The next morning, Sun Xiurong got up early in the morning - according to Naren Xiaofeng, Baku had the least wind in the morning and the weather was the best.

On a stele tower that was ten feet high from the previous minaret, accompanied by Ma Lin, Cen Shen, Naren Xiaofeng, Xi Yuanjing and others, he was looking around at the highest point upstairs.

As Naren Xiaofeng said, the surrounding environment around Baku City is clear at a glance, the blue sea dozens of miles away from the east, north, and south, and the remnants of the Caucasus that are gradually rising to the west.

"King"

What is being reported is Cen Shen. According to the latest regulations of the Great Qin State, the government affairs of the two enclaves in Baku and Batumi are still under the jurisdiction of Hainan Prefecture, while the military affairs are under the jurisdiction of Hainan Governor's Office.

There is an exception here. Since Batumi hangs alone on the east coast of the Black Sea and the situation is different, he accepts dual jurisdiction from Hainan Prefecture and the central government. The former Hainan Governor Yuan Feng was also transferred to Batumi as the head of the Black Sea Navy and the Governor of the Batumi Special Office.

"Look, there are several large freshwater lakes in the northeast of Baku City, and small rivers are also coming in. It is surrounded by farmlands of local farmers. After the land was leased by our country, these farmers also moved away. Xiaguan moved 3,000 farmers from Hainan Prefecture to fill their vacancy."

“Wheat, alfalfa, rye, fruits and so on can be grown here”

"There are barren mountains to the west, but there is a good pasture. There are pastures all year round. Weichen has calculated on the spot that there are at least five million acres. From the alpine meadow to the hillside meadow, all the way to the desert meadow at the foot of the mountain, you can calmly transfer."

"Although it's one hundred miles, in fact, since the west of Baku City is part of the Caucasus Mountains, the entire ridge that is nearly two hundred miles east of the ridge has been taken down by us."

Sun Xiurong asked: "In such a place, it is impossible for herders to move all along with him."

"Yes," Cen Shen nodded, "That's natural. According to what the king described in the Ministry of Revenue, about one hundred livestock large and small corresponds to one family. Such a place is far better than the northern part of Mo. It rarely snows in winter. Five acres of land can feed a livestock, one hundred people, that is, five hundred acres, five million acres, and ten thousand herders can feed ten thousand herders."

"However, this place has always been a place where the tribes in the north and south of the Caucasus have fought frequently. In addition, the frequent battles between the cannibals and the Xhosa people have resulted in very few herders here. Now there is only a tribe called the Chechin people by the Azerbaijanis and stayed there for grazing. By the way, they call themselves Nahjo people, and there are about a thousand households."

(Nachjo people, who are Chechens, one of the original residents of the North Caucasus)

"It is said that there are about 10,000 households of Nahjo people north of the Caucasus Mountains, all of whom make a living by grazing."

"The ministry has a small chief named Duraso, who is very fierce. People from our country went to contact him, but he has been avoiding him. Obviously, he does not want to accept the control of our country. It is said that when the Great Cannibal was in charge of the former jurisdiction of the Great Cannibal, there were about 3,000 households here, and they were also not subject to the control. The Great Cannibal naturally would not be polite. In a raid, about 60% of the herdsmen were killed."

"After that, Duraso moved to a place near the ridge with the remaining herders, and ignored any official staff who came to contact him."

"With such a large ranch, our country will naturally not give up. We moved a thousand herders from Xinyingzhou, all of whom were silenced, Tuyuhun people, etc., but it is said that they often clashed with Nadulaso's herders. However, the Nahjo people were fierce, and Tuyuhun people were not inferior. After several conflicts, both sides defended their current boundaries."

Xi Yuanjing continued: "King, there are a lot of natural asphalt and Greek fire here..."

"No", Sun Xiurong interrupted him, "What is Greek fire, pure nonsense, just called oil!"

"Petroleum?" Xi Yuanjing thought carefully about the meaning of the word, but he didn't understand for a long time, but he nodded, "Yes, oil, in addition to refining natural asphalt to build roads, refining rough glue, and adding seams to the ship, we also used the same method to refine and extract sulfur from pyrodite, distillation."

"The effect is pretty good now. The Ministry of Education found that it is very effective in replacing tinder oil. The Ministry of Education has also inquired about the situation where the Romans used oil fire to attack large cannibal ships. If the oil refined by our country is used, it is estimated that the effect is best. Now some of the products have been used on warships."

"It's like this," Feng Ce took over the conversation. "According to the king's previous description, we specially set up a Xi in the cabin... This refined petroleum fire cabinet is connected to it with a thick rubber pipe. The first part of the thick rubber pipe is covered with an iron pipe, and the fire cabinet and the rubber pipe are connected by a special device."

"The device can be controlled by two intern sailors. Because it is on the pulley, two people can use the strength of four people. When two people press the device with force, the turmeric oil can be sprayed out. The vocational department has calculated that the farthest can reach more than four meters."

"If four people press the device, they can spray more than seven meters and then shoot it with a rocket, and fire attack can be launched anytime and anywhere, but it depends on the wind direction at that time."

Sun Xiurong nodded. This scene had already appeared in the Daxia Kingdom in the previous life.

Xi Yuanjing continued: "Half of the asphalt craftsmen in Atlau have been transferred here, and half of them are placed on this oil. At present, he only has three uses, one is military. In addition to being used on warships, the army can also allow light infantry to carry some, making fire and fire attacks."

"The second is to be used as lubricant for machine tools. In the past, all the lubricant used in my country came from livestock oil. Not to mention the high cost, it will solidify in winter. After the first distillation, the turmeric oil is best used. It is also very good to use on wheels and crossbows."

