simply impossible to truly incorporate these newly conquered lands into its territory, and it cannot also implement the system of bondage, which is actually very harmful.
The implementation of the fetters system, and then the implementation of Sinicization education, so that those ignorant and backward natives opened their eyes, and even learned the advanced knowledge and system of Dahua, then they will rise up and rebel sooner or later.
It might as well be as thorough as it is now.
"In the battle with the Great Food, the imperial court should have a clear positioning.
What are the reasons for our war and what are our goals?
” Zhang Chaodao.
Cheng Yanjin opened his mouth and said, "Of course, why are they fighting, because they provoke our Dahua, plunder our merchant ships, intercept our trade routes, and even violate the agreement they made at the beginning to raise taxes on us, which is unbearable." ” Zhang Chao shook his head.
That's it, and there is no need for war.
After all, it is normal for big powers to play games between them, and Zhang Chao wants to go to war with Arabia because they have violated Dahua's bottom limit and touched Dahua's core interests.
Dahua was threatened by the Arabs' desire to expand eastward, and at the same time, Dahua could not abandon the huge foreign trade market of Central Asia.
Now that Arabia occupies such a large area, if they no longer trade with Dahua, then Dahua's foreign trade capacity will inevitably be overcapacity.
At that time, a large number of foreign trade businesses will be damaged or even bankrupt as a result, which will bring more unemployment to foreign trade workers.
Now Dahua does have enough grain output to feed the hundreds of millions of people, but the problem is that now Dahua's social structure has changed, and it is no longer the single classical agricultural self-sufficiency model of the past, and only a small number of people cultivate the land and grow grain, and more people are engaged in other walks of life, living by earning wages and buying grain.
Those workers related to the foreign trade industry, once they lose their jobs, they have no income, and even if there is food in the grain store, they have no money to buy it.
If a large number of workers are unemployed, it will inevitably bring more social problems, turmoil and unrest, and the imperial court will not be able to support these people with its own finances, even if the imperial court is really able to give them some unemployment benefits, but it will not last long.
In the final analysis, this is a new problem under the new social structure.
It was trade that prompted Dahua to fight this war.
Therefore, Zhang Chao did not think that the purpose of this war was to destroy Arabia or how to do it, the purpose of this war was not to attack cities and seize land, expand territory, the purpose of this war was to maintain trade, which was essentially an opium war.
Conquer the Arabs, let them continue to come back, open the country to do business, everything is easy to talk about. t1706231537: