Alatan.

Shukuldaiqing stood on a hill near the big tent, solemnly in the cool breeze of early autumn.

It is said to be a small hill, but it is actually a huge land bundle, about dozens of meters high and relatively flat on it. Shukuldaiqing asked someone to build a simple lookout on it.

There are all flat rivers near Alatan (Elista), only here is the highest place. After standing on it, the vast grasslands around it, the winding Alatan River, and the two salt lakes are clear at a glance.

The two salt lakes were originally controlled by the Alan people, but they only had more than 300 households. After the Turkuts entered, they would definitely be defeated and had to bow to them. However, after Shukuldaiqing mastered these two salt lakes, he did not turn the Alan people into slaves like before, but instead learned from the Daxia people to turn them into craftsmen.

Of course, with the number and level of the Alan people, it is certain that they have not been able to meet the needs of nearly 40,000 Turkuts by the number of salt produced in these two salt lakes. It is just that they can barely meet the needs of the Turkut nobles.

Among the people who moved westward with Orlek, in addition to the Turkuts, there were also tribes such as Heshuot, Dulbert, and Choros, and they also had tens of thousands of tents. Originally, the four tribes of Weila were respected by the Heshuot tribe, descended from the Golden Family, but in this distant Europe, the Turkuts descended from Wang Han were naturally the most noble.

Originally, the Erguts needed to exchange salt for merchants from Crimea, but now they naturally all moved to the Daxia people.

Behind Shukuldaiqing, there were also a row of nobles in the tribe. In addition to the large and small Taiji of the Turkut headquarters headed by Ponchuk, some Taiji of the Hoshute, Choros, and Dulbert were also among them, among which Taiji Chuhuer Ubashi of the Hoshute tribe, because there are too many people in this article called Chuhuer, this article simply calls him Ubashi.

In Sauron, Ubash means wise. In Mongolian text, in addition to this meaning, there is another meaning - the chief/leader, who is combined to be a wise and brave venerable.

In fact, all those who can have the name Ubashi are the nobles among the Mongolians, because in this era only the nobles were able to read and read.

As his name suggests, the Ubashi people have a slender figure. In addition to their hairstyle, they are two common braids placed on their chests. However, they are wearing Taoist robes commonly found among Han people. Not only that, they also have long beards under their jaws.

This person is proficient in Mongolian and Turkic reading and writing. Now with the rise of the Great Xia Kingdom, he has picked up Chinese again. In his original history, he mastered Russian in a short time (the Russian language has not yet been finally formed, and the final formation has to be waited for the era of Peter the Great in the 18th century).

Ubash was a person from the tribe who was sent to Lhasa to practice Tibetan Buddhist scriptures at the age of six. Like the famous Galdan, he was also very proficient in Tibetan and Sanskrit.

Due to this factor, although Ubash has few tribes (only more than 3,000 tents), its status is very transcendent. At present, in the Turkut tribe, its actual status is second only to Shukurdaiqing, Pengchuk and Melgen.

Shukuldaiqing held a monocular lens in his hand, which was a gift from the people of Daxia. The telescope was still in a folding style, with brass on the outside, which looked golden.

"Here you come!"

After about half an hour, everyone walked down the mountain bag one by one with Shukuldaiqing shouting.

On the north bank of the Alatan River, a cavalry team of about a few hundred people came over with smoke and dust!

Shukuldaiqing and his friends came to welcome the nobles of the Turkut nobles, Harhatu, the governor of Anxi, the Great Xia Kingdom. It was obvious that Shukuldaiqing had received the news in advance to surrender to this place.

The Tsar's envoy, Salticov, who had come to Samara to meet Amin, was transferred back to Moscow from Siberia. Alexey continued to let him serve as the royal ordnance city and intelligence chief. He had just visited Altan not long ago and expressed the Tsar's meaning to Shukurdaiqing.

Salticov just left yesterday, which made Shukuldecing breathe a sigh of relief, otherwise the Tsar and Bogda Khan's messengers would have been in Altan, needless to say that he would be very embarrassed.

Shukuldaiqing attached so much importance to Harhatu, in addition to the power of the Great Xia Kingdom, it was also related to the surrounding situation at this time.

In recent years, the Cossack uprising that had swept the Ukraine in history was staged as scheduled. With the secret support of the Daxia Kingdom, the leader of the rebel army, Bogdan, not only resisted the attack from Poland, but also won and lost with him. In recent years, Bogdan gradually couldn't resist it. He retreated to the Zaporoge area with his remaining troops. After several years of war, Poland spent all his efforts and finally surrounded Zaporoge. It was about to be completed, but an accident happened again.

The Cossacks of the Don River Basin also joined in, and the Stepan brothers were the leaders.

