Chapter 805: The Man Who Puts Four Ferraris on His Body
One of the peculiarities of Tsarist Russia is that almost no one over the age of forty can speak English. If a foreigner travels to Tsarist Russia, there is basically no way to communicate with the locals if there is no interpreter or tour guide. This is also the reason why Yang Meng would rather go alone, this language barrier is too tiring! I knew that I should learn Tsarist Russian at home now!
You can speak Germanic or Gallic better than English. It was a matter of choice to learn that foreign language here in Tsarist Russia, and the most chosen language was Germanic, which the Emperor learned in his first year.
And speaking English here? People here have a sense of hurt in their pride.
In the former Soviet period, it was formed by fifteen countries according to the principle of voluntary union, and now Tsarist Russia is also composed of 22 autonomous republics, 46 oblasts, 9 regions, 4 autonomous regions, 1 autonomous region, and three federal municipalities, and the Han State is 56 nationalities, and there are more than 100 nationalities here.
From the Tsarist period, Tsarist Russian must be spoken in schools here, national languages were forbidden, and the official language must be Tsarist Russian, and in the former Soviet period, this principle continued, including all union republics must speak Tsarist Russian and always speak Tsarist Russian! This is why Tsarist Russian is still spoken in some countries that have separated from the former Soviet Union: they have forgotten their Chinese!
The poor don't bother to learn English, but the rich have a different story: their children are sent to Europe to learn English. Just like Alexander they did. It is normal for children of wealthy families to know a few foreign languages.
But what is this Nima? After coming down, stuff yourself with a bottle of vodka and exchange it for your carefully prepared spicy rabbit meat? Are you so sick? He didn't even lift his head, while heating his braised rabbit meat----- it was instantly cold if he didn't heat it at such a low temperature. He took out a bottle of Xiao Er by himself, opened it and poured it hard, then took out a handful of snow from the side, wiped his hands fiercely, and then took out a piece of rabbit meat from the pot and put it in his mouth to enjoy it.
Well, it's cool to eat something spicy on a cold day!
The man who first looked at Yang Meng's rabbit meat yelled at the young man in Tsarist Russian, and Yang Meng didn't know what they were talking about, what did he care about himself?
At this time, a man came over from behind and walked up to Yang Meng and said a lot of words to Yang Meng.
When he walked over, Yang Meng was stunned and looked up at him twice, because this was a yellow race, but what he said was 。。。。。。 Yang Meng didn't understand it at all!
It's not like Mongolian? What kind of language is this? Some kind of dialect in China? He asked the yellow man in Mandarin, "What do you say?"
As a result, it was the man's turn to be confused, and he couldn't understand Yang Meng's words.
The two of them stared at each other, Yang Meng slapped his forehead and understood, this has entered the territory of Saha, is this a Yakut or an Evenki? He lowered his head and continued to eat his rabbit meat, drank a sip of wine, ate a mouthful of rabbit meat, and then took a bite of the fire and ------ babble, it was very beautiful!
Speaking of where is the largest concentration of yellow people in the world? It must be the Han Kingdom! Where is the second place?
Many people think that it is Outer Mongolia, but in fact it is not, but the Republic of Sakha, because it is a place where Yakuts gather, so it is also called the Republic of Yakutia. It is one of the 22 autonomous republics in Tsarist Russia, and it is also the largest one, with a territorial area of two Outer Mongolia, which is larger than Tianzhu!
How many people live in such a large place? Less than a million! This is the real 'vast land and sparsely populated'!
In fact, this has always been the territory of the Han State, from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty here is the territory of the Yuan Dynasty Lingbei Province, at that time it was called 'making the deer department', but there is a harsh climate and lack of resources, so the successive dynasties have not been taken seriously, in the five years of Chongzhen, here became the territory of Tsarist Russia.
Because it has always been the territory of the Han State, the aborigines here are still of the yellow race, the Yakuts are the close relatives of the Han Manchus, and the Evenki are called the Evenks in the Han State. To be honest at that time, Yang Meng couldn't tell the difference between them, and if he didn't look at his clothes and only looked at his appearance, he looked exactly the same as himself.
So now there are many people here clamoring to break away from Tsarist Russia and return to the Han Kingdom. It's like someone in the Republic of Tuva clamoring to return to Outer Mongolia. But they can't make much of a difference.
Taking 10,000 steps back, even if they really broke away from Tsarist Russia, Yang Meng felt that the Han Kingdom would not want it----- Han Kingdom loved peace, didn't it?
But according to what Yang Meng saw and heard on this trip, Yang Meng felt that sooner or later Tsarist Russia would lose the Far East. Tsarist Russia emphasized the west over the east. Now that society is progressing, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places, and when people see a better life, how can they continue to endure it?
