Wei Wendu had been on the Hulunbuir grassland for more than a week before leaving. During this period, he also made contact with those lamas and talked about wanting to contact Galdan, but unfortunately, these lamas did not seem to have any way out, and they looked embarrassed. But it was good, they finally agreed to try it hard, and it was not guaranteed that it would succeed, and the price was that the people on the east coast would help take care of one or two small tribes, and as for how these two small tribes came to the vicinity, the lamas themselves had to find a way to negotiate with the Mongolian nobles of the Horqin tribe.

Wei Wendu felt that there was nothing wrong with this, so he readily agreed, and let the Nahai Department be directly responsible for the docking. As for the rest, it's patience. For this Galdan, whether it is the Blackwater Pioneer Team or the other two clan towns in the south, they are very interested, because it has a great impact on the many strategies of the people on the east coast in Chinese mainland, and it is a very important but uncontrollable variable, which makes people feel that they have no idea where to start.

In fact, Wei Wendu also adhered to the will of Chen Ke, the leader of the pioneer team, and began to develop the forces on the east bank more deeply into the Manchurian and Mongolian regions, so as to integrate more forces and expand more territory as soon as possible, so as to make it an important barrier and periphery of Manchuria, and protect the development of the planned core area of Manchuria.

At present, Galdan should be very ambitious for the Mongol tribes in Mobei, and the people on the east coast who control part of Buryat Mongolia are also watching to see if there is an opportunity to increase their influence in Mobei Mongolia. Even the Russian colonists, who were defeated by the easterners and temporarily curbed their eastward advances, were a little cautious about the Mongol tribes in Mobei. Historically, they had frequent diplomatic interactions with the Qing state, discussing together how to exterminate the Dzungar Mongol forces, and in the end, the Dzungar Mongols were indeed destroyed under the joint blows of both of them, and most of the land was divided between the two countries: the Qing got Xinjiang and part of Qinghai, and Russia got part of Central Asia, and both sides were happy.

Therefore, the current Mongolian world contains great vitality, but at the same time, there is also a desperate crisis. The vitality is the rise of heroes such as Galdan, the unification of the entire Mongolian world, and the establishment of a powerful state; The crisis is the internal strife, the external threat is getting bigger and bigger, if you are not careful, you will be eaten by the Manchus, the East Coast, and the three hungry wolves of Russia, it is really dangerous, and no one can say clearly what the future holds, and we have to see again.

After Wei Wendu returned to Manguitun, he directed agricultural production, met with several leaders of the fishing and hunting tribes who had moved to the vicinity in the last year, and then took a snug up in his office and wholeheartedly wrote a report on the idea of a "dual system of rule" in the Manchu and Mongolian regions.

This so-called dualistic system of rule is a concept of Wei Wendu at present. He pondered that Manchuria, Mongolia (and even some of the outer northeast regions) was too vast, especially the Mongolian steppe, which was sparsely populated and difficult to control. In the future, even if the people on the east coast were able to defeat the unwilling Mongol tribes on the battlefield, it would still be difficult to successfully rule them, unless the core of Manchuria had a population of tens of millions, factories and railways, but this was obviously not something that could be achieved in the short term. Therefore, they must find a new way to rule the Mongol world.

Wei Wendu's theory of a dual system of rule focuses on elevating the status of some Mongols – such as the Buryat Mongols currently under the control of the eastern coast – and then allowing them to snowball to annex others, seize more pastures, and control more Mongol tribes. During this period, the influence of the people on the eastern coast could naturally expand as their Mongol power expanded, spreading farther afield.

Of course, there may be some people who fear that the Mongols will get out of control when they become more powerful. Of course, this makes sense, but the people on the eastern coast naturally did not think of unifying all the Mongols under one name, in fact, the coexistence of several tribes, mutual checks and balances, and mutual supervision is the king. Wei Wendu believed that as long as the people on the east coast built Manchuria well, enriched its population, and developed its economy, then it would naturally be able to maintain control over the Mongolian world for a long time, and build cities, send troops, and set up officials in all major locations, so as to control the huge Mongolian world in their own hands, and become a powerful weapon under the dual system of rule in Northeast China.

