In any case, Galdan finally arrived at his destination, Humal City, the northernmost city of the empire. It was developed by gold digging and was also a frontier fortress for the Russians to move south and the Manchus to advance eastward in the community era. However, with the expansion of the empire, the city's military significance became lower and lower, and the political and economic weight became more and more important.

Gold rush is still the main industry of Humal City, but it is no longer the most important. Over the past 20 years, many industries such as shipbuilding, smelting, textiles, and leather have emerged here. It has become an important base for the empire to expand into the Siberian region and a transit station that connects internal and external areas. It transports a large amount of gold, leather, fur and medicinal materials to the south every year, and then eats the surrounding hardwood, wool, ore, and spits out iron velvet, and handicraft products. Humal, with a population of more than 30,000, is already an insurmountable core city on this land.

For Galdan, who was born at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, grew up in Tibetan temples and was deeply influenced by Buddhism, everything in Humal made him feel novel. There are bustling commercial streets, tall buildings with towering spires (in order to make the snow fall quickly, the top of Humal's buildings is very high and steep), and various workshops that come and go, but what Galdan had to do first was to obtain an identity, otherwise he would be unable to move forward.

"Name."

"Choroschahun." Galdan expressed his cover identity.

The recorder frowned and raised his head, saying, "There are too many words. The name of the new national is two to three words. If you have figured it out, is it called Choros or Chahun."

Galdan was puzzled and looked at the manager who was with him. The manager nodded, indicating that he was not to make things difficult for him. Galdan said, "Then let's check the water."

The secretary nodded and wrote the name Chahhn on the form. Galdan looked a little unhappy but helpless. Humal is a major frontier town. Every year, a large number of aliens from Siberia and Mongolian Plateau come to surrender, with hundreds or thousands of them. Their registered names are only two or three characters. When writing, they try to tend to Han names. For example, Galdan, now his surname is Chah. If Galdan reports his real name, the three words Galdan cannot be registered, because there is no Han people in the Han people, and he has to change his Galdan to Galdan. If Galdan doesn't recognize the words, maybe he will register the city Ge Erdan.

(There is actually a surname of Ga, but a very small surname, only more than a thousand people have a surname of this.)

Not only in Humal, but all the borders and overseas administrative regions of the empire will give a Chinese name when accepting new immigrant registration. No matter what religious beliefs and ethnic groups the other party is, let alone the small immigrants, what about the elders and nobles of the empire? Simmons, the founding elder, also has a surname of Xi in terms of household registration.

"age."

"Twenty years old."

"How many people are there in the family?"

"I'm the only one." Galdan was prepared and answered without hesitation.

Hearing that there was only one person, the clerk put down his pen and asked, "Where is your family?"

Galdan said: "All dead or can't be found."

The secretary said: "You can't be a spy sent by the Qing Tartars!"

Galdan quickly explained: "No, I was originally from the Xietu tribe of Khalkhatu. The Manchus annexed our tribe and separated our wives and children. During the war, my wife and son died, and my parents and brothers were stolen by the Manchus and became slaves. I......"

Galdan explained, seeing that the secretary didn't believe it, he said to the manager: "Master, please help me explain a few words."

The clerk asked: "Then how did you escape?"

The manager said, "Don't be angry, Chief, Chahun is the son of Doron Kataiji, the Tushetu tribe. However, he entered the temple as a monk since childhood. Later, because the rest of Doron Kataiji's sons died, he returned to secular life. His family was looted by the Qing Dynasty and the whole family became slaves. Chahun was assigned to the tent of a captain of a Manchu Yellow Banner. However, the captain was firmly believed in Buddhism and Chahun was able to deceive him. He had to give him some silver and flee to the empire. The villain met him on the way and saw that he could write and calculate, so he received the caravan as an accountant, and the villain gave him a guarantee."

The clerk then felt relieved: "Just have a guarantee!"

