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Chapter 138 Cossacks

Soon, five days later, when the Li brothers escorted the caravan to Black Flag Castle again.

Jin Yiwei, who was extremely busy, came to find them.

"You two boys are so lucky! Congratulations! News has come from the Ming Dynasty! You are now Imperial Guards! The higher ups have awarded you the title of Imperial Warriors! Write down your names on our stick first, and we will add the badges and stuff later.

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The general also has important tasks to entrust to you! Now quickly drop what you are doing and follow me to the inner city yamen! What’s going on!? Hey me!”

"Snapped!"

Zhang Guangjin slapped each of them on the head.

"The first lesson! Just go if you are told! You will know when you get to the place! Don't ask too many questions! Can I tell you anything here!?"

"oh oh!"

The two of them nodded repeatedly, their hearts ecstatic but not suppressed by these two slaps.

Grandpa God.

Yangde was originally located in a remote border area. As far as the Li family knew, especially after the Bingzi Rebellion, countless escaped slaves crossed the border and ran to Qing captive territory every year.

The two looked at each other in confusion. Just as Li Chengwen was about to ask a question, Li Chengshan stopped his eldest brother and directly raised his hands to Zhu Youjian who was kneeling on the ground and said: "Yes! We are willing! Thank you, General!"

After a while, Zhang Guangjin brought the two of them to Chongzhen and hurriedly confessed and left.

Our Ming generals are so considerate!

The two of them controlled their increasingly arrogant smiles, nodded and bowed before exiting.

Their pioneering team had no logistics to speak of. When they arrived at a place, the only way to obtain food was to hunt, rob or enslave the locals.

What the Cossacks did was even more unhuman.

So inhuman.

To suppress bandits, you have to kill the bandit leader, and do other miscellaneous operations, which are all money.

Although I knew before that I would be able to achieve success by following Jin Yiwei, I didn’t expect this opportunity to come so quickly!

And Zhu Youjian also waved his hand and told them to find chairs and sit down, and then said: "Your family was very helpful when my army attacked the Jiannu. A few days ago, we were the gunpowder in the battle against the Jiannu and puppet king Azig."

Military resources are also a timely help.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, just last year, the Cossacks' footprints had reached the Greater Khingan Mountains.

That's it.

It was said that their tribe had discovered the wild Jurchens in the North. The scale was huge. One thousand seventeen or eight hundred people came with their families and a bunch of livestock. It didn't look like they were paying tribute.

Once these two things are done, I will prepare a separate letter and submit it. By then, with the accumulation of achievements, it is not impossible for the small flag officer and even the general flag."

It’s not right to go to the country.

When they came back, they had been busy for many days and no longer cared about the etiquette of monarchs and ministers. He said directly: "They asked your majesty to allocate a piece of land in the south. They said that they can no longer stay in the north. There is a group of vicious madmen who call themselves Cossacks.

Constantly attacking them, saying that if Your Majesty agrees, they will no longer be loyal to the slaves and will instead be loyal to Your Majesty."

Although Tsarist Russia did not recognize the local political power established by these free people at this time, it also realized that they could help its expansion.

Because Yangde is located in the northeast, relatively few people have escaped across the border, but many settlements have gathered and developed in the wild lands north of the border.

Or they could directly join the Qing captives and be willing to be slaves to the Qing captives.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, they were expelled to Heilongjiang by the Ming Dynasty. After the Jin Dynasty was established, most of them became Sauron soldiers due to annexation and encroachment. So the remaining ones who were not caught simply ran away to the northern part of the Daxingan Mountains and became part of the Wild Jurchens.

In addition, the Jinyiwei will lead people to search for bandits in North Korea in the future, and the manpower obtained will basically be sent to Black Flag Fort to be conscripted into the army. The transit needs to be through Yangde County, where your family is located. Your Li family can consider whether to participate in it.

By the way, what kind of official is the Jinyi Guardsman?

Qinglu and North Korea can't stop it even if they kill both sides.

Cossack?

That’s right, it’s this year.

The two of them welcomed us very much!

Then we must cooperate.

Not long after Zhu Youjian saw them off.

Zhu Youjian naturally sent someone to contact him.

Most of them are Daur people.

The reason is also very simple.

The word Cossack originates from the Turkic language, and its meaning is "a free person" or "a brave person".

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Youjian was slightly stunned.

Go back and ask dad.

It is normal for the wild Jurchens in the North to pay tribute to Jian Nu. They are far away and there is no harm. Jian Nu naturally requires them to pay tribute every three years as they paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, so they can just receive some symbolic benefits.

The army of the Great Kingdom is fighting behind the slaves, and the logistics must be tight. If you offer help at this time, you will get twice the result with half the effort!

Jiao Boqing came to report outside.

After carefully tracing the real ethnic group names of these wild girls who came to seek refuge, Zhu Youjian also got the answer he wanted.

It was said that a tribe came to report from the north of Black Flag Castle.

Isn’t this reward coming soon?

Upon hearing this, the two of them hurriedly knelt down and bowed their heads.

Cheng Kuo led a group of cavalry and traveled back and forth in four days.

Therefore, local officials often hired Cossacks as standing soldiers and to develop expedition teams.

Dad was right.

But the fold was handed in before, and the reward for the battle against Azigh was not included, so His Majesty rewarded you with the post of Imperial Guard, but only gave you the rank of warrior. If you send the fold again this time, it will probably only be a small step up to the rank of captain.

That's all.

As for why a group of nearly 2,000 people came together to vote.

But the attitude of surrender is very obvious. Wherever they go, they continue to show to the surrounding tribes that they are here to surrender to the Black Flag Uerte.

As for the Jin Yiwei's plan to suppress the bandits.

Jiannu still wanted to catch up and demand tribute.

It just so happens that I have two things you two can do here, so I sent someone to call you over, are you willing?"

Then he kowtowed repeatedly.

Let’s not talk about history. Anyway, these days they are just a group of disorganized gangsters running around, doing anything and daring to drill and drill anywhere.

This is a good thing.

Or they band together and become a small group of bandits.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Youjian nodded with satisfaction: "The army is short of manpower. I want to select some strong men from North Korea to serve as soldiers. It is most appropriate to leave this matter to you two. There is no limit on where you come from, and your wealth.

At present, the number is limited to two thousand people. They can also be selected from the Koreans in Black Flag Fort, and I will pay half of the ransom for the Jurchens.

A few days later, these Daur people arrived near Black Flag Fort.

After the temporary settlement, Zhu Youjian found several leaders of their escape alliance and asked about the Cossacks in detail.

Later, several leaders described with sad faces and a hint of fear how the group of madmen burned, killed, and looted wherever they went, more and more every year, and they became more and more powerful every year!

Last year, a team encountered a small tribe and enslaved everyone in the tribe. Finally, in winter, there was not enough food! They started to eat the people in the tribe! The people in the tribe had finished eating! They even ate their own people.

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Only when you have only half of what you have eaten is left! Then retreat!

In the past, various tribes could be surrounded and suppressed by them. In recent years, those madmen have somehow been able to attract demons and rain down thunder to attack the warriors in the tribe!

Cossacks have been active on the Chinese border since the early to mid-17th century, either spontaneously or hired by the Russian government. In the early days, the Qing Dynasty focused on the Central Plains and did not take any countermeasures.

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