Qitade came with his personal guard camp, and accompanied by the government secretary Zhang Henxue, the battalion commander and military secretary Ji Saiyin, and the Imperial Bureau Director Nolbu.

Zhang Henxue is here. Could it be that their negotiations with the Ottomans have come to an end?

Although the city walls of Karaganda were not built and only one foundation was laid, a five-story building similar to Europeans was still built in the city. The roof of the building was not flat, but a sloping roof.

Some are similar to the two-house apartments in later generations, with red bricks and black tiles, the Truqin flag is erected in the courtyard, and many trees are planted.

The row of houses facing north and south are office spaces, while the rest are canteens, dormitories, warehouses, etc.

This is the government agency of the Eastern Krai, Karaganda Province, and Karaganda Municipal Government in the future.

After having supper with everyone, Truqin immediately convened a meeting in the conference room of the Eastern Krai region despite the hard work of the journey.

Almost all the senior officials of Truchen knew about the negotiations with the Ottomans. Shelen seemed to be a little uninterested when he saw Qitad, so he knew that the negotiations were mostly unsatisfactory.

Then he asked carefully: "Your Majesty, how about the negotiations with the Ottomans?"

Qitade did not hide it and said, "No, I misjudged the situation, put my hot face on it, and was severely disgusted by the other party's cold butt"

"Hahaha," he suddenly laughed, "I thought it was a mess. I originally thought I could use the opportunity of European countries to separate them, but I forgot one thing"

"That is, the Truqin Empire has grown into the largest country in Europe and the most powerful country. Wouldn't it be futile to do things like this?"

"Now I figured it out that the European countries, except Russia, are all countries with small land areas and small populations. We have risen. They will definitely collude in secret to concentrate on dealing with us. Why bother to defeat the Ottomans' attention?"

"They will obviously strongly support the Ottomans and the Russians will restrain us"

"Then negotiation..."

"Of course, it's gone to an end without success, but it doesn't matter to the overall situation. As long as we continue to grow stronger and bigger, even if they join together, we will not be able to do anything to us."

After looking at everyone again, "When I just received this news, I was really sad, so I wanted to take this opportunity to relax and take a look at the construction results here."

"This is the heart of the Eurasian prairie. In history, Mongolian prairie, Kazakh prairie, and southern Russian prairie have been running side by side. The Kazakh prairie has not changed for thousands of years. They are all vast and sparsely populated. Nomadic tribes like lanterns are constantly changing. If you want to change all this, you can only develop industry."

"Also, if something happens in Europe, this place can become a rear base. With this solid base, it can also confront the Qing Dynasty in the east, control Tsarist Russia in the north, and resist the Iranian world in the south"

"The Kazakh prairie, hills, rivers, and wastelands are everywhere. It is not easy to enter and arrive in Karaganda"

"My country has decided to restore the train from Yili to Kreit within five years. It is easy to say in other provinces. There are many people and abundant financial resources, so I am worried about this place. Moreover, if I build from west to east, it will definitely not be completed in five years. I can only build it in sections under the premise of making rigorous planning."

"Not only should we open roads and water to build bridges when we meet mountains, our country has not yet mastered the technology of excavating culverts, in order to meet the construction of straight railways, we can only blow up mountains and move mountains. Fortunately, the Kazakh prairie is just some low hills. Even so, the project volume is also huge and the gunpowder is needed is also huge."

"At present, my country's immigration work has ended its outbreak period and has entered a stable operation period. There were originally two hundred large and neat transport ships, but now half of them are enough"

"my country has changed the remaining 100 ships into two state-owned shipping companies and three private companies to transport the sulfur and saltpeter from Southeast Asia to a large amount of here"

"It's for the need for a large amount of gunpowder..."

Sun Ge, the manager of the mining and smelting company, quickly said: "Your Majesty, the iron ore here is all pyrodite, which can be refined first and then smelted iron. By the way, the iron ore here is of extremely high grade, higher than Stavropol and Kustana in our country, and even higher than Kraftbass."

"Where is saltpeter?"

"There is no here. According to its nature, it is mostly produced in arid areas. At present, it can only be extracted on a small scale in the form of a pile of nitrogen"

Qitad nodded, "When the railway is repaired, you can use the canal between the Don and the Ejina River to transport it to Kreit, and then take the railway from Kreit to Karaganda"

"There are still natural saltpeter in the Nanyang area..."

"Your Majesty, we discovered a huge tungsten ore spot in Almaty, Yili Province..."

"Oh?", Qitad's eyes suddenly lit up.

In order to develop telegram transceivers, they obviously used tungsten products. Although tungsten ore was found in Stavropol, its grade was extremely low and it was not easy to mine. It would be great if it could be mined in large quantities here.

After a while, he said, "No matter where you want to build Karaganda first."

He didn't think much about saltpeter mine, but now he suddenly thought of something.

