"You should choose to ride a horse like me!" Duncan looked at the vomit that was still emitting hot air not far away, and turned his head.

"Duncan, I don't want my inner thighs to be covered in two days, and I can't even take off my pants!" Jilins smiled bitterly and refused the other party's advice. As he said, it is completely different to participate in the afternoon horse-riding and fox hunting like a gentleman and continuous horse riding. The rough saddle will break the skin on the inner thighs of the rider, making it bloody and bloody and stick to his pants, so Jilins would rather endure the pain of bumps on a cart than ride like Duncan.

"Mr. Ji, come, wipe your face!" Jiang Zhiqing sent a towel from the side and smiled: "Actually, according to my opinion, you should go on the waterway. If you go to Yanshan Mansion, you either take the liner from Shanghai to Tianjin or walk on the canal. It is comfortable and safe. You are a wealthy person and don't lack this amount of money, so why bother with these hardships?"

Jilins did not answer Jiang Zhiqing's question. The reason why he chose to take the land was to be able to personally feel the situation at all levels of this ancient empire. If he chose to take a boat, although it would definitely be much more comfortable, the purpose of his trip would not be achieved. However, all this could not be known to Jiang Zhiqing, so Jilins changed the topic.

"Jiang, I heard that Yanshan Prefecture has been the capital of China for the past few hundred years, has it?"

"Oh, Mr. Ji, you are really a knowledgeable person, and you even know this!" Jiang Zhiqing hurriedly seized the opportunity to please his employer: "Yes, this Yanshan Prefecture is the capital of the previous dynasty, and it was also the capital of the former dynasty Dayuan of the previous dynasty. However, after Emperor Wu of this dynasty entered the capital in Jiashen year, Wu Sangui offered Shanhai Pass, led the Donggu into the pass, and fought in a battle of a stone. Emperor Wu was outnumbered and had no choice but to withdraw from Yanshan Prefecture. Later, Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne in Xiangyang City and conquered all directions, and then established the capital of Hanjing. However, the terrain of Yanshan Prefecture is critical and is still one of the five capitals. Emperor Shizu and the next few emperors will go north to Yanshan Prefecture almost every autumn."

"Why do you have to go north to Yanshan Prefecture every autumn?"

"Mr. Ji, you don't know that, although Emperor Taizong and Emperor Shizu were in power, it took decades to drive the Dongliu out of the pass. But the Tartars often robbed every autumn, and the emperor led their troops to resist, or went out for an expedition. The Yanshan Prefecture happened to be where the army gathered. Later, the Dongliu was defeated, the Mongols were defeated, and the outside of the pass became the Protectorate. The world was peaceful, so naturally the Emperor no longer used the Yanshan Prefecture." Jiang Zhiqing's face changed when he said this: "But in recent years it seemed that there was a little uneasy outside the pass. The Russians in the north gave the Tartars foreign guns, money, and provoked them to make trouble. The soldiers of the Protectorate outside the pass came to war every few days, God!"

"Old Russian?" Although Jilins has been with Jiang Zhiqing every day these days and has no problem communicating in a mixed English-Chinese language, he still doesn't understand some words.

"It's the Russians, they are covered in hair, so they call them Russians!" Jiang Zhiqing hurriedly explained: "I heard that those Russians were arrogant and arrogant, just like the Donglu Tartars back then, so I pointed to the gates and occupied our country. But we have the Lord Gao, so we are not afraid of them!"

While listening to Jiang Zhiqing's words with a smile, Jilins recalled his homework to Yanshan Prefecture these days. This ancient city is located on the southern foot of the Yanshan Mountains. It controls several important passages that barbarians in the Mongolian grassland and Liaodong areas must pass to enter the Hebei Plain. Since ancient times, it has been a fortress for the Han Central Plains emperors to resist the invasion of the northern barbarians. When the emperors of Dashun used gunpowder weapons to destroy the enemies on the grassland once and for all, the north

The calm of the side did not last long, and a new enemy appeared from the vast Siberian wasteland. Unlike past history, this enemy was not the nomadic peoples who were far behind the Central Plains dynasty in technology, but the Russian adventurers who were also equipped with advanced firearms. After the unavoidable conflict between the two sides, the Russian side cautiously proposed the request to sign a peace treaty. Dashun's general also accepted the request with ease.

In the eyes of that general, these deserted ice fields in the north were worthless. His army appeared here rather than conquering it, but to declare its prestige to the local barbarians, so as to prevent these unknown tribes from forming a powerful group under the rule of some energetic and ambitious barbarian leaders to attack other nomadic peoples who had become civilized and weak under the protection of Dashun. Such an attack was carried out to

The past will turn into a huge war of conquest. If the barbarian leader is capable and lucky, the result of this successful conquest war will be a unified grassland empire, which is absolutely unacceptable for Dashun, because it means the beginning of a new long war that lasts for decades, and the lives and wealth of countless people will be destroyed in it, and even the empire itself may be destroyed as a result. This is common in the history of Northeast Asia.

