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Volume 4 Leviathan Chapter 14 On the Road

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    "You should choose to ride a horse like me!" Duncan looked at the steaming vomit not far away and turned his head.  "Duncan, I don't want my inner thighs to be bloody and bloody two days later, and I can't even take off my pants!" Gillings smiled bitterly and rejected the other party's suggestion. As he said, participating in the afternoon fox hunting and riding horses continuously like a gentleman would be a waste.  They are completely different things. A rough saddle will wear out the skin on the inner thighs of the rider, turning it into a bloody mess and sticking his pants together, so someone like Gillings would rather endure the pain of bumps on a cart than ride a horse like Duncan.  "Mr. Ji, come on, wipe your face quickly!" Jiang Zhiqing brought a towel from the side and said with a smile: "Actually, according to my opinion, you should take the waterway. To go to Yanshan Prefecture, you can either take the bus from Shanghai to Tianjin  Liner, or take the canal, it is comfortable and safe. You are rich and have no shortage of money, so why go through these hardships? " Gillings did not answer Jiang Zhiqing's question. The reason why he chose to take the land route was so that he could experience it for himself.  The situation at all levels of this ancient empire, if he chooses to take a boat, although it will definitely be much more comfortable, the purpose of his trip will not be achieved.  But Jiang Zhiqing couldn't know all this, so Gillins changed the subject.  "Jiang, I heard that Yanshan Prefecture was the capital of China for hundreds of years, right?" "Oh, Mr. Ji, you are such a learned man, you even know this!" Jiang Zhiqing hurriedly grabbed the man who wanted to please his employer.  Opportunity: "Yes, this Yanshan Mansion was the capital of the previous dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was also the capital of the previous dynasty. However, after Emperor Wu of this dynasty came to Beijing in the Jiashen year, Wu Sangui dedicated Shanhaiguan to lure the Donglu into the pass.  There was a great battle in Yiyishi. Emperor Wu was outnumbered and had to withdraw from Yanshan Mansion. Later, Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne in Xiangyang City and conquered all directions. However, Yanshan Mansion was still one of the five capitals due to its strategic location.  Emperor Shizu and the following emperors would go north to Yanshan Prefecture almost every autumn. "Why do they go north to Yanshan Prefecture every autumn?" "Mr. Ji, you don't know. Although Emperor Taizong and Shizu were very powerful,  It also took decades to drive the Donglu out of the pass, but those Tatars often entered the fortress to plunder every autumn, and the emperors would lead troops to resist or go out on expeditions. This Yanshan Mansion happened to be where the army gathered.  . Later, the Donglu were defeated, the Mongols were defeated, and the outside of the pass became the Protectorate. The world was peaceful, and naturally the emperor did not come to Yanshan Mansion anymore. "When Jiang Zhiqing said this, his expression changed.  But in recent years, I seem to have heard that there is some unrest outside the Great Wall. The Maozi in the north gave the Tatars foreign guns and money to instigate them to cause trouble. The soldiers of the Protectorate outside the Great Wall have been fighting every day. " "Old Maozi?  "Although Gillings has been getting along with Jiang Zhiqing day and night these days, and it is no problem to communicate in a mixed language of English and Chinese, he still does not understand some vocabulary.  "They are the Russians. They are covered with hair, so we call them Maozi!" Jiang Zhiqing hurriedly explained: "I heard that those Russians were barbaric and tyrannical, just like the Donglu Tatars back then, so I pointed them into the pass.  Come and occupy our beautiful country. But we have Lord Gao, so we are not afraid of them!" Gillings listened to Jiang Zhiqing's words with a smile, while mentally recalling the lessons he had done with Yanshan Mansion these days.  This ancient city is located at the southern foot of the Yanshan Mountains. It controls several important passages that the barbarians from the Mongolian grassland and Liaodong region must pass through to enter the Hebei Plain. It has been a fortress for the Han emperors of the Central Plains to resist the invasion of the northern barbarians since ancient times.  When the emperors of Dashun used gunpowder weapons to destroy the enemies on the grassland once and for all, the peace in the north did not last long, and a new enemy emerged from the vast Siberian wasteland.  Different from past history, this enemy is not the nomads who were far behind the Central Plains dynasties in terms of technology in the past, but Russian adventurers who are also equipped with advanced firearms. This enemy must not be avoided in the first contact between the two sides.  After the conflict, the Russian side cautiously made a request to sign a peace treaty. The general of Dashun also readily accepted this request. In the eyes of that general, these barren ice fields in the north were worthless at all. The presence of his army here was not so much  In order to conquer this place, it is better to say that it is to declare its prestige to the local barbarians, so as to prevent these unknown tribes from forming a powerful group under the unification of an energetic and ambitious barbarian leader to attack  Under the protection of Dashun, other nomadic peoples have become more civilized and weaker.  Such an attack will often turn into a huge war of conquest. If the barbarian leader is capable and lucky enough, the result of this successful war of conquest will be a unified grassland empire, which is absolutely ideal for Dashun.  It is unacceptable, because it means the beginning of a new long war that will last for decades, in which countless people's lives and wealth will be destroyed, and even the empire itself may be destroyed. This is in Northeast Asia.  ?It is not uncommon in history.  But Emperor Dashun, like most traditional Central Plains emperors, was very cautious about large-scale conquest wars, because after thousands of years of expansion, the Han people had actually controlled most of the land suitable for agriculture in East Asia, and the empire  The scale has also reached the limit of physical management.  Conquering more land was very difficult militarily and unprofitable economically, so Emperor Dashun preferred to use strategies and strategies to achieve his goals rather than costly military operations, so he readily acknowledged the greatness  The Russian Tsar, the self-proclaimed master of these strange barbarians, had undisputed dominion over the vast wilderness and forests to the north, while the more fertile and warm lands and grasslands to the south belonged to the great Emperor Dashun, and both sides  Neither country is allowed to take in the other party's deserters or rebels, or allow anyone to take any action detrimental to the other party in its own territory.  No matter what happens later, at the moment when the contract is signed, both parties are satisfied and should be sincere.  But just like most things in this world, changes will always occur in the face of the passage of time. When the hands of the clock reached the 1860s, the balance of power between the two parties to the contract changed subtly.  After nearly two hundred years of unremitting efforts, the Russians have established settlements in the Far East and opened up a long route from the Pacific to the Baltic Sea, so they can maintain a considerable army.  On the other hand, after the civil war in the country, Dashun had to relax its control over the nomadic princes on the northern grasslands. The Russians found this to be a great opportunity to insert their hands into the fertile land in the south that they had coveted for a long time, so starting from 1870,  In the vast frontier lands from the Altai Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, nomadic chiefs have been launching rebellions again and again. Of course, these chiefs use different names. Of course, the most common ones are the great descendants of the Golden Family, who claim to be descended from Aisinjue.  There are also many people of Luo Gaogui's bloodline, and there are even those who claim to be the successors of Moton Chanyu. Of course, these people have one thing in common, that is, they all have Russian-made firearms and ruble subsidies, and they all have a lot of them in their armies.  A Slavic military instructor with a big beard and a swig of vodka.  But under the command of Dashun's outstanding commander, Yanshanfu Liushou, Zhangbei, and Manchuria Governor Gao Tingyu, these rebellions were quickly put down.  The Shun army, which had just undergone military reforms after the civil war in the 1860s, was so powerful that the Russian army in the Far East won the victory before the rebellion was large enough to send troops to intervene. Facing the powerful Shun army on the opposite side,  , the Russians had to give up their attempt to invade on a large scale.  Gao Tingyu himself also won huge military reputation in this series of military operations, so much so that when the previous Emperor Dashun was dying, he still asked him to stay in Yanjing to resist the powerful enemies in the north, and this Gao Tingyu, that is,  The official residence of the "Marquis Gao" mentioned by Jiang Zhiqing just now is in Yanshan Mansion, Beijing, Dashun, which is also the destination of Gillings' trip.  Thinking of this, Gillings suddenly felt something in his heart. He pretended not to care and asked: "Chiang, Japan, what do you think of them?" "Japanese? Aren't they just Japanese? They are short and wear wooden clogs.  The woman is carrying a cloth bag on her back. I know! But why are you asking?" Jiang Zhiqing had a puzzled look on his face.  "Do you think the Japanese will one day become a threat to you like the 'Dongyi' and 'Maozi' you call them?" "Japanese? A threat?" Jiang Zhiqing suddenly laughed: "Mr. Ji  , Aren¡¯t you kidding me? Maozi is big, he¡¯s big, he has guns and cannons. What do the Japanese have to do when they are crowded on those small islands in the sea, and the area is not as big as our Dashun province?  You don¡¯t know that those Japanese invaded Korea in the previous dynasty. As a result, as soon as the imperial soldiers arrived, they fell apart. The obedient ones went back where they came from. If they moved blindly, the imperial court would stretch out a finger and kill them.  Press it to death!" At this point, Jiang Zhiqing stretched out his thumb and made a gesture, with a confident smile on his face.  Looking at the other party's smile, Gillings didn't say anything. Obviously, although his servant's status in the country was not high, his heart was still full of simple pride for this ancient central empire. This feeling was not for Gillings.  He was familiar with it, he could often feel it from the English soldiers and civilians under his command, but this was the first time he saw it from the civilians of an Asian country, which made him feel a threat that he had never felt before.  "China is not only a problem for the British Empire's East Asian strategy, but also a problem for the entire European civilization!" Gillings thought to himself.  While Jiang Zhiqing was chatting, he kept his hands on his hands. He threw some hay from the cart in front of the mule, tied the material bag to the mouth of Duncan's horse, and let him eat some fine material.  Seeing that the livestock had almost eaten, he looked at the sky and said with a smile: "Mr. Ji, it's getting late too. Let's get on the road. Otherwise, we won't be able to catch up with Sutou, and we will have to spend the night in the wilderness  "    "OK!  "Gillings stood up, patted the dust on his body, climbed onto the cart, and Duncan jumped on his mount and followed him. This small brigade left a trail on the road under the reflection of the afternoon sun.  The long shadows seemed to foreshadow their long and arduous journey.
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