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Chapter 1 The Hanging Blade

(The last three chapters involve three emperors, although they are in different volumes, they will be released in one go today)

After the beginning of the new year, Nikan named the territory he controlled "Hanhai". Although he did not blatantly call himself "Hanhai Kingdom", his subordinates actually called themselves so.

For example, most armies call themselves Hanhai Navy, Hanhai Cavalry, Hanhai Infantry, and Hanhai Division, and most localities call themselves "Hanhai Country ×× Province ×× Prefecture ×× County."

By the sixth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1633), Hanhai State already had these provinces from west to east:

Ulan-Ude

chita

Nerchinsk

Hulunbuir

Heilongjiang

Khabarovsk

Among them, the boundary between Heilongjiang and Khabarovsk is the Lesser Khingan Mountains, which later belonged to Jiamusi in Heilongjiang Province, and the Jixi area was assigned to Khabarovsk.

In autumn, nearly 40,000 Liaodong Han households who moved to Khabarovsk welcomed their first harvest, while 30,000 Liaodong Han households who had recently moved to Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, and Harbin still depended on Ulan-Ude.

Farmers in the Chita area can only survive on food.

There are also 20,000 Han households who have moved to the vast area from Hulun to Ulan-Ude.

In addition, nearly 10,000 Han households were either craftsmen originally, or learned crafts after moving to North Korea, and were resettled in the three major cities of Chita, Hulun, and Khabarovsk, as well as the newly built Zhumin, Vladivostok, Shuangcheng, Temple Street, etc.

In each city, miners and various craftsmen live in each city.

As a result, within two years, nearly 100,000 Han households had completely migrated from North Korea. The addition of nearly 400,000 households had almost wiped out the grain, cloth, salt, ironware, cattle and sheep that Nikan had accumulated for many years.

It is completely impossible to carry out major wars or projects in the next year or two.

Even so, since most of the previous infantry troops were transferred to the navy, Nikan still transferred 10,000 men over fifteen and under twenty years old from the newly joined Han people to form a new infantry army.

The troops were stationed in Linkou (to defend Ninggu Pagoda), Suifenhe (to defend Ninggu Pagoda), Vladivostok, Baicheng, Harbin and other places. Ten thousand infantry troops seemed to be a lot. If divided like this, each place would be at most two thousand.

people.

The western cities, including Hulun City, could only be garrisoned by dragoons and tribal cavalry.

With so many craftsmen, Nikan concentrated his workshops in the three cities of Chita, Hulun and Khabarovsk. There are a large number of copper and iron coal mines near the three cities, and there are also deep salt lakes that are convenient for boiling salt and nitrate.

The mainland located on the border of Hanhai Kingdom is a time when workshops are being vigorously developed. There are two thousand craftsmen in each of these three places.

Merdila, Black City, and Vladivostok are where the shipyards are located. With the rise of Black City and Vladivostok, there are a large number of oak, ash and other hardwoods in the mountains east of the Lesser Khingan Mountains, Changbai Mountain, and Xingkai Lake.

Merdiller's status suddenly dropped a lot.

However, considering the need to conquer the Lena River and Yenisei River Basin in the future, Nikan still retained some craftsmen in Merdila.

By this time, Nikan had nearly 30,000 households of half-herders and half-hunters, and nearly 120,000 households of farmers, adding up to nearly 150,000 households and 600,000 households.

Six hundred thousand people may seem like a lot, but they are spread over a vast land of nearly three million square kilometers from Lake Baikal in the west to the sea in the east. It is not an exaggeration to say that the land is vast and the people are sparsely populated.

It was these 600,000 people who were suppressing the Monan army, Bogda Khan (Huang Taiji's new title, at this time Huang Taiji had already changed the country's name to the Qing Dynasty in advance, and he also called himself the Qing Dynasty).

The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, whose own nation was changed to Manchuria, and was also honored as Bogda Khan by various Mongolian tribes, had a sharp blade on his head that could fall down at any time.

With the intervention of Nikan, the five tribes of Ujumqin, Sunit, Haqit, Abaga and Abaganar, which were originally affiliated to Chahar Ten Thousand Households, did not have the same influence in the Manchu Dynasty as historically.

They moved back to their original pastureland, but stayed in the Chechen Khan's East Khalkha.

As a result, the vast lands of the Xilingol League and the Chahar League were left empty.

No, it can't be said that it was empty. Nikan had already arrived first, and the final point of the sharp blade was at the ruins of Yuan Shangdu, where the Zhenglan Banner was located in later generations.

Since the beginning of spring, a large city has been built on the site of Yuan Shangdu. Due to the original foundation, the city has recovered quickly. By the time winter comes, the framework has been completely erected. When winter comes, the structures in the framework will be completely erected.

Some facilities can be carried out indoors.

Yuanshangdu is a large city with an outer city wall of more than ten miles and an inner city wall of more than two miles. The rapid construction speed of this city is naturally related to the cement "invented" by Nikan in Jeju Island. At this time, in Hanhai Kingdom

Many places rich in volcanic ash have been discovered across the country, and the Ulahada volcano cluster next to Chahar is one of them.

After the city was built, the herdsmen under Nikan would be able to nomadic herd in a thousand-mile stretch from Hulun City in the north to Chahar in the south.

