The Volga River still flows mightily, and even if it changes its owner, it does not change its slightest bit. It's like thousands of years have passed.

However, the Yan Kingdom based on the Volga River and the Zhao Kingdom in the north, the situation in the past two years has been changing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. The vast majority of the millions of Slavs who remained in the area became docile obedient people. The sharp methods with which the Moscow government next door dealt with the peasants, the kulaks, the landlords, the officials, and all the capitalist class shuddered.

The outbreak of the Russian Civil War and the propaganda of the well-developed media and newspapers in Yan and Zhao, especially in Yan State, completely extinguished the hearts of the millions of Slavs who remained here. No one will have feelings for a government that has done its own thing. And the government of St. Petersburg to the west is too far away, too far away.

Of course, this also has a great deal to do with the rapid recovery and development of Yanzhao's economy and agriculture in this short period of time. Under the opening of millions of Russian prisoners, the mineral output of Yanzhao and Zhao has continued to explode, and it has still become the leading force in the development of mineral deposits in the entire northwest. The steel, coal and various metal and non-metal resources produced here are continuously transported to the east.

There is also agriculture, where grain, meat and dairy products are also one of the sources of Chinese exports to Russia. As of this year, the agricultural output value of Yan and Zhao has been able to compete with that of the fertile and fertile Ili River Valley.

The change of life and the disillusionment of old nostalgia brought many, many Slavs into submission to the authority of the two governments. This is not to say that there are no resistance groups in the two countries, and resistance groups still exist, especially in the Zhao State, which has many prisoners of war, mines, mountains, and rivers. The environment here is complex. Everywhere there are reckless deep mountains and old forests, which are perfect for the resistance forces to hide and hide.

Public opinion is a good thing. If you use it well, you can get twice the result with half the effort. The so-called 'the one who wants the same wins'. That's what I'm talking about. The Slavs were frightened by the miserable appearance of their neighbors, and emotionally fell to Yan Zhao, they became honest, and the foundation of Yan and Zhao became stable at once. The few remaining resistance forces are just ringworm scabies, not to mention that among them are people from the Military Intelligence Agency and the Ministry of State Security, as well as people from the secret guards of King Yan and King Zhao, and the organization has been repeatedly attacked, and the leadership force is rarely damaged, and those who die and are caught are extremists. This is not normal. It's just that no one realizes it, and those people think they're blessed by God.

The governments of the two countries can eliminate these people at any time, and keep them just to erect a big banner and recruit more resistance elements to join them, so that the governments of Yan and Zhao can better grasp the situation.

However, in the development route of Yan and Zhao, King Yan and King Zhao couldn't help but intervene in the cabinet and even the local government. Their political and economic position in the two countries became more and more important, and it was necessary for the kings of Yan and Zhao to move around their own land in order to maintain their influence.

It doesn't matter what they think or what they do. It is not advisable to retreat into your own palace. Why Alexander III's reputation was so bad, the nickname "Hermit of Gatchina" added a lot of weight to this bad reputation.

Both Yan and Zhao put the leaders of the resistance forces still, and the last aspect is to make it safer for King Yan and King Zhao to travel more!

Just like this time, Yan Zhao wants to jointly build a reservoir and a power station on the Kama River, the upper reaches of the Volga River, and this project is jointly invested by the two countries. King Yan and King Zhao finally met for the first time two or three years after they were in power.

This incident was like molasses falling into an ant pile, and it immediately made the resistance forces of Yan and Zhao completely active.

New River, Perm of the past. Tsarist Russia was an important heavy industrial city in the western part of the Urals Mountains, and is now the boundary point of Yanzhao.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun. The entire city of Xinhe was shrouded in a dim glow.

Since the 'historic' meeting between the kings of Yan and Zhao was about to take place in Xinhe, a curfew was imposed here a week before. As soon as it gets dark. It was difficult to see people on the streets of all sizes, and the Zhao National Defense Army began to impose martial law at the intersections of various streets in the city, cutting off traffic inside and outside the city, and no one was allowed to go out and walk at night without reason throughout the night. Therefore, before it was completely dark, the small merchants and vendors in Xinhe City were in a hurry to close their stalls and withdraw to their homes or outside the city. The streets and alleys of the city are full of traffic, pedestrians come and go, and for a while it is as lively as at noon.

The teahouses in the city were also settling accounts and closing their doors at the last time before dark, and some of the guys who lived far away also released their work early and hurried back.

Don't be surprised by the appearance of teahouses on the Volga. As one of the manifestations of traditional Chinese culture in the Volga River Valley, the teahouses here are already very standard selling dog meat on sheep's heads. Under the guise of 'teahouse', the actual content is already very different from that of the teahouse in Han China.

