The envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Ross. Chushu Uzhash, together with the envoy of the Great Mongol State, Guang Shiheng, appeared in the Kremlin's audience hall.

Tsar Alexei I looked at the two of them and always felt that the two should exchange identities.......

"Your Majesty, the Great Mongolian Kingdom believes that the land of the Jingqili River and the entire basin of the Heilongjiang River belongs to them! Therefore, it is hoped that our country will abandon all the castles located in the basin of the Gyya River (Jingchili River), the Erguna River, the Shilka River and the Heilongjiang River, including the Yaksa and Nerchensk fortresses.

Great Mongolia also demanded that Lake Baikal, Trans-Khingan, and the Udi River be the borders between the two Mongolian rakshasas. In addition, the Qing Dynasty also demanded the Pacific coast of Eastern Siberia......"

Explaining the position of the Great Mongols to the Tsar in Russian was the Yakutsk military governor Franzbekov, the governor of the Rakshasa state who directly confronted the Great Qing Dynasty and Khabarov's immediate superior. Since the Great Qing Kingdom began to seriously manage the retreat outside the Guan, the good days of him and Khabarov have come to an end. After all, the military presence of the Rakshasa Kingdom in Eastern Siberia is very weak, only the ice city of Yakutsk is not within the reach of the Qing army for a while, and several other fortresses are under the front of the Qing army.

Moreover, Yakutsk's logistics are maintained by the Lena River and the Arctic Ocean, and transportation is extremely inconvenient, and it is not navigable for a few months of the year, and the supply of various materials is very difficult.

In addition, due to the opening of the Pacific fur trade route between the Qing Dynasty and Spain, the furs from the Heilongjiang and Jingqili rivers flowed to Vladivostok. So it is already difficult for Moscow to get more benefits from Eastern Siberia - because the Rakshasas and Cossacks in Eastern Siberia are limited in number, and they do not get a sufficient number of furs by hunting in person.

If the Great Qing State did not manage the Northeast and the Outer Northeast well, the Rakshasas would be able to obtain a large amount of furs from the Sauron and Balhu through trade, looting, extortion, and other means.

But now, the Rakshasas have a strong competitor, which makes it impossible for them to acquire large quantities of cheap furs......

Without fur, Eastern Siberia would have become the backbone of the Rakshasa country, and it would not be worth sending too many troops.

Therefore, while the Qing Dynasty increased its troops in Heilongjiang and Jingqili River, Franzbekov, the military and political governor of Yakutsk in the Rakshasa Kingdom, had no troops available, so he could only continue to shrink his troops.

Now there is only one Yaksa city left in the big stronghold of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the Heilongjiang and Jingqili River valleys, which is held by Khabarov and others.

In addition, on the bank of the Shilka River, a tributary of the Heilongjiang River, there is also a civil structure of the Nebuchu Fortress, which is also considered a relatively strong fortress.

However, neither Yaksa nor Nebuchu could resist the attack of the Qing Dynasty's Heilongjiang Angbangzhangjing Yamen, which had 3,000 standing forward battalion cavalry and more than 1,000 Heilongjiang sailors, and also included a large number of Sauron and Balhu tribes under its jurisdiction. An army of tens of thousands of people can be pulled out at any time!

However, it was also impossible for the Qing army to penetrate deep into the Lena River valley to attack the Yakutsk fortress - there was no waterway between the Lena River and the Heilongjiang River, and the distance was very long, and it was necessary to cross the Trans-Khingan Mountains to reach it.

From the point of view of logistics and transportation, the Rakshasas who took the Arctic Ocean-Lena River route were more advantageous than the Qing army that went north from the Heilongjiang River.

Therefore, the limit that the Qing army could reach in the north was the Trans-Khingan Mountains and the Pacific (Sea of Okhotsk) coast of Eastern Siberia.

The limit of the Rakshasa army is the Lena River valley and the Angara River basin. The former leads to the Arctic Ocean, the latter connects Lake Baikal with the Yenisei River, which leads to the Arctic Ocean.

Since Russia's expansion in Eastern Siberia relied on shipping on the Yenisei River, the Lena River, the Angara River, and the Arctic Ocean, as long as the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty could not come up with the same low-cost transportation plan, the difficulty of seizing Eastern Siberia would be staggering - the cost of land transportation in the frozen soil of Siberia was more than 10 times greater than that of water transportation!

