The trading city built by Zhu Cijiong at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains was located in a place called Alimatu, which is almost where Almaty will be in later generations. Because it is nourished by the melting snow of the Tianshan Mountains, the land around the city is quite fertile. If Zhu Cijiong can withstand long-term losses and slowly carry out immigration development, he will definitely be able to develop in the future... a long, long time in the future. For example, more than 100 years later!
This prediction seems a bit pessimistic, but judging from the development in recent years, it is still very possible.
The reason is very simple. If the people of the Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty want to immigrate to the area around the trading city, the travel expenses they need to pay will definitely be higher than those to the United States of New Zealand!
It takes almost 10,000 miles to go from Yingtian to Buying City! Immigration by land would be awesome if they could travel 50 miles a day. It was almost the same speed as the Ming Dynasty's army. It would take 200 days to travel 10,000 miles. If you walked slower, it would be a year...not to mention the speed along the way. Whether there is a supply or not, even if there is, a poor family will be rich! How much will it cost to travel a long distance of 200 days to a year? With this kind of money, I might as well go to Xinzhou!
It only takes three months to go to the United States of New Zealand... and nine months can be saved to dig for gold and hunt for furs. Even if it is a hard labor, I can save some money.
Therefore, after the business of reopening the Silk Road failed, there were no Chinese immigrants willing to come to Dai's country. However, some of the "Green Flag military households" who followed Wu Sangui to Anxi and Hexi could not survive in Anxi for various reasons, so they moved to the Beiting Army and Daiguo controlled by Zhu Cijiong to settle down - Daiguo and Beiting divided the Ili River. Basin (the Maocheng area is also part of the Ili River Basin), Daiguo also has the rich and fertile Rehai (Issyk-Kul Lake) area, and the environment is much better than the barren lands of Anxi and Hexi.
However, the population of Anxi and Hexi is not large. Only one or two thousand households can move to Daiguo and Beiting every year. There will only be 200,000 households in 100 years...
Zhu Cijiong is in his early forties this year. Although he is in good health, he is unlikely to live to be 140 years old... so he cannot wait for the day when his country will develop naturally.
Since you can't wait, you have to find some windfall, no, a "windfall" to speed up the development of the country. Chuhe Prefecture, which was developed twenty years earlier and has received two waves of immigrants (the first wave from Yeerqiang country, the first wave from Eight Banner Mongolia and the first wave from Horqin Mongolia) and has a relatively large population, has naturally become Zhu Cijiong's coveted target. .
Because all kinds of immigrants gathered around Chuhe City, the whole city became noisy and noisy, and then became a commercial center in the Central Asian steppes. People of various nationalities crisscrossed each other, and teams of camels and teams of carriages and horses kept passing by. The wooden wheel wrapped with iron rings caused sparks to fly on the stone slabs of the street. The Mongolians who came from the grasslands had knives in their waists and swaggered through the streets, looking at the surrounding shops as if they were on a horse. Most of the Mongolians, Hans and Manchus from the East living in the city wore Ming Dynasty clothes and spoke Chinese and Mongolian, either talking to each other or soliciting business.
There are also some businessmen wearing Tianfang Sect costumes who have recently appeared in Chuhe City. They all held "trade licenses" issued by the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Delhi, and came with dazzling goods or rupee silver coins from India, escorted by Jungar cavalry sent by Shibao King City. ....Pursue a special "commodity" - Mr. Xiaoge, or slave scout!
In addition to the large number of merchants, there are also many lamas here, wearing monk robes and cockcomb-like lama hats, walking around in the streets and alleys. The soldiers of Geldan Wanhu who were stationed in Chuhe Prefecture all respected and trusted these lamas very much. They allowed them to come in and out through the city gate, and no one would question them, let alone stop them.
Because the ruler of this city, Galdan, was also a highly respected lama not long ago - Galdan ruled this commercial center city on the edge of the Central Asian prairie as a monk.
Therefore, the lamas in this city have always been cared for, and it is logical that this place has become a gathering place for Huang Temple.
