Chapter 123: The Storm in the Western Regions (4)
After recovering Yesmukhan, it occupied most of the Western Regions, according to Zhu Youxiao's intentions, the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence could be expanded to the Ural Mountains, and the small Yuz in the west was regarded as a buffer zone between Europe and Europe, and in the future, it was not only necessary to vigorously develop the economy and population of the Western Regions, but also to arm and support the small Yuz, so that it could become a shield on the western side. In order not to have wars and conflicts with them, Zhu Youxiao let the little Timur Khan lead all the people to migrate to the Ferghana Basin, and has been extended to the area inhabited by the Uzbeks, where the provincial administrative organization was established, and then a series of political power organizations in cities, counties and townships, where the little Timur Khan was the governor there, and the region included the four countries of modern Central Asia, Let the little Timur Khan maintain the stability there with a little blood relationship, the little Timur Khan is very dedicated to doing a good job of the tasks assigned by Zhu Youxiao, relying on Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism to establish a series of schools, especially the Confucian masters of the Zodiac Zhou and the improved Confucianism, and gradually make the people in this area accept the assimilation of the Ming Dynasty. In order to strengthen his rule over the Western Regions more effectively, Zhu Youxiao also demobilized most of the veterans to the local area in the form of the construction corps, which is similar to the nature of the construction corps in later generations, allowing them to marry local women, and suddenly adding nearly 100,000 Han people here, if they can marry two or three wives in the future, it will increase to 6 or 700,000 Han people in 20 years, which can probably account for 30 percent of the population. Forever exempt from agricultural taxes.
Only less than 50,000 elite soldiers remained, and these soldiers were pure firearms troops, with firing rifles and mortars being their main weapons, and with the continuous development of the Ming industry, their weapons were prioritized. Now Zhu Youxiao's weapons factory has developed to the extent of modern times, the application of hydraulic presses and various lathes has been fully used in the weapons factory, and then there is the steam engine as the original power, which greatly improves the production efficiency, the central bank of the Ming Dynasty began to issue paper money, saving a large amount of copper metal, which can make bullets with copper metal cartridge shells, the bullets are conical iron cores wrapped in lead, which can ensure the pressure in the chamber when shooting. The progress of metal smelting has also ensured the quality of the barrel. Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua worked together to create a similar Mauser rifle, depicting rifling, adding a crosshair and a scale, and the range could basically penetrate ordinary iron armor within 60 zhang.
Artillery production progressed faster, except that mortars had a longer range, and the use of ration kits made shooting more reliable. In addition, an infantry cannon was also manufactured, using shell-type shells for easy transportation and fortification, with a range of about five miles, and it was filled with thunderous sky*, which could blast through ordinary stone walls.
What makes Zhu Youxiao even happier is the tire, Song Yingxing's disciples have gone through countless experiments, spent a lot of materials, and finally made a tire that meets Zhu Youxiao's requirements, and it is an inner tube, as for the take-out is very simple, whether it is in the northwest or northeast, as long as there is a pasture, there are cowhides, horses, and even because Zhu Youxiao vigorously develops meat breeding, there are a large number of pig skins, these things can be processed into simple wheel take-out, in order to ensure durability, the outside is winding a circle of wire. The most troublesome inner tube interface problem is the easiest for Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao is a clever carpenter in history, doesn't the carpenter need to glue wood? That's how to stick it with this glue. This glue is called swim bladder, which is boiled out of fish skin and water, and it is used to stick things in ancient China, not only can be used to stick inner tubes, but also can be used to glue several layers of cowhide, horse skin, and pig skin, and then processed into a car belt that can be loaded into a steel rim.
With these inner tubes, take-outs, and rims, Zhu Youxiao's pot camel machine is like having longer legs, and it is much easier and faster to move, the original one hour can only run sixty or seventy miles, and now the speed is almost one-third faster. Of course, Zhu Youxiao didn't dare to vigorously promote this kind of thing, it couldn't be supplied at all, but there was a saying called "the power of the masses is infinite", the people had their own masters, and the landlords who bought the pot camel machine used the inner layer of pig skin to tanned and sewn it up, and then glued it with a swim bladder, which seems to be very easy to use, but it is not as light as rubber.
Zhu Youxiao sent nearly 10,000 units of the improved pot camel machine to the Western Regions, mainly for the army, in addition to supplying the army with transportation materials in peacetime, Zhu Youxiao also let the construction corps use it to cultivate land and open up land, completely solving the problem of food supply in the Western Regions.
The second is the matter of personnel arrangement, Hong Chengchou stayed in the center, except for the southwest returned to the border province of Timur Khan, most of the rest of the region was established in the Western Regions Province, all of which were in charge of Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou became a civilian official, militarily Li Hongji served as the commander of the military region, Hao Yongzhong served as the deputy commander, and Li Guo went back to help Yuan Chonghuan. Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses were reduced to 15,000 people, but all of them were replaced with new equipment, and the old equipment was left to the construction corps, and several of his subordinates and Orlek, Tulu Baihu, and Batur each led 3,000 troops, Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang belonged to Li Hongji, and he and Yuan Chongdi led 5,000 soldiers, these soldiers were reorganized and reorganized, in order to improve combat effectiveness, Lu Xiangsheng also specially applied to Zhu Youxiao for more than 30 graduates of the military branch of the Ming Officials College to come to the apprenticeship, to teach soldiers culture and military skills, So as not to suffer in the future when fighting with the Russian Cossack cavalry.
Cao Wenzhao's 30,000 soldiers in addition to selecting a part of the elite to join the reorganized team, the rest of the demobilized on the spot, became the construction corps, married and had children locally, and he himself returned to Sun Chuanting with his own guards and continued to assist Sun Chuanting in training.
Besides, Mao Wenlong took his three fierce generals, marched along the East Sayan Ridge, and met many local indigenous people on the way, the language of these indigenous people is relatively simple, plus most of the soldiers in Mao Wenlong's team are Jurchens, and they can communicate with these indigenous people simply, these indigenous people include the Kouyats, Sakha and Evenks, and the most peculiar is the Avants, their language is very similar to the Jurchens in the north, and they can communicate after a simple gesture. Without hesitation, Mao Wenlong presented them with some daily necessities and some food, and quickly gained their trust and learned about some situations in the nearby area.
Every year when the weather is warm, there will be a lot of yellow-haired and blue-eyed Russian merchants come here to buy skins and return some daily necessities to the locals, but there are also some armed traders who rob the local indigenous people, and in the face of their muskets, the local residents are helpless, and those who are robbed can only consider themselves unlucky. Mao Wenlong has dominated Phi Island for decades in history, and in addition to force, his intelligence is not ordinarily good, and now he has sensitively grasped this issue and subdued the hearts of the local aborigines.
First of all, the Evant people, they were able to quickly recognize Mao Wenlong, because the language problem was quickly solved, plus some unseen daily necessities given to them by Mao Wenlong, they quickly became friends with Mao Wenlong. Through the Avant people as guides and interpreters, Mao Wenlong got acquainted with some Sakha and Yakuts, and also gave them some daily necessities, so that Mao Wenlong made friends all the way in the process of westward expansion, although they were all small tribes of hundreds of people, but after all, they were still recognized by the locals, and it was an accident that finally got their friendship.