The envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Choros Chuhuer Wubaishi, and the envoy of the Mongol Kingdom, Guang Shiheng, appeared together in the audience hall of the Kremlin.
Tsar Alexei I looked at the two of them and always felt that the two people should exchange identities...
"Your Majesty, the Great Mongolia believes that the land in the entire Jinqili and Heilongjiang basins belongs to them! Therefore, I hope that our country can give up all the land on the Zeya River (Jingqi), including the Yaksa Fortress and the Nerchinsk Fortress. Lijiang River), Erguna River, Shilka River and castles in the Heilongjiang River Basin.
The Great Mongolia also demands that Lake Baikal, the Transkhinggan Mountains, and the Udi River be the borders between the two Mongolian Rakshasa countries. In addition, the Qing Dynasty also requested the Pacific coast area of Eastern Siberia..."
The person who was explaining the position of the Great Mongolia to the Tsar in Russian was the military and political commander of Yakutsk, Franzbekov. He was the local governor of the Rakshasa Kingdom who directly faced the Qing Dynasty, and was also Khabarov's immediate boss. Since the Qing Dynasty began to seriously manage the retreat outside the customs, the good days for him and Khabarov came to an end. After all, the military presence of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Eastern Siberia was very weak. Only the ice city of Yakutsk was temporarily out of reach of the Qing army. Several other fortresses were under the attack of the Qing army.
Moreover, Yakutsk's logistics are maintained by the Lena River and the Arctic Ocean, and transportation is extremely inconvenient. Navigation is not possible for several months of the year, and the supply of various materials is very difficult.
In addition, due to the opening of the Pacific fur trade route between the Qing Dynasty and Spain, furs from the Heilongjiang and Jinqili Rivers flowed to Vladivostok. Therefore, it has been difficult for Moscow to obtain more benefits from Eastern Siberia - because the number of Rakshasa and Cossacks in Eastern Siberia is limited, and they cannot obtain a sufficient amount of furs by hunting in person.
If the Qing Dynasty did not manage the Northeast and Outer Northeast properly, the Rakshasa people would be able to obtain a large amount of furs from the Sauron and Barhu people through trade, robbery, extortion and other means.
But now, the Rakshasa people have a strong competitor, which makes them lose the possibility of obtaining a large amount of cheap furs...
Without the furs, Eastern Siberia would become useless to the Rakshasa Kingdom, and it would not be worth sending too many troops here.
Therefore, while the Qing Dynasty increased its troops in Heilongjiang and Jingchili River, Franzbekov, the military and political chief of Yakutsk in the Rakshasa Kingdom, had no troops to use and could only continue to shrink its troops.
At present, the Rakshasa Kingdom's large stronghold in the Heilongjiang and Jingqili River basins only has one Yaksa city, which is maintained by Khabarov and his people.
In addition, there is a civil structure Nerchinsk Fortress on the bank of Shilka River, a tributary of Heilongjiang River, which is also a relatively strong fortress.
However, neither Yaksa nor Nerchinsk could withstand the attack of the Qing Dynasty's Heilongjiang Angbang Zhangjing Yamen - this Yamen had 3,000 standing forward battalion cavalry and more than 1,000 Heilongjiang naval forces, and would also use a large number of The Sauron and Barhu tribes were included in the jurisdiction. An army of tens of thousands of people can be drawn out at any time!
However, it is indeed impossible for the Qing army to go deep into the Lena River Basin to attack the Yakutsk Fortress - there is no waterway between the Lena River and Heilongjiang, and the distance is also very far, and they need to cross the Waixing'an Mountains to reach it.
From the perspective of logistics and transportation, the Rakshasa people taking the Arctic Ocean-Lena River route were more advantageous than the Qing army heading north from Heilongjiang.
Therefore, the limit that the Qing army could reach in the north was the Outer Xing'an Mountains and the coast of the Pacific Ocean (Sea of Okhotsk) in Eastern Siberia.
The limit of the Rakshasa Army is the Lena River Basin and the Angara River Basin. The former leads to the Arctic Ocean, while the latter connects Lake Baikal and the Yenisey River, and the Yenisey River leads to the Arctic Ocean.
Since Russia's expansion in Eastern Siberia relies on shipping on the Yenisey River, Lena River, Angara River and the Arctic Ocean, as long as the Qing Dynasty or Ming Dynasty cannot come up with the same low-cost transportation plan, then seizing Eastern Siberia will The difficulties in Siberia will be staggering - the cost of land transportation in Siberia's frozen soil is more than 10 times greater than water transportation!
