Chapter 278: Western Siberia (15)

Sun Chuanting naturally knew what Zhu Youxiao meant, so he transferred Batur's 5,000 cavalry here. After the occupation of Tyumen, the original Khalkha Mongol three, plus the Oirat Mongol four, each transferred out a part of the people began to migrate here, these were originally the population living in a nomadic way, they migrated very fast, and mainly young and middle-aged, the first batch of migrating population totaled about 100,000 people, in order to prevent too many contradictions between them, to many years later in the formation of large and small tribes, Sun Chuanting took the same method as Zhu Youxiao immigrated, Moreover, before Sun Chuanting took this method, he had already communicated with Batur and Shuolei, and asked these immigrants to tell them the way of living when they set off, and to live in scattered family units, and each small village would have an average population composition of seven original tribes, in order to ensure that the quality of the population does not deteriorate, it is recommended that they intermarry with each other, and try to avoid intermarriage between the same tribes, so that they can reproduce stronger offspring, and tell them that this is the result of His Majesty's research.

At the same time as arranging these immigrants, Zhang Bingzhong sat in Tyumen, but Tyumen is no longer called Tyumen City, and Sun Chuanting renamed it Xiping City, which means that the West has been pacified. Zhang Bingzhong defended the city here, while Batur, Shuolei, and He Renlong each led their subordinates to attack everywhere to clean up the strongholds of Tsarist Russia east of the Ural Mountains, leaving only a lonely city in Tobolsk, not that Zhang Bingzhong was unwilling to take the city, but that he was unwilling to consume too many resources. Since it has cut off the supply of materials to Tobolsk, such as food, it will soon be due to a shortage of food, and the food produced there will not be enough for the population of the city, and the Ming army has already taken all the food that can be scavenged, waiting for the governor of Tobolsk to ask for surrender.

The short summer will soon come to an end, and Tobolsk, which has lost its food supply, even if it is the administrative center of Siberia, cannot feed the tens of thousands of people in the city, and even the most basic living materials are beginning to become tense, and they dare not think of marching south, only to take advantage of the fact that the weather is not too cold, and the Ob River has not yet frozen, abandon Tobolsk, move north along the Ob River, and finally return to Tsarist Russia on the trail near the Ural Mountains, Zhang Bingzhong, with the consent of Sun Chuanting, restored the name of the city to Kashrek, and asked Batur to announce to the local residents in the name of the heir of the Siberian Khanate that the restoration of the Siberian Khanate was successful, but in order to let the people live a better and happier life, the whole country joined the Ming Dynasty, and everyone was the people of the Ming Dynasty from then on, and they built a happy homeland together.

Since then, the westward expansion campaign of the Ming Dynasty has been completed, but the next step is a more arduous construction task, how to keep the hard-won results, which is a subject that tests the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty. In history, there is a problem that it is easy to fight and defend the country, and the same is true, it is easy to open up the territory and expand the territory, but it is not easy to defend the country.

As the supreme leader of this Western Expedition, Sun Chuanting can be said to be both civil and military, and the issue of immigration has Zhu Youxiao's practice as a precedent, and there is no problem in calming the people's hearts and consolidating social stability at the grassroots level. In addition to the army's own transport team to transport materials, the merchants also bought some of the trophies captured by the soldiers on the battlefield, some of these booty are small items that do not need to be handed over to the troops, and some are the trophies distributed by the army to the soldiers, and the caravans provide some daily necessities to the soldiers, and also help the army transport some military supplies. At the same time, it also acquired the specialties and local products of the indigenous people here, and in some small castles occupied in the early days, some meat processing factories were also opened, which were not only supplied to the troops, but also sold to the local population, and the meat processed by them was much better than that made by the local residents, especially the use of spices transported from Africa, which made these goods very popular and made their pockets bulge.

After the people's hearts, economy and other livelihood problems are solved, the society will naturally be stable, and the rest is how to deal with the possible retaliation of Tsarist Russia, you must know that now this is much closer to Moscow than Beijing of the Tsarist Empire, and the Ming army has seized the land that the Tsarist Empire spent decades to obtain in a summer campaign, and the Tsarist Empire will certainly not willingly lose these fat that has reached the mouth, and the future war is estimated to be larger than the current scale, and we must be fully prepared.

On the one hand, Sun Chuanting continued to strengthen the training of soldiers, and on the other hand, he sent personnel to survey the newly occupied land. Whether it is mountains and rivers, or mineral materials, we must be well informed, a map is depicted, the specific image of the terrain and landforms everywhere appears in front of you, the harvest of this battle is too great, the huge land area Sun Chuanting can hardly control, the population is too small, so little that almost dozens of miles can not build a decent town. What's even more frustrating is that there are so many swamps here that you have to make several bends to build an official road. Fortunately, there are countless rivers here, and although these rivers are a big problem for the construction of official roads, as long as enough ships can be built, it can still be navigated. Daming has enough technical strength to make a pot camel machine, using the pot camel machine as power, on the rivers of these plains, you can easily transport many materials, the only disadvantage is that the river freezes for a long time, and in the long winter, you can only use the plow to transport, so the efficiency is very low.

Sun Chuanting understood that it was now autumn, even if Tsarist Russia wanted to retaliate, it would have to wait until the spring of next year, take advantage of the winter season, just to detect the route of the official road, and wait until next spring to build, at least to build an official road that can connect several large cities, and it is definitely not possible to use manpower to build it, the indigenous people here have not done these jobs at all, only the merchants of the Shanxi Bank can do this work, they can hire a large number of road construction machinery, such as excavators, rolling mills, etc., These road construction tools are much more convenient to use than manpower, especially since there is an inexhaustible supply of wood, which is the most convenient source of power, and the road construction depends on these businessmen, who can give them preferential conditions for doing business here in the future.

In addition to these, Sun Chuanting also sent some scouts through the Ural Mountains and into the territory of the Tsarist Russian Empire, of course, these people are Batur's subordinates, they are proficient in Russian and the language of the local residents, let them go there as merchants, understand the composition of the residents there, the living conditions of the residents, the degree of identification of the residents with the Tsarist Russian Empire, how loyal they are to the Tsarist Russian Empire, and even see if they can find some old and young people who belong to the original Mongol Khanate.

Characters who can leave a big name in history naturally have their own awesome abilities, and officials like Sun Chuanting naturally have their own unique vision, and they are naturally very familiar with strategies such as the thirty-six strategies described in later novels. There were more civilian officials in the Ming Dynasty who led troops, which was formed by the way the army was controlled at that time, but there were not a few famous Confucian marshals, and Sun Chuanting was one of them, and Zhu Youxiao naturally recognized Sun Chuanting according to his reputation in history.

For example, now he wants to find the remnants of the original Mongol Khanate in Tsarist Russia, just like the United States in later generations is constantly looking for its own agents in various countries in the world and creating chaos everywhere, Sun Chuanting now thinks of this plan.

Sun Chuanting was born in the current Dai County, Shanxi, and many businessmen in Shanxi will naturally be a little close to him, so the detectives sent by Sun Chuanting are naturally indispensable to the silver of Shanxi merchants, Sun Chuanting's plan is to rely on the nature of businessmen, to find some people who can be used in Tsarist Russia, and rely on financial resources to support them against the Tsarist government, so as to create civil strife and alleviate the Tsarist Empire's attempt on Siberia.