On December 13, the 19th year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue issued an edict to appoint Bian Yongan, the former governor of Hami, Guazhou and other civil affairs affairs, as the first governor of Turpan.

Its jurisdiction is basically the west of Jiayuguan in Gansu, the north of Kangxi Province, the southwest of Khovd Prefecture in the northwest region of Gansu Province, that is, the southwest of the Altai Mountains. Going west, it temporarily reaches the Tacheng area and the Yinli Valley area, but there is no clear boundary...

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Because how far to the west we can go depends purely on whether the subsequent Chu army can continue to kill the Jungar people in this area.

If everything goes well, the jurisdiction of Turpan Province will probably be able to extend all the way west to the Yibo Sea, that is, Lake Balkhash, and it is not impossible to even expand all the way to the Aral Sea.

Because the follow-up will definitely continue to the west, because the first governor of Turpan was not stationed in Hami like his predecessor, the governor of Hami, nor in Turpan, but directly stationed in Yin Ning in the Yinli Valley.

That is, Yin Ning City, the original administrative center of the Jungar people.

The Great Chu Empire directly adopted this name, and established Yin Ning Mansion there, calling the local river valley area Yin Ning River Valley. (It was previously called Yin Li, this is the name the author wrote for readers!)<

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Turpan was established as a province, and the governor was stationed in Yinning.

At the same time, administrative agencies at various levels such as prefectures, counties, and towns were established to directly govern various places in the Western Region, such as Hami Prefecture, Turpan Prefecture, Tacheng Prefecture, etc.

After establishing a complete administrative governance structure, the local surrendered subjects in the Western Region will be comprehensively educated.

Starting from religion, language, clothing, culture, marriage and other aspects, comprehensively educate the local surrendered people.

The Great Chu Empire has always attached great importance to the education of newly occupied areas. After all, people who are not of our race must have different minds!

Today's imperial education policy is actually very simple. To sum up, it is to ensure that everyone in the local area is one of its own.

As for those who were not our own... of course they were all dead.

I used to treat all kinds of toast this way before. If you accept my teachings, then you will be one of my own and we can all have fun together.

If you don't accept enlightenment and insist on being a barbarian, the Chu army won't be polite to you and will just shoot you over with guns and cannons...

Various chieftains in the southwest and Kham regions were also very dissatisfied with the enlightenment policy of the Chu Empire at first. They always felt that they were barbarians and were not of the same family as the Chu Chinese people. For this reason, they often started rebellions.

So now there is no toast in these places...

One thing to say is that these rebellious behaviors are generally limited to the upper-class indigenous dignitaries. Most of the local ordinary people are hijacked just because of their ignorance.

To be honest, these ordinary people don't actually care about these enlightenment policies. After all, it doesn't matter what clothes they wear or what words they learn in school. What matters is that they can eat well, wear clothes and receive education...

They will follow whoever can keep them fed.

The Chu Empire gave them enough to eat, and they naturally followed the Chu Empire. It was very simple and plain.

This was also the time when the Great Chu Empire was carrying out enlightenment policies in many areas. The local ordinary people generally had no objections. Those who had objections were those who were unwilling to give up their rights, and the Great Chu Empire did not offer any preferential treatment policies, such as giving them a title or

Local dignitaries with official hats, that is, those chieftains.

If the Chu Empire was willing to give them titles and official positions, then these chieftains might not rebel.

After all, anyone with any sense knows that if you can be a Chinese, why should you be a barbarian...

Historically, when the Mobei Mongols were defeated during the Kangxi period and faced with either defecting to Russia or the Qing Dynasty, why did they eventually choose to submit to the Qing Dynasty and become part of the Qing Dynasty?

Jebtsundamba I said this: "The dynasty of the Yellow Khitan Khan in the north, known as Russia, is a great country, but Buddhism has not yet emerged, and his clothes are turned to the left, so he cannot be with them. The dynasty of the Black Khitan Khan in the south is peaceful.