The clerk did not believe the story told by the caravan manager and Galdan, and did not want to verify it. Humal had many new immigrants every year, and they had strange background stories. The household registration department could not verify it at all, nor did he want to verify it. Instead, Humal was located in the northern border and was in a period of rapid development. Whether in the army, mining or logging, he always lacked the population. He always refused to accept immigration. It was just because Galdan was alone that he asked, "This clerk had worked in the household registration department for so many years, such as Tungus, Buryat, Mongolian, Russian, and who had never seen anyone, and as long as someone was guaranteed, they would register.

The manager not only guaranteed Galdan, but also gave him work and address, allowing Galdan to register smoothly. After the registration, Galdan's information was sent away. The secretary specially reminded some issues such as tax filing and law. After half an hour, someone sent Galdan's identity card, an iron plate with Galdan's identity information engraved on it. This is Galdan's ID card, and the registration matters were over.

"Fortunately, I wouldn't be able to pass this level." Galdan left the official office and hurriedly thanked the manager.

In fact, the manager didn't know Galdan's true identity at all. The identity background he knew was the story he told the clerk. The only difference was that he did not meet Galdan by chance, but took Galdan's benefits and helped him escape to Humal and settle down.

"Haha, don't worry, Chahun, from now on, you will have an innocent person and work hard at the trading company in the future." The manager patted his shoulder, and Galdan immediately invited him to drink and thank him.

The two of them randomly found a restaurant. There were two most common dishes in Humaer, one was stewed with fish from mushrooms, and the other was mutton skewers. What surprised Galdan was that the main ingredients in the two dishes here were not charged for money. The stewed fish was placed neatly under the base of the wall, like chopping wood, and mutton was eaten casually. These two things were so common around Humaer. The fish came from Heilongjiang outside the city. They caught it in winter. While it was not frozen, they would first

If you clean up and then put it in, you don’t have to worry about bad things. Sheep are even less valuable. Whether it is the surrounding flag servants or tribes, sheep will be slaughtered on a large scale every year in winter. Anyway, there is a lack of forage in winter and it is impossible to raise it. It is better to slaughter and sell sheepskin. The merchants bought it in groups. Only agricultural by-products such as corn stalks, oats and barley supplements produced in agricultural areas like Humaer can feed these sheep in winter, and the sheep are fat and strong.

Although the main dish is not expensive, the side dishes are expensive, and mushrooms and various vegetables are rare. In addition to salt, various condiments are also very expensive, especially spices, not to mention wine.

The population of Humal is theoretically around 30,000, but in winter, the population will double. After all, it is the only prosperous place for hundreds or even thousands of miles around. The gold diggers and merchants stranded here will pour in. Lumberjacks and absentees who have stopped working due to the arrival of winter will pour in. The wealthy families in the surrounding villages and communities, and the nobles of Qizuoli will also live in Humal in winter to enjoy the fine wine, women, opera and various literary and artistic activities here. In Humal in winter, many production activities are forced to stop, but the city is becoming more and more lively.

Although Galdan was a monk, he was very knowledgeable and did not hate the noise here at all. Before entering Humal, he was thinking about finding scholars who mastered profound knowledge, and then devoted everything to him and studied under his disciples. However, after seeing Humal's prosperity, Galdan's thoughts faded. He realized that if he could not adapt to a new life and integrate into a new environment, he would likely be turned away. Moreover, the Spring Festival of the third year of the empire was about to come, and the snow was thicker than the other layer, so it was difficult to go from Humal to Yongning or Vladivostok.

So, Galdan changed his plan, and he decided to start with the accounting, understand and adapt first.

From the winter of the third year of the empire to the spring of the empire's fourth year of the empire, Galdan learned to drink, smoke, play cards and play fists, struggled in the city of Huma, witnessed the vitality of the towns on the border of the empire, and felt the affluent life of the people of the empire. When the snow began to melt, Galdan participated in a new round of commercial activities of the trading company as an accountant, and the first step was to purchase various goods.

Not only Galdan, the arrival of spring has made the whole city busy. Gold diggers, miners and lumberjacks have begun to pack up their tools and prepare to work out of the city. Merchants buy goods, buy livestock, and plan to go on the road. Even landlords and nobles who have been playing in Humal for a winter have to return to their hometowns and urge tenant farmers or herders to prepare for spring plowing and grazing. More and more people are leaving the city, and it is becoming increasingly deserted.

