A jasper lake dots the Junggar Basin, like a gem in a yellow desert.

On both sides of the lake, Baturhun's army was stationed here, with a total of 200,000 people.

Under his rule, the Junggar Khanate gradually changed from a loose alliance to a khan, and Baturhun also changed from a leader to a great khan, who represented the interests of all the nobles of the Weirat Alliance.

If the Hua Dynasty was like the previous Central Plains dynasty, only seeking peace in the frontier, then it would be okay to pay tribute and surrender to the Hua Dynasty.

But now the Hua Dynasty not only needs status, but also land and people, which is something that the nobles on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau cannot bear.

To them, the two neighbors from the north and south, Tsarist Russia and the Chinese Dynasty were equally terrible and greedy.

The Junggar Khanate, sandwiched in the middle, is not unreasonable, but the neighbors are too unreasonable and their arms can't twist their thighs after all.

"Let the Tsarist messengers come to see me."

After saying this, Baturhun, who was sitting in the tent, seemed to have become ten years older, and his ambitions and passion had almost been wiped out. The ubiquitous raids and killings of the Chinese army made his people and subordinates no longer trust their Khan.

The deafening explosion made the Junggar people even more worried. Under an increasingly formed industrial system, countless shells were produced every day and transported to Junggar.

Baturhun himself knew that he was no longer able to resist this shameless style of fighting. The main force of the Chinese army shrank in the two strongholds of Hami and Wulianghai, and sent dozens of cavalry to burn and kill everywhere every day. After killing, he went back. This was originally the secret skill of the nomadic people, but this group of people learned it through.

The spring on the grassland was originally short of food and grass. After being beaten like this for a whole spring, the Junggar Khanate had run out of ammunition and food.

The Tsarist Russian envoy was very tall and took heavy steps towards the big tent with a bad face. He came with the Tsar's alliance mission, but was left in the military camp by Baturhun for two months, and no one could be happy.

In the past two months, he witnessed the current situation of the Junggar with his own eyes, and the cruelty and wealth of the Chinese army also shocked him. The Cossacks were already cruel enough, but the enemies in front of him were obviously even more cruel than himself.

No wonder there are more than 20,000 heads tied to their spears and inserted into the grassland.

Griganov came from a wealthy family in the eastern part of Tsarist Russia - the Stroganov family. What is most memorable about this family is that they once conquered the entire Siberia with more than a thousand people.

In 1579, Stroganov recruited a Cossack team led by Yermak Zimofiyevic Olenen. In 1581

In September, Yermak led the team up the Chusovoye River and set out to fight against the Siberian Khanate.

The following year, he arrived in the Tobor River area and encountered the tenacious resistance of the Mongols. In the month, Yermak entered the center of the Siberian Khanate and defeated Kuchum Khan's troops near Kashrek.

In 1584, Yermak was ambushed by Kuchum Khan (Kuchukhan) in Ertitsk and drowned in the Ertits River while retreating. In 1598, the Russian army finally defeated Kuchum Khan and completed the conquest of the Siberian Khanate.

It was similar to Hou Xuanyan's conquering Nanyang. Tsarist Russia was able to conquer Siberia because it was not because of how strong the Principality of Moscow was, but because the feudal tyrants of the Eastern Slavs transformed into industrial and commercial city-states, with amazing strength and a strong desire to expand.

When the Mongol Golden Horde collapsed and collapsed, some great nobles gradually grew into modern industrial and commercial groups under the stimulation of Western Europe, and successively took over some of the original Khanate territories.

The Stroganov family is one of the best. Their industries are no longer simple agricultural estates, but entities that integrate real estate, castle fortresses, agriculture and animal husbandry, primary industry (salt making, fur, mining, smelting, chemical industry, etc.) and international trade.

Take this Stroganov family as an example. There are 15,000 people serving them in a large manor, and the servants' guards have grown into a well-equipped private army at the same time.

Pastoral songs on the grasslands, gathering and hunting, native clans, sword and arrow warriors... these scenes gradually disappeared. They turned into military buildings of Tsarist Russia and collected the original herders, which made the process of conquest so fast. In short, they defeated one by one, entered the account one by one, and continued to expand.

There are more than a hundred small ethnic groups in Siberia, and dozens of larger ethnic groups. Except for the Siberian Khanate, they have never organized a large-scale resistance. At most, four or five thousand people, and at least tens of hundred people. Therefore, the resistance of the indigenous people can be basically negligible.

