A huge globe was carried to the Jinluan Hall of Wuhua Palace and placed in front of Emperor Dashun Li Jicheng and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
This group of people have been tempered in the long-term struggle against the semi-feudal and semi-capitalist Ming Dynasty, and their own quality and cultivation have made leaps and bounds. They have long since opened their eyes to see the world as rogues!
Everyone has a globe in their home, but the globes in the ministers' homes are not as big as this, and the terrain and spheres of influence (territories) of each country shown on it are also the same as those currently displayed in the Jinluan Hall of Wuhua Palace. This one is different.
On this large globe, most areas of Sichuan Province have changed from blue, which originally symbolized the Dashun Dynasty, to red, which symbolized the Ming Dynasty. The originally red Uszang area turned blue again - it turned out that after Li Jicheng ascended the throne, he immediately sent envoys to Qamdo of Uszang and sent canonization certificates to Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu. The edict and Sun Kewang's personal letter.
In the edict sent to Uzang, Li Jicheng named Li Dingguo the military envoy of Duogan, Ai Nengqi the military envoy of Uzang, and Liu Wenxiu the military envoy of Orisi (in Guge and Ladakh). ), and also asked the three Jiedu envoys to send envoys to Kunming to pay tribute and take back their family members who stayed in Kunming. Through this operation of paying tribute and exchanging hostages, Li Jicheng was able to shamelessly hide Wuszang and Duo. Three pieces of land, including Gan and Oris, were included in the jurisdiction of Dashun, which can be regarded as the opening of the map.
Of course, Li Jicheng would not be so stupid as to send Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu and the families of their key generals to Uzang at once. They have to be sent slowly, in installments and in batches... As long as the three officials of Uzang, Duogan and Oris come to court every year, they can take a few people back every year.
Sun Kewang's autographed letter persuaded Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu to surrender to Dashun and Ming Dynasty at the same time. Anyway, the three of them are now at a high place and the emperor is far away. Dashun and Ming Dynasty cannot take care of them. As long as there are more If you kowtow and cause less trouble, your life will go smoothly.
If you really can't survive, just go to the other side of the Himalayas and take a look. You should be able to find land that can support tens of thousands of soldiers and their families... No matter where they go to rob, it should have nothing to do with the Dashun court. .
After finishing the business of opening up the map, of course we have to seriously consider the matter of opening up the territory.
The envoys from France and the Netherlands are still in Kunming, waiting for Li Jicheng to discuss with the Dashun princes below to come up with Chou Yin Mao.
Therefore, the terrain of the Tianzhu states on the huge globe placed in the Jinluan Hall of Wuhua Palace was particularly carefully drawn.
Among them, the most carefully painted ones are the Kingdom of Manipur and the Kingdom of Mendun Shunhan (Ahom Kingdom), which are close to the western border of Myanmar!
These two small countries are roughly located between Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Chittagong and Bangladesh. Before Dashun entered Myanmar, the Kingdom of Manipur was a vassal of Myanmar, and the Kingdom of Mendun and Shunhan was forced to surrender to the Timurid Empire.
After Dashun entered Burma and Li Jicheng's Tianzhu invasion, the situation has changed. The Kingdom of Manipur and the Kingdom of Mengdun Shunhan both regained their independence and became a buffer between Dashun and Timur.
And now, preparing for further aggression, oh, no, the Dashun Emperor Li Jicheng, who was going to help the working people of Tianzhu, has set his caring eyes on the Kingdom of Manipur and the Kingdom of Mengdun Shunhan!
In addition to these two small countries located in the northeastern corner of Tianzhu, the Coromandel Coast (the location of Shunfeng Fort) and the Malabar Coast located in the southeastern corner of India are also good places that made Li Jicheng salivate - this coastline is about one mile in length. Although it is thousands of miles away and does not have many natural harbors, it is an important transit point for merchant ships west of Malacca. Moreover, this area is also rich in spices, ebony, cotton, gems and other commodities.
