"Great Khan," Sofia said, "I was just downstairs studying Mongolian with Peter, and I heard your roar, so I came over to take a look."

Although Sofia has not officially passed through the door, she has already moved into the Khan Palace of Kangxi Khan in Tashkent. After all, there are not many good houses in Tashkent now. Standing on the low city wall and going out, all you can see are gray small bungalows.

The original palace and a temple belonging to the Kazakh Khan were slightly more respectable... and just slightly more respectable.

The Zhenshen Temple has now become an empty shell of the Qing Palace, where Bumubutai and Yinreng live.

The Kazakh Khan's palace belonged to Kangxi. The palace was not very big or luxurious. It even had only one courtyard, and there were stables and cowsheds in the corners of the courtyard.

However, there are quite a lot of rooms in the palace, and some can be spared for Sofia, Peter and their entourage.

Of course, this kind of arrangement of "no intimacy between men and women" would be unimaginable in the Central Plains, but now that Kangxi was the Great Khan of Mongolia, his style should certainly be more bold.

During the few days when Kangxi and Sofia "lived together" in the same palace, he was quite polite. He never knocked on Sofia's door in the middle of the night, but he got along quite happily with Peter...

Sofia, who originally hated Peter because of the power struggle, has recently become a good sister. She not only personally tutors Peter in Latin and mathematics, but also learns Mongolian and Chinese with him from Little Guizi's father-in-law. Sofia and Peter are traveling from Moscow

They have been learning Mongolian on the way to Tashkent. Both of them are very good students and can now understand and speak a little.

But it doesn’t matter even if you can’t fully understand what Kangxi and others are saying in Mongolian, because Little Guizi’s father-in-law is following the future empress closely at the moment!

Galdan thought Sofia was a blond man just now, but now he heard her speak and looked at her figure carefully, only to realize that she was a woman, so he curiously inquired: "Junior Brother Dahan, this eldest sister is...

..."

"She is Princess Sofia of the Rakshasa Kingdom, my fiancée!"

"What?" Galdan was startled. He looked at Sofia, who was like a giantess, and then at Kangxi's small figure. He thought to himself: "So you like such a woman. You should have told me earlier. I also have one in the Junggar tribe.

There are many tall and strong women... Of course, not as big as this Sofia, she is too big!"

In fact, Galdan's wife Anu Ketun is also "plus-size", but not to that extent, and she is "big and beautiful", not "big and ugly", so Galdan still doesn't like Kangxi's taste.

Very understandable.

Sangyi Gyatso "understood" Kangxi. He immediately put his hands together and said: "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form... Junior Brother is indeed proficient in Buddhism. I admire him. I admire him."

Kangxi glanced at his two good senior brothers and felt quite angry!

However, in front of Sofia, he had no choice but to change the subject and said to Tuhai: "Tuhai, Princess Sofia has always been involved in the Rakshasa government. Although she is married to Mongolia now, she can still say something.

...If you, Daming, have any requests, just talk to her first."

Knowing that his life had been saved, Tu Hai breathed a sigh of relief and said to Princess Sofia with a smile: "Your Highness, in fact, the Ming Dynasty does not have much interest in the bitter cold lands in the north. Its claims to the northern lands only extend from around the Beihai to Xing'an.

The line north of the ridge, plus the eastern coastline of the mainland north of the outer Xing'an ridge and affiliated islands and peninsulas, all the way to the extreme north."

As he spoke, Tuhai took out a map, and Xiao Guizi quickly took it and handed it to Sofia with both hands.

Sofia unfolded it and found a rough map of the northeastern part of the Asian continent, but the coastline of eastern Siberia facing the Pacific Ocean was drawn. Sofia thought to herself: "No Europeans have been to this area, it should have been drawn by the Chinese

I have obtained the map there, and maybe even built a base... It will be very difficult for the Rakshasa Kingdom's navy to occupy the place, and it will be an almost impossible task."

At this time, the navy of the Rakshasa Kingdom was very weak - the Rakshasa Kingdom did not have access to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Their navy could only wander along the Arctic coastline of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the summer. There were basically no enemies, so there was nothing to fight against.

Enemy engagement experience.

The Ming Navy is a powerful navy that can defeat the Dutch-Spanish combined fleet - although they only defeated a group of armed merchant ships, such capabilities are not possessed by the Rakshasa Navy.

Seeing that Sofia was still hesitating, Kangxi said to her in Latin: "Sofia, the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom cannot defeat the Ming army... There is no need to devote limited power to the attack on Irkutsk Castle.

If we counterattack, we will suffer heavy losses and will fail again. Instead of losing troops in vain, it is better to conclude a peace treaty, start trade as soon as possible, and then use our troops in the direction of the Black Sea or the Baltic Sea."

"Irkutsk can't be captured so quickly," Sofia said, not giving up. "It's a pretty solid fortress."

"It's useless," Kangxi shook his head. "The Ming army received support from Chahar Mongolia and dispatched more than 10,000 people. Most of them carried rocket launchers, mortars that can fire super-caliber bullets, and a large number of sugar-powder explosive bombs.

... Your bastion cannot be defended at all. And once the Irkutsk bastion is captured by the Ming army, it is unlikely that you will counterattack and come back, so it is better to give up."

The Rakshasa Kingdom's army is still "sugar-free". They have no ability to break through a bastion held by a "high-sugar" army... and the transportation in Siberia cannot support the Rakshasa Kingdom's attack in Irkut.

A large army of 10,000 to 20,000 people was deployed in the area of ​​​​Cike to besiege the city.

Sofia nodded, but she did not give an answer immediately. She just said: "I will convey your words to His Majesty the Tsar... I think the Tsar can appoint Count Golovin as the peace negotiator to start peace negotiations in Tashkent.

.”

Kangxi glanced at Xiao Guizi, who immediately translated Sofia's words into Manchu.

Tuhai nodded and said: "That's fine... Then I'll wait in Tashkent to negotiate with the envoys of the Rakshasa Kingdom."

He paused, then said to Kangxi with a smile on his face: "Long live Lord, I heard that you are going to send troops to attack Tianzhu?"

Kangxi nodded, "Yes, I am already the Great Khan of Mongolia...but the Khan of the Mongol Kingdom of Tianzhu did not send anyone to attend the Kuritai Conference, which violated the Mongolian ancestral system, so

I want to conquer the Mongol Kingdom of Tianzhu!"

Tu Hai smiled and said: "I wonder if this matter can be regarded as Daming's share?"

"What?" Kangxi was stunned and looked at Tuhai, "What did you say?"

"Can the attack on Tianzhu be counted as Ming's share?"

"Da Ming?" Kangxi was stunned again and again, "Why did Ming want to fight against Tianzhu?"

Tuhai smiled and said: "This Tianzhu Mongol inherited Timur's legal system, and Timur once wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty, so the Tianzhu Mongol is also the enemy of the Ming Dynasty."

Isn’t this account too far gone?

Kangxi frowned and said, "Do you have soldiers from Ming Dynasty that you can send to Tianzhu?"

"Yes!" Tu Hai said with a smile, "Isn't King Shunyi the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty? King Shunyi's soldiers are also the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty... and the Ming Dynasty can also enter Tianzhu by sea."

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had long wanted to enter Tianzhu by sea, but it was only because of the joint efforts of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company that it failed.

In addition, Tuhai also wanted Galdan's army to stay here in Tashkent for a longer period of time...so that he could cover his sending the sugar to the Crimean Khanate.

Kangxi also calculated in his heart that if Ming Dynasty could join the war against Tianzhu, then temporary peace should be maintained between Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, and then he would really have no worries.
Chapter completed!