Li Junwei originally wanted to spend a quiet winter with his bees in the large flower bed beside the Aral Sea. He even prepared everything for cat winter, but various documents from Ili, Samarkand, Astana, Fergana and the Ural River came in like snowflakes from the seventeenth year of the empire.

On the issue of immigration, the second brother, who was the emperor, urged and supervised in Beijing. Both the Lifan Court and the cabinet did their best to exceed the task. However, on the issue of immigration and resettlement, the Minister in Xinjiang and the General Dingbian Mansion were obviously not prepared. They moved all the way, and the Mongolian herders lost a lot of livestock and materials. However, after arriving at the destination, they quickly accepted the materials and cattle and sheep that originally belonged to the Kazakh tribe. Many tribes from the north of the desert felt the richness of the Kazakhs and the land in the river. Compared with their hard hometown, cattle and sheep, slaves and even wives, they were allocated. It was so wonderful.

But with the arrival of winter, more and more problems have surfaced. This year, the weather in Kazakhstan and the riverside is colder than before. The harsh winter climate has caused many cattle and sheep that have not yet recovered to be frozen to death. Because of their unfamiliarity with the local environment, many tribes do not have enough forage. Some flag servants who have just assigned livestock were even sealed in the mountains by heavy snow. More problems come from management. Li Junwei even twisted the heads of the two bastards Chen Ping and Chang Ade.

The biggest omission of these two people is to separate the Imperial Guard officers and let them take charge of the inner vassal bans and Kazakhs who had just arrived in the Western Xinjiang. This is simply a waste of life. The officers of the Imperial Guard are mostly from a family of heroes, and even soldiers are innocent petty bourgeois families in the mainland. These people do not speak Mongolian or Kazakh, and they do not know how to grazle or control their tribes. When they are assigned to their subordinates, they are often helpless or believe others' words at will.

What Li Junwei was most distressed was that the reason why Chen Ping and Chang Aday did this was that they did not want to be mastered by these herdsmen by the children of the foreign vassals. Even though they knew that those children of the foreign vassals had grown up in the tribe since childhood, and learned how to control herdsmen and slaves from their fathers and brothers, and were also familiar with the things of wintering and migration.

The final result was that the children of foreign vassals who should have ruled the new flag sects for the empire slept in Samarkand and Yili cities, while the officers of the imperial guards who could not even bear sheep dung were sent to the flag sects to do things they could not do at all.

After conducting a brief investigation, Li Junwei found that because he was unconventional in employing people, Chang Adayai and Chen Ping both chose to conceal them in these plans. If it weren't for the Imperial Guard officer who had frozen to death in a valley where the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, Li Junwei wouldn't have known it.

"Carry all the Imperial Guards back, send Batulu Camp and Qiexue to replace them. The Imperial Guards know what the Imperial Tribes, what kind of water and grass, migration and pastures, are you two of you guys in their heads?" Li Junwei arrived in Yili and cursed at Chen Ping and Chang Aday.

"Yes, I'm already doing it, but..." Chen Ping whispered. Since he became the general of Dingbian, he had never been scolded by anyone like this.

Li Junwei said angrily: "It's just a fart. Go and do it immediately. Let all the Qiexue and Batulu be released. When they arrive and the handover is completed, then let the guards all come back. The emperor tried his best to exhaust the wealth and move these people from the north of the Mobei region. It's not that you send a group of idiots to kill them!"

"Yes, fully deploy and go and do it immediately. Immigrants from the Han area have been properly resettled, and the granaries in Yili, Fergana and other places are complete..." Chang Adaehui reported.

Li Junwei shook his head: "I don't want to hear these useless things. It is your duty to do these things well. What I need to know is how many Mongolian, Jurchen, Buryat, Tungus races will freeze and starve to death in this winter?"

"It shouldn't be frozen to death. There are sufficient supplies for tents and other materials. Every three households are equipped with an iron stove. The settled winter pasture is close to the mountains and forests. The key is that many areas have insufficient forage reserves. New herders did not expect that winter would come so quickly. Because there is a lot of work to do, there is also insufficient manpower. It's okay now, in a month or two, cattle and sheep may be frozen to death, and by then, the lives of herders will be difficult to maintain." Chang Adayai explained.

