Two years of Dahua's revival.
The Ghost Country sent envoys to pay tribute.
Honglu Temple, Dahua's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The officials in the temple have rich experience in receiving envoys from the Fan State, but they are quite surprised by this wandering ghost country.
"What the hell is this ghost country?"
Several officials whispered, and the dress of these people was very surprising.
Bear skins, wolf skins, deer skins, and mink skins are all furs, and those furs are very rare and rare high-quality furs.
If it is in Hanjing, it is processed well, and this kind of material is quite valuable, but what it wears on these bearded people is like asking for rice and calling it flowers, which is really a waste of good materials.
"Xiao Fang, come here, do you know what this ghost country is" Xiao Fang is a new official this year, graduated from Beijing Normal University, and after graduation, he also interned in the Ministry of War, and later was admitted to Honglu Temple, and has always been known for his knowledge.
Xiao Fang pushed the pair of crystal glasses on the bridge of his nose, and he didn't know this ghost country as everyone expected.
"Long history, this ghost country went to Beijing for 15,000 miles, straight to the northeast of the black water and the north of the Shaohai, the yin sea on three sides, more depressed, and the benefit of fish and salt.
The ground is cold early. ” "Fifteen thousand miles, my heaven, isn't it farther north than the fiefdom of the Black Water King" Xiao Fang nodded, picked up a pencil, and sketched a few strokes on the paper, so a rough map appeared.
"This point is Hanjing, this is the Yellow River, this is Youzhou, and this is Liaodong.
And this is Changbai Mountain, this is the sumo water on our northeast border, and further north, it is the black water, and the sea at the mouth of the black water, we call it Shaohai, Shaohai is like the Bohai Sea, it is a big bay. ” In that distant foreign land, Xiao Fang said very clearly.
The mouth of the Heihe River is actually very far away, and now the emperor's brother Zhang Shilang Zhang Yue is the king of Heishui, and the castle of the county king, Fuyuan, is located in the upper reaches of 1,500 miles away from the mouth of the Heishui River.
Next to the mouth of the Blackwater River there is a large archipelago called Maoren Island, which is actually the later Sakhalin Island, which also includes Hokkaido, later Japan.
At this time, Dahua was collectively called Maoren Island, and the Japanese people were called Ezo people.
Further north, there was a peninsula, which came to be known as Kamchatka, and at this time it was the ruler of the Oni Kingdom who came to pay tribute.
"The peninsula occupied by the Ghost Country is about 3,000 li long from north to south, and 900 li from east to west.
They mainly fish, hunt, and also domesticate deer herds. ” When they heard that this island was so big, many people's eyes lit up.
I didn't expect that there was such a large peninsula in the northeast of the Murwei and Murowei.
"Although the island is big, there are actually not many people in this ghost country, and there are not 100,000 people in total, it is very primitive and backward, and even after hunting, they eat raw animal meat and animal blood."
"Xiao Fang, how do you know everything, no wonder others call you Library, it's really as knowledgeable as the Beijing Library," several old officials praised.
"In fact, these are often found in this geography magazine and exploration magazine, which are the information that the expedition team has discovered and collected.
It is precisely because our expedition team came into contact with them in the past that we knew that there was a Great Hua Kingdom, and their envoys came to us on our ship, otherwise, they would not have been able to come at all in this fifteen thousand miles. ” A country with a population of about 100,000 is not even a country at all, but a tribe at best.
The number of young and strong soldiers they can muster is about 10,000, and the number of soldiers in the whole population is at most 20,000 or 30,000.
They usually live scattered on this huge peninsula, raising dogs and deer, fishing and hunting.
Ru Mao drank blood and lived the most primitive life.
Such a country, if it weren't for the expedition team, maybe there would never have been any communication with the Central Plains.
The expedition team found that most of them were funded by merchants, mainly in search of mineral deposits, but also in search of some trade routes.
For example, although this ghost country is far away, there are also a lot of good things, such as they raise deer, so there will be a lot of deer, deer tendons, deer skins, etc., and because they are good at fishing and hunting, there are many precious furs, and they are also very cheap.
They also often catch whales and so on, and whale skin, whalebones, and whale oil are also good things.
The distance is extremely far, but if you drive a boat and use Dahua's silk porcelain and other things, you can exchange it for many bears, leopards, mink and tiger skins, and run a trip, as long as you can come back safely, it will be a hundred times more profitable.
As long as there is enough profit, not to mention going to the Wandering Ghost Country 15,000 miles away, it is to North America and South America tens of thousands of miles away, and now there are also merchant ships going there every year.
Even in order to obtain whale oil for whaling, many whaling ships go out to sea to chase whales to distant seas, and in order to save time, they even have to hunt whales on board for two or three years, and fill the cabin with boiled whale oil before returning to port.
The ghost people on the peninsula have also gained a lot of knowledge, and they can't imagine that there are so many wonderful animals in the world.
