In March of the seventeenth year of Hongxi (1423), the city of Rai in the Persian province of the Ming Dynasty (later Dehei Lan).

After more than half a year of expansion last year, the cement plant in Rai City has been completed.

Today, in the provinces of Persia and Aya, Qin Han, the governor of the two provinces, came to the scene and personally participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of the cement plant.

Mao Zhen, the chief soldier of Persia, and Song Ke, the governor of Persia, accompanied him.

At the beginning of the fifteenth year of Hongxi, Qin Han served as the prefect of Suzhou, the first restructured government of the Ming Dynasty, and the resistance was quite great at that time, and his wife Yan Xiaoshao was the first female official of the Ming Dynasty, causing a sensation in Suzhou and Jiangnan Province.

However, with the strong support of the imperial court, the officials who did not cooperate were demoted and transferred one after another, and finally the reform of Suzhou was fully implemented.

Then it began to be promoted in Jiangnan Province, until January of the seventeenth year of Hongxi, Qin and Han completed the preliminary restructuring of Jiangnan Province in two years.

According to the intention of His Majesty the Emperor, at this time, Jiangnan Province has a fixed number of personnel, except for the army and Jinyi Guard, which are not under his control, and the rest of the officials and officials are collectively referred to as the court staff, and there must be a fixed establishment in various places.

After that, one will retire and one will come in, and at the same time, according to the population, for every two to three thousand people added, one will be added.

The specific increase in population will be determined according to the situation in different places.

For example, provinces with a small population in the northwest will definitely not need so many in the future, and it may be necessary to increase the number of people by 1,000.

The reason why the emperor did this was very simple, and the Tobe Shangshu Xia Yuanji also supported it.

Because there will be many and miscellaneous officials in the later dynasties, many people will only take money and do nothing.

The Ming Dynasty has now set the establishment and written it into the law, which emperor wants to change it in the future, it depends on whether the ministers agree with it, and if the ministers want to change it, it depends on whether the emperor agrees with it, not to mention that it will be useful to ensure that it will be useful, but it will definitely have an effect and prevent the disorderly expansion of officials.

Moreover, after the establishment is determined, the Ming Dynasty will compile the annual salary expenditure according to the number of officials, and it will not be disorderly spending.

Jiangnan Province is also one of the richest and most developed places in the Ming Dynasty, and after Zhu Gaoxu's success in Jiangnan, it will be promoted to the whole country in the future.

The Qin and Han dynasties retreated and came to the Persian province that the Ming army had just occupied, and became the governor of the two provinces.

In recent years, many people in the Ming officialdom have been paying attention to Qin and Han, because everyone doesn't know each other.

The key is that among the heroes who started with the emperor, there is no surname Qin.

Qin Han went from elementary school to university, and then became an official, and rose all the way to the governor of the two provinces, becoming the most popular officialdom star in the Ming Dynasty, fortunately, his wife Yan Xiaoshao is related to Yan Qiang, a meritorious man who rebelled against him, so everyone thought it was Yan Qiang's way.

And Yan Qiang's son Yan Jun is currently the chief soldier of Aya Province, and he is also regarded by everyone as being sent by the emperor to support Qin and Han.

Of course, the provinces of Persia and Aya are currently the worst provinces in the eyes of Ming officialdom.

Because the Ming army had just been taken, the country was very unstable, especially the proto-Persian and Turkic beliefs and the propaganda of the Ming people were very conflicting.

After occupying the two places, at the end of the 16th year of Hongxi, the imperial court successively transferred 100,000 soldiers and horses, including 20,000 Ming troops and 80,000 servant troops, specifically to suppress local opposition forces.

The chief soldier of Persian Province is Mao Zhen, Qin Han's playmate from childhood to adulthood, and the chief soldier of Aya Province is Yan Jun, and Yan Xiaoshao is a cousin.

There were 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in each of the two places.

Among them, Aya Province is adjacent to Shaharu and the Ottoman Empire, and the defense line is relatively long, but now the Ming army does not fight them, they are Amitabha, and there is no danger for the time being.

Persia was adjacent to the Zarairid dynasty, and for the time being, the two sides also agreed to a peace agreement.

After Qin Han came here, in January, he made an appointment to meet Shaharu.

According to the explanation, the dynasty made a brotherly covenant with Shaharu, and Qin Han was not qualified to summon Shaharu, and Shaharu was not angry, or it was useless to be angry, and after thinking about it, he sent his eldest son Ulubo to meet Qin Han.

The two sides met in the city of Rai in March, and Qin Han first showed Ulugh Beg their cement factory and cement.

Ulugh Beg was shocked when he saw it, because he had been to Rai several times before, and there were no outer walls in Rai.

The Ming army occupied it for about a year, and the outer city wall was erected, and now the cement is so powerful, it won't be long before the city of Rai will become bigger and stronger, and it will be difficult for them to fight back in the future.

"Governor Qin, do you sell this kind of cement?" Ulugh Beg asked cautiously.

