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There were also many soldiers and officials riding back and forth, and groups of Han merchants settled in the city, they rented or bought residential courtyards, and were moving, and there were also many merchants who looked at the storage area in the north to find the most suitable warehouse for their trading houses to rent...... It is not surprising that the housing prices here are much higher than those in Datong City, and can even be compared with the Beijing Division, which is not surprising, the construction cost of the buying and selling city is super high, and many things, including the iron nails, are transported from two thousand miles away, and the construction cost can be low.

No matter how rich the Han businessmen are, it is already quite arrogant to be able to spend hundreds of taels or thousands of taels to buy a small courtyard with two entrances in the city, and they want to buy the kind of large warehouse that is hundreds of steps deep and dozens of steps wide and more than four zhang high, and they can sell more than 10,000 taels at a time, and no one can make up their minds for the time being.

In addition to the Han merchants, it is the Russians who are swaying in groups on the streets, and the market has not yet opened, even if the market is open, it is dominated by the government, and private transactions are followed by private transactions, and all the goods of Russian merchants are basically managed as a whole, only after the first shot, the remaining private goods will be asked to those merchants to find a way to sell them, whether it is to sell silver or exchange goods, then they will have to deal with it themselves.

Even Li Gui took a few more looks, and the Slavs were also more blonde and blue-eyed, but their hair was light-colored, gray or brown, and their eyes were blue, and some were light blue or gray-blue, most of them were very tall, with broad shoulders, and a rather strong figure, with cylindrical leather hats on their heads, Slavic robes, and some wore Cossack costumes, usually wearing short knives, and some wore Don scimitars, and some merchants had short knives stuck in their waists or held long knives in their hands...... If you don't speak, you would think that this is a group of serious adventurers and Cossacks, but they entered the city as merchants.

The Russians also looked around with curious eyes, and for them, the city was also quite amazing, the typical Chinese architecture and Russian architecture, as well as the low Mongolian yurts, were completely different existences, the architectural style was very novel, and they were also amazed by the ability of Hutchison to build and decorate the city.

The Russians had come to Siberia from all over the world, and only a few of them had come with a colonial attitude, and most of them had come to risk plundering their wealth. Most of their settlements were crudely built and simple huts, and only a few government-led cities were of considerable size, but compared to the city in front of them, the so-called cities with small castles as the core and surrounded by churches and dwellings were too far apart.

For those Chinese who wear beautiful silk robes and are polite, the intention and envy in the eyes of these Russians are quite obvious.

The Chinese are better dressed than the Russians, more civilized and decent, many of them wear beautiful jade ornaments, hold beautiful folding fans in their hands, and all kinds of beautiful carriages pass through the streets, and people have a look of wealth and confidence on their faces.

The look in the eyes of all Russians expresses one attitude: the Chinese are too rich!

This is also a misconception...... The people who are active in this northernmost city in China are either Hutchison's military personnel, from officials to officials, who have a considerable income, or they are also hired handymen, and their income is not low, or they are military people, or merchants in the Zhangjiakou area in the north, whether they are merchants or attachés, they all have a lot of income, if these Russians come to Datongfu City at this time or Yan'an Suiyuan and other cities in northern Shaanxi, then the perception may be completely different.

China is too big, there are also missionaries from Spain and other countries in southern China in this era, they recorded that China is incomparably rich and prosperous, but also has a fairly high civilization, people wear beautiful robes, live a rich life, and behave in a civilized manner, in the records of Westerners, Chinese has always been called a civilized country, many European philosophers also admired China, until the British envoys, China has always been known for being strong and civilized, and is considered to be the only civilized country outside Europe.

If it weren't for this understanding, how could the British, who had already colonized the world at that time, send a large mission of several hundred people to China in the late Qianlong period.

In short, in the eyes of the Russians, the southern neighbors were really much stronger and more civilized than the Mongols, and the occasional appearance of regular soldiers with firearms in the cities also dispelled many of the thoughts that they should not have...... In this era, only the armies of the richest countries in Europe will have regular military uniforms, and even many countries have real matching military uniforms after more than a hundred years.

The garrison of the merchant army in the city is a gray military robe, different from the long robes of the Ming people to the shoes, the soldiers wear short robes up to the boots, the cuffs are tightened, the chest is two rows of copper buckles, the rank badge is complete, plus the standard leather leather belt tied around the waist, hanging bullet boxes and gunpowder boxes, plus the kettle are all standard, when the whole team of soldiers walk together, they have a considerable sense of power and ceremony, which makes the Cossacks who are powerful and brave also feel awe, This is not because they think that their strength and courage are inferior to those of these merchant armies, but because of the subconscious respect of the warriors for the uniform army.

