The new warm season in summer is pleasant and quite cool.

The crew drove the boat to fish in the Xinou River, and found that there were quite a lot of fish here. All kinds of fatty fresh fish, many of which amazed the crew.

The marines who went to hunt in the surrounding forests also found that there was a lot of prey here, and in the cedar and pine forests, roe deer, and deer, they didn't go far to catch a lot of prey.

"Even though the winter is cold here, there is such an abundance of prey and catch, and you can still live a good life. If you pick medicinal herbs and domesticate deer to make some deer, you don't have to worry at all. ”

Some of the soldiers sighed as they ate delicious fish and sliced roast venison, and their mouths were full of oil.

"I heard that there used to be a ghost country here, why didn't I see anyone?"

"The country of the Wandering Ghost is not this island, it is the peninsula to the north of Xiaohai, which was called the Wandering Ghost in the Tang Dynasty, and the peninsula further north is called the Yaksha Country. Those Russian robbers now call Xiaohai the Sea of Okhotsk, the country of Liugui as the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the country of Yaksha as the Chukotka Peninsula, while our current Heilong Island was called the country of women or Maoren in the Han Dynasty, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called the country of dogs along with the area around the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. ”

The military doctor of Wenzhou knows more about this, this military doctor, like many doctors, was also a scholar in his early years, and he also had a reputation for showing off his talents, and he turned to medicine after the imperial examination did not go well. The reason why he is willing to go to Wenzhou to serve as a military doctor is more because now that the Han Dynasty is open, the people know a lot of things that they did not know in the past, and they know that the outside world is very vast, so this doctor, like many literati, wants to travel thousands of miles, see the outside world, become a military doctor on a warship, and naturally see the overseas world more conveniently.

The Book of Tang recorded. The wandering ghost is in the north of the North Sea, north to the Yaksha country, and the remaining three sides reach the sea, and go south to Mo She's boat for fifteen days. There are no castles, scattered on the islands, digging several feet deep. The two sides are obliquely erected to form a house. Everyone is dressed in leather, and the dog hair and linen are clothed and clothed, and the woman wears winter clothes and deer skins, and summer clothes and fish skins, and the system is the same as the fang. It's frustrating, and there are benefits of salt fish. The ground is cold, early frost and snow, after every hard ice. The wood is six inches wide and seven feet long, and it is tied to it, and the ice is trampled to chase the beasts. Vulgar dogs. More than 10,000 victorious soldiers. ”

Hearing the victory of 10,000 soldiers, many people exclaimed.

"In this far north, there is still such a powerful force?"

There are also people who suspect that since there is a wandering ghost country, there are more than 10,000 victorious soldiers. But why did the Russians they captured already conquer the land of the Wandering Ghost Country? And as far as they know, the Russians are in this place. All of them add up to less than 10,000 people.

The military doctor was disgraced, and said a little unhappily, "The Tang Dynasty is a thousand years ago, and what happened at that time is still consistent with today." It is the so-called vicissitudes of life. It's easy to move over time. Besides, the so-called victory of 10,000 soldiers is not the same as my Central Plains. In my Central Plains, the soldiers and the people are separated, and this polar barbarian. But everyone can be a soldier, so the so-called 10,000 victorious soldiers refers more to all the young and strong population of his country. ”

Ten thousand young people look like a lot, but considering that this is the sum of many young and strong tribes of different sizes, so they are more of a plate of loose sand, even if the number of Russian robbers is less than them, but the Russians are organized, plus they have the advantage of firearms, so it is normal for the people of the Wandering Ghost Country to not be able to fight.

But didn't the Russians also suffer losses in the Yaksha country, so didn't the Russian captain say that they repeatedly conquered the Yaksha people and were all repulsed.

As for the Maoren Country on Heilong Island, whether it is the Female Country, or the Dog Country, it is estimated that it is similar to the Suolon and other departments in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River. The women's kingdom, on the other hand, may be a matrilineal clan with a woman as the chief.

The dog country must be the same as the deer department and the dog department, most likely because the people here have a tradition of raising dogs or making dogs. After all, this is the land of the far north, and in winter it is covered with snow and ice, and dog sledding and dog hunting are their habits.

As early as after the landing, Tong Haifeng had already sent several marine teams to reconnoiter the vicinity to see if there were any indigenous tribes.

