While the reparations totaling about 100 million silver dollars stimulated the rapid development of the entire Ming Dynasty's economy, how to better develop and utilize the two vast territories of the new Western Siberia and the East Siberia that had previously occupied were also on the agenda.

Zhu Youxiao did not dare to make a decision at will. This was the first time for the Ming Dynasty or the entire China that directly obtained a large tract of territory through this kind of treaty. He was not obtained from war, but by eradicating or annihilation of all military forces in his territory, nor was it because of taking the initiative to surrender.

Therefore, for the Ming Dynasty, the acquisition of this territory did not have much strength to permanently possess it, and it seemed that there was a general awareness of just getting a handful of it.

No one has ever thought about how to own this land for a long time.

Some reformist officials were eager to suggest that Zhu Youxiao immediately aimed at mining all the coal and iron in Siberia back to the Ming Dynasty in the shortest time, so as to avoid the inability to control Siberia due to the decline of the Ming Dynasty in the future, so that the Siberia association was eventually controlled by the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the Ming Dynasty did not gain any wealth during the time it occupied Siberia.

At this time, the Ming officials and even the entire ruling class did not regard Siberia as their own inherent territory. They all had a robbery mentality, that is, if they occupied this place, they should seize the wealth of the place. They were even prepared to lose Siberia in the future.

Even some conservative officials directly advised Zhu Youxiao to give up the wild land of Siberia and allow the barbarians in this area to survive and die. They even quoted classics that occupying the nine states in the world is the orthodox world, and there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to expand externally, etc.

The reformists naturally scoffed at the conservative view of the conservative school, and even mocked these conservative officials for being more active than anyone else in the competition for a cake of 70 million taels of silver compensation, and were eager to cultivate the golden body for Confucius like a Buddha statue.

But now when I see a wild land like Siberia that can only develop industry but not agriculture, I am short and directly let Your Majesty give up.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not punish these conservative officials because of this. After all, most of these officials are traditional gentry. Although they have to accept policies such as the integration of officials and gentry for food due to the authority of the emperor, they still live on the development model of the small peasant economy. Therefore, what they pursue is stability and order first, rather than expansion and progress.

However, in the court discussion on how to develop and utilize Siberia, Zhu Youxiao clearly expressed his principled views.

At this court discussion, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered people to hang the Asian detailed pictures drawn by Fang Shi, Jinyiwei and the Royal Academy of Sciences a few days ago on the main hall of the Qianqing Palace and his own lyrics, so as to give the most intuitive experience of the officials who only read the Four Books and Five Classics and have only visited the Grand Canal along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

"This is Siberia! The entire territory is almost the same as the entire territory of our Ming Dynasty. Now we have obtained this large area of ​​territory from the hands of the Rakshasa Kingdom. Some of you say that you will give up and let it die on your own. Can you guarantee that when you die on your own, this place will not be unified by a heroic figure, and then become a major hidden danger to our Ming Dynasty?

Some people say that they should seize the coal and iron in their land, and even cut down all the trees here, dig up all the ginseng here, and kill the rare beasts here. I will ask you, I will give you 100,000 people and another ten years. Can you mine it? Can you cut it? Can you dig it? Can you kill it?"

After Zhu Youxiao raised his arms like this, the entire Ming officials present also began to whisper, and some officials even widened their eyes because they never thought that Siberia was such a vast land. Many of their officials just naively thought that Siberia was just a small place outside the northern desert.

However, these officials did not expect that the Rakshasa Congress gave such a large piece of territory directly to the Ming Dynasty. Some officials remembered how terrible it was when the Rakshasa Kingdom did not lose these territory, but the Ming Dynasty defeated it and got such a large piece of territory from it. Many of them realized what kind of enemy the Ming Dynasty had defeated.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao and some officials of the reformist school knew that although the Rakshasa Kingdom was large, it was not the same level as the Ming Dynasty's population and social wealth.

Since it is such a large piece of land, as an official of the Ming Dynasty, we naturally cannot easily let the court give up. After all, once we give up, we cannot explain it to history and future generations.

