These Sakha people belong to the East Siberian type, a North Asian race.

Horse face, high skull, small eyes, high cheeks, narrow forehead.

There are also some who have big pie faces, or simply can't distinguish from the Han people.

Modern gene sequencing shows that the Y chromosome of the Han people accounts for as much as 80% of the O lineage, which shows that the bloodline is very unified. Like Cao Cao's Y chromosome, it can basically be judged as O1b1-M268.

The Y chromosome of the Sakha people is dominated by the N lineage, also known as the Far North gene. If you insist on having something to do with the Han people, it was a family about 30,000 years ago, and then the N-type genes migrated north and lived in the ice and snow, for example, the Finns are mainly N-type genes.

On the whole, the Sakha people did not quite fit the aesthetics of the Chinese, so Zhang Tingxun initially resisted.

The female shaman had a horse face and high cheekbones.

Among the girls in front of them, two of them are obviously different in appearance, and they are very likely to be mixed with the C-line gene.

The C-line gene is also divided into the northern and southern branches, the northern branch is mostly Mongolian, Manchu, Hezhe, Xibe, Oroqen, Evenki, etc., and the southern branch is one of the ancestors of the Han people. Nearly half of the C-line genes of the surname Qufu Kong, and many Jiang surnames are also C-line genes, and it is estimated that many nobles in the Shang and Zhou dynasties were C-line.

Zhang Tingxun definitely doesn't understand gene sequencing, he only knows that there is a girl in front of him who is very good-looking, at least extremely beautiful in the Sakha people.

Beauty is contrasted.

Iga, the son of the tribal leader, came over on horseback and shouted at Zhang Tingxun, "Let's go fishing together." ”

Khabarov said: "He asked the little grandfather to go fishing. ”

"Good!" Zhang Tingxun said with a smile.

Zhang Tingxun stepped on a Sahama, his hooves treading in the snow, and his movements were relatively slow. He pointed to the girl in the photo and asked bluntly: "Is she also from the day-to-day department?" ”

Iga said, "Her name is Unagi. Her grandfather was from the south, and because of the tribal war, he lost his territory and took more than a dozen people to the Japanese tribe. Their family is good at finding salt mines, so they have a high status, and the Japanese department is happy to accept them. ”

The Lena River basin is very rich in rock salt resources.

However, due to the presence of permafrost and the lack of skills of the Sakha people, it is a matter of luck and experience to obtain rock salt. Those who are good at finding salt mines must be treasures, and their status is second only to shamans.

"Did the guests take a fancy to her?" "But she's not the most beautiful girl in the day-to-day department, and I can introduce one to the guests." My sisters are beautiful, you saw them yesterday. ”

Zhang Tingxun has indeed seen that the daughters of the leader are all high cheekbones and big pie faces.

Zhang Tingxun said: "I like her like this, she looks very similar to us Chinese." ”

"Guests can bring wine to her house if they like it," Iga said. If her father was willing to drink the wine brought by the guest, he agreed to the marriage. ”

"Thanks for the reminder." Zhang Tingxun said with a smile.

When the people came to the frozen river, Iga led his people to dig holes and sat on wooden barrels to fish.

Fish is one of the staple foods of the Sakha people.

Then there is venison and beef, especially reindeer. The more reindeer, the richer they are, much like the Mongols raise sheep.

Zhang Tingxun is really not a material for fishing, others are one after another, but he has gained very little. And I couldn't sit still at all, so I got up and walked around while fishing, and spent more time watching the snow scenery in the distant mountains.

Moreover, Zhang Tingxun does not like to eat the fish here.

The locals eat sashimi, and the seasoning is only rock salt, which does not taste very good.

In the afternoon, the hunting party of the tribe returned. The harvest was not bad, six Mongolian wolves, four silly roe deer, more than twenty snow hares, and no one died unexpectedly.

Zhang Tingxun asked for some mare's milk wine from the leader and took Khabarov to propose marriage.

