Vast cavalry, musketeers, and spearmen walked through the desert.

Agu Baize galloped, but his heart was full of gloom, and in the mouths of the soldiers who fled back from Kashgar and Ingishal, the Chinese from the original army was unimaginably powerful.

The Khan generals did not believe the words of these deserters, and it was a myth that more than 100 cavalrymen conquered Kashgar, what bullets rained down, and how many cavalry became live targets. A general came up with a grumpy temper and slashed a deserter who described the powerful Chinese with a knife.

Although rumors about the Chinese in the army gradually subsided, Aguba believed the deserters, and he had seen the weapons of the British expeditions far higher than the smoothbore guns that his army was equipped with from the Russians.

The Chinese, the Central Plains, the legendary world of flowers, large and prosperous cities, the arrogant country that always considers itself the Celestial Empire, perhaps, also has mastered such a powerful weapon.

Although Kashgar and Ingishal were recaptured by the Chinese, from various intelligence, the Chinese army did not have much, so it was the best choice to concentrate superior forces to defeat it, as long as the passage from Kashgar to the Khanate was opened, or fight or retreat, the initiative was completely in his hands.

Fighting with the Chinese Central Plains army, Agubo was extremely careful, he did not take advantage of the Chinese foothold to send elite cavalry to quickly attack Kashgar and Ingishal, but ordered the cavalry and infantry to act together, he believed that no matter how strong the Chinese force was, 5,000 elite armored cavalry, plus more than 10,000 musketeers, would definitely be able to tear through the Chinese defensive line.

A few days ago, the scouts sent found that the Chinese were operating in the area of the Yuepur River in Topuluk, so he ordered the whole army to be stationed in Yarkand, and sent a scout team to reconnoiter the movements of the Chinese, and when it was discovered that the Chinese did intend to block his army at Topuluk, Aguba suddenly made a bold decision to go southeast to the desert to bypass Topuluk and Ingishal, retreat from Tashbariksi or attack Kashgar in the north.

Although many generals did not approve of the detour, and all of them were aggressive to kill the [***] team fortified by Topuluk, but at the insistence of Aguba, the generals had to give in.

Agubai, who was born extremely handsome, did prostitution for the nobles of the Khanate in order to survive, so he developed a feminine and vicious surname, and serious psychological problems are also the reason for his thirst for killing, right? And many generals are also afraid of him, terribly afraid.

Aguba is also extremely cautious, he can lead a hundred horsemen to defeat the tribe of thousands of people on the other side, and when faced with unknown dangers, he can also not hesitate to burrow into the turtle shell and swallow his anger.

And in the face of the Chinese, he chose to drill into the turtle shell.

In the distance, there seemed to be a faint noise, and Aguba's heart tightened suddenly, and he rode his horse forward.

Half an hour later, there was still no message from a scout team that went to the front sentry, as if it had suddenly disappeared without a trace, and at this time, there was gunfire in front of it. Could it be the Chinese?

The army came to a slow halt, and the musket teams of the front army shouted loudly, forming a battle formation in rows.

Aguba sent out several more scouts, and a quarter of an hour later, there was a dense muffled sound ahead, and after a while, several horses galloped back, some saddles were empty, and several escaped scouts shouted: "Chinese!" The Chinese are ahead! ”

Agubo and several generals rode forward, on the desert steppe, the line of sight was extremely far, running out for a few miles, from the clairvoyant mirror, you can already see a line of black spots in the distance, faintly, as if there is a wave of bright red, the legendary Chinese emperor's Praetorian Cavalry, bringing a bloody nightmare to the aliens.

Discovered by the scouts, it seems that the Chinese no longer deliberately hide their tracks, but set up a line in this vast desert, quietly waiting for the upcoming battle.

Ahead, there is a bend in the stream, which is the upper reaches of the Yuepur River, and if you bypass Topluk, only this area is low and shallow, allowing a large army to pass through. Otherwise, it will be necessary to go west to climb the Khantelek Mountain.

