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Chapter 755: Dayu Anxi Four Provinces
In June 1797, what could be considered the biggest gamble of the Dayu Dynasty was launched.

The emperor was betting that his son had already been in Gansu for five or six years and could adapt to the mountains and rivers of the Western Regions and the river.

Crown Prince Lao Sen is betting that his father will keep his promise and give him time to use his extraordinary achievements in uniting the Western Regions and Hezhong to completely stabilize his position and consolidate his unshakable status as the crown prince.

After all, the Mo family's longevity gene is really scary. Even Mo Zibu's maternal grandfather, the Chen family, has always lived a long life.

Mo Zibu's grandfather, Chen Shangchuan, fought in wars for half his life and was forced to flee his country. He lived to be eighty-nine years old in a place like Vietnam.

My uncle Chen Dasheng was already ill when Mo Zibu was still following Zheng Xin. Now, more than 20 years have passed and he is 93 years old. It was only two months ago that the Chen family in Gaozhou sent news that he might indeed be dying.

With the blessing of these two genes, even if Mo Zibu lived to be eighty years old, it would be considered a short life.

Big Brother Sen felt terrified when he thought that he might have to be the crown prince until he was sixty or seventy years old, so he urgently needed to accomplish a miraculous feat to prove his ability.

This might allow his father Mo Zibu to consider abdicating the throne to him when he is in his sixties, that is, in ten or twenty years.

Therefore, Big Brother Sen was not afraid at all of dying in Anxi or Hezhong. That was far less terrifying than continuing to be the crown prince for forty years.

And since it is the Crown Prince Sen who is personally taking action, there are many things to pay attention to.

Mo Zibu directly handed over the 40,000 Dingxi troops to him, and only allowed the Yulin Right Guard of the Imperial Guard to return to the court, and the rest became the Six Commanders of the Eastern Palace on the spot.

In July, Da Lao Sen returned to Gansu, which he had controlled for five years, and then announced the abolition of the Northwest Mission, and the handover of Shaanxi and Gansu provinces to the court. The various departments in Qinghai were also managed by the new Governor-General of Shaanxi and Gansu.

However, Mo Zibu still gave his son Asen the greatest support, and the new Governor-General of Shaanxi and Gansu was Ye Xianchun, the Earl of Pingyuan and General of Anxi.

Ye Xianchun was not only the uncle of Crown Princess Ye and the cousin of Concubine Ye De, but also the godfather of Big Brother Sen's first love Wang Zhenyi. The meeting between the Crown Prince and Wang Zhenyi was arranged by Ye Xianchun. He was an absolute member of the Crown Prince's gang.

If he serves as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, there will be no major problems for the two provinces to continue supporting the Western Regions and Hezhong in the future.

In August, when Da Lao Sen arrived in Dihua, the situation had basically stabilized, with only the attack on the Tocharian Basin remaining.

The war to seize the Afghan throne by supporting Prince Hassan Hussein of the Bukhara Emirate and his father-in-law, Halimi of the Afghan Durrani family, did not begin.

In mid-August, the imperial edict was sent to various places in the Anxi River, the most important content of which was the establishment of the Anxi Dushisi Yamen.

This Dushisi Yamen is half a level higher than the ordinary Shisi Yamen. The full title of the head of the Yamen is "Shi Chijie Kaifu Yitong Sansi", the governor of the Anxi army and civilians, the general manager of the vassal and Han criminal law, finance and grain, the instructor, the commander-in-chief of the Anxi army and horses, and the minister in charge of Anxi vassal states and other affairs.

Mo Zibu gave his son Asen the power to open the Prince's Palace, and the power to appoint and dismiss Anxi officials below the third rank. That is, except for the governors of various provinces to be appointed in the future, he could promote and dismiss them at will.

This is basically the King of Anxi.

Then came the rewards for the Western Army. Li Xianwen was granted the title of King of Xia as he wished, becoming the second prince of the Dayu Dynasty and the first one-character king in the country.

When it comes to the level of Li Xianwen and Mo Zirong, there is no difference between being called a king or a prince, and they are also free from the rules and regulations of being an internal meritorious official, a relative of a vassal, or a guardian of a vassal state.

