In Zhangjiakou, in the heavy snow, a railroad carriage drove into the station under the pull of a horse.

Wrapped in a bearskin coat, Zebok Dorzi stepped out of the carriage, accompanied by a blond Russian.

Chen Han not only had a cabinet change, but also a big military parade, the news of which was quickly reported to the governor of the Amur River by the Russian ambassador in Nanjing, Muravyov, and then Zebok Dorzy became a Russian envoy, and the young man around him was the deputy envoy and led the team to Nanjing.

Chen Ming, who received this news, was very pleased, and Zebok Dorji was a representative, and the fact that the Russians could use him as the envoy of the mission showed the current status of the Turks in Russia and the trust that St. Petersburg had in the Turks.

Of course, they are here to take a fair look at Chen Han's military parade.

Soldiers, the country's most important weapon. The parade was in full swing and was very vast.

The view can judge a national situation.

The Russians are not willing to give up this opportunity.

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I haven't seen it for a few years, Zhangjiakou is more prosperous, the traffic is busy, and the flow of people is like a shuttle. In the eyes of Zebok Dorji, this city of Zhangjiakou is definitely a big city in Russia. But in China, when it comes to picking up cities, no one seems to put Zhangjiakou in the first column?

Zeberkdorzi's face was gloomy, but his heart was happy.

The stronger China is, the more the Turks will be rewarded in the future. Maybe they really have an independent country one day.

Russia's deputy envoy, Yepgeny Viktorovich Plushenko, is an intelligence officer who is even more meticulous in his observations. He rode on a docile Mongolian horse and slowly walked out of the south-facing Chengguan Road in Zhangjiakou.

Fighting Zhangjiakou and heading to Tongzhou, more than 50 members of the Russian mission, escorted by a team of Wehrmacht cavalry, traveled all the way.

The Chinese do not look at them very strictly, because China and Russia have been trading for many years, and during these years China has entered Moscow, and Russians have also gone down to Jiangnan. In the office of the Governor-General District along the Amur River, there is a lot of Chinese information.

It's just that as he rushed to Tongzhou, Yepgeny felt that the scene he saw in his eyes was much more vivid than a simple text description.

On the flat land, there are dense villages and dense houses everywhere, and the dense population makes people's hearts palpitate. On both sides of the road, there are neat poplar trees, and patches of flat land are as far as the eye can see, but all of them are farmland. It reminded him of the Great Plains of Ukraine.

And when Yepgeny took a boat from the declining prosperity of Tongzhou to the thriving Tianjin, Yepgeny and Zebok Dorji saw the prosperity of Tianjin, but what attracted their attention even more was the heat in the south of Tianjin. Countless people are holding all kinds of tools, against the cold sea breeze, busy working in the potholed puddles and waters in the south of Tianjin, but it seems to be adding soil. At the same time, road construction and houses were carried out.

The area of the south of Tianjin is not small, but in addition to the puddles and waters, there are rivers in the south of the city. The Chinese have not filled in all the low-lying areas, and some waterways and potholes are still being excavated to widen and widen.

Also this year's temperature is not too cold.

Obviously, the temperature in Zhangjiakou is quite cold, but Tianjin, which is hundreds of miles away, is quite different.

Of course, the temperature in Tianjin has also reached below freezing, but the treatment project in the south of Tianjin has already begun at the turn of spring and summer this year. Now the laborers here no longer have to jump into the water and mud to endure the cold and toil.

All that is needed is to level the bottom of the potholes that have been filled in before, and then build roads, houses, and plan construction.

More than 10,000 laborers have been invested in the treatment project in the south of Tianjin, including five in labor camps, and the rest are strong laborers called in the vicinity of Tianjin. So far, the entire project has cost more than 30 million yuan, and Tianjin has also invested tens of thousands of stone of grain, and a certain amount of fish, meat, vegetables and fruits.

There is no way, the rapid urban development of Tianjin has forced Tianjin to expand to the vast and desolate south of the city, and the governance project in the south of the city not only has the investment of the Tianjin government, but also the merchants and people of the northern Zhili provincial government and Tianjin are participating.

The latter paid money to raise funds, and in return, the Tianjin government gave the businessmen the right to buy commercial land in the south of the city first, and gave the people the preferential purchase of acres of land in the south of the city.

Tianjin can grow rice, the south of the city has waterways and sufficient water, if you can develop it well, commercial land and not to mention, the acres of land are definitely first-class fertile land.

The whole planning is simply a classic example of 'drawing a false pie'.

The Tianjin government drew a map of the land in the south of the city, attached to the urban construction planning map, where is the commercial land, where is the residential land, where is the land of the acres of land, and where is the pond of acres of fields, and then let the merchants and people who pay for it pre-purchase.

