The summer of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse was even more terrifying for many Mongolian nobles than the cold winter. The large-scale sweep of the Ming army began to sweep across Mongolia.

The short autumn season is gradually coming, and the temperature in Mongolia will soon drop.

Mongolia's high-pressure climate makes the frost-free period here very short, only four or five months, and the rest of the time the temperature is relatively low at night, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the winter is relatively long.

Zhu Youxiao has experienced the temperature difference between day and night here, and Mobei is an area formed by the cold current in Siberia, and he thinks that it is no wonder that the population of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia in later generations is more than 6 million, and the population of Outer Mongolia is less than 3 million.

It does feel like a bird doesn't poop, it's a cold place.

If a place like Mongolia does not have a certain civilization involved, it will become very backward. If the capital and productivity of the Ming Dynasty intervene in Mobei, the cold is not too much of a problem.

The Ming Dynasty could mine coal and build heating facilities for the winter. In this way, the warmth of people and livestock is guaranteed.

And this problem has not been solved by later Mongolia. Mongolian cattle and sheep are often frozen to death in the winter, because the herders do not have the money to build well-equipped pens for warmth.

The real essence of the Mongolian steppe is still the Monan steppe.

In this summer, the railway of the Ming Dynasty has been built to the royal city of the Mongols. And began to build a railway in the east-west direction, and after the autumn, the Ming army would build a cross-shaped railway trunk line.

The steppe region of eastern Mongolia has been largely swept away, and has been included in the notification area by the Ming Dynasty, where many Mongols have been settled.

The southern part is the Gobi Desert. There is no need for a Ming army sweep. And in the west and north. It is a mountainous region of Mongolia. There are many forests, lakes, and rivers, and in fact, the Han people have more advantages in this terrain.

The Mongols had more places to hide in the western and northern mountains, which made it difficult for the Ming army to sweep away.

However, the Ming army was not in a hurry, they only needed to repair the railway, and then repair the town, and carry out daily sweeps with the town as the center.

As long as the Mongols are unable to carry out daily production, they will naturally be doomed.

Throughout the summer, under the harassment of the Ming army, many Mongolian tribes did not produce properly. At the same time, there is no looting to gain, and after this autumn, the winter will be very difficult.

There was no longer any command in the whole of Mongolia, and after Lin Dan Khan fled to Central Asia in embarrassment, it became a plate of scattered sand. Some surrendered to the Ming army, and some were still resisting.

For those ordinary Mongolian herders, it was naturally in their interests to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. But for those Mongol nobles, it was simply their lives.

The country of Mongolia has been wiped out, and there will be no more Mongolia in the Mongolian steppe. The rule of the Ming Dynasty over the Mongols would be gradually established later.

With the arrival of autumn. Zhu Youxiao saw that the personal expedition was almost over, and it was time to go back to Beijing.

As for the Mongolian side. Nothing is likely to happen.

So in the eighth lunar month of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, Chu Yang, under the protection of the forbidden army, got on the train back to Beijing. When Zhu Youxiao returned to the capital, the entire railway station was full of Ming people who greeted each other.

The emperor returned victoriously after another battle, which is naturally worth celebrating.

After a hustle and bustle, Zhu Youxiao returned to the Forbidden City and stayed in the Mongolian steppe for nearly half a year, and it felt very good to return to the Forbidden City.

After Zhu Youxiao returned to the capital, the first thing he did was to declare the end of Mongolia and ask the cabinet to discuss the constitution for the establishment of a province in Mongolia.

In the autumn of the thirteenth year of your Apocalypse, after deliberation, the Ming Cabinet officially came up with a plan to establish two provinces, Monan Province and Mobei Province.

Monan Province is basically the boundary of Inner Mongolia in later generations, and Mobei is the region of Mongolia in later generations.

The next day, the Ming Dynasty announced the end of Mongolia and established the two provinces of Monan and Mobei.

The news shook the entire Ming Dynasty, and many people did not expect that this time the emperor personally conquered Mongolia and destroyed Mongolia and occupied the grassland.

