Just when the financial reform of the Han court was boiling in the whole north, Lin Feng sent a diplomatic mission to Russia quietly, according to the expected plan, they should have been on the road more than a month ago, but because of the reform of the imperial court, the various departments of the imperial court were not very well coordinated in the initial work, and Li Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was even more with Xu Xueqian, Chen Tingjing stood on the same line and resigned three times, so the ministry was delayed a lot, and it was not until recently that Lin Feng accepted Wang Shirong's suggestion and made a considerable compromise in political reform, which slowly subsided, and the operation of the Han court returned to the normal track. [No pop-ups. 】

Because of the relationship between General Rick's real power and Lin Feng's fanfare in bringing in Western clergy to open the "Oriental Theological Seminary", most of the high-ranking officials in the Han court now have a rough understanding of the situation in Europe, and they are not like the original one, no matter what is the word "barbarian", although the matter is still quite contemptuous, but the shelf is still pulled down a lot, at least I know that Russia is a very important power, and I have not summarized it into Gaochang. Qiuzi and others rely on tribute to cheat and reward the two poles - this concept is not very complicated to understand, and the bigwigs of the imperial court did not carefully ponder the customs, history and culture of Russia, and randomly found a missionary to ask, this country is actually "with a million armor, repeatedly defeated Mongolia" And vaguely is still the backstage boss of Geldan, that is enough to explain everything, and all politicians are more practical in the wartime, although everyone usually talks about poetry and books, but in their hearts they are very clear about these etiquette outlines, which are often false, and the real count is still the iron cavalry cannon, when it comes to judgment, the first is that everyone first brightens the team, and if the team is more than the big man, then you have to "Huairou" and "appease"; If the team is less than the big man, there will be less nonsense, and they will drive directly over to "educate the barbarians" and tell them what is called "under the whole world" and what is called "the shore of the land".

Therefore, the selection of the envoy to lead the team this time is quite a headache, of course, a big country like Russia cannot be hastily engaged, according to Lin Feng's meaning, this destination is Moscow, and it is to speak directly to the emperor of the other party, then this official rank naturally cannot be too low, but it cannot be too high - if it is too low, the power is too small, many things cannot be mastered, and if it is too high, it seems that it is not very suitable, and it seems to be a little "groveling", which breaks the face of the big man.

After some disputes, Lin Feng finally slapped the board, the level of this envoy is between the fourth grade and the third grade, whether it is big or not, whether it is small or small, and it can take some ideas, but it is not a very high-level official, and the spirit of this instruction caused a little sensation in Beijing after it leaked out, and Xu Xueqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Li Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, looked a little sad, because at that time, the long journey from East Asia to Moscow can almost be regarded as life and death, which can be described as "going east out of the mountains and seas without a reason", this situation is very reminiscent of the recent coinage and money turmoil, and many ministers in this incident are not very good at giving face to the King of Han, so if Lin Feng wants to retaliate at this time, then no one can dodge it.

What is surprising is that when Lin Feng consulted the government and the opposition to find the ministers who volunteered to send envoys, the civil and military officials almost collectively lost their voices, and then some of the junior officials of the fifth and sixth grades slowly figured out the inside situation, seized the opportunity, and played impassionedly, expressing their loyalty and patriotism, but the qualified officials were silent, except for the prince of the country, the priest wine, Mr. Gu Yanwu, the editor of the "History of the Ming Dynasty" of the Hanlin Academy, expressed a certain interest - this kind of absurd request, of course Lin Feng could not agree, although he knew that Mr. Gu liked to run around in his life, and traveled all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, but this did not mean that he could go to Siberia, although Lin Feng did not study geography carefully, but the difference between Siberia and North China was still clear.

The imperial power and the laws of officialdom have some commonality in this point - such things as going to Russia to let young people like Zhang Tingyu and Nian Qianyao do it, it is to care, love, promote, and gild, but if you send Gu Yanwu, Xu Xueqian and other old adults to go, it will be death or murder.

