Of course, this describes the happy life of immigrants from the south, and if the season is right, the immigrants from the north are also quick to rush to sow the seeds, and then start to take care of everything in the fields. But some people arrive at the settlements and the agricultural time is over, so they have to step up their chopping of firewood to prepare enough for the winter season.

At this time, local officials brought people from steel mills, coal mines, and cement factories to recruit temporary miners. After listening to the money that miners can earn in a day, many people immediately said that they are willing to become a miner and contribute to the construction of railways and highways in Daming.

In this cold season, mining underground is not too cold, plus the food is excellent, there is meat for every meal, and then a drink or two per person for dinner. And where you live, there is a kang, it burns a lot of heat, you have to eat well and live well and have money to get, what you need to pay is just some strength, strength this thing, as long as you eat well, you will naturally have it the next day when you run out.

With these new immigrants, the factories and mines have almost prepared the materials needed for the beginning of spring. Everything is good here, but the cold is really unbearable, but the people are fine, wearing down jackets, leather gloves, and face guards made of cotton, only two holes are exposed to breathe, and on the feet are double shoes, the inside is fur, and the outside is rubber. But the land is erected, and there is only a white mark when the iron pickaxe is struck, and there is no way to work on the ground.

The soldiers from Liaodong were more familiar with this kind of soil, because there was it in the Great Khing'an Mountains. The students of the geography department of the graduate school have conducted long-term investigations in Changbai Mountain and other places, and have learned some characteristics of this soil. However, there is no other way to start building roads in the frozen soil than to wait for the weather to warm up.

Even in the cold winter, the Jingbei Railway (formerly the Jingxiao Railway) was very busy, with a large amount of grain, clothing, ammunition, weapons, and agricultural tools being transported to Beihai, and then dispersed to various settlements and garrison areas by other means of transportation. The trees in Beihai were cut down with a hacksaw, the branches were removed, and they were transported back to the mainland, where they became materials for the manufacture of large ships.

In March of the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, the railway line from Beihai to Shuanghe City had been explored, and the construction work began as soon as the weather warmed up. The Ministry of Railways recruited temporary workers among the immigrants on a large scale, and gave them very high wages: 200 wen a day, so that many immigrants hastily sowed the seeds and handed over the work in the fields to the small families to earn this wage.

Sufficient human resources, sleepers and railroad tracks that had been prepared for a long time, made the construction of the railway go exceptionally smoothly. There are a total of five stations on the railway of more than 1,000 miles, which is basically a station for 200 miles. The resettlement was originally based on railways and stations, and the Ministry of Railways divided the entire railway into six sections and built them separately, which made the speed much faster. The plan of the Ministry of Railways is to build this section of the railway in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, so that by next year, the logistics and transportation capacity of the Ming army will increase by more than 1,000 miles.

Two divisions were now stationed in Twin Rivers City, and except for 3,000 people guarding the city, the other soldiers formed a squad and began to complete the combat mission of the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse.

In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army of Shuanghe City swept the area north and west of the Shuangcheng River for more than 1,000 miles, killing more than 6,000 Rakshasa people and capturing more than 4,000 people, most of whom were Cossack mercenaries and a small number of merchants. Moreover, the Ming army consumed very little food in this process, and basically could feed the war with war. His own casualties totaled more than 1,000 people, of which more than 600 were killed and more than 600 were wounded.

Most of the Rakshasa people are merchant teams, the combat effectiveness is not strong, if you encounter a large number of Rakshasa army, they will gather several small teams to attack together, under the advantage of weapons, the Ming army tasted a great sweetness, so as soon as the spring begins, Xue Boling and Sun Fumin personally led the team, with a small team of less than five hundred people began to sweep further north and west, one is to grab food and gold and silver, and the other is to eliminate any Rakshasa people who enter this area.

As for the Mongols or Waspurs living in this area, the Ming army tried to recruit them first and let them join the Ming army. Maybe it was because of the same skin color, or maybe because of the power of the Ming army's weapons, the surrender process went smoothly. The Ming army only asked them to contact the Ming army after seeing the Rakshasas in the future, and there were no other demands, which made it natural for the Tatars, who were oppressed by the Cossacks, to choose to cooperate with the Ming army.

In the process, there was also a Tatar tribe who disobeyed the yang and the yin, and lured a Ming army squad into falling into the ambush circle of the Rakshasas. As a result, after paying more than 80 lives, the Ming army team defeated the siege of the Rakshasas, and in turn killed all the old people and children in the Tatar tribe, leaving no one behind, and then piled up the heads into a Jingguan, which frightened some Tatars who were watching so much that they no longer dared to have other ideas.

Sun Fumin, who had been restored to the status of division commander, relied on Tomsk and sent twenty small detachments to search in all directions. His own detachment headed south and met the Rakshasas near a small castle called Ob, and after a fierce battle, the Ming army defeated the Rakshasas and took the city of Ob. Further south is the territory of the Dzungars, and to the west is the Kazakh Khanate, so that nominally, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has been connected.

At this time, Cao Bianjiao also began to march north from the Kazakh Khanate and came to the border of the Kazakh Khanate. After he found out the information of the Ming army, he sent a messenger to the city of Ob. Sun Fumin was overjoyed, so he asked the messenger to meet Cao Wenzhao, and invited Cao Bianjiao to come to Bike City, which is more than 100 miles southwest of Ebi, to settle down, and form a horn with Ebi.

After Cao Wenzhao received Cao Bianjiao's letter, he ordered him to use the city of Bik as a base and continue to attack all the Rakshasas he encountered in the northwest direction, all the way to Akmola, and then stationed there to wait for the large force of the Ming army.

Akmola was later known as Astana, but at this time it was not owned by the Kazakh Khanate, but only a small village on the banks of the Ishim River. The detachment of the Ming army had already been to this place, and thought that it was a very suitable place to live, able to accommodate a large number of immigrants, and there were not many natives living here at this time, so they should take this opportunity to occupy it.

Cao Bianjiao marched towards Akmola as he said, and after expelling and subjugating the Mongols here, he began to build a castle there. At this time, Cao Wenzhao's battle report finally came to the capital. After Zhu Youxiao carefully read the battle report and the map that came with the battle report, he named the city Hualong City.