The game between countries is full of strange changes, and for the sake of interests, they are united and united.

Liu Jun sent an envoy to Moscow, hoping to coerce Tsarist Russia to stay away from the Junggar and maintain a neutral attitude towards the upcoming war. However, the secret reports sent from Moscow showed that the intervention in the Han Dynasty failed this time.

The great Han is indeed stronger than the current Tsarist Russian Manov dynasty, and the threats of the great Han are also very powerful. However, for the Russian white bears who are all enemies, there are more people who threaten them, and the great Han have to queue up to threaten them. Anyway, they are considered to have too much debt and not too much lice. Compared to the Eastern Han Empire, which is still far away from them, they care more about Sweden and Poland, which are just at their doorstep. If they form an alliance with the Junggar and can help each other, they would rather offend the great Han.

"Tsar Mikhail did not want to offend the great Han Dynasty, but now Moscow is actually dominated by the great nobles in the country. In particular, the great nobleman Morozov, who was in charge of Tsarist Russia's power several years ago, has gained actual power, and Mikhail did not fight against it at all and gave up the power in his hand. Now Morozov is the firm leader of the United Junggar faction in Moscow, and his attitude dominates the attitude of the Moscow."

Foreign Secretary Feng Yuanbiao personally entered the palace to report this regrettable result to Liu Jun.

"Morozov also met with Baturhuntaiji's envoy to discuss in Moscow. They have reached a further alliance cooperation agreement. Tsarist Russia will formally hand over the years the many forts they have established in the Ertise River, Ob River, Yenise River and other former Siberian Khanate countries and areas further east to the east, all of which will be formally handed over to Junggar, including military fortresses such as Tomsk, Kuttsk, Yenisesk, and Krasnoyarsk."

Liu Jun was also secretly surprised. Tsarist Russia and Junggar had often clashed. Even for decades, Moxi Mongolia had been competing with Russia for territory in the Ertzis River and the upper reaches of the Ob River, and the two sides had many conflicts and wars. In the early years, when Wei Lat was busy fighting with the Khalkha Mongols in the north of the Demon, he was attacked on both sides and bullied by Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia had always wanted to coerce Junggar into a vassal of Tsarist Russia.

But the feng shui has changed. The Khalkha Mongol in the north of the desert has been working hard to deal with the east and south in recent years, allowing the people of the Moxi Wei Lat Mongol to recuperate and develop. However, Tsarist Russia has been in constant civil strife and frequent foreign invasions in recent years. Now the Tsarist Russia has been attacking in turn and has run away in a hurry and has to ask for peace talks.

Now Junggar intends to unify the river and the Western Regions and expand to the east. However, Tsarist Russia only wants to withstand the invasion of Sweden and Poland to the west, hoping to retake the cities occupied in those years.

The two companies are heading east and west, and there is no serious conflict of interest, and they are just back to back to each other.

"The Tsarist Russia is generous. They have tried their best to expand eastward for decades. Now they say they abandon it, and they give all the territory that they have finally captured east of the Ural Mountains in the past few decades to the Junggars. Although the east is desolate and remote, it is still so big. Every year, Tsarist Russia earns a lot of fur from Siberia. They will never give it to the Junggars for free. Tsarist, what does the Junggars exchange for these?"

After all, countries are still exchanges of interests, and Tsarist Russia will not give its territory so kindly to Junggar.

"Choros Baturhurkhi bought the castles and land with gold and war horses, and they sent 10,000 people to fight for Russia."

"Tsarist Russia is going to fight"

When Liu Jun heard the news, he immediately felt enlightened. If Russia fought with people at this time, then he would basically not be able to get involved in the war in the Western Regions.

"It is not clear whether the Russians are going to fight Sweden or Poland. We estimate that they are the most likely to fight Poland, and it is very likely that they will compete for Smolensk."

Smolensk is an ancient city of Tsarist Russia with a history of more than 800 years and is only more than 700 miles away from Moscow. It is located on the border with Belarus and is a major trade and military town. It has been invaded by Poland and Lithuania many times, and the last time it was occupied by the Poles was thirty years ago.

