For the Uzbek tribe mentioned by Hong Chengchou, it is actually the Khiva Khanate, Zhu Youxiao has taken a simpler way, they have more other things there, in addition to the domestic animals such as horses, cattle and sheep raised by the tribe, cotton production is even larger, and the quality is very good, but this tribe alone is not enough, Zhu Youxiao decided to let Hong Chengchou plan to expand a little, so that more khanates in the west will also join their territory, including more nomadic tribes to join them, Let him become a khanate that can be about the same size as the Lesser Yuz Khanate.

Since the Ming Dynasty moved westward, many khanates have disappeared, such as the Bukhara Khanate is one of them, which is also a khanate established by the Uzbeks, when Hong Chengchou defeated the Uzbek tribes, this khanate also died out, in addition to the little Timur Khan subdued some people, there are more tribes moved westward, all ran to the Khiva Khanate, so the Khiva Khanate is not only weaker, but has become stronger, but his strength is only compared to before, for the Ming Dynasty, it is still a lot, Especially after the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Safavid Dynasty, Isfendiar of the Khiva Khanate had long understood the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and he would never dare to start a war with the Ming Empire, and the only thing left was to make friends.

Da Ming is not unwilling to occupy a wider land, at this stage, the most troublesome is that the traffic is too inconvenient, just like the once huge Mongol Empire, he rampant in Eurasia with a strong military force, but the long road, slow way of information transmission, just like a person is sick, but the brain has no response to the disease, and when the disease is terminal, there is no cure, and finally the huge body finally disintegrates.

This era is not like the telegraph and telephone of later generations, which will always transmit the information needed to the center, and can solve problems at any time, and the use of airplanes, highways, and even high-speed railways has made long distances come and go. Zhu Youxiao thinks about how to effectively control the places he rules, how to exert enough influence on the surrounding countries, the Ming Dynasty can dominate the world, but it is impossible to monopolize the world.

The control of the Xiaoyuz Khanate is relatively simple, but the control of the Khiva Khanate is relatively complicated, there is a huge Ottoman Empire in the northwest of the Khiva Khanate, and there is the fierce Safavid Dynasty in the southwest, so Zhu Youxiao must fully consider various circumstances. The Ottoman Empire in the northwest is a little better, there are the Ming and Xiaoyuz Khanate who can assist him, but the Safavid Dynasty in the southwest he has to face independently, and there is also the Crimean Khanate to the west of him, which is very unfavorable for the Khiva Khanate to control the Black Sea periphery, and the Crimean Khanate is also a subsidiary country of the Ottoman Empire, and the relationship with the Ottoman Empire is extraordinary.

The Khiva Khanate was willing to make friends with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty also wanted to block the threat of the Ottoman Empire by supporting the Khiva Khanate, so the two countries naturally began to communicate with each other and hit it off.

On the ancient Silk Road, it is now beginning to flourish again, and a large number of advanced goods of the Ming Empire continue to pass through here, first entering the eastern part of the Khiva Khanate, and then no longer selling to the Ottoman Empire, but turning north into the territory of the Khiva Khanate, where they are sold. At the same time, a large number of cotton materials were constantly transported to the Ming Dynasty, and the commodity trade between the two countries was very prosperous, but the most important weapons and equipment did not appear in these commodities, but through another road opened by Hong Chengchou, from further north, and then began to equip the army of the Khiva Khanate, the purpose was not to cause panic in the Ottoman Empire, so as to cause a sudden war, in case of destruction of Zhu Youxiao's plan, it would be more than worth the loss, and it was necessary to secretly strengthen the Khiva Khanate.

As for the alternative Crimean Khanate, Zhu Youxiao felt that he didn't care about them, although it was a khanate, but it was too close to the Ottoman Empire, once they knew that the Ming Dynasty supported the Khiva Khanate, they would definitely tell the Ottoman Empire this secret, if they were thugs and the Ottoman Empire to deal with the Khiva Khanate, it might be worth the loss, it was better to wait for the Khiva Khanate to become stronger, and let them fight by themselves.

