Between the soldiers, they shouted that people would conquer nature, but they could not really let the soldiers use their willpower to fight against the great power of nature.

What's more, after the implementation of the new pension regulations, every soldier's death would cost nearly a thousand taels of silver.

This includes both pension expenses and the manpower and material resources spent to cultivate such a soldier.

Therefore, spending dozens of taels of silver to provide guarantee is much more cost-effective than spending hundreds of taels of pensions to death.

Zhu Cilang never underestimates every opponent. Tsarist Russia can fight from Eastern Europe thousands of miles away to the coast of Heilongjiang, and it depends not only on luck.

The Ming Dynasty cannot rely solely on its own luck to complete the battle with the other party.

The latest information sent by the Jinyiwei showed that the indigenous people in northern Siberia included Samoyed people, Hantes, Mansi people, and Chukochi people, Kamchatka people, Yukagiers and Kriat people in the northeast.

Among them, there were 25,000 Kanchakas, 12,000 to 15,000 Chukochis, about 15,000 Hantes and Mansi, 4,500 Yucagirs, and only 3,4,000 Samoyeds.

At that time, Mongolia enfeoffed the entire vast Siberia to the Han Kingdom of Jin.

After Tsarist Russia defeated the Jinzhang Han Kingdom, it allowed the Siberian family to have the power to legally recruit soldiers.

The Stroganov family advanced rapidly with an army of 800 people, occupying the entire Siberia, and has reached the Heilongjiang River Basin until now.

Although Tsarist Russia has always been a second-rate country in the eyes of Europeans, it has easily conquered the Siberian indigenous people who are still in the hunting stage with its advanced military technology and management model.

Tsarist Russia relied on the bravery of the Cossack cavalry, the advanced defense system of the battalion, and the advanced firearms of the flintlock rifle.

These do not pose a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty, so the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty in Siberia was not the Tsarist Russian soldiers, but its vast area.

Siberia is too big. Even though Zhu Cilang is only going to occupy East and West Siberia east of the North Sea first, this area alone is equivalent to the current land area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

It is very simple to defeat the Russian soldiers of Tsarist Russia, but defending these places behind and resisting the continuous invasion of small shareholders by the Russians is a huge challenge.

The ruling model adopted by Tsarist Russia is a military colonial economic system with fortresses as grids.

Later, the county system, industrial personnel, postmen, churches, immigration communities, village and town administrative agencies, court prisons, commercial institutions, baojia system, etc. will be formed one after another.

However, with the size of Tsarist Russia's population, it is difficult for him to digest Western Siberia now, let alone the Far East.

Therefore, what Zhu Cilang fought for Tsarist Russia did not earn temporary gains and losses, but occupied the digestion speed.

According to Zhu Cilang's plan, the experience in western Liaoning will be inherited and the land occupied by Siberia will be divided into three areas.

Both dangerous areas, warning areas and safety areas.

The dangerous area is the area where the Ming Dynasty was fighting with Tsarist Russia. These places, the two armies were fighting for war and were not suitable for immigration. They could only build military strongholds to assist with a small number of garrisons.

The warning area has been occupied, but there are still small troops of Tsarist Russia or local indigenous people who actively resist. Such places are still not suitable for immigration, but garrisons can be stationed in advance for development.

The soldiers of the garrison have a basic military training foundation and are equipped with firearms, which is sufficient to resist such small invasions. If conditions permit, these garrisons will also be responsible for the clearance of small invasions within their jurisdiction.

The safe area has been cleared, the sanitation center has completed preliminary development, and all kinds of basic and sound materials can be self-sufficient.

Such places can encourage immigration, build towns, prefectures, and then incorporate them into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Dangerous areas are generally outside the territory of the Ming Dynasty. For example, if the Ming Dynasty occupied the North Sea, the Ming army would definitely go hundreds of miles west of the North Sea.

These places all need to send small troops, one to harass the Tsarist Russians, and the other to avoid large-scale Tsarist Russian troops from reaching the Ming side to harass them.

Such small troops do not have a fixed station, so they need to carry more materials, especially in winter. The Tsarist Russians will definitely rely on their advantage of adapting to the cold winter to launch large-scale harassment in winter.

That's why Zhu Cilang is so concerned about the preparation of winter clothes.

Down jackets are not only needed in Siberia, but also in the entire Liaodong, but also in the northwest, Mongolia, plateau and other places.

After Zhu Cixuan finished reading the things prepared for the northern combat, he then looked at the equipment of the southern mountain troops. Although the Baigang soldiers were known as elite mountain troops, in Zhu Cixuan's opinion, their equipment was still very primitive.

The regular army of the Ming Dynasty naturally would not be able to get everything good if each person gave a white pole.

At present, the Daming Mountain Division has just been established, and its equipment includes rock climbing ropes, mountain cutters, multi-function folding shovels, claw hooks, short-barrel flintlock rifles, small cannons, military rations, water disinfection bags, jungle medical bags, insect repellent bags, field mosquito nets, etc.

After Huangming Textile invented the dense weaving and tape this time, the clothing of the mountain troops naturally had to be innovated.

The densely weaving and tape is the fabric used for hops, which is lightly waterproof, and mosquitoes in the dense forest have always been a major challenge for the mountain troops.

In addition to Huangming Textile's lighter, Huangming Trading has also launched a waterproof lighter.

The principle of lighters is not complicated. Flint rubs out Mars and ignites flammable materials such as kerosene. The lighters appear earlier than matches.

In such high-temperature and high-humidity environments, they are very prone to moisture.

So Zhu Cixuan arranged for the Royal Trading to develop a lighter.

The principle is very simple, but one problem that lighters can never solve is oil leakage. It is okay to work in small batches in fine work. Once mass production is carried out on a large scale, this problem will never be solved.

Oil leakage is not a trivial matter. It will not only cause the lighter to be greatly reduced in use, but also the leaked oil will touch the clothes. If there is a fire, it can be imagined how terrible the consequences it will be.

If you light a hand-held oil leaking lighter, once the entire lighter is lit, won’t it burn?

So even if it is not used, Zhu Cilang will definitely not allow soldiers to use oil-spill lighters.

Of course, lighters are not only useful in the army, but if they are successfully manufactured, they will also be an indispensable thing in life.

At least the rich can make a lot of money, so Zhu Cilang has always asked Huangming Trading to find ways to improve it.

At this year's annual meeting, Huangming Trading brought this wick lighter. The improvement was to change the place where the liquid was originally stored inside to the oil-invading wick that was placed on the plate.

The wick barrel is sleeve-type, and there is a cork in the lighter cover to block the sleeve. When the lid is lifted, the sleeve leaks out. There is a steel wire in the center of the cork to connect the wick porcelain sleeve.
Chapter completed!