The caravans also had the task of intelligence collection, geographical surveying and mapping, especially Wang Dou attached great importance to this caravan going to the North Sea, before Lai Mancheng set off, he personally summoned him, and told him to pay attention to the collection of information on the Buryat Mongols on the North Sea, and also to pay attention to whether there could be Hongyi on the North Sea. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Lai Mancheng wondered why there were red-haired ghosts on the grassland, didn't they all come from the sea? But Wang Dou's instructions did not dare to slack off, and he still collected information on the surrounding departments in detail, especially inquiring if there were red-haired ghosts around.

Although the caravan had not yet encountered the red-haired ghosts when the information came back, from the Buryat populations of various tribes, they still determined that there were red-haired ghosts called Rakshasa ghosts at the western and northern ends of the sea, and they also established a wooden fortress.

According to the locals, these rakshasas are blonde and blue-eyed, ghost-like, and even have red beards, not to mention scary, but also cruel and fierce.

The Buryats recall that they first saw Rakshasa ghosts in the fourth year of Chongzhen, when some tribes lived on the banks of the Ankhthorn River on the western shore of the North Sea, hunting and fishing for a living, as well as raising livestock.

They told that the rakshasas were very fond of sailing along the river in small boats or flat-bottomed wooden boats with masts and decks, the sails were made of kneaded deerskin, the cables were made of deerskin, the anchors were made of wood, and stones were tied to them, and wherever they saw the tribesmen, they forced them to pay for food, mink, and goods by force.

The Buryats and the Rakshasa have had many conflicts, but the Rakshasa is extremely fierce, not to mention the strong fighting ability, and also has excellent armor, all kinds of refined weapons, and sharp firearms, and can also fight on horseback, and every time the conflict is the Buryats suffer.

Two years ago, the Buryatia tribes on the western shore of the North Sea joined forces and sent thousands of men to besiege and attack 60 rakshasas who were out looking for hay. After fighting for a day, from morning to night, he still didn't gnaw down these sixty rakshasa ghosts, and finally retreated helplessly.

Now the tribes are afraid of these red-bearded Rakshasas like tigers, especially after the Rakshasa ghosts built a wooden village on the banks of the Ankhthorn River not far from the sea, the Buryats on the west bank withdrew to the east bank one after another.

Hearing that thousands of people were besieging and sneaking attacking, sixty rakshasa ghosts were not defeated. When there were less than a hundred Rakshasa ghosts in the Buryats tribes in the western part of the North Sea, Lai Mancheng looked surprised, and his surprise was even manifested in the intelligence until it was sent to Wang Dou.

Wang Dou was not surprised, the Spaniards conquered South America with a few hundred people, and Emperor Kangxi led an army of 20,000 to besiege hundreds of Cossacks in Yaksa, until there were only a few dozen people left on the other side, and they still did not enter the civil structure of Yaksa Castle.

After the governor of the Far East threatened to increase his troops by 2,000, the Qing State was so frightened that he hurried to peace talks. In the end, the land from Nebuchu to Lake Baikal was ceded.

In contrast, it is not a fuss that a thousand Mongols besieged sixty Cossacks and did not take them.

Corresponding to the information obtained by the Intelligence Department, Wang Dou generally concluded that the Buryatia tribes on Lake Baikal were in place, and the patrilineal clan system was practiced, with customs such as blood revenge and clan mutual assistance, and was semi-nomadic, engaged in hunting and fishing. They are shamanic and largely in a primitive tribal state.

The Buryats live in extreme poverty. There was an extreme shortage of all kinds of living materials, especially iron tools, and the bows and arrows they used were made of bones, and such equipment could fight with the Cossacks?

The Cossacks were a group of people who were eager for adventure and conquest. They are energetic, yearn for freedom, have difficulty surviving in society, they like to wander the wilderness, and war is their main occupation. In the words of the Ming Dynasty, these people are the rogues, or the elite old battalions in the rogues.

Not counting the equipment, the natives of Siberia are mostly no match for these professional soldiers, and they also have excellent weaponry, refined plate armor, all kinds of weapons made of fine iron, and immediately like to use spears and sabers, muskets and other weapons under their horses.

These people already had the rudiments of a modern army, they were disciplined, thoughtful, methodical, and possessed a wealth of skills and knowledge, and it can be seen from the bastions they built everywhere that they could not build a bastion without a certain mathematical foundation.

Judging from the places where they chose to build forts, they also have a wealth of geographical and hydrological knowledge, and a good survey experience, which can make full use of the surrounding geographical terrain, especially the Siberian rivers, to make them natural passages.

Adventure and rafting along the river all year round, passing through mostly uninhabited wastelands and forests, must also have extreme patience and the courage to fight hunger, disease, cold, and accidents at any time.

In this way, it is also understandable that such an adventurous team full of fighting and sacrificial spirit, full of greed and desire, and almost entering modern capitalism, can not be invincible when fighting against the primitive tribes and natives in various places?

