In the past, Datov's daughter, Oerdo, was located on the high ground on the east bank of the Yayk River. It was a wooden village, which was naturally occupied by the Khanate.

Because it is located at a high place, you can also observe the movements on the opposite hill with a telescope from above.

In the largest house in Muzhai, several people are discussing something.

The leaders are naturally the Minister of Industry and Mining of the Xia Khanate, the disciple of Qitad, and the Nogai native Jeddah, who is the host of Tayibak Castle.

It is said that such a castle does not require a member like him to preside over it personally, but he still came. Obviously, Qitad realized the risk of building a castle here.

In addition, since the city is being built in winter, it is obvious that the foundation has been made before the land is frozen hard, and now it is just a building on it.

However, in winter construction, there are still huge risks, mainly because of the harm caused by extreme cold weather to construction workers.

However, there are a large number of Shiva, Kazakhstan, Chechnya, and Azerbaijani prisoners. For these people, even though Qitad is different from any Khan in history and has always been compassionate, he will not be slandered for the prisoners.

For prisoners, it is common for them to be defeated and become slaves of the enemy. They are willing to accept this identity. It is better than being killed by the enemy.

This is the tradition of the grassland and has been immersed in their blood.

Unlike other Khans, Qitad gave them a deadline, that is, they can cancel their slaves after working for five years, and then return to their hometown or become professional workers on the spot.

What's more, they can eat and wear warmly when working, which is much stronger than the current Khanate of Shiva, Kazakhstan, Junggar, and Crimea.

These khanates not only squeezed the herdsmen at will, but also squeezed the last drop of blood and sweat to the prisoners of war. They could barely eat enough, but they would definitely not be able to wear warm clothes, which caused a large number of people to freeze to death or suffer from wind and cold in winter.

Their Khan also made a false promise of five to ten years, but when the time comes, these prisoners of war often do not have one ten.

Truchen is better, but obviously cannot do it as well as its own households. At least the medical care cannot keep up, but let them die if they get sick.

Even so, after the time comes, there are still five out of ten.

After many years, most of the former Shiva people and Kazakhs did not die of illness chose to stay in the local area and became state-owned workers who enjoyed the salary of the Khanate. However, a few thousand Azerbaijanis just became prisoners a few years ago, and thousands of Azerbaijanis continued to work here.

For these people, it is not possible to rely on regular brigades or militias alone. The old method of pulling and attacking batches must be used, and the honest obedient among the prisoners must be vigorously promoted as supervisors.

Majid is one of them. He is thirty years old this year, a Chechen. He is now the chief supervisor of these three thousand prisoners of war in the city building army.

In addition to Jeddah, who is in charge of the overall situation, there is also a regular brigade of the battalion. The commander is Yan Dunhuang, a graduate of Elista Military Academy who once served in the mountain regiment. He is only twenty years old this year.

This is Xiaoyuzi's pastoral area. Naturally, 30% of herders need to participate in militia training in winter. There are about a thousand people here. The leader is a young Kazakh named Murza, who is only twenty years old.

Using Kazakhs to supervise the Chechens to offset their hidden hatred towards the Mongols is also a tried and true practice.

The reason is also very simple. Once you transform from a conquered person to a conqueror, for the 18th century herder who had already solved the problem of food and clothing, hatred and other things would have long disappeared.

Nowadays, Jeddah is sitting in the main seat, Yan Dunhuang, Murza and Majid are on the left and right.

This set, as Jeddah, who had always been in the position of conquered by the Caspian Sea, has long been extremely familiar with the Nogai people.

Yan Dunhuang's battalion is actually his guard, and one thousand Kazakh militias are enough to control any situation.

"Your Excellency"

What is talking is Murza - for Yan Dunhuang, using militia instead of his own regular army to patrol the periphery is the most effective. In this case, the militia are more motivated.

"Kulajin has been here for half a day. He has been watching with a telescope on that hill. It seems that he is eyeing our place"

"There is a class of Cossacks by his side"

"From the Yakutsk Fortress and to the southernmost Atlau, Cossacks built a total of ten large and small castles, all stuck in the narrower river surface and shallower river water, among which Kurakin Fortress was the largest"

"Taybak originally wanted to build a stronghold, but at that time both sides of the Taiwan Strait were in the hands of the Datov Sultan's daughter. Her husband was the son of Nur Ali Khan. Both Datov and Nur Ali had a very good relationship with Russia, so Kurakin let this place go"

"After our country occupied this place, although there was no major construction, it also built strongholds and docks on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. If Kulakin wants to intervene, he must expel us openly. Perhaps he thinks it is not necessary to give up."

"The Cossacks under Kurakin also moved from the Don River Basin, and are also a branch called the "Black Cossack". In addition to the Yakutsk Fortress, the three castles of Kurakin Fort and Atlau, there are regular Cossack soldiers stationed, each with one battalion."