Silk, porcelain, sugar, wine, spices were all wonderful things they had never seen before.
And many furs and so on, which they regard as very common, are liked by these Chinese businessmen.
So both sides rejoiced and took what they wanted.
The expedition captain of Dahua painted the Central Plains as a paradise and invited the leader to send people to the Central Plains to pay tribute.
In fact, it is to trade, but in the name of tribute.
The expedition captain even taught the wandering ghosts to call themselves the wandering ghost country and call a chief a king in order to get some rewards from the court.
Talking about buying and selling is a tribute.
The imperial court is very aware of this, but the imperial court is also quite happy for them to pay tribute.
There is not only one ghost country in the distant bay, in fact, there are still many expeditions, and now in the north of Murowei and Yao, the four countries of Maoren, Liugui, Yasha and Driving Du Mei have been discovered.
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In fact, there are four tribal groups.
Occupying the eastern part of Siberia, it is extremely large, but the population is very small, and the four countries together may not be a million.
And for example, the Wandering Ghost King, in fact, what he can really control is only a small area, and no one can really control more than three hundred miles.
Of course, for Dahua, it is very willing to recognize these four countries, and it is also willing to admit that these four countries own the entire northeast corner.
The imperial court was also more willing for them to pay tribute and canonize their official positions, so that from a legal point of view, these barbarian lands were incorporated into the Celestial Empire system in the Central Plains.
From then on, they became vassals of Dahua.
Although these vassals were actually some places of bondage, this also gave Dahua the opportunity to go further and accept them, and even through the canonization relationship of the imperial court, the imperial court could also establish some small trading bases there, and then exile some prisoners step by step, move the people over, and build a fortress for immigrants to explore.
Eventually, we will establish ourselves in these places and lay the foundation for the continued development of these places in the future.
Historically, Tsarist Russia's expansion into Siberia was also the same routine, at first, fur traders used to buy furs, then set up some strongholds, and finally a group of prisoners and hooligans occupied the territory, and finally defeated and conquered the natives, and since then permanently invaded the Siberian region.
At present, Siberia is still difficult for Han people to penetrate, but Zhang Chao is also willing to set up some games in advance.
First bring them into the system, canonize their chieftains, and then trade with them, establish some small trading bases, and slowly expand later, and when the time comes, the court can also divide some princes in the past.
As long as the Han people are given some time to adapt to that side, then they will not be able to fight the Han people.
"There is the Simu Department in the northwest of Heishui, go north for ten days to the Junli Department, then go northeast for ten days to the Cave Department, and then go southeast for ten days to go to the Mo Yu Department, that is, Mo Yu Ya, and finally reach the Flowing Ghost Country."
This is the route of the expedition ship to the country of wandering ghosts.
From Tengju to Pyongyang, then through the Korean Strait, along the coast to Heishui, and from there, sail southeast with the current, taking advantage of the northwest wind.
From the mouth of the Heihe River to the southern end of the Liugui Country, the voyage is two thousand miles.
From Dengzhou, the voyage is more than 20,000 miles.
Xiaohai's unique counterclockwise current pattern has long been discovered by the Dahua expedition crew, who opened up this large arc route from northwest to southeast and then to northeast.
"Isn't it bigger than the Korean Peninsula?"
It is 3,000 miles from north to south, 900 miles from east to west, and there is a section of the narrowest part of the land in the north, but there are also 200 miles.
Such a large island has a population of only about 100,000, which is really small.
"That place is in the far north, and the ground is cold early."
"Sometimes it can fall more than a foot of snow in a day and a night."
"How thick the snow is a day, what are you kidding, it's more than a foot thick?"
A foot of snow is a foot thick a day, and it is also very thick, a foot high, I dare not imagine it.
"It's true, sometimes it snows in that place overnight.
The people there are all skis, sometimes sleds, pulled by dogs. ” "The people in that place are most fond of dogs, a kind of dog that looks like a wolf, and the dog can both hunt and pry.
Sometimes deer sleds are also used."
"It turned out to be a place where birds don't, what's the use of this ghost country.
We don't bother to pay attention to them. ” "I can't say that, although the country of wandering ghosts is far away and primitive, there are a lot of good things in that place, such as the skins produced there, which are the best.
Haven't you heard, the boat that brought the envoys of the Wandering Ghost Country this time was rich, they were loaded with a whole boatload of Wandering Ghost Country furs, all the best bear skins, tiger skins, mink skins, leopard skins, etc., that is the best fur, some of the furs can be worth hundreds of gold, such a whole boat, the whole boat of people have made a fortune. ” The country of Liugui is far from poor, but people have the best furs, and these skins are transported back to the Central Plains, especially in the Wujing area, which is extremely sought after.
Why did the Russians run desperately to Siberia in history It is precisely because of the Siberian furs that those furs were sold to Europe, but at that time they counted the money and had cramps, and even the tsar was reluctant to give up the benefits. t1706231537: