Although the previous Turgut people once penetrated deep into the east coast of the Caspian Sea and attacked the Persians and Khivas, that was already a long time ago. If they want to truly attack the Khiva Khanate according to Lashi's wishes, no matter what

Leading the army deep into this place in vain is the only way to die.

Of course, in addition to using them, the Russians can temporarily ignore Truchin's affairs for another reason.

This reason is the real reason.

About thirty years ago, the Russians sent thousands of regular troops to prepare for an expedition against the Khiva Khanate. As a result, the entire army was wiped out, resulting in a large number of Russians being captured. Later, negotiations between the two sides failed, and these prisoners have not come back to this day.

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"According to our intelligence, they were detained in the northern city of Kungel. The Khivas have five major tribes, Manjit, Hongjira, Kipchak, Naiman, and Turkmen. The first four all claim to be Uzbeks."
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“Because this place was originally the land of Oghuz, Uzbek originally meant the masters of the Oghuz people, and the full name of the Manjit tribe is Kungel Manjit, which is the largest and most powerful member of the Khiva Khanate.

tribe, should be the true descendants of the Oghuz people"

"Kungler is located in the south of the Aral Sea, the northernmost city of the Khanate. After the Persians withdrew from here, the territory became a mess. The major tribes continued to attack each other. Shiva Khan was just a puppet, controlled by each major tribe in turn.

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"In the past few decades, the puppet Khan has been controlled by the Manjit people. Although its capital is in Khiva and its wealth has been looted by the Persians, as the largest tribe in the country, the Manjit tribe still has a lot of wealth in its hands.

, all hidden in Kungel"

"The leaders of several major tribes are called Yilak, which evolved from the Kazakh tribal leader Biguan. Generally speaking, a tribe has two leaders. One is called Atarek, who is equivalent to the tribal elder and the left-behind tribe.

In the rear area, people like Atarek from the Manjit tribe live in Kungel"

"There is also a military leader named Yirak, who will live in Khiva in the name of chief minister"

"Among the five major tribes, except for the Turkmens, the remaining four are brave and good at fighting. Although they are all located in the same khanate, one tribe often controls several oasis cities. The nobles live in the cities, surrounded by their herders and Khorazi.

Model farmers, pay taxes for them and support them”

"The cities occupied by various tribes are intertwined and restrain each other, but once any tribe declines, it will be attacked by other tribes"

"Even among the same tribes, due to different sects and different origins, they often attack each other."

"Before the Persians entered, there were serious Khans who controlled the situation, and the situation was slightly better. But now they are leaderless. The entire Khorezm Oasis is actually a huge den of horse thieves. If you want to enter there, then come out safely.

It takes a lot of courage and luck”

"However, they also need trade and merchants. If someone attacks a merchant, they will be attacked by all the tribes. Therefore, only merchants, especially Bukhara merchants, can freely enter and leave there."

This is the information Bekotov provided to Chitard.

After Truqin arranged all the affairs, he took Techina and nine others north again.

Before leaving, the two thousand Mongolian boys (from Sekesena and Gongge) and one thousand Georgian boys he needed were successfully arrived.

Including the previous five thousand people, he already has eight thousand people under his command.

This is a huge burden.

At present, he has nearly 4,000 families of immigrants under his command, 1,000 farmers who have been converted from Mongolian herdsmen, and 3,000 Armenian families, so there are 8,000 families.

Eight thousand households, each with 20 acres of land, can harvest 60 shi per year. If each household is calculated as four people, it needs 16 shi per year, plus the grain for livestock, it is counted as 20 shi.

They have to pay 20% of the land tax, which is twelve stones. In fact, they can still get twenty-eight stones. The burden is not heavy. If they also raise some livestock, they will be more comfortable.

The total tax paid by the eight thousand households is about 96,000 dan, of which 10% has to be given to the Russians, leaving only 48,000 dan.

Eight thousand young soldiers need 32,000 dan for food every year, and including horses, 48,000 dan is not enough.

But Kitard still overcame all objections and recruited all these teenagers.

Without him, he has something strange in his hands.

In the place controlled by the Torguts, later known as Elista, a type of ruby ​​was produced that was very different from the rubies in West Asia and Central Asia. Different from the rubies in those places, the rubies here were fiery red and looked red at first glance.

But when you look closely, there is a faint light of fire inside.

People at this time naturally do not understand the scientific principles and only think it is magical.

Therefore, apart from furs, the most valuable and most abundant items sold by the Torgut people were this kind of gemstones.

Gradually, this kind of gem became the currency in circulation in the Khanate, circulating as unimpeded as the gold and silver coins of the major powers.

Kitard used these gems to pay the wages of craftsmen and buy surplus grain from farmers.

Naturally, the Bukhara merchants came to the Khanate not for furs that were of low value and difficult to transport, but for rubies!

