At the beginning of the sixteenth year of Chengtian, the cold winter in the northwest had not yet passed. The news of the death of the Empress Dowager had reached the front of the army, and Chen Han's logistics department urgently transported a batch of white cloth to the front.

Some units have cut the white cloaks used for field cover.

Even the front-line harassment war has been reduced by several degrees.

The besieged Russians really don't know what happened. But there were few of them left, and when they saw the Wehrmacht outwards and the white heads hanging from the flagpoles, they knew what was going on.

"The thief is dead, the thief is dead......"

A few confused flag men thought that Chen Ming was dead. Otherwise, how can the three armies be vegetarian?

But this only made the Russians blindly happy.

Rumyantsev was not a fool, although the Chinese suspended the offensive, and the whole army was draped in linen and filial piety, this is the word that his bannermen said to him, and in China it can only be done when the emperor is dead. But the morale and fighting spirit of the Chinese are not weakened, and he also knows a lot about China, and the eldest son of the Chinese emperor is already in his twenties and is already an adult. If China's Emperor Chen really died, then Emperor Xiao Chen would succeed to the throne, and they might not continue to fight towards the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, but the territory that had been swallowed up by them would never give up.

In the huge Kazakh steppe, many herdsmen have hung white stripes according to customs. Anyway, there is no shortage of white cloth here.

Without the Russians oppressive sky, the air is so free.

Russia was beaten by Chen Han, and the threat to Zhong Yuzi and Xiao Yuzi was lifted. Although the Russian Cossack cavalry also launched a repetitive attack on the Kazakh steppes, what was gained was too disproportionate to what was lost.

Not to mention the independent statehood in the future, just how many cattle, sheep and horses the Kazakhs sold to the Northwest Military District in the past two years, how many transportation tasks/businesses they contracted, and how many Russians they plundered Guriev and Orenburg, which far exceeded the losses of the Kazakhs.

Hanati rode a Mongolian horse and had just returned from Caspian China, and he was accompanied by several members of the same tribe. They went to the Caspian Sea to explore the aquatic pastures and fishery resources on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.

It's also pitiful to say, they belong to Xiao Yuzi, they were born in the north of the Aral Sea, and they are really close to the Caspian Sea, but their tribe has really little knowledge of the Caspian Sea. Because they simply did not dare to go to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea for nomadism.

But that's no longer the case.

The Turks came to the Aral Sea, which squeezed Xiao Yuzi's pasture to a certain extent, so when distributing the adjustment pasture, Chen Ming instructed his subordinates to take proper care of Xiao Yuzi.

Several tribes were selected from among the little yuz to demarcate the pastures on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. The land was absolutely sparsely populated, suitable not only for grazing, but also for farming and fishing. But the danger was also the highest, and the place was closest to the Russians.

This requires Xiaoyuzi people to weigh the risk of gain and loss by themselves.

Hanati's group went to China to conduct observations. They were going to take a field trip to the water and grass pastures of the Caspian Sea, to investigate the fishing of the Caspian Sea, and at the same time to investigate the harassment of the Russians there.

These people wandered around the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea for a month, and did not touch a single Cossack. It may have been the heavy snow here that forced the murderous Cossacks to be confined to the city.

After weighing whether nomadism could fill his stomach or whether farming could fill his stomach, he really wanted to immediately abandon the ancient traditional nomadic life and move to the Caspian Sea to cultivate and fish.

Yes, their tribe certainly couldn't have been able to cultivate plots of land for themselves and their families to survive on as quickly as the farmers did in the beginning. But they have learned to farm in recent years, and they have also tried to grow alfalfa on the grassland.

They all had Russian slaves in their tribe, and they could drive them to farm. More importantly, they have the support of China behind them, and the Chinese have promised them that if they go to China in the Caspian Sea to settle down, then not only the support of farming technology and tools, including shipbuilding and fishing, will also be included.

Hanati wanted to live a stable life.

There is too much uncertainty in the life of nomads.

