The North Sea, which was once a herding sheep for the Soviet Union, is now under the de facto control of the Russian Empire. The Buryat Mongols in the North Sea took refuge www.biquge.info the Russians, making it a de facto control area of the Russian Empire. However, there was no treaty at this time that stipulated that the great lake belonged to Russia, and it was not until after the Treaty of Nebuchu that it was actually assigned to Russia.

On the shore of Lake Beihai, a roe deer runs out of the woods.

"Bang" There was a roar of muskets, and a bloody flower erupted from the head of the roe deer, and it fell to the ground in response.

"The emperor has good marksmanship!" The surrounding Eight Banners soldiers and officials drank tea loudly.

Kangxi handed the gun to the guards beside him, turned his head and looked around, only to see that there were only more than 300 guards and officials around him. Seeing this situation, Kangxi couldn't help but recall the scene when he was hunting on the outskirts of the capital. Every autumn, Kangxi would go to the Mulan paddock on the outskirts of Beijing to hunt. There are more than 30,000 accompanying Imperial Forest Army, of which 3,000 archers are dedicated to helping Kangxi surround and drive away the prey, and there are tens of thousands of Imperial Forest Army on the periphery to serve as a protection task, and there are accompanying palace maids and eunuchs and noble officials, and a hunt has to dispatch more than 30,000 people, more than 50,000 or 60,000 people, but today, there are only more than 300 people around.

Now it's also autumn, the same autumn hunting, more than 300 people, can't even surround the prey. But Kangxi can't help it, there are only so many people who can accompany him out to hunt at present.

More than 500,000 horses left the capital in the spring and continued until autumn before arriving on the shores of Beihai Lake. Along the way, less than 100,000 people were left who followed Kangxi to Beihai. After coming here, it is no better than in the capital, there are farmers who farm to feed the hardcore crops, and there are so many people left, except for a few high-ranking officials, the rest of the people have to find their own way to solve the problem. In addition to hunting and fishing, some banner people also planted corn and potatoes in the fields themselves.

It was also a helpless move to let the banner people farm their own land, and most of the clothed minions were lost, and they either died in Mobei Mongolia or became slaves of the Mongols.

The Russians originally promised to help the Manchus, but when Kangxi and the others came, they only saw more than 900 Russians, and the little food in the hands of the Russians was not enough for tens of thousands of people to eat. The Russians gave them some corn potatoes, which the bannermen planted in the fields.

There is no way, the grain brought out from the capital has long been eaten, and even the grain originally used for seeds has been eaten, and after coming here, you can only plant the corn and potatoes provided by the Russians, otherwise you will have nothing to eat.

Food has long been gone, and the bannermen can only supply it in limited quantities. The prey caught, the fish that were caught, and the wild fruits collected in the mountains were all gathered and distributed according to the head. Although there is abundant food in autumn nature, it is not guaranteed that there are so many mouths to eat, and some food must be stored for the winter.

"Fan Aiqing, when will the caravan of the Rakshasa people come?" Kangxi turned his head and asked.

Because the eight families of Jin Shang had silver in their hands, and they had been on an envoy to Russia, they got in touch with the Russians, so Fan Yuxin became one of Kangxi's close confidants at this time.

Hearing Kangxi's question, Fan Yuxin hurriedly knelt on the ground and said a thousand times: "Back to the emperor, the slave sent an envoy to the Rakshasa country, and he walked on the road for more than a year." The road to the capital of the Rakshasa country is far away, passing through the bitter cold land, and the caravan is difficult to walk, and there is no one who cannot be reached in a year and a half, not to mention that the caravan walks slowly with goods. If the Rakshasa caravan had departed from Moscow in the spring, it would have been less than a quarter of the way it had already been. In the winter, they can't walk, so they can only stop and wait until after the beginning of spring, and when they arrive, at least next autumn. ”

"It's a long way to go!" Kangxi sighed.

Fan Yuxin said: "It's nothing long enough, the main thing is that the road is difficult to walk. If you want to take a good path, you have to pass through the territory of the Dzungars, Turks, Persians, Great Cannibals and Rumi. If nothing else, let's just talk about the territory of the Dzungars and the Turks, we will not be able to get across, and the Russians will not dare to enter rashly. ”

Kangxi looked up to the sky and sighed: "I'm sorry for my ancestors and ancestors!" Not only was the capital lost, but even the hometown of Manchuria was attacked by someone! We can't go back to the outside of the customs, so we can only come to this bitter cold place. ”

Hearing Kangxi's lament, Fan Yuxin's heart was filled with a sourness, their Fan family was included in the must-kill list by Daming, and the financial war engaged in by Nanyang Company before made the eight Jin merchants suffer heavy losses. If it weren't for the fact that they were the messengers of the connection with Russia, the Qing court would have been unloaded and killed long ago. When the Manchu court ran away, the Fan family also ran away. Because the journey was too difficult, his father Fan Sanpao died on the way, and the servants in the family also suffered countless casualties. The Fan family guards sent by the Fan family to assist the Qing army before were basically dead, and the Fan family, which was once a big family, now only a few brothers are still alive.

"I don't know what happened to my hometown in Shanxi?" Fan Yuxin said secretly in her heart.

Thousands of miles away in Shanxi, the Wu army has already invaded Shanxi.

It is said that it is an attack, but in fact, it entered Shanxi without much effort, and the Wu army did not encounter any resistance along the way, and killed all the way in, and the city along the way had already torn off the banner of the Qing court and replaced it with the banner of the Ming Dynasty. The magistrates of each city took the officials, officials and people in the city to cut off their braids and change their clothes to welcome the arrival of the Wu army.

If the people of the Fan family hadn't escaped quickly, I'm afraid they would have been beheaded by Wu Sangui.

In addition to the eight big families who ran away, as for some other small Jin merchants, they were not qualified to escape with the Qing court. When the Wu army attacked, those Jin merchants could be said to have no way to enter the heavens and no door, and running west was the territory of the loyal camp; Fleeing east is either Wu Sangui's territory or Wang Yu's territory; Running to the northeast is Zheng Zheng's territory, and running to the north is the territory of the Mongols. These Jin merchants who couldn't escape hid in the countryside, but unfortunately they were still searched by Wu Jun.

Wu Sangui was unceremonious to Jin Shang, grabbed one, first tortured him, and forced him to find out the whereabouts of his property. Wait until the property collected by the Jin merchants is searched, and then quietly kill them in prison.

However, in just two months, Wu Sangui took the whole of Shanxi into his pocket.

The Wu army attacked westward in Shanxi, and when it reached the edge of the Yellow River, it was discovered that all the Yellow River crossings were garrisoned, and it was the loyal battalion that guarded the Yellow River defense line to prevent Wu Sangui from crossing the river to attack him.

"The Loyal Battalion blocked the crossing of the Yellow River, and our westward expansion came to an end; It's a pity that the army of the hated King of the South is still in Tianjin! They did not withdraw their troops under the pretext that the king of Nam was on an expedition to Korea and had not received a holy decree. Fang Guangchen said angrily.

"Wait! As long as he waits patiently, the old man doesn't believe that the old man's grandson-in-law can still stay on the line! Unless he wants to rebel openly. Wu Sangui said very calmly.