Chapter 253: Zhenbei City (Page 1/1)

During the entire battle, those Tile Thorns didn't move at all, watching the two sides fight, with a blank look in their eyes, for them, whoever wins the battle, their fate cannot be changed.

Zhang Zongling ordered the overseers to be put into custody and then began to interrogate. Through a complex multi-directional translation, it was finally realized that these overseers were actually nothing more than some merchants of the Rakshasa Kingdom, who had built the city here to facilitate their collection of furs.

From here, to the northwest, is the original Obil Khanate, which, after annexing the Kazan Khanate and the Astrakhan Khanate more than 30 years ago, sent troops to the Obir Khanate, killed Kuchum Khan, and claimed a large area of land there.

And the people who built the city were not actually Vashorns, but slaves of the former Lost Bil Khanate, and of course they also belonged to the Tatars. After they were destroyed, they were forced by these Rakshasas, who called themselves Cossacks, to build a city here.

After Zhang Zongling figured out these things, he told these Tatars through a translator that now Mongolia has submitted to the Ming Dynasty, so everyone is now a Ming country, no longer a slave of the Rakshasas. But now they can continue to build the city here, and when the city is built, they can live in the city, waiting for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to send a strong army to help them restore their homeland.

The Rakshasas were extremely unfriendly to the Tatars, and if they disagreed, they would be killed directly, so the Tatars were extremely resentful of the Rakshasas. But the Rakshasas were advanced in their weapons, they had monsters that could breathe fire, and they didn't use knives to kill people at all, so the Tatars had to submit to the rule of the Rakshasas. And now these Ming people, who are similar to themselves, have more powerful firearms than the Rakshasa people, and say that they are no longer slaves, and they can let themselves live in the city after building the city, of course, no one will refuse such a good thing.

Zhang Zongling selected some of these Tatars as leaders, let them lead the Tatars to build cities, and even handed over the Rakshasa arquebuses to them for safekeeping, and this trust quickly won the Tatars' allegiance.

Zhang Zongling decided to use this place as a base, he asked a bureau of soldiers to be stationed here to protect it, and he led his people to continue north along the Lena River, and destroyed two strongholds of the Rakshasas, and concentrated all the food that could be collected in Zhenbei City (the tentative name of Yakutsk) to ensure the food supply in winter.

At this point, you can see the correctness of sending only a small force. The northern part of the country is sparsely populated and the weather is cold, so it is not easy to find food, and it is always easier to solve the food problem with a small army than a large army.

When the cold winter came, Zhenbei City was finally repaired. Although there were still some gaps in the walls, at least the stone houses for habitation had been built, and the large trees that had long been cut down to dry had been split into pieces of firewood, and the fish taken from the ice in the river could meet half of the food needs, and both the Guards and the Tatars had spent a bitter winter in the city.

Zhang Zongling did not want to let go of this long winter, so he let the guards in down jackets go fishing, let the locals he brought with him go hunting, and let the Tatars start learning Chinese. This is almost one of the favorite things to do in the Ming army, because when the officers are learning in the martial arts hall, the instructor repeatedly emphasizes that the most effective way to conquer foreign races is to let them sinicize, at this time, the least force, but the fastest effect, and once and for all. And the first step of sinicization is to speak Chinese. Every day groups of Tatars can be seen running around with a guard, chanting: "Water, fish, snow......"

And after Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Zongling's recital was reported to the capital, Zhu Youxiao was stunned. Isn't this exactly how the Rakshasas took Siberia back then? After hearing that Yakutsk was captured by the Guards, the emperor immediately ordered to hold this place at all costs, and named this place Zhenbei City according to Zhang Zongling's wishes. After the beginning of spring, he ordered to continue the march to the north based on the city of Zhenbei, and strive to build more castles along the Lena River, so that the Ming army could actually occupy this area.

The ministers had objections to the capture of such a place where there was no production at all, but when Zhu Youxiao took out the animal skins sent by Zhang Zongling, this objection disappeared. The quality of these furs was much better than that produced in Liaodong, and the shopkeepers offered at least five times as much as Liaodong furs. And Zhang Zongling believes that as long as there are enough people, the fur here can be said to be inexhaustible.

With only five or six hundred men, it was possible to occupy a place capable of producing a large number of high-quality furs, and the ministers would of course settle the account. After Zhu Youxiao instructed the newspaper to publish the news that there were a large number of high-quality furs for sale in Zhenbei City, which could be exchanged for grain, the domestic fur merchants were boiling. Merchants are the most profit-seeking creatures, and the furriers have organized convoys and are ready to wait for the weather to warm up before heading to the north of the town.

At this time, the geography department in the newspaper to everyone to popularize the climate and environment near the north of the town, everyone knew that when spring comes, the frozen soil begins to melt after it is actually more difficult to walk, winter is the best season to go to the north of the town, just need to prepare a cold down jacket, rubber raincoat and face oil. And there are two options for the route, one is to go northeast after passing the desert, which is the western route; One is to go northwest after passing Hulun Lake, which is the eastern line. Each of these two routes has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it is up to each businessman to choose according to his own situation.

Most of the fur traders chose the eastern front, as the Hulun River was now occupied by the Horqin tribe, which had extremely good relations with the Ming Dynasty. The merchants brought the goods needed by the Horqin people into the grassland, and then exchanged dried beef and mutton with them, which was equivalent to making the first business, and then brought the beef and mutton and wheat noodles into the northern city of Zhenbei in exchange for a large amount of furs.

Of course, there are also those who choose the western front, such as the merchants who set off from Shanxi and other places, of course, will not go around Liaodong, they bring goods and Mobei Mongolia to do business, then bring the exchange of camels and horses, cattle and sheep into the north of the town, live cattle and sheep were also welcomed by Zhang Zongling, anyway, there are grasslands near the north of the town, and the local Tatars can also graze.

The arrival of a large number of caravans made Zhang Zongling have to increase the number of hunters in order to supply more furs. The royal caravanserais, on the other hand, brought in large quantities of potatoes, sweet potatoes and wheat seeds, as well as some vegetable seeds. Because Zhang Zongling's subordinates feel that eating meat and fish every day is really unbearable, they still need some bread and noodles to adjust the taste.

And with the north of the town as the center, there are many Tatar villages. Their original way of life was to graze, fish, and hunt, and when the Guards arrived, they provided them with seeds, cattle and sheep, taught them new tools and methods of fishing and hunting, and traded "fairly" with their goods, and collected only one in ten taxes. These measures made the Tatars have an excellent impression of the Ming people, and compared to the Rakshasas, these Ming people are really too kind.

After the beginning of spring, Zhang Zongling left the troops of one bureau in Zhenbei City, and he took another bureau to begin to explore along the lower reaches of the Lena River, and the emperor asked him to eliminate the Rakshasa forces he encountered, and put both sides of the Lena River in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

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