Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 792 Cossack

upper reaches of Heilongjiang.

Yaksa City.

Early in the morning, Albasi, the lord of the city, came to the city on horseback with Rafkai, the leader of Hara, and his younger brothers Shirkinei and Kiljega.

This Sauron city gate on the north bank of Sakhalin Ula was occupied by a group of Tsarist Russian bandits at this time.

They captured many tribesmen such as Sauron, and forced them to strengthen the barracks and groom their fur.

"Who are you and where did you come from? Why did you invade our city gate!"

On the city gate, the bearded Khabarov looked at the five Saurons and greeted them with a smile, "Dear friends, we are here to buy furs. We are doing business and making friends."

Rafkai scolded angrily, "Fart, we already knew the true colors of you bandits. You are Tsarist Russian Cossacks. There were Cossacks who came here before. They said they came here to do business and collect furs. We treat you well with wine and meat." , and took out our best sable fur to him, he said it would be good to trade together the next day, but in the middle of the night rolled our fur and ran away, and even tried to rape my brother Shirkinei’s wife , My sister-in-law resisted desperately and failed, so he killed her and escaped."

Shirkinei took a few steps forward, staring angrily at the Cossacks holding firearms in the city with red eyes, "I swore to God with my wife's body in my arms, that I would find those Cossack robbers and kill them." kill,"

Khabarov was exposed, but he didn't take it seriously.

All the Russians who came to the Far East had a few good people. Those who came to take risks were all criminals who dreamed of getting rich overnight, or stayed in Russia, and even the Cossacks themselves were some kind of good people.

Due to the oppression of the landlords and nobles and the persecution of the tsar, many serfs and urban poor in Russia, Ukraine and other places could not bear it, and fled and lived in our hometown.

In southern Russia, the grasslands are vast, sparsely populated, and rich in resources, beyond the reach of the tsarist rule, so the fugitives took refuge here and gradually formed several settlements.

We call ourselves free and restrained Cossacks, which means free people or others. We distinguish them by the area of ​​residence. Those who live along the middle reaches of the Don River and its tributaries are called downstream Cossacks, and those who live in the upper reaches of the Don River are called upstream Cossacks. The Zapololen Cossacks lived in the upper reaches of the Dnieper River, and the Volga River Cossacks appeared here.

To put it bluntly, those people are the same as the refugees from Yunyang or Nangan after the Ming Dynasty. Due to taxes, disasters and famines, they left their homes and went to the sparsely populated mountainous areas to cultivate wasteland and farm land, avoiding service and evading taxes.

In the mid-Ming Dynasty, millions of refugees flocked to Nanjiang, Yunyang and other places. They only came to the Ming Dynasty to send troops to encircle and suppress them, and set up governors and other officials to manage them, so that those refugees could not be ruled by the court.

But the Cossacks ran to the steppe, beyond the control of the Tsar,
Those Russian refugees lived a life of freedom, and also elected army commanders, centurions, lieutenants, etc., and these people formed the Cossack minimum military council to command their own troops.

The Cossacks largely retained their autonomy.

Tsarist Russia can't control those people, but found that those people are brave and capable of fighting, very tough, and very difficult to buy, so they bought the lower Cossacks by means of enfeoffing land, promising autonomy, and giving salaries, so as to drive the Cossacks to fight for us .

Tsarist Russia invaded and expanded to Central Asia, Siberia and other places, and the Cossacks were all slow pioneers.

Those people had no discipline, and wherever they went, they burned, killed, looted, and their reputation was notorious. They even often rebelled and mutinied and killed the officials of Tsarist Russia.

The Cossacks are a nation and a country. They are just a group of self-governing refugees. Although they fled to the grasslands to be free, their lives are still small and poor. Therefore, the Cossacks took risks and were willing to serve as mercenaries for Tsarist Russia. Driven by lower utilization.

Few Cossacks are good at production, so they have to work hard for others to make money, and make a living from the spoils of robbery.

At first, the Cossacks were nomadic Tatars and Slavs who fled from the Golden Horde to the grasslands in southern Russia. Cossacks also mean free people in Turkic. Fewer and fewer serfs and urban poor came to join them. As a small group of refugees, we have gradually developed a unique cultural habit of being good at riding and shooting, and being controlled.

We prepared our own equipment, Don horses, Cossack scimitars, and spears, and became hustling heavy cavalry. The Cossacks also robbed.

Anyway, farming, robbing, being a mercenary, or going to the East to take risks and rob, has become a Cossack tradition.

