A jasper lake, dotted across the Junggar Basin, resembles a jewel in the yellow desert.

On both sides of the lake, Baturhun's army was stationed here, with 200,000 men.

Under his rule, the Dzungar Khanate gradually changed from a loose alliance into a khanate, and Batur Hun also changed from a chief to a great khan, who represented the interests of all the nobles of the Oirat Union.

If the Hua Dynasty, like the previous Central Plains Dynasty, only seeks peace and tranquility in the border area, then it is okay to pay tribute to the Hua Dynasty.

But now the Hua Dynasty not only wants fame, but also land and people, which is unbearable for the nobles on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

For them, the two neighbors of the north and south, Tsarist Russia and the Chinese dynasty, were equally terrible, the same greedy.

The Dzungar Khanate, sandwiched in the middle, can not be said to be weak, but the neighbor is too unreasonable, and his arms can't twist his thighs after all.

"Let the messenger of Tsarist Russia come to me."

After saying this, Baturhui, who was sitting in the big tent, seemed to be ten years old, and his ambition and pride had almost been consumed. The Chinese army's pervasive raids and killings made his people and his men no longer trust their Great Khan.

The deafening sound of the explosion made the Dzungar people even more fearful, and under an increasingly formed industrial system, countless shells were produced and delivered to Dzungar every day.

Baturhun himself knew that he was no longer able to resist this shameless style of fighting, and the main force of the Chinese army retreated to the two strongholds of Hami and Wulianghai, sending dozens of cavalry to burn everywhere every day, and then returning after killing.

The spring on the steppe was originally short of grain and pasture, and after they beat it like this for a whole spring, the Dzungar Khanate had run out of food.

The Russian envoy was very tall, and he strode heavily towards the big tent, his face unkind. He came with the Tsar's mission of alliance, but was left to dry in the barracks by Batur for two months, and no one was happy.

In the past two months, he has witnessed the current situation in Dzungaria, and the ferocity and wealth of the Chinese army have also made him dumbfounded, originally their Cossacks were ruthless enough, but these enemies in front of him were obviously more ruthless than himself.

It is no wonder that in the Wuliang Sea in the east, there will be more than 20,000 heads tied to their spears and inserted into the grassland.

Griganov came from a family of local tyrants in the east of Tsarist Russia, the Stroganov family, which is most remembered for the fact that they once conquered the whole of Siberia with more than 1,000 people.

In 1579, Stroganov recruited a Cossack contingent headed by Yermak Tsimofyevich Olenin. In September 1581, Yermak led this army up the Chusovoye River to the Siberian Khanate.

The following year they arrived in the Tobol region and met stubborn resistance from the Mongols. In October 1582, Yermak entered the center of the Siberian Khanate and defeated Kuchum Khan's forces near Kashrek.

In 1584, Yermak was ambushed by Kuchum Khan (Kuchu Khan) in Irtsk and drowned in the Irtysh River in defeat. In 1598, the Russian army finally defeated Kuchum Khan and completed the conquest of the Siberian Khanate.

Similar to Hou Xuanyan's capture of Nanyang, Tsarist Russia was able to conquer Siberia, not because of how strong Muscovy was, but because the feudal tyrants of the Eastern Slavs transformed into industrial and commercial city-states, with amazing strength and a strong desire to expand.

At the time of the collapse and collapse of the Mongol Golden Horde, some great nobles gradually grew into modern industrial and commercial power groups under the stimulation of Western Europe, and successively took over some of the territories of the original khanate.

The Stroganov family is one of the best, and their industry is no longer a simple agricultural estate, but an entity that integrates real estate, castle fortresses, agriculture and animal husbandry, primary industries (salt, fur, mining, smelting, chemicals, etc.) and international trade.

Take the Stroganov family, who had 15,000 men in their service on one of their large estates, and the family guard grew into a well-equipped private army.

In the past, the pastoral songs, gathering and hunting, the native clans, the warriors of swords and arrows... These images are slowly disappearing. It turned into a military building of Tsarist Russia, which housed the original herdsmen, which made the process of conquest so fast. In short, one by one, it is broken one by one, and the income is under the account, and it continues to expand.

There are more than 100 small ethnic groups in Siberia, and there are dozens of larger ethnic groups, except for the Siberian Khanate, which has never organized a large-scale resistance, at most four or five thousand people, and at least tens of hundreds. As a result, indigenous resistance is largely negligible.