Since ancient times, this area has been a prosperous trading center between the East and the West, rivaling Malacca!
If you can grab the whole thing, you won't have to worry about running out of money.
However, although there is a lot of money in this area, there are greedy thieves, no, even good people! They all want to help the Tianzhu people there, but with Dashun's little strength, he really doesn't dare to eat alone.
"Let me tell you something." Li Jicheng glanced around the hall and found that everyone's morale was still a bit low, so he decided to share some encouraging news first, "Well, yesterday I had a meeting with the envoy from France. Chen Fukai, Bruce, the envoy of the Netherlands, met and talked about going to Tianzhu to rob the rich and give to the poor... Do you know what robbing the rich and giving to the poor is?"
"I know, I know, this is what I did before I followed Lao Wansui to attack the Zhu family!"
“Three generations of the E family have been doing this, it’s very familiar!”
"Um, when I followed Lao Wansui and traveled around the world, I did a lot of good deeds by robbing the rich and giving to the poor!"
"Your Majesty, we have been getting a little impatient these days. When can we leave to go to Tianzhu to rob the rich and help the poor?"
"Yes! My hands have been itchy and my heart has been itchy for a long time..."
Dashun’s ministers are all good people! As soon as they heard about robbing the rich and giving to the poor, they immediately became excited. Everyone was gearing up and couldn't wait to help the poor in Tianzhu.
Seeing that his subordinates became more popular, Li Jicheng felt much better. He said with a smile: "Don't worry, everyone. It's not our family's business to go to Tianzhu to rob the rich and help the poor... This is a powerful country in the world. There are so many! Not only our Dashun and Canming in the north, but France, the Netherlands, England, Spain, and Portugal in the west are not easy to mess with!
Even there is a Timurid Kingdom in Tianzhu, which is a bit inconsistent... If our family faces the Timurid Kingdom, it is not certain who will win and who will lose! Therefore, we have to join forces vertically and horizontally, attract more families, and go to Tianzhu country to rob the rich and give to the poor. "
The military strength of the Timur Empire in Tianzhu was similar to that of the Dashun Kingdom today, although the territory, population, and gold and silver treasures collected every year under Aurangzeb's rule were incomparable to the Dashun Kingdom. However, land, population, and wealth may not necessarily be converted into military strength. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not have been in trouble, and the Timurid Empire would not have declined after Aurangzeb's death...
In this era, military strength sometimes depends on the number and quality of "nationals", and sometimes it depends on the quality of the core military aristocracy and the country's financial strength. Among them, countries that use "countrymen" to determine strength are often countries with a strong feudal flavor. Dashun and Timur are both in this category.
The strength of the military power of these two countries basically does not depend on civilians, but on "nationals". Among them, Dashun is a military household!
After losing most of Sichuan, as well as Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu and other troops, there are still as many as 300,000 to 400,000 households under the control of the Dashun court!
The "nationals" of the Timurid Empire were composed of the Tianfang believers who followed Babur, Abak and other emperors to invade Tianzhu in the early years as the core, plus the Brahman warriors represented by the Rajputs who defected to the Timurid Empire. , plus the hundreds of thousands of foreign households brought back by Aurangzeb from Central Asia, the number is a little more than the military households of Dashun Prefecture, but it is not overwhelming. Moreover, most of the "Old Tianfang Cultists" have become corrupt and have become tax collectors, and can no longer fight for the empire.
Therefore, the military strength of Dashun and Timur was actually half a catty to eight liang. However, because Timur's territory was too rich and easy to attract thieves, it was strategically passive. Most of Dashun's territory was in poor ravines, and even Dashun's mortal enemy Emperor Zhu was not very interested, so he took the initiative strategically.
"Your Majesty," Liu Zongmin, King of Han, said, "France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and England in the West are all far away from us. It takes more than a year to come and go. When can we negotiate a good treaty with them?" ? Besides, we don’t have much experience in dealing with Westerners, and we don’t even know how to speak Western, so how are we going to talk?”
