Wuya had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.
Zhu Cizhuo kept waiting for Wu Ya's answer. Seeing that she stopped answering, he had no choice but to pull the reins, turn the horse's head and look at her: "Why don't you speak again?"
Wuya instinctively averted her eyes and looked away. It was hard to say directly, "I don't want to talk to you!" He could only express his unwillingness to speak in silence.
Zhu Cizhuo spoke up himself: "Don't worry, I have never thought about competing for that position, so it has nothing to do with me."
Wu Ya therefore turned around and glanced at Zhu Cizhuo. She didn't know whether Zhu Cizhuo's words were true or not, but she wanted to say that as long as you are the prince, you can't completely escape whether you want to or not. As long as you are with them There is a blood relationship, not to mention that he is still the most powerful person in the army among all the princes. He usually doesn't pay attention to it. He and the middle and lower-level officers of the Western Expedition can drink and eat meat together and call each other brothers. You know, I think you are informal. Yige, if you don’t know, you’ll think you are forming a secret alliance.
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"I'm just building momentum! However, it's not for myself, but for you, big brother!"
"I told Wu Ya today that I don't care about that position. What I actually mean is that I don't want to be in that position. Sitting in that position seems to be in charge of everything, but in fact it also has its responsibilities and limitations. I can't stand it. In addition, I cannot dare to go against the people of the world like my father and you. I seem to be indifferent, but in fact I am afraid! But I care whether the person sitting in that seat is you, so I am so careless. No scruples. When you really take that position in the future, brother, you can demote me to a commoner. Anyway, even if the Han people are ordinary people now, they are more noble than other races. They have no worries about food and clothing and can save some money. You can also go overseas and have fun. If you are really worried, you can give me a sinecure or a glass of poisonous wine."
Zhu Cizhuo wrote a secret letter and then called one of his most trusted sergeants: "Go back to the capital and hand this secret letter to His Highness with your own hands! Remember, it's with your own hands."
"clear!"
the sergeant replied.
Now, the Ming Dynasty's forward troops have invaded the Tver and Yaroslavl areas north of Moscow, and the entire Rakshasa Kingdom can be said to be in danger.
But because the Rakshasa Kingdom is so vast, even now that the Ming Dynasty has occupied its capital, the Rakshasa Kingdom still has great strategic depth.
Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty occupied Moscow, except for allocating some troops to occupy some key points, it did not advance any further. Instead, it began to digest the occupied areas, restore economic order, divide fields and production, so that the ruling order here could be established as soon as possible, and at the same time Chinese work.
The biggest advantage of the Ming Dynasty's external expansion compared with the Western colonial expansion in history is that it does not lack people from its own country.
Although most of the scholars in the Ming Dynasty were not willing to come to these places to the north of Guanwai to work, let alone join the army, and come to these places to participate in the war, but because the base of scholars in the Ming Dynasty was large, there were still many scholars who came to these places as military and political officials. Establish a governing order.
In these new territories opened up by the Ming Dynasty, many Sinology schools and factories run by Han people quickly appeared.
Local children began to attend Han schools, learn Chinese characters and wear Hanfu.
Adults enter Hanjia factories, wear corresponding uniforms, and gradually become accustomed to treating Hanjia factories as part of their lives.
A large number of Han merchants also moved to these places to do business.
In short, because of the Ming Dynasty's productivity advantages, the local people in the territories newly annexed by the Ming Dynasty could quickly adapt to the Ming Dynasty's rule, and few people resisted.
This is naturally what Alexey, the Tsar of the Rakshasa Kingdom, does not want to see. The scorched earth war he wanted to launch was a complete failure in front of the Ming Dynasty.
Ordinary Rakshasa people were very willing to be ruled by the Ming Dynasty in order to stop starving, and did not want to fight the Ming army desperately for the rule of the Tsar.
Even as the Ming army deliberately allowed the Rakshasa people to spread the good days after being rescued by the Ming army in unoccupied areas, many ordinary Rakshasa people in areas not occupied by the Ming Dynasty actually looked forward to the emergence of the Ming Dynasty.
Many Rakshasa people would also take the initiative to help the Ming army find out information and even lead the Ming army.
The Rakshasa Tsar Alexei naturally did not want to see the benevolent Ming Dynasty Master act like this in his Rakshasa Kingdom, so no matter how he spread rumors to show that the people of the country were extremely cruel in killing people on sight, they would soon be defeated.
Alexei was worried that over time, the place occupied by the Ming army would completely become the territory of the Orientals, and even the local Rakshasa people would be completely Hanized into Orientals.
Therefore, Alexei had to send envoys to Sweden and Poland, asking the two countries to send troops to help him drive the Ming army out of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and promised to cede a large amount of land bordering the two countries at the cost.
Sweden and Poland were also worried that the Ming Empire, which was marching westward majestically, would one day threaten them, so they agreed to send troops to help the Rakshasa Kingdom drive away the Ming army.
As a result, Sweden and Poland each sent out an army of 100,000 troops, and together with Alexei's own 100,000 troops, a total of 300,000 troops came south in the early autumn of the forty-seventh year of the Apocalypse. Trying to take back Moscow in one fell swoop.
Zhu Cizhuo used the information provided to him by the Rakshasa and Jinyiwei, and used Moscow as bait to lure the Rakshasa, Swedish, and Polish coalition forces deep into the vicinity of Moscow. At the same time, he personally led the army to attack Warsaw, causing the Polish army to They had to withdraw, but on the way back, they were ambushed by the Ming army led by Zhu Cizhuo, and the entire army was annihilated.
Then, Zhu Cizhuo sent a small number of Han and Rakshasa people to pretend to be a large army to cross the sea, and made a posture of attacking Stockholm, Sweden, forcing the Swedish army to return for reinforcements, but they were also sneaked into Pskov midway. The Ming army was completely wiped out.
Then, Zhu Cizhuo repeated his old tricks and went to attack St. Petersburg.
But this time he was really fighting St. Petersburg.
But Tsar Alexei couldn't believe it, so he did not return to St. Petersburg. After personally conquering Moscow, he only ordered to continue the attack on Moscow.
Because of this, St. Petersburg was also captured by the Ming army led by Zhu Cizhuo.
It didn't take long for Alexei and his army to be surrounded in the city of Tver.
In the end, Tsar Alexei surrendered voluntarily when he was in dire straits because he hoped to avoid death by voluntarily surrendering and performing meritorious service.
The news that Zhu Cizhuo, the fifth son of the emperor, had completely annihilated the 300,000 troops united by Sweden, Poland, and the Rakshasa Kingdom also reached the capital of the Ming Dynasty in the spring of the following year.
For a time, everyone in the Ming Dynasty praised the military command ability of the fifth emperor Zhu Cizhuo.
Zhu Youxiao also didn't expect that his fifth son was really a general.
But this also put Zhu Youxiao in trouble. He clearly remembered what Minister Hua Yuncheng said to him. If he had no intention of letting the fifth son of the emperor inherit the throne, he should not be allowed to perform too well in the military and political fields.
