761 Tsarist Russia Was Butterfly
"In your opinion, is the living Buddha really the living world?"
Looking at Baturhun Taiji's very serious face, whether it was Sengge or Eziertu, they all nodded very seriously, and almost answered in unison: "Yes!"
The other Mongolians who had a mission to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, even if Baturhun Taiji did not ask them, all followed in unison and echoed: "Yes!"
After these voices fell, Sengge immediately added in a decisive tone: "All these magical powers are from the hands of Duke Xingguo alone. Moreover, Duke Xingguo's origin is mysterious, and everyone in the world has said that he has descended to earth from the stars in the sky."
Baturhuntaiji definitely trusts Sengge as his son, and that's the same. He chose Sengge as his successor.
At this time, not only his trusted son said this, but all those who have been to the capital of Ming Kingdom said this. Then, there is only one fact, that Duke Xingguo is really a living Buddha.
So he immediately said to his son: "You stay in the clan and be prepared to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and welcome the Ming army."
Then, he immediately turned his head and stared at Eziertu and said, "You follow me to go to Tibet immediately to meet Gushikhan, and tell Gushikhan what you saw and heard in Ming Dynasty again."
"Yes!" Whether it was Sengge or Eziertu, they all responded excitedly in unison.
The living Buddhas were so much heavier in their hearts than anything else. Baturhuntaiji was resolute and immediately took Eziertu to Tibet to meet Gushihan.
At this time, Shukurdaiqing, the leader of the Turkut tribe, was still in Tibet. With Gushikhan, he was shocked when he heard the news brought by Baturhuntaiji.
After some discussion, the three leaders made a decision to go to the capital of the Ming Dynasty in person to meet the legendary Duke Xingguo, and at the same time, they also had to see the legendary Ming Dynasty with their own eyes. What kind of Ming Dynasty was it?
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At the same time, Khabarov, who escaped from Yakutsk in the Far East, finally arrived in Moscow after a lifetime of death and was summoned by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Alexey even stood up from the chair, looked down at Khabarov who was kneeling there and asked, "What's going on? Why is this happening? Why are you the only one who escaped?"
"It was the Ming army... the Ming Empire in the Far East sent troops!" Habarov replied in panic, "They dispatched at least five thousand troops, and we were outnumbered, and they were all killed in the end. I happened to go out and was lucky enough to escape."
When he was about to escape back to Tsarist Russia along the way, he found an opportunity to kill those together. Only dead people could not speak, and he didn't have to worry about things in the Far East. He could make up whatever he wanted!
At this time, when he heard the Tsar's question, he was actually very clear in his heart. If he told the truth, no one would believe it. Because in their impression, the Ming Empire in the Far East was not very good! If the answer was different from the Tsar and their impression, they would probably be questioned.
Therefore, according to the influence of Tsarist Russia on the Ming Empire, he gave the answer that the enemy was because of the large number of people.
As for his reply, Tsarist Russia had misjudgment of the Ming Empire, what did this have to do with him? Besides, he didn't think Tsarist Russia would have any intersection with the Ming Empire!
Sure enough, after hearing his reply, Alexey did not doubt it, but asked in confusion: "Why did the Ming Dynasty send so many troops to attack me Tsarist Russians in such a north?"
When Khabarov heard this, he shook his head and said, "I don't know this. Who knows what the Ming people want to do? But they must have plans to dispatch so many troops, right?"
Alexey was very annoyed when he heard this. After asking a few more questions, he drove Khabarov away.
Fur is very popular among the nobles in Northern Europe, and even in Europe, and is very expensive. Therefore, during the expansion of Tsarist Russia in the east, the main purpose was to find fur and then sell it to other countries to obtain huge profits.
But now his hand that was stretched to the Far East was cut off by Ming Kingdom. Although the loss was not very important to Tsar Alexey, he had lost a source of wealth, which was what he was very concerned about.
In fact, Tsarist Russia at this time, or before, was always poor.
Even after Alexei became the Tsar, he was still very poor.
To this end, in the past few years, Tsarist Russia was forced to issue a new salt tax decree. The purpose of this decree was to increase the revenue of the treasury, which stipulated that high taxes were charged to salt merchants, with a tax rate of 1.3 times higher than the market price of salt.
Although salt merchants from all countries are equally rich, the salt merchants in Tsarist Russia were not good at raising their riots and immediately launched an riot, looting the residence of Morozov, the scribe of the new salt tax law, and killing Duma clerk Chist and the imperial courtier Pleseev.
