A team of camels, walking in the yellow sand.

People wear headscarves to block the wind and sand from pouring into their mouths and noses, and in such weather, people don't have to cover themselves with clothing, and they may find it difficult to breathe, let alone walk in the wild for a long time.

Finally, they came across a hillside, and people were ecstatic and came to the bottom of the hillside to take shelter from the wind and sand as soon as possible.

The camels were gathered in the corners, looked after by special people, and there were people who counted the supplies that the camels carried, which were their necessities, and they should not be careless.

Several staff members in medium uniforms gathered around the spread out maps to identify their positions.

The western region is too big, too big.

It's so big that it makes people feel hopeless.

If you lose your direction and don't have supplies, death awaits.

This is not like the mainland, no matter which direction you go in the mainland, there will always be roads, or you will encounter villages or markets after a long time, and you may also encounter a city or a county or something.

In the vast western region, it is not surprising that there are no people for half a month, and even some large uninhabited areas do not meet people for two or three months.

There is also a prohibitive desert, which is called the land of death by the local people.

The staff of the Exploration Department of the Ministry of Industry visited more than 20 areas of Samarkand, Bukhara, Jizzak, Navoi, Giristan, Tashkent, Karshi, Kurgan Tyube, Tursunzadeh, and Nurek.

According to the plan of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, these areas will become the core areas of the main governance of the Ming Dynasty, with Samarkand as the center, and then the various Xuanwei Divisions, which will become the screen of these places.

Samarkand relied on the advantage of getting rich first to drive the surrounding economy, and constantly radiated to the periphery, drawing wealth and productivity from the various propaganda divisions, and forcing the propaganda divisions to obtain external benefits to maintain themselves.

Judging from the map, the plains in the great desert are all in it.

Later, the southern region of Kazakhstan, the northern and central and western regions of Uzbekistan, the central, central and eastern regions of Turkmenistan, the northern regions of Afghanistan, and even the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

It just forms a huge circle, which is originally unsurvivable, except for a small part of the plains within this circle, and an oasis area around the midpoint of the circle.

In a nutshell.

It was planned by Zhu Gaochi to Tashkent in the north, Balihei in the south, Bukhara in the west, and Almaty in the east, and became the land of the Ming Dynasty in the core area of the west.

"With these lands, according to domestic technology, it is theoretically possible to feed 10 million Ming people."

A few years of time.

There are more than a dozen teams like them, and they have traveled to dozens of Tusi regions, large and small, according to the locals, that is, dozens of kingdoms, large and small.

For these toasts, some people from the mainland habitually call them Ming officials, but the local people still call them kings, and many people from the mainland feel ridiculous.

Such a toast can also be called a king, and there are at least hundreds of kings in the Ming Dynasty, plus the various Xuanzhi divisions in Nanyang, there are not thousands of them.

But some kingdoms are really big.

For example, the kingdom of Salbzar in the land of Sabuzar, or the kingdom of Moss, or the kingdom of Khorasan, and so on.

These vassal states who originally returned to the Timurid Khanate survived the Timurid period, and now they are also submissive to the Ming Dynasty, and they have kept their kingdom the most, and they are very smart.

It would be wrong to say that they did not have the heart to resist, the Timurid Khanate did not understand compassion, and the reason why these kingdoms did not break through was not only to avoid killing chickens and eggs, but also because these kingdoms had a certain strength, so they allowed these independent existences.

"Ten million people, we have hundreds of millions of people."

Another scholar laughed.

The sergeants checked the camels, and some local guides communicated with the officers, and after knowing the location of the place, they learned about the surrounding situation, and several staff members were protected.

They are not only from the Ministry of Exploration, but also scholars.

Relying on their skills and family skills, and even the knowledge they learned in training, many people have obtained the status of scholars, although most of them are low-level.

"So if you want to completely digest this land and develop it, it will take at least 20 years."

"We have to build a railway."

"It's not easy to build a railroad."

The chatter of several scholars attracted many soldiers, who did not understand these truths, so the conversations of scholars often allowed the soldiers to learn more information.

"If it's just a mountain river, it's nothing more than paving roads and building bridges, our Han people are the most afraid of hardship, and the Great Wall of tens of thousands of miles on the mountain cliffs can be built, not to mention tens of thousands of miles now, hundreds of thousands of miles of railways dare to be built."