No matter how big their appetite is? I want to become a big 'landlord' in one fell swoop. Tianjin didn't care.

As long as you take the money, even a beggar is 'qualified'.

But when the arrears are collected in the future, and the money cannot be extracted, this 'qualification' will be null and void. At that time, the only way for the merchants and the common people to recover their losses is to resell their 'qualifications' to others. Perhaps this in itself is the intention of some small businessmen and ordinary people to actively participate in such projects.

Just like the land bond, some people have compared this kind of 'fund-raising behavior' of the Tianjin government to the land bond. But after the matter was reported to Chen Ming, in the eyes of him, the traverser, Tianjin's actions were more like fundraising!

But in any case, the Tianjin government, with the full support of Xiao Lou, the provincial government of Beizhili, used this method to raise more than 40 million yuan in one fell swoop, which caused a huge sensation in Chinese officialdom, and the impact was so great that Chen Ming had to consider the harmfulness of this matter and add a horse to this phenomenon. Because in the previous life, the rabbit local government messed around with too many unfinished projects after fundraising. But no matter what you say, the Tianjin government has eaten a bite of fresh peaches, and with the five labor camps sent by the superiors, it has set off the prelude to the reconstruction project in the south of Tianjin.

Now it has been half a year, the whole project construction has achieved initial results, a large area of land has been built a road, many businesses have been eager to pay their own 'advance payment' on the land to build a house building.

There is no way, Chen Han Liding ten years, Tianjin's population has increased from 100,000 to more than 400,000 now, an increase of two times, the crowded population needs a larger and more relaxed urban living area, Tianjin can only ask for land in the south of the city to a large area of puddles and low-lying water.

When it was known that the labor force for the entire construction of the project had reached 10,000 people and that the cost had reached more than 30 million Chinese dollars, Zebok Dorzy and Yepgeny, as well as everyone in the entire Russian mission, were all silent.

How to say, they have hurt their self-esteem. Such a huge project, China can afford it 'alone' in a prosperous local city, which is too rich to raise people's morale.

If this is put in Russia, more than 30 million Chinese yuan is worth a quarter of Russia's annual treasury revenue. Russia, which is huge and poor, has an annual treasury revenue of less than 5 million pounds sterling.

In order to make as much money as possible, the Russians even used rhubarb for export as much as possible.

In Kyakhta's border trade, rhubarb exported from China was worth 20 roubles per pood [about 37 catties], and when the Russians shipped it to Western Europe, it was sold for an average of 200 roubles. That's 10 times the profit.

And because of the medicinal properties and growth environment, the best rhubarb is produced in the northwest and north, and the Russians sent pharmacists to check the quality of rhubarb, so as to ensure the quality of rhubarb, so the Russian caravan departing from Kyakhta and other land terminals not only took less time than the British and French ships that departed from Guangzhou, but also safer, and the quality of medicinal materials was also better. The climate along the Russian overland trade routes was more conducive to the preservation of medicinal properties.

Last year, Russia consumed 680 poods on its own, and re-exports were as high as 1,055 poods. Because all the rhubarb is bought and sold in the hands of official Russia, this alone earns 150,000 rubles for the Russian treasury.

The high economic benefits have made the importance of rhubarb directly rise to a strategic height in Russia, and the Russians are very urgent, even unscrupulous, to obtain the seeds of rhubarb, for which they have offered a high price of 100 pounds a catty. This also led to them being fooled by some unscrupulous Chinese businessmen, and some even deceived the Russians with mustard seeds.

But the seeds of rhubarb eventually made their way to Europeans.

It's just that the rhubarb with the best medicinal quality has always been produced in the northwest of China, and the rhubarb, which is obviously a medicinal material, has been put on the table by the British in Europe, and the rhubarb-red petioles are cut into small pieces by the sweet-loving British, and stewed with sugar until soft, and sometimes ginger or cinnamon are added together, and the stewed rhubarb can be mixed with other fruits to make a sauce. It is more common to use it directly as a fruit, in sweets such as pies and puff pastries, or to eat it raw directly with toffee.

But that's all later.

Now in this time period, Europeans have also just gotten rhubarb.

The ruble in this era is still quite valuable. You know, the annual tariff on the whole of Russia is only 1.2 million rubles. Among them, the Sino-Russian trade, the land ports provided half of the income for the Russians. [In 1775, Kyakhta trade paid customs duties of 453,000 rubles, accounting for 38.5% of the total Russian tariffs. By 1800, Kyakhta trade had contributed 715,000 rubles to Russian tariffs, which should not be exaggerated. 】

Russia's national normal fiscal revenue and all kinds of privileged trade, such as rhubarb, such as fur, tea, etc., Russia's total annual fiscal revenue is less than 5 million pounds, which is about 150 million Chinese dollars when converted into Chinese dollars. More than 30 million Chinese dollars have been invested in the renovation project in the south of Tianjin, accounting for more than one-fifth of Russia's annual fiscal revenue.