Zhu Youxiao's prestige among the people has suddenly improved tremendously, and those classes who smeared Zhu Youxiao at the beginning have now become more and more lame.

However, the smear argument of reckless military force has become more popular in Jiangnan, and many people have little understanding of the previous foreign wars of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that this reason for smearing is not very effective.

Obviously, even if the army is reckless, the common people at least do not survive, and the emperor still guarantees the basic right to survival relatively well.

As a matter of fact, the military expenditure on the war against Mongolia this time was not very large.

Because the Mongols had been crushed in front of the Ming army, they did not cause many casualties to the Ming army, and the war process ended relatively early and entered the occupation stage.

Therefore, the military expenditure is actually not large, mainly for the construction of railways and the construction of cities. The expenses in these areas were relatively large, and the raids on Mongolia also obtained a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, as well as a lot of booty such as gold, silver and jewelry.

In fact, the loss is very small, there are not a few losses of personnel, and there is not much abnormal loss of materials. This war is more like millions of people going to the steppe to repair the project.

When the project is finished, the war is over.

Therefore, the military expenditure of this war was controlled, that is, the speed of railway construction was relatively fast, so the military expenditure seemed to be relatively large.

From a business point of view, this war did not lose money. The state-owned capital consortium has acquired a large amount of pasture from Mongolia, after all, the number of Mongolians in these years is not large, only more than a million. There is also a large amount of grassland that can be planned for state-owned grassland management.

At the same time, Mongolia is rich in copper resources, Daming is in short supply of copper ore, and Mongolia's coal and other minerals are also relatively rich.

The Ming railway, built to the north of Mongolia, can develop mining and animal husbandry on a large scale in the north of Mongolia, and at the same time, in the mountainous and hilly areas of western and northern Mongolia with many rivers and lakes, the Ming can directly develop agriculture there, while the Mongols are concentrated in the eastern steppe.

The pastures of Monan are even better. This victory in the war against the Mongols. The Ming Dynasty fully occupied the Monan grassland. There is great potential for the development of animal husbandry.

If it is reasonably developed, it can produce a large number of grassland economic products for Daming.

The war is not over, but it has come to an end. The rest of the work was done by the military and the state-owned capital consortium.

Occupation, post-war order building, resource exploitation.

Joint operation of the army, administration and capital.

The Supreme Command also formulated a new national defense program, and after the threat of Mongolia in the north was eliminated, the Ming Dynasty had no longer had any threat in the north.

The Ming Dynasty could build a defense line along the Tangnu-Uliang Sea and Lake Baikal, and on this defense line they had to face some Mongol tribes living in the forest, as well as the Mongols in Central Asia. As for the woolly bear, it hasn't been pushed over this year, so it's no threat.

So this line of defense. It doesn't take much force to build it up.

In terms of defense spending, it can be said that it has been greatly reduced, and a large number of production corps can produce with peace of mind. In order to occupy the Mongolian steppe, the production corps naturally had to be stationed in large numbers to run state-owned pastures and farms in the past.

The eastern steppe of Mobei was designated as a place to house Mongols, and all the herdsmen of the Mongol tribes in Mobei were to be resettled there. In the west and north, these places will become areas of Han Chinese activity. There are lakes, rivers, and forests, which are very suitable for Han activities and development.

Emigration to Mobei has also become the next activity of the imperial court.

This year, due to the war, the Ming Dynasty obtained a lot less raw materials from the Mongolian steppe, but the supply of raw materials in the Ming region was relatively stable. And the scale of production. No less than Mongolia under Lin Dan Khan.

It is expected that two to three years after the end of this war, production in Mobei will recover. Then it moves into the growth phase. The supply of wool in Australia and Taoyuan countries is rising, and the supply of wool raw materials has not decreased much.