The Turgut people's hunting ground was located in the Manuto Sea (later Manato), a huge salt lake where their summer royal tent was located.

Since it is a salt lake, its role is not only to provide water and grass for groups of cattle, sheep and horses, but also to boil salt.

Of course, with the ability of the Turghut people, they can only obtain salt for their own consumption, and it is impossible to sell it outside.

The Manutuo Sea in summer is azure, surrounded by bright flowers, abundant pasture, and large herds of cattle, sheep and horses looming. Lash's tent is located on the highlands of Hainan.

The first group of Bukhara merchants also came, and they came to collect gems. Kitard had to persuade them to take him with them before they left.

Rasim is the strongest among these businessmen.

Before Kitard's "awakening", the Torgut people could only use Nogai craftsmen to quarry and rough-process the raw gemstones and sell them to them. After Kitard's transformation, thanks to the production of machine tools, they were able to process gemstones.

The raw material was further cut, which naturally made the Bukhara businessmen overjoyed.

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Therefore, when I came here, there were only two or three merchants, but now there are ten merchants.

Among the ten, since Rasim has the highest bid and is rich, he will most likely come out on top in Chitard's original bidding process. Therefore, only his family only accepts gems, and the remaining families must purchase some high-quality furs as a supplement.

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Although Chitard was able to use machine tools to cut gems, it was not enough to create finished products. Half of the gems he sold to Rashim were simply sold, and the other half were processed using supplied materials, which made Rashid

Mu took the blanks back and processed them into various exquisite finished products and brought them back the next year for salary payment.

Even so, the profits from gems are very huge.

Others have hundreds of camels, but Rashim only has ten, but he earns more than any other family.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Although Kitard is proficient in mechanical production, he has no experience in how to make exquisite jade. In this world, the jade production level of Bukhara craftsmen must be at the forefront.

Although the Khiva Khanate welcomes merchants, before arriving at the Khanate, one must face an extremely desolate area that is hundreds of miles long. It is a place where the Khivas and Kazakhs are intertwined, and it is also a place where no one cares. Tribes from both sides

Most of the people who escaped became horse thieves.

Their target is naturally aimed at these businessmen.

Therefore, each family must bring many guards. In fact, many of the guards were horse thieves themselves. They are familiar with every inch of the desert area and know the activity habits of horse thieves. However, because horse thieves are notorious in this area,

, once caught, they will be subjected to unbearable torture.

Therefore, after weighing the situation, some horse thieves had to change their minds and either joined the armies of all parties or became caravan guards.

Since Rashim's goods were of the highest value, he became the target of all parties. So, when he learned that Rashid Khan wanted his people to follow him to the Khiva Khanate, he agreed without hesitation.

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According to his negotiation with Lashi, when they arrive at Kungel in the north of the Khiva Khanate, they will follow another group of his caravans to purchase high-quality honey and furs near the Ural Mountains and then return.

That camel caravan is larger and has more people, which can ensure that Kitard and others return safely.

However, they only reached the vicinity of the Ural Mountains, and they had to pass through a Kazakh pastoral area of ​​about 400 miles in the next section of the road. Whether they could successfully pass it depends on their own ability.

Fortunately, the pasture close to the Ural Mountains belongs to the Kazakh Xiaoyuzi Khitan Alliance. Lash and the alliance's rivals (non-golden family descendants), even if they are the leaders of the alliance, cannot get the title of Sultan, let alone the title of Khan.

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Lash has a good relationship with Datov III, the leader of the alliance, so as long as he comes to the Khitan Alliance's pasture, he will be safe.

Further east, the pastures between the Ural River (the Yaik River in the mouth of the Mongols) and the Volga River are actually shared by herdsmen from both sides. Although there are some risks, Kitard avoids such risks.

No, he doesn’t need to go to the Khiva Khanate.

Rasim is a stout man about forty years old. He is still wrapped in a thick black turban in the hot weather, and a striped cotton coat outside his white silk robe.

He has a fleshy face, big bright eyes, and a big beard.

Naturally, he didn’t know that Kitad was Huntaiji of the Torgut Khanate. Since the Torguts had also gone to the Khiva Khanate to plunder when they first arrived near the Caspian Sea, he thought they were preparing to repeat their old tricks this time.

Shi, so I’m going to investigate first.

So I don't take it to heart.

Since it is a den of horse thieves, there is never a day without fighting, so one more Turghut is not a big deal.

As for Kitard and others, according to Rasim, the outermost tribe of the Khiva Khanate is the Hongjira people. The Hongjira people at this time are naturally very different from those in the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, but there are still some

They still look like Mongolians.

As one of the five major tribes, it is not surprising that they appear in Kungele City, so this section can be ignored.

The transaction in the Manuto Sea lasted for about ten days. After that, Rahim's camel caravan was about to hit the road, and the remaining merchants either continued to go north, preparing to purchase honey and other products from the Bashkir people, or followed Rahim.
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