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  Chapter 894 890 [Russian Mission]

   Early morning.

  Zhu Yuxi curled up facing the wall, she felt that the emperor had sat up, but she pretended to be asleep and was embarrassed to face him.

  She thought that she would spend her life like that. I didn't expect to be accepted as a concubine suddenly. I was a little bit resistant, but I also had some expectations. Who wouldn't want to marry a good man?

   Twenty-five-year-old Aimee Zhu also imagined what her future husband would be like. Seeing the brothers starting a family and starting a business, and even the maid at home getting married, I feel more and more lonely.

  The red candle was burning last night, and by the light of the candle, she secretly looked at Zhao Han.

  Although I have seen it countless times, this time it is different. It seems that the emperor has lost a bit of majesty and added a bit of handsomeness and kindness.

  Happy one night, it really has a special taste.

  The emperor dressed himself without asking the maids to serve him, and then went to the yard to brush his teeth.

  Zhu Yuxi just turned over and looked outside the house, she was dazed for a while, and heard the emperor order the maid outside: "Xiao Jiu was tired last night, let her sleep for a while, wake her up after eight o'clock."

"yes!"

  The court lady left with the washbasin, and the emperor also left. I heard that the emperor likes to work while eating.

  Emperor's instruction made Aimee Zhu feel sweet.

  But there was no one in the room now, and Aimee Zhu lay alone for a while, feeling a little empty again.

  Anyway, worrying about gains and losses, she doesn't live like this outside.

  Zhao Han went to deal with government affairs early in the morning. A few days ago, he was lazy to read novels, and then it was the Dragon Boat Festival. Officials had a holiday, and many unimportant official documents were still piled up.

   "Your Majesty, here we come."

  Hot tomato egg noodles, topped with scallions and fragrant, now is the season for tomatoes.

  Zhao Han took a bite, chewing the pasta in his mouth, and took a pen to write Zhu Zhu: Got it.

   This kind of secondary official document can be delayed for ten days and a half months, as long as Zhao Han's signature is enough. For a lazy emperor, he probably wouldn't even bother to look at it.

   After drawing and approving more than 20 documents in a row, I suddenly saw a summary report from a vassal state.

  Good guy, after the withdrawal of the Datong Army, Southeast Asia has become a mess.

  First of all, the civil war in Cambodia has intensified and involved Siamese and Han people.

  The current Cambodia belongs to the "Udong Era". The previous kings all died violently. Behind the decades of continuous war, there were various forces such as Spain, Portugal, Siam, the Netherlands, the Nguyen family, and Malay businessmen intervening.

  The current king is called Nizhen (Vietnamese translation), also known as Po Yazhan (Chinese translation), and also known as Lemitibade II (European name).

  At the beginning, Ni Zhen's father killed the king and usurped the throne, and married the daughter of the Vietnamese Ruan family, and also won the support of the Dutch.

   Nine years later, Udie usurped the throne and killed Nizhen's father.

  Nizhen, who was in exile overseas, got funding from a Malay businessman and married a Malay woman. Immediately converted to Islam, led a group of Malay soldiers, and with the support of Han businessmen, returned to Cambodia and successfully seized the throne. Then, the expulsion massacred the Europeans, defeating the Dutch invasion twice in a row.

  However, the people all over the country believed in Buddhism, and the king's religious beliefs aroused unanimous dissatisfaction from the ruling and opposition parties.

  The brothers of King Nizhen all believed in Buddhism and were born to daughters of the Ruan family. So he asked the Ruan family to send troops, but they all failed and were killed. Only the grandson of the daughter of the Ruan family, Ansuo, was left, and he continued to fight the civil war with the flag of rebellion.

  Now the Ruan family in Vietnam is too busy to take care of themselves, and the daughters of the Ruan family dare not ask China for help, and instead ask King Narai of Siam for help.

  King Narai fought with China last year and expanded a large area of ​​the country. This year, he readily agreed to send troops, on the condition that after Ansuo seized the throne, he would cede a piece of territory to Siam.

   At the same time, An Suo, the grandson of Ruan's daughter, led troops to separatize Chai Gun (Saigon). It was a gift from the Ruan family. Although it still belongs to Cambodian territory, the main population is Vietnamese and Han immigrants.

  King Nizhen couldn't bear it any longer, so he asked China for help.

  He is the canonized king of the Celestial Dynasty, Zhao Han has reasons to interfere, and should interfere, otherwise, what is the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty?

  The cabinet has already made a judgment on this, that is: the envoy reprimanded Siam and ordered it to withdraw its troops immediately, and not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. The envoy reprimanded Po Yazhan (Nizhen) and asked him to convert to Buddhism in the future, and not to go his own way regardless of public opinion. The envoy reprimands Ansuo again, don't favor the Yue people in Chai Gun (Saigon), if you still dare to bully the Han people in Chai Gun, the Celestial Empire will definitely send troops to conquer!

  The condemning envoy reprimanded all three forces, which clearly shows that China will not send troops for the time being.

  Zhao Han agreed with the cabinet's handling method, and wrote Zhu Criticism: Yes.

  But it is said that King Narai of Siam received an order from the Chinese envoy later. Although he was very upset, he still let the Siamese soldiers retreat and plundered on the Cambodian border.

  Nizhen and An Suo, the uncle and nephew, continued to fight the civil war in Cambodia.

  Nizhen is purely mentally ill, despite the rebuke of the heavenly court and the opposition of the government and the opposition, he continues to believe in the Communist Party. An Suo was very obedient and began to treat the Han people in Saigon kindly, but his act of borrowing troops from Siam also attracted criticism from the Cambodian people.

