It is because these areas have serious land desertification, and compared with the rich Central Plains, they do not have much use value.

But things have their own two sides.

If you don’t control the Western Regions, others will take the opportunity to take over and occupy the magpie’s nest.

Over time, the local people gradually became distant from Han culture and lost much sense of identity.

Fortunately, when Zi was wise and powerful, he had far-sighted thinking and timely considered this point. He sent Li Dingguo to lead a large army to recover the Western Regions and sent a large number of scholars to spread the Han culture locally.

Perhaps one generation is not enough, but the continuous efforts of two generations and three generations can ultimately reverse the cultural identity of the locals, making them have a relatively full recognition of the Han culture.

This is a great event that benefits the present and the future. After a thousand years, future generations will definitely be grateful to them.

Of course, cultural identity is on one hand, and environmental governance is on the other hand.

The arrival of the Ming army did not change much about land desertification.

Because Li Dingguo tried to plant many trees, but these trees were all dead and dried up shortly after they were planted.

The desert environment is really harsh and cannot retain water at all. Even the groundwater will dry up quickly.

In this case, it is too difficult to plant trees and form forests.

In the end, Li Dingguo, who had always been arrogant, had to give up the idea of ​​planting trees in full and solidifying sand and control sand, and only planted trees in major cities in the Western Regions to ensure that the city was not eroded.

But after he came to Samarkand, he found that the local situation was actually similar to that in the Western Regions, whether it was geographical conditions or environmental climate.

But it seems that the Sogdians have quite adequate control over land desertification.

Not to mention those major cities, even the connecting belts of these cities are full of trees.

The desertification of land covered by vegetation has been effectively controlled, and some places have even been transformed into soil.

I believe that this situation will completely improve in the past few decades.

Li Dingguo wanted to know what the Sogdians used to make the trees planted survive.

After destroying the Turkic horse thieves, Li Dingguo also wanted to ask the local Hu merchants what happened.

If you can get a useful answer and thus manage the land desertification situation in the Western Regions, it is much more useful than getting some gold and silver thanks from the Sogdians.

Li Dingguo is a person who pays great attention to reality.

So he hoped that he could really learn something from the Sogdians.

"Your Highness King Jin, it's getting dark. Should we make a fire?"

The words of the personal soldiers brought Li Dingguo's thoughts back to reality.

After all, preventing sand and grinding sand is a future matter. At present, Li Dingguo still has to solve the problem of horse thieves in Samarkand first.

As for whether to make a fire, this is indeed a big problem.

The reason is very simple. If it is a fire, it will be very obvious in the night and will be easily discovered by the Turks.

After all, the Ming army did not leave Samarkand too far, and they were playing with dark under the lights. Once the lights were turned on, they would be easily discovered.

But if you don’t make a fire, eating is a problem. The Ming army soldiers can only eat dry food. Moreover, the temperature difference between day and night here is huge, and if you don’t make a fire at night, you may be frozen to a lot.

Moreover, it is said that there are wild animals in the area, which is somewhat of a threat.

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Chapter completed!