The chariot unit is the elite of the elite of the revival army, and the collapse of the 200,000 Russian army that year is all due to the interspersed detours of the chariot unit. If this force can be transferred to Central Asia, then Central Asia will indeed be able to control Central Asia for 20 years, as Xu Jingxi said just now. The soldiers present were very relieved when they heard this, and although Yang Zengxin knew that the chariot was a weapon during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he didn't know what the chariot would look like more than two thousand years later, but when he saw Peng Qingpeng and the others obviously relieved, he also nodded approvingly.

"According to the arrangement of the General Staff, there is no need for us to entangle more with the Russian army in Ili, while attacking Tashkent, our side can cross the border to occupy Kapchagay and Almaty, once Russia finds that the rear is missing, it will withdraw and enter our ambush circle." Xu Jingxi roughly explained the entire battle plan, although he did not elaborate, Peng Qingpeng still asked: "There are your own people over there in Kashgar?" ”

"Almost, everyone will know when the time comes." Xu Jingxi replied very vaguely, he asked instead: "How is the Tuxi Railway being repaired, and where is it being repaired now?" ”

"The south has been repaired to the east of Lake Balkhash, and the north has been repaired to Semiy. There are still 500 kilometers left in the middle section to open to traffic. Chief of Staff Huang Zongwei said, "Are we still sabotaging the railway as originally planned?" ”

"It's all planned!" Xu Jingxi patted the steel folder he was carrying, and the communications officer who came with him happened to hand him a copy of the password he had just received, and he said, "The folder is intact." Here's my password, open him right here. ”

The folder that transmits the battle plan is like a woman's cosmetic box, and if the two sets of mechanical codes are mistyped or brute-forcedly cracked twice in a row, the high-energy explosives inside will explode instantly. Peng Qingpeng obviously didn't dare to open it here. He just muttered 'you have a lot of tricks,' and took someone to open and read through the entire battle plan.

Only Yang Zengxin and Xu Jingxi were left in the military tent at this time. After telling the adjutant to stay around the tent, Xu Jingxi began to talk with Yang Zengxin. In fact, this should have been talked about in Luntai. But horseback riding is much more time-consuming than airships, and in order not to delay the time of the general attack, the two of them have hurried all the way, and there is no time or place to talk in detail.

"Lord Yang, in addition to asking me to greet the adults, the Prime Minister also wants to tell the adults that the plan made before may have to be greatly adjusted." Xu Jingxi started the topic like this. For Yang Zengxin, judging from the few things he did, he admired. This person really deserves to be a gentleman.

"Your Excellency Premier Xie cares." Yang Zengxin knew that Xu Jingxi kept him down to talk about business, and he solemnly thanked Yang Rui for his greetings. He also couldn't understand why the saint-like prime minister valued him so much, the governors of other provinces were great with a car, but he was equipped with an airship, and the military and political power of the whole province was in his hands, without any restrictions. Eagerly put aside in his heart, Yang Zengxin thanked him and said, "Please also ask the general to start." ”

"The prime minister previously thought that with our national strength. It is possible to capture only Lake Balkhash, the Aral Sea, the area south of the Caspian parallel, and even the Caspian Sea does not dare to force demands, but now it is different, we have enough strength to take the Kazakh steppe. Xu Jingxi took out a map after that. He pointed and said: "The prime minister believes that our army can occupy the line of Pavlodar, Shuchinsk, Kustany, Akzyjunsk, and Atyrau as far as the north, and it is sufficient to maintain a distance of two or three hundred kilometers from the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway." ”

"This is to take the entire Kazakh steppe into your pocket." Yang Zengxin twisted his white beard and said lightly. But in his heart he was very worried, in his opinion. Now China is also the beginning of the establishment of the grassland. There is really no danger to defend. To occupy such a large area is to poke a gun into the stomach of Russia, and the Russians will not rest in this place.

