"The big chief, the red hair will come in the future, if the brothers meet the red hair, they still can't resist, with the city wall, the brothers can retreat into the city, and the Ming army will also protect the brothers in the city, besides, the big chief's general's mansion has not been built yet, is the big leader going to build the general's mansion outside the city? If the red fur comes, what will the big boss do? ”

It turns out that the city was built to deal with the red hair! The big leader put his mind at ease, "Okay, I will definitely take my brothers to speed up the construction of the city wall, and I will definitely finish the city wall before the red hair comes again." ”

"Then I will thank the big leader first, after the city wall is built, we will start to build the military camp and the general's palace."

Under the leadership of Balhu, the Buryats rebuilt the city walls, and this time, they were like young men, and it took only half a month for the rest of the walls to be built.

Hong Chengchou wanted to give the city a name, which could have been named after the river, but the city is located at the junction of the Angara River and the Irkut River, and these two rivers do not look like Han names.

Although Hong Chengchou was born as a Jinshi, his many years of career as a horse made him respect the famous generals in history more, among which he admired the most was Wei Qing of the Great Khan and Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Qing, Zhi Zhongqing, and the official to Changpinghou; Li Jing, the word pharmacist, the official to the Duke of Weiguo.

He renamed the Angara River to the Changping River, and the Irkut River to the Yakushi River, and the city at the junction of the two rivers was called Changping City.

At the same time as building the barracks in the city, Hong Chengchou began to incorporate the Buryats.

The Buryats had agreed to naturalize as Han Chinese, so naturally they had to register under the name of the Han Chinese, and Hong Chengchou gave the tribe the surnames Zhou, Wu, Zheng, and Wang, and Balhu changed his name to Zhou Hu.

According to the practice of Beidong City, the Buryats in Changping City were also distributed to various families, Zhou Hu was the leader of the tribe and took the initiative to submit, Hong Chengchou asked him to choose four women, and the rest of the strong men were distributed by the Ming army, monogamy was implemented, and the children lived with their mothers.

The extra 180 Buryat women were all incorporated into the fruit and vegetable camp by Hong Chengchou.

In this way, a total of more than 300 families were organized, and Hong Chengchou placed more than 100 families in the city, and they will all have houses in the city in the future, but the cultivated land is outside the city, not far from the city wall, and they go out of the city to work during the day and return to the city to rest at night.

The other 200 households were divided into two villages and placed on the south bank of the Yaoshi River in the east of the city and the west bank of the Changping River in the south of the city.

Although Hong Chengchou divided the land for the people of the three villages, it is now past the sowing period of crops, and they can only occasionally open up the wasteland, and the rest of the time, they still continue to fish, hunt, and gather according to their original way of life, and they will not start sowing various crops until the beginning of spring next year.

Hong Chengchou believes that the crops that can be grown near Chita will definitely work here, and it doesn't matter if the yield is not high, now that there are fewer people and more land, it is a big deal to divide more land for them, and in addition, in the slack season, they can continue their original fishing and hunting life, and supplement some food and income.

It's just that Changping City lacks seeds and farm tools, so it must ask Shi Kefa for help as soon as possible.

When Shi Kefa heard that Hong Chengchou had completely occupied the southern part of Beihu Lake, he couldn't help but get excited, Hong Chengchou only took 4,000 soldiers, but he could open up thousands of miles to the west for Chita Province.

On the one hand, he asked the government council to increase the number of seeds and farm tools, and at the same time decided to go to Beihu Lake to see it himself.

Chita is now calm, and the people of one prefecture and two counties are in a period of free adjustment before farming.

Spring wheat is drought-tolerant, and after sowing, as long as the weeds are occasionally removed, it is basically harvested by the sky, and the people are either grazing, preparing forage for the winter for their livestock, or going to the forest to hunt.

If it is the autumn harvest season, and the harvest of various crops fails in a large area, it is a period of chaos among the people, and if it is not good, it will be a civil uprising, if it is really this period, Shi Kefa will definitely not dare to leave Chita for too long.

Accompanied by Hong Chengchou, Shi Kefa inspected the three cities of Beidong, Qingye, and Changping.

After the inspection of the three cities, Shi Kefa decided to establish a mansion in Aoba, and Beidong and Changping are the two county towns that belong to Aoba Prefecture.

He had two reasons: first, Qingye was located south of Beihu Lake, with Changping on the left and Beidong on the left, which was conducive to the management of the two counties; The second is that to the south of Qingye is Khalkha Mongolia, which is usually called Mobei Mongolia, and the Ming Dynasty needs to station heavy troops here.

In this way, Lingbei Province has a second prefecture and two counties.

As for the small population of Aoba, there are only 1,000 people at present, Shi Kefa is not in a hurry, there are still many idle fishing and hunting tribes around Bei Lake, and in the future, they will be naturalized, so they will move to Aoba to increase the population of Aoba.

To this end, he transferred Ma Rulai from Beidong Prefecture to Aoba, served as the prefect of Aoba, and officially appointed Zhou Hu as the general of Changping County, specifically responsible for contacting and naturalizing the nearby Buryats, and once someone accepted the naturalization, he moved to Aoba.

Originally, Hong Chengchou wanted to continue westward, but Shi Kefa denied his idea.

