Not only Alexei, the emperor of the Rakshasa Kingdom, was shocked that his entire army was wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, but the nobles around Alexei were also shocked by this incident and found it difficult to accept it.
Affected by geographical isolation and the fact that exchanges between countries in this era are not very frequent.
Many regional powers have the illusion that they are the center of the world or even the center of the universe.
In addition, this period was also the period when absolute monarchy was most prevalent.
Therefore, the monarchs of many regional powers during this period were somewhat arrogant and thought they were the only one in the world.
Especially towards countries and ethnic groups thousands of miles away, I feel a sense of condescension and arrogance.
Alexei is no exception.
His impression of the Ming Dynasty was just that of the barbarians from the East.
It is believed that Ming Dynasty should be vulnerable in front of its powerful Rakshasa army.
But the news of this defeat was a wake-up call for him.
All of a sudden, he couldn't figure out how to deal with this situation.
However, Alexei has not yet begun to worry about whether the Ming Dynasty will invade his Rakshasa country and take revenge on his Rakshasa country.
The inertia of thinking that focused on European hegemony made him automatically ignore the consequences of angering the Ming Dynasty, and began to worry about how his Rakshasa country would compete with Poland and Sweden, which had always been enemies of him after losing so many troops.
The same goes for the great nobles around Alexei. They still focused on Europe and began to worry about how to avoid allowing Poland and Swedes to take advantage of the situation after this loss occurred.
Duke Nilav therefore said: "Your Majesty, I think we have to convene an all-Russian meeting of the gentry to discuss increasing taxes. Only in this way can we reorganize an army sufficient for national defense."
"It's natural."
Alexey replied, and then slapped the armrest of the chair hard: "Alezzoro, this useless guy! He can annihilate an army of more than 200,000 people!"
"Your Majesty! We have just received reports from the front. A large number of Ming cavalry have appeared in the Ural River area. These ferocious Easterners are frantically looting our villages and plundering our population!"
Marquis Lokonsky, who was in charge of reporting the news, hurriedly came in from outside the palace and told Alexey with an indignant look that the Ming cavalry had plundered the Ural River.
"What! These hateful Ming people actually came to rob my powerful Rakshasa Kingdom?!"
Alexei asked back in surprise.
Nirav was also stunned for a while, and then said very rationally: "Your Majesty! What you said is wrong. Didn't we just suffer a disastrous defeat in the war against the Ming Dynasty? Now that they are plundering us, it is naturally not an accident. , maybe we have really created a powerful enemy for ourselves!"
"How many cavalry are there in the Ming army?"
Alexey asked.
"More than fifty thousand! According to the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty, if we refuse to negotiate and make a statement on the unauthorized invasion of the Ming Dynasty and are willing to pay corresponding compensation, their emperor will continue to increase the number of troops until Until we completely destroy our Rakshasa Kingdom!"
Lokonski replied.
Then, Lokonski added: "What I also need to report to you is that when the Ming Dynasty sent troops to our Rakshasa Kingdom, it also sent envoys to ask for negotiations with us! Now please tell me, your Majesty, whether to receive their envoys.”
"hateful!"
"I don't believe that the Easterners can destroy my powerful Rakshasa Empire!"
Alexei said angrily.
"Your Majesty! Maybe we need reason and calm now."
Nirav replied.
"I can't be rational or calm!"
"Why is this happening, tell me, tell me why this is happening?!"
"My powerful Rakshasa Empire was defeated by the Easterners, and now it has to be invaded by the Easterners. How could God bless the stupid Easterners!"
Alexey yelled like a lunatic.
As an arrogant king, he has been expanding crazily over the years, occupying the territories of other countries. To the east, he expanded to the vicinity of Warsaw, and to the south, he annexed Eastern Ukraine and defeated Turkey.
But now, his army was defeated by the Easterners.
This was hard for him to accept.
"Your Majesty! I feel as sad and angry as you! But now we have to admit that Ming Dynasty is willing to negotiate with us, which can be regarded as giving us a chance to breathe! Otherwise, if he desperately raises troops to attack us, or even colludes with Poland and Sweden and even collude with the nomadic Torgut people from the east in the lower reaches of the Volga River to destroy our country of Rakshasa, and we will be unable to resist!"
"You must understand that we have less than 100,000 troops left now!"
Nirav said excitedly.
Alexey fell silent.
At this time, Lokonsky said again: "What Duke Nilav said is that the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty did indeed say that if we refuse to negotiate, they will indeed send envoys to Poland and Sweden! The Ming Dynasty seems to be interested in We know our situation very well! I'm afraid they have been studying us for a long time! Your Majesty, this is a terrible opponent. Our defeat this time is to pay for the previous contempt!"
After a long time, Alexei said: "Let's announce our meeting!"
"yes!"
After a while, Wang Tiaoding, the young minister of the Damingli vassal temple, came to Alexei's palace.
Alexei had to force out a smile after seeing Wang Diaoding.
There was no way. The Ming Dynasty was now posing a great threat to his rule. He had to put on a friendly face to face the officials from the Ming Dynasty to prevent these officials from encouraging the emperor to be more hostile to his Rakshasa Kingdom after returning home. tough.
But Wang Tiaoding didn't have a good attitude towards Alexei.
Before this, the rulers of the Rakshasa Kingdom would be arrogant because their country was powerful.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty were no exception, and they also had their own arrogance.
Therefore, after Wang Tiaoding came in, he did not salute Alexei.
For such a bandit leader who was trying to enslave his own nation, the order Wang Diaoding received before coming here was that there was no need to be too polite to him, because he was not as polite as a foreigner! There was no need to salute, and he just said arrogantly:
"I am here to declare the will of the Ming Emperor! Please let me sit next to your Majesty, instead of letting him look down at me like now!"
"If you refuse to do this, I will regard it as an act of disrespecting my Ming Dynasty, and will tell the truth to His Majesty the Ming Emperor. You may suffer a greater price for this!"
"you!"
The great nobleman Wei Xing stood up angrily.
Nirav grabbed him and looked at Alexei: "Your Majesty! Patience is also a virtue that a wise monarch should have."
Alexei was also very angry at first, but after hearing what Nirav said, he could only nod his head: "Yes!"
So, the chamberlain moved a chair and placed it on the left side of Alexei, and Wang Diaoding also sat down, and still asked Alexey arrogantly: "I, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, ask, why do you want to invade us?" s country?"
Alexei replied: "You have seized our territory in the Far East."
"Nonsense! That is my Ming Dynasty's territory, and it has been since ancient times!"
Wang Tiaoding replied.
"What you said is wrong. When our people arrived there, there were no Ming people or officials there."
Alexei replied.
"But the natives there are my Chinese descendants who migrated there! This is a consensus recognized by everyone in the world."
Wang Tiaoding replied.
Then, Wang Diaoding said: "In addition, what you just said is an admission of your invasion of us, so you need to apologize to us, compensate us, and even express your sincerity in ceding territory to express your unwillingness to invade our Ming Dynasty again. "
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