A month later, Li Peiting exchanged letters with Dolgon, and reached a smuggling trade agreement between the two white flags and Long Shengxing.

The agreement clearly states that the two white flags will build a channel for Longsheng to trade tea and horses with various Mongolian ministries, and provide Longsheng with no less than 10,000 horses every year, of which no less than 1,500 horses and horses will be provided. Long prevailed and paid the price of a horse to the Mongolian ministries at the price of forty catties of brick tea for the best horses.

As for Dolgon's suggestion to offset the dividends due to the two white flags or the steel, weapons, firearms, gunpowder and other materials produced in the south of the intermediary fee, Li Peiting said that it was difficult. Because the Nanyue Army was extremely strict about the export control of iron tools that could make weapons. However, since the fourteenth brother has opened his mouth, no matter how difficult it is, he can get a small amount of steel through guò, but the cost of opening the joints will be spent on the fourteenth brother's account.

Although Dolgon found that it was more painful to trade with Li Peiting, a black-hearted merchant, with horses, but this second brother was also a person, and after signing the agreement, he got 300 weapons made of iron and steel for the three banner lords of the two white flags, and rebuilt the Baya soldiers around the three brothers again.

At this time, Li Peiting was also very proud, using the large brick tea produced in southern Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangzhou, all of which were made of large tea leaves and tea stalks that the people of the Central Plains were unwilling to drink, and using these wastes in exchange for 10,000 horses per year in the hands of the Mongols, at least it could add more than 3,000 people to the horse teams in Tamluo Island and Shandong. The lord is also very happy to think of such a feat.

However, he would never have imagined that it was the small arms trade with the two white flags that would bring him death in the future. This is a later story, and I will talk about it later.

In October, there have been two snowfalls on Temple Street, and the simple houses and streets are full of traces of ice and snow. Long skates hang down from the eaves, like the eyelashes of a beautiful woman.

After three years of construction, Temple Street has become an important base for trade between the Sauron Department and Long, and it is like a large-scale city. There are miles of walls around it. Although it was built with logs and earth rammed, it was already an impregnable fortress in the eyes of the Daurs, not to mention that there were forts built in several key parts of the city wall, and the shooting ports of the black holes made people shudder.

There are thousands of wooden houses in the city. Sturdy and spacious. Each house can accommodate dozens of people. All the houses are well lit. The wide windows were covered with oiled paper. Outside the wall is a covered wall of fire, which burns the interior warmly and pleasantly.

The two women of the Sauron tribe who married with Ao Lei Yilan chattered to all the leaders present about the recent situation of Ao Lei Yilan in Ning Yuanbo's mansion.

One of the two brides-in-law was named Isan (meaning glow in the Daur language). The other one is called Nanag, which means cute.

"Uncle Ning Yuan is very good to Yilan! Almost every three or five days, I have to spend the night in Ichiran's room! Uncle's young masters and young ladies are also like sisters like Yilan! (Huh?) What's wrong!? Now Ichiran is three or four months pregnant, and by the time we set off on our return trip, Ichiran was already a little pregnant. Now it's bigger than the belly! If it weren't for the fact that the uncle was worried about Yilan's pregnancy and insisted on not letting her move, I was afraid that Yilan would come back to visit relatives this time! ”

Yisang chirped non-stop, and talked about the food, clothing, housing, transportation, living and living treatment of Ao Lei Yilan in Ning Yuan's mansion, and Uncle Li Shouhan's love for Ao Lei Yilan and listened to this group of leaders.

Nag was a little stupid, so he quickly led people to carry the gifts that Aura Yilan had given to the heads of the family, the chiefs, and the relatives in the spacious hall.

Bags of refined salt, white sugar in ceramic jars, peppercorns, spices, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, chili peppers, pepper and other spices, small and delicate glass mirrors, beautiful and sturdy muslin, smooth silk, and the armor and weapons that made the leaders laugh the most, were all placed in front of the leaders.

According to Auris Yilan's explanation, Yisan began to distribute the same gifts, but no matter how good her memory was, she was a little flustered in the face of hundreds of gifts.

"Don't panic, the Seventh Lady's explanation, I have a list here, you just have to distribute it according to the list."

