Valley Emperor

Xuanping’s 20-year-old Datang Empire continued the development strategy of Xuanping’s 19-year development strategy, focusing on the promotion and application of high-pressure steam engines, and carried out technological upgrades in transportation and industrial production across the country.

The concrete manifestation is the construction of railways and the large-scale use of steam ships.

This is also to make the vast Huaxia region, there have been unprecedented social changes!

Although the Datang Empire has always been developing industry and commerce, and various industrial products have been continuously produced, appearing in shops and entering the homes of ordinary people, but these daily necessities have not changed much in contemporary people. It is even more impossible for people to intuitively feel the shock of the industrial revolution.

But it was when the trains and ships came along that it really made a huge wave across the country.

Because at this time, people found that travel is more convenient and faster than before. Whether it is a ship or a train, the speed is faster than before. I don’t know how many times.

Especially in the 21 years since Xuanping, construction was carried out on multiple sections at the same time, in order to achieve the fastest full line of Jiangnan Railway, after the Jinling to Zhenjiang, Shanghai to Suzhou, and Dangtu to Jinling sections were opened to traffic successively. , the railway from Suzhou to Zhenjiang was also completed and opened to traffic.

This also means that after five years of construction, the main project of the Jiangnan Railway can be said to be basically completed.

The train can start all the way from Dangtu, the most important heavy industrial area of ​​the Tang Dynasty, and arrive at Shanghai after passing through Jinling, Zhenjiang, Changzhou and Suzhou.

Although the section from Shanghai to Ningbo, Zhejiang, and the section from Dangtu to Jiujiang Hukou has not been opened to traffic, it has not affected the railway to bring people a huge shock!

Taking the train, people can travel directly from Dangtu to Shanghai within a few days. This speed is almost unimaginable in the past.

The passenger transport is only the incidental value of this railway artery. What is more important is the freight capacity. It is faster to transport by train, and it is easy to load and unload, and it can reach inland cities directly. The key is that the cost is very low.

Coupled with the many steam ships on the Yangtze River waterway, the transportation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has become extremely convenient.

Also in the 21st year of Xuanping, the construction of the Northeast Railway also started, and now it has crossed Shanhaiguan. The Hetao Railway is also under construction, and it has already crossed Zhangjiakou.

When the domestic railway construction was carried out, the military operations of the military did not stop!

The army's cavalry has already penetrated to the shore of Lake Berga and built a small bastion there. In the northeast area, the army has already crossed Heilongjiang and crossed the outer Daxing'an Mountains. Today, the Tang Army's military in the northeast area. The stronghold has already been extended to the coast of the North Sea, and a military stronghold has been established on Sakhalin Island.

Continuing to the north, it will be even more desolate, with only a small number of indigenous people, so in fact, the army has gradually stopped military operations in the northern region, because in the north, all the larger indigenous tribes are basically killed by the Tang Dynasty. The Army is gone, and all that's left is vast no-man's-land.

Because the Datang Army's follow-up policy in the northern region has turned into setting up military strongholds in some key areas, and at the same time cooperating with civil affairs departments to carry out small-scale immigration.

As for large-scale immigration, don’t count on it. Nowadays, the immigration and reclamation department recruits immigrants to the Heilongjiang coast to reclaim not many people. As for places further north, no matter how good the policy is, not many people are willing to go. .

After all, the frozen Siberia region is really not a place for people!

In order to better rule the above-mentioned areas, in the 21st year of Xuanping, Li Xuan officially ordered the deployment of administrative regions in the vast northeastern region and the northern grassland region.

The original western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning provinces extend their jurisdictions to the north and expand to the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang.

The provincial capital of Northeast Province was moved to Nuergan City, and Nuergan City was renamed 'Hekou'. The new Northeast Province's jurisdiction was the east bank of the Ussuri River, Sakhalin Island, and north of Heilongjiang, extending to the Arctic Ocean, and westward to Lake Berga.

This new northeastern province will also be the largest province in the Datang Empire, and also the province with the smallest population.

Because so far, the immigrants living in Northeast Province mainly live in the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang, with a total population of about 100,000 people. Even if one other scattered settlement is added, the total population is only 150,000 people. .

This population is not even as large as an ordinary large county in China!

But there is no way. The new Northeast Province has only this environment. As for how it will develop in the future, it will be a matter in the future.

In the northern grassland area, Li Xuan also officially issued a decree and made new adjustments to the expenditure of the administrative area.

