On August 27, 1663, Liao Xiaoyao and others, who had two naval gunboats, successfully arrived at the Wudi River mouth. In this best season outside the northeast, he had a great appreciation for the infinite charm of the white mountains and black waters. However, due to the busy business, most of the fun of entertainment disappeared. For the Bay of Happiness, which has a strong Polish style, and the beautiful scenery of Dachantal Island, he could only regret to stay for the next trip. It is still important to do a serious matter now.

"Now the postal system must be improved immediately." Liao Xiaoyao, who brought dozens of guards to the mouth of Wudi River, looked at a simple dock built with thick logs and said to Han Qian, a Taiwanese bank manager: "I think this matter should be linked to your business route. When your company's ships purchase supplies in summer and autumn, they can pass letters, intelligence, personnel, and materials between Miaojie Port - Shunyi Township - Liangjiagang Wudibao, one to two times a year. As for the rest, it is naturally completed by the official ships, so it is combined every year.

In summer, this route will be able to deliver messages back and forth more than three times; as for winter, the postal system still has to be borne by local residents themselves, and this is often a form of labor. The minimum requirement is that the nomadic areas in the Wudi River and the Amur River and the agricultural reclamation areas in the Amur River and the Among River area must be mailed 1-2 times in winter, which will be completed by the Tungus people using deer sleds. In other words, with this postal system, even the remote Wudi River basin can get up to five messages from the east coast every year, which is already very good."

"This is true from the Amur River to the Wudi River Basin, and other places must also be done together." Liao Xiaoyao continued, "Since I have become the captain of this Black Water Development Team, I have to plan for one day in his position, improve the postal system, and naturalize more Tungus people so that our power can be better utilized. This is the top priority I want to seize, rather than compete with the Qing Dynasty in Ningguta. Captain Jiang Zhiqing has his ideas, I have my considerations, and some people focus on continuing to advance leaps and bounds along the river, but I focus on solid foundation and solidifying the foundation. First, unify and integrate your own rear, and for this reason, the rest can be temporarily put aside. Do you understand what I say?"

"I understand, understand." An official immediately echoed loudly.

However, not everyone praises me. Some people asked, "So how can we get the Tungusians to develop the habit of delivering letters on time? As far as I know, many of them have many bad habits and have no idea of ​​time at all. These people often think that no matter when the letters and documents are delivered, they just need to be delivered. We used to send an appointment letter to Boliburg in the winter, but our officers have arrived there in person, but the appointment letter has not been delivered yet. This is simply too bad."

"Your question is very good." Liao Xiaoyao smiled and said, "Then let them develop this habit! The Bogde Khan of the Qing Dynasty can train their Tungus people so obedient and disciplined. Why can't we do it? Bogde Khan is still our defeated generals, and they can do it. Why can't we do it! I don't care about the past, and the two pioneer captains have focused on expanding territory, but I am different. I pay more attention to practicing internal skills and strengthening the connection and coordination of the control area. It is time for the Amur River area to be rectified!"

Liao Xiaoyao dealt with the village of the Feiyakar at noon. The villages of these people are very small, usually between several to dozens of households, consisting of tents made of birch bark, branches, wooden boards and leather. A warm large paving board is placed beside the wall of the tent, which is warmed by the chimney of the stove. In the middle of the tent, there is a high platform between the four pillars, and the dog is lying on it. Liao Xiaoyao even saw a small bear tied to the pillars in the large open space in the tent, which seemed to be the master to catch it to make fun of it. Under the roof are several wooden poles, hanging clothes and various ragged things; on both sides of the door at the entrance of the tent are stoves, with pots on them, which are used by the Feiyakar to cook rice, dog food and bear food.

Each tent has a small storage warehouse built up high with pillars near the river, which contains fish, wild fruits, vegetable roots and seal oil. These are their main foods. Air-dried fish are almost the main foods of the nearby Tungusians, just like European bread, Ming people's rice or bread.

This kind of tent and its accompanying utility room are the main property of the Tungus people. Apart from this, they have almost nothing and can't see any big livestock. Even the grains and salt needed for life are very intimate, not to mention the luxury goods such as sugar, tobacco, spirits, biscuits, canned fruits, etc., which are "saccharides" for them, have been spread through Tungus soldiers of the Heilongjiang Security Group in recent years. Such luxury goods are extremely popular in the vast northeastern region. Not only do these Tungus people like it, but even Russians love it tightly. Unfortunately, these things are also intimate supplies for the East Coast people. After all, long-distance shipping is not easy, so it would be good to have a little bit of it.

The owner of the tent is generally extremely hospitable. Outsiders can live in any tent and use the items inside at will. They only need to abide by the rules set by the owner, such as not sleeping with their heads against the wall, not taking the fire out of the tent, etc., otherwise they may be attacked by the angry owner.