Unaji's family is prosperous, his father is still alive, he has three wives and seven brothers and sisters. At present, they all live together, and several tents have been set up, and the family will be separated when my father dies.

Unagi's father's name is Shu He, which means axe.

Shu He was very happy to learn that Zhang Tingxun came to propose marriage, and he warmly welcomed him and said: "My father is from the south, and I heard him talk about it when I was a child. Far south, there is a powerful tribe that has endless food to eat. ”

The ghost knows which tribe he is talking about, and it is estimated that he refers to the Sakhalian people in the middle and lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River.

But it was certainly not a Jurchen, because the Manchu Qing conquered the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, the Jingqili River and the Outer Xing'an Mountains, which was already a matter of Huangtaiji's time.

Huang Taiji called all the tribes in the north as the Sauron tribe, and there were the deer tribe and the dog tribe when refined. Just listen to the name, make the deer department use the deer sled, and make the dog department use the dog sled.

Huang Taiji's three expeditions to the Sauron tribe caused a large loss of population in the north. In the ninth year of Tiancong alone, 2,483 Zhuangding and 7,302 Zhuangding's family members were abducted. The Sauron tribe, which was semi-forced or voluntarily subordinated, was moved to the south to settle down, and 16 Sauron cattle were set up in the Nenjiang Valley alone.

The above data has taken away at least twenty or thirty thousand people, how many can be left in the north? No wonder one or two hundred Cossacks can run rampant in the Heilongjiang Valley.

Zhang Tingxun asked, "Have you heard of the Han people?" ”

Shu He shook his head: "I haven't heard of it." ”

The two sides communicate, and the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth.

Zhang Tingxun saw that the other party drank mare's milk wine, obviously agreeing to the marriage, so he said: "I came this time, I didn't bring any gifts, I will prepare a dowry when I go back, and I will send it after the snow melts next year." ”

"It doesn't have to be that troublesome, you can get married now." Shu He said with a smile.

For many ethnic groups in the vicinity of the Outer Khing'an Mountains, the wedding is completed in the woman's home, and then returns to the man's house after staying for a while.

At this time, the temperature was already below zero, and in order not to delay the return to the castle, the wedding was held the next day.

The wedding was very "grand", the female shaman personally lit the fire, and the tribal leader presided over the wedding.

Although Unagi and Zhang Tingxun do not understand the language, they are extremely satisfied with her husband. She felt that her husband was very handsome, his face was not so long, his cheekbones were not so high, and his eyes were very large, and he was much better looking than the men in the tribe.

By the way, Li Jiang is also married, and it is Unagi's sister who is taken.

The two sisters are the most beautiful girls in the daily department.

The dowry was very generous, and Unagi's dowry alone consisted of two reindeer, more than a dozen furs, and some jewelry. The jewelry is mostly mammoth ivory products, but there are also a small number of gemstones.

After a delay of two days, after negotiating next year's trading items, Zhang Tingxun left with his wife and subordinates.

Fearing that they would get lost, the leader sent a guide, who would also stay in the castle and return next year when the climate warmed.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and it is already more than ten degrees below zero.

For the Sakha people, this is a temperature that allows them to continue their activities, and they will only hide in their houses at minus 30 degrees. If you encounter an extreme cold of minus 60 degrees, you can only hold on, which is relatively rare.

Successfully returning to the castle, Zhang Tingxun immediately reported the diplomatic results and took out the ivory products for display.

Peng Chunlin was quite pleased: "Ivory can be sold at a high price in the south, but the Sakha carving is a bit poor. Next year let them sell the ivory directly, and stop carving. By the way, congratulations on your wedding. ”

"Hey, hey." Zhang Tingxun laughed.

Unagi's appearance is not absolutely beautiful, and in Nanjing, it is above average. However, he is tall and has the taste of Northland rouge, and can also shoot arrows and hunt, and chisel ice fishing.

In times of lack of manpower, Sakha women also had to hunt and fish.

