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Chapter 1374 The Highest

While the Tavukhal Khan brothers were actively facing overwhelming internal and external threats, Qi Jiguang of Dayuzzi was also busy learning new knowledge.

"Raksha country?"

In order to facilitate the long-distance march, Qi Jiguang's creative soul is still burning. After the trench bunker suitable for the flat grassland, he modified the Francophone biased gun carriage.

A wooden frame is nailed on the outside of each vehicle, and six thick wooden columns with the same length as the vehicle are stacked inside. The two ends of the wooden columns can be mortized and tenoned together. , Four or more boxcars are erected on the wooden pillars, and the tents are covered with various types of military tents.

In order to prevent the vehicle from sinking, some wide planks made in the Yili River Valley were placed on the other side. When the ground is humid, it can be used as a floor on the vehicle. Desert marching can also prevent the wheels from sinking and slipping.

Qi Jiguang's troops not only had box trucks, but also a lot of carts for transporting luggage, without which they couldn't walk in the desert at all.

In battle, these wooden pillars placed outside the vehicle board can also protect bullets, arrows and block shells to a certain extent.

The reason for this is to a certain extent, because it can only protect against Fran's cannon, and his own general Zhenshuo can't stop it, and Qi Jiguang's stone-shooting cannon, which he has never heard of, will definitely not be able to stop it... Even Chen Mu is in the official document Qi Jiguang firmly believes in the powerful things in the house.

Although Kang Liji hoped that Qi Jiguang could move into his tribe, Qi Jiguang did not accept this risky kindness. His troops carried too much luggage, not to mention that Kang Liji's tribe really had nothing to live in.

The towns of Dayuzzi are all there, and the scattered tribes beside Lake Balkhash in the north are not much different from those living in military tents.

Four large carts were parked at the four corners, and the large Chinese army tent raised ten feet high was crowded with people. They included merchants and well-informed travelers from the various tribes of Dayuzi. Drawing for Qi Jiguang.

Several sheepskins were spread in the middle of the tent, on which were drawn maps of various scales and regions. The common feature of these maps was that they were not accurate and the drawings were very vague.

Needless to say, the map of Kazakhstan is not difficult to draw. They have never been to many places themselves, but they just generally say that it is a Gobi and a desert.

There are many hills and mountains in the east, and the rest are plains, rivers and lakes.

Qi Jiguang didn't care about this map, what he cared about was a bigger map, as long as his soldiers could come and go freely, he would be able to get the most detailed map in the world very quickly, and he didn't need to rely on others at all.

The Altai Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains are the westernmost points of the known world on the Ming Dynasty. The descendants of Genghis Khan, who were supposed to completely control the land world, indulged in self-defeating martial arts-style cannibalism, which made the Oara people know everything about this land. It is only limited to whose son is grazing next to my pasture, so I can't help much.

Qi Jiguang was eager to know what enemies he would meet again on his way to the north to hunt mink for the emperor, and to the west to receive the baggage from the Western military government, and then a huge monster with a strange shape was drawn on the map.

The Principality of Moscow, whose land is divided in two by the Ural Mountains, or the Raksha Empire, which claims to be Roman orthodoxy.

He implemented military reforms, faced the Crimean Khanate and the Polish coalition forces in the west, annexed and controlled the Kazan Khanate, entered the Astrakhan Khanate, and invaded the Siberia Khanate. The shape of a bully with teeth and claws.

The most important thing is that the ruler of the Rakshasa Empire, who calls himself Caesar, looks different from others. He was a slave of the Golden Horde in the past. Qi Jiguang's eyes lit up.

It's not that enemies don't get together, his Mongolians have a place to put them.

Qi Jiguang's eyes became even brighter when he heard that the Raksha Kingdom did not collect gold and silver taxes after invading those Khanates, and that the Siberia Khanate collected a thousand mink furs a year.

To be honest, the emperor specially wrote to ask Qi Jiguang to send hunters from the northwest region to the north to hunt for furs. He was very puzzled, and Ming Dynasty had no shortage of furs.

One thing he was very impressed with when he was in Ji Town was that Liaodong Horse City traded 240 mink furs in half a year.

Because the number is too large, he still remembers it clearly.

And that's just mink.

Qi Jiguang also specifically talked about mink fur with Li Chengliang. Jianzhou Jurchen, as a middleman in the mink fur business between the Central Plains and Hercynian Jurchens, and the Savage Jurchens, exchanged a large amount of mink fur for two mink furs, and gradually controlled the two mink furs. good trend.

But it's useless for them to talk about it. Even the emperor and Zhang Juzheng can't control people wearing sables. No one can control it.

Because people in Daming do not expose mink fur to the outside of their clothes, and the outside is covered with satin, it is difficult for others to see if they really want to hide it.

Zhongyuan's dressing style is very polarized, some of them are big, and the more conspicuous the better; but what is more conspicuous than conspicuous is the dark pattern, if you don't understand it, you won't be able to see it if you don't look carefully.

So despite his doubts, he was happier that the emperor was paying attention, at least it showed that the court took notice, and things were about to change: ermines were more profitable.

Greater profits will drive more middlemen to join the mink fur business.

But now, Qi Jiguang has access to more information.

No one in this world can grasp more information than Daming. The more information people have, the more clear the whole world will be in the eyes of Daming people, and the ins and outs of everything will become clearer.

The Ming army in Puli County reported to Chen Mu the fur weapon trade between England and the Principality of Moscow.

The news landed in Wangxia Prefecture from the Mohe Islands in Heishui, was sent to Beijing by telegram, and then quickly sent to Jiayuguan by telegram, and was sent to the Ili River Valley day and night according to the military strongholds along the way, completing the journey of most of the world.

If he didn't know this, how could Qi Jiguang have imagined that because the barbarians on the westernmost island of the mainland bought furs, several khanates suffered from wars and disasters?
But now that the news is summed up, conclusions can be easily extracted.

Of course, Qi Jiguang never thought that his emperor had fallen into the eyes of money, and he was asked to send people to hunt north just to make money.

Wanli always felt that he was poor and had no choice. The money here was used to build warships, the money there was used to build railways, and the extra money should be reserved for disaster relief, not to mention popularization of education, high military salaries required for military reform, and other messy things waiting for investment technology and his above-ground museum Sanzhou Palace.

He was so poor that he couldn't bear to repair a grave.

Qi Jiguang didn't know this. He felt that His Majesty had made a wise decision, and he had come up with a big plan to monopolize the fur business in the world. He subconsciously regarded the Raksha country that appeared in his vision as an enemy.

"Whether he is a Rakshasa or a monster, the Ural Mountains are good. The Millennium War between the south of the city and the north of the Great Wall is over. From now on, my highest honor as a Chinese warrior will be named Ural."

(End of this chapter)