Farming promoted the agricultural development of the Western Regions and promoted the establishment of civil governance institutions. The Western Regions are more than 7,000 miles from east to west, more than 6,000 miles from north to south, and more than 20,000 miles from north to south. After Dashun unified the Western Regions, the household government proposed a plan for immigration development.
The household government advocated the relocation of "the unemployed and poor people from Gansu and other places to make a living and farm", believing that this would not only be conducive to the development of the Western Regions, but also ease the population conflicts in the interior, killing two birds with one stone.
Li Laiheng repeatedly instructed Northwest Economic Envoy Zhou Zuoding and Anxi Governor Li Maoheng to recruit Gansu people to farm in the Western Regions.
In the middle of the Shizu Dynasty, Gansu Province suffered from droughts for many years, and Li Laiheng had to consider solving the poverty problem in the northwest Longxing area.
He noticed that "living in the border areas is difficult, and it is especially urgent to plan for long-term prosperity", so that the people in the disaster-stricken areas of Gansu can improve their plight. Li Laiheng believed that after the unification of the Western Regions, Daxing Farming has become a paradise, "Businessmen and people are converging, and the scenery is no different from that of the mainland."
However, the reason why people from the mainland did not enthusiastically go there was because they lacked specific understanding of the development situation in the Western Regions, so they hesitated to move forward.
He asked local officials to try to persuade Gansu merchants to go out to Jiayuguan to farm. "In the future, people outside the pass will gather to support Tibet, and they can also add counties and counties. If the people who are waiting for food move one more person outside, they will consume less grain per day in the interior.
It can make the Tibetan area richer and richer, turning barrenness into plumpness." Half a year later, Gansu suffered another severe drought, and refugees were everywhere. The imperial court allocated two million yuan in silver and 200,000 stones of grain to help the victims, and instructed Chang'an to order them to
Try to persuade the refugees to go to the Western Regions to cultivate land, "so that everyone knows the practical benefits of making a living outside the border, and there will be a rush to go there, not only those who are complaining now, they will not be homeless; in the future, there may be a bad harvest, and the barren land will be poor."
, it can also avoid the fatigue of sitting around, and it is actually a long-term strategy to prepare for the livelihood of border people."
Gansu common merchants continued to enter the Western Regions. In order to strengthen their management, the imperial court gradually established civil governance institutions. Zhenxifu was established in Barkol, Dihua Prefecture was established in Urumqi, and Fukang, Changji, Suilai, and Yihe were established in other places.
Qitai and other counties. These state and county agencies are all located in northern Xinjiang, which is a further development of the farming system.
Although Li Laiheng regarded farming in the Western Regions as a move that would benefit future generations, this move was not the consensus of all members of the court, and there were great differences both inside and outside the court.
During the court examination in the third year after the pacification of Junggar, someone in the new imperial examinations said that "in ancient times, farming was a labor of the people", and in disguise, accused the farming of Yili and the farming of Luntai in the Western Han Dynasty, which was also a waste of people and money.
Li Laiheng seized this opportunity to publicize the far-reaching purpose of farming in the Western Regions. He said that farming in Ili now relies entirely on the Hui tribe's indigenous farming. The Hui tribe originally relied on farming. This was the case when the Junggar tribe controlled the Western Region.
After the imperial court unified the Western Regions, they ordered the Hui people to continue farming as usual. "It was just returning what they already owned. The governors and other governors followed the instructions to cultivate the land, and they only used their own people to cultivate the land. There was once a common people in the mainland who worked hard to cultivate the land.
It’s like the past.”
Regarding the issue of sending prisoners to farm, he explained that these criminals were full of evil and should have been executed. Now they are allowed to go to the Western Regions to farm. "To reduce the number of people who have died and give them a way to make a living, they cannot be called people, nor can they be called citizens."
Ande is called labor." He particularly emphasized that farming in the Western Regions not only solves the food problem for the defending army, "the country has a large population and breeds a number of people, no less than hundreds of millions of years old. If only this number is raised, there will be a lot of profit.
It was difficult. People from the inland areas along the border went to plant crops, get married and raise children, which was very beneficial. To ban it was to be strict with the people. Now in Urumqi, development has spread everywhere, and the settlement is booming, and the guests have come to trade one after another.