"My lord, shall we go east to attack Torpluk?" A leader beside him asked Agubo coldly, he was one of the generals who strongly advocated the slaughter of the [***] team, and did not believe that the Chinese Central Plains army was as strong as it was legendary.

Agubai didn't speak for a long time, and finally, his handsome and gloomy face rose into fanaticism, and he waved his hand: "Prepare for battle!" "You can't hide, so let's fight! Let the people of the Central Plains taste the claws of the prairie falcon!

The generals on Agubai's side immediately scattered and galloped, loudly conveying the order, "Yo ho! - Yo-ho! "The loess was pervasive, and the Uzbeks were running, gathering, and slowly forming several queues.

At the forefront, dozens of teams of 100 people formed a platoon of guns, the middle army, the left and right flanks, and the armored cavalry gathered into a phalanx, and then in the rear, dozens of platoon guns pressed the formation. Dozens of earthen cannons were pushed and guided by horses and manpower, and slowly pushed from the gap between the cavalry phalanx and the forward gun line to the front of the line.

Typical Napoleonic wars formation, and Aguba changed slightly, he always placed the artillery in front of the infantry, when the enemy entered the artillery range, the first will be hit by their own artillery fire, if the enemy can not hold back the charge, the artillery will quickly retreat behind the infantry line, with the infantry platoon guns and cavalry flank charge to resist the enemy's attack.

Now because the Janissaries of the Great Chinese Emperor were invincible, several spear teams were deployed in the front army to counter the charge of the Chinese Janissary Cavalry.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the well-trained Andijanites had completed the formation of the attack, the yellow sand was filled, the formation was slowly pushing forward, and Agubo was also quite complacent, in front of this heroic army that won all battles, any enemy would tremble with fear.

"Hum-" The scream of a long sound seemed to be the friction sound of a hard object breaking through the air and the air, and then, very suddenly, I saw countless black dots smashed down from the air with a thunderous force, and some exploded in mid-air, conjuring up countless flames splashing, which were flowering bullets and bullets that were specifically designed to kill and injure infantry, and the flame-like dots were fissioned bullets and shrapnel.

"Boom, boom!" The black spots that smashed on the ground erupted into a loud sound like a landslide and cracking, splashing countless mud and sand, and the turf loess was lifted away. A platoon of spears and a phalanx of cavalry were hit by a solid cannonball, and immediately screamed repeatedly, and from a distance, black dots could be seen either falling or blowing up, and the dense formation of the two teams, together with their flags, became a few sparse black spots.

"Artillery! Artillery of the Chinese! In the formation queue, the heralds galloped back and forth, exclaiming loudly.

Agubai's face also changed slightly, looking from the clairvoyant mirror, he couldn't see where the opponent's artillery was hidden, could it be buried in the yellow sand? Or, the range of the opposing side is several times longer than that of its own artillery?

"Boom, boom, boom", continuous artillery fire, moreover, the accuracy is getting higher and higher, with a dense formation of infantry and cavalry under the heavy artillery fire, almost like harvested straw, pieces of subjugation.

The cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Uzbeks finally couldn't hold back, and galloped forward with a shout, the cavalry of the platoon gun era was the natural enemy of artillery, as long as the tactics were right, attacking the opponent's artillery team was like chopping melons and vegetables, only this time, they were like headless flies, and they didn't even know where to charge, because there was no trace of the opponent's artillery at all.

The yellow sand flew and the guns rang out, and the Chinese cavalry galloped out, wading through the stream to engage the Uzbeks, simple gray military uniforms, without any non-essential armor except for the necessary magazines, which made their horses run more vigorously and agilely, hunting Aguba's armored heavy cavalry in a team of horse shooting tactics.

"Charge!" Aguba's face turned pale, and he even reached out and snatched the horn from the hand of the commander next to him and blew it vigorously.

The Uzbek musketeers, one after another, loaded their bayonets, jogged, and gradually turned into a gallop, swooping towards the black line of the Chinese on the other side of the stream, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The sound of gunfire was so intense that the Uzbek musketeers fell in rows among the weeds and deserts, and even a few corpses could approach the stream.

