Win the Ding 1617

A month later, Li Peiting and Dorgon reached a smuggling trade agreement between Liangbaiqi and Longshengxing through correspondence.

The agreement clarified that the Liangbai Banners established a channel for Longshengxing to trade tea and horses with various Mongolian ministries, and provided Longshengxing with no less than [-] horses each year, including no less than [-] young horses and mares.Long Shenghang paid the horse price to the various ministries of Mongolia at the price of [-] catties of brick tea for a superior horse.

As for Dorgon's proposal to make up for the dividends due to the two white flags or the steel, weapons, firearms, gunpowder, etc. produced by Nanzhong after the intermediary fee, Li Peiting said it was difficult.Because the Southern Guangdong Army has extremely strict controls on the export of iron that can be used to manufacture weapons.But since the fourteenth brother opened his mouth, no matter how difficult it is, he can get some steel in a small amount through the relationship, but the cost of opening up the joints will be spent on the fourteenth brother's account.

Although Dorgon found it painful to use horses to trade with Li Peiting, a black-hearted businessman, but this second brother is also a character. After signing the agreement, he bought [-] pieces for the three banner owners of the two white flags. The weapons made of iron and steel came, and the Bayara soldiers beside the three brothers were rebuilt again. Looking at the swords and guns made of iron and steel that the Bayara soldiers couldn't put it down, it seems that such a transaction is somewhat It hurts, but it's worth it.

At this time, Li Peiting was also extremely proud. The large brick tea produced in southern Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi regions was made of large tea leaves and tea stems that the people in the Central Plains were unwilling to drink. With the arrival of 3000 horses every year, at least [-] more people can be added to the cavalry in Tamna Island and Shandong.Thinking about such an achievement, the lord is also very happy.

However, he would never have imagined that the small arms trade with Liangbaiqi would bring him death in the future.This is something for later, let's talk about it later.

In Temple Street in October, there have been two snowfalls, and the simple houses and streets are full of traces of ice and snow.Long icicles hang down from the eaves, like the eyelashes of a beautiful woman.

After three years of construction, Temple Street has become an important base for trade between Sauron's tribe and Long Shengxing, just like a large-scale city.There are several miles of city walls around.Although it was built with logs sandwiched with soil, it is already an indestructible fortress in the eyes of the Daur people. What's more, there are forts built in the key parts of several city walls, and the dark shooting ports make people shudder.

There are thousands of wooden houses in the city.Strong and roomy.Each house can accommodate dozens of people.All houses are well lit.The large windows were covered with oiled paper.Outside the wall is a covered fire wall, which makes the interior warm and pleasant.

Two Sauron tribe women who married with Ao Lei Yilan chattered to the leaders present about Ao Lei Yilan's recent situation in Ning Yuanbo's residence.

One of the two dowry women is named Yisang (meaning Xiaguang in Daur language).The other is called Nanage, which means cute.

"Uncle Ningyuan treats Yilan very well! Almost every three to five days he has to sleep in Yilan's room! Uncle's young masters and young ladies also get along with Yilan like sisters! (Huh? Something is wrong !?) Now Yilan has been pregnant for three or four months. When we set off on the return journey, Yilan was already a little pregnant. Compared with her belly, she is bigger now! If the uncle was not worried about Yilan’s pregnancy, he would not Stop her from moving, I'm afraid Yilan will come back to visit relatives this time!"

Yisang chattered non-stop, talking about Aolei Yilan's basic necessities of life in Ningyuanbo's residence, daily treatment, uncle Li Shouhan's love for Aolei Yilan, and told this group of leaders.

Nanage, however, was a bit stupid, and he just took people to move the gifts that Aolei Yilan gave to the heads, leaders, and relatives of the family one by one into the spacious hall nimbly.

Bags of refined salt, white sugar in ceramic jars, pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, pepper, pepper and other spices, small and exquisite glass mirrors, beautiful and strong muslin, smooth silk, and The armor and weapons that made the leaders laugh the most were placed in front of all the leaders one by one.

According to Ao Lei Yilan's explanation, Esang began to distribute gifts one by one, but no matter how good her memory was, she was a little flustered when faced with hundreds of gifts.

"Don't panic, Mrs. Seven's explanation, I have a list here, you just distribute it according to the list."

