The defeat of the Russian army in Siberia took several months before finally reaching Moscow, the capital of Tsarist Russia.

The news soon spread throughout the city, both inside and outside the palace, and the nobles, who had made their fortune from the Siberian fur trade, were so angry that they could not bear the fact that the fur trade on which they had started was cut off, and they hurried into the palace to ask to see the Tsar.

Tsar Alexei I was at this time overwhelmed by the fighting on the Russian-Polish front, and the fiasco in Siberia made matters worse, turning a large patch of blonde hair on his head almost overnight, and the noise of the nobles gave him a splitting headache.

For this reason, Alexei I could only endure the boredom in his heart, and did his best to appease the nobles, saying that he would definitely send additional troops to the Far East, teach the damned Xia army a lesson, and retake Siberia.

But his promise did not cope with the shrewd nobles, who were still noisy and demanded that the Tsar send troops immediately, and when the Tsar saw that they were still unrelenting, he immediately became angry, and in a rage in the court, he ordered the guards to drive the nobles out.

After driving those nobles out, the tsar was still angry, his chest was constantly rising and falling, and his mood was much better after a tantrum, but the Russo-Polish war and the loss of Siberia were like two mountains, and they were still firmly pressed on him, making him a little breathless.

At present, most of the Russian army in the country has been transferred to the front line of the Russian-Polish war, and it is inevitable that new troops will not be able to be sent to the Far East, and judging from the intelligence sent one after another after the outbreak of the war, the Xia Dynasty in the Far East is a powerful country, and their level of technology is much higher than that of the West, which is very in line with the image of the powerful Eastern Empire touted by Marco Polo.

At war with such a powerful empire with a dense population, a rich economy, and technological superiority, Alexei I did not say that it was impossible to panic, and the idea of negotiating a truce with the Xia Dynasty also rose in his heart after calming down.

Since he can't defeat the Xia army, it is not a shame to sue for peace with this powerful country, and although Siberia is rich in resources and vast in territory, it is sparsely populated, and he can't integrate the resources of that land, and it is not an unacceptable thing to give it to the Xia Dynasty in exchange for the friendship of the Xia Dynasty.

After the armistice with the Xia Dynasty, he bought those advanced muskets from the Xia Dynasty and used them to defeat the Poles in the war with the Poles, squeezing all the losses from the Poles, perfect.

After figuring it out, the tsar convened a court meeting and instructed his close ministers to make peace with the Xia dynasty at the meeting, at which the trusted ministers listed a series of disadvantages of continuing the war with the Xia dynasty, and gave some examples of the advantages of a truce, which persuaded most of the officials.

In the end, the tsar ordered the formation of a new mission to the Xia Dynasty to negotiate peace with the Xia Dynasty, and this news immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of many nobles, but their dissatisfaction was ignored, and for the current Tsarist Russia, Ukraine was far more important than Siberia in the struggle with Poland.

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The journey is long, and it takes half a year to travel from Moscow to Khanty-Mansiysk, the westernmost important town of the Buryatia Protectorate.

During this time, Siberia once again entered a long and harsh winter, and although the Xia army who received the holy decree of the Western Expedition had the intention to go out, the cold winter blocked their way, so that the Xia army could only wait for the end of winter in the warm stronghold.

Siberia was forced to enter a truce, and in the towering Uszang, the war between the remnants of the Heshut Khanate and the earthly Buddha states continued until May of the ninth year of Wu'an.

Under the leadership of the new khan of Hoshut, Batur Khan, the army of Hoshut invaded the city of Rashit, and the leader of the Buddha kingdom fled the city by Diba Liegyatso on the eve of the city's destruction.

At this time, when the Heshute Khanate could not integrate the entire Uszang, Liu Shixun, who was still stationed in Qinghai, resolutely led the army into Tibet.

The city of Logos

Seeing that the Xia army was actually coming at this time, the Heshute Khan could not care about the opposition of purging the Wusizang, so he could only hastily assemble the army and recruit a large number of Tibetans to accompany the army to meet the Xia army.

However, at this time, the Xia army began to suffer from altitude sickness, Liu Shixun and most of the soldiers in the third town were from Zhejiang, and many of them had suffered from altitude sickness after entering Wusizang, and a large number of non-combat attrition, and Liu Shixun himself was sick and bedridden.

The main general fell ill, and the Xia army could not fight the killing Heshute army, so they could only be forced to retreat, abandon the settlements they had surrendered along the way, and retreat back to Qinghai.

After retreating to Qinghai, Liu Shixun, who was sick in bed, supported himself and wrote a letter to the imperial court to explain the situation encountered by the army.

