At this time, Emir Dust Muhammad Khan, who was handling government affairs in the palace, also received news from the north.
The southern territory of the Kokand Khanate was already bordering the Barakzai Dynasty. There were close contacts between the two.
When he learned that the Bukhara Khanate had also intervened in the affairs of the Kokand Khanate, to be honest, Dust was also moved and wanted to get involved.
The Kokand Khanate is known as the richest country in Central Asia, which is a big fat piece of meat.
But before Barakzai's army could gather, news had been received that all 20,000 Bukhara cavalrymen had been wiped out.
The combat effectiveness of the Chinese army can simply be described as terrifying.
This made Dusit Emir feel very happy.
Similarly, he also found officials from the Lifan Yuan and promised to send a congratulatory mission to China immediately.
China already borders the Barakzai Dynasty from the northeast, and Durant has to reconsider his relationship with China.
Maybe it would be a good idea to develop commercial relations with China. There is no problem in becoming a vassal state of China. China has always been very relaxed towards vassal states.
Moreover, the Barakzai dynasty needed the support of China to resist the British invasion from the south.
By a strange combination of circumstances, China replaced Tsarist Russia and became the British competitor in Central Asia.
Dong Shuheng did not consider that his layout in Central Asia would offend the two major Western countries.
But Central Asia is right on the edge of China's Western Region, and China has to control it.
Competition between major powers is like this. Sometimes you have to do everything, and sometimes you have to do it.
Durst thinks this is a good thing, at least the Barakzai dynasty has more and more leverage against the British.
From 1839 to 1842, almost at the same time as the First Opium War of the Qing Dynasty, the Barakzai Dynasty had already resisted a British invasion of the Barakzai Dynasty.
Although that confrontation was successful, the Barakzai dynasty suffered heavy losses.
Now that this new China has come to recruit him, King Dust feels that this will be an excellent opportunity.
Now the three remaining countries in Central Asia, the Khiva Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate and the Barakzai Dynasty, have all claimed vassal status on China.
Next, if China wants to consolidate its power in Central Asia, it must reject Tsarist Russia in the north and build the Balakzai Kingdom into a buffer zone with the British Empire in the south.
In the west, it is necessary to make good friends with the Qajar dynasty of Persia and reach an alliance with them to jointly fight against Tsarist Russia. Because the Qajar dynasty has been confronting Tsarist Russia on the east and west sides of the Caspian Sea, and the two sides are like fire and water.
Although the Qajar dynasty of Persia has declined, it is still an old empire.
The history of Persia is almost as long as the history of China.
The Persian Empire experienced several glories in history, and of course it was also completely conquered by other nations.
But the culture of the Persian Empire was still passed down. Even though Persia has now embraced Christianity, they still retain Persian culture.
Including the three Central Asian countries that are now vassal states of China, they are actually all countries in the Persian cultural circle. Of course, Persia has long been unable to continue to control these three countries due to its own national strength.
Soon Liu Qingbei will arrive in Persia to discuss cooperation with Persia. Dong Shuheng is full of expectations for Liu Qingbei's diplomatic trip.
Considering that it is impossible to become friends with emerging countries such as Britain, France and Russia, because they are bound to have conflicts with China on the issue of expansion.
Dong Shuheng formulated a strategy of "supporting the old and suppressing the new" for China's diplomatic strategy.
According to this strategy, China will strengthen diplomatic cooperation with established empires such as Persia and Turkey that are still independent.
Provide conditional support to them through trade, making it more difficult for imperialist countries such as Britain and Russia to invade them.
In Europe, efforts are made to develop relations with countries controlled by European kingdoms such as Austria and Prussia. The same is done to develop trade activities with them.
For the Americas, China mainly exported people, increased the presence of Chinese in the local area, and united with the native Americans to fight against the descendants of European immigrants.
In North America, China's layout in the west has begun to take shape, and it is still maintaining a low-key development method. That is because Dong Shuheng is waiting for an opportunity.
From John Cena's mouth, Dong Shuheng got a lot of secrets about the fight between the North and the South.
John Cena represents the interests of the southern United States. He stayed for a while after returning to China, and now he has secretly returned to China.
He didn't expect that when he came back this time, Dong Shuheng would become the master of this big empire.
This result could not help but make John Cena sigh. He was proud of his original decision. He was just a matchmaker and didn't pay much, but he gained the friendship of a big country.
Although Dong Shuheng is still called the president, John has not heard that there is a parliament in this country.
This is a president whose power is higher than that of the emperor.
John Cena spoke highly of President Pierce in front of Dong Shuheng. He said that President Pierce must be willing to develop relations with China.
The reason why John Cena praised Pierce so deeply was because President Pierce was a northerner who sympathized with the political views of the South.
In 1854, last year, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing open slavery in the two states.
This bill declared that the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were invalid and that the implementation of slavery should not be subject to any geographical restrictions. The decision of what kind of system to implement in newly developed areas should be left to local residents or their representatives, which is the so-called "principle of civilian sovereignty."
