On the grasslands of Monan, there are many places called Baicheng. There are two most famous ones, one is Tongwan City in northern Shaanxi, and the other is the capital city built by Lin Dan Khan among the Alukorqin tribe.

There is also a White City to the south of Horqin's right wing. I don't know who built it. It has long been abandoned. However, after Nikan signed a "peace" agreement with the Jin Kingdom, he immediately asked Sun Daocheng to build a city here.

The time has come to the fourth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the fifth year of Jin Tiancong, which is 1631 AD.

In the agreement with the Jin Kingdom, although the two sides did not discuss the issue of the original Horqin right wing station, with Oba's escape to the south and the capture of Gunbu, Aduzi, and Omubu, the huge right wing was gone.

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After Nikan let Li Yangeng take over with 6,000 infantry, he formed a pair with the Mongolian women who had lost their young men who had stayed in the area, plus the 3,000 households of the Sauron tribe who had recently moved there, and the original Ergun River Xiao

Alin's tribe still has more than 10,000 households in total, firmly occupying most of the territory on the right wing.

After Oba moved south, the Huolin River and Wenggon Mountains actually became the dividing line between the Saurons and the Mongols. As a result, only the Gorros part of the originally vast right-wing garrison remained.

Baichengzi, which was at the forefront, became the front line. According to Nikan's practice, large-scale construction had to be done here.

As of today, the Battalion and Maintenance Department under Sun Daocheng, the head of the Ministry of Industry, already has a standing team of 3,000 people. Its scale is second only to the standing army.

Not only that, this standing army is still under the control of the Ministry of Industry, and is provided with salt and grain distribution every month. Although the quota is lower than that of the standing army, it is still very generous.

About a thousand of this standing team of three thousand people came from Sauron's tribes, and the other two thousand came from captured Han craftsmen, farmers and Han Aha.

These three thousand people are currently working nervously near Baichengzi, building a new city before their eyes.

According to the order of taking over, Baicheng's priority should be after Qiqihar and Harbin. Why are you so reluctant to build Baicheng first?

There is a reason for this.

Today's Qiqihar and the Harbin area are still crisscrossed by water networks and swamps. Although it is an endless plain, it is still not possible to use cavalry to gallop here. To achieve this, it still takes a lot of imagination.

After a large number of Han people arrived, the puddles all over the ground were drained.

The situation near Baicheng is different. This is a traditional grassland area. Although it is blocked by the Huolin River and the Jiaoliu River, because the river is shallow, the cavalry can cross everywhere and can reach them in the blink of an eye.

It would be different if a big city were to be built here. If the enemy wanted to sweep the area around the original Horqin right wing, they could not ignore the rear. They had to pull out this nail before they could proceed with confidence.

This is the value of Baicheng.

Therefore, Nikan attaches great importance to the construction of this city. In addition to the 3,000 standing team, the surrounding herdsmen also mobilized 2,000 people. In addition to the 2,000 people previously eliminated from the 5,000 Ahari, a total of 7,000 people were all laid out.

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For a moment, the sky above the entire Baicheng was filled with black smoke, and below there were crowds of people everywhere.

By August, the city wall with a circumference of six miles had been built, and various construction projects in the city were in full swing.

To the south of Baicheng, a new military camp was set up near the Jiaoliu River, and all three thousand of Alin'a's cavalry were deployed there.

By this year, Nikan already had 12,000 standing cavalry - the previous 10,000 cavalry plus 2,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry newly selected from Daur and Xibe tribes - drawn from captured Han farmers.

And selected by Han Ahari.

Hulun City, after the Battle of Qiqihar, although Nikan reached a "peace" agreement with the Jin Kingdom, Nikan knew that this agreement would not last long. Therefore, he focused his troop deployment on the east, including Zhuktu.

Ulan-Ude's three thousand cavalrymen were also transferred over.

His current troop deployment is:

There are two thousand infantry troops stationed in Ulan-Ude City, with Leng Yun in charge. Since the Russians are the main imaginary enemy in this direction, two thousand infantry troops, plus tribal cavalry, are enough to deal with large and small matters.

The remaining cavalry and infantry are all placed in the area from Hulun City to Harbin, and the vast areas of Baryaga, Tanga, Chita, Nerchinsk, and Durga are all garrisoned by tribal cavalry who serve in turns, with three hundred to three hundred in each place.

