Dominate the Country

Albin Durmaz put down the coffee in his hand and looked at his new friend Jimmy Martin, a reporter for the British Daily News in China, who was writing and drawing on the coffee table on his left. "Martin, what are you writing? It's been an hour, and you are still so focused?"

Durmaz is a Swede. As one of China's potential allies in this war and a traditional friendly country of China, Swedish journalists enjoy first-class treatment in China.

He doesn't need to work hard to "find" news every day. At 5 o'clock every afternoon, someone will deliver enough news to him in this cafe, and all Durmaz needs to pay is a ten-yuan bill - the headlines or comments that the newspapers in Yili are going to publish tomorrow.

To be honest, in this era of poor transportation, these journalists sent to China really don’t need to work hard to find news. They just need to sit and wait for Chinese news newspapers, and then send the "old news" to Shanghai by pigeons. The Shanghai boss, business representatives, ambassadors, etc. will decide what kind of news should be sent back to China as soon as possible and what kind of news does not need to be urgent.

Every year, the time for merchant ships to return to the East and the West is fixed, and general news is sent back and forth thousands of miles. If urgent intelligence really needs to be delivered, the cost is too high.

So Durmaz doesn’t understand why Martin is so "diligent". They are different from those Chinese journalists. The latter will send press releases to the headquarters of their own newspapers every day. China may have the most homing pigeons in the world, but it is also very tight to spread them across the country, so they often compete for pigeon nest resources.

And Martin actually always has to "finely process" the intelligence he received and then send it back to Shanghai. This is really incomprehensible in Durmaz's eyes.

Albin Durmaz asked again. He felt that Martin was not writing a news release or sorting out the communication records. These two things are the most important things in the journalist's profession. Even if they are friends, they will never pay attention to them, let alone ask about them.

But Martin was not only writing for an hour, he was also drawing on a blank piece of paper beside him. It seemed to be a long diagonal and vertical line. Durmaz would not peek. But as a veteran journalist, he was sure that he was not sorting out the communication records.

Martin raised his head and looked at Albin Durmaz. He did not speak, but shook his head vigorously. It seemed that he had been shaking his head for too long, making him a little dizzy.

"It's really been an hour, God, it's been so long." The coffee was cold. "I'm sorry, Durmaz." It is very rude to leave friends aside and only do your own things.

"No need to say sorry. We are friends. I'm just curious about what you are doing!" Albin Durmaz took a sip of coffee. Sitting in a cafe for an hour or even longer is commonplace for Durmaz. You have to know that his homeland is Sweden, not Britain.

In Sweden, there is a lifestyle called Fika, which is about coffee. Swedes love coffee as much as Italians. Fika is the special term for Swedish people to take a break after drinking coffee, which is not the afternoon tea of ​​British people. Choose a cafe with a good environment to sit down and drink a cup of coffee, with different desserts in different seasons, and sigh about the long winter or the beauty of summer. That is the most worth looking forward to for Swedes in a day.

As a reporter who has become more and more lazy after arriving in China, Durmaz spends more and more time in cafes. You have to know that Swedes have a lot of preferential treatment in China, and Durmaz can also meet many compatriots in China. These people are not employees of the Swedish East India Company, but Swedes who were "sold" to the East by the East India Company.

They generally have obtained permanent residency in China. Everyone has their own new life and naturally their own new life experience.

The income and living conditions of these scholars and technicians in China are generally great. If they were placed in Europe, they would definitely be middle-class people who have no worries about food and clothing.

After coming to Shanghai from Stockholm, Durmaz only needed to talk to the Swedes in Shanghai and Nanjing about his new life, and he could hand in a news release that the newspapers were amazed by.

It was this hateful war that forced him to leave the beautiful and comfortable Shanghai and travel thousands of miles to Yili. Although he also saw the breadth and richness of China along the way, compared with life in Yili, he preferred to sit in a cafe by the sea in Shanghai and admire the beautiful scenery of Shanghai Port through the oversized glass windows. Merchant ships, warships and small and medium-sized fishing boats are docked in the port, and seagulls fly around. You can enjoy the scenery of Shanghai from the most beautiful angle, drink coffee and chat, and look at the beautiful scenery of the city port. That is the real enjoyment.

"If it's about work, don't talk about it. I asked because I felt that you..., you didn't seem to be organizing work records just now."

Jimmy Martin asked the waiter for a cup of coffee. The man leaned back in his chair, "Of course it's not work notes. I'm just curious about the changes that Kazakhs are going through in their lives. They are becoming more and more like Chinese, aren't they? Just like the Mongolians and indigenous people here. Chinese They have a great influence on the Kazakh grasslands, but the Chinese have only been here for a short time. Compared with the Russians, the results of the Chinese activities are too obvious in such a short time. How did they do it?"