Li Peiting took out a long list from the protective book at hand, which listed the names of the chiefs of various tribes in the river basins from Heilongjiang to Jieya River and Shihe River, as well as the types of gifts.

Most of them have never dealt with Ao Lei Yilan before.But they are Long Shengxing's business partners, and Li Peiting happened to use the name of Ao Lei Yilan to form another layer of incense and karma with these people.

Although the Sauron tribe is not what it used to be, at least each of the warriors in the tribe has a handy iron weapon, and the elite have armor and other things. As far as the soldiers are concerned, there is never too little.

But in comparison, in the eyes of the leaders of Sauron, such as Bomubogor and Ordi, even the best weapons and guns will be damaged one day, and no matter how much food, rice, oil and salt are eaten, one day will be exhausted. Establishing a flesh-and-blood friendship with Uncle Ning Yuan can ensure that the current life of Sauron's tribe will not be affected.

Since the beginning of trade with Nanzhong in the past few years, the changes in the tribe can be seen by the blind. In the harshest winter in previous years, each tribe will reduce their population due to lack of food, clothing, oil and salt after the long winter. It's a rule that everyone is used to.But for the first time, in the past three years, the number of people who died in winter in each tribe has greatly decreased.Not only that, on the contrary, because of the inconvenient movement in winter, the number of women in the tribe is pregnant has increased a lot.

But it makes sense to think about it.In the windy and snowy weather, the warriors drank enough spirits and cooked salty meat in iron pots. Apart from shooting and fishing occasionally, the biggest recreational activity was to study how to behave with their own women. up.After this long winter, no matter how barren the land is cultivated, seeds will germinate.

I heard Yi Sang talk about Ao Lei Yi Lan's situation in Ning Yuanbo's residence.Especially the good news of being pregnant, Bomu Bogoer and others were all relieved.Uncle Ning Yuan's child has the blood of our Sauron tribe, and the two families will be blood relatives from now on. From then on, we will no longer worry about the lack of living supplies and weapons!

"Bring it up!"

With a loud shout from Bomubogor, hundreds of Sauron soldiers either carried baskets or carried loads, and piled up thousands of furs, countless ginseng, raw gold, east pearls, bear paws, etc. Under the stone steps of the hall.

"Lord Li, since you left, we have expanded westward and southward, and conquered more than forty tribes and villages of Sauron traitors who surrendered to the slaves. We beheaded more than three hundred and captured many men and women. To the west , killed more than twenty Rakshasa ghosts, occupied three of their strongholds, and recovered hundreds of miles of hunting grounds, forests, and rivers occupied by them. The more than fifty Sauron tribes and villages conquered by them have already Swear allegiance to me."

"The boss is right. These are the taxes we collected from those tribes for Uncle Ning Yuan. Others are the spoils of war captured! Uncle Ning Yuan should have a share!"

The Saurons achieved such a result within one year.In fact, it is not surprising.With their fighting power honed in the harsh living environment, as long as they have the right weapons and armor, the energy they release will be amazing.

"It's the beginning of winter. The deer are fattening, and the sons and daughters have gathered at Master Li's castle. In addition to planning to trade and buy some useful things for the tribe, they also want to buy some bows, arrows, knives and guns, and prepare to hunt west. go!"

After Aldi said this, he waved proudly to the people in his tribe, signaling them to bring up the goods that they exchanged for this year's harvest.Now that Ao Lei Yilan has become the seventh lady of Uncle Ningyuan's mansion, and she is pregnant, people like Aldi also feel that the face of the seventh lady's natal family is quite glorious.

Aldi's men, in addition to the general specialties such as fur and gold, also brought out piles of white bones.

"This was captured by the boys when they were capturing and beheading the Rakshasa ghost!"

Aldi pointed to the piles of white ivory and explained triumphantly, "According to the gentlemen, this is ivory! It can be exchanged for many good things!"

The ivory obtained by Aldi was much larger than any ivory that Li Peiting had ever seen. He was very surprised, how could such an animal living in the warm and humid south have ivory in this extreme north? Appeared in a place of extreme cold?Moreover, such a huge ivory is worth a lot of money.

Little did he know that these valuable tusks were mammoth ivory, a creature that lived in Siberia in prehistoric times.Also presented by Aldi's treasure is another animal skeleton that is much smaller, "This is the tusk of a walrus! There are bones!"

