Persia had no other power to worry about except the British, and the whole Persian state was built on the power of China and Britain, and once both sides abandoned this government, it was one of the few things that would be completely overthrown. After a few days of cordial conversation with the Persian king, Yang Rui returned directly from Tehran, where Yang Zengxin, Peng Qingpeng, and a group of Japanese were waiting at the Almaty airport.

Long-distance flights make people extremely sleepy, especially when the plane flies at an altitude of only two or three thousand meters, and the airflow is very easy to cause turbulence, which has to make Yang Rui miss the airship. However, the Japanese were on their side, and Yang Rui still cheered up and greeted everyone waiting at the airport - the first governor of the new Japan was a Japanese colonial expert, Goto Shinpei.

"Sir, the journey is tiring, please rest first." Back in Almaty, the Governor's Mansion of Beiting, Peng Qingpeng saw the tiredness on Yang Rui's face that could not be concealed, and carefully suggested.

"It's okay, just make me a cup of strong tea." Yang Rui said nonchalantly. "This place has just been occupied, and my heart is not steady, so you should introduce the situation first."

The newly occupied land was named Beiting, which is a complete reference to the historical Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and because of this name, many people have suggested that the Western Regions be renamed Anxi. However, what the name is is a matter of the literati, in Yang Rui's view, as long as it is not called Xinjiang, these places are the ancestral hometowns, and they are by no means a 'new' Xinjiang.

The report of the Beiting Governorate is sent to Yang Rui every month, the progress of immigration, the appointment of local officials, and the governance strategy of the Governor's District, which are all written in great detail in the report, and now Yang Rui is going to report as soon as he gets off the plane, Peng Qingpeng always feels confused, but Yang Zengxin is an old official, and he feels that Yang Rui is very uneasy about Beiting. Then he retorted and said, "Is there anything the prime minister is worried about?" ”

After taking a deep sip of strong tea, Yang Rui's spirit improved a lot. He sneered: "Of course I am very worried, if it weren't for the Japanese, the Mongols, and the Kalmykia. I want to give up on the North Garden. ”

"What ?!!" Yang Zengxin and Peng Qingpeng were shocked, in order to expand the territory in the west, several people had worked hard and racked their brains, and now Yang Rui actually has the intention of giving up, doesn't this mean that everything he did before was in vain?

"Are the Russians coming?" Peng Qingpeng hurriedly asked. The North Court was snatched from Russia, and militarily speaking, the only real threat here was Red Russia.

"It's not." Yang Rui shook his head, now the Red Army is clearing out the White Army in various places, and it will soon attack Poland. They didn't have time to worry about things in the east. If they really want to attack, they must have to open up an anti-capitalist battlefield in Asia after the defeat of Warsaw, but history is completely different from the original, the Red Army is stronger than it was in history, and they may not be defeated in Warsaw.

"That's Islam!" Yang Zengxin affirmed. He knew that Yang Rui had always been jealous of Islam.

"Well, that's exactly why." During his few days in Tehran, Yang Rui not only talked freely with the king, but also exchanged views with the priests of Ulma. I also visited the Muslim community, and at first I thought it was similar to the peasant association in China, but when I thought about it, I found that the peasant association was compared to it. It's just that the shape is similar, and the spiritual level is the difference between cloud and mud.

"The Chinese people pray to God to worship the Buddha and respect their ancestors, but in the final analysis, they still have something to ask. So no matter how much faith you have, it's actually a transaction; The Muslims, on the other hand, believe in the truth. At least most of the people are true, if you let the Han people of a village compete with the Hui people of a village. In the end, it must be the Han people who are defeated and return, and the people will win. After speaking, Yang Rui sighed and said, "I'm worried that immigrants won't be able to compete with the Hui people!" ”

Yang Rui's worries Peng Qingpeng didn't understand, he said: "According to the regulations, each peasant association has peasant soldiers and more guns, and the army is also pressing on the side, do the Hui people still dare to rebel?" ”

"It's not a problem at this level." Yang Rui shook his head, his energy at this time was not enough to fully explain his concerns to Peng Qingpeng, because this was not a comparison of force at all, and the side with advanced weapons may not have an absolute advantage, at least it cannot guarantee this advantage for hundreds of years or thousands of years.

"But the Mongols and the Japanese were enough to suppress them." Yang Zengxin understood what Yang Rui was talking about. To put it mildly, the Han people are actually more treacherous and cowardly than the Hui people -- the Hui people often have to take Allah into account when dealing with things, while the Han people only think about reality, so he reported several times that no one in the customs should be transported, and some 'Shunmin' moving over would only be bad.

