In the Wuying Palace, many ministers were unclear about the so-called Rakshasa Kingdom. Some even thought that the Rakshasa Kingdom that invaded the south was the Liugui Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty.
During the Tang Dynasty, the Liugui Kingdom was located on the Kamchatka Peninsula. There was also the Yaksha Kingdom on the Chukotka Peninsula to the north, and there was the Qidumei Kingdom in the southeast of the Liugui Kingdom, both north of the Waixing'an Mountains.
"Your Majesty, it is recorded in the New Tang Dynasty's Legend of Dongyi that in the northeast of Heishui Mohe and north of Shaohai, there are wandering ghosts and yakshas who drive the three kingdoms of Mei. The wandering ghost kingdom is 15,000 miles away from the capital Chang'an, blocking the sea on three sides.
Ju Ze has the advantage of fish and salt, but the ground is cold early. Using fur as fur, he can defeat thousands of soldiers. In the 14th year of Zhenguan, his king came to pay tribute and was awarded the title of riding captain. Unexpectedly, the Sauron people said that the Rakshasa invaded.
But this ghost country?"
Although Yan Wogong, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, was a scholar, he read a lot of books. When he talked about Rakshasa, he thought of the country of wandering ghosts.
"That's right, that's wrong." Zhu Yihai also knew about this era. In fact, he didn't know much outside the Central Plains. Knowing about Lake Baikal, knowing where the Yibo Sea is, and knowing Nu'ergan is considered knowledgeable. Most people know at most.
There is Mongolia to the north of the Great Wall, and there are Jurchens outside Shanhaiguan.
The people of the Ruki Yasha Kingdom are all indigenous people. They are accustomed to living in wooden houses overseas, traveling on dog sleds, wearing animal skins, hunting wild animals and fishing for a living.
Because he likes to wear animal tooth necklaces in fur, he has a barbaric image, and because he lives in the ice and snow in the far north, the people of the Tang Dynasty gave him country names like "Rogue Ghost" and "Yaksha".
“I’ll show you a treasure for all of you, my beloved!”
Zhu Yihai didn't explain much and just clapped his hands and asked Liu Chao to bring the things.
Liu Chao took a map and unfolded it in the palace.
"The Complete Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms," Chief Assistant Wen Anzhi recognized it at a glance. The oval-shaped terrain on this map was five feet high and about one foot two wide, depicting all the countries in the world.
On the map, Daming is a little to the left of the middle line of the map.
Several ministers were familiar with this map. The original map was the world's earliest colored world map drawn by Li Zhizao, an official of the Ming Dynasty. The map in front of them was not the original, but a color copy from the thirty-sixth year of Wanli.
It is said that this picture was originally from the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci who arrived in Guangzhou in the 12th year of Wanli and made his own map of all nations. In the 29th year of Wanli, he went to the capital to present the picture, and then ordered Li Zhizao, the minister of Taipu Temple, to draw it. Later, he issued an imperial edict to copy it.
Twelve copies remain in the world.
On the map, North and South America are pink, Asia is light khaki, and Europe and Africa are almost white.
The rivers are hyperbolas, the mountains are outlined in light green, the oceans are dark green ripples, and Antarctica is even depicted on the map.
On the map, Australia is marked as the land of the south.
However, there are many doubts about this picture. It is said to be presented by Matteo Ricci, but there are many European cities missing from it, not even his hometown and birthplace of Marchena, Florence and Tuscany, important cities in the European Renaissance.
The most important thing about Cana is that there is no religious territory representing Matteo Ricci’s faith, the Papal State, which is undoubtedly very contrary to common sense.
Even the Chinese place names in the picture are not from that time, but earlier, such as Yuan'an Town, Qinglu Town, Weilu Town, Tula River, Shahu Town, Onan River, Yumuchuan (the place where Yongle died)
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Vietnam also broke away from the Ming Dynasty long ago and called itself Annan, but it still uses the old name of Jiaozhi on the map.
Various signs indicate that the picture was not made by Matteo Ricci, and Zhu Yihai had long heard that this picture was actually left by Zheng He during Yongle's seventh voyage to the West.
Europe had not yet discovered Australia at that time, and according to Chinese literature, Wang Dayuan of the Yuan Dynasty had been to Africa and passed through Australia on his way back. Australia was described in "Daoyi Zhilue". It is very likely that Zheng He would follow Wang Dayuan's route again.
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Zhu Yihai also specially sent Jin Yiwei to conduct an investigation, and finally concluded that this picture was actually drawn based on the information left by Zheng He, and was redrawn during the Wanli period. Matteo Ricci did not guide the drawing, but only participated in it.
, and later spread the "Comprehensive Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms" to the West.
Of course, this is not why Zhu Yihai brought this map out today.
For people of this era, this map is really magical, and it actually depicts the entire world. But for Zhu Yihai, this precious map, like almost all maps at this time, has some...
It's too crude and even inaccurate.
For example, North Korea appears a bit too big, and the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea are drawn too small.
Not to mention Lake Baikal, it is painted like a long dragon, it is too long and can be compared with the Great Wall.
