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"Where did it come from?"

Golitsyn replied: "It's a gift from Kangxi Khan of Great Mongolia...for Her Highness the Princess!"

"Give it to me? Why?" Sophia was taken aback. The princess probably hadn't received any Valentine's Day gifts before, so she didn't realize it all at once.

"Your Highness," Golitsyn said with a smile on his face, "Kangxi Khan hopes to marry you as his bride..."

"He...marries me?" Princess Sophia couldn't believe her ears.

"That's right!" Golitsyn said with a smile, "Your Highness, he is a great khan, a heroic warrior, a rare warrior... He has killed the head of the Kazakh Khan! The entire Kazakh grassland has been destroyed by him." After conquering, Tashkent city has already belonged to him. If there is no accident, he will own the entire Mougustan in a few months!

Princess, if you can be his wife..."

Grand Duke Mirovsky quickly interrupted him: "Vassily, what are you talking about? He is an Easterner who doesn't believe in God."

"Grand Duke," Golitsyn said, shaking his head, "he is the Great Khan of Mongolia!"

Princess Sofia asked: "What does he look like? How old is he?"

Golitsyn knew that the princess had taken the initiative, so he smiled and said: "Princess, the Mongolian Khan is well-proportioned, handsome, and not too old. He looks only in his early thirties... Your Highness, this is quite a good job." Marriage! I think you will be very happy with the Mongolian Khan."

Chapter 701 What?That female Batulu is Princess Sofia?

"Sofia...you don't really want to marry that Mongolian Khan, do you? As far as I know, Mongolians don't believe in God. They either believe in Allah or are Buddhists."

Sofia's grandfather, Grand Duke Miloslavski, saw the ferocious smile on the face of the "little princess", and he knew that this granddaughter who could never find a good husband was moved.

But his old man still has some doubts about this marriage, after all...that is a brutal Mongol!

And once Tsar Miroslav Fyodor dies, the Miloslavsky family will need the protection of this tyrannical and powerful princess!

Sophia was also a little suspicious after being told by her grandfather, and looked back at Golitsyn.

Golitsyn shook his head and said, "Kangxi Khan really doesn't believe in God, he believes in Buddhism and Confucianism... Confucianism is a very influential traditional school in China, and has been engaged in the research of natural magic for a long time."

"He's a magician?" Princess Sofia's eyes lit up when she heard that, and her doubts seemed to be dispelled again.

"I think so," Golitsyn replied.

"The Mongols are barbaric and stupid," Grand Duke Miloslavsky began to speak ill of Emperor Kangxi again, "and they beat their wives!"

"Beating your wife?" Princess Sofia rolled up her sleeves, revealing her two thick arms, and stared fiercely, "He dares!"

Golitsyn quickly shook his head and said, "Don't dare, dare not, he wouldn't dare... He is a small sweaty man, he must not be able to beat Her Highness the Princess.

And he's neither wild nor stupid, he speaks Latin better than I do, and he's good at mathematics and astronomy.As far as I know, he is also very knowledgeable about world and European affairs, and has always kept in touch with the Holy See.This time, Soetu, the envoy who arrived in Moscow with me, will lead a mission to Western Europe after completing the mission of visiting our country. "

"Go to Western Europe?" Grand Duke Miloslavski was taken aback, "Why do you want to go to Western Europe? Could it be that you want all Europeans to know that the formidable Mongolian country is back?"

Sofia snorted: "Actually, that's not bad... The superior people in Europe always regard us as inferior barbarians. Now they have to rely on us to resist a powerful Mongol Empire!"

Golitsyn frowned and said, "Your Highness, the Great Khan also hopes that our Tsar Majesty can also serve as Great Khan of the Golden Horde..."

"What?" Grand Duke Miloslavsky was taken aback, "What does he want to do? Is it to tie us to the chariot of Mongolia's western expedition?"

"No, no, his request is not to turn the Raksha Kingdom into the Golden Horde," Golitsyn shook his head again and again, "but to present the title of the Great Khan of the Golden Horde to His Majesty the Tsar, so that our Raksha Kingdom will be Can legally annex the Siberian Khanate, Kazan Khanate and Crimea Khanate!

In addition, His Majesty the Tsar holds the title of Great Khan of the Golden Horde, which is also beneficial for our Raksha country to enter the system of eastern civilization. "

"Enter the Eastern system? Vasily Vasilyevich," Sofia Gongzhu frowned, "Do you really think it is necessary for us to turn to the Eastern system?"