Of course, Hou Xuanyan's practice of the Chinese Dynasty was more stable, and he directly integrated the vast grasslands of Mobei into the advanced Chinese Dynasty system, and strengthened the control of the imperial court. Although Tsarist Russia got Siberia, these lands were actually in the hands of local wealthy families. After Hou Xuanyan captured it, it became the state capital under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

When he came to the big tent in Baturhun, Griganov still expressed his respect, and he made a standard salute in imitation of the Dzungar salute.

"Honorable Great Khan, have you decided to cooperate with us?" There was no schadenfreude or pleasure in Griganov's words, he was a Cossack, and his ability to hide arrogance and arrogance so well shows that he was not an ordinary person.

After listening to the words of the translator, Baturhun said in a deep voice: "The Chinese are powerful, and neither Dzungar nor Tsarist Russia can resist alone, only if we unite can we stop this group of bandits." ”

Griganov already knew clearly that Tsarist Russia was simply unable to defeat the Chinese Dynasty, and their forces in Dzungaria alone would be enough to level Europe. Now it is only the terrain and the weather that can resist them. As long as the Dzungars agreed to the entry of Tsarist Russia, resisted the Chinese army together, and blocked them in the steppe, it would be a good thing for Tsarist Russia.

They mainly have to stay with the Chinese in Siberia, where the weather is freezing and the advantage of the Chinese will become smaller.

Why Tsarist Russia attaches so much importance to Siberia is, in fact, in the final analysis, the same as Hou Xuanyan's idea of Nanyang, Siberia can bring them endless money.

There was a strong demand for Russian fur products in Western Europe, Russian fur had "fabulous prices", and Leipzig also had a market for Russian furs. Fur in Siberia, no less than the opium trade of the future British Empire, was a real lucrative.

In 1586 alone, Siberia provided 200,000 mink, 10,000 black fox skins, and 500,000 gray squirrel skins.

From the Wanli period onwards, the profits of Siberian fur accounted for one-third of all the income of the Russian Empire.

In the Age of Discovery, where capital gradually revealed its hideous face, all disputes were because of money!

As a member of the Stroganov family, of course, Agnov was unwilling to fight with the Chinese army together with the Dzungar Khanate for the benefit of Tsarist Russia, and their ultimate goal was to keep their east. Therefore, he stated his thoughts again, which was nothing more than how to ensure Batur Hun's absolute power in Dzungaria after sending troops.

Baturhun was very moved when he heard this, he did not expect that the Tsarist Russians not only did not have a lion to open their mouths, but were uncharacteristically so humble.

"If you can really do it, Ben Great Khan will let you enter Dzungaria and deal with the Chinese army together."

After so long of despair, he finally saw a little hope, which was enough to make Baturhun very excited.

It was in this tent that the two sides signed the covenant at a time when an encounter was taking place in distant Siberia.

Two hundred Japanese soldiers, in the mountains of Eastern Siberia, encountered the expedition leader Stepanov, who was known for his cruelty.

In the icy jungle, tall and burly Cossacks couldn't help but laugh when they looked at the dwarf widows.

The difference in height between the two is so obvious that at first glance it looks like two species, and Stepanov said with a smile: "These are the people who beat Khabarov and fled back to the west?" ”

The weather was too cold, and the firearms on both sides were greatly reduced, and hand-to-hand combat became the way of this battle.

In terms of form, although there were many Japanese soldiers, their size was too small. Stepanov did not pay any attention to them, drew his short knife and rubbed it on his boots, there was still a trace of blood on them, and these vicious expeditions came to the East, hardly a day without killing.

The leader of the Japanese army was Sakai Yoshimitsu, whose brother had buried 80,000 samurai of the Tokugawa family in Joseon, and if it were not for the help of the Chinese army, the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate would have ended.

However, the Sakai family was an important commander of the Tokugawa family, and Tokugawa Iemitsu promoted his younger brother Sakai Yoshimitsu to take charge of the army for himself in place of his brother.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's hand was very beautiful, and he successfully won over many old ministers and made them die for Tokugawa.

The samurai under his command are all samurai who have been carefully trained by the Sakai family for generations, so they are not very afraid of opponents who are so different in size.

Sakai Yoshimitsu flipped over the sword in his hand and said in a low and hoarse voice: "The honor of the family is just a battle, everyone, please!" ”

It was a battle that was comparable to that of a wild beast, and although the swords in the hands of the Japanese soldiers were short, they were as sharp as clay. The Cossacks, who paid attention to firearms, had their spears in their hands like toys, almost breaking when they touched them.