"Yes. That's what the Prime Minister meant. Xu Jingxi nodded. Occupying the line from Lake Balkhash to the Caspian Sea is actually not dangerous to defend, and the strategic depth is insufficient. With limited resources, we only hope to stabilize Russia with a small victory, and then half-buy and half-talk, and set the territory. The situation is very different now than before, which is why the front has been pushed all the way north. ”

"But in this way, it will be a fight with Russia." Yang Zengxin endured it for a long time, but finally said the worry in his heart, "There is this steppe, not only Kazakhs, but also more than two million Russians. ”

"My lord, the prime minister has ordered the General Logistics Department, the Peasant Association, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs to start discussing the plan for resettlement in the Western Regions," Xu Jingxi himself couldn't believe it, and he said, "The minimum number of immigrants is set at five million, and the maximum number of immigrants can reach ten million. ”

"What!" Yang Zengxin was shocked after being happy, "This immigration is not a trivial matter, one million is already difficult, let alone ten million?" Isn't it someone who ...... that the country has been decided, and it really shouldn't be a big fight! ”

"My lord, the specific plan has not yet come out, but since the land reform, the dilemma of more people and less land in our country has not been resolved, the Hongyang Rebellion broke out, and the population of the country has dropped by tens of millions before the Qing Dynasty was able to survive, but now it has been 50 years since Hongyang, and the population has skyrocketed to more than 410 million again. Although the Inspectorate levied a tax on people, the number of people will only increase and not decrease anyway, so immigration and restriction are national policies.

Since the Han Dynasty, the control of the Western Regions has always been intermittent, and the reason why this is so is also because there are few Han people and many different races; The Western Regions is also a strategic point in the whole of Asia, and controlling it can not only shield Mongolia and Tibet, but also choke the Eurasian land bridge and deter West Asia and South Asia.

The former prime minister said to me, 'Today's world will become more and more civilized, and the land occupied before the end of the European War is the land of China, and the land occupied after the end of the European War will not be recognized by the international countries in the end, so it will not be our land anyway.'" If we want to occupy the Kazakh steppe, in addition to occupying it before the First World War, we must also relocate on a large scale, and only when the Han people completely overwhelm the Kazakhs can this place really be owned by us. ’”

After Xu Jingxi relayed Yang Rui's words, he said: "As for the original two million Russians on the steppe, they will all be expelled like the outer northeast. We don't have to do it, just let the locals and the Mongols do it. ”

"But ......" Xu Jingxi and Yang Rui said that Yang Zengxin understands. But the problem is money, Yang Zengxin said in silence. "General Xu, can you tell me? At the time of the European war, how much money did the government make from various businesses? ”

Hearing that Yang Zengxin asked the question to the root, Xu Jingxi smiled, "My lord, this number is confidential, and there will be no more than ten people in the whole world who know about it." I also asked the Prime Minister about this question, and the Prime Minister only replied to me with three words: I can't finish it! ”

"How much is this inexhaustible?" Although Yang Zengxin has a reference message, he is not very familiar with modern business and the entire European war, and it is difficult for him to imagine the excess profits of shipping at this time, in his estimates. This time, China will earn a maximum of two or three billion taels of silver, and the greatest use of this money is to invest in agriculture and industry to enhance national strength.

Seeing that Yang Zengxin still didn't give up, Xu Jingxi said: "I don't know anything else, but I can talk about steel, three million tons of steel, and the profit in a year will exceed 1.2 billion yuan." It should earn nearly two billion yuan in the past few years, and I don't know how much money I can make in other industries, but it is said that the profit of shipping will be double that of steel from this year. ”

"Are there really that many?!" Yang Zengxin seems to be unable to sit still, and he learned from the reference news that the shipping industry is also a big tool for making money. I don't think it can be several times more than steel.

