February 1, 1678.

The first month of the eighteenth year of Kangxi.

In the city of Tashkent, the Mongol Great Khan loved Xinjueluo. Wu. Outside the palace where Xuan Ye was stationed, there were layers of tall white armor covered in various colors of cotton armor.

Today's white-armored soldiers are no longer the guards who were sparse in martial arts and only knew how to mess around, but Kangxi referred to the old rules before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and selected the most capable vest warriors from the eight banners of the "United Qing Dynasty"! Although the total number is only one thousand, all of them are fierce men with excellent martial arts, and when they stop here, they show amazing momentum.

In this "Four Nations United Western Expedition", Kang Mazi's thousand Baijia Bayala soldiers formed a cavalry battalion and incorporated into the Western Expedition of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to these thousand Bayala White Armor soldiers, there are also 50,000 "Mongolian Iron Horsemen" who have been "exposed" by Kangxi, Galdan and Sima Yi today! Among them, the one that belongs to Kangxi Khan is the ten Tuntian brigades belonging to the Western Expeditionary Tun Army of the Qing Dynasty - although these ten brigades do not sound like elites, they are actually real elite soldiers, all of whom are selected from the "united" Eight Banner Army and Green Battalion soldiers.

The so-called "unity", in layman's terms, means that the soldiers are the generals, the land is the generals, and then everyone is together to form a country, which is called the United States.

After Kangxi reluctantly defeated Fuquan and returned to the loyal city of Beijing, he did not seek to restore centralization of power—if he did, the Qing Dynasty would have to fall apart at that time. Fortunately, Kangxi recognized the reality in time and chose to return to the "United Public System" similar to the early Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the current situation is not quite the same as that in the early Qing Dynasty, so the legitimacy of this "United Public" is also different.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the "public" of the "United States" was mainly a member of the Aixin Jueluo family, and the masters of the Eight Banners at that time were all the sons and nephews of Nurhachi, so the "United Great Qing" at that time was basically a family business. Even later, there were many Eight Banners Han Army, Eight Banners Mongolia and Green Battalion. But what is really in power is a group of major shareholders surnamed Aixin Jueluo.

But in the Kangxi Dynasty, most of these Aixin Jueluo Lao Eight Banners were downgraded by Duoama and Shunzhi, and although they were supported a little later, their power was not as good as before. So after Kangxi defeated Fuquan, he came to an "asset reorganization", not only reorganizing the Eight Banners, but also reorganizing the green camp and group training. After sorting out the flag army, green battalion, and regimental training under the banner of the Qing Dynasty, they were all assigned to large and small army leaders.

Among them, the Eight Banners have the Zuo Leader as the smallest "general" unit, while the smallest general unit of the Green Battalion and the regimental training is the battalion.

After the reorganization, the total number of Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Army Eight Banners reached 1,200, and the number of Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han Army Eight Banners reached 400! Although the number of adjudicators increased greatly, the number of people under the jurisdiction of each ascension fell from 200 to 150 during the Huang Taiji period. In addition, the coat and collar no longer exist, and the original flags and coats have been lifted into eight flags. There are also those who open accounts and those who have another household, and they have also become regulars.

Under this operation of "wide open slave doors", the total amount of Eight Banners has reached an unprecedented 180,000!

Of course, the full content of these 180,000 flags can no longer be compared with the full content of the flags in the early years of Kangxi.

Among the total amount of 180,000 Eight Banners, which is not very high, only three-eighths, that is, 67,500 belonging to the two yellow flags and the positive white flags, need Kangxi to solve the food and salary livelihood. These more than 58,000 people are the descendants of Kangxi Khan.

As for the other 112,500 Eight Banners, they were all figured out by their respective banner owners.

After the reorganization, the green battalion and regimental training also have a total of 400 battalion heads, and the number of soldiers at each battalion head is 500, with a total of 200,000 soldiers!

Among them, 50 battalions, with a total of 25,000 soldiers, are directly under the jurisdiction of Kangxi.

These eight banners, green battalions, and regimental training are added together, and the total number of troops is 380,000. However, the 380,000 Eight Banners, Green Battalions, and regimental training were all on the troop rolls, not the number of field troops.