However, like most traditional Central Plains emperors, Emperor Dashun was very cautious about large-scale conquest wars, because after thousands of years of expansion, the Han people actually controlled most of the land suitable for agriculture in East Asia, and the scale of the empire reached the limit of physical management. Conquering more land was very difficult and economically unprofitable, so Emperor Dashun was more willing to use strategies and strategies to achieve his goals rather than expensive military actions, so he was so happy

The great Russian Tsar was recognized, the masters of these strange barbarians claimed to have indisputable dominance over the vast wastelands and forests in the north, and the more fertile and warmer land and grasslands to the south were owned by the great Emperor Dashun, and neither side allowed to take in the deserters, rebels, and allowed anyone on their own territory to carry out any actions that were unfavorable to the other. No matter what later, at the moment of signing the contract, both sides were satisfied and should be sincere.

But just like most things in this world, there will always be changes in the passing time. When the clock's pointer reached the 1860s, the balance of power between the two parties in the contract changed subtly. After nearly two hundred years of unremitting efforts, the Russians established settlements on the land in the Far East, and opened up a long route from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea, so they could maintain a considerable number of troops. In contrast, after the civil war in China, Dashun had to relax.

The control of the nomadic princes on the northern grasslands, Russians found that this was a great opportunity to insert hands into the fertile southern land they had coveted for a long time. So from 1870, nomadic chiefs launched rebellions again and again on the vast border land from Mount Altai to the Pacific Ocean. Of course, these chiefs used different names. Of course, the most were the great descendants of the Golden Family. Many people claimed to be flowing with the noble blood of Aisin Gioro, and even those who claimed to be Maodun Shanyu.

Of course, these people have one thing in common, that is, they all take Russian guns and rubles allowances, and their army has many Slavic military instructors with big beards and vodka. However, under the command of Dashun, the outstanding commander of Yanshan Prefecture, Zhangbei, and Manchurian Protector Gao Tingyu, these rebellions were quickly put down. The Shun army, which had just passed the military reform after the civil war in the 1860s, was so powerful that the Russian army in the Far East had not yet waited for the rebellion.

The model was big enough to send troops to intervene, and he won the victory. Facing the powerful Shun army opposite, the Russians had to give up their attempts to invade large-scale invasion. Gao Tingyu himself also won a huge military reputation in this series of military operations, so that the former Emperor Dashun still allowed him to stay in Yanjing when he was dying to resist the powerful enemies in the north. Gao Tingyu, the official residence of the "Hao Gao" mentioned by Jiang Zhiqing just now, was Yanshan Prefecture, Beijing, Dashun, and was also the destination of the Jilins trip.

Thinking of this, Jilins suddenly felt his heart, pretending to be careless and asked, "Jiang, Japan, what do you think of them?"

"Aren't Japanese? Isn't it just a Japanese? He is short, wearing wooden clogs, and a woman is carrying a cloth bag behind her back. I know! But what are you asking about this?" Jiang Zhiqing's face showed a confused expression.

"Do you think the Japanese will one day become your threat like the 'Dongyi' and 'Maozi' you mentioned?"

"Japanese? Threat?" Jiang Zhiqing suddenly laughed: "Mr. Ji, aren't you telling a joke? The Russians are big, big, with guns and cannons. What do the Japanese have? Crowded on the small islands on the sea, and the place is not as big as our Dashun, what can we do? You don't know that the Japanese attacked Korea in the previous dynasty, but when the imperial soldiers arrived, they collapsed and went there. If they were to move, the court stretched out a finger and pressed him to death!" At this point, Jiang Zhiqing stretched out his thumb, made a gesture, and showed a confident smile on his face.

Looking at the other party's smile, Jillins said nothing. Obviously, although his servant was not in a high position in the country, he was still full of simple pride in this ancient central empire. This feeling was not unfamiliar to Jillins. 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 he had never seen before.

"China is not only a problem with the British Empire's East Asia strategy, but also a problem with the entire European civilization!" Jilins thought to himself.

While chatting, Jiang Zhiqing kept throwing some hay from the cart in front of the mule, tied the bag of the material to the mouth of Duncan's mount, and let him eat some essence. Seeing that the animals had almost eaten, he looked at the sky and smiled and said, "Mr. Ji, it's getting late, so let's go on the road, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with Guantou, but we have to stay in the wilderness for a night."
Chapter completed!