Chapter 41 The World's Largest Province?
The train sounded "Bang Bang! Bang Bang!", and Jia Lei was holding a jewel in a daze.
"Where did this thing come from? It looks like a Tatar thing?" Wu Niu asked.
It is said that when the Soviet Union and Tatar were at war, my grandmother followed the family to the capital to join the aunt of the children of the Eight Banners, and my grandmother's family was Tatar, and at that time the men stayed to fight and she was sent to the capital as a child daughter-in-law, but unfortunately later the puppet Manchukuo died, and the children of the Eight Banners were all going to eat, so my grandmother married my grandfather......! Jia Lei looked at Yingluo in his hand and said that he never thought that there would be so many strange people and things in his family.
"Oh, then our two families are about the same, my grandmother is also a Tatar, more than forty years ago during the famine, my grandmother came over and married my grandfather, and exchanged 200 catties of white flour for the family. At that time, my grandfather's family had a lot of land, and if he could take out the food, I bought him a daughter-in-law. Later, Jianguo fought the landlord, and my grandmother ran back. But when our side was stable, my grandmother came back with my mother, and my mother lived on both sides like this, and she had household registration in both countries. Wu Niu said.
"Aren't your family afraid of overseas relations?" asked Jia Lei puzzled.
"It's okay! It's been more than seven years since my mother came back!" Wu Niu said with a smile.
"Then aren't you even seventeen years old, but didn't you get married last year? You're not sixteen years old yet, right?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.
"Sixteen years old is not young, and you can get married at the age of 14 in the Soviet Union! My daughter-in-law Kalief and I both have a hairy household registration, and we can get married according to the laws there, but my mother and my daughter-in-law's family are poor, and they don't have as much money as your grandmother's family, and they don't even have a decent dowry." Wu Niu said.
"It's amber and turquoise on the jewel, and it's really worth a lot of money, and my grandmother left this designation to her first grandson when she left! My grandmother had two regrets before she died, one was that she couldn't see her daughter for the last time, and the other was that she wanted to go home to see it! My grandfather wanted me to take the necklace and look at it, and if I could find my grandmother's family, he would come back with my grandmother's ashes. Jia Lei said worriedly.
"This is unlikely, where are you going to find someone after fifty or sixty years? Where does your grandmother's family live and what is its name?" Wu Niu asked.
"I don't know, my grandmother was only 10 years old when she came a few decades ago, and I don't remember anything other than knowing my last name, and my grandmother said that the family is a small tribe leader of a nomadic people, and they have to graze cattle everywhere every year! Jia Lei said worriedly.
"Then how are you going to find it?" Wu Niu asked.
"There's a family emblem on it!" Jia Lei handed over the Yingluo to Wu Niu to see, and sure enough, there were several special patterns on the Yingluo!
"Then you can't find it! Tatar is actually a general term, probably the same as black and white! By the old multi-ethnic and branch, white and yellow people have your grandmother, do you know?" Wu Niu asked.
"Probably white! My mom and I are very white-skinned, just like my grandmother! By the way, my nose is also inherited from my grandmother. Jia Lei finally found two pieces of evidence in himself.
"Okay, I'll help you ask my grandmother and their family when the time comes? Maybe someone will know the title. ”
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After a whole day and a night of progress, the train finally stopped in the Siberian city of Yakutia.
Wu Niu's grandmother and her new husband's family lived here, and yes! Wu Niu's grandmother married again after returning to the Soviet Union. This time it was Wu Niu's Soviet uncle who came to pick up the train.
"Niu Niu is here, get into the car and warm up!" Wu Niu's uncle said, Wu Niu quickly pulled Jia Lei into the car.
"Uncle, can you find me some hot water?" my friend is freezing!" Wu Niu hurriedly asked.
"How can this be? Drinking water doesn't work at this point, give him a few sips of vodka." Uncle Wu Niu took out a small wine jug and handed it over.
"Yes, I should drink, but I brought the second pot head over, so let's give Jia Lei to drink that." After Wu Niu finished speaking, he took out the wine from his bag and poured two sips to Jia Lei.
"This ...... Over here...... It's too, it's too ...... It's cold!" Jia Lei drank the liquor for a while before he relieved himself and said that he was careless!
"I thought it was May, and the temperature should be above zero, so I only wore a jacket! This dress is still a little hot in your capital, but I didn't expect to be frozen all of a sudden when I arrived here. Jia Lei said.
"We're here in permafrost! It's cold near the North Pole, and it's certainly not a good place to be a place for exiles for hundreds of years! If it weren't for the gold and diamond mines that mined here forty years ago, there wouldn't be many people in our city. Even if the population of our country is less than 100,000 now!" Uncle Wu Niu said, Jia Lei was really stunned.
"Liar, aren't you? Yakutia is also a country, how come the population can't even compare to the small countries in Europe?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.
"There's no way it's really cold here, our minimum temperature here can reach minus 70 °C, ordinary people can't stand such low temperatures, no one wants to come to this place at all. Uncle Wu Niu said.
"-70°C? Celestials would freeze to death in such a cold temperature, and if it weren't for the fact that there is a peace diamond mine here, I wouldn't have come to this place." Jia Lei muttered.
"You're right, if it weren't for the diamond mines, our country wouldn't have half the population it has now. Uncle Wu Niu said with a smile.
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The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic was later renamed, and now the country is still called the Yakutia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, a name full of Soviet style.
Don't look at the fact that this country occupies a particularly large territory, with more than 3.1 million square kilometers, but the population is really small, only less than 100,000 people, and its status in the Soviet Union is probably equivalent to that of the autonomous regions of ethnic minorities!
Before the 20th century, the economy of the Republic of Yakutia consisted mainly of animal husbandry, hunting, and a small amount of cotton cultivation. Yakutia entered the 20th century as an economically backward and politically disorganized region.
On April 27, 1922, the Soviet Union established the Yakutia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on the territory of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Jia Lei is here for the political marginalization, autonomous chaotic political system, to say that 1991 may be the most chaotic year in the Soviet Union, in this year the Soviet government has not yet collapsed but the Russian Federation has been established, that is to say, it is now the vacuum period before the handover of the old and new governments, the two leadership systems exist at the same time but each lacks strict control capabilities.
Even the Soviet government was half-emptied in Russia, and although the Soviet Union lost its military dominance, the factories and state-owned enterprises below were still in the hands of the Soviet government.
Jia Lei is going to go here to bribe the manager of a diamond mining area to see if he can get a batch of diamonds at a cheap price. Because no one up there cares about this politically remote area.