Looking at the slaughtered Uzbeks from the clairvoyant mirror, Ye Zhao shook his head, and he couldn't even test the courage of the Uzbek elite at all.

In the era of platoon guns, what was needed was courage, and many Chinese people thought that European soldiers were traditionally cowardly and afraid of death, which was actually a misunderstanding.

Think about the era of platoon guns, the effective range is only about 100 steps, the two sides form an infantry line and slowly approach, 100 steps away, standing is aimed at the enemy they are aiming at, and even close can count their eyebrows, around, teammates are shot from time to time and fall to the ground, and you have to stand straight and shoot at each other, such a soldier, don't you need extraordinary courage?

And the most elite gun platoon, will withstand the opponent's bullet rain until close to the range that can give the opponent the most effective blow, in this process, their own people continue to be shot and killed, and the brave soldiers still stride forward, until within a hundred steps, only to stop, aim at the other side to shoot, and at this time, the opponent is most likely still in a hurry to load, although many comrades died in the process of advancing, but the first round of shooting at close range is enough to cause more than ten times the loss to the opponent.

At the beginning of the formation of the Pingyuan Army, the platoon gun team was trained, it was the era of blood boiling, it was the time when the military soul of the Pingyuan Army had just condensed, and it was also the most unforgettable period for Ye Zhao.

Now, in the face of the platoon of guns that lagged behind its own side for nearly a century, the elite Chinese imperial army was almost slaughtering the brutal invaders.

Some of the Uzbeks finally rushed into the stream, but wading through the water slowed them down anyway, and the rushing soldiers slowed down as if deflated, and were quickly knocked down by the rain of bullets.

The creek gradually turned red.

When the Chinese Emperor's Praetorian Guards cavalry rushed into the ranks of the Uzbeks in that whirlwind like red lightning, the Uzbek musketeers and cavalry suddenly broke and fled in all directions.

And the Andijan swords, spearmen, archers, and the young men hired by the tribes who returned to Andijan had long since become a swarm of bees, and the soldiers who threw down their weapons knelt all over the desert.

Aguba had long been in despair, but he was chased from behind by a red cavalry and died by a random sword.

At the end of September 1864, the Emperor's [***] team defeated the main force of Aguba in the upper reaches of Topuluk, killing more than 20,000 enemy prisoners and killing the enemy chieftain Aguba.

…… The cold wind is howling, and the goose feathers and snow are flying in the sky.

In a house in Lianggar, the earthen kang was boiling hot, sitting on the kang head, roasting the stove on the kang table, Ye Zhao cursed this ghost weather in his heart.

It has been nearly three months since Agubo was killed, and the situation has basically stabilized, and two border divisions and one patrol division have been stationed in Tiannan, numbered respectively the third and fourth divisions of the royal frontier defense and the royal Tiannan patrol division.

The two frontier divisions were composed of some men and horses of the Lanzhou Group Army under the command of Harwich in Tianbei, as well as newly recruited border soldiers and reserve soldiers from the Central Plains.

The area of Tiannan, west of Central Asia, south of Britain, India and Pakistan, east of Kunlun Mountain, is Tibetan Province, how important the geographical location is.

Keeping Tiannan firmly in the hands of the empire and making it truly part of the Central Plains is of great political significance for the present and future of the empire.

This is also the reason why Ye Zhao personally participated in the reform of Tiannan's political structure.

The agricultural areas and towns in Tiannan are naturally the same as those in the Central Plains, with prefectures, counties, and townships, but the nomadic areas are really difficult to deal with, and the herdsmen live in tribal groups, so they cannot always send officials to follow their nomadic herds, and they are also prone to contradictions with them.

Nowadays, only the various nomadic areas are divided into counties under the jurisdiction, but the herdsmen tribes take the official position appointed by the central government, called "Xuanhui Envoy", which is not hereditary, and is appointed once every five years, before each appointment, the provincial political axe will send a working group to the pastoral areas to understand the situation of the predecessor, whether there is any violation of the law, etc., to understand the wishes of the herdsmen, in order to decide whether to replace their official titles, and the life lawsuit, must be reported to the county government under its jurisdiction for trial.

