"I took all kinds of risks for this big thing. After passing through Macau, Goa, Mughals, Persia and Anatolia, he came to Smyrna.

From here, I'm ready to set off for Rome. Since the Emperor of China has given me this glorious task, I will do everything I can to complete it! “

—Bumig.

The Russian translator for Zhao Han was the Polish missionary Bumig.

Historically, he was sent by Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty to bring rescue troops to the Pope of Rome.

He boarded a ship from Guilin to Macau, where he was blocked by Portuguese merchants in Goa, India. These Portuguese merchants, who had been bought by the Manchus, were allowed to continue their business and allow the Jesuits to preach in China. The Portuguese governor of Goa, upon learning of the promise given by the Manchus, immediately detained Bumig, who had gone to Europe to ask for help.

Bumig also remembers Emperor Yongli's mission to find an opportunity to escape Goa. But he could not continue by sea, so he disguised himself and walked all the way from India to Persia, where he met his Venetian friends.

With the help of his friends, Bumig crossed the Mediterranean Sea and finally arrived in Venice.

But Jesuit missionaries were not welcome here, and Bumig was denied access to the shore. Bu Mige changed into the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty and asked to meet the Venice ruler as the envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

The Venetian consul was very interested in him, and discussed academics with Bu Mige all day long, and spent a few months prostituting the books on Chinese medicine and the map of China that Bu Mige had brought with him. The theory of Chinese medicine and the knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine have been systematically transmitted to Europe.

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In desperation, he went to Rome, but the Pope refused to see him and even disgusted the entire Society of Jesus.

After waiting for two years, Bu Mige finally waited for the Pope to summon him, and at the same time, he also saw the Manchu envoy Wei Kuangguo.

The name Wei Kuangguo takes the meaning of "defending Kuang Fu Daming Kingdom". But at this moment, he became the representative of the Manchu Qing and ran to prevent the Pope from sending troops.

After the Pope explicitly refused to come to the rescue, Bumig returned to his homeland in Poland and wanted to ask the Polish Grand Duke to send troops. Wei Kuangguo took the lead and told the strength of the Eight Banners Army, so that the Polish king did not dare to intervene.

Although he knew from Wei Kuangguo that the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty had fallen, Bu Mige still insisted on going back and recovering to his Yongli Emperor.

Eight years after the mission, Bumig came to Siam and learned that Yunnan was still persisting in resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Bu Mige was overjoyed, immediately took a boat to Macao, and then walked alone to Yunnan, but unfortunately died of illness in Guangxi on the way.

Today, Bumig has a triple identity:

One is a master of the Geography Museum of the Qintian Academy, the second is a lecturer and doctor at Jinling Medical College, and the third is a Jesuit missionary.

His family was originally a Hungarian nobleman, and his grandfather became a Polish nobleman, and he also worked as a secretary to the Polish king. His father, a doctor of medicine and a doctor of philosophy, worked as a royal physician for the king of Poland. Bumig himself is a Polish doctor, and after coming to China, he began to study Chinese medicine, which now has a bit of a taste of integrated Chinese and Western medicine.

Seeing that Khabarov did not know, Bumig said: "Your Majesty, when I left Poland, Russia was ruled by Mikhail Romanov.

His throne was picked up, and several pseudo-tsars were produced in a row, and he was even once declared to rule by the Grand Duke of Poland. The previous tsar was deceased, Mikhail's father, the nephew of Empress Ivan IV, and was very prestigious in Russia. So the shepherds and nobles asked him to be tsar, but in fact his father ruled Russia. ”

"Mikhail Romanov?" Zhao Han had no impression of this name at all.

But since the surname is Romanlov, and the previous tsar is the heir, then this person is most likely the founder of the Romanlov dynasty.

The Romanlov dynasty, Zhao Han still knows.

Zhao Han asked, "How old is Mikhail?" “

Bumig replied: "I am probably thirty or forty years old, but this Tsar is notoriously frail and sickly, and may have died of illness a long time ago." As for who the new tsar is, I don't know, and neither do the Jesuit missionaries in China. ”

It has been several years since no new missionaries have come to China, and the latest news from Europe can only be obtained from the South Seas.

But to be honest, with the current conditions of communication, Russia is in the middle of nowhere, and I am afraid that even the governor of Batavia does not know what the name of the new tsar is. After all, in the eyes of European countries, Russia is a bunch of barbarians.

Zhao Han said suddenly: "Come close." “

Bumig translated: "Your Majesty asked you to come closer. “

Flattered, Khabarov did not dare to stand up, so he crawled forward on his knees.

Two female officers of the Imperial Horse Prison pulled away a huge map of the world.

Zhao Han said: "On this big map, the boundaries of Russia are marked. “

Khabarov was so stupid that he couldn't even figure out where Europe was. Not to mention that it is marked in Chinese characters, even if it is in Slavic characters, he can't understand it at all, this thing has not read a book for a day.

Pointing to the map, Bumig said, "This is Poland-Lithuania, this is Sweden, and this is the middle of the Ottoman Empire.

You explain the situation. “

Khabarov was very clever and immediately climbed in front of the big map after being guided by Bumig.

The two female officials held up the map, but he did not dare to look at the female officer, but pointed to one part of the map and said: "This should be the Kazakh Khanate, I heard that between Kazakhstan and Persia, there are two countries, Khiva and Bukhara." To the east of Kazakhstan is also the territory of Tatar Mongolia. “

"Good." Zhao Han smiled and nodded, and finally lit up some areas of Central Asia.

