Merchant In the Sea Chapter 259

As a representative of Western capital, Suchikhov has great power.

Among the crowd that came to greet them, there were several bigwigs from the local defense brigade. At the other party's cordial invitation, they visited Blagoveshchensk.

This city is not big. In fact, it used to be part of China. It was formerly called Hailanpao. It is located at the end of the Greater Khingan Range and is rich in timber and mineral resources. It is connected to the Ussuri River alluvial plain and the HLJ inland waterway is connected to Vladivostok. Going east along the HLJ, you can navigate all the way to the Pacific Ocean outlet.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was also a golden waterway as famous as the Yangtze River and Beijing-Hangzhou.

It is a pity that the Manchu Dynasty was too weak to recover in the late period, and this area was ceded during the Ercoast period. The vast land north of HLJ was ceded to Tsarist Erection, and the territory was expanded from Europe to Asia, becoming a huge empire spanning two states. The Amur Oblast was established, and Blagoveshchensk was made the capital of the Amur Oblast, which was renamed Blagoveshchensk.