Magadan, the northernmost territory of the Ming Empire, was the territory of the Chukis to the north and the mysterious Kamchatka Peninsula to the east. Please Baidu search (product book network) to see the most complete! The fastest update! With its many lakes, swamps, and mountains, it looks like an isolated place, but it was still inhabited by natives before the arrival of Ming merchants.

These tribes, who call themselves Sakha people, look like Dahans, or Saurons, as the Manchus call them. They also kept horses, cattle, deer and other livestock, but they fed on dairy products and often fished to supplement their diet.

Before the Ming people discovered Magadan, hundreds of Sakha people here were on the verge of extinction. The extreme climate of the Xiaoice is destroying the common sense of these Sakha people, and their large livestock are constantly freezing to death. The Sakha tribe, which had lost their livestock, could not survive the bitter winter that lasted for more than eight months.

The advent of the Ming people gave these Sakha people the technology and tools to build cities and larger livestock sheds, and taught the Sakha people more efficient fishing methods and heating methods. As a result, these Sakha tribes quickly accepted the rule of the Ming and built the port and city of Magadan, allowing the Ming to establish a stronghold in the northern waters of the Sea of Okhotsk.

With the help of these Sakha people, not only the problem of the shortage of manpower in the far north of the Ming Dynasty was solved, but more importantly, the local geography and various products could be learned from these Sakha people.

There are about 2 to 300 species of fish living in the Sea of Okhotsk, more than 20 kinds of high-value salmon, mantai, cod, and milkfish, not to mention seafood such as herring, saury, sardines, dog cod, mackerel, crabs, shrimp, anchovies, and squid. The most exciting thing is that traces of gold and silver have been found on land. As a result, Magadan has grown from a few hundred inhabitants to a thousand, and has become one of the most important port cities in the northern part of Primorsky Krai.

The only regrettable thing about this area is that there are only more than four months of fishing and shipping in a year, and the rest of the year is covered in snow and ice.

On August 17, a fishing boat laden with fish returned from Magadan to Temple Street at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, but was blown off course by a storm halfway through the boat and drifted all the way to the northwest coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. On this deserted, rocky, steep shore, they found a man who called for help to them.

The captain of the fishing boat sent someone to land to save him, only to discover that he was not a native of the country, but a Russian. The Russian claimed that he had lost his way and appeared on the shoreline, but he refused to tell the captain where he came from and who he had set off with.

The captain refused the request of the Russian, Dmitry Pianda, and he hoped that the captain would take him to Japan or to the Ming Dynasty. Upon arrival at Temple Street, the captain handed over the Russian to the troops stationed at Temple Street.

The idle and bored guerrilla Yere, after hearing about such a strange Russian, personally interrogated him. Demeter Pianda tried to resist Yere's interrogation at first, but his attitude relented after he had been searched for all his belongings and his hidden notebook was found.

And when a Chuko guard tried to throw him into a group of rats that had been hungry for three days, and saw the rats in a water tank more than half a person high, Demeter Pianda finally couldn't help but cry out to Yelei for mercy, and explained his identity and origin and why there was a deserted seaside.

After several repeated inquiries, Yelei finally confirmed that the Cossack named Demeter Pianda was not lying, and then excitedly took the Cossack's expedition diary to Zhao Chengdong to report the good news.

Zhao Chengdong looked at the Cossack's crude map with a look of disdain and said, "This is also called a map? Are you sure he wasn't lying? I don't see it at all, it's the work of a great explorer. ”

Ye Lei cautiously replied: "Whether it is a great explorer or not, Xia Guan is not sure. However, his knowledge of the Siberian continent is probably not nonsense.

He claimed to have discovered the Tunguska River, the largest tributary of the right bank of the Yenisei River, then the Lena River to the north of us, and the Angara River between the Yenisei River and Lake Baikal.

The Yenisei River is the boundary river between the western plain of Siberia and the plateau of Siberia, which originates in the desert steppe and eventually flows into the North Sea. And Lake Baikal is what the Sauron people often call the Western Sea.