As for the direct control of the Mongolian world owned by some people, Wei Wendu scoffed at it, because it was simply impossible. Unless you spend huge manpower and material resources to build a railway system that crosses or runs through the entire Mongolian world, this is only a preliminary control, and it is impossible to go deeper. To put it bluntly, Mongolia is still too big in the world, with a large population, and even more different cultural customs, and under the existing economic and technological conditions, it is unable to rule directly, so it can only engage in the agency system. The dualist system of rule, which improved the political treatment of the Mongols, strengthened intermarriage exchanges, and spread religion, was more effective than the ordinary system of vassal state agents, which was the core idea of Wei Wendu.

His report is now almost finished, and it will be sent to Miaojie Port for review by Chen Ke, the leader of the pioneer team, after further revision and polishing. Once he also approves of it, then he can naturally order the implementation of this kind of policy, and at the same time, Wei Wendu will also enter the eyes of the upper echelons, and his political future will be very optimistic.

However, other ethnic groups other than the Mongols did not have the same high political status as the Mongols in Wei Wendu's plan, such as the Oroqen, Daur, Evenki, Jurchen and other Tungusic peoples, as well as Koreans, Japanese, and Russians, all of whom needed to be directly ruled and educated in the East coast. In other words, they will eventually lose their national and cultural characteristics and integrate into a system with the Ming people as the main body and the East Coast culture as the main civilization characteristic. This can be seen from the fact that the people on the east coast have set up schools in the Outer Northeast and Manchuria to engage in assimilation education, and they think that the population of these Tungusic people is not very large, but it is very chaotic, and some people themselves do not know what kind of nationality they are, the level of civilization is low, and there is no glorious history - well, the Daur people as descendants of the Khitan may be a little inappropriate, but it does not matter - especially the latter, a glorious history means that the national consciousness is relatively strong, and there may be their own fixed territory, just like the Mongols, As it stands, assimilation is extremely difficult. After all, they basically have the three elements of ethnic composition, land, language, and cultural traditions, which is very difficult to do.

On the contrary, if it is like the Tunguska Shandan savages, the difficulty of assimilation is very low, and they themselves should not be too resistant to this behavior of embracing advanced civilization, so for many years the East Coast people have been persistently trying to assimilate the Tungusic people in the territory, let them gather villages and live in the land, let them improve the production technology of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, let them go to school, let them accept all the way of life of the East Coast people, it seems that some initial results have been achieved at present, and they will definitely be able to digest all of them in the future.

In late May 1685, when Wei Wendu was thinking about the future development of Manchu and Mongolia in Manguitun, Chen Ke, who was far away in Boli County, was also bidding farewell to local officials on the wharf.

Because of the warm spring flowers, the developed water system in the outer northeast can gradually come in handy. No, today there are four ships that depart from the port of Boli and travel up the Ussuri River to some settlements or towns upstream, in order to maximize the efficiency of the use of the ships, in fact they do not only stop at the big port, but even some of the more important villages stop for a short time to load and unload their cargo.

The four ships were loaded mainly with daily necessities and foodstuffs. As a place with a very prominent transportation location, Boli County is currently home to many handicraftsmen, and the various handicrafts and daily necessities produced are sold throughout the territory, which is very famous. In addition, the local salmon fishing industry is also very large, attracting some investors to set up factories for production. And the existence of these factories has attracted a large number of bitter Tunguska people to settle down, doing work such as cleaning the chamber and scraping scales, washing and pickling, and the wages are not very high, but these Tunguska people are very satisfied, which can be described as a win-win situation.

The salted salmon is sealed in wooden barrels, each containing 500 to 1,000 salmon, according to East Coast tradition, and is widely sold in the wooded areas of the north or the grasslands of the south. Even the government agencies or military departments in the outer northeast have to purchase a large amount of tun for military supplies every year, because the output of the state-owned fishery company is so much, and most of them are taken away by Denglai, and they can't eat much, which is also annoying.

The draft of the four ships was very deep, and after loading the goods and starting, Chen Ke was not too dirty, sat on a powder keg, and looked at the surrounding blue mountains and forests, and was in a good mood. If nothing else, he may be transferred back to China this year to serve as a member of the next government's central executive committee. This is almost a sure thing, because there are only a few people who are qualified to vote, and it is almost an equal election, just a formality. In today's East Coast Republic of China, the importance attached to the overseas resume of officials has reached the level of "perversion", that is, those who do not serve as high-level officials in overseas colonies are basically much less likely to enter the Central Executive Committee. It is basically impossible to become the chairman of the Executive Committee if he does not have a resume in overseas colonies!