As for the establishment of field troops in the Qing Dynasty, it is now similar to that of Da Zhou and Da Ming - they all copy homework from each other! However, because there were more army heads on the Qing side, the flag army would rarely become a two-level large establishment of "army" and "town", but preferred to be organized into a two-battalion system of "standard" and a four-battalion system of "brigade".

The "Western Expeditionary Army" led by Kangxi to the West was actually a "town" level unit, while the Tuntian Brigade was a Tuntian colonial force composed of ten banner army leaders plus three green battalions and regimental training battalions. However, those who were selected by Kangxi to come to the "sub-base" in the Mughal area were all leaders or battalions who were more able to endure hardships and had relatively strong combat effectiveness, and the flag army among them was originally belonging to the Eight Banners of Chahar and was later incorporated into the Mongolian Banner Army of the Eight Banners of Mongolia. And the three green battalions selected from the 50 battalions of the green battalion directly under Kangxi were also recruited from the north of Zhili and Datong Prefecture, everyone could ride horses, put on Mongolian leather robes and carry scimitars, bows and arrows, and arquebuses, just like other Mongolian musketeers.

At least Yazikov, the envoy of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and Ibrahim Pasha, the envoy of the Ottoman Empire, saw them, and they couldn't tell who was the real Mongol and who was the pseudo-Mongol.

When they followed Nan Huairen and Rotony, the Portuguese flag man sent by Kangxi to entertain them, into the overwhelming Tashkent camp, they looked at the Mongolian cavalry lined up on both sides of an open straight road for cavalry to enter and exit in the camp, and they all had the opinion that they were "quite powerful" and "outdated".

The tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry here are, of course, powerful! Not only do they look strong, but they are all musketeers!

This will come decades earlier, when the heirs of the Rurik Dynasty and the Poles take advantage of the weakness to ravage the land of Rakshasas, these tens of thousands of Mongolian musketeers will come in, maybe they will add five to Poland and divide the Rakshasa country.

But now, the Rakshasa Kingdom is not afraid of these long-outdated musketeers - these musketeers are also equipped with flintlock pistols and are somewhat useful, but they are all carrying arquebuses, how can this arquebus ride be used? If you really want to shoot, you have to dismount and become an infantryman. This kind of play has long been outdated in Europe, that is, there are still people in the backward East who play it this way.

In addition, Yazikov and Ibrahim Pasha were still outside Kangxi's palace when they saw more than a dozen small-caliber cannons carried by camels.

This kind of artillery has a very short range because the gun is prone to air leakage. Moreover, the caliber of the sub-mother cannon carried by this camel is very small, and it is generally loaded with shotguns, but it cannot be loaded much, and the firepower is very weak. The only advantage is probably that the sub-guns can be replaced, and the rate of fire is slightly higher than that of the front-loading guns.

These dozen sub-cannons were moved over to fire salutes, and when Yazikov and Ibrahim Pasha arrived at the gate of Kangxi's palace, more than a dozen sub-mother cannons began to be fired. The cannon rumbled, and black smoke erupted from the muzzle of the cannon - it was clear that the gunpowder was not of high quality and had a lot of impurities, which would further reduce the already small range of the gun.

It seems that the artillery of this Mongolian army of the Western Expedition is just a decoration, and if it encounters the artillery of the Rakshasa Army, it will be given in vain.

After the salute was fired, the Great Khan of the Great Mongolian State did not appear immediately, but a group of Mongolian officials and a dignified deputy Khan came. I don't know if these people are afraid of fighting the powerful Rakshasa Kingdom, because they are all sad and seem to be preoccupied.

