Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 489 People from the East Coast Are on Heilongjiang ([-])

On July 1645, 7, the newly promoted Lieutenant Liu Haiyang set foot on a soft estuary floodplain.This is the estuary of the Songhua River that the Feiyaka people said, but after Liu Haiyang checked the map carefully, he found that this should be the estuary of the river called the Amur River (ie Heilongjiang) by the aborigines further upstream. .

After careful communication, he realized that it was a misunderstanding.Because the Feiyaka people in this area still regard the section of the river that flows into the sea after the confluence of the upper Heilongjiang River and the Songhua River as the continuation of the Songhua River, and the map of the people on the east coast clearly marked it as Heilongjiang.It's not a big deal though, as long as you figure out where it is.

The Feiyaka people have an outpost not far from the mouth of the sea, surrounded by a dozen houses in a circle, and mixed with some wooden fences, this is a simple fortress.It's just that such a city wall really doesn't have any defensive capabilities, and it's no wonder that the Feyakas are asking for help from the people on the east bank. As long as the more than 130 Cossacks led by Poyarkov return here, with their relatively sophisticated With advanced weaponry and skilled combat skills, it seems that there is no difficulty in conquering this simple fortress.

Soldiers of the two squadrons who came forward are forming a team on the beach.Among the 500 people, 300 were local miscellaneous soldiers from Henan, and another [-] soldiers from Japan and Oroqen each. Belt, wearing brand new suede shoes on the feet, it looks like the same thing.

Some soldiers carried the poor quality bird guns seized from Shandong and Beizhili, but more soldiers still used cold weapons.At this time, they formed a crooked five-line horizontal formation amidst the officer's password, and the standard bearer raised the bright red American eagle army flag.After finishing the formation, they headed towards the inland area along the river under the leadership of the officers.

The main settlement of the Fayaka is a few days away.According to the guide who led the way, their hometown is at the junction of the upper reaches of the Amur River and the Amgon River (that is, the Ganga River).Next to it is a lake (Darijin Lake) with rich water and grass. They live by planting oats and rye, which is a mixture of fishing, hunting and farming civilization.

The entourage brought a Mongolian horse to Liu Haiyang, Liu Haiyang turned over and rode on it, and then, under the protection of about seven or eight sailors, went forward with the standing team.As for his adjutants, some stayed on the warship to prevent accidents; some took small boats and began to measure the water depth of the channel and draw maps at the mouth of the Amur River.

According to Liu Haiyang's memory, the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River can be used by large ships. Later in Russia, large ships entered the Amur River from the estuary in the 19th century.However, the navigation conditions here are bad enough, and there are large shoals at the mouth of the sea. It is no wonder that several explorers, such as Laberuz and Gavrilov of the Russian-American Company, asserted that the Amur The mouth of the river is not navigable.At that time, the Tsar listened to them and almost ordered to give up the Amur River Basin to China, but later the young Nevelskoy defied the orders of his superiors and insisted on an expedition, and found a large enough cruiser on the coast near the mouth of the river. , The channel with a water depth of more than eight meters shocked the whole of Moscow.

Although Liu Haiyang firmly believed that his gunboat with a draft of more than three meters could bypass the shoal at the mouth of the river and sail into the wide Amur River, but he did not dare to make mistakes until he found out the exact channel, in case it ran aground But it will be troublesome, and Dabo will have to send a boat to tow it.Therefore, this trip into the upper reaches of the settlement of the Feyaka people, it is better for the big ship to stop at the open sea, while he led two squadrons of soldiers along the river bank to the inland area on foot.The supplies needed along the way were loaded by several small boats unloaded from the big ship. At this time, the southeast wind was blowing outside, and it was not slow to set up the sails.

The name of the Amur River still comes from the locals.The local people initially called Heilongjiang "Mamu", but over time it was misrepresented as "Amur".The land on both sides of the Amur River is very fertile, with black humus soil.Moreover, the precipitation here is extremely abundant, and the soil has good water permeability. No wonder it has become a famous agricultural area in later generations.A large number of farmers from Northeast China flocked to the Russian side, renting land to grow food, and the harvest was extremely high, and this was the harvest when the Russians did not allow Chinese farmers to use chemical fertilizers. One can imagine how fertile the land here is.

The people on the east bank walked along the river bank for five full days before they saw the settlement of the Feyaka people, which seemed to be a larger village.But this size is only compared to the outpost at the mouth of the sea. There are still only a few dozen households in the whole village, with less than 300 people.Considering the extremely low population density here, it is likely that within hundreds of miles on both sides of the nearby Amur River, it is difficult to have another Dingkou that can rival their "big tribe".And it is precisely because they have so many Dingkou that they can occupy such a geomantic treasure from the lower reaches of the Amur River to the mouth of the sea.The food sources here are abundant, the land is fertile, and there are also a lot of mountain products in the nearby forests. It is impossible for tribes with little strength to occupy this place for a long time.