You must know that the permafrost thaws every summer, so the roads built "melt" once a year. Only a red empire like the Soviet Union can maintain the roads there.
If there are no good roads, then there is no way for grain trucks to pass...
Therefore, the Rakshasa Kingdom’s advantage in Siberia lies in shipping in the Arctic Ocean, Yenisei River, Lena River, and Angara.
The Qing Dynasty's advantages in Siberia were shipping along the Heilongjiang River and its tributaries and the Pacific Ocean (Sea of Okhotsk), as well as control of the Khalkha Mongolian grasslands.
As for the Ming Dynasty... Siberia originally had nothing to do with them, but the leader of the Zhungeer tribe, Seng Ge, hung up the sign of the Ming Dynasty and wanted to use the influence of the Ming Dynasty to suppress the Rakshasa Kingdom so as to stabilize the Zhungeer tribe. rear.
Accompanying Choros Chuhuur Ubash to Moscow was Peter Golovin, a senior official of the Siberian Province, the same military and political chief who had previously put Khabarov in prison. He was born into the Golovin family, a famous family in Rakshasa country, and also had the title of earl.
After he left Yakutsk, he rose to the position of a senior official in Siberia Province. From then on, the leader of the Jungar tribe, Batur Hutaiji, was his main opponent.
The Rakshasa Kingdom's policy towards the Quasi-Ministry is to recruit troops first, then cannibalize them, and finally annex them!
Therefore, Golovin's main mission was to coerce and lure prospective troops into the arms of the tsar.
But the development of the matter was beyond his expectation. Facing the Rakshasa Kingdom's recruitment and security, the Zhungeer tribe actually plunged into the arms of the Ming Empire.
Oh, later Golovin knew the price of the Ming Empire, and he didn't mean it at all - a military expenditure of 250,000 taels of silver a year! And there are plenty of matchlocks and artillery available!
If Moscow was willing to offer such conditions, the Dzhungar tribe would have become the most loyal servants of the Tsar...
But the question is, how could Moscow be so generous?
The Tsar was too poor to throw money at Central Asia like this!
However, Golovin was relieved that the quasi-unit, which had received a large amount of gun support, did not seem to intend to move north to recapture the pastures along the Ob and Yenisei rivers, but turned its attention to the south - this is actually According to Zhu Cixiang's will, he did not want the Zhunbu to conflict with the Rakshasa Kingdom in the southern grasslands of Western Siberia, but hoped that the Zhunbu could seize relatively wealthy land in Central Asia to open up the Silk Road.
So at the end of last year, the newly appointed leader of the quasi-department, Sengge, who was also the Protector of Beiting in the Ming Dynasty, sent his uncle, the Deputy Protector of the Ming Dynasty, Choros Chuhuer Wubaishi, to visit in the name of the envoy of the Ming Dynasty. The Rakshasa Czar signs a treaty that will win 10 years of peace and a trade agreement.
Of course, the Jungar tribe cannot suffer too much in the demarcation of the northern border. It cannot give up the grasslands and salt lakes in the middle reaches of the Irtysh River, nor can it give up the grasslands south of the Omsk-Tomsk line.
“Your Majesty the Tsar,” Golovin said to Alexei I, “the Ming envoys hope to sign a 10-year peace treaty with us and fairly divide the borders... They hope to use Omsk- -The line connecting Tomsk is the border line, with the north belonging to Rakshasa and the south belonging to Ming Dynasty.
After signing the treaty, they also hope to trade with us through the Central Asia-Siberia land route. "
The tsar looked at the Mongolians of the Ming Dynasty who were still fanning in the winter, and then at the Han Mongolian envoys who were dressed as Han scribes. After being silent for a while, he asked: "But, I heard that between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian Empire, The war between the two countries is about to break out! Is there such a thing?"
"No!" Choros Chuhu'er Wubaishi, a Mongolian from the Ming Dynasty, answered firmly, "Actually, the princess of the Ming Dynasty will marry the Ming Emperor soon!"
Guang Shiheng did not speak Russian, but there were Dominican missionaries in his mission who could speak Russian. After listening to the missionaries' translation, he said with certainty: "The Mongol Khan will never provoke war. The Ming Dynasty’s War…The Great Khan’s sister will soon marry the Ming Emperor.”
Alexei I nodded, "Well, since the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia can be friends, why can't we peace-loving Rakshasa people be friends with you?
The demarcation of the border can be discussed slowly. Before the negotiation is completed, we can first sign a ten-year three-party non-war treaty. "
