Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1441

afternoon.

The Emperor Zichen Palace summoned Zai Zhi.

Among the chief ministers of the two prefectures in the new Jin Dynasty, only Qin Jun, the chief assistant, and Qin Li, the envoy of the Privy Council, did not arrive, and the rest all joined the cabinet.

In the hall, there are also Liu Rengui, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, Di Renjie, a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and Di Renjie, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, two other living servants, two royal servants in the hall, one senior official in the back of the palace, and one in the middle school. Ren Ge old.

In addition, Cui Xiuye, the official censor, and Sun Yan, the Minister of Finance, were also there.

The climate in the hall was a little tense.

The chiefs of the eastern and western prefectures did not come, combined with some recent rumors in the court, the ministers who joined the cabinet also somewhat guessed what might happen today.

Regarding the direction of the current situation, some people are worried, but some people feel relieved, as if the mountain that has been weighing on their heads for a long time is about to be moved away.

The emperor is here.

Six eunuchs and envoys from the inner court also came together to attend the meeting.

"Hold on a moment, gentlemen, I have already sent someone to invite the Queen of Heaven to come here."

The empress dowager has returned to the emperor, and she no longer participates in state affairs. Today, the emperor invited the empress dowager to come, which shows that this time the matter is not small.

"Since Uncle Guo has made his heart clear to the sage and has made up his mind to go, naturally the imperial court can't make things difficult for others."

The queen mother seemed to have made a decision before coming, so she came to the hall, sat behind the curtain, directly expressed her attitude, and supported Qin Jun and Qin Li's resignation.

But what should be given should be given.

After all, Qin Jun and Qin Li resigned on their own, not taking the blame and resigning. These two are national heroes.

Qin Junjin Taifu, conferred the rank of Kaifuyitong Sansi, bestowed the title of Dongsheng Dudufu Dudu, Dongsheng King, and Jiazun Huguoyiwang.

Give real food to thousands of households.

After Qin Jun became an official, he still received his full salary, and a special monthly salary of [-] yuan was provided to King Hu Guoyi.

The sons of Qin Jun, with their eldest son Qin Xiaojie as the son of King Yi, who was awarded the title of Doctor Jin Ziguanglu, and the eldest son Qin Xiaozhong, who was the eldest son of the concubine, was the king of Wu'an County and the governor of Dongcaozhou, and was awarded the rank of Doctor Yinqing Guanglu.

Taking Qin Xiaokang, the second son of Qin Jun's first line, as the Duke of Wei, he was awarded the rank of Zhengyi doctor.

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Privy envoy Qin Liqin Huaidao resigned from the privy envoy, and the imperial court agreed to his resignation, and specially granted Jin the title of Prince of Jinan County.

It is specially decreed that Qin Li, the king of Jinan County, will become an official from the first-rank hussars general, and will be named a Taiwei, and bestowed on the world as the governor of Wusun Prefecture.

His eldest son was the prince of Jinan, his second son was granted the title of Liang Guogong, and the eldest son of the concubine was the Duke of Licheng County.

Wusun Prefecture is named after the ancient nomadic tribe of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty who moved westward from the Qilian Mountains together with the Yuezhi.

At the beginning of the second century BC, the Wusun people and the Yuezhi people were nomadic in the Hexi area, and they were adjacent to the Huns in the north.Nandoumi, king of Wusun, was attacked and killed by the Yuezhi people. At that time, his son Lie Jiaomi was just born and was adopted by the Huns Maodun Shanyu.

Later, Mao Dun Shanyu attacked the Yuezhi, who was defeated and moved westward to the Yili River Valley. They moved to Daxia (Tocharian) in the south, and only a small number of people stayed there.

After most of the Sai people and Yuezhi went south, Wusun moved to the Yili River Basin, nomadic with the remaining Sai people and Yuezhi people, and established Wusun State.

Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions, hoping to establish diplomatic relations with Wusun, and even suggested that Wusun move back to his hometown in Hexi. After that, the two princesses made peace with Wusun, but although the Wusun Kingdom at that time made peace with the Han, it also made peace with the Xiongnu.

