Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 225 The Great, Peter

Time flies like water, and time flies like a shuttle.If there are books, it will be long, and if there are no books, it will be short.

In a blink of an eye, it is already ten years later.

In the past ten years, almost [-] Manchus and Chahar Mongols with a relatively high level of Chinese have cut their hair and changed their names to Han Chinese. No one knows whether they are Manchu or Chinese. Han, strictly speaking, in fact, this ethnic integration has been very successful.

But it is a pity that there are still a large proportion of people who are unwilling to give up their Manchu or Mongolian identities, and are unwilling to put down their bodies to farm or work. In the north, Khalkha Mongolia, which is not yet well-versed in Chinese, got mixed up, and initially served as a vanguard cannon fodder against the Junggar Khanate.

Later, the Ming court fought several battles with the Junggar Khanate and forced Galdan to commit suicide, so he threw these people in the northwest to guard the fence for Daming. They also became a very special existence in the entire Ming Dynasty, somewhat similar to the Ross Kingdom. Cossack wanderer.

The Han army only controlled the key roads of the Hexi Corridor, and reopened the Silk Road based on this, but the Han army relied too much on logistics, and to be honest, it was really not suitable for entering plateaus, deserts, and northern ice fields. These places All were handed over to the Mongolian and Manchu coalition forces commanded by Yue Le to explore.

You say they are expanding their territory, that's right, but you say they are exiled, it seems that it is not impossible.

The Ming court was responsible for providing Yue Le with weapons and a certain amount of logistical supplies. Liu Dapao didn’t care what they were doing in the west and north. Anyway, they could grab the land or plunder the resources in the Central Asian region. The Han army was only responsible for the desert Guard the oasis in the middle and maintain the stability of the trade route.

Basically, the treatment is similar to that of the Cossack wanderers in the country of Ross. Coincidentally, their main military opponents are also Cossack wanderers, including fighting in the Heilongjiang River Basin and the shores of Lake Baikal.

Neither the Han army nor the Slavs of the Rus country are willing to go to these places. On the one hand, it is indeed too bitter, and drinking ice and lying on the snow is unbearable. The value is indeed not high, but Liu Dapao still has a plot of unification, he attaches great importance to the land of the Western Regions and the extreme north, and therefore gives the Mongolian and Manchurian coalition forces led by Yue Le a living space.

Gradually, with the initial development of East Asia and the shores of Lake Baikal, they can gradually transport back materials, especially gold resources, and gradually increased. From a money-losing business to a profitable business, Yue Le also led everyone to open A company, becoming part of the company's directors, also has voting rights.

Anyway, ethnic hatred or something is not so easy to eliminate, but for the sake of money, at least the upper class has accepted them.

There are even quite a few Han Chinese from the Ming court who will take the initiative to join Yue Le's army. Most of them are bankrupts, rascals, adventurers and the like, who exchange their lives for money. Some of the Manchurians are old. Those who have made money and don't want to take any more risks will bring their own stocks and money back to the Ming court to retire.

Yue Le himself has always been ambitious to build a railway in the desert and on the permafrost of Siberia to the heart of the Ming court. Every time he goes back to Chenghai for business, he hangs out with Wei Xiaobao and tricks other shareholders into investing in him, making Siberia The Great Wasteland and the Great Desert of Central Asia say that gold is everywhere.

It's a pity that railways are also a rare thing in the Ming court, and they are expensive at death. None of the major shareholders is a fool, and they have no interest in his proposal. At least so far, the railway is mainly laid in the northern part of the country. Yue Le I can only save money to repair it myself, and the repairs are also stumbling, half-hearted.

The strange thing is that Yue Le and the Cossacks on the front line are all out of their minds. Daming and Ross have actually established diplomatic relations, and even the relationship is quite good.

What made Yue Le even more angry was that Emperor Peter, who had just killed his sister in a coup d'état and gained power, actually brought a group of scientists to Daming to study in person, and even begged Wei Xiaobao.

Anyway, according to Peter, the main part of the Cossacks in the Far East are Tatars, and the Slavs were also colonized by the Mongols before. It was because they had no place to settle these things after they turned their heads and made them wander in the Far East. Or, after you overthrew the Qing government, you threw them to the northwest because there was no place to place the Qing army. Everyone is the same. Strictly speaking, the Cossack wanderers and Yue Le's Manchu-Mongolian allied army belong to the same ancestor. It's all the sins of Genghis Khan, so let the two of them bite the dog, this is not the core interest of the country of Ross and Ming.

Although the two countries border each other, they are considered neighbors strictly speaking, but Moscow and Nanchang are too far apart. Let the Mongols fight for a little territorial dispute. Two dogs fight for territory, which does not hinder us as masters. Make friends.

The core interests of our Ming Dynasty are in Asia, and the core interests of our Rus country are in Europe. Your mortal enemy is the Mughal Dynasty, and our mortal enemy is Sweden. The most important thing is that both of us are unhappy with Ottoman Turkey. A proper back-to-back relationship.

Rather than the two of us being enemies who are thousands of miles away, it is better for us to work together to melon Osman.

This statement made Yue Le furious, and the Manchu group and the Chahar group had great opinions on it. However, other shareholders of the company, and even civil and military officials also felt that this statement was actually quite true.

Except for Liu Dapao himself, no one else has much interest in the land in the northwest and northeast. They can neither farm land nor seem to have any commercial value. Even the traditional Silk Road has become less attractive due to the development of maritime trade. To be exploited by the Ottoman Turkey, if the Ottomans are kept from fighting but turn against the country of Ross, which has little conflict of interest, what is the use of the land in the northwest?

Count the sand, or watch the big black bear bark its teeth?

Even Lake Baikal, which is known as a holy place, is only a holy place for nomads. For Daming at this time, it can’t be said to be a complete burden, but it’s just a piece of cake, and for the country of Ross, it’s actually not good enough. not too much.

And although Liu Dapao knew who Peter was very clearly, he actually wanted to take this opportunity to kill him directly, but he didn't want to provoke public anger, so he could only hold his nose and agreed to carve up Ottoman Turkey with him.

But of course, the Middle East, especially the oil-producing areas, must all belong to Daming.

Peter didn't know why Liu Dapao liked that big desert, a land where no ghosts came, so he agreed without any hesitation.

Of course, these are actually only small problems for Daming.

After ten years of development, how should I put it, although Daming seems to be thriving, the seeds of crisis have already been quietly planted.

(End of this chapter)