Seeing this letter, Li Xiao's eyes were not filled with happiness, and a cold light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

The strong northern neighbors who caused huge damage to China in real history are finally about to start dating themselves.

Now that I want to start dealing with the aggressive, savage and cruel Russian giant bear, Li Xiao knows that this is definitely a very important test.

Li Xiao learned some simple history in his previous life about Russia's expansion in the Far East, and he had a certain understanding of their invasion process.

The Russian Empire was at its most prosperous era, that is, the Romanov dynasty.

The current Tsar is the second monarch of the Romanov dynasty, and the roughly ambitious Michael Romanov.

It was under the strong push of Michael Romanov that the Russians, who had already expanded to Siberia, began to turn their attention from Europe to Asia, expanding wildly and bloodyly.

After decades of erosion and war, by the 1730s and 1740s, Tsarist Russian invasion had crossed the Yenisei River and reached the Lena River, the Chukchi Peninsula and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

In 1632, in the fifth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, after Tsarist Russia expanded to the Lena River Basin in eastern Siberia, it began to build the largest invasion base in the Far East, Yakutsk City, as the main stronghold for the southward invasion of China.

In 1638, the Russian government ordered the establishment of the Yakutsk Governor's Office, appointed Golovin as the Yakutsk Governor's Office, forcibly incorporated large areas of the Lena River Basin into the Russian territory.

From then on, under the command of the cunning and cruel governor Golovin, the city of Yakutsk became the command center for Tsarist Russia to invade Northeast China.

From 1639, that is, the 12th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the Russian invaders learned about Heilongjiang from the Ewenki population, so they were greedy and made up their minds to occupy this rich and warm place. This Heilongjiang River Basin has since become the dream goal of the Russians.

Tsarist Russia began to use Yakutsk as its base and continuously dispatched armed personnel from here to invade China's Heilongjiang River Basin.

Now, the Russians who were traveling east along Heilongjiang as a scam have finally officially dealt with the Tang army stationed in Miaojie Fort.

The Russian invasion was a typical polar bear style. It was to first infiltrate merchants and establish business roads, and then when they saw profitable things, they sent Cossack mercenaries and gangsters collected from the entire Eastern Europe, first with small frictions, then marched in large numbers, launched wars, and finally completely annexed the area.

Such were the demise of the Siberian Khanate, the Yermak expedition, the Far East expansion of the Stroganov family. When Tsarist Russia annexed these weak Khanate, it was already very easy to say.

However, the greedy nature of the Russians could not be curbed. When China was the weakest in the late Qing Dynasty, the most powerful person was the neighbor of the north. A large area of ​​territory was occupied, and even the Northeast and Xinjiang were almost unable to save it. To be honest, Japan invaded China in an all-round way and robbed the first place. Otherwise, from the late Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the one who had the greatest appetite and the deepest harm to China would undoubtedly be Russia that did not run away.

However, these Russian goods, such as honey, dried fruit, fur, ginseng, pearls, etc., are all very profitable goods and are also important commodities that were urgently short of the domestic market in the Ming Dynasty. If these things can be transported to the Ming Dynasty, they will undoubtedly bring huge profits to Li Xiao.

In history, the goods of the Russians were indeed complementary to the Ming Dynasty. They needed exquisite goods produced by the Ming Dynasty. The most important thing was tea. After Ivan Ivon sent envoys in history, Emperor Wanli returned the letter to me. Later, a few years later, Ivan Ivon sent another envoy. This time, the biggest gain of the envoys was to bring back tea. Since then, the Russians have also begun to plant tea widely. Tea planting has been successful in southern Ukraine and at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains.

Tea, silk, and porcelain, these three things alone were enough for the Russians to covet. At that time, the Russian Empire had no estuary to the sea, and there was nothing to do with trade with Europeans.

From the late Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, most of the trade between the Russians and China was carried out by Mongolian tribes. In order to gain China's wealth, they first wanted to invade Mongolia. After being defeated, they supported the Weilath Mongols fighting with the Qing Dynasty. However, until the late Qing Dynasty, the Russians aimed at invasion had never launched real large-scale trade with China.

