It's just that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is that even if one is built every three hundred miles, it will take more than a hundred cities to defend the grassland, and five thousand cavalry in one city will also need five hundred thousand cavalry to complete.

Therefore, if you want to complete the control of the grassland, the first step is to liberate the slaves, liberate the herdsmen from the various tribes, and further reduce the strength of each department, and then set up a city of one hundred miles and one fort and five hundred miles, and a total of thirty-six cities are set up in the entire grassland.

The reason why many tribes can threaten Zhang San's rule now is because the herdsmen are their private property, attacking each other, and then they all recruit all the strong laborers in the tribe to go out together, and only by breaking up such tribes can large-scale rebellions be prevented.

Now the largest tribes on the grassland are in the hands of Zhang San, so waiting to destroy the Jin State and the Liao State is the best time to start the herdsman reform, because if you want to liberate the herdsmen, you must face a possible rebellion, so Zhang San can't do it now.

However, the construction plan can be prepared now, but after calculation, Zhang San almost did not give up the grassland, and it takes almost 10 million Han Yuan to build a city, and it takes at least 400 million yuan to build a city, and with the current financial revenue, it has just broken 100 million, so it will take four years to complete without eating or drinking.

However, it is impossible for Zhang San's subordinates not to eat or drink, so the annual investment in the grassland construction plan is limited, only about 10 million yuan, and it may take more than 40 years to complete the construction achievement.

In the end, the parties compromised, and the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance proposed a plan to build in batches and classifications, that is, to give priority to the construction of large trading cities, mining cities and strategically important cities, such as the trading city of Sulun, the mining city of Baotou and the center of Mongolia Ulan.

As long as the first two types of such cities are set up and planned, then the later development can completely rely on their own advantageous industries and economies to form a large-scale city, and the strategic place must be defended, so it is also included in the first batch of plans.

In the first three years, because the construction of the Yellow River embankment occupied a lot of money and manpower, and after three years, the Yellow River embankment was completed, then the Mongolian construction plan could be accelerated, of course, provided that Zhang San had no new expansion plan.

How could Zhang San not have a new expansion plan? It's just that this kind of strategic plan is not suitable for large-scale leakage, it's better to slow down, Zhang San hopes that he can see the land transformation of the whole of Mongolia and further north completed in his lifetime, and he can be regarded as a meritorious person.

Zhang San finally decided on a plan for the development of the Mongolian grasslands, the first is to build cities, the second is to liberate herders, and the third is to develop the grassland economy to make the grassland more closely connected with the hinterland, such as the construction of canning factories and leather processing plants.

The fourth is to recruit herdsmen to serve as soldiers, this person just can't be idle, especially young and strong people, who will pick quarrels and provoke trouble when they are idle, only by letting these people have something to do, and the days can be rushed, in order to maintain the long-term peace and stability of the society.

Not to mention the current Mongolian herdsmen, that is, the developed countries in the West, which are known as civilized societies in later generations, as long as the unemployment rate rises, there will be all kinds of turmoil and riots, so if you want to maintain long-term peace and stability, it is essential to recruit workers and soldiers.

In addition to the huge cost of building the city, another thing that made Zhang Sandan hurt was to build roads, which he couldn't afford to build, even if he used all the slaves Zhang San couldn't afford to repair them, because the slaves couldn't transport them to eat.

Therefore, he can only choose one direction to extend in the other direction, where the road is repaired, where the logistics supply will be transported, Zhang San finally knows why although the previous dynasties can win the grassland people, they have not managed the grassland.

The investment cost is too great, the output is too low, just like now Zhang San smashes tens of millions of dollars into it every year, these places can be self-sufficient Zhang San snickered, not to mention recovering the cost, but Zhang San sees all the long-term benefits, as well as stability, in fact, he does not operate the grassland, and the cost of stationing heavy troops in the north every year is not small.

Rather than investing that money in the meaningless garrison and building the Great Wall, it is better to manage it well, although there is no profit in the end, but when the industrial age comes, the underground mineral deposits in Mongolia are discovered and developed, which is definitely countless times the current investment.

Although the destructive power of the northern cavalry has been greatly suppressed after entering the age of firearms, the mobility of the cavalry still cannot be underestimated, and what if the cavalry also rides? At the time of World War I, countries were still equipped with a large number of cavalry, and it was not until the appearance of tanks in World War II that cavalry withdrew from the stage of war.

And sometimes people say that success is not enough to defeat more than defeat, even if the cavalry withdraws from the stage of war, but he can't help you succeed, it is enough to harm you, they form steppe horse bandits, attack small tribes, attack caravans, enough to ruin your hard-working business for decades in just a few days.

Therefore, Zhang San has never underestimated this grassland, even if it affects his own development speed, he must stabilize it, and these horse bandits are not Zhang San's casual talk, but they do exist, and they exist with the existence of nomads.

For example, Zhang San's first step in controlling the grassland was to make up the city horse bandits, and the composition of the grassland horse bandits was very complex, some were disobedient people driven out by various tribes, some were fugitive slaves, some were losers in tribal wars, and there were even herdsmen who killed the tribal leaders to stand on their own.

The war of annexation on the grassland, in order to compete for the grazing land with abundant water and grass, has never stopped, so the horse bandits on the grassland are constantly generated, and some horse bandits have simply become herdsmen tribes again after they have developed large.

Therefore, Zhang San's desire to stabilize the grassland bandits is also an indispensable part, recently because of the needs of the war, most of the troops of the six major tribes controlled by Zhang San have been transferred, and the remaining troops can only protect themselves, so the horse bandits on the grassland are active again.

Several dependent medium-sized tribes have reported being attacked, but fortunately, the small tribes are attached to the six tribes, otherwise Zhang San will suffer greater losses, these horse bandits do not stock their own forage, and often beat other people's tribes in winter to spend the winter in other people's tribes.

However, since Zhang San controlled the grassland, he consciously protected the small and medium-sized tribes, which made the survival of the horse bandits very difficult, so this time taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of each tribe were going south to participate in the war, the horse bandits became active again.

However, Zhang San was helpless even if he received the news, the wind and snow not only limited the counterattack of the Liao State, but also now Zhang San's actions, so unless he waited until the beginning of spring, Zhang San could not return to the army to eliminate the horse bandits.

But even if you go back, it is difficult to achieve results, because it is really difficult to distinguish between the herdsmen tribe and the horse bandit tribe, this is like a fisherman on the seaside, usually for the people, and when you encounter a fat sheep, you don't know who to kill.

Therefore, Zhang San's plan to suppress the bandits is still to cooperate with the liberation of the tribal herdsmen, and only by gaining the hearts of the people and gaining the mass base can the horse bandits be isolated, so although Zhang San occupies the grassland, there is still a long way to go to control the grassland.