Chapter 1256 Support the Tibetans
Who said he likes snow? The snow hurts the face?
After Gao Huan arrived in Xining, he wanted to visit the scenery of Qinghai to make up for his past regrets, but the weather was bad and he had to go back to Xining Weine to roast a bonfire.
As he entered Qinghai all the way, the altitude continued to increase, Gao Huan probably knew the difficulty of entering the Qinghai-Tibet region.
This is just Qinghai. If it is entered into Tibet, it will not only be the weather harsh, but also have altitude sickness, which may bring about the lives of half of the soldiers.
This is probably one of the reasons why Gao Huan extended an olive branch to Heshuot Mongolia several times, but Heshuot Mongolia likes to ignore it.
Because it was too difficult to enter Tibet, the Mongols killed all over the world, but they still mainly recruited Us Tibet and did not have a large-scale war.
This made Uszang's regime not have much awe of the central government, so naturally he had the courage to ignore Gao Huan.
At this time, in the temporary palace, Gao Huan and many subordinates sat around the brazier to cook the fire.
There are few trees and coal on the plateau, and it is burned to the point where dried cow dung is burned.
From this point, we can also see that the difficulty of using troops in the Qinghai-Tibet region is that even if only 10,000 soldiers are mobilized, the cooking and heating of soldiers are problems.
After all, there is a shortage of trees and coal here. The cow dung added by the herdsmen is accumulated in normal times. When the army comes, there is not so much cow dung for you to burn.
At this time, Gao Huan stretched out his hand, felt the temperature of the brazier, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that if you don't mobilize an army and train on the plateau for a year and a half, so that they can adapt to the plateau environment and recover Uszang, you will have no way to talk about it!"
Yang Yan used fire tongs to add cow dung to the basin, "Your Majesty, the soldiers don't know what happened. They felt a splitting headache when they came here. And they ran a few steps casually and couldn't breathe, and they felt uncomfortable all over."
Gao Huan said: "This is altitude sickness, which requires training and physical exercise to adapt. The altitude here is not high, and if you want to enter Tibet, the reaction will be even more serious."
"Since that's the case, we can only send troops to train." Yang Yan said: "But the one who stations here for a year should consume a lot of money."
Qinghai is short of supplies, so if you really want to mobilize a large army, you have to supply food, clothing, housing and transportation from Guanzhong, and the consumption is really huge.
In fact, for thousands of years, there has been no obvious progress in science, technology and agricultural technology. The Central Plains dynasties have occupied all the places that can rule and are convenient for rule.
If a region, the Central Plains dynasties have not established effective rule or do not rule at all, then from another perspective, this region is not suitable for inclusion in the rule, and it is not cost-effective to take it down, and it cannot be guarded for a long time.
In recent years, the Qian Dynasty has developed technology, but compared with the past dynasties, there is actually not much difference.
The central governments of all dynasties did not enter the Qinghai-Tibet region much. If the Qian Dynasty wanted to enter, the consumption would inevitably be huge.
Gao Huan heard the words and looked at the Jinbao, Xining Prefecture, and asked, "Prince Jin, what do you think?"
Jinbao was from Zhejiang, a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and also a Jinshi of the Qian Dynasty, and a student of the first grade of imperial politics.
In history, he was one of the five tigers in Yongli and a master of party struggles.
After Gao Huan occupied Jiangnan, Jinbao initially opposed Gao Huan, but was soon hit by the Guoan Department's iron fist. Fortunately, Qian Qianyi and others received more than a year of labor reform.
After coming out, he changed his previous attitude and began to support the Qian Dynasty. He did not become an official as a Jinshi in the Chongzhen Dynasty, but instead took the imperial examination of the Qian Dynasty again and stood out.
In the third year of Longwu, he graduated from the Imperial Political University and was appointed as the magistrate of Ningbo. After working for three years, Ningbo's shipbuilding and fishing industries developed, and the county's economic data was very impressive.
In the sixth year of Longwu, the Ministry of Personnel was awarded the examination of the Qing official department, and was designated as the A-level official and transferred to the Ministry of Transport to serve as the chief officer of the sixth rank, and became a Beijing official.
A year later, Sun Chuanting submitted a report to the court that in order to restore Hehuang, the court needed to send practical officials to serve as administrative officials and handle local government affairs.
In Hehuang, Han and Qiang live in mixed places, with barren areas and frequent riots. Many officials in the court did not want to come to poor places like the northwest.
The prime minister must be born in the state, and the powerful generals must be born in the army.
Others were unwilling to come, but Jinbao felt that going to be an opportunity, and only chaos could lead to political achievements, so he volunteered to go to the west.
In the eighth year of Longwu, the Ministry of Personnel promoted him to four levels in a row and served as the prefect of Xining.
He has been in Xining for two years now, and he knows Qinghai and Uszang very well, and has been waiting for opportunities.
At this time, when Jinbao saw the emperor ask him, he couldn't help but feel excited, but he looked very steady: "Your Majesty! The Central Plains dynasty has never really controlled Uszang for generations. Before, Uszang had nominally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming court had not established an effective rule. This made the rulers of Uszang in history feel that the Central Plains dynasty were beyond the reach of them. This is probably the reason why Heshuot Mongolia did not take me Daqian seriously."
Gao Huan nodded slightly: "It's true. The road to Tibet is difficult. Not to mention fighting, it is also a difficult thing to march into Tibet. Besides, he has also broken through Chang'an several times and is not so afraid of me."
Jinbao suddenly saluted and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to ask!"
Gao Huan raised his hand, "If you have any questions, you can just tell me."
Jinbao immediately asked, "Your Majesty, I want to know whether what Your Majesty said is to regain Uszang, to make Uszang nominally surrender, or to effectively control Uszang?"
Gao Huan said: "Nature is effective in controlling Uszang."
Jinbao was silent when he heard the words, Gao Huan frowned and said, "What, is it difficult?"
Jinbao hurriedly said, "Report to Your Majesty, if you want to effectively control it, you must garrison troops. This will bring great costs."
The central government actually sent troops to Tibet in the late Qing Dynasty. Although the Qian Dynasty is very powerful now, it is actually very difficult to maintain an army in the snowy area.
We still have to build the Qinghai-Tibet Line and trains, otherwise we will not be able to truly control it.
Gao Huan nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and changed his words: "You can not control it now, but effective rule must be established in the future."
When Jinbao heard the words, he immediately said, "If so, I will have a strategy to offer to Your Majesty."
Gao Huan said in a deep voice: "You know the situation in Qinghai and Uszang, you said!"
Jinbao immediately said: "In the late Chongzhen period, the Heshuote tribe, which was nomadic in Qinghai, invaded Uszang, destroyed the Tubo dynasty, and established the Heshuote Khanate. The soldiers of our dynasty were not trained and were temporarily unable to adapt to the Uszang environment, so it was difficult to directly send troops, but there were more than 100,000 Tubo people in Hehuang. Since Heshuote Mongolia did not obey the orders of Daqian and wanted to maintain independence, I think Your Majesty could support the Tubo people in Qinghai, provide them with a batch of equipment and materials, fund them to drive away the Heshuote tribe and establish the Uszang regime close to Daqian."
Gao Huan stroked his beard, "This is a good way. But who should I support and who can I trust?"
Jinbao stood up, and he had to seize the opportunity. The northwest was too hard. He wanted to make political achievements as soon as possible and transferred to the mainland. So he stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, I have been in Xining for two years and have some relationship with the Tubo people around me. If Your Majesty can trust me, I am willing to find a suitable candidate for Your Majesty."
Gao Huan smiled slightly, "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you."
Chapter completed!