Kansas and Nebraska were both new states developed by the United States in the Great Plains region west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains.
The North and the South have been arguing endlessly about whether slavery should be practiced in these places.
Moreover, immigrants from the north and south of these two states moved in. The people in the south used the slaves in their hands to build plantations on a large scale. Naturally, they took advantage of the development and enclosure of land.
Those immigrants in the north had to develop the land with their own hands.
Attitudes toward slavery evolved into conflicts over land interests.
In this way, a small war broke out between slaveholders and anti-slavery activists for control of Kansas.
Although this war is not a big one, it has not stopped yet.
President Pierce took the stand of the Southerners and sent troops to suppress immigrants who opposed slavery.
This is why John Cena praised President Pierce so highly here.
Finally, John Cena revealed the purpose of his trip. He wanted to establish direct trade ties with China on behalf of the southern states.
Businessmen in the United States have a very keen sense of smell, whether they are from the south or the north.
They knew that China had been importing a large amount of materials from Nanyang, and the grain and mineral resources among them were the products that the southerners wanted Dong Shuheng to recommend this time.
Of course, considering the current transportation costs, it is not cost-effective to just trade grain.
The southern states are also important producing areas of cane sugar and cotton, and the added value of cane sugar and cotton is much higher.
Dong Shuheng is not disgusted with this. China is still in the construction period. Although China has a lot of land, many of these lands have not been developed. Meeting domestic needs cannot be achieved overnight.
At this time, it is very important to find a stable import place outside Nanyang.
Moreover, China can also export many things to the southern states of the United States. Not to mention China's traditional silk, tea and porcelain.
Some new products developed by China in the past two years, such as animal-powered agricultural machinery, can be exported to southern states.
According to the ideas provided by Dong Shuheng, Huaxia has made many innovations in the field of machinery manufacturing in the past two years.
We have created a number of things that are not available in the West, but are very practical.
For example, tricycles, horse-drawn tillers, seeders, foot-operated threshers, etc.
There is another reason that prompted Dong Shuheng to have good relations with the southern states. He was originally prepared to favor the south in the event of a war between the north and the south, because historically the south was weaker.
One Europe will be enough for China to endure. If there is a complete United States as a back garden for Europeans, then China's future road to hegemony will be full of thorns.
For North America, Dong Shuheng has already planned a preliminary goal.
Alaska is now basically occupied by China except for the Juneau area in the southeast. The reason why the Juneau area is left alone for the time being is to not touch the interests of the British for the time being.
Alaska will be placed under the direct jurisdiction of China in the future.
It is very difficult to directly bring the western China under the jurisdiction of the United States. Dong Shuheng’s goal is to ensure that the west of the Rocky Mountains becomes at least a country with Chinese as the main body.
In this way, China will have two forces on the North American continent, which can respond to each other from the north to the south.
The best thing east of the Rocky Mountains is to separate into two countries. When the United States becomes three countries, I wonder if it can achieve the achievements of later generations?
This meeting with John Cena made Dong Shuheng feel that he was one step closer to his goal.
It will be easier to handle it in South America. With my brother there and the support of China, it is definitely not a dream to build a huge Chinese and Indian empire.
As for those weak countries in South America, it’s not that Dong Shuheng looks down on them, there are really not many of these countries that can beat them.
Some people worry about whether there will be differences between the Chinese and Indians in the future.
This is inevitable, but how many Indians are there in South America? How many Indians have been civilized? With the continuous immigration of China, South America will definitely still have Chinese people assimilating Indians in the future.
There will only be one major nation in the future - Huaxia.
Then there is only Africa left. Dong Shuheng can't stretch his hand that far yet.
But the Prussians had already obtained colonies in Africa. According to the agreement reached between Dong Shuheng and Prince Adalbert, the Huaxia Society and Prussia jointly developed these colonies.
When the time comes, the people who will immigrate and develop the local area will definitely be the Chinese. Prussia is equivalent to using land as shares, and they only need to get profits.
The Asia strategy has been mentioned before.
Europe is now a civilized country, and China has no way to get involved.
But China can also make good use of the conflicts between them.
Dong Shuheng met John Cena in Shanghai. Why was he in Shanghai?
After entering August, Dong Shuheng felt that he was almost busy with things in Xinjing, so he arranged a trip to the south for himself.
This time he returned to his hometown as the head of state.
Traveling along the canal from north to south, his first stop was to inspect Tanggu New City under construction.
An industrial zone is rising here. Factories under construction can be seen everywhere. Some factories built earlier have already begun production.
Now that China has just been established, the government has poured out a lot of money, which has directly boosted domestic demand. The sales of various daily necessities are more popular than ever.
Therefore, some shrewd businessmen have long been optimistic about such business opportunities and started construction and production as soon as possible to try to sell their goods at a good price.
