C1639 Gold Buy Road (1/2)
”Put on the white flag, I will ice myself, I will negotiate with T?pchin! Bring some gold, I want to see just how greedy this bastard is! ”
Fajeev got off his horse and was about to get on ice, but the surrounding officers all held him back, ”No way! You are the commander, you can't take the risk yourself, let us go! ”
Fajeev shook his head: ”No, we don't have time to waste on this kind of negotiation. Look at how exhausted our brothers are …”
Qi Kefu, Ah Sha Wen and the rest of the officers looked around. These warriors who had come all the way from Central Asia were all extremely haggard.
The soldiers had high cheekbones, and their cheeks were so thin that they had caved in. Whenever the warhorses stopped, they would eat with the grass in the snow, and when most of the troops were on the move, they would always fall down and charge forth like ants, splitting up the horse meat to serve as food.
”Look, these are our soldiers, loyal, brave, unswerving … But they are also humans, and they also have their limits. We have to find supplies, and even if we have to buy them with all our gold, we have to find provisions for our soldiers, and find horse material for our war horses! ”
”None of you are allowed to go. In order to give T?pchin face, I must personally go negotiate with him! Banner... So what if I let these Qing Guo Nu be happy once? ”
What was there to say now? The guard took out a torn white shirt and tied it to the flagpole, accompanying Fajeev to the surface of the ice.
Following the afterglow of the setting sun, Fajeev carefully looked at the grooves on the ice. He couldn't help but exclaim, ”These Chinese people are really talented in farming.
It was crisscrossed, the latitude and longitude straight as a knife or axe, the deep ice troughs were all the same width and depth, even the black soil and charcoal were evenly distributed.
If they were given the same task, not to mention one day, even if it was three days and their numbers were doubled, it would still be impossible to complete it.
”It's really hard not to be convinced. These Chinese people are born to create wealth! We in Russia are ashamed of our inferiority... ”But it doesn't matter. We have a powerful army, so naturally, we can extract wealth from these people. This is our way of survival …”
Fajeev nodded his head and the standard-bearer and translator started to shout on the ice ”Negotiate...” Our commander wants to see your commander in chief... We want to negotiate! General T?pchin, come and see us … ”
”We are not armed, we only have two men, we are not armed!”
They shouted all the way, all the way forward, and stopped when they reached the burnt-out rocket trees.
Very quickly, two more people walked down from the dike. The tower-like burly man in the middle was Hun Chun, with a Translator following beside him.
By the time the four of them met at the dividing line in the middle of the great river, the bonfires and torches on both sides of the river had already converged to form a bright river of stars.
Hun Chun brought many torches for lighting. After igniting them, she placed them on top of a pile of snow on the ice. Dozens of torches illuminated the area with light.
”Is this General T?pchin? Supreme military and political officer of Heilongjiang? I am Fajeev, the commander of the Central Plains reinforcements. We pay our respects to you! ” After saying that, Fajeev lightly touched his boots as he gave a simple military salute.
This was already giving the Qing Nation enough face. Since when had the proud Russian ever taken the initiative to salute the Qing Nation's officials?