"There are so many rumors." Xu Jingxi smiled bitterly and said that Chinese and Japanese newspapers have a tacit agreement not to report on the profits of the shipping industry, and the intelligence bureau does not provide such data. So these things are all his hearsay and calculations on his own. "What the Prime Minister meant. Within ten years, the Western Regions and the Outer Northwest Regions. In addition to military spending, the state will invest 3 billion yuan in construction, which is the first phase, and the second and third phases will not be lower than this amount. The money is mainly used for the construction of infrastructure for immigrants, railways, and migrant cities. The prime minister's attitude was very clear, saying, 'Even if it takes 10 billion to invest in the northwest to digest this place, then invest 10 billion.' He also said, 'The value of this 10 billion will exceed 1 trillion in 100 years.' ’”

"I see!" Yang Zengxin was so excited by the '10 billion' that he couldn't help but stand up and make a gesture to Beijing, then sat down in a precarious position, and then asked: "What does the prime minister want to do with the minister?" ”

"The Prime Minister means that this matter is left to the Lord, and he has three principles." Xu Jingxi said. "First, the Turkestan Khanate should be allowed to become independent and not be included in our borders, so as to avoid an increase in the number of Hui people in the country, which will inevitably lead to chaos in the future. And Kyrgyzstan and Qihe originally belonged to our country, and it was natural to take them back;

Second, China only wants to seize the steppe governorate including Qihe Province and Kyrgyzstan. Considering that in the end, it was necessary to promote peace with New Russia through war, so the occupation of the steppe was premised on peace talks. The Prime Minister's opinion was not to get too close to the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Volga River, the security of which was at the heart of New Russia, and it was not to be careless or hasty. After the expulsion of the Russians, the local Kazakhs were only in their early two millions, and the steppe was so big that it was not difficult to deal with these two million people;

The third is immigration. After the construction of the Western Regions Railway, a double line will be built immediately, and the remaining traffic of this railway will be used for immigrants in addition to war readiness. The Prime Minister hoped that the more Han people would be imported every year, the better, and that if it was five million, there would be 250,000 people coming from the East every year in those 20 years, and at 10 million, there would be 500,000 people coming from the East every year. The General Logistics Department, the National General Peasant Association, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the provinces in the Guannai are only responsible for organizing the immigration, and how to deal with the arrangements when they arrive here depends on the planning of the adults. ”

Xu Jingxi finished talking about the principles, and then said: "In addition, the prime minister has a number of suggestions, and the choice of suggestions is all up to the adults.

In order to completely occupy and digest Central Asia, several forces were introduced into Central Asia. First, the Mongolian people, the prime minister believes that in order to occupy Central Asia, it is necessary to introduce the Mongolian people as support, at least in the early stage, it is necessary to rely on the Mongolian people to eliminate the Russians and suppress the Kazakhs; The second is the Japanese, China and the Japanese have signed a secret treaty, and the two countries promise to jointly attack Russia, but Japan is now bound by the status of an Entente country, and he cannot share the Outer Northeast, which originally belonged to China, and can only get some corner land. The Japanese will have to complain, so the prime minister hopes to bring the Japanese into Central Asia, even if he gives them a piece of land, and tie them to our chariot. ”

"Japanese ......" Yang Zengxin didn't expect Yang Rui to send the Japanese over, and he was very surprised.

"Yes." Xu Jingxi nodded, "Japan is too close to our country, and it is either a friend or an enemy, and after several discussions, I still think that it is best to turn enemies into friends; And the most important thing to turn enemies into friends is to let them have what they want from our country; If Japan could acquire land in Central Asia, the prime minister wanted to give it large territories beyond Japan's original size, while at the same time bordering Russia as much as possible. If Japan becomes a western Japan, Japan's strategic posture will be fundamentally improved. ”

"The prime minister is worried. New Russia and Japan jointly flanked our country? Yang Zengxin nodded, in his opinion. It is best for China and Japan to turn enemies into friends, and competition is the most unfavorable.

"Yes. The prime minister is also worried about the proximity of the United States and Japan. Xu Jingxi nodded. Japan is deeply influencing China's geostrategy, and it is only better to use Russian flesh and blood to pull it into China's chariot.

"The old minister understands." Yang Zengxin nodded and asked for the next suggestion.

