Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 338 Reclamation Outside the Pass
The war horses carried a large cart, and the team walked like a long dragon on the frozen wasteland.

This is outside the Guan. Compared with the densely populated Central Plains in the Guan, this place is terribly remote, and the outside of the Guan is bitterly cold. Many Han people cannot accept such an environment. There are only a handful of people who have moved out of the Guan.

However, Bai Mingxiu is very aware of how important the outside of the customs is to China. The Republic used to rely on the industrial base in the Northeast to develop from a backward agricultural country to a large industrial manufacturing country. There are rich coal and iron resources, oil, and more. Thousands of hectares of forest, the Great Northern Wilderness is the treasure house of ecology, and the Great Beida Cang is the granary of the country.

In terms of population pressure, Bai Mingxiu is not too worried that the existing scale of arable land will not be able to feed the people of Daming, not to mention that Luzon, Cochin, Laos and other places have successively started to become new grain producing areas of Daming. Southeast Asian colonies have better hydrothermal conditions.

But the Northeast region is still a place that Bai Mingxiu hopes to cultivate well. He wants Ming people to go to more and farther places to obtain a larger living space.

From the beginning of the reclamation work, it became very difficult.This is pure pioneering, and what is needed is the spirit of daring to fight against the difficult environment, and the ability to endure hardship and stick to this land.

For the soldiers of the garrison regiment, this is not a hard job, because they have been resolutely obeying orders from Bai Mingxiu since they came to this world.So Bai Mingxiu ordered them to go outside the pass, and they were all resolute.

At this time, it was already the twelfth lunar month of winter, and most of the outside of the customs had been frozen.This reclamation force did not intend to advance to further places, but to enter Shenyang first to assist in cleaning up the remnants of the Manchu Qing forces outside the pass, and then to advance further north in the spring.

Lu Shi'an, the commander of the garrison regiment in the northeast, was wrapped in a thick cotton coat and a big sable fur, and the white breath he exhaled seemed to turn into ice.

His political commissar, Xie Qing, was also dressed similarly. As soon as the two met, they quickly got into the temporary military tent. There was a fire in the military tent, giving people some warmth.

Xie Qing held a piece of paper that had been folded twice in his hand, and spread out his frozen fingers clumsily, and placed it in front of Lu Shian: "Commander, this is the news from Heilongjiang. Their activities have become more and more vigilant, they built castles one after another, and harassed the local tribes."

Lu Shi'an took out half a jelly pear from a backpack in the tent, started to eat it, and said, "For the tribes outside the pass, we are probably no different from Lao Maozi."

Xie Qing smiled, noncommittal.He also said: "Manchurians who escaped from Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places have froze to death this winter. Our scouting team has seen Manchurians who died on the side of the road in many places. Some people were even killed by The Oroqen and other tribes were intercepted, robbed their belongings and women, and threw them into the wild. The more organized escapes, it seems that the route should be going to Mongolia, but this road is not easy."

Lu Shi'an smiled and said, "It's not easy to let this group of Tartars who have enjoyed a civilized life go back to the forest. Don't rush to do anything to them, wait until spring comes and it gets warmer, and then do it slowly. "

Lu Shi'an was a little more serious, and said: "Our task is still very difficult. Your Majesty asked us to reclaim outside the customs and expel the Tsarist Russians as much as possible. We don't have any Russian castles like Yaksa left. We have to take it down. We can’t be soft on invaders like the Russians. We have to kill them like Tartars in order to deter these guys. The old men who came to 'expedition' at this time are all f*cking bandits. Regarding the bandits, we must not have any thoughts of being civilized, we must kill them all and deal with them once and for all."

Lu Shi'an and Xie Qing sat in front of the map, pointed to the vast map and said: "The old men in the outer Xing'an Mountains must be driven away, and we even have to go to Lake Baikal to kill the Russians there. People in our army are not There are more than 5 people. We are not only here to fight wars, but also to engage in construction. The preliminary plan is that we will not engage in large-scale concentration, but will use regiments and battalions as units to disperse them throughout the Northeast Plains and forests. Go to the districts and build farms one by one. We can expand them into towns in some relatively superior places. You must know that the real mission of our garrison regiment is not to take care of everything. We are just starting. In the future, there will be more The people of the country came outside the pass.”

On Lu Shi'an's map, hundreds of small dots are marked, all of which are the locations of the reclamation sites that the Northeast Garrison Corps is going to establish. It extends from the Liaohe Plain to the Songnen Plain, and then to the Sanjiang Plain, and even includes the construction of Vladivostok. 's port.

Reclamation is a difficult and lonely thing, but it is extremely important to Daming, and this important task is handed over to the Garrison Army.

"We will continue to expand north and east, Kamchatka, and even Lingbei. The conditions in many places are very difficult. It is even impossible for us to build any large-scale farms. There is no way to set up garrison points and send soldiers to There is a self-reliant garrison there, and a rotation every few years."

Tsarist Russia is constantly advancing to colonize the Far East, and Ming can't just sit back and watch the Tsarist Russians keep appearing at his doorstep. Only by actively expanding to the Lingbei area and establishing strongholds and winter camps can he defend the sovereignty of this area .

The Ming Dynasty has never really established any rule in Lingbei. Even in the 21st century, it is a large barren land with no development. But to Bai Mingxiu, Lingbei is a big treasure house with a lot of mineral resources. It is a precious land resource, and it is also a good entrance to access the Arctic in the future.

In Bai Mingxiu's plan, he would set up the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang outside the Pass, and at the same time set up the Lingbei Xuanwei Division in the area outside the Xing'an Mountains.He did not intend to use such imported words as Siberia, so he naturally followed the name of the Yuan Dynasty.

What Lu Shi'an can do is to try his best to hold on to the key position to determine the Ming Dynasty's sovereignty over the vast area of ​​Lingbei. As for the only competitor, the Tsarist Russians, it is natural to kill them all.In the foreseeable two or three centuries, Lingbei cannot be a core area for the development of Ming Dynasty, but Bai Mingxiu must plan for future generations, so he must take Lingbei.

This winter, the Ming army and the Tsarist Russian bandits were all in their respective strongholds for the winter, but Tsarist Russia didn't know that a powerful army had already made up their minds to wipe them all out.

(End of this chapter)