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According to Qin Mu's plan, it was impossible to allow the Dzungar tribe to occupy southern Xinjiang for a long time. It was only because he saw that he was working hard to promote Buddhism in southern Xinjiang, which was in line with Qin Mu's wishes, that he was temporarily allowed to stay in southern Xinjiang.
Gu Jun'en's words reminded him of this incident again. Now Batur Khan was behaving himself, and Qin Mu decided to take advantage of him.
He and Gu Junen looked at the map and pondered it bit by bit.
"By the way, I remember that among the old, weak, women and children of the Junggar captured by Yan Yingyuan, there was a son of Batur Khan named Galdan."
Gu Jun'en didn't know why Qin Mu mentioned this child. He thought about it and replied, "There is indeed such a person, but Galdan is still young, only seven years old. I don't know why Your Majesty asked about him?"
In fact, Qin Mu didn't have any intention at the time, but Galdan was very famous in the original history and was one of Kangxi's main rivals.
Although Galdan is still young, he is Batur Khan's son after all. It is necessary to think about whether there is any use that can be made of him.
"Later, have someone bring this Galdan here so I can take a look at him."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
If the Dzungar tribe is not destroyed but used as a knife, then it is better to train and shape Galdan now while he is still young. It may be possible to use him to control the Dzungar tribe in the future.
"It has been a year since the Junggar tribe retreated to the Yarkand area to recuperate. You can't let some people be too idle, or they will cause trouble."
"Your Majesty is absolutely right. We failed to consider this aspect before. It is our fault."
Qin Mu picked up the white jade paperweight on the table and played with it while saying, "At present, Su Jin is advancing into the Hezhong area and Hai Rufeng is heading to India. There is a missing link in between and it is difficult to form interaction. If Batur is obedient and lets him send troops to the Indus River area, the whole chess game will come alive.
The Indus River area is the junction of the Mughal Empire and the Safavid Empire. After Hai Rufeng advances into India, he will inevitably come into conflict with the Mughal Empire.
The Transoxiana region has also been under the watchful eyes of the Safavid Empire. Now that Su Jin has conquered Turkestan, the power in the Transoxiana region is in a period of change, and the Safavid Empire will surely not miss such an opportunity.
At this time, if the Dzungar tribe could advance to the Indus River area, it would be able to contain the Mughal Empire and the Safavid Empire at the same time;
The Mughals and the Safavids had been fighting over the Kandahar area, and Batur Khan was a man of great talent and strategy. If he could skillfully exploit the conflict between the Mughals and the Safavids, he would have great potential. "
Gu Jun could not help but nod his head repeatedly. The Junggar tribe advanced to the Indus River area. Whether it was victory or defeat, the Qin Dynasty would be the winner. On the one hand, it could prevent the Junggar tribe from causing trouble in the Western Regions. On the other hand, it would contain the Mughal Empire and the Safavid Empire at the same time.
Although the Dzungar tribe suffered a great loss in the war with the Qin Dynasty, in fact their fighting power was still very strong. They were only defeated because they were far behind the Qin Dynasty in terms of weapons.
But if the enemy of Dzungar was the Mughal Empire or the Safavid Empire, the difference in weapons between the two sides would not be too big, and it would be hard to tell who would win in a fight.
So how can we make the Dzungars obediently and march into the Indus River Basin
Gu Jun'en thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will not be easy to convince Batur Khan."
"Everything in this world is nothing more than a balance between advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are already obvious. Batur is an ambitious man. Being confined to Yarkand is obviously a lot of disadvantages for him. Once our Great Qin takes over Hezhong, he will be surrounded by the Great Qin on three sides. Unless he wants to go to war with the Great Qin again, he can only expand the living space of Junggar in one direction. As for the advantages, we might as well give him some."
"Your Majesty, do you want to sell some weapons to Batur?"
"Well, my Great Qin originally had a lot of old-style artillery and smoothbore rifles. If Batur is willing to send troops to the Indus River area, we might as well sell some to him."
"Your Majesty, if you do this, I'm afraid you will end up nurturing a tiger that will cause trouble. I hope Your Majesty will think twice."
Qin Mu shook his head and said, "I know what you are worried about, but you must know that no matter what weapon it is, including the current rockets, others will be able to imitate it sooner or later. We must not ensure that others will never have it, but we can only strive to be more advanced than others.
