The Beijing-Tianjin area was in turmoil due to Emperor Hongzhi's health. The Hezhong area, thousands of miles away from the capital, was a busy and lively scene.
On the Mother River Plain where the Mother River (originally known as the Amu Darya River, after the Ming Dynasty captured the Hezhong area, many rivers, mountains, plains, etc. in the entire Hezhong area were renamed) flows through, immigrants from the Central Plains are busy.
stop.
Here in Longtou Town, where Longtou Wu is located, after half a year of operation, the entire Longtou Town has begun to take shape. The outer perimeter is built with tall cement walls, and within the city walls are houses built one after another with reinforced concrete.
Outside Longtou Town, there are huge, neat and square fields that have been reclaimed. Rice has been planted in the fields and it is time to fill them. In a few months, the fields will be filled with rice.
Have a great harvest.
"Woo~"
Liu boldly drove the steam cultivator to continuously walk on the flat, open and fertile fields. As the steam cultivator moved, pieces of land were reclaimed.
"This steam cultivator is really easy to use. It is powerful, fast and can cultivate the land quickly."
Sitting on the steam cultivator, Liu Dadan couldn't help but sigh.
I have been cultivating this kind of land my whole life, and this is the first time I have used this machine to plow the land. Think about when I was in my hometown in Henan, the plowing was basically done by people.
One person was dragging the rope in front and pulling hard, while the other person was holding the plow behind. It was very strenuous and tiring.
The family rented several acres of land from the landlord and worked on the land all year round, but they could not even afford a full meal.
But things are different when immigrants come here. There are many cattle and horses in the Western Regions and the Hezhong area. Last winter, the imperial army conquered countless tribes of all sizes in the Western Regions and obtained a large number of cattle and horses.
These cattle and horses were naturally distributed to the immigrants in the Western Region and the Hezhong area. Everyone used cattle and horses to cultivate fields.
In addition to the cattle and horses, the imperial court also purchased thousands of steam cultivators and transported them to the Hezhong area. These steam cultivators were distributed, and dozens of them were assigned to Longtouwu.
With ox hair and steam cultivators, the immigrants were able to cultivate fields very quickly. Take Long Tou Wu as an example, there are exactly 10,000 adults and children in Long Tou Wu, but so far more than 300 people have been cultivated.
Ten thousand acres of fields, of which one million acres are planted with rice, one million acres with wheat, and one million acres with cotton.
Once these three million acres of fields are harvested in the fall, the entire Longtou Town will become extremely rich, with endless grain to eat and endless cotton to harvest.
But the people in Longtouwu are still cultivating fields. It doesn't matter if they don't have time to plant this year. They can plant again next year. Anyway, there is plenty of land in the river area.
The alluvial area formed by two large rivers is very wide, flat, and fertile. The entire vast Hezhong area. Because of the cleaning policy implemented by Liu Jin, all tribes were ruthlessly cleaned up by the Ming army or moved out of the Hezhong area.
, or be slaughtered cleanly.
Therefore, the entire Hezhong area fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and there were only one million immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.
One million immigrants may sound like a lot, but when every 10,000 people are organized into a team, that is, a hundred troops, spread out over the entire vast river area, it seems very sparse. The land that each team can own is very vast.
Reclamation, whatever comes out of it is yours.
In addition, in addition to this fertile land, each team also has supporting pastures, which raise a large number of cattle, sheep and horses. The area in the river has always been in a semi-cultivated and semi-nomadic state. The area near the river is
Good agricultural areas, and areas far away from rivers are good pastures.
Relying on the melted water from the snow-capped mountains in the surrounding plateau areas, the Hezhong area is the most fertile and fertile place in the entire Central Asia.
However, it has also been watched by tribes from all over the world. The Kazakh Khanate in the north, the Ottoman Empire in the west, the Persian Safavid Empire in the south, and the newly emerged Shaybani Khanate are all eyeing the area in the middle of the river.
This is a truly fertile land.
Seizing the river area not only means seizing a huge granary, but also means seizing an extremely rich and fertile pasture.
If you need food, you have food, if you need war horses, there are not many places like this in Central Asia.
In the past, the area in the middle of the river was divided up by various forces. The Kazakh Khanate in the north occupied part of it for grazing, the Chagatai Khanate in the east occupied another part, and the Shaibani Khanate in the southeast also occupied
Samarkand and other areas, and the Persians in the south also occupied part of it. The Timur Khanate in the west was originally based in the Transoxiana area, but now it was forced to move westward. It is also bitter about this and cannot forget the richness of the Transoxiana area.
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There is also the Ottoman Empire, which is constantly expanding from the west to the east. It also has its sights on the fertile Hezhong area. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty occupied the Hezhong area and almost immediately became a thorn in the side of all directions.