"No," Golitsyn shook his head. "It's not about turning to the East. The goal of our Rakshasa is always to revive Rome! But we need to learn from the West and the East at the same time, instead of Westernizing... After all, sweet gunpowder and rocket launchers come from East, that is what a powerful Rakshasa country needs!

Moreover, if we can get a powerful Mongol Empire to stand behind us, it will be very beneficial to our goal of going south to capture the coastal areas of the Black Sea! "

In fact, the Raksha people still yearn for the West from the bottom of their hearts, but they are a proud big country after all, and they have the desire to become leaders... So the Raksha people want to use the shell of the Roman Empire to enter the West as Romans.

Recapturing Constantinople was the obvious shortcut to this goal.

The warm climate and convenient transportation in Constantinople also made the Rakshasa people who had lived in a closed and cold environment for a long time covet.

In addition, the Crimean Khanate is not a good thing... They are the royal slave traders of the Ottoman Empire, and they have long captured strong male slaves and blond hair and blue-eyed female slaves in southern Russia.Just for this, the Raksha people have to destroy them too!

"But, but..." Grand Duke Miloslavski glanced at his ugly and a little rough granddaughter, hesitating and not knowing what to say?

"Grandpa," said Princess Sofia, who is very clever, and of course knew what the old man was thinking, "If the Miloslavsky family becomes the in-laws of the Great Khan of Mongolia...even if Peter becomes the Tsar, there is nothing to worry about.

Because as long as the Ottoman Empire does not collapse, as long as Constantinople is not recovered, Great Mongolia is the most reliable and close friend of Rakshasa! "

When Grand Duke Miloslavsky heard his granddaughter's analysis, he could only smile wryly.If Sofia had been half as good-looking as she was, he would have been very much in favor of the marriage.After all, Ivan, the stupid son of the tsar's family, seems unlikely to have an heir, and his health is not very good... If he dies again, Peter will still become the tsar.

But he can't tell Sophia that you are an ugly monster, and there must be no way to win Kangxi Khan's favor.Besides, this is a political marriage.If Kangxi Khan's political skills are good enough, Sofia's looks don't matter at all.

"Okay then," Grand Duke Miloslavski finally nodded, "Then let's report this to His Majesty the Tsar now... Also, let His Majesty try the potion again, if it can cure his body, than Everything is strong!"

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After taking allicin, Tsar Fyodor really became more energetic. The low-grade fever that had been burning for several days also subsided, and he even felt much better. , anyone would be happy, and Fyodor is still a tsar.

The Tsar cheered up and asked Golitsyn to invite Soetu and Xiao Guizi to the Kremlin early the next morning.They also called Princess Sofia and Grand Duke Miloslavski... For a marriage, the Mongolian envoys must see the princess's haughty back!

"Small, Xiao Guizi, did I hear you right? That female Baturu is really that Princess Sofia?"

There was a Mongolian-speaking translator in the tsar’s court. With this introduction, Suo’etu immediately knew that Lord Kangxi had been tricked by others, and he didn’t care about diplomatic etiquette. He used Manchuria in front of the tsar and Princess Sophia. Then I asked Xiao Guizi a question.

When Xiao Guizi saw the princess who looked like a thick iron pillar, her scalp felt a little numb, but she nodded and said, "Suo Zhongtang, she, she seems to be Princess Sofia...Long live, long live, he...It's not easy!"

Chapter 702 International Marriage, International Onlookers, Must Act Well!

Although Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi were talking in Manchurian, everyone in the audience hall of the Kremlin knew what they were talking about?Everyone has normal aesthetics!Even Princess Sofia herself knows that her appearance is really hard to be worthy of the word "beautiful"...

However, Princess Sofia is now interested in Kangxi Khan, whom she has never met before. Of course, she cannot allow two envoys who judge people by their appearance to mess up this matter.Thinking of this, she hummed heavily, and Golitsyn standing beside her and the Tsar sitting on the throne in the middle trembled.

Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi were also taken aback, they both thought of an old acquaintance—Oboi!

I really didn't expect Kangxi to be bullied by Ao Bai in court when he was a child, but he would be bullied by a female version of Ao Bai in bed when he grew up.

At this time, the Raksha Tsar said in Raksha language: "I have agreed to all the requirements put forward by the Great Khan... I will accept the title of the Golden Horde Khan and use this title to deal with Eastern affairs. And I also agreed to the marriage proposed by the Great Khan I request that Princess Sofia, the most... wisest princess of the Raksha Kingdom, be married to Kangxi Khan of Great Mongol, and I sincerely wish them a happy and happy life together forever!"

