Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 671 Empire and Empire

Baikal.

At present, it can be regarded as a strategic buffer between the Black Banner Qing Dynasty and the Romanov Dynasty of Tsarist Russia.

It's just that the daily behavior of both sides in this buffer zone is not very civilized.

Since the black flag made the three major tribes of Khalkha Mongolia surrender, and stationed in the city on the grassland, built settlements, built roads to delineate the pastoral areas of each tribe, brought several major tribes into rule, and then let the major tribes rule the small tribes, so as to After completely mastering Outer Mongolia.

The Black Flag built a city on the border of Outer Mongolia to protect the frontier.

Then the guard was a little far away.

Killed directly from the frontier drawn up by Zhu Youjian.

No way, the Cossacks can beat the Buryats and the aborigines everywhere and equip them, and they can use firearms to crush those aborigines with spears and arrows.

Black Flag is better equipped.

Lighter and more powerful artillery, more stable and more powerful guns, and a brave will to fight.

Since Upper Uginsk Castle was captured by the black flag, and the relevant documents were also sent to the capital, Zhu Youjian personally wrote a pen to approve the establishment of a guard in Upper Uginsk and appointed a general.

Afterwards, the northern frontier of the Black Banner Qing Dynasty seemed to be relatively stable.

Documents are sent back regularly, nothing major.

Indeed, it's just that every day, a few or a dozen people die every day, which is not a big deal.

After Upper Uginsk Castle became the territory of the black flag, reinforcements from Irkutsk and the Cossack base camps on both sides of Lake Baikal also quickly came to the rescue.

But when they came across Lake Baikal by boat, they were bombarded by the Black Banner Army with flying thunder before they landed, and finally fled in a hurry.

Then, under the collusion of the two generals in the frontier, the black flag began to reorganize the many Mongolian tribes in the border area, and the Buryat tribes began to reorganize, apply the black flag's military merit system to them, and then recruit troops from among them Form a patrol team.

Sell ​​them the general equipment, and then patrol with them in the border area between Buryatia and Mongolia.

It also maintains the territory already occupied on Lake Baikal.

During the period, it was natural to continue to clash and fight with the local Cossacks.

The two sides are in the woods, in the snowfield, in the mountains, and on the hills. They shoot at each other and then charge. Whoever coaxes the control area on their side will shrink.

In a conflict that lasted a year, the Black Flag won more than lost.

The control area expanded violently.

The most important thing is that although the local Buryats have their own culture, after all, they are the local regime established after the invasion of Mongolia, and their culture has been influenced by Mongolia.

Before the Cossacks came, each of these places was a small khan enfeoffed by Mongolia, ruled by thousands of households, known as Buryat Mongolia in the world.

Today, Black Flag can still find people who claim to be descendants of the Golden Family in the local area.

Although the Black Banner Qing Dynasty is not a Mongolian regime, it has a legal system, and most of the Mongols are used in the border army. Khalkha Mongols also surrendered to the Black Banner Qing Dynasty.

Coupled with the evil deeds of the Cossacks in the local area, the aborigines joined the camp of the black flag one after another.

Seeing the increasing number of manpower and soldiers under their command, the two frontier generals couldn't help but have evil thoughts.

Before the arrival of the Tsarist Russian envoys, the outbreak of war on the frontier had already been sent to the capital, so the two banner owners currently in the capital knew why they came.

Irkutsk, the largest and core stronghold of the Cossacks on Lake Baikal, was attacked by the black flag more than two months ago.

In fact, the place name Irkutsk has appeared in border battle reports many times before.

For example, 'raiding the south of Irkutsk, named more than a hundred people, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.'

"Crossing the north, approaching Irkutsk, firing cannons to frighten the northern barbarians"

"The chief of Irkutsk" the whole army Ataman "sent troops to invade the south and fought in the Khamar Daban Mountain"

"Dear king, you see, your soldiers from the Qing Dynasty approached the core town of our empire on Lake Baikal many times, attacked and plundered the border people of our empire many times, and enslaved them in the trading city"

The envoy of Tsarist Russia spread out the map he was carrying, on which was marked in different colors how much territory the black flag had eroded and waited for them, and he kept talking.

Originally, the messenger wanted to sell misery and deterrence in parallel.

But after seeing the situation in the capital, rationally told him that it was enough to sell miserably, and deterrence might be useless.

Zhu Cijiong ignored the misery and went straight to the point.

The Black Banner Army has already reached the gate of the main administrative city of the Cossack group around Lake Baikal.

In front of the defenders on the city wall, they plundered wantonly under the city, and then fired kerosene bombs into the city with catapults. If the logistics could not keep up, it would be difficult to support them without heavy artillery and food.

Otherwise, the siege will start directly.

Now the Cossacks have lost all the territory south of Lake Baikal, and most of the tribes on the north side of the lake have voted for the black flag Qing Dynasty, so that the areas that the Cossacks can currently control are only Irkutsk and the Northeast.

Just like this, they are being raided every day.

It's normal for a Cossack to be a part-time bandit, but Black Flag's army is transformed from a bandit, and it's more professional.

Now that the temperature has cooled down, the black flag frontier army has stopped attacking.

What about next year?

"I can't decide on this matter. I need to ask the Qing emperor's father, the Regent, for instructions."

Zhu Cijiong didn't care about how the Cossacks would live next year, and it was really beyond his decision to draw the border line on Lake North Hygar with Tsarist Russia, which was quite unfamiliar to him.

The envoy hurriedly replied: "Then please allow the foreign ministers to wait in the city for the will of your emperor's father and regent!"

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, yes.

It also facilitated the envoys of Tsarist Russia to continue to observe the capital, the administrative center of the black flag Qing Dynasty, to observe the new things that surprised them, and the vitality of the people when the whole society was relatively stable.

The railway has been repaired to the capital.

Even the east gate of the capital specially changed a side entrance into a railway passage into the city. Although it only saves a small section of road into the city, it is convenient for coal, wood, stone, lime and cement to enter the city.

But in the eyes of the Tsarist Russian envoys, it was quite appalling.

Just putting steel on the ground to facilitate the movement of the carriage is already extremely avant-garde and beyond their reach.

In addition, the productivity of Liaodong exploded, and all kinds of creations were produced by government-run factories and private factories in various places.

For Tsarist Russia, which is currently closer to Europe and is relatively sophisticated in civilization, this kind of impact on civilization is indescribable.

Before this.

Tsarist Russia also sent envoys to Daming many times, and the two sides also had exchanges during the Qing Dynasty.

In their eyes, Daming is still that wealthy country, but anyone can smell the rotten atmosphere inside.

The exchange with the Manchu Qing was just a formality, the two sides had normal diplomacy, and there was no territorial conflict.

Now this has become the black Qing Dynasty.

Let wandering in the streets of the capital, watching the people come and go, watching the crowd watching him, the envoy looked around and was full of uneasiness.

He searched for a long time, but he didn't even find a beggar.

What a powerful empire this is.

(End of this chapter)