Martin said as he handed the piece of paper on which he had written and drawn to Albin Durmaz, his mind still in a mess.

Before the Chen and Han Dynasties, the Tatar Empire went through a hundred years of war to completely eliminate the Junggar Mongolian Kingdom. Then the Kazakhs, who had been bullied by the Junggars, naturally laid their knees on the Tatars in Beijing.

However, the Tatar rule over Xinjiang was not stable. It was not until the year when Emperor Chen was eight years old that the Tatars completely quelled the resistance war of the Xinjiang natives. Emperor Chen was still under sixteen when he raised his army. The interval is short.

Compared with the time when Russia entered the Kazakh grassland, the time when the Chinese entered the Kazakh grassland was as short as a meteor streaking across the sky.

The "Daily News" is the first-class broadsheet in the UK. It is the earliest newspaper in the UK. After the outbreak of the Sino-North American War, it began to send reporters to China. Martin was not the first, he was the third batch to come. Chinese reporter.

As a journalist with a keen sense of smell, Martin's eyes were not only focused on the war, he also saw the obedient attitude of the Kazakhs towards China and the sudden 'rebellion' of the Torgut cavalry.

Yes, in Martin's eyes, Turgut's behavior was not 'anyway', but the most standard form of 'rebellion'. It's simply synonymous with betrayal.

Moreover, Martin, who is very particular about researching "background information", also uncovered many "mysteries" from the Kazakhs. For example, Dayuzi, the most unscrupulous tribe in Nanjing, has a very complex ethnic structure. The main tribes include Kangli (i.e. Kangju), Tuqishi, Dulat (i.e. Dulu), Zalayier, Alban, Su Wan, Saliusun, Sirgri, Yisti, Ushakti, Xiapraxiti, Hatagan, etc. Among them, Tuqishi is the core tribe of Dayuzi.

And what kind of relationship does Tuqishi have with China?

This goes back thousands of years. At that time, China was still ruled by the Tang Dynasty. China during the prosperous Tang Dynasty could be said to be the pinnacle of ancient China. Even today, the name Tang people is so familiar.

And Tu Qishi was one of the defeated Western Turks under the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

During the more than 100 years that the Tang Dynasty managed the Western Regions, Tuqi Shi had surrenders and rebellions. His Khan Sulu once teamed up with Tibetan soldiers to plunder the four towns of Anxi, besiege the city of Anxi, and for a long time occupied Suiye City, the outpost of the Tang Dynasty operating in the Hezhong area, which was also the birthplace of Li Bai. Finally, in 736 AD, Gai Jiayun, the governor of Beiting (or Jimusa) in China, defeated Sulu near the ancient city.

After the defeat of Sulu Khan, his strength decreased sharply, and he was overthrown by his general Mohedagan. Mohedagan first surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, but within a few years he killed the governor sent by the Tang Dynasty. Finally, two years later, He was defeated and killed by Tang general Meng Lingcha.

Because of this defeat, Tuqi Shi was divided into two, and they attacked and killed each other. In the end, they were benefited by the Geluolu tribe who had made great gains in the battle of Hengluos.

It's hard to say whether the ancient relationship between Tuqishi and China was good or bad, but now they are indeed Nanjing's most loyal lackeys on the Kazakh grasslands. After dispatching the initial 10,000 cavalry, its leader Abiris Khan gathered another 10,000 cavalry and rushed to the Western Siberian plains.

Of course, Martin didn't know that this was because after the Russian First Army on the Eastern Front was annihilated, the Torgut troops officially returned to the Chinese camp, and Chen Han's "intention" to seize the country in the western region of the border was promptly spread to Kazakhstan. In the ears of the three nobles.

In fact, this 'intention' had been vaguely revealed to the three tents of Kazakhstan before this, but it had never been made so clear. And when this "intention" was passed to the ears of Kazakh nobles, the purpose of this "intention" was also introduced.

Emperor Chen hoped to build a 'wall of separation' between his own country, the Tianfang world, and the monotheistic religions of Europeans.

In other words, if the Three Tents of Kazakhstan are willing to become an independent country, then it is inappropriate for all their people to believe in Tianfang Religion.

After this information was passed to the three tents of Kazakhstan, there was no too fierce conflict within them. For these high-level nobles, changing their beliefs is a price that can be paid.

Given the environment in Kazakhstan, it is difficult to say how firmly they believe in Tianfang Religion.