You know, the permafrost thaws every summer, so the roads that have been built "melt" once a year can only be maintained by a red empire like the USSR.

If there are no good roads, then there is no way for the grain trucks to pass......

Therefore, the advantage of the Rakshasa in Siberia is in the shipping of the Arctic Ocean, the Yenisei River, the Lena River, and the Angara.

The advantages of the Qing in Siberia were shipping along the Heilongjiang River and its tributaries, as well as the Pacific (Sea of Okhotsk), as well as control over the Khalkha Mongolian steppe.

As for the Ming ...... There was nothing to do with them in Siberia, but the leader of the Junggar Ministry, the monks, hung up the signboard of the Ming Dynasty, wanting to use the influence of the Ming Dynasty to suppress the Rakshasa Kingdom and stabilize the rear of the Junggar Ministry.

Accompanied by Ross. Chushur Ushi came to Moscow by the Siberian provincial official Peter Murphy. Golovin is the military chief who threw Khabarov in prison before. He was born in the Rakshasa family, the famous Mengorowen family, and also held the title of earl.

After leaving Yakutsk, he rose to the position of a high-ranking official in the Siberian province, and from then on the head of the Dzungar tribe, Batur Huntaiji, was his main opponent.

The Rakshasa State's policy towards the quasi-ministry is to recruit security first, then encroach, and finally annex!

Therefore, coercion and inducement of the Ministry of Quasi-Command into the arms of the Tsar was Golovin's main mission.

But the development of things was beyond his expectations, and in the face of the Rakshasa Kingdom's Zhao'an Oil and Salt Army, the Jungar Department actually plunged headlong into the arms of the Ming Empire.

Oh, and later Golovin knew the price of the Ming Empire, and he didn't mean it at all - 250,000 taels of silver a year! And also a large number of arquebuses and artillery are offered!

If Moscow had been willing to offer such conditions, the Dzungar would have been the most loyal servants of the tsar long ago......

But the question is, how can Moscow be so generous?

The tsar is poor, it is impossible to throw money at Central Asia like this!

However, to Golovin's relief, the Zhun Division, which had received a large amount of gun support, did not seem to intend to go north to recapture the pastures along the Ob River and the Yenisei River, but turned its attention to the south - this was actually Zhu Cihong's will, he did not want the Zhun to have a conflict with the Rakshasa State in the southern steppe of Western Siberia, but hoped that the Zhun Department could seize the richer land in Central Asia in order to open up the Silk Road.

So at the end of last year, the new quasi-head of the department, who is also the monk of the Dadu Protector of the Ming Dynasty, sent his uncle, the Deputy Protector of the Ming Dynasty. Chushu Uzhash, in the name of the Ming envoy, came to visit, hoping to sign a treaty with the Tsar of the Rakshasa that would win 10 years of peace, and at the same time sign a trade agreement.

Of course, the Dzungars should not suffer too much in the demarcation of the northern border, and they could not abandon the steppes and salt lakes in the middle reaches of the Irtysh, nor the steppes south of the Omsk-Tomsk line.

"Your Majesty the Tsar," Golovin said to Alexei I, "the Ming envoys want to conclude a peace treaty with us for a period of 10 years, with a fair demarcation of the border...... They wanted to use the Omsk-Tomsk line as the border line, with the north belonging to the Rakshasa and the south to the Ming dynasty.

After signing the treaty, they also hope to be able to trade with us by land through Central Asia-Siberia. ”

The tsar looked at the Ming Mongols who were still shaking their fans in the winter, and then at the Mongolian Han envoys dressed as Han scholars, and was silent for a while before asking: "However, I heard that the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Mongolia is about to break out!" Is there such a thing? ”

"Nope!" Ming Mongol Rose. Chu Huer Wujiangshi replied in the affirmative, "Actually, the princess of the Great Mongolian Kingdom will soon marry the Ming Emperor!" ”

Guang Shiheng did not speak Russian, but there were Dominican missionaries in his mission who could speak Russian, and after listening to the missionary's translation, he was also very sure that "the Mongol Great Khan would never provoke a war with the Ming Dynasty...... The Great Khan's sister will soon marry the Ming Emperor. ”

Alexei I nodded, "Well, since both the Ming and Mongolia can become friends, why can't we, the peace-loving Rakshasas, be friends with you?"

The demarcation of the border can be negotiated slowly, and before it can be negotiated, we can sign a 10-year tripartite no-war pact. ”