Until now, it has been occupied by the Poles.

Russia and Sweden have a bad relationship, but the grudges are not that deep. Therefore, after Mikhail succeeded to the throne, he had reached an agreement with Sweden through negotiations.

Sweden occupied seven cities in northern Russia led by Novgorod. Through long-term negotiations, the two countries finally reached an agreement. Sweden returned five cities including Novgorod and Pskov to Russia. However, in exchange, Russia was forced to ced five cities including Yam and Ivan, which surrounded the Gulf of Finland, to Sweden, which actually cut off Russia's access to the Baltic Sea. Forced by the situation, Russia had to sign this treaty and lost its outlet in the Baltic Sea.

This agreement with Sweden caused huge losses to Tsarist Russia, but at least it comforted the northern lion of Sweden and temporarily satisfied their appetite.

However, the relationship between Tsarist Russia and Poland is even more complicated, and they cannot reach an agreement to resolve the problem through negotiations.

The Polish king never even admitted that Mikhail was the Tsar. He sent troops twice to send fake heirs to Tsar Russia to succeed Tsar. Later, Mikhail became Tsar, and he wanted his prince to come to Russia to be the Tsar.

A few years ago, the Polish king sent a large army to attack Moscow, hoping to seize the throne of the Tsar for his son, but the Polish army was defeated. The two countries turned to negotiations and finally signed a fourteen-year contract. Russia ceded a large area of ​​Poland's territory, but Poland also admitted that Mikhail was the Russian Tsar.

A few years ago, Polish King Sigmund III passed away, and Poland was in a state of funeral. The Russians believed that the time had come, so they immediately launched a large number of troops and the army headed to the western front in a mighty manner. At the beginning, they fought very well and were unstoppable. They conquered several cities and fought all the way to the city of Smolensk.

The Polish prince Vladirav received the defeat as soon as he ascended the throne. The former Polish prince who had never been regarded as a tsar appeared as the king. He immediately gathered his troops and rushed to Smolensk. Poland and Russian troops fought against Smolensk. In the end, the Russian army stopped at the city, but failed to defeat it for a long time, and suffered heavy casualties. In the end, the troops and food were exhausted, but they were afraid that they would return in poverty and return with hatred.

Ten years have passed since the war, and the Romanov dynasty has been established for nearly thirty years. The turmoil has basically ended, the country has become stable, and relations with Sweden have remained peaceful.

For a strategic city like Smolensk, they have always wanted to recover it.

Now the Poles are having a great fuss with the Ukrainian Cossacks. The Cossacks are constantly making the Poles rebellion, which gives the Russian white bears the opportunity. Just like when the old Polish king died, the Russians immediately took advantage of the funeral to send troops.

At this time, the Russians sold large areas of land in the East to Junggar, formed an alliance with them, and borrowed troops from them, and their intention to take action was already obvious.

After all, Liu Jun is also a person who knows the future history of Russia. He knows that these Russians have always been fierce. Even if they are often invaded and robbed by Sweden, Poland, Turkey, and even the Tatar cavalry of the Krim Khanate, they have never admitted their cowards. The more they fight, the more fierce they become, don't give them any chance, they will immediately pounce on them when they have the chance.

In history, the rise of the Russians seemed to have begun at this time. They first pulled half of Ukraine, then occupied the three Central Asian countries one after another, finally destroyed Poland, and then joined forces with Poland to defeat Sweden. Finally, they recaptured Poland's sea estuary during Peter's time. Peter also officially became an emperor, and Tsarist Russia has since become a monarchal empire recognized by European countries.

With these perceptions, Liu Jun knew very well that Tsarist Russia would definitely take action when it formed an alliance with Junggar and borrowed troops at this time.

Russia, Poland is going to fight, Ukrainian Cossacks will also be involved, and even Junggar will send some reinforcements to Tsarist Russia. This result is a bit like planting flowers but not being able to plant willows and willows.

Liu Jun smiled and walked to the large sand table in front of him.

On the sand table, the western region of the Han Empire and several major mountains divide this vast area into several relatively independent areas.

