In the spring of 1642, there was a mass migration of the Far Eastern Company everywhere. This year, most of the nomadic detachments in the steppes of the northern Central Plains will move in the direction of the Kazakh Khanate in the west. Only part of the front-line nomadic detachments remained, scattered in the northern part of the Mongolian plateau to continue their nomadic herding.

If you look down from the air, you will inevitably be stunned by the spectacular scene on the grassland.

In the vast grasslands of the north, countless Mongolian herders are driving large numbers of cattle and sheep all the way west. The overwhelming herds of cattle, sheep and horses almost covered the grassland, and there were carriages full of supplies, which could not be seen endlessly.

The wagons of the nomadic detachments lined up in long columns, and the carts were loaded with the most materials such as pasture fodder and grain, as well as yurts, warm sheds and other daily necessities.

In recent years, the Far Eastern Company has been popularizing the planting of high-quality forage grass on a large scale, and many nomadic detachments on the grassland have been carried out for several years. Today, nomadic detachments everywhere store large quantities of hay fodder of high-quality pasture.

Every time the nomadic detachment of the Far Eastern Company arrives at a pasture, it will organize the men, women and children of the detachment to plant all kinds of high-quality pasture grass on a large scale in the pasture. For the herders on the grassland, storing enough high-quality forage before the cold winter is definitely their primary concern.

Therefore, whenever the various nomadic detachments organize everyone to plant pasture, there is no need to mobilize at all, and all the herdsmen are very active, from the elderly who are tens of years old to the children who are ten or eight years old, all will participate.

The regeneration of high-quality forage grass is strong, and it can be harvested many times a year, although the conditions on the grassland are poor, and it cannot be intensively cultivated, but each acre of forage grass can mow more than thousands of kilograms.

The high-quality forage grass is dried into hay by soil drying technology. The haystacks were bundled into dense stacks and distributed to the nomadic squadrons at each base, and then loaded onto wagons and stacked high on horse-drawn carts when the pastures were changed, and followed by the detachments as they wandered around the grassland.

In order to cooperate with the large-scale migration of the grassland nomadic detachment, the company has also continuously strengthened the transportation force of each nomadic detachment in recent years. A large number of four-wheeled and two-wheeled carriages were continuously equipped to various parts of the grassland. As a result, the transportation capacity of the various nomadic detachments on the steppe has been greatly strengthened.

Now the nomadic detachment on the steppe also has a strong supply capacity. In addition to storing a large number of high-quality pastures, it also stocked up on various types of dried meat, dried fish and dried vegetables, and the company also distributed a large amount of fried noodles to them before the migration, which was enough for the food supply of the various nomadic detachments during the migration.

In addition, all kinds of felt, fur and other cold materials, tools, agricultural tools and other production tools, iron pots, iron buckets, altars and jars and other daily necessities. After several years of continuous replenishment of the company, it is also very complete.

From the easternmost steppe of ******** to the various Mongolian nomadic detachments on the Mobei and Moxi steppes, most of them are heading west and west...... By this winter, they will all be rushing to the pastures around Lake Balkhash to spend the winter.

Beginning next year, the nomadic detachment of the Far Eastern Company will advance deep into Central Asia, all the way to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, the Persian region, and even to the East European Plain. Sweep across Eastern Europe and the Middle East like their ancestor Genghis Khan.

At the same time, the coastal areas of Daming. Countless sailboats are moored on the sea, and the dense sails are almost connected. Inland river sailboats full of displaced people continue to enter the sea from the mouth of the Yellow River at Yuntiguan, and then transfer the displaced people to the sailboats.

The sailboat, full of displaced people, began to raise its sails, and under the guidance of the small speedboat in charge of piloting, it slowly headed south.

The temperature in Liaodong is still relatively low this season. Therefore, it has not yet officially begun to accept displaced people, but it is actively preparing, and soon a large number of sailing boats will spread all over the northern seas, continuously transporting displaced people to the eastern Liaodong region.

India, the South Seas and other regions have begun to send a large number of ships because of the climate. Came to the Daming coast to receive displaced people. A large number of displaced people from the north of the Ming Dynasty were driven onto ships by the wolf-like Far Eastern Army, and then transported to distant places.

The displaced people from all over the Ming Dynasty may realize that they can never return to their hometown, so the whole process of boarding the ship is filled with an extremely sad atmosphere, the displaced people are desperately crying and howling, and many people are kneeling and kowtowing in the direction of their hometown, and the scene is very depressing.

It has been several years since the great drought in Chongzhen, but there is no sign of an end. North China, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shandong have all been in drought for more than five years, and Henan Province, where the center of the arid area is located, has been in drought for seven years.

The severe drought in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan was accompanied by locust plagues and serious epidemics, which made the disaster even more serious. After 1640, rainfall increased in the north, turning into flooding in the north and drought in the south.

During this period, plague and locust plague were rampant, and it was not until 1646 that the plague gradually improved, and a large number of people abandoned their farms and fled, and many villages became uninhabited. Natural disasters led to a total collapse of the economy and exacerbated social unrest.

Historically, only 20% of the population in many areas of the north survived the disaster, so you can imagine how cruel the disaster was at that time.

Fortunately, the Far Eastern Company came to this era, and almost all of it was spent and a lot of resources were expended. In just a few years, it received nearly 10 million Daming victims. For this, the Far East also paid a heavy price, especially in the first two years, and even plunged the company into an extremely severe food shortage, and the company survived two difficult years with its stomach.

In order to change this situation, the company has taken such a huge immigration operation to the extreme. He used all his resources to raise grain, buy grain, and grab grain everywhere, and even did not hesitate to launch a series of wars of aggression, conquering Korea, Japan, the Indochina Peninsula, and India one after another.

A large amount of loot was looted in these areas, and finally the problem of food shortage and material shortage that had plagued the company was finally solved. It can be said that the Far Eastern Company transferred the crisis faced by the Chinese nation to other nationalities, and also brought extremely tragic disasters to the local people in the various overseas controlled areas of the Far East.

The Far East Company continued to transport the Ming refugees to Luzon, the islands of the South Seas, India and other regions, and after such a large number of Ming refugees came, if they wanted to survive in these areas, they could only squeeze the living space of the local aborigines.

The solution was simple and cruel: they were to drive the indigenous people out of their homes and send them to mines and farms in the Far East, or to be reorganized into foreign laborers and sent to the cold Liaodong and the Outer Northeast.

(To be continued.) )

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