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Chapter 569 Lingbei Mansion

(I inserted a picture of the current territory, I don’t know if it will pass the review)

(It depends on your luck!)

The battle in Yakutsk was over, and the battle report was sent back to Nanjing from Heilongjiang. It was already the beginning of autumn.

Sun Ruhai, who led his troops back to Heishuitun, did not yet know about the contacts and transactions between the Yakutsk garrison Xu Sanfu and the Sakha people in the middle of the Lena River.

At least until next spring, when the river thaws and ships can sail, the Heilongjiang Navy can go north again, exchanging news and rotating soldiers, while also transporting some military supplies.

However, there is a high probability that when the Heilongjiang Navy returns northward in the spring of next year, it will find many more newborns in Yakutsk.

Because after the reindeer tribe left, winter in Siberia has really arrived, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and it snows almost every day.

At the beginning, these garrison soldiers could go out for routine drills and stretch their muscles, but later they basically could only huddle in the room. Apart from eating and going to the bathroom, he could only lie in bed every day, holding the assigned woman to keep warm while doing that.

Within a month or two, many of these women will be pregnant, and there will definitely be many more newborns in the spring next year.

Of course, such neonatal mortality is also extremely high.

In such cold weather and ancient environment, whether the newborn can survive depends entirely on experience and luck.

It is estimated that when the navy comes to pick them up, many soldiers with women will take the initiative to stay for an extra year without Xu Sanfu's arrangement to dissuade them. Regardless of whether the newborn survives or not, it is certainly impossible to ignore the child after it is born.

Forbidden City.

Zhu Yijiong was holding a regular meeting with cabinet ministers: "The Cossack Yakutsk Castle was captured so quickly?"

Zhu Chengxun raised his hand and said: "The battle report of the Heilongjiang Navy is very detailed. Although the Yakutsk Castle is built along the river, its walls are extremely crude. It is almost a combination of rammed earth and wooden fences, relying entirely on the cold freeze in the north. The rammed earth was frozen solid to achieve the purpose of strengthening the city wall."

"The Heilongjiang Navy took advantage of the warmer summer and went north to attack the city of Yakutsk. Although they only used Crouching Tiger Cannons, the soil was not hard enough at this time and was relatively soft, so it was easy to collapse the city wall."

"Furthermore, there are only more than a hundred Cossacks hiding in the city. Counting the beheaded natives, there are not even 500. There are only a few artillery pieces, so it makes sense that they cannot stop the Heilongjiang Navy's offensive. "

There are a total of two thousand regular troops of the Heilongjiang Navy, and another thousand Sauron troops who have been trained by Ming officers and are more adapted to the cold climate. Three thousand fully armed and well-prepared professional troops, if they still can't take down a group of mercenaries they fooled around in Siberia, then Ming wouldn't have to talk about colonizing the world.

Zhu Yijiong nodded first, then shook his head and sighed: "It's just a castle with rammed earth and wooden fences, and there are less than 500 garrison troops. This scene is so similar to the Battle of Yaksa! It's ridiculous that the Tatars of the past were so numerous. With twice the military advantage and the advantage of firearms, we actually had to rely on siege to win, and we also suffered heavy losses..."

Having said that, Zhu Yijiong himself didn't know how to evaluate it. He also knew that the Eight Banners of the Tatars was rotten, but he didn't expect it to be so rotten.

This was just a few decades ago, and it was still the peak of the Eight Banners' combat power.

As a result, this is it?

Chen Ji, who had just joined the cabinet a few months ago, handed over his hand and said: "Your Majesty, in addition to delivering the battle report on Yakutsk, the Heilongjiang Navy also requested that some serious criminals be exiled to Yakutsk as immigrants. For border guarding. It doesn’t need too many, just about a hundred people. Otherwise, if there are too many immigrants, not only will the cost of the national treasury increase, but it will also be difficult for the local area to support such a large population."

The former Minister of Household Affairs, now the Minister of Cabinet, was obviously psychologically affected by the emperor. He was afraid that the emperor would cause chaos, and then immigrated to Yakutsk in large numbers every year.

In this way, not only will the Ministry of Household Affairs and the state treasury be burdened with a heavy burden of immigration finance, but also they will have to provide long-term food supplies for the excessive immigrant population even after immigration. He simply acted preemptively and followed the instructions of the Heilongjiang Navy to silence the emperor.

Zhu Yijiong could also hear the implication of Chen Ji's words, and couldn't help but feel a little funny: "Don't worry, Chen Qing. Yakutsk is located in the far north, even more remote and bitterly cold than Heilongjiang Dusi. I'm afraid it's difficult for regular immigration to be effective, and The cost of casualties is also too high. Then just follow the Heilongjiang Navy's request and only immigrate a hundred people there." "There is no need for serious criminals. Although there are many serious criminals in the coastal city shipping case, these are all Those who want to be beheaded after the fall must not break their trust with the people. One hundred of their immediate family members who have committed the most serious crimes can be selected from exile in Tibet to exile in Yakutsk."