Seeing the arrival of the yellow-clothed army, which was larger than the population of their entire clan, the gray-bearded chief Fei Yaka immediately walked up to Liu Haiyang, knelt down with a plop, and said in Chinese with a Liaodong accent: "Slave Barkin, I bow down to the heavenly soldiers under the command of Commander Dabo Mo. The heavenly soldiers are extremely majestic, and the man-eating demon King Boyarkov will definitely not dare to come again."

When Liu Haiyang heard this, he suddenly felt that this old Fiyaka was not simple, at least not as stupid as those traditional barbarians. This can be seen from his fluent Chinese, and he must have been to Han when he was young.

After Liu Haiyang helped him up, the conversation between the two sides confirmed his conjecture.This Barkin went to Shenyang when he was young. At that time, Shenyang was still in the hands of Ming Dynasty. The business was prosperous, the people were rich in wealth, and Han, Mongols, Koreans, Jurchens, and Tungusians could be seen everywhere. Barkin liked to go there at that time. Shenyang sells mink fur, because there is no other place that can sell such high prices in Shenyang.It's a pity that as the war between Houjin and Ming Dynasty gradually broke out, this business could not continue.

Later, Daming even lost Shenyang, and Barkin couldn't even figure out how Shenyang, a strong city that he thought was impossible to be broken, would be lost.Later, the Manchurians controlled the fur trade. They forced the Saurons, Oroqens, Daurs, Feiyakas, and Buryats to pay fur tribute taxes on time, and at the same time they had to participate in their fur trade with the Ming Dynasty. During the war, the survival of many savage and Jurchen tribes was difficult, and Dingkou was also withering day by day.And these undoubtedly created a godsend opportunity for the Russians who invaded the Amur River Basin in the Far East.

Barkin's tribe could neither bear the exploitation of the Manchus nor the blackmail of the Russians, so they migrated to the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and finally settled in the current location, in order to fully avoid the Russians building on the banks of the Lena River. Kiliansk Fort, Yakutsk Fort, and Udi Fort on the Udi River.Those Raksha ghosts from Russia are extremely cruel and greedy. They have long coveted the wealth of the aborigines, and they can't hide their desire for land and forests. Many tribes have fled their control areas.

But it seems that fleeing here is still not safe, because everyone underestimates the greed and ambition of the Russians.The Cossack leader Boyarkov dared to explore the Far East with only 130 people, including bankrupt Russian farmers, and fought with the aborigines many times along the way. It was really daring and shocking.They were still spending the winter here last winter. They once threatened that more Cossacks would come here, and asked them not to make offerings to Bogd Khan in Manchuria, but to pay taxes to Golovin, the warlord of Tsarist Yakutsk. .

"Balkin, since you are willing to submit to China East Coast Republic, then we have reason to protect you. We can sell you weapons and armor, and you can pay us mink fur or gold dust. But we East Coast people are not good Church, rights and obligations are equal, we protect your safety, and can even teach you to fish, log, farm, and mine gold placer more efficiently, but you must also fulfill your obligations. For example, trade Taxes, military service, can you do it?" Liu Haiyang sat down on a chair brought by the soldiers, and the guards around him were brightly armored and imposing.The five-element fully equipped soldiers behind him added to his might even more.

"We can hand over to you the annual tax payable to Bogd Khan and the Yakutsk Overseer, but the matter of military service..." Balkin looked at Liu Haiyang in embarrassment when he said this.

"That's a fart! If you don't want to serve in the military and fight in the war, then there is nothing to talk about!" Liu Haiyang stood up and said dissatisfiedly: "You wait for Poyarkov to trouble you, I am I don't care about you anymore."

Liu Haiyang's fierce and resolute attitude caused an uproar from the Feiyaka tribe.After seeing the situation, the soldiers of the East Bank Standing Up Team immediately tapped the ground with their spear handles, making the noise that just got up on the opposite side suddenly quiet down.

Balkin gave Liu Haiyang a complicated look, then turned around and discussed with the people behind him.They were talking in the local dialect, but it could be seen that the conversation was not very peaceful.Liu Haiyang wasn't in a hurry, he just stood there and waited slowly.What a joke, if he can't even manage a Feiyaka tribe that is at the end of the mountain, how will he complete the integration of the nearby Shandan tribes and make them form a joint force to form a strong military pressure on the Manchus in the south? ?

(End of this chapter)