"Third master, this Afghanistan...... Isn't it going to be taken first? ”

Compared with Afghanistan, Xu Ziwei and others are more optimistic about Kazakhstan, compared with Afghanistan, whether it is combat power or the number of population, Kazakhstan is a good nation, at this time, to get a vast and poor Afghanistan is a big burden in the northwest, and the consumption of food alone is enough to drag down the war in the northwest.

"How so? Crowded? Or is it something else? ”

For Central Asia, Yang Meng also mostly stayed in his impression, there are minerals there, and compared to the future, it is much better to occupy land than to give up the territory.

"No output! There is a drought and little rain in Afghanistan, the means of farming are not as good as the Qing Dynasty, and there are no special products of special value, if we enter Afghanistan now, we will pay far more than we get, and a single food supply will drag down the war in the northwest for a long time. ”

It is still a food problem, the northwest is different from the south of the Yangtze River, today's crops are one season a year, three to five times more land than the south of the Yangtze River to feed a family, if there is no natural disaster, the northwest can also be self-sufficient, but in the northwest this place except for a few good fields, most of the rest of the fields are nine droughts in ten years, and the output of the land is really a bit staggering!

"Oh...... With such a reason, then it should be a charcoal in the snow! This timing is also conducive to the preaching of Du Wenxiu and others, the subject country system still needs to be established, and now Lao Tzu's mind is the country on the Southeast Peninsula, North Korea, Afghanistan, India, as for this Kazakhstan, depending on the progress of the war! Of the other small countries, Afghanistan is one of the subject countries that we have to support. Very important!

Northwest side. Try digging a well to get water. Aren't there many idle steam pumps in Gangnam? There is a lot of coal in the northwest, and if Guangzhou or Huang'e have time, they can produce a batch of more steam pumps, so that the output of a lot of land will be available.

The canal repair project should also be vigorously carried out in the northwest, supplemented by steam pumps, and it is not impossible to make contributions in those years, since there is a military source from Central Asia. The conscription in the northwest will be stopped for a while, and the people in the northwest will go all out to build the canal!

People in some arid places let them stop farming and plant some fruit trees such as walnuts and jujubes, which will also play a great role in controlling the Yellow River in the future! ”

Afghanistan's geographical location is important, and some minerals are also very valuable, Yang Meng's future plan is to try not to open mines in the country. Pushing the demand for minerals abroad, more recently to the colonies of Milican and England. Next is the various vassal states of the Qing Dynasty.

As for planting walnuts and jujubes in the northwest, this matter was also heard by Yang Meng in his previous life, in order to knock out the tobacco planting industry in the Golden Triangle, many countries spared no effort, and changing crops was one of the means.

Because the elimination of traditional crops and get rich in the northwest is a good case, so Yang Meng has also heard of some, and this method, not only useful for the northwest, some mountains and forests in the southwest are also applicable, before Yang Meng in Yunnan to implement the bamboo forest, after there are many measures, now occupy the northwest, Yang Meng has to take the northwest as his own acre of three points of land to care.

In this way, building irrigation canals where water can be diverted to improve farming methods, and planting fruit trees in places where water sources are scarce can not only increase grain production in the northwest, but also reduce soil erosion in the northwest in a large way, and tame the Yellow River is a task that has not been completed by later generations.

"Third master, are these khanates in Central Asia also like this?"

Xu Ziwei also supported the construction of canals and the diversion of water, and the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan have done a good job in the pilot projects, and with irrigation water, grain production can be guaranteed.

This irrigation canal is definitely the biggest policy of benefiting the people of the Yang family, even higher than the distribution of land, whether it is Yunnan or Jiangnan, most of the land has to rely on the sky for food, with irrigation canals and drainage canals, ten years and nine arrears will become ten years of nine abundance, there is no big water or drought that has not been encountered for decades, it will not affect food production.

Xu Ziwei estimated that relying only on these irrigation canals and drainage canals, the first season of grain in the south of the Yangtze River this year will inevitably double, and water is extremely crucial to grain production.

But although the irrigation canal and drainage canal are good, the money and manpower invested are extremely high, to build these two canals, the first thing to do is to control the river, the northwest is their own territory, yes! But this is the ...... of several Central Asian countries

"Didn't you just say that? In the future, it will be the northwest of the Yang family, for the people under the rule of the Yang family, Lao Tzu will treat them equally, as long as Lao Tzu abides by the law, he must ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing, no matter how big the investment is, it is also what we must do! ”

While speaking, Yang Meng emphasized the northwest of the Yang family, this time the northwest was merged into several khanates, and it had nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty.

"Third master, why don't you reopen the Silk Road!"

After thinking about it, Cen Yuying picked up the words of the two, because of the experience of ruling Shanghai Road, Cen Yuying immediately thought of the Northwest Silk Road back then, and the northwest was a place where merchants gathered! It's just that I don't know when, this land trade was replaced by sea trade, and Cen Yuying's mention of this Silk Road can be regarded as a flash of inspiration.

"The Silk Road? Good! Yan Qing is right about this, it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, then reopen the Silk Road!

Commander, inform Zuo Jigao to choose a few suitable routes in the northwest and Central Asia, and be sure to be flat, the road in the desert for the locals to explore.

Inform the people of the Railway Army, Xishan, and Siemens to participate in the design and construction of the Northwest Railway network! Isn't the northwest going to build a canal? It's dry and rainless over there, so just build a temporary railway in the same place!

Inform the boss that near the mountains and forests near Tsarist Russia, build dozens of woodware factories specializing in the production of sleepers, and after the war begins, send people directly into Tsarist Russia to cut wood!