Shi Kefa believes that Qingye has just established a government, and the people's hearts are temporarily unattached, so they must carry out normal work with the support of the army, and besides, Beidong County has begun to plant crops this year, and in case the autumn harvest comes, the crops fail and the people lack food, and the people's will will be unstable.

However, Hong Chengchou made meritorious contributions, and finally reached an agreement with Shi Kefa: the southern half of Beihu Lake has been established as a county, and the Ming army will gradually advance to the north along Beihu Lake, striving to pocket the entire Beihu Lake, if the Ming army captures a small number of local people, they will move to Qingye, and if they encounter a large number of tribes, they will set up a prefecture and county in the local area.

Zhu Youzhen, who was far away in Beijing, received messages from Lingbei Province one after another, although these messages were what he expected the most, but his mind had turned to Guannai.

Originally, he was in a hurry to expand westward along Lake Bay, mainly because he was worried about the large country west of the Ural Mountains, but the message sent back by the "double-headed eagle" told him that the great power was now being bullied by Poland in the southwest and Sweden in the west, and the Kazan Khanate in the south was also encroaching on its steppes with the support of the Ottoman Empire.

It is still too busy to take care of itself, where does it have the strength to expand eastward?

Those who flaunt the flag of the state are not actually the army of the state, let alone the Cossack cavalry famous in Europe, but the armed forces of some fur traders themselves, because they are private, the number will not be too large, and the combat effectiveness will not be too strong.

These armed fur traders, using the advantages of firearms, can deal with the local people who live in fishing and hunting, but if they meet the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, they will naturally be in trouble.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen no longer cared about the affairs of Lingbei Province, he just instructed Shi Kefa and Hong Chengchou not to be too fast, to do what they can, and not to spoil the good situation.

His current mind is mainly in two aspects, one is domestic reform.

The reforms he promoted are now only being piloted in the five northern provinces, but sooner or later they will be implemented in the five central and southern provinces.

Maybe others can't see it for the time being, if this kind of reform fails, then the Ming Dynasty will return to the origin of the Apocalypse, then their hard work in the past few years is completely in vain, even if they accumulate some gold and silver for the imperial court, sooner or later they will be defeated in the hands of an emperor or minister, and the large tracts of land recovered by the Ming Dynasty outside the customs and in the southwest will be lost sooner or later.

If the reform is successful, the Ming Dynasty will be a feathered caterpillar, and from then on it will fly high and not lose to the birds.

Not to mention Spain and Portugal in the past, the current Netherlands, that is, Britain and France in the future, in the contest between the Ming Dynasty, will not have the upper hand, with such a large volume of the Ming Dynasty, and at the top of the world's science and technology, it is the West Yi teamed up, I am afraid that I can only look at the back of the Ming Dynasty.

The sail of reform has been completed, and Zhu Youzhen can't make it stop.

Moreover, this reform is only a www.biquge.info of Biquge, and there will be more and more and more in-depth reforms waiting for him.

The current Ming Dynasty is the period when Zhu Youzhen said that "everyone in the world is drunk and I am awake", and only after surviving this period can the Ming Dynasty be on the right track.

Now Zhu Youjian is like a hen hatching eggs, especially watch out for the eggs under her wings.

His other thought is Nanyang.

The domestic reform of the Ming Dynasty is inseparable from the accumulation of capital, that is, the lack of the first pot of gold, and the current overseas trade is the first pot of gold in the Ming Dynasty, although this first pot of gold may fall into private hands in the future.

As long as this first pot of gold is in the country of Daming, it will promote the development of Daming's industry and commerce.

Although the profits of overseas trade were huge, the number of people engaged in overseas trade in the Ming Dynasty was too small, mainly because they were stuck by the neck.

This choke point is in the South Seas.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to carry out overseas trade, it must pass through the South Seas, especially the Strait of Malacca, but now the South Seas have been completely controlled by the Xiyi, and even if the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty go to sea, they can only pick up some other people's scraps.

For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen must open up the Strait of Malacca, even if the Ming Dynasty cannot fully control it, at least let the merchants of the Ming Dynasty freely enter and exit the Strait of Malacca and earn the highest commercial profits.

After Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, he has been making relevant preparations, and the formation of the South China Sea Fleet is the most important link.

The South China Sea Fleet was Zhu Youzhen's only reliance to open up the South Seas, so he paid special attention to the possible commander of the South China Sea Fleet, Zheng Zhilong.

Now in front of him, a large amount of information about Zheng Zhilong is spreading, most of these materials are provided by the General Staff, and some of them are introduced to Beijing by the Jinyi Wei Feige from Guangdong.

“…… Zheng Zhilong took refuge in Li Dan, the leader of the Han pirates, because of his courage, he was reused by Li Dan, and after Li Dan's death, most of the property left behind was in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, so he became the most powerful pirate in the southeast coastal area, and repeatedly had armed conflicts with the Dutch East India Company, which operated maritime trade......"

“…… Zheng Zhilong sometimes robbed the coastal residents, but he never hurt people for the purpose of robbing money......"

"In the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1628 AD), Zheng Zhilong accepted the appeasement of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and was awarded the post of coastal defense guerrilla, commanding the southeast naval division of the Ming Dynasty.

"In the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1630 AD), Zheng Zhilong swept away his former subordinates Li Kuiqi and Zhong Wenwu, who rebelled against him, defected to the Dutch, and continued to engage in piracy activities......"