Everyone wants to eat this kind of fat meat, but now it’s in Daming’s mouth.
However, the power of the Ming Dynasty also made everyone in the world extremely fearful.
Last winter, Liu Jin led an army of 200,000 to the west. Wherever he went, he killed countless people. He swept through tribes of all sizes in the Western Regions, destroyed the Chagatai Khanate and the Turpan Khanate, and severely damaged the powerful Shaibani Khan.
country and captured all of Samarkand.
In the north, they also attacked the Mongolian Oara tribes and gave the Kazakh Khanate a harsh lesson. They relied on powerful force to sweep the Hezhong area and forced countless tribes in the Hezhong area to leave the fertile Hezhong area.
However, no one will give up this fertile land in the river easily, and they are always ready to snatch this fertile land from the hands of the Ming people again.
Liu Jin is also quite clear about this.
All the immigrants who immigrated to the Western Regions and the Hezhong area lived together. Every ten thousand people were organized into a team, and a town was formed with the team. In normal times, everyone farmed, herded, and conducted certain military training in their spare time. Once there was a situation,
When a foreign enemy invades, the army is used as a unit and the town is used as a stronghold to fight and respond.
They do not need to kill many enemies, they only need to defend the town and wait for the arrival of the Ming army stationed in the Hezhong area. This will ensure the safety of the Ming immigrants and stabilize the Ming rule in the Hezhong area.
At this time, the entire Longtou Town was peaceful, and the entire Longtouwu people were busy building their homes, cultivating fields, building houses, and grazing cattle and sheep. It was a prosperous scene. :(/
Everyone, like Liu Dangdang, regards this place as their home and works hard to manage everything here.
However, in a wilderness thirty miles away from Longtou Town, a 5,000-strong Kazakh Khanate cavalry was rushing towards Longtou Town.
The horses galloped, and the Kazakh cavalry on horseback were all extremely excited. They could finally take revenge on the Ming people, and they could finally loot the rich Ming people.
Ever since it was learned that the Ming army had transferred some of its troops back to the north of the Altai Mountains to deal with the remnants of the Mongol Oara tribe, the Kazakh Khanate began to prepare for action.
The area in the middle of the river is really too important. The Kazakh Khanate has been coveting this fertile land for a year or two. They have been trying every means to penetrate here, enter here, and want to monopolize this fertile land.
But I didn't expect that last year, Liu Jin's Western Expedition dealt a heavy blow to the Kazakhs. Not only in the Western Regions, the Kazakh tribes were severely damaged and attacked. In the Hezhong area, they were all expelled and completely lost this area.
rich soil.
Mulendek Khan of the Kazakh Khanate was also very upset about this. He himself was a man of great talent and great strategy. At this time, the Kazakh Khanate was in a period of expansion and prosperity.
He teamed up with Mahmud Khan of the Chagatai Khanate to attack Shaibani Khan, and also sent troops to attack the Timurid Khanate. During his rule, the territory of the Kazakh Khanate continued to expand. How could he endure the Ming Dynasty?
The people powerfully occupied the Hezhong area.
It was only last winter that Yang Yun, the Duke of Australia, sent troops to the Kazakh Khanate on Liu Jin's order, which made the Kazakh Khanate truly feel the power and terror of the Ming army for the first time.
As a people on horseback, the Kazakh Khanate was completely defeated by the Ming Dynasty cavalry in a cavalry duel. After several battles, the Kazakh Khanate was defeated and had to completely abandon the Hezhong area, and even even connected with the Hezhong area.
Part of the grassland fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
But Mulendek did not give up. After more than half a year of relaxation, he regained his breath, regained his strength, and began to make moves again. Especially after learning that part of the garrison in the river area had been mobilized,
Several tentative attacks were launched on Ming strongholds in the Hezhong area.
"Dong dong~"
The rumble of horse hooves beat on the ground, and the ground began to tremble faintly.
The cavalry of five thousand people, whether large or small, is enough to wipe out tens of thousands of people, and it should be enough to wipe out a Ming town in the Hezhong area.
The distance of thirty miles is also a very short distance for the cavalry. With the horses galloping, it does not take an hour to reach Longtou Town.
However, they have not yet arrived at Longtou Town. On a hillside outside Longtou Town, the people of Longtou Town built a tall watchtower. On the watchtower, there were people using telescopes to look around. If there was any disturbance, they would immediately
You can light the smoke to send a message to Longtou Town.
The cavalry team of 5,000 people was very noisy. With the help of telescopes, they quickly discovered the Hux cavalry. Soon, the billowing smoke rose, and the entire Longtou Town also soon heard bursts of war.
