The vast Baikal region, hundreds of Rus' captives, and even the most advanced gunpowder-making machinery...... Except for not knowing the whereabouts of the pampered soldiers, the so-called "military personnel", all the signs were clearly in front of Ablin - the Qing army had completely occupied this place!

"Your Excellency Centurion, may I ask a question?" Ablin mustered up his courage and spoke.

"I want to hear about it." Wu Enqi was waiting for this sentence.

"What happened to the soldiers who were supposed to guard these workers?" Ablin maintained the tactfulness of a businessman, and said "protection" not "garrison", with the intention of obscuring the ownership of the Baikal region and leaving it for later use.

"Hehe, do you mean the Rakshasa bandits who invaded my borders? Kill what is killed, and what is descended, not one is left, and all of them are destroyed. Wu Enqi said while admiring Jidu's foresight, and replied in his original words.

"Ah...... This...... Can I, as the Tsar's emissary, ask your general to be kind to these living captives? Ablin gasped and asked tentatively.

"Haha, my guest. According to the military law of our Qing Dynasty, those who surrender will be counted as the people who will be taken prisoner by our generals in the future, and it is up to the court to decide whether to kill or stay. As for those dead bandits, if the lord of the Rakshasa Kingdom is willing to send someone to collect the corpses, we will naturally grant it. But do you have a credential on the matter? "Wu Enqi continues to faithfully carry out Jidu's account.

"This ...... Yes, I have not received any orders in this regard. Ablin hung his head helplessly, and was in displeasure.

It's not just about the good guys. It can be said that he is disheartened. Since the entire Baikal region fell into the hands of the Qing army, it is now seen that an unknown number of Rus' and military personnel surrendered to the Bogda emperor, that is, all the Russian affairs of Eastern Siberia are not a secret to the Qing army.

In Moscow, on the other hand, the nobles and the tsar himself should still be ignorant of what is happening there. Originally, I wanted to sell this information for a good price, but now it seems that even if I return to Moscow one day, how much use of this information will be? It's nothing more than a good scare of Tsar Alexei.

Can Moscow and the tsar. What can they do? Europe is still taking care of itself. Some time ago, the expedition invaded and expanded in the Far East, but it just made them pick up a big bargain! Now that the Chinese are ready to go, it is impossible for such a large castle to be built without 10,000 people, that is. The strength of the Qing army is by no means a small number! But how much, exactly?

Follow the main road in the center of the castle. Ablin finally walked to a sizable tent. Around. Rows of vigilant Bogda soldiers, brightly armored and slashed, were clearly capable guards.

"Centurion Unqi, this is the ...... It's the general's tent, right? Ablin pondered and asked the entourage beside him.

"Not bad. Dear guests, good eyesight! This is the camp of our Dingyuan general. Wu Enqi said as he dismounted, casually throwing the reins of his horse to the soldiers who met him.

"Oh. But since he is a great general, why didn't he also build his camp tent into a brick house? This is true for the rest of the city's buildings. Ablin asked, knowing from Unqi's movements that he should dismount and hand over his horse to another soldier.

"Hehe, you're a careful person!" Wu Enqi walked to Abolin's side and said with a smile: "Our general is sympathetic to the hard work of the soldiers and craftsmen, and has ordered to build the city defense first, then build the barracks and a craftsman's house, and when everything is completed, then build his Ang Bang Zhangjing Yamen." Please! ”

After speaking, Wu Enqi turned his back to the main entrance of the big tent and stretched out his left hand to point to a small courtyard in the distance.

"What? Your Excellency Centurion, aren't we going to meet your general? Ablin apparently did not expect that he had come all the way to meet the hidden former "five centurion".

"Hehe, the general has an order, and the 100,000-strong army patrols the border, and the military affairs are complicated. Invite the guests to settle down in that humble apartment first, and we will talk to you in a few days! Unqi loudly conveyed the military order, his left hand still pointing in the direction of his advance, his right hand was just right against Ablin's back, and with a little force, the merchant moved along the established route.