Wusun, who swayed from side to side, occupied the fertile Qihe River Basin in the Western Regions at that time, but eventually died of internal strife. Until the early Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a new country, Yue Ban, appeared in the Qihe Basin. There is still a tribe in the Seven Rivers Basin claiming to be the Wusun Kingdom. Even after the establishment of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they still sent envoys to the Central Plains to pay tribute.

The Northern Wei Dynasty hoped to join forces with Wusun to attack Rouran, the overlord of the grassland. Afterwards, Wusun was attacked by Rouran several times. disappears.

Although Wusun has never been able to become the overlord of the grassland, and has always been only a second-rate force, but after they defeated the Yuezhi together with the Huns, the Seven Rivers Basin they occupied was the most fertile place in the Western Regions.

The Seven Rivers Basin was once the westernmost boundary of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains in the Western Regions.

It is named because the seven major rivers flow into Yibohai (Lake Balkhash), but the Chu River (Suiye River) in the southwest is an exception, and it does not flow into the lake. The other six rivers flow into the lake in the southeast, northeast, Among them, the Yili River has become the largest estuary in its west, forming an estuary delta of nearly [-] square kilometers, full of swamps and dense water networks, making it the most fertile oasis.

Especially because the seven rivers all originate from the Tianshan Mountains, and the snow water from the melting ice and snow on the snow-capped mountains converges westward and flows into the Yibo Sea. Because of the large flow of the Yili River, the Yibo Sea forms a unique Western Dan The phenomenon of Dongxian.

The western part of the lake is freshwater and the eastern part is saltwater.

Due to the special geographical conditions, the entire Western Regions has created several major geographical sections.

The Tianshan Mountains divide the north and the south, and the Jinshan Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains are the boundary mountains at the north and south ends of the Western Regions. There are several small mountain ranges in the Tianshan Mountains and then separate several geographical units.

Junggar Basin, Seven Rivers Basin, Fergana Basin, Hezhong Region, Tocharo, etc.

Among these areas, the Seven Rivers Basin is the most suitable for farming, and the Yili River Basin has the best farming conditions in the Seven Rivers Basin. From the Yili River Valley Plain in the middle and upper reaches to the estuary delta at the mouth of the lake, there are sufficient The water source can provide sufficient conditions for farming.

The second is the Fergana Basin. Its unique almost closed valley basin, coupled with the snow water rushing down from the Tianshan Mountains, makes the basin have very good farming conditions.

And the river area in the middle and upper reaches of Yaoshashui and Wuhu River is also rich in oasis plains due to water.

The core of the Seven Rivers Basin is the Yili River Valley, plus the Suiye River Valley, plus the Hukou Delta Plain that spreads across the sea.

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, after establishing a solid foothold in the Western Regions, without exception, they would establish a reclamation army in the Qihe River Basin to the east of the Yibo Sea, because it can provide abundant food and grass.

Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty tried to seize Dawan, which occupied the treasure land of the Fergana Basin, and he did not hesitate to make several expeditions.

The superficial reason is sweat and blood, but the deep-seated reason is geopolitics.

However, the Seven Rivers Basin has always been the place where nomadic tribes in the Western Regions compete most fiercely, because of the excellent farming conditions here, it is actually an excellent pasture.

In terms of geographical conditions, after crossing the Tianshan Mountains, the topography of the Seven Rivers Basin is already a valley plain area that is very suitable for nomads to fight, without the encirclement and blockage of high mountains and deep valleys. The mountain range extending to the west, but this mountain range is not high, and there are many mountain passes suitable for nomads to pass through calmly, lacking the function of dividing and blocking.

It is just an obvious dividing line of power in the Western Regions.

Although Yibohai is more than a thousand miles from east to west, to the west of the lake is the Kazakh hills, the largest hills in the world, to the north of the Siberian Plain, to the southwest of the Caspian Sea lowland and Turan lowland, and to the east of the mountainous region.

This has always been the winter pasture of nomadic tribes. In summer, they will move to the middle and lower reaches of Yaoshashui, or go to the south of the Seven Rivers Basin and enter the Seven Rivers Basin.