The result of this riot was that Tsar Alexei compromised, abolished the salt tax decree, and removed Molozov.
I said this just to show that Tsarist Russia is indeed a pauper.
At this time, Tsar Alexey was only twenty-three years old, and he was in his passionate age and wanted to achieve something.
And history also gave him a chance. The feud of Tsarist Russia, that is, the Kingdom of Lithuania, was in civil unrest. Alexey saw the opportunity and had a great possibility of gaining the benefits of the fisherman.
However, no matter what he did, it would cost money. The empty treasury restricted Alexei's ambitions. At this moment, he heard another source of wealth being cut off, and naturally became annoyed.
Nikon, the newly succeeded Moscow and all-Russian Orthodox Patriarch, was a fanatical religious figure. If he had the power according to the original historical development, he would reform Tsarist Russian religion, causing turmoil, and even advocated theocracy on secular power, which was eventually deprived of power by Alexey.
However, at this time, he had just taken office, and the so-called new official took office for three fires. Seeing that the Tsar was so annoyed and anxious about money, he reminded him: "Your Majesty, although there are no furs in the Far East, there are so many furs in front of you!"
When Alexey heard this, he was a little surprised. He looked up at him and showed a surprise expression and said, "Nabaturhuntaijiri? Where is there more fur?"
After hearing this, Nikon pointed southeastward and replied to Alexey: "Isn't there a lot of fur on the lower reaches of the Volga River?"
"Tartars?" Alexey was no longer so surprised when he heard this, and calmed down, "They do have a lot of furs, but with a lot of people, how could it be so easy to hand over the furs?"
For them, as long as they are Mongolians, they are all Tatars. The Mongolians they are talking about are the Turgut tribes, a branch of the Mongolian tribe of the Weila tribe.
The former leader of the Turgut tribe had a conflict with Baturhuntaiji of the Junggar tribe, and eventually moved westward to the lower reaches of the Volga River, which was sparsely populated at the time.
In fact, there were also some herders from the Junggar tribe, herders from the Hoshuote tribe, etc., not just the Turkut tribe.
It can be said that there were many things inside the Erath Mongolian tribes. At that time, to the outside world, they were Erath Mongolian tribes.
At this time, when Nikon heard the Tsar's concerns, he sneered: "Just relying on the combat power of those pagans, so what if there are too many people? Now when we are short of money, who else can we find if we don't look for them?"
As soon as he heard this, Alexey really began to think about this matter seriously.
In fact, Tsarist Russia has had contacts with Erat Mongolia many times and has conflicts. Therefore, Alexei also knows about Erat Mongolia. He knows that there are many people and cannot be easily robbed.
However, as Nikon said, these Tatars were close to Tsarist Russia and were in the lower reaches of the Volga River. Although they had a large number of people, they were still using cold weapons. There were even fewer iron weapons, and they were also a clever tribe who was so poor that they were.
Of course, this jingling poor is only for these Tatars. They are nomadic peoples and have absolutely a lot of fur in their hands. If they reach Tsarist Russia's hands, then it will be wealth.
At this moment, Alexey was moved.
The butterfly effect of Zhang Mingwei traveling to this era finally affected this place.
Unlike in history, at this time, the Ming Dynasty cut off Tsarist Russia's colonial hand in the Far East, which reduced Tsarist Russia's resources to make a decision in advance to plunder wealth from the Turgut tribe.
After some discussion, Alexey decided to send an armed caravan to sell their cheap goods to the Turkut tribe in the lower reaches of the Volga River at high prices, and to acquire the furs from the Turkut tribe at low prices. If you dare to disagree, the army can come to attack at any time.
The person who led the team must have enough ability. In the end, Alexey remembered Baharov who fled back from the Far East, called him over and tested him, and found that he was really a talented person, so he decided to let Baharov lead the team and attack the Turkut troops.
Of course, they actually didn't know that the Turgut tribe would also be different from the original history. And these were the changes brought about by Zhang Mingwei's time travel.
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At the same time, in Europe, the impact of Zhang Mingwei's time travel has become more and more as time goes by. However, more of the inertia of the original history and the impact of the flapping of butterfly wings are combined with each other.
The British promulgated the "Navigation Ordinance" in advance last year. It was originally targeted at the Dutch in history, but on this plane, it targeted the Spanish. However, the British-Dutch War broke out in the end.
Chapter completed!