In the end, the person who received this envoy was Mu Tianyan - this candidate was also a little unexpected, but it was indeed reasonable, and it was surprising that according to tradition, most of the people who served as envoys were civil officials, because it was difficult for everyone to imagine that when the 800,000 Cao army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Fei could cross the river alone, and if this was the case, I am afraid that all the ministers under Sun Quan who could write would fall under the Zhangba snake spear, so it was indeed very surprising to let Mu Tianyan, a major general of the Guards, go to be the envoy; What is being cleaned up is that according to the current view, no one in the Han and Manchu dynasties thinks that General Mu Tianyan is a military general, so when the election is introduced, everyone was first taken aback, and then they took it for granted, because from the experience of General Mu Tianyan, he also followed the lord to fight in Liaodong - it just so happened that Lao Maozi's hometown was also on the side of Liaodong, so intuitively, Lord Mu Tianyan was able to level the Eight Banners, and of course the Russian barbarians were not a problem.

Unlike other ministers of civil and military affairs, Mu Tianyan knew that the Russians' hometown had nothing to do with Liaodong, but he didn't tell anyone about this. This messenger is not very repulsive to him, because in his current situation, although he has a high position in the Guards system, but in terms of status, no matter how beautiful the position, it is Rick's deputy, in charge of what food, grass, ordnance, and what miscellaneous chores, in short, the future is bleak, if nothing else, I am afraid that I will work in this position until death in this life, even if I am lucky, at most, I will only be promoted to a first-class rank, and after retirement, I will enter the coffin with a lieutenant general's brand. And the mission to Russia is a turning point - the mission to Fanbang, thousands of miles away, can the city of Beijing know what I do? Needless to say, if the mission is successful, it is a great achievement, and even if the negotiation fails, when you come back, the court will naturally publicize to the Chinese people: "Lord Mu Tianyan is very angry, reprimanding the enemy chieftain, and promoting my Chinese Tianwei", in short, there is a great benefit, you can take this opportunity to break away from the Guards system, or be promoted to a powerful general, stationed in the outside of the Kaifu to build a government, or simply turn into a civilian mixed governor or political secretary to play, and then you can call Bainuo prestige in all directions.

His mission to Russia this time can be divided into two main parts: one is to formally establish state-level diplomatic relations with the Russian Empire, and the other is to reach a consensus between the two countries on the treatment of Mongolian affairs, and Lin Feng means to ask Russia to abandon the position of covert support for the Zungar Khanate, and to maintain neutrality in the future war between the Han Empire and Geldan, and secondly, to conclude a close military alliance on the issue of dealing with the Korqin Khanate, and to eradicate this newly emerging nomadic regime together in return for the Han Empire in the Western Regions (note: present-day Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and other regionsAs well as the territorial issue of Liao, Eastern Siberia and other places, the position of maintaining peace and friendship will be consulted with the Russian Empire.

As far as Lin Feng is concerned, the probability of the success of this mission is very small, and from the current situation, it is estimated that the probability of a military conflict with Russia after the Han Empire defeats Geldan and Korqin is 100 percent, but this cannot erase the significance of this diplomatic action.

After sending off the envoy group, the Mongolian civil war in the north was also temporarily high, when Lin Feng saw the military information submitted by the military commander, he couldn't help but be surprised, because in terms of intelligence, although Horqin took advantage of the time when Geldan was in trouble, he beat the water dogs, and the fighter was very well chosen, but I don't know whether it was the collective impotence of the masters of Eastern Mongolia or the sudden explosion of the warriors of Western Mongolia, and the final result was that Horqin also suffered a small loss.