His words were translated into Mongolian by the Rakshasa who was present. At this time, there were many Mongolians living in the land under the Rakshasa rule, and many of the upper classes were bought by the Tsar with high officials and generous salaries.So there is no shortage of officials who can speak Mongolian in Moscow.

The tsar's words continued, and he didn't know if it was because the old lady who was about to "smash her hands" was finally wanted by someone, or because he had just obtained a life-saving magic medicine, and it seemed that he could live for a long time again.So this young tsar in his early twenties was in high spirits today, and he talked even more eloquently.

"...The friendship between our Raksha Kingdom and the Great Mongol Kingdom will also be greatly deepened and consolidated with this marriage!

In the future, on the long border between the Raksha State and the Mongolian State, there will no longer be fully armed soldiers who are hostile to each other, and there will be no more people fighting each other for a desolate barren land.

In the future, the shuttle between the borders of the two countries will benefit both our countries, and both of us will become richer, more civilized, and more progressive knowledge and goods!

In addition, our two countries will form a very strong alliance because of this marriage!In the future, no matter who dares to launch a war against any of our two countries, he will bear all the wrath of the two great countries, Rakshasa and Mongolia! "

When the tsar's eloquent speech was translated into Mongolian, Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi both heaved a sigh of relief.

Isn't this what Kangxi Khan wanted?

The two of them had carefully observed the country on their way from the Kazakh steppe to Moscow.Although this country is a typical example of "big but not rich" and "big but not strong" in their own eyes.But in the eyes of Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi, Luocha Kingdom is still very powerful.

First of all, Rakshasa is really big!The country is vast and boundless, even larger than the area in the heyday of the Qing Dynasty!Although most of the Raksha land is in an extremely cold place that is difficult to cultivate.But there is still a lot of fertile land that is suitable for reclamation...Because the land is abundant and fertile, so long as you plant it casually, you can produce enough food, so that there is a saying like "No one will starve to death in the Raksha country". proverb.

Secondly, there are many Rakshasa people!Although it can't be compared with Ming Dynasty in terms of population, it is definitely much larger than that of Qing Dynasty... According to Golitsyn, their country has at least 400 million to 600 million people!According to the standard of sending a soldier out of 100 people, it is enough to maintain a standing army of 10,000+ people.

Moreover, the Raksha Kingdom is not ruled by foreigners, but by its own people, so it will not be the same as the Qing Dynasty. There are too few countries to fight a war of attrition-they are in the Uhelan and the Ottoman Empire, Crimea The two powerful countries of the Khanate fought against each other for five years. Although it is not good to fight tough battles, they can last.

Third, Rakshasa Kingdom is quite good at learning.This country is big but not old, and it has only opened for a few years. If you count from the time Ivan the Terrible became the tsar, it has only been more than 100 years.Because of the short years, there are few rules and stereotypes.

They were very active in learning Western Europe before, and they made rapid progress in all aspects.Now it seems that they can learn from Daming again - both Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi know that Daming has sent a mission to Luocha.

Therefore, the Rakshasa army should soon realize "low sugar"...and the "low sugar" army will crush the "sugar-free" army!

Therefore, it is necessary to turn Rakshasa into an ally early!

When the tsar had finished speaking, Golitsyn spoke again.

"Mr. Two Special Envoys, the marriage of the Great Khan and the Princess is not only a grand event shared by two royal families and two countries, but also a shared event shared by Mongolian civilization and European civilization... Therefore, a dreamy large-scale wedding needs to be held, and should be invited The envoys from the East and the West came to observe the wedding together. By the way, let them know that the Mongolian Kingdom has been revived, and it has also married and formed an alliance with the Raksha Kingdom!"

Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi immediately understood that this Golitsyn wanted to turn Kangxi Khan's wedding into an international diplomatic event!

On the one hand, it pushes the Qing Mongolia, the successor country of the Great Mongolia, to the world, so that everyone knows that the Great Mongolia is back, and that it has entered into an alliance with the Raksha Kingdom... Whoever dares to think about the Raksha Kingdom in the future, just think about it The taste of God's whip!

On the other hand, turning the wedding of Kangxi Khan and Princess Sofia into an international audience can also prevent Kangxi Khan from going back on his word... The international audience is watching it!Wouldn't it be an international joke to repent?