In particular, the mortality rate among men in Sakha is high, with widows appearing every year. These widows, if they were unable to remarry in a short period of time, would take on the role of the breadwinner of the family, joining the hunting party with the men of other families.

Peng Chunlin said: "The fishing here is not bad, and we have to bring in a few sailors next year." Many of the sailors come from fishermen's families, and they bring fishing nets, which are much faster than fishing. Despite the cold, it is a treasure land, and a lot of silver can be earned from fur and ivory. ”

To occupy and develop a place for a long time, it must have enough value.

For example, in the Heilongjiang River Basin, in addition to fur, they are already thinking about cutting down trees. Korean pine, in particular, is extremely precious and can be sold for a good price when transported to the south.

When the post stations in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River are set up, it is necessary to develop the timber of the large and small Xing'an Mountains. Axes and saws were half sold and half given to the natives, and the logs were drifted all the way to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and then transported to the south by sea.

This route, the port of Sakata, which has been negotiated in Japan, is a very important supply port. It was not until Hunchun and Vladivostok developed that the supply ports were replaced.

And Yakutsk, with its fur and ivory, also proved its worth.

As long as the court tastes the sweetness, it will definitely not give up.

"By the way," Peng Chunlin said, "after everyone's deliberations, Yakutsk has changed its name." In the future, it will be called Luzhou, and the natives here will make deer. ”

Back in his house, Zhang Tingxun smiled at his wife, and Unagi also smiled back.

The language barrier can only laugh.

Unagi took off the dagger and asked, "What is this called?" ”

This sentence can be understood, Zhang Tingxun has heard it many times, and he said in a straight voice: "Dagger." ”

"Dagger...... Head. Unagi repeatedly.

The organs of the body are the first to be learned, hair, eyes, ears, nose...... I learned it halfway through.

Zhang Tingxun said: "Next year, I will ask someone to bring some rouge gouache." ”

Unagi didn't understand, just grinned.

Zhang Tingxun is very satisfied with this kind of day, and in a few years, he may be able to transfer to Rao Le Du Protectorate. When the time comes, bring Nanjing's wife to you, accompany a wife and a concubine, and ride a horse to fight, everything is so perfect.

Of course, it's not easy.

On the afternoon of the day he returned to the castle, Zhang Tingxun was called to go to the woodcut.

Take advantage of the fact that there is no snow in the past two days, cut down more trees. You don't have to take it back to the castle, just throw it at the edge of the forest, wait for the snow to melt and then carry it, and next year you will need to build a ship and make furniture.

The Khasa also had boats, but they were all birchbark boats, which could not withstand the toss at all.

In addition, the branches need to be brought back as firewood for winter heating. There are many birch trees here, and the birch bark is also peeled off, making it very convenient to burn.

When the Datong army first arrived, they only did three things in winter: fishing, cutting down trees, and drilling.

Hunting or something, wait until you're familiar.

After working for a long time and having dinner in the evening, Zhang Tingxun rolled the sheets with Unaji in his arms.

There was really no entertainment, and at night, the castle could be heard all over the castle with the cries of women.

This made the soldiers, who had not yet married a local wife, feel particularly lonely and unbearable, and planned to go to a nearby tribe next year to propose marriage.

There must be more than one day-to-day division, and those freed slaves and hostages are the best guides. Next year, when the snow melts, the Datong army will visit one after another and get in touch with various tribes.

Two months later, the temperature dropped to more than 30 degrees below zero.

All kinds of activities have almost stopped, and the exercises are no longer engaged, and they hide in the house all day to keep out the cold, and the consumption of firewood is extremely high.

Zhang Tingxun hugged his wife every day, mainly teaching Chinese, mainly because no matter how strong the cow was, it couldn't withstand the daily farming.

In just one winter, those Datong troops with wives have enlarged more than a dozen bellies.

But the infant mortality rate is extremely high, and it is not known how many people will survive.

And obviously in the summer, it is estimated that some soldiers will take the initiative to give up the 20 places to return to Hailan. Because their wife is pregnant, they can't afford to travel all the way.