It doesn't matter whether he enters Fuqi City or digs through the Western Region, but these are things for later. The focus at the moment is to win the battle of Wuwei.
If Wu Wei cannot hold on, the battlefield will turn to Tianshui, Anding and other places, and the war will even burn directly to Chang'an City.
Reopening the Western Region? Think about it in a dream, there is everything in the dream.
Li Xingchen didn't care about Xiao Shilian who was filled with righteous indignation next to him. This guy didn't have a habit of talking, and he was clearly trying to set me up here. If I fully agree, when the Han army defeats Tuyuhun, this guy will use it as proof.
, requesting to lead the army into the Western Regions.
Do you think I can't see this little thought?
Li Xingchen's vision of opening up the Western Region still requires stability after all.
Xiao Shilian may not necessarily be qualified for this.
The Western Regions were the territory where the Han Dynasty was in its heyday. It was a territory that countless heroes and martyrs fought for and conquered with bloody battles. Therefore, the Han Dynasty was bound to win the Western Regions.
But how to capture the Western Regions is a problem.
If we only rely on violence, the countries in the Western Regions may be able to surrender under the pressure of the Han in a short period of time, but what about the long term? Once there is any internal chaos within the Han Dynasty, it will be impossible to station too many troops in the Western Regions, which will be the same as history.
As in the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Protectorate's ministries returned to the Central Plains in order to quell the Anshi Rebellion. The Western Regions were instantly fragmented. The Tang remnants and the remaining troops in turn became the targets of suppression and revenge by the Hu people in the Western Regions.
Letting Xiao Shilian go into battle, Li Xingchen was really worried that this guy would not be able to help but go on a killing spree. After all, the countries in the Western Regions had been separated from the Central Plains for a long time, and suddenly the Han army came to kill them. It was impossible for them to surrender easily. Once there was a conflict, Xiao Shilian
They will definitely not be merciful to these guys, especially this time the countries in the Western Regions have sent troops and horses to help out, which will inevitably make the generals at all levels of the Han army unable to help but attack them.
Therefore, it may be more appropriate to let Pei Zilie conquer the Western Regions. At least Pei Zilie is more stable by nature and will not intensify the conflicts between ethnic groups, or allow many conflicts to be hidden and not discovered. In this case, Li Xingchen will naturally be able to more easily and gather together
The Ba people and all the tribes in Nanzhong also gathered these barbarians.
At the same time, he could also learn from the experience of later generations, station in the Western Regions, or even immigrate directly from Han to the Western Regions, allowing the Western Regions to exist as a colony first.
Immigration is nothing new to today's Han people.
The Han Dynasty had already begun to immigrate to Nanyang and other places in a planned way after taking Linyi. Now the development of Annan and other places is in full swing. As the Han Dynasty gradually began to shift its focus to the north, many investments in the south and the like
They also began to return to support the construction in the north. However, even so, the Han Dynasty did not relax its development of Nanyang, and the rich minerals and other products gradually discovered in Nanyang have now gradually formed a scale, and many merchants have even begun contract planting.
By developing parks and minerals, these resources naturally turned into money, and instead became one of the important driving forces for the economic recovery in the Han Dynasty.
This was something that even the officials in the court had never thought of before.
China's Kyushu has a vast territory and abundant resources. This has only been proven through the ages. It is also the education and understanding they have received since childhood. Although there is nothing wrong with this understanding, it has intentionally or unintentionally caused narrowness in many aspects.
and limitations.
One of the most important ones is that only China is rich, while the surrounding areas are barbaric.
From a cultural and civilizational perspective, this does not seem to be a problem.
Naturally, it is impossible to compare Linyi and other countries in the Western Regions with China in terms of the level of civilization development. In any case, China is the only one of the four ancient civilizations that has survived, and has a profound cultural heritage.
, it is also invincible when looking at the world.
However, the richness and strength of civilization cannot be linked to the richness of products.
Although abundant products can give birth to civilization, it may not necessarily give birth to a strong civilization. Are Africa's products rich? Wouldn't it end up being beaten by poor and idle Europeans? If it hadn't been plundered from Africa and the Americas.
With so much money, Europe would not be able to enter the Industrial Revolution era first and lead the world in the next hundred years of rapid development.
Nanyang is still in a primitive state. This does not mean that Nanyang is impoverished. On the contrary, it also means that Nanyang has a large number of rich products that have not been discovered before.
As the Han Dynasty developed Nanyang, its rich mineral resources and unseen and unheard of plants, animals, etc. attracted the attention of the Han Dynasty and the public. This was simply a living Book of Mountains and Seas, so the original restrictions and confinements in Chinese thought were natural
was gradually broken.
People's eyes are no longer limited to the land of Kyushu, the sky plus the Western Region, but they begin to look to a wider place, the vast land, the vast sea, the outside world is far broader than they imagined, and the outside world
The world is far more interesting than you imagine.
It is a common problem in all Chinese dynasties to regard oneself as the superior state of heaven.
Treating itself as a heavenly kingdom naturally means being arrogant and no longer paying attention to other neighboring countries, and at the same time not thinking about expanding its territory to these places.
Although, as many people have said, through the efforts of generations, our ancestors have indeed developed from a tribal alliance in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to now occupying almost the best territory in Asia, but it cannot be ignored that we occupy
The so-called best land means that it is conducive to farming, but in fact, this land still lacks many important mineral resources.
If China had always maintained its original small-scale peasant economy, then there would be no problem with having such a piece of land.
But if China wants to continue to develop from industry and commerce, and wants to accumulate wealth as soon as possible and enter the industrial society, then sorry, this land may not be able to fully support it. Based on the experience of later generations, we can see that, except for Qingzhou, that is,
There is a gold mine here in Shandong. Jinyang, that is, Shanxi is rich in coal in the north and south, and other minerals such as oil, iron ore, silver ore and various metal minerals are either in the northeast or the southwest, or even in the western region.
in the yellow sand desert.
These are all needed for the development of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, to this day, if the leaders of the Han Dynasty can still only see these products on the ground, it would be too narrow-minded.
What is hidden deep underground is what this country needs more in the future.
Both above and below ground are indispensable.
Fortunately, Li Xingchen already had this awareness very early on. When he had just established a foothold in Bashu, he sent people to go deep into Nanzhong to explore the minerals, and gained quite a lot, which laid a solid foundation for the rapid development of Dahan industry today.