"And then there's the Kalmyks." Xu Jingxi said, "That is, the Turks who returned to the east during the Qianlong period. When Voba moved eastward, in addition to the Cossack cavalry, the Kazakhs also suffered huge losses, so it can be said that there was a blood feud between the two sides. It would be better to strangle the Kazakhs with the Mongols and Kalmyks. ”

At first, Kalmykia was regarded by Yang Rui as a union republic of later Russia, but according to officials who were well versed in Manchu and Mongolian affairs in the Ministry of Martial Affairs, Kalmykia was 'a people blocked by a great river' in the Watt Thorn language. At that time, under the blood tax of the Tsar, Worbasi decided to return to the east in order to preserve the tribe, but at that time, the Turkuts lived separately on both sides of the Volga River, and the Turks on the east bank only needed to pack their tents and drive cattle and sheep to return eastward, but the Turks on the west bank needed to wait for the Volga River to freeze before crossing eastward. The year Worbasey decided to return to the East. The Volga River did not freeze, and the Cossack cavalry blocked the Mongols of more than 10,000 Turks and other tribes who had to stay in Russia and call themselves Kalmykia ever since.

The Intelligence Service is also familiar with the history of the Kalmyks. It was found that the population of this department now exceeded 100,000, and they were very dissatisfied with the tsar, so they prepared to occupy Central Asia and persuade him to migrate to the Kazakh steppe. It is appropriate to let these Buddhists do things that are inconvenient for the Baath Army to do.

"Will Kalmykia want to come back?" Yang Zengxin heard that Xu Jingxi mentioned Kalmykia, and nodded in approval.

"After contact. Most of their nobles agreed to return to the east. Xu Jingxi nodded and said: "There are more than 100,000 people in this tribe, adhering to the Mongolian tradition. Growing up on horseback, he is extremely strong. The transfer of the original Mongolian tribes to the Kazakh steppe will only make their power bigger, so it can only be used in the early stage, and after the steppe is stabilized, the main force of the Mongolian people is still better than the Turks. ”

"But even the Tergots are Mongols, and if the steppe is occupied by the Mongols, then the land they control is too amazing." Yang Zengxin thought that if the Kazakh steppe was also occupied by the Mongols, it might be the Dzungar Khanate.

"Occupy is not the whole thing. The general plan was to give the arable land north of the Tien Shan Mountains to the Han Chinese, who had migrated everywhere, and the Mongols, who had lost their pastures, to replenish double the land in the Kazakh steppe; There are also some Hui people in southern Xinjiang, if it is difficult to deal with them, then they must be relocated to the area of the Syr Darya River in Turkestan, so that the Hui people can be concentrated in one place. Xu Jingxi said.

"But they are so close to Khiva and other countries, I'm afraid they will ......," Yang Zengxin was taken aback.

"As long as the southern Xinjiang can be vacated, the prime minister will agree to their independence." Xu Jingxi said, "The Han people in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains must account for the vast majority, and the grasslands outside the Western Regions are the most important thing is the railway, and then the land." The prime minister suggested that the 1.7 million Hui in the southern part of the Western Regions should be moved out of the Western Regions and arranged in the south of the Syr Darya River, which is close to the border with Khiva and Bukhara; The Mongols were placed on the northern border with New Russia, and the Han were between the Mongols and the Hui, and there were areas on both sides of the railway that could be cultivated. Of course, the Prime Minister said that this was just his imagination, and if it did not correspond to reality, then the actual arrangement would prevail. ”

The map was in front of Yang Zengxin, he looked at the map carefully according to the arrangement Xu Jingxi said, and finally said, "The prime minister's arrangement ......, this will cost a lot of money." Not to mention the fact that more than one million Hui people in southern Xinjiang want to migrate to the banks of the Syr Darya River, which costs tens of millions of dollars. ”

"There is no way to spend money, and the way you treat Kazakhs cannot be used to treat them." Xu Jingxi said.

Xu Jingxi said so helplessly, it was because the Hui people were originally Chinese residents, and at the same time, many of the 39th and 40th divisions were Hui soldiers.

Xu Jingxi was helpless, Yang Zengxin's face was cloudy, he felt that Yang Rui had a deep fear of entanglement, and he didn't expect that after his death, the Western Regions would be a mess by his successor. Later generations criticized him for his backward thinking and conservative policies, but they did not know that it was precisely because he insisted on not developing the economy, not popularizing education, and not that he was in a state of ignorance and ignorance, and at the same time met his upper-class aristocracy, forming a situation of checks and balances in which the aristocracy oppressed and the government was the master of the entanglement, which was the best policy for governing Xinjiang.

