Mo Zhui got out of the car with his wife. He planned to go back to the desert to discuss recruiting soldiers and horses with his old father-in-law. He planned to recruit 500 families in this desert and take them to the Buryat region.
These people are all old neighbors of his father-in-law and his wife. It is unimaginable for people to survive in the wilderness without helping each other. We often need to communicate with each other and get through difficult times together.
If there is a good place to go, they will not live in the wilderness.
In fact, the better places are already occupied.
Wherever a tribe can be supported, a tribe will survive.
Therefore, only savannas and Gobi wilderness, places that can only support the survival of one family of herders within ten kilometers, will form such a situation.
There are no good opportunities to stay here, just to survive. Who doesn't want greater development? It has become increasingly dry over the years, and it has become difficult to survive here. Everyone is struggling to survive.
It's just that this is a zone where the Ming Dynasty, the Junggars, the Hoshuotes, and the Alxa Mongols don't care. There is no persecution from the harsh government, and there is no war, which is why they fled here and struggled to survive.
Seeing that Mo Zhui had regained the master's trust, Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, they didn't think there was anything wrong with Mo Zhuo killing that bastard family. The only thing he did wrong was to use the Yang family's army. Otherwise, they wouldn't even ask.
"Master, what are we going to do now?" Xiao Niangpi came over and looked at Yang Fan and asked.
"Aren't you going to Turpan? There are still heavily guarded by the Heshuote people there. We will first go to the terminal, Hami, and then send troops to attack Turpan. We will defeat the Heshuote people there. Then we will march eastward to the Dihua area."
The train continued to move, heading west towards the final destination of Hami City. That is currently the westernmost railway station. Although the railway is still extending forward and being built westward, the Heshuote Department is not far ahead.
Territory.
It has entered the core area of Mongolia in the desert. Turpan is a heavily defended fortress of the Heshuote people. They are also afraid of the Ming Dynasty's westward advance. After all, Yang Fan beat them hard. They are full of fear of the Yang family. Currently, the Komodo area
The garrison is the stone weighing on their heads.
Hami is the most western city currently controlled by Yang Fan. Hami Guard was built in the fourth year of Yongle (1406). It is one of the three major border intelligence centers of the Ming Dynasty. It is mainly responsible for collecting intelligence from Central Asia. But in fact, during the Zhu Zhanji era
Later, it became a Mi system state ruled by King Hami.
The Hami kings had a Ming generation, from 1380 to 1503, and passed down fifteen generations in total. The Hami royal family has been extinct for more than 130 years, and now this old city is under the control of Yang Fan.
This old city built in the early Ming Dynasty has rammed earth walls built during the Yongle period.
The old city built in the early Ming Dynasty is the only channel from the mainland to Xinjiang. Its strategic location is very important.
In the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Hami had a perimeter of three to four miles. There was a stream flowing southwest to the east of the city, mountains to the north, and flat areas on three sides.
It is more than 1,600 miles away from Suzhou (Jiuquan) in the east and about a thousand miles away from Huozhou (Turpan) in the west. It was the transportation hub of the Western Regions at that time.
This place was the land of Yizhou in the Tang Dynasty, and it was an important place for the exchanges between the barbarians in the northwest. Its people were many rough and tough, and anyone who passed through this place would have to ask for a horse. The Mongolians and Hui were mixed here, and their clothes, etiquette and customs were different.
Now the ancient city has been renovated by the Yang family's garrison.
Yang Fan has already announced the resettlement of the Hami Guard.
Chongzhen continued to torment Yang Fan to the northwest and had already given up on treating him.
Anyway, I won’t give you any money, so you can get it if you want.
When Yang Fan stayed in the interior, he felt uneasy and went out to harm the Mongols, which was exactly what he wanted.
It would be best if the Yang family and Mongolian Mongolia consume each other, and both sides suffer losses. That would be perfect.
The last time Yang Fan came back, he directly recruited rebels and defeated Huang Taiji, making him feel threatened.
He did not want Yang Fan to increase his land within the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty. He also did not want him to develop his power south of the Great Wall.
The Yang family's piece of land in Zunhua is the maximum he can tolerate.
It has actually become an independent kingdom, and the people there are all Yang Fan's domestic slaves. They only know the Yang Mansion and despise the imperial court. It has almost become a country within a country.
Every time he looked at the information compiled by Luo Yangxing about the Yang family, he felt like a light was on his back.
Now on the bookshelf behind his big table in Xinuang Pavilion, there are more than a dozen information collection books about the Yang family that have been bound into volumes.
Yang Fan already has half a million slaves in his household.
Including dependent farmers and tenants, the population is conservatively estimated to exceed four million!
No one knows how many private soldiers he has.
How much money he has, we can know from the queen, at least it is richer than him.
This does not include the group of workers he hired.
The overseas power is still unknown, but Chongzhen is estimated to be not small.
He can no longer deal with Yang Fan now. He can only deal with it carefully and not make Yang Fan develop a disobedient heart. Once Yang Fan goes against him, it will be very dangerous.
In the past, he could use political tactics to continuously deprive Yang Fan of his military power. But now, Yang Fan no longer has any soldiers from the imperial court. They are all servants and private soldiers of various names.
Apart from his actual position as Suiyuan Dusi, he no longer had much to do with the imperial court.
When he thought of these, he hated Dong Lin very much.
Rehe has been ruined by them.
Now, from the Nurul Tiger Mountain in western Liaoning to the Hami Desert, the entire north of the Great Wall has become the territory of the Yang family.
After the slave invasion, the new dynasty that he had worked so hard to manage completely collapsed. The army suffered huge losses, and he no longer had the strength to send enough troops to unexpectedly garrison the Great Wall.
The limited forces can only be reduced and concentrated along the Great Wall and in the important areas of Gyeonggi.
Yang Fan's special train stopped at Hami Station. From here, you can see Hami New City not far away.
This new city was built with stone walls quarried from the mountains in the north using explosives.
The city wall made of granite and cement is seven meters high, three meters wide at the bottom and 1.5 meters wide at the top.
The new city is three thousand meters square, surrounding the ancient city and forming an inner city.
Hami Station is just outside the east gate. On the east side of the station square is the east gate of Hami New Town. On the west side is the railway freight yard. On the south side is the bus station. On the north side is the warehouse area.
Construction in the city has not yet been completed, roads and buildings are being built everywhere, drainage pipes are being buried, etc.
Now Hami City has become the Yang family's largest material and personnel transportation base in the Western Region. The permanent population here has exceeded 100,000. Many items needed by the front line that can be produced here have been transferred here to supply the front line nearby.
The industry here began to take off and business gradually became prosperous. Many businessmen from the mainland also came here to look for opportunities.