Belgodro.

On the top of the Assumption Cathedral of Our Lady, two people were looking at it with monoculars.

After a closer look, these two people turned out to be Peter Golovin and Wen, the former governor of Krasnoyarsk.

Shubo Yarkov, these two men were originally captured in Krasnoyarsk, but later they were released after reaching a peace agreement with Russia in Daxia. As defeated people, they naturally had no good results after returning to Moscow. However, these two men followed closely the cousin of the Tsar, Nikita, the Grand Duke of Moscow.

Sure enough, two years later, Nikita was reused and served as Secretary of the Army. Golovin and Boyarkov also obtained the position of governor and clerk in the newly built Belgodro Castle.

What they never expected was that their duo were first driven away by the Daxia people in Yakutsk, and then captured in Krasnoyarsk. Now that they are in Russia, they have to face the Daxia people directly!

The miserable duo is definitely there.

"Do you really want to provide them with food?" asked the lame Boyalkov.

"His Excellency Nikita said that everything must be done according to the will of His Majesty the Tsar, and must not be reckless." Golovin, the governor who was originally confronting the Qing Dynasty in Nibchu and Heilongjiang and repeatedly succeeded, said helplessly.

Nikita was the governor of the Tsar in Voronezh, which governed the vast black soil zone in the south of the Moscow forest. From Saratov to the east, Taritzin and Belgorod to the south, to Kursk to the west, if there was no sudden emergence of the Great Xia Kingdom, these four places would have been included in the formal jurisdiction of the municipalities and as an outpost, it shone brightly in the later battles with the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, and the Swedes, but now it is still the governor system that existed in the era of the Liurik dynasty, just like Siberia.

"But we are not well-off." When Boyalkov thought of his leg that was still limping, he was still a little unwilling to accept it.

"Dear Xieermiao, hurry up and prepare. I won't go. If they ask, I will say I'm sick."

"you……"

...

After traveling through the densely woven birch forest for a while, the figure of Belgodrona built a castle made of white stones was finally revealed from the gap in the forest, and the orange-red dome cross above the castle was also clearly visible.

It was dusk, and the snow-covered birch forest and the white castle in front of them reflected each other. If it weren't for the bell sound from the bell tower in the city, it would definitely make people feel a little dazed.

Soon, a group of more than 100 people finally walked out of the dense forest and came to the city of Belgorod.

At this time, Yadan discovered that the castle looked very close, but in fact it was still far away. There were at least four or five miles of farmland around the castle, and it was necessary to follow a winding road to reach the south gate of the castle.

In the farmland, there is a manor about one mile away. There are walls around the manor. Most of the walls are made of stones, and some are built of birch. In the fields, there are farmers working.

And in the jungle just now, hunters flashed from time to time.

In fact, at this time, the Russian farmers were not allowed to move away easily except for being fixed on the fields and not being able to move away easily. If they had their own fields, the tax was not heavy. However, it was different for those serfs who had no fields. They could only rely on the landlords in the manor to live. During the autumn harvest season, it depends on the face of the landlords to obtain different degrees of food.

In addition to the escorts, there may be two possible people who can leave the land, one is to serve in the military and move to the north and the other is to move to Siberia, where they can become free people.

However, like the farmers near Belgodro, similar to the Chinese military farming system, the troops stationed are all farmers, the company commander is the owner of the manor, and the soldiers are all farmers. A castle can accommodate up to 3,000 households, that is, a brigade of military farming farmers. Fortunately, the black soil area south of Moscow is extremely fertile, and there is no need to transfer the settlement area by burning wasteland like other places. After five to ten years, we will return to the land where we first cultivated (at that time, the fertility of the fields should have been accumulated, and we can take care of it for another three to five years).

In the black soil area, there is no problem in managing it for ten years before relocating.

This is how the Russians continue to migrate and expand their land. After a large amount of potatoes and corn are planted, they do not need to migrate so frequently, but by then, the land they occupied was already large enough.

The Mongols' expansion genes, their yearning for Constantinople, and the need to continue to reclaim out based on the factors of stagnation, created a vast territory of Russia in later generations. In this life, because they were still facing the powerful Crimean Khanate in the south, they still maintained the old system of building castles in the forest and using the surrounding dense forests and rivers to hinder the invasion of the Tatar cavalry.

To cut down a large amount of forests on the black soil, turning all the vast black soil in southern Moscow into farmland, it would take more than a hundred years later. The Russian Empire had grown into an empire that was deeply feared by the British Empire. At that time, the Tatar cavalry that had been rampant in the forest for hundreds of years had long disappeared.

Around the castle, the Russians used the Donets River to build a moat. In addition, the deep castle made of stones, it was not easy to break through this city.

At the west gate of the castle, Yadan and others came from the south, but the gate closest to them was on the west side. This was also a design that took into account military factors. Boyarkov was greeted there with a bitter face.

As the Minister of Rites of the Daxia Kingdom, Yadan had seen this person before when negotiating the ownership of Siberia with the Russians. When he suddenly saw this person, Yadan was also a little surprised.

