The first thousand three hundred and ninety-eight chapters Altan Khan's filial piety
The Tang Empire of Red Lotus in the 20th year of Xuanping generally continued the development strategy of the 19th year of Xuanping, with the promotion and application of high-pressure steam engines as the core, and the technological upgrading of transportation and industrial production was carried out across the country.
The specific manifestation is the construction of railways and the large-scale use of steamships.
This also brought unprecedented social changes to the vast Chinese region!
Although the Tang Empire has always been developing industry and commerce, and various industrial products were continuously produced and appeared in shops and entered people's homes, these daily necessities did not actually change contemporary people much.
life, it is even more difficult for people to intuitively feel the shock of the industrial revolution.
However, when trains and ships appeared, it really set off a huge wave across the country.
Because at this time, people found that traveling was more convenient and faster than before. Whether it was a ship or a train, the speed was countless times faster than before.
Especially in the 21st year of Xuanping, the Jiangnan Railway was under construction at the same time on multiple sections in order to open the entire line to traffic as soon as possible. After the Jinling to Zhenjiang, Shanghai to Suzhou sections, and the Dangtu to Jinling sections were opened to traffic,
, the railway section from Suzhou to Zhenjiang was also completed and opened to traffic.
This also means that after five years of construction, the main project of the Jiangnan Railway can be said to be basically completed.
The train can start from Dangtu, the most important heavy industrial zone in the Tang Empire, and pass through Jinling, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Suzhou before arriving in Shanghai.
Although the section from Shanghai to Ningbo, Zhejiang, and the section from Dangtu to Hukou, Jiujiang are not yet open to traffic, this does not affect the huge shock that the railway brings to people!
By taking the train, people can go directly from Dangtu to Shanghai in a few days. This speed is almost unimaginable in the past.
Passenger transport is only an incidental value of this railway artery. What is more important is the freight capacity. Train transportation is faster, easier to load and unload, and can directly reach inland cities. The key is that the cost is very low.
Coupled with the numerous steamships on the Yangtze River waterway, transportation along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has become extremely convenient.
Also in the 21st year of Xuanping, the Northeast Railway also started construction and has now crossed Shanhaiguan. The Hetao Railway is also under construction and has crossed Zhangjiakou. The Northwest Railway has already been built to Xi'an.
When the country was engaged in railway construction, the military's military operations did not stop!
The Army's cavalry has penetrated deep into Lake Baikal and built a small fortress there. In the Northeast, the Army has already crossed Heilongjiang and crossed the Daxingan Mountains. Now the Tang Army's military operations in the Northeast are
The stronghold has been extended to the coast of the North Sea, and a military stronghold has been established on Sakhalin Island.
As it continues to the north, it becomes even more desolate, with only a small number of indigenous people. Therefore, the Army has actually gradually stopped military operations in the northern region, because all the larger indigenous tribes in the north are basically conquered by the Tang Dynasty.
The Army was gone, and what was left was a vast no-man's land.
Because the Tang Army's subsequent policy in the northern region has become to establish military strongholds in some key areas, and at the same time cooperate with the civil affairs department to conduct small-scale immigration.
As for large-scale immigration, don't count on it. Nowadays, the Immigration and Reclamation Division is recruiting immigrants to settle along the Heilongjiang River, but it can't recruit many people. As for places farther north, no matter how good the policies are, not many people are willing to go.
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After all, the freezing Siberian region is really not a place for people to live!
In order to better rule the above-mentioned areas, in the 21st year of Xuanping, Li Xuan officially ordered the administrative division of the vast northeastern region and the northern grassland area.
The jurisdictions of the original western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning provinces each extended northward to the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang.
The provincial capital of Northeastern Province was moved to Nurgan City, which was renamed "Hekou". The new Northeastern Province jurisdiction was the area on the east bank of the Ussuri River, Sakhalin Island, north of Heilongjiang, extending to the Arctic Ocean, and westward to
Lake Baiga.
This new Northeast Province will also be the largest province in the Tang Empire, and also the province with the smallest population.
Because so far, the immigrants living in Northeastern Province mainly live in the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang, with a total population of about 100,000. Even if other scattered immigrant settlements are included, the total population is only 150,000.
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This population is not even as large as that of an ordinary large county in China!
But there is no way. The new Northeast Province only has this environment. As for how it will develop in the future, that is a matter of the future.
In the northern grassland area, Li Xuan also officially issued an order and made new adjustments to the expenditure of the administrative region.