With the bravery of the samurai and the superiority of their blades, the Japanese soldiers and Cossacks were killed in one place, and the blood soon stained the snow forest.

The beasts that came with the smell hid in the distance and did not dare to show their heads, and they also smelled an even more dangerous breath.

At the end of April of the first year of the Heavenly Hunt, the Japanese soldiers assigned by the Chinese Dynasty to go to the north to kill the enemy wiped out the last of the three major expeditions of Tsarist Russia.

The last limping Sakai Yoshimitsu took four disabled Japanese soldiers back to the village of the Sauron people in the Heilongjiang Valley.

The Japanese who were greeted like heroes were not happy, and they came strong, and now only a few crippled men remained. It's all for other countries, and Japan has limited benefits from it. But the Shitokugawa family is happy, and he finally has a bargaining chip again, and he can reach out with Hua Chao.

The combat ability of the Japanese soldiers was the condition for Tokugawa Nobumitsu and Hou Xuanyan to invite merit and reward, and when he was excitedly planning to write a letter to put forward the conditions, he suddenly felt a cramp in his heart.

The attendants around panicked and stepped forward one after another, helping Tokugawa Iemitsu to the bed. A doctor in traditional Japanese costumes, who arrived in a hurry, could not cure his illness. I didn't even know what disease Tokugawa Iemitsu had, and the news spread in Edo, and even Gong Zifang sent the best military doctor of the naval division stationed in Japan, but he still couldn't see what the disease was.

Three days later, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face was ruddy, and he regained his senses, and everyone knew that he was returning to the light.

The forty-eight-year-old Tokugawa Iemitsu was not very old, but his death at this time greatly exceeded the average life expectancy of the Japanese people. After all, it's not modern, and a little strange disease may kill people.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's trembling hands regained their former wrist strength, sat at the head of the bed and looked at the ministers in the wooden house, and sighed:

"I took over the position of shogun from my father, and under the canonization of the Emperor of the Chinese Dynasty, I became the lord of Japan, and from now on we will be the lord of Japan forever. Japan hangs alone on the sea, does not border other countries, even if there are advantages and disadvantages, you assist my heirs, you must remember that until it surpasses the Hua Dynasty, it will always be our Japanese division. ”

The people kneeling at the bottom said yes one after another, and I don't know how many people really listened, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was helpless for a while. At this time, he remembered his beloved general, Sakai Nobumitsu, who almost killed himself. At the beginning, he once told himself that he must learn from the Hua Dynasty and surpass the Hua Dynasty, so that only here can Japan stand on the ground.

Tokugawa Iemitsu frowned slightly, sat at the head of the bed, and slowly closed his eyes when he was thinking about it.

The historical Tokugawa Iemitsu also died in this year, and fate was like a ruthless turntable that did not stop for him.

In the first year of Tenkari, when the Japanese soldiers were in the northern border, Tokugawa Iemitsu, who heard the news, suddenly fell ill in Edo and died immediately at the age of 48.

The second son Tokugawa Ietsuna, who was only ten years old, succeeded to the throne, this son's nickname is Takechiyo, and there was a little problem with his intelligence When Tokugawa Iemitsu was dying, he left him a one-word suicide note, written with two men: Xuechao

Takechiyo still can't understand it, and he doesn't have time to understand it now, the various forces of the Tokugawa family are staring at their own throne.

Fortunately, with the assistance of his uncle Masayuki Hoshina and the elder Sakai Tadakatsu, the elder Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and Abe Tadaaki, the situation in Japan was quickly stabilized.

Later, after the burial of Tokugawa Iemitsu, he sent someone to the Chinese Dynasty to report the funeral and ask the Chinese Emperor to canonize the Japanese lord.

Tokugawa Iemitsu admired his grandfather, Tokugawa Ieyasu, so his son buried him in Rinoji Temple in Nikko, known as Daiyu-in.

The Tokugawa Ietsuna abolished the funeral system and banned all entertainment throughout Japan.

Gong Zifang took this opportunity to sneak back to Jinling again and met Hou Xuanyan. This time, he got his wish and stayed in Jinling, and Hou Xuanyan sent Fan Xian as the new admiral of the naval division in Japan, focusing on stabilizing the turbulent situation in Japan.

The island nation is now its own gold medal beater, a supplier of raw materials, and a favorite dumping place for Chinese merchants.