Chapter 973: The Greedy Russian Empire

From 1462 to 1533, after Russia completed the expansion of the west, that is, west of the Ural Mountains, they began to go north and northwest, that is, to seize their western access to the sea, and to fight against the Baltic and other principalities, and in just thirty years they annexed many small khanates, advancing their territory 450 kilometers to the south, and at the same time they advanced eastward and southward.

From 1533 to 1598, they destroyed the khanates of the descendants of Genghis Khan of Mongolia, the three largest khanates, the Kazan Khanate, the Astara Khanate, and the Noghai Khanate, which were the Mongol khanates west of the Ural Mountains and the lower reaches of the Volga River, and then they crossed the Ural Mountains and developed eastward, destroying many small Mongol khanates along the way, extending to present-day West Asia and conquering the khanates, until 1610, and in the next thirty years, Russia's military border line has moved about 450 kilometers to the south; During the same period, Russian colonization extended almost 4,500 kilometers to the east, encroaching on vast areas from the Ob River to the Pacific coast.

At that time, most of the peoples of Eastern Siberia were still in the stage of clan social development, and small groups of Russian adventurers, driven by the huge profits from furs, advanced along the river, killing and capturing the indigenous population in large numbers along the way. In 1647 the Russian colonists arrived in the Sea of Okhotsk and in 1648 in the northeastern corner of Asia.

At the same time, Russian adventurers set foot in the Heilongjiang River valley and began to encroach on Chinese territory, and were forced to agree to peace negotiations after being attacked head-on by the Qing dynasty. In 1689, the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu was signed, which legally affirmed that the vast areas of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri River basins, including Sakhalin Island, were Chinese territory.

These are the histories of later generations, but this life is roughly the same, but when the Russian adventurers came to the borders of the Great Qing Kingdom, the situation was very different, well, maybe it was not bad at first, and the Russian adventurers still took some advantage, because at that time, the Great Qing Kingdom had not yet recognized the power of firearms, or already knew that firearms were powerful, but in fact they all disdained to use firearms, and those who used firearms were some prisoners of the Ming army, or Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi, At that time, when the Russian adventurers did not realize it in the Qing Dynasty and did not take precautions, they achieved some victories and successfully gained a firm foothold at the gate of the Great Qing Dynasty.

And developed, built the city, and began to colonize the people, harassing the people of the Qing Dynasty, capturing some Mongolian tribes and the Jurchen Hai people who were still in a primitive state, but later the Qing Dynasty in Hong Chengchou and some people were sharp in firearms, and most of the country was seized by the Jinhua Righteous Army, the firearms of the Qing Dynasty began to develop, but only limited to the Han army flag and the green battalion soldiers, the Qing soldiers still disdained these firearms.

So they just started to interact with the Russians, always suffered, until the Huaxia army crossed the Yangtze River, destroyed the Lu State, the Qing Dynasty forced away Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou in the Ryukyu Kingdom after the reconstruction, the Qing Dynasty reorganized the soldiers and horses, and found someone to teach the Russian adventurers, under the power of half-baked firearms, the Russians suffered a lot of losses, but after all, some adventurers, horse bandits, therefore, they retreated, and then they found Russian military personnel, these professional responsible for colonization, occupation, and war personnel came over.

The Great Qing Kingdom suffered a big loss, signed some treaties, and so on destroyed the Dajin Kingdom, their firearms and soldiers and horses have developed to be able to compete with the Huaxia Kingdom, and have been tempered in the battle with the Great Jin Kingdom, so they came back and beat away the Russian military service personnel, at that time there was no morality to talk about, the Russians came, and the people of the Great Qing Kingdom here were either captured and reduced to serfs, or were slaughtered, after the Great Qing Kingdom returned, it was also concocted, and all the Russian military service personnel were killed and the land was re-seized.

Because of the aggressiveness of the Huaxia Kingdom, they began to seek a way back, immigrating some Manchus and some Han bannermen here, using the land and houses built by the Russian military servicemen, cities, and residences, and preventing the Russians from coming back, the Russians came back, bringing the Tsar's Cossack cavalry, so the war was waged in firearms and Mongol-style horse warfare, which had geographical advantages, and the Qing Dynasty, which fought locally, successfully resisted the attack of the Russians, and followed the footsteps of the Russian attack, The Russians found their strongholds and cities in Eastern Siberia, destroyed them, and after retreating for a while, built their own cities and stationed troops and horses.

As the situation became tense, the Chinese Empire seized Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture and attacked Hebei Prefecture, the Qing Dynasty felt more and more nervous, increased its immigration efforts, and sent some captured Chinese Empire soldiers and horses and some fleeing Han Chinese here, and at the same time sent some people who were sentenced to exile here, and began to renew the blood of the Qing Dynasty here.

The Russians suffered a big loss, stopped for a while, and came back again after a while, bringing a lot of horse bandits, military service personnel, and more adventurers, serfs, and the Qing Kingdom began a ten-year war with Russia, although the scale of the war was not large, but it also made the Qing feel nervous and headaches, but in their opinion, this was just a retreat, not a vital matter, so they only sent a small number of soldiers and horses, with the firearms and war horses they understood to resist the attack of the Russians.

And the Russians fought with them while exploring the Arctic Ocean, and finally occupied the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island in the Okhots Strait, which bordered Japan, Goguryeo, and the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty had to escalate the war, and specially sent a commander to command the battle, on the fat piece of meat on the cockscomb of the Chinese map, the two sides, or the three parties, the four sides fought lively, but because the main focus of the Qing Dynasty was still the Central Plains, or to resist the approach of the Chinese Empire, so the scale of the battle could not go up, The Russians couldn't wipe it out, the Qing Dynasty couldn't wipe out the Russians, and the Russians couldn't occupy the thick slice of meat on top of the cockscomb, so the two sides still fought a war of attrition for nearly a decade.

It wasn't until Kangxi had to withdraw from Yanjing that he realized the importance of where it was, and thought of looking for a way out for the Manchus further east and north, that he increased his troops, and the Russians could not resist at this time.

Although they have been developing to the east and south since 1533, and have established many cities, some cities are still too few in this nearly thousands of kilometers of territory, unable to reserve a large number of combat strength and population, so they were repelled by the Qing Dynasty and lost hundreds of kilometers of land, and the Qing Dynasty would not stand on a high place to overlook Siberia at all and was also satisfied with these hundreds of kilometers of land, so there was no persecution against the Russians, this is the people cultivated in this land of China, with limited vision, limited ability and productivity, It will not develop like Russia, which from 1462 to 1689, for nearly two centuries, has been constantly expanding its territory, constantly eastward, eastward, southward, even if it is blocked here, they still have to develop towards the sea and West Asia, and their footsteps have not stopped.

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