Houtao is a long area from Linhe City to Jiuyuan City, backed by the crescent-shaped Yinshan Mountain and adjacent to the Yellow River in the south. There are millions of acres of good land that can be developed here.
Nantao is the hometown of the Ordos tribe. It is now the pasture and pasture land of the Yang family.
Qiantao is the area around Guihua City, which is the hometown of King Tumet Shunyi.
The opening of the railway greatly facilitated transportation. From now on, it was impossible for these places to escape the control of the Central Plains Dynasty. The reason why the previous dynasty could not control it was because the precipitation line moved south, making it impossible to cultivate in these places. The local food could not be fed.
Living garrison.
Transporting grain from the interior will drag down the imperial government's finances. Therefore, even if we win, we can't keep it. We can only give up, which is equivalent to wasting money.
But things are different now. The railway has been opened, and transportation is not a problem at all. When I go there, I transport food and daily necessities. When I come back, I transport cattle, sheep, livestock, wool, and minerals.
Xiao Niangpi looked at the map and finally breathed a sigh of relief. This railway had almost become a worry for her. Spending money was like opening a gate to release water. It made her terrified.
After all, she is in charge of the family's finances. The two major projects are money-eating tigers.
Fortunately, at the end of this year, the dam was completed and water storage began. Starting next year, the dam will be able to make money. Because water is charged, it cannot be given to farmers for free.
The opening of the railway means that huge investments can be stopped. From now on, the only thing is to run the railway well and earn back the investment as soon as possible.
Yang Fan's eyes stayed on the Western Regions. There are still two thousand kilometers from Linhe to Yili. There are still three thousand kilometers from Yili to Tsaritsin.
"You see, this area is the Eurasian grassland belt. This grassland belt is divided into two parts by the Altai Mountains, also known as the Jinshan Mountains. We control the part east of the Altai Mountains. This is also a separate geographical unit." Yang Fan pointed out.
He said while looking at the map.
"The eastern grassland is dry, rainless, cold, and hot. The natural environment is extremely poor. These nomadic peoples are often attacked by white disasters. In order to survive, they must go south to rob. You see..."
From the map, we can see that the nomadic peoples in the eastern part of the Eurasian steppe are prone to disasters and cannot effectively deal with them. The main reason is that the part they occupy is incomplete. The entire northern pastoral area has the same climate type.
In other words, once a disaster occurs, it will affect the whole region. They can hide wherever they can. They can only fight hard, or go south to rob.
The irreconcilable contradiction between the Han people and the herdsmen is that the Han people occupy a place with the best climate. The Han people use it for farming. If there were no Han people, North China and Mongolia would be nomadic. They would all use it for grazing, which would greatly
Improve their ability to resist natural disasters.
The late Spring and Autumn Period was the first major collision between nomadic herdsmen and farming. The nomads tried to seize the Central Plains as a supplement to their pastures. At that time, they achieved great results. They were scattered nomadic tribes at that time. They entered the Central Plains in large numbers and fought independently.
Under the severe situation, Duke Huan of Qi, a prince surnamed Jiang, as an alliance of the Zhou people, began to respect the king and fight against the barbarians. He unified manpower and material resources and drove the nomads out of the Central Plains. So Confucius said, without Duke Huan of Qi, we would be the same as Zuo Fan.
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This incident illustrates the need for the unification of the Han people. In the Warring States Period that followed, it kicked off the annexation war. Unification became the common goal of all the princes.
Speaking of which, the unification of the nomadic people was during the Modun Chanyu period, which was the end of the Qin Dynasty. It was a little later than the Han people. However, things like luck, everything changed later. They were blocked by the Great Wall and only
You can stay on the grassland. The western half of the Eurasian grassland, from Ukraine to Kazakhstan, has much better natural conditions.
After the Mongols occupied the Central Plains, they planned to lay waste the fields for grazing. When we first heard this statement, we couldn't believe our ears. How ridiculous it was to do such a thing.
However, if we start from the perspective of the historical cycle and the interests of the Mongols, and the demands of the two civilizations of nomadism and farming, it suddenly becomes clear. What the nomads have been pursuing is a piece of pasture land in North China.
Act as a buffer against natural disasters in the grassland zone.
