Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 459 Volga

Fei Yanggu, Dai Peng and Chenglin galloped on the vast plains with abundant water and grass.

This is the Volga River Basin. It is spring and summer, the most vibrant time on the grassland.At this time, the Volga River Plain was not yet Russia's granary. In fact, Russia's control of this land was very recent. At the end of the 16th century, the Russians built military castles in this area, but there was no substantial development or settlement. .This area is mainly populated by Green Christian nomads, including the Torgut tribe who migrated from Mongolia in the Mongolia.

This is an area with great potential and value, but not much development.Now Fei Yanggu led his Xiqing here.

"This is really a good place. The water and grass are abundant. Not only can it be used for grazing, but it can also be used for farming. There are no too strong enemies here. It is suitable for establishing a foundation."

Chenglin glanced at the commander and raised a practical question very inappropriately: "But the Ming army will not let us stay in the Volga River Basin for a long time."

Both Fei Yanggu and Dai Peng fell into silence for a while.

This kind of silence is also mixed with many different emotions, including humiliation and unwillingness, and helplessness.

Not long ago, the Ming army commander Su Shuhuan, who had been chasing them for a year, sent them another letter. The content of the letter was very simple, just hammering, telling them not to miss the date and go west quickly. .Su Shuhuan also emphasized that the Volga River Basin belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and they could only stay here for a short time.

When Fei Yanggu read the letter, he tore it up angrily, but he still moved westward with his large team.Although his followers have now exceeded one million, he still has no confidence in a decisive battle with Daming.The fierce battle at Uliasutai had killed his courage.Moreover, as the population increased, Western Qing began to become more and more difficult to manage. A large number of slaves fled, various rebellions occurred from time to time, and the market for supplies was scarce. Fei Yanggu knew that he must quickly find a stable base and put down his base up.

Cheng Lin has always played the role of being loyal to Fei Yanggu, but in fact it is all for the interests of Daming. At this time, he suggested to Fei Yanggu: "Although the Volga River Plain is good, it is a land with little development after all. To establish an empire here is extremely unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty. To the north is Moscow, the most densely populated and best-equipped area in Tsarist Russia. After occupying this place, we will not have to continue this kind of migration life."

In Su Shuhuan's letter to Fei Yanggu, it has been clearly stated that the area that Ming allowed them to stay is the area west of the upper reaches of the Don River-Oka River-Volga River, and the vast area east of this artificial border line. Even if no colonies were established, as long as people with money tails moved here, they would definitely be attacked by the Ming army.

The dividing line drawn by Bai Mingxiu has been carefully considered.He needs a more natural demarcation line, that is, rivers or mountains, but he does not intend to directly demarcate the Ural Mountains or the Ural River, because he does not intend to give up the great value of the Lower Volga Plain.Bai Mingxiu's main purpose was to get Fei Yanggu to help him clean up the Russians, so he agreed with Xiqing to use Tsarist Russia as his base.

Bai Mingxiu actually still had a lot of doubts about this strategy of driving away tigers and devouring wolves.The biggest point is that Feiyanggu fought all the way from the Mongolian Plateau to Eastern Europe. He basically killed all areas such as Mongolia and Inner Asia. These places are now huge population vacuum areas. If the Ming Dynasty could not help If it is quickly occupied and operated, other ethnic groups may take advantage of the situation and move in. This is something Bai Mingxiu does not want to see.So at least in the border areas, Bai Mingxiu decided to fill the population.

As a golden finger, Bai Mingxiu has no good solution, so he plans to directly recruit 100 million garrison troops to operate in Inner Asia and Eastern Europe.This kind of colonization and construction activities will be mainly concentrated on the borders between Daming and other countries, such as the border areas with Persia, the Mughal Empire and the Western Qing Dynasty, where a series of towns will be built, while the relatively large inland areas , then do not do too much work for the time being, at most build good roads to reach the Western Regions Province and Mobei Province.

Fei Yanggu said at this time: "I heard that Zhu Ming conducted a round-the-world voyage similar to Zheng He's voyage to the West, with hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of people participating."

Dai Peng still said frankly: "That Han emperor has really big thoughts, we can't compare."

Feiyanggu was filled with great jealousy at this time. He said: "It doesn't matter, as long as we take down Tsarist Russia, rebuild the empire in Eastern Europe, and expand our power to the whole of Europe in the future, then we will also have the strength to be like Zhu Ming." It’s better than ever. Now we have to keep a low profile and endure the humiliation, but one day in the future, we will soar into the sky and make the Han people afraid again!”

Cheng Lin said: "Most of the tribes on this side of the Volga River have heard that we are murderous, so when we arrived, they all chose to join us, hoping that we would not turn them into slaves."

A cold light flashed in Fei Yanggu's eyes: "Let them follow us with an independent tent first, and then we will take action against these guys when we pacify Tsarist Russia. The Central Plains is also because of the strict organization and complete discipline of the Eight Banners. Today we rebuild the Eight Banners to achieve this state. It is meaningless to loosely let the tribes surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Our government orders can be conveyed to everyone, every small It means that we can control the country. I have also studied the agricultural cooperative system of the Ming people, and it does have its advantages. We must learn from each other's strengths and settle down in the future. All banners and cattle records must have similar layouts. , How to do production and how to engage in industry must form its own system.”

Cheng Lin nodded, and was amazed in his heart. Fei Yanggu is really not in vain. He sees problems very thoroughly. This is actually the so-called numerical management. The method is to completely control the country, and the reason why Ming Dynasty is strong is because all the grassroots organizations have penetrated and can mobilize every ounce of power.Fei Yanggu also took a fancy to this point, and now he hopes to reproduce the management methods of the grassroots organizations of Ming Dynasty through the method of the Eight Banners.

(End of this chapter)