The current situation is:

In Zaporoze, Bogdan also had about eight thousand elite Cossacks under his command, of which about three thousand cavalry;

Opposite Zaporozhe, there is the army commander of the Kingdom of Poland, the 15,000 army led by the lord of Krakow and the Count Pototsky, of which there are 5,000 Polish winged cavalry and 10,000 German mercenaries.

To the east of Zaporoze, the Stepan brothers stationed about 3,000 Don Cossack Rangers about ten miles away, supporting Zaporoze.

It should be noted here that during the Bogdan uprising the past year, the peak had 50,000 troops, while the army under Pototsky on the opposite side had never exceeded 10,000. In the past, he had been remotely controlling his son Stefan in Krakow. In this war against the Cossacks, Pototsky implemented a tactic of fueling and constantly dispatching regular troops and mercenaries from Poland to participate in the war. Each time the troops participated in the war, no more than 5,000 troops, and the result was naturally the same as Bogdan's thoughts.

At the end of last year, Stefan was defeated and died, which alarmed Pototsky, who was nesting in Krakow. This time, he dispatched 30,000 troops. After several major wars, the forces of both sides were mentioned above.

The war in the past three years has instantly caused the entire Ukraine to fall into a tragic situation similar to the 30 Years of War in Germany. The Poles, Cossacks and Nogai people were intertwined and killed in groups. All parties carried out indiscriminate massacres on the civilians on the land of Ukraine. In just three years, the population of Ukraine, which originally had millions of Cossacks, Poles and Nogai people, was sharply reduced by half.

In fact, this time is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Russia. However, Alexei's main force confronted the army of the Swedish Kingdom near the Baltic Sea and could not withdraw troops to join the war. Otherwise, with Alexei's strength, he would definitely be willing to completely defeat the Polish Ukrainian army with the Cossacks, and greatly weaken Poland's strength.

In history, Bogdan became allies with the Crimeans, and was betrayed by them, and eventually lost. At present, the Crimeans lost their strength after the defeat of General Tuayi, who was defending the northern border last time. It was good to confront the Great Xia Kingdom based on the swamped Pilekop Isthmus. There was no intention to get involved in the war between the Cossacks, so the Daxia people became Cossacks allies, but the Hanhai army did not send troops openly, but just provided assistance secretly.

The chaos in the Dnieper River and the Don River basin gave way to the Turguts who were among them. At this time, it was important to completely surrender to the Russians or to the Daxia people. Therefore, he attached great importance to the personal visit of Harhatu, the governor of Anxi of the Daxia Kingdom.

On the north bank of the Alatan River, two small cavalry teams met, and the distance between the two sides was more than ten feet long.

After a while, Harhatu sighed in his heart, but got off the horse first and walked towards Shukuldaiqing.

Seeing this, Shukuldaiqing on the opposite side quickly got off the horse.

Although he was arrogant, he knew that his troops were not much stronger than the Tuayi tribe of the Crimean Khanate that he had been adjacent to him. However, in a short time, the Daxia Kingdom defeated the Cossacks and European troops with three thousand cavalry and some of the European troops gathered, and drove all Tuayi's forces to the peninsula.

Both sides put their left hand in their hearts, their right hand droops, and their upper body leans forward slightly.

"The first-class marquis of the Daxia Kingdom, the governor of Anxi, Uzha Harhatu"

"Turgut Alathan Khan's Book Kurdaiqing"

Both sides used Mongolian language. After greeting each other, Ponchuk presented a Hada to Harhatu, and then the fifty-one-year-old Shukuldaiqing took the hand of thirty-nine-year-old Harhatu towards the huge tent.

...

The black iron pipe chimney on the big tent kept emitting black smoke. As the sky was getting late, the black smoke in the chimney still showed no sign of fading.

In the big tent, the mutton stewed on the stove, milk tea and cigarettes that have recently come in from Daxia are still intertwined with enthusiasm. It was noon when Harhatu entered the tent, but now it is dusk when the sunset is setting.

They talked in the tent all afternoon!

Things still have no result.

This was something Harhatu did not expect. He originally believed that the Eastern tribes who believed in shamanism like Turgut, and the Lamaism were surrounded by the Western tribes who believed in Tianfang religion and Christian tribes. He must have been "deeply yearning for" Daxia Kingdom, but unexpectedly, Shukurdaiqing still did not let go.

"Okay"

Among the Soren people, Ubash and Harhatu all mean "wise", but the latter is naturally more Salonized. Harhatu can serve as the Minister of Revenue for a long time and is as stable as Mount Tai as the governor of Anxi, which has his own uniqueness.

Now it seems that being able to remain stable is the first element of a wise man.
Chapter completed!