Of course, Hou Xuanyan's approach to the Hua Dynasty was more stable. He directly integrated the vast grasslands in the north of the desert into the advanced Hua Dynasty system and strengthened the control of the court. Although Tsarist Russia obtained Siberia, these lands were actually in the hands of local wealthy families. After Hou Xuanyan took them over, he became the prefecture under the court.

When he came to Baturhun's tent, Griganov still expressed his respect. He imitated the salute posture of the Junggar people and gave a standard gift.

"Dear Khan, have you decided to cooperate with us?" Griganov could not hear any gloating or pleasure in his words. He was a Cossack, and he was able to hide his arrogance and arrogance so well, which shows that he was not an ordinary person either.

After listening to the translator's words, Baturhui said in a deep voice: "The Chinese are powerful, and neither the Junggar nor the Tsarist Russia can resist alone. Only when we unite can we block these bandits."

Griganov already knew clearly that Tsarist Russia was simply unable to defeat China and the fact that their troops in Junggar alone would be enough to flatten Europe. What can resist them now is the terrain and weather. As long as Tsarist Russia agrees to enter, resist the Chinese army together, and block them in the grassland, it is a good thing for Tsarist Russia.

They mainly have to compete with the Chinese in Siberia, where the weather is cold and the Chinese will have a smaller advantage.

Why does Tsarist Russia attach so much importance to Siberia? In fact, it is the same as Hou Xuanyan’s idea of ​​Nanyang. Siberia can bring them endless money.

Western European countries have strong demand for Tsarist Russian fur products, and Russian fur has a "fabulous price". Leipzig also has a specialized market for Russian fur. Fur in Siberia is no less than the opium trade of the British Empire in the future, and it is a real profit.

In 1586, Siberia provided 200,000 mink fur, 10,000 black fur, and 500,000 grey squirrel skins.

Since the Wanli period, Siberia's fur profits accounted for one-third of all the income of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

In the era of voyage where capital gradually reveals its hideous face, all disputes are because of money!

As a member of the Stroganov family, his family, Rignov, of course, refused to fight with the Chinese army with the Junggar Khanate for the benefit of Tsarist Russia. Their ultimate goal was to protect his own east. So he stated his thoughts, which was nothing more than how to ensure Baturhun's absolute power in Junggar after sending troops.

Baturhun was very moved when he heard this. He did not expect that the Tsarist Russians not only did not speak loudly, but were so humble rather than normal.

"If you can really do it, my Khan will let you enter Junggar and deal with the Chinese army together."

After so long of despair, I finally saw a little hope, which was enough to make Baturhun extremely excited.

Just in this big tent, when the two sides signed the alliance, a battle was taking place in distant Siberia.

Two hundred Japanese soldiers encountered Stepanov, a leader of the expedition, known for his cruelty, in the mountains of East and West Siberia.

In the snowy jungle, the tall and burly Cossacks couldn't help laughing at the short Japanese.

The height difference between the two is too obvious. At first glance, it looks like two species. Stepanov smiled and said, "It was these people who beat Khabarov to escape to the west?"

The weather was so cold that the firearms of both sides were greatly reduced, and close forces became the way of this battle.

From a formal perspective, although the Japanese soldiers were numerous, they were too small. Stepanov didn't take them seriously at all. He pulled out his short knife and rubbed it on his boots, with a trace of blood on it. These vicious expedition teams came to the east and almost never did not kill anyone for a day.

The leader of the Japanese soldiers was Sakai Yoshihiro. His brother ruined the 80,000 samurai of the Tokugawa family in North Korea. If it weren't for the help of the Chinese army, the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate would have ended.

However, the Sakai family was an important member of Tokugawa, and Tokugawa Iemitsu promoted his younger brother Yoshihiko Sakai to take charge of the army for him instead of his elder brother.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's move was very beautiful, and he successfully won over many old ministers and made them devote themselves to serving Tokugawa.

The samurai under his command were all samurai who had carefully trained several generations of samurai, so he was not very afraid of his opponents with such a big difference in size.

Sakai Yoshihiko turned the Japanese sword in her hand and said hoarsely: "The honor of the family is just a battle. Please, please!"

This is a battle that is comparable to the battle between wild beasts. Although the Japanese soldiers' Japanese swords were short, they were really as sharp as mud. The Cossacks who focused on firearms had a spear in their hands like toys, and they almost broke when they touched them.

