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Chapter Four Four One Far Xinjiang Western Xinjiang Northern Xinjiang

Master Zhangjia could only smile bitterly when facing Li Junwei's jokes. Since the demise of the Junggar Khanate, the Yellow Cult forces in Tibet have been unable to compete with the Central Plains Empire. The current Tibetan Yellow Cult is dependent on the empire's vassal state, the Hoshuot Khanate. The Huang Cult originally fought with the secular chiefs of the Khanate, and this has been even more so since the empire intervened.

In fact, Master Zhangjia knew that Tibet could not escape the ruling order of the Central Plains dynasty after all, and the difference was only the extent to which the two sides were related. The current Yellow Sect and the imperial ruling class complement each other, but that was in the inner Xinjiang, not Tibet. The Yellow Sect forces in Tibet still refused to exert influence on the empire as much as possible. But Master Zhangjia also knew that after so many nomadic people outside Tibet became subjects of the empire, Tibet could no longer retain its original status.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the secular royal power in Tibet has been controlled by Mongolian forces outside Tibet. Now these forces have all belonged to the empire. The self-brainwashing of Tibetan monks in "Tibet is a Han Jedi" is self-defeating. Master Zhangjia has no other thoughts about this.

As a vested interest in the imperial ruling order, he was even worried that the empire's policy changes to Tibet would affect religious policies in other regions. Compared to his hard work in Qinghai and later Tibet, he had already fallen in love with his current life and was used to his current life.

Of course, this is actually just a joke remark from Li Junwei. Neither the Empire nor himself have planned to change the Tibet landscape. For places where they are sure to win and have never been hurt, the Empire's policies have always been to act in response to the times and do not actively seek change, but to wait for changes within the other party before intervening.

But what Li Junwei and Master Zhang Jia could not have imagined was that accidents often come unexpectedly, and huge accidents made it impossible for you to ignore them.

After discussing the strategy of naturalization flag with Master Zhangjia, Li Junwei quickly signed the Black Sea Treaty with various countries. He believed that this marked the completion of the work. The next step was to return to the land in the river, go to the continent, witness his brother becoming the emperor of India, and then completely submitting the land in the river to the empire according to the gentleman's agreement that year, and then he could go home. He had been away from Shenjing for three years and was really homesick.

Of course, homesickness is a reproachable reason. Another key is that Li Junwei wants to escape from the Black Sea, where he has been conquered. The next step is rule, construction, possession, which requires complex and endless paperwork. He hates having his butt grow on the office chair and dealing with those bad things. This is exactly the same as his father. The two have one thing in common, that is, they like to delegate power.

It is the traditional character of the imperial royal family to grow teeth on the butt and cannot sit still, except for Emperor Li Junhua.

But Li Junwei was still one step late. When he was transferring camps to the riverside in autumn to spend the winter, a delegation of one thousand people from the empire arrived at the Crimean Peninsula. These thousand people were selected and selected from the imperial guards of Shenjing and the Lifanyuan in the capital. The purpose was to manage the newly opened territory of the empire.

But these people also brought a new order from the imperial emperor, which was to establish a new ruling order under the land under the rule of Lifanyuan.

After the signing of the Black Sea Treaty, the empire occupied a vast area from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and the Ural Mountains and Rivers in the east. To the north of the Great Wall, most of these areas were vassal territory under the jurisdiction of the Lifanyuan. When the empire was established, the Lifanyuan-appeasement Zone-Zasak three-level management system was added, and later the second-level appeasement zone belonging to the first-level appeasement zone was added. Later, as the empire opened the Tianshan North Road and was far away from the capital, a system of combining the ward generals and ministers stationed in Xinjiang was formed. The Western Xinjiang region was formed in the distant Tianshan North Road and surrounding areas, and a system of civil and military ties between the Dingbian General's Office and the Office of the Ministers stationed in Western Xinjiang was established.

Later, after expanding to Kazakhstan, the center of the empire felt that the Western Xinjiang region included four areas: Kazakh grassland, Siberia, Tianshan North Road, and western desert. It established or incorporated Siberia and western desert into nearby appeasement zones, narrowing the Western Xinjiang region. However, with the full occupation of Siberia and the development of land along the Black Sea coast, the Western Xinjiang region was once again too large.

