During the Qianlong reign, there was a severe drought here, and fishing and hunting could no longer continue. These people were about to starve to death. Qianlong was worried that there would be no sources of troops in the future, so he arranged for the Uighurs from southern Xinjiang to teach them how to farm.
They failed in the first and second years, with almost no harvest. In the third year, they finally had a bumper harvest.
But after the autumn harvest, the emperor sent the Uighurs back and forbade them from farming anymore. The Sauron people howled and wondered why the emperor did this.
The emperor was actually just worried about them. When the wolf was full, it turned into a dog.
During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Sauron tribe was depleted of troops due to heavy military allocations. At that time, there were less than 20,000 Sauron households left. Many of them were moved to distant places.
Xinjiang guards the country’s borders.
There are less than 2,000 men of working age left in the Northeast, ranging from young to old.
In this way, he was still dragged out to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Sauron was almost completely wiped out.
The Qing Dynasty fell, and in the Republic of China, they had a rare chance to breathe.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the little Japanese built houses and allocated fields for them. They asked them to go down the mountain and be good citizens. They flatly refused. Surrendering to the Japanese was impossible, and the Japanese were nothing.
The little devils mobilized an army to encircle and suppress them. When the men died, the women picked up their guns and continued to fight. When the women died, the old people and children picked up their guns and continued to fight.
By the end of the fight, the enemy collapsed.
Their commander said that although we were invaders, we could not exterminate a nation. He found a way out of his failure and withdrew his troops.
Yang Fan looked at them with complicated emotions in his eyes. According to the "China Statistical Yearbook-2021", the population of the Ewenki people in China is 34,617.
Yang Fan waved to signal their leader to come over.
Seeing the warm smile on Yang Fan's face, the leader hesitated for a moment and then walked over.
"What happened to you? Why didn't the deer come back this winter?" Yang Fan asked pleasantly.
"I don't know. It's just that without deer, my tribe can't survive this winter. Something must have happened to the deer herd. Or they came back a month ago." The leader muttered.
He also seemed to know that Ming Dynasty had no obligation to rescue them. However, this was the last straw they could grasp. They hoped to give them some food on credit to tide them over. They would then pay back double the amount.
Reindeer are omnivorous animals. In spring, summer and autumn, they not only eat various grasses and plant leaves, but also dig up shallow soil to eat fungi and insects. During the mating and pregnancy season from September to November, they will also eat rodents, fish and
Bird eggs, etc. to supplement nutrition.
During this time, reindeer will leave humans and return again in winter.
But these foods disappeared as soon as winter came, and the only things the reindeer could eat were lichens (algae-fungus complex organisms), moss and plant roots, although there were a lot of them (accounting for 8% of the earth's land surface). In human places,
A fire will be lit to keep warm, allowing the reindeer to survive the winter better.
Humans will kill old reindeer to obtain supplies such as venison and deer skin. They will allow the youngest reindeer to reproduce the next generation and improve the overall quality of the herd. Humans and reindeer have a symbiotic relationship.
Therefore, if the reindeer do not come back as scheduled in winter, humans will lose their food for the winter. And young deer and young deer will lose human care and many will die.
"Bring me the map," Yang Fan turned around and called.
The staff officer immediately brought the satellite map here. While asking, Yang Fan used a pencil to draw the migration route of the reindeer on the map. Finally, Yang Fan's pencil stopped at a place.
There is a castle marked on the map, Mao Zixiu's castle.
"Son of a bitch!" Yang Fan gritted his teeth and cursed.
Anger rose in his chest. These despicable things were deliberately killing the passing deer in order to starve the Evenki people to death.
Yang Fan calmed down and put down the urge to lead 300 people to kill them and chop them into pieces. He had no time to deal with this matter. He was going back tomorrow. The Shilka River was full of floating ice today.
He was worried that a sudden cold wave would block the river overnight.
"How much food do we have?" Yang Fan asked.
"Master, there are only three thousand kilograms of rice left. By the way, we have brought one thousand kilograms of sorghum for horse feed, and three hundred kilograms of bean cakes," the staff officer replied.
The reason why we brought horse supplies was because this time we had fifty horses on board in case of need. They were not actually used.
"Give him all this food. Let's go back and eat compressed biscuits on the boat. It will take us three days to go down the river to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River."
Although there are only 3,000 kilograms of grain, it’s not enough. Yang Fan can’t bear to let these people starve to death. Fortunately, there are still 1,300 kilograms of horse feed. People who are extremely hungry can still eat it, at least
Won't starve to death.
Land is the foundation of the country. Future generations will enjoy the vastness of 9.6 million square kilometers, as well as the forests, mineral deposits, water power, and rich animal and plant resources above. You must know that these things do not fall from the sky. So what is the peaceful time?
, that’s because someone is carrying the burden for you.
Forefathers planted trees for future generations to enjoy the shade, and Yang Fan would never forget their efforts. This was all he could do, and he did his best.
"Give them another five hundred matchlocks, five hundred barrels of gunpowder and lead bullets." Yang Fan said expressionlessly.
Then Yang Fan stopped looking at the Sauron people who were crying and knelt on the ground and kowtow. They turned around and returned to the ship.
Although the servants don't know why the master is so kind to these people wearing deerskin clothes, they must implement it if they understand it, and they must implement it if they don't understand it.
They can't guess what the master is thinking. The only thing that is clear is that the master's decisions are often correct. This has been proven repeatedly by time.
Early the next morning, five white sailboats lit up and set sail.
These Buryat people and the local people of various ethnic groups looked in horror at the thick smoke coming out of the ship's chimney, and the deafening sound of the whistle. Then the ships sailed away.
Akito gave them a huge amount of supplies in this transaction. Whether it was salt, steel products, textiles, food, etc., they all needed it urgently. Akito said that he would come again next year after the ice and snow melt.
Two cities will be built east of Lake Baikal to trade with various tribes.
At noon, the ship had already arrived on the Ergun River, and had already sent a telegram to the fleet on Lake Hulun to meet here. At this time, the seven sailing ships reorganized into a formation and sailed down the river.
We entered Heilongjiang that night. At this time, the river was covered with ice floes. If it had been a few days later, the river might have been closed. The smaller tributaries of Heilongjiang had already been frozen for half a month.
While eating in the officers' mess in the evening, Yang Fan saw Mr. Wu. He had been busy exploring the terrain these two days. Yang Fan sent him a group of cavalry and fifteen horses, so he ignored him.
Mr. Wu took the dinner plate, sat down opposite Yang Fan, took a sip of egg soup, and said to Yang Fan: "The Feng Shui here has declined. There is no value for research."
Yang Fan had already had a premonition in his heart that this place would only become more and more declining in the future. It would be invaded continuously by Maozi. In the end, the Heilongjiang and Wusuli Rivers became boundary rivers.
