Afafu was defeated and never discouraged. When he saw Ye Zhao take out the chessboard, his eyes became brighter and brighter. He blew his snow-white veil gently, obviously taking a deep breath, calmly preparing, and he must win Ye Zhao's game.

Ye Zhao laughed secretly when he saw it, and sometimes he thought this little Muslim girl was very interesting.

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At the end of December 1864, the Imperial team finally crossed the border and entered the Khanate of Kokhan. In January, several cities, Es, Alban, Anjiyan, Namugan, and Malgalang were all conquered.

The team of Haohan Khan was killed and fell into trouble. Whenever he saw the gray military uniform appear, he would be defeated. The legendary Red-clad Cavalry Team of the Emperor of the Central Plains was even more unchallenging.

Later, it was common for a team of scouts and cavalrymen with more than a dozen people to surrender obediently.

In mid-February, the First Cavalry Division and the Infantry Brigade of Zhenghuang Banners came to the city of Haohan. The nobles of the city fled or surrendered. The Emperor's Team captured Haohan City without taking a single shot.

In March 1865, the imperial emperor Ye Zhao led the Knights into the city. A few days later, the Sultan of Mohammed who fled to Shulabo and his beautiful wife and concubines and hundreds of followers were captured by the local tribe leaders to dedicate them to the Chinese emperor, and a prisoner offering ceremony was held in the city of Kokhan.

However, the ceremony was interrupted by Ye Zhao as soon as it was held. Ye Zhao was shocked to find that the captives such as Mohammed Sultan, both men and women, were removed from their clothes, and they were naked and strung into the square with a rope.

In the snow and ice, a beautiful woman who was the princess, could only cover her chest with her hands, barely covering her snow-white breasts, and enduring the humiliation that thousands of people were watching.

What kind of simplicity does this become? Ye Zhao immediately ordered all of him to wear clothes and announced loudly on the palace castle, "Give all the people of Kokan to the same equality and freedom as those of the Central Plains!"

Next, tribes in the north and the west surrendered one after another. Ye Zhao held a tribal meeting in the palace, announcing that the eastern towns such as Anjiyan, Namugan, and Margalang were intensively divided into the empire's Tiannan Province. The city of Haohan was renamed "Laining" and the minister of Laining was established to command the Western Regions.

Lai means comfort. Lai Ning was originally the name of the previous dynasty in Kashgar New City, but now it is named Kokan City, and the territory of the empire has finally expanded to Central Asia.

In March 1865, the Khanate of Kokhan perished.

The Royal Palace of Haohan City naturally became the royal property and the imperial emperor's palace in Laining.

The palace is a white marble building with distinct architectural characteristics of the Timur Dynasty. The Timur Dynasty was a Turkic tribe. The Central Asia area was ruled by it for hundreds of years, thus forming a unique architectural style that integrates Persian, Arab and Turkic colors.

The palace is majestic and spectacular, decorated with exquisite carvings and bright colors. It has luxurious buildings with spacious white dome halls, as well as courtyards, and colonnades surrounded by arches.

The layout of Kokhan City is also extremely orderly. The mosques, palaces and parks enjoyed by rulers and nobles, and the buildings for worship are all in green spaces, and a complete irrigation system and underground water supply facilities, reservoirs and sewage discharge pipelines are built. The market, dense residential houses and important transportation trunks are extremely clear.

Even Ye Zhao was shocked, thinking inertially that Haohan City must be a barren land.

After lunch break that day, Ye Zhao ordered people to spread Mengjiang, and he came to the study along the corridors arranged on both sides of white rock pillars.

There was a telegram sent just from Kashgar, and six hundred miles came in a hurry.

Ye Zhao was immediately excited and hurriedly looked through it. Sure enough, Rong'er and Sharapova both gave birth to dragon seeds. The two little princesses were only one day apart, and Rong'er was born to the big one.

Rong'er asked her husband to name her daughter in the telegram.

Ye Zhao scratched his head and thought for a while. Perhaps he was too excited. He always felt that the name he gave was inappropriate. He immediately drafted a telegram, named Rong'er Matchmaker and others to discuss it. He heard the good news during the Western Expedition Army and immediately named the eldest girl the Princess Yongning and the second girl the Princess Yong'an.

The draft telegram had just been written, and Meng Jiang arrived.

Meng Jiang, wearing the second-rank official uniform, was obviously not used to it. He was just the whistleman of the Knights. Meng Jiang and Zhao Kui, the two generals of the Emperor who were jokingly named Hengha, were suddenly appointed as the Minister of Service in Laining. They were promoted several levels in one fell swoop. Meng Jiang is still like a dream now, and he is not used to leaving the Knights and leaving the army.

"Why are you crying?" Ye Zhao put down his brush, and the white jade table was quite elegant.

Meng Jiang dared not speak out.

