Chapter 820 Today's "Egg Man"!

At the beginning of Chengtian's sixteenth year, the cold winter in the Northwest has not yet passed. News of the death of the Empress Dowager had reached the front of the army, and Chen Han's logistics department urgently transported a batch of white cloth to the front.

Some troops have cut off the white cloaks they use for lurking and covering in the wild.

Even the frontline harassment battle has been reduced in intensity several times.

The besieged Russians really didn't know what had happened. However, there were not many flag men left among them. One look at the uniforms of the National Defense Forces outside and the white heads hanging on the flagpoles, and they knew what was going on.

"Thief Chen is dead, Thief Chen is dead..."

A few confused bannermen thought Chen Ming was dead. Otherwise, how could the three armies be so incompetent?

But this just made the Russians happy.

Rumyantsev is not an idiot. Although the Chinese have suspended their offensive, the entire army still wears sackcloth and mourns. This is what his bannermen said to him. In China, this can only be done when the emperor is dead. However, the morale and fighting spirit of the Chinese people have not weakened, and he also knows a lot about China. The eldest son of the Chinese emperor is already in his twenties and is already an adult. If China's Emperor Chen really dies, and the younger Emperor Chen succeeds, they may not continue to fight against the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, but they will never give up the territory they have swallowed up. .

On the vast Kazakh grassland, many herdsmen hang up white stripes as customary. There is no shortage of white cloth here anyway.

Without the oppression of the Russians, the air is so free.

Russia was beaten hard by Chen Han, and the threats to Zhongyuzi and Xiaoyuzi were lifted. Although the Russian Cossack cavalry also launched repeated attacks on the Kazakh steppe, what was gained was far out of proportion to what was lost.

I won’t talk about the future independent establishment of the country, but just talk about how many cattle, sheep and horses the Kazakhs have sold to the Northwest Military Region in the past two years, how many transportation tasks/business they have undertaken, and the proceeds from plundering the Russians outside Guryev and Orenburg. , that far exceeds the losses of the Kazakhs.

Hanati was riding a Mongolian horse and had just returned from China on the Caspian Sea. He was accompanied by several members of the same tribe. They went to the Caspian Sea to explore the aquatic pastures and fishery resources on the east coast of the Caspian Sea.

It's pitiful to say that they belong to Xiaoyuzi and were born just north of the Aral Sea. They are really very close to the Caspian Sea, but their tribe really knows very little about the Caspian Sea. Because they simply did not dare to go nomadic on the east coast of the Caspian Sea.

But it's different now.

The Turgut people came to the Aral Sea, which squeezed Xiao Yuzi's pasture to a certain extent. Therefore, when allocating and adjusting the pasture, Chen Ming ordered his subordinates to take proper care of Xiao Yuzi.

Several tribes were selected among Xiaoyuzi and the pastures on the east coast of the Caspian Sea were delineated. That place is absolutely vast and sparsely populated, which is not only suitable for grazing, but also for farming and fishing. But the risk is also the highest, that place is closest to the Russians.

This requires Xiaoyuzi people to weigh the risks of gains and losses themselves.

Hanati's team went to China on the Caspian Sea for observation. They want to conduct an on-the-spot inspection of the aquatic pastures of the Caspian Sea, the fisheries of the Caspian Sea, and the Russian harassment there.

These people wandered around the east coast of the Caspian Sea for a month without encountering a single Cossack. It may be that the heavy snow here has forced the ferocious Cossacks to be restrained in the city.

Hanati really took a fancy to the relatively superior living environment here on the Caspian Sea. After weighing whether nomadism could fill his stomach or farming, he really wanted to abandon the ancient traditional nomadic life immediately. The whole family moved to the surrounding areas of the Caspian Sea to farm and fish.

Yes, their tribe was definitely not able to cultivate fields for themselves and their families to survive very quickly like those farmers at the beginning. But they have learned about farming in recent years, and they have also tried to grow alfalfa on the grassland.

