Valley Emperor

In June of the thirty-fifth year of Xuanping, when the North American plan to move inland was steadily advancing, and the plan to conquer the barbarians in Southeast Asia continued to advance, the army's disciplinary operations in India were still going on, and began to spread to the entire Indian peninsula. .

At the same time, a large number of indigenous young adults were employed by Datang's four major labor service companies for free, and then went to various overseas territories for infrastructure construction.

The Europeans are still in the support of the Tang Dynasty and the Tatars are still dead.

There is also good news from the Datang Army.

That is the last fortress of the Tatars in Central Asia, the city of Kuri on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, which was captured by the Western Expedition.

The city is purely a new city established by the Tatars in order to compete with the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia. It is a city, let alone a military camp.

In the past, the Tatars relied on this port city to supply supplies through the Caspian Sea.

However, with the fiasco of Ulihan's army, he had to retreat to the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, and the Volga River, and hoarded heavy troops in the narrow strip from the Ural River Basin to the Volga River from the southern Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. the Ural line of defense.

At this time, the so-called Curry City actually lost its strategic role.

The eastern coast of the Caspian Sea in the city of Curry is already surrounded by the Tang people on land, although they can still get supplies and support through the Caspian Sea behind them.

However, before the Western Expedition Army of the Tang Dynasty focused on the main force led by Ulihan, they chased and killed all the way to the Ural line of defense.

However, the Tatars' Ural defense line also started construction early. When they moved westward to Eastern Europe, the Tatars knew that they could not defend the Western Regions and Central Asia. Those places were too large and difficult to defend.

But in the Ural Mountains and the Ural River area, it is different. The Ural Mountains are in the north, the Caspian Sea is in the south, the Ural River is in the middle, and the Volga River is in the back, and the downstream area of ​​the Ural River is still a desert!

Although the terrain is still plain, but relying on mountains and rivers, the Tatars can still stop the defense line.

After this initial contact, the vanguard of the Western Expedition Army found that the enemy was a bit tenacious, and their own logistical supplies were not smooth. The Central Asia Railway at this meeting has not yet reached the Caspian Sea.

So just give up the attack!

Since you don't have to fight the Ural line of defense, you can also free up your hands to take down that city of Curry.

After taking the city of Curry, it was officially announced that the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, and all the territories east of the Caspian Sea were all under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

After winning the entire Central Asia region, the Great Tang Western Expedition officially reported victory to Jinling!

The report on the good news said that under the leadership of the wise and wise Holy Emperor, the 200,000 soldiers of the Xizheng Army lived up to the emperor's grace.

Not only Central Asia, but even the entire Ural Mountains, the Ural River, and the area east of the Caspian Sea fell into the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, the Western Expedition Army can proudly claim that in the entire Central Asia and the Siberian Plain, apart from the Tang people, there will never be any indigenous people, and there is no need for localization.

The empire can confidently and boldly carry out immigration and establish administrative rule, and directly bring these areas into the territory of the country.

Because the original natives in the above-mentioned areas have been migrated away by the Tatars, no matter whether they are old or weak, not a single one is left, which is even worse than ants moving.

This has also led to the fact that in the vast Central Asia and West Siberia plains, there are only a few million people!

Excluding Yibofu, which was merged into Tumi Province, there are only hundreds of thousands of new immigrants along the railway lines and inland rivers in the remaining Central Asia, and there are more than 200,000 troops.

As for the vast West Siberia plain, there was not even a single immigrant, at most only a few Tang cavalry activities.

The vast Central Asia and Western Siberia plains have become the latest ruled areas of the empire. The terrain here is flat and the environment is not too bad. No matter how bad it is, you can still engage in animal husbandry, and the minerals are also good.

To this end, the high-level empire has officially decided to set up provinces in Central Asia and the West Siberian Plain.

The military doesn't care about this, anyway, they just lay down the territory, and the rest of the immigrants, development, and provinces have nothing to do with them.

The only thing that matters is that Li Xuan decided to seal the nobility in this area.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic enfeoffment policy did not include local ones, but mainly carried out enfeoffment overseas.

But this has changed since Beihai Province was incorporated into the mainland, because the Beihai region has been enfeoffed by nobles.

Although it was said that they were all sealed before, but now they are also local.

With the expansion of the Tang Dynasty's territory and the increase in the number of nobles, Li Xuan also realized that it is a bit unreliable to simply divide the overseas territories.

If the nobles are always entrusted to overseas, this will actually cause some troubles to the internal governance of the empire, that is, the civilian power in the local area will inevitably increase gradually.

