My Daming New Empire

After Zheng Heng came to the Western Regions, he made great efforts to win over all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, which also made Chen Cheng see his purpose.

At this point, the two people have the same goal, and there is no conflict of interest.

If Lin San and the others hadn't encountered a crisis of annihilation, he would also cooperate with Zheng Heng in Suiye City now.

Lin San and the others listened to Chen Cheng's analysis, and only now did they realize that it turned out that it was an army of stinky people from all over the West who attacked their side.

If it weren't for the inconvenient transportation of supplies in winter, they could send more troops, and it would be even more dangerous at that time.

After the beginning of spring, the North Route Army will send troops, and until the victory of Daming and Timur Kingdom is decided, there is no ability to take care of them for the time being.

Although they are both in the Western Regions, Suiye City and Samarkand are six or seven thousand miles away from Tanglin City. For more than half a year, they must rely on their own strength to defend Tanglin City.

If Daming wins, those stinky people will naturally not dare to come again.But if Daming fails, Tanglin City may be difficult to preserve.

Lin San and Gao Yang'er didn't have the optimism they had in the past few months.

On the way to the Western Regions, they were invincible. Last year, facing the attack of the Bashkirs, they also easily won.

This made them unavoidably arrogant and optimistic. After finding the gold mine, they couldn't wait to send people back to Daming, intending to move all their relatives here.

But this time the entire army was almost wiped out, and it also let them know that now is not the time to be optimistic.

Fortunately, Chen Cheng brought nearly 1 people this time. As long as Lin San and the others can provide enough benefits, these people can stay here temporarily to help them.

Yes, Chen Cheng will not bear all the burdens on himself. Although he has promised the Eastern Chahatai Khanate and the Uzbeks many benefits, most of the remuneration will be borne by Lin San and the others.

If Lin San and the others don't need it, at most they will leave here when the weather gets warmer.

Lin San and Gao Yanger decided to accept Chen Cheng's conditions after discussing for one night.

Gao Yang'er, Hao Yunzhong and the others are already paying attention to several places in the north of Tanglin City that are suitable for building a city. They will start anew when all their manpower arrives.

Therefore, if you can have such a strong army to help you just by sharing some benefits, why would you refuse?

Lin San felt a little distressed, he had finally found a gold mine, and now he had to give up most of the benefits, and he, the city lord, got the least, so how could he be reconciled.

But he knows better that this is a matter of life and death, not a time to worry about money.

The majestic Tang Sai'er directly explained to him: "Third brother, our couple came here with nothing. In order to gain a firm foothold here, now is not the time to care about money. As long as Tang Lincheng is here, Shenmu will be able to earn back in the future."

The next day, Lin San signed the covenant with the Uzbek leader Narel on behalf of Tang Lincheng under the witness of Chen Cheng.

In the 19th year of Yongle, the Uzbeks will send [-] troops to assist Tanglin City against the Slavs in the west and northwest.In addition to being responsible for their food and grass, Lin San also had to hand over [-]% of the entire gold mine's income to the other party.

In fact, this is only part of the treaty, because there is another contract between Daming and the Uzbeks.Daming will send farmers to teach the Uzbeks to grow cotton, and except for the Uzbeks who keep some of the cotton themselves, Daming will underwrite all their cotton.

The Uzbeks wanted Daming to teach them more advanced weaving, but Chen Cheng did not agree to this condition because he has not been authorized now.

In today's countries in the Western Regions, there is no one who does not want to learn the large-scale weaving of the Ming Dynasty.

Their current weaving is still a traditional craft, which is outdated and inefficient.

Unlike Da Ming, they have sufficient manpower, so facing the mountains of cotton, most of them can only be sold to Da Ming.

The rivers in the river area are criss-crossed, and the melted snow on the snow-capped mountains has turned into rivers here.They have abundant water resources.

Moreover, now that Daming already has a steam engine, the steam power is more stable, and various fabrics can be produced in large quantities.

Of course, Ming Dynasty will not disclose the technology of the steam engine for the time being, at least until the countries in the Western Regions can produce steam engines, it will not be made public.

Zheng Heng and Chen Cheng met, also mentioned this issue, and reported the matter to Zhu Zhanji, but Zhu Zhanji's approval has not yet been received.

In their view, Da Ming didn't really care about the hydraulic spinning technology, and it should be possible to approve it.

Transporting cotton from the river to Daming was time-consuming and labor-intensive, taking up too many human resources.

If we can vigorously develop hydraulic spinning in the Hezhong area, we can save a lot of manpower.

But there is a problem with this, and that is competition.

If they can produce their own fabrics, there will be no shortage of fabrics in the entire West. At that time, the tribes in the Hezhong area will become Ming's direct competitors.

However, for Daming, the cloth business is actually not important, because the cloth trade does not account for a large proportion of Daming's trade.

The profit of ten bolts of cloth is not as good as one bolt of silk and satin.

As for the technology of the steam engine, Daming will definitely not authorize it for the time being.

Because this is not just a steam engine technology, but also the basis for upgrading the entire industrial technology.

What's more, the Hezhong area has no ability to produce steam engines.

The countries in the Western Regions have benefited from the Mongolian people's expedition to the west, and have made considerable progress in iron and steel smelting.

But like Daming ten years ago, they can only forge steel, far from smelting.

The temperature of the furnace cannot be reached, and they cannot directly turn iron ore into a solution to make steel.We can only remove the impurities in the iron ore step by step to obtain steel with relatively low purity.

The tank wall of the steam engine is cast as a whole, and they cannot be melted into molten iron, so they can only be spliced ​​together bit by bit. This technology can't even make the gun barrel, let alone the gas tank that is under pressure all the time.

There are also the pipes of the steam engine, which also require higher smelting technology, as well as the gears and other components of the linkage parts, which need to be built by hand, and the cost is astonishingly high.

Daming is not afraid that they will be able to manufacture a steam engine in a short period of time, but he will not let this technology be learned by them.

Chen Cheng had managed the Xiamaqiao Farm, and he knew that Zhu Zhanji attached great importance to the confidentiality of various technologies.

He believes that Daming should properly authorize the current hydraulic textile technology in order to win over the various ethnic groups in the northwest, but it is impossible to authorize the steam engine technology as well.

With the arrival of Chen Cheng and the others, there was also a serious problem, that is, the food crisis.

Since arriving in Tanglin City last summer, Lin San and the others have been developing gold mines and reclaiming land.Coupled with the large number of prey in the forest, enough food for the winter has been prepared.

When they had only 4000 people, there was certainly enough food, but when there were nearly 1 more people, the food was not enough.

However, this problem was a big deal for Lin San and the others, but in Chen Cheng's view, it was very easy to solve.

After Chen Cheng arrived in Tanglin City, because of his high morals, he immediately became the de facto controller.

Whether it was Lin San, Gao Yang'er, Hao Yunzhong, or even the arrogant Tang Sai'er, they all handed over all the power to Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng asked the folks to dig trenches on the frozen soil outside the city to strengthen their defenses, arranged for gold mining by hand, and then sent people to trade with the surrounding Bashkirs.

The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to gold, so that all ethnic groups regard the storage of gold as the most important thing.Because the trade between Daming and them is usually gold as currency. Apart from gold, other kinds of cattle, sheep, and fur are relatively low in value.

Therefore, as long as Lin San has gold in his hands, he can temporarily exchange for a lot of food.

And Chen Cheng's understanding of the major forces on the territory of the Golden Horde is far from what Lin San and the others can compare.