According to the Russian, they have built a stronghold in the Lena River to the north of us, called Yakutsk. However, the number of people in this base is small, and the permanent population is less than 100 people. But from the Lena River to the southeast, through what he called the Aldan and Maia rivers, it was possible to reach the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Well, it is also said that these Russians became our neighbors. ”

Zhao Chengdong immediately said unhappily: "This is not good, according to Your Majesty's order, the entire Northern Continent should belong to the Ming Dynasty." Go and bring the man here, let me teach him a lesson, and then let him go back and tell his commander, and let them leave the Lena River quickly, where is also the territory of our Daming. ”

After Zhao Chengdong finished speaking, he found that Ye Lei did not move, so he looked up at him, and before he was about to be angry, Ye Lei hurriedly said to him: "My lord, I am afraid that a lesson alone is not enough to make the Russians leave the Lena River. Moreover, he was only sent by the Russians to explore the way, and he could not have the right to make decisions for those Russians, and letting him go back would undoubtedly be a return to the mountain. Besides, this man, who had traversed almost the entire Siberian region from west to east, had a living map in his head, and the lower officials thought that perhaps His Majesty would be happier to send him to the capital. ”

Zhao Chengdong's face suddenly softened, nodded at Ye Lei and said, "It's okay, then this matter will be arranged by you." Send him back to the capital with this diary, and by the way, have someone write me a report to tell Your Majesty about my hard work here. These Russians are really restless, burrowing into the old woods all day long, what the hell are they trying to do..."

The Russians, despised by Zhao Chengdong, naturally did not delve into the deep mountains and forests of Siberia in order to explore the mysteries of nature, although their actions objectively contributed to the understanding of this region. The ability for Russians to risk their lives in the mountains and forests of Siberia was, of course, to obtain precious furs.

These Siberian skins brought a great deal of wealth to the Russian aristocracy, and naturally won their support for the exploration of Siberia. In order to gain the wealth of Siberia, these Russians did not hesitate to pardon even the most vicious bandits in prison. Then when they see another source of wealth, they will naturally not let go easily.

The so-called other source of wealth naturally refers to the caravans that the country went to Russia for trade. The Russians, whose eating habits are similar to those of the Mongols, naturally have the same strong demand for tea as the Mongols. In the past, the tea trade was controlled by the Mongols, so that ordinary Russians did not have access to tea at all, except for the great nobles and the rich.

But as caravans passed through Mongol-controlled areas and appeared in Russia, the precious drink finally became popular among the Russian hierarchy. In Moscow, a Russian pound of tea is worth 5 rubles, and a Russian pound of tea is worth 2-3 rubles.

40 Russian pounds is equal to one pood is equal to 16.38 kilograms, and one quintal of tea is about 54 taels in China, that is, one pood is about 18 taels, and one Russian pound is 0.45 taels. 1 ruble is exactly equal to one tael of silver, which means that the price of tea has increased tenfold. After deducting freight and taxes, it is enough to benefit 5-6 times.

And 14-25 taels of tea and other tea, the actual profit is even greater. As a result, tea quickly became the main commodity of Russian trade, from 400 cases five years ago to 3,250 cases this year. The value of tea alone is as high as 480,000 rubles, and excluding trade with other countries, the amount of trade between Russia and neighboring countries is just over 1 million rubles.

In other words, in just five years, China has become Russia's largest trading partner. At this rate, Russia's trade will soon exceed Russia's trade with other countries.

Before that, however, the Russians had intercepted five or six caravans heading to Moscow this year in Tomsk. The caravans were neither allowed to continue their journey to Moscow, nor allowed to leave.

Li Zicheng, who escorted the envoy of the Ming Emperor to Moscow, was arrested because he had been to Moscow once. So Li Zicheng, who was supposed to stay in Urumqi to assist Gushi Khan, once again protected the caravan of the envoy and went to Moscow.

On the orders of the envoy, Li Zicheng approached Dmitry Koperov, the tax officer in Tomsk, for negotiations. In the tax officer's office, Li Zicheng very skillfully stuffed a bronze medal into Dmitry Koperov's hand, and whispered to him: "With this bronze medal, you can go to the caravan at any time to get a box of waiting tea." ”

A box of tea over the Ural Mountains is worth 300 rubles, and the tax officer's annual salary is 100 rubles, so Dmitry Koperov's attitude towards Li Zicheng suddenly became enthusiastic.

Although Dmitry Kopelov doesn't know it, he and Li Zicheng are familiar with the Mongolian language, so there is no obstacle for the two to communicate. After understanding Li Zicheng's intentions, Dmitry Koperov thought for a while.

All he was thinking about was how to communicate with this countryman. In this year, the Siberian Affairs Yacha finally became independent from the diplomatic yamen and became a separate yamen reporting to the Tsar, with heads of departments and staff, which, although still based in Moscow, decided all matters concerning Siberia, including the appointment and dismissal of administrative officials in the cities of Topolsk and Tomsk.

And now the obstruction of the caravan is precisely by order of Moscow. Of course, Moscow also demanded that they not scare the countrymen away, and if the caravans refused to come to trade in the future, the great nobles of Moscow would not let go of the head of the Siberian affairs yamen.

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