"The third is for rubber refining. It is currently under test. Judging from the preliminary things, the effect is not worse than asphalt, but it still needs to be explored further."

Sun Xiurong nodded, feeling secretly happy, "Through the processing of asphalt, engineers from the Great Qin State like Xi Yuanjing who graduated from Tianshan University and craftsmen have already had preliminary skills and experience. In time, the era of large-scale utilization of oil will come."

Xi Yuanjing continued, "Since there is a garrison, the vocational department has smelted some of the Hainan Prefecture, and the craftsmen have transferred a small number of them to come here, and it is very convenient to transport the minerals from Mount Elbors here. We can repair weapons and armor, or make small quantities."

"Let's do it first," Sun Xiurong waved his hand, "Does the fuel use firewood from Mount Elbool?"

"Yes"

"That's all right now, the base is still in Surrey."

Naren Xiaofeng said: "King, the faint white building in the distance to the north is the city of Sumgate. It was originally a military fort built by the Persians. When the Caucasus Mountain extended here, it happened to be a large and gentle slope. Over the years, a narrow passage between the gentle slope and the sea was formed, and the widest part was only five miles."

"Sumgate City is stuck between the gentle slope and the southern plain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is no suitable port in the north, and the enemy cannot attack from the sea. However, they have a large number of flatbeds in their hands. If they use large slave ships to carry flatbeds, arrive near the coastline, then put down the flatbeds and row the beach, it is still possible."

"But in that case, it is impossible to get too much military power. Their slaves used in ships have too many paddling slaves, which almost takes up half of the loaders. In addition to the sailors and combatants on the ship, there are not many mobile forces that can be loaded, so this will not pose too much threat to our army."

Sumgate is about fifty miles away from Baku City, but there are low plains between them. With the blessing of the five-fold telescope, it is clear that Sun Xiurong suddenly thought of something.

"Why are there white castles here?"

Xi Yuanjing smiled and said, "The eastern end of the Caucasus is full of dolomite, especially near Baku. The dolomite here is accompanied by a large amount of high-quality clay. Now, the refractory bricks used to build the blast furnace have materials."

Sun Xiurong nodded and asked again, "Sumgate's mountain camp, which camp is it?"

Naren Xiaofeng replied: "As the advance base to attack the Khonsa Khanate, it is naturally the most elite mountain camp, which is Kang Xiaorong's camp, and when he follows General Yuanfeng to Batu, it is Nan Gongxi."

Xi Yuanjing continued: "Because the cannibals almost emptied Baku City, we only have 3,000 regular battalions and a small number of officials and yamen runners, the entire castle is almost empty. After Weichen came here, he immediately built a new granary according to the requirements of 20,000 troops in the previous year. The grain and grass from Hainan Prefecture have filled the warehouse."

Sun Xiurong turned to look at Su Xijie, "What's going on with the Khosa's Derbint Port after our country occupied this place?"

Suxijie replied: "The Port of Derbint was originally the fief of Brans' adopted son, Shadyk of Ugus. He also served as the Governor of Derbint. From the capital of White City, he went south and to the vicinity of Sumgate, the length was about 500 miles. To the west of the sea, it was the Caucasus Mountains, with an average distance of about 200 miles."

"This place is roughly a triangle area, with the sea to the east and mountains to the west, and is an extremely high-quality pasture in the Caucasus. At present, Yehu, the chief of the Khanate of the Khanate, and Brans, the actual ruler of the Khanate, was occupied by the most fierce Chechen people, about Mowanhu, whose leader is Duras, who is the brother of Durasso, the Chechen people near Baku."

"Between Derbint and Sumgate, about seventy miles from the sea, there is a mountain city called Kuba. It was originally a military fort used by the Khanate of the Khanate to deal with the great cannibals. Later, it was rewarded by Brans to Duras as a fief. Duras itself has 3,000 permanent cavalry, and when fully mobilized, it can reach 10,000 cavalry."

"The war horses of the Cheqin people are obviously mixed races of local horses and Turkic horses, and are extremely resistant to mountain combat. In addition to the Cheqin people, there are also Aval people, who are said to be descendants of the Rouran people, and there are also Alan people, the Yancai people in the northwest of the Kangju Kingdom during the Han Dynasty, and the ones who are called the White Huns are."

"The Turkic horses of the Chechin people were obviously brought by the Alan people and the Aval people. In addition, there is a local resident named the Cherks, who is also good at mountain cavalry fighting."

(Cherks, one of the royal families of the Normanov dynasty of Tsarist Russia, and the director of the Russian cavalry in all dynasties)

"The Alan and Aval are all semi-herderly tribes, half-peasant tribes, each with tens of thousands of households, distributed in vast areas from mountains to plains."

"The Chechin people and the Cherks live in the mountains, and are also the most fierce. It is said that the Cherks are more fierce than the Chechin people and are very good at cavalry fighting. In the past, when the cannibals attacked the Xhosa people, they would provoke discord between the tribes and let them strife, and then their main force entered again. The Chechin people were in the east, while the Cherks were in the west, near the Black Sea."

"The hillside grassland in the middle was naturally occupied by the Alan and Aval people."

"The so-called Xhosa people, that is, the Blue Turks, mainly Tuva tribes, and the post-Turkish mixed tribes, had a powerful Attila Empire in history. After the fall of the country, the remaining tribes were almost annexed by the Xhosa people, thus forming a new Xhosa people, and naturally there were at least 100,000 households."

"Governor Derbint Shadick has 10,000 infantry cavalry, thirty slave ships in the port, one hundred fast ships, the total number of sailors is around 15,000, and the number of slave paddlers is also the same. Adding to the Chechin cavalry in Duras, the total number of military forces is around 35,000."
Chapter completed!