Chapter 424 Treaty of Moscow
Count Naresh demonstrated his superb political literacy in this negotiation. Of course, he did not reduce even a slight loss of territory and interests for the Russian Empire, but he ensured the smooth signing of the contract. For the interests of Tsar Feodor, although Russia was defeated, the Tsar did not suffer any losses. Under the operation of Count Naresh, the Tsar was not only the Tsar was still the Tsar after the war, but also did not have to bear responsibility for the defeat, because it was the Tsar who saved the nobles and civilians in Moscow and the whole city. Without the Tsar, everyone would have to die or become slaves.
According to the manuscript written by Count Naresh and Yaquikov, the Tsar dragged his sick body in the Great Chamber, stood in the cold wind, facing a wave of bloody and bruised Duma representatives, and delivered a very famous speech in later history, successfully scaring and deceiving most of the Duma nobles with the lies of liberating serfs.
The success of the speech was not only because of the Tsar's personal charm and speaking ability, but also because the content of this speech was reasonable and well-founded, at least 90% was true, but the remaining 10% was exaggeration, artistic processing, and lies. But no one could see that before the iron hooves of the Imperial Expeditionary Force stepped on the Russian plains, many Duma nobles' understanding of the empire was largely just the pronunciation of the Khitan, yellow people, tea and silk, and failure really calmed them a lot.
Therefore, the negotiations not only went smoothly, but the Moscow Treaty was also first recognized by the Russian Duma nobles' meeting. Only Li Junwei and Tsar Feodor needed to sign the name.
The treaty in Latin, Poland, Russian and Chinese was presented under the cannon outside Moscow City. This was a cannon base built by Li Junwei to break through Moscow City. Hundreds of siege cannons of all sizes were displayed here. They were cast out, but unfortunately they were not used. The negotiating table was placed between two giant siege cannons, one was named Tsar by Li Junwei, and the other was named Ivan. These heavy and unmovable cannons were eventually given to Tsar Feodor as a private gift from Li Junwei.
At the negotiating table, under the witness of more than 70 army and internal and external vassal generals of the Empire, and more than 40 Russian nobles and generals, Tsar Feodor came on a white horse and signed his own orders on the Treaty of Moscow, while the signing process of Li Junwei was very complicated.
The Tsar used quill pens, exquisite swan feathers and spice-filled ink were already rare, but Li Junwei asked the attendant to bring a box, which contained more than a dozen pens and a matching gold-inlaid ink bottle. Of course, because the empire's vulcanized rubber industry was just starting, these pens still had no ink bags, but the gold pens looked very delicate and gorgeous. Li Junwei signed the four treaties, stopped every time he wrote a word or two, and gave the pens he had used to the people around him, General Chen Ping of Dingbian, Minister Chang Adayei of the Imperial Guard, Lieutenant General Wu Yifeng, etc. In the end, even the young attendant got one, which made many people envious.
Soon, the craftsmen arrived and engraved the contents of the treaty on two giant cannons, as a memory.
"His Majesty the Tsar, can you visit your Kremlin?" After signing, Li Junwei asked Tsar Feodor with a smile.
Wu Yifeng and Chen Ping were both stunned when they heard this. Chen Ping quietly held Li Junwei's hand and said, "Prince is careful, there are people who want to kill you everywhere in the city."
Fedor said, "I think the Kremlin is not that beautiful in winter."
"Is that so? I want to have a deeper chat with you." Li Junwei accepted Fedor's polite rejection and said with a smile.
Feodor asked: "What does Your Highness Yu want to talk about, history or food?"
Li Junwei shook his head slightly: "I want to talk about important matters, such as the Ottomans, the Black Sea or other matters that are important to our country's vital interests. Of course, you don't seem to have time now, but you will have it soon."
Li Junwei personally sent Feodor away from the camp and asked the imperial guards to send him back to Moscow City. When he returned to the camp, the generals had already started singing. The Treaty of Moscow was signed, the war was over, and there were few casualties, but the gains were abundant.
