Chapter 532: Sweeping Mongolia, Governor of the Northeast

The Manchus died. At the moment when Cixi agreed to surrender, and at the moment when the princes and nobles in the hall were silent, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had ruled China for 260 years, was finished. 【Counting the Queen's Gold】

Zhou Jun delivered the news to Zhangjiakou as quickly as possible, and then sent a telegram to Beijing in Zhangjiakou. This telegraph line has not yet been laid into Shanxi.

After Liu Xian got the telegram, he laughed heartily and laughed very presumptuously. However, he was not interested in Zhou Jun's mention of yì and asking him to go to Naturalization City to surrender in person. Liu Xian also did not think that the surrender of the Manchus today would be a high meritorious achievement.

At the moment when he waved his troops to conquer the city of Beijing, the 'sacredness' of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already been cut off by Liu Xian.

"Turn the Zhou army and let him surrender in Guihua City. The Manchu royal family, the upper-class princes and important ministers and their families were sent to Beijing. The rest of the people were temporarily escorted back to Datong. ”

Liu Xian's words decided the fate of the Manchu Qing Dynasty today. All of their upper echelons are destined to be imprisoned to death.

In fact, it is not a hundred miles from Naturalization City to Helinger, but in the hearts of Yixun, Mu Tushan and others, they hope that this road will be as long as possible. Because once they reached their destination, they would formally surrender to the Qin army in extreme humiliation and offer a letter of surrender. Then the Qin army will arrive outside the city of Guihua and accept the surrender of the Eight Banners of the city. However, no matter how long the road is, there will eventually come to an end, and when Yixun and his party approached Zhang and Lingel, a group of Qin cavalry in brocade clothes and angry horses had already come to meet them outside the city.

The surrender of the Manchus was of great significance to the Mongols, especially to Inner Mongolia. Zhangjiakou soon came another messenger from the Mongolian princes of the Three Banners, expressing his willingness to completely surrender and lose.

And at this time, in Gansu and Shaanxi. A large number of cavalry of the Qin army had already ridden their horses to the Mongolian steppe.

The fate that awaited the countless Mongol princes was undoubtedly tragic, in the steppes. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, except for the Lama Temple. The only civil structure may have been the residence of the Maharaja.

These Mongol princes, who had been shackled by the Manchus, lived in luxury, and probably invested all their annual income into the luxurious life of the palace. The standing army of the princes of Inner Mongolia was almost none, and the only standing army of many banners was only the garrison of the palace, which was very small in number and backward in weapons. In the face of the flat push and sweep of more than 20,000 Qin cavalry, the Mongols had no room to fight back.

Groups of Mongol princes and nobles were captured and defeated, while the princes who had surrendered in advance became the administrators of the herdsmen. At least for the first two or three years, these Mongol princes. He was the best assistant of Great Qin in ruling Mongolia.

Of course, the titles of prince, county king, and prince on their heads will not be recognized by Daqin, even if they are knighted again, they will be an earl at most. They will become the first batch of prefects and prefects after the reform of Mongolia, and guide Mongolian civilians to raise sheep and shear sheep, so as an economic link, Mongolia will be completely tied to the chariot of China.

Liu Xian regrets why the wool textile industry did not develop on a large scale in ancient China. If the British had had had had had a traditional wool textile industry, the frontier problems in northern and western China might have been solved hundreds of years earlier.

Wei Ming!

The commander of the cavalry of the Qin army who followed Liu Xian's expedition to Xinjiang that year. With Zhang Zhongkui stationed in Hanzhong, in the entire process of the Qin army taking over the world, the merits were not very outstanding.

Even in the battle of the Qin army in Hanzhong against many armies in the northwest, the cavalry did not play a decisive key role. So. The current Inner Mongolia will be an important step for Wei Ming to make meritorious contributions and return to the first sequence of the Qin army.

Before the Qin cavalry set off, there was also a Li Pingshan in the northwest who was 'driving for the king'. The first step led more than 3,000 people from the Ningxia Army, who were willing to follow him, into the grassland.

This Li Pingshan didn't look at the rules when he left Ningxia, and he almost didn't commit any offense in the autumn. But when you get to Mongolia, it's like locusts. Sweep a qiē. The only good thing is that there aren't many killings. As long as they don't resist, there are very few killings of Mongol civilians.

So with the scourge of Li Pingshanbu, he came first. The appearance of the cavalry of the Qin army was for many Mongolian civilians. Not only is it not a disaster, but a great benefactor who saved them from fire and water.

Besides, Zhang Zhongkui didn't plan to let Li Pingshan plague Mongolia for long. This is just to play a role in erecting the archway and brushing the grid.

The specifications of the current six leagues and forty-nine flags in Inner Mongolia can be temporarily inherited. Each flag will have to overhaul dirt roads and build at least one trading city over the next three years. In addition, the textile department under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China will also set up plush and leather purchase points in various cities. There are also schools and medical centers, and trade fairs, which guide the Mongolian herders to a nomadic lifestyle centered on the city.

Let many Mongolian herders slowly become familiar with the city, and it is inseparable from the city. Subsequently, the real Mongolian and Han people lived together, and then the Sinicization of Mongolia, just like Inner Mongolia in the original time and space, reduced the Mongolian population to less than 20% of the total population of Inner Mongolia, or even lower. Urbanization has been strengthened, and the urbanized population of Inner Mongolia can account for 60% of the total population in later generations.

