And what Sobieski didn't understand was that these Rakshasa serfs did show fearless bravery at this time. Even if they saw their own cavalry approaching, they would not change their expressions and wanted to fight. They seemed to be completely controlled by the Ming people. As if he has become conscious, he is not even afraid of death.
These Rakshasa serfs indeed showed great bloodshed in order to defend their fields.
As a result, the Polish hussars were unable to defeat this group of serfs who had just abandoned their farm tools, even though the well-trained Polish hussars killed many serfs.
However, Zhu Cizhuo was not willing to let these Rakshasa serfs suffer too many casualties. After seeing the Red Flame Army and the Polish Winged Cavalry fighting together, he ordered the entire Ming army on his side to attack.
As a result, the Ming army all over the mountains and plains also rushed over.
As the best army of this era, once it starts to charge, it is as unstoppable as a torrent.
The Polish hussars who meleeed with the Red Flame Army were quickly shot and killed without seeing the enemy's face clearly.
Of course, not long after the Ming army joined the charge, the remaining 30,000 Polish hussars completely lost their combat effectiveness and began to flee wildly in all directions. Some even dismounted and begged for mercy.
Sobieski was also on the run.
But he obviously couldn't escape. The Ming army, which was surrounded from all sides, had surrounded him and the remaining thousands of Polish hussars around him.
Seeing this, Sobieski didn't say anything. He just put the knife across his neck resolutely, then with a touch, he fell off the horse.
The remaining Polish hussars were either annihilated or captured alive.
At this point, the main force of 120,000 Polish Hussars was completely wiped out.
The Ming army successfully fought a great victory in the first stage of the northern offensive, proving its strength as a super empire.
This also means that the Polish-Lithuanian Federation will no longer be able to organize any troops to prevent the expansion of the Ming army.
Next, Zhou Yuji ordered Zhu Cizhuo to take advantage of the victory to march towards Warsaw, which was empty of troops.
…
Warsaw.
King Ovitsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had learned that Sobieski and his main force of 120,000 Polish Hussars were surrounded in the lowlands along the Dnieper River.
The news was brought back to Ovitsky after Sobieski sent people to swim across the Dnieper River during the siege.
Ovitsky even learned of the fall of Minsk not long after this.
Both pieces of news drove him crazy.
"Brandenburg, Prussia, Austria, the Czech Republic...and the Ottomans, didn't they say they should put aside their prejudices and work together to deal with the Easterners? Where are their reinforcements? Why haven't they sent any reinforcements yet!"
Ovitsky asked anxiously.
And his close minister Dobel had to explain: "They came to report that under the instigation of the Ming army, serf rebellions occurred in their territories, especially the Ottomans, and the Arab tribes in their territory launched a larger-scale rebellion! The Ming army used the method of allocating land and property to rural serfs, and instigated many serfs to rebel. Many of these happened even in Poland, and many nobles had to flee to Warsaw for refuge."
"What should I do?"
Ovitsky slumped down on the soft chair in despair, looked at the exquisite roof, and said: "I can't understand why these Easterners don't want our land when they annex the whole world, but give the stolen land to these people." Despicable serfs! Then why do they want to annex the world? What do they want!"
"Report!"
At this time, a minister under Ovitsky who was responsible for transmitting information ran over and said: "Your Majesty the King, His Excellency Duke Sobieski and his main force of 120,000 winged cavalry were completely wiped out half a month ago. Your Excellency the Duke I have committed suicide, and now the fifth prince of the Ming Dynasty has led an army of 300,000 to come to Warsaw."
"What?!"
Ovitsky stood up immediately and froze on the spot.
"We have no troops to defend. Your Majesty the King, we should surrender. According to the Ming army's policy, there is still a merit of surrender. In addition, we can blame Sobieski for the past attacks on Moscow. Anyway, He can no longer speak."
Dobell suggested at this time.
After Ovitsky pondered, he immediately ordered: "Go and capture all the exiled nobles of the Rakshasa Kingdom, Morozov, and present them to the Ming army when the time comes, and then go to the Vistula River to kneel down to meet the eastern army!"
"yes!"
…
A few days later.
Morozov and other Rakshasa nobles who were in exile in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were all tied up and knelt on the snow on the bank of the Vistula River.
Behind them, King Ovitsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth also led a group of nobles to kneel here.
Although the cold wind was biting, they did not dare to show any disrespect.