Moreover, some major military and political actions are difficult to deal with. For example, in order to open up new immigration plans, the president of the Lifan Academy needs to personally go to the northern desert area to supervise, and set up a new appeasement zone to cut off the complex forces in the local area.

So after King Yu successfully expanded the land in Heihai, Shenjing Central and Lifanyuan decided to add a new level of guarding the General Region, and divide the land under the Lifanyuan into four large pieces after discussion.

The four new areas are remote Xinjiang, western Xinjiang, northern Xinjiang and inner Xinjiang. The three generals, Jingyuan, Dingbian and Zhenbei, were established respectively to guard the city. Because the inner Xinjiang is closely connected with the Great Wall and the traditional Han area, there is no need to guard the general, but only ministers stationed in Xinjiang can be sent.

Among them, the remote areas include the Kazakh grassland, the southern Russia, the Black Sea coast, and the Northern Caucasus. These are almost all the new territory, and they are directly bordered by major powers such as Tsarist Russia, Politic Federation, the Ottoman Empire and the Persian dynasty. There are many unpacified tribes on the border and even within the territory. Moreover, because of King Yu's large-scale rewards, there are also a large number of small foreign tribes in the territory. Of course, it also includes the appeasement and detention of the vassal state of Turgut.

This is the most complex part of internal and external relations, so the most capable people need to deal with it. Of course, the emperor did not allow King Yu to directly appoint the garrison general and the minister stationed in Xinjiang, but directly appointed Wu Yifeng as the general of Jingyuan and Wu Liji as the minister stationed in Xinjiang.

Western Xinjiang includes Tianshan North Road, Guanxi, Qinghai and Hezhong. Chen Ping is still the general of Dingbian, and Chang Audai is the minister in Xijiang. But everyone knows that this old partner will soon return to China. Chang Audai will take over as president of the Lifan Academy and Chen Ping will join the next cabinet. The reason why they are allowed to serve for a period of time is to ensure the ownership of the Hezhong Land and the border division with the power of the great princes of the subcontinent.

The situation facing Western Xinjiang is also relatively complex. Persia is a powerful country and has constant conflicts with the empire, whether on land or on ocean, and the relationship between the empire and the great princes of the subcontinental empire is even more complicated. This leads to the Dingbian General who dominates this area not only having loyal and capable, but also having close relationships with the emperor.

Although the Yarkand Khanate, which was in charge of appeasement in the Western Xinjiang region, was very docile, the relationship with the subcontinent was a bit messy because the Khan's daughter was the concubine of the eldest prince.

The northern border area includes the Siberian region that extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Greater Khingan Mountains, as well as the northern desert. This is the harshest but safest territory in the empire. Although it borders directly with Tsarist Russia, everyone knows that there is no possibility that Tsarist Russia's main force will advance westwardly to threaten the northern border area, because the remote border areas of the empire have formed an absolute strategic advantage over Russia.

Therefore, the main work in the northern border area is to suppress the local areas, including some powerful foreign vassals, such as the Prince Zasaktu tribe, which has moved from the southern desert to the Prince Chahar tribe in the northern desert. Of course, what is more urgent is the Orthodox and Slavic ethnic groups who remained in the Siberian region of Tsarist Russia. The result is that the Zhenbei General's Mansion in the northern border area is not in the same area as the Ministers in the northern border area. Cao Song, the general of Zhenbei, who is mainly military suppression, is stationed in Pingbei City, which is once the Russian Tomsk and the Manchus' new capital. The Office of the Ministers in the Northern border area, which mainly focuses on appeasement and restraint, was established in the Kulun area.

In order to ensure smooth work, the first counselor of the Office of the Ministers stationed in Northern Xinjiang worked in Pingbei, while the deputy general of the General of Zhenbei was stationed in Kulun.

The newly planned inner Xinjiang region includes four appeasement zones outside the pass, two appeasement zones in the south of the desert and three scenic spots on the Korean Peninsula. These are all vassal areas that have been surrendered for a long time. One feature of the inner Xinjiang region is that other borders want but cannot be obtained, that is, the nation has already occupied an absolute population advantage. Even among the minority groups with a disadvantaged population, more than half are under the jurisdiction of the inner vassal court. It is no longer bordered by any country and will not be affected by any foreign forces. It is a complete inner vassal, and even the outer vassals are honest and helpless.