Even in modern China hundreds of years later, the trade volume between China and Russia is very limited, and the two sides basically exchange energy and light industrial products. Today, China's main trade targets are the United States and Western Europe, and these two roads are along the sea route. If the trade volume of Russians is compared with China, the United States or China, the same level is not on the same level.

Li Xiao thought for a long time and finally replied to Wu Zhuang, the mayor of Anle Town.

Li Xiao asked him to trade with the Russians, but he must pay attention to the ambitions of the Russians. If they have an attempt to invade Chinese territory, they must respond quickly and interrupt their dog teeth in time.

Moreover, Li Xiao also emphasized to Wu Zhuang that from now on and in the future, the Tang army in Andong Town must be vigilant enough against the Qing Dynasty and Russia to prevent them from taking despicable raids.

Finally, Li Xiao emphasized that after the military reform is completed and sufficient combat effectiveness is formed, the Tang army in Anton Town will turn to defense to offense, adopt the strategy of defensive control in the south and attacking Russia in the north, and strive to continue to expand northward in two years, and finally capture Russia's largest and most important stronghold in the Far East, located on the right bank of the Lena River.

The plan that Li Xiao gave himself was named Dancing with Bear.

His meaning was to start a shallow level of business cooperation with the giant Russian bear, but the ultimate goal was to drive this giant Russian bear, which was invaded by bad people, back to Central and Siberia, and make the entire East and West Siberia a precious territory for generations to pass on.

Of course, if the opportunity is right and national strength permits, the Tang army under Li Xiao will naturally step into the conquest and step towards the vast and sparsely populated Central Siberia, and then go westward all the way...

If the Russians are not afraid of sacrifice, they can drink wind and snow all the way and expand eastward, Li Xiao naturally has to make the same demands for his subordinates.

Since Russia can come from west to east and seize the colonies, our Tang army can naturally go from east to west to fight with these highly regarded Europeans, and without hesitation for the wild and cold extreme northern wasteland.

As for the possible death and injury of the Tang soldiers in the future, Li Xiao didn't mind that and would not blink at all.

Since ancient times, celebrating has never been in charge of troops. If you want to fight against Russia, a huge and vicious opponent, you will not be able to fight to the end without the cruelty and determination, and without the courage to fight to the end, you will not be able to fight with it at all.

Li Xiao thought in his heart that if one day he could obtain the entire Siberia and finally reach the Ural Mountains on the border of Eurasia, he would be a completely bearable loss even if he sacrificed the lives of 100,000 Tang soldiers.

These soldiers were originally used to exchange for profit. If these well-equipped and well-trained military soldiers did not kill or conquer, or used swords and spears to expand their survival territory for the Chinese Empire, what would they do if they spent such a lot of financial resources and food?

In this world, land is more precious than human life. If a person dies, he can rebirth and produce it again. However, if the land is lost, it is not so easy to retake it from other countries.

After so many years of bloody conquests and fighting, Li Xiao has long been as hard as iron and very cruel. In Li Xiao's view, the lives of the Tang soldiers under his command are actually no different from ordinary cats and dogs. They will die if they should die, and sacrifice if they should die. Because in this era of moving from feudal society to modern society, such precious expansion opportunities may be lost once they are lost.

For these Tang troops, every battle is the best way to get promotion and reward. Under Li Xiao's powerful brainwashing and inspiration, under the stimulation of military merits and rewards in front of him, perhaps as long as Li Xiao gives them a chance to fight and attack, they will go on battle.

Perhaps, imitating the Russians in this way and conducting constant conquests in the ice and snow wastelands is also a recast of the traditional farming nation like us who has returned to the land and relocated to a gentle and mediocre temperament.

After writing the letter, Li Xiao quickly sent it back to Wu Zhuang by passing it on the way of flying pigeons.

Two days later, Li Xiao's reply was received by Wu Zhuang. After carefully reading Li Xiao's letter, Wu Zhuang had already thought about how to deal with these businessmen from Russia.