Moreover, they always take some shabby grounds and seals, and many nobles also have some opinions.

After all, not every aristocrat can enfeoff land in North America. Most of them are actually enfeoffed to the point where they have nothing to do, and there are a lot of savages.

However, Li Xuan still does not intend to encapsulate the core area of ​​the mainland, only intends to encapsulate some areas farther away from the core mainland.

For example, the current Central Asia and Western Siberia plains and even the future Eastern European plains are all possible. These places are too far from the local core area, and the places are not bad. It is still possible to balance the contradictions between the nobles.

Anyway, in the current aristocratic system of the Tang Dynasty, although the nobles have fiefs, they only have fiefs and private land, and they do not have the many powers of traditional fiefdoms.

At the same time, the development of Central Asia and other regions also requires the support of the nobles.

Now that it is decided to encapsulate, it is necessary to make preparations in advance, such as setting up a province.

First set up a province, divide the area, and then do the enfeoffment.

For the administrative division of Central Asia and the West Siberian Plain, this is very simple. Central Asia is directly set up as a province, which is called Haidong Province.

This name comes from the ancient name of the Caspian Sea. According to the ancient name of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Datang Empire called the Caspian Sea the West Sea, and the vast Central Asian region is located to the east of the West Sea, so it is called Haidong Province.

To the north of Central Asia, to the east of the Ural Mountains, and to the west of the Yenisei River, the West Siberian Plain is also set up as a province, which is called Siberia.

This name was taken from the transliteration of the Tatars' name for the place, "Sipole". Of course, it was more thought that Li Xuan's name was smooth.

If we really want to talk about the Siberia region, it actually includes a large area of ​​Siberia. Basically, from the Ural Mountains to the east to the Bering Strait, all of them belong to Siberia.

The current Siberian Province only includes the plain area between the Ural Mountains and the Yenisei River. In the south, it borders Haidong Province in Central Asia, and in the southeast, it reaches Lake Balkhash (Yenisei Lake). North Shore, and Yibofu and Ili Prefecture in Tumi Province. The east is bordered by Hexi and Northeast provinces.

Whether it is Haidong Province in Central Asia or Siberia Province in the Western Siberian Plain, they are all provinces with a very large area.

But the population is naturally not much.

In Central Asia, apart from the military, there are only a few hundred thousand new immigrants to the Empire.

As for Siberia, not to mention, its large area of ​​West Siberia has few immigrants, and only a small number of cavalry troops are stationed and patrolled. There are only a small number of immigrants near Lake Balkhash, which originally belonged to the soil. The Mississippi Province is based on the neck, but in order to establish the Xibe Province, some areas, especially the copper mines, were directly included in the Xibe Province.

Some people even thought about combining these two provinces into one province, but Li Xuan still considered that the area is too big. The two places add up to several million square kilometers, which is too nonsense as a province. .

And it is not like the Northeast Province, which is a place that is bitter and cold and cannot be developed.

The situation in Central Asia is still ok~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Even if it is Xibe Province, the central and northern regions have nothing to say, they are all tundra, but the south is close to Haidong Province, especially near Lake Balkhash. Not bad.

After the establishment of these two provinces, it is natural to carry out a series of follow-up immigration development.

In order to attract more people from the empire to live and live there, the Immigration and Reclamation Division has begun to expand its recruitment.

Land is distributed free of charge as long as the immigrants are local, and there are enough of them.

If you go to the local area to invest in the development of minerals, animal husbandry and other industries, there will be a series of policy support, such as tax exemption or something.

Although the investment cost of going to a new place is a bit high, the competition is also small, and at the same time, they can enjoy tax incentives. Some daring companies are still going to Haidong Province and Xibe Province to try early adopters.

Of course, their investment is basically only around the railway lines and inland river areas with convenient transportation, and they don't go to other places.

Such a big place, if there are no trains and steam ships navigable, it is impossible to travel by horse-drawn carriages alone.

This also forced the Datang Railway Corporation to accelerate the construction of the Central Asia Railway.

Hey, to build the Central Asia Railway, whether it is the Army, the Railway Corporation, or even the central finance, it will cost a lot.

Even if the place where the railway is to be built is in the plain area, it is very easy to build the railway, and the railways built are all single-track military railways, and the standards are relatively low.

At the same time, the military's materials to and from Central Asia are basically transported by railway. In order to subsidize the railway company, the military pays relatively high freight, which can be regarded as the army's compensation or subsidy for the railway company.

However, even so, the Datang Railway Corporation is building the Northwest Railway and the Central Asia Railway, which is a blood loss!

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