After all, the Ming army's artillery, which was getting closer and closer to them on the other side, would fire at any time, leaving them without a place to die.
The only ones who did not kneel were the serfs outside Warsaw. They did not have national character, but were just numb.
For them, who live day by day, they are not afraid of death or immortality, so why should they kneel down for survival? If the Ming army gives them a bowl of porridge at this time, they will naturally kneel down.
More and more Ming troops appeared on the other side of the river, as dense as a forest, and like plum blossoms in the snowfield, they began to bloom along the river.
Zhu Cizhuo was sitting in the steam chariot, using his binoculars to look at the Polish nobles kneeling on the other side like ice sculptures and the white flags raised high on the castle. He couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth slightly and said: "I should be The prince who has traveled the furthest in the three hundred years of our country! Now, it would be great if someone could draw it. When you enter the city later, remember to ask their court painter to draw one."
Soon after speaking, Zhu Cizhuo led the Ming army across the Vistula River and surrounded King Ovitsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and others.
Ovitsky raised the surrender document, and after Zhu Cizhuo came to him, he elaborated on his request for surrender.
Zhu Cizhuo therefore accepted Ovitsky's surrender letter and asked the Jin Yiwei to take Ovitsky and others into custody.
Not long after, Ovitsky, as the king, was locked in an iron cage and escorted to the capital of the Ming Dynasty by the royal guards.
While Ovitsky was being escorted to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he saw that many Rakshasa people were actively transporting food and building roads for the Ming army under the command of the Easterners, and all of them were smiling.
"Oh my god, what kind of country is this! Why do they let these Rakshasa people do things for the people who destroyed their country!"
Ovitsky was very confused and asked questions in his heart.
In fact, it is normal for Ovitsky to have this question.
After all, the current Ming Dynasty, strictly speaking, is indeed a country that has entered modern civilization.
Decades of civilian education and the construction of ideological unity have given Ming Dynasty a large number of scholars who believe that the interests of producers should be the first priority.
These scholars constitute the current ruling system of the Ming Dynasty from the grassroots to the central court.
This gave the central court of the Ming Dynasty a strong mobilization ability.
Unlike in the past, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the court needed to cooperate with local gentry to complete various military and political tasks.
Even the former Rakshasa Kingdom, which was annexed only a few years ago, is now filled with a large number of Xingmingshe scholars from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty serving as grassroots officials, thus participating in its work of dividing fields, collecting taxes, and mobilizing.
As a result, Ovitsky saw a large number of Rakshasa people taking the initiative to deliver part of the food produced by their families to designated stations under the command of the Orientals.
Ovitsky asked himself whether his federal state could not do it. Not long after the destruction of a country, it could make the people of this country obey and build roads for transporting food and roads.
When Ovitsky was taken to the Anxi Protectorate and saw the trains running here, he was even more surprised: "My God! Why are they so smart! They can actually make such a huge iron monster fly between two Running on an iron track."
Ovitsky thought that after seeing the railway and train, he was about to arrive at the capital of the Ming Dynasty and see the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
But what he didn't expect was that they had only reached the outside of the core area of the Ming Dynasty, and were still thousands of miles away from the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
So, when he arrived at the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't help but sigh: "Compared with it, my own Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is really like an ant compared with a goshawk!"
Ovitsky was completely convinced.
But what he is only curious about now is how such a huge empire was managed, why there was no split, and why people everywhere could accept the rule of one king.
Newton was also curious about this question.
He has now become a student at the Foreign Education College of the Huaxia University in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, where he is studying Chinese together with Cambridge University scholars in other fields of natural science who were also brought to the Ming Dynasty.
This college was established by Zhu Youxiao with the purpose of providing Chinese education to the captured Western scholars and the kings who surrendered or voluntarily submitted.
Ovitsky would naturally be brought here too, if he is acquitted.
…
"Frontline battle report, King Ovitsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation has surrendered, and the country has been annexed by our Ming Dynasty! In addition, according to the official report of the Republic of China, the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers responsible for opening up territory in the hinterland of Europe have already arrived in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Saxony. , established multiple Ming ruling areas, and asked the court to appoint various officials as soon as possible."
Zhu Youxiao learned from Zhang Tongchang that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and he laughed and said to Zhang Tongchang: "I didn't expect that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth couldn't help but fight!"
