Afternoon.

The Emperor Zichen Palace summoned the priest.

The new prime ministers of the two prefectures were the chief minister, Qin Jun, and the uncle and nephew of the Privy Council, Qin Li, who had not arrived, and the rest entered the cabinet.

In the hall, there are also Liu Rengui, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a bachelor of the imperial edict, Di Renjie, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and an imperial edict, and two other living men, as well as two censors in the hall, one is a politically politician and the other is a master of the cabinet and the other is a master of the Secretariat.

In addition, the censor Cui Xiuye ​​and the prime minister Sun Yan were also there.

The climate in the hall is a bit tense.

The heads of the East and West governments did not come to the east and west governments. Combined with some recent rumors in the court, the ministers who entered the cabinet also guessed what might happen today.

Some people are worried about the current direction of the situation, but some people feel relieved, as if the mountains that have been pressing on their heads are about to move away.

The emperor is coming.

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

"Please wait a moment, I have sent someone to invite the queen to come."

The Empress Dowager has returned to power and no longer participates in state affairs. Today the emperor wants to invite the Empress Dowager to come, which shows that this time the matter is not small.

"Since the uncle has explained his thoughts to the saint and his intention to leave has been decided, the court naturally cannot force others to do anything."

The Empress Dowager seemed to have made a decision before coming, so she came to the hall and sat behind the curtain, directly expressing her attitude, supporting Qin Jun and Qin Li to resign.

But what you should give is decent.

After all, Qin Jun and Qin Li resigned themselves, not to resign. These two are the country's heroes.

Qin Jun and Jin Taifu were appointed as the rank of the three departments of Kaifu Yitong, and were granted the title of the governor of the Dongsheng Governor's Office, the King of Dongsheng, and the King of Guardians.

Give tens of thousands of households with real fiefs.

After Qin Jun retired, he still received his full salary and specially provided the 20,000 ounces of extra salary per month for the King of the Protector.

Qin Jun and his sons appointed his eldest son Qin Xiaojie as the crown prince of the Guardian Yi, and were appointed as the chief minister of the Jinzi Guanglu Dafu. The eldest son Qin Xiaozhong was appointed as the prince of Wu'an County. They were granted the title of the Governor of Dongcaozhou and were appointed as the chief minister of the Silver Green Guanglu Dafu.

Qin Xiaokang, the second son of Qin Jun, was appointed as Duke of Wei, and was appointed as the official official.

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The Privy Councilor Qin Lili Qin Huaidao asked to resign from the Privy Councilor, and the court agreed to his retirement and was specially awarded the title of King of Jinan County.

The prince of Jinan was specially ordered to retire from the rank of the first-rank cavalry general, and was granted the title of Taiwei, and was granted the title of governor of Wusunzhou for generations. After resigning, he received his full salary and an additional salary of 10,000 yuan per month.

His eldest son was the crown prince of Jinan, his second son was awarded the title of Duke of Liang, and his eldest son was Duke of Licheng County, and they were all awarded the title of Duke of Yinqing Guanglu Dafu.

Wusun Prefecture is named after the ancient nomadic tribe of the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty that moved west from Qilian Mountains with Yuezhi in history.

In the early 2nd century BC, both the Wusun people and the Yueshi people were nomadic in Hexi, and the Xiongnu people were neighboring the north. The Wusun king Nandoumi was attacked and killed by the Yueshi people. At that time, his son Liejiaomi was just born and adopted by the Xiongnu Maodun Shanyu.

Later, Maodun Chanyu attacked the Yuezhi. The Yuezhi was defeated and moved westward to the Yili River Basin. Later, the old Shang Shanyu and Wusun Kunmo Lijiaomi attacked the Yuezhi that moved to the Yili River Basin with all their strength. Yuezhi was defeated and moved south to the Daxia (Tcharo), and only a small number of people stayed in the local area.