It turned out that since the day when a Russian caravan sent representatives to the Miaojie Fort petition and demanded that Wu Zhuang agree to the Tang army to start trade with Russia, Wu Zhuang always felt something was wrong with these strange-looking Russian merchants. He seemed to feel through his intuition that the purpose of these Russians was not pure, but was very likely to have other intentions.

Therefore, Wu Zhuang, who was meticulous, immediately ordered that these Russian caravans who came from afar should not be too close to Miaojie Fort. They could only camp and rest on a flat ground several miles north of Miaojie Fort, and told them to wait a few days before making a decision after asking the Duke of Tang.

Now Wu Zhuang decided to negotiate with the Russian merchants until tomorrow to allow them to trade with the Tang army, but they could only conduct trade on the Heilongjiang River more than a mile south of Miaojie Fort. With the pressure of the troops in the fort, these Russians dare not act rashly.

Afterwards, Wu Zhuang sent an envoy and immediately went to the Russian merchant camp to deliver a letter, asking them to send two representatives to Miaojiebao to discuss trade matters tomorrow morning.

On this summer night with a bright and starry sky, after receiving the invitation from the Tang army to go to Miaojiebao tomorrow to discuss trade matters, two Russians were talking in a low voice in the Russian merchant's camp.

"Mihayi, in your opinion, what will Tang Jun talk to us tomorrow?"

A guy wearing a top hat, with messy blonde hair hanging on his forehead, blue eyes, a big and straight eagle-haired nose, two gait-shaped bearded, and his appearance was very ferocious and rough. He whispered to another businessman next to him.

The businessman named Mihail looked as scary as the guy on the opposite side. He was wearing a carefully cut crimson top and sky blue pants, with a belt in the middle, and the thick cowhide boots on his feet, which were shaking under his knees.

"Hey, Captain Boyakov, are you still asking me? Anyway, such trade is just a cover for people's eyes and ears, so why do you think too much? Besides, since you returned to Yakutsk on the seashore, have you been looking forward to this day? Maybe you should be happy now and finally wait for the opportunity to enter the Tang army fortress." Mikhail curled his lips to him.

"Hmph, if it weren't for this, do you think I'll come here with your smelly caravan? I've had enough of pretending that the merchants have been here for so many days. Tell you, I've dreamed that I would complete this investigation as soon as possible, and then return to Yakutsk to get the reward, and then go to the largest branch courtyard in the city. (Fifty words are deleted here) I don't want to let go of any of them!" A hideous smile flashed across Boyakov's face.

"Hey, man, I think Sir Golovin, the governor of Yakutsk, will not like your rude attitude. Maybe you can try to be gentler." Mikhail smiled.

"Bah, why are you gentle? Do you want me to ask you in French? Or do you want me to give you a big kiss? As long as I can give you the accurate information about the Temple Street Fort to Goloven, this guy won't care what I do." Poyakov grinned and laughed.

Mihail shrugged, not wanting to answer him again.

In Boyakov's deep blue pupils, a trace of cold light flashed, and he whispered: "It's really hateful that these damn yellow-skinned monkeys dare to build a castle at the entrance of Heilongjiang. You must know that in this way, my Russian Empire, whether you want to cross the sea east or go south from Heilongjiang, will have to be much afraid. Therefore, this nail hidden at the entrance of Heilongjiang must be removed, and the entire Heilongjiang basin must be firmly grasped in our hands. Let me tell you, this is the personal decree given to Golovin by His Majesty the Emperor. The Emperor hopes that our noble Russians can firmly occupy the land in the Far East, and make this warm and fertile Heilongjiang basin the territory of His Majesty the Emperor's subordinate territory forever, and become an indivisible permanent land of the Russian Empire!"

"In addition to land, there are women and wealth." Seeing Poyakov's fascination, Mikhail interrupted in time.

"Hehe, that's nature. These Tatar women from the Far East, on their short bodies (delete a hundred words here), can better inspire the courage and determination of the Russian warriors." Poyakov said with a lewd smile.
Chapter completed!