What Galdan has to do is to assist the manager in purchasing the goods, and then wait until the goods are frozen, take the ship to Yongning City, and take the account book to report and distribute dividends to Yongning's shareholders.

Accompanied by the tingling sound, Galdan entered a smelting workshop and, together with the manager, purchased iron tools. When the shopkeeper saw that the old customer had arrived, he asked directly: "Is there a real or a fake this time?"

"I have to do the real and fake ones, but I have to double the fake ones!" The manager replied with a smile, and then came to the shopkeeper's ear: "I made a line in Hulunbuir last year, and I have made some money this year."

The two of them greeted each other. Galdan had already started to turn around in the workshop. This workshop produced a lot of iron products. As a workshop that is numerous in Humal City, all the tools used in life can be found here. Galdan did not look at the sharp utensils, but stood on a display stand. Here were scissors, iron pots and other series of iron tools often used on the grassland, but without exception, they were all ragged. The scissors did not open the edges, and the iron pots were all sand holes, which were completely shoddy. This was the fake in the mouth of the manager and the shopkeeper.

As a border city, foreign trade is the mainstream, but the two northwest directions facing Humal, namely the Qing Dynasty and Russia, are both enemies. Obviously, trade with them is smuggling. In places like Humal, smuggling is almost inevitable. The empire has been repeatedly banned, so it simply let go of smuggling, collects heavy taxes, and increases the cost of smuggling.

In the military control laws issued in the Heilongjiang Appeasement Zone, gunpowder, flintlock machine, bayonet, steel products, etc. are strictly prohibited. Catching them means treating serious crimes. However, for enemies such as iron and cloth, the things produced in Heilongjiang are only restricted. Taking iron as an example, caravans can legally sell iron pots, scissors and other iron products to Mobei, but they are not allowed to sell iron ingots directly. If cloth and wool velvet are cloth, only dyed products are allowed, low-end products such as twill cotton and wool velvet, white cotton and felt cloth are prohibited products.

Obviously, these policies are to increase the cost of smuggling. The price of an iron pot is twenty times that of pig iron of the same quality. By smuggling, it may be affordable to buy iron ingots and melt them into arrows. However, if the iron pot is melted and cast arrows, the cost will be completely unacceptable. The wealth in the hands of the Qing Dynasty was limited. Apart from gold, silver and precious metals, there were only animal husbandry products produced in the grassland. It is cost-effective to replace these things with iron ingots, and changing to iron pots would be fatal.

Because of this, caravans doing smuggling transactions will buy some shoddy defective products to avoid various inspections. However, iron pots are iron pots, and even the rotten iron pots are valuable than pig iron ingots.

Galdan pretended to be fine and was walking in the workshop, as if checking the quality of the goods, but in fact he was looking for something. When he was in the tavern, he heard people say that there was a kind of hydraulic forging hammer in the workshop, which could lift 80 kilograms of hammer pounding equipment, which was better than twenty strong men. It was precisely because of this monster-like thing that the price of armor and knives became very cheap. Many caravan guards could equip well with armor. Galdan had seen those armors with his own eyes, which were rare in Tibet and the Western Regions, so he had always wanted to figure out the principle of hydraulic forging hammers. However, in winter, the river water was frozen and the hydraulic equipment in the workshop was shut down. Galdan had never found a chance. This time, he finally had a chance.

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

The dull knock came from the depths of the workshop. Galdan also heard the sound of water rushing. He realized that he might have found the right place. He walked deeper with excitement. Just as he was about to push open the door, he was patted on his shoulder. Galdan was thinking about how to get the people here to agree to go in, but when he turned around, he saw the sound of the manager. He smiled awkwardly: "Master, I want to go and see what the hydraulic forging hammer looks like."

"Don't look at it." said the manager: "I've ordered the goods here, and we have to go to the textile factory to order the velvet. Let's go."

"Just take a look, just take a look." Galdan begged.

"Brother, it's not that you don't want to see it. I'm afraid that you will see it. If you think about inventing a new hydraulic machine, wouldn't that be crazy again?"
Chapter completed!