Palawan is a long and narrow island. It is located in the South China Sea and adjacent to the Sulu Sea.
The island is about 450 kilometers long and only 39 kilometers wide at its widest point. It has a zigzag coastline and is surrounded by more than 1,800 small islands and coral reefs.
Until modern times, most of the surrounding islands have remained undeveloped and primitive, so some people describe them as a "Utopia on the Sea."
Palawan Island has primitive towns, pure blue sky and white clouds, and beautiful tropical rain forests. It is a holy place for vacation and tourism.
It is the fifth largest island in the Philippines today, located in the west of the Philippine Islands. It covers an area of about 11,700 square kilometers, about 10 times the area of Hong Kong. It was historically an inherent territory of China.
In modern times, there are 310,000 people here. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were probably 20,000 to 30,000 people. They should all be natives.
Yang Fan has too many places like this in his hands. He is too lazy to go to Hoh Xil to clean up the Khalkhas, as long as they all come out and surrender.
From now on, these capable laborers will be transformed into large and small animal husbandry teams in the Qaidam Basin and live a collective life.
Yang Fan plans to relocate some landless farmers and craftsmen from Shaanxi and Gansu to build Golmud City, Mangya, Dulan and other cities, and Qinghai will be settled.
All the large and small officials and relatives of Chotu Khan, as well as the officers and family members above the rank and file, all migrated to Palawan Island, where they could become island owners under Chinese rule.
Let's seize this land firmly first, so as not to take advantage of Fei Monkey hundreds of years later.
Yang Fan plans to ask the old guy Quetu Khan to set up a coconut juice processing factory on the island. It will provide the Yang family with coconut juice, a drink that the ladies like to drink, and then develop some plantations to plant rubber trees, coffee, black tea, etc.
The coral reefs here are densely covered with delicious grouper. This is also a source of income.
You can grow rice, dry salt, and have manganese mines there. It's actually a good territory and quite wealthy. This is a good place, and Yang Fan can take care of this old guy.
Of course, the premise is that he quickly finds all the people in Hoh Xil to surrender.
As for the paranoid guys like Zangba Khan and Baili Tusi, Yang Fan had no time to deal with them. He was going back to Linhe City. He had already wasted too much time here, and his Western Expedition had already begun.
Now that it is the coldest time of winter, he wants to go back and lead the cavalry army to raid the Great Lakes area of the Zhasak Tuhan tribe. First, kill him before the beginning of spring, and then kill the Tuva people in Tangnu Ulianghai.
After eliminating the threat on the flanks, we will start a war with Mongolia in the desert next spring.
Quetu Khan's family gathered together and wept with joy.
They originally thought that Yang Fan would chop down the men in their family who were taller than a wheel, and then divide the women among them. After all, they were defeated, and they probably wouldn't have a chance to dig up bird droppings.
Now, the Ordos battalion commander from Monan Mongolia sent by Yang Fan told him that not only did he not have to dig out bird droppings, he was also given a piece of land of more than 10,000 square kilometers, which he could inherit hereditary.
The condition was that all his tribesmen should be called out and surrender to Yang Fan Khan.
There is nothing to hesitate about. More than 20,000 herdsmen and strong men have been captured here. Those people have no way out if they don't surrender. Survival is a problem. Either Yang Fan is taken advantage of, or Zangba Khan is taken advantage of.
It's better to trade these people for the future of your family.
It is also a good choice to go to Nanyang and continue to be king.
"My master said, you can take Nayan, herd masters, cavalry leaders, officers at all levels, and their families, a total of two thousand people, with you. They can go to Palawan Island to rule the natives."
"There are about 38,000 natives and more than a hundred tribes there. But they are also very fierce and need to be conquered. Whether they can be conquered depends on your ability." The battalion commander pointed at the map and said.
"Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat shit. When you arrive in a new territory, it depends on your abilities." The battalion commander curled his lips and said, "Don't embarrass the Golden Family."
"If we are not afraid of their ferocity, how can our wolf king on the grassland be afraid of the monkeys in the trees? I will go there and promise to keep watch for the Yang family and suppress those monkeys severely. I will chop down all the men who are taller than the wheels.
, divide the women and give them to our warriors to have children. The children will all be slaves." Quetu Khan immediately patted his chest and promised.
He is a man who can bend and stretch. At this time, the best outcome has been reached. Naturally, he has to express his position quickly and hug the Yang family tightly.
Quitu Khan left with two thousand tribesmen. They rode horse-drawn sledges along the frozen Yellow River and first arrived at Linhe City. Then they changed trains and went to the immigration camp in Tianjin to spend the winter, waiting for the thaw in spring before heading out to sea.