"More than just fighting! The entire hinterland of Europe must not be able to cope with the Ming Empire's expansion strategy. With one seal and one gun and the policy of dividing fields and territories, we can quickly establish ourselves as kings behind him. Unless these European nobles can give up their family property to buy serfs, otherwise they will not be able to compete with our Ming Dynasty."
Zhang Tongchang replied with a smile.
“The Ministry of Personnel must step up its efforts in appointing officials from each ruling area!”
"In addition, this is a method that can speed up the unification. Officials who are outstanding in the grassroots assessment do not have to wait for real vacancies to appear before being promoted. They are promoted to higher-level alternate officials first, and then sent to Moscow. They can be supplemented at any time due to injuries or injuries. Old and retired officers are also staying in Moscow, waiting for appointment!"
"In addition, the Tribunal of the Three Kingdoms has proposed a crime regulation. If any officials or civilians who commit related crimes have the courage and courage to go thousands of miles away, behind the enemy's country, to launch slave rebellions and open up new territories for the Ming Dynasty, they can be punished in this way and perform meritorious service. If you die in the enemy's country, the crime you committed will not be investigated; if you really open up territory in the enemy's rear, it will be considered a meritorious service and you can be appointed as a local official; if you defect to the enemy's country and work for the enemy's country, once you are caught and brought to justice in the future, Then the old crimes and new crimes must be punished together, and the punishment must be severe!"
Sending a small group of elite troops to the enemy's rear to instigate rebellion against the lower-class serfs was originally the idea mentioned by Zhu Youxiao when he issued instructions to Zhu Cizhuo, Zhou Yuji and others.
Now, Zhu Youxiao saw that this effect was quite good, and in order to speed up the unification process, he thought about whether criminals among the Han people could not be killed if they did not want to be killed, and they could not be imprisoned if they could. Go to all parts of the world and open up territory for the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court issued a document that allowed the territory to be opened up and temporarily managed for the imperial court, so that the Han Chinese among these criminals could also exert some value.
"Your Majesty, in this case, how can we be sure that they are really willing to open up territory? What if they go into hiding after being released?"
Lu Xiangsheng asked.
Wen Tiren said at this time: "It's better to let them pay the guarantee money!"
"The imperial court doesn't have to worry about whether anyone really wants to open up territory to atone for his sins. It directly stipulates that if you want to be exiled to an enemy country overseas to open up territory for the Han family, you have to pay how much money you have to pay, and you have to pay the penalty and open up the territory. Documents. Only those who have this document and a household record can be commuted to exile overseas. Special law enforcement ships are sent to the enemy's rear. Different crimes and punishments naturally require different amounts of money!"
"In this case, even if the person who paid the money to change the sentence did not open up the territory, the imperial court can still enrich the national funds by buying documents. In this way, it can also use the increased national funds to build more fleets and continue to go overseas in the name of the imperial court. Create new territories!”
"Of course, if ordinary people have not committed crimes and want to open up territory for the imperial court, they can buy similar overseas documents, but the money will be much less. There are always ordinary people who dare to go overseas to pan for gold, especially in Fujian. From the Guangdong area.”
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "This is a method. You discuss it at the court meeting, draft the original title, submit it to me for approval, and then implement it throughout the world."
In this way, the Ming Dynasty was the third time that the Ming Dynasty used the name of the imperial court to let people go overseas to open up territories and establish vassal states after allowing the powerful to go to sea to open up territories and establish a country, and took the initiative to enfeoff clan nobles to go to sea to establish vassal states. Only this time, civilians were allowed to do so.
It can be seen that in order to get global resources into the hands of the Han people as soon as possible, Zhu Youxiao has continuously lowered the status requirements for those who go overseas to found their country.
"Your Majesty, in my opinion, in the future, our Ming Dynasty will open up new ruling areas overseas, and if we want to mobilize the local people to become people of the Ming Dynasty, we must also consider the issue of language and customs. It is better to annex the areas that have been annexed, and The enlightened people among the foreign commoners who have accepted our concept of Ming Dynasty Xingming Society are selected and sent to the capital for more comprehensive Chinese training. After passing the training, they can also open up new ruling areas for the Ming Dynasty, or help our Han people. Create dominion areas in their settlements.”
Zhang Tongchang suggested at this time.
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Very good! In the future, the education of foreign students will shift from accepting foreign students from the foreign aristocratic class to focusing on cultivating foreign students from the foreign common class!"
