In the winter of 1760, when the Russian Tsar was seriously ill and most of his military strength was involved in the European Seven Years' War, their relationship with the Truchen Khanate was in a delicate state to the south.

north of Tharizin, all the way to Saratov, it was originally the ranch of the former Khan Dunrobuwangbu, represented by Jaen.

When Zerbkdoorji defeated the ministry and moved most of the ministry's herders to the vicinity of Chalizin, and after Qitad defeated the Zedouer alliance in Xiaoyuz, he moved five thousand households from the ministry to replenish it.

And let the second sage Sangham Yang take charge of the place. After moving most of the herdsmen of the Junggar tribe back to the Caspian Sea, they moved 10,000 Qingguzhabu originally belonged to the Hetohuit tribe, and appointed the Dazai Sang Chilun, who was in Qingguzhabu, to station there.

In order to avoid Bu Jiaen's mistakes, he first built a military camp in the north of Manutohai, and then built a castle, which was named Wulianghai City, which is the later generations of Alexandrovgai.

However, there are still shortcomings in his layout.

One major drawback is that in the lower reaches of the Yaichik River (Ural River), from the Yakutsk Fortress (the later Uralsk, located at the corner of the Ural River), Russia built a series of castles on both sides of the strait in order to control the Turkuts and Kazakhs.

In this way, they can perfectly control the Mongols and Kazakhs on both sides of the Yayk River. Although the herders on both sides crossed the river to grazed from time to time, it is obviously not possible to go back and forth on a large scale - starting from the Yakk Fortress, the Yayk River can pass through large ships in later generations, so it is natural now.

When Wobasi returned to the east, he was attacked by Cossack cavalry relying on his strongholds. Although he finally passed by and destroyed several castles, he eventually brought losses to himself, and created time for the Russians to gather troops.

There are many Russians like this. They are different from the historical grassland conquerors. They are eroding the land of others step by step through important rivers and important places of transportation. This is how Xiao Yuzi finally fell into their hands.

This is even more true in Siberia.

Nowadays, in the territory of Truchen Khanate, the same is true on both sides of the lower reaches of the Ejina River (Volga River).

However, with the construction of Vitliangka City and Manuto City, the Truchens also had important strongholds on the central and downstream sides, and actually separated the upstream Chalizin and downstream Astrakhan.

But on both sides of the lower Yaic River, it was almost controlled by the Cossacks, which actually divided the land of the Khanate into two. Although the Khanate could still travel back and forth through the Caspian Sea, it was not good to be stuck in the throat.

Fortunately, there are fish that have escaped from the net on both sides of the lower reaches of the Yaic River.

Tayibak!

It was the Sultan of the Xiaoyuz Khitan Alliance who converted to the Orthodox Church and changed the original name of Yelu Xiongnu to Datov's Xiaoyuz Khitan Alliance to give it to the place where Oerdo, who was married to his daughter. The last time Qitad attacked Xiaoyuz, he lived here.

This is also the narrowest and shallowest place in the lower reaches of the Yaic River.

Taybak happens to be located between the Yakutsk Fortress and Atlau at the mouth of the sea. If a castle is built here, the Khanate's entire game of chess will be alive.

So, this winter, a castle spanning the two sides of the straits is being built to the forefront.

Such actions obviously attracted the attention of Kurakin, the highest commander in charge of the lower Yaic River at this time, from the Yakutsk Fortress (Uralsk) to the seaport Atlau hundreds of miles away.

dozens of miles downstream of Taybak is the castle built by the Cossack noble Kurakin himself. He built a series of strongholds over the past few decades based on this.

This achievement was praised by the Tsar. The castle built by Kurakin was named Kurakin Castle, and he became an earl who could not possess serfs.

The Truchens' actions of building cities in the middle of the lower Yaic River alarmed the fifty-year-old Kurakin.

Although Russia did not openly oppose the construction of castles in its own territory, for Kurakin, it is naturally intolerable to wedge a nail on the lower Yaic River, which is under his control, which was considered "impure" by the commander of the Orenburg Legion.

Of course he knew the national policy of the empire, that is, to sit idly by and watch the tribe build cities, and it will eventually fall into the hands of the Russians, but in his opinion, this was not the case.

Kurakin is a Cossack with a lot of Turkic bloodline. He has black curly hair, but his eyes are blue. He is fifty years old, but his hair is not much white, but obviously he has been getting more and more in recent years.

There is a small hill on the west bank of Tayibak, which is now naturally covered with thick snow. The top of the mountain is covered with larch. In a favorable position, a certain tent has been set up there. As the governor, the colonel commander, the count's Kulakin finally put it down reluctantly after looking at it with a telescope for a long time.