The topic is a bit far-fart------ when Tsarist Russia took great pains to grab this place, and as a result, the living conditions here could not even be tolerated by the Tsarist Russians! For example, Oymyakon, which is known as the "cold pole of the earth," has a temperature of minus 15 degrees Celsius in summer! Who wants to come and live here? But it would be a pity to give up directly, so he simply became a penal colony. Later, more and more sinners were exiled, so after hundreds of years of development, the Tsarist Russians here accounted for about 35% of the local population!
The current Republic of Sakha 。。。。。。 It's kind of sleeping on a golden pillow!
At that time, the Han people did not attach importance to this place because they felt that there was a lack of resources here! But they didn't know that this was a rich place for Zhennyima! Now all the antimony ore, 98 percent of the diamonds, 40 percent of the tin, 15 percent of the gold, and 24 percent of the diamonds (gem-quality diamonds) in Tsarist Russia were provided here, and there were also huge amounts of coal mines, oil and gas, and various metal ore resources! However, although there are abundant minerals here, the difficulty of mining is too high! Many resources cannot be mined! That's why Yang Meng said that this is the place Sleep on a golden pillow'.
However, people are not stupid, and now they are seeking cooperation with the Han Kingdom: mining here is difficult, but for the 'infrastructure madness', it is really not a problem!
Yang Meng ate rabbits there, and the Russian man who smelled rabbit meat at the beginning walked up to Yang Meng, and he saw a wooden stake next to him, and he moved it and sat directly by the bonfire.
"Huh?" Yang Meng glanced at him, not worried about what the man would do, but looking at the man's clothes.
During his time in Tsarist Russia, he knew a little about fur, and this man was wearing a serious 'starry sky', and now that such a strong wind was blowing here, it was not bottomless at all, and there were no traces of stitching and connection, and the same color of the hair was obvious. This is the finest sable coat!
Fur comes from a variety of raw materials: foxes, otters, mink, beavers, raccoon dogs, wolves, bears, etc., among which the sable, known as the 'king of fur'.
The sable is 'no concern' on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, but now it is a national first-class key protected animal in Han ------ has almost been caught. Even today, sables on the Tsarist side of Russia are exported in limited quantities.
After all, since ancient times, the Han people have liked to use mink to make clothing, and there is an idiom called 'dog tail mink', which refers to the emperor's attendants in the Wei and Jin dynasties who loved to use mink tails to decorate hats. Later, because the officials were too indiscriminate, the mink tail was insufficient, so the dog tail was used instead.
Sable fur is a fine fur fur with a sturdy and thick skin plate, and the color is also beautiful. Although both the former Soviet Union and the Han Kingdom had breeding technology, in fact, most of the furs in Tsarist Russia today are imported from the Han Kingdom, including sable skin. But sable fur farming techniques are difficult, and the quality of farmed sable fur is certainly not as good as that of wild sables. And looking at the amount of hair in this man's fur coat, it must be a wild sable.
Sable fur is not purple, but has different colors, for example, brown with blue is called 'crown sable', while amber is called 'golden mink', dark brown with long black hair is the top grade, and silver-white gun hair evenly mixed with it is 'starry', which is the best.
Tsarist Russia holds a fur auction every year, and the price of a superb sable is tens of thousands of euros, and it takes at least sixty pieces to make a fur coat, and this man's hat and gloves cost at least eighty pieces!
This means that the fur coat will cost about a million euros!
It's so much harder to find so many sable skins of this quality than it is to pay for them, and it's even harder to find so many sable skins of this quality and to find top furriers to make such fine clothes. The most important thing is that this man doesn't care about this dress at all, just sits on the stake casually, which is not taking this dress seriously at all!
Where did this man come from?
Yang Meng was a little curious.
The young man who was going to exchange wine for rabbits with Yang Meng was just about to come over, but the fur man waved his hand to stop him, only to see him take out a delicate silver wine jug from his pocket and throw it directly to Yang Meng.
Yang Meng glanced at him, took the flask and took a sip directly: "Bowmore?"
This is the taste of Scotch 'Bowmore' whisky.
The fur man understood this, and his eyes changed when he saw Yang Meng. directly stretched out his thumb, and then pointed at Xiao Er in Yang Meng's hand.
Yang Meng directly handed Xiao Er to him, he raised his head and drank it directly, then wiped his beard and stretched out his thumb at Yang Meng!
Yang Meng took out another bottle of Xiao Er and handed it to him, then pointed to the rabbit meat in the pot and motioned for him to eat together!
The fur man was not polite, and directly took out a piece of rabbit meat from the pot and put it in his mouth like Yang Meng, only to see him enjoy it with his eyes closed, and after a while, he swallowed the rabbit meat and gave Yang Meng a thumbs up again!
Yang Meng raised the wine jug and clinked glasses with Xiao Eryi in his hand, both of them didn't speak after taking a sip, and they bowed their heads together and ate rabbit meat around the pot, occasionally touching the cup and taking a sip of wine, and then continued to eat.
The people next to him looked at each other, what was the situation?