For example, after the large number of people migrated to the Western Xinjiang region of the northern desert, the empire allowed the tribes of the outer vassals in the two appeasement zones in the southern desert to move north to the north to fill the gap. Although no one was willing to leave the southern desert to the northern desert, it was finally implemented. Even the Chahar tribe, the leader of the Mongolian foreign vassals, was the same. The nobles of the foreign vassals were increasingly reluctant to live in the vassals. Many people squeezed their heads to the Lifanyuan. Once they got the opportunity to take turns to participate in politics in the capital, they took their families to enjoy the city life. Some children of the foreign vassals went to the capital to visit the Chemistry Hall, but were unwilling to return to the vassal to manage the tribe after the trip.

Inner Xinjiang is a model of immigration and ethnic integration. In several concentrated areas, pilot work of abolishing vassals and establishing counties has begun. However, because the Chief Executive Office of the Cabinet always wants to intervene in these fertile lands of the Lifan Court, the implementation is still not so smooth. The Cabinet has always hoped to directly combine the two appeasement zones in Yunzhong and Yanbei into one Mongolian province, and the two appeasement zones outside the pass into Jilin and Ningguta into one Jilin province. This method of cutting directly was constantly rejected by the Lifan Court. In fact, the imperial royal family also lacked interest in this. Only in the Lifan Court, the emperor had real imperial power, and here in the Cabinet, the emperor was just the supreme head of state and decision-maker.

The division of the four major territory, among which the distant border, the northern border and the western border are all related to King Yu, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Southern Russia, the Black Sea coast, the land in the river, etc. Tens of millions of square kilometers of land were built by King Yu. Establishing a new ruling organization and hierarchy is not that simple to avoid King Yu.

Such an important task cannot be accomplished by the president of the Lifan Academy or an important official trusted by an emperor. Even if Li Junwei avoids it, the royal family will send another clan to deal with such a major event.

"Your Highness, I have never seen you like you. You have finished your work and have to retreat when you divide the cake. Isn't it thankless to do it?" Wu Yifeng smiled and joked to King Yu, and said, "No, you are not seeking fame or profit."

Li Junwei spread his hands and said, "It's up to me, I can't get a penny. If you want me, it's best for the emperor to do it yourself. Think about it, millions of subjects have never seen their emperor in the western and remote areas and the northern borders. This is notorious."

"You are the emperor's brother, and it's enough to have you now." Chen Ping also said with a smile.

Li Junwei shrugged, looked at Wu Yifeng, Chen Ping and Cao Song, three guard generals, and squinted their eyes and smiled: "Don't you think that the emperor's brother asked me to share the cake is a good thing for you, right?"

The three generals were a little confused, and Li Junwei said, "Forget it, I won't tell you in detail. Come on, divide the territory first. Since we have captured the territory, let's divide the territory first."

The attendant expanded the map and wrote a series of appeasement zones. The remote border was divided into six appeasement zones: Volga, Southern Ural, Black Sea, Caucasus, Caspian Sea and Kazakhstan. The northern border was divided into North Ural, Pingbei, Siberia, Baikal, Mobei and other appeasement zones. The western border was divided into Guanxi, Tianshan, Xining, Qihe, Fergana, and Hezhong appeasement zones. The inner border was as usual, and Li Junwei did not need to worry about it.

Li Junwei was always simple and crude in his work, and directly asked these three generals to recommend the appeasement general, but it was not recommended, but it was effective. It was a choice of two. General Wu Yifeng of Jingyuan wanted to recommend twelve people, and all three of them tacitly compromised. Han generals and vassal generals were from imperial guards, and Qiexue and Batulu camp and from foreign vassals were considered. The ethnic and religion of Wu Yifeng even directly recommended Shahni, the leader of the Cossack, as the appeasement general of the Caucasus, and Li Junwei agreed directly.

But after dividing the territory, Li Junwei only assigned tasks simply. For example, the three guards must send envoys to the bordering powers, establish a buffer zone for the border line, establish a tribute system with the vassal states, count the information of foreign vassals, and allocate ranches and water sources internally, etc.

There was nothing next, making the three guard generals Du Zhanger confused.

"Then what, Your Highness?" Chen Ping asked carefully after all.

Li Junwei said: "No more, this year's work is all about it. You can hurry up and do it."

"Your Highness, you need to decide on the construction of ports in the Black Sea area and the Black Sea Fleet's garrison." The most anxious thing is Wu Yifeng.
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