Yepgeny was a little scared.

Although he knew that it was a joint venture between the local government and the merchants, citizens, and farmers of the entire city of Tianjin, and that Tianjin was a well-known big city in China, Yepgeny also wet his crotch.

He didn't know if St. Peter had played this joint venture, and the great Majesty Catherine II would have been able to amasse a million-pound fortune in one fell swoop. It's really amazing.

Wealth is also a reflection of a country's strength.

Thinking of the information sent to Nebuchu by Muravyov, if the Chinese can reach the expected level of fiscal taxes this year, tens of thousands of pounds, what an unimaginable amount it will be.

If there is another war between China and Russia, China does not need to send troops at all, as long as it uses money, it can crush the whole of Russia.

Tianjin's renovation of the south of the city is a huge project for Russia, but for China, where taxes are likely to be tied together by more than 20 Russias, that is only one percent of theirs.

What is it that a thriving city can continue to run on the road of rapid development and spend one percent of the country's annual budget?

And by boat from Tianjin to the south of the Grand Canal, the entire Russian mission felt the power of China in the midst of rapid recovery.

This is really a golden waterway, and everyone on both sides of the river is dazzled by the cities one after another.

Tsebok Dorji could swear to his faith in the Buddha that what he saw now was really different from what he saw when he went south.

At that time, both sides of the Grand Canal were badly traumatized by the war, and although they recovered in a short period of time, they could not completely fade the scars of the war.

And now, all these years have passed, and the city on both sides of the canal has a new look, and there are still the 'scars' of the year.

In the means of transportation has not undergone revolutionary changes now, the Grand Canal is still an important lifeline of China's communication between the north and the south, the prosperity and development of maritime transport may take away part of the functions of the Grand Canal, but the Grand Canal is inland, and its radiation area runs through the south of the Yangtze River, Huanghuai and North China.

A Grand Canal communicates how many water systems flow from east to west, and it is not a single line, but a leafy tree, and countless rivers are the branches and branches of this big tree.

So the Grand Canal is still very awesome.

Before trains and railways appeared and spread across the country, the Grand Canal would not have been adorned with an 'altar'.

In this era, both Chinese missions to Europe and European missions to China can be regarded as 'spies'.

The same is true for the trip to Zeberkdorzi.

They gather all the intel and details of everything they see and hear along the way. Going back to sort out the filing is also one of Yepgeny's jobs.

During the entire canal journey, Yepgeny can often be seen holding the hand of Chen Han officials, pointing to the east and pointing to the west, and constantly asking: "Dare to ask your lordship, what is your country doing?" ”

Therefore, there was no need for Zepke Dorji to say hello, and the importance of Yepgeny was seen by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The further south you go, the warmer the climate becomes.

When the Russian mission arrived in Yangzhou on the Yangtze River, I don't know how many people envied the land of the Chinese. Compared to Russia, where more than half of the year is covered with wind and snow, this is paradise.

The news that China's military is changing its armaments is not too secretive, and it is impossible to keep it secret. If the weapon can be kept secret, it can only be pinned on the 'blindness' of his opponent.

For example, in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War in the original space-time plane, the old Miner rifle suffered a heavy defeat on the battlefield, and in the infantry firepower confrontation, the Prussian breech Dresser rifle easily defeated the aging Austrian front-loading Migne rifle, thus making the European military officially enter the era of breech guns.

The Prussian general, who was extremely hostile to breech-loading guns, if he really went to heaven, must have felt that his last words were ridiculous when he saw this - to set off a burst of gunfire with a front-loading smoothbore gun on his grave, otherwise he would not have died.

Countless Prussian soldiers would have said to him with great pleasure, "It's good that you died early, otherwise they would have died."

And the Swiss general who compared the breech gun to the ** gun will forever be a laughing stock.

Europeans already knew that China had a new musket that could be fired in the rain and had a higher firing rate.

They even know the term 'fire hat', but they just don't understand how the fire hat is made.

This kind of 'fire hat' is not only wanted by the Russians, but also by the British, the French, and the Swedes. But they haven't succeeded.

According to the observations of Tseberg Dorzi and Yepgeny, the muskets in the hands of the cavalry escorting them along the way were muskets, but the Chinese were very guarded against this new weapon.

At the end of the year, Gao Yanming finally returned to his home country after many years of absence.

Eight or nine years later, the young man in his twenties is now a stable middle-aged man.

Gao Yanming brought back two treaties for Chen Ming, the Treaty of Madrid between China and Spain, and the Treaty of Paris between China and the Netherlands......