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According to Qin Mu's plan, it was impossible to allow the Dzungar Ministry to occupy southern Xinjiang for a long time, but seeing that he was working very hard to promote Buddhism in southern Xinjiang, which was in line with Qin Mu's wishes, he was temporarily allowed to stay in southern Xinjiang.

Gu Junen's words reminded him of this matter again. Now that Batur Khan is a man with his tail between his legs, he is very well-behaved, and Qin Mu decided to make good use of it.

He and Gu Junen looked at the map, scrutinizing it bit by bit.

"By the way, I remember that among the old and weak Dzungar women and children captured by Yan Yingyuan, there was a son of Batur Khan, named Galdan."

Gu Junen didn't know why Qin Mu had any intention of mentioning this child, and while thinking about it, he responded: "There is indeed such a person, but Galdan is still young, only seven years old now, I don't know why His Majesty asked about him?" ”

In fact, Qin Mu didn't have any intention for a while, but Galdan was very famous in the original history and was one of Kangxi's main rivals.

Although Galdan is still young, he is the son of Batur Khan after all, and it is necessary to ponder whether there is anything to use in this.

"Go back and have someone bring this Galdan so that I can see it."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

If you don't destroy the Dzungar Ministry, and use the Dzungar Ministry as a knife, then now while Galdan is still young, cultivate and shape him, and in the future, you can't use him to control the Dzungar Ministry.

"It's been a year since the Dzungar Ministry retreated to the area of Yarkand City to recuperate, and there are some people you can't let him be too idle, and if he is too idle, he will make trouble."

"What His Majesty said is extremely true, the ministers did not consider this aspect before, and it is a dereliction of duty on the part of the ministers."

Qin Mu casually picked up the white jade paperweight on the table, and said while playing with it: "Right now, Su Jin is marching into the Hezhong region, and the sea is like the wind going to India, and there is just a missing link in the middle, and it is difficult to form an interaction. If Batur is obedient and lets him send troops to the Indus River area, the whole game will be alive;

The Indus River area is the junction of the Mughal Dynasty and the Safavid Empire, and after the sea rushes into India, it will inevitably have a conflict with the Mughals;

And the Hanzhong region has also been under the watchful eye of the Safavid Empire, and now that Su Jin has captured Turkestan, the power in the Hanzhong region is in a period of change, and the Safavid Empire will not let go of such an opportunity.

This time. If the Dzungar tribe can advance into the Indus River area, it can contain the Mughal Dynasty and the Safavid Empire at the same time;

The Mughal and Safavid are fighting for the Kandahar area, and there have been constant conflicts before, and Batur Khan is a man of great talent, and if he can skillfully exploit the contradictions between the Mughal and the Safavid, there is still a lot to do. ”

Gu Jun couldn't help but nod frequently when he heard this, the Dzungar Department advanced into the Indus River area, whether it was victory or defeat, Daqin was the winner. First, it can prevent the Dzungar Ministry from making trouble in the Western Regions. Second, it contained both the Mughal Dynasty and the Safavid Empire.

Don't look at the Dzungar tribe suffered a big loss in the war with Great Qin, in fact, their combat effectiveness is still very strong, but they were defeated because they lagged behind Great Qin too much in terms of weapons.

But if the enemy of Dzungaria is the Mughal or the Safavid Empire. There is not much difference between the two sides in terms of weapons, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer.

So how can you make Dzungar obediently obedient and fight into the Indus Valley?

Gu Junen thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty." I'm afraid it won't be easy to convince Batur Khan. ”

"The things in this world are nothing more than the trade-offs between the pros and cons, and the disadvantages are already obvious. Batur is an ambitious person, confined to a corner of Yarkand, obviously it is a lot of disadvantages for him, as soon as I Daqin takes Hezhong, he is in the encirclement of Daqin on three sides, unless he wants to start a war with Daqin again, there is only one direction to expand the living space of Dzungaria. As for Leigh, we might as well give him a little. ”

"Does Your Majesty mean to sell some weapons to Batur?"

"Well, I have a lot of old-style artillery with smoothbore guns in Daqinyuan, if Batur is willing to send troops to the Indus River area, you might as well sell some to him."

"Your Majesty, if you do this, I'm afraid you'll raise a tiger, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice."

