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Chapter 15 Salute

The chariot troops were the elite of the Freshing Army. The collapse of the 200,000 Russian troops back then was all due to the interweaving and detours of the chariot troops. If this force could be transferred to Central Asia, Central Asia could indeed have twenty years to control Central Asia as Xu Jingxi said just now. The soldiers present were relieved when they heard this. Although Yang Zengxin knew that the chariots were weapons from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he did not know what the chariots looked like more than two thousand years later, he saw that Peng Qingpeng and others were obviously relieved, and he nodded in praise.

"According to the General Staff's arrangement, we do not need to get into more conflicts with the Russian army in Ili. While attacking Tashkent, we can cross-border and occupy Kapchagai and Almaty. Once Russia finds that there is any mistake in the rear, it will retreat and enter our ambush circle." Xu Jingxi roughly explained the entire combat plan. Although he did not explain in detail, Peng Qingpeng still asked: "Is there anyone in Kashgar?"

"It's almost the same, everyone will know then." Xu Jingxi's answer was very vague. Instead, he asked: "How is the Tuxi Railway being built? Now that's it?"

"The south is built to the east of Lake Balkash, and the north is built to Semiy. The middle section is still 500 kilometers away, and the center is about to open to traffic." Chief of Staff Huang Zongbing said, "Are we still destroying the railway as planned?"

"It's all in the plan!" Xu Jingxi patted the steel folder he brought with him. At this time, the communications officer who came with him happened to hand him a password he had just received. He said, "The folder is intact. This is my password, so open him here."

The folder that conveys the combat plan is like a woman's decorative box. If two sets of mechanical passwords are entered incorrectly or brute-breaked twice in a row, the high-energy explosives inside will explode instantly. Peng Qingpeng obviously did not dare to open it here, so he just muttered, "You have many tricks," and took people to open it and read through the entire combat plan.

At this time, only Yang Zengxin and Xu Jingxi were left in the military tent. After instructing the adjutant to guard the camp, Xu Jingxi began to talk to Yang Zengxin. In fact, this was supposed to be discussed in Luntai, but riding a horse was much more time-consuming than an airship. In order not to delay the general attack time, the two of them rushed all the way, and they had no time and had nowhere to talk in detail.

"Mr. Yang. In addition to asking me to greet you, the Prime Minister also wants to tell you that the plan I made before may have to make a big adjustment." Xu Jingxi started the topic like this. Judging from the things he did, he admired Yang Zengxin. This person is truly worthy of his goodwill.

"Prime Minister Xie is concerned." Yang Zengxin knew that Xu Jingxi was keeping him to talk about the serious matter, so he solemnly bowed to the east to thank Yang Rui's greetings. He also didn't understand why the saint-like prime ministers valued him so much. It was great for the governors of other provinces to get a car. However, he was equipped with an airship, and the military and political power of the whole province was in his hands, without any restrictions. He was eager to put it aside. After Yang Zengxin thanked him, he said seriously, "Please start with the general."

"The Prime Minister previously believed that with our national strength, we could only capture the Balkash Lake, the Aral Sea, and the areas south of the Caspian Sea latitude line. Even the Caspian Sea dared not even make any demands. But now it is different. We have enough strength to take down the Kazakhstan grasslands." After saying that, Xu Jingxi took out a map and pointed at it: "The Prime Minister believes that our army can occupy the north of Pavlodar, Xuchensk, Kustana, Akjibsk, and Atlau, and keep a distance of two or three hundred kilometers from the Russian Siberian Railway."

"This is to put the entire Kazakh grassland in his pocket." Yang Zengxin said lightly, twisting his white beard, but he was very worried. In his opinion, China is not long since its establishment, and the grassland is really safe to defend. Taking up such a large area is equivalent to stabbing the gun into Russia's stomach. The Russians will not give up in this place.

