Chapter 1278 operates the Western Regions
A large reason why the Donghu Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom came together was actually related to the expansion of the Ming Dynasty in the South Seas.
Not long ago, the Donghu State took advantage of the chaos in the South Seas to invade Siam, and the army attacked the capital of Siam, Dacheng, and saw that it was about to break through the city, but the Ming Dynasty occupied the city, entangled the Zheng Lord, Ruan Zhu, Gao Ping, Mo and Chenla Four Kingdoms Army, Chen Bing on the border between Siam and Chenla, asked Donghu to withdraw its troops, Donghu was forced to withdraw the siege of Dacheng under pressure.
Siam was just between the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty and Donghu, and the Ming Dynasty naturally did not want Donghu's forces to enter the Gulf of Siam and threaten Chenla and other subject states.
The actions of the Ming Dynasty allowed Siam to escape the catastrophe, and it was also to ensure the safety of the subject country and stabilize the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty.
This incident made the whole country of Donghu very indignant, after all, the duck to the beak flew, and there must be huge resentment from the top and bottom of Donghu.
However, the Ming Dynasty was strong after all, and even the Dutch were defeated, and the little overlord of Nanyang dared not speak out.
The rise of one side is always accompanied by the decline of one side, and the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty will only expand further outward with the increase of national strength, while the traditional little overlord of Nanyang can only shrink step by step.
In fact, not only the Donghu Kingdom, but also the Dutch and Spaniards, or other forces around the Ming Dynasty, as long as they did not retreat, they could not avoid a war with the Ming Dynasty.
Historically, the First World War was the same, and a newly rising power like the Ming Dynasty was bound to continue to expand its sphere of influence.
If Donghu does not retreat, then the contradiction will inevitably explode.
The withdrawal of the troops from Siam was a retreat, but this was only the beginning, and another contradiction between the Donghu and the Ming Dynasty broke out.
However, this time it was not the Ming Dynasty to stir up trouble, but the vassal state of Quang Nam, and the lord of Zheng and Ruan saw the weak side of the Taungoo State in the Siam Incident, so soon after, they infiltrated the Nanzhang State that was subordinated to the Taungoo State, creating friction on the border, and obviously had the intention of controlling the Nangu, which made the Taungoo State furious.
At this time, the Jin Kingdom came to the door, how could the Donghu Kingdom not agree to this alliance.
However, although there is an alliance between the two countries, after all, communication is inconvenient, and it is really unknown how much it can play, but for the Jin country, it is always a thing worth celebrating to be able to find an ally with 100,000 armor in the south.
After destroying Yarkand, it will take a while for the Jin State to digest, and the current national policy of the Jin State is to try to unite the forces around the Ming Dynasty to contain the Ming Dynasty.
Jungar used to be an enemy of the Jin State, but now Dajin needs allies, and if the Ming Dynasty jumps over the Jin State to contact the Jungar State to flank the Jin State, this is also a troublesome matter.
After the Jin state passed the negotiation, he quickly agreed to the demand of Dzungar and offered to let the Mongols exchange livestock and wool.
After the decision, the early stage of 3,000 birds, then from Chang'an to the west, and later felt that the cost was a bit high, Jin Guo simply sent craftsmen into the Anxi Governor's Mansion, directly in the Western Regions to open the furnace, smelting and casting.
After Sun Kewang established the Anxi Royal Mansion in Yachecheng, he took advantage of the contradictions between the Black Mountain faction and the White Mountain faction in the Western Regions to gradually gain a firm foothold.
His strategy is actually very simple, that is, the Black Mountain faction is strong, he will pull the White Mountain faction to suppress the Black Mountain faction, and if the White Mountain faction is strong, he will pull the Black Mountain faction to suppress the White Mountain faction.