These exiles can be considered to have been unlucky for eight lifetimes. Originally, they were only exiled in the snowy areas of Tibet. Although Tibet is a plateau environment, the climate is still mild, at least warmer than Heilongjiang.

Moreover, in order to ensure the survival of the prisoners, the imperial court would definitely provide sufficient saffron medicinal materials and would only arrange for them to settle in valleys and plains with lower altitudes.

After all, not even Tibetans can survive on the real plateau. From Tubo to Tibetans, they have always lived in river valleys and plains.

Now it's okay, we can all be exiled to Yakutsk, and we can take a boat from the nearby Lena River all the way to the Arctic Circle.

With luck, if the weather gets warmer in spring next year, you might even be able to see polar bears heading to the southern land for a temporary stay.

Well, good luck here means they can survive in Siberia.

Zhu Yijiong added: "There is also the Yakutsk Castle. Now that it has been recaptured by our Ming army, it is not suitable to call it this name. So it was renamed Lingbei Prefecture. The land in the extreme north corresponds to Lingnan! Lingbei Prefecture is temporarily returning. Heilongjiang will be under the jurisdiction of the capital, and when the population increases in the future, the Lingbei capital will be established."

"The progress of Heilongjiang Dusi's new city garrison must be accelerated, and the post station and post roads left by the former Mingnuer Gandusi must be restored as soon as possible. Otherwise, the distance between Heilongjiang and Lingbei is too far, and communication will always be a troublesome matter."

"As for the garrison plan proposed by the Heilongjiang Navy, as well as the pay for the garrison soldiers, they are all accurate. To garrison in such a remote and bitterly cold place, the soldiers must not be chilled physically and mentally."

"According to the order."

The cabinet ministers accepted the promise.

The emperor's words can be regarded as setting the tone for the future development of Yakutsk (Lingbei Prefecture). Generally speaking, the policy of the previous Heilongjiang Dusi will be continued, and there are no plans to immigrate to Yakutsk on a large scale to guard the border.

In this way, the money spent is nothing compared to the huge expenditure on immigration from various places and the infrastructure strategy of Heilongjiang Dusi.

Zhu Chengxun said at this time: "The battle report sent by the Heilongjiang Navy also included a military map from the Rakshasa Kingdom in the far north. There are several Cossack castles in the north and east of Lingbei Prefecture. If these castles are not If they are removed, it will cause disaster sooner or later, and it will not be conducive to the future expansion and immigration of Lingbei Prefecture."

Zhu Yijiong nodded: "That's good, but even if these Cossack castles are to be evacuated, there is no need to send out all the Heilongjiang Navy. In the battle of Lingbei Mansion, the Heilongjiang Navy's combat power was obviously excessive, and the climate became more and more bitter and cold further north. I have read Sun Ruhai’s report, and even the large area of ​​Lingbei Prefecture is covered with semi-frozen soil, and further north is covered with permafrost.”

"In this case, it is no longer appropriate to send the navy on an expedition. We can seek cooperation with the local indigenous tribes. In the future, the immigration garrison of Lingbei Prefecture should also be carried out around the coastal plains around Lingbei Prefecture. For those indigenous tribes, we can seek cooperation Try to seek cooperation as much as possible. If you can trade and marry, that would be the best."

"In the next few years, Lingbei Mansion can first hold on to the city and establish good relations with the surrounding indigenous people. Then with the help of the indigenous tribes, it can expand its sphere of influence to those Cossack castles. Those indigenous tribes under the control of the Cossacks will definitely have a strong influence on the Cossacks. Not quite obedient, these are forces that can be united.”

In short, Jisu's rule was the main one, promoting intermarriage between Han Chinese and Siberian people, and then joining forces to eat away at those Cossack castles.

Sending a large army again will not only put a heavy pressure on military food logistics, but it may not be useful.

Even Yakutsk, the citadel of Tsarist Russia's military governor, only had a small number of troops. With the annual rotation of a hundred Lingbei garrison, these Cossack castles could be slowly removed.

As for the rule of Siberia, it can only encroach on the territory. The further north it is, the land is basically bad land. It is enough to gain the friendship of the indigenous people and maintain cooperative and trading relations.

However, these are only policies for Siberia. If the climate is slightly warmer, such as Heilongjiang Dusi, it will be controlled if it can be controlled. If it cannot be controlled, it will be Chineseized, and military forts and new stations will be built along the river.

(End of this chapter)