Happiness, and the circulation of Buddhism. The clothes of the Khan of Manchuria are like heavenly clothes, and their materials are the treasures of heavenly dragons. The velvets and brocades are all perfect. He is a very blessed Khan. If we go there, we will surely enjoy it.

The blessing of peace and prosperity for the country and the people."

This remark is very interesting, because Mobei Mongolia is a descendant of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and the Meng Yuan Dynasty already wore the right jacket after moving to the Central Plains, and has since called himself a civilized person... But Russia is still a barbarian, and still wears the left jacket of the barbarians.

, after the Qing Dynasty in the south settled in the Central Plains, they wore right-hand jackets and were civilized people... Naturally, we civilized people have to join the civilized people...

That's probably what it means.

Using clothes as a theory is just a reference. In fact, what it represents is the yearning of the various ethnic groups around China for the Chinese civilization in the Central Plains... More importantly, the Qing Dynasty treated Mobei Mongolia preferentially, and the treatment they gave was still very good.

Generous.

Mobei Mongolia did this in history, and now many tribes or other ethnic groups also do it. The nobles of Mobei Mongolia are now living as civilized people in Jinling City.

If you can be a civilized person, why should you be a barbarian?

However, the Great Chu Empire will not give titles or official titles to the leaders of small tribes casually... This is not a big cabbage, how can it be given casually?

If you don’t have a certain amount of strength, why do you want the Chu Empire to give you preferential treatment and return your title?

And many rebellious chieftains do not get preferential treatment because of their weak strength, or they are not satisfied with the treatment... They are all a group of people with high ambitions and low abilities... Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some of them are careerists.

But it doesn’t matter, anyway, the Chu Empire’s response to these weak rebels has always been a single one: kill!

As for you saying that the powerful tribal leaders were dissatisfied with their treatment and rebelled... The senior officials of the Dachu Empire were not stupid. They had recruited powerful tribal leaders with high-ranking officials and generous salaries...

For example, the tribal leaders in Mobei Mongolia are treated very generously.

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In addition to educating people, the Chu Empire would also concentrate its efforts on reclamation in the local area.

Education is soft, but farming is hard!

Why is the Western Region so difficult for the traditional central dynasty to rule and defend? It's because the distance is too far and material supplies are too difficult.

To maintain rule, garrison troops are indispensable, and the number of people of this tribe is also indispensable, but these people need to eat and drink.

How do you get this food and drink?

This requires reclamation.

Relying on some local oases, river valleys and other places, especially Hami, Turpan and surrounding areas as well as Yinli River Valley and other places, large-scale reclamation is carried out to produce food to supply the garrison and the people.

Only by being able to farm can we truly establish a foothold in the local area. Otherwise, everything will have to be mobilized and transported from the Shaanxi-Gansu region at the rear. Even the wealthy Chu Empire will not be able to last long.

To this end, Luo Zhixue instructed the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and other departments to formulate a highly targeted resettlement and reclamation policy based on the special circumstances of Turpan Province.

For example, allocate land for free and provide subsidies to attract people to immigrate spontaneously as much as possible.

For example, setting up a group of C-class divisions to guard the past, and it is for defense, but it is actually a settlement...

The Chu Empire used to do this in the northeast and northern grasslands. In these vast and sparsely populated places, many so-called cities were actually built by the official, especially the military-organized reclamation troops.

In addition to traditional agriculture, the Ministry of Industry is also preparing to set up a number of local factories to produce consumable military supplies, mainly ammunition, rifles, and cold weapons.

The subsequent battles in the Western Region should be sporadic battles in the South Turpan area, the Yinli River Valley, and the vast grassland area west of the Tacheng area, but where is the nearest arsenal?

In Jiayuguan, the arsenal in Jiayuguan is actually very small. Strictly speaking, it is just a small arsenal capable of producing a small amount of ammunition and repairing guns and cold weapons.

The main arsenals that supply weapons are the Lanzhou Arsenal and the Xi'an Arsenal.

