"How many hunters outside have they recruited now?"

"There are less than a hundred people. When everyone gathers together, there will be about a hundred and fifty people."

Xu Yanguang said while carefully observing Zhao Liang's expression.

From his perspective, the number of 150 people is really not large, and only one-third of these people are willing to fight against the Russians for money.

In his cognition, whether it is his previous cognition or current cognition, it is an absolute great power.

The Battle of Jaxa and the Treaty of Nebchu obviously gave people the feeling of being on par with China and Russia.

Now he has a broader understanding, a broader vision, and he can better understand the weight of the Russians.

That is definitely a big country.

It's not something that the little Zhao family can collide with.

The only thing the Zhao family can rely on is the distance between thousands of miles of frozen soil. Even if the strong Russians can kill a bear with one hand, they can only pass the power of a hair like a strand of hair to Sakhalin Island far away.

The Zhao family can naturally resist it.

Even without those hunters, the power of the Beihai Commercial Bank could easily eat the Russian team. The latter's expedition team with less than a hundred people was really vulnerable to the Beihai Commercial Bank.

"How many people can be recruited, and everything must be done slowly."

Zhao Liang was not very disappointed with this number, because he had no hope for it before.

This is just a chess move, just to prepare for the future.

When he wants to develop Siberia, which is the thousands of miles of frozen soil mentioned by Xu Yanguang, when he wants to enter Alaska in the future, it will be very difficult without these fierce and experienced hunter fronters with rich survival experience in snowfields, without them to "reflect" the value of this land, it will be very difficult to rely solely on conventional troops to firmly "occupy" it.

Armed China can of course easily defeat the Russians in Siberia, because sending troops from China to Siberia is even more inconvenient than the Russians.

But how can we maintain the occupation of this place after taking it down? Or is it just like the Nurgandusi in the Ming Dynasty, which only retains a nominal sense of existence, but actually gives up the land to the local indigenous people?

These places are too cold.

No matter how much China's population explodes or expands in the next hundred years, it has a vast South Ocean (including Australia) and Central Asia to expand. Even Zhao Liang is ambitious about North America. Under such circumstances, almost no one is willing to live in the extremely cold Siberia and Northeast China.

Of course, Zhao Liang could force the people to move, but this is too easy to be disinterested, right? Or would he give up all the large tracts of land to the indigenous people here, or the Hezhe tribe, etc.

That's impossible, that's not what he wants to see.

In this way, everyone can only recognize the "precious" of these places and the wealth that can be generated here, so that everyone will cherish it.

For example, Alaska, there are a large number of sea dogs living there, and these sea dog skins are expensive sea dragon skins in China. In the short period from the late 18th century to the first twenty years of the 19th century, it is said that Russian and American companies obtained a total of millions of sea dog skins here, and there were also an astonishing number of sea otter skins.

This is definitely a valuable profit, even for a country.

So now we will start to cultivate a group of fierce and durable Northern Hunters, which is definitely a very cost-effective deal.

Therefore, he has absolutely sufficient patience to wait for the development of the "hunter".

Xu Yanguang withdrew from the room and ran into Xiao Yun who was rushing towards him.

"Uncle, news came from Nanyang that the British and Dutch had not seen any confrontation for a month. The British fleet that blocked Batavia also returned to Patov. It seems that the two countries have reached an actual truce."

"Abdul Rahman also sent news to Zhaojiagang, saying that a batch of arms was urgently needed to expand his firearms troops. He is now under increasing pressure from the Dutch. The news conveyed by the hidden lines also confirmed this."

The head of the Zhao family manor in Pontianak is Zhao Cheng, Zhao Liang's cousin, who is of high age, but he is ten years older than Zhao Liang. He is quite smart, and his judgment is very credible.

The person in charge of Zhaojiagang is Cai Qian. Over the past year, he not only managed Zhaojiagang well, but also achieved certain results in his penetration of Abdul Raman.

I originally wanted to take a trip to Fushan and then take a walk to Sakhalin Island, but now I see that he needs to go south immediately.

However, Zhao Liang was so anxious that it was May when he arrived in Guangzhou.

It is definitely not possible to set sail immediately at this time.

And he was not ready to set off at this time because he had to gather some people.

Some people were drawn from the escort agency, some people were drawn from the bank security, and Ruzhou Coal and Iron. Not only were some miner security forces drawn, but also a group of strong miners were drawn. In addition, the personnel of the carriage and horse shops, the merchants, and then the militia at Longlukou and the Zhao family's guards, all of which were half empty.

In short, this time Zhao Liang gathered more than 3,000 people in Yunxiao Hall at once.

When these people arrived, it was only July and the fleet still could not set off.

But thousands of powerful people from Kong Wu gathered together, even if many people were honest and unarmed, it was also very eye-catching.

It’s not that Yunxiao Hall and the Fujian government already knew that these people were recruited by the Zhao family, and they also knew what Zhao Liang was going to take them to do. Zhao Liang’s clearance has been very effective these days, and the Qing army in Fujian may have already been launched to suppress it.

In the Thirteen Tours in Guangzhou, many people heard some wind.

The British and the Portuguese in Macau naturally knew about it.

They first grew up with disbelief, and then they all laughed at Zhao Liang's overestimation from the bottom of their hearts.

Is it too easy to resist the Dutch East India Company based on the big red ships of the Zhao family? This Chinese mogul imagined the naval battle too simply.

Although the latter was defeated by the British fleet again and again in the war and was pressed to the ground again and again by the British, it was still an invincible giant monster on the sea for the Eastern world.

Even though Mr. Zhao knows the Western world very well, even if he does hold a sea power that is not weak in his hand, it is useless. Just like Don Quixote, who challenged the windmill giant, his behavior is not only ridiculous but also defeated.

Whether it is Hodgson, the chief of director who had a deal with Zhao Liang, or Fernando, the director of the Macau Council, they are all ready to lose this "partner" after making a burst of laughter.
Chapter completed!