Of course, the Bering Strait and the North Pole are clearly marked, and even the polar day and night of the Arctic are marked.
Kamchatka is also designated as a dog country.
But in general, there is still a huge deviation, and Sakhalin Island is not clearly marked.
Looking at this map, it can be said that it is difficult to have a truly accurate understanding of Siberia. Anyway, there are many big mountains, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there are even ancient names such as Shiwei and Mohe marked on it.
"Bring me the globe and sand table."
The world's earliest globe was invented by the maritime merchant Behem more than a hundred years ago. It was completed according to the Geography Guide book. However, the world's topography of this globe is both inaccurate and outdated. The Indian Ocean is an ocean that extends east and west, especially
It's the African coast and there are too many mistakes.
By this time, more globes had appeared, but the one Liu Chao had brought in was a huge globe. The four continents and seven oceans on it were much more accurate.
Especially the Ming Dynasty and surrounding areas are extremely accurate. The Qinling Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, Dabie Mountains, Wuling Mountains, Taihang Mountains, Yanshan Mountains, Yinshan Mountains, Yangtze River and Yellow River are all very accurate.
If you compare it with the Wanli world map, you can see that the gap is huge, especially in places outside the customs.
And when Zhu Yihai asked Liu Chao and others to move a sand table from the north of the Great Wall to the Arctic Ocean of Siberia, Wen Anzhi, Wang Zhiren and others all opened their mouths in shock.
North Korea, Japan, Sakhalin Island, Vladivostok, Heilongjiang, Lake Baikal, Greater Khingan Range, Outer Khingan Range, Bering Strait.
To these ministers, this seemed like a great geographical discovery.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It took Zhu Yihai himself several years to redraw the sketch bit by bit and slowly modify the globe and sand table, allowing the craftsmen to continuously make and improve it.
, the final completed appearance is still too rough and not accurate enough in Zhu Yihai's opinion, but compared to the Wanli version of the world map, it is much better and can be called high-precision.
He pointed to Lake Baikal on the sand table, which was much smaller than the Wanli map.
"This is the Mobei Beihai that our Han and Tang dynasties call the North Sea. The mountain range to the east of the Beihai is also called the Daxingan Mountains. There is a larger mountain range to the east, the Daxingan Mountains, which was also called the Daxianbei Mountains in ancient times.
To the south of the Greater Khingan Mountains is the Kent Mountain in Mobei Mongolia, from where the Enen River originates. After the Enen River merges with the Angyide River originating from the Greater Khingan Mountains, it joins the Nerchinsk River at a downstream point.
It is the Shilka River, the main stream of the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.
Going down to Mohe River, it merges into another large tributary, the Ergun River, near Yaksa, and then flows all the way to the southeast. Finally, in the middle and lower reaches, it merges into another large tributary, the Qili River in the north of the Yangtze River, and flows straight into the sea, near Haikou.
The Nun'er where Yongning Temple is located was dried up, and the sea that was poured into it was called the small sea in China during the Tang and Song Dynasties."
As the emperor's finger pointed on the sand table, the ministers all saw it clearly.
Heilongjiang actually originates from Mobei Mongolia and finally flows straight into the sea.
One is the North Sea and the other is the Xiaohai.
To the north of the lower reaches is the natural mountain barrier of the Waixing'an Mountains, which protects the huge Sanjiang Plain in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang, Wusuli and Susong rivers.
Even though this is the Northland and it is extremely cold, everyone can directly feel from this terrain sand table that this is definitely a good place for farming. The plain area is much larger than the Liaohe Plain and the Upper Sanjiang Plain.
"This Rakshasa Kingdom is actually not the Liugui Kingdom north of the Waixing'an Mountains, but it does come from the north of the Waixing'an Mountains."
Zhu Yihai pointed to a large river that was obvious on the map, "This is the Lena River, which originates from the North Sea and goes straight into the Arctic Ocean. In the middle and lower reaches of this river, there is a city that was only built more than ten years ago, Yakutsk.
The Kulun people who crossed the Xing'an Mountains and invaded came from here. But the Rakshasa people here are actually Cossacks."
As soon as he mentioned Cossacks, Wang Zhiren immediately said, "Do you know, Cossacks, that they are not from Tsarist Russia? It is said that they are mercenaries composed of a group of refugees?"
"Roughly the same."
"But isn't Tsarist Russia in the far west?"
Wang Zhiren pointed to the westernmost position on the sand table.
"Tsarist Russia was indeed only west of the Ural Mountains. They used to be ruled by the Mongolian Golden Horde. Later, they established the Muscovite Principality. Later, they continued to expand and began to expand eastward. They destroyed the east of the Ural Mountains and also started from the Golden Horde.
After the Siberian Khanate emerged from it, it continued to expand eastward."
"Yakutsk is their center in the Lena River Basin. They set up a fortress here, built a governor's palace, and sent governors to plunder and collect taxes here. In recent years, they have frequently moved south just to
They rob and control the Heilongjiang River Basin because it is suitable for cultivating food. Although water transportation is convenient in the Yakutsk area and there are many furs available, it is always frozen all year round, making it impossible to obtain food."
