Nikan asked Ye Lei to arrange for a hundred people to send those poor women back to his station, and burn all the corpses including the Cossacks - of course the cavalry swords, gunpowder and other items on the Cossacks were naturally removed.

"You still have a castle at the mouth of the River Windor?"

Nikan vaguely remembered that the Cossacks built a castle called Vidimsk where the Windo River merged into the Lena River. They learned from other Evenki people that this river was called the Vidim River, and named it after it.

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"No, there is only one place to spend the winter." Berfilev did not lie. At this time, construction in Vidymsk had not yet begun.

Ten Russian-style boats and ten birchbark boats continued down the river, carrying the twelve Cossack captives.

It took about ten days for the boat to arrive at the mouth of the river. Contrary to Nikan's imagination, the flow of the Wendo River in this section was smooth, with no reefs or large waterfalls.

After leaving the Wendo River, a larger and wider river suddenly appeared in front of them.

Lena River!

On a high ground opposite the river mouth, faint traces of a wooden house were found, and Nikan and the others stopped on the shore near there.

The wooden house is hidden behind a forest, and it seems that the Cossacks don't want the locals to find it.

Berfilev did not arrange a guard here, and Nikan and the others easily occupied the place.

After occupying this place, Nikan selected two people from the prisoners and gave them a boat and two knives.

"Hurry back and report the news. There are still three months before the Lena River is completely frozen. During these three months, bring ten Russian farmers with seeds in exchange for them. Remember, don't play tricks. If I find out that they are not farmers, but

Cossacks or shooters, you can only see the bodies of these ten people."

"What? You let stupid peasants trade for us noble, free Cossacks?"

"Yes, in my eyes, they are more valuable than you."

After saying this, he ignored the frustrated Cossacks and had them escorted away.

"Great Khan", Nikan called Ye Lei to a hut, "From my brother's point of view, if you want to defend the sable of Qianli Beishan, you must defend this place."

Ever since Ye Lei saw that Nikan had that astonishing musket in his hand, any remaining luck in his heart had disappeared without a trace, and he was full of awe for the eighteen-year-old Sauron boy in front of him.

"What exactly does Bograhan mean?"

"Great Khan, why don't you just build a wooden stronghold here, which can accommodate three hundred people. You, a hundred people, can use big-nosed muskets. There are two hundred muskets and two artillery pieces. There is no problem in defending this place.

, as long as we hold on to this place, we can stop Big Nose west of the Lena River."

"The Great Khan can allocate his men to conquer the vast area of ​​Beishan one by one. I just counted that there are as many as two thousand mink skins on the boat. This is only in the Wendo River Basin. I heard that there is also the Mama River in the west.

, there is also the Chala River to the east, and there is no limit to the amount of mink skins that can be collected every year!”

"These minks..."

Nikan knew what he meant, "I will help you train a hundred musketeers. These muskets require a lot of gunpowder and are not cheap. Let's do this. I will take half of the mink skins you collect every year, and the other half will still be exchanged in the previous way."

,how?"

Ye Lei nodded immediately. It was not that he felt sorry for Mink, but that he had expectations for the one hundred musketeers. He also knew that those muskets that could make loud noises were fired by a kind of medicine, and this kind of medicine was easy to handle.

There is obviously gunpowder in it, which is called gunpowder. Without gunpowder, the musket is just an iron rod.

In addition, if you can collect a thousand mink skins every year and give 500 to Nikan, and you still have 500, plus those caught in the Wendo River Basin, the prospects are not too good.

"I will arrange for people to return to Chita and ask them to send some more tools and supplies. Before Big Nose sends the farmers over, I will build the wooden village with you."

After sending the woman away, another hundred of Ye Lei's subordinates came back. Ye Lei took fifty men with two-handed horizontal swords and set off. He must seize the time to sweep across the Beishan area. He also has two big-nosed heads in his hand.

It is just used to intimidate the tribes in the swamps in Beishan.

However, Nikan and the remaining people worked hard to build a wooden village.

While Nikan, Ye Lei and others were building wooden fortresses and conquering various tribes, the two Cossacks who were sent back by Nikan were running along the Lena River sleeplessly.

Along the way, when they were hungry, they went ashore to hunt or rob. One person rowed the boat at night while the other rested. Finally, they arrived at Ust-Kut fifteen days later.

After resting for three days in Ust-Kut, three more Russian shooters were added, and they arrived at Ilimsk along the Kuta and Ilim rivers. Here they were joined by Bekotov and five others, and entered Angara.

After the river, we ran all the way and finally arrived in Yeniseisk a month later.

At this time, Yeniseysk was located on the west bank of the Yenisey River. It was already a castle made of bricks, stones and wood with a circumference of two kilometers. Outside the city was a large area of ​​farmland. Fifty-three people who came from Kirov

Each farmer family has cultivated about 100 acres of land (about 1,500 Chinese acres), and each farmer family has about 30 acres.

Just last year, these 1,500 acres of land produced more than 800 russins of rye, nearly 600 russins of oats, and more than 40 russins of barley. You must know that one russian is about twice the Chinese stone, which is also

That's two hundred kilograms, which means that the yield per mu of land is about two stones.