It ranges from five hundred people.

The troop deployment from Hulun City to Harbin is:

Muren led two thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry to guard Hulun City;

In the future, Enso will lead two thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry to garrison White City;

Qiqihar and Harbin each deployed a thousand cavalry and a thousand infantry.

As a result, Nikan still had 6,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry left in his hands. The total number of infantry and cavalry was 10,000 people, plus 1,000 artillery equipped with 10,000 troops, for a total of 11,000 troops.

This 11,000-strong army is still equipped with considerable firearms. In this Far East area, unless the Jin Kingdom attacks with all their strength, there is no reason for Nikan to fail.

These more than 10,000 troops, led by Zhu Ketu, Alin'a, and Akedun respectively, led 2,000 cavalry, 1,000 infantry, and 300 artillery and were stationed on the border line from Baicheng to Harbin, which was about 600 miles away.

Nikan himself had 300 personal guards, 1,000 infantry (500 musketeers, 500 pikemen), and 100 artillery, his own direct forces, all commanded by Sun Chuanyu.

In August, Nikan's cheap brother Sun Xiulin finally took out the streamlined code of the Ming Dynasty and named it "The Code of Sauron Aslan Khan". The Sauron people did not have writing, so they compiled it in Chinese characters.

According to Nikan's arrangement, any city built with brick walls must have a school, specifically recruiting tribal students aged 12 to 15. The schooling lasts for three years. By this year, Chita City has already had its first batch of graduates.

, one hundred in total.

Among them, those with outstanding results were left to teach in various cities, and the rest were placed in the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Household Affairs. They existed as assistants and supervisors of the haladas of each ministry, and were used to handle illegal and disciplinary matters and tax collection matters in accordance with the new code.

It was the role of the judge in the Yuan Dynasty, but he was a deputy. The top leader was nominally the halada of each department.

According to the situation in the forest, it is not impossible for the government to take care of all the affairs of the ministries in one step. According to Nikan's estimation, it may take another twenty years.

However, Nikan still directly appointed officials in the Chukwu River Basin, Shilok River Basin, and areas with a large number of farmers.

These places are directly called counties.

The Chukwu River Basin is called Chukwu County, and the Shilok River Basin is called Shilok County. Sun Xiulin and Luo Jin serve as county magistrates respectively, which is a good start.

According to Nikan's idea, when conditions are mature in the future, seven prefectures will be established: Ulan-Ude, Chita, Nerchinsk, Hulun, Baicheng, Qiqihar, and Harbin, with counties under the prefectures. If the prefectures are mainly pasture lands, then

It is a state directly subordinate to him Aslan Khan.

For example, Baicheng is in charge of most of the former Horqin right-wing pastureland, and will set up state officials to manage it. As for the state officials, they will be selected from tribal students who are familiar with the herdsmen's living habits and literate. If you directly choose

Let a Ming Dynasty scholar come in. Although he is familiar with the laws of Aslan Khan, it is strange that he can still be a state official despite the language barrier and different customs.

Of course, you can say why not find a translator?

Haha, what if the translator colludes with the locals and deceives the state officials?

Therefore, in major cities, Nikan not only requires tribal youths to learn Chinese and Chinese characters, but also requires the dozens of people sent by the Sun family to learn Mongolian and Jurchen. If they meet the requirements, they can be directly appointed as officials.

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On the crafts side, due to the joining of a large number of Han craftsmen, there are now more than a thousand craftsmen specializing in iron smelting and forging. Adding carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, cobblers, etc., the number of craftsmen also exceeds 3,000. In this desert

The northern area is also second to none.

In Merdile City, all ten ships supervised by Wang Wenhui and presided over by Yang Chun have been launched.

Among the ten ships, there are five large ships, all of which are about 300 pieces in size. They are equipped with three masts and all adopt Western standards. Yang Chun has already figured out a complete set of methods for operating the sail brackets.

The bow of the ship is pointed, which makes it easy to break waves, which means that even if it reaches the sea, it can still travel along the coast.

The bottom of the boat has a heavy hem to prevent it from rolling over.

After the ship is equipped with a diagonal sail, it can travel in tailwind, headwind, and crosswind conditions. In conjunction with the stern rudder, it can also turn quickly.

