With the advent of spring, the wildflowers in the Western Regions bloom all over the mountains, and those flowers that have been watered by blood are particularly bright.

It only took more than a month for the Ming army to pacify Dzungaria.

After a major war, order and tranquility were restored to the entire Junggar Basin, and the Dzungar herdsmen, with the help of the Ming court, gradually began to resume production.

At the same time, agricultural technicians from Guannei also began to guide these Junggar herdsmen to engage in cotton planting. After some deliberation and 'spoils', these herdsmen engaged in cotton cultivation were directly managed and taxed by the head of the Dzungar tribe, Harakhuthorn, and gave Harakhuthorn a ruling quota of 50,000 households and cotton planting land.

Each cotton farmer is given 50 acres of land, which is equivalent to becoming a super landlord with 2.5 million acres of cotton fields, of course, these lands are not Halakuthorn's, but Harakuthorn can extract one-tenth of the tax from these lands.

As for the problem of insufficient population, it can be multiplied slowly. Although the Dzungar tribe suffered heavy losses from adult men, there were still many teenagers, and the population would naturally recover in a few years.

Allowing the Dzungar Ministry to engage in agriculture is also a good way to absorb the surplus population. Coupled with the promotion of ****, and then let some Mongolians become monks, there is basically no surplus population. If there is still a surplus population, then go to the cities and work as workers.

As for other land suitable for growing cotton, it was allocated to Han people who were willing to immigrate to the Western Regions for cultivation, and the rest was developed by the production corps.

A harmonious post-war new order was thus established, under this new order, the Ming Dynasty imposed strict restrictions on the armament of the Dzungar Ministry, knives could be owned, but bows and arrows had all been surrendered, and bows and arrows and long weapons could not be equipped from now on. As the vanquished. The Dzungar tribe accepted this condition when it surrendered.

The Dzungar Department also knew itself at this time, and after seeing the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Ming army, plus the fact that they could live a peaceful life in the future, they no longer had any thoughts of rebellion.

After taking over the border defense of the Dzungar Ministry, the Ming officially bordered the Bukhara Khanate in Central Asia, which was very different from the Dzungar Mongols. Central Asia has been heavily infiltrated by some extremist religions.

As a traverser, Zhu Youxiao naturally understood very well that the Mongols and the Han people could still live in peace when they lived in the same country. But with those extreme religions, there is constant friction.

At this time, those extremist religions had infiltrated the Western Regions, and in the Western Regions policy formulated by Zhu Youxiao, the plan to deal with these extremist religions was to resolutely crack down.

The temple was torn down and the scriptures burned.

What is extremist religion?

It is a deceptive religion that attributes everything that cannot be explained to a certain god. Through deception, people have a sense of security, and through deception, they can achieve the goal of getting involved in politics.

People are born confused, where do I come from?

If you don't even know where you're from, you don't know where you're going.

In the face of these unknown problems, people will feel fear and feel insecure. So some religions were born, and after some nonsense, some kind of god was molded.

Compared with. Chinese Taoism is not a religion, and Taoism itself is not deceptive. In explaining the unknown, Taoism gives a system theory to explain it. As a result, the Wudou Mi Sect (Taoism), which was founded in the Han Dynasty, will die out, because Taoism uses Taoist scholarship as the core of its religion and is not deceptive.

The practice effect of Buddhism is similar to that of Taoism, but Buddhism has a certain deception, and will coax people to practice by preaching karma. So Buddhism is much better mixed than Taoism. Of course, although Buddhism has a certain degree of deception, Buddhism is not very extreme, and after the convergence of the three religions in the Song Dynasty, Buddhism's interpretation of the worldview is basically the same as that of Taoism, but the nouns are different.

Compared to Taoism, it is only open to people with high understanding. Buddhism is more common, and no matter whether you are stupid or superb, you can enter and practice. And for ordinary people with low qualifications, you tell them that cause and effect are inherently inherent, just like saying to primary school students that one plus one is not equal to two, people can't understand it at all, and sometimes it's okay to coax them.

Therefore, now in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao only allows the existence of Taoism and Buddhism, and Buddhism must be localized. Wusi Tibetan **** is only allowed to spread in Tibet and Mongolia.

Those extremist religions must be resolutely eliminated, and they may cause a certain amount of confusion, and the long-term pain is better than the short-term pain, and the problems that can be solved by the labor pain will definitely not be left to become a disaster.

For the bordering Bukhara Khanate, it will also be the object of annihilation in the future. However, for the time being, there is no time to pay attention to the Bukhara Khanate, so it is only necessary to build a defense line first.

After Zhu Youxiao was pacified in Dzungaria, he immediately sent three additional production corps to the Western Regions. Two were sent to the Junggar Basin, one to the Turpan Basin, and one production corps to the Hexi Corridor in Gansu.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also sent four construction corps to the Western Regions to build roads and water conservancy projects.

The development of the Western Regions first requires a certain amount of infrastructure, and at the same time, it also requires a certain amount of industrial support.

Roads and water conservancy are necessary so that the agricultural resources of the Western Regions can be developed. In addition, the development of animal husbandry and cotton planting in the Western Regions must have commercial grain import, and the Hexi Corridor in Gansu is a good commercial grain base.

In this year, the development of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province was not so thorough, and there was still a lot of wasteland that had not been developed. However, compared with Shaanxi, the living conditions of the people in the Hexi Corridor in Gansu are relatively good.

The Hexi Corridor is a snow-water irrigated agriculture with strong disaster resistance and is not greatly affected by drought and floods. Because it rarely rains there, it doesn't matter if there is a drought or not, and it is all irrigated with snow water. As for the floods, there is no good thing at all! A little more rain is unlikely to cause flooding, and it is an area with low rainfall.

As long as the snow irrigation facilities in the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province are well constructed, the entire Hexi Corridor will be able to become a commercial grain producing area with bumper harvests every year.

The purpose of the Agricultural Production Corps in the Hexi Corridor is to develop the agricultural resources here.

The commercial grain base of the Hexi Corridor is just matched with the agriculture of the Western Regions, and the Western Regions will be responsible for the production of cotton, wool and leather, and the Hexi Corridor will be responsible for the production of grain.

When the time comes, grain and meat will be combined, and some grain will be planted scattered in the Western Regions, and a supply balance will basically be formed, even if it is out of balance, it doesn't matter much, you can transfer grain from the Guannei, and in general, people will not starve to death.

The ultimate goal is to obtain a large amount of cotton, wool and leather. (To be continued.) )