Bu Mige pointed to the map again and said, "This is Heilongjiang, and this is the place where you were captured." And here, is your lair of Yaksa. “

Khabarov carefully identified it, combined with the experience of these years, and had a clearer understanding of Siberia in his heart.

Zhao Han asked: "What are the most important places in Russia's territory in the East?" Or, is it clearly divided into several ruling regions? “

Khabarov pointed to the north of the Kazakh Khanate: "There are big mountains here, called the Ural Mountains. To the west of the Urals, there is more population, more food, and the nobility and lords pay more attention. To the east of the Urals, the population is small, there is little food, and the nobles only value fur. “

Zhao Han immediately understood that the west of the Ural Mountains was the core of Russian rule; To the east of the Ural Mountains was a Russian colonial territory.

This can probably be guessed, Zhao Han continued to ask: "To the east of the Ural Mountains, what are the important areas?" “

Khabarov replied: "The most important thing is a few big rivers. The first is the Yenisei River, the second is the Ob River, and the third is the Lena River. To the east of the Ural Mountains, all the castles of Russia were built on the banks of these three rivers and their tributaries. Cossack warriors, rowing in search of suitable places to settle, chose to build castles and communities by the river. Then focus on the castle and the community to raid the surrounding indigenous tribes. ”

Zhao Han understood, this is the model of Russian expansion in Siberia.

Take the river as the lifeline of transportation, and then choose a hub as the base, and use the base as the center to colonize and expand. As long as you destroy the bases by the river,

Russian rule in Siberia was over.

China's expansion in the Northeast could follow this model.

The middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River are too far away, and the vast area does not need to be managed, only a few health centers can be set up along the Heilongjiang River. Dozens or hundreds of soldiers were stationed in each guard station, and then the criminals were relocated to reclaim the land, and slowly integrated with the nearby natives.

Zhao Han asked again: "Which region of Russia is most closely related to Yaksa?" “

Khabarov said: "Yakutsk.

Geographically, the Baikal region is much closer to Yaksa, and Yakutsk is ridiculously far away.

"It's too cold in Yakutsk, and for several months a year, the land freezes, and it's hard to grow enough food," Khabarov explained. When I founded the village of Yaksa, I was first ordered to grow grain and transport it to Yakutsk. From Yaksa, follow the Gyya River to the north, meet the lake, turn to another river, and continue north to Yakutsk. Arrived in Yakutsk, went southwest along the Lena River,

You can reach Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is connected to the Yenisei River. The Yenisei River has many tributaries and can go to many places.

Zhao Han suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that the conquest of Siberia is not a cavalry, but a Northern Naval Division. “

The conquest of those three great rivers was equivalent to the conquest of the whole of Siberia, and this was the secret of the Cossacks' continuous eastward expansion.

Zhao Han still has to ask in person to be able to build a high position.

Allowing the criminal department and the military to interrogate can only reveal some specific information, and cannot look at the problem from the perspective of the world.

Zhao Han said to the female officer of the Imperial Horse Prison: "Order the military department to recruit the officers and soldiers of the sailors who have been discharged or transferred to the army. It is necessary to make it clear to these officers and men of the veteran naval division that whether or not to re-enlist is completely voluntary, and it is not compulsory. The Northeast Water Division is about to be formed in the Songhua River, where they will fight in the future,

Far away, cold, and poor, you may not be able to go home for several years. All military salaries are paid in double, and each child of a commissioned officer has a publicly-funded place to attend the secondary school where the household registration is located. The children of martyrs have a publicly-funded place to study at the university where their household registration is located. ”

After thinking about it, Zhao Han continued: "Yangtze River Sailor, lay off three hundred people. With these 300 officers and men of the Yangtze River Naval Division as the skeleton, the Northeast Naval Division was formed on the Songhua River. Another 1,000 retired officers and soldiers were recruited to supplement the Northeast Naval Division. Also, doctors should be well equipped, and frostbite may be frequent on the north side. “

With the addition of military doctors and other logistical personnel, at the beginning of the formation of the Northeast Naval Division, the number of soldiers was only 1,500.

Don't look at the small number of people, they will be the core military force of the Heilongjiang Dusi, and the troops can be quickly projected to the entire Songhua River and Heilongjiang coast.

When the rule of the Heilongjiang Metropolitan Division is secured, it will expand further north. The route of first capturing Yakutsk, and then using Yakutsk as a base to capture Lake Begayou along the Lena River, is far better than going north from the Mongolian steppe. Fewer troops, less logistical pressure,

can take the Beihai of Su Wu's sheep at the least cost.

Khabarov told the core secrets of the Cossacks, which made Zhao Han very satisfied, and he said: "I can pardon your crimes." “

Khabarov rejoiced: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Great Emperor!" “

Zhao Han said again: "But you have killed countless people, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped." Cutting off the tail finger of your left hand is a lesson for you! ”

A finger, nothing, as long as it's not a thumb, Khabarov is perfectly acceptable.

Zhao Han said: "After the formation of the Northeast Water Division, you will be appointed as a guide and general officer in the army. As long as you make meritorious service in battle, I will reward you for your meritorious deeds, and even let you serve as an officer! “

Khabarov seems to have been hit by pie in the sky, and as an officer in the rich Khitan State, won't he have a chance to become a nobleman in the future?

The creature knelt on the ground, kowtowed frantically to the emperor, and even wanted to crawl over and kiss the emperor's boots.

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