If North China and the Mongolian Plateau were nomadic lands, their living environment would be greatly improved, at least reaching the level of the western half of the Eurasian steppe belt.
This is the real reason why nomadism and farming are at odds with each other here in East Asia.
They have not been able to achieve their goals for two thousand years. Their rise and fall are also sudden. Once they decline, there are only two ways to go.
One is Run, who like the Huns migrated to the west of the Eurasian steppe belt and started over, looking for a way out.
The other one is volume, they are internal volume.
Because there is no way to go south. The Great Wall blocks them.
So, they opened the book. The Donghu group killed the Xiongnu group, Rouran killed the Donghu, and the Turks killed Xianbei. Then the Turks were destroyed by the rising Tang Dynasty.
In the late tenth century, Arab forces entered Central Asia, which added to religious problems.
The first to be defeated was the shaman. Since prehistoric times, shamanism was spread along the Eurasian steppes by the Scythians in Ukraine, and even spread to Argentina.
But after this period, the shamans were completely defeated in the entire Eurasian steppe belt. Only the fishing and hunting peoples in the three eastern provinces still survived.
After this, Zang Chuan and Islam began to spread in the Western Regions.
In order to compete with the Han people for the livable climate in the temperate zone, they were forced to unite. The nomads have always been unified in the eastern part of the Eurasian steppe. This is completely different from the chaos in the west.
Regardless of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turks, Mongols, or even the Jiannu, they all unified the northern grassland belt during their peak period. The reason is because the Han people are unified, and only by unification can they fight against the Han people. The reason why the Han people can maintain great unity for a long time is because
It is because of the long-term unification of the nomadic people.
The West believes that the reason why the Han people formed an independent civilization system was determined by the closed geographical environment of East Asia. In fact, I think it is inseparable from the involution of the two lifestyles of farming and nomadic life. This fundamental contradiction runs through ancient times
The whole history of China.
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Therefore, East Asia is now one country. And at the western end of the Eurasian continent, there are countless small countries. Because they have not had a strong and unified nomadic nation in history, they have continued to threaten them in the long history of two thousand years.
The one who can really threaten them is Mao Zedong, who only appeared in modern times. That’s why the EU emerged. The basis for the existence of the EU and NATO is the threat of Mao Zedong.
The situations at the two ends of the continent were completely different, which led to the completely different fates of Britain and Japan. The Japanese finally became more powerful in modern times, and even made themselves a colony. To this day, they are still an incomplete country.
Yang Fan looked at the happy little girl and couldn't bear to hurt her. So, he said as calmly as possible: "Only a small section of this railway has been completed, and it will continue to be repaired. Moreover, the parts that have been repaired still need to be rebuilt."
"Ah!" The little girl's face fell.
"This railway will not stop until it is built here." Yang Fan pointed at Tsaritsin with a pencil and said. "The Mongolian problem must be completely solved. The problem of the nomads cannot be left to the next generation. Therefore, the Crimean Khanate and Karl
The Mek Khanate must be taken back."
Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru quickly looked for where this place was.
They were shocked to find that the city of Tsaritsyn was located in a narrow area between the Don River and the Volga River. The end point of the master's Western Expedition was on a prairie called Ukraine.
Xiao Niangpi looked at it for a while and asked: "Master, what do you mean when you say that the completed line needs to be renovated? Doesn't the remodeling mean that it will no longer be open to traffic?"
Yang Fan said with a smile: "It will not affect the opening of traffic. There is a type of railway called track rails, which means three rails. I plan to add another rail on the outside. The outermost gauge reaches the standard rule of 1435 mm. It will be better in the future.
Heavy-duty trains. That kind of train will be the standard train of the future."
Lin Yueru suddenly realized: "I understand, what the master means is to add a rail and widen the gauge during construction during the time when trains are not running. This kind of three-track rail is what he called a track railway. The current 762 train
, all future 1435 trains can run.”
Xiao Niangpi naturally knows the benefits of this. The master has the ambition to conquer thousands of miles of territory. She is happy because these will belong to her son in the future. But when she thinks about finances, she becomes depressed again.
"You don't have to worry about financial problems. This railway will no longer use financial funds in the future. I will ship back a sum of silver from overseas in the near future to use it specifically to pay for the cost of this railway."
This chapter has been completed!