Ye Zhao laughed and said, "I think people are not wrong. You are thoughtful and enterprising. After you come to Kashgar, you will learn to speak in Anjiyan people. Not many people in the army can do it, and you still have the habit of reading newspapers." Reading newspapers in the army is a common practice. Although the Western Expedition Army is long and far away, newspapers will still be delivered with supplies. Of course, it is often a few months ago.

On the way, sometimes Ye Zhao heard Meng Jiang and Afafu talk, and since then he became concerned about Meng Jiang. Speaking of which, Afafu is also a language expert and is very talented. He learned Anji Yanshu with Meng Jiang, but the progress was much faster than Meng Jiang.

Ye Zhao said again: "I have also noticed that you are quite interested in the international version of newsprint, right?"

Meng Jiang was both panicked and surprised, and blushed and said, "I don't know the world is so strong, but I like to watch things outside."

Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "This Laining City, I tell you how to control the barbarians. Do you know what it means?"

Meng Jiang said without thinking: "Use the people of Kokan to fight against Tsarist Russia in the north and the south to fight against England and Giriya."

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "So I won't read it wrong." The Kokhan Khanate is connected to the Bukhara Khanate supported by Tsarist Russia in the west, borders Tsarist Russia in the north, and to the south are Afghanistan, Britain, India and Pakistan, and its geographical location can be said to be extremely important.

Although it annexed the Khanate of Kokhan, it was not something that could be done in a few months or even in a few years. Now, the Khanate of Kokhan, the dense urban areas in the eastern Anjiyan area have been incorporated into Tiannan Province, which can be said to have truly become the territory of the empire.

In a short period of time, the western part of the Khanate of Kokhan could only carry out indirect and effective control, relying on tribes to rule this territory, and became a buffer zone for contact with Tsarist Russia and the British sphere of influence. In this way, China's western border became the rear.

The Empire will support the tribes of the Kokhans, that is, the weapons eliminated by the Imperial Team were equipped with equipment to invade the Bukhara Khanate to the west. At the same time, it also requires the British-Indian-controlled area in the south. The Tsarist Russian-controlled area in the north will not be safe. It exists with the force of British-Indian armed immigrants in the northern area. The nomadic peoples who were also indirectly ruled by Tsarist Russia in the northern area are not so easy to deal with.

In this way, Tsarist Russia went south and the ambitions of Britain and India going north would be curbed, and there would be no need for the empire to dispatch one army or another.

Of course, in addition to taxing cattle and sheep every year, the tribes of the Kokan people also need cattle, sheep, horses, food and grass to exchange for weapons. In this way, the position of the minister in Laining is extremely important. They must be able to pull and fight and appease the tribes. They cannot regard themselves as high-ranking rulers, and must also have a keen international political perspective.

Although Meng Jiang was just a famous whistleman, he became a very suitable candidate in Ye Zhao's eyes. With the civilian officials appointed by the Beijing area, he was afraid that he would lose some iron-blooded methods. If he really had a conflict with Tsarist Russia, Britain and India, he was afraid that it would be difficult to make a decision if he could not receive the imperial edict from the capital.

In fact, when the news of the empire declaring war on the Khanate of Kokhan was published in domestic newspapers, the Russian ministers and British ministers visited the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs one after another to explore the true intentions of the Chinese. Now that the Khanate of Kokhan is annexed, the Russians and the British are afraid that they will enter a state of emergency to study the countermeasures after the Chinese sphere of influence expanded to Central Asia.

Ye Zhao said again: "Three deputy ministers, you need to get along with him well."

Meng Jiang hurriedly bowed and said that.

Ye Zhao also appointed three deputy ministers of Laining City, one of whom was Uzbek, and the name was Mohamed and the leader of the tribe in the Fergana area of ​​southern Kokhan. This Mohamed surrendered first, and even offered food, grass and livestock. He also sent out warriors from the tribes in the west with the Central Plains army to conquer tribes that refused to surrender. At least now, he is a typical "pro-China faction", and he is nothing more than glory, wealth and further expansion of the tribe territory.

Another deputy minister was a Kyrgyz, the Kyrgyz people, Gulishayer, that is, the female chieftain. Because there were many Kyrgyz tribes in the northern border of Kokhan, the northern border to Bishkek and Taras east of Isek Lake, all of which were Kyrgyz tribes. The area bordered by the *** province north of the Tianshan Mountains had long exceeded the scope of the so-called Sailye City.

The third deputy minister is a Tajik, Kokhan, and the Tajik tribes bordering Afghanistan, Britain, India and Pakistan.

With a small test, the territory of the empire has reached a prosperous level that has never been seen in previous dynasties. Although Ye Zhao has already practiced and has not been surprised by honor and disgrace, he can't hide his excitement at this moment.

After coming out of the study room and turning a few corridors, he saw Afafu talking to several Uzbek maids on the stone steps in front of a white dome building, and he was naturally practicing her Uzbek language, which made Ye Zhao laugh.