"Your Highness Ulugh Beg, of course we sell cement, but there are a lot of places used here now, and we will sell it after our second cement factory is built."

"Can you help us build a cement factory?" Ulugh Beg said decisively: "Now the Ming Dynasty and we are brothers. ”

Qin Han said: "We can't help you build a cement factory, but you can use the raw materials used to make cement in exchange for our cement." ”

This is the purpose of the Ming Dynasty, to use the manpower of the Shahru to increase their own production.

Because for now, mining is a waste of manpower and energy.

The Ming Dynasty is now employing people everywhere, building roads, building forts, building cities, and tuntian, and all parts of the country are busy, and they have to migrate here every year.

That's not enough.

Because mining requires too many people, it is not enough to rely on the plundered prisoners of war to be used everywhere.

So they want to take advantage of Shaharu's people and let Shaharu exchange raw materials for cement.

One less mine can save a lot of manpower.

Let's put it this way, the number of workers in a cement factory in the Ming Dynasty may be only 2,000 people.

But to provide enough raw materials for the cement plant, it takes 5,000 or even 10,000 people to mine, plus transportation.

After hearing this, Ulugh Beg's expression froze, and he immediately understood that the Ming people wanted to use their national power.

But if they want cement, it's obviously a good idea.

"If so, how do we calculate?" He said immediately.

"You are responsible for providing raw materials, for every 10,000 catties of raw materials, we will give you 1,000 catties of cement."

"Is this ten to one?" Ulugh Beg frowned, feeling that he had lost too much.

Because he just saw it on the spot, it was all 100 catties of raw materials ground into nearly 100 catties of powder, and several materials added up, that is, hundreds of catties of powder, and the loss was there, but it was certainly not so exaggerated.

He felt that three hundred catties for one hundred catties was almost the same.

"You just saw on the spot, how many workers and how many machines are in our entire factory."

"Raw materials to us, need to go through heating, grinding, reheating, fusion, multiple processes, these labor and loss costs, we have to calculate, with the current technology, a lot of machinery, in less than a year we have to replace."

Qin Han was talking nonsense in a serious way, and after hearing it, Ulugh Beg felt that there was still some truth.

But Qin Han also asked them to transport it by themselves, which was a bit embarrassing, and the two sides quarreled for a while, and finally agreed.

The Shaharu Empire exchanged raw materials for cement for the Ming people, and the people of Shaharu were transported by ship from the Centrio to the port of Delkaman, and then returned to the Ming army to transport it themselves.

It was a win-win situation, the Ming army got a lot of raw materials, and the cement plant could be built more and more.

Shaharu got the cement of the Ming army's construction of the city and roads, and everyone was happy.

As for whether the cement city will affect the Ming army's attack in the future, there is no need to worry about this at all.

The generational gap in weapons and the quality of the army cannot be reversed by relying solely on concrete fortresses.

When Ulugh Beg came to the city of Rai, he stayed for five days.

The Qin and Han dynasties entertained him many times, agreed on the border line between the two countries with the Shaharu Empire, and the dividends after the destruction of the Black and White Dynasty.

The dividing line between the two sides is bounded by the Caspian Sea, half of which is the Caspian Sea, and the northern part of the Caspian Sea plus the later Turkumanstan and Uzbekistan, and the northern part of Azerbaijan, and the northern part of Georgia and Ya belong to Shahru.

The Caspian Sea in the south, the southern part of Gaase, and the southern part of the Gelug belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Both sides bordered the Ottomans.

Among them, the Black Sea is temporarily in the control area of Shahru, and now Zhu Gaoxu is not interested in moving him, because as long as the Ottoman is defeated later, he can immediately own the Black Sea.

After the border between the two countries was demarcated, the two sides went according to the original plan for the benefits of the war, and about 500,000 young and strong people went to Shahru, and only 100,000 were left as coolies.

The Ming people got the territory, and more women and children.

For Shaharu at this time, it seems that they have taken a big advantage.

But the belief of these people is different from that of the Ming people, who left women and children behind, which can be better transformed, women are used to farm and do things in the factory, and young children are used to re-learn and brainwash.

Or after the dry year, they will all become Akito.

At the same time, many women would be married off to the servants, thus stabilizing the morale of the single servants.

So it seems that the Ming army lost a large number of young and strong people, but in the local area that the Ming had just occupied, it was more conducive to rule.

After the Qin and Han dynasties concluded the contract between the two sides, they continued to transfer the young and strong population to the territory of Shaharu, and the voice of resistance in the territory became smaller and smaller.

Shaharu got a large number of young people, which were immediately used to expand the army and work as miners, and more raw materials came to Daming.

He thought that it would be useful if there were more soldiers and horses, but the 20,000 elites of the Ming army on this side were all firearms troops, and no matter how many soldiers and horses there were, they were not enough for the Ming army.