The lunch was made by the chef brought by Liao Xiaoyao. They took out dried fruits, honey, spices and other good things from the package, and then slaughtered a lamb and made roasted lamb directly in the tent, leaving the saliva of the Feiyakans almost all the place. During the meal, everyone inevitably talked about the nearby geography. As the saying goes, people eat short mouths, not to mention that these Feiyakans have already thought about acting. Therefore, their experienced village chief talked about the situation southward along the Wudi River, which is actually their main route for trading out of the village.

The village chief talked about the fact that the Wudi River originated from a large mountain range (Daxinganling) in the south. There was a big lake. The lake converged with the Amur River near Huta Village through the Jieya River. The village chief thought that it was very suitable for immigration. Liao Xiaoyao listened and asked his followers to bring the map. After a long time of gesture, he was stunned. This so-called Huta Village is the Hailan Pao Fort that has been established for a long time. He said that the Tungus people in the Wudi River area are really blocked in news. Huta Village (Hailan Pao) was first swept by the Russians, and then occupied by the people on the east coast to build a village. It has been several years since the news has not been spread here. This has given Liao Xiaoyao a deeper understanding of the efficiency of transportation and information exchange here. Damn it seems that the establishment and maintenance of the postal transmission system must be taken as the focus of work, otherwise I don’t know what happened anywhere, that’s a big deal!

The village chief believes that it takes more than ten days to ride a horse from the mouth of the Wudi River to the Dahu Lake, because the road is not easy to walk and is not safe enough. Cossacks often appear on this route. As for the legendary place for immigrants and settlements (Hailanpao), the village chief believes that it takes about 20-30 days because he makes a sled in winter. However, if he finds a suitable path to ride a horse in summer, the messenger can arrive within fifteen days.

In addition, as we talked with the village chief, there were about twenty villages in the radiation range of this 25-day post-trip route. Some of them were certainly still there, and some had not been there for many years. I wonder if they were still there. Because under the cruel plunder and killing of the Siberian Cossacks, the number of Tungus people in the Amur River and its tributaries has recently decreased rapidly, especially the most densely populated Amur River (an area with a relatively dense Tungus people is south of the Amur River, in the territory of the Manchu Bogde Khan), and it has been massacred by the Russians more than once. It is hard to say how many people there are now.

After hearing what the village chief said, Liao Xiaoyao snorted coldly, stood up suddenly, paced in the tent, as if thinking about something. Some of the others looked up at him, not understanding it; some continued to lower their heads and eat meat, their stomachs filled with nuts and raisins, and their surfaces were covered with honey, and sprinkled with spices and salt. The whole roasted lamb tasted very delicious. It would be a shame to myself if I didn't eat more.

Liao Xiaoyao ordered his entourage to hang a map that was obviously provided by the local archives and supplemented by the people below to hang it on the wall, and then he took the knife in his hand to gesture on the map. His blade was always wandering around the Wudi River-Big Lake (Liao Xiaoyao privately suspected that this lake was the expanded Jieya Reservoir after the construction of a dam in later generations) and Jieya River. It seemed that he wanted to create a postal channel on this day, and supplemented by a large number of Tungusian villages controlled by the east coast and a few military strongholds on the east coast, swallowing a large area of ​​land east of the line.

This is an amazing attempt. You must know that if Liao Xiaoyao cuts down along the map, then most of Russia's Khabarovsk Krai, half of Amur Prefecture and all of the Jewish Autonomous Prefectures in later generations will be taken down by the people of the East Coast. You must know that this is a land of millions of square kilometers. Although the Tungus people living on it have been captured and fought by Huangtaiji, Russians and East Coast people, there may still be more than 100,000 people (perhaps more than 200,000 people), if they are really eaten and digested, it will undoubtedly be a big tonic pill for the Black Water Development Team.

Fortunately, it seems that the competitors of the East Coast people should be Russians. The Qing Dynasty Bogde Khan's troops have long been suppressed to the south of the Amur River, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the three surnames has been abandoned for many years. Therefore, as long as Liao Xiaoyao deals with the Russians and curbs their ambition to expand eastward, it will not be difficult to eventually eat this land with an area of ​​one million square kilometers. At most, it will take longer. Ten years is less than twenty years.

Twenty years are less than forty years. Without being disturbed, it should be no problem to finally completely digest this rich land with the rich and diverse colonial methods of the East Coast people. And this place will inevitably become the most solid rear of the Black Water Development Team, providing the East Coast people with a large amount of supplies and soldiers continuously in the battles with the Qing Dynasty and the Russians, just like the Hezhe people, Daur people, and Soren people who supplemented the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty.

"I have decided!" Liao Xiaoyao suddenly inserted the knife in his hand into the location of Jieya Reservoir, and said with a flushed face: "Tomorrow we will set out along the Wudi River and inspect this route that runs hundreds of kilometers. You can bring equipment, water and trade goods. The villages you encounter along the way should be subdued and naturalized. Even if they are unwilling to serve us for the time being, try to maintain a good relationship. After everything is established in the future, our agricultural villages and military strongholds will be discussed. At that time, it is not a matter of one word to try to grasp these Tungus people!"