Chen Guangyao was also promoted from Duke of Dingguo to Prince of Zhending. This was the highest title among the meritorious officials in the Dayu Dynasty who did not go to the vassal state. However, it was only a higher status, and the power was not much greater. He still had to return to the northeast to take charge.

However, at this time in the Northeast, in addition to the traditional three provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, there was also a Lingbei Province, which was extremely vast but had few people and little value.

There is more work to do and the environment is still very difficult.

Afterwards, soldiers and generals at all levels received a large amount of rewards, of which the expenditure in gold and silver alone amounted to more than 9 million silver dollars, not including a large amount of rewards in kind, land, population, etc.

Mao Xiangsheng, the governor of Andiyan and a Huiren general, captured the large city of Navoi between Bukhara and Samarkand.

This made him a close vassal prince, with a territory of 20,000 square kilometers and more than 30,000 surviving natives. The emperor also specially changed Navoi's name to Shun'an and let Mao Xiangsheng be called Shun'an Prince.

The Baoding people's Shizhentu, who was at the forefront of the Battle of Samarkand, was finally rewarded and was promoted directly from lieutenant colonel to the rank of brigadier general.

Leng Tianlu of Changshun Fort, Xifu, Dayuan Town, obtained fifteen cows, one hundred and twenty horses, and more than two thousand sheep. Ge Luolu tamed one hundred male serfs and three hundred and fifty female slaves.

At the same time, he was unwilling to be a vassal state around Bukhara, and sold the vassal state he was entitled to for four hundred silver dollars.

His nephew Leng Da was too foolish and brave to govern the place, so he gave up his fiefdom, exchanged it for about 600 silver dollars worth of goods, and returned with Leng Tianlu.

Nephew Leng San was much more astute. He bought his brother Leng Da's military exploits and obtained thirteen villages and a small town at one time. His territory was much larger than Leng Tianlu's. In terms of area alone, it was almost half the size of Shenzhou Chixian County.

Ping Wu (Ping Kogoro), the lord of Changde Fort, returned to the army. Because of his accurate artillery shooting, he was noticed by the Jinwu Zuowei and joined the Imperial Guard as an artillery commander in charge of eight people.

His fiefdom was taken back by the Ministry of Civil Affairs at a cost of 4,500 silver dollars and then transferred to other people.

After the large-scale rewards, the administrative division of Anxi Dushisi began. According to the court report and approval by Mo Zibu, Anxi Dushisi was divided into four provinces.

The easternmost of them is Yiwu Province, with Dihua City, which was formed by the merger of Dihua and Urumqi, as its provincial capital.

The territory included the later cities of Urumqi, Turpan, Korla, Hami, and Dunhuang, as well as the entire Altai Mountain region including Kobdo and Altai Province in Outer Mongolia.

In the west, Ili was the provincial capital, covering most of the Kazakh steppe, as well as Talas, Baishui City, Tashkent and other places. Its front tentacles extended to the Beiting Province around Jintang City.

To the south of the Beiting Province was the Transoxiana Province, which included the Dayuan Basin of the Xia Dynasty, the Bukhara Khanate, and the Khiva Khanate on the Aral Sea.

The last province was the Khotan Province with Shule (Kashgar) as its capital, which included the entire southern Xinjiang, part of the Kashmir region, the entire Suiye (Kyrgyzstan), and part of northern Afghanistan and Tajikistan in later generations.

Among these four provinces, Yiwu Province is the most important because its provincial capital, Dihua City, will be built into the largest industrial base of Anxi Dushisi, and most of the heavy industries of the four Anxi provinces will be here.

Moreover, after the order to establish the province was issued, all Hui warriors in Yiwu Province would be relocated to other provinces, and the proportion of Han people in Yiwu Province would be infinitely close to 100%.

This was also the purpose of the imperial court's decision to incorporate Dunhuang, a prefecture with a strong Han flavor, into the Yiwu Province, indicating that this place would no longer have anything to do with foreign races.

The future focus of grain and animal husbandry will be in Beiting Province.

