Dominate the Country

At the end of November in the eighteenth year of Chengtian, China, Russia and Austria jointly signed the Treaty of Nanjing.

The Sixth Russo-Turkish War, which lasted for more than three years, ended the Second Sino-Russian War.

China has achieved great results in this war, although those lands are now regarded by many Chinese as bitter and cold barren wilderness, and seem to have no value at all.

The Chen Han Cabinet announced on the second day of the signing of the agreement that the land north of Heilongjiang would be sold to the whole society at a super low price of five Huayuan per mu. After investigation in recent years, the total land available for sale in the area north of Heilongjiang is as high as 55 million mu.

The total area of ​​pastures and fields available for sale in northern Mongolia is much larger than that in northern Heilongjiang. There are many Mongolians and Han people living in the Beihai area [Lake Baikal]. It seems that many people in the former are not ready to migrate westward.

As for the West Siberian Plain, it is also a super low price of five Huayuan per mu, and the total area available for sale is more than the northern Heilongjiang and Beihai areas combined.

When Chen Han announced this policy, the Russian and Swedish envoys had not left Nanjing yet. Seeing this policy, the former was heartbroken and the latter was full of envy.

But the two countries did not know that although Chen Han's "results" this time recovered more than 500 million yuan for the treasury in the next year, in the next 100 years, whether it was the northern Heilongjiang region, the Beihai region, or the Western Siberia region, the Chinese living in these lands would only have a total population of 10 million, which seemed to be less than the population of Siberia occupied by Russia in the original time and space.

Chen Ming also noticed this situation several years later. There were many people who bought land, but few people actually moved there. He was very distressed at that time, and thought about the reasons for a while. In the end, he felt that it was because the population was too small and China was too big.

The Chinese people of this era have too many choices.

They go to Nanyang, Nanmingzhou, and North America. Isn't the effect better than going to Siberia?

Although the "living cost" in those places is higher than Siberia, Siberia is too desolate, isn't it?

Nowadays, the country has gradually increased its investment in education, and more and more children have the opportunity to go to school and night school. For many Chinese people with traditional ideas, leaving their hometowns is cheap, and delaying their children's progress is the second. The second is even more important than the first.

And in Siberia, that hell place, if you want to form a complete education chain, how long will it take? !

However, the current Chen Han dignitaries and businessmen in China do not know this. In the 19th year of Chengtian, that is, 1793 in the Western calendar, the eyes of the Eastern world were all focused on a huge transaction volume. In mid-October of that year, the "land buying movement" hosted by the Chen Han cabinet achieved great success - the total transaction volume exceeded 500 million, and the huge military expenditures spent in the war for several years were recovered at once. Among them, there were more than 2,000 land purchase and sale cases with a single transaction volume of more than 100,000 yuan.

The support of the industrial and commercial class in Chen Han to the government is so great that it is jaw-dropping. Although these people are also looking to buy mines while buying land, they cannot be developed now and are not suitable for development, but they can be kept for the future, and can become the foundation of the business family, right?

This is like the gold mines on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is obviously not suitable for mining in this era. That ghost place, even the gold mines in Xiangzhou are more suitable for development than anywhere else. But when the Ministry of Mineral Resources auctioned the permanent mining rights of the gold mines, the domestic business consortium headed by the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce quickly swept them away.

Of course, the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce played a leading role here. People with higher status can vaguely know that the permanent mining rights of those gold mines are not only from the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce, but also directly in the hands of the emperor.

The emperor also said a word about the gold mines on the Kamchatka Peninsula: Let's wait a hundred years and see.

When the cabinet publicly sold the Siberian land, the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce once again made a big move, and successively grabbed two to three million acres of land in Beihai, Heilongjiang North and the West Siberian Plain.

The entire 19th year of Chengtian was a happy time for the people of Chen Han to enjoy the dividends of war.

Although this range is more about the population of the Northeast, Northwest and Mongolia, the people in the inland areas are not very enthusiastic about immigrating to Siberia, or spending money to buy land in Siberia.