One scholar lamented: "But this place is different, the desert here will change, it will flow, even if the railway engineering department grits its its teeth and uses all its strength to build the railway, it will not be many years before it will be invaded and buried in the desert by sand." ”

"Treat the yellow sand as a river, build bridges, and raise the railways."

Other scholars quipped.

"To put it lightly, how much manpower is required for this, not to mention manpower, how much cement and steel bars used for casting bridge piers will have to be consumed, I am afraid that with the power of the whole country, it will take at least ten or twenty years of effort."

The wind and sand stopped, and the team was back on the road.

They returned to Karshi from Kulyab.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the system of governors and governors in the western region, the governors were served by civilian officials, and the governors were served by military generals, one city and one garrison, and the garrison of Karshi was stationed in the city, and the guerrilla general led the army to leave Karshi.

The emperor is here.

It is necessary to punish disobedience.

The victor is not blamed, and the king is defeated.

The Ming Dynasty defeated Timur, although it did not fully recover the scope of the Timurid Khanate, but the essence of the eastern part was all occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

A large number of tribes were swept away, including the Amu Darya tribe that had passed through Bukhara, and the two tribes of Nikothari and Hezarai also disappeared.

These forces, which were inextricably linked to the Timurid Khanate, were either relocated to farther areas in the west, or because they had helped the Timurid Khanate, they were completely wiped out by the Ming army, weakening the resistance in the core areas to the greatest extent.

Coupled with the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples built in Samarkand, as well as the government schools, and the kings implemented in various places, many Tusi were not convinced.

The most important thing is that these areas became richer and richer under the governance of the Ming Dynasty, and they continued to absorb the surrounding population.

A large number of poor people were recruited by the Daming Industry Bureau to work for the farm.

Although it was hard, the poor had something to eat.

The only fly in the ointment is that they can't marry a wife, and they don't have the money to marry any mother-in-law, on the other hand, those who immigrated from the Ming Dynasty not only have high wages, but also have a large amount of land.

Relying on the organization of centralized production, the Ming people became the most affluent group in the region.

The poor cannot marry a wife.

Rich people can marry more wives.

The people in the interior who are reluctant to relocate, and do not know that the people who have come to the border areas, although they are inferior to them in terms of material and entertainment, are far superior to the people in the interior in some aspects.

Just like the Hereafter.

The same workers, those who are stationed abroad, especially those who go to economically backward areas, some even have a lot of children with the locals, and there are many people who pat their butts and return to China.

Even so, they are still popular with local women.

This is the difference between economically developed and economically backward, not because of any system of civilization, but because of human nature.

The Salbzar of Sabzar is the ruler of the dynasty of Ali Mahamat.

He was wealthy.

The wealth of the entire kingdom is in his royal palace, and in his royal palace, he collects the beauties of the whole country, and lives a life of spending and drinking every day, which can be said to be one of the happiest people in this era.

Before the Ming people came, he submitted to the Timurid Khanate.

One-third of the wealth of the kingdom was supplied to the Timurid Khanate, and Timur liked Ali Mahamat very much, so Ali Mahamat sat firmly on the throne with the support of Timur.

But so.

Some of the nobles in the kingdom of Saerbemoss were dissatisfied.

The wealth given to the Timurid Khanate mainly came from them, what wealth could the common people have, they did not live a luxurious life, so they maintained a certain amount of force.

And Ali Mahamat and his cronies, who have been depraved for many years, do not know that danger is coming.

They still gave one-third of their country's wealth to the Ming Samarkand Governor.

Such a good vassal king, the officials of Samarkand Tusi couldn't stop laughing, and in comparison, even Goryeo, who has always prided itself as the most respectful of the previous dynasty, is not as good as Ali Mahama.

Anyway, the kingdom of Saerbetes is not in the core area of the Ming Dynasty, so the officials of Samarkand continue to praise the king here.

This situation made King Ali Mahamat very proud.

He considered his means to be extraordinary, and under his leadership, the kingdom remained at peace.

It's just that.

He neglected the interests used to protect his own glory and wealth, and moved the interests of others, and forgot that the gun is the foundation of everything.

this day.

The nobleman named Urkur led his army to attack the capital on the agreed day, and won the support of those nobles whose interests were damaged, and the size of the army once reached more than 20,000 people.

If history had not changed, he would have become one of the first vassal kings to come into conflict with the fragmented Timurid Khanate after Timur's death, and would have risen from the corpse of the Timurid Khanate.