Li Peiting took out a long list from the book in his hand, which listed the names of the leaders of various large and small tribes in the river basins from Heilongjiang to Jieya River and Shihe, as well as the types of gifts.

Most of them had never dealt with Aolei Yilan before. But it is Long's popular business and trading partner, and Li Peiting just uses the name of Ao Lei Yilan to form another layer of incense karma with these people.

Although the Sauron tribe is no longer what it used to be, and the warriors of the tribe have at least one iron weapon at their disposal, and the elite have armor and other things, but the best weapons and armor will never be too short for the leaders and warriors.

But in comparison, in the eyes of Bomu Bogol and Aldi and other big leaders of the Sauron Tribe, no matter how good the weapons and guns are, there will be a day when they will be damaged, and no matter how much grain, rice, oil and salt will be eaten, only by establishing a flesh-and-blood friendship with Ning Yuanbo can they ensure that the life of the Sauron Department will not be affected at the moment.

In the past few years, since the beginning of trade with Nanzhong, the changes in the tribe are that the blind can see it, and in the harshest winter of previous years, each tribe will survive the long winter and reduce the population due to the lack of food, clothing, oil and salt, which has become a law that everyone is accustomed to. But for the first time, in the past three years, the number of people who die in winter in various tribes has been greatly reduced. Not only that, but on the contrary, the number of women in the tribe has increased a lot because of the lack of mobility in winter.

But it's only natural to think about it. In the windy and snowy weather, the warriors drank enough spirits, ate enough to cook salty meat in iron pots, and except for the occasional hunting and fishing, the greatest entertainment was to study how to be human with their own women. After this long winter, no matter how barren the land is, seeds will sprout.

I heard Yisang talk about the situation of Ao Lei Yilan in Ning Yuanbo's mansion. Especially the good news that she is already pregnant, Bomu Bogol and others are all relieved. This Ning Yuanbo's child has the blood of our Sauron Department, and the two families will be blood relatives in the future, so we will no longer worry about the lack of living materials and weapons!

"Pick it up!"

With a loud shout, hundreds of soldiers of the Sauron tribe either carried baskets or carried burdens, piling thousands of furs, countless ginseng, raw gold, dong pearls, bear paws and other things under the steps of the hall.

"Lord Li, since you left, we have expanded to the west and south, conquering more than forty Sauron traitor tribes and villages that have returned to Jiannu. More than 300 were beheaded. There were many men and women captured. To the west, they killed more than 20 Rakshasa ghosts, occupied three of their strongholds, and recovered hundreds of miles of hunting grounds, mountains, forests, and rivers that had been invaded by them. The fifty or so Sauron tribes and villages they have conquered have sworn allegiance to me. ”

"The big man is right. These are the taxes we collect from those tribes for Ning Yuanbo. Others are captured trophies! deserves to have a share of Ning Yuanbo! ”

The Saurons achieved such results in one year. Actually, it's not surprising. With the combat power they have honed in the harsh living environment, as long as they have the right weapons and armor, the energy they release will be amazing.

"It's early winter. The deer are fat, and the sons and daughters gather in Lord Li's castle, in addition to planning to trade and buy some useful things for the tribe, but also to purchase some bows, arrows, knives, guns and other things, and prepare to hunt westward! ”

After saying this, Aldi proudly waved his hand to the people of his tribe, and motioned for them to bring up the goods that this year's harvest would be exchanged for. Now that Ao Lei Yilan has become the seventh lady of Ningyuan Bofu, and she is pregnant, Aldi and these people also feel that their faces are quite radiant as the seventh lady's mother's family.

Aldi's men, in addition to the usual fur and gold specialties, brought out piles of white bones.

"This was captured by the sons and daughters when they captured the Rakshasa ghosts!"

Aldi pointed to the pile of white ivory and explained proudly, "According to the gentlemen, this is ivory!" You can get a lot of good things back! ”

The ivory that Aldi had obtained was far larger than any tusk Li Peiting had ever seen, and he was very strange, how could an animal like this, which lived in the warm and humid south, have ivory in this cold place in the far north? And such a huge ivory is also worth a lot of money.

