In the seventh year of Shenzong, not long after the broken leaves of Qiu Daochang and his party, the defense line of the Jingxi Army was fully pushed to the Tianshan Mountains and the Green Mountains. Although there is a suspicion of following the Muguls to pick up leaks, it does not mean that those aborigines who have escaped the Mughal butcher's knife will 100% accept Dayu as the new master.

After the deterrence of the Jingxi Army's armed force, the officials of Dayu re-approved the ownerless land in various places, and set aside a garrison in each city, some of which were specially used as gratuitous rewards for the veterans of the Jingxi Army to stay in the local area. The Royal Grain Merchants followed suit, employing a large number of graduates from the Agricultural and Kanyu Departments of the University of Grey and the Technical School to survey water sources in the Western Regions, dig deep qanats, but strictly control the number of deep wells, vigorously promote drip irrigation technology that saves water and fixes soil, and expands the area of the oasis. Other businessmen heard the wind and went to the Western Regions together with the excellent seeds according to the catalogue of cash crops listed in the "Western Regions Support Plan".

In this process, according to the Taji pot that originated in Morocco in North Africa, Gu Ci came out with a kind of water-saving, fire-saving, fuel-saving, fast and easy to cook, and a lot of benefits of the 'horn pot', made of clay, the lid of the pot is like a pointed hat, which is very suitable for the arid and waterless Western Regions, and suddenly became a bestseller.

As for the refugees in Xining, if they want to return to their homeland, they can buy a limited amount of land from the government at half price, and if they stay in the local area, they will be treated no different from the Han Chinese.

It turns out that the guards or rebels in various places, if they want to join the Jingxi Army, can sign up for the selection of recruits, and those who fail the exam and still want to eat this bowl of rice also have another choice, becoming a full-time mercenary under Mingjin, and the salary is twice as high as that of ordinary soldiers. Mingjin's station is in Shule, and the entire Lingling Plateau is under his control, using the method of 'razing to control razing', and the mercenaries go to patrol this dangerous land of ice and snow where it is difficult to breathe, while following the road walked by Zhang Qian, Gao Xianzhi and Xuanzang, he subdued Puli, Wulei, Wuhua, Taohuai, Nandou, Xiaobolu, Zhengbin and other places, stationed at the passes, built border fortresses and border lines, and maintained the trade routes leading to Daxia, Gandhara, Tianzhu and other places, and easily exterminated the Hunza tribe who loved to rob merchants.

The Ningyuan River Valley, which is the most suitable for cultivation by the farming people, should naturally be left to the Jingxi Army as a logistical supply, and the Han immigrants will cultivate it, Guan Sancai will be stationed in Almaty at the exit of the Ningyuan River Valley, and Fang Liangzhi will go to Talas west of Almaty to rebuild the fort and stabilize the border defense. As for the aborigines, 'check their identity, non-Han people ordered to relocate', all of them were thrown to the scorched Dawan Basin for construction, which is more affluent and can support hundreds of thousands of people, and there has been a large influx of Daxia and Yue that is, others have settled down, of course, the people of the Western Regions are willing to go, and Dayu will not stop them.

In the future, the rich farmland of the Dawan Basin must be fat in the eyes of the Muguls, and the Privy Council has disputed whether to defend the basin, so at present, only a cavalry patrol stronghold has been built at the entrance of Khujand, and a boundary monument has been built as a buffer zone between the Western Regions and the Huqin Khanate.

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Since Gu Ci reported the progress report of the Western Regions project from the Royal Company, he noticed that the Jingxi Army did not touch the Dawan Basin, but regarded it as a refugee concentration camp.

"And when you can really bear not to ask!" Yuan Yi snapped his fingers and scraped the nose that was close at hand, and the old god lay on her lap on the ground, "There are more folds in today's batch......"

Gu Ci, who was bright-eyed and bright-hearted, immediately performed the 'eye exercises' magic skill, kneading and pinching him, "The husband is diligent in the world, and he is really Xi Shimingjun~!" ”

The emperor who burst out laughing grabbed her white paw and kissed it, and stretched out his hand to pull out a scroll from the book next to the soft couch and unfolded it, "You have mentioned the term 'national border', and it seems that most of them are bounded by mountains and water. ”

"Yes, yes!" Gu Ci thought of the famous 'McMahon Line', "The mountains are according to the watershed, and the rivers are according to the middle line of the route, so that neither side suffers." ”

"A watershed?" Yuan Yi pondered for a moment and bowed slightly, "I see, it's strange that the Rakshasa wants to occupy Tangnu Mountain." ”

"This mountain is the highest?"

"To divide the water." He said his understanding, "Several of the great rivers in the Xianbei Wilderness should have originated in the Tangnu Mountains, so the Rakshasa took them away in order to control the upper reaches of these rivers. It seems that they have worked very Kanyu, and they will have to send more people to Professor Xu another day. ”

"Okay!" She immediately picked up the board of white paper and charcoal in her hand and wrote it down.