Accompanied Yazikov to the Rakshasa Vice-Envoy Sbafari. Milescu knew the Khan, so he quietly told Yazikov in Russian: "Mr. Ambassador, that good-looking Mongol is the leader of Dzungaria, and because he defected to Kangxi Khan in time, he was named Golden Horde!" ”

"The Golden Horde?" Yazikov snorted, "What a big ambition! ”

Milesku, who had once sent an envoy to the Dzungar Ministry, said with a smile: "It's not that Galdan is ambitious, but that Kangxi Khan can't do it himself. He is an outdated figure. ”

Yazikov turned his head at this time and asked Nan Huairen in Latin: "Father, have you been following the Mongol Great Khan?" ”

"Yes," Nan Huairen laughed, "when he was a child, I was assigned to be his teacher, responsible for teaching him Latin and mathematics. ”

"He still knows Latin?" Yazikov asked, "Then he should know about the things in the world, he should know the power of the rakshasa!" ”

"Uh" Nan Huairen smiled awkwardly, "Mr. Ambassador, with all due respect, in fact, the information about Rakshasa that the Great Khan can obtain through Latin shows that Rakshasa is a backward country. ”

"This" Yazikov was speechless by this.

But people are right, who would think that the Rakshasa is a powerful country for a Latin-speaking foreigner who can reach China?

At this time, Milescu reminded: "Ambassador, this shows that the Mongol Khan does not know our Rakshasa and is very light on the enemy!" ”

Yazikov nodded.

Rakshasa does feel a little backward to Westerners. However, this is very beneficial for the Rakshasa army to defeat the Mongols!

The Mongols probably thought that it was the internally divided Kievan Rus' who were fighting against them, right?

Yazikov and Ibrahim Pasha waited outside the palace of Kangxi Khan for a while, but still did not wait for Kangxi Khan.

Both of them were a little anxious to wait, and Ibrahim Pasha's patience was relatively poor, so he turned his head and asked Nan Huairen and Rotony in Latin: "Father, deputy minister (chamberlain of the Imperial Court), where is the Great Khan?" Why hasn't it shown up yet? ”

Rotony, of Portuguese origin, said: "The Great Khan and his brothers"

"Ahem! Cough! Nan Huairen coughed twice and interrupted Rotony, who almost told the "truth".

At this moment, suddenly a man with a male duck voice shouted in Latin: "Please meet Yazikov, the ambassador of the Rakshasa and Ibrahim, the ambassador of the Ottoman state!" ”

Nan Huairen and Rotony made a gesture together, and then led the way in front of them, inviting Yazikov and Ibrahim Pasha, as well as their two deputy envoys, into Kangxi's palace.

The atmosphere in the palace was very depressing, the courtyard was full of guards wearing yellow coats and waist knives, while Kangxi was sitting on a chair covered with tiger skin placed outside the door of a large house, looking numb and angry, and I don't know who offended him?

Both Yazikov and Ibrahim had heard Rotony mention the "brother of the Great Khan", so both of them assumed that the Mongol Great Khan must have been in conflict with his brother.

When the two were pondering whether there would be a civil strife in the Great Mongolian Kingdom, the angry Kangxi had already spoken, but still used Latin: "Which of you is the messenger of the Rakshasas?" ”

"Your Majesty, I am Yazikov, the messenger of the Rakshasa Tsar."

Kangxi nodded, and without letting Yazikov finish his words, he interrupted very rudely: "Go back and tell your tsar that his people will immediately withdraw from the Siberian Khanate and the Kipchak steppe!" Otherwise, his country will be completely destroyed by my Great Mongols, like Kievan Rus! ”

"Your Majesty, you are so unreasonable, it is not the 13th century anymore! Our Rakshasa Empire is also not a fragile Kiev Rakshasa principality, we have already destroyed the Golden Horde of your Mongols! ”

"Bold!" Kangxi roared angrily, "If you Rakshasas want to fight, then come to war!" The current Great Mongolia is not afraid of any enemy, especially the Rakshasas! ”

As he spoke, Kangxi pointed at Yazikov again and roared angrily: "Go out and take my war letter to your tsar and tell him that I am waiting for him in the Kipchak steppe. If he doesn't dare to fight before the end of the summer, then I'm going to capture Chengji-Tula! ”

Gengi-Tula was the former capital of the Siberian Khanate, and in the territory of the later Rakshasa state of Tyumen, three or four thousand miles away from Tashkent, even if Kangxi Khan wanted to send troops to fight, he had to walk for several months. Taking into account the climate of Siberia. He did not develop steadily to the north in a few years, and first mastered all the Kipchak steppes, and it was impossible for him to get his hands on Chengji-Tula.