Before those "heroes" arrived in Siberia, there were even more taboos, and the Tsarist Russians were also willing to drive and use those Cossacks to open the way for us to explore, and even plunder and kill.

Tsarist Russia may have to collect taxes when it gets land, while the Cossacks plunder furs and get commissions, and each has its own benefits.

Harafkai was born as a Cossack, a poor peasant who was much better than a serf, and joined the ranks of Eastern expeditions after seventy years. After my early expeditions and success, I came to rely on Solensk I got rich by selling salt and opening farms, but because my successor warlord confiscated the salt fields and land I didn’t have, and some of the wealth I didn’t have, he threw me back into prison.

If it was a new warlord, I'm afraid I would have offended the warlord.

At that time, I was able to get out of prison by offering advice to the new warlord that I knew the new route to Bailongjiang. I recruited ten Cossacks and went south with guns. The lower Lena River retreats into the lower Bailong River through several tributaries.

I am eager to snatch fewer furs, especially sable furs, and I hope to capture less new lands, gates, and conquer fewer eastern tribes for the Warlord.

Unfortunately, my trip was not very smooth.

I met some big tribes on the road and grabbed a lot of things. Fortunately, I retreated into the small river Bailongjiang. As a result, He Xinren, who had been in several city gates in a row, ran away early.

Eight empty cities, both fur and men.

Looting is for property, and there is no law to levy fur tax, not to mention the discovery of gold, silver or lead mines.

The Cossacks in my hands are already very satisfied. Those people have always been rebellious and docile, and Harafkai is very vague. If they can lead us to plunder wealth, those people will never be able to kill me at any time.

The next expedition from Solensk is the clerk Poyarkov. I led a hundred people from the east to the south, crossed the Lixing’an Mountains, and then followed the Jingqiwai River to the Bailong River, and all the way to At the mouth of the Bailong River, although we plundered a lot of fur, we were trapped in the cold winter and could not return. The front camp ran out of food. These Cossacks only ate all the captured tribesmen to satisfy their hunger, and even ate half of the Cossacks at the beginning.

He became so ruthless that even his own people killed those who ate them.

I urgently need to grab furs, at least some Hill men to satisfy these full-fledged Cossacks.

"Your dear friend, the Cossack you are talking about, I am a scum other than Cossacks, you are all merchants with bad reputation, you are Russian, you are Cossacks.

Dear friends, please come back and talk, you have brought a lot of good things for trading, no iron pans, blankets, gunpowder, mink traps and nets, they can exchange whatever they want, the price It's negotiable. "

"They are a group of weak thieves, get out of your territory immediately, otherwise you are absolutely polite!"

"Friends, you are just here to do business, and you have good intentions. You also saw that there were people in that city gate, so you temporarily settled there. Friends, please come back and have a drink first. You have no good wine, and you just slaughtered it." A deer is roasting."

It’s just that He Xinchang and others knew the Cossack bandits very well. Those people were full of bandits. They burned, killed, looted, and even stole. We came from the downstream and robbed many people.

When we seize the action, there will be old men and women who escaped, torture you, burn them with fire, ask the tribes to ask, ask about the situation of the surrounding tribes, and the route, etc.

Before we got a lot of detailed information, we arrived in the Yaksa area along the river. Unfortunately, the leader Bokda, who has seven cities and a small population, fled in battle.

We took everything we could with us when we ran.

As a result, Harafkai got nothing. I also interrogated the captured He Xinren and found that Bokda was contacting other Hill people everywhere, and wanted to gather soldiers to surround and annihilate us.

Before getting the information, Harafkai, who had only ten men, was determined, and hurried back to Solensk with a few men. While reporting to the warlord that he had successfully reached the lower reaches of the Bailong River, I also told the warlord Franzbekov presented some looted furs and looted samples of Bailongjiang barley, as well as hand-painted maps of Daur and some survey records.

I described to the warlord that the Daur area is full of vast fields, pastures and small forests, with developed agriculture and animal husbandry, rich in fur, richer than the whole of Siberia, and the next expedition team is indeed lying.

When I came back, apart from reporting the good news, I asked for fewer troops, and said that as long as there are less than 8000 people, the entire Bailongjiang can be conquered.

The warlord reported the news, maps, samples, etc. I sent back to Moscow, requesting to send [-] troops to conquer Bailongjiang.

My memorial to Tsar Alexei stated that if the entire Bailong River can be conquered and these Daur people are responsible for farming in this way, Tsarist Russia will use it to transport grain to Solensk, and Daur will be more unprofitable than the Lena River picture.