"The only people we rely on now are the Mongols and the Japanese." The Mongols don't have to worry about their beliefs, the Japanese are also brainless, and these two types of people in Central Asia have given Yang Rui some confidence. "But the problem must be solved after all, and we can't rely on the Mongols and the Japanese for everything, right?"

"This ......" Yang Zengxin smiled bitterly, "All I can think of is to let them have more children, as long as we have more people than them, we will be able to occupy this place after all." It costs 500 yuan for one person to immigrate, but it is better to send only 2 million people after careful selection in the customs area, and then encourage them to have more children, and it is definitely more cost-effective to have a subsidy of 100 yuan than to immigrants, and only when they are born in Sri Lanka can the population be truly stable. ”

"How do you choose carefully?" Although Yang Zengxin had a report, Yang Rui didn't read it carefully, and he couldn't remember the content on it.

"Most of the people who came from the Guannai were landless peasants, and although they obeyed orders, they could not fight against the Hui people because they were too submissive. On the contrary, there are some beards and ringing horses, they are not afraid of heaven and earth, but there is a possibility of suppressing the Hui people. Yang Zengxin said with a smile, "It's a pity that some people are always worried about such a mess and don't dare to send these people over." ”

"Aren't these people afraid that they will make trouble, you must know that there is no gun ban here, and when the time comes, everyone will have a gun, dozens or hundreds of people in a group, and there will be gangsters everywhere." Yang Rui was also a little worried.

"What about making trouble? No matter how vicious the beard and the ringing horses are, there are still rules, and the chaos is still in the pot, and the landless peasants come over, but they will only accept it, this kind of person just wants to live in peace, and they don't have the courage to fight hard with outsiders, they don't seem to be immigrants at all, but like they are here to suffer. Yang Zengxin was very dissatisfied with the people who came from the Guannei. In his opinion, the North Courtyard and the Western Regions are different, the Western Regions is a familiar land and the North Courtyard is a raw land, and the raw land needs to be developed by those who have courage and gangsterism, and honest farmers can easily be killed by the aborigines.

Yang Rui understood what he meant. Pondered: "But there aren't so many ringing horsebeards in the pass?" ”

"Mountain bandits can do it." Yang Zengxin released the conditions. "The prisoners in the prison, as long as they are not cowardly. can be exiled from here. We don't have to worry about them being kings of the mountains, we want them to be kings of the mountains. Once the mountain is king, it will be a force, and we can immediately recruit them, they are the officials here......"

This time, even the prisoner was wanted, and Yang Rui looked at Yang Zengxin, who was very serious, and didn't know what to say. "There's really no other way?" He asked.

"If you want to establish a century-old foundation, the farmers in the customs can do it, but if you want to establish a thousand-year-old foundation, you can't hold it unless you are strong. Our people are too weak to defend this place compared to the Mongolians and the Japanese. They're used to living in secret. Yang Zengxin said, "Prime Minister, the lower officials have always felt that the people are the foundation of the land, and those who have no courage have no virtue, and those who have no virtue are not blessed, so they can't hold this important land." Throughout the history of Central Asia, there have been waves of strongmen, and the rise and fall of dynasties have been extremely short. This place cannot be occupied by a strong man. ”

"Let's take a look first." Yang Zengxin said so mysteriously, Yang Rui really didn't know what to say. The bearded bandits were basically imprisoned in the palace of the Tingwei, and it was not said whether they should be exiled from now on, even if they should be exiled. It also needs the permission of the Imperial Governor's Mansion.

Seeing that Yang Rui couldn't be sure about immigration, Yang Zengxin had no choice but not to mention it, and he immediately mentioned another matter. "After signing the peace treaty with the new Russia, the new person took on two positions. Now that Beiting has been established as a province, Zengxin specially resigns. ”

"Who cares when you're gone?" Yang Rui looked at him in surprise. It's very puzzling.

"Is there no one who is the governor of two provinces at the same time?" Yang Zengxin is not unaware of his own importance, he is worried that the people in the customs are gossiping, he has been knighted for China's expansion of territory, if he is also the governor of the two provinces, he does not say that it is not in accordance with the rules, what will those who are jealous think? It is rumored that the North Court is full of gold - in fact, it is also a joke of the Ministry of Rites and Propaganda, what is too sleepy to fall asleep on the ground, wake up in the morning and feel stiff in the back of the head, a touch, it is actually a piece of dog's head Jin Yunyun, similar jokes are very poisonous, Yang Zengxin is the governor of the two provinces, everyone thinks he has made a lot.