With the courage and weapons of the warriors, the Japanese soldiers and the Cossacks fought together, and the blood soon dyed the snow forest red.

The beasts that came hiding in the distance did not dare to show their heads, and they also smelled a more dangerous aura.

At the end of April of the first year of Tianshou, the Japanese soldiers assigned by the Chinese and Koreans to go to the north to kill the enemy and drove the last team of the three major Tsarist Russian expedition teams to kill.

Finally, Yoshihiko Sakai, who was limping, returned to the village of the Soren people in the Heilongjiang River Basin with four disabled Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese, who were welcomed like heroes, were not happy. When they came, they were strong and now there were only a few disabled people with broken limbs and bodies left. All this was for other countries, and Japan had limited benefits from it. But Mitokawa Iemitsu was happy, and he finally had bargaining chips to reach out with Huachao.

The combat ability of the Japanese soldiers was the condition for Tokugawa Nobumitsu and Hou Xuanyan to seek credit and reward. When he was excitedly planning to write a letter to make the conditions, his heart suddenly felt cramped.

The waiters around were panicked and stepped forward one after another, supporting Tokugawa Iemitsu to the bed. The doctor in traditional Japanese costumes rushed to the hospital, but could not cure his illness. He didn't even know what disease Tokugawa Iemitsu had. The news spread in Edo. Even Gong Zifang sent the best military doctor in the Japanese navy to go there, but he still couldn't see what disease it was.

Three days later, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face turned rosy and he regained his mind. Everyone knows that he is a return to his mind.

Forty-eight-year-old Tokugawa Iemitsu is not old, but his death at this time greatly exceeded the average lifespan of the Japanese. After all, it is not modern. If you have a slightly strange disease, it may take people's lives.

The Tokugawa family's trembling hands recovered their wrist strength. They sat on the head of the bed and looked at the ministers in the wooden house and sighed:

"I took over the position of general from my father, and became the lord of Japan under the title of the Emperor of the Chinese Dynasty. From now on, we Tokugawa will always be the lord of Japan. Japan is alone on the sea and does not border other countries. Even the benefits are bad. If you assist my heirs, you must remember that before you surpass the Chinese Dynasty, it will always be our Japanese army."

The people kneeling below said yes, but I don’t know how many people really listened to it. Tokugawa Ieguang felt helpless. At this time, he remembered his beloved general, and almost ruined him the endless disaster. He once told himself that he must learn from the Hua Dynasty and surpass the Hua Dynasty, so that there is a place where Japan stands.

Tokugawa Iemitsu frowned slightly and sat at the head of the bed. The thinker slowly closed his eyes when he was thinking about this.

In history, Tokugawa Iemitsu also died this year, and fate seemed like a ruthless turntable, and it did not stop for him.

In the first year of Tenshou, Japanese soldiers were invincible to the north. When they heard the news, Tokugawa Iemitsu suddenly fell ill in Edo and died immediately at the age of 48.

The second son Tokugawa Ietsutsuru, who was only ten years old, succeeded to the throne. His nickname was Takechiyo. There was a little intellectual problem... When Tokugawa Ietsuki was dying, he left him a suicide note with two men: Xuechao

Takechiyo couldn't understand it yet, and he had no time to understand it now. All the forces of the Tokugawa family were staring at their throne of the king.

Fortunately, the assistance of his uncle Masaoko and the elder Tadaoka Sakai, the old man Matsuhira Nobutsu and Abe Tadaoki quickly stabilized the situation in Japan.

After burying Tokugawa Ie-Kiang, he sent someone to the Hua Dynasty to report the demise and asked the Hua Dynasty emperor to be appointed as the lord of Japan.

Tokugawa Iemitsu very much admired his grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu, so his son buried him in the Rinkoji Temple in Nikko, which was named Dayouyuan.

Tokugawa's family abolished the system of burial and stipulated that all entertainment activities were prohibited in Japan.

Gong Zifang took this opportunity to sneak back to Jinling again and meet Hou Xuanyan. This time he got what he wanted and stayed in Jinling. Hou Xuanyan sent Fan Xian as the new admiral of the navy in Japan, focusing on stabilizing the turbulent situation in Japan.

This island country is now its own gold medal thug, and it is also a source of raw materials, and it is also the favorite place for Chinese merchants to dump goods.

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