Nikan originally placed 5,000 families of Aslan's herders in Ujimqin's pastureland, 3,000 families of Yakuts who had migrated from thousands of miles away, and 2,000 families who originally belonged to the tribe of Xiao Alin, the God of Death. These tribes

In winter, you can transfer to the Chahar area.

Most of the 5,000 households of Aslan herdsmen belong to the Buryat Mongolian tribes of Irgen, Holin, and Barguzin, plus some herdsmen from Kled and Hangodor. They all originally lived in the high cold.

area, I was naturally overjoyed after moving here.

After many battles, Nikan believed that Xiao Alin was trustworthy, so he asked him to lead a standing army of three thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry troops stationed in Shangdu. The three thousand cavalry were all drawn from these 10,000 households of herdsmen.

The two thousand infantry troops were drawn from the newly moved Han and Koreans.

The Chahar tribe that originally stayed in place also belonged to Nikan after the demise of Tan Tai's Jingqi. As a result, there were actually more than 13,000 herders in the two alliances.

In addition to these five thousand standing troops, at least five thousand tribal cavalry can be mobilized at any time.

With these five thousand people, plus the tribal cavalry, and the Death God Xiao Alin who had experienced in the Guards, Nikan believed that it was enough to cope with the attack from either side, unless Lin Dan and Huang Taiji joined forces to attack from a pinch, but that was impossible.

But Huang Taiji didn't think so. After the failure of his joint attack on Jeju Island with the Koreans, he immediately sent an envoy to contact Lin Dan Khan, Jilharang.

Since Nikan had already occupied Chahar and bordered the Ming Dynasty, Jierharang could only disguise himself as a Han Chinese and hide in the Fan family's caravan to go to Tumochuan - Nikan did not have any restrictions on Han merchants.

, could not help but refuse to collect taxes and allowed them to come and go in their own territory. No, the Fan family and the Sun family's business stores have opened to Hulun City, Baicheng, Qiqihar, and Harbin.

Of course, there were natural trade-offs between the pros and cons, and after careful consideration, Nikan still let their interactions go.

After the Shangdu New City is fully completed, the two stores will be stationed there.

Jilhalang followed the caravan and visited the Shangdu New City under construction.

He wore his hat tightly, fearing that his hair without sideburns would reveal his identity - in fact, he was too worried. To this day, some Sauron tribes under Nikan still shave their heads like the Jurchens.

Nikan did not force them to grow their hair in braids like his own.

Uniform clothes, uniform hairstyle, and unified language. That day will naturally come, but not now.

The size of the city, the craftsmen who were working hard, the infantry stationed on the city wall, the artillery that had been set up, and the cavalry patrolling the city all made Jierhalang filled with emotion.

"In just a few years, this Sauron boy has actually grown to such an extent. Given time, wouldn't it be..."

However, he felt a little relieved. After Nikan did not pursue Kong Youde and his party at the mouth of the Yalu River, Huang Taiji immediately summoned the big and small Beile to discuss the matter. In the end, they all agreed that Nikan would not follow the orders of the Ming Kingdom.

Instead, he will play both sides, up and down.

After coming to this conclusion, Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief. Unable to defeat Nikan, he put his focus on the Ming Dynasty and North Korea - those two places would be his main ways to enhance the strength of the Qing Dynasty.

He didn't care about contacting Lin Dan, whether it was successful or not. It was good if it was successful, but it didn't matter if it was not successful. It was nothing more than making friends from far away and attacking closely, and causing trouble for Sauron Barbarian.

Therefore, Huang Taiji did not have high hopes for his trip to Jierhalang.

But what he didn't expect was that Jierhalang succeeded!



Liaodong, Shenyang, Dazheng Palace (after Huang Taiji became emperor, he changed the Yamen from the Lao Nu era into Dazheng Palace).

In the hall, there was a large basin of charcoal fire, and Huang Taiji was listening to Jierhalang's story.

"..."

"Your Majesty, that's it, but on this condition..."

"Hahaha", Huang Taiji looked up to the sky and laughed, "We are a country of brothers? Yes, why not? Now we are separated by the barbarian Sauron anyway, it is nothing more than a piece of paper, not to mention that although I and Hu Duntuhan are

Although he was born in the same year, I am one month older than him. In this month, I can call him my younger brother."

It is said that the Jurchens originally called Lin Dan Hutuktu Khan, but perhaps to belittle him, or perhaps due to the influence of the Ming Dynasty, they later simply called him "Hu Dun Tu Han".

"As for the attack on Xanadu together, let's forget it for now. You go back and tell him. Just say that Xanadu now has only 5,000 cavalry. How can it be the co-leader of the Mongols and the opponent of Hutuktu Khan? Not to mention the city.

He has not yet completed his cultivation, has not prepared food and grass, and the barbarians have never been prepared for him, so the chances of winning are very high."

"Then I'll wait?"

"Gather your strength and pay close attention to the situation in Ming and North Korea. When the time comes, attack either Ming or North Korea and continue to rob some people and goods!"

"What about Sauron the Barbarian?"

"Haha, wait until Ming Dynasty and North Korea have no time to take care of themselves, and we have accumulated enough strength to attack them with thunderous force!"
Chapter completed!
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