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Chapter 1591 Return to the East
"The situation in the Central Plains and Tianshan has really stabilized?"

"This is absolutely true. The war ended a few years ago. All the tribes were defeated or surrendered. The Central Plains government has taken over the prairie and established a ranch. From then on, all tribes do not have to fight over the ranch, because the ranch has long been Allocated."

"Then do we leaders have preferential treatment?"

The aristocratic leaders of the Turghut tribe and the envoys of the Jungar tribe held a secret meeting in private to learn about the situation of the Moxi Mongolian tribe still living in the Tianshan and Qinghai Lake areas.In addition to caring about the living conditions of ordinary people in the local tribes, they also cared about the treatment of the tribal nobles who had previously surrendered to the government.

"The leader can have the right to contract more pastures. The contract period is 30 years. After 30 years, the government will take back the pastures and then decide who will contract them. During the contract period, the government will also send experts to guide production, cultivation and promotion. A new breed of cattle and sheep. And after the grazing area is fixed, there is no need to constantly migrate, there will be no war, and the stocking of horses can be reduced." The messenger said.

He was also a little unexpected. He had ventured through the territory of the Kazakh Khanate to find the Turghut tribe who had migrated to the lower Volga River. As a result, the Khan of the Turghut tribe was killed by Russian cannons, and the tribe was reduced to vassal of the Russians.

At this time, Tsarist Russia was only a second-rate or even third-rate country in Europe. It could not beat Sweden or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. However, with the muskets and artillery purchased from Western Europe, it could easily conquer the more backward Turghut tribe.

"Only 30 years of contracting rights. After 30 years, the ranch will be owned by the state. Wouldn't we only be able to live a good life for 30 years?" The nobles of the Turghut tribe are obviously unwilling to lose their privileges in the tribe .

"You can't say that. In the past, our tribes attacked each other, and Tsarist Russia and the Kazakh Khanate were watching. Once the tribe was defeated, most people would become prisoners. It would be nice if we could live a stable and prosperous life for 30 years. How many people guarantee that their family will not fall into poverty in 30 years? If the ranch management is good in the future, it will be fine to contract the ranch from the government again. The government is only for tax collection, except for a very small number of state-run ranches used as research sites, not I will personally spend a lot of manpower and material resources to manage the vast prairie. As early as a few years ago, the government signed a 50-year armistice treaty with Tsarist Russia and the Kazakh Khanate. At least two generations of us are in a period of absolute peace." Zhun Ge The envoy said.

The nobles of the many Turghut tribes made sense. A stable and rich life was much better than staying on the Volga River and being bullied by Tsarist Russia and Cossacks.

Moreover, their tribe has only migrated to the Volga River for more than 10 years. For them who were in the Tianshan Mountains in the past, they miss their hometown even more.If it wasn't for the fact that the Zhungeer tribe wanted to annex them, they wouldn't have left the Tianshan Mountains in a fit of anger and came to a strange place to seek survival.

"Chu Yun is the one who rules the east now? Will he accept us?" the nobles of the Turghut tribe worried.

"I can't say anything about this matter. Why don't you send an envoy to accompany me back to Tianshan Mountain, and then he will take the train to the capital to pay tribute through Xi'an, and ask your lord's attitude. If he is willing to take you back, then you can go back east. " said the envoy.

"Train? What is that?" The nobles of the Turghut tribe were at a loss.

"It's a very miraculous thing. Ordinary people ride it like riding a horse. It doesn't stop day and night. It takes only a few days to reach the capital from Guanzhong." The envoy said.

"There are such fetishes?" The nobles were surprised.

From Guanzhong to the capital in a few days, even if you keep changing horses, the rider can be jolted to death!

"I just heard that the railway for trains has just been built to Guanzhong. I haven't seen the railway and trains with my own eyes. But this is what our Master Batur said. He went to the capital in person, and when he came back, he told We talked about a lot of novelty and knowledge," said the envoy.

The nobles of the Torghut tribe asked some more information, and they knew that not only the magical means of transportation such as railways and trains appeared in the Central Plains, but also showed more advanced artillery and flintlocks than those of Tsarist Russia when the Kyushu Army conquered the Moxi tribe. Guns, hand-cranked machine guns and other firearms surprised the Turghut tribe.

"Since even our most powerful Zhungeer tribe in Moxi surrendered to the government and lived a stable life, if the government can give us a pasture that can meet the needs of the tribe's survival, we can return to the east and surrender. Central Plains. Compared with the culture of Tsarist Russia, the culture of the Central Plains and southern Xinjiang is more suitable for us. We selected an astute envoy from among the tribes and sent him to the capital to pay tribute, expressing our willingness to accept the management of the Central Plains.”

After discussion, the aristocrats of the Turhut tribe still planned to return to the cultural circle of the Central Plains they were familiar with.

Although the Mongols occupied many places during the Genghis Khan period, the Turghut tribe belonged to the Mongolian tribes influenced by the cultural circles of the Central Plains and Western Regions, and could not accept the culture from Tsarist Russia.

Moreover, Tsarist Russia recruited a large number of troops from the vassal states they ruled, which is likely to lead to the demise of the tribe's men. Thousands of people, and worried that recruiting too many vassals would lead to rebellion, so military service is naturally not heavy.

After having the idea of ​​returning to the east, the tribal nobles secretly selected a few smart young men from the Turghut tribe without telling the ministers who were established in the tribe by Tsarist Russia, and planned to send them to the capital to ask for the return of the east.

Their westward migration came into contact with Eastern European civilization, and the Turghut tribe knew that further west, there were kingdoms that occupied Eastern Europe, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Cossack tribe, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Crimean Khanate. Well, with the expansion of the various kingdoms, there is no longer any unclaimed land where their tribes can graze freely.With the advent of the age of firearms, weak nomadic tribes can only submit to powerful firearms countries, depending on which country they want to pledge their allegiance to.

The Turghut tribe secretly sent envoys. They avoided the eyes and ears of Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks, and ventured through the territory of the Kazakh Khanate to the old place of the Tianshan Mountains.

The ministers sent by the tsar to monitor the Turghut tribe did not notice this abnormal phenomenon, nor did they know that the tribe wanted to return to the east. He was invited by the pretending enthusiastic Turghut nobles to go hunting. Happy.

(End of this chapter)