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Chapter 1603 To the place where the sun rises
The section from the lower reaches of the Volga River to the Caspian Sea is home to the Tuerhut tribe, a Mongolian tribe living outside.

They fled the Tianshan Mountains because they disobeyed the Zhungeer tribe's domination of Moxi Mongolia, and wanted to find an unowned pasture to survive.

The reality is cruel, the moon outside is not necessarily round.With the crazy expansion of various empires and kingdoms, there have long been no grasslands suitable for living with water and grass. They have been coveted by kingdoms or forces from Tsarist Russia, Cossacks, Kazakhstan, and Crimea.

Except for the barren land and the hinterland of the New World, there is no safe uninhabited land in the world.

Tsarist Russian and Cossack cavalry have defeated them with artillery, and sent officials to the tribe to monitor the movement of their tribe, requiring them to pay taxes and perform corvee on time.

Tsarist Russian buildings appeared in the villages formed by yurts. In order to tame this nomadic tribe from the East, the Tsar even ordered people to build churches in the lower reaches of the Volga River and asked the Turghut tribe to change their beliefs.

The conflict between the two sides became more and more intense. There was still part of the territory of Tsarist Russia and the border with the Kazakh Khanate between the Turghut tribe and Huaxia Yili. If they offended the Tsar, they would be surrounded by troops controlled by the Tsar.

The proud Torghut herdsmen were very dissatisfied with the oppression of the Tsarist Russians and Cossacks.The Cossacks even dragged prisoners of war tied to horsetails.

The tribal envoy who went to the capital finally returned to the tribe after a long journey, and he expressed his experience in the capital to the nobles in the tribe.

"The lord allowed us to return to the east, and leased the lower reaches of the Ili River near the Tianshan Mountains as a pasture for 30 years. The condition is that we must pledge our allegiance to the empire and become the night watchmen of the Ili River from generation to generation."

"In the capital, the prosperity is even worse than that of Yuanda before. There are a lot of goods and treasures, and the citizens are happy to live in peace. It is on the rise."

"There is also the train, which travels thousands of miles a day, as long as you feed them a kind of food called coal, they will run day and night, which is simpler and faster than horses."

After the envoy came back, seeing the colorful world outside, he was dissatisfied with the status quo of the tribe, and tried his best to explain the benefits of returning east to the nobles in the tribe.

"Although the land in the lower reaches of the Yili River is a bit poor, it can still support our people. I think it's better to settle this matter early. If we want to leave, we must leave before the Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks have further strengthened their control over us. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be even worse." It's not good to leave."

After the nobles of the Torghut tribe were killed by Tsarist Russian cannons, they supported a noble named Shukur Daiqing as the new tribal leader.

He heard the envoys going to the capital try their best to describe the affairs of the capital to him. He couldn't help being moved, but also strengthened the idea of ​​leaving, and announced to everyone: "We are going to the east, to the place where the sun rises, to find a new place. Life! How do you feel about it?"

"We also have the same opinion." The nobles of the Torghut Ministry replied.

"Everyone must take an oath to keep this secret strictly, and those who leak the secret will go to the eighteenth floor of hell." The new Khan Shu Kuldaiqing knew that leaking the secret at this time might lead to being surrounded by the Cossacks and Tsarist Russian troops.

Dozens of aristocrats from the Turghut tribe took an oath in blood to keep this secret together.

They planned to return east along the route of migrating to the Volga River, and they might be attacked by the Kazakh Khanate's large tent or small tent on the way.

Khan Shu Kuldaiqing summoned all the warriors in the clan and arranged for them to patrol outside the royal court.

Shukur Daiqing announced a solemn decision to them: "My fellow tribesmen, because the previous Khan had a conflict with the Khan of the Jungar tribe, he led us to seek a pure land in the west. But there is no so-called pure land in the west. We shall return to the east where the sun rises, to the pastures we know, and to the bright flames."

Soldiers gathered in the royal court one by one, and they sat on the ground in circles and circles, listening to their leaders mention the idea of ​​returning to the east.When they heard that they were going back to the east, they couldn't help whispering in private, full of worries about the decision to return to their homeland.

It would be best if you want to change your living environment. However, it is a long way to cross Central Asia and return to the Tianshan Mountains, and you have to pass through the Kazakh Khanate, which is not very friendly to them. Attacks and diseases will kill many people.

More than ten years ago, they migrated from the Tianshan Mountains to the Volga River and suffered heavy casualties. The journey back this time is definitely not as easy as it was when they arrived.

"If we don't resist and stay here, maybe the whole tribe will become slaves to the tsar, and the Cossack cavalry will take away our land! Back in Tianshan, we can live a more stable life without having to bear so many corvees. Even if the higher-ups want to increase our corvee, there are several other herdsmen from the big tribes who will join forces to fight, unlike us who are weak here.” Shuku Erdaiqing clarified the key points to the tribe.

After a brief discussion, the soldiers of the Torghut Department finally decided to obey their Khan's decision and embarked on a journey back east.

The ministers and Cossack cavalry sent by the tsar to supervise the Turghut tribe discovered the meeting. They tried to break into the venue, but were stopped by soldiers patrolling outside.

"What conspiracy are these nomadic natives preparing? They have already been defeated by us, do they still want to continue to resist? Their courage is a joke in front of our firearms." The minister of Tsarist Russia said to these nomadic tribes who migrated to the lower reaches of the Volga River scoffed.

Although Tsarist Russia was still a second-rate country before the appearance of Peter I, European countries did not take it seriously, but they found a sense of existence and self-confidence in a more backward civilization.

After the meeting, the soldiers of the Torghut Department returned to their respective villages. They asked the tribe to pack their bags and prepare to return east.

Inside a yurt, the Tsarist Russian minister and the Cossack leader put a small bag of gold coins on a wooden table, opposite a herdsman with a nervous expression.

"Tell me what your leader summoned you to do, this small bag of gold coins is yours, and you can live comfortably for the rest of your life."

"I... our Khan intends to take us back to the east, where the sun rises. He said that the ruler of the east is willing to give us the lower reaches of the Ili River as a pasture, and we need to guard the westernmost territory for him." As he spoke, he put the small bag of gold coins into his pocket.

These guys plan to flee back to the East?When the Tsarist Russian minister and the Cossack leader heard the herdsmen's words, their pupils shrank suddenly.

Compared with the large population in the east, the population on their side is small. If you can enslave tens of thousands of herdsmen from the Torghut tribe, it is equivalent to having 10,000+ people working for them. During the war, you can also requisition tens of thousands from the local area. people.It's not worth letting them escape like this.

(End of this chapter)