The poor Turkic city of Sitan was thus reduced to ruins by the Ming army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After half an hour of continuous bombardment, the Ming cavalry officially entered the city, and then the infantry followed, and then the soldiers who had been holding back for a long time immediately began to do what they liked happily, after the Turkic Sitan City was ransacked, and a large number of Kazakhs, including the royal family, were strung together with ropes and dragged out of the city, the remaining ruined city ruins were also burned, and since then this famous city in Central Asia has completely disappeared in the long yellow sand of history.

Of course, the war is not over yet.

The Kazakhs are nomadic herders, and the Khanate is just a symbol, in fact, it is a federation of small tribes scattered across the vast steppe, and the control area is very large, and the defeat of the Khan is only the beginning, and then the Ming army will have to spend at least one to two years to completely eliminate these nomadic herds scattered in an area of millions of square kilometers.

That's a lot of work.

As for how Lu Yi cleaned the grassland, this Yang Feng didn't bother to care, he quickly left Longcheng, and then crossed Beiting and Anbei Province to the northeast, and landed in Zhaoyi City, the capital of Beihai Province, that is, Ulan-Ude, at this time the Beijiang Railway has been repaired here, this railway starts from Beijing, passes through Anbei Province to the north, and finally reaches Zhaoyi, and will be repaired to the east in the future, and the railway in Heishui Province is also being repaired to the west, and the connection of the two railways will be completed within five years according to the plan.

"I'm going to build a palace by the North Sea."

Standing on the shore of Lake Baikal, looking at the lake like a blue jewel, Emperor Yang said with great interest.

The attendant next to him hurriedly wrote it down.

"Your Majesty, just leave this palace to the ministers."

The governor of Beihai Province, who accompanied him, said busily.

"No, it's not that I don't have money, you don't have to increase the burden on the people when your population is small."

Yang Feng said.

If the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, then Beihai is not only scarce, but the entire Beihai Province includes all the lands east of Lake Baikal and north of Heishui, that is, almost the entire Russian Far East, and Alaska and the Yukon Territory, which were opened by Emperor Yang's map, are theoretically also under the jurisdiction of Beihai Province. The territory of this province is almost equal to that of the whole of Europe, but the total population is less than 500,000, and more than half of the less than 50 people are near Zhaoyi. The rest are scattered along the coast or along the river, and they can only communicate with each other by borrowing the military's wireless telegraph system, or even cable telegraphy, after all, it is not easy to build wires in the vast primeval forest, especially in winter, when it is minus forty or fifty degrees Celsius.

With this amount of population, how much tax revenue must be added to build a palace for him.

The governor didn't dare to say anything more.

"Your Majesty, the Jinyi Guard Intelligence Department has reported that the two departments of Xiaoyuz and Khiva have sent envoys to Moscow, and according to the intelligence, they are preparing to submit to Russia."

At this time, Yang Zhong stepped forward with a telegram and said.

"Submission to Russia? Think Peter can protect them? ”

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

This is not surprising, after the destruction of Da Yuzi, the other four countries in Central Asia must find a way to protect themselves, the alliance is useless, even if the four of them are united, they are only a million people, what can they do against the powerful Ming army? At this time, the best choice is nothing more than to find a big tui hug, for Xiaoyuz and the Khivas, they only have one choice, Russia, although Russia has been beaten into a dog in Europe, but it is also a large country with a population of 10 million.

Besides, if they don't vote for Russia, who else can they vote for?

Persia?

Persia had just been beaten by the Ming army.

Mughal Empire?

The Mughal Empire has fallen apart, and it is still in a big mess!

Ottoman?

Even if they take refuge, it's useless, the two sides are separated by the Caspian Sea, not to mention that if the Ming army really beats them, the Ottomans will not be able to support their brothers across the sea, and there is no need, even if the Ming army destroys them, it will not threaten the Ottomans.

Only Russia is the only option.

And once the Ming army destroys them, the next thing will be to the Ural River, and then it will be Russia's territory, so to speak, they are Russia's barrier, as long as they are still in the Ming army, they can't threaten Russia, so Russia can only support them, as for the final result, that's later, how can I think about it so much now.

Actually, it's not just Shiva and Little Yuz.

Just when Yang Feng boarded the train and drove along the Northern Xinjiang Railway to Changyi City, the capital of Anbei Province, that is, Ulaanbaatar, the Jinyi Wei Intelligence Department sent a second report, and the envoys of the Bukhara Khanate and Kokand also went to Moscow to ask for submission to Russia.

"Does he dare to ask for it?"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a telegram saying that the Russian minister in Sweden has proposed to our minister in Sweden that if we can export rifled weapons to Russia, they will refuse to submit to the four Central Asian countries and promise not to interfere in our war against the four Central Asian countries."

