After defeating Yenisesk, Zhao Xin did not return to Beihai Town, but stayed. Of course, it would not be a problem for him to really want to go back and see his wife and children. It would take only two or three days to sneak back and forth.

Unlike the last time that it was just missing a piece of the outer Baikal region, the result of this "Battle of Usolier" will lead to Tsarist Russia losing tens of millions of square kilometers of territory east of the Yenisei River, not to mention that Zhao Xin will develop the "Siberian Cossack Kingdom" next, which will push the Tsarist Russia's border back to the Ural Mountains.

You should know that starting from Ivan IV in the 16th century, Tsarist Russia took nearly two hundred years to occupy a vast area from the Ural Pass to Xiakanchaka. The efforts of countless Cossacks to expand the eastward were all done in just two years. No one would accept this if it were replaced!

Not to mention the Ural Mountains, even if the Yenisei River middle line is used as the border, Caterina II and the Russian Senate would never agree.

Although Rumentsev's 100,000 army failed, the core military force of the Tsarist Russian Empire was still there. Not to mention the 600,000 permanent army of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Ekaterina Army and the Ukrainian Army commanded by Po Jiangjin, combined with the combined number of more than 100,000, and they are also elite troops that have fought against Türkiye for many years.

According to the history of another time and space, the Sixth Russian-Turkey War is more than a year away from the end. This year's Battle of Izmer is already on the verge of the arrow and will definitely fight. The question is whether the Russian army will cross the Danube River and continue to expand the results of the war, or turn around and fight the Northern Navy to the death?

If the Russian army stops at the Izmer Fortress and then ceases to fight Turkey, then Crimea and Georgia, which are already within their reach, and the Black Sea estuary will have to give up. Catherine II will never forget to dominate the Black Sea and will have to wait until the winner is decided with Beihai Town.

If the old lady insisted on fighting the war with the Turks, then Beihai Town would have more than a year to prepare. Otherwise, inciting Turkey to get involved? However, Beihai Town has no contact with Turkey at all, and it still has to establish contact.

In another time and space history, Catherine II died of illness in 1796 at the age of 67. The death of Po Jiangjin next year will bring her a heavy mental blow. However, Zhao Xin is not sure whether Po Jiangjin will die due to a recurrence of his old illness. After all, if the Russian-Turkish war is no longer fought, Po Jiangjin may not have gone to Yasi, and he will not have died of sudden fever.

Considering the water and land transportation paths in Siberia, the Russian army will definitely build a forward base based on the Ob River, which is more than 600 kilometers away. In this way, Krasnoyarsk will be the first front line, followed by Yenisesk.

Without saying that preparations are the first priority. However, the Yenisei River Basin is not a vast land and sparsely populated outer Baikal, which is close to Khalkha. Russian settlers in Yenisei or Krasnoyarsk must be bombarded to prevent the leakage of military secrets.

So, Zhao Xin and Jiuzang launched actions almost at the same time. They first checked the population and house conditions of the city, registered them one by one, and then planned to expel the residents in the city.

During the inspection of the two towns, a special group emerged. They sent two representatives to the Military Control Commission to ask for a meeting with Zhao Xin, proposing that they would be willing to serve the Northern Navy as long as they could stay.

"All of you are Jews?" Zhao Xin looked at the two bearded men standing in front of him curiously, and the "religious paradox" about Jews suddenly appeared in his mind in later generations: God's elect cannot be decided by God.

Simply put, it is a person who has nothing to do with the Jews and can become a Jew in a legitimate way.

You should know that most ethnic groups in the world are divided by blood, but Jews divide ethnic groups by religion, and Jews are Jews.

For example, Zhao Xin, if he wants to become a Jew, the easiest way is to marry a Jewish wife. With direct relatives as an introducer, the threshold for bloodline will be passed; then the threshold for religious entry will be passed.

Congratulations to King Zhao Palace, the Jewish work will be done in the future, and the Messiah will emerge... Let's fall down!

Don't be surprised, Wendi Deng, the Grand Princess of Peach, and the Li Moumou who passed by Wuhan, became a Jew in another time and space.