Qin Mu shook his head and said: "I know what you are worried about, but you must know that no matter what kind of weapon, including the current rocket, sooner or later others will be able to imitate it, we must ensure that we will not never let others have it, we can only strive to always be more advanced than others."

The old smoothbore cannon has poor mobility and limited power, and if we are also afraid, it can only mean that we are incompetent, and even if we don't suffer Batur's loss today, we will be defeated by others sooner or later. ”

Qin Mu is confident in this, with the continuous improvement of Daqin's smelting technology, and the use of steam engine blast, the temperature of the smelting furnace has been greatly increased, this is a revolutionary progress, I believe most people understand, the increase in furnace temperature means.

In the past, because the temperature of the smelting furnace was not enough, the molten iron was not completely dissolved, many impurities could not be separated, and the silicon content in the molten pig iron was also low (an important element for silica to promote graphitization), and most of the cast iron smelted was not high, with poor hardness, brittle and easy to break.

Now, after a series of technological innovations, Daqin's best steel can basically withstand the chamber pressure of the grenade, and the military is stepping up the development of howitzers, and it is a rear-loading rifled gun.

The range, rate of fire, and firing accuracy of rifled guns are much better than those of smoothbore guns. Because the bullet belt and rifling are tightly sealed, it can prevent the leakage of gunpowder gas, and ensure that the gunpowder gas has enough thrust on the projectile to increase the firing range and improve the density of shooting.

However, there are still many technical difficulties to be solved in the breech-loading rifled gun, and it is estimated that it will take some time to build it, but the front-loading rifled gun does not have any technical difficulties;

The front-loading rifled gun can be roughly seen as an enlarged version of the Type 9 rifled gun, but in terms of shells, it is different from bullets. At present, the Ordnance Superintendent has begun to produce some front-loading rifled guns on a trial basis.

It's just that Qin Mu feels that there are rockets currently in use, and there is no need to invest too much in front-loading rifled guns, just have technical reserves, lest after the rear-loading rifled guns are developed, they will be eliminated in large quantities, resulting in unnecessary waste.

Because of Qin Mu's presence, Daqin can take fewer detours in scientific research, and the rapid progress is naturally incomparable to other countries.

Gu Junen changed his words and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is not opposed to providing some weapons to Dzungaria, but he is worried that after providing weapons, Dzungar may not be able to enter the Indus Valley according to the wishes of our dynasty." ”

"Hahaha" Qin Mulang said with a smile, "This is not something that Gu Qing needs to consider, this should be something that Huang Zhenlin and Gan Nan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs need to consider." ”

When Gu Junen heard this, he also laughed: "What His Majesty said is that then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will send an envoy to Yarkand City to persuade Batur Khan before deciding." ”

Qin Mu nodded, and discussed with Gu Junen for a while, and when he retired, Qin Mu immediately summoned Huang Zhenlin and Gan Nan.

When the two of them came to the Pujia Hall together, Qin Mu first asked, "Huang Qing, has the ship to Europe set off?" ”

Previously, Qin Mu and his ministers had a plan to send envoys to Europe to contact the Pope in the Vatican, strive to communicate with the influence of the Pope, strive to integrate the forces of Eastern European countries, and fight together to flank the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, there is also an important task, that is, to travel to European countries and collect some scientific and technological talents as much as possible to bring back to Daqin, such as talents like Newton, which is still of great value.

To lure these talents to Daqin, the best way is to take out some things that they are fascinated by in the field they are interested in, and these Qin Mu have them.

In addition, China is still recognized as a first-class country in the world, a country like a garden, and Westerners are very yearning for it.

Speaking of this, Huang Zhenlin hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the mission to Europe led by Zhang Yuan, the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a total of four flying scissor warships, has set sail in Ningbo Port, in addition, Fang Yizhi and several other non-governmental societies are also accompanied by people, and two Portuguese merchant ships are accompanied by them, as guides. ”

The so-called folk society is a non-governmental think tank established under the guidance of Qin Mu, which has attracted a lot of talents, and has not made much contribution to the decision-making of the imperial court at present;

However, one advantage is that these social elites have a wider horizon and are no longer entangled in trivial matters in the country, forming parties for personal gain, excluding dissidents, and criticizing the government and politics less;

Like this time, various think tanks took the initiative to request that they send people to Europe with the mission, which Qin Mu was happy to see.

He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Huang Qing and Gan Qing, you have done a good job, I summoned the two of you to have another task, and I want the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate." ”

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