Suo'etu's words spoke to Kangxi's heart.
His failure was largely due to the lack of sugar!
To be honest, Kangxi’s loss was a bit unfair!
Because in this era, the white sugar in the world is produced in four provinces: Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang, and not anywhere else!
Among them, Guangdong and Fujian provinces have the largest output and are the real main production areas.
But not long after Wu Sangui raised troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, these two provinces were occupied by Zhu Heji, plus Guangxi, which was controlled by Zu Zeqing and then defected to Wu Sangui. Almost 90% of the sugar production had already fallen into the hands of Zhu Heji and Wu Sangui in the early stages of the war against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
Kangxi was in trouble now!
Without a large supply of sugar, the Qing army's firepower was always at a huge disadvantage... Although Kangxi tried his best, he was still unable to reverse the decline.
With the fall of Zhejiang, Kangxi completely lost its self-produced sugar and had to rely on smuggling high-priced sugar to supply military supplies.
But how much can be smuggled? Kangxi was not a particularly wealthy owner.
Therefore, although Kangxi Kangmazi tried his best to get sweets for his army. But his army can still only follow the "low-sugar route" and cannot compete with the "high-sugar" Ming army in terms of firepower... The huge disadvantage in firepower, coupled with the huge disadvantage in the national population, has already been decided. Kangxi simply could not win the war against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
After traveling to the Western Regions, Kangxi Khan encountered a new crisis...that is, his army was gradually "getting rid of sugar"!
Sugar is not produced in the Western Regions, and it is difficult to buy sugar. Even if you can get some Tianzhu brown sugar, they are all of high quality and high price.
Therefore, Kangxi's army could only rely on a limited amount of sugar in stock to maintain the "sweetness", but the stock would eventually be exhausted!
Once the inventory is exhausted, Kangxi's army will fall from "low sugar" to "no sugar".
So for Kangxi, the top priority now is to "find sugar"!
He had to find a place that could provide a stable supply of white sugar, or at least brown sugar, before he ran out of white sugar stocks. .
Only in this way can the "sweetness" of his army be maintained... These days, the "sweetness" of the army is combat effectiveness!
White sugar and brown sugar are not produced in Siberia. The Rakshasa Kingdom to the northwest also does not produce sugar. There are no beets that produce sugar these days. Apart from the expensive and rare honey, there is only sucrose.
There is no sugar cane in the cold northern regions. Therefore, if Kangxi wanted to obtain a stable source of sugar, he had no choice but to go south and become the Khan of India.
Moreover, Kangxi had to hurry up! Because the secret of sugar pills is spreading! According to Kangxi, Westerners already know what sugar medicine is. And the people of Tianzhu will know it sooner or later. By then, Kangxi will have to suffer the pain of not having sugar...
Therefore, he was just "passing by" in the Western Region, and there was no need to fight with the Rakshasa Kingdom in the northwest.
That Yamesh Lake...Kangxi Khan didn't even know where it was? Even if he wants to defend, he doesn't know the way!
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The Horqin tribe, which is now nomadic in that area, will also follow Kangxi southward later.
The Great Rakshasa Kingdom, which dominates the north and stretches from Europa to Heilongjiang, seems to be quite capable of fighting. In the future, it may become an ally of the Qing Communist Party against the Ming Dynasty. There is no need to cause too much trouble.
Thinking of this, Kangxi said to Suo'etu: "Suo'etu, go and make arrangements... You and Xiao Guizi will go to the Rakshasa barracks in person."
"嗻!"
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Father-in-law Xiao Guizi beside Kangxi had the opportunity to participate in this diplomatic affair, not because he was deeply trusted by Kangxi, nor because he was now in charge of Kangxi's secret service, but because Xiao Guizi had followed Nan Huai all these years. Ren learned Latin and became a "foreign eunuch" who could take on diplomatic work.
Moreover, this young father-in-law Guizi also understood Kangxi's thoughts best. He knew what to do about many things without Kangxi having to ask. When passing by the Yeerqiang Khanate, Little Guizi's father-in-law secured several beauties from the Western Regions for Kangxi... Now is the time when the Holy Family is at its most prosperous.
Kangxi sent him to engage in diplomacy, also with the intention of giving him an opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Suo'etu was also an expert at diplomacy. When he was in Ili, he found a few people who could speak Kazakh from among the Junggar people left behind. As early as Galdan's father Batur Huitaiji's generation, The Kazakhs were repeatedly beaten by the Dzungars. Even Touke Khan's father, Jianger Khan, was beaten to death by Batur Hutaiji's people!
Therefore, there are still many people in the Quasi Ministry who can speak Kazakh and know the situation of the Kazakhs relatively well.
Under their leadership, Soetu and Little Guizi's father-in-law didn't waste much effort. In the early morning of the next day, they found the Rakshasa army who was ordered to lead about a thousand Cossacks and shooters to support the Kazakhs. Noble, Tsarist envoy Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn.
This Golitsyn was also a figure. Not only was he a great nobleman, he was also extremely knowledgeable, proficient in Western European affairs, and could speak fluent Latin. He was a rare intellectual among the great Rakshasa nobles at that time.
The reason why he was sent to Siberia this time was because news of last year's battle in Yaksa reached Moscow - now the whole country "didn't believe it"!
How could this be true?
In fact, it was not a big deal that the city of Yaksa was captured by the Chinese... But it took the Chinese less than a day to easily capture the city of Yaksa, and almost wiped out all the defenders, with only a few people escaping.
Moreover, their number was not large, and relying solely on their overwhelming firepower and field combat capabilities, they defeated the Rakshasa soldiers and Cossacks defending the city... This is really a bit sensational.
How could those Easterners have such strong fighting power?
The tsars and gentlemen in Moscow found it unbelievable and thought there was something fishy about it. So Golitsyn was appointed as the "Tsar's Imperial Envoy" and came to the East specifically to investigate this matter.
Golitsyn was also asked to bring a thousand Cossacks and shooting troops - if possible, let these people go to Yaksa to build the city.
While Golitsyn was wandering around Siberia, he happened to meet the Ming envoy Huang Zhisheng.
From Huang Zhisheng, he finally found out that the one who attacked Yaksa was a vassal of the Ming Emperor, a general named Kangxi... It sounded very powerful!
And he also knew that the Chinese emperor had changed. The original Qing Dynasty had quit, and the earlier Ming Dynasty had come to power...
Golitsyn didn't quite understand this matter. He didn't know how the Chinese changed courts. Could it be that the two dynasties took turns?
Because the Chinese imperial court changed people, and there was a general named Kangxi who was particularly good at fighting. They also sent a mission to Moscow to negotiate.
Therefore, Golitsyn did not lead his troops eastward, but waited in Omsk for further instructions from the Tsar.
As a result, before the instructions from the Tsar arrived, the Kazakhs sent people to Omsk to report that 20,000 to 30,000 Eastern Mongols had invaded the Kazakh grassland!
The Kazakhs could not resist and asked the Rakshasa to send troops to help.
So the governor of Omsk asked Golitsyn to bring one thousand of his elite troops from Moscow to support the Kazakhs.
Unexpectedly, Golitsyn met a Kangxi on the Kazakh side!
"How is that possible?" Golitsyn was surprised, looked at Xiao Guizi who could speak Latin and asked, "How many Kangxis do you have?"
Chapter 693 The foreign eunuch discovered Kangxi! (Please vote for me, please recommend me)