So when he heard Kangxi threaten with Chengji-Tulaxiang, Yazikov didn't panic at all, this Mongolian Khan didn't seem to know how terrible the terrain and climate of Siberia were!

Rotony interrupted his thoughts at this time, and said in a low voice: "Hurry up, hurry up and don't make the Khan angry!" The Great Khan is in a bad mood today."

Yazikov looked up at Kangxi Khan again, this is a man who looks a little ugly, his face is pitted, a little scary, don't mess with him. So he saluted Kangxi as usual, and then turned around and left with Rotoni with his deputy.

"Your name is Ibrahim?" Kangxi glared at Ibrahim Pasha, who hadn't spoken much just now, and asked, "Aren't you Ottoman-Turks at war with the Rakshasa Kingdom?" Why do you come to me now? Don't you fight? ”

"Your Majesty the Great Khan," said Ibrahim Pasha, "we in the Ottoman Empire have signed a peace agreement with the Rakshasa Empire, and there will be no more fighting. ”

"Oh." Kangxi nodded, "Then I don't want to fight with you Ottomans. In addition to recovering the Kipchak steppe and the Siberian Khanate, I also wanted to open up an overland trade route to your Ottoman Empire. In the future, silk, tea, porcelain and spices produced in the East could be transported directly to the West by land without going by sea. I wonder what the Ottoman Sultan wanted? ”

Ibrahim Pasha replied: "Of course, His Majesty the Sultan will not refuse trade, but he is the suzerainty of the three Central Asian khanates of Kazakhstan, Bukhara, and Khiva, and your war against these three countries is an affront to the Ottoman Empire!" ”

"What?" Kangxi was angry again, "The three khanates of Kazakh, Bukhara, and Khiva are all from the Uzbek Uluth, and the Uzbek Uruth is from the Golden Horde. It was developed by Ulus of Batu Khan's younger brother, Yuejibe, and when did it become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire? ”

"His Majesty the Great Khan does not know that His Majesty the Sultan is also the caliph of the Celestial Sect, he is the leader of the Mumin and the shadow cast by Allah on earth. So."

"Shut up!" Kangxi continued to rage, "What shadow of Allah? I'm still the son of Immortal! Go back and tell your Sultan that if he is willing to do business, then we will get rich together. If he wants to fight, we Mongols will accompany him to the end! ”

As he spoke, Kangxi waved his hand again and sent the Turks away, while he himself stood up and swaggered away under the protection of a group of guards.

And Ibrahim looked at his back and said to himself: What a violent monarch, his brothers must live in fear and will be killed at any time, right? I wonder what will happen to the brother who offended him?

Fu Quankut sat in the lama's temple, waiting for the monk Kalden to bring with him to shave him. After shaving, he is a monk who sees through the red dust! And soon it will go to the western heavens.

Kangxi should have wanted to kill him for a long time, but in order to avoid the panic of the group of people who surrendered and surrendered, they didn't know how many ministers were there, so he stayed until now.

Now that Kangxi's power should be stable, it's time to get rid of him!

There was a soft "squeak" sound.

The door of the meditation room where Fuquan was located was pushed open. It's time to shave!

Fuquan sighed, stood up and folded his hands, and wanted to worship the monk, but he saw two priests coming in from outside the door, one of them was Nan Huairen, and the other was the Portuguese priest who was originally under Rotony, and was now Nan Huairen's assistant.

"Master Nan, aren't you a monk? How about you? Does the emperor want me to be a priest? ”

"Fuquan." As Nan Huairen spoke, he beckoned his assistant to close the door, "The emperor wants your life. Do you think you can really die in a temple in the snowy land? ”

"I, I" Fuquan's tears fell, "what should I do?" What can I do? ”

"You can escape!" Nan Huairen lowered his voice, "Now is an opportunity, the Rakshasa people's mission was driven away by the emperor. It's so good that you took the opportunity to sneak in, leave with them, and escape to the Rakshasa Kingdom for refuge! ”

"Me, I'm going to Rakshasas?" Fuquan was stunned, "Then I'm not a traitor to the Qing Dynasty?" ”

(End of chapter)