After all, the Ili Basin, known as the Land of Seven Rivers, is very suitable for farming. Outside the Ili Basin, there is the boundless Kazakh steppe, which has unique advantages in animal husbandry.

Moreover, the location of Ili City is very comprehensive. To the west, it can reach the river directly through the Kazakh steppe, and to the east, it can directly connect to Dihua and the Han area.

Tens of millions of Han people are settled here so that they can respond immediately to any incident.

Of course, when Asen showed the plan to his subordinates, he said very directly: "In accordance with the decree of His Majesty, from today on, all Kazakh herdsmen must leave the Ili Basin. The court only gives them one month. Those who exceed the deadline will be treated as treason." The previous owner of the Ili Basin was the Dzungar Khanate, but after Emperor Qianlong destroyed the Dzungar Khanate and killed all the Dzungars, he did not dare to mobilize the Han people. Therefore, there were not enough people to occupy the most fertile land in Anxi, and he could only build a circle of kaluns (outposts).

The Qing Dynasty relied on these Karens to strictly control the entry of Kazakhs into the Ili Basin. They would rather leave it empty than allow Kazakhs to come in to graze. If they were caught crossing the border, they would be skinned alive if not killed.

You know, although the Manchus only had a small part of nomadic characteristics, they really understood the barbarians on the grassland better than the intellectuals in the south of the Yangtze River during the Han court.

Even though the Kazakhs had tried their best to lick the Qing Dynasty and had exerted their dog attributes to the extreme, the Qing court still did not give in, not even fools like Jiaqing and Daoguang.

Unfortunately, with the rapid decline of the Qing Dynasty's power, they soon could not control the increasing number of Kazakhs.

Not only did they lose 60% of the Ili Basin in later generations, but even the Ili Basin within the national border basically became the territory of the Kazakhs.

Mo Zibu, who had traveled through time, naturally understood the morals of these nomadic peoples, so he also studied the strategies of the Qing Dynasty and would never open this loophole.

Not only did he not make any concessions, he also wanted to move a large number of Han people to the Ili Basin to completely consolidate his position in this place.

As for the Hezhong Province, Big Boss Sen had a playful expression on his face.

In fact, the entire Anxi Dushisi seems to have a huge territory, but for the imperial court, if we only consider the economic accounts, it is definitely a losing business.

Because the distance is too far, even though the railway of the Dayu Dynasty has been built from Lanzhou to Dunhuang, and there are intermittent train connections between Yili and Dihua, it still has no economic value.

No matter how much the Anxi Dushisi produced, it could not be brought back to the mainland. In other words, except for some luxury goods, the transportation costs of bringing them back to the mainland were more expensive than the goods themselves.

Therefore, the greatest value of the Anxi Dushisi in Hezhong and the Western Regions is political.

First, the Han Dynasty could not be considered to be infallible without these two places, especially the Western Regions. Not to mention the rotten Song Dynasty, the fact that the Ming Dynasty did not have the Western Regions often made Ming fans ashamed.

Second, it can show that the Great Yu Dynasty and Emperor Mozibu himself far surpassed the Han and Tang dynasties. Because the Han and Tang dynasties had actual control over the Western Regions, but they basically controlled Transoxiana and the Kazakh steppes, which was not as effective as the Great Yu Dynasty.

Third, politically and militarily, it can bring Dayu closer to Europe. After all, Europe is just beyond the west and north coasts of the Caspian Sea.

Dayu may not have the ability to actually control the Caspian Sea, but through the Kazakh followers who were left behind on purpose, it can still spread its influence to the Caspian Sea to a certain extent.

Considering that to the west of the western coast of the Caspian Sea, across the small Black Sea, is the Grand Duchy of Transylvania of King Mo Zirong of Lu, this seemingly symbolic influence is actually quite useful.

Based on this situation, the Dayu Dynasty, from Emperor Mo Zibu to the ministers in the outer court, and now the Crown Prince Da Lao Sen, are not prepared to develop this place well.

Especially in the Central Asian region, which is very easy to generate centripetal force in the Anxi Dushisi, to be precise, it is Bukhara and Samarkand. It is absolutely impossible for the economies of these two places to develop significantly.

