Li Guodong followed Omubu's team and headed north to the Beihai area where the Khalkha Mongols stationed in winter.

The Beihai, which later became Lake Baikal, was the place where the Mongols of the Chechen Khan tribe grazed. In the cold winter, the vast North Sea was frozen for thousands of miles and the lake surface was frozen.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a sea of ​​people in this extreme north." He Xing sighed.

"If it was summer, the scenery here is beautiful and the water and grass is rich, and it was a good place. Su Wu's shepherds sheep were here." Li Guodong said. In fact, the Beihai where Su Wu sheeped was very controversial in later generations. Some people say it was the already dry Baiting Lake, and some people say it was Lake Baikal, but Li Guodong prefers Lake Baikal.

He Xing pointed to the frozen lake from afar: "Winter is also beautiful, but the Khalkha people here don't know how to live in winter."

When they arrived in the northern part of the desert, they had not seen the three Khalkha khans yet. The Mongols of the Khalkha tribe temporarily arranged Li Guodong and the others outside their camp and set up a piece of land for them to camp. The Mongols of the Khalkha here had no houses and lived in yurts.

This time when I went to Mobei again, Li Guodong found that there were a lot of Seme people here. For this, Omubu also discovered that there were several Rakshasa soldiers watching outside their camp.

"Why did the Khalkha tribe have so many more colored people?" Omubu pointed at several people holding muskets and the tall and large Rakshasa people asked a Khalkha herder.

The herder replied, "They are Semi people from the land of Taisie, and they call themselves the Ross people, we call them the Rakshasa people."

When Li Guodong saw a Rakshasa man who looked like an officer, he stepped forward and asked in fluent Russian: "What do you call me, sir?" In his previous life, he was an excellent soldier. The army often suffered from joint Russian exercises, so he knew a lot of Russian.

The Rakshasa man stared at him in surprise and then replied after a while: "Hello, my name is Grigory Mikhainovic Kulik. The Tatar, how do you understand Russian?"

"There are two people from your country in my army, but your very long name is really hard to remember." Li Guodong smiled.

Kulik said: "You can call me Kulik. Since you know Russian, I am willing to make friends with you, the Tatar."

"I'm sorry, I'm not a Tatar, I'm from the Ming Dynasty."

"So they are Khitans, what do you call them?" Kulik asked. In Russian, Chinese people are called Khitans by them.

Li Guodong secretly whispered in his heart: The Russians are really a group of barbarians, and they all call us Chinese people such barbaric names. However, he did not correct it again, but said: "My name is Li Guodong. Mr. Kulik, why did you come here? Let's keep watch at those Mongolians?"

Kulik replied: "We are escorting the Far East Expedition to the Far East to find the sea outlet. A few of us were not accommodating, so we stayed here for the time being. Lebrov led the expedition to the Far East and heard that he had found the sea outlet and had a conflict with the local Tatars, but the Tatars were not our opponent."

Li Guodong knew that the Russians had arrived in the Heilongjiang River Basin in this era, and the local Jurchens could not defeat the Russian expedition team. The Qing government was determined to annex the Ming Dynasty, so it did not send people to deal with the Russians, which led to a large area of ​​land falling into the hands of the Russians. In fact, at the beginning, the Russians came to the Far East, not to find a sea port, but to occupy land, fur trade, and dig gold. To put it bluntly, it was to make a fortune.

Thinking of this, Li Guodong asked, "Mr. Kulik, do you want to make a fortune?"

"Get rich?" Kulik's eyes lit up when he heard about getting rich.

"Yes, get rich! You can ship ceramics and silk from me back to Europe, and after those goods are delivered to Europe, you should know how high the profit is, Mr. Kulik? If you want, I think we can cooperate in this business."

Kulik's eyes were glowing. You should know that silk and ceramics are luxury goods in Europe! Some time ago, I heard that some Northwest merchants (actually Shanxi merchants) from the Khitan Kingdom had done this job, but later, for some reason, those caravans disappeared like the evaporation of the world (actually destroyed by Li Guodong). The Russians cut off the source of silk and ceramics. Now some people want to open this road again and plan to give themselves agency rights. This is simply a pie that fell from the sky!

"Mr. Li, are you planning to ship silk and ceramics here and sell them to us?" Kulik asked quickly.

Li Guodong nodded: "I have this idea, but our trade route is currently threatened by the Tatars, and it is difficult to deliver goods here. If Mr. Kulik is willing, he can be a mercenary for me first. I hire you to defeat the Tatars and open the trade route, I can provide you with goods steadily."

"That's right. If it's to open up the trade route, we can help you fight!" Kulik agreed. Anyway, the Russians can live for money. Back then, a group of Russians stayed away from the warm Europe and came to Siberia from thousands of miles to make a fortune. War was even more common for these Russians.

Li Guodong asked again: "Mr. Kulik, how many people can you help me?"

"I have a hundred musketeers and a hundred Cossack cavalry, all of which can serve you."

Li Guodong asked Varentin and Vladimir, who were the first to follow him, to meet Kulik: "Kulic, these are the two compatriots in our army, and now they are the elite scouts in our army."

The two Russians were very excited when they saw their compatriots. The three of them chatted for a while. Then Kulik brought his people over.

One hundred Russian musketeers used Russian medley guns. Li Guodong took a Rakshasa medley gun and looked through his hands for a few glances. He found that this kind of medley gun was heavier than the Ming army's bird guns. The barrel wall was thicker, the caliber was larger, and the barrel was very long. It seemed that the effective range was much farther than that of the bird gun. Although it was not as powerful as the Nine-Headed Bird gun, it was much lighter than the Nine-Headed Bird gun and the loading speed was faster than that of the Nine-Headed Bird gun.

The nine-headed bird musket weighing more than 20 pounds, also known as the turtledove-legged gun, can only be mounted on the ground and cannot be shot with hand. The Rakshasa mechat gun is equipped with a large axe, and the axe can be used as a gun stand and can be mounted on the axe to shoot.

Before, when Selev and Valeri followed Li Guodong, they also brought Rakshasa mesh rope guns. Their mesh rope guns were old-fashioned and heavier, so Selev and Valeri abandoned their mesh rope guns after becoming Ming army at night and refused to accept them, and only carried large axes and javelins.

"This is our cavalry lieutenant named Grigle." Kulik said, pointing to a Cossack cavalry officer who was as strong as a bear.

Li Guodong looked at the Rakshasa soldiers who were interested in their strength and their new type of combs. Flintlocks were rare in this era, and Li Guodong himself found it difficult to make high-quality spring steel sheets to replace flintlocks on a large scale, so long-range weapons were mainly match-rope guns. The quality of the Rakshasa people's combs was much better than the bird guns of the Ming army, and they were better than the Lumi guns. And he was interested in the Cossack cavalry, and they were interested in their war horses, which were excellent war horses, Don hippos, which were a mixed-blood war horses of high-headed and large Western horses. They had the endurance of Mongolian horses, as well as the speed and size of Western horses, and were not picky about feeds. They were far less picky than the Arab warm-blooded horses, and were much easier to raise than the Hequ horses and Wuzhumuqin horses.
Chapter completed!