"Yes. That's what the Prime Minister means." Xu Jingxi nodded. "Occupying the Balkhash Lake to the Caspian Sea is actually a risk-free one, and the strategic depth is not enough. With limited resources, we only hope to stabilize Russia with a small victory, and then buy and talk to settle the territory. Now it is very different from the previous situation, so we push the front line all the way north."

"But in this way, we will never stop with Russia." Yang Zengxin endured it for a long time, but finally expressed his concerns. "With this grassland, not only Kazakhs, but also more than two million Russians. Once Russia implements a civil unrest, it is really hard to guard against!"

"Sir, the Prime Minister has ordered the General Secretary, the Farmers Association and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have begun to discuss immigration plans in the Western Regions," said Xu Jingxi himself, "The minimum number of immigrants is set at five million, and the maximum number can reach ten million."

"What!" Yang Zengxin was shocked after being happy, "This immigration is not a trivial matter. One million is a huge difficulty, let alone ten million? Is it someone... The country has decided to make a big move!"

"Sir, the specific plan has not been released yet, but since the land reform, the dilemma of my country's large population and small land has not been eliminated. The Hongyang Rebellion broke out, and the country's population decreased sharply by tens of millions. The Qing Dynasty was able to survive. But now, it has been fifty years since Hongyang, and the population has soared to more than 410 million. Although the judicious institute imposed a tax on population, the population will only increase and decrease no matter what. Therefore, immigration and restriction of the population are the national policy.

Since the Han Dynasty, dynasties have always been indirect control over it. The reason for this is that there are few Han people and many foreign races. The Western Regions are a strategic location for the entire Asia. Controlling this place can not only block Mongolia and Tibet, but also block the Eurasian continental bridge and deter West and South Asia. Therefore, it is the consensus of the Standing Committee and the Academy of Speakers to solve the accumulated problems at one time.

The former Prime Minister said to me, 'The world will become more and more civilized today. The land occupied before the end of the European War is the land of our China. The land occupied after the end of the European War will not be recognized by international countries in the end, so it is not our land no matter what. If we want to occupy the Kazakh grasslands for me, in addition to occupying them before the First World War, we also need to immigrate on a large scale. Only when the Han people completely overwhelm the Kazakhs, can this place really be owned by me.'"

After relaying Yang Rui's words, Xu Jingxi said: "As for the more than two million Russians on the grassland, they will be expelled like the northeast. This is not necessary, just let the locals and the Mongolians do it."

"But..." Both Xu Jingxi and Yang Rui said Yang Zengxin understand, but the problem is money. Yang Zengxin was silent for a while and said, "General Xu. Can you tell me how much money the government has earned during the European War?"

Hearing that Yang Zengxin asked the question to the root of it. Xu Jingxi smiled, "Sir. This number is kept secret, and there will be no more than ten people in the world who know it. I have asked the Prime Minister about this question, and the Prime Minister only answered me three words: I can't finish it!"

"How much is it spent?" Although Yang Zengxin ordered a reference message, he was not familiar with modern business and the entire European war and could not imagine the excess profits of shipping at this time. In his estimate, China only earned 200 to 30 billion taels of silver at most. The biggest use of this money is to invest in agriculture and industry to enhance national strength. Although immigration has made great contributions, its benefits may not be in the present.

Seeing that Yang Zengxin was still unwilling to give up, Xu Jingxi said: "I don't know anything else, but it's a steel argument. The profit of three million tons of steel is more than 1.2 billion Huayuan per year. I should have earned nearly 2 billion in recent years. I don't know how much money I can make in other industries, but it is said that the profit of shipping is twice as high as steel this year."

"There are so many?" Yang Zengxin seemed to be unable to sit still. He learned from reference information that it is also a powerful tool for making money. He didn't expect that it could be several times as good as steel.