The imams from Dihua entered Kashgar to preach new doctrines to Muslims, and the new Muslim sect is called "Rashid Shia", which means a sect that grasps the true faith, and among Muslims in Xinjiang Province, it is also called "White Religion".

The new doctrine encourages intermarriage between Muslims and non-Muslims, does not encourage Muslims to live in groups, encourages Muslims to face the next life bravely, and loves non-Muslims.

At the same time, Kashgar also set up a "Central Plains School" school for Muslim families, with funds recruited from wealthy Muslims, and the school learned to speak the Central Plains dialect and teach the teachings of the Rashid sect.

The situation in Tiannan was stable, and Ye Zhao stationed troops in Lianggar and began to prepare for an attack on the Kokand Khanate.

Lianggar is the westernmost city of Tiannan Province, which is already on the foreign territory of later generations, and is located more than 100 miles west of the border line of later generations.

In the Lianggar area, there are more than 20,000 battle sequences in the Royal Xiao Cavalry Regiment, the First Division of the Royal Cavalry, the Third Division of the Royal Frontier Defense, and the Royal Zhenghuang Banner Infantry Brigade.

The Zhenghuang Banner Infantry Brigade is the Reading Force, which has now been expanded to an infantry brigade of more than 5,000 people, and has been officially awarded the royal elite number.

The number of the yellow flag, Ye Zhao is right, and now he has said goodbye to the previous dynasty, so he doesn't have to be rigid in everything, no matter what, the new dynasty will always leave some marks of the previous dynasty, and deliberately turning a blind eye is a sign of disconfidence, and the eight banners have become the number of the army, and the demise of the banner system has been officially announced.

Roasting the fire, Ye Zhao looked at the telegram from Dihua and the telegram from Beijing, in Dihua, arsenals, steel factories, rubber factories, textile factories, etc., have been built, and preparations are also being made to establish various chemical plants, which is the plan of the imperial national defense strategy.

However, not only the railway from Taiyuan to Lanzhou is under construction in sections, but also the railway from Lanzhou to Dihua, and the railway wholly owned by Taihe Bank has also broken ground.

The telegram from Beijing said that the railway from Chengdu to Guiyang was put into trial operation, and so far, Xichuan officially has its first railway, which can be directly connected to Guilin and Hengzhou through Guiyang and enter the Jiangnan railway network.

The railway from Guiyang to Kunming is in the survey route.

In addition to the trunk railway, the construction of provincial branch railways is also in full swing, especially the survey team jointly composed of the empire and the best bridge experts in Europe surveyed in the area of Wuhan, and came to the conclusion that the empire can build a bridge across the Yangtze River at this stage, and the north-south railway network is expected to be connected, which naturally set off a boom in investment in the construction of railways.

In fact, not only in China, but also in European countries, the construction of railways is also in full swing.

The vigorous development of railways has also prompted a great leap forward in the domestic steel industry, and it is expected that next year's steel output and rail production will increase geometrically, but despite this, it is inevitable to order rails from Europe.

The locomotive of the steam engine has been completely localized, and there is no longer a need to buy it from Europe.

The first telephone line was set up from Yanjing to Tianjin, and local telephones also appeared in Guangzhou, Jinling, Shanghai and other cities.

Not counting the Forbidden City and the ministries, the installed number of telephones in Beijing has reached more than 90 units, and it can break 100 at the sight, and if the transistor technology of the Oriental Telegraph and Telephone Company makes a breakthrough, the call quality of the telephone will be qualitatively improved, and the installed number of telephones will also have a blowout trend.

"Afaf, I'll take you back to Yanjing to call!" Seeing these news, Ye Zhao couldn't help but feel a little excited, and looked at the beautiful girl in white who was flipping through the books on the other side of the kang table with a smile.

