In addition, there are military doctors and small hospitals and schools, after all, considering that the garrison and merchants may live in the city for several years, if they come with their families, they may face medical and educational problems, which is certainly much better than the Russians, and even if the Russians have families, most of them are here to start or receive family education at most. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The interval between the two sides is separated by a widest commercial street, the three-mile-long long street is wide enough to accommodate eight carts on the opposite side, located in the middle of the city, and is also the location of the Drum Tower Street and Yaqian Street in the Ming City, which was originally the location of the government and the school palace plus the Bell and Drum Tower, and now it is designed as a trade avenue for Sino-Russian transactions, and there are countless shops and firms on both sides of the wide avenue, the largest of which is the official trade store between Hutchison and the Russian side, not only for the trade of the two families, Of course, it also accepts the participation of non-governmental trade between China and Russia.

Zhang Han had already informed the Russian side early that countless businessmen in Datong and Zhangjiakou, among the Chinese people, had already received the notice, and some were suspicious and afraid, so they directly refused, and some felt that their scale was not enough, and they felt that the cost burden was too heavy to do business in the north for 2,000 miles, and they were waiting and seeing. There are some clever small and medium-sized merchants who have formed a large cooperative business house, and even learned from Hutchison, and also set up companies to operate the affairs of the north.

More medium and large merchants, especially Zhangjiakou and Jingshi businessmen are the most active, they have enough capital, a keen sense of smell, the first time to feel the huge business opportunities, they are well-informed, know that Hutchison has been building roads, and along the way there are Hutchison's large carriages responsible for transportation, the transportation cost is equivalent to from Beijing to Nanjing, in fact, the distance is not so far, but Beijing to Nanjing has Cao Yun, horse-drawn carriage land transport is just to cooperate, so the pure land route to Kulun in the north, plus is the route opened in the grassland, Gobi Desert and other barren places, Some of the fees are higher, and the merchants can certainly understand it.

In addition, it is necessary to pay some taxes, which is also the meaning of the question, of course, this tax is not levied on the grassland, and the book gives all merchants a fairly long buffer period, the first three months do not take taxes, and so on the three-month buffer period passes, what can stand and stay is to extract taxes according to the trade volume, and the commercial tax amount is much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming banknote tariff, tooth tax, door stall tax, all kinds of similar and buy apportionment and other things are counted, and you have to add bribes to the local government, as well as the tax cards set up privately by the big families, Although Hutchison says that it collects taxes, everyone understands in their hearts that it is as much as it says, and there is no need to bribe anyone, and in addition to ensuring safety along the way, whether it is goods or people can be protected by Hutchison, this is also crucial, if Hutchison does not have this commitment, these businessmen will not easily enter the adventure no matter how big the business opportunity is.

From Datong to Jingshi, this is a tortuous route from west to east, the area of more than 1,000 miles and Yusheng has at least notified five or six thousand merchants of medium or above scale of sufficient scale, saying that it is enough scale, that is, at least more than 10,000 taels of capital, can send personnel and carry a large number of goods to the trading city or along the road to the north to trade, the kind of merchants who are all worth more than 1,000 taels, there is also a decent shop in the interior, employing shopkeepers and several men, but this scale is not qualified to go north, Even if there are more than 10,000 taels of business, it is most likely to cooperate with others, only Ma Chaowen and Wang Datong such a net worth of hundreds of thousands of giant businessmen, can operate by themselves, and early through the form of donations and Yusheng reached a foundation for further cooperation, a few months ago, when these big businessmen donated to Hutchison, there are many giant businessmen and their families are waiting, at this time, the business road has been opened, and there have been caravans to the north to test the wind, many big businessmen began to regret, They also want to enter the grassland in a cooperative way, but the cost is much greater than that of Wang Datong and others.

The Russians don't know much about the internal affairs of Hutchison, but they have seen that Chinese businessmen have come one after another, and there is really nothing that the Russians do not need, many Russian businessmen who have come from Moscow have red eyes, and most of them are now coming to wait and see, and they do not expect to make a big deal in the first place, and now it seems that they are still too conservative, but it takes at least five months to send a letter back to Moscow or the European part from here, back and forth, It's been more than half a year this year, and many people regret it.

On the contrary, the merchants in Irkutsk and the rest of the large settlements near the dividing line between Central Asia and Eurasia, they knew that business opportunities were rare, and the distance was much closer, and as long as the merchants rushed to the trading city, they brought a large number of goods and people, and half of the city of the Russians already had a considerable amount of popularity and goods.