The boats rested in the camp known as the city of New Wenzhou, replenishing fresh water, mending boats, and hunting and fishing to increase fresh food.

Several craftsmen brought in a boulder and carved letters on it.

After discussing with the officers, Tong Haifeng had decided to set off the day after tomorrow to continue the reinforcement mission. But a brig gunboat will be left here, and the crew on board will be left behind. In addition, the land battle mark on the transport ship will pull out a company and leave it behind.

Their mission was to continue to garrison the city of New Wenzhou, fortify the camp, and build it into a permanent walled city, while also tasked with finding the natives here, liaising with them, recruiting them, and trading with them.

The city of New Wenzhou will be the first city of the Han Dynasty on Heilong Island, and it will also be the first military fortress, and there will also be a trading station and a school in the city to attract indigenous traders and attract their children to come and study.

A hundred men on a brig gunboat, plus two hundred men from a company of marines, will have more than three hundred men left.

Another important reason to keep them here is to prevent the Russians from coming back after the fleet leaves.

"I have left you more than 100 Russian captives to serve as coolies to help build the city. And some of these Russians know some of the indigenous languages of the area, and let them act as interpreters. ”

Among the people left behind by Tong Haifeng, there were also soldiers who could speak Russian. These former Russian mercenaries are now all warriors of the Han Dynasty, and Tong Haifeng is very relieved about them.

The next day, the scouting team came back one after another, and one of them brought back several natives.

No one could understand the language of these natives, and the language they spoke was not Tungusic and had nothing to do with Manchu, Sauron, etc.

Fortunately, there were people in the Russian ship who understood the indigenous language.

"They call themselves Nevkh."

The Russian sailor was honest, he had been in the East for a long time, and had lived in Kamchatka for more than three years. There is also a group of Nivkh people in Kamchatka, so he understands these Nivkh languages. It was from the Nivkh that they learned about the existence of Sakhalin and came by boat.

According to the introduction of this Russian, Tong Haifeng and his family learned that the Nivkh people not only live in the north of Sakhalin Island, but also live in the area of the estuary of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and even some ethnic groups live in Kamchatka.

These Nivkh people have long lived by fishing, hunting, and raising dogs. In summer, it lives at the mouth of the river along the coast. to catch salmon, and in winter, move inland.

These Nivkh people practice shamanism.

Their language is a very peculiar language, which is roughly equivalent to that spoken by the Nivkh people at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and Sakhalin and on Kamchatka. But there are some differences. But it is completely different from Tunguska, Jurchen, etc.

When the military doctor heard this, he immediately said, "I know, these Nivkh people are the three inhabitants of Guwei Island mentioned in the Yuan History. In the Yuan History, the Black Dragon Island was called Guwei Island, and it was said that there were three kinds of islanders on this island: Jili Mi, Yili Yu, and Guwei. It is also known as the Yili and the Deer people, and the Guwei people are the main tribe of the island, and this Giri fan should be the Nivkh people. ”

According to what the military doctor had seen in the history books, Giri was charming and good at building boats. They were good at building boats called yellow nests, and they lived mainly on fishing, and at the same time kept dogs for hunting, and these people did not farm, and considered digging and farming a very disrespectful act of God, and what they planted would definitely be cursed.

Estimating the Russian's statement, they estimated that most of the Nivkh on the island of Black Dragon lived in the north, and that there were fifty or sixty clans. About 20,000 or 30,000 people. However, these people are more widely distributed, and most of them live in the estuary of rivers.

The natives who were brought back by the scouting team. It is a village not far from the upper reaches of the Xinou River.

The village is not very large, it is estimated that there are about fifty households, about two or three hundred people, and it is a clan.

However, these natives were very polite to the Han scouts, showing their hospitality to outsiders. The main thing is that the scouts are very kind, although they don't understand the language. But he took the initiative to take out some things such as salt, sugar, and wine as gifts.

Although these natives did not understand the language of the Han army, they understood the sense of exchange. After receiving the gifts from the scouts, they entertained them, and then gestured that they would follow them to the camp, and even brought some skins and jerky.

When the natives saw the city of New Wenzhou. Startled, the sight of countless large ships moored in the gulf stream at the mouth of the familiar river made the mind blank to the Nivkh people, who claimed to be a shipbuilding tribe.

