After Xu Guangqi entered the cabinet, Xiao Ruxun entrusted all the natural disasters to Chen Longzheng.
He was ordered to take charge of these newly established important departments and entrusted with important matters. The pressure on the cabinet was also reduced to a certain extent, and the political team that Xiao Ruxun built for the northern expedition was also more stable.
At the same time, he also trained two candidates for cabinet minister, one was Chen Longzheng, and the other was Fang Congzhe, who was responsible for snail extermination.
Fang Congzhe's snail extermination work was carried out well. With the cooperation of the Central Medical Department, after paying the price of a large number of Japanese lives, the schistosomiasis in the three southeastern provinces was forcibly controlled.
In terms of treatment, he also gathered the strength of a large number of doctors. According to the guiding ideology of village doctors given by the central government, he trained a large number of village doctors who knew how to treat schistosomiasis, and let these people go to the countryside with the doctors to treat the patients village by village.
Not to mention how many people were saved, but after several years of large-scale treatment, the schistosomiasis in the three southeastern provinces was controlled, and the purse of Daqin was saved.
Not only that, Fang Congzhe also presided over the dispatch of a large number of Japanese people to exterminate a large number of snails in the whole of the Yangtze River. While consuming the Japanese people, he also eliminated the snails, which greatly reduced the probability of people continuing to be infected with schistosomiasis.
From this point of view, Xiao Ruxun felt that Fang Congzhe was a very good official. He was capable, obedient, and did not have a tough personality. He was extremely respectful and obedient to the emperor. How could such a character and ability not be liked by the emperor?
Xiao Ruxun had repeatedly issued decrees to commend Fang Congzhe, promoting his official rank and honorific rank, establishing a certain prestige for him, and preparing for him to enter the Cabinet.
At the same time, the Medical Department and the Ministry of Agriculture cooperated to establish the first batch of official medicinal herb planting bases of Daqin.
Among the important medicinal herbs, many of them needed to be planted at a certain age to be effective and have sufficient medicinal properties. However, there were also many medicinal herbs that did not need a long time to plant, and these matters were arranged by the doctors of the Medical Department.
Xiao Ruxun asked the Medical Department to provide medicinal herbs for use as they pleased. Although it was not enough, at least they would not encounter the previous situation where some people had no medicine.
It was very important to master the techniques in large-scale cultivation, reduce the cost, and gradually let the common people be able to afford medical treatment and medicine.
Moreover, these medicinal herb bases could also provide great help to the army. Every battle in the army would produce a large number of wounded and sick soldiers, and the amount of medicinal herbs consumed was very large. In the past, Xiao Ruxun had been very concerned about the medical problems of the soldiers, so he had never slacked in the medical aspect of the army.
In the process, Xiao Ruxun transported a large amount of food supplies to Gansu, Guanzhong, and Liaodong to provide sufficient logistical support for the army.
For this battle, Xiao Ruxun estimated that he would send out 100,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry. The main forces would be the Northwest Army and the Guanzhong Army. Xiao Ruxun would also lead the capital region army and the cavalry of the Imperial Guards to join the battle. They would form the northern expedition army of Daqin and sweep away all the troubles of the northern border of Daqin.
This was not the most serious period of the Little Ice Age. The most serious period would be more than 50 years later. It would not be until the early 18th century that the climate would gradually warm up.
Qianlong was really a lucky emperor. He was born in the warm period between the two ice ages. His father Yongzheng left him a rich family, and the relatively stable social environment contributed to his perfect martial arts. The large increase in the population was also one of his achievements.
Therefore, being an emperor also depended on luck. Some people were lucky and did not face any danger. They had the right time, place, and people, so they achieved great things. However, some people were very unlucky and could not save the situation even if they worked hard, and could only end up dead and the country destroyed.
Now, the northern expedition was launched when the preparations of Daqin were completed and the objective conditions were in place. The scale and preparation of this northern expedition were unprecedented.
The main force of 200,000 soldiers and 300,000 civilian militia were ready to provide logistical support for the army. The large amount of materials hoarded in Guanzhong, Gansu, and Liaodong could support the army for at least three months.
A large number of mules and horses had begun to be gathered in advance and sent to these three places. Once the war started, the Qin Army could launch a thunderous attack on the Northern Barbarians who coveted the wealth of Daqin. They could wipe them out in an instant and sweep the northern frontier.
The sweeping of the frontier was only the first stage of the war. After the first stage, they would immediately enter the second stage of in-depth attack.
With the efforts of a large number of scouts sent over the past few years and the secret agents of Black Water, who were called caravans but were actually spies, Xiao Ruxun had basically figured out the geography and hydrology of the entire northern grassland of Daqin.
The furthest place to the north had reached the North Sea area where Su Wu was herding sheep as recorded in the history books of the Han Dynasty. The scouts came back and reported that they had seen a very large lake. They walked around the lake and drew the lake's circumference and appearance for Xiao Ruxun to see, so that Xiao Ruxun could confirm that it was Baikal Lake.
Therefore, the northern goal of this northern expedition was Baikal Lake. Baikal Lake was even further north than the area that Fenlang Juxu and Leishi Yanran had reached. It was a place that the army of the Central Plains had never reached.
And Xiao Ruxun wanted to hold this pearl of the grassland in his hands.
The goal of the Liaodong Corps was very simple, that was to restore the former Nuer Gandu. But this time, it was not a symbolic rule, but a real rule.
The main military garrison of the Nuer Gandu was distributed along the Heilongjiang River. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming government had set up a large number of garrison posts along the Heilongjiang River, which reached the eastern coast and even Sakhalin Island. Later, they were gradually abandoned.
Xiao Ruxun's goal was to rebuild it and connect it with a road to ensure that this line of maintenance of rule would not be cut off, thus firmly controlling the entire northeast.
And the western strategy was also quite clear: clean up Tumed who occupied the Qinghai region, recapture Hetao, and use this as a basis to destroy the Chagatai Khaganate and Yarkand Khaganate in the east, expand their power to the Xinjiang region, and completely take over the Pamir Plateau.
The other part was responsible for consolidating the captured areas and making preparations to enter Ü-Tsang, telling these guys that Daming was no longer there, but Daqin was still their master.
The specific content of the northern strategy was divided into these three parts. Xiao Ruxun planned to use ten years to reshape the territory of the empire, grasp everything he could in his lifetime, and then slowly digest it. As for how far the future generations could expand, Xiao Ruxun did not know.
With the development of Daqin's technology, the possibility of losing land would become smaller and smaller, especially after the surrounding strong enemies were almost eliminated. The biggest enemy would no longer be the enemies on the surrounding land, but the enemies on the sea. Therefore, regarding the development of the navy, Xiao Ruxun had never stopped.
The benefits that could be obtained from the sea would be an important factor in supporting the expansion of the Qin Army. Without the benefits earned from the sea, the expansion and construction of the Qin Army on the road would stop, and the territory would inevitably be lost.
In short, whether it was war or construction, it was all about money.
Therefore, in the next ten to twenty years, the national policy of Daqin was to make money from the sea to subsidize the western inland.
Until the expansion of the west ended.
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