In the spring and summer, you may still have herds of cattle and sheep in the tribe, and they are full of life. But by the time of a white plague in winter, the entire tribe could disappear in the snow.

There have been many such things for thousands of years.

There are countless small tribes in the steppe that have risen in the fighting, such as the Xiongnu, Khitan, and Mongolian; There are also countless small tribes that are erased by the wrath of nature in winter.

Hanati is a Kazakh who is completely tired of his nomadic life, and he is one of the few doctors/Chinese medicine practitioners in the tribe, which is definitely a 'high-tech elite' in Kazakhstan today. He had been to Ili. I spent two winters in a house in Ili and saw with my own eyes how thousands of Han Chinese survived the winter.

He hopes that his tribe can be like those Han people, who can huddle in a warm house in winter, leisurely roast on the stove, and do not have to worry about the life or death of cattle, sheep and livestock, and do not have to worry about the livelihood of next year.

The only way to give the Kazakhs such a life is farming, and by nomadism, the Kazakhs will never be able to settle down.

Of course, Hanati is not sure how many members of their tribe are willing to change their traditional habits, and even their team of people who went to China in the Caspian Sea had voices of opposition.

Although the life of the Han people makes countless Kazakhs feel envious, many Kazakhs are full of yearning when they say this. But when it was their turn to really change all that, many people backed off again.

However, Hanati, who went to school in Yili, knew that society is made up of people, and if people are people, they will have their own little abacus, so any social change must go through hard struggle. During his internship in southern Xinjiang, he heard a lot of stories from the locals and saw many pamphlets distributed by the Chinese government, and the hidden cruelty there may be what he was about to face.

This is a scene that social progress will inevitably go through. Entering a new life, eliminating old traditions and eliminating old people.

Seriously, if Hanati hadn't made an agreement with Wang Ting before entering the Ili Medical College, and the Chinese side also kept his legacy, at least at the moment, it would be impossible to accommodate him, and he really wanted to move to China with his family.

Even if he is a minor nobleman in the tribe.

In the world of ice and snow, nobles are not exempt from death.

And Hanati is an eye-opening figure, comparing the living conditions, study conditions, and medical conditions on the Ili and Kazakh steppes, it is really bad to be calculated.

But Hanati believed that as they became more and more interacting with the Chinese, sooner or later the tribesmen would abandon their backward traditional life and instead live around the Caspian Sea and become members of a civilized social system.

China's advanced agricultural crops and technology, exquisite goods, strong military force and 'broad-minded' mind have enabled them to attract a large number of Kazakhs without firing a single shot.

Hanati is one of the representatives, and it can also be said that he is one of the most influential figures in the new era of Kazakhstan. These people are like those overseas 'elites' in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, many of whom blindly worship everything in China. Just like the original 'Banana Man', such a Hanati is a pure 'Egg Man'.

Perhaps these people are still quite different from those in the original plane, because the Kazakhs have never experienced such a big psychological gap. They should be the Southwest Yi of the Western Han Dynasty, the Japanese of the Tang Dynasty, and they are willing to bow down in the face of China's strong national power and prosperous culture.

Hanati also has a very clear goal in front of him - Da Yuz.

Today, the children of the aristocracy are gathered to go to school, the women are herding cattle at home, making dairy products and jerky, and the outside family collects wool and leather, while the men serve as laborers and vassals of the Chinese logistics force, actively supporting China's war against Russia while earning good profits.

Seriously, if the Kazakh steppe continues like this, it will not take a hundred years for two or three generations to completely dissolve into the Chinese system.

In the northern part of the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, the Chinese built a town near the sea, which was already populated by thousands of Kazakhs and more than 200 troops from the Russian army. They were Tatars, Poles, and a small number of Cossacks. These people surrendered voluntarily, and when they came, almost no one carried women and children, at most one or two children.

Therefore, among the more than 200 soldiers, at least one hundred and sixty or seventy strong men could be gathered.