But in the entire Sino-Russian Second War, the people in the Northeast, Northwest and Mongolia were the ones who made the greatest sacrifices, right?

So when a large number of national defense forces withdrew from the front line with the joy of victory and high spirits, these people who paid in the war enjoyed the rare war dividends, which was also logical.

The entire empire did not look outward much in the 19th year of Chengtian.

Liu Dezhao opened cabinet meetings again and again to discuss the division of territories between the Mongolian Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate. This matter was not difficult to solve, but the difficult thing was the configuration order of "Chinese aid".

No matter how stupid people on the prairie are, they will not think that bows and horses can be invincible in the world. In the face of muskets, artillery and rockets, bows and horses are nothing.

And the nomadic people have the most understanding of military power.

Whoever has the strongest fist has the right to speak and can gain benefits.

The Torghut tribe was not as strong as the Dzungar tribe in the beginning, so they had no choice but to leave for Europe.

After arriving in the Volga River Basin, after the initial good days, the Torghut people were not as tough as the Russian Empire. They could only obey St. Petersburg and charge for the Russians again and again.

Therefore, every nomadic leader regards "force" as the most important.

Wubashi came directly from the northwest to Nanjing, and came to the cabinet and the Grand Governor's Office again and again, asking the cabinet to build an arsenal for the Torghut Khanate first, even if they need to exchange all the iron materials with foreign countries, they are willing to do so.

For the Grand Governor's Office, it is to request that the younger generation of the Torghut tribe be allowed to enter the military academy and the political, legal, economic and other colleges for further study, with the focus on the military academy, and then hope that the improved horse breeds held by the Grand Governor's Office can be "rewarded" to the Torghut tribe.

Chen Ming divided the area west of Lake Balkhash, all the way to the east coast of the Caspian Sea, south to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in later generations, and extended all the way to Western Siberia, with three Kazakh Khanates and four Mongolian Khanates.

The former is the three Kazakhs, the Great Juz, the Middle Juz and the Small Juz, and now each of them has established a family business.

As for the four Mongolian Khanates, who really has a small number of people. Individually, they are not stronger than the three small Kazakh Khanates.

The Torghut Khanate is one of them, and the Khalkha Khanate [with Outer Mongolia as the main body] is the second, the Khoshut Khanate with Western Mongolia [Qinghai and the northern Mongolian tribes of Ning] as the main body, and the Chahar Khanate with Eastern Mongolia as the main body.

The Torghut and Khalkha have the smallest populations among the four Khanates, with a national population of less than 300,000. Of course, this number has different meanings for these two small Khanates, and the Torghut population has actually increased. When they lived in Russia, their total population was only over 200,000. Now they have a population of 250,000 or 260,000, which means they have increased by a quarter. Wubashi is very happy.

The total population of Khalkha Mongols is definitely more than 400,000. With the Buryat Mongols they have taken in, the total population is even close to 500,000.

But many people there are unwilling to give up their current lives. They know very well who gave them the comfortable life in the past 10 to 20 years. Those herdsmen are unwilling to follow their tribal nobles from the Khalkha grassland to the west. Anyway, they are all lower-class nobles or civilians and have nothing to lose. So many Khalkha Mongols stayed where they were, and now these people have transformed themselves into Chen Han citizens.

The same migration, the Torghut tribe made a lot of money, not only with merit, but also with population benefits; while the Khalkha Mongols suffered a great loss, but they also won "independence", right? This is what many Khalkha Mongols dream of.

After the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the hearts of many Khalkha Mongolian nobles began to move.

These people surrendered to the Qing Dynasty only a hundred years ago. It was during the reign of Kangxi that they could not stand the beatings of the Dzungar Khanate, so they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Even after they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they seemed to be obedient to orders and not to procuratorial orders. Their autonomy was much stronger than that of Inner Mongolia.

Now, Chen Ming has driven them away from their old territory. Those who are willing to be independent have gone to the west. Although a piece of territory that can be swallowed up has been divided, Chen Ming thinks it is worth it.

