Starting from the town of Jebin, there is an ancient road that was stepped on by the Evanki and Yakuts a long time ago. This road runs across the entire Yakut Mountains (the Yansk Mountains in later generations) and reaches the Ardan River, the largest tributary of the Lena River on the east bank. Later Russia also built a highway along this ancient road.

This road is a relatively crowded place in the entire East and West Siberia. It is about three thousand miles from Jiebin Town to Yakutsk, and it is supported by this road. It was originally just a path connecting countless rivers, flat lands and mountain passes, but has now been greatly widened by the Great Xia Kingdom. On this road, even in the extremely cold winter, reindeer or Yakutma can still run with a sledge.

In order to effectively supply, the Daxia Kingdom built strongholds of different sizes almost 100 miles on average. There are no other things on this road, but two kinds of things, one black and one yellow, are popular.

The yellow ones are gold, and the black ones are naturally coal. Of course, there are also many wolves near this road, so it will be a little gray.

Although it is an average of one hundred miles, in some places there is only one stronghold in three hundred miles, and in some places there is a stronghold in dozens of miles. This is also determined based on the actual situation in the local area.

Nikan did not intend to migrate these strongholds. Most of the criminals and stubborn prisoners in China were exiled here, saying that they were Yakutsk, which was just a symbol. Just like the "exiled to Ningguta" in later generations, in fact, the farthest exiled place in the Qing Dynasty had reached the nearest Sanxing (Yilan County).

Therefore, after arriving in Jiebin Town, Sahalian and others rested for about ten days before they could take the sledge of Jiebin Town to the next stronghold. After that, the sledge returned, and they took the sledge of the next stronghold and continued to move forward until Yakutsk.

Along the way, you have to rest for every twenty miles. You have to feed the reindeer or Yakutma. The reindeer should use rye citrus and Yakutma to use hay. The burned snow water is used for drinking by people and animals. If you are lucky, you can encounter wild reindeer, moose, and gray wolf that are rashly crossing the road. You can also stew it and eat it.

The temperature quickly dropped below minus 30 degrees Celsius. At this time, Sahalian and his group were dressed thickly, like the local Evanki and Yakut natives. They were covered with a new antifreeze paste mixed with whale oil, wood wax, honey and peony. They were placed in a hardwood box, with milky yellow appearance and smelled a fragrance similar to sandalwood.

The "Yakut brand" balsam is now a bit precious even in the Great Xia Kingdom. Just a box costs a silver coin, and the price is still in short supply, because this thing is really easy to use in the winter in the north. At this time, the Evanki and Yakuts directly refined the fat of the reindeer and applied it on their faces, hands, and layers of fur that have not been scientifically processed on their bodies, and a strong smell can be smelled from a distance.

Not to mention the Koriacs and Chukochis. Due to the lack of tools, they draped their fur before they were processed. The fat of animals was directly filled between the two layers of fur for warmth. Fortunately, the local area was extremely cold, otherwise such "clothes" would not be worn at all. When such people walked towards you, they would not be a strong smell, but a pure beast smell. In addition, these people were unkempt, disheveled, and had hideous faces. When such people were hunting in the wild, the sensitive noses of the beast could not be distinguished for a while.

The taste, here, has become a clear sign of the degree of civilization.

And this is still the most powerful creature in East Siberia, which is mixed with the smell of humans and beasts. Even Siberian tigers are afraid of it.

Of course, the Yakuts, who were originally nomadic near Lake Baikal and were one of the nine Iron Tribes, were relatively better. At least they could tannate leather and make rough ironware, and the leather jackets were also "sewn".

However, when the people of Daxia wore obviously clean and neat clothes, smeared with fragrant balm, and patterned leather gloves appeared, the Yakuts dwarfed.

"This is a tribe that is more particular than the Cossacks."

This is the consensus of all tribes in the mountains of East and West Siberia.

In this way, it took Sahalian and others about fifty days to arrive in Yakutsk - a castle deeply wrapped in ice and snow.

It is January of the sixth year of Dongxiao. In the coldest month of the year, the temperature in Yakutsk suddenly dropped to around minus fifty degrees Celsius. At this time, if you are in the wild and do not wear a mask, when you breathe, you will see the gas emitted by Riha instantly turning into ice slags, and you can also hear the slight crisp sound of gas when it forms ice slags.

It was an extremely terrifying experience, an experience from the frozen prison.

This month, it is better to use traditional boots made of deer tendons and mixed with birch bark. If it is an ordinary rubber bottom in later generations, it will soon freeze and crack.

Here, you can't live without anything with the word "skin" to keep warm, deer leather hats, deer leather coats, deer leather boots, deer leather gloves, or the skin of reindeer that has been tested in this frozen prison.

The closest stronghold to Yakutsk is Chulapcha. There is a lake of the same name nearby, which is one of the best pastures in Yakut. It is more than 200 miles away from Yakutsk. When Sahalian and his party arrived on the east bank of the Lena River, all of them were covered in thick snow, including the Yakutsk Castle. The earth was pale. Except for a little black and sparsely embellished, they were humans or livestock that could still move on it, and the rest were just wild.

The castles built by the Russians were no longer useful a few years ago.