"Yes, honorable Your Excellency."

Just as Zhao Xin was thinking about it, the two men wearing white hats bent down and bowed to Zhao Xin, and the older one introduced themselves: "My name is Rabbi Ilia Rosner, and he is Joseph Bowie."

"Oh?" Zhao Xinxin said that a rabbi came. He pointed to the two chairs opposite and said, "Please sit down and talk."

Ilia and Joseph looked at each other in surprise. They were not qualified to sit in front of Tsarist Russian officials before. So Ilia said embarrassedly: "Great Lord, let's stand and talk."

Zhao Xin shook his head without comment and asked, "Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

As a rabbi, Ilia said carefully: "Dear Your Excellency, we are here today to represent the local group of Jewish settlers. I hope, no, I plead for you not to expel us."

"Oh?" Zhao Xin was stunned for a moment, thinking that his plan had left and the wind was revealed. He asked quietly, "Who told you that I was going to expel you?"

"The people in the city say this," the Jew, named Joseph, said stutteringly, "This was what they did in Lithuania before. They first counted the population, checked the property, and then deported."

His voice became less and less, and in the end he could hardly hear it, but Zhao Xin still understood it.

"Your Excellency," Ilya replied, "My friend in Irkutsk wrote that you are all Chinese who call themselves Cyris, and he told the Chinese rulers that they are very kind to their people, regardless of their race, to treat them equally."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Yes. There are many ethnic groups under the rule of Beihai Town. As long as we abide by the law, we will treat each other equally." Zhao Xin changed the subject and sneered: "But whoever dares to collude with foreign enemies and sells the information of the garrison troops will not only confiscate the property, but also expel the whole family, and in severe cases, they will even be shot."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ilia and Joseph quickly shook their heads and said they would not.

"What's your friend's name?"

"Basining Leftov. He is a respected businessman."

"So it's him! He's always in love." Zhao Xin laughed and then asked the guard to bring a cup of tea to the two guests.

After hearing this, Ilia said happily: "Your Excellency, are you familiar with him? It seems that we are right today. You see, we just want to have a place to settle down. If you can provide us with shelter, on behalf of all the Jews in Yenisesk, I promise that we will never provide the information of the garrison to the Tsarist Russian government and will fully cooperate with your local management."

Zhao Xin felt a stern and unconsciously narrowed his eyes. Another time and space, a Chinese scholar's evaluation of Jews, who remembered clearly: "They are the worst-known people in the world because they are particularly afraid. Their small groups are very xenophobic, distrust others, and are petty, and believe in 'eye for eyes and teeth for teeth'..."

Chinese culture talks about "humility", which simply means "a blessing in disguise" and "a step back and the sky is wide open. The Jews are not. For them, suffering losses are the consequences. If they suffer losses, they cannot live. They will definitely find ways to get them back, and they will even make it what you owe them.

Basin in Irkutsk is such a person, feeding unfamiliar wolves. Although the Beihai Trading Company provided a large number of tea and rhubarb to the five people, they felt that they deserved it.

So Zhao Xin looked curious and asked with a relaxed voice: "Can you tell me about the situation of the local Jews?"

Ilia said: "Of course, this is also my purpose to visit you. What aspects do you want to know?"

Zhao Xin said: "Let's talk about it from scratch, how did you come from?"

Ilia took a sip of tea, moistened her throat, and then exclaimed at the tea in the cup, then said in a deep voice: "May I ask, do you understand the Russian-Polish war?"

Zhao Xin shook his head. He had no interest in the little things in Poland.

Seeing this, Ilia had to continue to explain: "Actually, Joseph and I are descendants of Polish prisoners of war, and some of us came from Lithuania..."

From Ilia's story, Zhao Xin learned that the Jews first appeared in Siberia in the 17th century. They were all prisoners of war from the two Russian-Polish wars. They were first sent to "cultivated land" here. After the war, according to the peace treaty concluded between Tsarist Russia and Poland, Tsar Mikhail also promised to "release everyone unconditionally", which of course this was impossible.

