1744. The roof of the world must completely belong to China.
In the past year, 200,000 northern prisoners were carefully screened. Those who were unjust, false, wrongly convicted and misdemeanors were assigned land and settled in the Juyanhai and Heishui watersheds. They were similar to the model of the Construction Corps, farming during busy periods.
, train troops during leisure time. They are exempt from taxes and only bear military obligations and limited road and railway maintenance corvees.
Serious criminals were organized into death camps and handed over to Yan Yingyuan. In the past year, Yan Yingyuan trained them until their souls came out of their bodies. He defeated them all with military sticks. Now they have become qualified soldiers.
The Us Tibetan Army has been officially named by Chongzhen, with Yan Yingyuan as its commander-in-chief.
As expected, Chongzhen still hated Mr. Liu Ge. He appointed Liu Hongxun's former chief assistant as his minister in residence and planned to send him to the Holy City to take charge.
However, Yang Fan submitted a letter and in the name of protecting the army's logistical supplies, the station of the garrison minister was changed to Xining in summer and autumn, and Guihua City in winter and spring. At the same time, refugees were recruited in the northwest to build the Qingzang Highway.
This road is first built from Xining to the Holy City. Then it goes east to East Asia, one to Kathmandu in Nepal, and the other to Shannan. The westward highway passes through Ngari, to Yecheng in southern Xinjiang, one goes to Kashgar City, and the other goes south to La La.
Leh, the capital of Dhaka, and then to Kabul, Afghanistan.
Living conditions in Xining are now very good, and there are steamships with water connections to Guihua City. The transportation is very convenient, and the one-way journey only takes three days.
This can be regarded as saving Liu Hongxun. According to Chongzhen's intention, it would be better if he, an old man, can't wait to go to Ladakh.
The Us Tibetan Army consists of ten regiments and eight battalions. There are ten infantry regiments, each with 3,600 men, and eight battalions are cavalry.
The reason why there are so few cavalry is because the horses in the mainland are not suitable for the plateau. The strong altitude sickness will make the horses die soon. When I entered the Zangzang in the 1950s, because I had no experience, I entered from Xinjiang, Sichuan, and Qinghai.
All the horses and camels carried by Zang's army died.
Later I found out that either yaks or local Tibetan horses would work.
Entering Zang is not a trivial matter, so Yang Fan naturally has to study it carefully.
It was discovered that cavalry must use local horses from Xizang.
The Tibetan horse is a small plateau horse breed. It is distributed in Qamdo and Nagqu in eastern Tibet, Shigatse in the south, Yushu and Goluo in Qinghai, Garze in Sichuan and Zhongdian in Yunnan and other areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
This kind of short horse has a strong physique and compact structure. The head is medium long, the nostrils are large, and the strength is slightly thin. The armor is low, the front chest is wide, and the rib cage is developed. The rump is slightly slanted. The limbs are strong and the hoofs are solid.
The coat colors are complex, with the majority being rooster, chestnut, and cyan. The body size varies greatly depending on the place of origin.
The ones produced in northern Tibet are larger in size, while those in southern Tibet are smaller. They are used for riding and carrying in the mountains, and their pace is agile and steady. They are one of the main means of transportation for the local people.
Yang Fan ordered that a large number of personnel be allocated to the Luanshitan Horse Breeding Farm, and a project to breed and improve Tibetan horses was started two years ago. Yang Fan checked the information and learned that using Hequ horses to improve Tibetan horses had achieved good results.
The average body size of the Tibetan horse mare (cm): body height 120.1, body length 128.9, chest circumference 143.2, tube circumference 15.4. It is tolerant of rough feeding, has strong disease resistance, has good endurance, and can work on the plateau at an altitude of 3500 to 4000 meters or even 5000 meters.
.Use Hequ horse male horses and Tibetan horse mares to mate to breed new horse breeds.
Although Zang horses look about the same size as donkeys, this kind of horse can really use the plateau environment.
So Yang Fan bought several thousand horses, crossed them with Hequ horses, and finally came up with a new breed of horse that is taller, has increased load capacity and endurance, and is also suitable for the local environment - the Us Tibetan horse.
However, these horses are still first-generation foals and cannot be used on a large scale until they are at least two years old.