After the sea thawed, a fleet of large ships took them to Palawan Island.
Yang Fan restored the island's original name---Zhenghe Island.
Yang Fan would report to the emperor and add a chieftain.
Quetu Khan will be appointed as the first chieftain of Zhenghe Island.
His descendants need to obtain the approval of the court to inherit the chieftainship. As long as their heirs are not cut off, they can inherit the local rule from generation to generation.
During this period, nearly 20,000 Khalkhas in the Hoh Xil Wasteland came out of the miserable place of Hoh Xil and surrendered. They were moved to the Hehuang Valley area for temporary resettlement.
Yang Fan also ordered the tribes in the Haixi area and Qaidam Basin to migrate to the Hehuang Valley, abandoning most of the areas around Qinghai Lake and the basin. However, many tribes had dissent at this time, and they were originally forced to surrender to Wang Hao
. They are waiting for the arrival of the Heshuote people.
Yang Fan's attitude is to let them take sides and let them make their own choices.
Those who are willing to defect to him will be allowed to settle temporarily in more than a dozen newly built cities. The Yang Mansion will provide food.
Those who choose Gushi Khan will be dealt with after defeating Gushi Khan in the future. Now Yang Fan has no time to deal with these losers.
Because chieftain Baili, Zangba Khan, and the army of Gushi Khan from the Khoshote tribe had surrounded him from three sides.
After Yang Fan dealt with Quetu Khan, he had no time to entangle with them, so he handed over the regional defense tasks of Xining and the thirteen counties in the Hehuang Valley to the cavalry division of Xining and the Us Tibetan Army, allowing them to rely on the city to hold on.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The area of Xining and Hehuang Valley is about 16,000 square kilometers. It is only a very small part of Qinghai's 730,000 square kilometers. It is only half the size of Hainan Island. There are 60,000 infantry and cavalry.
It is enough to rely on the city to defend it. Yang Fan is not worried.
This battle in Qinghai made Yang Fan realize the reality clearly.
His soldiers and horses must stay in Qinghai for a year or two to familiarize themselves with the plateau climate before they can fight in high-altitude areas. Otherwise, they will be like soft-footed shrimps on the plateau and will only be defeated.
There is no need to rush the matter of sending Master back to the Holy City. I am afraid it will take a few years.
After the soldiers and horses have adapted to the climate conditions, it will not be too late to launch a large-scale attack. In addition, in two years, Uzang horses will also breed in large numbers. By then, there will be more cavalry.
Yang Fan, Wang Hao, and Yan Yingyuan carefully discussed the issue of the Heshuote people entering the Qaidam Basin and how to hold on after the arrival of Baili Chieftain and Zangba Khan's troops.
After the meeting, he was ready to go back. This place was completely left to them.
"You don't have to go out to fight, just stick to one corner. Qinghai is so big, and each of them is ambitious. The Hehuang Valley is adjacent to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. It is also so small, they can't attack your city for a long time, and they are eager to carve it up.
Qinghai, you have to fight yourself." Yang Fan said.
"Wait until they are exhausted, then defeat them one by one."
Wang Hao and Yan Yingyuan nodded. The Heshuote people supported the master. They were just competing with Yang Fan for control of the master. There was a conflict on this point.
Zangba Khan supported the Kagyu sect and firmly opposed the master's entry into the Zangzang.
Baili Tusi is even more unreliable, that is, he is a Bon believer who opposes any party. He is the most stubborn.
The three of them seem to be inseparable, but are currently united because of Yang Fan's strength.
After Yang Fan left, the Henghuang Valley area was small and the garrison force was sufficient. It was an agricultural area below three thousand meters, and the low altitude was conducive to the Han people's fighting. There were also waterways connected by the Yellow River and the Huangshui River, and there were many fortified cities built in the past two years.
Can't beat it down.
It won't be long before they can't help but want to carve up Qinghai and start a fight among themselves.
"Okay, you can play with them by yourself. I will go back tomorrow. I will give you ten years to bring the entire snow area under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, including those small countries in the south of Shannan such as Gorkha, Ladakh, Kashmir and Hindustan
Are there any problems in the Kush Mountain area?" Yang Fan asked.
Wang Hao and Yan Yingyuan immediately stood up and shouted loudly: "Commander, please rest assured, I humbly promise to complete the task."
Yang Fanshi must completely occupy this snow area and leave it to Yan Yingyuan to manage. From now on, the affairs of the Ming Dynasty have nothing to do with Yan Yingyuan. He only needs to concentrate on getting the snow area done. Wang Hao managed Qinghai in the early days to provide his backing, etc.
When the situation stabilizes, he will be transferred and given other important responsibilities.