This is a small town built of stone.

The city wall is about six meters high, and the side is about one mile longer. There are moats outside and there is no water inside. The guide said that this is left behind when digging the soil when building the city. The trenches from the soil were just taken to be used as moats, so it is saved from digging.

On the outside of the rammed earth wall, a layer of bluestone and cement was wrapped.

Unlike the brick-packed walls in the mainland, this is a rammed earth wall covered with stone.

Burning bricks is too expensive and time-consuming. So there is no rammed earth to wrap bricks, but instead of using cement and stone to build the exterior walls.

There was a shortage of manpower here, and the Yang family sent only more than 100 people. Fortunately, Chechen Khan sent a team of thousands of people to help. He recruited a large number of Buryats to work locally, and then built these two cities.

The chiefs of hundreds of tribes of the Buryats also accepted the enthronement of the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that it is a canonization, but in fact, Yang Fan used the blank letter of confession from the Ministry of War to fill in their names and directly engraved them as small officials such as the general banner, hundreds of households, thousands of households, and commanders.

These chiefs were mainly greedy for their salary and were not loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, the enthronement was only beneficial, and they did not lose anything.

In addition, they also welcome the Ming Dynasty to build a city.

Because of the city, there are shops for handicraftsmen and merchants.

They were extremely scarce about living supplies. In the past, the caravans were buying up all the goods when they passed by the Khalkha area. There was nothing left here.

Now, the Ming Dynasty has built a city and has built a dirt road from the Khan tribe of Chechen. The Ming Dynasty's steamships and duck-butt sailboats will also flow upstream from Heilongjiang and navigate to the upper reaches of the Ergun River.

The city of Nebchu was also built there, which was used as a landing pier for water transportation.

From Nebchu City, a dirt road was built to Chita City, and from Chita City to Ulan Ude City.

When the road was being built, many Briats ran to watch the fun.

They had never seen one before, unloading the steam bulldozers and road rollers. They rushed past the ground with black smoke.

After the bulldozer accumulates trapezoidal subgrade in front, it flattens the road surface, and the roller behind it compacts the land. A dirt road is repaired. Although it is simple, there is still no problem with walking on a carriage.

First repair the road surface, and then gradually dig drains on both sides next year to plant poplar trees.

I didn’t expect that these people from the Ming Dynasty would build roads so quickly.

The engineers from the Heilongjiang Governor's Office were able to build the Nibchu pier and the city and build Ulan Ude City and Chita City within more than a year.

After all, the conditions here are very poor. The engineers were so tired that they didn't finish their work until they were frozen last fall. They hurried back while the Heilongjiang River was not frozen.

At present, the water transportation of the Ussuri River, Songhua River and Heilongjiang River has been carried out.

The best developed area of ​​the Governor's Office is currently in the Suifenhe River Basin. The local area has basically developed similarly to the Yangjia New City Territory.

To get here, you need to get on the boat from the Ussuri River first, then enter the Heilongjiang River and go upstream to the upper reaches of the Ergun River. The end point is the Pier of Nibchu City.

The second option is to take the sea route, go to Miaojie sea ships to unload the cargo, then exchange them for inland river boats, go upstream along Heilongjiang River to the Nibuchucheng Pier in the Erguna River upstream. This road is a river-sea transport, and can be shipped directly from Tianjin.

In addition to providing the materials and equipment required for construction here, Shuangchengzi is shipped from Tianjin to Vladivostok port, and then take the land to the pier of the Ussuri River on board.

Last year, Xiao Niangpi approved 700,000 taels of silver and a large amount of materials, specifically used for construction of cities and docks, opening water and land transportation. Only then did she build this water and land highways, and connected several small cities along the way.

By the beginning of spring, the Yang Mansion will organize refugees from Shanxi to go to sea again. Now there are fewer refugees from Hebei.

These new refugees will no longer be placed in the Suifen River Basin, but will take a boat to the Buryat area. Villages will be established on the outskirts of Nebuchu, Chita and Ulan Ude, and farmland will be reclaimed.

Yang Fan believed that as long as you can farm, you will eventually be firmly occupied by the Han people. No inch of land will be lost. Li Huaishu’s biggest task this year is to organize immigration transportation.

Chongzhen planned to immigrate 30,000 households to the Buryat area in four years. This is a big project.

After they got ashore from Vladivostok, they had to walk more than 5,000 miles to reach their destination.

Fortunately, the Songhua River, Heilongjiang River and Ussuri River have been opened to navigation.

Water transportation not only has large volumes, but also fast speed.

The steamer towed ten large canal ships and passenger ships. It could transport people from the Ussuri City Wharf to Nibchu City in three days and two nights. These were all organized and guaranteed by Li Huaishu.

Originally, Yang Fan planned to hand over this place to Li Huaishu and expand westward little by little. Now that the grinding table has been re-activated, he decided to start a war against Tsarist Russia.

Anyway, their strongholds are only more than a hundred people, and the large ones are five or six hundred. Only the central strongholds have thousands of people. This force will only bully the local Buryats and Chukochi people. It is not difficult for the Yang family's army to fight them.

The conditions for taking over the table are already very good. Li Huaishu did many of the most difficult tasks in advance. He just needs to lead the team to fight. Don’t worry too much about anything else. There is already a certain foundation here.

The grinding table carefully looked at the city that was built only last fall.

Although this city is not big and not tall, it is very strong. Every 100 meters there is a horse face, with a watchtower with a shooting port on it.

"Is this Chita City?" said the grinding table riding on the camel and pointed at the city gate with a whip.

On the vast wastelands of the Buryat region, there are currently only two cities on the ground controlled by Yang Fan, and this is one of them. This place is more southerly, and it should be Chita City.

Continue to the north, there is Ulan Ude City, which is bigger and will be the site of the future of the Mian Table.

"Sir, this is Chita City. Your family members will be placed here in the future. When spring begins, you can open up land. You can plant some corn, soybeans, sorghum, wheat, etc. Afar can be divided into pastures."

Look at the grinding table from all sides. This place is really nice. There are mountains in the distance, but they are mainly plains. There are rivers on the ground. Although they are frozen now, it is indeed a place with abundant water and grass in spring and summer.

The soil looks fertile even across the river bank.

He thought to himself, send a telegram to Li Huaishu and borrowed it from him for some use.

Li Huaishu's engineering battalion has ten tracked steam bulldozers. I had seen the grinding tables when Heilongjiang went south to fight Amin before.
Chapter completed!