Suo'etu still has a mission to go to Europe, and Xiao Guizi will have to do the reporting to Tashkent and arranging the wedding.So he did not take this responsibility, but glanced at Xiao Guizi, and asked in Manchurian: "Gui Gonggong, you are the confidant of Da Khan, look at this..."

Xiao Guizi glanced at Sofia, then thought about Kangxi Khan's anger... Finally, she nodded and said, "Khan always puts his family, country and world first. Although this Princess Sofia is a little ugly, she is a master." A princess with real power. Moreover, their Romanov dynasty is not very prosperous, and there is a tradition of female lords in the Western side. Maybe..."

When Suo'etu heard this, he raised his thumb up, a confidant is a confidant!That's the roundworm in the master's stomach. If you want to cheat the master, how can outsiders compare?

As long as this Sophia has the possibility of becoming the female czar, Kangxi Khan will regard her as a treasure, and it is not a shortcoming to look like Oboi... Only a little fierceness can suppress the situation in the Raksha Kingdom!

"Okay, Mr. Golitsyn's proposal is very good." Suo'etu smiled, "What to do! This envoy will go to the Netherlands, England, Spain, Portugal and Rome later, so I can send a wedding invitation along the way. Get some people to come to Moscow to attend the wedding together, and by the way, let the Western Europeans see the strength of our Great Mongolia!"

In fact, the trip between Suo'etu and Xiao Guizi was really messed up - Kangxi certainly likes beautiful women, but he is very weak now. Although he won the battle of Shymkent and took the Kazakh grassland and the city of Tashkent, But this victory is not enough to reverse the decline of the Qing Dynasty, nor is it enough for him to sit firmly on the throne of the Mongolian Khan.

So he urgently needs support from all sides!In other words, he wants to be a "fox" who pretends to be a tiger right now, and...he cannot have only one tiger behind this fox, he must have many tigers to stand on his platform, so that he can make the tigers deter each other, At the same time, it will frighten the two small Khanates of Bukhara and Khiva and the more than one million Kazakhs on the Kazakh grassland.

After frightening Bukhara, Khiva, and Kazakhs, Kangxi Khan was able to win a large base that could settle down and lead to Tianzhu.

With this base area, he can in turn firmly control the three areas of the Qing Eight Banners, the Confucian Han Chinese, and the Yellow Sect Mongols...

Chapter 703 Tongzhi, you have the Queen Mother!

The sixteenth day of the first month of the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty.

Xingqing House.

In the newly completed value room of the South Study Room, a few ministers wearing neat flower feathers were holding a copy of the imperial decree sent by the Supreme Emperor Kangxi from Tashkent all the way, frowning.Everyone's faces were pale, you looked at me, I looked at you, as if a catastrophe was imminent.

Their expressions are not unreasonable, because since Taishang Kangxi led the elite of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty to go to Xishou together with Horqin Mongolia and Tumed Mongolia.Xingqing mansion can live a stable life here!

I thought that Zhu and Qi would definitely come to Gansu to fight Gansu, but in fact, Emperor Zhu didn’t look at Gansu at all, but was busy with the conquest of Japan. It seems that he didn’t want Gansu, a poor place. In fact, this order of North Korea first, then Liaodong, Japan first, and then Northwest is actually a matter of course for Zhu Heqi, who has a strong shipping capacity but lacks enough civilian workers for transportation in the Central Plains and Northwest.

If he wants to attack Gansu, he must digest Shaanxi well, and at the same time hoard grain and grass in Xiangyang, and then slowly transport it to Shaanxi.The food and grass are ready before the army can start!

And if Zhu Heqi wants to go on an expedition to Japan, as long as he has a large fleet that can cross the East China Sea and the Korean Strait, there will be no logistical problems—the "delivery rate" of transporting grain and grass by sea and the "delivery rate" of grain and grass transported by land. "Rate" is the difference between a sky and an underground.After all, a big ship can hold thousands of stones, and it doesn't require many sailors to drive the ship. As long as the ship does not capsize, the consumption on the road can be ignored.If you encounter smooth wind and smooth water, then you can travel thousands of miles a day!

Therefore, Zhu Heqi must clean up Japan first.What's more, he had to step on the big move of the siege of Vienna in 1683!

In the calculations of the current Emperor Zhu, there is only one enemy of Ming Dynasty——the chosen country, America!

Although this chosen country will not be born for more than 90 years...but now is also the weakest time for America!

It does not have it, can it be true?Therefore, Zhu Heqi had to kill the United States before the United States, cutting off the possibility of an intercontinental power on the North American continent.

