Under Lin Yuan's majesty, although everyone was full of complaints, they all clenched their teeth tightly, for fear that half of a complaint would accidentally slip out of their stomachs, Lin Yuan certainly knew what everyone thought in their hearts, but he had already decided to carry out reforms in Mongolia, so he was not afraid of their complaints.

Lin Yuan smiled when he saw that no one was talking: "Okay, since you don't have anything to say, let's continue to eat and taste the skills of the chefs in our army." After speaking, Lin Yuan took the lead in moving the chopsticks, how could everyone have the intention of eating, but they simply went through the motions, and they dispersed.

Then Lin Yuan began to prepare for the reform, first of all, a large number of manpower was needed, Lin Yuan selected a part from the army, Li Tianyu also selected a part from his own army, Lin Yuan also recruited some Mongolian people of insight, and the Mongolian reform began.

In the Qing Dynasty, in order to increase taxes, the Qing court reclaimed a large amount of land in Mongolia, and then let Mongolian herders or inland farmers cultivate it, most of which were official land. Lin Yuan pretended to be a horse bandit and took away more than three people, and the officials of the Qing court were abolished when he was ****, so this part of the land was taken over by Lin Yuan without much effort.

The second is the land of the temple, these lands have been collected by Lin Yuan during the banquet, and the last is the land of some landlords, the amount of land of these people is not too much, and Lin Yuan did not confiscate their land, because he knew that if the peasants had land to cultivate, they would not rent the landlord's land.

Lin Yuan received most of the farmland in Mongolia and began to recruit farmers to cultivate, of course, the rent was only one-twentieth of the original, and Lin Yuan also distributed seeds for free, and transferred agricultural machinery, and modeled after the interior of the establishment of villages, counties and other administrative units, just wait for the arrival of spring to start agricultural production.

Lin Yuan in the agricultural reform at the same time, but also opened a factory near the famous salt lake, as early as Moscow Lin Yuan said to Lu Wansu that he fell in love with Mongolia's rich natural resources, especially the inorganic salt in the salt lake, now the Northeast industry used part of the inorganic salt is obtained from minerals, and more is extracted from seawater, the process of extracting inorganic salt from seawater is very complicated, and the extraction process is time-consuming and resource-consuming.

And extracting from the salt lake is different, the extraction of inorganic salt from the salt lake takes very little time, and the purity is very high, with the inorganic salt of the Mongolian salt lake, the chemical industry can take a big step forward, and many advanced weapons can be manufactured, but the construction of the plant requires a lot of equipment and raw materials, which requires railway transportation.

Lin Yuan then decided to lay a railway to reach Kulun, but he did not choose to start from Beijing and Zhangjiakou, but directly built a railway from Hulunbuir to Kulen, and then covered the entire territory of Mongolia, so that he could enter Mongolia without the constraints of the Qing court.

However, Lin Yuan also considered that it would be very inconvenient for the caravans from Shanxi to enter Mongolia, so he decided to build a railway from Taiyuan to enter Mongolia, so as to facilitate the caravans, and the caravans entered Mongolia, which would enrich the Mongolian market and be of great benefit to the people.

With agriculture and industry in place, Lin Yuan began to prepare for the reform of the herdsmen, many of the herdsmen in Mongolia were serfs, they were the private property of the Mongol princes, and the Mongol princes could even kill them at will, but under Lin Yuan's control, the Mongol princes had to agree to abolish the serfs and distribute their cattle to them.

In the process of abolishing serfs, there were also stubborn Mongol princes who resisted, but they had lost the hearts of the people, and their armies had defected in front of the battle, so Lin Yuan had no trouble pacifying them. As for how to arrange the liberated herdsmen, it took Lin Yuan a lot of thought.

The traditional Mongolian herdsmen have no fixed place, they live in water and grass, and when they arrive in a place, they set up tents to live, this kind of tent is the well-known yurt, Lin Yuan does not plan to let them live like that again, because there are too many disadvantages, first of all, it is not easy to manage, and it is not good for the Mongolians themselves, they do not have clean drinking water, and they will not use electricity, medical care, and children's education are not guaranteed.

Therefore, Lin Yuan decided to gather them to live, the concentration place is near the river and communication lines, and then open a large state-owned pasture, let them continue to engage in animal husbandry, and provide a series of advanced animal husbandry breeding techniques, those emancipated serfs have no complaints, they all gladly accept, but when they concentrate those free herdsmen, there is a problem.

On October 22, the temperature plummeted, and the temperature during the day was close to minus 10 degrees, but the Mongolian reform led by Lin Yuan was not affected by the weather at all, and was in full swing. ”

Lin Yuan was furious when he heard this, and thought to himself: "Who is so bold as to dare to attack my subordinates!" Lin Yuan said to his subordinates: "What about the people who were beaten? Bring him to me. ”

After a while, the sound of "report" sounded at the door, and Lin Yuan said "come in", only to see a soldier walking in outside, standing on the spot and saying: "My name is Xu Rui, and I am the third squad leader of the first company of the second battalion of the third regiment of the first brigade of the first division. ”

Lin Yuan saw that the corners of his eyes were blue, and his entire left cheek was swollen, so he asked, "What's the matter?" Who hit you? ”

Xu Rui said: "It's a group of Mongolian herders. ”

Lin Yuan's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he said, "Mongolian herdsmen? What are the Mongolian herders beating you for? ”

Xu Rui said loudly: "I don't know what to do! ”

Lin Yuan asked, "I don't know what to do?" How can you not know the way? ”

Xu Rui hurriedly said: "Report to Lin Shuai, I really don't know what they are beating us for!" ”

Lin Yuan was also puzzled when he heard this, and thought to himself: "Could it be that those Mongolian herdsmen are pretending to be horse bandits?" It's impossible, if the horse bandits meet someone who sees me, they will definitely be killed directly, where can they be put back! Lin Yuan then said: "You tell me the cause and effect, and I'll hear what's going on." ”

Xu Rui said: "Our squad was ordered by the company commander to look for herdsmen in the east of Kulun, and when we found it, we came to the vicinity of a big river, and we were washing the mud of the horses by the river. ”

"Lin Shuai said that we should pay attention to uniting the masses and not hurt them, so we planned to run, but there were too many of them, and we were surrounded by nowhere to run, so we were beaten."

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and asked, "What are you washing in the river?" ”

Xu Rui replied: "We passed through a muddy field before, and the horse barrier mud was full of mud, and when we got to the river, it was already dry, so I wanted to wash the barrier mud, that's it." ”

Lin Yuan said: "No wonder they want to beat you, you have committed the water taboo of the Mongols!" ”