Li Junwei calmed down and sat on the chair, asking, "Is it still time to provide relief?"

"It's very difficult. The snow has fallen and the carriages cannot be left. Only camels can still be transported, but the number of camels is seriously insufficient and may not be provided for relief. The most important thing is, can you send food and feed? There is not as much feed for feeding cattle and sheep." Chang Adae lowered his head and said.

Li Junwei said angrily: "You still have you, you're doing stupid things! You're so stupid."

Chang Adayai and Chen Ping dare not speak, and the consequences have not yet been borne. They can still bear these mistakes, but if there is no way to solve them, it may be that tens of thousands of people and millions of animals will starve to death next spring. These losses are enough to wipe out their achievements.

Li Junwei sighed a few times and checked the warehouse account book of the Ministers stationed in Xinjiang. In the cold winter, Chang Aday had already started sweating. Li Junwei read it and found out that he was aware of it. He asked: "Are these accounts real or fake? Are there really these supplies in the warehouse?"

"This..." Chang Adayai touched his upper lip and couldn't say a word.

Li Junwei's face turned dark: "Are you going to make up a lie to lie to me? To be honest, how much is true and how fake it is, are there so many supplies in the warehouse?"

"Grain... 75% of the grain is real, but the new grain is not two-thirds, about 40%..." Chang Audai could only say honestly. He even felt that if he told lies again, the Prince Yu in front of him might have cut him down directly.

"Where is salt?" Li Junwei asked.

"Salt is all real." Chang Adayai said honestly.

Li Junwei nodded: "Since that's the case, then do it this way. The flag servants of the Qihe River Basin are heading to Yili, the southern part of the grassland is heading to the river, and the grain production area is heading to the grain production area......"

"Your Highness, there are a lot of war food in this warehouse." Chen Ping reminded. Li Junwei looked at him seriously: "General, you can still use it as disaster relief food now. When the flag assistants starve to death and rise up, it will not be enough to take it out again!"

Chang Aday said: "Prince, many animals will die when migrate in the cold winter."

"If you die, die, just don't starve to death." Li Junwei said without hesitation.

"What about the flag servants in the northern and central Kazakhstan?" asked Uliji.

Li Junwei ordered a booklet for storing salt: "Collection of all camels from all over the world and send salt to these flag assistants. If they don't have enough grass, they will first ensure the survival of war horses and stallions. The second is the camels sent, and finally their cattle and sheep. They can take care of as much as they can. They can kill all the things they can't care about, and use salt to cure meat and use meat to spend the winter.

Cows, sheep, horses, and those who have not had winter forage were killed."

Wu Liji said: "Your Highness, this is just a temporary solution. After the winter is over, all the animals are killed. What should I do next year?"

Chen Ping said: "Let's talk about this cold winter first, and take a look at it step by step."

Li Junwei shook his head, "What are you going to take one step at a time? Tell all the men of the flag servants to eat meat and drink wine in winter, don't forget to sharpen the knife quickly, wipe the gun, and feed the horses to a strong body. As soon as the spring of next year, I will ride on the horse with a knife, follow the recruiting flag, and follow me to Russia to snatch it. There are cattle, sheep and animals there!"

"Do you want to fight Russia in the beginning of next spring?" Chen Ping's eyes widened.

Li Junwei said angrily: "This is thanks to you. If you weren't for you two idiots, I would wait for the serfs to harvest the food next autumn before setting off. Then next year's immigration will arrive and there will be enough people. But if the flag servants who have not been hungry for a winter next spring and have lost the means of production find a way out, you can wait to beat horse thieves all over the ground."

Chen Ping and Chang Adae were both born from their own troubles. If the court blamed them improperly, they would be unlucky. Therefore, the two used the relationship between the army, the yamen and the commercial ones to dispatch all the materials in the Guancang military warehouse to the disaster area as Li Junwei asked, and sent back the helpless imperial guard officers, and then sent those eager to try the Qixue and Batulu to each newly-organized flag assistant.

Camels, sleds, and tools they can use are all used to deal with this man-made disaster.