This cannot be said to be a miracle in the remote and bitter cold land of Mobei.

Not only that, each farmer also raises cattle, sheep and horses, with an average of more than ten livestock per household.

Most of these farmers are alone, some are forced, and some are willing. For example, Tolschichny is voluntary. He is a widower, forty years old, and a good farmer. In Kirov, he

He was a serf of a local master. When he was thirty years old, his wife died of illness. When he was thirty-five, his only daughter also died of illness.

The house was suddenly empty, and Tolschichny felt a little hopeless. Just in time, the Tsarist government called on people like him to go to Siberia to colonize and become free citizens who paid taxes independently. Tolschichny didn't care about this.

Due to his status, he was exploited less under the protection of the gentlemen.

He just wanted to stay away from this sad place, so he followed the Russian shooters to Siberia along with one hundred other Kirov farmers, fifty-three of whom were in Yeniseisk and forty-seven in Krasnoyar.

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Seeing such a harvest of food, the Yeniseisk warlords Yakov and Lipnov were overjoyed. On the pretext that they could not eat so much alone, they conscripted half of the harvest into the city's granary and promised to get some widows from Russia.

Come with single women to be their wives.

Now, except for Torschichny, all the fifty-three peasants believed what Lipnov said, and they all eagerly waited for the woman coming from Russia.

They did not expect a thick and plump Russian woman, but they did expect a bad news.

He and Lipnov listened sullenly to the two escaped Cossacks telling the story of what happened in the swamps of the North Mountain. Of course, in order to avoid being held accountable, the matter of Yermolin was ignored in the two people's mouths.

On one side, "Dear Sir, the local natives suddenly regretted and attacked us. We had no choice but to fight back. Unexpectedly, they had reinforcements, and they were reinforcements with muskets and artillery. Sir, can you think of it?"

"In some wet, muddy, cold places, there are still natives with muskets!"

Lipunov quickly stopped him, and he looked at Bekotov, "Bekotov, you and Berfilev are the two most skilled centurions under the Yeniseisk Governor's Mansion. You

Said you saw the Tungus man with a musket during the reconnaissance in Kyaktu?"

"Yes, sir. At that time, he was holding a short blunderbuss, or a short blunderbuss without a match rope. I was also shocked at the time. I wanted to take it over to see what happened, but the man quickly took it away.

"

"I took a closer look at where those people were stationed that day. It was obvious that they not only owned short muskets, but also long muskets. I guess they were afraid of being exposed. The muskets were wrapped in cotton cloth, but they couldn't hide it from me."

"Then who is he?"

"I was afraid of causing trouble, so I hurried north and got to know this person roughly in the Ulan-Ude area."

"oh?"

"This man is very young, he is only eighteen years old this year, but he is already the deputy khan of the Tungus people on the Yunda River, oh, that is, the man second only to the Great Khan. I heard that not long ago he conquered the largest village on the Shilka River.

The pastures, the Mongols on the Nerchinsk steppe were defeated”

"How many people are there in his tribe? Why do they have firearms?"

"Sir, this is the news I got from the Buryat Mongols for a gold coin. I heard that the Tungus people, oh, they call themselves Saurons, were originally a Han people, oh, that is, Chinese people.

The Sauron people adopted him from childhood.”

"Chinese? I see. What do you think of Berfilev and his companions being defeated and captured?"

"Sir, it seems that the rumors of a powerful country in the east should be confirmed. Since the Saurons can compete with the Mongols, they must have a lot of manpower. If they have a thousand troops with firearms, we will not be able to compete.

What's more, the Yeniseisk Governor's Mansion only had a total of 200 regular troops, and they lost a hundred in one fell swoop..."

(Author's note: Rumors of a powerful country in Eastern Siberia have been circulating among the Golden Horde)

He secretly glanced at He Lipunov. This man is a small nobleman in Russia, but he is not a lazy person. He is quite like Cossacks like them, but he is about to step down. Now

But they lost a hundred Cossacks. How could they report their work to the heads of the Kazan Prefecture in Moscow?

"You mean to agree to the Sauron people's conditions and arrange for ten farmers to exchange for Berfilev and others?"

"Yes, my lord, compared with humble peasants, Cossacks and shooters are the elite of the empire..."

He and Lipunov were silent for a moment. Such a thing was simply a great shame and humiliation for the Russians who had been enjoying smooth sailing in Siberia.

However, he wanted to send troops to conquer but was unable to do so. There were only two hundred Cossacks in the Yeniseysk Warlord's Office, and they also managed Yeniseysk, Malinsk, Rybinsk, and Ust-Kut.

The military strength is already very scarce. What's more, if the Saurons have thousands of musketeers, as Bekotov said, God, even if they only have 300 musketeers, the Yeniseisk Warlord's Palace cannot compete with them.

Even if all the Cossacks in Siberia were gathered together, there are currently only 2,000. Needless to say, it is impossible to transfer them all to Yeniseisk just for the sake of Beishan. The empire also has the Ob River and the Yenisei River.

The vast land of the river system needs protection.

"Okay, go ahead and make arrangements. Try to make it voluntary. Those who don't want to go will be coaxed first. When we get to the place, we won't be able to help them anymore."
Chapter completed!