Tungus, in ancient times, did not refer to a river, but to people, people who speak Tungus.

The Jianzhou Jurchens, Haixi Jurchens and the savage Jurchens actually originated from the Tungus people, and the so-called Tungus old place actually refers to the Tungus River basin near Lake Baikal.

If we really want to trace history, the former place of Tungus is indeed the birthplace of the Jurchens in Jianzhou. However, this history may have to be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. The Jurchens in Jianzhou have migrated to the Heilongjiang River Basin from the Mongols and Yuan dynasties.

The reason why Dorgon brought his tribe back to Tungus's hometown was actually to tell Zhu Qizi, don't come and chase him, we have been away for thousands of miles.

Zhu Qizhe looked at the map and was really hesitant.

He still knew the general location of the Tungus River, and the distance from the Korqin Grassland to the Tungus River is at least five or six thousand miles!

Five or six thousand miles away, are you still chasing?

Of course, it was impossible for Dorgon to have already taken his tribe back to the former land of Tungus at this moment, because they were home and had to cross mountains and ridges in the middle. It would be considered as the sky if they could walk fifty or sixty miles a day. In this way, it would take at least three or four months to take his tribe back to the former land of Tungus. At this time, they had only set off for more than a month.

In other words, Jiannu is still halfway through now.

Problem, the weather has started to get colder now. If he sent someone to chase after him, it would probably start to snow in the north before he could catch up with Jiannu.

The winter in the north is not usually cold. Even Liaodong is so cold. The location of Tungus’s former place is already in the central area of ​​Siberia. It is easy to imagine how low the temperature there is. It is said that the winter there is basically minus thirty or forty degrees below zero!

The moon-black geese fly high, and the Shanyu escapes at night.

I wanted to chase the light cavalry, but the bow and knife were covered with heavy snow.

At this time, Zhu Qizhuo finally realized the difficulties of the Central Plains emperors throughout the dynasties. It was too difficult to conquer the nomadic tribes on the grassland. If they could not defeat them, they would escape thousands of miles away. What should you do?

Thousands of miles are not only a long journey, but also weather factors must be taken into account. Let the soldiers of the Central Plains who are not very cold-resistant to running thousands of miles to pursue the cold north, which will freeze to death!

Jiannu is not a nomadic people in the traditional sense, but a fishing and hunting nation. They originated from the old land of Tungus, and must be familiar with the terrain there, and their adaptability to the environment there is definitely much better than that of the Central Plains soldiers. If they chase after them rashly, they may be able to defeat the elites under his command of a hundred battles just by climate issues.

Zhu Qizhe stared at the map and pondered for a long time, but finally shook his head slightly and sighed helplessly.

Forget it, let them run for a while first.

If you chase, you must chase. No matter how difficult it is, you must eliminate the hidden danger of Jiannu!

However, this is not the best time to pursue, because the Ming Dynasty is not peaceful at this moment.

The vassal states in the east, the Japanese pirates in Japan, the Mongolian and Yuan tribes in the north, the Western Regions in the west, the South Asian countries in the south, etc., all have certain hidden dangers, and they must be solved one by one.

Since Jiannu has fled thousands of miles away, there is no need to be far away. It is not too late to solve these hidden dangers in the vicinity first, stabilize the surrounding areas of the Ming Dynasty, and then deal with them.

He stared at the map for a while, and suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face.

Hehe, Tungus’s hometown, Siberia, not bad, these places will sooner or later become the territory of my Ming Dynasty!

Jiannu’s northern escape was a good opportunity, an opportunity to send troops.

After all, Siberia did not have a clear ownership at this time.

Whoever has a big fist belongs to whom!

At this time, his thoughts changed again.

Originally, after he wanted to deal with Jiannu, he left a small number of troops to guard the north, and then worked hard to develop south, and even took advantage of the advantages of strong ships and powerful cannons to continue to advance westward.

Now it seems that the north is actually a good choice.