These eight battalions use local Tibetan horses obtained from Qamdo. Wang Hao's cavalry division and local horse farms in Qinghai will introduce such Us Tibetan horses next year.
Yang Fan's memorial to Chongzhen included a map of the snow-covered plateau. The snow-covered plateau that Yang Fan believed also included various small countries at the southern foot of the Himalayas, as well as the Afghan region. Because of the Hindu Kush Mountains and snowy areas, Pa
The Mir Plateau is basically a whole plateau.
This is the place where the Dragon Vein of the Ming Dynasty originated, and it is also the heart of the entire Eurasian continent. Controlling this place will control the transportation arteries of South Asia, West Asia, East Asia, the Western Regions, and North Asia. The strategic value is inestimable.
From now on, Wang Hao will be in charge of Qinghai, which is Xia Zang. Yan Yingyuan will be in charge of the snow area, which is Shang Zang. In the future, Yang Fan will move part of the large number of hungry and rebellious people in the northwest here to change the population structure of these areas. Especially in the south of the Himalayas.
Various small countries in the foothills are used to strengthen control.
After Yang Fan's Western Expedition, he promised Chongzhen to provide some help within his ability to Yang He, the governor of the three sides, including but not limited to weapons, food, and various supplies. Chongzhen also sent Yang He's son Yang Sichang to Guihua City to serve as Suiyuan
The province will raise penalties and press the inspector's envoy, and the department will press the inspector's envoy.
In this way, Yang Sichang knew both the truth and falsehood of Yang Fan in Guihua City. Yang Fan could not blame Yang He.
Yang He was actually forced to go. He couldn't shirk it, so he took the job.
The trilateral governors have the greatest power and territory among the four governors. In the fourth year of Jiajing, the trilateral governors were formally established. They were initially called admirals for military affairs, and later changed to general systems. Later, in order to avoid using the word "system", they were changed to governors.
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The Governor's Mansion on the three sides was opened in Guyuan, and was stationed at Huamachi during the autumn season.
Yang He came to Guyuan for a year and began to deal with the civil uprising in Shaanxi. At this time, northern Shaanxi had become a prairie fire, and the situation completely collapsed.
In the original history, after Yang He took over as governor, Wang Zuogua and others attacked Yichuan, but were repelled by the magistrate Chengcai. They then attacked Hancheng, but the Hancheng army had no generals. Yang He appointed Hong Chengchou to lead the army to resist, capture and kill
After killing more than 300 people, the siege of Hancheng was lifted.
Soon, the bandits headed for Qingjian.
Yang He wrote to the imperial court one after another, asking the generals who came to Beijing to return to their bases. The northwest was now very critical. However, Chongzhen himself was staying in the city and was frightened by Huang Taiji. How could he let the reinforcements return to the northwest? Naturally, there was no result.
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He had no choice but to appoint the original general Du Wenhuan to serve.
In February, Zhang Nian, the prefect of Yan'an, and Aimu, the governor of Yan'an, forced the rebels in Yanchuan, and surrendered the bandit leaders Wang Zishun, Zhang Shusheng, and Ji San'er. He had no money and food, and could not relocate these people. He had just managed to calm down some of the chaos.
thief.
The leader of the thieves, Jiayin, rose up and sacked Yan'an and Qingyang.
Yang He had just reported victory to the court when this incident happened. Yang He had no choice but to conceal the matter and did not report it.
Yang He also issued death-free documents to the surrendered thieves King Hu, Little Red Wolf, Yi Zhangqing, Luo Dihu, Hun Jianglong and others. He persuaded them to surrender and settled them in Yansui and Hequ areas.
But these thieves continued to commit adultery and plunder, because they had been recruited by Yang He. The local government did not dare to intervene. On the surface, these people surrendered temporarily, but in fact, they could rise up again at any time to cause trouble. The trouble of the thieves was not completely eliminated.
Yang Fan was not in Guihua City during this period and did not provide him with any help. At least he had to wait until Yang Fan went to Guihua City to take up his post before it would be possible to see the situation and provide him with some help.
Yang Fan is now interested in refugees, because he needs a large number of refugees to develop the northwest. Whether he goes to Qinghai or to Xinjiang for reclamation, he needs farmers. After these rebels surrender, it is also a good choice to go to the Western Regions and snowy areas.
, if you stay in the mainland, you will have to rebel sooner or later.