With the three prefectures of Loop, Fengzhou and Daning as the core, a new Hefeng Province was established. The name of the province is taken from Loop and Fengzhou. The provincial government is Heishan City, the westernmost section of the existing planned Loop Railway.
, the jurisdiction is bounded by the original provincial boundaries of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces to the south, Liaoxi to the east, Lake Baikal in the northeast to the north, and the Tatar-controlled area to the west.
The jurisdiction of the newly established Hefeng Province was actually the area controlled by the Tatars.
After such an adjustment, the only newly added province in the empire was Hefeng Province, while Northeastern Province, Liaoxi Province, and Liaodong Province were only adjusted in jurisdiction. In addition to these original areas, they were either already under the actual control of the Tang Empire and
Immigration, or local desolate people, the Tang Empire sent a small number of military personnel to the station, so overall, the impact was not great.
At most, from then on, the empire had two provinces with extremely large areas but extremely small populations.
Behind this administrative transformation, it also means that the Tang Empire's military operations in the northeast and northern regions have basically been completed, and the next step should be to advance westward.
The Tatars in the west have also been paying attention to the trends of the Tang Empire. They are a little confused about some of the domestic situations in the Tang Empire, because according to the news they have received from many channels, those in the South in the past two years have
Tang Manzi had no intention of expanding the army and fighting a war. Instead, he was focused on building railways and factories.
To be honest, these Tatars, including Anta Khan, have never seen any factories or railways with their own eyes, but they have heard reports from their subordinates that the factories are huge and puffing out huge smoke.
, the horse-less iron carts were running continuously in the wilderness. All of this, just described in words and some illustrations, could not allow them to smoothly imagine what it was.
But although I don’t know what these things are, their functions are known to Tatars, because the scale of the Tang Dynasty Railway construction is so huge, and the convenience of railway transportation can be understood by just asking any ordinary person, so I
Although Dahan still doesn't know what a train is, he does know that trains can transport a large amount of materials.
And knowing this is enough to make An Dahan feel a greater sense of crisis!
In addition, after learning that the Tang Army had gradually recovered the vast northern grasslands and the northeastern region, Anda Khan knew that the time left for him by the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty was running out, and the Tatars must seize the time.
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Therefore, in the 21st year of Xuanping, Anda Khan personally led an army of more than 200,000, including more than 100,000 Tatar cavalry as the main force and nearly tens of thousands of Tubo infantry, artillery, baggage and other servants.
Once he entered the Kazakh Khanate.
But this time, with Anda Khan personally supervising the battle, the Tatar army went very smoothly, defeating the Kazakh Khanate in one fell swoop, which had already been beaten by the Tatars and couldn't take care of themselves.
If we follow the example of previous years, after wiping out the main force of the Kazakh Khanate and conquering their capital, they should have returned with the plundered cattle, sheep, horses, slaves, gold and silver treasures, etc.
But this time, Anda Khan did not lead an army. Instead, he directly established a local governing body.
Then after a few months of rest, we directly entered the Yarkand Khanate!
The Yarkand Khanate was no better than the Kazakh Khanate, and was destroyed by Anda Khan himself with a large army.
Moreover, because the Yarkand Khanate resisted very tenaciously at the last moment and preferred death to surrender, Anda was so furious that an order was issued to massacre the city.
So when the Tatars completely controlled this area, almost all the local indigenous people died.
In the 21st year of Xuanping, after winning these two places in succession, Anda Khan finally felt that he could breathe a sigh of relief!
And he did not forget the attitude he should have as a vassal state. After destroying these two khanates, he donated a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep, and horses to the Tang Empire in the name of tribute. Of course,
Yes, there are also the indispensable alien princesses and the like.
The last time Li Xuan expressed his satisfaction with the alien princess donated by Anda Khan, when he wrote a letter to Anda Khan, he called it 'filial piety is commendable'.
So in the following two years, Anda Khan offered all kinds of beauties to Li Xuan whenever he found the opportunity. He even sent three of his direct daughters and granddaughters.
If it weren't for the other daughters, granddaughter's appearance or age, he would probably be able to send all his daughters and granddaughters to Li Xuan in one go.
The daughters and granddaughters of the direct relatives can be given away if they can, not to mention other people, including young and beautiful women from the Tatar nobles, or captured foreign princesses, as long as they are outstanding in appearance, I answer
I'll give it away if I can.
The reason Andahan did this was just to gain more time!