At the end of the 18th year of Yongye, Tolstoy arrived at the capital from afar, and the negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and Russia for the North officially began.

The negotiations were conducted by Prince Zhu Bo and King Anbei Zhu Bo, and officials from the Military Affairs Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Public Affairs Office participated. In addition to Tolstoy and his escorts, the Russian Embassy in Daming also participated.

The negotiations lasted from the end of the year to March of the 19th year of Yongye. After three and a half months of tug-of-war, the two countries finally reached the final result on the northern border. The Ming Dynasty and Russia were bounded by the middle line of Lake Baikal, and the northern and western regions belonged to Russia, while the eastern and southern regions belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

This result was extremely satisfactory for the Ming Dynasty. Using this as a boundary, not only directly included Siberia's eastern region in Lake Baikal into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but also curbed Russia's expansion to the east and south.

Of course, it is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty and naturally unfavorable to Russia. However, under the current situation, although Russia has made great efforts in negotiations, the form is worse than that of others. The Ming army in the north has absolutely taken the initiative in both military strength and form. In addition, as winter is about to pass, if Russia no longer signs the negotiation letter, then the Ming army's military operation during the Spring Festival will begin again.

Arriving at the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Tolstoy witnessed the strength of the Ming Dynasty with his own eyes. Due to Peter's death, Russia is now in a weak state. Tolstoy is very clear that it is impossible to allow Russia to increase its troops from Europe to the Far East. Faced with such a powerful empire, Russia cannot defeat its opponent in the Far East at all.

As the weather warmed, Tolstoy had no choice but to sign the negotiation agreement. Although the agreement still needs to be signed by the Russian government to finally sign and recognize it, Tolstoy, as the plenipotent representative of Catherine I, had no problem with his signature from a legal perspective. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also asked the Russian minister to sign and write the agreement. Even if the Russian government turned against him and refused to admit this agreement, the Ming Dynasty was not afraid at all. Since the Ming Dynasty could defeat his opponent once, he could win the war again. If that time came, it would be more than just a boundary with Lake Baikal.

At the end of March of the 19th year of Yongye, shortly after the signing of the agreement between the Ming and Russia, the former Minister of Military Affairs, the current Grand Tutor, and the Duke of Song Liao Huanzhi returned home to his hometown for retirement.

Although Zhu Yicheng tried to keep him several times, Liao Huanzhi insisted on returning because he was old, so Zhu Yicheng had no choice but to agree.

Liao Huanzhi's departure marked the complete withdrawal of the first generation of important officials of the Ming Dynasty from the political stage. Although Zhu Yicheng failed to send him to him, he sent the crown prince Zhu Bo to deliver Liao Huanzhi for him and brought his handwritten letter.

On April 28, Yongye, the Crown Princess gave birth to a son in the Eastern Palace. This was the first third-generation royal family member since the restoration of the Ming Dynasty and the third-generation heir to the future Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yicheng was very happy when the birth of the little prince. According to the genealogy, the little prince was named Zhu Kuoji for the generation of the word "Pu" and his five elements were earth. Zhu Yi became the little prince and named Zhu Kuoji, and at the same time, he was amnesty for the world.

In early June, Princess Anbei who returned to the north also gave birth to a son. Zhu Yicheng was happy and named the young prince Zhu Kuangtang, and the rewards he gave him were filled with several large trucks.

In July, the Qing army, which had entered the Indian region, collided with the Mughal Empire forces in Punjab, and the two sides started a war.

Kant sent Prince Guo as the head commander and led 30,000 troops. The Mughal Empire gathered an army of 160,000 in Punjab. If we only look at the number of people, the Qing Dynasty was at an absolute disadvantage in this war.

But in fact, Prince Guo's 30,000 troops were the elite of the Qing Dynasty, of which 20,000 were cavalry and 10,000 were full firearms troops. In addition, they also carried a lot of cannons. Although the Qing Dynasty defeated more and won less in the battle with the Ming army, the wars in recent years were not in vain. In fact, after years of fighting with the Ming army, the Qing Dynasty's military strength has been greatly improved. In terms of military strength, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is no less than that of ordinary European countries.