There are Russian slaves in their tribe, and they can drive these slaves to farm. More importantly, they have the support of China. The Chinese have promised them that as long as they settle in China on the Caspian Sea, they will not only receive support for farming technology and tools, but also include shipbuilding and fishing.

Hanati hopes to live a stable life.

The life of nomads is full of uncertainties.

In spring and summer, your tribe may still have herds of cattle and sheep, and it's full of life. But in a white disaster in winter, the entire tribe may disappear in the heavy snow.

There have been countless such things for thousands of years.

On the grasslands, countless small tribes emerged from the fighting, such as the Xiongnu, Khitan, and Mongolia; there were also countless small tribes that were wiped out by the wrath of nature in the winter.

Hanati is a Kazakh who is completely tired of his nomadic life. He is one of the rare doctors/TCMs in the tribe. He is definitely a ‘high-tech elite’ in today’s Kazakhstan. He has been to Yili. I spent two winters in a house in Yili and saw with my own eyes how thousands of Han people spend the winter.

He very much hoped that his tribe could be like the Han people, who could huddle up in a warm house in the winter, light up the stove leisurely, and not have to worry about the life and death of their cattle, sheep, and livestock, or their livelihood next year.

The only way to provide the Kazakhs with such a life is farming. By relying on nomadic herding, the Kazakhs will never be able to settle down.

Of course, Hanati was not sure how many people in his tribe were willing to change their traditional living customs. Even in their team that went to the Caspian Sea for a field study, there were voices of opposition.

Although the lives of the Han people made countless Kazakhs feel envious, many Kazakhs were full of yearning when they talked about this. But when it came to their turn to really change all this, many people backed off.

But Hanati, who had studied in Yili, knew that society was made up of people, and people would have their own little calculations, so any social change would have to go through hard struggles. When he was interning in southern Xinjiang, he heard a lot of stories from local people and saw a lot of brochures issued by the Chinese government. The cruelty hidden in them might be what he was about to face.

This is a scene that social progress must go through. Entering a new life, eliminating old traditions and also eliminating old people.

To be honest, if Hanati had not made an agreement with the royal court before entering Yili Medical College, and the Chinese side also kept his reserve, it would be impossible to accommodate him at least at the moment. He really wanted to move to China with his family.

Even if he is a small noble in the tribe.

In the cold winter, in the world of ice and snow, the nobles are not immune to death.

And Hanati is an eye-opener. Comparing the living conditions, learning conditions, and medical conditions in Yili and the Kazakh steppe, they are really worse than ever.

However, Hanati believes that as their exchanges with the Chinese become closer and closer, the people in the tribe will sooner or later abandon the backward traditional life and gather around the Caspian Sea to become a member of the civilized social system.

China has advanced agricultural crops and technologies, exquisite goods, and even more powerful military force and "broad" mind, which has attracted a large number of Kazakhs without firing a single shot.

Hanati is one of the representatives, and can also be said to be one of the figures of the new era of Kazakhstan. These people are like those "elites" who studied abroad in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Many people blindly worship everything in China. Just like the "banana people" at the beginning, such Hanati is a pure "egg man".

Perhaps these people are quite different from those in the original time and space, because the Kazakhs have never experienced such a big psychological gap. They should be the Southwest Yi of the Western Han Dynasty and the Japanese of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. They are willing to bow down and worship in front of China's powerful national strength and prosperous culture.

Hanati also has a very clear goal in front of him-Dayuz.

In today's Dayuz, the children of the nobles are concentrated to go to school, the women are grazing, making dairy products and dried meat at home, the outsiders collect wool and leather, and the men serve as laborers and vassal troops of the Chinese logistics troops, actively supporting China's war against Russia while also earning a good profit.

To be honest, if the Kazakh steppe continues to maintain like this, it will take two or three generations, not even a hundred years, for Dayuz to be completely dissolved in the Chinese system.

In the north of the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, the Chinese built a town by the sea, with thousands of Kazakhs in it, and more than 200 surrendered soldiers from the Russian army. They are Tatars, Poles, and a small number of Cossacks. These people surrendered voluntarily. When they came, almost no one brought women and children with them, and at most they brought one or two children.

