The three Tao Li outside Jilin City entered Jilin City under the leadership of the platoon commander, and if the tall city walls of Jilin City shocked Tao Li, the scene in the city would be shocked.

Jilin City is exactly what the Han city looks like, and in the middle of the city is a drum tower, which is responsible for reporting the time and reporting the war to the four military gates. There are two main streets in the north and south and east and west, which meet here in the Drum Tower, dividing the whole Jilin City into four parts. The urban planning of Jilin City is similar to that of other Han Chinese cities, with the northern city being the official office, the eastern city being the residential area, the western city being the workshop, and the southern city being the entertainment district.

Tao Li and others entered the city from the north gate, which was not the most prosperous place in Jilin, but this also dazzled Tao Li and others.

Tao Li came from a small tribe, and the population of the Taha tribe was only more than 300 people at its peak, and after the defeat of the Oroqen people, the population plummeted to 50 or 60 people.

Tao Li used to think that the envoy deer tribe on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River was the largest tribe, and there were more than 4,000 of them, but when he arrived in Jilin City, he knew that he had decided to do so.

In addition to the shipyard and military camp of the Ming Dynasty, Jilin City is also an important transportation artery in the Northeast, where there are more than 7,000 soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, plus the Han people who are distributed, and other tribes around, there are more than 10,000 people in Jilin City, plus the shipyard and military camp outside the city, a total of more than 30,000 people.

It was the first time Tao Li had seen so many people, and it was the first time he had seen those who were supposed to be mortal enemies living together peacefully. The Evenks and the Oroqen hooked up with each other, and the Mongols and Solon fought over a piece of fur, and this kind of national reconciliation was the first time Tao Li had seen it.

Tao Li looked at the number of people, while the two girls, Yinji Khan and Hana, were greedy for the goods on the market. The colorful cloths, the sacks of grain, and the piles of snow-white salt. Yinji Khan knew how important salt was to his tribe, the salt used to be transported by Mongolian merchants, not to mention that it was mixed with a lot of sediment, but the salt in front of him was white, and Yinji Khan had never seen white salt.

Hana was interested in those fabrics, Hana remembered that her Eniang had a red cloth gown, and she heard that when she married Amma, Ama used thirty deer skins and Mongolians in exchange, and said what was the popular style of the Han people. E-Niang has always liked that cloth gown, and she is reluctant to wear it for no major celebrations.

But now there are so many cloths in front of her, all colors, red, pink and flowers, which really makes Hana greedy.

The three of them walked along Beicheng Street, and suddenly smelled a sweet smell coming from the side, the three of them were hunters, and naturally knew that this was the smell of honey, but they didn't buy honey in the past, but a bunch of small red, green, and green paper bags.

Tao Li stepped forward and took a closer look, this thing was wrapped in colorful things on the outside, and the sweet fragrance came from the inside. Tao Li reached out and was about to take a look, but the shopkeeper quit.

The shopkeeper was a Han man, and he was very angry when he saw that the three Evenki buns had to eat candy without spending money, and scolded: "You three little bastards, you don't have money to go away!" ”

Tao Li didn't know Chinese, but it wasn't a good word to look at the fat man's appearance, Tao Li reached out and took out an iron knife to punish this fat man who dared to insult the Evenki warriors, but before he could do it, the handle of the knife was held by the platoon commander.

"Boy, don't do it, there is a decree in the city, and those who do it in the city will be punished!"

Tao Li thought about it, and when he arrived at someone's territory, he had to obey other people's laws, thinking of this, Tao Li let go of the hand holding the handle of the knife.

The fat shopkeeper saw that Tao Li still wanted to do it, and scolded contemptuously: "This little bastard, you still want to do it in the city?" Is it a barbarian who has never seen the world? ”

The platoon commander smiled and said, "They just entered the city, and they don't know the rules of the city yet!" After speaking, the platoon commander looked at the candy cube and asked, "How do you sell this candy cube?" ”

The fat shopkeeper who came to the door of the business hurriedly nodded and said: "Master Jun, I have the best fruit candy shipped from Jiangnan, all of which are boiled with fine Nanyang fruits, and sold to those natives for one or two silver and a half catties, and the military master wants to buy one silver dollar and one catty!" ”

Sugar is a rarity in this era, and Zhu Hongsan's first pot of gold was earned by boiling sugar. But the fat shopkeeper said that he was a fruit candy, so he blew it a little. Fruit candy is not without in the Ming Dynasty, but fruit candy is boiled with fruit juice and sugar water, which is laborious and laborious, and it costs ten silver dollars per catty in the economically developed Nanzhili, so how can it be cheap in Jilin?

The platoon commander stepped forward and took a candy cube and opened the paper package to see what kind of fruit candy it was, just a brown sugar cube from Guangdong. Although this kind of sugar is not cheap, but it is completely incomparable with fruit candy, the platoon leader is a Cantonese person, naturally familiar with the market of white sugar, seeing the shopkeeper deceiving people here, I can't help but ridicule: "I said shopkeeper, you can lie to those natives who don't know how to do it, forget it, I'm a Cantonese person, do you think I don't know what kind of sugar this is?" ”

The fat shopkeeper's face was full of embarrassment, and he smiled and said: "I really don't know that the military master is from Guangdong, in this way, a silver dollar and four catties can't be cheap anymore, after all, it costs to ship a small one from Guangdong!" ”

The platoon commander nodded when he heard what the shopkeeper said, this is about the same, the platoon commander reached into his arms and took out some copper coins, sold half a catty of candy, and then handed them to Tao Li.