Like Chen Ke, Liu Jianguo, and Ma Wenqiang, the three who served as the chief officials of the three feudal lords in the Far East, basically had a smooth journey after they returned, and they were directly national leaders in reserve. Therefore, on the way to Vladivostok, Chen Ke was still in a pretty good mood, he had been in this cold and harsh Outer Northeast for a long time, and it was time to change to a new stage to show his ability. Is there a member of the Central Executive Committee in charge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, and agricultural finance? Sounds like a good position, and he likes it.

The four ships traveled all the way up and at breakneck speed. At first, there was a cavalry of the army that went south with them on the shore (patrolling the various departments, clearing out the horse bandits, and by the way giving a demonstration to the natives), but after only a day, the cavalry could not keep up with the four small steamers that were rushing south with black smoke. Ships that can sail day and night are indeed too advantageous in the vast and sparsely populated Manchurian region, and this logistical transportation capacity is absolutely leveraged.

After sailing some distance up, the ship came to rest at an unloading point. From here, because the channel has not been cleared, the small steamer should not go further, and can only take a raft or a small wooden boat. After thinking about it, Chen Ke signed and borrowed a dozen horses here, and together with his entourage, he galloped towards the south.

This area has been cleaned several times. Along the way, I saw a number of neatly arranged villages, all of which were settled Han Chinese or Sinicized Tungusic people, and of course there were a few Korean and Japanese immigrants, who were also settled farming peoples, but in general there were fewer of them.

Beyond the villages and farmlands, there are green meadows. There is a large flock of sheep walking around on the meadow, looking like a moving white cloud from a distance, it should be the Daur people who still retain quite nomadic customs, and maybe some Mongolians or Han people who have been migrated, Chen Ke is not very sure, because in this area where various cultures interact and collide with each other, various ethnic groups live together, and it is difficult to distinguish clearly.

"It's a quiet and peaceful life." While riding a horse, Chen Ke sighed with emotion: "In such a vast land as the Outer Northeast, a large number of nomads, fishermen and hunters have lived since ancient times, and there are constant disputes and fights between them. But after we East Coasters ruled here, it brought them great order so that they could multiply. The people of Ningbo, who had immigrated from the south, where there were many people and little land, brought advanced agricultural technology, commercial technology and much-needed capital to the land, and the seeds of change were already germinating, and when the strength was accumulated to a certain extent, it would sprout amazing power. It's a pity that this may take decades or even hundreds of years, and I can't see this day, so I can only wait for the latecomers. ”

In other words, in the current Outer Northeast, the main import area of foreign population is still the narrow and densely populated Ningshao area. Although the industry and commerce in these places are developed and they have absorbed a lot of employed people, they still cannot feed the increasingly explosive population, so they have no choice but to export to the Northeast and become the most important ethnic group in the Northeast.

The arrival of these people greatly enriched the population of Manchuria and the Outer Northeast, and brought to the local area the atmosphere of civilization and the capital and technology needed for development, and I don't know how much trouble they saved the local government. You know, how many generations will it take for them to naturalize the natives and open schools like that? The arrival of the immigrants from Ningshao has made many villages and towns suitable for farming in the local area have a high level of civilization overnight, and even those natives have learned many new agricultural production techniques under the leadership of their immigrant neighbors, and the overall productivity of society has been greatly improved.

In the years that Chen Ke was in charge of Heishui, he spent tens of thousands of yuan every year to advertise in the south, attracting young people who had nothing to go to Manchuria and the Outer Northeast to break through, and obtained a lot of benefits. He pondered whether he could go to the Qingguo-controlled area next time to engage in this kind of "recruitment" matter. Anyway, now that the two countries are at peace, it doesn't cost much to try it, and I believe that the land of Manchuria is still somewhat attractive to those proletarians, but the local government may not agree with it, and more work needs to be done.

On June 2, 1685, after visiting several villages and towns on the way, Chen Ke and his party finally arrived safely at the port of Vladivostok. It was also at this time that two ships from the Kingdom of Korea had just dropped anchor, and they brought the latest request from North Korea to import a batch of the latest machinery and equipment.