He constantly provoked the contradictions between the two factions, and when he pulled one faction to fight the other, he was also manipulating behind the scenes, not taking the initiative to come forward, and letting the two factions fight, so that the two factions had too deep grievances and could not be reconciled, and when the two factions reacted, the balance of power in the Western Regions had changed, and after the Jin people who moved to the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains gained a firm foothold, even if the two factions united, there was no chance to resist.
There are 500,000 Jin people who follow Sun Kewang into the Western Regions, and it is not easy to gain a firm foothold, and the most critical point is the problem of food.
Although Jin Guo is in this tuntian, but the effect is not ideal, so Sun Kewang has thought of many ways, among which the most habitual means is his original set, which is to kill big households and eat big households.
Since Sun Kewang entered Shache, he first took one of the daughters of the leaders of the Black Mountain and White Mountain factions to show Dajin's tolerance in religious and ethnic policies, and asked everyone to live in harmony, but behind the scenes, he was completely different.
At the beginning of the Jin State's occupation of the Western Regions, the power of the Yarkand people here was still very strong, and the Jin State could not fully control the Yarkand, and many of the affairs of the Yarkand were actually decided by the leaders of the Black Mountain and White Mountain factions.
If these two factions are of the same mind, it will be difficult for the Jin State to gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions, but the contradictions between the two factions have been decades, plus the White Mountain faction hates the Black Mountain faction for leading the Jin people into Yarkand and killing Labdullah Khan, and the Black Mountain faction also hates the oppression of the White Mountain faction for many years, and the dispute between the two factions on the Pope makes their contradictions irreconcilable.
Sun Kewang took advantage of this to provoke the fight between the Black Mountain and the White Mountain from time to time, and almost every once in a while, he had to kill several nobles or religious leaders, and he survived the most difficult year by relying on the assets of these big families.
After the Jin Kingdom barely gained a foothold in the Western Regions, the upper-class nobles and religious leaders of the entire Yarkand almost died in the infighting, and Sun Kewang wanted to eat a big family again, so he had nothing to eat.
However, eating a big household is not a long-term solution after all, Sun Kewang went from establishing the Great Western Kingdom, to the failure of the Great Western Kingdom to the Northern Surrender of the Jin Kingdom, to the operation of the Hexi Corridor, and finally to the present sitting in the Western Regions. He has already summed up a relatively complete set of internal affairs experience from his past failures and experiences, and has broken away from the original three-board axe of the rogue and the big ones.
After a large number of nobles and religious leaders died in Yarkand and the original two factions in Yarkand declined, the old order in the Western Regions was basically shattered, and Sun Kewang began to build in the Western Regions in a big way.
Tuntian's food was insufficient, so he organized personnel to give full play to the advantages of wool products in the Western Regions, recruited excellent craftsmen from the Jin Kingdom, transformed the textile process, transported the manufactured blankets and cloths to Mongolia, and even to Samarkand in the west, and then turned south to sell them to the Sassanid Empire and the Mughal Empire, in exchange for grain and livestock, and solved the problem of grain storage in the Western Regions.
Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia and an important hub city on the Silk Road, connecting the Persian region, India and China, and is the most important node on the Silk Road.
If the Jin State can control this place, then the entire Silk Road will be basically opened.
At this time, the taxes obtained by the Jin State in the Western Regions were actually not much, and they even needed to be subsidized by Guanzhong, but because the trade routes were smooth, the goods in Guanzhong could enter the Sassanid Dynasty and the northwest Mughal region, and the Jin State still profited.
However, with the development of maritime trade, the cost of road transportation did limit the development of the Jin Dynasty, and the Silk Road on the Jin Road was obviously far inferior to the maritime Silk Road of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not as convenient and fast as the Ming Dynasty.
The merchants of the Jin Kingdom competed only in northwestern India and northeastern Sassanid, and further south, the Netherlands, England, Portugal, and the Ming Dynasty.
For this reason, the Jin Kingdom had to relocate some craftsmen to the Western Regions, which has reduced the cost.
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