Afafu raised his head in surprise and glanced at Ye Zhao, not knowing why he was suddenly so happy, and he couldn't understand what he said, and said, "I won't go to Yanjing." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Is Yanjing so terrible in your eyes?" ”

The guards hurriedly came in to tell him that the envoy of Murad, the tribal leader of the Kokand Khanate, had arrived in Lianggar, and that he had been received by the chief of staff of the 3rd Frontier Division.

The Kokand Khanate, whose capital was in the eastern region of the Khanate, was very close to the Chinese frontier, and in the west and north of the city of Kokand, the Kokand Khanate also had a large amount of territory.

Muhammad of the Kokand Khanate? The Sultan had already sent envoys to sue for peace, sent envoys three times, and was expelled three times outside the city of Lianggar.

Murad, the tribal leader of the Salar region, was one of the nobles who had close contact with the Kokand Khanate in the empire, and Ye Zhao began to contact the tribal leaders of the Kokand Khanate while purging southern Xinjiang.

In his letter to the Emperor of China, Murad asked for the Emperor's support to help him overthrow the rule of Sultan Muhammad by force, and to submit himself to the Emperor of China for generations if he became King Khan.

After listening to the guards, Ye Zhao frowned slightly and said, "Tell the messenger to go back and tell Murad that there is only one way to surrender." ”

Ye Zhao took out the Go chessboard from under the table and put it on the table, and said, "Ming said to march, take a good omen, come, kill you a game." ”

is often trained by Rong'er, Ye Zhao's chess skills are also perfect, at least there is no difficulty in bullying Afaf.

Seeing Ye Zhao take out the chessboard, his pretty eyes became brighter and brighter, and the snow-white veil was gently blowing, obviously taking a deep breath, calmly preparing for it, and he must win Ye Zhao's game.

Ye Zhao smiled secretly, sometimes thinking that this little Muslim girl was very interesting.

…… At the end of December 1864, the Emperor's army finally crossed the border into the Kokand Khanate, and within a month, several cities were conquered, including Osi, Alban, Andijan, Namgan, and Margalang.

Kokand Khan's [***] team was slaughtered, and whenever they saw the gray military uniforms appear, they collapsed, and the red cavalry team of the legendary Emperor of the Central Plains was even more unchallengeable.

Later, it was not uncommon for a cavalry team of scouts of a dozen people to make a tribe of thousands of people surrender obediently.

In mid-February, the 1st Cavalry Division and the Zhenghuang Banner Infantry Brigade approached the city of Kokand, and the nobles of the city either fled or surrendered, and the emperor's [***] team took the city without a single shot or artillery.

In March 1865, the Emperor Ye Zhao led a cavalry group into the city, and after a few days, Sultan Muhammad and his wife and concubines, who fled to the Shurabo area, were captured by local tribal leaders and presented to the Chinese Emperor, and a prisoner sacrifice ceremony was held in Kokand City.

However, as soon as the ceremony was carried out, it was interrupted by Ye Zhao, because Ye Zhao was stunned to find that the captives such as the Sultan of Muhammad, both men and women, had been stripped of their clothes, naked, and strung into the square with ropes.

In the ice and snow, a beautiful woman who was originally the princess of the princess, at this moment, she could only cover her chest with her hands, barely covering the snow-white pepper milk, and staggered through the humiliation of thousands of people.

What is this system? Ye Zhao immediately ordered all of them to be dressed, and loudly announced on the palace and castle, "Give all the Kokand people the same equality and freedom as the Central Plains people!" ”

Next, the northern and western tribes came to surrender one after another, and Ye Zhao held a grand tribal meeting in the palace, announcing that the dense eastern towns such as Andijan, Namugan, and Margalang were included in the Tiannan Province of the empire, and the city of Kokand was renamed "Laining", and the minister of Laining was set up to lead the departments of the Western Regions.

Originally the name of the new city in Kashgar in the previous dynasty, it is now named Kokand City, and the empire finally expanded to Central Asia.

In March 1865, the Kokand Khanate fell.

The palace of Kokand City naturally became the property of the royal family and the palace of the emperor in Laining.