To mobilize weapons and ammunition from the Shaanxi-Gansu region to Turpan Province or even to the grasslands in the west, it is really too far...

Just like in the past, in order to support the battle in the Jiayuguan area, the Chu Empire organized an arsenal in Lanzhou and a small arsenal in Jiayuguan.

In order to support operations in the areas west of the Yinli River Valley and southern Turpan, as well as operations in the northern regions, the Ministry of Industry plans to establish a simple national defense system in Turpan Province to produce ammunition, guns and cold weapons on site for direct supply.

The army fighting in the Western Region.

This task will be handed over to the Shaanxi-Gansu Weapons Company for specific responsibility. After all, the defense system of the Da Chu Empire is basically divided according to regions.

Shaanxi-Gansu Weapons Company was previously responsible for the construction of the national defense industry system in Shaanxi and Gansu. The Lanzhou Arsenal, Xi'an Arsenal and the small arsenal in Jiayuguan, which previously mainly provided weapons and equipment for military operations in the Western Regions and other regions, all directly belong to Shaanxi-Gansu Weapons Company.

In the past ten years of history, Shaanxi-Gansu Weapons Company has carried out in-depth research on its weapons research and development and production system, focusing on plateaus, deserts and other terrains as well as severe cold weather. It has also conducted in-depth research on cavalry weapons. Its design

The new type of saber developed, the 15-year-old saber, uses better materials, and the quality of the blade is even better. At the same time, the bending angles of the handle and blade are subtle, and are adjusted to better meet actual combat needs.

One of the characteristics is that in severe cold weather, this saber can still maintain relatively good performance and will not break easily.

A little common sense, steel is not a single and unchangeable thing. Due to differences in specific processes or formulas, its properties may vary.

Steel is just a general term for an alloy material dominated by iron and carbon, but it does not mean that there are only carbon and iron elements, there are many other things.

In addition to other components that need to be actively controlled, it is mostly due to technical and process issues that the steel materials produced these days often contain other components, such as phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, etc... Different manufacturers and different processes

There are also differences, and the properties of the steel materials are often different.

If it contains a lot of phosphorus, the low-temperature performance will be very poor. However, many domestic iron ores contain a lot of phosphorus. Therefore, the steel materials made by many manufacturers actually have poor low-temperature performance...

In addition, if it contains a lot of sulfur, the high-temperature performance will be poor, and it will become very fragile when the temperature is high.

This is also true for weapons. For example, weapons and equipment used in severe cold areas in the north have relatively high requirements for low-temperature performance, and the phosphorus content must be low to a certain extent. Otherwise, in the north where temperatures are often minus 20 or 30 degrees Celsius,

In regional battles, wouldn’t it be embarrassing if knives, armor, guns and the like could be broken with just one strike...

The low-temperature performance of the 15-year-old saber is very good. It was specially optimized for low-temperature environments and made great efforts to reduce the phosphorus content.

Therefore, this kind of saber is very popular among the cavalry troops. It has now replaced the early five-year-old saber as the standard cavalry saber for the Chu army cavalry.

Being good at weapons research and development in different fields is not unique to Shaanxi-Gansu Weapons Company, other weapons companies also have this situation.

Just like the Guangdong and Guangxi Arms Company, they have very outstanding advantages in the field of anti-corrosion and weapons for mountain warfare.

The 15-year-old flintlock it produces is focused on use in coastal and tropical areas. Its barrel is slightly shorter than the Army standard version and has excellent corrosion resistance.

Therefore, the 15-year-old flintlock has become the standard musket for the Marine Corps and Navy sailors. In addition, it is also widely equipped and used by army troops stationed in various parts of Southeast Asia.

This type of flintlock gun looks similar to the Thirteen Years Type flintlock gun, but it is improved from the Thirteen Years Type flintlock gun.

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The Thirteen-year-old flintlock gun is currently the main musket in the Chu Empire, and it is also the original model of many other improved muskets.
To be continued...