Although there are desertification Gobi all over the north bank of Yibohai, they will bypass the Gobi to the southwest, enter the middle of the river, and then bypass the Karatau Mountain (Thousand Springs) to the northeast and enter the Seven Rivers Basin.

However, when the regional hegemony of the Western Regions weakens, the major sections of the Western Regions will often fall into a state of division. It is the two river basins in the river.

At this time, several forces in the Western Regions often only migrated within this section, and the Yibohai and the Gobi desert in the north and southwest often became a natural dividing line.

On the left bank of Yaoshashui, there is an area known as the Hungry Grassland, and the name is not a good place.

Therefore, although the Caspian Sea and the Yibo Sea are far apart, the treacherous terrain has become a natural geographical dividing line of the Western Regions.

It is often difficult for nomadic tribes who migrated westward to come back.

The Huns far away, the Turkic Khazars near, etc.

After they crossed these deserts, Gobi, plateaus, and hills to the Caspian Sea lowlands or the Black Sea plains, they never wanted to return.

And when the Western Regions cannot be unified, it will be difficult for them to pass through other plates, and go to the Kazakh hills or the Caspian Sea lowlands for the winter.

Datang now takes the Yibo Sea as its western boundary, and the Seven Rivers Basin in the southeast of the Yibo Sea has become the core of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions. Moreover, there are swamps and lakes everywhere, and there are thousands of lakes in different sizes. This makes the imperial court have to use and develop the huge and fertile lake mouth delta plain, and at the same time, it has to build a military defense network at the dangerous place near the foot of Tianshan Mountain.

Traditional military towns such as Suiye, Yili, and Qinghai are constantly being strengthened. On the one hand, the imperial court has increased immigration and enfeoffment to the Hukou Delta Plain.

The Wusun Prefecture that Qin Li obtained as the world governor, Wusun Prefecture, is located in the southwest corner of Yibohai. The conditions are not as good as the Yili River Delta in the southeast, but it is not bad.

The imperial court set up Wusun Prefecture here, and entrusted it to Qin Li, which is also to assign this not-so-fat but not-so-thin land to a trusted official who has the ability to develop it, so that the vassals can invest in the development.

It is just on the route of the Huanyi Bohai Fengtai post station planned by the imperial court, and the Suiye River is to the south. The geographical location of Wusun Prefecture is relatively important, and it has good development potential.

Wusun Prefecture, which is a hundred miles from north to south and three hundred miles from east to west, still has a very large territory.

However, compared to the Yili River Delta, which covers an area of ​​at least [-] square kilometers, it is not worth mentioning. The imperial court controlled the largest delta, the most fertile Yili River Valley and the Suiye River Valley. Some large and small oases, hills, and highlands along the lake and river were awarded to the heroes of the Tang Dynasty and frontier soldiers.

Just as the imperial court was in the north of Rehai, northeast of Suiye Town, and southwest of Yili City, a new core army town Chitu Town was built with its back against the Tianshan Mountains.

Chitu City used to be the Khan Court of Wusun Kingdom, but historically that Chitu City was located in the south of Atami, not at this location. This location is where Almaty, the largest city in Central Asia in later generations, is located.

The imperial court chose this location because he was in the center of the bottom edge of the Suiye, Yili and Yibohai deltas. At the same time, this location is also in the fertile oasis of the tributary of the Yili River. Here is not only the fertility of the oasis, but also the danger of the Tianshan Mountains. , Yibohai to the north, Rehai to the south, Yili River to the east, and Suiye River to the west.

Not only as a traffic hub, but also because of the dangers of the lake and mountains, this Chitu town even far surpasses Yili and Suiye in military terms, and will soon become the new capital of Beiting.

In contrast, the most fertile estuary delta area will not set up a new army town, but will set up the largest military settlement and immigrant settlement in the Western Regions, the Great Western Wilderness Farm, which will rely on abundant river water resources, etc., to establish sufficient protection The agricultural area developed throughout the Western Regions.

And it is said that it was also Qin Li's own decision to choose to be granted a fiefdom by the seaside of Yibo in the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)