The Yellow Temple of Sanbao Lama and Mingzhu Lama is also in Chuhefu City. It has a rather vulgar name called Xiaojin Temple. It was given to them by Sengge after the destruction of Bukhara Khanate. After the completion of the Xiaojin Temple, the two great lamas specially sent their disciples to the Central Plains to welcome a group of lamas (there were also Huang Temples in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, most of which were left over from the Yuan Dynasty). There are also several eminent monks with very high Taoism among them. Even the Sanbao Lama and the Mingzhu Lama will take turns returning to the Chu River from the Shibao Royal City to listen to the sermons of these eminent monks.
The person who just returned to Chuhe Mansion today is Sanbao Lama. He is in his carriage, leaning against the window and quietly reading a few newspapers in the sunshine. The wheels of the carriage rolled over the stone at the entrance of the Little Golden Temple, causing the enchanted Sanbao Lama to jump up in shock.
Lama Sanbao quickly put away the newspaper and opened the curtain to take a look. He saw several big and three-thick iron-rod lamas coming towards him. The leader had already come over: "Your Majesty, Venerable Ford has arrived and is waiting for you in the sutra hall! You can stay in the big valley for a long time this time. I heard that you encountered a crisis, which worried everyone in our Little Golden Temple."
It turns out that Sambo Lama came back from the military front in the Fergana Basin!
When Sengge put Anusha Khan of the Khiva Khanate into the basin, he did not expect that this guy would be so tenacious. He would fight for every inch of the Jungar Kingdom in the basin - the population distribution in Central Asia is very large. Unevenly, the population density on the Sanyuzi grassland is very low. The Fergana Basin is densely populated, with around two million people!
Therefore, in order to conquer the Fergana Basin in the past few years, Seng Ge has even tried his best to conquer the Fergana Basin. Now that most of the territory in the basin has been conquered, Anusha Khan and his followers, who have retreated to the mountains, are still very troubled.
So Seng Ge asked Sanbao Lama and Mingzhu Lama to take turns stationed in the basin. This was not an easy and safe task.
A month ago, Sanbao Lama, who was patrolling the Anyanji area in the eastern part of the basin, encountered an ambush. Thousands of people besieged his 500 people. The two sides fought bloody battles for two days and three nights before the reinforcements from Sanbao Lama arrived. fighting.
Sanbao Lama smiled and waved his hand: "Don't be afraid. The people following me are all musketry cavalry, each armed with a flintlock rifle. Are you afraid of those rabble?"
As he spoke, he got out of the carriage and said to the leading lama: "Let's go and lead the way. I'm going to pay homage to Lord Ford."
Lord Ford was, of course, the Shunzhi Emperor Fulin who Zhu Cixiang had always wanted to capture and strangle to death.
In these years, he has traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, enjoying the magnificent mountains and rivers of the great motherland. He even ventured deep into the Tiger's Nest and Longtan, went to Pukou City in Yingtian Prefecture, and even stayed in Pukou Huangjue Temple.
However, I didn't dare to go to Yanenhou Mansion to see my son. In the meantime, I visited the most deserted street in the center of Pukou - Jinyiwei Street (the East Factory is also there) for a few visits. One time, he met a senior official of the Imperial Guard (Zhu Chunjie) who was cheering for him. The official thought he was here to beg for alms, so he actually gave him a few silver coins (I don't know if this counts as being an enemy?). With the silver coins given by Zhu Chunjie, Fulin also went to a restaurant next to the Dongjishichang Yamen on the street to have a good meal... The people eating there were either Jinyi Wei Tiqi or Dongchang Fanzi .
There were so many Ming agents, but no one saw anything wrong with Monk Fulin... No wonder they couldn't catch Fulin!
But after traveling around Yingtian Mansion, Fulin couldn't go back to Mount Wutai - his home base in Mount Wutai was confiscated by Jin Yiwei. Of course, the loss was not big, but we lost a few disciples who didn't know the secret, and also lost some temple property.
Fulin, who was homeless, embarked on the westward journey with Sony, Suksaha and others to go to the Kingdom of Jungar to join his queen Meng Guqing...
