It’s winter.

When winter comes, people in the north are reluctant to go out, let alone go out to fight with swords and guns, even the most cold-resistant Russians are no exception.

Therefore, few people take the initiative to go out to fight in winter. Those who are not familiar with the situation or want to win by surprise are naturally not included.

Winter near the Caspian Sea begins in late September and lasts until late April of the following year.

In other words, Chitard gets another half-year rest period.

During these six months, Kitard was not idle.

He began to take a comprehensive look at the legacy that Lash left for him.

First of all, there are the people. In addition to the eldest zai Sangbaodunge, the second zai Sanghamuyang, and Bamu Bal and Momentu, who are also nobles of the tribe, they are all young people and brave men who are good at riding and shooting. Among them

Momentu is the deputy leader of the Lashiqi Xue army, while Bamu Bal is often the vanguard of the tribal cavalry.

Kitard accepted these two men and sent them to Magar City for training.

As for Baodunge and Hamuyang, they are naturally capable, but Kitard did not take a fancy to him. He asked Hamuyang to continue to manage the pastures north of the Volga River in the name of Erzaisang, and was stationed in Manu.

To hold the city (under construction), Chu Hu'er, the brigade commander of Khanling Guard, was his deputy.

Let Shen Muhua serve as the deputy of Baodunge in the south.

In his heart, he actually regarded Chu Hu'er as Yuchi Jingde during the Xuanwumen Incident in the Tang Dynasty. On the surface, he was reprimanded, but in fact, this was not the case.

Although he was slightly dissatisfied with his father who killed him with his own hands, his actions after all brought his great cause a big step forward. If not, it would have taken at least ten years for him to be in sole control!

Therefore, during this winter, he married all the daughters of his uncle who died early to Chu Hu'er, Tie Chena, Shen Muhua, Su Wenyu and others. Among them, Chu Hu'er even married his closest cousin.

Of course, no one except him and Norbu knew the true circumstances of Lashi's death. On that chaotic night, anything could happen, and what Chuhuer described was within the normal range.

That's enough.

In addition, he also transferred some officials from the four cities in the North Caucasus to the newly taken over to assist Baodunge and others in managing tribal affairs.

The so-called tribal affairs were nothing more than three for the former Torgut headquarters.

The first is to pay taxes. In the past, Lash entrusted all this power to the two Zaisangs he trusted. Now it is definitely no longer possible. He plans to implement it again according to Truqin's method.

The second is military service. Chitard abolished the practice of arbitrarily deploying tribal cavalry in the tribe and replaced it with a standing army. Since the standing army has a good salary, it actually does not cause much loss to the herder families.

In the past, once a conscription order was received, herdsmen had to prepare their own food, horses, and ordnance and rush to the designated place. Those who were late and those who were not late would face severe penalties.

With the use of a standing army, both the Khan and the herdsmen were happy.

Due to accepting a large number of herders, Kitard also gathered a thousand elites for himself in his headquarters, and asked Batu to train with him this winter as his personal bodyguard.

In the past, when Baodunge and Hamuyang collected taxes, they would not go to each herdsman's house to collect the tax in person. Instead, they would force the lower-level Taiji, and Taiji would take the initiative to hand it over.

Big Taiji and Little Taiji will push them down step by step. Although it is not as harsh as the grain tax in Han Dynasty, these nobles want to live a good life. They will obviously push it downwards, which leads to the fact that the amount stipulated by the Great Khan is not enough.

It is large, but the actual amount paid by the herdsmen is much larger than this amount.

Things are different now. Chitard has placed all soldiers who have retired due to injuries in the former Baihu Taiji settlement. They are proficient in mathematics and writing, and can use the settlement as a basis to personally inspect the cattle, sheep and horses handed over by the herdsmen.

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Then there are the craftsmen.

As mentioned before, Lash once concentrated the Nogai craftsmen in the area under his jurisdiction in Vitlyangka, and allocated half of them to Truchin. For Lash, he had never thought about making his own muskets. Artillery was just for making refrigerated weapons.

Weapons, just making bows and arrows, later just added some work of repairing muskets.

Vitlyanka was too close to the Russian stronghold. After thinking about it, Kitard moved all these people to Stavropol.

There are so many more troops now for nothing, but their weapons and equipment are far from enough. Not to mention, because the iron materials for Magar City used to be obtained from the Caucasus Mountains, and the time and cost of the journey were too great.
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He simply moved them all to Stavropol City. Together with those acquired in Khiva, Stavropol City immediately had nearly 5,000 craftsmen households that relied entirely on the salaries paid by the Truchin government.<

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Such a scale can be compared with the Moscow Arsenal, Istanbul Arsenal, and Isfahan Arsenal near the Caspian Sea at this time.

He needs to make good use of the six months of winter.

Lash is a money addict. He has not touched the five large boxes of gold and jewelry that Kitard brought to him last time. The other gold and silver ingots are still in the cellar under his tent.

At this time, the gold and silversmiths he brought from the Khiva Khanate came in handy, and they were quickly transferred back from the Lagan Port Shipyard to cast gold and silver coins in Stavropol according to his requirements.

Finally, he mixed the gold coins with 10% of brass and the silver coins with 10% of lead according to the specification of half a tael, making Truchen gold and silver coins.