"The remaining seven small forts range from 300 to 500 Cossacks. They usually farm outside the city and grazed, and became real Cossacks in wartime"

"They control the ferry and collect taxes on the herdsmen and merchants who come and go, and with the taxes paid by the herdsmen to them, self-sufficiency can still be achieved"

"Kulakin goes to Orenburg every three months, where he receives some money, weapons and ammunition"

Jeddah nodded, "Now Kurakin is going down the mountain, crossing the frozen Yaic River, what do you think should be dealt with?"

Majid was a powerful general under Chechen Maulla, but now he is very obedient. He rushed to answer: "If you don't love come, can he let us stop building the castle?"

Jeddah's right eyelid moved, but his face was still the same, "What if he was going to do this?"

Murza said: "It's better to invite him to Muzhai, and treat him with good wine and meat, and give him some silver coins and send him away."

This is the usual practice of the Truchens in recent years to deal with relations with the Russians, because nowadays, Russian officials at all levels are very corrupt, and this trick has been proven to be successful.

Jeddah did not agree, but looked at Yan Dunhuang.

He knew that this Han child was a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, his father was a green camp general, and his family was also a prominent family in Gansu. With such a background, his experience was obviously different from Majide and Murza.

Although I was also a Nogai craftsman, I have also experienced it since I followed Qitade for more than ten years, but I guess there is still some gap compared to the children of aristocratic families like Yan Dunhuang.

Yan Dunhuang quickly said: "According to my inquiry, this Kurakin was praised by the Tsar for building a series of strongholds on the Yaic River in recent decades. He used to be a tenth chieftain when he was in the Don River, but he was once named a Count like a title."

"Although even the dukes in their country are divided into hereditary ones and cannot be hereditary ones. The hereditary ones can have serfs, and the ones cannot be hereditary ones are only ones. But for Kurakin, at least in terms of the title, he is already the same as the current high-ranking officials of Orenburg and Astrakhan."

"Also, although the Don Cossacks moved here are not nominally affiliated with him, for example, the Cossacks near Yakutsk are under the command of Orenburg, and Atlau's are under the dual jurisdiction of Astrakhan, but since most of them come from the same place, they are actually listening to him."

"They are all black Cossacks of the Don River, which strengthens this point, so in the lower reaches of the Yaic River, he is the actual landlord"

"We are building a city here now, which obviously violates his negative scales, and cannot be solved with money."

"Then how should we solve this problem?" Jeddah looked at him with a smile.

"I turned over the memorandum reached by my ex-Khan Khan and the Russians, which included clauses on how to deal with the conflict between our herds and Cossacks. This content is obviously far from meeting the needs of the present, because the provisions therein are very unfavorable to us"

"It says that if the Cossacks cause damage to the herdsmen or even deaths, we cannot deal with it without authorization, and can only be handed over to the Russian side for disposal"

"If our herdsmen cause death and injury to the Cossack, the herdsmen will immediately become the Cossack slave and cut off one hand as punishment"

"Since there is no clear thing like building a city, it is estimated that whoever has the ability to build it will build it. In the past, the Khan of the Khan had a wooden city in Vitliangka and had no other place, so there was naturally no such thing."

"But it's different now. If Kurakin raises an objection, we can use the terms of the memorandum to refute him and say that if we want us to stop, we must re-affirm the terms"

"The previous memorandum was negotiated and formulated by Xian Khan and the Duke of Tatar. It is snowing now, so it is obvious that this matter cannot be carried out. If you wait until the spring, it will not work without a year or two."

"After re-consolidation, our castle will be built."

"At present, my Truchen Khanate is intimidating the Caspian Sea. If he were not a fool who was watching the sky in a well, he would not have known this. He would never use strong men, but would only use the Tsarist Russian Empire to suppress us, and we would reply to him with the memorandum that needed to be revised"

"If he has to use strength, we are not afraid. Of course, if he uses bribes, it is best to temporarily fool the wine and meat, because the Khan's national policy is still tolerate the most"

Jeddah sighed in his heart after hearing this.

"No wonder Dahan attaches so much importance to the Han people. It seems that it should not be underestimated. The father of the boy, Yan Xiangshi, is in his sixties. Dahan still entrusted him with important tasks and made him the commander of the Azerbaijan army. Azerbaijan is the most populous province in our country."

"At present, there are only four commanders of Chu Huer, Techina, Bamubar, and Yan Xiangshi. The first three are all old people in the headquarters. The first two are even the direct generals left by the former Khan. Needless to mention the relatives and nobles, Bamubar is also a descendant of the Khan tribe and a general of the first Khan. It is normal to be promoted to a high position"
Chapter completed!