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

Zhang Qian went on an envoy to the Western Regions, hoping to establish diplomatic relations with Wusun, and even proposed to move Wusun back to his old land in Hexi. However, Wusun was in conflict at that time. Later, the King of Wusun sent an envoy to Chang'an with Zhang Qian. Seeing the increasing strength of the Han Dynasty, he agreed to marry. After that, the two princesses of the Han Dynasty rebelled with Wusun. However, although the Wusun Kingdom at that time was married to the Han Dynasty, they were married to the Huns. They swayed on both sides and finally failed to attack the Huns with the Han Dynasty.

Although the Wusun, which was swaying from side to side, occupied the fertile Qihe Basin in the Western Regions at that time, it was eventually destroyed by internal strife. Until the early Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a new country appeared in the Qihe Basin, which was as joyful as it was. But at the same time, there was still a tribe in the Qihe Basin claiming to be the Wusun Kingdom. Even after the establishment of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they sent envoys to the Central Plains to pay tribute.

The Northern Wei hoped to join forces with Wusun to attack the overlord of the grassland Rouran. Later, Wusun was attacked several times by Rouran. After being defeated, he was forced to move westward to Tianshan Mountains, and finally moved southward to the Pamirs, assimilated with the Sai people, no longer independent to become a country, and disappeared from the historical records of the Central Plains.

Although Wusun has never been able to become the overlord on the grassland and is always a second-rate force, after they defeated the Yuezhi together with the Huns, the Qihe Basin occupied was the richest place in the Western Regions.

The Qihe River Basin was once the westernmost boundary line of the Han dynasty in the Western Regions of the Central Plains.

The name is because the seven major rivers merge into the Yibohai Sea (Balkhash Lake), but the Chu River (Suiye River) in the southwest is an exception and does not merge into the lake. The other six rivers merge into the southeast and northeast of the lake in turn. Among them, the Yili River becomes the largest estuary to the west, and forms an estuary delta of nearly 10,000 square kilometers. It is full of swamps and dense water networks, making it the most fertile oasis.

Especially because the Qihe River originates from the Tianshan Mountains, the snow water melted on the snow-capped mountains gathers westward and injects into the Yibohai Sea. Because the Yili River has a large flow, the Yibohai Sea has also formed a unique phenomenon of the west, light and salty eastward.

The lake water in the west is fresh water and the lake water in the east is salt water.

The entire Western Regions have created several major geographical sections due to their special geographical conditions.

The Tianshan Mountains are divided into north and south, while the Jinshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains are boundary mountains at the north and south ends of the Western Regions. There are several small mountains in the Tianshan Mountains and then divided into several geographical units.

Junggar Basin, Qihe River Basin, Fergana Basin, Hezhong District, Tochar, etc.

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

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

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

The core of the Qihe River Basin is the Yili River Valley, plus the Saiye River Valley, and the Hukou Delta Plain of Yibohai.

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, after a stable foothold in the Western Regions, all of them would establish a settlement army in the Qihe Basin east of the Yibohai, because it could provide abundant food and grass.

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

The surface reason is that the bloody BMW is, but the deeper reason is that it is geopolitics.

However, the Qihe River Basin has always been the most fierce competition for nomadic tribes in the Western Regions, because the excellent farming conditions here are actually excellent pastures.

In terms of geographical conditions, after crossing the Tianshan Mountains, the terrain of the Qihe River Basin is already a valley plain area that is very suitable for nomadic people to fight. Without the encirclement and blocking of high mountains and deep valleys, although there is also a mountain range extending westward from the Tianshan Mountains in the southeast of the Yibohai Sea, this mountain range is not high, and there are many passes suitable for nomadic people to pass calmly, which lacks the effect of division and blocking.

It is just a clear division line of forces in the Western Regions.

Although the Yibohai Sea is more than a thousand miles east-west, the west side of the lake is the world's largest hilly Kazakh hills, connected to the Siberian Plain in the north, the Caspian Lowlands and the Tulan Lowlands in the southwest, and the eastern edge is mountainous.

This place has always been the winter pasture of nomadic tribes. In summer, they will switch to the middle and lower reaches of the Yaoshui River, or to the south of the Qihe River Basin and enter the Qihe River Basin.