"If I say yes, yes!" Yang Rui said unceremoniously, "Dingchen, we are doing the facts, don't care about those gossips." Why there is only a governor and not a governor in the Northern Court of the Western Regions, you should know for yourself. What you need to do now is not to worry about what Kannai says, but to think about immigration issues like the one I just mentioned, as well as the issue of training officials.

After all, the northwest is the northwest, and the officials in the customs are not familiar with this place at all, and they have not had more than 10 years of experience, and at the same time they are determined, have a noble character, and have sophisticated skills, so they can't play at all. But how difficult is it to do this? Scholars are indeed of noble character, but their wrists are not good; Although the cool officials are sophisticated, their virtues are too bad, I only hope that there will be a few more Dingchen in China! ”

Yang Zengxin's face was flushed when Yang Rui said something, he looked at Yang Rui deeply, and said: "Zengxin is ashamed, in fact, I only hope that China can have a few more prime ministers." ”

"Not anymore, not be." Yang Rui said with great confidence and melancholy, "No matter how big the country's territory is, it must have strong and confident people to defend it, and the people of our country are all soft and collapsed, and they can't be compared with the Hui people at all!" This is a good thing for the government, but it is a bad thing for the thousand-year-old foundation of the nation. Isn't it because the Turks can enter the Central Plains, the Mongols can enter the Central Plains, and the Manchus can enter the Central Plains?

They have become accustomed to being submissive, accustomed to being ruled and enslaved, accustomed to using their wisdom in intrigue and against their own people. These people's knees are always weak, their waists are always bent, and their heads are always hanging down -- you are right, only bearded horses are like people, although they do not abide by the law, they have their own rules, and the Wuthering Mountains and forests have their own spirit that is different from that of the obedient people. In this way, they are ......"

Yang Rui couldn't help but recall the past in Liaodong, that time he went to Pingdingshan to encircle and annihilate the Russian army of Colonel Madelidov, even if the land was divided, some of the miners were still unwilling to go out, and finally trapped them on the battlefield with ropes like strong men. Compared with the miners, the wooden handles are much braver, compared to the wooden handles, the beards are not loose or tight, there is no excitement or anxiety, killing and being killed are like eating for them. It can be said that without a beard, the combat effectiveness of the Renaissance Army cannot be sustained.

This is outside the pass, and the situation inside the pass is different, and the miners have an overwhelming advantage over most of the peasants. If we compare the armies of various countries in the European war, the beard is similar to the German army, the wooden handle is similar to the British army, the miners are similar to the French army, and the peasant soldiers in the Guannai are somewhat similar to the Russian army, but more similar to the Italian army. The key to why the Zhili War was able to stop the Japanese was that the non-commissioned officers and officers were born with beards or wooden handles outside the gates, and the firepower controlled by the technical arms was more fierce than the Japanese army, and the last reason was that the emperor was behind him, but if the non-commissioned officers and officers were also peasants in the Guannai at that time, the defense line of the capital would have collapsed long ago.

People are different, just like bricks, stones, sand, and earth. The problem in China now is that there are borders, but how can we turn the muddy people into hard masonry? This is a question that Yang Rui has been thinking about since he visited the Muslim community in Persia, especially in the northwest, will immigrants become fish and meat of the Hui people as soon as the national strength declines in hundreds of years?

After discussing important matters with Yang Zengxin and Peng Qingpeng, and then having a banquet with Goto Xinping and the civil and military officials of the Beiting Governor's District, and making a special speech to encourage everyone, Yang Rui changed his itinerary again, and he wanted to visit the immigration points privately to see what the situation of the immigrants from the Guannai was, and whether they could block the infiltration of the Hui people and the attack of the Russians.

Orsk is a large settlement in the eastern part of Orenburg Oblast, the city is located at the confluence of the Ural and Orr rivers, the land is fertile for growing rice, before the Russians were expelled, there were tens of thousands of White Russian peasants here, and now, after the city was emptied, the first batch of immigrants in the Guannai were all settled here, and Yang Rui's first exploration point was chosen here.

The airship landed in a small valley more than ten kilometers away from the city, and Yang Rui and Yang Zengxin rode to the city. Like other cities in Russia, Yang Rui saw the Orthodox church in the center of the city for the first time, and he asked puzzledly: "How many Russians are left?" ”

"Very little." Yang Zengxin is also dressed in civilian clothes, if he is a half-immortal fortune-telling brand, it seems to be the dress of a warlock, but this is the Beiting Governor's District, and the appearance of this kind of person will definitely make people suspicious. "Before the Kazakhs dared to leave, then the Mongols, and according to our agreement with Russia, the rest will be sent home, and only a very small number of people remain. Half of the church has been demolished, and half of it remains, and it will not be seen again next year. (To be continued......)