A continuous Tianshan Mountains divide the Western Regions into two places. The northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains is centered on the Junggar Basin, which is the center of the Junggar Khanate. Now they control the Ili River Valley and the Qihe River Basin. The vast Kazakh grassland that crosses the Barkrash Lake has been included in their pockets, and they have even headed west to the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Volga River.

The southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the west to the Pamir Mountains, the south to Kunlun, the Tarim Basin and Pamir Mountains are the territory of the Yarkand Khanate. Originally, their territory also included Turpan and Hami, but now it has been occupied by the Junggar, and even the Tarim Basin is being invaded by the Junggar.

Further south, south of the Kunlun Mountains and north of the Himalayas, this area is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Now the Tibetan area is controlled by Gushikhan under the Junggar Khanate. Kang District is Qinghai and is actually controlled by the Han Dynasty.

To the north of Qinghai is Gansu, the Hexi Corridor under the Qilian Mountains.

And in the north of the Tianshan Mountains, there is also an Altai Mountain Range, which is the traditional dividing line between the western Mohe and the northern Mohe.

The Altai Mountains were called Jinshan in ancient times. To the east of Jinshan was the north of the desert and to the west of the desert. Not far from the northwest of the Jinshan Mountains, it was Tangnu Mountain, which can be regarded as the northern boundary of the Khalkha Mongols in the north of the desert in the past.

Crossing the Tangnu Mountain is the upper reaches of the Yenisei River. If you go further west, you will be the Ob River, the Orchis River, which originates from the Jinshan Mountain.

Although the Han Dynasty had already assigned Siberia to the territory of the Han Dynasty, in fact, the imperial court only controlled the North Sea. The two major rivers near the North Sea, the Lena River and the Angara River Basin are still in the midst of competition.

These places west of the North Sea and north of the Tangnu Mountain have always been under actual control by Tsarist Russia, and now these places have also been the Junggar.

The Usizang Heshuote tribe, the Tianshan Mountains, the Junggar tribe of Kazakh Grasslands, and the Turgut tribe of the Volga River in the Caspian Sea.

From the Ural Mountains in the north and the Caspian Sea in the south, the Junggar Khanate has been connected together, completely sealing the land route from the Han Dynasty to the West, and even including the southern land passage through India.

This is a cancer that must be removed.

"It seems that we can't have any practical cooperation deals with Poland, Persia, Turkey, and Sweden." Liu Jun threw down the wooden stick in his hand. Even if he wanted to support the Yarkand weapon, it would not work.

The road was completely blocked by Junggar.

If the Han wanted to contact Yarkand, they had to take Hami and Turpan first before they could get in touch with Yarkand.

After all, the Han Dynasty had to conquer Hami and Turpan first and establish a forward base here, but the Hexi Corridor was already narrow. Fortunately, the Han Dynasty controlled Qinghai. Although the Hexi Corridor was narrow, it was safe and secure. But if it was just like this, it would be a bit too deep and the flanking was unstable.

Especially in the north of Tianshan Mountains, there is Junggar, and Wusizang and Heshuote. If the two armies are double-teaming, this is very unfavorable.

"It seems that we cannot count on Yarkand, nor on Poland and Ottoman. We have to solve this battle ourselves. We have to adjust the plan, mobilize the Mongolian princes in the northern desert, divide a cavalry out of Altai Mountain, threaten to restrain the Junggar. Then transfer the garrisons from Xikang and Qinghai to mobilize to Wusizang in time to restrain the Heshuo special troops in Tibetan areas. In this way, the elite army of the imperial court continued to leave Jiayuguan, and at a lightning speed, first seize Hami and Turpan, then directly attack the Junggar Basin, hit the old nest of the capital, succeeded with one blow, first withdraw to Turpan first, prepare for the second round of attack, take this kind of flood peak-like attack, and severely damage the main force of the enemy first."

Foreign Secretary Feng Yuanbiao just looked at it and didn't speak. He was just a diplomat. As for military strategy, he was not good at it, and it was not his turn to show off his skills. The court had a high-ranking general from a large capital of the Privy Council.