So there were at least 160 to 170 strong men among the more than 200 surrendered soldiers.

Add to that the logistics personnel and military laborers who came with the army, as well as the garrisoned national defense forces, and the total population has exceeded 10,000 people.

Hanati was very lucky to be selected as an urgently needed person by the garrison-because he was a doctor who graduated from a professional school.

The military medical system has been established for many years, but it is still impossible to take care of everything.

This city on the Caspian Sea is more of a role model than a strategic stronghold to guard against the Russians going south and east.

In less than a year, not only farmland has been opened up, but also a small wharf has been built, and alfalfa is raised, which is a combination of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery. But if you really talk about this place, there is not even a proper permanent city wall. Outside, there is just a circle of fences made of wood around it. But outside there are trenches and positions composed of trenches.

New brick and tile factories have been built locally, but there is a shortage of cement resources and limestone support. Building materials have always been in short supply. It always makes people feel nervous.

Because of time constraints, the shortage of raw materials and labor, it is impossible to build a magnificent city comparable to the Guryav Fortress here without three to five years and a peaceful environment.

Therefore, Chen Han chose to build a city on the Caspian Sea, which was more to let the small Yuz Kazakhs who had less exchanges with China see with their own eyes the future life that China naturalized for them.

The main labor force for building this city was still captives, not only prisoners of war, but also captured Russian civilians and serfs.

Chen Han did not abuse them. As long as they worked hard, they would be well fed and clothed.

Europeans of this era are not the same as those in Chen Ming's previous life. The Nordic people who enjoy super-high social welfare in the 21st century are now as miserable as Russian serfs at the same latitude. They are like the serfs who have nothing in the equally cold eastern Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. As long as they can get a little benefit through hard work - such as wood in winter, they still work in the winter weather of minus 20 to 30 degrees. Even though they are still wearing relatively thin thick linen winter clothes, they still work hard to dig ditches on the frozen land, build roads, cities, buildings, etc., and cut trees in the forest - this is one of the few ways for many lower-class people in Northern and Eastern Europe to get cash.

These Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles, since they can do outdoor work in winter in their hometowns, what reason do they have not to continue working in winter now that they have become captives? Although from the beginning of winter last year to now, those captives have died by the hundreds.

But it doesn't matter.

The National Defense Army swept through Western Siberia, and captured and rounded up many Russians. Just this winter, the number of Russians who froze to death in the wild is unknown to be hundreds of times this number.

Russia has been operating in Western Siberia for a long time. Although it is well known that many people have been evacuated, and many people have secretly crossed the Ob River one after another, but Chen Han’s harvest is obviously less - only a little over 200,000.

There are also many Tatars and mixed-race people mixed in. In Chen Ming’s mind, only pure Slavs and Ukrainians are the real base of the Russian Empire.

Although the Russians have been operating in Western Siberia for a long time and have built a large number of fortresses, many of these fortresses are made of wood, and have evolved into cities over a hundred years. There are really not many real fortresses that can really cause trouble for Chen Han.

The armies of the two armies started to play games and fight around those real fortresses, while outside the fortresses, the mobile forces of each other also launched encounters, surprise attacks, and ambushes in the test.

To be honest, the Wehrmacht was not much stronger than its opponent in terms of command level, and fell into the encirclement of the Russian army several times.

But just like the volunteers with absolute superiority in strength could not bite the surrounded and defended US troops during the Korean War, although the Russians had several opportunities to take the initiative, they could not bite the Wehrmacht.

In terms of the combat quality of the soldiers and the combat response after the sudden ambush, the Wehrmacht was definitely stronger than the Russians. It's hard to say about the cavalry, but it's quite obvious for the infantry.

The combat quality of these troops in Rumyantsev's hands was at least one level lower than that of the Wehrmacht.

By the beginning of February, Rumyantsev had figured out what had happened in China. He was really disappointed!

There were indeed people from the Chinese royal family who died, but it was not the Chinese emperor who died, but the Chinese emperor's eighty-year-old grandmother! This is really disappointing for them.