By 1721, the Russian government publicly implemented an anti-Semitism policy. At that time, the Russian army seized a Polish town and immediately executed all the captured Jews. Even during the period when the Jewish policy was relatively relaxed, they would be deported. As a result, by 1727, there were no Jews in Little Russia (Ukraine).

Of course, it is impossible to kill them all. Those Jews who escaped death were exiled to Siberia. They engaged in business, farming and handicrafts as "exiled criminals, hard-working criminals, illegal occupants". As for Jews who came to Siberia as free people, there were mainly "winemakers". They were experienced and highly skilled, so they became useful people to the Tsarist Russian government.

According to Ilia, the total number of Jewish groups in Yenisesk is more than 700 people, and the total number is less than 200 households.

After listening to Ilia's story, Zhao Xin nodded slightly, and then asked the guards to get some snacks for the two of them to enjoy. Ilia and Joseph saw that Zhao Xin was in a good mood, so they started to talk more.

"What should you do if you marry a wife? Should you find a Jewish girl or marry a local?"

Joseph smiled bitterly and said, "Who doesn't want to find a girl from his own tribe? But the local government has a law that those who do not join the Orthodox Church cannot marry Russian girls. What can we do? We can only save some money and ask the matchmaker to go to the west of Ural Mountain to get one back. To be honest, this fee is really not low."

Zhao Xin asked curiously: "Can you only marry a Jewish girl? What should I do if I can't save money?"

Ilia, who is a rabbi, said: "It is not impossible for other nations. At that time, the Jews in Kainsk asked the authorities to allow them to buy Kalmyk women trafficked from the border like the Siberians, and then marry them according to the Jewish law. The authorities agreed. However, there were not many people who married Kalmyk women here, only a few."

Zhao Xin suddenly laughed when he heard this. The two people on the other side looked at each other for some reason. However, they knew that what Zhao Xin thought of was a statement from another time and space.

Who said that Jews are all matriarchal? If they are really matriarchal, then what are the descendants of Kalmyk women?

Suddenly, Zhao Xin curled his smile and asked suddenly: "How many local companies are engaged in usury business?"

Joseph blurted out: "Fifteen..."

In the flash of lightning, Elia's face changed suddenly, and she immediately touched the other party with her toes. Joseph immediately changed his words and said, "No, it's ten families. Look at my memory."

"Hmm?" Zhao Xin narrowed his eyes and slapped the table and asked, "Are they fifteen or ten?!"

Joseph's back neck stalk immediately began to sweat, and Elia thought it was awful!

Chinese people often say that pitiful people must have hateful things, and the same applies to Jews. There is a very important reason why this nation has been repeatedly excluded in European history, which is that many of them are engaged in usury business.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Let me tell you, the Jewish merchants described by Shakespeare are actually his own imagination or hearsay. As early as 1275 before his birth, the United Kingdom had explicitly banned Jews from engaging in usury business and expelled Jews in 1290. By the time the Jews entered England again, it was already the period of Cromwell's rule, and Shakespeare had already passed away forty years.

Zhao Xin asked this question because he had seen it in Irkutsk before. The five masters not only monopolized local businesses, but also relied on usury to control the urban economy. Those who borrowed usury not only were the Buryats who drank their meager property in the tavern, but also had farmers, even some former government officials and Cossack garrisons who also borrowed from the five masters. In this way, they would inevitably control the parliament and make the borrowers their vassals and serve as their phishing tubes.

Beihai Trading Company has spent a lot of effort over the past year to subsidize the Buryats and the farmers who are honestly farming, and at the same time, the Civil Affairs Bureau also provides people and supplies to support them, which has helped them repay usury and get rid of the control of the five major players.

In fact, it is not only Irkutsk, but other big towns in Siberia have this problem. The young Jewish brewers who are engaged in liquor sales in Siberia have opened taverns. After earning their first pot of gold, they quickly invested their funds into the usury industry.

No country's ruler would hope that the usury industry would flourish under its own rule. What should I wait for without fear of such behavior?

According to another time and space history learned by Zhao Xin, when the Polish Jews became subjects of Tsarist Russia in the 18th century, they were almost all small merchants, leasers, brokers, intermediaries or tavern owners. Among these people were neither big bourgeoisie nor agricultural workers and landlords.