Ordi presented the treasure here, but Bomubogor smiled and said nothing. After he finished offering the treasure, Bomubogor asked Li Peiting with a smile, "My lord, what you said at the beginning about those weeds is still true." ?"

Artemisia argentina was the plant that Li Peiting purchased from Sauron's ministries at a high price last time.

In order to encourage the discovery of this humble plant, Li Peiting promised a high price of ten times the weight of white rice to buy the seeds.Today, I don’t want to be found by Bomu Bogor in a few small contacts with the Raksha people in the outskirts of Yakutsk in the north!

Artemisia chinensis, bitter in taste; pungent; flat in nature, indications: insect repellent.Main ascariasis; Xiaozao disease.It is a perennial semi-shrub and a unique plant in the Arctic Circle that can be used by humans as medicine.The climate in the Arctic Circle is characterized by one being very cold; the other is that on the summer solstice around June 6 every year, the sun will shine all day long.On the winter solstice around December 22 every year, the sun will not shine all day long.This special climatic feature makes Artemisia ascaris grow very vigorously, and also makes Artemisia ascaris a unique medicinal plant in the former Soviet Union.

Because of the influx of a large number of immigrants in Nanzhong, the demand for this kind of medicine that helps people get rid of roundworms has suddenly increased greatly.

Although it is not very clear why Shouhan wants this kind of thing, Li Peiting is still very used to ordering people to take out hundreds of stones of white rice in exchange for the seeds of Shandao Nianhao in Bomu Boguer's hands.

"It's too much! It's too much! I only have a few taels in my hand, but the adults have brought out hundreds of stones of rice. How can this be done?"

This is very easy to handle!Li Peiting immediately ordered people to open the warehouse, and quickly traded the cotton armor, iron helmet, tiger spear, long knife, bow and arrow, etc. that he brought north this time with Sauron's various ministries.

"Aren't you leaders planning to hunt in winter? A certain family has been very quiet these days. I am going to exercise my body and relax my muscles and bones. Would you like to take a trip to Nayakutsk with me? I still say the same thing, Once you've captured it, the hunting ground is yours, and I only want what's produced there!"

With the experience of fighting in the Aldan River Basin last time, the mobilization speed of Sauron's various ministries has increased a lot this time. In addition, several nearby Daur villages have already harvested a lot of crops, and nearly 3000 troops brought With more than ten days of food roaring towards Yakutsk.About three or four days behind them, a brigade of boats, wooden rafts, dog sleds and other means of transportation carried gunpowder, salt, and food all the way.

Inside the Yakutsk Castle thousands of miles away from Temple Street.Chief Governor Peter Golovin stared at the falling snowflakes in a daze.

During these two years.Among the Raksha people in Yakutsk, there are more and more legends about the wealth of the Daur region in the Heilongjiang River Basin.That area is said to be rich in silver, copper, and lead mines, and it is said to be very close to the Ming Empire in faraway Seris.fertile land.Alluring wealth.Attracts Russian Cossacks.

but.Golovin was different from those fugitives composed of thieves and robbers. As an official officially appointed by the tsar, he knew more about that distant, powerful and rich country than those scumbags.

1616.Russian Tuminets once came to China, and wrote in his report after returning to Russia: The scale of the city of Beijing is "so magnificent that it would take ten days to go around the city on horseback".He also said that China is rich in gold, silver, raw silk, satin, velvet, wheat, barley, oats, millet, etc., everything that one expects to find.The richness of the Ming Dynasty at that time made it difficult for these Kremlins who had just recovered Moscow to recommend Li Mikhail.Romanov surprised the Russians as another of Russia's unlucky Tsars. (Never mind, before that, the tsar of Russia was not a good job, before Mikhail, several tsars did not end well, four lost their heads, one was deposed. Even Mikhail himself thought It was a bad errand.)

But it was the same Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich who sent a Russian envoy with Ivan Petrin (Пetлnh) as the main envoy and Andrei Madov (maдoв) as the deputy envoy in 1618. The investigation team went to Beijing.Judging from the habits of expeditions and diplomatic practices at that time, it is estimated that there were 12 people.They set off from Tomsk on Nicholas' Day (May 5) and arrived in Beijing in September of the same year.The cities that the Russians passed through successively in the Ming Dynasty were Hirokarka (wnpokaлka), Shiluo (wnpo), Yar (rp), Taita (tanta), and Baicheng (Бeлыnгopoд). According to research, they were Zhangjiakou , Xuanhua, Huailai, Nankou, Changping.The party arrived at what they called the Great Chinatown, Beijing, on the feast day of Saint-Simon (September 9, 9).