The simple wooden camp of the Han army, but the Nivkh people felt that it was a magnificent city, they had never seen such a large walled city, and they had never even seen so many people.

There were people everywhere, and these people were not wearing woolen clothes, nor leather sewn clothes, but they looked prettier and better.

And their weapons, their shining axes, their dazzling machetes, not to mention the huge boats moored in the river, their white sails like white clouds.

"Tell them, I am the commander of the First Task Force of the Seventh Detachment of the East China Sea Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Han Empire, Former Lieutenant Tong Haifeng!"

The Russians translated this in the language of the Nivkh people, although the translation was not too accurate, and it also carried the Nivkh dialect of the ghost country, but the Nivkh people still understood it.

But they still don't understand the Holy Han Empire, and they don't know what it is.

It took Tong Haifeng a lot of time to make them understand that this Divine Han Empire was a top-level tribe in the far south. They knew about that on the land south of the sea, there was a powerful Jurchen tribe. But for the tribes of the Holy Han Empire, I don't know much about it.

Tong Haifeng heard that the Nanivkh people were a few times wow-wow, and when they translated, he realized that they regarded the Holy Han Empire as the name of a tribe. Tong Haifeng was suddenly very defeated, and felt like a chicken talking to a duck.

When he heard the Nivkh man, who claimed to be the patriarch of the village, say that he knew about the Jurchen tribe, Tong Haifeng finally felt that there was something that everyone knew.

So he asked the interpreter to tell the patriarch that the Jurchens had long been defeated by the Holy Han Empire, and now from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River on the opposite side to the far south, the vast land thousands of miles away, including the coastal islands, were all within the territory of the Han Empire. On the opposite side of the Heilongjiang River, the coastal area south of the Heilongjiang River is the Imperial Haixi Province, and to the north of the Heilongjiang River, is the Imperial Jiangdong Province, and on the south bank of the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, is the Heilongjiang Province."

"It turns out that the Holy Han Empire is such a powerful tribe."

"The Holy Han Empire is the name of the empire, and we are the Han people!"

"Han nationality, I seem to remember this name, the shaman of our tribe once said this name, as if once upon a time, there was a Tang Dynasty in the far south, and they were established by the Han people."

"That's right, the Tang Dynasty was established by our Han people, and later there was the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty once set up the Nuer Gandu Division at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and also set up Nangharwei on this Black Dragon Island. ”

The Nivkh man finally said, "Da Ming, I know, I know, my father once told me that the Ming Dynasty was the most powerful tribe on the opposite land, and the Jurchen people were once their subordinates, and our ancestors used to pay tribute to the Han people mink. It's just that I haven't seen the Ming people for a long time, and I heard that they were defeated by the Jurchens? ”

This painful way of communication made Tong Haifeng spend a lot of energy.

But in the end, the patriarch of the Nivkh people finally understood the "international situation" today. They also had no objection to Tong Haifeng's claim to represent the Holy Han Empire and to assert the right to rule over this territory that had been inherent in China since ancient times.

As a result, this Nivkh clan, along with his people, immediately became the subjects of the Holy Han Empire. Tong Haifeng also told them that in the future, they could trade their leather goods here, and they could exchange them for salt, tea, and even ironware. He also proposed that schools would be opened here in the future, and their children could be sent here to study and learn the Chinese language and language.

"In the future, we may build a shipyard here and make better ships to sell to you."

"Your deer and even the ginseng you have picked can be sold to us in exchange for our salt, tea, tobacco, wine, boats, swords, even grain, cloth, clothes, and so on."

Tong Haifeng also hoped that the patriarch of the Nivkh people could help contact the Nivkh people in other places, and even other tribes on the island.

In order to arouse his enthusiasm, Tong Haifeng proposed that every time he contacted a tribe for them, then the Han would give him ten catties of salt.

Hearing of such benefits, the patriarch, who was rather swarthy and short, his eyes lit up, salt was a good thing wherever he was.

Many of the Nivkh did not have the technology to produce salt, and they traded with other tribes.

The price of salt was not cheap, ten catties of salt, and it was the finest snow-white salt he had never seen, and this condition made him very tempted.

He was afraid that the Han people would regret it, so he nodded and agreed busily. (To be continued.) )