The underground here is a permafrost layer that is several hundred meters deep. Only about one to one and a half meters above will melt in five, six, seven, eight or ninety-five months. Therefore, when you build a house on it and the foundation is less than one meter, the entire building will fall to the ground by May.

There are crooked houses everywhere, which is the impression of Siberia by later generations of Russian writers.

Therefore, the completely Chinese-style castle in front of us was completely built using exiles. Not only that, the foundation was further penetrated two meters underground, and a large number of steel and concrete structures, which were rarely used in the hinterland of Daxia Kingdom - pile foundations.

Within six miles, the east gate is five miles away from the Lena River. It is the gate to the vast eastern and western Siberian mountains, called Zhendong, and the north gate is the gate to the downstream and one of the largest tributaries of its west bank. It is called Zhenbei, and the south gate is naturally the gate to the Heilongjiang area and Angara Province, called Zhennan, and the west gate is the gate to another ancient road that leads to the Evanki people stepping out, a more convenient land road to the Weiliu River, called Zhenxi.

The entire city is about two meters high and is all made of stone, rammed earth and cement. Compared with the middle earth, the four gate towers have flatter roofs, which are also caused by thicker and heavier snow in winter. Therefore, the city looks shady at first glance, and it seems that a few small bags have been bulging on the west bank of the Lena River.

However, the black smoke above the city shows that this place is still the territory of human beings.

Yakutsk, the name of the Great Xia Kingdom has not been changed. It is considered to be a small number of castles that retain traces of Russia. There are three major resources nearby, namely coal, oil and diamond.

With the current technical level of Daxia Kingdom, it has not yet reached the point where it can mine oil. However, coal is their largest product, and it is still the main energy for heating in winter. It naturally requires vigorous mining, and diamonds are mainly used to make tools.

Therefore, Yakutsk is still a very good city with a certain industrial foundation.

What's more, the only place where there are relatively sound schools in the huge East and West Siberia is here. This is also an important reason why Yue Tuo from the Jiebin tribe is willing to come here. This is the provincial government of Yakut Province, with a five-year school system (three years of primary school, three years of middle school, starting from ten years of study, and studying until fifteen years of age). It can accept 1,000 students.

Further up, there are higher normal schools and higher technical schools that are suitable for continuing their studies. There is even a small-scale school here, but it is specially designed for training soldiers who are reconnaissance and combat in cold, steep, remote places like the mountains of East and West Siberia - Yakutsk Wolf Cavalry School.

At this point, there were even fewer Siberian tigers. In addition to a large number of gray wolves, in Yakutsk, the work of using the crossing of the Kirgis horses with Yakuts to cultivate war horses that can fight in the most severe areas of the world in East Siberia is underway. Before that, Yakuts were trained.

The cavalry school currently has only 300 students, three grades, and they are suitable students who graduate from the Yakutsk Primary and Secondary School - most of them are children of Yakut, because even the Evankis here are tribes that raise reindeer.

Sun Deen's level has long reached the level of primary and secondary schools, so he can directly enter the cavalry school to study, and Kuchuk's sons Sun Deshun and Yue Tuo will study here.

After that, Sun Deen will also study for one year in the government affairs school located here, which is also located specifically for the children of Yakut and Evan Kitto.

At present, the entire East Siberian mountainous land east of the Lena River is entirely under the jurisdiction of Yakut Province. The governor of the province is a veteran of about 30 years old who was born in the fifth tribe of Soren, and the guardian must be Kuchuk.

Since there was basically no threat in the deep interior of the area, Kuchuk, the governor, had only 300 people from the cavalry school except for one regiment of infantry.

Such a castle also has a mansion exclusive to Nikan, and a three-entry courtyard, but is currently occupied by Sahalian, the chairman of the Siberian company. Kuchuk, Orgler and others also live here, almost filling the first and second places, leaving the third places.

Sun Deen lives in the third wing room, and Yuetuo and Sun Deshun live on one left and one right.

On this day, in the second entrance, a place with the thickest iron pipe and iron stove was held in the main room. Sahalian, Kuchuk, Orgler, Sun Deen, Sun Deshun, and Yue Tuo were all talking about the experience of Sun Deen's brother Sun Dewei and Sun Dean's brothers. At this time, the incident of Sun Dewei participating in the battle near Japan had already spread here, but Sahalian did not say it.

He was thinking in his heart, "Nikan placed his three sons in three places to experience, and also arranged teachers, playmates, and classmates respectively. It is obvious that he wanted to examine who is the most suitable for the second emperor of the empire. The old guy Uliji was cruel and actually let his grandson participate in the battle. But although I, Yakutsk, have a bitter and cold life, I can't get the war."

I also thought of the third brother in the west, Sun De'an, the son of Gegentana, "Nikan asked Bayan, the son of Melgen of Uzha's Uzha's army, to serve as his teacher. In addition, Wang Zhi, the governor of Anxi, was also one of his teachers. At the same time, Babu's eldest son, who was obviously going to replace the position of Chechen Khan, became his playmate."

"Norb is thirteen years old this year and is the favorite grandson of Shuolei Khan. If nothing unexpected happens, this son is the third generation of Chechen Khan. The Chechen Khan tribe has 20,000 entries. This third brother is in great momentum."

But he said, "Modri ​​in the east and Sude in the west are still studying honestly in school."
Chapter completed!