"I compared the map of 'China' you drew with the information of the Ministry of Public Opinion. The southern border with Tianzhu should be quite complete, there are only two small neighbors, the source of the river is all occupied, and the commanding heights of Our Lady Peak are all in the hands, for China, Tianzhu should not be afraid, right? ”

"It seems to have been fought once in Tawang. The Gandhara and Shen River valleys are a small country in Pakistan, and they are mainly Tianfang cultists, originally belonging to Tianzhu, and after separation, they fought more with each other. ”

"Well, if Motuo breaks through a little more, it will be connected to Tawang, and the garrison will be Yadong, Pulan, Zhongba, Jilong, Zada and other places with abundant water and wood, and the south can be determined."

"Uh-huh! Pulan, like Linzhi and Motuo, is known as 'Kangzang Xiaojiangnan', but it is beautiful. It is said that Zada is too. ”

"The terrain around the Wakhan Corridor is complicated, but it seems to occupy only the eastern line, I don't want to give up such a large mountainous area, at least the western mountain pass should be bounded by a monument." Yuan Yi kissed her finger, and the topic changed, "Then there are the Zhaowu nine surnames in Great Xia, Kangju Grassland, and the west of the Tianshan Mountains, which used to be all Rakshasa countries, right?" All we have to do is make the states as many neighbors as possible. His voice was relaxed and low, but the words he said had the power to decide the life and death of the people in a place, "The oases in Dawan and Daxia are enough to feed this large area of nomads, it doesn't matter how many countries it is divided into, there is only one, and the Rakshasa can't be allowed to cross the mountains and Zhuo Zhanghai." ”

"You treat Dawan like a meat bone?" Gu Ci pondered carefully, "What should I do if the tail doesn't fall off?" It is also possible that Dawan in turn occupied Tarim. "Didn't the size of the Qing Dynasty and Zhuo do that?

"Shule is fine," he patted her hand and motioned for her to continue the massage, "Our focus is on the east of the Heng Mountains and the north of the Seven Rivers region, and we must beware of the Rakshasas uniting with the forces of Europe to contend with each other. ”

Gu Ci thought about it, it seems that Lord Zuo Zongtang with the brave Hunan soldiers did not take long to solve the southern Xinjiang, as long as the national strength still exists, it is not difficult to recapture Shule, as for the joint efforts of Europe, "It is difficult for Europe to unify, they are very scattered." ”

"Such a huge rakshasa didn't unite them back then?"

"I, I don't remember ......" Gu Ci thought about it sideways, she was more familiar with World War II than World War I, but both times Germany led her cute little brother Italy as the villain, as for Europe's all-out war against Russia, it was not within the scope of the exam questions, so she was completely impressed. …… It seems that the Germans and the Ottomans fought the rakshasas. ”

"Okay, don't think about it." Yuan Yi pinched the fleshy claws on her face and brought her back to her senses, "In my lifetime, I can demarcate the border, stand deep in the central and southern regions, and defend the Longmen Strait, and I will not be able to achieve the achievements of the world." It's up to our sons to worry about the rest. ”

"Brother is amazing!" Gu Ci leaned over and kissed the tip of his straight nose, and the ambitious handsome man became serious, which was simply a natural luminous body.

Yuan Yi smiled at her sycophants, and fell asleep in this warm and quiet atmosphere, Gu Ci fanned him while thinking about what else he could do for his ambition and hegemony.

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In the history books of the past dynasties, in the face of how to effectively manage the technical problems of the grassroots of society, they have accumulated a lot of experience, from the superstructure such as power separation, checks and balances, and imperial mental arts, to the cognition that "the imperial power is not lower than the county", all of which are based on the Chinese civilization of agriculture and Taoism, and the "experience management" model is derived, which is not only manifested in the ancient saying of "taking history as a mirror", but also deeply embodied in the unique "ancestor worship" culture in China. The deep commercial foundation produced by the maritime civilization has made the West more accustomed to digital management, so in the process of industrialization, the West already has a first-mover advantage, and it seems that the Chinese civilization, which is more dependent on the experience of its ancestors, lacks the spirit of questioning. China is not 'no merchants', but only 'light commerce', and it can be seen from the "Biography of Goods and Colonies" in the "Historical Records" that the role of merchants is to help 'exchange' and coordinate the amount of goods, and there is no summary and development of the business methods involved and even the vaguely glimpsed currency war. It's not a 'Sufeng' family, most of them don't know the inner doorway, and the officials are still like this, not to mention the common people and the high-ranking Son of Heaven.