Zhu Yihai told the ministers that the Tsarist Russians had arrived in Heilongjiang a few years ago. They attacked and plundered the Saurons, and were eventually besieged. They had no food in the winter, so they began to eat people. Not only did they eat the captive Saurons, but also the Cossacks themselves.
Eat them all.
Ninety of them were eaten by more than forty people. In the end, only half of them went to sea and ran to the northern bay of Xiaohai. They obtained some supplies from the camp left by another previous looting expedition. After resting there for half a year, they sailed along the
Following their route, they returned to Yakutsk by land over the mountains.
After he returned, he reported the fertility of Heilongjiang to the governor, and presented many maps and various collected intelligence. However, because the former governor Peter Golovin was transferred back, the previous expedition lasted three years and ended up eating half of him.
man, so he was convicted and imprisoned.
However, after the newly arrived warlord Frank Zbekov obtained detailed information about Heilongjiang, he couldn't wait to recruit Cossacks to invade south again. This time, he was led by Khabarov, who was born in the countryside.
Khabarov was born in a rural area and later joined the expedition team, but his expedition was not successful.
Until he came to the Lena River Basin, he first sold salt, and then opened a farm for farming. He just dug three feet into the ground on permafrost soil like Yakutsk and succeeded in growing crops, becoming the largest grain producer in Yakutsk.
As a businessman, he became a nouveau riche.
As a result, he was targeted by the previous governor, Peter Golovin, who not only confiscated all his salt, grain, and land, but also threw him into prison on charges of tax evasion and theft.
Taking advantage of the new governor's appointment to recruit an expedition team, he reported to the governor that he knew a safer and more convenient route that could reach the Heilongjiang Plain.
The new governor released him from prison and asked him to recruit troops. Based on his reputation, he recruited seventy Cossacks and set off on the boat with muskets and iron cannons.
He did change his route, heading south from the upper reaches of Heilongjiang from the direction of Lake Baikal.
With muskets and iron cannons, they attacked the Sauron people in the upper reaches of the Onon River, the Nerchinsk River and other places. The Sauron people there called themselves Daur people, and some in the Central Plains also called them Dahu'er tribe.
The Onen River area is the Onenhara, Nebchuhara and other tribes in the Dahuer tribe. These Cossacks attacked in secret, broke several Dahuer tribe villages, and forced them to pay taxes.
They even directly robbed them of their minks, etc., and also robbed their food.
And they occupied the walled city in the upper reaches to serve as their own logistics supply station to support their plundering and conquest downstream.
The two major tribes of Onenhara and Nebchuhara were defeated by them one after another and had to flee to the Yaksa area downstream. The leader there, Ravkai, was the leader of another Hara. He commanded five cities. Ravkai
The station is on the other side of the Mohe River. The second one belongs to his son-in-law, and the third one is the Yaksa city of Albasi, another leader.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Because the Dahuer people who fled from Enenhara told them that the Rakshasa people were fierce, Ravkai took his people and left the walled city to escape.
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In the territory of Ravkai, Khabarov did not grab anything from the five gates.
Knowing that he was outmatched, Ravkai immediately asked for help from other tribes of the same tribe in Dahuerhara, and all tribes united to prepare to deal with them.
At the same time, they also sent people to Sanxing City in the south to find reinforcements, but when they arrived, they discovered that the Qing Dynasty had actually died?
Rafkai's envoy met the Ming envoy. The Ming envoy was very enthusiastic and told them that although the Qing Dynasty was dead, this place used to be the land of Ming Nuergandusi. If the Rakshasa people invaded, the Ming Dynasty would naturally help the Sauron people to repel it.
aggressor.
That envoy was none other than Lin Xuewu of the Vanguard Fleet. He took the envoy back to Vladivostok and then returned to the Central Plains before winter.
Dahuer's envoy reported the Rakshasa invasion to the court.
In Heilongjiang and Jingqili River, there were also many Dahu'er, Hezhe, Ewenki and other tribes who sent envoys to Beijing to report to the court that the Rakshasa invaded, looted, killed, stole, and forced them to pay taxes.
Many officials in the imperial court are very unfamiliar with the distant Heilongjiang River Basin. They don't know where Nerchinsk and Yaksa are.
I can't even tell the difference between names like Dahu'er, Hezhe, Sauron, Sakhalin, etc.
I thought it was just a conflict between tribes. Fortunately, Zhu Yihai was aware of the aggressive nature of the Russians. After hearing about the incident, he immediately started to make arrangements.
"Thousands of people from Tsarist Russia now cross the Lena River every year to the Far East to hunt, tax, and even rob and steal. Now the trade and taxation of furs in the entire Siberia account for one-third of Tsarist Russia's national fiscal revenue.
They are still invading the Heilongjiang Basin south of the Xing'an Mountains, hoping to seize this plain."
"The Heilongjiang River Basin is the old land of our Ming Dynasty slave Gandusi. Even the land north of the Xing'an Mountains was already a vassal and paid tribute during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. It is a vassal of China. How can we allow Tsarist Russia to invade it?"
"Although it is far outside the Pass, not an inch of it is redundant!"
