Qitad said coldly: "Once I take these two places, the Russians will definitely launch a large attack!"

Alshire was stunned, then smiled and said, "This is natural, but there is no way."

"Oh?"

"If Khan is interested in Yeyis, there is a way..."

Qitade's mind was already running at high speed at this time.

"They naturally want to give up Yeis, which is too close to Azov Fortress. It is warm and moist near Yeis, and there are a lot of trees. Although there is no best oak, there are still beeches, which is good to use for shipbuilding"

"What's more, once you take this port, you will be able to connect with the Black Sea and quickly reach the Ukrainian region of the West Bank. It's a dilemma."

Alshire seemed to see this, and he continued: "Our territory is sandwiched between the Yeya River and the Arthurian River. It is not large in size. There are also herders inside. Cattle and sheep often cross these two rivers to go outside."

"Clashes with your herdsmen from time to time"

"What do you mean?"

"Yes, if my herdsmen unfortunately injured your herdsmen, you will naturally come to seek revenge. Both sides gathered together, and we were eventually defeated. Ye Yis City was unfortunately captured by you. This is not natural?"

Qitad's eyes lit up, and after a while, he said, "Your idea is really good. If you only take down Yeshi City, it was caused by the conflict, I guess the Russians would not say anything."

"What I want to know is, what should the households in Yeis City handle?"

"How to deal with the Khan, if the Khan doesn't need them, we will ship it to Crimea by boat. If it needs it, it can be left locally."

“How many people are there?”

"There are about two thousand households in the city, just like the Khan's practice, they are all military farming soldiers, but the farmers use serfs. At that time, the soldiers and officials in the city will leave..."

Qitad inserted: "From now on, you will strengthen the soldiers and food reserves in Akhtar, and I believe the Russians will not say anything."

Alshire sneered and said, "That's what it means"

"I'll think about this matter again, what else is there?"

"Khan, Truchen's new musket has been introduced to Georgia. I have seen it, and it is indeed easy to use. It has started to be imitated everywhere, but the output is not large."

"You want it?"

"No, although it is difficult to imitate, our country still has the strength to produce slowly, but it can only guarantee local..."

"Do you want me to sell it to Crimea?"

"Yes, I just said that although the peninsula was destroyed by the Russians last time, there are still 30,000 herders and 100,000 farmers. After these years, the horses and young and strong have also recovered"

"If you don't say anything else, it is still possible to form an army of 30,000 people, but if the Crimeans still use their previous military and tactics to fight the enemy, they will still be defeated by the Russians. Therefore, the current Crimean Khan Arslan Grey entrusted me to come and discuss with the Khan whether they could sell a batch to him."

Qitad closed his eyes and thought for a while.

"If this is done, no matter whether the Crimean Khanate can really restore its strength, it can restrain some of the Russians' energy"

Then he said: "No, but my new musket is very expensive."

Alshir replied: "Don't worry about this section of the Khan. Although the Russians destroyed Bakhāchsarai last time, there are also cities such as Kafa, Kerch, Seva on the peninsula. Crimea Khan still has a lot of wealth..."

"Wait," Qitad suddenly thought of something, "You said there are more than 100,000 farmers on the peninsula. Are they descendants of white slaves they captured from Europe?"

Alshire was embarrassed and said for a while: "It's almost the same, but there are also many tribal descendants from Europe"

Qitad nodded, "In this way, after I took down Yeshi City, in addition to leaving behind the surrounding farmers and herdsmen, they can trade with Arslan Khan. Not only can new muskets, but also light cannons, but I don't need his silver coins, so he can exchange them for farmers."

"In this way, my new musket is priced at around 200 silver coins, and it is used to exchange for a serf. I still have a lot of inventory at present, so I will use your ships to transport it. I will accompany some artillery and ammunition as freight."

"Sweat a lot, spring plowing has just passed, look..."

"It's okay, just let them come back after the autumn harvest, and there is still..."

Qitade stood up.

"You don't have to fight between you and me, but we can actually govern the place"

"Oh?"

"Since they are all your people and outsiders can't see it, let us enter secretly. We will enter some officials, soldiers and craftsmen. I will let them arrive near the Yeya River and use the evening time to enter Yeyis City"

"After the autumn harvest, you will transport the three thousand farmers here with ships. If the Russians see it, they think you will stick to this place. For them, because of Yes, Akhtar, and the two places hanging alone on the east coast of the Azov Sea, will sooner or later fall into their hands"

"So, no matter how many people you send, as long as they are not soldiers, they will sooner or later become theirs"

"That musket..."