In May this year, Lin Feng personally commanded an army of 300,000 troops, since Datong invaded Shanxi and the Western Mongolian Junggar Khanate, hunted Weishui, broke the enemy army, killed 40,000 prisoners, and captured 15,000, almost annihilating half of the army of Western Mongolia, Geldan was embarrassed, with 3,000 remnants of the army, he was defeated and was pursued and killed by Zhao Guangyuan's cavalry army along the road, almost all of his head was lost in Shanxi, Buryagma, judging the situation and immediately held an alliance of Eastern Mongolian Khans in Naadam to pay tribute to Genghis Khan, and vowed to kill Geldan, the "evil wolf who destroys the peace of the grassland". Under the sabre and iron hooves of the Horqin army, the Khans of Eastern Mongolia "readily agreed", so the Horqin tribe, Zhuosuotu tribe, Xilin Gol tribe, Ulanqab tribe, Zhaowuda tribe and other tribes of Eastern Mongolia beheaded sheep, drank blood wine, pointed to the heavens, and swore to send 115,000 horsemen to push Bulyagma for the crusade of the tribes to defeat the "crime of trespassing" of Junggar.

It was at that time that Lin Feng received a generous gift of 10,000 taels of gold and 5,000 war horses from Buryagma, as well as the living treasure of Baori Longmei - from the bright side, this means that the Great Khan of Eastern Mongolia congratulated the Han King Lin Feng on his victory over Zhungar, praised the "long-standing" friendship between the two countries, and at the same time, in order to maintain this friendship, the prince of Buryagma suggested that the two countries should marry, so he proposed that the King of Han marry his sworn brother's daughter Baori Longmei, and this 10,000 taels of gold and 5,000 war horses were his old man's dowry.

According to this model, if Lin Feng marries Baori Longmei, he will have to call Bur Yagma "Godfather" in the future - this title has a lot to do with Shi Jingtang in the past, it seems that Bul Yagma is very likely not to have read "Zizhi Tongjian", this method is simply playing with fire.

Of course, this is a joke, but from the point of view now, the real meaning of Buryagma is: Regarding the matter of the Han King's take-in of Korqin's enemy Baori Longmei, I already know about Buryagma, but it doesn't matter if the King of Han, you like it, you can keep it, this matter will not affect the friendship between our two countries, and I can rest assured; In addition, we are going to gather men and horses to fight Geerdan, and we will hand it over to our dearest and most benevolent ally in Horqin, His Royal Highness the King of Han, hoping that there will be no leaks.

This proposal is very good, in line with the interests of the two countries, Lin Feng of course there is no need to stand up for Geerdan, and at this time, although the Han army defeated Geerdan, but it itself suffered a lot of casualties, and there was no spare strength to take the opportunity to start a war with Horqin, so the largest Mongolian civil war of this century was fought.

At the beginning of June 1686, the Eastern Mongolian tribes gathered more than 115,000 cavalry, sent troops from the Hulun Bail Naadam venue, divided into two routes, one was commanded by the prince of Horqin, and the army was nearly 30,000 troops, brushing the border of Chahar, and following the Yellow River to the south, arriving at the Sizi River, suddenly turning and going straight to Hohhot; On the other hand, Buryagma personally commanded about 90,000 troops, and went up from Changshui to Yilin, Erenhot, and entered Uriya Sutai, successively breaking through Tugulik, Muhur Gashun and other settlements, all the way westward, the troops were extremely sharp, and all the tribes along the way were terrified, or changed their banners and surrendered to Horqin, or all of them moved west together to avoid the war.

After more than a month of testing and contact, the main force of the Eastern Mongolian coalition army and the Junggar army finally made head-on contact in the area of Nomohun Mountain, to the surprise of Buryagma, although Geldan suffered a great defeat in Shanxi and his prestige on the steppe plummeted, but the Western Mongolian tribes still did not betray on a large scale, and after Geldan fled back to the steppe, he gathered an army of more than 70,000 people in a short period of time to engage in a battle with the Eastern Mongolian alliance army in Horqin.

This is really very strange, according to reason, like Geerdan, the original position is not very solid, and the Great Khan who has suffered a big defeat should be difficult to command you to be strong in the grassland, but at this time it is a little different, one is that the Junggar Department did not lose all the capital in Shanxi, although the Mongolian army that plundered Shanxi in the past had 60,000 people, but relatively speaking, it was only a partial division, in order to guard against the counteroffensive of the Horqin and Tushetu departments and deter the grassland departments, Geldan was still in Baotou, Huerhot, Ordos, There were quite a few troops stationed in the areas of Turghut and Kork, with a total strength of 60,000 or 70,000 troops, and more importantly, Buryagma was a very unsuccessful in the annexation of Tushet.

