Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1596

A few herdsmen wearing Western Region costumes got off the train and were stunned when they saw the prosperous capital.

They just took the iron train in Guanzhong not long ago, and they didn't expect to be able to reach the capital from Guanzhong in a few days.If you usually ride a horse from Gansu to the capital, you don’t know how long it will take, but the appearance of the train can run day and night, and people can quickly go from one place to another as long as they sit or lie down in it.

The current economic value of the railway from Guanzhong to Beijing is not high, but it is very important!

This railway passes north of the Great Wall, runs through the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, and then enters the Guannei. Firstly, it can control the prairie, and secondly, it can control the northwest border, connecting the two important places in North China and Guanzhong, so that troops and materials can be freely transported on the northern defense line.

The Great Prairie Railway is more useful than the Great Wall, which is no longer effective in the age of firearms.

At present, this railway is mainly used to transport salt, cotton, cotton yarn and other materials instead of personnel, and passenger carriages are very limited.Even so, this is already an astonishing existence.

These herdsmen were the envoys who came to the capital from the Turhu Special Department thousands of miles away. They wanted to find the person with the greatest power in the empire, that is, Chu Yun, and asked to return to the east.

They first found the government in the capital and asked to meet Chu Yun.

The government couldn't help being very surprised when they received a request from the herdsmen of the Torghut tribe from the Volga River to meet Chu Yun.

They were deeply surprised that now not only the English were asking for Chu Yun, but even the Mongolian tribe who had left Tianshan in the past came back specifically to find Chu Yun.

"My lord, is it necessary to alarm the military leader for a tribe wandering outside the Tianshan Mountains?"

"Although there are only [-] Turghut troops, and the number is not large, they were attacked by Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks on the Volga River, and the Kazakh Khanate and the Crimean Khanate did not treat them well. The fact that all the countries came back from thousands of miles away and asked to join us shows that they recognize our culture more, and it is also a manifestation of our national strength. We should choose to report this matter."

After a brief discussion among the officials of Zhili Yamen, they finally chose to report the matter.

Chu Yun was reading the report on the establishment of the Koryo Province in his office. A secretary sent the request from the Zhili Yamen to Chu Yun's desk. Chu Yun was quite shocked.

Chu Yun, a Mongolian tribe who wandered to Eastern Europe, still has some impressions. Originally, they wandered on the Volga River for more than 100 years and chose to return east after being bullied by Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks.

But things seem to have changed now.

After a series of battles in the Western Regions, the Kyushu Army signed a 50-year armistice treaty with Tsarist Russia and the Kazakh Khanate to delineate the border. Tsarist Russia was forced to stop its expansion to East Siberia and the Tianshan Mountains. national boundaries.

Seeing that Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks could not continue to expand eastward, they turned the contradiction of expansion to the south of West Asia and Central Asia. As a result, the Turghut tribe who migrated to the south of the Volga River were attacked by Tsarist Russia and the Cossack cavalry before they could live in a stable place for many years. attack.Speaking of which, this was the result of the Western Regions War that Chu Yun launched a long time ago.

It was unlucky for the Torghut Department. They would not have been attacked by the main force of Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks so quickly, but the Tsar could not find a place to expand, so he could only focus on the south.

The north of Tsarist Russia is the Arctic Ocean, the east is China, and the west is the Kingdom of Sweden, which is stronger than Tsarist Russia, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Tsar can only bully some nomads.

"A group of unlucky fellows. Anyway, nomadic tribes are no longer a threat. Instead of letting them be used by Maozi, it is better to let them set up pastures in the Yili River Basin and help guard the frontier." Chu Yun thought that there was still a landless area in the lower reaches of the Yili River. place.

That place was a place occupied by the Kazakh Khanate during the previous war.Originally, the Ili River was divided into two parts. The lower reaches were the territory of the Kazakh Khanate, and the upper reaches were the pastures of Moxi Mongolia. However, when the armistice treaty was signed with the Kazakh Khanate, the defeated Kazakh Khanate reluctantly ceded part of the lower reaches of the Ili River. .

There are canyons and deserts in the lower reaches of the Yili River, and there are still many places that can be used as pastures.However, the lower reaches of the Yili River are too far away from the Central Plains, and not many people are willing to go to such a distant place to graze. After occupying that area, it is still sparsely populated.

After guns, cannons, machine guns, and railways were used successively, the threat of the nomadic tribes on the grassland to the customs in the traditional sense has been eliminated, so Chu Yun does not need to worry that the nomadic tribes will evolve into threats, and even the cavalry will be eliminated in the near future. .

Chu Yun then agreed to meet the herdsmen of the Turghut tribe who fled from the Volga River in his office and ask them about the local situation.

When Chu Yun heard that the tsar specially dispatched a large army to join forces with the Cossacks to capture the lower reaches of the Volga River, he immediately understood that the tsar had shifted the direction of expansion.

Of course, Tsarist Russia was at its weakest at this time, and its beliefs were still different from those in Europe. European countries did not take it to play with it, so the Tsar took advantage of the European war to go south to bully some nomadic tribes.

If the distance was not too far away, Chu Yun would even bully the Tsar.

Now that the maritime trade route between the East and the West has been opened up, Chu Yun's demands for the land in the west are getting smaller and smaller. From here, an expedition to Moscow is only possible unless all cavalry do not carry heavy artillery, and they have to burn, kill, loot and cross the desert along the way. , Gobi and wasteland, otherwise it would be faster to go to Europe by sea.

"I have already understood your demands. I will allow you to graze in the lower reaches of the Yili River in the Tianshan Mountains. I will send officials to the local area to measure the pastures and distribute them to your clansmen for operation. After 30 years, the contracting rights will be nationalized, and then Contract out according to the situation. As a price, you have to disband the current ruling system, obey the management of the local government, and pay taxes on time." Chu Yun said.

"Of course, we have listened to the treatment of the Zhungeer tribe. Our leaders have discussed and approved this model before sending villains to the Central Plains to ask for submission. The Central Plains are far more prosperous than we have seen before we left. We leave At the time of Tianshan, there were peasant uprisings in Guanzhong and Shaanxi. We thought that the Central Plains would decline and the Jungar tribe would dominate the Tianshan Mountains. Therefore, our Turghut tribe wanted to move to a pure land before being annexed by the Jungar tribe. ...It was a pity at that time that there was no pure land in this world, and we encountered even more terrifying Tsarist Russians and Cossacks." The envoy of the Turghut Ministry said.

"There is one more condition." Chu Yun added.

"What conditions?" The envoy was a little afraid that Chu Yun would change his mind.

"We will set up a school on the Ili River. During the coming-of-age ceremony, the people of the Torghut tribe should go to the school to swear their allegiance to the empire forever, and become the empire's night watchmen on the lower reaches of the Ili River, guarding the western border."

(End of this chapter)