In the Western Regions, Chen Mu mentioned the Western Regions in his letter.

This was the strangest thing in the whole letter after Zhang Xueyan and other ministers left. Wanli and Zhang Juzheng felt.

Chen Mu mentioned the Western Regions in his letter not just in detail, but instead used the ancient influence of the Central Plains dynasty on the Western Regions to amplify it to the entire world to provide legitimacy for the conference of all countries he prepared for the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, the letter also emphasized the strategic significance of the land in the Western Regions to the Central Plains dynasty, and even brought its importance to a height beyond the northern border of the Frontier.

They were stunned by Emperor Wanli and Zhang Juzheng because they both knew that there was a prerequisite for the letters: Chen Mu had never been to the Western Regions.

Even there are no generals and horses around you who are familiar with the Western Regions.

Looking at Chen Mu's previous positions, he had his commands including the southwest corps and the southeast camp generals; there were military officers from the northeast and subordinates from the Central Plains; the recruitment sites of the Beiyang Banner Army covered most of the world, but there were no Western Army here.

It is difficult to travel far northwest road, and recruiting officers do not run there, and it is difficult for soldiers from the flag and military camps there to run east to apply for recruitment. The farthest part of the army is Qin and Jin.

Going further west, those who go to Beijing for no reason are basically all generals, and they are all generals of Shixun Shilu. The clan is deeply rooted in the northwest, so it is impossible to go to Beiyang to follow him as a big soldier to fight for his life.

Not to mention that Chen Mu had never been to the Western Regions, he had never even been to Shaanxi.

But this is said by a number one general of the Ming Empire who started with a coastal war in the south and once stationed at the Xuanda Line.

Those who work in these two places will not be unclear that Xuanda Ji Liao is the barrier of the empire's defense, and southeastern Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the foundation of the empire's prosperity.

Such a person, who is extremely afraid that the empire will give up because the strategic significance of the Western Regions is not important enough, is an interesting thing in itself.

Of course, it was just interesting to Wanli. He would not give up that land. The three generals of the Ming Dynasty were all leading their troops on that land. Dong Yiyuan wrote a report to the court to encourage childbirth, so he would not give up.

But Chen Mu's idea of ​​the Western Regions was very interesting to Wanli, making him very...responsible.

Everyone understands the strategic significance of the Western Regions. Although the Western Regions lost its economic value after the Yuan Dynasty, and maritime trade has been booming to this day, and this relatively costly trade route has also become meaningless, this plot still has an incomparable strategic advantage.

It is the right-hand man in the Shaanxi-Gansu area. In the terrain surrounded by mountains, it only opens a hole called the Hexi Corridor towards the Central Plains. It is an excellent westward strategic buffer zone in the endless desert.

Chen Mu said that there were not many people there, there were insufficient production capacity, huge construction costs and extremely inconvenient transportation. When the Central Plains dynasty was strong, it could include this place in protection. Once the Central Plains fell into chaos, the power of the Western Regions would not be enough to protect themselves.

This is the same as Dong Yiyuan's report. Dong Yiyuan also said that there are no more Han people in the Western Regions now, but Chen Mu also mentioned a key that Dong Yiyuan had never mentioned.

That is, whether the Central Plains dynasty controls the Western Regions over the years, and what does it mean to the people of the Western Regions?

Chen Mu gave Wanli the answer: Peace.

The Central Plains dynasty can bring peace to the surrounding areas and allow those small countries with insufficient power to avoid war in the whirlpool.

Just like an invisible exam, when the Central Plains dynasty can master the Northeast and threaten the North to block the North, it means that its military strength is already extremely strong.

Because there are vast plains, rolling hills, and winding rivers in the northeast, the power that can be divided in the northeast often has a diverse culture, including farming, animal husbandry, fishing, hunting, and nomadic.

The Central Plains dynasty was able to manage the northwest, which meant that they already had the best discipline or logistics capabilities of their contemporaries.

Marching in the boundless desert is never an easy task. Soldiers with unstable morale will fall behind, desert, and go astray. In the desert, these defensive people will do everything possible to stay in the team.

The result is not as good as falling behind. Without extraordinary bonding and logistics capabilities, an army will collapse before it even leaves Xi'an.

Even now they use troops overseas. If the sergeants are undisciplined, they will be depressed and even infighting during the several months of voyage on the ship. After they dock, they will scatter and take out any expeditions.

Once the Central Plains dynasty grasps the Western Regions, many city-states in the Western Regions will no longer be fighting because of the mutual battle between the city lords. Today you destroy the country and burn the city, and tomorrow I will kill people and slaughter the city.

Of course, in the eyes of Emperor Wanli, there is another most appropriate part of the Western Regions, which is that the army of the Central Plains dynasty fought over and over again to fight for control.

Wanli was clear about this in his heart, and his destructive power was far greater than that of the various princes in the Western Regions.

Originally, a city lord could occupy land with a thousand,800 troops. What size would his Ming army be if it leaves Jiayuguan?

Even from Wanli's perspective, he could not reduce the scale. His troops entered the desert to ask for supplies. Even for small-scale quarrels, why didn't they organize a five thousand meridians?

Judging from Chen Mu's meaning now, he was to use the general trend of the East, North and West Sanyang Military Prefectures to threaten the world's various places at this time, and the Ming Dynasty set rules for the world that were still in war.

This idea seemed particularly interesting to Wanli, which was so interesting that it even made Wanli push back the idea of ​​calling the newly recruited Beiyang Army, the group of recruits who were almost brothers to Beijing to take a look.

In the first year of Longqing, news came from the southeast that the emperor planned to select palace servants in Jiangnan, which scared the parents and the people who were over eight years old and even married girls who were not willing to be rude.

Later, news came out that a widow was chosen to be sent to the capital with the selected palace servants, and widows, young and widows, were also married one after another.

At that time, a woman who married a married woman gave birth to a baby due to rumors. Calculate her life. Now is the best time for a male to join the army.

However, Chen Mu's personal fun is much more important than Wanli's, after all, Wanli himself is also a Confucian scholar.

Confucianism may have many bad things after its birth, it is pedantic and imprisoned.

But it tells people: be upright in mind, be motivated by oneself, and be successful in oneself, rather than degenerate yourself.

Wanli can fulfill himself, so that all the worlds and destinies can praise him, and even more so that the people of all countries can be grateful to him.

Therefore, the conferences of all countries in the world must not only be held, but also improve the specifications. We cannot just ask two Eastern Ministers to preside over the presidency.

The court had already thought about the successor of the Eastern Minister, Ye Mengxiong, to let the important Beiyang minister, take over Chen Mu, but Ye Mengxiong alone was not enough.

"The ship is full of envoys of the kings. The Ming Dynasty is in Yazhou. I will just send a king over there, hehe."

Wanli laughed and turned his head slightly.
Chapter completed!