After careful consideration, in July of the 14th year of Tai'an, Zhang Lingyang decided to build five arsenals and some basic industrial facilities in the five countries of Yuz, Bukhara, Khiva, Kokand and Yarkand in Central Asia, and to build roads between Western Xinjiang and these five kingdoms.

One of the most important factors in the choice of these five kingdoms to exclude Durrani in the south is that the entire country of Durrani is a mountainous area, where the mountains are crisscrossed, although the geographical location is also very important, but if you want to build the roads in the country in the short term, you have to spend a lot of money.

Nowadays, all aspects of the construction of the Great Zhou need money, how can there be so much money spent on a subject country?

It's not that Duranni's status and position are not important, in fact, Durranny is between Tianzhu and Da Zhou, how can the geographical location not be important?

However, in the short term, it is definitely more cost-effective to invest in the other five countries in Central Asia.

Of course, there is another very important factor why Zhang Lingyang made this decision, that is, the other five countries in Central Asia are extremely rich in mineral resources, and neither the reserves nor the number of varieties can be compared with Durranny, so Zhang Lingyang decided to take the lead in investing in the other five countries.

In the Chen'an Palace, Zhang Lingyang looked at the proposal submitted by the military pavilion, and ordered Xiao Fuzi to look at the map exhibition of Central Asia carefully, and finally said: "Xiao Fuzi, inform the military pavilion to dispatch 100,000 troops of the Northwest Corps into the five countries of Central Asia, and according to the proposal of the military cabinet, build military fortresses and military facilities in several important bases in Central Asia.

In addition, the household department was instructed to allocate 8 million taels of silver to the Northwest Corps, so that they must build a road between Western Xinjiang and the five Central Asian countries within one year. ”

Eight million taels of silver is actually a bit too much, because the terrain between Western Xinjiang and the five northern countries of Central Asia is mostly flat except for a few places.

The reason why Zhang Lingyang insisted on allocating 8 million taels of silver to the Northwest Army was mainly because the western Xinjiang and the five Central Asian countries belonged to a vast and sparsely populated area, which was not conducive to recruiting people on a large scale.

Moreover, although it was previously decreed that 100,000 elite soldiers would enter the five Central Asian countries, the main responsibility of these soldiers was to build military fortresses and other related military facilities. Therefore, Zhang Lingyang could only allocate some more silver, so as to recruit as many local people as possible as soon as possible.

And Central Asia is related to the key to the next step of the Great Zhou, so Zhang Lingyang must not be cautious.

Based on the current relations between the Great Zhou and Europe, Zhang Lingyang dared to conclude that in the next three to four years, the contradictions between the Great Zhou and the European powers would inevitably rise to the point of irresolvability.

Because the industrial development of the Great Zhou is so fast, it has now seriously threatened the interests of the European powers, otherwise the European countries would not have united to increase the tariffs on the goods of the Great Zhou dozens of times.

Moreover, the reason why Dazhou is developing so rapidly now, in addition to a large number of domestic infrastructure construction, there is also a key factor that Tianzhu is providing nutrients for Dazhou far and continuously.

Once Tianzhu is digested by the Great Zhou, the future Great Zhou will definitely only be able to snatch food from the mouths of the European powers for the sake of industrial raw materials and markets.

The reason is very simple, because except for East Asia, the entire earth has basically been carved up by the European powers, and East Asia has always been the backyard of the Great Zhou, and the Great Zhou naturally cannot be as wanton as other regions and countries, so it can only take food from the tiger's mouth.

Otherwise, after a few years, Da Zhou could only stand still.

And the great powers compete with each other, and standing still means retreating, so Zhang Lingyang will definitely not allow this to happen.

If the Great Zhou wants to make great strides in development, there will naturally be more and more contradictions with the European powers. Once this contradiction accumulates to a certain extent, war ensues.

Zhang Lingyang is well aware of this, and the European powers are also very clear, otherwise the European powers would not have issued a decree to raise tariffs.

However, it is not a good time for a war to break out, because neither the Great Zhou nor the European powers are actually ready for a full-scale war.

On the other hand, Zhang Lingyang wanted to suck blood from European powers on a large scale through smuggling, and install Jews in the Middle East, so as to completely control the war in West Asia and not affect his own sphere of influence.

This decision was made after repeated discussions between Zhang Lingyang and the military leadership.

On the European side, in fact, the great powers are not stupid, although the European powers of the Great Zhou have begun to lay out the affairs of Central Asia, but whether it is France or England, they all understand that once the war between Europe and the Great Zhou breaks out, the battlefield will definitely be in West Asia.

The reason is very simple, the European powers did not want to put the battlefield in Tianzhu or Central Asia, because it was too close to the Great Zhou mainland, and the Great Zhou could respond quickly in the shortest possible time, and in this way, the logistical pressure of the Great Zhou was very small, while the pressure of the corresponding European powers was great.

And if the battlefield is placed in a place more west than West Asia, then with the current naval strength of the Great Zhou, it is beyond the reach of some whips, and now the Great Zhou only controls the land east of the first line of Central Asia and South Asia, and the regions of West Asia and further west, if the Great Zhou wants to get there, it will also take West Asia into its own hands.

And if West Asia falls into the hands of Da Zhou, where will Da Zhou go next?

If you think about it with your ass, you can understand that it must be the Southeast Europe region!

In this way, it was the Great Zhou that hit the doorstep of the great powers, which was not what the European powers wanted to see.

Therefore, naturally, both the Great Zhou and the European powers invariably regarded West Asia as the outbreak of war.

This was one of the reasons why Jews were able to enter Western Siberia unharmed.

The European powers were not fools, and how could they not understand the reasons for such a mass migration of Jews?

The reason why the great powers watched the large-scale migration of the Jews and constantly contributed to the flames behind the scenes was naturally to understand that the Jews were actually just a pawn in the hands of the Great Zhou.

The fuse for the outbreak of war in West Asia in the future will definitely be ignited by the restoration of the Jews, which is what the European powers want to see, because they need this fuse so that they can have a reasonable excuse to declare war on the Great Zhou.

The smuggling routes opened up by the Jewish consortium happened to be concealed because of the mass migration of Jews. In fact, this is not the case, the most important thing is that the great powers thought that this was just a small means of making money by the Jewish consortium, so they imported some Da Zhou goods through smuggling and sold them in Europe.

What they didn't know was that behind the smuggling of the Jewish consortium was the support of the Great Zhou court, let alone that the scale of smuggling would be so large, after all, the governments of various countries had not conducted a detailed investigation.

Besides, Europe is so big, there are dozens of large and small countries, and even if they investigate, they can only investigate some of the domestic situations, and they are not clear about the situation in other European countries.

However, because the European powers were also using the Jews, even if the relevant departments investigated some information, they were finally forced to suppress it by the high-level.

It is precisely because of this that the goods smuggled into Europe by the Jewish consortium were surprisingly smoothly sold, which has to be said to be a strange story......