With the three prefectures of Hetao Prefecture, Fengzhou Prefecture and Daning Prefecture as the core, a new Hefeng Province will be established. The name of the province is taken from Hetao Prefecture and Fengzhou Prefecture. The jurisdiction area is adjacent to the original provincial boundaries of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces in the south, Liaoxi in the east, Berga Lake in the northeast in the north, and the Tatar-controlled area in the west.

The scope of the newly established Hefeng Province is actually the area controlled by the original Tatars.

After such an adjustment, the newly added province of the empire is only Hefeng province, while the northeastern province, western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning provinces have only been adjusted. In addition, these original areas are either already under the actual control of the Tang Empire and Immigrants, or local desolate personnel, the Datang Empire sent a small number of military personnel to the station, so overall, the impact is not large.

At most, since then, the empire has only two provinces with a particularly large area but a particularly small population.

Behind this administrative transformation, it also means that the military operations of the Tang Empire in the northeast and northern regions have basically been completed, and the next step should be to advance westward.

The Tatars in the west have also been paying attention to the trends of the Tang Empire. The Tatars are a little confused about some domestic situations in the Tang Empire, because according to the information they have received from many sources, those southerners in the past two years have not been able to understand. Tang Manzi had no intention of expanding his army and fighting wars at all. Instead, he was only focused on building railways and factories.

To be honest, these Tatars, including Altan Khan, have never seen any factories or railways with their own eyes, but listened to the reports of their subordinates about the huge factory buildings of the factory, emitting huge thick smoke , the iron carts without horses are running continuously in the wilderness. All this, just using text descriptions and some illustrations, can't let them imagine what it is.

But although I don't know what these things are, the Tatars also know the effect. Because the scale of the construction of the Datang Railway is so large, and the convenience of railway transportation, just ask any ordinary person to know, so I Although Ahan still doesn't know what a train is, he can know that a train can transport a large amount of materials.

And knowing this is enough to make Altan Khan have a greater sense of crisis!

In addition, after learning that the Tang army has gradually recovered the vast northern grasslands and the northeastern region, Altan Khan just knew that the time left for the southern Tang barbarians was running out, and the Tatars must hurry up. !

Therefore, in the 21st year of Xuanping, Alta Khan personally led an army of more than 200,000 people, including more than 100,000 Tatar cavalry main force and nearly tens of thousands of Tubo people's infantry, artillery, baggage and other servants. Once entered the Kazakh Khanate.

And this time, with Altan Khan personally supervising the battle, the Tatar army went very smoothly, and in one fell swoop defeated the Kazakh Khanate, which had already been beaten by the Tatars and could not take care of itself.

According to the example of previous years, after destroying the main force of the Kazakh Khanate and conquering their capital, they should return with the looted cattle, sheep, horses, slaves, gold and silver treasures.

But this time, Altan Khan did not bring a large army, but instead directly established a ruling institution in the local area.

Then after a few months of rest, he directly entered the Yeerqiang Khanate!

The Yerkian Khanate was no better than the Kazakh Khanate, and was destroyed by Altan Khan with his army.

And because the Yeerqiang Khanate resisted very stubbornly at the last moment, it would rather die than surrender, and the Altan was so sweaty that a massacre order came directly.

So when the Tatars completely controlled this place, the local natives were almost dead.

After 21 years in Xuanping, after winning these two places in a row, Altan Khan finally felt that he could breathe a sigh of relief!

Then I did not forget the attitude of a vassal state~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After destroying these two khanates, in the name of the above tribute, I donated a large amount of gold and silver jewelry to the Tang Empire. , cattle, sheep and horses, of course, and the indispensable alien princesses.

The last time Li Xuan expressed his satisfaction with the alien princess who Alta Khan donated, when he wrote back to Alta Khan, he called it "filial piety".

Therefore, in the following two years, whenever Altan Khan found an opportunity, he presented all kinds of beauties to Li Xuan, and even his direct daughter and granddaughter sent three.

If it wasn't for the other daughters and granddaughters who didn't look good or were not of the right age, it is estimated that he would be able to send all his daughters and granddaughters to Li Xuan in one go.

The daughters and granddaughters of this direct relative can be sent as soon as they can, not to mention other people, including noble young and beautiful women from the Tatars, or captive princesses of foreign races, as long as they are good-looking, Alta Sweat can be sent.

Altan Khan doing this is nothing more than wanting to buy more time!