Little did he know that these expensive tusks were mammoth tusks, creatures that lived in prehistoric Siberia. Also offered by Aldi was a much smaller skeleton of another animal, "This is the tusks of the walrus!" And bones! ”

Aldi offered the treasure here, but Bomu Bogol smiled and said nothing, and after he finished offering the treasure, Bomu Bogol asked Li Peiting with a smile, "My lord, what you said at the beginning, those weeds, are you still counting?" ”

Mountain Road Artemisia is the plant that Li Peiting requisitioned from the Sauron tribes at a high price last time.

To encourage the discovery of this humble plant, Li Peiting promised to pay ten times the weight of white rice for the seeds. Today, I didn't want to, but Bomu Bogol found this mountain road in a few small contacts with the Rakshasa people in the outskirts of Yakutsk to the north!

The mountain road is artemisia and has a bitter taste; Laborious; Sexual flat, indications: deworming. Ascariasis; Early illness. It is a perennial semi-shrub endemic to the Arctic Circle and can be used as a medicinal plant by humans. The climate in the Arctic Circle is characterized by very cold temperatures. Second, on the summer solstice around June 22 every year, the sun will shine all day long. On the winter solstice around December 22 every year, the sun will not shine all day. This special climatic characteristic makes Artemisia annua grow very strong, and also makes Artemisia a unique and unique medicinal plant in the former Soviet Union.

Because of the influx of immigrants in the south and central regions, the demand for this drug that is conducive to the expulsion of roundworms has suddenly increased greatly.

Although it is not very clear why Shouhan wanted such a thing, Li Peiting is still very accustomed to ordering people to take out hundreds of stones of white rice, which will be used in exchange for the seeds of Shandao Nianhao in Bomu Bogol's hands.

"Too much! Too much! I only have a few taels in my hand, but the adults have taken out hundreds of stones of rice, how can this be done? ”

It's very easy to do! Li Peiting immediately ordered someone to open the storehouse and quickly traded the cotton armor, iron helmets, tiger spears, long knives, bows and arrows and other items he carried to the north with the various departments of Sauron.

"Aren't you going to hunt for winter? A certain family has been thinking quietly for the past few days. You are about to move your body and relax your muscles and bones, would you like to go to Yakutsk with me? I still say the same thing, I have laid down there, the hunting ground is yours, I only want what is produced there! ”

With the experience of the last battle in the Ardan River valley, the speed of mobilization of the Sauron troops has increased a lot, and a lot of crops have been harvested in several nearby Daur villages, and nearly 3,000 troops are carrying more than ten days of grain in the direction of Yakutsk. For about three or four days' journey behind them, the brigade of boats, wooden rafts, dogs, sleds, and other means of transportation carried gunpowder, salt, and grain all the way.

Inside the Yakutsk Castle, thousands of miles away from Temple Street. Governor Peter? Golovin stared at the snowflakes falling from the sky in a daze.

During these two years. Among the Rakshasas of the city of Yakutsk, there are more and more legends about the wealth of the Daur region in the Heilongjiang Valley. The area is said to be rich in silver, copper, and lead, and it is said that it was close to the Ming Empire in the distance. Rich land. Tempting wealth. Attracted the Cossacks of Russia.

But. Unlike the thieves and robbers, Golovin knew more about the far-flung and wealthy country than the scumbags, as an official appointed by the Tsar.

Year 1616. After returning to Russia, the Russian Tuminets had been to China, and wrote in his report that the scale of the city of Beijing was "so magnificent that it would take ten days to walk around the city on horseback." He also said that China was rich in gold, silver, raw silk, silk, velvet, wheat, barley, oats, millet, and so on. The abundance of the Ming Dynasty at that time made these Kremlin, who had just recovered Moscow, elect Rimkhail. The Romanovs were surprised as another Russian unlucky Tsar of Russia. (Never mind, before that, the tsar of Russia was not a good errand, and before Mikhail, several tsars did not end well, four lost their heads, and one was deposed.) Even Mikhail himself considered this an unlucky errand. ）

But it was this Tsar Mikhail . Later, in 1618, Fedorovich sent Ivan? Petrin (Петлин) as the envoy, Andrey? An expedition of the Russian mission, of which Мадов was deputy, went to Beijing. Judging by the habits of expeditionary activities and diplomatic practice at that time, it is estimated that there were 12 people. They set out from Tomsk on the day of the Nikolai Festival (May 9) and arrived in Beijing in September of the same year. The cities that the Russians passed through in the territory of the Ming Dynasty were Hirokalga (Широкалка), Shiro (Широ), Yar (Яр), Taita (Тайта), and Baicheng (Белыйгород), according to research, they were Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, Huailai, Nankou, and Changping. On the feast of Saint-Simon (September 1, 1618), they arrived at what they called the Great China City, Peking.