The front of the gold and silver coins has the word "One Yuan" written in Mongolian, and the back has "One Yuan" written in Chinese. Horses and wheat ears are engraved around it, as well as the three characters "Truqin".

Obviously, he consciously strengthened the symbol of Truqin and weakened the symbol of Torgut.

Truqin, a new place and a new political power will make those who use these gold and silver coins forget about the Turgut of the past and only think of Truqin.

In addition, he began to fully implement the "Truchen Code" in the tribe, secretly replacing the Oirat Code that had been revised by Lash.

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The third is religion.

After careful consideration, he canceled his previous policy of vigorously rejecting heretics and instead adopted the approach of freedom of belief.

Of course, he made all the students who entered the Truqin school and the Truqin army join the Changchun religion, and set up a Changchun Taoist temple at the place where Dadaiji (thousand commander) used to be, and Turandot's disciples went there respectively.

Hosting to strengthen the influence of Changchun Religion is also one of the countermeasures.

In this way, others will think, "Since the people Huntaiji trusts are Changchun believers, is it appropriate for us to believe in other religions?"

Of course, most of the 60,000 Torgut herdsmen still believe in Lamaism, and a few adhere to the previous shamanism and those who were dragged over by the Russians to believe in Orthodox Christianity. In addition, there are a large number of craftsmen who believe in Islam.

Maybe all of them can be converted to Changchun believers at once.

As a result, in the several cities under his jurisdiction, Changchun Taoist temples, Lamaist temples, Islamic temples, and Orthodox churches sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The practice that boys must enter the temple to study scriptures after they are ten years old has also been changed in disguise.

After discussing with the Great Lama Norbu Zang Tenzin, in the name of "lack of funds", he changed the practice that all herders' children should go to the Zhao Temple to study scriptures to those from Taiji and above.

Long goes down every now and then to give lectures.

In order to avoid misunderstandings, he simply opened various religious courses in the school, so that interested students can go to listen to lectures by Taoists, priests, and imams in the name of "elective".

Naturally, the main focus must be on teaching Lamaist classics.

In this way, it not only saves money, reduces the burden on the herdsmen, but also prevents the Gelons from committing crimes after they go down to a certain extent.

After Kitard returned to Vetlyanka, he did not see the newly appointed Russian ambassador to Turgut. It may be that the Russians were nervously discussing countermeasures after seeing the great changes in the Turgut Khanate.

For them, the former ambassador Bekotov first proposed countermeasures, then submitted them to the Astrakhan Provincial Noble Assembly for review, then reported them to the Governor of Tsaritsyn, and then submitted them to the Kazan Special Advocate for Ethnic Affairs.

Discussions were held with the Kazan government, and it would take at least half a year to reach St. Petersburg.

Let's wait until spring, then there will probably be results, and it may also bring out the Russians' attitude towards the new Great Khan candidate.

As for the Da Tai Ji of the other three tribes, such as Zhamu Yang of the Heshuote Tribe, Cedan Dorji of the Duerbot Tribe, and Cebo Dorji who left the tribe, they neither came

Vetlyanka discussed with Kitard and did not send anyone to send a message. Apparently, he also wanted to wait and see what would happen.

Kitard doesn't matter.

The greatest legacy left to him by Lash was the establishment of the headquarters of Torgut.

As soon as Lashi died, Huntaiji had the natural right to inherit, not to mention that he used this position to lay the groundwork for the future.

Even if Tsebokdorzi is finally appointed by the Tsar, he can only watch helplessly as Hundaiji still firmly controls the headquarters.

Of course, if this thing really happened, there might be some herders from the headquarters who would attach themselves to Cebokdorji, but according to Kitard's estimate, such a number would not be too many.

On the grassland, after all, the strong are respected. There are nearly 30,000 Turgut households in front of us. Instead of relying on the 60,000 Kazakh Huntaiji households, they eagerly go to seek refuge with the Cebokdal who only have 6,000 households.

Economic?

Throughout the winter, he spent most of the time in Stavropol, supervising the production of ordnance together with the master craftsman Jida. Since there were sufficient silver coins to pay wages, the craftsmen worked day and night without any complaints.

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His new wife Jain was originally the daughter of all the Islamic Khans in the Kuban area. That Khan was the last Circassian and Kalbachinian in the North Caucasus who believed in Islam except for the Chechens.

, the Great Khan of the Alans, with her arrival, Kitard gained a little more prestige among the newly attached Muslims.

Therefore, in this busy winter, Kitard shuttled between major workshops, schools, and military camps during the day, and spent the evening messing around with Jian, so his days were quite sufficient.

As for his other two wives, they are still studying in school.

Even Jain and Kitard did not leave her idle. At this time, his second son Asalai also came here, and his eldest son Daudibi continued to defect to the Russians.

She is the only daughter of the last Great Khan in the North Caucasus. She studied in Istanbul and Isfahan and is proficient in Caucasian, Persian, Turkic, Latin, and Russian.

After the death of the previous Great Khan Wangbu, she could support herself alone as a woman near Saratov, and she could still calmly deal with the Duke of Tatar, the Duke of Circassian, and the Queen. It was obviously very capable.
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She could also write poems and essays in Persian. How could he let such a talent go? In the end, she was put into the position of principal of a girls’ school.

Before, whether in front of Tun Norbu Wangpo or the Duke of Tartar, she was just a pretty woman.
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