However, since the Tsarist Russia at that time had already fought with the Junggar tribe at that time in Central Asia, and the two sides had won and lost each other, they had to arouse the vigilance of the Ming Dynasty court, which had just completed the three major campaigns of Wanli.Nevertheless, they were treated with appropriate courtesy in Beijing, where they were accommodated by Ming officials in the grand state guest house.Later, they set off on their way home with a letter of credence from Emperor Wanli to the Russian Tsar.

"If the Daur people in the Amur Basin are really protected by Earl Seris of the Celism Empire and pay taxes to him, then the interests and authority of Great Russia in this region will definitely be greatly threatened and challenged."

Locked in the drawer of Golovin's desk is a very sealed report sealed with wax paint, which is the self-report of several Cossacks who went to the Heilongjiang River Basin for expeditions after they were released.

A few Raksha devils released after their ears were cut off were shocked and undirected. Golovin, the governor of Yakutsk appointed by the tsar, reported the things in the south:

"We went to the Amur River Basin under the command of Secretary Vasily Danilovich Poyarkov to conduct an expedition. From the Lena River system that flows into the Arctic Ocean to the Amur River (Heilongjiang) system that flows into the Pacific Ocean, they opened up a A brand-new road was discovered in the upper reaches of the Lena River, the Ukhur River and the Gonam River. Mr. Secretary Poyarkov became the largest tributary on the north bank of the Amur River and sailed from the mouth of the Zeya River (called Jingqili River in China) The first Russians to reach the mouth of the Amur River and collected a lot of information about Sakhalin (Sakhalin)."

"The banks of the Zeya River are full of Daur village houses. The houses are made of wood, which are extremely strong and spacious. The windows of the houses are pasted with oiled paper. The Daur people's agricultural products are extremely rich, including grains, beans and Other kinds of food reserves, raising all kinds of large livestock and poultry. They wore silk and cotton clothes, and they exchanged local furs from the Ming Empire in Seris for silk, calico, iron or Other kinds of paraphernalia."

"The products here are very rich. The Daur people's homes are full of high-quality furs. Mr. Poyarkov, the secretary alone, has obtained at least a thousand pieces of high-quality sable furs. According to him, at least half of them are for It was handed over to the Tsar as a tax. Gold is also produced on the river beach here, and we can pick up gold from the beach by the river as long as we bow our heads, and we have already snatched gold from the Daur people living by the river.”

"However, here we bumped into an army of Serisians. They were well equipped and armed with a lot of firearms. They were headed by a secretary of the Earl of Seris. It has always been the territory of Siris, if we dare to invade, Earl Siris will lead an army of more than [-] to attack us and tear us to pieces."

At this time, the various rumors circulating among the dirty Cossacks and exiles in the city of Yakutsk have their roots in the Cossacks who had their ears cut off who made this confession.The experience of being captured in the Outer Xing'an Mountains and the Xilinmudi River Valley became the capital for their bragging in taverns and those dirty low-level brothels.The wealth of the Daur region, the bravery of Earl Seris' army, the exquisite food in the barracks, and the well-equipped weapons and armor of the soldiers are all topics they boast about after drinking a few glasses of vodka.

These things, magnified by the infinite multiples of alcohol, aroused the Cossacks' desire for the wealth of that land.The wine is popular, and the money is touching. Although it is the territory of the powerful Earl Siris, the temptation of things like fur gold mines is too great.

Let these scumbags who came to Siberia from Europe all the way to get rich, be tempted to move by the temptation of wealth.

However, they can be eager to try, but Golovin, who is the Governor of Yakutsk, cannot be careless.In the past year, he has successively received news that Amkinsk Fort on the Amga River, Nunsk Fort on the Aldan River, and Olekminsk Fort on the west bank of the upper Lena River have been captured by the Daurs. Intimidating the Evenk people with a radius of hundreds of miles nearby, they were so quickly conquered by the army said to be Earl Siris. (To be continued..)