Beside him, there were more than a dozen Yaiche Cossack soldiers. Like Kurakin, they were descendants of the mixed blood of Russian serfs from their ancestors and the local Turkic people.

In the past, the Wonbu, Lash era, and the Nur Ali Khan era of Xiaoyuz, Kurakin never cared so much about something.

Although the Turguts after the Truchen Khanate still paid taxes to him, and his Cossacks continued to reclaim wasteland around the stronghold, he was still a little nervous.

If it were in the past, he wished that the Mongols and Kazakhs on both sides of the Yayik River would fight, and then he would come forward as a mediator. In order to obtain mediation in favor of their own, both sides would have to provide him with bribes, war horses, silver coins, gems, and women.

But since Qitad came to power, especially after he unified Xiaoyuz's Zedouer Alliance, this situation has almost never been seen. Even if the herdsmen have conflicts, they will only find the sheriff to resolve it, and they have not taken him, the overlord of the lower Yaic River seriously.

This is really unbearable.

However, even Orenburg, Astrakhan, and Thalizin Governor's Office have endured it. What can he do if a small governor?

So he could only work on the taxes paid by the herds, the bad quality of the livestock, the inconsistent quantity, etc., and all the tricks he could think of were used.

Finally, when Qitad learned about it, he tolerated him. He asked the herdsmen to provide taxes as he ordered, and the extra losses were compensated by the government.

In addition to working hard on taxes, he also used the current situation of the Mongols who killed most of the young and strong Zeduer Alliance to try his best to differentiate the relationship between the two sides and then profit from it.

At the beginning, the loss of a large number of young and strong Kazakh herders naturally hated the Mongols very much, but after a few years, they would find that Truchen's ruler was much stronger than the previous Nur Ali Khan.

In addition to handing over some of the livestock to nearby garrisons, the corvee labor that often appeared in the past was gone. Even if they needed to be recruited to build roads, bridges, etc., they did not need to bring their own clothes, food and tools, but were all provided by the Khanate.

Finally they came to a conclusion.

That is, what I ate at the Truqin construction site is much better than staying at home. So, in the end, when I heard about another construction, they rushed to find the local township chief, village chief, and sheriff to apply to join, instead of hiding after hearing the news like before.

But the hatred still exists.

Although Qitad had moved a large number of Turkut herders here at that time and paired with Kazakh herders who had lost their husbands, the seeds of hatred could not be easily eliminated once they were planted, which took time.

This gives Kurakin an opportunity to take advantage of.

However, as time goes by, Kurakin's operating space has become less and less, which has troubled him.

Unless hatred is a naked revenge, it will naturally be killed or injured simply because of war, but it will eventually disappear.

Unlike the traditional grassland tribes, as soon as Qitade came to power, he established three-level units in the pastoral areas, and built strongholds at the former Dataiji and Taiji stations. These strongholds were both the locations of the local basic regime and the post station.

With these three-level regimes, the local governance of the Khanate herds has changed a lot now. Not only is it far better than before, but it is even stronger than the Russians who also adopted such a policy. After all, they can only occupy few data points and cannot penetrate into the pastoral area.

This is what makes Kurakin most frightened.

If Qitad ends here, although Kurakin is worried, he still has great potential to rely on this series of strongholds. After all, in the past, the Cossack musketeers were in a state of crushing against the scattered herders.

But the Truchen Khanate is completely different today. They will find sheriffs or township leaders who patrol the grasslands when they have something to do. If Kulajin's people appear at this time, at most, there will be more than a dozen Cossacks.

But at the stronghold at the Khanguo Township level, there are at least five retired sheriffs and patrol cavalry who may arrive here at any time, which is not something that a dozen Cossacks can resist.

As grassland cavalry, although they are stationed everywhere, Qitad obviously will not let them train and station near the garrison. Instead, each brigade has a regiment patrol outside every day. Although the pastoral area of ​​the Khanate is vast, the patrol cavalry based on squads can still be taken care of.

Moreover, the patrol cavalry of Truqin's regular brigade is not like the former Cyxue army of Lash. They eat the same place when they go to the ground. They consume a lot of money for local herders. Each patrol cavalry carries dry food for ten days and completes a fixed range every ten days, without any harassment to the herders.

If such behavior is still within the tolerance of Kurakin, because the taxes are given to him a lot, you can't take out money to collect labor service. If it is forced, it will definitely push them to the Khanate side.

With the strongholds on the riverside, although the Truqin Khanate is now a mutated Khanate, or a Khanate selling dog meat with the title of sheep, the foundation of the Khulajins is still there. Although they can't stand it, they can still hold it back.

However, it is not enough to build a city on the Yaiche River in the downstream and middle areas. That is to destroy his Yaiche Line.

The sunny weather on Kura's golden face is obviously thinking about a major thing.

After a while, he decided.
Chapter completed!