The old smoothbore cannon has poor mobility and limited power. If we are afraid of it, it only shows that we are incompetent. Even if we don’t suffer a loss at the hands of Batur today, we will be defeated by others sooner or later.”
Qin Mu is confident about this. With the continuous improvement of Daqin's smelting technology and the adoption of steam engines for air blowing, the temperature of the smelting furnace has been greatly increased. This is a revolutionary progress. I believe most people understand what the increase in furnace temperature means.
In the past, because the temperature of the smelting furnace was not high enough, the molten iron was not dissolved completely, many impurities could not be separated, and the silicon content in the molten iron was also low (silica is an important element that promotes graphitization). Most of the cast iron produced was of low density, poor hardness, brittle and easy to break.
Now, after a series of technological innovations, the best steel in Daqin can basically withstand the chamber pressure of the grenade. The military is stepping up the development of howitzers, and they are breech-loading rifled guns.
The range, rate of fire and shooting accuracy of rifled guns are much better than those of smoothbore guns. Since the belt and rifling are tightly fitted, it can prevent the leakage of gunpowder gas, ensuring that the gunpowder gas has enough thrust on the projectile, thereby increasing the range and the intensity of shooting.
However, there are still many technical difficulties to be solved for breech-loading rifled cannons, and it will probably take some time to produce them, but there are no technical difficulties for muzzle-loading rifled cannons.
The muzzle-loading rifled cannon is roughly an enlarged version of the Chengjiu rifle, except that the shells are different from the bullets. Currently, the Military Equipment Bureau has begun trial-producing some muzzle-loading rifled cannons.
However, Qin Mu felt that since there were rockets in use at present, there was no need to invest too much in muzzle-loading rifled cannons. It would be enough to have the technical reserves, so as to avoid the need to eliminate breech-loading rifled cannons in large numbers after they were developed, causing unnecessary waste.
Because of Qin Mu, Daqin can take fewer detours in scientific research, and its rapid progress is naturally unmatched by other countries.
Gu Jun'en changed his words and said, "Your Majesty, I am not against providing some weapons to the Junggars. I am just worried that after providing weapons, the Junggars may not follow our wishes and march into the Indus River Basin."
"Hahaha..." Qin Mulang laughed and said, "This is not something that Gu Qing needs to consider. This is something that Huang Zhenlin and Gan Nan from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should consider."
Gu Jun'en also laughed after hearing this: "Your Majesty is right. Then let's send an envoy from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Yarkand City to convince Batur Khan before making a decision."
Qin Mu nodded and discussed with Gu Junen for a long time. After he left, Qin Mu immediately summoned Huang Zhenlin and Gan Nan.
When the two of them arrived at the Jianjia Palace, Qin Mu asked first, "Huang Qing, has the ship to Europe set off?"
Previously, Qin Mu and his ministers had planned to send envoys to Europe to contact the Pope in the Vatican, striving to integrate the forces of Eastern European countries through the Pope's influence and jointly attack the Ottoman Empire.
Of course, there is another important task, which is to travel around Europe and collect as many scientific and technological talents as possible and bring them back to Daqin. Talents like Newton, for example, are still of great value.
The best way to lure these talents to Daqin is to offer them something in the field they are interested in that they are fascinated by, and Qin Mu has all of these.
In addition, China is still recognized as a first-class country in the world, a garden-like country that Westerners yearn for. If we use some advanced theories and huge profits to lure some talents back from Europe, it is still possible.
Speaking of this, Huang Zhenlin quickly replied: "Your Majesty, the diplomatic mission to Europe led by Zhang Yuan, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has set sail from Ningbo Port with a total of four clipper warships. In addition, Fang Yizhi and several other private academic societies have also accompanied them, and there are two Portuguese merchant ships accompanying them as guides."
The so-called private academic societies are private think tanks established under the guidance of Qin Mu. These think tanks have gathered a lot of talents, but they have not made much contribution to the decision-making of the court.
But one good thing is that these social elites have a broader vision and are no longer entangled in trivial domestic affairs. There are fewer cases of forming cliques for personal gain, excluding dissidents, and criticizing the government.
Like this time, various think tanks took the initiative to request to send people to Europe with the delegation, which Qin Mu was happy to see.
He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Mr. Huang, Mr. Gan, you have done a great job. I summoned you two for another mission and I want the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with you."
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