Siberia is also mostly ice fields and forests, the population is sparse, hundreds of people are large tribes, and many places are afraid of small villages of more than 100 people, from the Buryats can be seen, multiple tribes united, only to make up thousands of men and young and strong, once the battle is lost, the tribes immediately lose their vitality.

In this way, the tribes are scattered, and there is no sense of national race, and they can easily be broken down by each other, or provoked into internal strife and conflict among themselves, just as the Spaniards are against the Indians, and the Spaniards who conquer South America are few, but the number of Indian tribes that belong to the union is quite large.

The Cossacks were the same, they were not many in number, and there were not many tribes of all kinds that belonged to them.

Putting down the information, Wang Dou fell into deep thought, he still admired these Cossacks in his heart, no matter what their original intentions were, it was a fact that they would leave a vast and resource-rich land for future generations.

Just think about these people, with less than a thousand people conquered tens of millions of square kilometers of land, with little effort and big gain, it is just unpleasant to think about.

In essence, this is a kind of regret and jealousy, Wang Dou does not deny this, but now that he is here, with him Wang Dou here, will those Cossacks still have those good things in the future? Grabbing territory with him doomed them to a tragic end.

It is not denied that the Cossacks are very strong and possess some qualities of modern soldiers, but they are not comparable with the Jingbian army, and their small number and distance from the mainland are their fatal flaws.

For the castles built by the Cossacks in various places, Wang Dou had a happy mentality, and it happened that he would fight the castles one by one in the future, saving time and effort, these Cossacks were very good at choosing places, and the castles they built were all key cities in the future, and it also saved him the trouble of choosing the city address in the future.

He calculated how to arm the Buryats with the Mobei tribes, so that they could fight with the Cossacks, and then the snipe and mussels would fight, and the fishermen would benefit.

There was a big gap between the Buryats and the Cossacks in terms of combat effectiveness, and the reason for this was that their bony arrows and a small number of crude iron tools did not pose much of a threat to the well-armed Cossacks.

Tribes like Buryatia abound in Siberia, which is why when the Cossacks wanted to conquer a certain place, they often sent only a dozen people, a few dozen people to conquer a large piece of land, and when the number of people sent out exceeded 100, it was already considered a large-scale war.

However, when Buryatia and others have fine iron armor and weapons, even if they are inferior in combat effectiveness, they can pose a great threat to those Cossacks.

How the two conflicted, Wang Dou also had a plan, and the key was the word fur.

The value of the furs acquired by the Russian colonists in the conquest of Siberia was staggering: in the 17th century alone, the treasury received 200,000 sables, 10,000 black fox skins, 500,000 squirrel skins, and many beaver and mink skins.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Siberian fur revenues accounted for only seven percent of the Russian treasury per year, but by the middle of the seventeenth century, Siberian fur revenues accounted for one-third of the total annual revenues of the state treasury.

Once they start large-scale acquisitions, supplemented by the right price, not only the Buryats, but also all the tribes in Mobei will rush to do this business, one side will buy at the right price, and the other side will plunder violently, and conflict will definitely be inevitable.

Wang Dou smiled slightly, let those Mongols and Russians fight to the death.

Lai Mancheng also used heavy pen and ink to depict the appearance of the Cossacks in the intelligence, but Wang Dou didn't care, the race was different.

In ancient times, blonde hair and blue eyes were a symbol of ugliness in the eyes of the Chinese people, that is, the black-haired Romans in the old days also regarded the blond Germanic people as a symbol of the barbarians, but in later generations it was reversed.

This is also a stark contrast between the strength and weakness of civilization, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi.

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The Duhu Mansion is booming, and everything is on track, which makes Wang Dou feel very good.

The general was happy, and his subordinates were also happy, especially Zhong Susu was smiling every day.

Since Wang Dou arrived in Guihua City, the chief officials and generals have also spent more time with Wang Dou, in fact, now it is the time for the development of the Duhu Mansion, and the officials of the various ministries will perform their duties, and they are all very busy, even if they want to follow Wang Dou, they don't have time.

Only Zhong Susu can always find time, perhaps it has something to do with her relationship with women.

Now Zhong Susu is the deputy minister of the General Staff, and the general of the five generals, and the jurisdiction is in Mo Nanzhong Town, which is considered to be the first month near the water, and she always follows up, and there are always things to report in front of Wang Dou every day, and she is full of Wang's language.

Seeing her like this, colleagues from various ministries smiled bitterly when they met, they just wanted to learn from this Zhong Xiancai, and their cheeks were not so thick.

Fortunately, they have followed Wang Dou for many years, and they also know that the most important thing for the general is to do things, but they have no other ideas.

However, in private, following the nickname of "running hard" in Xuanfu Town, Zhong Susu added a new nickname of "keep up closely".

In mid-July, the Information Department planned a series of publicity matters.

On this day, Zhong Susu walked into her conference hall excitedly, holding a stack of documents transferred from the secretariat hall in her hand, looked at her subordinates and said loudly: "Okay, there are documents here, let us continue to study the spirit of the general's instructions in depth, and carry out a vigorous construction climax......

Looking at the thick stack of documents in her hand, her subordinates all complained in secret. (To be continued.) )