Compared with this matter, the small imperial court in Gansu, Wu Yingxiong who hid in Yunnan to lie flat, Zu Zeqing who was a "free and loyal minister" in Guangxi, and Galdan who had ulterior motives are all nothing to worry about.

So the small Qing court in Gansu has lived a peaceful and comfortable life for almost two years... It was really quiet and peaceful, and nothing happened!

So much so that several regents and deliberatives of the Xingqing court thought that the Qing Dynasty had the fate of Xixia, and they could live in Gansu for hundreds of years in peace and stability.

If that is the case, it is the blessing of the ancestors!

It's a pity that the ancestor's blessing still hasn't come... It's not that Zhu and Qi came to destroy the country, but Kangxi Tai of Xishou came up with an amnesty order, asking the big guys to clean up and prepare to leave their hometown and go to the Western Regions together!

It has only been stable for two years, and I have to run again... And this time, I will never be able to return to the Central Plains.

The regent Kong Shenggong was sitting on the edge of the kang table, holding a copy of Kangxi's personal letter to him without looking up, and his brows were furrowed more and more.

The voices of the few ministers discussing the state affairs gradually sounded.

"...Qipcha Grassland, Land in the River, Stone City, these place names sound far away! How should we get there? We can't get there!"

"You can't come back even if you can get by... This is to die in a foreign land, no, it's a foreign country!"

"The Supreme Emperor doesn't want people to have a peaceful life! How many days have they lived in peace? He is rushing to torment us again... In my opinion, let's just stay in Xingqing mansion safely!"

Hearing these discussions, Kong Shenggong slammed the letter in his hand on the kang table, and slowly raised his head: "What are you talking about? Do you think this peaceful life can go on year after year? If you don’t launch the Western Expedition, do you think that people don’t want Gansu? They are holding back their big moves and want to wipe us out in one fell swoop! Gansu is a barren land, and it has been searched by the emperor. There is no food left. Ming Dynasty In the past two years, while vigorously promoting land equalization in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi and other places, military camps were built in Yan'an and Fengxiang Prefectures, and food and grass were hoarded... There is also news that starting this year, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces will begin to open farmland. It is said that [-] recruits will be selected.

After these soldiers are trained, can we still stay in Xingqing Mansion?

By the way, there is also that Galdan, who is now the king of Shunyi and a loyal minister and filial son of Ming Dynasty. Last time he sent troops to Japan, not only sent his nephew Cewang Taiji, but even his wife Anukodun... What a filial piety! "

There is another reason why Zhu Heqi has not moved the Xingqing Mansion in the past two years. Most of the hundreds of thousands of troops used to attack Huguang, restore the Central Plains, and conquer Liaodong in the last round have retired and returned home after the war. Little days are gone.

Therefore, when Zhu Heqi went to Japan, he used the Korean soldiers who were willing to serve for a long time to "resist the Japanese" and the Ming Eight Banners, which were similar to the soldiers of the early guards.However, he will not overuse these foreign soldiers or semi-foreign soldiers (Korean soldiers are now nominally Han soldiers, but in fact there are still differences), lest they become too big to lose.Therefore, in the battle to pacify the Northwest, Shaanxi and Shanxi people have to fight!

Hearing what he said, the few ministers below fell silent.

Now that the war in Japan is over, the Xingqing government received a military report before the Chinese New Year, and learned that Zhu Heqi had returned to the court after winning the victory. The [-] troops that accompanied the conscript, except for one town of the Ming Eight Banners, will be stationed in Nagoya and Ezo, and other troops They have all been withdrawn.Zhu Heqi himself returned to Beijing before the New Year's Eve... The first capital of Ming Dynasty was Nanjing!

Emperor Zhu did not return to Nanjing, but returned to Beijing... What does it mean, everyone still doesn't understand?This is to send troops from Beijing to attack Xingqing Mansion from the northern line!

And the Junggar Khan Galdan who was invited by Emperor Kangxi to be a "meat shield" to control the Hetao grassland was also a coward. After arriving in Guihua City, he seemed to be frightened by Zhu Heqi, not only did not dare to send troops into the Great Wall to rob, He was also granted the title of King of Shunyi, and let his wife Anukdun and nephew Cewang Allabtan lead five thousand troops to join the Japanese campaign... It’s fine to let the nephew lead the troops to help the boxing, and let the wife do the same. Go, what is this number?Afraid that Emperor Zhu will be lonely on the road?