Liao Xiaoyao said the above passage in Chinese, and the translators present also wisely did not translate it, which made the Feiyakar people look at each other in an unknown way. However, the officers and employees of the Taiwan Bank were all in a state of deep thought at the same time. They knew in their hearts that after roughly crossing the boundary with the Russians (by Albazin City), the people of the East Coast are now facing not the challenge from the Russians who are also foreign colonists, nor are they threats from the Qing Dynasty Bogde Khan, but just native villages with extremely backward productivity levels in the local area.

For these foolish and barbaric Tungus people, the East Coast people really have too many ways to deal with: economic, military, and even political, as long as they can think of any solutions, they will use them. I believe that these loose Tungus people should not be the opponents of the East Coast people. From the mouth of the Wudi River to the Jieya Reservoir, more than 20 agricultural villages and no less than three garrison sites were established, and supplemented by a complete postal transmission system, the millions of square kilometers of land behind them can be almost enclosed, and then slowly digested, and others cannot control them at all.

Once this huge land is completely digested, the entire Hei Shui Development Team will have almost 15-20 counties in the jurisdiction of the province, with a population of less than 300,000. There are rivers suitable for navigation everywhere in the territory, with a well-connected postal transmission system, high government administrative efficiency, and effective military training. Then, by then, the Qing Dynasty will send troops to sweep across Russia and the Qing Dynasty will further expand its territory, which is a natural thing.

In short, the first step to get out of the current encirclement is the most critical!

On August 28, Liao Xiaoyao could not wait to meet with some of the cavalry who came from the land, so he selected four or five capable guides from the Wudi Fort, and then took his fifty cavalrymen to leave the village, heading south along the flat valley, and galloping towards the legendary Jieya Reservoir. 8±(.*)8±8±,o

At noon on August 30, they met a village that was also a Feiyakar people at the branch of the Wudi River. Although acquaintances from Wudi Village came forward to negotiate, the people in this village were still extremely alert. They gathered nearly a hundred men, holding wooden sticks and bone arrows in their hands, and stood in the entrance of the village in black. Liao Xiaoyao even found that there were several messile guns, perhaps flowing out of the Russians. Faced with this colorless Tungus tribe, Liao Xiaoyao did not entangle them too much, but just looked at them coldly, thinking that when the Chinese New Year is ready, I will lead the soldiers to land at the mouth of Wudi River. At that time, you bird village will definitely be suppressed, and see if you idiots can still become arrogant.

The people of the East Coast ignored this hostile village and continued to move forward. From this day to the afternoon of September 10, there were a team of horses that were safe and safe along the way, facing a team of fully armed and coming and going like the wind. The fool would not go up to find bad luck and finally arrived next to the open Jieya Reservoir. At this time, it had been thirteen days since the initial departure.

In the days that followed, they found a large number of Tungus villages scattered on both sides of the river along the way, including the Fiak, Oroqen, and Ewenki (Soren) villages, and even encountered two nomadic Buryat tribes. In general, the East Coast people did not have any conflict with them. Occasionally, the food purchased in some friendly tribes is basically dried fish, plant roots, wild fruits and game, oats and rye dried food, etc. These Tungus people are not for sale, because they are all delicious foods and need to be bought in the Amur River area, where the Daurs and Manchus grow grains.

Liao Xiaoyao, who arrived at the Jieya Reservoir, breathed a sigh of relief, and his tired face was filled with ease: From here, the Jieya River is a big river that can be navigated. Ships full of materials and soldiers can go up the river and drive to the shore of the lake in this deep plain. This is undoubtedly a great effect on controlling the surrounding areas. Just think about it, the Russians worked so hard that they scraped the ground and raised enough materials and food for a thousand people to fight. As a result, the people on the east coast transported thousands of soldiers and mountainous combat supplies directly from the mouth of the Amur River. Obviously, this battle could not be fought. It would be better to admit defeat and count the ball, so as not to be humiliated by the people on the east coast.

"What a good place!" Looking at the endless plains and forests around the Jieya Reservoir, Liao Xiaoyao smiled contentedly, then rode his horse and whipped it, pointing at the vast lake with vast waves, and said: "Next year! Next year, I will definitely ask someone to come here to build a village and build a fort, and immigrate 2,000 people at the same time, build a settlement at the north and south ends of the lake, and control this area in your hands. If the Russians are so stupid that they dare to stop it, I will go to war with them!"

"My two men went north from the Jieya Reservoir and south from the mouth of the Wudi River. They were like two huge fists of giants, closing together on the southern foot of the Xing'an Mountains, blocking all enemies outside." Liao Xiaoyao was still thinking about his plan, only hearing him say: "In the future, the land east of this line will be our own land; the Tungus people east of the line will sooner or later be the Shun people under our rule. In short, the Wudi River and the Jieya River are the key. Once we master this, we will master the future. Please follow my efforts together. There will definitely be a place in the history books of the future."
Chapter completed!