Can you imagine that China's local teahouses sell coffee, large plates of cakes, scones, pies, sweet breads, biscuits, sugar cubes, jams, honey and so on? This is absolutely impossible in Han China.

Therefore, a country with mixed races is most likely to produce a collision of civilizations!

Chinese like to drink tea, and it is a green tea that tastes different from Europeans. Chinese tea has always been a cup of fragrant tea, savored slowly. But the Russians are different, Russia also has the habit of drinking tea, in the former Qing Dynasty, tea was the most important commodity exported to Russia by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But the tea drinking culture of Russians is very different from that of Chinese. They prefer to drink tea while eating a large plate of pastries.

Chinese drink tea with a sense of artistic conception, drinking tea is not purely to quench thirst, refresh or entertain, hospitality; The Russians' tea drinking is completely an external performance, and tea drinking is a supplement or often replaces one of the three meals in addition to the three meals of the Russians; And it is indispensable for Russians to talk about the world while drinking tea, they regard drinking tea as a way of communication, and achieve the best communication effect when drinking tea, much like the British drinking afternoon tea. But there is no time limit.

Russians don't have a long history of drinking tea. Historically, tea was introduced directly to Russia from China through Siberia without the intervention of Western European countries, and according to some historical records, the first contact with tea by Russians was in 1638; At that time, the Russian nobleman Vasily, who was a friendly envoy. At the behest of the Tsar, Starkov gave the Mongol Khan some raccoon dog skins, and the Mongol Khan gave him 4 poods (about 64 kilograms) of tea. After tasting it, the tsar fell in love with the drink, and from then on the tea was grandly ascended to the royal palace, and then entered the noble family; From the 70s of the 17th century, Moscow merchants started the business of importing tea from China.

In 1679, during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, China and Russia signed an agreement on the long-term import of tea from China by Russia. However, the import of tea from China is a long distance, difficult to transport, and the quantity is limited; Therefore, tea became a typical "urban luxury drink" in Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries, and its range of drinkers was limited to the nobles and wealthy people of the upper class, and tea drinking once became a symbol of status and wealth; It was not until the end of the 18th century that the tea market expanded from Moscow to a few provinces, such as the then Makariev, now the Nizhny Novgorod region; By the beginning of the 19th century, tea drinking was prevalent among all classes of the Russian community.

Interestingly, black tea is "чёрныйчай" in Russian, which literally translates to 'black tea';

Russia is a thing of the past, Russians have become the Slavs of today, but the habits of provincial capitals will not change. Merchants are the smartest people, and they have turned a pure Chinese tea house into a tea shop that is now a combination of East and West in the fastest way possible.

In the midst of the bustling crowd, a young man from a liquor shop hurried through a few secluded alleys, past a twilight Russian building, stopped in front of a dilapidated tiled house, and knocked on the door.

The one who opened the door was a pure Oriental, in his early twenties, and there was another person behind him, like his father, who saw the wine basket in the man's hand, and without saying a word, snatched it, handed over a bundle of tickets, and then slammed the door shut.

The young man, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, stood in the doorway, counting the bills and keeping his eyes on his surroundings. This is a mixed area of Han and feudal domains, where there are Han people and even more old Maozi. With the money in your own hands, you can save a little money, which is enough for a family of five to live for three or four months. Listen to the movement in the house again, after all, this is a crime that will be imprisoned, as long as the gun trafficking is caught by the police, don't think about it for ten or eight years. But he listened with his ear to the door for a long time, but heard nothing, so he took a sip and turned his head.

When the man had gone away, the two Orientals standing behind the door carried the wine basket and went into the back room one after the other, took out the pack of cooked food at the top of the wine basket, and then brought out the wine jar at the bottom, and put it on a square table in the middle of the room.

There were already two other people sitting at the table, but they were no longer Oriental faces, but pure Slavs who could no longer be pure. As soon as they saw the wine jar, the frowns of the two people immediately relaxed.

The Chinese-style wine jar, like the Chinese spirits, has been familiar to no Slav in recent years. Lifting the seal, he poured the wine jar on the table, and at the same time as the wine flowed sideways, two packages sealed with oiled paper and rubber skin also fell off from the wine jar. It contained two revolvers and a hundred rounds of ammunition.

All four were veterans of guns, and fast, and two revolvers were checked. Quality you can trust.

"Mr. Bagramyan, weapons are ready. You can take it back with you. Our father and son are not involved in the operation, and here we wish you a victory! Ma Jiancheng clenched his fists at the two Slavs, and his son Ma Ming also raised his fists. The father and son hated Xin Qin no less than the Slavic Resistance on the other side, but they never stood on the front line for the reason of their lives.

Ma Jiancheng, formerly known as Ma Jia Gai Mountain, was formerly a Qing inlaid yellow flag person! (To be continued......)