Wanli 1592

Chapter 1362 Road construction is a century-old plan

In addition to the war materials that can be used immediately, other things are not worthless.

Xiao Ruxun has already found suitable buyers for those piles of bone products, leather products and prairie-style special products. Except for some private needs, most of them have been shipped to Europe, where they are very popular. I don’t know. is why.

Anyway, it changed a lot of money.

After a burst of severe pain, what the people exchanged was almost eternal comfort.

Because the Great Qin Emperor wiped out the northern frontier troubles for them, wiped out the northern captives historically, and completely wiped them out. In the future, the northern captives will go south to the pass and go south will become history and become a part of the textbook.

No longer alive.

Only the Horqin tribe has been completely preserved because of its insight into heroes. When Longwu was awarded the title in 14 years, the total number of the entire Horqin tribe was about 5.

Xiao Ruxun kindly allowed Horqin to keep the original rules, graze on the original residence, delineated a range for them, built a road to them, and built a city for them to live in.

They were kept in captivity on the grassland, herding cattle and sheep, milking the cows and goats, and then shearing the sheep, and sending them to the government through the Dachi Road, in exchange for survival materials to ensure their survival, and they have been obedient ever since.

All the remaining captured northern captives were arranged for various hard labor construction campaigns, and together with the captured Japanese, they undertook the glorious mission of building a better tomorrow for the Great Qin Dynasty. According to historical statistics during this period, the northern prisoners and The average annual death rate of the Japanese is more than 20.

By the 20th year of Longwu, the number of Japanese deaths had exceeded 400 million. Most of them died in the construction of the Dachi Road and the mollusc control operations in the Jiangnan area. Especially the mollusc control operations, more people died.

They were basically drained to the last minute, infected with schistosomiasis and then burned.

Thanks to these people, they have been eradicating snails throughout Jiangnan for ten years. By the 20th year of Longwu, it was difficult to find snails in the areas around several freshwater lakes in the Jiangnan area where snails were once prosperous. Generally under control.

Xiao Ruxun killed the harm in the north, and they killed the harm in the south. They paid a heavy price for the better life of the people of Daqin. The people of Daqin will remember them and soon forget them.

When they attacked Chagatai, Yarkand and Uzang, they gained more than 50 people. These people were also arranged for various coolie construction campaigns. Thanks to them, the cities in those places were quickly established. Only then do these places have the basic conditions for living people.

Xiao Ruxun found that the ecological environment in these places is not as bad as imagined. Of course, it is not so easy to control it.

The territory map of the country seen on the map is actually a generalized concept. The place that is really mastered must be inhabited, and there must be administrative settings and a series of construction.

This is very difficult for the vast poverty-stricken areas with few people. It is not easy to fully grasp Qinghai, Tibet and Xinjiang.

For ancient China, even the traditional core area, that is, the complete control of the territory after the unification of Qin State, had to go to the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention the northeast, northwest, southwest and other places, the development was in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and before that, most of the so-called control and territorial division depended on the location of the garrison, or the so-called rule of the emperor, no taxation, no oppression , non-intervention, the so-called three non-rules.

In ancient times, it was very difficult for people to control a piece of newly opened land. It can be said that the development of the Jiangnan area had to be done after the Song Dynasty, but before the Tang Dynasty was the Guanzhong era, and it often took hundreds of years to open up an area.

Don't look at how big it is on the map. In fact, control is not the case.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the control over a large area of ​​land in the northeast such as Nuer Gandusi was very limited. Basically all military guards and inhabited places were distributed along the river. A series of military guards were built on both sides of the river. With the construction and control of guards on both sides of the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, it has continued to today's Sakhalin Island.

Rivers mean water supply, smooth traffic, water to irrigate the land, and food to survive.

A place that cannot grow food cannot survive, and it is the same now.

Xiao Ruxun has conquered these lands. Most of these lands are uninhabited lands, and there are people who are also very mobile. These years are here, and those years are there. The strategy is a strategy, but these places where no food grows should How to govern it?
To build roads, without natural rivers, it is necessary to use manpower to build a life route. Through this road, connect Huaxia Shenzhou and the newly acquired territory, and expand the control of the central government along the road like a tentacle. This is The so-called post-conquest control.

Xiao Ruxun built eight great roads in the country, which means to bring down the control of the central government to the localities and firmly grasp the localities. The same is true for newly acquired territories, building roads.

Military stations and residential areas will be built along the road, and the road will pass through important military sites and places where people can live, forming a smooth passage, which is convenient for the central government to control and master it, and facilitates further development in the future.

So if we really want to control these places, for example, on the huge Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, what Daqin can control is the garrison points along the roads and border areas, as well as big cities.

But these places can be regarded as being controlled, because there are only so many places where there are people. In other places, there are no people, and it is difficult to survive. If you control the people, you control this area.

Concentrate people to live in the places on both sides of the built roads, control the people, and the place will be under control. As for other places such as the Gobi Mountains and deserts, to put it bluntly, they cannot be used in modern times. They are still uninhabited lands. Just a few roads.

In any case, road construction is the most important thing. If the road is not well repaired, everything will not be done well. Therefore, after the conquest, Xiao Ruxun paid attention to road construction. Road construction is a century-old project.

He also made a plan to build a road to Beihai, build a road to Hetao area, build a road to Qinghai area, and then build a road to Wusi Tibetan area, building a road that can allow the central government to control the local area.

No matter how difficult it is, if there is no communication channel, it is not really mastered, it cannot be really mastered.

Even if it is mastered, the traffic is not good, and it may cause a new separatist regime, and the hard work that Daqin has put in today will be in vain.

Some people in the DPRK felt that if these places were brought under the rule to build roads, it would cause a great financial burden. Although the roads could be built by the Japanese and the northern captives, financial expenditures still existed.

They said that it would be fine if these areas were laid down, and that there was no need to bring them into governance, and they did not see much economic benefit. The expenditures for road construction and other expenses were huge. If things go on like this, it may cause an excessive financial burden.

The Ministry of Finance kept crying about being poor, saying that the treasury was much empty, and it looked as if the heart had been hollowed out, very empty.

(End of this chapter)