Although this kingdom did not last long under the fierce war conflicts in Central Asia and West Asia.

Urkul gained the support of a large number of nobles and became the new king.

The first thing he did when he took office was to stop paying tribute, even if he knew that the Ming Dynasty was very powerful, this was something that Urkur couldn't change, and the reason why he rebelled was because of this, and the people who supported him were the nobles who suffered from it.

No matter how corrupt King Ali Mahamat is, there are pros and cons to everything.

Although he exploited the interests of the nobles of Arkur and made life miserable for the common people in the country, the kingdom of Sa'erbemoth was still the most populous and largest kingdom in the region.

No matter how bad the order is, it is better than no order at all.

Compared to the kingdoms that were destroyed by the Timurid Khanate's troops, the kingdom of Saerbemoth at least kept the people from being slaughtered.

There's hope when you're alive, isn't it?

The kingdom of Sa'erbetes is in the area of Huazhuzim, the empire of Huazim was defeated by Timur, and it is also the first major goal of Timur's westward expedition, which is separated by 900 miles from the Yulong Jiechi Xuanwei Division and 2,000 miles away from the Mulu Xuanwei Division.

At such a long distance, the officials of Samarkand actually didn't care very much.

They told the locals that they could approve of the new king as long as they continued to abide by the old rules, but they did not expect the new king to refuse.

The annual tribute, in fact, Samarkand's appetite is not so big.

But what they didn't expect was that the new king didn't plan to talk, he chose to stand on his own.

Coupled with the prestige and strength of the kingdom of Sa'erbeel, it soon became the hope of opposing the Ming forces, and more and more kings and leaders responded to the kingdom of Sa'erbeel, some converging, and some echoing each other.

What's more.

The location of the kingdom of Sa'er Bemoss makes Zhu Neng more tricky.

Let's say it's far away, it's really far away, but it's not far enough to get along with Samarkand for a long time, such a place, coupled with the strength of the opponent is not weak, and the surrounding resistance forces that have accumulated so far, Zhu Neng doesn't dare to risk the expedition.

In fact, Da Ming doesn't care much about the Sa'er Don't Moss Kingdom at the moment, if you don't admit it, you won't admit it, anyway, Da Ming's current tentacles don't have to stretch so far, it's nothing more than having dates and no dates to hit so many poles, it doesn't matter if you don't have a harvest, it's better to have a harvest.

However, the kingdom of Sa'erbetes has become the rear of the rebels, which makes Da Ming very dissatisfied.

The rebels were hiding from the Ming army.

Then they were able to obtain the necessary supplies from the kingdom of Saerbetael, and in this way, they formed a long-term confrontation with the Ming army, and even the most excessive, a rebel army attacked the settlements in the Mulu area for a long time.

Such a situation can no longer be solved by petty fights.

It is also different from the war led by Huo Zhen to exterminate the rebellious tribes of Almaty.

So Zhu Di came in person.

And brought tens of thousands of troops.

After several years of accumulation in the western region and supplies from the interior, the Ming Dynasty gathered an army of 40,000 troops, 50,000 native soldiers, and more than 100,000 local indigenous people in Samarkand.

The army wiped out all the tribes along the way.

After several battles, it took five days and four nights to break through the capital of Jusare, a city of 20,000 people built on a hill at Lake Ares in the eastern part of the Salt Sea.

When the war ended.

It's a terrible place, and there are scars everywhere.

Then the various units of the Ming army swept away the forces that responded to the rebel kingdom along the way, not sparing any tribe.

An old man thousands of miles away.

Timur's third son, Miransha, had died of illness in Qazvin, and his eldest son Haril inherited the throne, and his two younger brothers were shocked when they learned that the Ming army had arrived in the coastal area, especially after the news of the Ming Emperor's personal conquest.

After thinking about it, they decided to send envoys to congratulate the Ming Emperor while sorting out their troops, and if the Ming came to attack them, they would swear to resist to the death.

The Ottoman Empire, which had been defeated by their grandfather, had a resurgence.

How decisive their grandfathers were in West Asia, how deep the evil they created, how embarrassed they were, and the harsh external environment made them have no way out.

On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty killed their grandfather, and on the other hand, the Ottoman Empire, which was about to slaughter them, the three brothers were very desperate.

(End of chapter)