Just when Ablin made the final choice with difficulty, Jidu said meaningfully:

"Ha Luha, the two of you, I see that there seems to be a bit of a gap between you! However, there is an old saying in China, which is called harmony and wealth, and you must remember it! After all, you still have to work together in the future! ”

"Yes! Be! ”

Yarezhkin pulled a game back on Ablin, and naturally happily agreed.

"Excellent, Your Excellency! Ablin is willing to obey your arrangement. ”

Hearing that he would "work closely" with Yarezhkin in the future, although Ablin was unwilling, he could only do so.

"Yes, two! Come, come and see. With a wave of his hand, Ji Du led the two Xinke subordinates to the front of his huge army in the center of the big tent, on which an extended drawing was occupied.

"It's ...... A map? ”

Ablin couldn't understand the two lines of Manchu and Chinese characters in the prominent position on it, and he also marked the clouds and mountains in the map, but he felt sharply - this is a map for the Chinese!

"Yes, it's the map. Where do you recognize the map? "Jidu has the mentality of examining professional talents, and is kind to it.

"This ...... I really don't know ......," Ablin was annoyed. As a businessman, how can you get involved in the very professional cartographic industry?

Yarezhkin, who had always been slow because he needed to translate the dialogue, finally figured out Ablin's last sentence, "I don't know what to say", as if a big gold coin had fallen from the sky, and suddenly became excited. Ignoring any politeness, he stepped forward and put his shoulder on the back of Ablin's waist - that's because this guy was already bent over and ready to look at the map!

"General, the little ones recognize this map!" Yarezhjin didn't raise his head, his eyes were still on the map on the case, and he said in a rough voice.

"Oh? Listen, where is this? When Jidu heard the words of the interpreter, his interest in Yarezhjin doubled, and he pointed to a certain place on the map, and asked expectantly.

"Uh...... I don't know ...... little ones here" Yarezhkin didn't look up, just lowered his head and spoke. Naturally, I can't see the extreme disappointment that Jidu is showing at this moment!

"You ......" Jidu felt annoyed that he was being played by a monkey as a monkey. I was about to be angry, but I heard the big black head under my nose still talking.

"But the little Zhilu said, this is the Baikal ......" Yaryzhkin, who had a tendon, even stretched out a thick black index finger and lightly tapped it on the map.

Not bad. He was referring to the exact location of Lake Baikal, or Lake Suvu, in the "Map of the Ti Ulan-Ude" drawn by Jidu. Jidu was right after this to the point in Russian. I quickly understood the translation of the interpreter. Swallowed back the order that he would drag Yarezhkin out of the jail and beat him up.

"The place that the general is pointing is directly south of Lake Baikal......" Yaryzhkin did not know that he had escaped the catastrophe by his own means, and was completely immersed in the study of the map. This made Jidu suddenly feel like a treasure, and he was glad that he got a Westerner who could be used!

"It's a pity that this figure doesn't have a 'scale'[1]......"

"What? What did you say? ”

Jidu was a little anxious, and shouted at the Buryats who were acting as interpreters. Actually, Yaryzhkin used a technical word for "drawing scale" in Russian, but how can the Buryats, who came from nomadic background, translate it accurately? He hadn't even heard of what "drawing" was or what "scale" was!

"General, Yaryzhkin is saying that this map does not have a sign for the purpose of surveying and mapping, and it should be called ...... Proportions, right? Ablin, who was blocked by Yarezhkin's big ass, finally waited for his opportunity and hurriedly explained in Mongolian.

"What is the mark for the length of the map? Oh, I see, isn't it just a 'plan'! How not? You Rakshasas are so unlearned! Ha Lu Ha ......"

Jidu, who figured it out, laughed and teased the two of them, and didn't forget to point to the criss-crossing squares on the map. At this time, he also understood a truth - these two Rakshasa descendants must cooperate well with each other in order to play their greatest role.

"Yes! Be! We're really just a little learned......"

Following Jidu's anger, Ablin took advantage of the situation to bypass the hunched Yarezhkin, and stood on the other side of Jidu, finally entering the inner circle. Yaryzhkin seemed to have forgotten about the open and secret battle with Ablin at this time, and was still talking and gesturing to himself-

"But based on my overall view of the size of the whole picture, a rough estimate of the small ones is ...... I thought that the place pointed out by the general was also more than 70 'versts' from the north of the lakeside......"

Ablin hurriedly asked Shu Wen on the side what the "mileage" used by the Qing army, and then calculated it intensively in his mind, and then explained according to Yarezhkin's words:

"He said that the closest place to the south bank of Suwu Lake is only more than one hundred and fifty 'Qingli'......" After speaking, Ablin looked at Jidu with some apprehension, until the general nodded at him with great satisfaction, and then he was relieved, and he was happy in his heart: It turns out that one Russian li is almost two 'Chinese li'!

"Kiyosato? You might as well just call it 'Li'. I also used the pre-Ming weights and measures in the Qing Dynasty. Jidu suddenly remembered something, and looked up at Ablin again.