Whether the army can fight or not, many things can be seen from the details, maintaining strict military discipline and a complete queue, coupled with sophisticated weapons, this kind of army does not need to fight, first of all, it is a qualified and strong army in the eyes of the people.

Li Gui kept shuttling through the streets, feeling something completely different from Zhangjiakou Xinping Fort and other trade castles, and galloped all the way into the barracks.

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"Boys, there's going to be a war."

Ren Jing shouted to the officers in the room, took off his military hat, wiped his sweat and sat down. One of him was Xia Xiping, and the other was a middle-aged man dressed as a middle-level member of the military department.

After being met by Zhang Hanzhao in the morning, Ren Jing came back after noon, Ren Jing first poured a few sips of tea, and then asked Xia Xiping to sit down with the middle-aged man.

"Hurry up and pack the rice, no matter what the dish is, you can get it on two plates." Ren Jing ordered to go down, turning his head to the middle-aged man and saying, "Mr. Li, do you want to drink?" ”

Mr. Li is Li Anping, the current chief officer of the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the General Staff Department, and also the old man of Hutchison, Zhang Han took him with him as soon as he first went out of the plug, all the way to Liaodong to run back and forth, and also surveyed and mapped all the way, since then, the Mapping Bureau has grown from one or two people to more than 200 people now, and has grown by a hundredfold, and the map is also drawn out one by one, from the grassland to Liaodong, then to Datong to Shanhaiguan and Jiayuguan, and then to the northern provinces, and now it has gone to the south of the Yangtze River to draw.

From the Western Regions to Qinghai, there are also draftsmen, but professional draftsmen can only enter in small numbers, and the mapping work is relatively slow to open up the upper channels to ensure safety.

Here in Mobei, the mapping has largely ended, and further north is the territory of the Russians, but the Russians are quite wary of the mapping, and artificially set up a lot of obstacles, so far, only the map of the area around Tomsk has been surveyed, and the farther places have not been able to go.

Li Anping is a traditional Chinese mapping method, and later according to the exchange with the missionaries and the now popular Western surveying and mapping method, the map drawn can not be compared with the accuracy of later generations, but the most basic things can still be represented, ruler ranging, horizontal lines, rivers, hills, mountains, deserts, hills, are quite accurate, even for those missionaries and hired Portuguese officers in Hutchison, the Chinese side of the cartography has been much better than the European one.

Europe in this era is not all ahead of China, but their foundation has been quite solid, after the Renaissance the explosion of science and technology and culture is all-round, and in a few decades or hundreds of years will really open the gap, everything is ahead of China, and at that time China was known as the prosperity of the empire, in fact, it has been thrown away a hundred streets.

Li Anping came over this time, but also to strengthen the mapping of the area from Mobei to Russia, with trade as an excuse, the threshold set by the Russians will undoubtedly be lowered, this is also a small detail in the trade negotiations between the two sides, it has been resolved last night, Hutchison is paying attention to vigorous and resolute work, Li Anping and his subordinates are ready to go.

"I don't drink anymore." Li Anping said with a smile: "It is said that those of us who are civilians do not have to abide by the rules in the army, but in the end, it is better to abide by them." Besides, if I drink it, you look greedy, and then drink two glasses, and if you violate military law, you have to be put through a long row by adults, so why bother. ”

Ren Jing was told what he thought, and he also smiled, and stopped persuading Li Anping to drink.

Speaking of which, "Li Anping is a technical eater, quite old, and has a good personality with no one in the world, and his status is quite detached, but he dares to say two words, and then squinted and continued: "I heard that Uncle Sun was driven back to Qingcheng by adults, nothing really happened." ”

"No, it won't." Ren Jing has already started, and the style of soldiers eating is like this, and it is the same as when they practice, paying attention to efficiency.

Xia Xiping and Li Anping also dined together, they were urgently summoned, and together with several of Ren Jing's deputies, they formed a temporary forward command center, everyone was already colleagues, plus a military attendant officer Li Gui was an observer, and the entire command team had been set up.

Ren Jingsan stripped off his rice, pushed the bowl, and said, "Please come over with the deputy commander, the military and political officer, and the staff officer to convene an emergency military meeting." ”