Twenty years after the apocalypse, the railway was finally built to Yuji City.
In the past few years, the Rakshasa people have lived a very uncomfortable life under the coercion of the Ming Dynasty, Poland, and Sweden.
In particular, the number of escaped slaves in the country increased sharply.
The nobles proposed in front of the Tsar every day that they should first make good relations with Sweden and Poland, so as to free up their hands to attack the Ming army.
The Ming Dynasty stepped up the naturalization of all ethnic groups entering the Ming Dynasty in the Volga River Basin.
There are now two forms of naturalization.
One is to change Chinese surnames, and the tax rate is twice that of the Ming Dynasty people.
This refers to the tax rate in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. , because immigrants do not have to pay taxes within ten years.
The second is not to change the Chinese surname, but the tax rate is 10% tax and 50% tax.
The premise of the tax rate of 10% tax and 50% tax is that Ming Dynasty first provided seeds and agricultural tools.
The cost of these seeds and agricultural tools only needs to be returned after harvest plus 10% interest.
Only a small number of people, mainly Cossacks, chose to change their surnames to Chinese surnames.
Most people chose to pay 10% tax and 50% tax.
But when it comes time to pay taxes after harvesting, I will feel unbalanced no matter what when I look at other people’s tax of 1/20 and then compare my own tax of 10/5.
The tax collector said that if you change your surname now, you can immediately enjoy the low tax rate, but if you regret it, all the previous taxes will be returned, plus interest.
The immediate income easily defeated the persistence of surnames.
After the Ming Dynasty agreed that their fathers and ancestors did not need to change their names and could freely choose their own surnames, most European immigrants changed their surnames to Chinese surnames.
Generally speaking, the surname Luo , there are more people with the surname Yi, and more people with the surname Mi.
The Ming people also announced that after a woman marries a Han, her immediate family members will become Ming people and enjoy full tax exemption.
This solved the problem of a large number of Ming soldiers who had no wives, but many people were unwilling to marry a foreign woman as their official wife, so they basically ended up taking concubines.
It's just that for these Ming soldiers who took concubines here, the court never thought of letting them return to their original places, so they were taking concubines in name, but in fact they were no different from taking wives.
A large number of serfs fled from the Rakshasa Kingdom to the Ming army-occupied areas in the Volga River Basin.
This left the Rakshasa nobles' estates short of workers and seriously affected their income and enjoyment.
The Volga River is regarded as the mother river by the Rakshasa people, so how can the Ming Dynasty be allowed to occupy it for a long time?
The Rakshasa people first sent a mission to contact Poland, stating that if this continued, the Ming Dynasty would become a common threat to Poland and the Rakshasa Kingdom.
Therefore, we hope to form an alliance with Poland and drive the Ming army out of the Volga River Basin first.
King Wladyslaw IV of Poland had no intention of aiding the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the domestic parliament and the Grand Duke of Lithuania believed that the Ming Dynasty was too different from the Poles and Rakshasa people.
Even for racial considerations, it should be First repel the Ming Dynasty, and then fight to the death with the Rakshasa Kingdom.
It was obviously impossible for the King of Poland to have the right to speak against the Parliament, so Poland and the Rakshasa people signed the Treaty of Miosmososk.
The two parties agreed that until the Rakshasa people defeated the Ming people, the two countries would remain friendly.
However, the Rakshasa people's request for Polish troops to assist was rejected by Wladyslaw IV.
After taking over Poland, Mikhail I sent people to Sweden again to request a temporary truce between the two sides in order to preserve their strength against the Ming Dynasty.
Swedish Prime Minister Axel Uxenssiena is not the King of Poland.
He asked the Rakshasa people to cede another 500 square kilometers of land, so that the Swedes would not take the initiative to attack the Rakshasa people within ten years.
The Rakshasa reluctantly agreed to this request and signed the Treaty of Helsinki with the Swedes.
In this way, the Rakshasa people finally solved their worries and could concentrate on dealing with the Ming Dynasty.
Dai Chunfeng came to Yuji City in person in the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the focus of the Military Investigation and Statistics Bureau also shifted to Europe.
The Bureau of Military Investigation and Statistics has developed a large number of informants.
From the waiters of the Patriarch and the Tsar's bodyguards to ordinary Muscovites, they have all become non-staff members of the Bureau of Military Investigation and Statistics.
At this time, the Rakshasa Kingdom was very poor.
One silver coin was three months' income for an ordinary person.
Under the influence of money, Dai Chunfeng watched every move of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
The Ming army had two different views on how to deal with the attack on the Volga River Basin that the Rakshasa people would definitely carry out.
One is the Ming army headed by Zhou Yuji, which can complete all wars, and the other is the faction headed by Dai Chunfeng, which uses the barbarians to control the barbarians.
After receiving letters from both parties, Cao Wenzhao wrote back and suggested that both parties report their ideas back to the country and ask the emperor to make a decision, because this was not only a military issue, but also involved how to treat the Cossacks in the future.
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Now, if you take the train from Yuji City to the capital, it takes a total of twenty-three days.
For more than 10,000 miles, it only takes twenty-three days, which is already considered a miracle.
So Zhou Yuji sent several messengers back to the capital to discuss strategies.
After discussing with the staff headquarters, Zhu Youxiao held a meeting with the cabinet.
In the end, everyone agreed: the Ming army should be ready for war at any time, but it could first send Cossacks to resist the Rakshasas.
Freedom is not something we will give you if you want it.
The Cossacks must prove with facts that they are worthy of the freedom given to them by the Ming Dynasty.
So before the Rakshasas attacked, the Ming army had recruited 20,000 Cossacks who were willing to fight and formed two divisions.
He also promised that after the Cossacks defeated the Rakshasas, the grasslands on the southern slopes of the Ural Mountains would be permanently designated as Cossack territory, and the Cossacks would be allowed to elect their own Hetman and become an autonomous organization under the Ming Dynasty.
Most of these Cossacks came from Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate, Poland, Rakshasa and other places, because the Ming Dynasty announced that as long as they were willing to fight for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty could give the Cossacks maximum freedom.
Therefore, the Cossacks, who advocated freedom, quickly came to the Volga River and joined the ranks of the Ming army.
The Ming Dynasty did not break its promise.
In addition to recruiting young Cossacks to join the army, the rest of the Cossacks were arranged on grasslands suitable for grazing.
The Cossacks brought their own mounts and weapons, and the Ming army was responsible for providing military rations.
After the railway was built, the Ming army had no worries at all.
It was fully prepared in terms of food and ammunition.
Because no one had any hope that the Rakshasa people would abide by the Volga Peace Treaty, the Ming army's strength in Yuji City reached 60,000, which could deal with the Rakshasa people in full force.
The war first started in Saratov.
Twenty thousand Cossacks fought fiercely with the Rakshasa people.
As a result, they defeated the Rakshasa attack with the loss of more than 3,000 people.
Both sides fought in Saratov.
A confrontation situation formed on the mountainous terrain.
Now that the Cossacks had proved their determination and courage to fight the Rakshasas, the Ming army felt relieved and ordered the wounded Cossacks to retreat to the direction of Yuji City, while the three divisions of the Ming army pressed forward
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