The palace is a white marble building, with distinctive architectural characteristics of the Timurid Dynasty, which was a Turkic Mongolian tribe that ruled Central Asia for hundreds of years, and is an architectural style that integrates Persian, Arab and Turkic colors.

The palace is magnificent, richly decorated, intricately carved and brightly coloured, with sumptuous buildings with spacious white-domed halls and courtyards and encircling colonnades.

The city of Kokand was also laid out in an orderly manner, with mosques, palaces and parks for the governors and dignitaries, and sacrificial buildings in green spaces, as well as a well-developed irrigation system and underground water supply, cisterns, and sewage pipes. Markets, dense residential buildings and important transport arteries are very clear.

Even Ye Zhao was greatly surprised, accustomed to thinking with his surname, thinking that Kokand City must be a barren land.

After this lunch break, Ye Zhao ordered someone to pass on Meng Jiang, and he came to the study along the corridors lined with white rock pillars.

There was a telegram that had just arrived from Kashgar, and it was six hundred miles in a hurry.

Ye Zhao immediately perked up, and hurriedly looked at it, sure enough, Rong'er and Shawa both gave birth to dragon seeds, two little princesses, only one day before and after, and Rong'er was born big.

Rong'er asked Xianggong to name her daughter in the message.

Ye Zhao scratched his head and thought for a while, maybe he was too excited, he always felt that his name was nondescript, and then he drafted a telegram, the name was Rong'er Hongniang and others to discuss, and when the Western Expeditionary Army heard this good news, he immediately named the eldest girl Princess Yongning and the second girl Princess Yong'an.

As soon as the draft message was written, Meng Jiang arrived.

Meng Jiang, who was wearing the official uniform of the second-grade officer, was obviously quite unaccustomed, he was just the sentry officer of the Xiao Cavalry Regiment, Meng Jiang Zhao Kui, the second general of the Great Emperor who teased the seal, but he was suddenly appointed as the Minister of Affairs of Laining, and he was promoted several levels in one fell swoop, Meng Jiang is still in a dream, and he is not used to leaving the Xiao Cavalry Regiment and leaving the army.

"Why are you crying with a sad face?" Ye Zhao put down the brush, and the white jade table was quite elegant.

Meng Jiang didn't dare to squeak.

Ye Zhao smiled and said: "I don't think people can be wrong, you are thoughtful and enterprising, after you came to Kashgar, you learned to speak in Andijan, there are few people in the army who can do it, and you still have the habit of reading newspapers." "It is common practice to read newspapers in the army, although the Western Expeditionary Army has a long way to go, but the newspaper will still be delivered with the baggage, of course, it is often a few months ago.

On the way, sometimes Ye Zhao heard Meng Jiang and Afaf muttering and talking, and since then he has been attentive to Meng Jiang. Speaking of which, Afif is also a language expert, and he is very talented, and he learns Andijan with Meng Jiang, but the progress is much faster than Meng Jiang.

Ye Zhao said again: "I also noticed that you are quite interested in the international version of newsprint, right?" ”

Meng Jiang was frightened and surprised, and said with a red face: "The little one doesn't know how thick the sky is, but he likes to watch things outside." ”

Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "This Lai Ning City, I told you to use razing to control razing, do you know what it means?" ”

Meng Jiang didn't think about it and said: "Use the Kokand people to resist Tsarist Russia in the north and England in the south." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "So I won't look at the wrong person." "The Kokand Khanate, bordered by the Bukhara Khanate supported by Tsarist Russia to the west, Tsarist Russia to the north, and Afghanistan, Britain, India, Pakistan and other places to the south, can be said to be extremely geographically important.

Although the Kokand Khanate was annexed, it was not possible to place it in a political structure under the tight control of the Central Plains in a matter of months or even years, and now the Kokand Khanate, with its dense urban areas in the eastern part of Andijan, was incorporated into the province of Tien Nam, and it can be said that it truly became the territory of the empire.

The western part of the Kokand Khanate, for a short time, could only be indirectly and effectively controlled, relying on various tribes to rule this territory, and became a buffer zone for contact with the spheres of influence of Tsarist Russia and Britain, so that the western frontier of China became the rear.