"It's very simple. My people first enter secretly to help you expand the port and build ships. In the autumn, you will move farmers in. Then we will hand over people and guns in the other."

"If you regret it, don't blame me for being rude. For the Russians, I wish my troops would take the initiative to attack you"

....

Qitad soon signed a secret agreement with Alshire. Before the Ottoman Sultan signed, he asked Paul, son of Raphael, to bring one hundred personal guards and one hundred craftsmen to secretly enter Yeshi City.

These people look similar to the local Ottomans, and most people really can't tell them.

After arriving here, Paul began to expand the dock.

The average depth of the Azov Sea is only seven meters, and the coast is shallower. Nowadays, the Ottoman ships have a full load of less than two meters of water, which obviously cannot meet the needs of the Black Sea Fleet envisioned by Qitad. The Black Sea Fleet he planned to draw is at least two meters or about three meters.

All these hundreds of craftsmen were transferred from Port Lagan, and there was also a lot of cement following them.

By autumn, it has become a good harbor with an average depth of up to five meters, and ten large ships can be parked at the same time.

At the same time, the craftsmen also built a boat shop, which was also expanded on the basis of the Ottoman ship shop, and allowed the Ottomans to cut down large quantities of nearby beech trees. Because the sea water was too shallow, the Azov Sea would enter a three-month freezing period as soon as winter came.

By then, it was a good time for Truchen craftsmen to build ships.

By September, Alshire did not break his promise. He brought three thousand descendants of Crimean farmers, mainly white European slaves.

Their situation on the peninsula is not good, and their status is still under the Crimean Tatars. In addition to paying up to 50% of the land tax, they need to pay taxes to the Bayi people for birth, old age, sickness and death. When they heard that they were moving to Yeshi City, which only had 30% of the taxes, most of them agreed without hesitation.

At this time, they had long forgotten their white identity and had become Yijiao farmers who worked all day long.

During this period, Qitad violated his promise to no longer increase his army, picked up two thousand people from the newly resigned Alan, Georgian, Adig, and Karbakin, and completed preliminary training before the white slaves arrived.

Then one thousand people were drawn from the white slaves and formed the Yeyisi brigade.

The rainfall near Yeshi is abundant, and it is filled with heavy snow in winter. At this time, even if the Russians want to enter the secret investigation, it is easy to be discovered. Therefore, winter is an excellent time for Truqin officials led by Paul to integrate the internal and train their troops.

Arslan Khan of Crimea also successfully received three thousand flintlock rifles and some artillery, plus a large amount of ammunition, Qitad also sent people to arrive on Ottoman ships to the peninsula for secret training.

Of course, the Ottomans were not afraid of Qitad repent because they had signed a secret agreement to jointly deal with the Russians. Once they made it public, the Russians would definitely be furious.

Perhaps because of the sweetness, Arslan Khan actually asked for continued expansion of trade.

For him, many slaves were just used to support his cattlemen of the Sipasi cavalry and the Jenicheri infantry. At present, he had 100,000 serfs, and he didn't care about the reduction of 10,000 households.

So Qitad reached a secret agreement with him to exchange 6,000 muskets for the remaining 6,000 households, and the Ottomans did not care about this.

In their minds, as long as the Crimean Khanate exists, it will greatly delay the pace of Russian invasion. Moreover, once Qitad reaches an agreement with them, he has actually boarded their pirate ship, and it will be difficult to get off again.

However, Qitad also negotiated with Arslan Khan in advance that the slaves must bring enough food to survive the winter and even next year's autumn harvest, otherwise it would be impossible for him to subsidize them all.

So, before winter came and the Sea of ​​Azov was completely frozen, Qitad had another six thousand white slaves, all of which were placed near Stavropol and Magar.

Of course, he would not draw soldiers anymore for these people, but let them use winter to reclaim fields.

Even if the Russians know, he can cover up the past with "the serfs I bought at the Kafa slave market."

This winter, in order to paralyze the Russians, he took the initiative to give up Griya, the Turkish enclave near Kuban City (Krasnodar), and moved all the herders there to the banks of the Yeya River near Yeshi City.

Since Qitad became the Khan, he originally wanted to use the Griya Enclave as a springboard for future exploration of the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the Kuban area. Therefore, he imitated the Khans and "exiled" many herders here. By this year, there have been more than a thousand households, which made Suvorov, the governor of Kuban, very uneasy.

After giving up Griah, the Russians, who were already quite nervous, immediately relaxed. Suvorov immediately migrated there with a thousand Cossacks.
Chapter completed!