"In the Caucasus region, the Nanyang Islands have a large number of natural sulfur ores, which can also be extracted from pyrodite. For sulfur, my country does not lack it, but saltpeter ores. At present, it can only be reserved by large-scale accumulation of nitr. There are natural saltpeter ores in the Three Islands of Cebu, but mining is not easy."

"My country was established by firearms. If we want to continue to take the lead in this regard, we must control a large, easy-to-mine saltpeter mine."

"Originally there were some around Turpan, but...ah, let's forget it"

"Then I can only continue to fight with the Spaniards and take Chile from them"

"However, since you want to seize Chile, you must set up a stronghold in the southern end of South America. That is another great project, which is very difficult. Forget it, let's use the method of slurry and mining from the South China Sea for the time being."

He asked again: "The guarantee of grain, vegetables, meat and other things is smooth."

Sheling replied: "Part of the cattle and sheep tax paid by herds from the four provinces is paid in the form of cured meat. Storage locations are also set up here, which are stored together with dry husks, and the cold weather is completely guaranteed."

"The herdsmen near Karaganda hand over herds of cattle and sheep. I made an agreement with each ministries that each township would hand over some of them every month..."

Qitad shook his head, "I'm about to tell you about this"

"Cats and sheep are different in food, so they can be transported easily through roads. Cattle and sheep need to be driven away by people. The wind and sand will rise at any time. Once this happens, there will definitely be many cattle and sheep that are separated. I have discussed it with the State Council before I come"

"The tax on abandoned cattle, sheep and horses is used to buy meat from herders at a fair price. Each herders' township sets up a purchase point, and the price is half lower than the market price. Each household is priced according to the standard of one cattle and three sheep, and the remaining ones are purchased at the market price"

"We have calculated that if one cow and three sheep are purchased at half price, they can basically guarantee their capital. If they still drive the cattle and sheep to a certain place on a fixed date as usual, it will be inconvenient."

"The temperature in pastoral areas is generally low and the wind is also high. In addition, it is dry. It can be stored for a long time by making a lot of air-dried meat and marinating it. If it is air-dried meat, it can also be converted and paid according to the pound"

"Each household must raise at least one hundred livestock of all kinds every year, one cow and three sheep, which will not cause much damage to them"

"Or they sell cattle and sheep at market prices and pay the same amount of taxes in silver coins. In that case, they will be more relaxed, so let them choose"

"Although the households in our country, whether they are farmers or herdsmen, can definitely be considered light taxes and low taxes compared with the surrounding areas, there is basically no corvee service, and life is much better. Although we established the country through military affairs, we must always keep the people in our hearts."

"Yes"

Hearing this, everyone became serious and naturally showed a reverent look when they looked at Qitad.

Sheling even sighed: "In the past, in the Junggar Khanate, herders would drive cattle and sheep from afar to a certain place every year. Some would take a month on the road. Once they encountered wind and sand, there would be half of the cattle and sheep that were separated."

"It is extremely painful to have to serve Taiji and serve the military service in Taiji. I am also Taiji. I didn't think there was anything wrong with it at that time. Now it seems that the reason why Truqin has achieved this is that Qitad's policy has made great contributions"

Qitade smiled and said, "In the past, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, said, 'Water can carry boats and can overturn boats', which is a famous saying throughout the ages. Everything we are based on the supply of the people. If it weren't for insufficient financial resources, I would also like to exempt the taxes of farmers."

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I want to listen to how Galacanda City is built"

This is the professionalism of Yang Ge, the manager of the construction company. He said: "There are now 20,000 industrial and mining households, plus the construction companies, the total number reaches 30,000. Only a few of them have brought their families. If they bring them all in the future, they will be 30,000 households, at least 100,000 people."

"In addition to future steam engines, locomotives, locomotives, weapons and ammunition factories, there will definitely be 150,000 people"

"After discussion, we prepared to build a city with a tall and thick wall, with a radius of twenty miles..."

Qitade waved his hand quickly, "It's not appropriate, the financial resources here are all subject to central subsidies, and it costs too much to build such a large city"

"I have no objection to twenty miles, but it is unnecessary to be tall and thick. It is deep here in the heart of the prairie, surrounding deserts, grasslands, and hills. It is difficult for the enemy to attack it."

"This is not Europe, and we always face the threat of the same firearms being powerful to the enemy. Therefore, there is no need to build the city walls tall and thick. What enemies can there be here? It is impossible to have them."

"In this way, it's better to be twenty miles tall, the city wall is one zhang high, the base is three meters wide, and the top is one meter wide. After using a lot of concrete, it will be a very solid city wall."

"The buildings in the city are built in large quantities according to the current standard. Just divide the areas of five to seven-story buildings of one color"

"In addition, I will migrate part of the immigrants migrating from the Far East to Astana in the north, where the water and grass conditions are better, and various crops can be planted in large quantities to form a two-city city with Karaganda and rely on each other"
Chapter completed!