The three cities of Rostov-on-Don, Suzdal, and Vladimir were encircled on the northeast side of Moscow as if they were Moscow's encirclement, preventing Moscow from advancing further northeast. Vyatka is farther away, but it can block Moscow's road to the east.

Leaving Nizhny Novgorod was a face-saving face for the newly appointed Grand Duke. Of course, it is also to let him take a break.

As for the destruction of the century-old family business in Moscow? Qin Cangcai didn't care. If you have the ability, you can fight for another hundred years to take back all these territories.

Kaluga is all about playing. Aleksandrov was a close confidant of the previous generation, and he just left a nail in the coffin for himself to attack Moscow again.

The Grand Duke's edicts were distributed one after another, and the rewards and tributes were also received in their hands, of course, Qin Cang's rewards were all exquisite founding gold and silver coins, so several principalities that had spent a lot of money had no resentment, and the only unlucky Grand Duchy of Moscow, they had no right to speak. Qin Cang is about to hurry home.

November has arrived, and Qin Cang has to bring the army home before the New Year. It took more than 30 days when I came, and it was easy to leave when I went back. After all, when you come, you go upstream, and when you return, you go downstream.

Withdrawing from Kaluga to Bryansk, and then moving quickly south along the Desna River, it took the army eleven days to return to Chernihiv.

At this time, Chernihiv had not yet recovered from the fighting, and when he saw the army approaching from afar, the whole city scattered and fled into the forest.

At this moment, everyone is home, everyone knows that the New Year is coming, and no one still has thoughts about this broken city.

Heading south down the river, we arrived in Kiev in four days.

Kiev at this time is already very different. The entire cement wall is lined up in the northern part of the castle. At this time, Kiev was not as big as the later Kiev, but it was also a city that had been built over hundreds of years. Such rapid construction was due to Qin Cang's idea of developing two jurisdictions before he left.

Kiev was divided into two parts by such a cement wall. The northern half was home to Han Chinese, Jews and Slavic aristocrats. The southern half of the district is where civilians live. Such a clear class division is of course a good thing for the Han people.

After a short rest in Kiev, the Tatar troops left. But before leaving, they learned something new.

On the Uday River, a new city was built, called Dai County. (present-day Priluki, Ukraine). On the Sura River, east of Dai County, another city called Lu County (present-day Lublin, Ukraine) appeared. In the southeastern part of Lu County, in present-day Poltava, Ukraine, on the Volskla River, a new city was built, Po County.

These three prefectures represent the determination of the government to promote the development of Ruthenia! You know, other places are waiting for the population! Especially in Don River Mansion and Banhe Mansion, the life of the perennial stepmother is too hard. This time, it was hard to snatch the approval of two counties, and who knew that three new counties would be drawn on Ruthenia immediately! Oh my God.

The sturdy ship went all the way forward with iron ramming.

It's breaking the ice.

The Dnieper is frozen in winter. The ice in the north is very thick, so you can march directly on the river, and the boat is also towed. But when it comes downstream, who knows if the ice is thick or not? What if even the boat capsizes?

From here, you have to go all the way down. This is where part of the Dnieper is not so good.

After Changjin County, I arrived at Qingpu County.

Qingpu County was listed as a county immediately after the city was built, which was Meng Zhuoyan's order to balance Yin Zhang Chenglin, the capital of Jianye Mansion. After all, Jianye Mansion can be regarded as a person born to his own mother and raised by his stepmother. Up to now, it is a Shuangbi County, although Jinguancheng is in Jianye Mansion, but it is under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Court directly under the central government........

After arriving in Shuangbi County, he simply did not take the waterway.

There are outposts from Shuangbi County to the south as far as the Perekop Isthmus (the border between Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula).

And on the Perekop Isthmus, a new county has been set up, called Tongyuan County.

As the name suggests, this county is far away. Sometimes the waterway doesn't work well, so take the land route. From Xin'an County to the northwest, to Tongyuan County on the Perekop Isthmus, and then north to Shuangbi County, this is a short-distance trade route by land.

Tongyuan County was originally also a commercial inn. It was only later that the population gathered and slowly became a town. This time, after replenishing part of the population, the county was chosen.

Follow the road to Xin'an County, which has been listed as a state.

The area is populated by a large population and is responsible for the operation of the leather and wool business in Akakyo. There are also industries in the region, such as the cultivation of figs.

After drinking with Qin Tiles and Qin Si and his father and son all night, Qin Cang set off home again the next morning.

Finally, on December 26, Qin Cang returned to Chijing.

The feeling of coming home is wonderful. There are five women in the family waiting for you to come back, and three sons and one daughter are there. That's all there is to it.

This is the end of the year 1454.

Merchants living in cities such as Kafa, Chikyo, and Phra (Anapa) do not understand why they have started celebrating the Spring Festival only after a month has passed since the New Year. However, the fiery festive atmosphere still led to a new wave of trade growth.

In Sukhumi, Trabzon and Sinop, Han Chinese in the barns lit firecrackers, danced lion dances through the streets, pasted couplets, and sang operas...... The fiery atmosphere even summoned Sultan Ismir of the Kandal Sultanate.

And in Constantinople, the day is especially lively. Residents of Constantinople, who had already seen the fiery atmosphere of the Han Chinese last year, gathered near Chinatown to watch the fireworks and lion dances in the sky.

It takes courage to dance a lion on a high shelf, one wrong step. How to take the stage, how to brush beautifully, how to win the hydrangea, this is all exquisite.

The two lion dance teams scrambled on the field and competed fiercely around a hydrangea in the middle.

This is in Constantine Square.

If it weren't for the obstruction of the Greek officials, the Han Chinese would have almost put the lion dance on the Justinian Pillar! If this is the case, it can be regarded as digging the ancestral graves of the Greeks. It's like jumping on the grave of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

As the year drew to a close, Constantine XI stood at the window, watching the brilliant fireworks rising in the distance.

"It's beautiful. It's a pity that he didn't have a relationship with me. Constantine XI thought so.

The New Year in Constantinople passed in such a state of prosperity (the two colonies of the Golden Horn and the port of Sofia) and misery in between.

Not long after, news came from Akakyo that Artenis was pregnant.