The tribes of the Kokand people, the empire will support them by force, that is, they will equip the weapons eliminated by the imperial [***] team, so that they can invade the Bukhara Khanate to the west, and at the same time, the Anglo-Indian controlled areas in the south and the Tsarist Russian-controlled areas in the north will not be able to live in peace.

In this way, Tsarist Russia will move south, and the ambition of Britain and India to go north will be curbed, and there will not even be a single soldier from the empire.

Of course, in addition to the annual tax of cattle and sheep, the tribes of the Kokand people also need cattle, sheep, horses, grain and grass if they need weapons, so the position of the minister of affairs is extremely important, to be able to pull and fight, to pacify the tribes, not to pretend to be a high-ranking ruler, but also to have a keen international political perspective.

Although Meng Jiang is only a sentinel official, he has become a very suitable candidate in Ye Zhao's eyes, relying on the civilian officials appointed by the capital, I am afraid that there will be a little less iron-blooded means, in case of a real conflict with Tsarist Russia, Britain and India, I am afraid that it will be difficult to make a decision if I can't receive the order from the capital.

In fact, when the news of the empire's declaration of war on the Kokand Khanate was published in the domestic newspapers, both the Russian and British ministers visited the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs one after another to find out the true intentions of the Chinese, and now that the Kokand Khanate was annexed, the Russians and the British were afraid that they would enter a state of emergency to study countermeasures after the expansion of the Chinese's sphere of influence to Central Asia.

Ye Zhao said again: "Three deputy ministers, you need to get along with them." ”

Meng Jiang hurriedly bowed down.

At the same time, Ye Zhao appointed three deputy ministers of the city of Laining, one was an Uzbek, and his name was Muhammad, the tribal leader of the Ferghana area in southern Kokand. This Muhammad was the first to surrender, and even took the initiative to offer grain, grass and livestock, and sent out warriors from his tribe to join the Central Plains army to conquer the tribes in the west who refused to submit.

Another deputy minister is a Kyrgyz, that is, a Kyrgyz, Gulshayir, that is, the female Tusi, because of the northern border of Kokand, there are many Kyrgyz tribes, and the northern border goes all the way to Bishkek and Talas in the east of Issyk-Kul Lake, all of which are Kyrgyz tribes, which border the provinces of Xinjiang in the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and the territory has long been far beyond the scope of the so-called Broken Leaf City.

The third deputy minister is a Tajik, and the southern border of Kokand, Britain, and Pakistan is all Tajik tribes.

The territory of the empire has reached a level unprecedented, although Ye Zhao has already refined the honor and disgrace, but at this moment, it is difficult to hide his excitement.

Coming out of the study, I turned around a few corridors, but saw that on the stone steps in front of a white-domed building, Afaf was talking to several Uzbek maids, muttering, naturally practicing her Uzbek language, Ye Zhao smiled secretly.

Walking over, the maids with melon and fruit wine plates saw the emperor walking around the red-clothed guards, their faces changed color in fright, and they dodged one after another, kneeling beside the stone steps with Uzbek etiquette.

Although the Uzbek maids and Tajik maids are both beauties and virgins carefully selected by the clan leaders, if something happens to these clan leaders, these clan leaders will definitely cause disaster to the whole clan, so the maids must have undergone strict scrutiny, but in the eyes of the inner guards, the maids are foreign women after all, and in the palace, the inner guards are still guarding Ye Zhao's side at all times, never leaving an inch.

Ye Zhao approached and muttered a few words, but it meant "hello" in Uzbek.

Afafu looked at Ye Zhao in surprise and said, "Is there anything good?" "It can be seen that the emperor is in a very good mood.

Ye Zhao smiled: "Yes, Kokand is mostly calm, what about Yanjing City, I gave birth to two more daughters, aren't you happy." As he spoke, he picked up a glass of wine from the wine tray of the Uzbek maid who was half-kneeling beside him, and motioned to Afffe, "How about a drink with me?" He pointed to the unknown purple fruit juice on the plate and said, "You use it." ”

An inner guard hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, please forgive your sins." He bowed down, took the glass of wine, tried it with a silver needle, and poured a small cup for the maid to drink, and the fruit juice was also concocted in the same way, and after a while, when he saw that the two maids were unharmed, and the silver needle had not turned black, the guard bowed and retreated.

