Chapter 1355: Entering the Heilongjiang River Basin
Ying Junzhi, at this time, had quite a few titles. In addition to being the deputy director of the Northeast Division of the Immigration and Reclamation Department, which was a fourth-grade official, he was also assigned the title of "Supervisor of Nuergan Immigration Affairs."
To a certain extent, this mission is the top civil servant in the Nuergan area. However, the Tang Empire has not yet officially established state capitals and other administrative agencies in the Nuergan area. For the time being, it is called the "Nuergan Immigration Affairs Yamen"
To temporarily manage administrative affairs.
In recent years, the Tang Empire likes to use some temporary dispatches and establish relevant specialized yamen to handle related affairs. The Fusang Affairs Yamen, Nanyang Affairs Yamen, and Nuergan Immigration Affairs Yamen are all products of this policy.
However, this situation is not expected to last long. When the navy captures Nuergan City and then captures other barbarian villages and towns along the lower reaches of Heilongjiang River, it will basically be possible to declare that Nuergan Prefecture has been established.
When the time comes, the Nuergan Immigration Affairs Yamen will transform into the Nuerganfu Yamen.
What is foreseeable is that after the Tang Dynasty completely conquered Fusang, the Fusang Affairs Office will become history, and then it will be replaced by the Fusang Governor's Office, or simply the Kyushu Governor's Office, Honshu Governor's Office, and the like.
In Nuergan, when the Nuergan Mansion is established, Ying Junzhi will naturally not stay in this remote place. This man is a relatively valued young official in the Immigration and Reclamation Department.
What he is good at is organizing immigrants to settle land, rather than serving as a prefect in remote areas.
What is the difference between the two?
The former brought immigrants to barbaric lands and competed with the barbarians for land.
The latter simply governs the place.
Ying Junzhi is worthy of being an immigration official who is highly appreciated by the big bosses. Although he is young, he is extremely experienced. He does not need to worry about the navy. He himself has organized more than 4,000 young people with his officials.
Get up, and then start to quickly build simple city defense facilities. At the same time, they also arrange to make fires and cook meals, so that thousands of people will not go hungry after landing ashore. At the same time, they transport various equipment and materials from the fleet.
Then he directed people to thoroughly clean up the original Nuergan City. According to the consistent health requirements of the Tang Empire, Nuergan City was thoroughly cleaned up as soon as possible.
The Tang Empire had attached great importance to the health requirements of cities and towns since the founding of the country. In order to prevent the spread of various infectious diseases, Li Xuan had strict requirements on the appearance of the city from the beginning, especially on health issues, which was even more stringent to the extreme.
This requirement is no exception in Nuergan City. However, Nuergan City is said to be a city, but in fact it is equivalent to an ordinary village in the mainland. It is small in size, and it is easy to clean up.
After the sanitation and cleaning work was carried out, a large number of people began to settle in Nurgan City. However, the city was too small and there were not many buildings, so many people actually had no way to live in the original houses and could only set up tents.
live.
When Ying Junzhi led the immigrants to start building the city defense facilities of Nurgan City, the Navy's engineering force also began to build the city defense forts. According to the relevant plan, this city is the most important stronghold in the Heilongjiang River Basin, so whether it is living or living
In other words, urban defense facilities must meet certain standards so that they can provide support for subsequent military operations in the Heilongjiang Basin.
At the same time, Qiu Xiao also began to command the Marine Corps to explore and purge the surrounding areas. On the one hand, he wanted to clean up the nearby barbarians to prevent them from attacking the immigrants in the Nurgan area in the future. On the other hand, he also wanted to try to recruit some local people.
Barbarians used it to build cities.
However, the effect was not very great. During the three-day clearing operation of the Marine Corps, they did not encounter large-scale barbarians at all, but only encountered a few small-scale barbarians. After questioning with an interpreter who was familiar with the local barbarians,
Only then did I learn that the surrounding barbarians had already fled one after another.
It doesn't matter if you leave, at least you won't have to worry about encountering barbarian attacks in the Nuergan area in the future!
After confirming that there were no traces of barbarians within ten kilometers of the surrounding area, especially within ten kilometers of Nuergan on the south bank of Heilongjiang, Qiu Xiaocai felt relieved and prepared to mobilize fleets and marines to continue deeper along the Heilongjiang River.
The Navy's Heilongjiang plan is not just about occupying one Nurgan city, but also establishing stable and effective material transportation channels throughout the Heilongjiang basin.
As for large-scale resettlement development in the Heilongjiang Basin, this is the plan of the Immigration and Reclamation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Navy is only cooperating with them.
In turn, the Immigration and Reclamation Division of the Ministry of Agriculture actually cooperates with the navy in its resettlement and development activities in the Heilongjiang Basin.