As for how to control the sail, as an enthusiast who came from later generations and a college student who graduated from engineering, he naturally knows a little bit about how Nikan will control the sail in tailwind, headwind, and crosswind situations, that is, the approximate angle between the sail and the wind direction and

Yang Chun and the naval generals communicated, and finally they tested it on a ship for a month and then recorded it in the naval drill code.

"What? The fastest speed when using the cross wind at the right angle?"

I remember that both Yang Chun and the naval generals were shocked when they heard what Nikan said. According to common sense, it is the right thing to use the favorable wind to push the boat away. However, they were convinced after verifying it on the Shilka River.

Of course, things like "Even if the wind is favorable, it is not the front that allows the sail to catch the wind the fastest, it also needs an angle," etc., etc., Nikan also taught them. In fact, he only knew a rough idea,

Details such as how to control the sail and how to coordinate the jib and jib were left to Yang Chun and others to figure out on their own. Once they figured it out, they were included in the operating instructions.

Compared with the hard-type fore-and-aft sails commonly used in the Ming Dynasty today, the combination of soft horizontal sails and diagonal sails that Nikan had to mount requires more manpower and is more complicated to control, but Nikan still managed to get it on the market.

"The combination of the soft jib and the jib allows for fuller force and faster steering", plus the design of a heavy hem that is much better than the ballast stone (similar to the keel used by later sailboats to prevent rollover and rollover of sailboats)

At this time, due to the existence of the hem, rollover can be effectively avoided under huge resistance.

, the reason is also very simple, it is easy for you to slide in the water with an oar, but can you paddle with a giant oar that is six feet long, half a foot wide, and one foot thick?), Nikan Design

The structure of the ship is close to that of the current European ships, but the appearance is still in the Ming Dynasty style.

The bottom layer can be loaded with food, drinking water, ammunition, spare weapons and other items other than ballast stones. The oars are placed on the lower layer, with ten people on each side.

The first deck is where five hundred kilograms of artillery is placed. There are three guns on the forecastle and poop, one on each side, and one on the front and rear. There are six guns placed on the empty deck between the forecastle and poop.

Three guns, if it rains, only the six guns at the bow and stern of the ship can be used.

In this way, although roller skating and other devices are installed, each artillery still needs three people to control it. Twelve cannons are thirty-six people, plus twenty oarsmen, this is fifty-six people.

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Including the sailors and combat soldiers who control the sails, rigging, brackets, and combatants, a ship can carry one hundred and twenty people.

There are also five small boats, all of which can only carry thirty people. They have a single longitudinal sail, equipped with ten oarsmen, fifteen combat soldiers, and five sailors. They have only one stern rudder for controlling the direction.

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There is a 200-pound cannon on the bow of each boat.

Now, with the order of Aslan Khan, a thousand people who are familiar with water and have experience in fishing and hunting have been removed from the original standing army, and they have been put on these ten ships for training - according to the configuration, six hundred and fifty

Just one person is enough. Nikandrov has allocated an additional 350 people, naturally for the sake of long-term planning.

Oarsmen also go to the first deck to control the sails from time to time, and sailors on the first deck also go to the middle deck from time to time to paddle as a physical exercise.

The seven-foot-long and two-foot-wide ship is also equipped with a large number of oarsmen. Naturally, this is because the sails and stay ropes are complicated. If you are not completely skilled, you will at least have the oars as power to prevent you from getting into a mess if you encounter an enemy.

All these 1,000 people are training on the river, which is about 500 miles from Merdila to the Shilka River and merges into Heilongjiang. On this section of the river, Russia in later generations could still run steamships, and now these small sailing boats are naturally out of the question.

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These one thousand people, as Nikan's first "Navy" unit, finally found a person from Li Yangeng's unit who had previously served as the commander-in-chief of the Navy in Dongjiang Town to serve as the commander-in-chief.

This man's name was Sun Jiaji, a distant relative of Sun Degong. He was thirty years old and could control sails and artillery. He was a rare all-rounder under Nikan. After having a detailed chat with him, Nikan transferred him from Li Yangeng's men.

Unlike Sun Degong, Sun Jiaji's family all died in the massacre of Lao Nu five years ago. He was gnashing his teeth at Jian Nu. He was also one of Li Yangeng's die-hard confidants. After joining Nikan's team, he also hoped to avenge his family.
Chapter completed!