Siberia has just arrived, it has not yet been fully controlled, in order to return to consumption, the Chinese Empire only sent a small number of soldiers and horses and people to occupy that place first, the land is vast and sparsely populated, only a dozen people within a hundred kilometers, only two hundred people within three hundred kilometers, only in some defensive nodes and the cities and castles built by the Qing Kingdom and the Russians There are thousands or three or four thousand people or garrisons.

These manpower is increasing by a million per year, and now there is no need to build more, only to accept the castles, cities, and settlements that the Qing Dynasty and the Russians originally built.

Zhang Qiang and his cabinet estimated that it would take five years, or even eight years, to receive all the cities, castles, fortresses, camps, and settlements built by the Qing Dynasty and the Russians on the territory that was useful for the planning of the Huaxia State, so that the population was estimated to be 20 million people, and the food and materials that the population began to receive in so many years needed to be supplied by the Huaxia State, and after five years, the food and materials of the various settlements would be self-sufficient, and there were some logs, furs, medicinal herbs, and all kinds of mineral suppliers to trade.

In the second year, the Qing Kingdom moved more than 100 miles into the Ural Mountains, abandoned some castles, cities, and settlements that were still at the foot of the mountains, and were immediately occupied by the newly sent garrison brigades, and transported supplies and built some nodes for liaison and trading with the Great Qing Kingdom.

After the supplies were delivered the following year, another group of people were left behind to become residents of the area, and some of the Mongolian naturalized people were relocated here to help them find out the movements of the Qing army or defend against the attacks of the fleeing soldiers and bandits.

And by a part of the garrison brigade soldiers were disbanded on the spot, and then joined the local people, the Chinese army for Siberia, for the huge territory, in the following ten years, frantically built a garrison army, as many as five or six hundred garrison brigades, the large 8,000 people, the small 3,000 people, and the smaller only about 1,500 people.

This disbandment was a garrison brigade of about 1,500 people formed by as many as 100 immigrants from the Northland, Northeast, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu Prefecture, and the Western Regions, and these 150,000 people will become young and middle-aged people on the defense line, living and reserving troops.

Once there is a police, the local garrison brigade of 3,000 people can quickly recruit these 1,500 disbanded youths as troops, and then add some old people and teenagers, and in an instant, in a very short time, an army of hundreds of thousands of people can be organized to resist the possible invasion of the Qing Kingdom.

These disbanded YMCAs, together with the garrison brigade and the local people, began to build dirt roads from their various settlements to nearby settlements, connecting the various settlements, and building some fortifications and camps to resist the harassment of the bandits and the Great Qing State, which will soon turn from allies to potential enemies, which is the most important thing for Zhang Qiang, who established the country by force and started by war.

From the Sea of Okhots to the Kazakh steppe, there are 100 garrison brigades of 3,000 men distributed on the defense line of more than 2,800 kilometers, and a garrison brigade of 1,500 men is disbanded at each point and distributed in the nearby settlements roaring around, so that on the 2,800-kilometer defense line, there are 450,000 troops available.

The garrison division is not full, they also disbanded one-third of the soldiers and horses in the local area, and then stationed one-third of the soldiers and horses in various places, only one-third of the soldiers and horses were assembled, leaving half of the garrison city, half as a mobile force can be called at any time, when not convened, it is used to monitor those who build roads, or set up passes or toll booths to be stationed, and become the Tuntian Corps, only one-third of these troops can receive military salaries in total, and two-thirds have to live on their own, which is also a helpless thing, after all, the early cost is too greatIn the later period, it would cost a lot to maintain this million troops, so I had to pay 400,000 troops, and then let the others turn into half-people and half-people, serving the people in peacetime, and gathering them for training for a month or two in wartime, and then going into battle.

This model is also practiced in the Western Regions, which is more extensive, close to the Caspian Sea, reaches the border of Iran in later generations, borders India, goes deep into the Bengal Sea, and then extends up to the Persian Gulf, from the Persian Gulf back to the Andaman Island, from the Andaman Island to Indonesia, from Indonesia to Australia, from Australia to the Sea of Japan, from the Sea of Japan to the Bering Strait.

The Huaxia Army sent 3 million troops to conquer such a large territory, but it needed 12 million troops to garrison, and these troops could only pay one-third of the military salary, and then the other half of the tuntian, half of the people and half of the army, half of them were disbanded and became civilians, and when they were called, they were militias, after training, they were garrison troops, and during the war, they were all field armies.

This will cost four million soldiers and horses, and half of the two million soldiers. With the establishment of various governorates, Zhang Qiang sealed all the henchmen and generals, or civil officials and meritorious heroes who had previously followed him, to the governorates, and asked them to garrison the mainland and core areas of China.

It is equivalent to putting a safe safety valve around the Huaxia Kingdom, once the enemy attacks, then the first to hit the Governor's District, you can mobilize troops from the core area to support the Governor's District.

And with the long period of stability, Luzon Island, Southeast Asian states, Penglai Island in Japan, Liaodong, Liaoxi and other states are being upgraded to first-class governorates, if there are another ten years without war, and rich in products, self-sufficient, can pay taxes to the core area, and feed back to the core area, the governorate will be abolished, these areas will be merged into the core area, and the territory of China can be truly expanded.

The current territory is only a few hundred square kilometers larger than the map of later generations, and it is not yet complete.

Now in the return of materials to the country, the quality of the population is gradually improving, immigrants are no longer going out, many people have been stable for several years, the core area has regained stability, and began to sing praises of virtue, the people's satisfaction is getting higher and higher, the speed of travel is getting faster and faster, the scholars and beauties are becoming more and more like later generations, and the economy is becoming more and more prosperous.

The core area of the core area, Jinling, Yanjing, Xijing, Wuhan, has built a horse-drawn railway ring line connected together, and the horse-drawn railway has also begun to upgrade, from the original can only pull two carriages, two horses, carrying passengers but about 40 people, walking fifteen miles, and then changing horses, changing cars, to later walking thirty miles, changing horses and changing cars, upgraded to three horses, four cars, riding more than 60 people, walking fifty miles to change horses and cars, such a short trip, the cost is not small, the use is not much, compared to a single horse running on the road, The speed at which a single car pulls a dozen or so people is much slower, and the speed of transporting goods is not very fast.

Later, four horses, eight cars, transporting eighty-five to one hundred people, walking seventy-five miles, changing cars, in fact, seventy-five miles is already the limit of ordinary Chinese Empire people's travel, only official cars, or officials ride, military vehicles ride, cargo transportation will be more and more concerned about the people and goods pulled, fast or not, ordinary people don't care about these at all.

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