The whole city smells fresh, the roads are brick and smooth, the houses are newly built, the walls and the inside are new and clean, there is no furniture, and the people of Hutchison certainly do not make furniture for the Russians, and if they want to do so, they either go to the woodland a few miles outside the city to cut it down, or buy it from Hutchison's furniture dealer.

The Russian merchants were a group of adventurous people at this time, and even many of them were Cossacks and merchants, they expressed a considerable degree of satisfaction with this city, the place was spacious enough, and half of the architectural style on one side also showed the respect of the Ming people and the importance of trade, living in such a city, the living conditions in all aspects were also satisfactory, outside the city was the beautiful grassland and woodland, less than ten miles is a lake with an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers, blue as the sea, no wonder the Mongols called Haizi, The lake is rich in fish, and there are many wild beasts and beasts around it, and while waiting for trade, the Russians are not idle, they hunt and fish, and it is good to stock up on more meat during this season.

Petrin strengthened his contact with the Mongol tribes in Mobei, the Chechen Khan, the Zasaktu Khan, the Tushetu Khan, and the Saiyin Noyan in the northwest.

However, the gains were limited, and the Mongol tribes were already frightened by the strength displayed by Hutchison.

The damage caused by the hunting cavalry battalion to the Mongolian departments last year has not been forgotten by these Mongolian high-level leaders.

Several living Buddhas also have the same attitude, since they have chosen to surrender, they will never change their courts until they have a stronger force to enter Mobei.

If these Mongols had faith in the Russians, they would not have chosen to surrender to Hutchison so easily last time.

And from an emotional point of view, the Mongols and the Han have been in love and killed each other for three hundred years, and they know each other very well.

Of course, if it were a fisherman and hunter people of the same culture and species like Dongyu who killed the grassland, their choice might be different.

"Zhang Han came a little late." After reading the secret letter, this is the limit of what a handful of Mongols who are unwilling to submit to Hutchison can do, at most, it is to let some herdsmen on the road to the north of Hutchison, pretend to graze, in fact, inquire about the information, and then use the code text that Petrin taught them to write the secret letter and send it over...... It is already the limit that these Mongols can do this, not only psychologically, but also in ability, and their IQ is really not much better than that of gorillas in Petrain's opinion.

"I heard that Hutchison did not continue to fight the Chahars on the steppe." Madoff said with a look of pity.

Last year, I heard that Hutchison and the Mongols had a fight, and a group of Russians were very moved, although they did not want Hutchison to lose miserably, but they also hoped that the Mongols would put considerable pressure on Hutchison, and then urge Hutchison to grant more rights and interests in Mobei...... At that time, Petrin asked Madov to write a letter in his personal name, mentioning two meanings, one was that he could send more than 1,000 Cossacks to help in the war, and the other was that the Russians were willing to entangle the Mobei tribes and go to negotiate peace with the Chahaha people, and the Russians were willing to act as mediators.

I have to say that this is a rather stupid suggestion, Zhang Han's reply is quite indifferent, directly pointing out that the Russians can not draw one or two thousand Cossacks, and now their Cossacks are trapped in Central Asia, and several Mongol khanates in Central Asia are fighting quite fiercely, and they can't get out at all for a while, and Zhang Han pointed out that Mobei is already an area controlled by Hutchison, even if peaceful mediation is needed, it is Hutchison's internal affairs...... These replies are tantamount to slapping one slap after another on the faces of Petrin and others, not at all polite, nor the politeness and twists and turns that are unique to the Chinese, which is so direct and rude.

The Russians eat this set instead!

After clearly understanding Zhang Han's bottom line, and understanding that the strength of his side was no longer enough to get involved in the territory of Mongolia and China, Petrin and others were much more honest, and regret in their hearts was inevitable, as the courtiers of the tsar, it was the mission of the Russians to expand the territory outward, whether it was a Cossack or a merchant, the Russians in the era of expansion had a pure obsession with the territory, even if it was a barren land.

The Russians have never suffered a loss in territorial matters, the only time was when they sold Alaska, which is not easy to control, to the Americans, at that time it was a deal that was considered a loss for both sides, the Russians lost a large area of territory, and the American decision-makers were scolded as dogs at home, and it was useless to buy such a large piece of barren land?

When Alaska discovered a lot of resources, especially gold reserves, the Russians writhed on the ground in agony.