Although desertified Gobi is spread on the northern shore of Yibohai, they will go around the Gobi to the southwest, enter the river area, and then northeastward bypass Karatao Mountain (Qianquan Water) and enter the Qihe River Basin.

However, when the regional hegemons in the Western Regions weaken, major sections of the Western Regions will often fall into a state of division and separatism. At this time, it is difficult for tribes in the Kazakh hills north of the Yibohai to return to the Qihe Basin or the two rivers in the river.

At this time, several forces in the Western Regions often only move and migrate within this section. Yibohai and its deserts and Gobi in the north and southwest areas often become natural dividing lines.

On the left bank where medicine kills water, it is a zone called the Hunger Grassland, and it is not a good place to hear the name.

Therefore, although the Caspian Sea and the Yibo Sea were far apart, the dangerous terrain became a natural geographical dividing line in the Western Regions.

Nomadic tribes that moved westward often find it difficult to come back.

The Huns in the distance, the Kossa tribe in the nearest Turks, etc.

After crossing these deserts, Gobi, plateau, hilly areas, and going to the Caspian Lowlands or the Black Sea plains, they were no longer willing to come back.

When the Western Regions cannot be unified, it will be difficult for them to pass through other sections, to transition to the Kazakh hills, or to the Caspian lowlands to spend the winter.

The Tang Dynasty now uses Yibohai as its western boundary. The Qihe Basin in the southeast of Yibohai became the core of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions. However, because the Qihe Basin lacks enough obstacles, especially the plains of the Delta Plain, with swamps and lakes everywhere, there are thousands of lakes of all sizes. This made the imperial court use the huge and fertile Hukou Delta Plain, and also had to build a military defense network at the foot of the mountain near the Tianshan Mountains.

Traditional military towns such as Saiye, Yili and Qinghai were constantly strengthened. On the one hand, the imperial court increased its immigration and feudalization to the Hukou Delta Plain.

The Wusun Prefecture General, which Qin Li won the title of Wusun Prefecture, was located in the southwest corner of Yibohai. The conditions were not as good as the Yili River Estuary Delta in the southeast, but it was quite good.

The imperial court established Wusun Prefecture here and granted the Qin Li a title. It also assigned this land that was not very fat but not thin to a hero who had the ability to develop it, so that the vassal could invest and develop it.

This is on the route of the Huanyi Bohai Beacon Station planned to be built by the imperial court. To the south is the Suiye River. Wusun Prefecture has a relatively important geographical location and has good development potential.

Wusun Prefecture, which is 100 miles north and south and 300 miles east and west, has a very large territory.

However, compared with the Yili River Delta, which covers an area of ​​at least 8,000 square kilometers, it is not worth mentioning. The imperial court controlled the largest delta, the most fertile Yili River Valley and the Sabuye Valley. Some large and large oasis, hills, and highlands surrounding the lakes and rivers were taken out to reward the heroes of the Tang Dynasty and the soldiers of the frontiers. This not only showed the court's generosity, but also made them a barrier to the core key areas of the imperial court's Western Regions.

Just like the imperial court built a new core military town, Chitu Town, which was located north of Rehai, northeast of Suiye Town, and southwest of Yili City, backed by Tianshan Mountain.

Terracotta City was once the Khanate of the Wusun Kingdom, but in history, the Terracotta City was south of Rehai and was not in this position. This position was the largest city in Central Asia in later generations.

The imperial court chose this position because he was in the center of the bottom edge of the triangle of the Yili River Delta. At the same time, this position is also a fertile oasis of the tributary of the Yili River. This place has both the fertility of the oasis and the danger of the Tianshan Mountains. It is located in the north, the Yibuhai, the south, the Rehai, the east, and the Saiye River.

It is both a key transportation crisis and a dangerous place in the lakes and mountains. This genus town is even far superior to Yili and Suoye in military terms, and is about to become the new capital of Beiting.

The most fertile Hekou Delta area will not establish a new army town, but will only establish the largest military town, immigration settlement area, and Xidahuang Farm. With rich river water resources, it will establish an agricultural area that is sufficient to ensure the development of the entire Western Region.
Chapter completed!