"There are so many rumors." Xu Jingxi said with a wry smile. Chinese and Japanese newspapers have a tacit understanding that they do not report the profits of the shipping industry, and the Intelligence Bureau does not provide such data. So these things are all calculated by him through hearing and his own calculations. "The Prime Minister's meaning, within ten years, in the Western Regions and the Outer Northwest region, in addition to military expenditure, the country will invest 3 billion Chinese yuan in construction. This is the first, second and third phases, and will not be lower than this. The money is mainly used for immigration, railways, and infrastructure construction in immigrant cities. The Prime Minister's attitude is very clear, saying, 'Even if it needs 10 billion to invest in the northwest to digest this place, then invest 10 billion.' And he also said, 'The value of this 10 billion will exceed 1 trillion in a hundred years.'"

"I understand!" Yang Zengxin was so excited by the '10 billion' that he was shocked. He couldn't help but stand up and bowed to Beijing, then sat upright and asked again: "What should the Prime Minister do if the old minister wants?"

"The Prime Minister means that the matter is fully handed over to the adults to make decisions. He has three principles." Xu Jingxi said. "First, the two Khanates of Turkey allow them to be independent and should not be included in our country's borders to avoid the increase in the number of Hui people in the country, and there will be chaos in the future. Kyrgyzstan and Qihe belong to our country, so it is natural to take them back;

Secondly, when our country started this war, we only wanted to seize the grassland governor's area, including Qihe Province and Kyrgyzstan. Considering that we would eventually promote peace with New Russia, the occupation of the grassland should be based on peace talks. The Prime Minister's opinion is that we should not be too close to the Siberian Railway and the Volga River. The security of these two places affects the center of New Russia, and it is not easy to be careless and hasty. After expelling the Russians, the local Kazakhs are only more than two million. The grassland is so big, it is not difficult to deal with these two million people;

The third is immigration. After the Western Regions Railway is completed, a re-track will be built immediately. In addition to combat preparations, the remaining transportation volume will be used for immigration. The Prime Minister hopes that the more Han people are imported, the better. In the 20 years, 250,000 will come from the east every year, and in the 10 million, 500,000 people will come from the east every year. The General Secretary, the National Peasant Association, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the provinces in the pass are only responsible for organizing immigration. How to deal with it here depends on the adult planning."

Xu Jingxi finished speaking the principles and then said: "The Prime Minister has several suggestions, and the choices of suggestions are all up to the Lord.

In order to completely occupy and digest Central Asia, several forces should be introduced into Central Asia. One is the Mongolian people. The Prime Minister believes that if he wants to occupy Central Asia, he must introduce Mongolian people as support. At least in the early stage, he will rely on the Mongolian people to eliminate the Russians and suppress the Kazakhs. The second is the Japanese. Our country and the Japanese have signed a secret contract, and the two countries promised to jointly attack Russia. However, Japan is now bound by its identity as an Allied country. He cannot get any foreign northeast that originally belonged to our country, and can only get some edges. I think the Japanese must complain, so the Prime Minister hopes to introduce the Japanese to Central Asia. Even if he gives up a piece of land for them, he will tie them to our chariot."

"Japanese..." Yang Zengxin didn't expect Yang Rui to send the Japanese here, and was very surprised.

"Yes." Xu Jingxi nodded, "Japan is too close to our country, either a friend or an enemy. After several discussions, it still believes that turning enemies into friends is the best; and the most important thing about turning enemies into friends is to make them seek their own needs; if Japan can obtain land in Central Asia, the Prime Minister wants to give it a large area of ​​territory that exceeds Japan's original area, and at the same time try to border with Russia and become a Western Japan, then our country's strategic situation will fundamentally improve."

"Is the Prime Minister worried that the new Russia and Japan will jointly attack our country?" Yang Zengxin nodded. In his opinion, it is best for China and Japan to turn enemies into friends, and fighting is the most unfavorable.

"Yes. The Prime Minister is also worried that the United States and Japan will get close." Xu Jingxi nodded. Japan has a profound influence on China's geostrategy. It would be a great thing to use Russia's flesh and blood to pull it onto China's chariot.

"The old minister understands." Yang Zengxin nodded and asked for the next suggestion.