Together with the logisticians and laborers who came with the army, as well as the Wehrmacht stationed there, the total population has exceeded 10,000 people.

Hanati was fortunate enough to be selected by the garrison as a much-needed man, as he was a doctor who had graduated from a bachelor's degree.

The military medical system has been established for many years, but it is still impossible to take care of everything.

The city on the Caspian Sea was more of an example than a strategic base to guard against the Russians' southward and eastward advances.

In less than a year, not only has the farmland been opened, but also a small wharf has been established, and alfalfa is also raised, which is a parallel of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing. But if you really talk about it, you don't even have a permanent city wall. Outside, there was just a fence around the perimeter with wood. But there are trenches and trenches on the outside.

New brick and tile factories have been built in the local area, but cement resources are scarce and limestone support is scarce. Building materials have always been in short supply. It's a constant sense of tension.

Because of time constraints, as well as the lack of raw materials and labor, it is impossible to build a majestic city like the fortress of Gulyav without three or five years and a peaceful environment.

Therefore, Chen Han chose to build a city on the shore of the Caspian Sea, more so that the Kazakhs of Xiaoyuz, who have less communication with China, can see with their own eyes the future life of China for their naturalization.

The main labor force for the construction of the city was still prisoners, not only prisoners of war, but also captive Russian civilians and serfs.

Chen Hanzhi will not abuse them, as long as they work hard, food and clothing are in place.

The Europeans of this era are not the Europeans of Chen Ming's previous life, the Nordics who enjoy super high social welfare in the 21st century are now forced to work as if they were Russian serfs at the same latitude. Like the dispossessed serfs in eastern Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, who were also cold, they could earn a little profit from their hard work – for example, timber in winter, and work in winter temperatures of minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius. Even they wore thin burlap winter coats, and they still worked tirelessly digging ditches in the frozen land, building roads, cities, buildings, etc., and cutting down trees in the forests – one of the few ways that many of the low-income people in Northern and Eastern Europe had to get cash.

These Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles, since they can work outdoors in winter in their hometowns, what reason do they have to continue working in the winter now that they are captives? Although since the beginning of winter last year, those captives have died a small hundred.

But that's okay.

The Wehrmacht swept through Western Siberia, capturing and reaping more Russians. Let's just say that this winter, the Russians who froze to death in the wild do not know that it is hundreds of times the number.

Russia has been operating in Western Siberia for a long time, and although it is known that many people have been evacuated, and many people have secretly crossed the Ob River one after another, Chen Han's harvest is obviously less - only more than 200,000.

There was also a lot of Tatars and mestizos mixed in. In Chen Ming's mind, only pure Slavs and Ukrainians are the real fundamentals of the Russian Empire.

It is said that although the Russians have been operating in Western Siberia for a long time, they have built a large number of fortresses, but many of these fortresses are made of wood, and they have evolved into cities in a hundred years. There are really not many real fortresses that can really cause trouble for Chen Han.

The armies of the two armies played and fought around those real fortresses, and outside the fortresses, each other's mobile troops also launched encounters, surprise battles, and ambush battles in the temptation.

Seriously, compared to the level of command on both sides, the Wehrmacht is no better than its opponents, and it has fallen into the encirclement of the Russian army several times.

However, just as the volunteers with absolute superiority in strength could not gnaw at the encircled and defended US troops during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, although the Russians had several opportunities to take the lead, they could not gnaw at the Wehrmacht.

Judging by the fighting qualities of the soldiers and the combat reaction after a sudden ambush, the Wehrmacht is definitely stronger than the Russians. The cavalry is not easy to say, the infantry is quite obvious.

These troops in Rumyantsev's hands are at least a notch worse than the Wehrmachtch.

By the beginning of February, Rumyantsev had figured out what had happened in China. There is a real disappointment in my heart!

China's imperial family did die, but it was not the Chinese emperor who died, but the Chinese emperor's eighty-year-old grandmother! It's really a disappointing thing for them.