Walking over, the maids holding fruit and wine plates were frightened when they saw the emperor walking down the red-clothed guards. They all changed their faces and dodged, half-kneeling beside the stone steps with Uzbek etiquette.

Although the Uzbek maids and the Tajik maids are both beautiful women carefully selected by tribal leaders, if something happens, these tribal leaders will definitely cause trouble to the whole clan, so the maids must have undergone strict review. However, in the eyes of the guards, the maids are alien women after all, so in the palace, the guards still guard Ye Zhao's side at all times, and they are always there.

Ye Zhao approached and mumbled a few words, but it meant "Hello" in Uzbek.

Afafu looked at Ye Zhao in surprise and said, "Is there anything good?" It can be seen that the emperor was in a very good mood.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Yes, Haohan is mostly pacified. In Beijing, I have two more daughters, aren't you happy?" He said, and picked up a glass of wine from the half-kneeling Uzbek maid's wine plate and signaled to Afafu, "How about having a drink with me?" He pointed to the unknown purple fruit juice on the plate and said, "You use it."

A guard hurriedly said, "Prince, please forgive me." He bowed, took the glass of wine, tried it with a silver needle, poured a small cup for the maid to drink, and the fruit juice was also done in the same way. After a while, he saw that the two maids were safe and the silver needle had not turned black, so the guard bowed and retreated.

Ye Zhao then raised his cup, and Afafu also touched him gently with juice and said, "Allah wishes the two little princesses good health and happiness."

Ye Zhao smiled and raised his glass and drank it all. Why did he have to have a drink with Afafu? In this Western Region, he could find some equality with Afafu.

"You are going to go back to the Central Plains now, right?" Afafu walked beside Ye Zhao. These days, she became Ye Zhao's translator, and many times, she was inseparable from Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "It's almost there, there is one thing I haven't done. After it's done, I'll go back to Beijing." Ye Zhao talks seriously with this Muslim girl with an unusually conservative and serious personality. If he changes to another familiar woman, Ye Zhao might ask, "Why, can't bear to let go?" He really can't get rid of his verbal problem.

"What's the matter?" Afaf asked.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Go to Bazar in the afternoon, guess what are you doing?"

Afafu's bright eyes flashed and he said, "I'll go too."

Ye Zhao said: "You are of course indispensable, but I don't know if your sister is willing to serve the empire."

The pastures in Bazar area are lush with lush water and grass, and Ye Zhao gave them to Gulishayer's tribe.

A few months ago, Gulishayer moved west from Zikman and entered Brenkur and then had a conflict with the local Uyghur tribe. The two sides fought for the pastures. After several fierce battles, the Uyghur tribe was expelled.

The Uyghur tribe naturally had to sue. The news reached Kashgar. Ye Zhao laughed at the time and thought he didn't have to find it anymore. It happened that the army was expeditioning the west, and Ye Zhao ordered Brenkur's Kirgiz tribe to give up the grassland to the Uyghur and moved westward.

The Emperor's orders naturally did not dare to ignore them. Later, Ye Zhao assigned the pastures in Bazar to Gulishayer's tribe. The water and grass in Bazar were extremely abundant, and the local tribes were the first tribes to face the invasion of the Central Plains. Most of their children were under Agubo's subordinates. They had a deep hatred with the people in the Central Plains, so they resisted fiercely and were almost exterminated, leaving only the old, young, women and children.

The Deputy Minister of Service, called Mohammed, proposed to slaughter all of him or sent him to his tribe as slaves, but in the end, Ye Zhao ordered him to move eastward and arranged for him to live in agricultural areas such as Yerkand, Chirla, and Baicheng. Assimilation was inevitable, but at least, it saved the pain of slaughtering of the elderly, young, women and children.

The ranch in Bazar has no owner and then assigned it to the Gulishayier tribe. I think that when the water and grass are abundant, the tribe's people will be very happy.

Ye Zhao was selfish when he treated Gulishayier well. There were many Kyrgyz tribes in the north of the former territory of Kokhan. This vast area was adjacent to Tsarist Russia in the north and the imperial province in the east, and the geographical location was extremely important.

It is urgent to place the Kyrgyzs under the jurisdiction of the empire. Now, Gulishayer is required to send his tribes to various Kyrgyz tribes in the north to declare the emperor's order that the Kokhan Khanate had perished, and all Kyrgyzs were loyal to the Chinese emperor from then on.

The Chinese emperor would protect them and help them avoid the trouble of the Kazakhs supported by Tsarist Russia in the north.

If there are tribes that refuse to surrender, they will naturally have to fight with force and then garrison troops in several larger towns. At this point, the occupation and indirect rule of the entire Kokhan Khanate will be successful.

To appease the Kyrgyz tribes in the Northern Territory, if the Gulishayier tribes are willing to work hard, they will definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Chapter completed!