"Khan," Sofia said, "I was just downstairs studying Mongolian with Peter, and I heard your roar, so I came over to take a look."
Although Sofia has not officially married, she has already moved into Kangxi Khan's Khan Palace in Tashkent. After all, there are not many good houses in Tashkent now. Standing on the low city wall and going out, all you see are small gray bungalows. Only the palace that originally belonged to the Kazakh Khan and a Zhenshen Temple are slightly more decent... Just slightly decent.
The Zhenshen Temple has now become an empty shell of the Qing Palace, where Bumubutai and Yinreng live.
The palace of Kazakh Khan belonged to Kangxi. This palace is not big or luxurious. It even has only one courtyard, and there are stables and cowsheds in the corners of the courtyard.
However, there are quite a lot of rooms in the palace, and some can be spared for Sofia, Peter and their entourage.
Of course, this kind of arrangement of "men and women not being intimate with each other" is unimaginable in the Central Plains, but now that Kangxi is the Mongolian Khan, his style should of course be more bold.
During the few days when Kangxi and Sofia "lived together" in the same palace, he was quite polite and never knocked on Sofia's door in the middle of the night. On the contrary, he got along quite happily with Peter...
Sofia, who originally hated Peter because of the power struggle, has recently become a good sister. She not only personally tutors Peter in Latin and mathematics, but also learns Mongolian and Chinese with him from Grandpa Xiao Guizi. Sofia and Peter have been learning Mongolian on the way from Moscow to Tashkent. Both of them are very good students and can now understand and speak a little.
But it doesn’t matter even if you can’t fully understand what Kangxi and the others are saying in Mongolian, because Little Guizi’s father-in-law is following the future queen closely at the moment!
Galdan thought Sofia was a blond man just now, but now he heard her speak and looked at her figure carefully, only to realize that she was a woman, so he curiously inquired: "Junior Brother Dahan, this eldest sister is... ..."
"She is Princess Sofia of the Rakshasa Kingdom, my fiancée!"
"What?" Galdan was startled. He looked at the giantess Sofia and then at Kangxi's small body, and thought to himself: "So you like such a woman. You should have told me earlier. I have one in the Junggar tribe too." There are many tall and strong women... Of course, not as big as this Sofia, she is too big!"
In fact, Galdan's wife Anu Ketun is also "plus-size", but not to that extent, and she is "big and beautiful", not "big and ugly", so Galdan still doesn't like Kangxi's taste. Great understanding.
Sangyi Gyatso "understood" Kangxi, and immediately clasped his hands and said: "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form... Junior brother is indeed proficient in Buddhism, I admire him, I admire him."
Kangxi glanced at his two good senior brothers and felt quite angry!
However, in front of Sofia, he could not get angry again, so he had to change the topic and said to Tuhai: "Tuhai, Princess Sofia has always been involved in the Rakshasa government. Although she is married to Mongolia, she can still say something. ...If you, Daming, have any requests, just talk to her first..."
Knowing that his life had been saved, Tu Hai breathed a sigh of relief and said to Princess Sofia with a smile: "Your Highness, in fact, the Ming Dynasty does not have much interest in the bitter cold lands in the north. Its claims to the northern lands only extend from around the Beihai to Xing'an. The line north of the mountain range, plus the eastern coastline of the mainland north of the outer Xing'an Mountains and its affiliated islands and peninsulas, all the way to the far north."
As he spoke, Tuhai took out a map, and Xiao Guizi quickly took it and handed it to Sofia with both hands.
Sofia unfolded it and found a rough map of the northeastern part of the Asian continent, but the coastline of eastern Siberia facing the Pacific Ocean was drawn. Sofia thought to herself: "No Europeans have been to this area. The Chinese should have drawn the map there, and maybe even established a base... It would be very difficult for the Rakshasa Navy to occupy it. It would be almost impossible." It’s an impossible task.”