In the past, Tushetu was very powerful and ruled a vast area, and was ranked alongside Junggar and Korqin, known as the three Mongolian heroes, and now Yikezhao, Tur Erhut and even Sanyin Noyan and the Chechen Ministry are subordinate to him, and now although Zhungar defeated and fled to Eastern Mongolia, but the prestige of a hundred years is not a day to erase Tushetutai Jitumen Ure, no achievement, whether it is military or political, but he is really good, magnanimous, very good to his subordinate tribes, since he became the king of Khan, he has repeatedly reduced the tribute of subordinate tribes, and even gave up his pasture to graze for weak tribes in disaster years, can be regarded as a "good old man" In fact, although many tribes who are now subordinate to Geldan have betrayed their old masters, they are only forced by the situation, but they still have feelings for Tushetu in their hearts, and this time Tushetu was defeated and fled, and took refuge under Korqin's tent, but Buryagma took advantage of the situation to annex - annexation is enough, the problem is that the means of annexation are too ugly, not to mention the cruelty of the means, and let Tushetu run an heir, which is indeed a little despicable, and at the same time makes the khans of these tribes chill- If Korqin defeats Geldan, will they be annexed on the pretext that they were once Tushetu's subordinate tribes?!

This time, Geldan gathered his troops, and there was a slogan, because of the complicated relationship between the Mongolian voice, the agents of the military commander Yamen did not understand very well, but the general meaning was also understood, that is, Geldan called on all the tribes to avenge Tushetu Khan Tumen Ure, saying that he would recapture the troops annexed by Buryagma and rebuild Tushetu to the famous beauty, Her Royal Highness Princess Baori Longmei, the "Moon of the Prairie".

To be honest, it does seem ridiculous for Geldan to shout this slogan, but most things in this world only need an excuse, so Buryagma's westward expedition met with great resistance.

After five days of fierce fighting, more than 30,000 Mongolian warriors forever lay at the foot of the Nomo Mountain, and the same as countless steppe battles for thousands of years, the two sides did not show mercy at all because everyone was of the same race, on the contrary, the intensity of the battle even exceeded the foreign war, and each battle did not leave a surrender, and the difference from the past is that in this war, both sides were equipped with artillery and muskets on a large scale, and the Eastern Mongolian coalition army was surprised that among the troops of the current quasi-Gol Khanate, in addition to their own Mongolian cavalry, there were also mercenaries from Tibet, from Qinghai, The Hui soldiers recruited by Qaidam and the free Cossacks of West Asia were very tenacious and brave in battle, especially the white-skinned and big-nosed Cossack cavalry, who had a considerable technical and tactical level, especially good at using firearms, and were also very good at white-knuckle combat, often swinging well at critical moments of the battle.

Under the resolute resistance of Geldan, Bulyagema had to admit defeat after paying a heavy price, and the Eastern Mongolian coalition army left 20,000 corpses along the edge of the desert and gradually retreated south to the area of Tugulik, and the partial division that tried to capture Hohhot in the south also failed to succeed, and Geldan's remaining troops were equipped with a lot of artillery and muskets, and desperately resisted through the city, while although the Horqin coalition army was the attacking side, because the technical equipment was inferior to the other side, especially the lack of large-caliber artillery, so it was unable to open the gap and capture the city, and the siege had to retreat after more than a month。

The battle situation of both sides naturally made Lin Feng very happy, but this kind of overly idealized intelligence really can't help but make people suspicious, to be honest, when Lin Feng read the report, he even had the idea of "Bulyagema is suspicious and confuses our army", this worry lasted for about ten days, and when the second wave of intelligence officers sent the verification back to Beijing, a kind of bigwig of the Lin Han court calmed down.

The last obstacle to Shandong's problem no longer exists.