One winter was spent in anxiety and busyness. When the spring grass sprouted and the snow melted, the spring came, and the report was delivered to Yili. The ending was satisfactory, because the number of people who died of improper freezing and starvation was within an affordable range, but the loss reports of livestock were shocking. The attitude of the herdsmen outside the northern desert was very simple. Under the blow of such a severe natural disaster, the tribes had to survive, so they had to go to rich places to plunder. In the past, the target of these grassland tribes was the traditional Han area south of the Great Wall, but this time, under the guidance of the imperial army, they had a common goal.

Each family draws one child, goes out in full bloom, heads west, and gathers on the banks of the Ural River!

No one opposed the policy of fishing out of the waters. What should people stay behind? There are no cattle and sheep to take care of. A horse and a spear, even if a soldier, many children who are half-aged by herdsmen are brought by the urgency of survival, which can stimulate people's enthusiasm more than any reward. The group of soldiers of the flag follow the officers of the two battalions of Qiexue and Batulu.

Around the Caspian Sea, Li Junwei reorganized the army with the help of Chen Ping. Even if it was robbed, it must be orderly and efficiency-oriented, rather than rushing in in a swarm. As it turns out, the most efficient robber is the army.

Chen Ping divided the army into three parts. The first part was to reorganize cavalry, with a total of forty battalions, two thousand people as a battalion. The Batulu and the foreign vassals of the Qiexue camp were officers, and the entourages were veterans. The four battalions were a command unit. One of them was a combat battalion, which received the ordnances from the Dingbian General's Mansion and was also a carefully selected cavalry. The other three battalions rode horses, drove chariots, and collected supplies to capture slaves.

The second army was the mobile cavalry, the cavalry brigades supported by the appeasement zones in the inner Xinjiang, the standing army in the appeasement zones under the Western Xinjiang, the mobile infantry that can fight on horseback, and a small number of flying cavalry artillery. These are all elite imperial cavalry vassal troops, with firearms and no fear of any form of cavalry fighting, but it is difficult to overcome difficulties. As the main force sweeping across the heart of Russia, they took the lead in entering the enemy territory, defeating the enemy, and then sweeping the place with reorganized cavalry.

The third army was led by Li Junwei. The general reserve team, including the Imperial Guards, the only breastplate cavalry unit under the Dingbian General's Mansion, and the most elite cavalry brigade. It can be said that it is the most capable army in the entire army. In addition, it also includes technical and professional troops such as field artillery, boat bridges, engineers, siege cannons and hot air balloons. Obviously, if you want to fight the Russians in the enemy's territory, you must wait for this general reserve team.

"Now, I will announce the battlefield discipline and listen to me. Only the reorganized cavalry are responsible for collecting and sweeping, that is, only they can rob them, and the rest of the army is responsible for fighting. Remember to supervise each other. Whoever dares to sell the population or property to merchants will be engaged in military law. The boys of the Batulu camp listened to them. Half of the stolen goods were handed over, and they were given priority to gold, silver, precious metals and furs, and the rest of the army that covered yours!" Chen Ping was in charge of Western Xinjiang for many years and had a sense of majesty. He was no longer as handsome as a Confucian general in the past, and he was very rough and generous in his words and actions.

All the officers nodded, while Li Junwei explained: "When you enter the enemy territory, don't just rush around, watch your butt, march three ways, occupy a city or build a village every fifty miles, and send a special camp to be responsible for safety. Don't think you can run away if you grab a wave. That's the work of your ancestors. When the war ends and when you can withdraw, it's up to me to decide.

The cavalry at the forefront should fight, but the ones who follow him should form a tough village to fight a war, and do not give the Russians any opportunity to take advantage of it. The contact must be sufficient. You can grab money, grab people and eat, but don’t massacre without authorization! Massacre is prohibited, and you will be more polite to the nobles, especially the nobles. Don’t kill them randomly. If you die, you will be worse than dogs, or the nobles can exchange them for a hundred horses. In addition, don’t burn religious buildings such as churches and temples. You should also treat those priests and nuns kindly. You should be bothered and tied up and sent me to the army. We are going to make a fortune, and we are not making a mortal hatred with the Russians. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Highness, we understand, Your Highness," said everyone.

A group of generals left and returned to their camp. Li Junwei said, "Send this map to Mr. Shahni."
Chapter completed!