"There are the Kalmyks." Xu Jingxi said, "that is, the Turguts who returned east during the Qianlong period. When Wobaxi moved eastward, in addition to the Cossack cavalry, the Kazakhs also suffered huge losses. Therefore, the two sides had blood feuds, and it would be better to use the Mongols and the Kalmyks to strangle the Kazakhs."

In the beginning, Kalmyk was just a franchise republic of later Russia, but in the opinion of officials who were proficient in Manchuria and Mongolian affairs of the Lifan tribe. Kalmyk used the sarcasm to say that it was a "nation that was blocked by the river". In order to preserve the tribe under the blood tax under the Tsar, Vobasi decided to return east, but at that time the Turkut tribes lived on both sides of the Volga River. The Turkuts on the east bank had to pack up tents and rush cattle and sheep to return east, but the Turkuts on the west bank had to wait for the Volga River to freeze before crossing east. In the year when Vobasi decided to return east, the Volga River did not freeze, and was blocked by the Cossack cavalry, the more than 10,000 Turkuts and other tribes had to stay in Russia, and since then they called themselves Kalmyk.

The Intelligence Agency is also familiar with the history of the Kalmyks. After investigation, the current population of this unit is more than 100,000, and he is very dissatisfied with the Tsar, so he is ready to occupy Central Asia and persuade them to migrate to the Kazakh grasslands. It is very appropriate to let these Buddhists do some things that are inconvenient to the Revival Army.

"Is Kalmek willing to come back?" Yang Zengxin nodded in praise when he heard that Xu Jingxi mentioned Kalmek.

"After contact, most of their nobles agreed to return to the east." Xu Jingxi nodded and said, "The tribe currently has more than 100,000 people, and it is based on the tradition of Mongolian people and grows on horseback. It is extremely fierce. The transfer of the original Mongolian tribe to the Kazakh grassland will only increase its power, so it can only be used in the early stage. After the grassland is stable, it is better for the main force of the Mongolian people to be the Turkuts."

"But even the Terhuts are also Mongolians. If the grasslands are occupied by the Mongols, then the land they control will be too amazing." Yang Zengxin thought that if the Kazakh grasslands were also occupied by the Mongols, it might be the Junggar Khanate again.

"The occupation is not all. The general plan is to hand over the land that can be cultivated north of the Tianshan Mountains to the Han people who immigrated everywhere. The Mongolians who lost their pastures went to the Kazakh grassland to replenish double the land; and some Hui people in southern Xinjiang, if it is difficult to deal with, they must migrate to the Sir River in Turkestan so that the Hui people can concentrate in one place." Xu Jingxi said.

"But they are so close to Shiva and other countries, I'm afraid they want..." Yang Zengxin was shocked.

"As long as the southern border can be empty out, the Prime Minister agrees to their independence." Xu Jingxi said, "The Han people in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains must account for the vast majority, and the grasslands outside the Western Regions are the most important is railways, and then land. The Prime Minister suggested that the 1.7 million Hui people in the southern border of the Western Regions should be moved out of the Western Regions and arranged in the Sir River Basin to the south, which is the border similar to Shiva and Bukhara; the Mongolians were arranged on the northern border that ties with New Russia, while the Han people were between the Mongolians and Hui people, and the places where they could cultivate on both sides of the railway. Of course, the Prime Minister said that this was just his imagination. If it was not consistent with the actual situation, then the actual arrangement would be based on it."

The map was right in front of Yang Zengxin. He looked at the map carefully according to the arrangements Xu Jingxi said, and finally said, "The Prime Minister's arrangement... This cost a lot of money. Not to mention Turkut, more than one million Hui people in southern Xinjiang were to migrate to both sides of the Sir River, which would cost tens of millions of silver."

"There is no way to spend money. The way to treat Kazakhs cannot be used to treat Chanhui." Xu Jingxi said.

Xu Jingxi said so helplessly because the Hui people were originally Chinese residents. At the same time, many of them were resigned. If they really attacked these people, the chaos would be extraordinary.