Let Guangzhou and Huang E prepare the machinery needed for a hundred carpentry factories, as well as steam drying equipment, and do your best!

The opening of the Northwest Railway took place at the same time as on the Mongolian side. Done in two years!

Well...... Counter. You just mentioned that a large amount of livestock has been seized from the Central Asian side. Can there be a Bactrian camel or something like that? ”

Cen Yuying's Silk Road export also opened a good idea for Yang Meng, this thing is really good, whether it is Central Asia, West Asia, Tsarist Russia, or European countries, there is a demand for some products of the Qing Dynasty, the previous Silk Road was carried by horses, if there is a railway, then open the Silk Road. It's also a very good source of money!

Although there are some mountains in the northwest, it is not very difficult for people to open the mountains today, although the power of the soil medicine is small, but it is the same as more, it is still a temporary railway, and it should not be much difficult to lay such a railway in the northwest.

During the period when the railway was built, it was not bad to use mules, horses and camels to explore the road, and when I thought of the camels in Northwest and Central Asia, Yang Meng also had a flash of inspiration. If camels are used as a means of transportation for the army, both in terms of load and durability. Camels have an advantage, and to fight Tsarist Russia, it is likely to penetrate deep into the transit of Tsarist Russia.

Horses need to be cared for every day, and a group of hungry and thirsty camels with large bodies can save the body of the soldiers, so that they can concentrate on killing and looting things in Tsarist Russia, and can also be transported back to the country in large quantities quickly. The second is meat, how can a camel have to top a horse and a half, if there is no food, this camel is also a good food!

"There should be quite a few!"

Xu Ziwei didn't know about this, so he could only respond in a daze.

"Send a telegram to confirm it immediately, and then ask the other side if there are many camels in West Asia, and let the Jiangnan side organize a batch of silk, since it is the Silk Road, let's use silk to reopen!

The weaving of the machine in the south of the Yangtze River has begun to take shape, and Lao Tzu has also planned in Jinkou these days to spread the weaving technology in the palace to the south of the Yangtze River.

So be it! Then let Zuo Jigao and Du Wenxiu recruit a group of locals who are proficient in weaving in Central Asia and West Asia, and the first batch of silk will be used to explore the way, and the second and third batches of goods, we will do what they like.

Yan Qing, your idea is really good, there is a reward! What do you want over there? ”

Yang Meng's previous focus was also on shipping, compared to shipping, rail transportation reached Europe faster, and Central Asia was close to Germany, even if Yang Meng's maritime expansion was unfavorable, he could also trade arms with Germany through the Guò Silk Road.

In today's arms world, Yang Meng is also quite confident, when the battle with Tsarist Russia is over, and when the British colonies are almost occupied, he can let Nobel and others study new fire. Medicine, and many formulas are in Yang Meng's heart, not that Yang Meng doesn't want to spit it out, but that these things are too powerful, and if they are exposed too early, it will be easy for European and American countries to pay attention to the chemical industry too early.

At this time, the heads of Europe are also extremely powerful, with samples, they can basically imitate them, these things, Yang Meng has to wait for his foundation in the Qing Dynasty to consolidate, and then slowly put into production, maybe after this war, the civil war of Millican, the rise of Germany, can be completed together.

During this time, if Yang Meng can re-establish the tributary system of the Qing Dynasty, then an iron-clad country will have a prototype, and in the next hundred years, if you want to develop, the most important point is oil and resources!

If the Silk Road is opened this time, Yang Meng can directly build the railway to Europe, of course, the oil producing areas in West Asia are also in the coverage of the Silk Road, what goes is the commodity, and what comes back is the resources, the new Silk Road, the new Eurasian railway, how much benefit will it bring!

"Third master, Yan Qing doesn't lack anything here!"

"Nope! That's a great idea! It's also timely! Lao Tzu ignored this trade route in the northwest before, if you hadn't reminded me, maybe this Silk Road would have been sleeping for decades.

Commander, you plan a reward for Yan Qing, and you have to reward it generously! ”

This Silk Road, Yang Meng really didn't expect it before, his focus is on the sea, if it weren't for Cen Yuying's reminder, this Silk Road, the road of resources, is likely to be silent for an extremely long time.

The telegram from Beijing to the northwest takes a day to go back and forth, helpless! There are too many turning points, if Siemens' long-distance telegraph line can be laid, I am afraid that within an hour, the Beijing division will be able to contact the northwest, Yang Meng, who is in a good mood, hummed a little song and went to the imperial city, with the Silk Road, there are many more opportunities, just rush to this to have a good time with the women in the imperial city, relax.

In the afternoon of the next day, the news came from the left mule, saying that there were a lot of camels in Central Asia and West Asia, with this news, Yang Meng was also a lot calmer, the first trip, in addition to surveying the route, was to lead the cattle dealers from West Asia to the northwest, hundreds of thousands of camels, it was difficult to satisfy Yang Meng's appetite, after all, the next thing to fight was the war of annihilation.

Although the Silk Road is good, it also means that Yang Meng has to have a lot of investment in infrastructure, war, logistics, canal repair, and railway occupy too much labor, and Yang Meng also has to migrate a large number of people in the northwest, so it seems that it is also necessary to promote the migration of the population in the country, mixed living is the way of integration, so that an ethnic group occupies a single area, in fact, it is differentiated, it is difficult to achieve integration, and now take advantage of the Northwest and Mongolia are busy with various things when the world is in turmoil, a large number of immigrants in the country, It should be a good time. (To be continued......)