, Mao eaves and soil are filed, and each one forms a settlement. In the future, as the streets increase and the tree art becomes more widespread, the unemployed and poor people in Gansu and other places will go to make a living and farm, and they will have more food to eat, which will be of great benefit to the country's herdsmen."
He finally said: "Today's farming operations are only based on local conditions. However, ignorant people still doubt the labor of the people. I really don't understand it, and there is no need to explain it. Future generations will have their own fair opinions."
Li Laiheng was already good at speaking, and he was the supreme leader of the Nine Five-Year Plan Period who no one dared to directly refute. He silenced the new scholars in the court examination, and afterwards he ordered the government to punish those scholars who opposed the policy of farming in the Western Regions.
Separate volumes and send them all to the Jinshi Hall for another five or six years to read.
Urumqi is located in the central part of northern Xinjiang, with suitable climate conditions for farming, fertile soil, and sufficient water resources. After the development of farmland organized by Dashun, the economy prospered rapidly, and was gradually restructured into Dihua Prefecture, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor.
The population density is even gradually surpassing that of Ili.
The Western Region is vast, with thousands of miles of long borders. The first thing that needed to be guarded at that time was Kazakhstan. Kazakhs and Oirat Mongols were both nomadic peoples, living a life of chasing water and grass. When the Junggar regime controlled the Western Region, the Kazakhs were afraid of Junggar.
The cavalry plundered and fled far away.
After Dashun restored the Western Region, the population of Oirat in northern Xinjiang dropped sharply due to the war. Kazakhs took advantage of the situation. The Kazakhs actually sent envoys to the Shun Dynasty garrison and said: "The land of Oirat is now empty. We, the Kazakhs, are here in Talbahatai."
, Kukwusu, Choerhun Baruk, Altan Emel and other nomadic places. We are all servants of the heaven, and we sincerely allow you to go to Ili to nomadic people."
In response to this unreasonable request, the Anxi Metropolitan Governor's Office sternly rejected it and clearly requested the Kazakh tribes: Kazakhs will never be allowed to enter Ili, and nomadic people in Talbahatai and other places must move out.
Li Laiheng also clearly instructed Li Maoheng, the governor of Anxi who had been stationed in Ili for a long time, not to hesitate to use force to expel the cross-border nomadic Kazakhs from the country. If they resisted, he would attack them with troops and seize all their cattle and sheep.
The Shun Dynasty always maintained a high degree of vigilance against Kazakh nomads crossing the border. Later, Kazakh herders, coveting the natural conditions of luxuriant water and grass in the Ili area, often crossed the border secretly in winter and took a large number of livestock to spend the winter in Ili.
As a result, the two sides frequently clashed. However, due to the vast expanse of lush green mountains and the Shun Dynasty had not yet digested the vast Western Region land, a large number of troops were trapped in Nanyang and Burma, engaged in a protracted struggle for hegemony with the resurgent post-Xi Ming Dynasty-Dimier Empire.
After the war, the policy of force was slightly slowed down. It was not until the civil strife of the Kazakh Sanyuzi tribe that troops were sent to pacify the Kazakhs.
In addition, Dashun also gradually established diplomatic relations with Tsarist Russia in the process of managing the Western Regions. By the middle of the Shizu Dynasty, the border lines between Shun and Russia had already converged in Central Asia and Mobei, and actual contacts increased.
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The Russians wanted to cross Lake Baikal several times and continue to occupy land in the Heilongjiang area. However, at this time, under the management of the Anton Metropolitan Governor's Office, as many as 3,000 patrol troops had been stationed in the Heilongjiang border area for a long time. The Russians arrived in Heilongjiang
The hundreds of Cossack explorers in the area had no advantage in military technology over the shun army, and were even more outnumbered, so they were quickly expelled.
After several more trials, Tsarist Russia was finally convinced of Dashun's strength on the frontier and took the initiative to stop its expansion west of Lake Baikal.
There were occasional conflicts between the two countries in Kazakhstan and the Mobei grassland, but in general, because the Shun Dynasty adopted a relatively preferential trade policy towards Tsarist Russia, the two sides basically did not have any armed conflicts involving more than a thousand people.