Xu Jingxi was helpless, and Yang Zengxin's face was unstable. He felt that Yang Rui was deeply afraid of Chanhui. He never expected that after his death, the Western Regions would be controlled by his successors. Later generations criticized him for being backward in thinking and conservative in policies, but they did not know that it was because he insisted on not developing the economy and not popularizing education, which made Chanhui in a state of ignorance and ignorance. At the same time, he met his superior aristocrats, forming a situation where the aristocrats oppressed Chanhui and the government decided to check and balance the borders for Chanhui, which was the best strategy for governing the border.

In order to achieve their own political achievements and official voices, the ignorant successors removed the feudal aristocratic rule and reorganized the already differentiated chanhui, regardless of the high or low, and reorganized the already differentiated chanhui. And they thought that after developing the economy and popularizing education, those chanhui would be grateful to the country. However, in the capital economy, what chanhuis always saw was that others had more money than themselves, Han people had more money than Hui people, and state-owned enterprises had more money than private enterprises. With the wind from the west, the tragic past was complaining, and naturally they were filled with righteous indignation and wanted to become an independent country.

During the Qing Dynasty, under the rule of the Lifanyuan, the minority problem was actually successfully solved. The strategy of differentiating the noble and the humble, and the central mediation was extremely effective for more than two hundred years. Only when the arable land was able to bear the extreme, or when local officials corrupted and forgot their role of checking and balanced people, the triangular checks and balances strategy failed when the incompetent people were eaten with the nobles. China is not a republic, Mongolia, Tibet, and the nobles who have been entangled in the world will always exist, and they will try their best to keep the economy avoided development in these areas, education avoided popularization, and media avoided access to them, so that they lived in a simple and ignorant state. This would be a long-term national policy, and for the outside world, it is called protecting the living environment of ethnic minorities and respecting their national habits.

Yang Zengxin could not think of any possibility of rebellion under such a design. After the rebellion of the poor Tiemwo Ferment in Kashgar was suppressed in the year of the founding of the country, the entire Western Regions became very peaceful. Even if the Russian army invaded the east, there was only a turmoil and no chaos. The Prime Minister was so taboo about the treacherous and would rather spend tens of millions to migrate to the Sir River, which was indeed a strategy to eliminate the roots. However, what should we do if those treacherous and did not want to move away?

Yang Zengxin thought for a while before he came to his senses, he said, "When will the matter be done there?"

"Zhuneid of Shiva went to Beijing at the end of last year and everything was agreed. When we launch it in a few days, he will join forces with some of the Bukhara and Turkmen tribes to attack Tashkent together, and our air force will support them invading Tashkent city." Xu Jingxi said.

"Would you talk to them about the Fergana Basin and Kokhan's ownership?" Yang Zengxin asked. The most plump areas in Central Asia are the Qihe area (southeast of Lake Balkash) and the Fergana Basin. The Qihe area belongs to China, so there is nothing to ask about, but the Fergana Basin belongs to extremely important. Both Shiva and Bukhara want this cornucopia.

"This matter is very important. The Prime Minister did not express his opinion, believing that the boundaries between Shiva, Bukhara, Turkmen and our country will be determined by the Lord." Xu Jingxi said.

"It's better if you don't have a decision, it's better if you don't have a decision." Yang Zengxin smiled and said. He had to use this treasure pot of Fergana no matter what, so that Shiva and Bukhara would become enemies.

"If you have good ideas, you can implement them, and you don't have to ask the Prime Minister." Xu Jingxi said. At this time, he finished all the important words, and then took out two letters from his arms. "One of these two letters was written by the Prime Minister who asked me to forward to the adults, saying that it would explain the important matters clearly and then give them a look. The other was the appointment letter from the Taiwei Mansion, appointing the adults as the governor of the Western Regions, and fully handle the war."

Yang Zengxin was not surprised in the previous letter, but the appointment of the governor of the Western Regions later made Yang Zengxin feel a little grateful. He said, "What about General Peng? Are the old ministers not in military affairs?"
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