Dong Shuheng took the time to visit the newly put into use salt field in the Changlu area. This is his old business. The most famous sea salt in southern China is Huaiyan salt, because it is close to Yangzhou and the salt here has the widest sales.
The salt-producing areas in the north are the Changlu Salt Fields. They were also the locations of the two largest salt transport yamen during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.
Now there are no salt collectors here in Changlu. Some people have divided their fields and become farmers, and some salt collectors have become employees of the new Changlu Salt Company. Their lives are much better than before.
Dong Shuheng affirmed Liu Wenjin’s achievements in economic construction.
Liu Wenjin was also grateful in his heart that it was a wise move to bet on Dong Shuheng.
If a person wants to achieve good development, he must not only be able to do things, not only have the ability, but also must have good eyesight and be able to follow the right people.
At the second stop, he went to Shandong area, mainly visiting Heze.
The originally hilly area in western Shandong now has a large swamp appearing out of thin air, which makes people lament the great changes.
Du Hui accompanied Dong Shuheng throughout the visit to this major Yellow River control project.
Dong Shuheng was shocked when he first saw this Daze. Because summer has just passed, the water storage in Daze is basically at the highest level in the year.
Therefore, the lake area is also at its largest.
Dong Shuheng and his party boarded a steamboat at a pier in Daze. As the whistle blew, the steamboat slowly sailed into Daze.
From time to time, you can still see small islands appearing in the swamp. Du Hui explained that they were the original Guzi.
A mountain with steep sides and a relatively flat top is called Gu here in Shandong.
This is a terrain feature here in western Shandong.
At this time, the people on Guzi had already moved away. Because it was surrounded by the water of Daze, it was no longer so dry on Guzi. And no one was taking care of it now. The vegetation on Guzi was lush and lush.
From a distance, the lush greenery reflected on the lake is exceptionally beautiful.
Groups of wild ducks and some unknown waterfowl reacted quickly. As soon as people left these guzi, they had already made their home here.
These isolated islands in the swamp are a paradise for waterfowl.
"Du Hui, when your Ministry of Water Resources has free time, you will prepare a draft on environmental protection around Daze and submit it to the legal department, which will be issued by the government. The environment here must be protected. It must be built into a city that benefits Shandong and Henan.
water source.”
Dong Shuheng walked around this large lake and felt that it looked a bit like Qiandao Lake, but Heze was much larger than Qiandao Lake.
Dong Shuheng feels that this place will definitely become an important tourist attraction in the north in the future. But there is no need to think about it for now. The Chinese people are still struggling for food and clothing.
Dong Shuheng visited some ordinary farmers in Shandong. The staple food of many families is sweet potato pancakes.
Shandong people love to eat pancakes, but ordinary families still can't eat white flour pancakes. Most people slice sweet potatoes and dry them in the sun and grind them into flour pancakes.
Their main food is a paste made from mashed soybeans, corn, peanuts and part of wheat and sweet potato pancakes.
Dong Shuheng knew that the people he saw were already living a relatively good life. Those who were too poor would probably be too embarrassed to take him to see them.
Dong Shuheng promised to spend three years to solve the problem of food and clothing, so that all Chinese people can eat.
Now it seems that the task is still very arduous. Long-term war, backward farming technology and the imbalance of population and land in the vast inland areas are the main culprits causing hunger.
Now people across the country have basically said goodbye to the war, and only a few areas still have these bandits.
The promotion of agricultural technology cannot be achieved overnight and needs to be rolled out slowly. China has established some guano fertilizer factories on the southeast coast and in Yazhou, Hainan. The guano fertilizer collected from surrounding islands is continuously transported to these factories for processing.
Guano fertilizers from South America are also continuously transported to China.
Nowadays, collecting guano has become an emerging industry in coastal areas. Many people jointly buy a wooden sailboat that can sail offshore to find uninhabited islands to collect guano.
Traces of the Chinese people have appeared on the islands in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. They built simple houses on the islands and reefs, and each collection took several days. However, the provincial Chinese government went to the islands to declare sovereignty.
As for the problem of population and land imbalance, the Chinese government has been working on it. This can only be solved through immigration. But immigration requires the country to invest a lot of resources, and it cannot be done in one step.
This year, due to water conservancy construction in Shandong, the cost of immigration has already exceeded the standard.
In order to alleviate this problem, the Chinese government has also introduced a policy to encourage self-immigration.
The government has designated some places, such as outside the customs, the Western Regions, Nanyang, the Far East... these places can accept immigrants. As long as you arrive there, you can obtain land for free and even get a little subsidy with the immigration certificate issued when you left your place of origin.
For some places that already have some development foundations, those who immigrated on their own can find a job and work first. After they have established a foothold, they can then claim their own land.
In order to restrict the resale of the land allocated to immigrants, China's "Land Law" specifically stipulates that the land allocated to immigrants is not allowed to be traded within fifty years.
There is also a provision that if the allocated land is not effectively reclaimed within two years, the state will permanently take back the land.
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