My Daming New Empire

The coalition forces did not have the courage to break through when most of their troops were preserved and their supplies were sufficient.

The remaining [-] soldiers equipped with repeating guns, together with other troops, headed north all the way to relieve the siege of Black Rock City.

From the delta of the Kama River, it is six hundred miles to the north of Black Rock City.If it is in the Guan, the distance of [-] miles has separated several states and counties, but in the area south of the Ural Mountains, where the vast land is sparsely populated, there are only a few residential areas on the way here.

From here to Black Rock City, the most convenient way was to go through the Kama River, but now there are no ships that can carry tens of thousands of soldiers.

Now that the coalition forces have been surrounded, they have no threat in a short time. Tang Sai'er plans to arrive at Black Rock City in four days, and first eliminate the group of coalition soldiers who have not set up their positions yet.

Zhu Zhanji, who was far away in Yingtianfu, immediately got the news that Tang Sai'er and the others had an absolute advantage on the battlefield. For him, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who possessed bursting guns did not surprise him with such a record. .

As long as they don't fall into the enemy's encirclement, as long as they have enough ammunition, [-] soldiers equipped with repeating guns can definitely sweep the entire Europe.

Although he has been controlling He Zhongjun and Tang Saier's wretched development, in fact, he is still very interested in the land east of Ukraine.

First of all, Ukraine is the breadbasket of the whole of Europe. Although the number of people in Europe is still small, Poland, a powerful European country, and Hungary in the south have enough food to eat.

But without the granary of Ukraine, it is absolutely impossible for the number of people in Europe to develop.

Population is resources, and population is strength.If the number of whites has been kept below 2000 million, they will not be a threat to the Chinese in another 500 years.

In contrast, Ukraine's iron ore and Baku's oil are not that important.

Zhu Zhanji never revealed this plan, not because he didn't trust his ministers, but because the timing was not ripe.

Across the desert, the Gobi Desert, and the Tianshan Mountains in the northwest, Daming's control over the northwest gradually stabilized after the railway was built.

Moreover, no one came from Daming.

Because the development of Daming Pass is so good, even if the people of Daming want to immigrate, they will only immigrate to Dongzhou.

There are countless fertile lands that no one cultivates. As long as you have a little family money and buy a few harvesters and planters, you can become a rich farmer there.

But what about the Northwest?

Only the land can be cultivated by the people, but the climate here is bitter and cold, and only one season of grain can be harvested a year.

There are rich forest resources and mineral resources here, but these resources belong to the imperial court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and no one can mine or cut them down without permission.

Therefore, there has always been a lack of selling points to attract the common people. Only some desperadoes and lazy men who want to make a fortune would want to come here to pan for gold.

What's more, there is the threat of war there.

The imperial court has been pushing Han Chinese to immigrate to the West, but very few people are willing to go.

Slow population growth was the biggest bottleneck for the westward development of Daming.

No people occupied the land there, even if the army fought it down, they still had to give up in the end.

Otherwise, Zheng Neng and Lin San would not have waited for the next generation to grow into talents before starting to expand westward.

Even so, in the area west of Siberia, the number of Han Chinese in the three cities in the extreme west is no more than 100 million.

On a land of millions of square kilometers, there are less than one million Chinese living, and there is not even one person in one square kilometer.

Not to mention the occupation of Moscow and Kiev, Tang Saier expanded five hundred miles west, and the number of people could not keep up.

Zhu Zhanji once thought about continuing to use court laws to force immigration, such as sending more troops and their families over.

But the land in the far west is not like the river. The tribes here are very weak, and they have a good impression of the Han people who do not oppress them. They are willing to trade with the Han people in exchange for salt and seasoning, and obey the arrangements of the Han people.

If a governor is arranged here, because there are no internal troubles but only foreign enemies, the court can only support him to increase his strength, which will make the opponent support himself.

The conditions in the Governor's Mansion in the river are not as good as here. Although the climate conditions there are better, most of the land is deserted.

