Title/Zheng Ji used Tun Tian to "hold Xinjiang", which can be called the most cattle "deputy ministerial level" in history.
Text/One Heng Alone
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At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to frequent wars, a large number of displaced people had no fixed place to live, and the land was barren and uncultivated.
This means that the people have no food, they can't afford to eat, what other construction seems irrelevant, they are facing turmoil that may erupt at any time, Cao Cao has trouble sleeping and eating, and his vision of world unification is also being tested.
What to do about this phenomenon?
Cao Cao had a strategist named Zao Yuan, who suggested to Cao Cao that the homeless and displaced people should be organized, and the state should provide seeds, agricultural tools, and cattle to reclaim the no-man's land, and share the harvest proportionally. Cao Cao felt that this idea was very good, so he spread it in the area under his jurisdiction.
This was the beginning of the historically recorded tun tian system. However, in the Western Han Dynasty, the Tuntian system had already appeared and achieved remarkable results, but there was no unified concept at that time.
Why it is said that tun tian began to be implemented in the Western Han Dynasty, of course, there are reasons, when it comes to the history of the Western Han Dynasty, there is always a place that cannot be bypassed, that is, the war between the Western Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, which can be said to run through the entire process of the Western Han Dynasty from the founding of the country to the demise.
Statue of Cao Cao
Since Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty sent the generals Huo Quyi and Wei Qing to sweep through the north of the desert, drove the Xiongnu from the Yinshan Mountains to the western region, and completely cut off the possible invasion of the Western Han border by the Xiongnu, although they achieved great results, they failed to completely shake the foundation of the Xiongnu's power.
After the withdrawal of troops from the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu made a comeback, and conscientiously worshiped the Western Han As a teacher, learning from the Western Han Dynasty's administrative jurisdiction over localities and lands, and in the western region gradually controlled by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu imitated the county system of the Western Han Dynasty, set up a child servant lieutenant stationed in the Yanqi area, as a dispatch agency to govern the western region countries, levied taxes from the small countries in the western region that dared to be angry, and recruited Zhuangding.
The Xiongnu who plagued the Warring States to the Two Han Dynasties (stills)
With the withdrawal of troops and the decline of power in the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, after decades of recuperation, felt that they could expand outwards again, frequently crossing the boundaries of the Western Han and xiongnu at that time, which were tacitly bounded by the Tianshan Mountains, the southern Part of the Han Dynasty's sphere of influence, and the northern part of the Xiongnu's traditional border customs, and carried out crazy plunder and harassment to small countries that submitted to the Western Han.
Big Han Iron Rider
Therefore, in the vast land of the Western Regions, as long as the Western Han army received information that the small countries that submitted to the Western Han Were plundered and harassed by the Xiongnu, they would send troops to attack the Xiongnu.
Because the Western Han army was plagued by logistical support, the military food it carried could not sustain the protracted pursuit of the Xiongnu army.
The Hun army knew that victory would be achieved as long as the first few days were passed, just as the volunteers on the Korean battlefield were beset by logistics and could only wage a sunday, a week's war.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (stills)
This helpless tacit understanding was reversed after Emperor Xuan of Han succeeded to the throne.
Because, almost every once in a while since he ascended the throne, he has received war reports from the Western Regions, saying that the Xiongnu have frequently harassed, and then the Western Han Dynasty has frequently attacked.
How long will this war last, why will there always be no result, and will such an uninteresting war be handed over to the next generation or the next generation, and it will never end?
Emperor Xuan of Han (stills)
Emperor Xuan of Han was very annoyed, and let him always take this matter to heart, and he must use the strength of the whole country to solve the problem of the Xiongnu forever.
In 68 BC, another urgent manuscript from the Western Regions was sent to the court, and after Reading it, Emperor Xuan of Han asked the ministers below who submitted to the Cheshi kingdom of the Xiongnu and invaded the border of the Han Dynasty, which minister was willing to go to the First World War.
The attendant Zheng Ji stepped out of the ranks of the courtiers, and he stepped forward and bowed to Emperor Xuan of Han, who was willing to go to solve the matter once and for all.
Emperor Xuan of Han immediately appointed Zheng Ji as the minister of Chincha with full authority for the affairs of the Western Regions, and in order to strengthen the intensity of the crackdown, he specially dispatched 1500 elite troops to attack the Western Regions, one was to eliminate the small states that dared not obey the Han, and the other was to find an opportunity to completely eliminate the Xiongnu in order to avoid future troubles.
Zheng Ji, the first Protector of the Western Regions (the one in the middle)
Zheng Ji and his large army reached Renshou after several months of arduous marching, and began to give rules to the small state belonging to the Xiongnu, of course, the first Cheshi state to call the Western Han Dynasty must be destroyed, in order to establish the heavenly power of the Han army.
Therefore, Zheng Ji sent messengers to the small countries in the western region that submitted to the Western Han Dynasty to convey to them the edict of Emperor Xuan of Han, and for a limited period of time, he concentrated his own troops on our own country and jointly attacked the rebellious Cheshi state.
The jurisdiction of the Western Protectorate
Of course, the western states that submitted to the Western Han Dynasty responded positively to the call, and soon, Zheng Ji quickly formed a team of more than 10,000 people in a relatively short period of time to kill the Cheshi Kingdom.
Seeing that so many armies were coming to attack, Che shiguo immediately panicked and hurried to ask the Xiongnu for help.
Who knows, the Xiongnu are just nesting horizontally, who dare to send troops to rescue the Cheshi country, the king of the Cheshi country who is under siege also wants to try his own ability, who knows that the beaten ground can not find teeth, and can only choose to surrender.
Geographical location of the countries of the Western Regions
After recovering the Cheshi Kingdom and completely eliminating the living forces of the Cheshi Kingdom, it was only a small task of the many tasks entrusted by emperor Xuan of Han, how to make this land truly submissive to the Han Dynasty and become an inseparable part of China, and all problems could not be solved by fighting, killing, and killing.
Especially in the western region, the western region is perennially war-torn, and many oases have fertile land, and as long as they work hard, they are good fields.
A policy of humiliating peace and pro-Han
In particular, although Zheng Ji led an elite team of 1500 people from Chang'an, he also recruited many soldiers in the western region due to the needs of the objective situation.
To know that to feed such a huge army, the amount of food needed every day, as well as the amount of various materials, is very amazing. The distance between the Western Regions and Chang'an is so far away, if the state relies on the state to support such an army, it will undoubtedly be a heavy burden.
Only by relying on their own strength and taking the road of self-reliance is the best way.
Zheng Ji's idea gradually matured, and he did not fight every day against the troops, except for the necessary military training, he had to engage in agricultural production.
The establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate effectively controlled the Jurisdiction of the Han Empire over the Western Regions
In particular, due to the cruel war that cheshiguo has just experienced, many middle-aged and young people have died on the battlefield, and if the army does not shoot, it can only destroy cheshiguo and completely disappear from the map.
Thinking of this, Zheng Ji sent 300 men and horses from the Han army to camp in the uninhabited land of cheshiguo, which was also an oasis with abundant water flow, and opened up land for farming.
As a result, the first time in history to implement Tuntian and rely on its own strength to solve and ensure the supply of troops was in the western region of the Western Han Dynasty during the Han Xuan Emperor period, that is, today's Xinjiang, and the first pioneer and practitioner was Zheng Ji.
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