Most of Russia was swept by the cavalry of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and at least millions of slaves and countless gold, silver and wealth, cattle, sheep and animals. The officers of the internal and external vassal states who have experienced a bitter and cold winter know that the new winter that is about to arrive will be a pleasant and warm season.
The large animal was tied with food and various living utensils and returned to the grassland. The place where it passed was full of devastation. It was the trace left by the expeditionary forces. The captives were tied up and followed the horse convoy. The war lasted for half a year, from March to September, and it was the time to reunite.
Among the slaves captured, women were trophy and were divided into various flag servants of various internal and external vassals, while men were divided by merchants such as Venice, Jewish, and Armenia. They had been engaged in slave business for a long time, but they used to buy slaves captured from the Crimean Tatars, and now they were obtained from the Imperial Expeditionary Force. Compared with the Tatars-like army, the organizational and discipline of the Expeditionary Force brought high efficiency. In a war, more slaves caught in half a year may have been more than those captured by the Crimean Tatars in the past thirty or even fifty years.
"Your Highness, I have to tell you a bad news that the price of slaves is lowering, only one-fifth of that in March. Even so, the merchants cannot pay enough cash. They want to offset the goods, but we have no shortage of goods.
This is just that without a large number of actions, I counted it. The Bashkirs and men of all Slavic races in our hands have not taken more than 320,000. If all of these people were thrown into the market, the price would even be reduced to one-twentieth." Chang Adae reported in Li Junwei's blue tent, his face full of sadness.
Li Junwei glanced at Chang Adayai and asked, "It was the generals and noble chiefs of the foreign vassals who asked you to come. Oh, by the way, the generals of the Qiexue Camp and the Batulu Camp also found you, right?"
Among slaves, strong men are slaves second only to beautiful girls. This is an iron rule respected at any place in the world. Obviously, the noble chiefs of the foreign vassal also need men who can farm and grazle. Although women can do it, they are less efficient than men. But this is contrary to the imperial policy. At least in Shenjing, the empire, if they say it out loud, they cannot accept so many ethnic groups with completely different skin colors, beliefs, languages and living habits. Even as slaves, the foreign vassal did not care about these at all.
Li Junwei said: "Chang Aday, for your sake, I can select 50,000 people as rewards for the soldiers participating in the war, but that's all. You are the minister to Xinjiang and Chen Ping is the general of Dingbian. I need you two to appease these guys. If they still refuse to give up, I don't mind letting the guards take stock of everyone's gains. I believe no one will like it."
Before the war started, most of the people responsible for sweeping and collecting spoils were foreign vassals. These people did not submit the payment to the payment truthfully. Li Junwei turned a blind eye, but unexpectedly someone would be arrogant.
Chang Adai quickly agreed. The longer he stayed with Li Junwei, the more he understood his temper. This King Yu was usually cynical, but as long as he decided on something, he would be very serious when doing it.
"Then the other slaves can't take action at once," Chen Ping asked.
Li Junwei said: "First disperse to the inner vassal banners to work, and then feed the food to overwinter. You have counted the number of people. One winter has passed, whether it is not suitable for the environment or the environment or the escape is killed. Set an indicator. I will not be less than 250,000 next summer."
Chen Ping's eyes widened: "Prince, you won't give these people to the eldest prince, right?"
"If my elder brother was willing to accept it, I would have sent it long ago, but he didn't want it. What I wanted was a man who rode on horseback and pulled the bow, not a serf who grazed cattle and plowed the land. But I was shocked and asked someone to go to various camps to pick it up. The craftsmen were given priority to send it to the eldest prince." Li Junwei smashed his boots on the table and said casually.
Chen Ping said: "The newly opened land in Western Xinjiang actually requires craftsmen."
Li Junwei, who closed his eyes and rested, opened his eyes and looked at Chen Ping, his eyes as loud as lightning: "General Chen Ping, am I discussing with you?"