The recalcitrant Mongols in the steppes will also quickly die out with the arrival of winter. Ordinary Mongolian herders were very supportive of the Ming Dynasty's resettlement policy. The Ming Dynasty allocated them their own pasture, and also allocated them livestock for production, and also lent them money to build yurts and pens, and various policies were very good. In terms of taxation, it is only at the level of one out of ten, which is much lighter than the exploitation of those Mongolian nobles.

In addition, the religious policy is also acceptable to Mongolian herders. They themselves believed in the Yellow Sect, and the Yellow Sect chose to work closely with the Ming Dynasty for their own benefit. As a result, the monks of the Yellow Sect began to preach the benefits of the policies of the Ming Dynasty everywhere on the grasslands.

Under such circumstances, the situation in Mobei began to stabilize rapidly.

The development of Mobei by the state-owned capital consortium has also begun, with railways and towns being built, the imperial court officials responsible for immigration and building an administrative system, the army responsible for maintaining stability, and the production corps also sent production corps to exploit resources.

Before the onset of winter, the Ming Dynasty transported a large number of materials to the Mobei grasslands, which were enough to ensure that the army and the Mongolian herders who had accepted the resettlement policy could survive the winter.

Anyway, under the Meiji era, it was unlikely that people would starve to death in patches, especially if the railroad had already been repaired.

In addition, after a war, the population of Mongolia decreased a lot, and the resources became richer. Therefore, it has become inevitable that Mongolia will move towards stability, after all, there is no contradiction caused by insufficient resources, everyone can live a good life, and then there will be no source of turmoil.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty vigorously promoted the Yellow Religion, and the surplus population of Mongolia will become monks, and it will not grow indefinitely, and the population contradiction will not appear in the future.

In the middle of an autumn, the Ming Dynasty basically completed all kinds of preparations before winter, and capital began to be injected into the Mongolian steppe.

At this time, the territory that state-owned capital needs to digest has become larger, but capital has also become stronger.

In the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, through waging war against Mongolia, increasing official construction allocations, and increasing the scale of investment by state-owned capital consortia, the employment environment in the provinces of the New Deal remained good, and the common people did not live in poverty because the banks did not lend money, but made more money than many businessmen, because many private businessmen who did business did not make any money at all this year, and some even lost their capital.

The construction of railroads was even more massive in this environment, and the number of workers building railroads in the provinces of the New Deal had grown to more than three million by the end of the year.

Coupled with the fact that there are still millions of people building railways on the grasslands, the scale of such railway construction has become a bit terrifying. Nearly 10,000 kilometers of railways were built throughout the year.

At the end of the year, the railway was successfully built in the Western Regions and the Heilongjiang region in the northeast.

The cost of building railways in these years was not as high as in later generations, after all, the speed of trains was not that fast. The cost of various supporting facilities is low.

As for the construction cost of the railway itself, it is relatively high. But in the injection of a large amount of capital. And under the construction of a large number of workers, the construction speed is still very fast.

Historically, in the 60 years from 1850~1910, the United States built more than 370,000 kilometers of railways, with an average annual construction of more than 6,000 kilometers. In 1887, 20,619 kilometers of roads were built, setting a record in the history of railway construction. In 1916, the operating mileage of American railroads reached a historical peak of 408745 kilometers.

Historically, a small Germany has more than 100,000 kilometers of railways.

In the days when cars did not appear. Railways are the main force of land transportation, and it is very normal for railways to be everywhere, and the scale of railways with hundreds of thousands of roads is not too amazing.

With the current territory of the Ming Dynasty, at least five or six hundred thousand kilometers of railways are needed.

The construction of 10,000 kilometers of railways is just the beginning, and more will be built in the future. Spurred by the construction of a large number of railways, the scale of steel smelting also increased to 2.8 million tons at the end of the year.

The state-owned capital consortium is still increasing steel production capacity, and the next step is for the Ming to build more railways, while the shipbuilding industry is also starting to build steamships. They all require a lot of steel. In terms of construction, reinforced concrete building technology has been initially matured. It has entered the stage of large-scale promotion and application, which will also increase the demand for steel.