However, a hundred years later, the situation completely changed. As of 1917, almost all important industrial and commercial sectors in the "Jewish residential areas" - to some extent, even all Russian industry and commerce, were either completely controlled by the Jewish people or strongly influenced by Jewish capital. Even the development and operation of the Russian banking industry were closely related to the Jewish people.

Which ruler is not afraid of this situation?

Zhao Xin doesn’t care much about whether you believe in Christ or not. In Chinese culture, no matter what kind of god you are, as long as you don’t do things for the people, I’m sorry, get up and change the next one!

However, the Jews' behavior of controlling the commercial economy is really annoying. It is precisely because of this that Zhao Xin does not like the Five Great Masters. If the Jews in the Yenisei River Basin still do this under the rule of Beihai Town, it is obvious that they are playing against the regime, and Zhao Xin will not be able to tolerate it.

Just as Ilia and Joseph were sweating profusely, Zhao Xin said to the two coldly: "Go back and tell your community to tell me what I said. I know that the Tsarist Russian government does not allow you to obtain land and you are not allowed to be farmers. But there is no problem here. The right to use a family of 100 acres will not be collected for five years. You can plant whatever you want. Beihai Town currently only collects taxes on commercial transactions."

"Great Your Excellency, this is really good news! I will tell the people in the club immediately when I go back."

"I warn you not to think about making a fortune by loans for usury. If I hear that you lend usury and control the urban economy, I will confiscate all your illegal gains and get out of here!"

After hearing this, Ilia's face changed and hurriedly explained: "Your Excellency, how can this be illegal? Borrowing money is also a business..."

Zhao Xin waved his hand and said in a decisive tone: "You are fighting with the government, do you understand?! Use alcohol to anesthetize those honest farmers and Mongolians and swallow their property. What business is this? It's purely to eat people and not spit out bones!"

He slowed down and looked at the two Jews with a sneer, saying, "Don't think we don't understand finance. You have been doing this trick in Europe for hundreds of years, so why don't you remember it? Under the rule of Beihai Town, you don't need to cover taxes. If you sell alcohol, go to the tax collector to file taxes. The tax rate of alcohol will be clearly stipulated. Whoever dares to evade taxes, we will be punished 100 times the tax amount and will be sent to prison. As for commercial credit, it will be distributed by special institutions established by the government in the future. The one you did in Europe will not work for me. Do you understand?"

Zhao Xin said this and Ilia and Joseph looked no more expressionless, and kept wiping the sweat beads of their foreheads with scarves. The two nodded in agreement, thinking in their hearts that they had to go back and summon others to discuss countermeasures.

After the two Jewish merchants were scolded and said goodbye, Zhao Xin got up and walked to the window, looking at the Jewish community not far away for a long time.

Unlike the previous Tsars, the era of Catherine II was the era of the best living conditions for Tsarist Jews. In the early days of the empress's rule, because the policy at that time was to "embrace Europe and proclaim liberalism", the Jews gained equal rights with Christians.

Moreover, because the Queen encouraged the development of industry and commerce, formulated a first-, second- and third-level merchant guild system, which broke the Jewish national isolation and shook the coercive binding force of Jewish communities, many Jews made full use of the right to register as merchants and entered the citizen class.

The "Regulations on Municipal Autonomy" promulgated by the Tsarist Russian government in 1785 gave Jews the right to participate in local hierarchical management and serve in social public office. For example, three of the five major families in Irkutsk were Jews, who controlled the city council, and even Sibiakov became mayor.

However, the good days for the Jews of Tsarist Russia are about to end. If nothing unexpected happens, Tsarist Russia will continue to participate in the division of Poland, and by then there will be nearly one million Jews in Lithuania, Podoria and Warren becoming subjects of Tsarist Russia. This has led to the Tsarist Russian government restricting the Jews on a series of issues such as residence, property rights, industry and commerce, and education. Jews will be strictly restricted on the right to residence and movement. They can only live in 15 provinces and cannot live in rural areas.
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