After this letter was sent back to Jiangning, Su Yan was shocked, he hurriedly racked his brains, and began to think about how to prevent altitude sickness, he had searched for similar questions when he was bored in his previous life, if he remembered correctly, eating sugar can alleviate altitude sickness.

Just like modern people in order to alleviate altitude sickness when entering Tibet, they usually drink Red Bull, Coke and butter tea milk tea, which are high in sugar to combat altitude sickness, but sugar is very expensive in ancient times, and if you want to supply the entire army of 50,000 in the third town, the sugar consumed is an astronomical amount.

The next day, when Su Yan mentioned this matter at the court meeting and was worried about where to transfer such a large amount of sugar, Mu Tianbo, a native of Yunnan since childhood, stood up and recommended to Su Yan a kind of jaggery sugar produced in Yunnan called "Wan'er Sugar".

This jaggery candy, known as "bowl candy", is a famous local specialty of Yunnan Province, mainly made from sugar cane, and two bowl-shaped hollow sugar cubes are buckled together and wrapped in oiled paper on the outside to seal wax to prevent moisture.

Mu Tianbo said that in the past, caravans from Yunnan and Sichuan to Tibet used to eat this kind of jaggery to alleviate the "miasma", and every time the caravan crossed a mountain, they would take a piece of sugar from it to eat, which could effectively alleviate the impact of the "miasma".

Although I don't know if the "bowl candy" recommended by Mu Tianbo is really effective, but seeing him so swearing, Su Yan still accepted the letter with suspicion, and he ordered the household department to allocate funds, and the Armaments Department of the Governor's Office purchased a large number of "bowl sugar" in Yunnan and sent it to Qinghai as armament materials.

The time spent was huge, and the distance was long, and it would have been a long time since the "bowl of candy" was distributed in large quantities to the third town.

During this period, with the lucrative profits generated by the Siberian fur trade and the support of Huguang and Jiaozhi as granaries, Su Yan also decided to continue his military campaign against the countries of Southeast Asia.

In July of the ninth year of Wu'an, the imperial court sent an envoy to Ava, the capital of the Donghu Dynasty, and severely condemned the king of Donghu Mangbai, saying that he plotted to usurp the throne and aided the murder of his own brother, which was heinous and unbearable for the people of the world, so he "raised a large army to crusade and restore the Mangda lineage".

Subsequently, the imperial court took Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, who was familiar with the topography of the southwest, as the main general, and led the Sixth Town formed in the southwest to crusade against the Donghu Dynasty.

The harsh orders of the imperial envoy made the Burmese king Mang Bai very frightened, and he hurriedly sent his son to Kunming to confess his crimes to the Celestial Empire on his behalf, hoping that the Celestial Empire would give him a chance to "become a new man".

But the imperial court had a tough attitude, and the sons he sent to Kunming were all expelled, seeing that the Xia Dynasty was so ruthless, the helpless Mangbai had no choice but to gather domestic troops and hurriedly wanted to resist the attack of the Xia army.

However, there were not a few nobles in Donghu who did not obey Mangbai, and after Mangbai gave the order to assemble an army, many nobles chose to stand by and refuse to provide troops for the king.

At this time, Li Mingzhong, the general army of Yunnan who had already withdrawn from Ayutoya, led his army south and invaded the territory of the Donghu Dynasty.

In just one month, before the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town even arrived at the border of Yunnan, Li Mingzhong led his army to the city of Ava first, and the nobles who opposed Mangbai in Donghu also responded and besieged Ava City with the Xia army.

This is true outside the city, and the inside of the city is also not optimistic.

Some nobles in the city saw that Mangbai was gone, and began to secretly plot to take Mang Bai down and present it to the Xia army outside the city, Mang Bai noticed this, in order to prevent himself from waking up and opening his eyes to be sent to the Xia army, he could only distribute a large amount of gold and silver to buy the forbidden army, so that the forbidden army patrolled day and night to defend the palace.

However, the strongest fortresses were often breached from within, and the forbidden army that Mangbai had paid for did not become his loyal followers, and the generals of the Forbidden Army, unwilling to sink with Mangbai's leaky ship, joined forces with the nobles in the city who conspired against Mangbai to stage a coup d'état, put Mangbai under house arrest, and ordered the surrender of Kaesong in the name of the king.

The city of Ava was immediately lost, and the Xia army drove into the city under the cheers of the Burmese soldiers and civilians, and Li Mingzhong, who rode a tall horse, rode his horse to the front of Mangbai, who was tied up by five flowers and knelt on the ground, he looked down condescendingly at this illegal usurper, and Shi Ranran said loudly to the onlookers and civilians:

"Mangbai colluded with the party, the crime was heinous, and it was heinous, and the general army of Yunnan was ordered by the Emperor of Great Xia to escort Mang Bai and his accomplices to the Jingshi and be disposed of by the saints.