Because the place here is big and rich in resources, it is easier to conquer.

For example, nearly half of the two capitals and thirteen provinces north of Liaodong to the Arctic Ocean was originally the Nuergandus Department of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the force shocked the Dusi and the Dusi garrison was re-established, the millions of square kilometers of land would be recovered.

For example, from the Chahar Grassland and the Korqin Grassland to the north, a region larger than the entire Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen provinces, now there are only some Mongolian Yuan tribes and Jiannu. As long as the Mongolian Yuan tribes and Jiannu are conquered, these millions of square kilometers of land will be the Ming Dynasty!

If you don’t want to leave such a huge territory, isn’t you brain-related?

Of course he was not sick in his mind, so he decided to take down this huge territory before talking about it.

Of course, it is not easy to seize these territory. The issue of military strength is not the key. The key is how people survive in this territory.

The reason why the Central Plains dynasties have not valued this territory is because it is too cold. When winter comes, it will be minus 100 to 20 degrees or even minus 30 to 40 degrees. How can ordinary people bear it?

Even if you take it down, it will be a cause for trouble!

This problem was impossible to solve in the past, but it was not difficult to solve it at this time.

After Zhu Qidiao accepted the surrender of the Mongolian and Yuan tribes on the Korqin grassland, he began to plan the issue of expanding the northern territory.

What is the most critical issue to expand the northern territory?

In fact, it ultimately comes down to resources, coal mines, iron ore and copper mine resources.

Iron ore can be used to build roads, trains, coal mines can be used to keep warm, while copper ore is more useful.

The coal mines, iron ore and copper mine resources on the Chahar grassland are still relatively rich, and they have been explored almost the same. Therefore, the first step is to mobilize manpower to develop the mineral resources on the Chahar grassland. At the same time, he also ordered the officials of the Ministry of Industry, under the leadership of various departments of the Korqin Grassland to explore the entire Korqin Grassland and prepare for the next step of development.

After the problem of resource acquisition is solved, the application of resources is the result of successful research and development of railways and trains, so there is no need to invest a lot of energy. The rest is the utilization of copper mines.

Zhu Qizhu directly summoned Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing and Wang Zheng and other close friends to the newly built Xinzhou City along the Korqin Grassland and began further research and development.

What he is going to develop is actually not very complicated. To put it bluntly, it is a huge boiler and dense pipelines.

Boilers, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing and Wang Zheng are already familiar with each other, because the steam engine needs to be driven by the steam burned from the boiler.

The same is true for pipes. If the steam pipe is not connected to the steam engine, the steam engine will not be able to start either.

Do these two things still need to be developed?

Not to mention, it really needs to be developed, because the boiler requires that the boiler be at least ten feet high and half a meter in radius, and it must be able to burn a large amount of steam, while the pipelines are densely twisted and twisted.

Of course, this is not very difficult. Various machine tools were brought over, and in less than a month, a huge boiler and a strange official road were made.

Zhu Qizhe then made a strange request to them to install the huge boiler in the newly built canteen of the Zhoufu Office, and the steam pipeline walked around all the rooms of the Zhoufu Office.

This is also not difficult, it just takes some time. In less than a month, the boiler and pipelines were installed.

Immediately afterwards, add water and add coal to burn steam.

The huge boiler was burning, and as soon as the valves were opened, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng and others were still confused.

What is the emperor doing?

Such a large boiler is probably not a problem to drive a steam engine that is one person tall.

With so many pipelines, it is more than enough to install a locomotive as big as a palace.

Problem, there is neither a steam engine nor a locomotive in the newly built prefecture government office, and the giant boiler more than ten feet high is dry-burning there!

They were really confused.

Isn't this a waste of time or expression?

Zhu Qizhu took them to the Qinzhi Hall calmly, asked them to close the doors and windows, sit down, and then started chatting with them.

After chatting for a while, Bi Maokang finally couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, I dared to ask, what are we doing for such a large boiler and so many pipes?"

What is it for?

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