At this time, the navy of the Rakshasa Kingdom was very weak - the Rakshasa Kingdom did not have access to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Their navy could only wander along the Arctic coastline of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the summer. There were basically no enemies, so there was nothing to fight against. Enemy engagement experience.
The Ming Navy is a powerful navy that can defeat the Dutch-Spanish combined fleet - although they defeated only a group of armed merchant ships, such capabilities are not possessed by the Rakshasa Navy.
Seeing that Sofia was still hesitating, Kangxi said to her in Latin: "Sofia, the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom cannot defeat the Ming army... There is no need to devote limited power to the attack on Irkutsk Castle. If we counterattack, we will suffer heavy losses and will fail again. Rather than losing troops in vain, it is better to conclude a peace treaty, start trade as soon as possible, and then use our troops in the direction of the Black Sea or the Baltic Sea."
"Irkutsk can't be captured so quickly," Sofia said, not giving up. "That's a pretty solid fortress."
"It's useless," Kangxi shook his head. "The Ming army received support from Chahar Mongolia and dispatched more than 10,000 people. Most of them carried rocket launchers, mortars that can fire super-caliber bullets, and a large number of sugar-powder explosive bombs. ... Your bastion cannot be defended at all. And once the Irkutsk bastion is captured by the Ming army, it is unlikely that you will counterattack and come back, so you might as well give up."
The Rakshasa Kingdom's army is still "sugar-free". They have no ability to break through a bastion held by a "high-sugar" army... and the transportation in Siberia cannot support the Rakshasa Kingdom's attack in Irkut. An army of 10,000 to 20,000 people was invested in the Cike area to besiege the city.
Sofia nodded, but she did not give an answer immediately. She just said: "I will convey your words to His Majesty the Tsar... I think the Tsar can appoint Count Golovin as the peace negotiator to start peace negotiations in Tashkent. .”
Kangxi glanced at Xiao Guizi, who immediately translated Sofia's words into Manchu.
Tuhai nodded and said: "That's fine... Then I'll wait in Tashkent to negotiate with the envoys of the Rakshasa Kingdom."
He paused, then said to Kangxi with a smile on his face: "Long live Lord, I heard that you are going to send troops to attack Tianzhu?"
Kangxi nodded, "Yes, I am already the Great Khan of Mongolia...but the Khan of the Mongol Kingdom of Tianzhu did not send anyone to attend the Kuritai Conference, which violated the Mongolian ancestral system, so I want to conquer the Mongol Kingdom of Tianzhu!"
Tu Hai smiled and said: "I wonder if this matter can be regarded as Daming's share?"
"What?" Kangxi was stunned and looked at Tuhai, "What did you say?"
"Can the attack on Tianzhu be counted as Ming's share?"
"Da Ming?" Kangxi was stunned again and again, "Why did Ming want to fight against Tianzhu?"
Tuhai smiled and said: "This Tianzhu Mongol inherited Timur's legal system, and Timur once wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty, so the Tianzhu Mongol is also the enemy of the Ming Dynasty."
Isn't this account too far gone?
Kangxi frowned and said, "Do you have soldiers from the Ming Dynasty that you can send to Tianzhu?"
"Yes!" Tu Hai said with a smile, "Isn't King Shunyi the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty? King Shunyi's soldiers are also the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty... and the Ming Dynasty can also enter Tianzhu by sea."
In fact, Ming Dynasty had long wanted to enter Tianzhu by sea, but it was only because of the joint efforts of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company that it failed.
In addition, Tuhai also wanted Galdan's army to stay here in Tashkent for a longer period of time... This would cover him in sending the sugar to the Crimean Khanate.
Kangxi also calculated in his heart that if Ming Dynasty could join the battle against Tianzhu, then temporary peace should be maintained between Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, and then he would really have no worries.
Thinking of this, Kangxi nodded with a smile and said: "King Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty wants to send troops to Tianzhu. Of course I agree, but I have no say in the matter of the sea. The Ming court must discuss it with the Dutch and the English."