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"When the troops enter Mongolia, they really need a group of guides and interpreters who are familiar with Mongolia. Then pick out some of the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But be careful, to have a control zhì use. As for the establishment of a special Mongolian translation school, there is no need. What we want to do is to sinicize the Mongols, not our Mongols. ”

There are not even a million Han people living in Inner Mongolia, but seven or eight hundred thousand can be found. It's just that Inner Mongolia is too big, and hundreds of thousands of people are scattered in a huge territory, just like scattering Hu noodles, which is not conspicuous at all. Moreover, with the wars of the Qin, Qing, Jin and Northern Dynasties, many Han Chinese fled to the eastern region of Inner Mongolia. But it was easy to recruit enough Han Chinese who could speak Mongolian among the Han people who remained. Similarly, there are many Mongols who can speak Chinese. With this foundation, the pure Mongolian translation army is sufficient, and the only thing that is lacking is a 'guide' who truly understands the distribution of Mongolian flags and the lineage of Mongolian princes, and even their contradictions and declarations of likes and dislikes. And such were either the Mongol princes themselves, or the Manchu officials in the steppe.

Because Inner Mongolia wants to set up prefectures and counties, the Mongolian princes who are willing to surrender and accept and their deployment as the first batch of officials of the Great Qin in the Inner Mongolia grassland, now a large part of the people are gathering in several political training centers to seize the time to study. Liu Xian felt that instead of letting the Mongols come and delay the training process, it would be better to select dozens of people from the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Liu Xian was very satisfied with Wei Ming's marching speed. If this rate continues, at the beginning of winter this year, Inner and Outer Mongolia will be included in their own hands. Moreover, the cavalry of the Qin army is about to leave the western Inner Mongolia alliance flag, and Li Pingshan has surrendered, but I don't know what kind of situation the Qin army will encounter in the central and eastern parts of Inner Mongolia without this raft.

"Shanxi's preparations for population migration are progressing too slowly. Zeng Guoquan said that at least one million people from Shanxi will be relocated to Mongolia this year, and this goal will not become the center. ”

"And Shanxi's railways and coal mining need to be stepped upon. This Zeng Guoquan is very good at stabilizing the people's hearts. The rest of the work is a mess. Liu Xian was very dissatisfied with Zeng Guoquan, who had been in Shanxi for half a year. Such bureaucrats will soon be eliminated from the Great Qin officialdom and government.

"Your Majesty, everything is difficult at the beginning. Zeng also has Zeng's difficulties. At the beginning of the current dynasty, stability maintenance is the first. If you move hard, you may be criticized. Please forgive the emperor for this.

As for Zeng's ability to do foreign affairs, he is poor, but as long as he can win the hearts of the people, he will make great contributions to the country. ”

Shen Guifen stood up to speak for Zeng Guoquan. There seems to be some attitude problem in the words, which may have been punished in the Manchu Dynasty. Liu Xian is not very strict on this point, and even a little conniving at officials to speak boldly. Don't be guilty of your words!

Shen Guifen was respectful at the beginning, and she didn't dare to say half a point. Treat Liu Xian the same way you treated Cixi. But now that half a year has passed, he can't figure out the rules of the game of the Great Qin Imperial Court anymore, and he has been wandering in the officialdom for so long.

Li Hongzhang was appointed governor of Northeast China by Liu Xian, and now he has arrived in Shenyang. Of course, Shengjing is going to change its name to Shenyang. It's like Jiangning changed back to Nanjing.

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Fast forward to May. Heilongjiang is still cool and pleasant in the middle of summer, and the maximum temperature of no more than 25 degrees can only make people sweat slightly. In the newly built Northeast Military Region, 100 Qin officers and men of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade and 1st Squadron of the 21st Brigade of the 11th Division of the Army formed two columns and walked on the vast flat land by the Nemur River. To their left and right and in front of them were cavalry units with three battalions, and in the rear were a sloping baggage unit.

As the Qin army advanced in the northeast region, there were more and more horses in the army. The Qin army once again completed the transformation of the logistics troops at a rapid pace. At the same time, the newly established Northeast Military Region has also begun to increase the proportion and number of cavalry at the infantry battalion level.

At present, accompanying the troops is Jin Yongxin, the deputy captain of the cavalry brigade, with a cavalry squadron. Together with a large group and a squadron of 100 Qin infantry, they formed the vanguard detachment of this northward advance.

The Manchu officials and troops in the northeast surrendered consciously. Although after the great battles of Liaoning and Jilin, the main force of the Manchu Qing troops in the northeast was annihilated, and the remnants were completely defeated. However, the surrender of the Manchus still saved Li Hongzhang a lot of energy.

In addition to the two squadrons of infantry and cavalry, the vanguard detachment also dispatched a squadron of baggage troops and an engineering unit of more than 50 people. The engineering unit is a reinforced detachment, with a total of more than 50 people, but it carries more than 70 percent of the total baggage.

In addition, there are 10 graduates of military academies who have followed internships, as well as student soldiers of infantry, cavalry, engineering, and baggage who are still in school. These cadets do not participate in front-line battles, except as a last resort, they just observe and study while drawing maps.

All combined, this vanguard detachment numbered more than three hundred and fifty men, and nearly two hundred horses. Even if you encounter an enemy who is likely to exist, it is impossible to be eaten in a short period of time.

The remnants of the Manchu rebel army did not have such a big beard and appetite. The other speculation is that there is a very low probability of an enemy, the Russians, whose garrisons in the Far East are not so capable. (To be continued......)