On the banks of the Segelen River in the southern part of Lake Baikal, where the headquarters of the Northern Corps is located, in modern times it is the Ulan-Ude region of Russia. Song Tao, Wang Yaowu, and other people from the headquarters of the Corps in the north were gathering in the war room to study and discuss the next stage of the battle plan.

At present, the northward campaign is progressing smoothly, and after a period of fighting, the northward corps and the eastern corps have basically cleared out the Buriyat units around Lake Baikal, and are now scattered all over the place to carry out large-scale sweeps.

The theater command has strictly ordered all units to stop the unprovoked killings, try to gather the local Buryats, Yakuts, and other ethnic minorities in the area around Lake Baikal, and carry out centralized registration, screening, and purification of them, and then start unified winter training.

The environment in Siberia is too harsh, even more difficult than the Outer Northeast, even in modern society, the entire Siberian region is still vast and sparsely populated, and the Far East still hopes to transform these local natives, and then settle them in various regions of Siberia, and later become the foresters of the Far East Company.

Qiang Quansheng walked in from outside and said with a smile to Song Tao: "Commander, I just received a telegram from the nomadic detachment at the mouth of the Segelen River, and those Cossacks captured a boat last night and fled. ”

Everyone was immediately interested, and when this plan was formulated, they didn't pay much attention to the follow-up development. It was just a small detachment led by Liu Baoguo to lead a special combat team and a small detachment of hundreds of indigenous hunters from the Outer Northeast selected from the mountain troops.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the special combat team and the indigenous hunters of the Outer Northeast easily infiltrated the Cossack stronghold, annihilated the Cossack expedition of more than 200 people, and executed the leader of the expedition.

Carrying dozens of Cossack prisoners, they came to the nomadic detachment in the area of the Segelen River and the mouth, where they were disguised. And a large number of precious furs and golden stones and other booty were transported, and did not create a chance for dozens of Cossacks to escape.

With the character of the Cossacks, once they fled back, they were bound to miss this place, and the amazing wealth would make them lose their minds. As long as it seemed profitable, the Cossacks went to be bandits and robbers.

Song Tao said with a smile: "It is estimated that it will not take long." More Cossacks will come to the Baikal region, and it would be strange if they could hold back such a big piece of fat. Don't underestimate the Siberian Cossacks, who, like the Spaniards in the Americas, defeated a vast empire in just a few years with surprisingly small force.

The reason for this is determined by economic interests. The fur trade dominated Siberia throughout the 17th century, with the government being the main fur trader and fur being one of the most important sources of revenue for the government. The government obtains furs by various means. A tribute in the form of furs was collected from the natives, and a 10 per cent tax was levied on the best furs from the trappers and traders of Russia.

The Russian government also reserves the right to buy the best furs obtained by natives and Russians. In the 16th century, there was a great demand for furs in Europe, and as early as the beginning of Russia, many explorers, fur traders, hunters and outlaws went to the east of the Ural Mountains. Many of the expeditions to Siberia were fur traders who went on their own initiative to make a profit.

By 1586, the treasury had received 200,000 sables, 10,000 black fox skins, 500,000 squirrel skins, and many beaver, silver, and mink skins from the various sources mentioned above. By the seventeenth century, Russia sold furs on the international market alone for 500,000 rubles, or about a third of the country's income. ”

Shang Ming listened to Song Tao's words. He frowned and asked, "Why didn't our Chinese dynasties develop to the north?" ”

Qiang Quan Sheng shook his head and said, "Because the difficulty of Russia's eastward advance and China's northward advance cannot be compared. Russia just needs to cross the Urals. There was no decent regime that could stop them, and the northward advance of the Central Plains would have to face the powerful nomads of the north. Moreover, Confucianism contained conservative elements, and the lack of factors to promote a pluralistic social structure in Chinese society under the monolithic agrarian culture at that time made it very unlikely that some nationals would be suitable for long-term living in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, and other places.

Even the influence of the Chinese dynasties on Central Asia has been very limited. Even in the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties, the Western Regions of Mongolia and China Mainland were not a complete political unit, but more of a nominal rule over the region to ensure boundless trouble, trade, and tribute. Although the Qing Empire once conquered the Seven Rivers Valley in Central Asia, the Tang Dynasty conquered the Western Regions to acquire the Central River region. It's just a flash in the pan. China has long been in a state of lack of motivation for external expansion. ”

Song Tao laughed and said: "Since we are here, we must let our nation be full of pioneering spirit, haha...... In the future, the whole world will be counted by us. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard him.

"The strength of modern society Russia. It's the richness of Siberia! In fact, some of Maozi's practices in Siberia are still worthy of our reference in many aspects. After conquering the Siberian Khanate, Tsarist Russia sent heavy troops, built castles, and held military positions to consolidate the newly occupied areas. Its offensive route followed the three major northern river systems, the Ob, Yenisei and Lena. By sending armed expeditions, they encroached step by step, and began to continue to establish links between the strongholds based on the principle of seeking navigation of the water system.

In the 17th century, four overseers were established throughout Siberia, with a total of 19 counties and 28 districts and counties with overseers. In addition, local chiefs and chiefs were used to maintain the grass-roots organizational forms and customs of various ethnic groups, and the system of taxes in kind was adopted to carry out economic exploitation. Taking advantage of the dense river-flowing characteristics of Siberia, it is more convenient to travel by land and water. At the same time, it also took advantage of the weaknesses of ethnic minorities, such as their sparse population, scattered residences, and backward production, and adopted such methods as sowing discord and sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, so that they could use the strength of the army to quickly occupy a large area of land. ”

When he said this, he glanced at everyone, and then said gloomily: "The area east of the Ural Mountains has been China's territory since ancient times, and it is the responsibility of every officer and soldier of our Far East Army to defend the territorial integrity of the motherland. ”

Wang Yaowu hesitated for a moment and said: "Commander, if you want to say that the Baikal region has been our territory since ancient times, this is tenable, but it seems that there is nothing to do with us east of the Ural Mountains." ”

Song Tao glared and said angrily: "Nonsense, of course I know." If we fight down, isn't it ours? Paralyzed, Lao Tzu also wants the grassroots nomadic detachments in the Far East to nomadize in the East European Plain west of the Ural Mountains, and turn it into a pasture for our Far East. (To be continued.) )

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