The Kazakh steppe seems to taste good, but if China swallows it up, it will not only have to deploy troops on the border with Russia, but will also be dragged into the struggle and suppression of the Muslim faith, and the Kazakhs are definitely not willing to surrender completely.

If Chen Ming wants to annex the Kazakhs, he can only suppress the Muslim religion, which will cause dissatisfaction in the Muslim world.

At least there is India in Nanyang that separates it from the Muslim world, but Kazakhs are directly next to the Muslim world. If they start fighting, their influence will be extraordinary.

In this case, it is thrown out.

Chen Ming still has enough capital to squander.

In this case, the seven newly established small khanates have become a new force, emerging on the Eurasian continent.

The three Kazakhs may be reluctant, because the Kazakh steppes were all theirs before, at least from a legal point of view, they belonged to the Kazakhs. But now at least half of them have been divided to the Mongols, even if a lot of the previous territory has been eroded by the Russians.

Chen Ming has something to add to this.

The "interests" of the three Kazakhs have been damaged, so should they dig east to fill west? The territory on the Kazakh steppes has been damaged, can they expand to the south?

Just like the Gorkha Kingdom, which was about to surrender, Chen Ming supported Chanda Bahadur Shah to depose Rana Bahadur Shah and ascend the throne of the king, and promised them money, weapons and a large amount of military supplies, and sent instructors and consultants to train their army. Then the Gurkhas should not look at Bhutan and Sikkim, but bite India hard.

Chen Ming planned to turn the Gorkha Kingdom into a ferocious Tibetan mastiff of Chen Han in the subcontinent, and the little Bhutan would follow the Tibetan mastiff and eat some leftovers, which would also make them stronger. There is also Ladakh in the Kashmir region. Like Bhutan and Sikkim, this country is also a vassal state of Tibet. Chen Ming also needs them to move and become stronger.

Although Chen Ming's goal is to eventually use their deterrent power so that China can reap more benefits in India, this is also good for these small countries, isn't it?

He was prepared to treat the small countries in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in the same way in the future, and now he was also prepared to treat the three-tension Kazakhs and the four Mongolian khanates in the same way.

Chen Ming would have meat to eat if he followed him.

The Khiva Khanate, Kokand Khanate and Bukhara Khanate were three pieces of fat meat placed there. As long as the army of the three-tension Kazakhs completed the transformation, from a tribal army to a standing army, with advanced weapons and a certain period of training, then it would be difficult to cut pieces of meat from these three khanates that were either already corrupt or newly established?

To put it a little too much, Chen Ming's ultimate goal was to let the Kazakhs move westward and let the Mongols complete a border for them. Because it is really difficult to make the Kazakhs completely abandon their belief in the true God without the constraints of forceful means.

Over the years, the number of Kazakhs who believe in the true God has not decreased much. Although the influence of shamans and Tantric Buddhism has indeed increased among them, the Kazakhs are quite active in their beliefs. Many people believe in both the true God and shamans, and they are not afraid of being sent to hell after death.

Anyway, just like the Chinese, they believe in both Buddhism and Taoism.

When the suppression of beliefs is alleviated and the constraints are loosened, it seems that this attitude of believing in whatever you have will be prevalent in any nation in the world.

Although the Kazakhs' belief in the true God has not shrunk much in recent years, the rights of the elders and leaders of the Tianfang religion have also shrunk greatly, which is also a fact.

All social classes in Chen Han are paying attention to the establishment and construction of the seven small khanates, especially in the middle of the year, when the khanates of the seven countries gathered in Nanjing to be conferred titles, and the two sides formally established a vassal relationship, which made China even happier.

Chinese people from top to bottom have a boss mentality. For accepting younger brothers and accepting "all nations to pay tribute", it is not just the top people who like it, but the bottom people also enjoy this glory.

The mentality of the heaven and the country above does not exist in the upper class of the empire, but in the hearts and bones of everyone in the empire.

I am Chinese, I am proud, and I look down on all of you people from other countries.