Steel can be said to be a hard indicator to measure the strength of an industrialized country in this era, and the growth of steel production in the Ming Dynasty means that the national strength continues to rise, and human beings have enhanced their ability to transform and resist nature.

Man is the spirit of all things, born with the essence of heaven and earth, and it is his nature to transform nature. It is difficult to avoid the pollution of the development industry at a certain stage.

"The production capacity that began to be built last year can be fully put into operation next year, and it is expected that by next year, Daming's steel output can be increased to 4 million tons, which is enough to temporarily support steel demand. Next year, a number of steel production capacity will also need to be built to cope with the subsequent growth in demand. Yang Guorui suggested to Zhu Youxiao on the steel demand needed for the development of Daming in the future: "It is estimated that another 2 million tons of steel production capacity will be built to meet the steel demand in the next ten years or so." ”

"Two million tons is enough to last ten years? Not enough, far from enough. When Zhu Youxiao heard Yang Guorui's prediction, he still felt the limitations of the eyes of people in this era, and did not understand the trend and speed of industrial development.

"Your Majesty, adding another 2 million tons of production capacity will be an annual output of 6 million tons of steel." Yang Guorui said in surprise that 6 million tons of steel was simply a lot in the past.

In the past, Daming's private steel production capacity was only about 1 million tons, since it was replaced by state-owned steel, with the development of the economy, the demand for steel has been growing, but this year, after the scale of railway construction has increased significantly, there has been a huge demand for steel.

"Of course it's not enough, first of all, the scale of railway construction will continue to rise. Moreover, the scale of machinery manufacturing and ship manufacturing will continue to expand, especially ship manufacturing. Moreover, the demand for civil steel will also grow significantly, and the demand for overseas steel will continue to rise with the continuous development of overseas markets. Zhu Youxiao said, "So in the next ten years, Daming's steel demand will grow to at least 10 million tons, so the next five-year industrial development plan, steel production capacity will be increased to at least 10 million tons." First increase the production capacity, if there is overcapacity, the old steelmaking furnace will be eliminated. ”

Yang Guorui didn't know what to say, tens of millions of tons of steel, it was terrifying to think about.

But if you think about it, it's not impossible, after all, with the advent of railways and ships, the economy will definitely usher in a sustained explosive growth.

Moreover, the plan to eliminate the old production capacity is also relatively reliable, and many of the old production capacity and steelmaking furnaces are too small. Today, the state-owned steel plant in Daming has developed its steelmaking furnace to 500 tons per day, and is still trying to build a larger furnace.

In the past, the steel-making furnace with an output of 50 tons of steel a day was still in production, and the production cost was relatively high, so it could be completely eliminated and replaced with a new furnace with higher production efficiency.

And the demand for steel in the shipbuilding industry is indeed growing rapidly, and now the Ming Dynasty is basically building as fast as it can in terms of manufacturing ships, and it has also invested a lot of money in the study of shipbuilding technology, and the tonnage of ships has begun to grow larger and larger. The first 2,000-ton steamship in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse was successfully launched.

Under the organization of national forces and the basic theoretical support provided by Zhu Youxiao, the speed of technological progress is very fast, and the tonnage of ships is making great strides towards the 10,000-ton level.

It's just that some technological progress and talent training will take a certain amount of time, and it is impossible to achieve too rapid leaps.

However, under the mechanism of capital injection and technology research and development, technological progress is inevitable.

The so-called scientific spirit is actually nonsense. Technological progress is nothing more than technology providing capital with the opportunity to monopolize the market, and the higher the technical threshold, the higher the degree of monopoly. The further development of capital has led to the improvement of technology. It's like a snowball, and it can go on and on.

But the capitalists have no incentive to use the new technology when they can make money with the old technology. That's why there is the term so-called technical reserves, and many advanced technologies in later generations have not been popularized for civilian use.

National capital will be better in this urine, especially at this time when Zhu Youxiao intends to carry out commercial colonization on a global scale, and technological progress is a prerequisite for achieving this goal. (To be continued.) )