"An army of 100,000? Is he a field marshal? Ablin almost fell on his heels, not because of the Mongolian man's push, but because he was frightened by this sentence! As he walked forward, he looked back at Unqi, his face almost distorted, and his tongue was about to fall out!

With the number of 100,000 soldiers, in the current Europe, it is definitely possible to launch another thirty-year war of unprecedented scale! Not to mention other countries, even Russia at the moment, the entire standing army is less than such a number...... China's 100,000 soldiers were casually sent to this desolate East Siberia, which shows that China has a vast land and a large population!

Ablin was scheming and at no avail of the future of his "loyal" Moscow government - it's over, it's over! Lake Baikal in Moscow is over, and maybe your industry in Tomsk is also over......

"Haha, distinguished guest, let's go!" Unqi still responded loudly, smiled and pushed Ablin past the door of Jidu's big tent, and entered the small "embassy" that had been prepared for the Russ envoys.

In the tent, Ji Du had already heard the conversation between the two, and nodded with a smile, and at first glance he was very satisfied with Wu Enqi's useful remarks just now.

But there was no need for him to meet Ablin or praise Wu Enqi at this time, but to continue to study the map of the Suwu Lake region that had just been drawn on the table in front of him. The so-called "Ti" refers to "the military affairs of the Admiral Ulan-Ude and other places", which is the "appendage" of the imperial court when appointing Jidu as "Ulan-Uude Angbang Zhangjing". "Genus" means "belonging". In this way, the military purpose of this map is clear at a glance, and it is the distribution map of the military bases to which Jidu belongs.

This is a silk map, about three feet long and three feet wide, drawn by the traditional method of "planning and drawing squares[1]", on which the mountains and rivers, lakes, roads, post stations, castles and other signs are readily available, and all are marked in different colors, very detailed. This work was a major event that Jidu immediately deployed at the beginning of his stationing at Suwu Lake, and it took several months to complete the drawing, which can be described as painstaking work.

But strangely, on this ten-foot-long map, not to mention the central dot of Suwu Lake, and the areas of Hunan and the east of the lake are also densely drawn, but to the north and west are more and more sparse, so that finally to the north and west of the map, the two edges have become blank!

(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] "Drawing a plan" is a method of drawing a map on a scale. It is a method of drawing a grid to scale in order to make the map graphics reduce and size correctly. When drawing, first fill the map with squares, and the side length of the square represents the number of miles in the field, which is equivalent to the square mile grid on modern topographic maps; Then draw the map content by square to ensure a certain accuracy. According to written records, this method began with the principle of "six bodies of cartography" put forward by Pei Xiu in the Jin Dynasty of China, and he compiled the "Topographic Abbot Map" in the scale of one inch and one hundred miles. The method of "planning and drawing" has been used for more than 1,500 years until the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and is of great significance in the history of cartography in China and the world. Before the introduction of map projection and longitude and latitude cartography, it was the most scientific cartographic method in China. This method was introduced to the West in the 13th century and was adopted by Arab and Italian cartographers, who established a coordinate system that Joseph Needham called a quantitative grid of coordinates. The square of the plan is used as a grid, and the side length of each square is equivalent to the scale of the map, so the map drawn using this method often has text descriptions similar to "each square folds 100 li" and "square bracket 10 li", that is, the scale of the reduction. Using the control of the square grid, the geographic features that need to be drawn are reduced to a certain scale onto the map and represented by various lines, symbols, colors and annotations, and the distance between the elements is the horizontal straight line distance, which can be measured. Due to ignoring the surface curvature, the farther away from the mapping center, the greater the cartographic error, but the error can be negligible when drawing a small area map, so it has a certain accuracy. At the same time, due to the purpose of ancient Chinese maps, which were mainly used as a tool for government land allocation, tax collection, urban defense, design and operation of land and water transportation routes, and management of farmland irrigation, etc., their deformation did not become a serious problem. (To be continued......)