Historically, there have been numerous wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsarist Empire, and the Crimean Khanate served as the mainstay in the middle, but as the Ottoman Empire continued to weaken, it was eventually annexed by the Tsarist Empire. If the Khiva Khanate becomes stronger, maybe you can pull him at a critical time, or eat it, which needs to be said on a case-by-case basis, and maybe you can't see that time.

The situation in the west is complex and changeable, there are both contradictions and interests between countries, and it is impossible for Zhu Youxiao's Ming Empire to control various situations. Now that the Khiva Khanate and the Xiaoyuz Khanate have been pulled into their chariots and allied with the Ming Empire, the rapid development of the western region has become the basis for stability, and the Ming Dynasty must have a policy to tilt here.

With Zhu Youxiao's encouragement, the Shanxi Bank of the Ming Dynasty began to invest in this vast land, and various food, fur, and oil processing factories were built here. Raw materials are certainly not a problem, whether they are imported locally in the Western Regions or from the Khiva Khanate and the Lesser Yuz Khanate, the cost is relatively low and very abundant. Daming also adopted a tax reduction policy here, the Ministry of Household decided that the tax rate here should be reduced by 30 percent within 20 years compared with the Ming mainland, so that the cost of long-distance transportation was greatly offset, and in turn the prosperity of transportation enterprises could still earn a lot of income for Daming, the people were rich, the consumption power was improved, and they were naturally satisfied with the environment here, and the population grew at the same time, which is a good cycle process.

These are all private investment, Zhu Youxiao is more optimistic about the state investment, in this place, there are countless mineral resources, especially high-quality iron ore, coal mines, belonging to the Ming official mineral resources to be controlled by the state to mine, large mines must be controlled in the hands of the state, under the investment of the Ministry of Households, a number of large-scale mining bases have been established in succession, large-scale weapons manufacturing bases, the specific locations of these bases have Zhu Youxiao arrangement, the layout is very balanced.

Zhu Youxiao's own Daming Royal Trading Company has also made a lot of investment here, in addition to the production of general daily necessities, the most important thing is machinery manufacturing, the iron ox pot camel machine has opened a branch here, and all kinds of agricultural machinery are constantly produced here. In a sparsely populated environment, human resources are naturally insufficient, whether it is road transportation or land farming, the efficiency of using machine labor is definitely more cost-effective than employing people, so these machinery sales are very good.

Zhu Youxiao's other plan is to build a railway network, which will be built on both sides of the Tianshan Mountains, which is a huge project, but without convenient and low-cost railway transportation, it is difficult to unite the construction of various places in this vast area. The efficiency of the pack team and the pot camel locomotive fleet is still too low, the short-distance transportation problem is not big, it is convenient and flexible, but the long-distance transportation of goods is too small, the transportation cost is too high, and the railway network to be built can solve this problem very well. The terrain on both sides of the Tianshan Mountains is also very suitable for the construction of railways, most of the places are open plains, the communication between the east and west of the Tianshan Mountains is more troublesome, but this is not impossible to solve, road construction can be carried out in the mountain pass area, it is nothing more than difficult to build, but do not panic too much, you can do it slowly, anyway, the amount of work is extremely huge.

In addition to helping the Khiva Khanate and the Xiaoyuz Khanate economically and militarily, and the cultural exchanges became more frequent, Zhu Youxiao asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites to invite the khans of the two countries to visit Beijing, show them their high cultural connotation, rich commodity materials, and encourage them to send more personnel to the Ming Dynasty to study.

For the different situations of the two khanates, Zhu Youxiao also treated them differently, and the Khiva Khanate focused on the material aspect of the visit, so that they could move closer to the Ming from a material point of view. There is also religious guidance, so that the spread of Taoism in the Ming Dynasty can be carried out there, and Taoist temples and other architectural facilities can be established. For the Xiaoyuz Khanate, the material and cultural living habits are guided together, especially the Khan of the Xiaoyuz Khanate belongs to the golden family, under the guidance of the original Mongolian tribal leader, the Xiaoyuz Khanate fully accepted the traditional culture of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is a believer or a Christian, and then they all gave up those beliefs, and the Xiaoyuz Khanate gradually became sinicized.