Before the report was typed, Franzbekov first gave Hahe Xinchang some experience, and asked me to recruit a group of people in Hexinsk and rush back to Yaksa to establish a stronghold as a small army rear.

Hahe Xinchang spread good news in Solensk, saying that a treasury was found in Yaksa, and there were no fertile fields, pastures, and many sable furs, etc., to recruit adventurers.

At the beginning, only 110 people were recruited, and the warlord gave me 71 Russian soldiers, so I gathered 180 four people, and before asking the warlord for eight iron cannons and a batch of ammunition, Harafkai immediately returned to Yaksa.

When I went back to transfer troops, the Hill people did not retreat to attack Yaksa, and the dozens of Cossacks who stayed behind also dared to act recklessly, secretly engaged in big moves, stole and looted, and always dared to stay away.

When Hahe Xinchang came back, he had no more than [-] people and no iron guns, and was about to retreat to the Bokda camp, but Bokda came first.

Bokda also knew that the Cossacks had come for reinforcements, so we came over and asked the Cossacks to leave on their own.

If we leave, let us go, but if we go, it will be a battle of swords, death or rest.

Halafkai seems to be exposed.

At that time, it was also pretending, and it was a direct showdown.

"You are the vanguard sent by the Solensk Warlord to conquer Hill for the Tsar. The Tsar is small and majestic, and he has no kingdoms. The Tsar's campaign has always had enemies. If they are wise, they should surrender quickly and be the Tsar's servants forever .

I heard that they returned tribute to He Xinchang Khan in the future. From now on, they can only return tribute to the Tsar. They should send someone to announce to He Xinchang Khan on behalf of the Tsar that He Xinchang Khan and his people should also pay tribute to the Tsar. Huasi mink and so on.

If Stepan Khan and his subjects accept the rule of the tsar and pay taxes and tribute, they can stay in the original town, and the tsar will protect them with his own army.

If you agree to hand over the furs of the hostages, you Russia will use war to pacify them, destroy and occupy their cities, and those who refuse to pay the fur tribute, including women and children, will be killed! "

I also took out a letter, which was written by the Warlord of Solenzk to the Emperor of the Central Plains, "Halfkai is now sent to China as an envoy to declare the Tsar's favor, and ask the Chinese Emperor to submit to the Tsar and be his servant forever. If you agree Submission will surely kill all Chinese men, women, and children."

Murderous.

Bokda looked at the weak thief's arrogant face, and cursed, "The emperor of China is now Stepan Khan, but the Holy Khan Xiaotian, and you tell them that the Holy Khan Xiaotian is on the New Year's Day." At that time, it has been announced to the sky that war is declared against Russia, and the east of the Ural Mountains is all owned by Xiaoming, if the weak thieves of Tsarist Russia evacuate, they will all be killed!"

"Not yet, Xiao Tianzi has sent the weakest army to attack those weak thieves, hurry up, there is still time, otherwise the king will arrive, and one will stay."

Tong Shi translated the words sentence by sentence to the Russians under the city gate.

After listening to Harafkai, he was a little dazed.

"Has China changed its emperor?"

According to the news collected by Solencsk, He Xinren and Evenki people in the Bailongjiang River Basin all paid tribute to Emperor Nanzhen. This emperor is called He Xinchang Khan, so why has he become a holy Khan now? Is Xiao Ming a child?
The new emperor openly declared war on Tsarist Russia and sent troops to attack us?
But as far as I know, the Chinese emperor is very far away from here, and has no direct rule over the Bailongjiang River Basin at all. Outside there are some big tribes, barbaric and backward.

Onufuy Barovnov, my deputy, the leader of the Cossacks, said, "We must be deceiving you, trying to scare you, just to ignore us, you take people out of the city to catch us, and then They went to our camp and captured all those people, the women were made serfs, put on shackles to farm the land, the men were captured and used as prostitutes, all the mink fur, gold and silver were searched."

"We don't have eight small cannons, we don't have seven hundred soldiers, and we don't have so many muskets. Even if these Hill people don't have thousands of people, they don't need to be afraid. I'm done."

"Okay," Bakharov refused, "Catch the alive, you have to interrogate him."

The gate opened, and He Xinchangov personally led a team of Cossack heavy cavalry to rush out, but the gray-haired Hill leader Bokda was also defenseless. As soon as he saw us open the gate, he immediately stopped turning his horse's head and went straight to the gate. withdrawn.

Barovnov chased after him fiercely on horseback, but he was still able to catch up. Angrily, he raised a firecracker under his horse and shot, but only a few birds were startled.

(End of this chapter)