The Yermak Cossack, who first appeared in the Siberian Khanate, was a group of poor peasants and water bandits.

The serfization of the Principality of Moscow began at this time. In the past, their farmers were tenants and had two weeks to find new landlords to serve.

However, since Ivan the Thunder, the peasants were deprived of the opportunity to find landlords and allowed the unbearable farmers to go to unmanaged land. These people gathered together and became Cossacks.

The Cossacks have no ability, the Stroganov family has the ability.

This family has no long history, nor is it a noble, but only a family of merchants who opened a salt mine in Soliviche Gotsk.

After the Tsar conquered the Kazan Khanate, he allocated a large area of ​​land in the upper reaches of the Kama River and Chusovaya River to Grigori Stroganov, which was almost a wild land where they developed trade in salt, iron ore, wood and fur.

He also obtained the power to recruit volunteer soldiers to protect settlements from the Tsar. The so-called volunteer soldiers were actually Cossacks who fled from other places.

In the Ming Dynasty, Yermak was between the King of Mountains and the leader of the peasant uprising army. He was robbing passers-by merchants and foreign envoys of the Volga River, which made the Tsar defeat two years ago.

Here is the leader of the bandits recruited by Stroganov. The landlord valued him as wanted by the Tsar and had no way out except to serve him and make meritorious contributions.

This is not such a brave and invincible force. They were once defeated by the regular Moscow army on a scale of thousands.

These people are poorly equipped, inadequately trained, undisciplined, and exhausted.

But they also have rich experience in field fighting and escape, good survival ability in the wild, do not know that righteousness is not shameless, have no identity and no restraint, are fierce, cunning and good at spreading fear.

The most important thing is to get used to stuffing everything into your stomach and be able to move quickly by rowing a boat on the river.

At least for the Stroganov family, hiring such a unit as a vanguard to march into Siberia is cheap and affordable, and there is no need to worry about their supplies as if they were hiring regular troops at high prices.

The first batch of troops to enter Siberia had a total of 840 people, of which 540 were the only remaining veterans of the water bandits who had succeeded after Yermak was defeated by the official army.

The remaining 300 people were the Stroganov family worried about the Cossack's combat ability, and the Livornian prisoners who were stuffed into it were mostly Germans and Lithuanians.

No one can guarantee their loyalty, but at least they are regular soldiers and they want money but life.

In fact, Ivan and the Terrible were not concerned about Siberia. Even if everyone knew that Siberia meant the place of mink production, they would have to trade with England without a seaport, and the oil and water were all in Elizabeth's stomach.

What can he get? Muskets, artillery, and these things are useless, so they can only keep him going to war.

What Moscow needs is an estuary and needs to control its own trade, rather than picking up a few melons from the hands of the English and eating whatever others give them.

At this critical moment, Ivan's thunder emperor is not easy to live.

His reforms in his youth led the Moscow Principality to become stronger, but in his later years, he was just beaten by Poland and Lithuania. The Krim Khanate joined forces and was dazed and went crazy to kill his heirs.

Life is at a low point, and you are powerless to Siberia.

But at this trough of life, a tribute team in the south was like a heart-warming agent, almost causing the great sorrow and joyful Ivan Thunder to suffer a stroke.

This is a Siberian expedition envoy from the south, led by Yermak's confidant Ivan Corrizo.

Ivan, with Yermak's revelation and trophy, made up of 2,400 marten fur, twenty fox fur, fifty beaver fur, and fifty beaver fur, to report the victory to the Tsar.

Ivan IV was overjoyed and didn't care why the Moscow company fleet that was supposed to come this year did not come. He was shocked to the point where he didn't care about those trivial matters.

How important is this batch of goods?

It is so important that Ivan IV immediately ordered the poor in Moscow to pray for gratitude in Moscow Cathedral, and the whole city rings the bell to bless.

Most importantly, this good news, similar to the "auspicious" victory, swept away the gloom of the defeat in the Livornian War.

The Stroganov family was once again granted a large amount of land. The Tsar pardoned all the guilt of the Cossacks of the Yermak, took out money, silk, and wool to commend their great achievements, and rewarded the Tsar's own clothes and the gold and silver vessels used by the royal family.

The reward also included the armor of Isky, the great nobleman who was killed in the Livornian War. This almost means that Yermak, an unknown bandit on the river, was only one step away from becoming a great nobleman who was a military master.

Even Ivan Corrizo, who came back to report the message, enjoyed state banquets every day, telling the nobles of the palace and the Senate about their difficult battles in Siberia.

After they had enjoyed enough, the Tsar ordered Ivan Corrizo to go back first, and then the Earl Borhovsky led five hundred elite imperial shooting troops to Siberia, officially starting the war of complete conquest against Siberia.

During their march, Yermak's offensive continued.

In February of the 11th year of Wanli, Bakhta, a surrendered Khan's little nobleman, betrayed Kuchukhan and informed Yermak of the Tkur tribe's Mamai Khan hunting in Lake Kular.

In the subsequent raid, Kuchukhan's confidant general Mamai Xiaokhan was captured alive and sent to Moscow. Ivan IV became even happier and even gave him a title of commander of the thousand men.

Kuchukhan was busy planning a major counterattack to retake the capital, and even sent people to the Kazakh Khanate for help.

While the Khantes, Vorgurs, and Bashkirs were gathering in all directions, his envoys for help saw Tawu Khal Khan of the Kazakh Khanate, and then passed through the mouth of Yesmubaduer and into Qi Jiguang's ears.

Strictly speaking, Qi Jiguang's Ming army and Kazakh Khanate are still on the verge of arrows and war is about to break out.

But Youyu Tawu Kel Khan was unwilling to be attacked from both sides and tried his best to avoid war. The effectiveness of You Kangli Jiguang did not have to worry about food and grass in a short period of time, and this battle did not start.

The matter of sending envoys to pay tribute and handing over the head of the Tuqishi tribe was temporarily put on hold, and both families were more interested in another matter: organizing coalition forces to assist the Siberian Khanate.

The emperor's destiny is greater than that. Since Emperor Wanli had the desire to "monopolize the fur market", Qi Jiguang was not in a hurry to march west when there was enough food and grass. He wanted to let the troops go to the Rakshasa Kingdom, which dominated the fur trading for a while, to obtain more information.

Tawu Khal Khan needs to take this opportunity to observe the power from the distant Eastern Ming Empire and make plans for the next step.

For him, it is better to use other people's blood to verify the military capabilities of this distant empire than to use the blood of his own people.

Because of this, both sides hit it off.
Chapter completed!