So, some people began to suggest how to digest this vast territory, and some ministers suggested imitating the Former Yuan Dynasty to establish the four Khanate countries, select royal princes to go to these places to go to the vassal states, and directly manage these places.

Some ministers also suggested using the feudal system directly. Not only did the royal princes and princes go to these places to manage, but some heroes, old men and princes, and even princesses can obtain fiefs from these places, making this entire Siberia a small country composed of countless clans and relatives, so that there would be no country that could threaten the Ming Dynasty.

Many reformist officials wanted to use this to strengthen private property, and suggested that Zhu Youxiao rent or sell this Siberia directly, or contract a certain place by merchants, and just pay a certain tax and fee for the court.

Of course, there are also officials who pay more attention to the state-dominated Ming economy, who believe that Siberia should be continued to be developed by state capital, that is, Huangzhuang develops farming, Royal Industrial Corporation is responsible for mining, and Royal Weaving Bureau is responsible for purchasing animal fur, etc.

But what Zhu Youxiao always thought about was not how to develop Siberia, but how to establish the political nature of Siberia, that is, his relationship with the Ming Dynasty, was it a banished place that the Ming Dynasty now occupied or an administrative area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, as the emperor, should I enfeoff Siberia to the kings, or to enfeoff princes and nobles, or to directly establish the Chengxuan Government and Envoy Department, establish prefectures, prefectures, counties and other administrative divisions to implement the policy of land transformation and return to the south of the desert and north of the desert.

But in Zhu Youxiao's view, Siberia is different from the northern desert and southern desert. Although the northern desert and southern desert are concentrated places of the Tartars, the degree of sinicization or influence of Han culture is naturally higher than that of the primitive residents of Siberia because they are close to the pass.

Moreover, because the south of Mobei, the north of Mobei and other places were occupied by war, a large number of reactionary forces that could be successful had been eliminated in the war, making it rare to encounter rebellion during the process of land reform.

It is precisely because Monan and Mobei were influenced by Han culture and weakened the power of the reactionaries in the war that the land reform in Monan and Mobei became very smooth.

However, for Siberia, although the Ming Dynasty dispatched two advance teams, there was no major military conflict with the Rakshasa Kingdom in Siberia. Qi Chang State marched directly to the Moscow Castle, and Jiao Lian was also moving towards the west.

Therefore, the local armed forces in Siberia who oppose the colonization of the Ming Dynasty may become a force that should not be underestimated. In addition, because the Ming Dynasty has been paying close attention to the southern pirates, Jiannu and Tartars over the years, the entire Ming Dynasty has not had an impact on the Siberian region.

This has led to many local residents in Siberia becoming nearly westernized and completely westernized. Religious beliefs have already accounted for a large proportion of the ideological system of these primitive residents, which is completely contrary to the Han culture that respects ancestors and is superior to all gods.

Therefore, in Zhu Youxiao's view, if you take it for granted that Siberia is like the desert, the desert and other places, and directly starts to build factories and workshops to develop the economy, you may be afraid that you will find a large proportion of the Siberian people to resist to a greater extent.

Therefore, if you want to occupy Siberia for a long time, you must completely eradicate any influence of Western culture in Siberia, so that everyone realizes that only by following the Ming Dynasty is the only way.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao finally decided not to send anyone to develop Siberia, nor to divide the vast Siberian area into the kings and honorary relatives, but to mobilize a large number of imperial guards and border troops into Siberia.

Since Siberia has been ceded to the Ming Dynasty by the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty naturally has to complete its absolute military occupation. Moreover, at present, when the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Siberia, the Rakshasa Kingdom naturally dared not obstruct it.

Letting a large number of Ming troops enter Siberia not only aims to achieve complete occupation of Siberia, but also to better prepare for the Ming Dynasty in the future.

For these people who were too religious, Zhu Youxiao decided to take compulsory measures, so he directly let the hawkish-like figures in the army like Yang Sichang become the first Ming Governor in the Siberian region and immediately began the implementation of the policy of compulsory cultural assimilation in Siberia.