"Your Majesty, the negotiations with Poland and Sweden have not yet come back, but there is good news. The Ottomans want to cooperate with us. They want to buy our goods, including our new merchant ships and guns. They intend to exchange them with African slaves."

"Oh" Liu Jun was a little surprised.

But I soon realized that in this era, there was no Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were not connected. From the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, they were controlled by Mushilin.

The Catholic and Christian countries in Europe were completely blocked. In the early Eastern trade, these Green Congmen took advantage of the profits and exploited them a lot. It was precisely because of this trade blockade and exploitation that the later navigation adventure was created. Europeans discovered the East Indies and the West Indies, discovered the new continent of the Americas, and found a route to bypass Africa to the East. From then on, they could finally bypass the blockade of the Green Congmen.

The Ottomans and Persian Safi dynasties were both green religion countries, controlling the traditional Persian Gulf and Red Sea areas. Even if Europeans bypassed them, they still had many innate advantages.

In Portugal, Spain and other countries discovered the new continent of America. During the global colonization, the human resources needed to increase greatly. As a result, the slave trade rose rapidly and the Ottoman Empire also made a kick in this trade. When the Portuguese and Spain colonized on the west coast of Africa and carried out the slave trade, the Ottoman immediately carried out its own slave-catching and slave trade transactions on the east coast of Africa.

Now Britain, the Netherlands, France and others are also rushing to join the profitable industry of slave trade, but their main trade routes are still on the three points around the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, the west coast of Africa, and the Americas.

The Ottomans' slave business on the east coast of Africa was inherently deficient compared to Portugal, Spain, England and the Netherlands. However, if the slave traders were taken to the east instead of going around the African continent to the Americas, the Ottomans' slave traders on the east coast of Africa immediately became an advantage.

"How much does an African black slave in the Ottoman Empire cost?"

"They offer is one hundred, two to three hundred large Han silver dollars."

Liu Jun shook his head, "African black slaves are indeed more suitable for working in the Nanyang and Indochina Peninsula, and are relatively strong and capable. But the price is still a bit expensive. A few days ago, the report was reported that England had already started fighting. The king and the parliament were gathering troops to fight against each other. They fought fiercely. Both sides are short of money and even less arms. They all sent people to contact us and want to buy arms from me. Do you know what they used to pay for the goods? Irish slaves. The king admitted to providing us with 20,000 Irish slaves within one year, while the parliament claimed that they could provide us with 30,000 Irish slaves within one year. Do you know the price of the slaves they gave?"

"Each Irish slave costs only five pounds, and the transaction price after being shipped to the port of Malacca will not exceed ten pounds. Only those who live after arriving in the port will be considered money, and they will bear the losses on the way themselves."

Five pounds are worth three taels of silver, which is about six silver dollars. An Irish slave costs only thirty yuan in large Han silver dollars, and the transaction price in Hong Kong is only 60 yuan. This price is much cheaper than the Ottoman African black slaves.

Only half or even one fifth of them.

One is a white slave and the other is a black slave. It is hard to say which one is better or worse, but at least Irish slaves have a completely advantage in price.

"That's what your majesty mean"

"Since they are willing to sell it cheaply, we will of course buy it." Liu Jun smiled. He bought all 50,000 Irish slaves, one 60, which is only three million silver dollars in total, which is cheap.

"With cooperation with the King of England or the Parliament of England," Feng Yuanbiao asked.

"We are not rejecting anyone. We are just doing business. No matter whether he is a slave to the king or a slave to the parliament, we must do everything. No, we are not buying and selling slaves. The Han Empire is kind and humane, and slaves are never allowed to be traded. We are Irish migrant workers who hired their intermediaries."

"You will talk to them in person. At that time, Nanyang Company and Jiangnan Manufacturing Company will send someone to discuss with you. We accept how many workers they can introduce to you. Whether it is Irish or African, as long as the price is appropriate, we will have to pay a penny of the labor agency fee. No matter where they want to purchase our weapons, we will sell them. But for this price, you can discuss it carefully and give an appropriate number. If it is something that no one has, you might as well raise the price. This exclusive technology is also very valuable, and it is natural to have a higher price."
Chapter completed!