Even in his planning, Da Lao Sen did not plan these two places as major farming areas.

"Uncle, I think the Jinsha River Valley has abundant water resources, a vast area with few people, and the locals are not good at growing rice. It would be better to plant more cotton.

I will introduce more textile technology and machinery from Jiangnan, so that we Anxi people can rely on them to solve their clothing problems in the future."

Hezhong is definitely not good at growing rice. Li Xianwen almost laughed out loud. Of course, he knew that Big Brother Sen said that on purpose.

Li Xianwen, who was both the prince's uncle and father-in-law, naturally knew what the prince was thinking. Planting more cotton and less grain seemed to be very profitable, but in fact, his life was in the hands of others.

When it gets cold, animal skins, leaves, and even wool can provide some protection, but if there is no food, there is no substitute.

"Well, I think it's great too. The combination of Jiangnan's textile technology and the cotton and cashmere from the river might become a specialty of Anxi in the future."

Seeing that Li Xianwen understood what he meant, Asen nodded and said, "Uncle, let's do this. From now on, the grain for Beiting will be grown in the Yili Basin, and the grain for Hezhong will be grown in the Dayuan Basin of the Xia Clan."

As for the last province of Khotan, neither of them took it seriously.

This place, originally located south of the Tianshan Mountains, now has a population of only 300,000, which is only the size of a county in the Central Plains.

The reason for setting up a province is, first, the territory is large, and second, the Kyrgyz people on the Suiye Plateau have not yet been controlled, and it is necessary to mobilize a lot of materials at the provincial level to achieve this.

. . . .

August 1797, 8. This was the 30nd year of the Guangzhong reign of the Great Yu Emperor of China, originally the nd year of the Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty, and the th day of the th lunar month.

Crown Prince Mo Zhousen came to Anxi and opened the Crown Prince's Mansion in Yili City and established the Anxi Dushisi Yamen, which was divided into four provinces in Anxi: Yiwulu, Beiting, Hezhong and Yutian.

Compared with the Anxi Four Towns of the former Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Four Provinces of Dayu cover a larger area and have a higher proportion of Han people.

How could it not be high? In the entire Hezhong area, millions of indigenous people died in six years, and most of the dead were men. In many places, there are basically only Han people.

Regarding the names of Beiting and Hezhong, Mo Zibu issued an edict that all the original names be changed, just like the old names in the Han and Tang dynasties.

Samarkand was renamed Kangju, Bukhara was renamed Anguo, Navoi was renamed Shunan, Tashkent was renamed Panshicheng, and Khiva was renamed Pingxicheng.

The Ibōsh Sea (Lake Balkhash) was renamed the Western Sea, while the Aral Sea remained unchanged, which is a good name.

Although Li Xianwen really didn't want to be in charge, he was still made the governor of Hezhong Province by his wife's nephew and son-in-law Da Lao Sen, and took his second son Li Xingtai to Anguo (Bukhara City) to take office.

Big Brother Sen did not despise the daring Chen Qiuze and appointed him as the assistant minister of the Anxi Dushisi Yamen and the governor of Beiting Province. However, he did not let him stay in Yili, but sent him to the Kazakh steppe to deal with the Kazakhs.

Afterwards, the Prince's Mansion and the Anxi Dushisi Yamen issued the first Prince's decree, confirming the fiefdoms of a total of 477 people, and giving more than 30,000 Western Army soldiers who were transferred to local jobs and became large landowners in Anxi a six-month leave.

This is to let them return to their hometown. No matter what method is used, at least one person must bring twenty people to Anxi.

At the same time, the imperial court used semi-coercive means for the first time, recruiting the first batch of 300,000 people from the four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Henan and Sichuan to go to Anxi to settle and guard the border.

In the busy schedule, the boss was very busy because there were too many things to do.

But even in this tense situation where he could only sleep for a few hours a day, Big Brother Sen was still supervising preparations for the Afghan war.

Who made the Durrani dynasty so rich? They stole 50 million silver rupees worth of silver coins from India, and now it is their turn to be unable to keep this astonishing wealth.

(End of this chapter)