Military conquest and immigration development have always been the consistent methods of the Tang Empire. The army opened up frontiers to expand the territory, and the Immigration and Reclamation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture organized a large number of immigrants in the back to follow up the immigration development in a timely manner and even simultaneously. This has been the case in the past ten years.
I have tried the same old tricks countless times.
The military and the cabinet already have a complete set of procedures for mutual cooperation in this regard. However, each gets what it needs without delay.
In this process, the military generals gained military exploits, and the cabinet officials gained political achievements. Hello, hello, hello, hello to everyone.
Otherwise, the cabinet and the military would not be cooperating so closely.
This time when we went deep into the Heilongjiang River Basin, although Qiu Xiao still brought along two frigates including the Changzhou, to be honest, the further we went into the Heilongjiang River Basin, the less useful these two large frigates were.
The same is true for those armed merchant ships, because the standard displacement of both frigates and armed merchant ships is several hundred tons. This kind of tonnage may be too small in the sea, but it is too big in the inland river.
So in fact, after these large sea-going ships penetrate into Heilongjiang, they will at most serve as fixed forts and transport ships, and they will also need the cooperation of the Heilongjiang River Fleet.
Without the cooperation of the river fleet, Qiu Xiao would not dare to go deep into the river with frigates and armed merchant ships.
Qiu Xiao's next target was Manjing Acropolis, which was very close to Nurgan City. However, according to the situation, the barbarians who called this city a village had almost escaped.
A series of intelligence proved that the barbarians in nearby areas began a large-scale retreat southward and concentrated on the Foduo River Acropolis further south.
Qiu Xiao actually didn't care where these barbarians retreated. He only had one goal, which was to go deeper along the Heilongjiang River, destroy and seize all the towns along the way. This time, he was preparing to hit Xishenwei in one go.
This place is also the area around Khabarovsk in later generations.
Why is the first phase of the battle target set here? It's not because there are any powerful enemies here. In fact, according to the sparse intelligence, this place is currently deserted, with at most only a few barbarians living there.
Xishenwei was also called Xishenwei more than a hundred years ago. The barbarian tribe Qiliemi who lived in this area surrendered to the former Ming Dynasty.
After commanding the Qian affairs, this tribe later moved to the hinterland of Liaodong and completely belonged to the former Ming Dynasty. Its tribe also gradually integrated into the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Xishenwei is a historical place. Today, there is no Xishenwei at all. It is estimated that all that can be found is just ruins.
The establishment and ending of Xishen Guard were actually the beginning and end of many guard posts in border areas during the pre-Ming Dynasty.
Because in the pre-Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty was in its early days, it was just like the Tang Dynasty today. It was vigorous and constantly expanding. Its army also invaded the Heilongjiang Basin and established the Nuergandusi. Later, the national power declined, and the Ming Dynasty continued to expand.
It was bitterly cold in the Shangnuergan area, so the Qian Ming Dynasty gradually gave up actual control over this area and concentrated its main forces in the Liaodong area.
However, in order to ensure that the Nuergan area still belongs to the Qianming Dynasty, at least in name, official positions will be widely granted to the leaders of various local tribes, guard posts will be set up in the residences of each tribe, and then the tribal leaders will be granted the title of command officer.
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Xishenwei has become history, but the importance of the geography of the place is as important as ever!
This place is located in the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang, at the intersection of the middle reaches of Heilongjiang and its tributary Wusuli River. This alone was enough for the Tang Empire to build a city here!
On the way to Xishenwei, we need to pass through the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and there are many barbarians in this lower reaches. Although the Tang Navy can directly cover the transport fleet with its inland warships, there is no need to
To deal with the barbarians along the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, the navy does not like that every time it transports supplies in the future, it will need to use a large number of river warships. This is not worthwhile.
So when we went deep into Heilongjiang for the first time, we simply destroyed all the barbarian strongholds along the way, and then stationed a small number of troops in some important places.
No matter what, we must ensure the safety of navigation in the Heilongjiang Basin. Otherwise, relying on Heilongjiang to penetrate into the Northeast region will be a joke.
The navy has put a lot of thought into achieving results in Heilongjiang, thereby demonstrating that the navy can play an important strategic role even when fighting in the bitter cold of Northeast China.
We cannot let the Army steal all the limelight.
The Navy has the Navy's thoughts, and the Army also has the Army's thoughts. The Army's idea is to let the Navy do the hard work. Anyway, it is not the Army's military expenditures. After they open the Heilongjiang waterway, the biggest beneficiary will be their Army, so
We are happy to see the Navy's operational plan in the Heilongjiang Basin come to fruition.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Army has focused all its energy on Liaohetao and does not pay attention to this bitter and cold place for the time being.