"Yes!" Ablin hurriedly agreed, and Zidu focused his attention on the floor drawings again. At this time, Yarezhkin continued to calculate-

“…… It is located in a gorge, and between it and Lake Baikal to the north, there is a small mountain range that runs southwest and northeast along the shore......

Jidu kept nodding - the more this kid talked, the more fitting it became!

"To the south of it, it is surrounded by rolling mountains, which run roughly east-west...... However, there are several small rivers that weave through the mountains, forming a natural valley area. Exactly where the general was pointing, there was a large river winding through it...... General, if the cartographer hadn't made a mistake, this would be an excellent place to garrison troops! ”

Suddenly, Yaryzhkin jerked his head up. There is a look of treasure in the eyes! He was right, this is what later generations called the so-called "Trans-Baikal Mountains", also known as the Trans-Baikal Mountains and the Dauri Mountains, which refers to the mountainous areas east of Lake Baikal and beyond the North Baikal Plateau, from the North Baikal Plateau to the south to Russia, bordering the borders of Mongolia and China, stretching for 1,000 kilometers from north to south and 1,000 kilometers from west to east, covering the median line from Lake Baikal to the confluence of the Shilka and Ergun rivers.

"Ha Lu Ha! O Aryzhkin! Ha Lu Ha! Jidu laughed loudly.

"General, I'm ...... small," Yaryzhkin couldn't take the smile.

"You're really a two-hitter! That's a good point. It's called Ulan-Ude. It is the place where I am stationed in the great general, and indeed as you said, as soon as I arrived here that day, I found that this place was really a place for soldiers to fight! There you have it here. The whole Suwu Lake is in the bag! Ha Lu Ha ...... "Jidu is at this time against Yarezhkin. I feel the urge to be a confidant.

"Ulan-Ude?" Yarezhkin did not understand Mongolian. I didn't understand it for a while.

"Yarezhkin, the Mongolian word 'Ulan-Ude' means 'red gate'!" Ablin hurriedly explained.

"Oh." Not to be outdone, Yarezhkin just responded. Then he said to Jidu:

“su-wu-hu？ Oh, the little Zhilu said, this place is the territory of our Qing Dynasty, and it is naturally called 'Speed-Thing-Household'! It's not Lake Baikal! Yarezhkin learned the pronunciation of Jidu, repeating it crappily.

"Yarezhjin, it's not a speedy household, it's Suwu Lake!" Shu Wen on the side also corrected with a smile.

"Yes, yes, Su-Wu-Hu!" Yaryzhkin was evidently very accustomed to the slightly intimate atmosphere of the moment, and was eager to suddenly become a funny clown who laughed at the audience, and continued to repeat in a lame tone and with great exaggeration.

"Yarezhkin, you still need to learn a lot from Abrin! Look at what you're saying, it's a lot of work, how can this work? You say, "Oh, don't you?" Ha Lu Ha ...... "Jidu was finally amused and laughed loudly.

The people in the tent were all laughing at Yarezhkin's lame Chinese......

(Chapter to be continued)

"A limerick poem. Hidden Head

Reading literature and reading history is only a long breath

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

The layout is a long-cherished wish

It's hard to come and go

Get up and spend a hundred years

Point out the suffering and diseases of the world

The edge of the town was razed to the sea

Wen'an Wuding tears of joy

[1] The earliest scale maps in the history of cartography can be traced back to ancient Greece. The ancient Greek philosopher Thales was one of the earliest known scholars of the shape of the world. He believed that the foundation of the entire world is water, and that all things grow from water (all things originate from water). He also proposed many basic theorems of astronomy and mathematics that enabled people to study geography scientifically. His student Anaximander drew the earliest known scale map and invented the corona. In the East, the ancestor of the scale map can be regarded as the method of "drawing the square in the plan" used by the Chinese ancestors, starting from the "Yugong Territory Map" and "Topographic Abbot Map" drawn by [Pei Xiu] in the Western Jin Dynasty. The former has the nature of a historical evolution map, and the latter is an experimental sample of the plot drawing, that is, the whole map of China with 80 horses is reduced to an abbot wall map. Pei Xiu's method of planning and drawing was followed for a long time in the compilation of maps in ancient China, and its influence spread as far as Korea and Japan. During the Tang and Song dynasties, maps were widely used in all aspects of land and administration, diplomacy and military activities. However, the originality of the Tang Dynasty, he compiled the "Guanzhong Longyou and Shannan Kyushu Map", which set a precedent for the dangerous map of the frontier. He uses the traditional techniques of drawing in two colors, Zhu and ink, to represent the historical evolution of the map content. The great development of modern maps was in the 17th century. In the 17th ~ 19th centuries AD, capitalism in Europe and the United States developed greatly. The European and American powers were no longer satisfied with exploring sea trade routes, but demanded an in-depth understanding of the natural resources and economic conditions of the mainland's hinterland. The original nautical maps and maps of the world were not detailed enough. With the need to divide the territory and expand the colonies, the surveying and mapping of large-scale topographic maps has been carried out on a large scale in many countries, forming the mainstream of modern map development. (To be continued......)