Now Spain and Portugal have appeared on the eastern shipping routes, although Britain and Russia have not yet shown signs of rising, but in the latter two, one is limited to the size of an island country, and must go further than Spain, which also wants to expand on land, in order to create an empire on which the sun never sets, and the other is limited to the position of a landlocked country for hundreds of years, and it is not a good match to fight for the beast at the mouth of the sea. If Dayu is unable to dominate the economy and take full control of the newly incorporated territories, sooner or later it will be 'divide and rule' and then cut out by the colonizers.

To measure whether a civilization has succeeded in covering a region, there are three criteria that must be met at the same time, that is, race, culture, and language tend to be together, and any less is considered a revolution that has not yet succeeded. For example, even if the latter two can be resolved within a generation, the differences between races are not so easy to erase.

Jia Peng and his wife did a good job in Annam, the West Canal in Liuling City once passed through the Zuojiang River together with the northern river network of Annam, under the neglect of the Chen Dynasty and the Ji Dynasty intentionally or unintentionally, the river channel was silted up, and only the boat was not feasible, and now the dredging has been completed. In addition, the Pearl River, which flows through the northern part of Liuling City, passes through a tributary, the Beiliu River, and the Nanliu River, which flows into the Beibu Gulf in the southeast, and a small canal has been dug with navigable warships as the standard. In this way, Liuling City, which is connected by rivers and seas, and Thang Long City in the north of Annam are already inseparable, and the 100,000 mountains will no longer become the natural boundary between Lingnan and Annam in the Central Plains.

After Jia Peng took over the entire territory of the north and south of Annan and the Champa area, he retained the positions and treatment of officials in various places, and took one year as a buffer, and in the coming year, he asked for an official examination, and those who passed the examination were retained, and those who were promoted were similar to Han officials, and those who did not meet the requirements were demoted to Liuling City or Chongming Island to take up posts. As long as the students of Annan pass the reading and writing test, they can completely apply for Dayu inland schools, even if they go to Beijing Geli or Heming will not refuse, and in the following year, they can participate in the Dayu scientific examination like the Han people. This kind of policy of treating everyone equally, for Annan, who has a high degree of sinicization, is more popular than enjoying 'preferential treatment of different races'.

The transition of North Annan centered on Thang Long City was stable, while the Li clan in Nan Annan, who did not receive too many additional benefits, was dissatisfied, and although the Li family worked hard to 'cooperate' with Jia Peng and the administration and defense work of the Pingnan Army, the 'nomads' who were good at mountain warfare were never so obedient. It happened that the Goryeo Lee clan took advantage of the fact that the Andong Army and the Zhenbei Army were busy cleaning up the Bohai Kingdom, and in the name of resisting the Dongying pirates, they wanted to support themselves as an independent vassal state south of the Daedong River. The quickly retreating Shan Gui brought the Anton army with 2,000 loaded guns and ammunition ashore, tied up the Li family and his subordinate generals, and the first evil was punished, and the rest were thrown to Chongming Island, so that their old Li family could face each other across the sea.

The Li clan stopped, but South Annan will not be calm immediately, and Saigon, which originally belonged to the Khmer Shui Chenla region, is also ready to move because of the departure of the Andong Army and the replacement of the army Binh Nam Army. Fortunately, although Xia Bufan was in Longmen, Cam Ranh Bay in the northeast of Saigon was the future naval base hand-picked by Shenzong, and the patrolling Yu ships cooperated with the Pingnan Army in Saigon to pull the rioters directly to Penghu for reclamation, which lasted only five days.

By solving the two major hidden dangers at once, Jia Peng could concentrate on dealing with Nan Annan and the war-torn Champa area, registering wasteland and selling it to the Han people, persuading farmers to protect their fields, running schools and trade, and gathering people's hearts. In order to solve the Khmer people's eyesight on Saigon, after consulting the Chongzheng Yuan, he also gave 100 treasures and 100 gold in the form of a reward as Saigon's 'buyout money'.

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If there is no navy in place, relying on the mobilization of the Zhenbei Army and the Pingnan Army to resolve the conflict between the two places, I am afraid that it will take at least a year and a half to march and set up the formation, and now it will be three months over, so that the imperial court can face up to the efficiency of a powerful navy in conquering and controlling the peninsula and island countries for the first time - the coastal areas with limited depth, as long as the navy successfully lands, with overwhelming firearms support, it is enough to wipe out all resistance forces.

If the navy, which is purely fed by the inner treasury and sea trade, can bring so many islands and peninsula land to Dayu and protect the huge profits of sea trade, how can it be possible to say that the sea is forbidden again after a long time?

Seeing such a trend, Gu Ci was very pleased, since the Mobei Plateau and Rakshasa in the north needed more land to control, then she and the royal company under her name should concentrate on supporting the merchant groups in the two peninsulas of Central South and Malay. As long as the plantation has been operated for one or two generations, even if it is purely for food, the agricultural empire of Dayu will not easily abandon the navy, a military force that can easily control the lifeblood of a country.