Alan City has entered darkness.

This darkness refers to the darkness of the sky and the late night, and also to the mood of the city.

Although it was already late at night, the grief that had not had enough time to lose 20,000 young people a few days ago due to the sudden victory.

The pace of spring is approaching, a bright moon hangs above, light is revealed in the darkness, and a hint of joy that has survived the disaster in sorrow and crying.

But they were still worried because what saved them was a force with unknown origin and bad reputation.

Truchen, in the North Caucasus area in recent years, has existed like hell in most people.

But they were obviously too concerned and did not have the massacre or robbery as they imagined, so they cried with confidence. Otherwise, if they wanted to cry quickly, they would have to wait until the war was completely calm.

Asalia, the Alan nobleman in the North Caucasus at this time, warmly welcomed Qitad and his party in his mansion.

Of course, there is also the Armenian leader Raphael Mamikonian who accompanied him. As for the Georgian leader, he had already died in battle, and his family was still in extreme grief and did not send anyone to participate.

But Qitad clearly realized that although they are claimed to be Christians, Georgians and Armenians are not the same as one. The so-called extreme sadness is just an excuse.

Perhaps they had learned that the Truchens were also one of the robbers at the beginning.

In any case, with the strong combat power of the Truqin cavalry at this time, it was not difficult to continue to defeat all the Christians in Alan City and then occupy this wrong city, but they were still stationed outside the city, and Qitad only brought a hundred

Riding into the city, he showed his attitude openly.

After some painless words, Qitad couldn't help it. He said, "I don't know what you plan in the future?"

Asalia looked at Raphael and said, "Thanks to the Truchens for helping us drive away the robbers. There is still some money and food in the city. If Taiji wants, he can take some away"

Qitad looked at Raphael without comment.

Raphael was a little embarrassed because the city was originally built by the Assalian family. It was a great kindness for him to allow Christians from the South Caucasus to enter the city to take refuge. If his opinion was contrary to him,

It is very likely that he will be driven out of the city.

However, he still said: "Why not let Taiji say it, if we can do our best to cooperate"

Asalia nodded, "Please say Taiji"

Qitad nodded, but he did not put forward conditions at the beginning, but analyzed the current situation.

"Everyone, don't worry about the Ottomans. They dared to come to Alan City this time, naturally because the Cossacks in the Cuban area were transferred to his land. Now he has died in battle, and the army he brought has almost been wiped out.

Under the circumstances, the great nobles in the Ottoman Empire will definitely replace them”

"Even if they want to avenge Aziz, they have to use heavy weapons. The most convenient way is to come from the Cuban area, and if they want to cross the Caucasus Mountains, they cannot bring heavy weapons. So, at least within a year, Alan City

Will not face Ottoman attacks”

"But the Chechens are different. They are next door and have the largest population among the North Caucasus tribes. It is said that the total population is as large as 500,000. Although tens of thousands of young and strong people have been lost in Alan City, they will be supplemented soon."

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"The Chechens nominally surrendered to the Azerbaijani Khan, but in fact they were still vassals of the Persians, and they could get a lot of firearm supplies from the Persians"

"Besides, the Chechens are unwilling to actually submit to Azerbaijan's Azart Khan because Azart Khan has too much exploitation. However, if Azart Khan gets the news of their defeat, in order to completely subdue them, he might also send out a large army before him.

Come and attack Alan City”

“Azart Khan is not a native, and it is predictable to destroy the city of Alan and then take all the Christians away as he did before”

"What's more, the Chechens alone are not something you can resist"

Thinking of this, Qitade couldn't help but feel a little scared.

What I fear is naturally not Azart Khan, but at most twenty years later, the Russians will completely conquer the North Caucasus area, and the Christians here will completely convert to Orthodox religion and then completely incorporate them into the territory of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

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Asalia said: "What's the best way for that Taiji?"

Qitad said: "Of course there is a solution, it depends on whether you want it or not."

"Taiji, please say"

"Since the Ottomans are not threatening, then you are facing the Chechens. At present, you only occupy less than a hundred miles of land on the northern foot of the Caucasus Mountains, and the outer edges are all Chechen ranches. This situation is very unfavorable."

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"I'm not hiding it. The Chechen tribe of Kayasula, one hundred and fifty miles north of Alan City, was destroyed by our tribe. It is the outermost periphery of the Chechens, surrounded by grasslands, and only sporadic farmland."
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"Since the Kayasula tribe is gone, I suggest you move to a part of your population and build a city there. In the future, there will be two cities of Alan and Kayasula, and Kayasula is close to Truchen, Chechen.

Even if you want to come and take revenge, you have to think about it"

The two fell into silence.

Yet, the farmland around Alan City is all mature land that has been cultivated for hundreds of years, and it has been built into villages. It is not easy to leave them easily.

However, if the Chechens really attacked and violated the Truqins' wishes, they probably wouldn't come to help again. Moreover, the Truqins must have something to ask for now.