Tao Li picked up a candy cube and put it in his mouth, his eyes lit up, he didn't expect this thing to be so sweet, the same as honey. Tao Li hurriedly divided half of the remaining sugar cubes to his sister, and the remaining half to Yinji Khan. The two girls also like sweets, and after taking them, they quickly put them in their mouths and smiled happily.

Tao Li was happy to see his woman and sister, and he was also very happy, he turned his head to the platoon commander and said, "Thank you, big brother, I will pay you back when I find my father!" ”

The platoon commander smiled and said, "I don't have a lot of money, it's a gift for you!" You say you're looking for your father? Is your father in the city? ”

"My father was captured by the Jurchens a few years ago, and when it comes to fighting in the south, he hasn't come back for a few years, but I believe my father is still alive, and my father is the number one warrior of our tribe!"

The platoon commander nodded when he heard Tao Li say this, and he didn't speak, the platoon commander had participated in the Jinan Campaign, and he had also heard the veterans talk about the Nanchang Campaign that year, when more than 20,000 warriors of the Zhengbai Banner died under the platoon guns of the new army, the father of this Evenki boy was probably caught and sent to the south to fight with the new army, and the chance of survival was very slim.

The platoon commander patted Tao Li on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I wish you to find your father as soon as possible, there is the general's mansion in front, and I will go in a while to tell the general in detail what you encountered, you know?" ”

General Jilin is the highest military and political governor in Jilin Province, and the current General Jilin is Zhu Hongsan's old subordinate Duan Fei, and now Duan Fei is depressed in the mansion, depressed because he can't find the exact location of the Russians.

After Duan Fei followed Zhao Guodong to the Northeast, he had nothing to do every day, and it was really a torment for soldiers to not be able to fight. But he forgot that the emperor has always been heroic, and now the war in Nanyang is stalemate, and the Ming army and the Dutch army are inseparable, and the emperor cannot let go of the seventy or eighty thousand troops in the northeast without moving, so it must be useful for him to leave so many troops here in the northeast.

The opportunity to fight was coming soon, and in the tenth year of Shenwu, Duan Fei, who was stationed in Jilin, received news from some tribes under his rule one after another, and a group of strange people appeared in the far north, who looked different from the Mongols, used strange weapons, and could make noises and fire. At the same time, these people have built two cities along the Heilongjiang River, and at the same time harassed the surrounding tribes, many of whom were poisoned.

Duan Fei was overjoyed when he heard the news, this group of people must be the Russians that the emperor said. Duan Fei reported the news to Zhao Guodong, the northeastern governor of Shenyang, on a fast horse, and Zhao Guodong ordered Duan Fei to find the exact location of the Russians and then eliminate them in one fell swoop.

Zhao Guodong's order was simple, but it was too difficult to find two cities in the vast primeval forest of the Heilongjiang River Valley. At the same time, this group of Russians is very dark and basically does not leave a living mouth, so the news that Duan Fei has gotten in the past few years only knows that the Russians are in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, but the specific location is not known yet.

Now that Duan Fei knew that there were three Evenks who knew the exact location of the Russians, he was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly asked people to invite these three Evenki warriors in.

Duan Fei knew that the Evenks were brave and good at fighting, and the ones who could rush all the way to Jilin to report the news must be the famous warriors of the Evenki clan, but Duan Fei was also stunned when he saw the three children coming in.

Duan Fei asked his subordinates: "These boys and two girls are the Evenki warriors who climbed mountains and waded through rivers and rushed to Jilin to report the military situation?" ”

The platoon commander arched his hand and said: "My lord, it is them, the subordinates heard them at the city gate that they were chased and killed by the Russians, and at the same time there was a girl who was captured by the Russians, so they should know where the Russians are stationed!" ”

Duan Fei nodded and asked in Manchu, "Do you know where the Russians are?" ”

Tao Li shook his head and said, "I don't know! But my woman, Yinji Khan, fled from them, and I heard them say that their city was only three days away from our tribe! ”

With the news, Duan Fei was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where is your tribe?" ”

Tao Li really didn't know where his tribe was, so he thought for a while and said, "In the mountains, in a col near the Ewen River!" ”

Duan Fei knew that the Ewen River in the Evenki population was Heilongjiang, but the location that this person said was too general, Heilongjiang was five or six thousand miles long, and there were not ten thousand but seven or eight thousand mountain passes along the river, where to find it?

After listening to Tao Li, Duan Fei asked, "Are there big tribes around you?" ”

There is, but they are the Oroqen people, the sworn enemies of the Evenks. Tao Li gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, we are ten days away from the Oroqen people's envoy deer department!" ”

Duan Fei was overjoyed to hear Tao Li say this, so that Lubu knew that it was at the confluence of Heilongjiang and Demu River. It's easy to have the exact location, all that's left is to lead the army to fight the Russians.