Moreover, in the middle of the river, there are millions of tribes and small countries of various ethnic groups.

The Governor's Mansion in Hezhong has to deal with the disputes of various ethnic groups internally, and externally to resist the threat of Persian tribes and white tribes.

Even so, Zheng Hong still had the will to stand on his own. If it was the Far West, there would only be a warlord who was more difficult to control than Zheng Hong.

Of course, these are still minor points. The key issue is that after the railway was repaired, the various systems of the Ming army tended to be perfected.

Today's regular soldiers are all recruits who are literate, and the number is greatly reduced compared to the past. It is difficult to implement if they want to recruit people.

And if such outstanding talents are forced to come to the bitter cold land in the far west, no one can say whether they will hate the court because of it.

Therefore, for the time being, Zhu Zhanji can only provide Jixi with a superior tax environment to attract more people to come and trade, and then allow the locals to slowly increase the population.

This matter cannot be rushed, anyway, there are now more than 100 million Han people in the Governor's Mansion in Hezhong, and more than 100 million Han people in the Far West.These 300 million people are stuck between the Ural Mountains and the Volga River, and the land here cannot be lost.

If a white man dared to cross the bottom line of the Ural Mountains, Zhu Zhanji would definitely not mind mobilizing an army and killing him with blood flowing into rivers.

"Your Majesty, Wang Cong, Admiral of Yilan City, Wu Keqin, Admiral of Tungus City, and Xue Yao, Governor of Beiming Mountain are all asking for a fight. I hope Your Majesty can make up your mind on how to respond to this matter."

Daming has been peaceful for too long, those military generals and nobles have no battles, so they can't make meritorious deeds and can't be promoted to nobles.

Although he appreciates their willingness to take the initiative to fight, Zhu Zhanji will not easily hand over the gradually recovered military power to the generals.

Zhu Zhanji has been planning to separate the generals, and the generals will take turns stationing in different areas to prevent them from supporting their own self-respect.

The frontier areas are afraid to move now, and the places outside the pass have not been moved, but the current generals in the pass area are rotated every three years.

Before this policy matures, he will not give tiger charms to the generals outside the pass for the time being.

Looking at Chen Shu in front of him, Zhu Zhanji said: "Return the telegram to let them be calm. Now that the three cities of Tanglin have the upper hand, they don't need to send troops. Has the second batch of bursting guns been delivered now?"

"Nearly [-] repeating guns have been produced in the past few months, but the production of bullets is too slow to supply. Last month, the ammunition factory exploded, killing hundreds of people, and the production is even slower. Now only Less than a million bullets were fired."

Although Daming now uses safety explosives to produce bullets, the production of safety explosives is extracted from various flammable and explosive raw materials.

Like picric acid, mercury fulminate, nitrocellulose, and nitroglycerin are all explosive raw materials that need to be cautious.

The explosives factory located on Jiangxin Island in the Yangtze River has experienced many explosions.In many cases, accidents are not caused by manual operation errors. Those raw materials will explode when they encounter high temperature or are closed for a long time.

However, the accident this time was caused by Zhu Zhanji's rush to work by the Ministry of Industry. The bullet molds in the factory had some deviations after being used for a long time.

With this slight deviation, it is possible to spark when the warhead and the ammunition-filled cartridge case are assembled.

After the large-scale accident that caused hundreds of deaths, Zhu Zhanji no longer dared to let the craftsmen rush to work, so he could only let people add two more production lines.

Zhu Zhanji pondered for a while and said: "Escort all the bullets and [-] muskets to Tanglin City and deliver them to Cheng Amber. In addition, the frontier troops in various places will replace the new muskets with a frequency of [-] batches."

"Where's the bullet?"

"I will not provide bullets for the time being, and let the commanders of each department train soldiers to master new tactics and gun use according to the new training manual. Live-fire drills will be held in a few months."

Chen Shu received the order, bowed to Zhu Zhanji and said goodbye, and walked quickly outside the hall.