Yang Zhong said.

Obviously, Peter is not stupid, although the four Central Asian countries can expand their territory and maintain the barrier between the Ming and the European part of Russia, but this barrier is not reliable, he cannot send a large number of troops to Central Asia to fight against the Ming army, and even if the Russian army goes to Central Asia, it will not be able to defeat the Ming army, that is to say, this barrier is at most a buffer zone, in fact, the meaning is very limited, but if this is used to show favor to Yang Feng, and in exchange for Yang Feng to open the export of rifled weapons to him, this is much more practical than getting the four Central Asian countries.

So do you want to change it or not?

"Don't change!"

Yang Feng said without hesitation.

"Tell Liang Cheng and let the minister in Sweden tell the Russians that Peter will accept these four countries if he has the guts, and don't complain if I don't warn him when I beat him."

Then His Majesty the Emperor said.

Central Asia is just a small dish, Russia is his meal, although rifled guns are already garbage for the Ming army, but this thing appeared in large quantities in the hands of the Russians, when the Ming army attacked Russia in the future, if these guys play guerrilla warfare, it is also very useful to use to fight the Ming army's black guns in the forests of Eastern Europe, the biggest difficulty in conquering Russia is the resilience of these cattle, the vast territory, the cold climate, the forests everywhere, coupled with the strong physique and tenacious character, with the rifled gun will skyrocket.

Besides, it doesn't matter who the four Central Asian countries belong to, anyway, whoever they belong to must belong to him in the end.

When the Russian envoy to Sweden returned to Moscow to report the news to him, the humiliated Peter did not hesitate to accept the submission of the four Central Asian states, and the four kingdoms of Lesser Yuz, Khiva, Bukhara, and Kokand were simultaneously incorporated into Russia. Immediately after that, a large number of smoothbore guns purchased by Russia from Ming merchants and produced by Russia entered the Caspian Sea through the Volga waterway, and then went ashore in the port of Turkmenbashi and were sent to the hands of Khiva, Bukhara, Kokand and other departments.

Of course, this doesn't help.

If in front of the Ming army, the Kazakhs who used cold weapons hit stones with eggs, and after getting Russian munitions, they were upgraded to glass bottles at most.

It's still going to be crushed.

"This is fate!"

Emperor Yang said with emotion.

At this time, his train is still running on the vast grassland of Anbei Province, this dark cloud that has been floating over the Central Plains civilization like a nightmare for thousands of years, it is summer, the lush pasture grass makes the land green, but there are very few herdsmen, but all kinds of wild animals can be seen everywhere, and even he actually saw a large group of wild wolves rounding up yellow sheep, although the train rumbled by, but did not disturb their work in the slightest.

"How many people are there in Apbuy Province now?"

He asked.

"Last year's statistics put there were less than 310,000 people, mainly workers in railways and coal mines, as well as traders in business."

Yang Zhong said.

"What about the people?"

Yang Feng said.

The subject people are those herdsmen, of course, they can't be counted as people, they can only be managed as subjects, but they are internal subjects, that is, the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, of course, the internal subjects are also subjects, the same is a second-class citizen, no right to vote, no right to serve in the military, and no right to participate in civil service examinations, including the education of their children is also different, the people have their own schools, the people have the people's schools, the latter is mainly to teach Chinese culture.

"The population of the people is 320,000."

Yang Zhong said.

"It's been so many years, why hasn't it reached the line yet?"

Emperor Yang said dissatisfiedly.

The line he said refers to the line where the number of Chinese people accounts for 60 percent, once this line is crossed, the border province will become an ordinary province, and local autonomy can be implemented, because Beihai Province is mainly a late inland immigration, so the proportion of Chinese people is high and considered an ordinary province, but Anbei Province because of the existence of those herdsmen, so the number of Chinese people is far from the standard, and it can only be regarded as a border province, but as a standard inland province after so many years, it has not taken off the hat of the border province, and the work performance of Anbei Province is very unsatisfactory!

"Well, Your Majesty, you also know that there are not many attractive things on this grassland, and the people of the country do not like grazing, but this pastoral area prohibits farming, just a few mines, and it does not attract many immigrants to settle down."

Yang Zhong said embarrassedly.

The governor of Anbei Province is his own brother.

"Humph!"

Yang Feng snorted coldly.

Then Yang Du commanded the envoy to hurriedly run to his brother in a cold sweat to send a report, so that the latter could quickly solve this problem, as for how to solve this problem, he didn't have to worry about it, for example, the young girl in the people was forced to be given to the countryman as a concubine, so wouldn't it change the proportion all of a sudden? According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, if a subject marries a countryman, he will automatically obtain the status of a countryman.

Of course, if a countryman marries a subject, he will automatically become a subject. (To be continued.) )