Ye Zhao raised his cup at this time, and Afafu also touched him lightly with juice, and said, "Allah wishes the two little princesses a healthy and peaceful life." ”

Ye Zhao smiled, raised his glass and drank it all, why do you want to have a toast with Afafu? It's really in this Western Regions, and I'm able to find some sense of equality with Afaf.

"You're going back to the Central Plains, aren't you?" Afaf walked beside Ye Zhao, these words, she became Ye Zhao's personal translator, and many times, she was inseparable from Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao smiled: "It's almost over, there is one more thing to do, after I finish it, I will go back to Yanjing." With this surprisingly conservative and serious Muslim girl, Ye Zhao is also serious when he speaks, if he changes to another familiar woman, Ye Zhao may ask: "What, are you reluctant?" "He really can't get rid of the problem of mouthfuls.

"What's the matter?" Afaf asked.

Ye Zhao smiled: "Go to Bazar in the afternoon, guess what?" ”

Afaf's bright eyes flashed, and he said, "I'll go too." ”

Ye Zhao said: "Naturally, you are indispensable, but I don't know if your sister is willing to serve the empire wholeheartedly." ”

The pastures around Bazar are rich in water and grass, and they were given to the tribes of Gulshayir by Ye Zhao.

A few months earlier, Gulsha'il had moved west from Zikman to Brunkur and had clashed with local Uighur tribes, fighting over pasture and driving them out after several fierce fights.

The Uyghur tribe naturally wanted to file a complaint, and the news reached Kashgar, Ye Zhao laughed at the time, and said in his heart that there was no need to look for it, and it happened that the army was marching westward, and Ye Zhao ordered the Kirgiz tribe in Brunkur to give up the pasture to the Uyghurs, and the tribe moved west.

The emperor ordered, and the Kirgiz naturally did not dare to disobey, and then Ye Zhao assigned the pastures around Bazar to the tribe of Gulshail. The water and grass in the Bazar area are extremely abundant, the local tribe is the first to face the invasion of the Central Plains, and most of its children are Agu Bai's subordinates, and the Central Plains people have a deep hatred like the sea, so they fiercely resisted, and were almost wiped out, leaving only the old and young women and children.

The deputy minister called Muhammad proposed to slaughter all of them or send them to his tribes as slaves, but in the end Ye Zhao ordered them all to move eastward and arranged for them to disperse to live in agricultural areas such as Yarkand, Qierla, and Baicheng, and assimilation was inevitable, but at least, it saved the old and young women and children from being slaughtered.

The pastures around Bazar were deprived of their owners, and they were immediately allocated to the Gulshayir tribe, and their people would be overjoyed to see the abundance of water and grass.

Treat Gul Shayir well, Ye Zhao is selfish, the original Kokand realm is north, there are many Kyrgyz tribes, this vast area, north of Tsarist Russia, east of the empire of the province, the geographical location is extremely important.

It was imperative to bring the Kyrgyz under the jurisdiction of the empire, and now it was up to Gulshail to send his people to the Kyrgyz tribes in the north to proclaim the Emperor's decree that the Kokand Khanate had fallen and that all Kyrgyz would henceforth be loyal to the Chinese Emperor.

And the Chinese emperor would protect them from the invasion of the Kazakhs supported by Tsarist Russia in the north.

If there were tribes that refused to surrender, they naturally had to use force to conquer and garrison troops in a few relatively large towns, so that the occupation and indirect rule of the entire Kokand Khanate was declared successful.

To appease the Kyrgyz tribes in the northern region, if the tribesmen of Gulshayir are willing to exert their strength, they will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

Ye Zhao decided to go to Bazar in person to declare his favor and bring his tribe to their hearts.

(To be continued)