In the Central Plains, the Qing Dynasty was beaten backwards by the Ming Dynasty, fled from the Central Plains to the northwest, then retreated from the northwest to the Western Regions, and now he was forced to move from the Western Regions to India.

It can be said that the Qing Dynasty had been so angry that the Ming Dynasty could not beat them. The Russians were fierce and did not dare to provoke them. But can't these Asan fight?

Prince Guo led his troops south. Although his troops were far less than Ah San, he was not afraid at all. He won the first battle and directly defeated the 20,000 vanguard troops of the Mughal Empire head-on.

This battle gave Prince Guo even more confidence. He found that these Sans looked like they had many people, and their equipment and postures looked bad, but in fact they would not fight at all. A group of people were chaotic on the battlefield, and they were just brave enough to gain courage.

After finding out the other party's background, Prince Guo immediately let himself go and started to "perform" in Punjab.

He used the maneuverability of the Qing cavalry and the attack power of the firearm troops to conduct large-scale detours, divisions, encirclements and annihilation of the enemy.

After just two battles, the Indian army in Punjab suffered heavy losses. The commander saw that the situation was unstoppable and gathered his troops again to retreat to stabilize his position. However, he did not expect that Prince Guo had been waiting on the side. When the Indian army had just begun to gather, the Qing cavalry suddenly appeared from the left and right, rushed into the camp with an unstoppable attitude and killed the special kill. The Qing armament troops suddenly appeared on the front and launched a full-line attack. The opponent's army completely collapsed in one battle.

The three of them had no courage to compete with the Qing army at all. They collapsed after a little resistance. The deserters were running away everywhere in the mountains and fields. Many people thought they were smart and lay down on the spot to pretend to be dead. The Qing army ignored these defeated soldiers and headed straight to the other commander.

The battle lasted less than an hour, and the Indian army's commander, the Governor of Punjab, was killed on the spot. When the generals of each unit saw that the commander had disappeared, they could no longer raise the courage to resist, and immediately knelt down and begged for surrender.

In this battle, the Qing army was proud and won a great victory. In this battle, the Qing army suffered less than a thousand casualties, killed tens of thousands of enemies, and captured countless prisoners.

After the war, Kant decisively ordered the acquisition of captured Indians, and used the Eight Banners system to form these Indians into the Eight Banners of India, appointing and promoting several Indian nobles and generals who had previously defected to the Qing army to serve as the auxiliary combat power of the Qing army.

Originally in India, Indians had a strict caste system. The caste system in India divided people into four levels, the first level was Brahmin, that is, monks and nobles. The second level was Kshatriya, which was a military and traditional aristocratic group. The third level was Vaishya, whose members were merchants and small landlords. As for the fourth level, Shudra, it was a common people in a common sense.

In addition to these four levels, there are also "untouchables", also known as Dalit, whose status is no different from that of slaves, and even worse than that of slaves.

The Eight Banners System of the Qing Dynasty was originally a system established in a semi-slave and semi-feudal society. This system was strongly resisted by the Han people when it first entered the Central Plains. In order to win over the Han people and the need for rule, the Qing Dynasty made partial modifications to the Eight Banners system from the Shunzhi period to the Kangxi period, thus resulting in the improved Eight Banners system that later ruled the Central Plains.

Now, because India's political particularity is more suitable for the implementation of the Eight Banners system in the first Qing Dynasty, Kant keenly realized this and decisively adopted the method of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji back then, that is, to establish the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Han Army under the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and to establish the Eight Banners of the Indian Eight Banners system in India.

Compared with the caste system, the Eight Banners of India is more flexible and more attractive to the Asans. In particular, the Eight Banners of India adopts the same hierarchical distinction between bannermen and other civilians, and has the promotion method of "raising the flag", which has allowed many Vaisya and Shudra classes to see the opportunity to stand out.

Even the Kshatriya class did not object to this method, because Kant properly carried the ritual of directly carrying the flags and carrying them into the Eight Banners of Manchuria to win over these classes to appropriately win over them, which also retained their status and power in tradition and secularity.
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