However, because Tsarist Russia at that time had already fought with the Dzungar Ministry in Central Asia, and the two sides won and lost each other, they could not help but arouse the vigilance of the Ming Dynasty court, which had just completed the three major expeditions of Wanli. Despite this, they were properly treated in Beijing and placed in a grand state guesthouse by Ming officials. Later, they embarked on their return journey with a letter from the Wanli Emperor to the Russian Tsar.

"If the Daurs of the Amur Valley are really protected by Count Seris of the Serismin Empire and pay taxes to him, then the interests and authority of our Great Russia in this region will be greatly threatened and challenged."

Locked in the drawer of Golovin's desk was a very tightly sealed report of several Cossacks who had gone on expeditions to the Heilongjiang River valley after they had been released.

Several Rakshasas who had their ears cut off and were released were horrified and did not report to Golovin, the tsar-appointed governor of Yakutsk, about the south:

"We're in the secretary Vasily? Danilovich? Under the command of Poyarkov, they went on an expedition to the Amur and the river basin, from the Lena River system that flows into the Arctic Ocean to the Amur River (Heilongjiang) system that flows into the Pacific Ocean, and they opened up a new road, discovering the Ukhur River and the Gonham River in the upper reaches of the Lena River. Secretary Poyarkov became the first Russian to sail from the mouth of the largest tributary of the Amur River, the Jieya River (known in the Chinese as the Chingchili River), to the mouth of the Amur River, and collected a lot of information about Sakhalin (Sakhalin). ”

"The banks of the river are dotted with Daur cottages, which are made of wood, very strong and spacious, and the windows of the houses are plastered with oiled paper. The Daur people are extremely rich in agricultural products, with reserves of cereals, legumes and other types of grain, and a variety of large livestock and poultry. They wore silk and cotton clothes, and they exchanged locally produced furs for silk, calico, ironware, or other kinds of utensils from the Ming Empire in Seris. ”

"There was an abundance of bounty, and the homes of the Daurs were full of fine furs, and the secretary alone, Lord Poyarkov, received at least a thousand fine sable skins, at least half of which, according to him, were to be given to the Tsar as a tax. Gold is also produced on the riverbank, and we can pick it up from the sands of the river by bowing our heads, and we have snatched it from the Daur people who live by the river. ”

"But here we ran into the army of Seris, who were well armed and had a great deal of firearms, led by a secretary of Count Seris, who said that the Amur River valley and Sakhalin and even Yakutsk had been the territory of Seris since ancient times, and that if we dared to attack, Count Seris would come and attack us with an army of more than 100,000 men and have us torn to pieces."

At this time, the rumors circulating among the filthy Cossacks and exiles in the city of Yakutsk were rooted in the Cossacks who had their ears cut off to make this confession. The experience of being captured in the Trans-Khingan Mountains and the Xilinmudi Valley became their capital when they bragged in taverns and those filthy inferior brothels. The opulence of the Daur territory, the bravery of the army of Count Seris, the fine food in the barracks, the well-equipped weapons and armor of the soldiers, were all topics they boasted about after a few glasses of vodka.

These things, magnified by an infinite multiplier of alcohol, aroused the Cossacks' covetousness for the great riches of that land. Sake is popular, wealth is moving, and although it is the territory of the powerful Count of Iserys, the temptation of things like fur gold mines is too great.

Let these scum who originally went all the way from Europe to Siberia in order to make a fortune be tempted by wealth.

However, they could leap into the action, but Golovin, as the governor of the Yakutsk Governorate District, could not but be cautious. Over the course of the year, he had received news that Fort Amkinsk on the Amga River, Fort Nunsk on the Aldan River, and Fort Olekminsk on the west bank of the upper Lena River had been conquered by the Daurs. (To be continued......)