Chapter 49 Lin Haifeng finally said something that Alexander Gorchakov never thought of
Seeing the Kazakhs' series of guerrilla activities, the Kazakh grasslands began to keep restless again, not only Krezanovsky had a headache, but also His Majesty Alexander II, who was far away in Petersburg, felt very uncomfortable.
Therefore, in 1861, given that the treaty of friendship and mutual assistance had been signed with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and began to receive actual assistance from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although Alexander II took the initiative to mediate with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government on this matter through the Russian embassy in China, and on the other hand, he ordered Krezanovsky's Orenburg local government to adopt a positive and friendly attitude and explain to the Northwest Military and Political Government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Northwest Military and Political Office to strengthen the guardianship of the border and not give Kazakhstan elements any opportunity to take advantage of it.
The above statements made by Tsarist Russia are actually very tactful. Zuo Zongtang, who was responsible for receiving Krezanovsky's envoys several times, certainly understood the true meaning of the other party. The Tsarist Russians were accusing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of protection for the Kazakhs.
Therefore, the upright Zuo Zongtang would never do the kind of things that were ignorant, but publicly admitted that there was indeed a small group of Kazakhs often traveling between the Kazakh grasslands and Xinjiang in China.
But Zuo Zongtang would immediately continue to say that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was actually very troubled about this situation. Zuo Zongtang then continued to explain that since the Chinese and Russians had changed from being extremely hostile to being quite friendly now, in order to show their sincerity and sincerity to always be friendly to Russian friends, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had canceled military patrols and garrisons on the borders and checkpoints two years ago, and handed over all this task to the people who reclaimed the land.
Since they are some people who are full-time land reclamation, of course they will not care as much about things that are not their own, just like soldiers who pay military salaries. Therefore, for those who are very familiar with the geographical situation, it is inevitable that they often go between the border and the other side.
Although Krezanovsky was very dissatisfied with Zuo Zongtang's extremely irresponsible shirking, he had nothing to say.
Because at least Krezanovsky had to admit that among the shirkish remarks that Zuo Zongtang said, there were still a few truths.
For example, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not manage the borders very rigorously, and Krezanovsky had a deep understanding of it.
In the past two years, Krezanovsky has sent spies to various parts of Xinjiang to investigate the various movements of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Apart from extremely few cases, his spies are rarely seized or dealt with by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the border areas.
Of course, every time at the end, Zuo Zongtang would still explain this point extremely solemnly to Krezanovsky's envoy, that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government would never do anything to hurt friends. In order to make Krezanovsky's envoy truly understand his meaning, Zuo Zongtang often had to add such a sentence, that is, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would never allow any armed personnel to enter or cross the border line.
In this way, by the time of 1864, the fire of restoration on the Kazakh grasslands had already gradually been connected from stars to pieces, and the Sir and Chu River basins adjacent to China and Kokhan had become the base camp for restoration that Kazakhstan had firmly controlled in their hands.
At the end of 1864, the Tsarist Russian government, which was burning with the burning fire of Kazakhstan's restoration, made another request to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government for boundary surveys.
Previously, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government had already completed a series of boundary surveys with the Tsarist Russian government in the north and northeast. However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had always shown great disinterest in the boundary survey issues related to the northwest.
This time, when Minister Alexander Gorchakov, with the proposal of boundary survey, was pushed to Lin Haifeng by Hong Renyi, who was originally in charge of diplomatic affairs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, Lin Haifeng finally said something Alexander Gorchakov never expected:
In fact, we have been considering the boundary issue in the northwest for a long time. However, the matter north of the Ertzis River is easy to talk about, but to the south? I'm afraid it's hard to talk about.
Then, Lin Haifeng pulled the shocked envoy Alexander Gorchakov and came to the huge map that almost covered a wall of his office. He pressed his hand on the vast Kazakh prairie and then said something even more heartbroken to Alexander Gorchakov:
Since last year, the government of the Kazakh Republic has written to our government many times, asking our government to respect the feelings of the Kazakh people and not be accomplices of the robbers. So...
After the "So" down, Alexander Gorchakov didn't have to listen in detail.
But what Alexander Gorchakov was confused was that when did the "Kazakh Republic" that Lin Haifeng mentioned emerge?
In fact, as early as 1862, when East and Jianghoga led thousands of well-trained and well-equipped Kazakh rescuers to enter the Sir and Chu River basins, the banner of the Kazakh Republic had been raised high by them.
In June 1864, with the increasing consolidation of the base area of the Mesopotamia of the Sir River and Chu River, a large mesopotamian basin, the Kazakh Republic began to have practical content.
The previous Kazakh Rescue General Command has been officially renamed the National Restoration Committee of the Kazakh Republic, and East has served as chairman of the National Restoration Committee and supreme commander of the National Restoration Committee.
But unfortunately, the Klezanovsky, who had been fighting unremittingly with the "Kazakh rebels" for five or six years and was determined to completely extinguish the flame of Asakh's rebellion, not only did he not regard this change as anything, but he actually forgot to report to his Tsar Majesty.
So, it is no wonder that the Minister Alexander Gorchakov was confused.
A few days later, when Alexander Gorchakov, who had been thinking about it for a while, still unwilling to give up, came to visit Lin Haifeng again, and showed various origins to prove that the Kazakh prairie has been a territory that Tsarist Russia since ancient times, what he did not expect was that Lin Haifeng, who had always seemed very rigorous, could speak out "extremely unreasonable" remarks.
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