"It is hard to imagine that China's attitude towards the northern territories and towards the Russians has changed so much in the past 20 years, and this tough attitude is not only manifested in the Russians, but also in the control of Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia, and they have formed a degree of influence over these places that Russia did not care about before, and now it seems that this is an irreparable mistake," Zhugrev said. It means that they can form a variety of effective forces against us - and this is entirely against the Russian Empire! ”

"The Chinese have also calculated the right time," the military attache said helplessly, "We are waging war with the Ottoman Turks, and we cannot afford to look east." ”

"They also pulled our enemies in central and southern Europe, well," Zhu Lev had to admit his helplessness, "now we can only hope that the two governors' palaces will form an effective blow to them, and as long as they can achieve a relatively large victory, the Chinese will be able to find us to sit down and talk." ”

The attendant came to say, "The Japanese ambassador has come and said that he wants to see your lordship." ”

"Japan?" Zhu Grev frowned slightly, "What is he here for?" ”

"Japan seems to hate China," said the military attaché, "and want to help?" ”

"Japan does not measure its strength, and its navy has not developed much, so it dares to oppose the Chinese, and this has become a joke of various countries."

"But they are also very hardworking, my lord, and spent millions of silver on warships last year alone."

"Well, now that he's here, we can't be rude, maybe there's a surprise." Jugrev stood up, "Please come in, Mr. Ambassador." ”

The diminutive Japanese ambassador entered the room, and Zhugrev stood up. After shaking hands, the Japanese ambassador was invited to sit down, and the servant came up with tea and coffee, "Mr. Ambassador, what do you want to drink, tea?" Orientals love tea. ”

"No, thank you. I need coffee. The Japanese ambassador looked serious and unsmiling, "The whole country of Japan is actively learning from the West and getting rid of all the bad habits and rules of the Easterners." "So I want coffee.

"Very good move," Zhu Grev praised insincerely, adding sugar to his coffee, and was about to say something when the Japanese ambassador took the initiative to speak: "We in Great Japan are very sympathetic to your country in the north for the rude and immoral invasion of the Qing State, and I have received instructions from home. He was willing to advance and retreat with the Russians and resist the hegemonic expansion of the Qing state in the Far East. ”

Zhugrev thanked him, but he asked another question, "It's not that I'm being rude, Mr. Ambassador, I understand that your march is not just a verbal protest, but, with all due respect." Your country does not have a force projection on the Asian continent, is your country ready to fight against the Qing together with Russia? I'm a diplomat. But I also care a lot about the actual interests of the country, and I believe that your country is the same, and it will not be like some ancient and decaying countries, which will only do superficial work. We need to make real moves. ”

The Japanese ambassador stood up, leaned forward and whispered something in Zhugrev's ear. Zhugrev's eyes widened, and the hand holding the coffee cup trembled.

On April 28, the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, the lord of Kokand led the regimental training of various departments, crossed the Moke Ridge, and arrived at the territory of Kokand. The leaders of the various ministries who were oppressed by the Russians followed one after another, and the lord of Kokand carried a document from the Lifan Yuan and the Governor's Yamen - no grade, but the ministries respected like a god, because as long as they passed his review, they could receive the canonization documents of the Chinese and the amazing weapons and equipment, of course, these were not given in vain, at least they had to come forward together to attack Russia, in order to show their heart to go one way to the end, some people were quite skeptical, if the Chinese gave up Kokand in the future, what would happen?

The clerk dismissed, "Your Excellency the Governor is on the border, if you don't believe him, just ask him about the old man." We not only brought soldiers, but also money, and we wanted to do business. ”

In this way, everyone no longer doubts, one after another, even if the Chinese are gone in the future, now this Russian oppressive gas, good will come out, what kind of national self-reliance people now clearly understand, it is not as good as the previous existence of the Kokand country, such a few joint forces, and the powerful armed deterrence of the various departments, in a few days, easily surrounded the important town of western Kokand - Andijan, where there had been a riot before and was bloodily suppressed by Russian cavalry, but the people hated the Russians, and secretly opened the city gate that night, Led the lord of Kokand into the city, he ordered all Russian soldiers to be executed, in order to show the heart of the Russian decision, the golden sign of the lord of Kokand wanted to be effective, and in a few days, he regained Namugan, Margalang two important towns by the river, and Andijan formed a corner, approaching the capital of Kokand, at this time the Sikobelev, who had repelled the return of the Turk tribe, had just arrived in the capital of Kokand, and after a few days of repair, the army went out to prepare for a decisive battle with the lord of Kokand and other coalition forces, but he did not expect that the army would shrink to Andijan and other three cities. And the cavalry fled, fanning the flames everywhere, and opened the road to the Bukhara Khanate, echoing each other, at this time the Turkestan Department appeared in the north of the Yibo Sea, the Turkestan Governor sent several cavalry attacks, have never met the people of the Turkut Department head-on, and later learned that there is the White Lotus Sect as a guide to be familiar with the local water and soil, and the Turghat Department is quite amazing, they go everywhere, people are unguardable, and the local natives have turned a blind eye, opening the door to the Turkut Department, They brought the best goods and weapons, and Russia was too busy to take care of itself, of course, to take care of the children and grandchildren who were also immortal.

Although there was no actual battle for the Grand Lama's journey north, everywhere he went, all the tribes were much more emboldened, and all the officials sent by Russia were expelled, and everyone only listened to the Buddha's decree of the Lama of Chenghua Temple. There is almost a power vacuum here, and it is conceivable that in the future, the dispatch of Chinese officials will also be a matter of course.

The actions of the Kokand state were very close to the predictions in Russia, and after suffering several defeats, the so-called training army retreated to the three cities of Andijan, no longer seeking territorial needs to the west, but united with the other two khanates, and the Bukhara Khanate and others disobeyed the Russians, but did not dare to openly resist, this result made Zhugrev very depressed, but the other good news made him overjoyed. (To be continued.) )