For the sake of their own political achievements and official reputation, the ignorant successors removed the rule of the feudal aristocracy, and reintegrated the already divided entanglement without distinguishing between the high and the low; And think that after the development of the economy and the popularization of education, those entanglements will be grateful to the country, but they don't know that under the capital economy, what they see is that others have more money than themselves, Han people have more money than Hui people, and state-owned enterprises have more money than private enterprises.

During the Manchu Dynasty, under the rule of the Imperial Court, the issue of ethnic minorities was actually satisfactorily resolved, and the strategy of dividing the noble and the inferior and mediating the center was extremely effective for more than 200 years. This triangular balancing strategy only fails when the capacity of arable land is stretched to the extreme, or when local officials are corrupt and forget their role as checks and balancers, and eat the flesh and blood of untouchables with the aristocracy. China is not a republic, Mongolian, Tibetan, and entangled aristocrats will always exist, and try their best to keep these areas from economic development, education to avoid popularization, and media access, so that they live in a state of simplicity and ignorance, which will be a long-term national policy, and externally, it is called to protect the living environment of ethnic minorities and respect their national habits.

Yang Zengxin couldn't imagine that under such a design, there was any possibility of rebellion, after the rebellion of the poor Temur in Kashgar was suppressed in the founding year of the country, the entire Western Regions was very peaceful, even if the Russian army invaded the east now, there was only a commotion in the territory, and there was no major chaos. The prime minister is so taboo to entangle him that he would rather spend tens of millions of dollars to migrate it to the Syr Darya, which is indeed a strategy to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. It's just that what if those entanglements don't want to move away?

Yang Zengxin thought for a while before coming back to his senses, and he said, "When will Shiva's side be able to do something?" ”

"Junaid from Khiva went to Beijing at the end of last year, and everything was negotiated. When we launch in a few days, he will join forces with some tribes of Bukhara and Turkmen to attack Tashkent, and our air force will support them in their attack on the city of Tashkent. Xu Jingxi said.

"Then talk to them about the Ferghana Basin, where Kokand belongs?" Yang Zengxin asked. The most fertile regions in Central Asia are the Seven Rivers region (southeast of Lake Balkhash) and the Ferghana Basin, the Seven Rivers region originally belonged to China, so there is nothing to ask, but the ownership of the Ferghana Basin is extremely important, this cornucopia Khiva and Bukhara everyone wants.

"This matter is a big matter, and the prime minister has not expressed his position, thinking that it is still up to the adults to decide how to divide the borders of Khiva, Bukhara, Turkmenistan, and our country." Xu Jingxi said.

"It's good if it's undecided, it's good if it's undecided." Yang Zengxin stroked his beard and said with a smile, Ferghana is a cornucopia, he wants to use it no matter what, so that Khiva and Bukhara will turn against each other.

"If you have a good idea, you can implement it, and you don't need to ask the prime minister." Xu Jingxi said, at this time, he finished saying all the important words, and then took out two letters from his arms, "These two letters are a handwritten letter from the prime minister that asked me to pass it on to the adult, saying that he would explain the important things clearly and then show them to the adult; The other is a letter of appointment from the Taiwei Mansion, appointing the Lord as the governor of the Western Regions and having full authority to deal with this war. ”

Yang Zengxin was not surprised by the previous letter, but the appointment of the governor of the Western Regions later made Yang Zengxin a little grateful, and he said, "What about General Peng?" The old minister doesn't know how to do the military? ”

"War is a continuation of politics, General Peng and I are in charge of the military, and at the political level, the prime minister and the lord will be in charge, specifically, the prime minister will be in charge of negotiations with Britain, France, the United States, Japan and other countries, and the lord will be in charge of weighing and judging the situation between the khanates, the various ethnic groups, and the new Russia. I have the final say with General Peng on how to fight, whether to fight or not, and where to fight, it is up to the adults to have the final say. Xu Jingxi said, and stood up to salute Yang Zengxin. (To be continued......)