Affected by the decision of Zhu Youxiao and his ministers.
A year later, officials Nie Chu and other Han criminals who were injured or killed in a fight were sent here by law enforcement ships set up by the Ming Dynasty in the Baltic Sea because they bought documents to change their sentences and were trained for several months.
"These are your weapons and other necessary things. Whether you can carve out a territory here depends on you."
The Ming officials on the law enforcement ship asked people to give them the necessities equipped for him, and then ordered the ship to leave here.
Seeing that the law enforcement ship had left, Yu Nengguo, a friend who came here with Nie Chu, couldn't help but ask: "Brother Nie, what should we do now?"
"First grab a lone person and ask about the situation around you. If there are not many people in the surrounding villages, take over the village first and become the king!"
As Nie Chu spoke, he began to put the bayonet on the muzzle of his gun, and then took the initiative to walk forward.
Gotland is still dominated by landowners and serfs, and its population is not large.
Historically, by the late Middle Ages, there were only a dozen farmers here.
Today, there are only a few thousand people living there, and there is no professional military garrison. Most are scattered, with at most a few rural markets.
After Nie Chu captured a serf and asked about it, he also learned about the situation here.
And next, he used the methods he learned during his training to first lock up the landlord of a nearby village, and then forcibly distribute his land to nearby serfs, and mobilized these serfs to follow the serfs of other villages.
Not long after, Nie Chu instigated a massive serf uprising on Gotland Island, where he also erected a Ming flag and sent people to report the situation to the court.
There are many examples like Nie Chu, and many foreign countries were made very uneasy because of this.
Of course, the risk of this kind of behavior of a small group of people going to foreign barbarian vassal states to open up territory is actually very high.
Because the imperial court only sells documents for amending sentences and documents for going overseas, it does not care about the success of its overseas operations, nor does it provide money and troops to support them. Even according to the document contract, after these people successfully open up territories overseas, they have to give a considerable part of their profits to imperial court.
Therefore, there are also cases where Han people who ventured to open up territories overseas were killed by local natives.
Of course, most of these people are Han Chinese who committed crimes, and most of them will be shot anyway in China.
Naturally, the imperial court and the people in the country did not care about the life or death of these people.
And for the court, as long as one of these people can succeed, the court will make money.
Zhu Youxiao and his Ming Dynasty court did this, causing foreign countries around the world, especially European countries, a huge headache.
"Why do these despicable Easterners do this? Instead of attacking our castle, they mobilize serfs to seize our land in the countryside!"
Duke Hilke of Austria was angrily hiding in the Budapest Castle at this time, watching helplessly as the Ming Dynasty mobilized the serfs here, divided his fields outside his castle, and trained his serfs to capture the lands of other nobles. Estate land.
Silk had already tried to send his mercenaries out of the city to attack, but no surprise, they were unable to defeat the Ming army and the trained serf self-defense forces in the field.
This is happening in every country in Europe, so much so that Europe is becoming even more chaotic than it was at this time in history.
The nobles of various European countries naturally want to solve this problem, but because they are not a unified kingdom, many of them are vassal states established by each noble. Even if some of them belong to the Holy Roman Empire, they are just many vassal states. a loose political alliance.
Therefore, the major European monarchs had poor mobilization capabilities for their own countries.
Some countries even don't even have a standing army, so they have to find mercenaries if they want to fight.
This allowed the small Ming army, which spread the idea of the Xingming Society, rescued serfs, and took the opportunity to establish the Ming regime and establish an economic market belonging to the Ming Dynasty, to frantically establish independent strongholds in the European countryside, and even grow stronger.
To the despair of the European countries, the Ming Dynasty still had a large number of main regular armies that continued to march westward, and did not stop after they occupied Warsaw.
If the scattered European countries were a unified dynasty, they might be able to use their geographical depth to fight against the Ming army, but they were not, and they felt particularly panicked when they encountered the Ming army's continued advance.
However, European countries are still trying their best to deal with this matter.
Kingdom of Prussia, Silesia, Kingdom of Sweden, Electorate of Hanover, Electorate of Bavaria, Duchy of Saxony, Kingdom of Austria (Habsburg), Switzerland, Republic of Venice, Kingdom of Denmark and Norway...
Envoys from many countries, large and small, gathered in Vienna to discuss how to deal with the Ming Empire's westward expansion and the serf uprisings in various countries.
"Set up an alliance, everyone, let us temporarily put aside the disputes of faith, national conflicts, and commercial conflicts. We need to unite to deal with the expansion of the Orientals! Otherwise, we will all become Orientals. Slaves! They are really terrible. The previous Rakshasa Kingdom and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that were just destroyed are all proof!"
Emperor Leopold VI of Austria made an impassioned initiative to the monarchs present.
The princes of the European continent had no choice but to agree and were willing to recommend Leopold VI as the leader to form an alliance to deal with the Ming Empire.
However, because the internal organizational structure of the European continental countries was too loose, the Ming Dynasty quickly learned about the alliance established by the European continental countries through bribed white people.
The Ming Dynasty even deliberately sent an army of 100,000 troops to march into Prussia, and then created the phenomenon of surrounding the important town of Königsberg in Prussia.
The European Allied forces actively rushed to Prussia.
But Zhou Yuji, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, came to build a plank road secretly to Chencang.
While he was waiting for the European Allied forces to rush to Prussia, he had already concentrated 300,000 heavy troops in Poznan, east of Warsaw, and then divided his troops into three groups to attack the empty cities of Berlin, Prague, and Vienna at the rear of the European continent.
The European Allied forces were very panicked when they learned about it, especially the Brandenburg army and the Austrian army, which were eager to come back to rescue Berlin, Vienna and Prague.
The king of the Kingdom of Prussia was naturally very depressed because of this: "How can these despicable Easterners fight like this! This is forcibly breaking up our alliance!"
When the European Allied forces retreated, the Ming army took advantage of the opportunity to divide their forces to rescue these three important towns. They first merged into one place and fought against the European Allied forces who came to aid Berlin.
The European Union Army lost tens of thousands of troops as a result.
Then, the Ming army tried again and again and continued to besiege a place, then waited for the European Union troops to come for reinforcements, and then attacked again.
The European Allied Army was originally underpopulated due to the Thirty Years War and the Black Death not long ago. Therefore, the Allied Army's strength was not very large, and it was only about 500,000.
After the Ming Dynasty used the method of encirclement and reinforcements, more than 200,000 troops were wiped out.
The total number of troops in the remaining European Union armies is no longer as high as the total military strength deployed by the Ming Dynasty in Eastern and Northern Europe.
