This winter is not too cold.

That's true.

In the past, the land in the area south of the Caspian Sea middle line would also freeze in winter, but this year it was obviously not the case.

There is only a thin layer of ice on the Caspian Sea near Port Lagan, and the same is true for the Manechi River, with only a thin layer. The Kuma River (Magal City is on its north shore) that flows into the river only has ice on the intermittent surface.

But it is still extremely cold in the area of ​​Aktobi.

At present, the steam engine of Qitad is only used in a small number of factories in various fields, so it is obviously not enough to continue to carry out large-scale mining operations near Aktobi.

So, the people there became idle.

As a workaholic, Qitad naturally doesn't want them to be idle.

Also, last time he captured 5,000 Chechen prisoners, and half of them were sent to Aktobe mining, and now all of them were transferred to the west coast of the Caspian Sea.

One thousand of them were placed in Battesk to build a city, and the remaining one thousand miners of Aktobi all came to the Manechi River.

Due to the severe agricultural irrigation in later generations, the Kuma River and Manechi River have become intermittent rivers, but they are still flowing forever, but there are already signs of interruption.

The reason is also very simple.

The riverbed is severely silted, and the two sides are lowlands, which has caused a large area of ​​swamps. Currently, most of the farms in Qitad are distributed far away from the Manechi River and on both sides of the Kuma River.

In recent years, he has arranged to repair the road from Stavropol to Patigoska, and built bridges in low-lying rivers and used concrete.

From Patigoska, he can use the shipping of the Kuma River.

But from the estuary of the Kuma River to the Manechi River and to the point where the latter flows into the Caspian Sea, the river channel is severely silted in less than a hundred miles, and there are swamps on both sides and deserts.

Although the Russians at this time were not large enough to build castles in key locations and welded nails to monitor the Turkuts and Kazakhs, the Russians could do this, and the Truchens would not do it.

Especially their territory also spans the Caspian Sea. If the Russians use castles to blockade the key ferry of the Ural River and the Volga River, the Truchens would not be able to travel freely.

If one does not have a long-term plan, one will have immediate worries.

After repairing the road from Stavropol to Patigoska on the basis of the previous simple roads, dredging the waterway from Patigoska to the mouth of the Kuma River and building new roads along the coast, it is urgent to open up the last passage to the Caspian Sea.

In this not too cold winter, Qitad made all these thousands of people pounce on the lower reaches of the Manechi River, which is less than a hundred miles away.

Digging silt and building embankments started in December last year.

Thousands of people, led by Truchen craftsmen, grouped by one thousand people, two hundred craftsmen led more than 800 prisoners to contract more than ten miles of river section. After three months of hard work, the waterway to the Caspian Sea was finally opened.

But their work has not been completed.

According to Qitade's plan, he also wants to build a port and a city at the entrance of the sea.

The location of the city and port is roughly located near Otha, the mouth of the Manechi River in later generations. Of course, Otha was just a small village of Chechens before, so he obviously would not use it anymore.

Xhosa is a new name adopted by Qitad, and is naturally paying tribute to the former Xhosa Khanate.

At this time, there is no need to use so many people anymore.

The North Caucasus craftsmen took over and took half of the Chechen prisoners to slowly build ports and castles, and half of the Chechen prisoners returned to the east coast by boat.

The road from Port Crassau on the east coast to Culissare and even Aktobe has been built, but the road from Culissare to the newly acquired northern coast of the Aral Sea has not yet begun.

On the northern shore of the Aral Sea, before the autumn season ended, the city of Aral has begun to be built.

Because the city is at the intersection of the three major forces of Zhongyuzi, Dayuzi and Shiva, the city is quite large, almost reaching the size of Stavropol.

Therefore, by this time, the construction was still not completed, but the foundation part had been completed, and the half of the prisoners and a thousand Aktobi craftsmen came here again to assist the former people in the construction.

After taking over the territory of Sultan of Bala, the craftsmen of Aktobi have laid the foundations in Kustana and Sharkar, and two new brigades have also been formed.

I had originally wanted to forget this, but in the end Qitad decided to build another Aral city, otherwise Shalkar would be directly exposed to the three major forces.

Three thousand households were dispatched from the previous militia to migrate here, and the Aral Brigade was formed to let them farm here and guard the surrounding area.

With Aral City, Truchen can set out from here, along the Sir River, the Sailye River quickly arrives in the Yili River Basin, which is much better than the team of Wobaxi Donggui who has been through the entire hinterland of Zhongyuzi in history and has worked hard to reach there.

With a road, it is always easier to move in a general direction than to be aimlessly.

After completing the construction of Aral City, the prisoners will continue to build the Aral Port on the northern coast of the Aral Sea and build the road from Aral City to Culisari. They will not return to Arcato in the first half of this year.

The scale of Aktobi Industrial and Mining will also be reduced accordingly.