You must know that the Kazakhs have their own primitive beliefs, just like the nomads on the Mongolian steppes. They believe that all things have animism, so the sky, earth, sun, moon, stars, water and fire have all become objects of worship. Horses, cattle, sheep, camels and other livestock have their own gods. Green grass symbolizes the god of life. The trees by the river are sacred trees. After a person dies, his soul remains immortal, so ancestor worship also has a great influence on the Kazakh people.

They believe that everything in the world is controlled by gods, good gods bring happiness to people, and evil gods bring disaster to people.

The Tianfang Sect was only accepted by the entire Kazakh people in the late Ming Dynasty. It was a long and slow process. In the previous collisions and conflicts, the combat effectiveness could not keep up with the original belief of the Tianfang Sect, and some forms were also changed, adopting Some forms of Islam are still preserved in pastoral areas. Among the Kazakhs, while they believe in Tianfang, they also believe in "Bacs", "Baliger", "Dugna", "Chayik" and so on. In fact, these gods are similar to the "shamans" of the northern nomads. "Shaman" is the incarnation and agent of God. Their main duties are to perform divine dances, divination and chanting incantations in pastoral areas, so as to exorcise ghosts from patients, pray for hunters, pray for good weather, ensure the safety of people and animals, etc.

And precisely because there has always been such a tradition, the upper-class Kazakh nobles do not seem to care too much about some of the news that has been passed on.

Take Abiris Khan as an example, that is a good proof.

In Chen Ming's design, it is very simple to add the location of the three Kazakhs. He didn't even ask Sanzhang Kazak to change his faith quickly. Because the Central Asia he knew was never a Kazakh grassland.

Now that the three-tent Kazakhs voluntarily chose to surrender, Chen Ming felt that there was no need for the Kokand Khanate, the Khiva Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate to exist.

But this process needs to be ‘done’ by the three tent Kazakhs themselves. At most, Chen Han would send troops to cooperate in the battle, and he would not work for them.

And looking at the current situation of these three khanates, the politics of the Wasi Khanate are in chaos, and Khan King Gap is purely a puppet in the hands of the Uzbek leaders.

The Bukhara Khanate had just completed the change of dynasty, and Masan Shah Murad kicked out Abu Ghazi, the last Khan of the Astrakhan Dynasty and his father-in-law.

Its national strength has entered a stage of revival. But will Chen Ming take the Bukhara Khanate seriously?

Finally, there is the Kokand Khanate that disgusts Chen Ming the most. This country was only established more than 40 years ago. When the puppet Qing Dynasty suppressed Xinjiang, Kokand generously took in some Wala nobles who fled from the Xinjiang area, as well as the previous ones. He Zhuo ruled the Tarim Basin.

If history has not changed, Kokand surrendered to the Qing court on the condition of ensuring its trade rights with the Xinjiang region after unsuccessfully seeking help from the Abdali dynasty king of Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Durrani. A vassal state of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

It was not until its strength reached its peak that it began to turn its back on others and actively intervene in Xinjiang, which in turn caused the Zhanggeer Rebellion during the Daoguang period. As for the later Aguba, he was the representative of the development of this idea to its peak.

In the current era, Chen Han's "prominent peaks" prevented Kokand from becoming a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, they unscrupulously hired the Kirgiz (Kyrgyz) people, the remnants of the original Junggar army, as mercenaries to enrich their military. strength. Start your own path to the unification of the Fergana Basin.

Chen Ming has always turned a blind eye to it. The Kokand Kingdom took the initiative to send envoys to Nanjing, intending to exchange their rights to monopolize foreign trade in the Xinjiang region in exchange for surrender. Of course this would not be accepted by Chen Ming.

Then the officials from both sides stopped communicating with each other.

Kokand merchants can trade in Kashgar and other places in southern Xinjiang, but there are no discounts.

After Dayuzi gradually regained his strength, he took the initiative to suppress Haohan, and then Zhongyuzi. If Xiao Yuzi hadn't been far away in the Caspian Sea and had nothing to do with Haohan, Ai Chuwak might have gotten involved. There was no need for Chen Han to take action at all. Haohan was already a little worried now.

Martin was really curious.

Compared with Russia, which has limited strength [the life-and-death enemy Ottoman has not yet completely fallen], isn't the powerful China more of a threat to Kazakhstan? They are still changing the beliefs of the Kazakhs. Why are the Chinese doing so well in Kazakhstan?

A lot of the intelligence he collected showed that the influence of the Chinese among the Kazakhs was growing exponentially. The Kazakhs' sense of comparison with China is obviously much better than that of Russia. Many Chinese who were sent to the Kazakh tribes received a warm welcome from the Kazakhs.

This is really weird, Martin really doesn’t understand.