Chen Ping lowered his head and did not dare to touch Li Junwei's eyes. He has been in Western Xinjiang for more than ten years and has been in charge of military and political affairs, but he is not as broad as Li Junwei in two years. He is a prince, so Chen Ping was shorter than his heart. This time, the war started early in the Western Xinjiang. Because of his mistakes in his work, Chen Ping dared not to disobey Li Junwei. He shook his head and said, "No, Prince, this is your order. I and everyone in Dingbian General's Mansion will implement it. But there are 250,000 people. What do you want to do? You have to make a charter for the humble ranks, so we can prepare early."
This is actually just an inquiry into Li Junwei's next plan. Sweeping Kazakhstan and expedition to Russia were like a whim. Chen Ping did not ask for himself, but for the emperor of Shen Jing. During these two wars, it would be fine if Li Junwei did not tell the civil and military officials of Western Xinjiang. Even Shen Jing's court and the emperor were hiding it. Chen Ping was nervous and dared not not ask, for fear that Li Junwei would do something wrong.
"I will make a deal with these 250,000 people with that lovely Tsar." Li Junwei said with a smile.
"What deal?" Chen Ping asked carefully.
Li Junwei said: "For example, to fight the Crimean Tatars, to fight with the Ottomans, to seize the Black Sea estuary and to occupy the North Caucasus, to do so."
"Your Highness, isn't this... this... this, isn't the war over?" Chen Ping and Chang Aday looked at each other and said incoherently.
Li Junwei snapped his fingers and reminded him carefully: "Wrong! The war with Russia is over, and the expansion war is not over yet! General Chen, I now understand why the Mongols could sweep the world back then. Good guys have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. They can start when they go to war, can get off the horse and rob, can kill them when they are let go, and do whatever they want. This nomadic people is so good, and Fedor and his men are also quite interesting, and they have strong cooperation ability. We have such subordinates and such allies. Why can't we make a concerted effort and go further? Hahahahaha."
"Your Highness, the war is not as simple as you think. We fought two consecutive wars, and the soldiers were very tired. Moreover, I would like to remind you that our current ally is the Ottoman Empire, and it is less than eleven months since you signed the Ottoman alliance treaty." Chen Ping said carefully.
Li Junwei was careless and said, "Just just tear it apart, can you not admit it, can you be fooled?"
"This is a treaty you signed on behalf of the empire..." Chang Aday said in a low voice.
Li Junwei glared at him: "Pediatric! The treaty is for violation and torn."
Chang Adei immediately didn't dare to speak. Anyway, he was a civil affairs official and did not need to participate in too many military strategies. Li Junwei said: "Okay, okay, I will send a delegation to the Ottoman to negotiate the opening of the Indian Ocean port. If they don't want to, I'll tear up the treaty."
This is barely a reason, because in the treaty of the alliance, it stipulates that the Ottomans and the Empire should respect and open up each other, and the Empire's Nanyang Province is open to any merchant, so it can naturally require equal opening to the Ottomans. If the other party disagrees, it seems reasonable.
"The key is how to explain our armistice with Russia to the Ottoman Empire now." Chen Ping reminded that in the alliance treaty, the Dnieper River was the main battlefield, and the empire swept across Russia from the side and back to essentially support the main battlefield, but in fact, it was just to fool the Ottomans into signing the treaty. The empire did intend to sweep across Russia, defeat Tsarist Russia, and seize profits and land, but had no intention of helping the Ottomans to dominate the Black Sea coast.
The Ottoman army later entered the main battlefield of the Dnieper River before the empire, and quickly opened up a situation that had not been opened in the past four years. Crossed the Dnieper River, but did not annihilate the Russian army in an integral manner. When the expeditionary force swept across Russia, the Russian front-line army also cut off food and supplies. However, the participation of Poland and the Lithuanian Federation soon reversed the situation. Now the Ottoman confronted the old opponents on the front line again. Winter gradually approached, and the intensity of the war would inevitably decline.
It can be said that the Imperial Expeditionary Force completed all its tasks, but the Ottoman army was not successful and did not consider the opponent of the Kingdom of Poland, but who was the one who was so weird?
Chapter completed!