Yang Sichang directly issued an order, ordering the troops in various places to immediately smash all buildings related to the cross signs. Even if someone prevents the army from smashing the cross signs, he himself will be directly killed.

Not only are religious architectural signs like the cross being destroyed and destroyed in large quantities, but also other Western religious signs have been eliminated in large quantities. Even some people will not be forced to be clear immediately if they have these signs, otherwise their lives will be directly taken away.

Yang Sichang also directly ordered everyone in Siberia to speak Chinese and learn Chinese, and not use other languages ​​and cultural elements, or to be treated as a rebel against the enemy.

Of course, forcing a culture to be erased is not easy for a region, especially a vast area like Siberia, and it will inevitably be subject to strong resistance. However, in order to make Siberia become a land of Chineseization as soon as possible, it must be more ruthless in the early stage.

I don’t know that the primitive people of Siberia were directly destroyed because they refused or resisted sinicization. I don’t know how many primitive people of Siberia began to learn from the people of the Ming Dynasty, recite poems, songs, and know the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes.

Zhu Youxiao would not worry that a large number of indigenous people would be reduced sharply due to the compulsory indoctrination of Siberia, and even the huge Siberia would become even more deserted. He would rather eliminate the non-sinized alien elements in the early stage, and even make Siberia an empty land. He would also make Siberia truly belong to the Ming Dynasty in terms of cultural ideology before developing Siberia.

Therefore, in the three years from the 17th to the 20th year of the Apocalypse, the development speed of the Siberian region did not increase rapidly, but the number of troops stationed in increased day by day. Insurgency or mass murders occurred in various areas of Siberia.

I don’t know how much blood has flowed out, and the entire Siberian region has become a geographical area that has become extinct from Western culture. Here, no cross or even any Western religious figures have been found.

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In this regard, the Rakshasa Kingdom naturally had no time to take care of. When Zhu Youxiao forced the Siberian region to promote the sinicization of the Siberian region, most of the reactionaries almost came from the Rakshasa Kingdom because they were more inclined to the culture of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

But the Rakshasa Kingdom now cannot control them, and can only help them. They no longer have the courage to safeguard their sovereignty, and they can no longer propose any intervention measures on Siberian affairs.

Moreover, the Romanov dynasty established by the current Rakshasa Kingdom, namely Mikhail I, is still worried that the Ming Dynasty would establish the Ming concession in the capital Moscow, which also made people as Rakshasa Kingdom worry about whether officials from the far-reaching Eastern Empire would take this to further control the internal affairs of Moscow castles and even Rakshasa Kingdom.

Some visionary officials of the Rakshasa Kingdom have begun to worry about whether the Ming Dynasty could easily interfere in the Ming Dynasty's internal affairs and even manipulate the Ming economy once it established a concession in Moscow.

But no matter how worried it is, according to the treaty, the Rakshasa Kingdom still had to divide a part of the area in Moscow as the concession area of ​​the Ming Empire in Moscow, the capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and signed an affiliated treaty outside the treaty, that is, the Ming Dynasty wanted a concession for one hundred years or ninety years, but the subsidiary treaty still did not mention whether the Ming Dynasty could interfere with the internal affairs of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

In other words, the Romanov dynasty of the Rakshasa Kingdom is likely to truly become a puppet regime of the Ming Dynasty.

When officials designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty and troops with a certain number and equipment level were stationed in the Moscow Concession area, it caused a lot of sensation in the Rakshasa Kingdom, because for the Romano Dynasty, it was rare to see so many yellow people entering the Moscow castle.

But what the entire Romanov dynasty would not have thought was that the first thing the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials and the army affiliated with the Ministry of War did when they arrived in Moscow was to set up obstacles in the concession area and prohibit Rakshasa people from entering the concession area at will, and even directly put on the sign "Foreigners and dogs are not allowed to enter!" was aroused an uproar in public opinion for a while, because in the eyes of many Rakshasa people, they have always looked down on others, but they did not expect that the huge Rakshasa people would have been so discriminated against by the Ming Dynasty.
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