"His Excellency Yadan, the Governor Belgorod, has been feeling cold in recent days, and cannot come out to welcome you. I am the Governor's clerk. According to his instructions, I have vacated a manor closest to the castle. You can live there tonight."

Yadan followed his fingers and saw a village in the southeast corner of the castle. At this time, there was also a blue smoke rising above the village. He thought to himself: "This manor is so close to the castle, there is no need to say that the village directly belongs to the nobles in the city."

Over the years, he has also understood some of the regulations in Russia and said, "Thank you, I wonder which manor is this?"

Boyarkov did not lie at this time, "This is the manor of Nikita, the Grand Duke of Moscow in our country. In Voronezh, Lord Nikita owns 10,000 farmers."

The Voronezh he mentioned was naturally the jurisdiction of the Governor General of Voronezh. It was from the west to Kursk, to Saratov in the east, and to the south to Belgorod's vast black soil. When the Tsar was awarded it, it was given with the land in the manor and the serfs.

The group was about to leave, but Boyarkov called Sergei, but said, "Dear Sergei, although you work for the Tsar, according to our country's rules, you are a businessman and must pay taxes."

Sergei was angry at first, but when he saw Boyarkov's wink, he understood that when he returned to Moscow this time, he also brought a lot of valuable items purchased from Linhuang Mansion. Most of these things were contributed to the palace and collected taxes from the Tsar. It seemed a bit outrageous, but Russia is currently very normal.

At this time, in Europe, except for Britain and the Netherlands, there were many tax checkpoints in places with castles and towns. Some were collected by lords and some were collected by churches. The taxes in different places were different, even France and Spain, let alone backward Eastern European regions.

What is different from other European countries is that the aristocrats under the Tsar who owned manors and serfs were almost 100% loyal to the Tsar, some were similar to the gentry in the south of the Ming Dynasty. In other countries, those aristocrats were real feudal lords. Any lord with castles could not help but collect taxes and conscription. When the king needed them, they needed to bring their own food and soldiers to fight. If they encountered a king who was not dealing with, there were many people who united to overthrow them.

After Yadan and others arrived at the manor, the person in charge of managing the manor for Nikita brought bread, cured meat, potatoes and other items, as well as homemade vodka. The houses had fireplaces, but there was no risk of freezing and hunger.

Yadan felt that there was anything wrong with his unit, but Sun Lu and Zuzehong were angry. They came to Yadan. At this time, Yadan was talking to Joshua Joshua and Joseph, and letting these two live with him was also intentional. On the one hand, he wanted to practice German, and on the other hand, he got any news about Europe from him, especially Joseph, which was precious.

"It's okay." Yadan did not avoid Joshua Joseph and Joseph, but asked his personal soldiers to bring two chairs to him and put a cup of vodka on each. "I, Daxia, did not formally establish diplomatic relations with Russia. They could allow us to come in, without setting up obstacles, and provide food and accommodation."

"What's more," he smiled, "The city's governor Golovin, Boyalkov is our old friend. They were driven from Yakutsk to Krasnoyarsk by our country, and then from Krasnoyarsk here. Boyalkov was also injured by Ye Duo's boy, and they also had resentment in their hearts."

"Can……"

"Needless to say," Yadan stared at them and said, "Remember, there are only Prussia, Romania and Kiev that have established diplomatic relations with Daxia. According to convention, interactions with these three countries must be followed by the laws that are accepted here, and other countries will not be listed here."

"What's more,..." Yadan used a handful of tongs in his hand that were obviously produced by the Daxia Kingdom to fiddle with the firewood in the fireplace. "How to interact with other countries, His Majesty the Emperor has already given an order. Don't you know how to wait?"

Sun Lu was the person who was about to become the Consul General of Prussia. At this time, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful and secretly annoyed himself: "I don't know when I will have to wait until I can reach the situation like Lord Yadan, which is as light as he does in any situation?"

Yadan continued, "I will give you two words, one is to reciprocate and exchange; the other is that people will humiliate themselves and later others will humiliate them. Go back."

Sun Lu was so nervous that he knew what Yadan said, so he quickly gave a gift: "Sir, the vocational department is reckless."

Zu Zehong wanted to say something, but Sun Lu pulled him away.

By the fireplace, let alone Joseph who doesn’t understand Chinese, he just read the Analects of Confucius and Johnson Chan in "Mencius" and came to his senses after a while.

He was also thinking to himself: "Since Yadan was talking to Sun Lu, Zu Zehong and others, why did he say that he could hear this? Gorowen and others? Only he knew Chinese. Does he want to pass this to Gorowen and others?"

Finally he was about to give up his mind. Now he is an ordinary person who has married and had children in Daxia.

No, it is not the former missionary. If you do this, it will definitely have a significant impact on your future.

However, Yadan is the Minister of Rites of the Great Xia Kingdom. He is the minister under the prime minister in Europe. How could he say this casually in front of himself and Joseph, two Europeans?
Chapter completed!