In the past two years, the Ming and Shaharu cooperated happily, carved up the Black and White Aries Dynasty together, and invaded part of the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and the relationship between the two sides entered a honeymoon period.

Shaharu even wanted to marry his youngest daughter to Zhu Gaoxu's son, and Zhu Gaochu readily agreed.

In April, after Ulugh Beg left, Qin and Han summoned the governor and relevant officials to discuss matters.

Governor Song Ke was a political participant in Jiangnan Province that year, and he also sent Qin and Han to Suzhou, and then the relationship has been good, and now he has been promoted to governor.

Of course, for Song Ke, the local environment is a little worse, but fortunately, the salary is higher, and according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, in places other than the Ming Dynasty, the income of the same governor will be doubled.

He is still very satisfied with this compensation.

When he first came, he was not satisfied, and there was no outer wall in Laicheng, but fortunately, there were many prisoners in the hands of the Ming army, and they built the city frantically, and it took more than a year to build the outer city wall.

There are a lot of officials on the scene today, a small number of chief officials are transferred from all over the Ming Dynasty, because of the high level of wealth, and some are local people who do it first, and some are officials who are willing to immigrate.

As before, the Ming Dynasty encouraged the people to immigrate to the newly occupied areas, and the imperial court gave various preferential treatments, and they could also become officials.

"Now how many people are there in my Persian province?" The Qin and Han dynasties had to consider how much population they would have after sending some of the elite to Shaharu.

Now the Persian province of the Ming Dynasty accounts for almost ninety percent of the later generations, and one percent is in the hands of the Zarayil dynasty.

In the early days of the Ming army, they accounted for part of the printing crossing, and finally fought with Shaharu in the West Persian region, so most of the population was still in the hands of the Ming army.

Song Ke took out a small notebook and read it slowly.

At present, Persia Province has 68 prefectures and 379 counties, with a total of 1.39 million households and more than 8 million people.

In the seventh century, the province of Persia had a population of more than 4 million people, and then there were frequent civil wars and dynasties fought back and forth, and the development was a bit slow.

But after the Ming Dynasty came in, they successively immigrated from all over the country and the Ming Dynasty, and there are currently more than 8 million people.

"This year and next year, at least 100,000 families will migrate to the city of Rai." Qin Han Dao.

In later generations, the Ming Dynasty wanted to build a big city, and now the population is far from enough.

Move some people from remote areas to this side.

At this time, the chief soldier Mao Zhen said: "Starting next year, you can try to ask the imperial court if you can recruit troops locally." ”

Now he doesn't feel like he has enough troops. The emperor gave him a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses to defend the province of Persia, but Persia was now at the forefront, and if Shahru was included, there were enemies on three sides.

"Yes." Qin Han said: "The last time the governor left Beijing, His Majesty personally summoned him and also talked about this issue. ”

"We must first secure the local rule, and then we can start conscription."

"General Mao thinks that how much is suitable for recruitment?"

"Now the amount of youth has been given to Shahru, and there are only more than 8 million people?" Mao Zhen thought for a while: "Forty thousand should be levied." ”

One out of 200 people is recruited, which is not considered a reckless force.

So he had 90,000 troops at his disposal.

On the other side, the population of Aya Province is smaller, only more than 1 million people, but there are 50,000 garrisons, which is indeed enough.

At that time, the main direction of the Qin and Han dynasties was the military, civilian and other political construction of Persian Province.

What is very special and shocking is that he promoted more than 60 female officials in the province of Persia that day.

Daming has officially used female officials two years ago, but the progress is a bit slow, and there is not much resistance, but there is also a lot.

At present, in the past two years, there are less than 50 female officials in the original local area of the Ming Dynasty.

Now the Qin and Han dynasties have made a big move on the Persian side, promoting more than 60 female officials in one go, many of whom are Han immigrants, the wives of high-ranking generals of the servant army, and local prestigious women.

After this action went out, the entire Central and Western Asia was shocked.

After the discussion, Mao Zhen invited Qin Han to see the new weapon.

Qin Han happily went.

"This time, the imperial court shipped a batch of Type 15 novice grenades, a total of 100,000 mines, and a batch of mines, a total of 10,000." Mao Zhen said excitedly.

In the rebellion war, the Ming Dynasty had 10,000 enemies and 100 enemies, which was the predecessor of the grenade.

After that, it was gradually improved, and the first grenade was officially produced in the tenth year of Hongxi, and the mine was developed in the twelfth year.

But it was useless to conquer Indu, Afghanistan, or Persia.

Because the Ming army firearms unit did not come in at that time, all the cold weapons that came.

And there are a lot of mountains in these places.

Now that they have occupied all the territory, the firearms unit has come in to rotate the original cold weapons unit, and also brought new grenades and mines.

"And mines?" Qin Han has only heard of it, but has not seen it, after all, the troops who want to let the Ming army use mines have not yet appeared.

"Very powerful, cavalry enemy, with this thing, the cavalry will be useless in the future." Mao Zhen said excitedly.

(End of chapter)