Even so, the money and food that Qitade had finally accumulated would decrease sharply again.

There is no way to do this. Facing the Tsarist Russian Empire, a giant that crushed itself in all aspects, if you don’t plan ahead, the outcome will be very miserable.

Moreover, this passage from Stavropol, through the Patigoska, the Kuma River, the Manechi River, the Caspian Sea, the Port of Crasso, the Culissare, and the city of Aral perfectly avoided the large and small nails that the Russians were wedged.

Once something unexpected happens, I will not be in a fully passive position.

Not only this road, this winter, start from Stavropol, cross the Manuchi River northward, pass Elista, continue northward across the entire Turkut grassland, go straight to Viteliangka, and then cross the Volga River to reach Manuto City.

Finally, it is also a road to reach Culisari.

Of course, this road is covered with Russian castles and strongholds (Cossack's wintering ground), and the construction specifications are naturally much smaller. It is nothing more than using the power of the winter shepherds to repair the original road, broaden the road surface, and dig drainage ditches on both sides.

The Russians were actually very urgent, and their ability to build castles and roads was no less than that of the Truchens.

When using the Cossacks to explore the Far East, they can use the Cossack strongholds to build roads at the shortest distance between the two rivers, otherwise they would not have occupied the vast land of Siberia so quickly.

They are extremely hard-working and able to successfully plant rye in Yakutsk at a temperature of tens of degrees below zero. The initiator is the famous Khabarov.

Khabarov himself is a famous Cossack. People like him can farm themselves. You can imagine how capable the Cossack is.

Therefore, Qitad had to be in a hurry with the Cossacks.

After all, it seems that the two sides have reached a tacit understanding-first come first served.

The nomadic tribes in the past, whether they were the Khons of the Khanate of the Khanate of the Khanate of the Khanate of the Khanate of the Khanate of the Khanate of their territory, never thought of this. They simply lived through water and grass, and were replaced by the Russians.

Both roads are called Truchen Straight Road, the one in the north is called the North Road, and the one in the south is called the South Road.

The roads are roughly based on the former centurion settlement and the current sumu.

With obvious roads and supply and maintenance points that can be relied on, the efficiency of mobilizing large troops during wartime will double.

Of course, if the enemy understands all this, they will use the straight road to make a big fuss, but in turn, they can also use the geographical environment close to the straight road to arrange a line of defense.

Everything complements each other.

The Truqin Army is an army dominated by cavalry. Its maneuver power is already super powerful. With the bonus of the straight road, the maneuver power will be further increased.

In April, at the end of winter and early spring, Truchen's mobilization and preparation were almost over.

This time, Qitade made a lot of determination.

At present, he has thirteen brigades under his command. In addition to the newly formed Aral Brigade and the Battesk Brigade, the remaining eleven brigades are mature troops. Although they are all military farms, their effective training time is still the best in this land.

Qitade is preparing to take away six brigades from these eleven brigades, leaving only five brigades. The specific method is to directly draw half of them, and then draw the entire Viteliangka brigade.

Witliangka is the place where the Turkuts' winter tent is located, so it is appropriate to show that the enemy is weak.

At this time, Gong Ge, who was on the envoy to Kazan Mansion, finally returned.

He has been there for three months, and now he is back, obviously with his grades.

"The Great Khan, the Ministry of Justice has fulfilled its mission"

"Oh?"

"Khan, I stayed there for a whole month before I met Urusov, the Duke of Tatar. I thought they were deliberately neglecting me. Later, when I saw two other people following Urusov back to Kazan, I finally understood"

"Which two people?"

"One is Takishev, who is currently the Governor of Taritzin, and the other is Razumovsky. His official position is the Minister of Interior and the Great Gaitman of all Cossacks in the entire Tsarist Empire, and is said to be the lover of the Tsar."

"When I first arrived in Kazan, I saw people from Kazan saying that they wanted to cross Zhongyuzi's territory to attack the century-old feud Junggar tribe"

"But Urusov brought back a new idea this time"

"Oh?"

"He suggested that we bring the remnants of Junggar back to the Caspian Sea"

"Oh? He isn't afraid that our strength will increase further?"

"Of course there are, but they have also put forward a condition"

"What conditions?"

"The Junggars who moved here must maintain independence and they will choose one of them to succeed Junggar Khan, but not the highest position in the Khan"

Qitad couldn't help but sneer in his heart, "Since the Russians oppose the Turguts' moving eastward, they must still attach great importance to this population. Moving the Junggars here has increased the population of our tribe on the surface, but in their eyes and assessments, they still do not take our tribe into consideration."

"Our department has increased its population, isn't it just that they have increased its population?"

"How do you answer them?"

"Of course I have to come back to report to the Khan"

"Okay, then you can work harder and say I agree"

"Sweat!"
Chapter completed!