  This Cambodian civil war still has to be fought. If there is no external interference, it is estimated that it will last for decades.

  This is for a later story, so I won’t show it for the time being.

  In addition, there was also a fight in Myanmar.

  The chieftains who went from the north to the south, because they could only bring their own soldiers and relatives, their ruling power in the Dai country was very weak. So, while working together, they released the original slaves and captured the Burmese as slaves.

  Although the Burmese landlords rose up to resist, the soldiers had already been taken away by the Datong army. There were a large number of them, and their combat effectiveness was worrying. Although the number of chieftains going south is small, they are fully armed, and the local slaves who have been released are willing to give up their lives to help them fight.

  The entire Central Burma region, that is, within the territory of Dai, has been completely smashed into a pot of porridge.

  The country of Meng in Burma is also at war.

  The Meng people are powerful, and the Burmese can't make trouble, so the Meng people fight on their own.

   It was agreed that one king and two dukes would rule the country. Only half a year later, internal strife began. The reason was the taxation issue. The two dukes did not want to distribute too much tax to the king.

  The cabinet's handling opinion is to let them continue to fight!

  Zhao Han wrote a pen and Zhu Bian: Yes.

  Continue to look down, Zhao Han can't laugh or cry, Prince Nanzhang (Laos) fled to Yunnan to ask for asylum.

  At this time, the king of Laos, named Surya Wangsa, was a ruthless man raised by raising Gu. This guy doesn't trust anyone, first he exiled his brothers and sisters, and now he even started to exile his children. His elder brother fled to Guangnan Province for refuge several years ago, and now his son has fled to Yunnan.

  Brothers, sisters and children have been expelled. After this guy dies, it is estimated that Laos will be very exciting, and a bunch of royal family members will rush back to seize the throne.

  The cabinet's handling opinion is to ask the chief secretary of Yunnan to take in the prince of Laos.

  Zhao Han writes a pen and writes Zhu Zhu: Order this prince of Nanzhang to study at Kunming University. Since the prince and concubine have been separated, they can marry a Yunnan folk girl.

  Laos is too poor, Zhao Han has no energy to annex it, and can support a king. Let him marry a Han woman first, learn more about Confucian culture, and promote Confucianism when he succeeds in the future, and gradually deepen China's influence on Laos.

  The next few official documents, all about floods, were put together by the cabinet.

  The locality has been fighting floods for a long time, and it is nothing more than reporting it, and by the way, asking the court to reduce or exempt taxes in the disaster area.

  Zhao Han suddenly saw the report from the Anton Governor's Office that the Tsarist Russian mission had arrived in Heilongjiang.

  …

   Not a Cossack, but a regular mission of Tsarist Russia.

   Baykov set off from Moscow two years ago.

  It was the Russian government that got the news from China. But he couldn't figure out the specific situation in China, so he sent envoys to visit. The real purpose was to obtain information along the way.

  Historically, Baykov met Shunzhi and pushed the aggression away, saying that those Cossacks were robbers, and the Russian government was also vigorously suppressing them. The emperors and ministers of the Qing Dynasty really believed it, and it is possible that they deliberately regarded it as true.

  By the time Zhao Han was reviewing the memorial, Baykov had already arrived in Harbin.

  The rammed earth city wall here has just been built, even the city towers have not been repaired, and there are not many people inside and outside the city.

  Bajkov is a nobleman from Moscow, and even visited Poland and other countries. He said to his deputy: "Is this the city of the Khitans? It's nothing more than that. In the villages we passed along the way, the peasants were very primitive barbarians, and the urban population here was not much. Those Cossacks are so useless. Even Such a backward country cannot be defeated.”

  Afraid that these Tsarist Russian envoys would cause trouble, they were escorted by the Datong Army along the way.

After turning over the Great Wall of Liao Dynasty, Baykov's expression was obviously serious. He didn't change his words until he saw the majestic Shenyang City: "It seems that we have already reached the core territory of the Khitan people. These Khitan soldiers are also elite, indeed It needs to be taken seriously.”

  Hearing that he was going to Nanjing by sea, Baykov said that he was seasick, but actually wanted to get more information by land.

  So, the Chief Secretary of Liaoning asked the inspectors to take these guys to Shanhaiguan.

  When he came to Shanhaiguan Pass, Baikov was dumbfounded. Such a castle is very difficult to break through.

  After entering the border of Hebei, Baykov's expression became more serious. After years of immigration and reproduction, the population of Hebei has increased slightly, which is already like that.

   Arrived in Tianjin, Baykov was still calm, and then he became more and more confused as he went south.

  Historically, the first batch of envoys from Tsarist Russia traveled through the desolate Northeast to the unrecovered Beijing, and when they returned home, they said that there was nothing to be afraid of in China. So the second batch of Tsarist Russian envoys, the content of the letter of credence was so ridiculous that they ordered the Manchu Qing emperor to submit to the Tsar.

   What's even more ridiculous is that the ministers did not dare to tell the emperor the truth, and all the translations were changed into respectful words. The Manchu emperor was very happy because of this, and rewarded these Russian envoys heavily.

  Passing through the affluent Shandong, all the way south to Yangzhou.

  Baykov has already gone crazy. Looking at the big city full of people, he froze on the pier for a long time without speaking.

   "Isn't this your capital?" Baykov asked.

   No answer.

   The officials and inspectors accompanying the Russian mission could not understand what he was saying at all.

  Going south along the Grand Canal, there will be a big city in a while, and there are densely packed towns near the river. The prosperity of those small towns alone is comparable to many cities in Russia.

  (end of this chapter)