If this time is not satisfied, maybe they will join forces with the Chechens to attack Alan City again.

That is, the Chechens did not have artillery, otherwise if the Ottomans had participated in the siege early in the morning and directly attacked the city gate with artillery, the city would have been broken long ago. Although there was a moat outside the city, it would have been useless.

After a while, Raphael raised his head, "My division has both farmers and herdsmen, let's move over as a whole. There are not many people in our division, but there are still tens of thousands of people."

Qitad was overjoyed. He originally wanted all the exiles in Georgia and Armenians to move over. Now the Georgians are obviously hostile to them. Think about it, let's forget it.

Although the Christians here insist on the most primitive Christian beliefs, they are almost impossible to survive under the persecution of the three major forces of Persia, Ottoman and Russia. At present, their persistence has reached its limit. If they are too oppressed, they are too oppressed.

, will easily push it to the Russian side.

But he would not let the Alan and Georgians go easily, his eyes still staring at Asalia.

After a while, perhaps because of the aggressive gaze of Qitade, or because of the craziness of the Chechens, they finally spoke: "It seems that Taiji cares very much about the population, and it's okay, Alan has these days

The city consumes too much and can no longer meet the expenses of so many people”

"You can move 10% of the population, but those people still need to agree"

Qitad nodded, "Who doesn't need their consent, just let you agree?"

As a person who has been in the Caucasus for three years, Qitad naturally knows the situation in Alan City, so he asked this question.

Asalia was stunned, and he immediately understood what Qitad meant.

"Okay, since the Mongolians arrived near the Lili Sea, a large number of herders, farmers and craftsmen who were originally in the north and west of the Caspian Sea have fled here. They have a complex belief, some believe in Islam, and some still have primitive statues of gods.

Worshiping religion”

"There are the Nogae people, the Tatars, and the Bashkir people, about a thousand households. In addition, there are many craftsmen in the city who exist based on our large families. They are usually farmers.

, There are also some blacksmiths and carpenters' craftsmanship"

"What we plant is our field. Because the family has a large population, they will help us when we need craftsmen to get some rewards. Since Taiji needs it, let's migrate together"

"However, I need to know what will happen to Jiji, the backstage, to migrate, to them"

"It's very simple," Qitad looked at Raphael, "Truchen had no slaves, and the dozen small tribes that migrated past were free farmers and herdsmen, but they needed to provide some taxes to Truchen every year.

Their children will also go to school if they are suitable, or join the Truchen Legion”

"The terrain in Kayasula is similar to Truchen. Although they are all wastelands, the land is extremely fertile. After draining the swamp, it can easily turn into fertile land. The yield per mu will not be worse than here. There are at least three per mu of land.

Each household can get at least twenty acres of fertile land for 100 kilograms of pure grain”

"However, 20% of the grain tax is needed to be paid to Truchen. After the farmers pay the grain tax, there is still a lot of surplus grain. It can not only meet the needs of the family, but also sell it out."

"In addition, Truqin's craftsmen are also free, but Truqin arranges his work uniformly, and his family also has fertile land distribution. Of course, there are definitely not as many specialized farmers, about half of them, Truqin is based on his monthly basis.

Labor performance is paid for some food”

"Craftsmen can also feed some livestock by themselves. In fact, the harvest of craftsmen is larger than that of farmers"

"As for herders, Truchen encouraged them not to grazing specifically, but to farm, and raise some livestock as the same as taxes. If they grazing specifically, they need to join the Truchen Legion, otherwise they will need to go to Truchen every year.

The piano pays a certain proportion of cattle, sheep and horses”

After hearing this, Asalia still said nothing, but Raphael's eyes lit up. He said, "I have decided when Taiji will go back, all the Armenians will move to Kayasula!"
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At this time, Asalia said, "It's not that he offended Taiji, but that he has never dared to rest. Taiji, since we have fought side by side, I will only say that I still have two questions."

"One is the matter of faith..."

Qitad waved his hand, "For those who moved to Truchen, it is better to continue to maintain their previous beliefs. Truchen will not interfere, but children must enter school and be under the jurisdiction of Truchen, and they must not be forced to join the original.

religion or frequent participation in religious ceremonies”

Asalia felt a little nervous.

"Isn't this a copy of the Ottomans plundering Christian children?"

He still mentioned the second problem.

"Taiji must be a Mongol, but I really want to know if you are affiliated with the Turkuts or are you really Junggars?"

This is also a matter of course. If Truqin had how strong could it have to compete with the surrounding major forces? If they were a member of the Turkuts, it would be easier.

If the Turgut is unified internally, it can send out 50,000 elite cavalry, and even the Russians dare not force them too much.

But Qitad did not answer him positively, "This question is confidential, but what I can tell you is that Truchen is next to the lowlands of Manech, and the Turkuts can come to grazing at any time"

"That's a group of the Turkuts?"
Chapter completed!