Tsar Vasily IV was silent for a long time after hearing this.
Bang!
Suddenly, he punched the case, and his lips trembled: "Then send someone to talk, give their emperor and important nobles a generous gift, and show them our friendship!"
Kopinshuiski bowed his head and said yes.
At the same time, the Rakshasa army outside Yanming City also took the initiative to retreat twenty miles, only surrounded Yanming City, and did not take the initiative to attack again.
With the arrival of Li Rusong's army, they also took the initiative to withdraw from the Yenisei River Basin, and sent envoys to contact Li Rusong, expressing their hope to negotiate with the Ming Empire.
"My Majesty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has already decreed that everything outside the customs is imperial property and no country can exist."
"If you want to submit, you can only submit as slaves of the royal family, or as citizens of the dynasty, and then accept the transformation of the king, and even dedicate your mission to the unification of the king!"
Li Rusong answered the envoy's words, and began to send cavalry to explore the Ob River Basin, making a gesture of attacking the main force of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the Ob River Basin at any time.
After Kopinshuisky learned through the returning envoy that the Ming Emperor had no intention of negotiating or even annihilating the Rakshasa Kingdom, he was shocked and frightened, and had to go back immediately to report to Tsar Vasily IV. this matter.
"What a terrible result!"
"But no matter what, this is our homeland. Bandits from the East may not necessarily win here. We should resist tenaciously first. If we fail, we can then attack Poland and other countries to find new lands."
Tsar Vasily IV said, and other nobles also agreed.
boom!
boom!
boom!
On this day, fierce gunfire sounded in the Ob River Basin.
The Ming army led by Li Rusong launched an attack on the Rakshasa army. The commander of the Rakshasa army, Kopin Shuiski, made sufficient defensive preparations and built deep enough trenches and various traps.
But what Kopin Shuisky didn't expect was that Li Rusong made a big detour for him.
The Ming army took advantage of the fact that it was midsummer and the Arctic Ocean along the coast was still navigable. They used ships to transport troops to his rear, then burned his food and grass and rushed to his headquarters.
Kopinshuisky was captured and the Rakshasa army collapsed completely, leading to a disastrous defeat.
Li Rusong's army successfully entered the Ob River Basin.
However, Li Rusong's army did not continue the attack because the battle line was too long and the Ming army had difficulties in logistical supplies, so it could only maintain a strategic defensive posture.
As a result, the Rakshasa Kingdom was able to take a breather and did not have to rush to retreat westward.
The two sides temporarily maintained a peaceful posture in the plain areas around the Ob and Irtysh rivers.
Because the Ming Dynasty knew that there was a Rakshasa Kingdom on the west side of the Ob River and the Irtysh River in later generations that should not be underestimated, so the Ming Dynasty strategic officers and their mercenaries who were expanding westward as royal partners took the initiative not to Further westward in the direction of the Ob and Irtysh rivers, the main directions for opening up new imperial properties were to the north and east, especially crossing the sea to Alaska and extending to the west and south of the American continent.
And because the Rakshasa Kingdom knew that there would be an Eastern Empire on the east side of the Ob River and the Irtysh River in later generations that they could not afford to offend, they stopped expanding to the east and began to focus on expanding to the west.
It's just that this has intensified the hatred between the Rakshasa Kingdom and the countries in the west, making these countries forget that there is a Ming Empire in the world that is expanding crazily, and even the entire European continent only pays attention to the Rakshasa Kingdom from the west. Destroying themselves, they did not pay much attention to the Ming Empire far in the east, but watched helplessly as the Ming Dynasty expanded crazily in the east and was about to encroach on their colonies in the Americas.
For the Ming Dynasty, in the north, the emperor's personal collaborators were expanding the imperial property on behalf of the emperor, and in the south, the Ming court was engaged in a battle for the unification of etiquette and law in the name of promoting new rituals and becoming a global king.
It can be said that one is the expansion of feudal lords and the other is the expansion of modern industrial civilization.
After the expansion of the former, there was no country and no people, but there were princes in the style of the Tu emperor, that is, major military officials.
The latter has major vassal states that have been canonized, but it still relies heavily on the central court militarily and economically.
At present, there is no conflict between the two types of expansion, but there are already domestic disputes.
Especially after the Canadian area was opened up as a royal property by strategic officers in later generations, many domestic bureaucrats and scholars have been discussing where the boundary between royal property and public property lies in the newly opened territory.
But this issue is still being discussed among the people, and the official position has not yet been taken because there has been no conflict yet.
In the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, Wang Xijue died of illness in his position as chief assistant, and Wanli had to appoint a new chief assistant in advance, and let Shen Li serve as the first assistant.
After Shen Li became the chief assistant, the prince, who had been practicing in Hanhai for some time, also went to Nanjing to officially supervise the country.
The Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun started his eastward tour. This time, he was going to North Korea, and then took a boat to Nagasaki, Japan, to see the later Japanese islands that had been thoroughly civilized as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, in this year, the second prince was named the King of Australia and went to Australia. The Ming Dynasty had begun to establish its rule in Australia.
With the discovery of Australia, a large amount of high-quality iron ore was mined back to the country, which further promoted the construction of the Ming Dynasty railway network.
When Shen Li was the chief minister, his main task was to build a wide railway network in the country, and he did not pay much attention to economic benefits, focusing on military and political benefits.
For example, after the Chief Secretary of Cochin was recaptured, even the southernmost point of Cochin began to build a railway to Guangdong and Guangxi.
In addition, Northern Xinjiang also started to build a railway deep into Siberia in accordance with Zhu Yijun's promise, using half of the dividends handed over by various economic and strategic officers as funds for railway construction, as Zhu Yijun had promised in the past.
Because of this, ten years later, after Shen Li became official and Liu Quexian became the first assistant, that is, forty-eight years after Wanli, basically all the important cities in the Ming Dynasty were connected by railways, and the northern end of the mainland was also connected to Temple Street. With the Omsk region in later generations, the southern end of the mainland also connected to the Mubang and Dhaka regions.
Because of the railways, the Ming Central Empire's control over these places was also strengthened, making it difficult for these places to become independent countries again.
However, whether the Ming Dynasty should focus the country's relatively limited manpower and material resources each year on opening up new commodity markets in the south, or whether it should focus on expanding new royal territories in the north, is still a hot political topic in the country, and it even has a tendency to intensify year by year.
As the prince, Zhu Changxun naturally chose to support focusing on the north and expanding the royal territory because he was the future emperor.
The military academies of the Unification Society also prefer to go to the north to become feudal lords after retiring from the army in the future. In particular, they regard the rich and warm areas such as Golden Continent and Europa as future imperial properties for their own management, and they all support focusing their main energy on them. Place it in the north to expand the royal territory.
Because of this, the prince hit it off with these military academies, and the prince also took the initiative to join the Unification Society, and even became the leader of the Unification Society during the supervision of Nanjing. He also transformed the Unification Society using the party building knowledge given to him by Zhu Yijun. , further clarified the social outline of the Unification Society, established corresponding articles of association, and procedures for joining the society, and also developed branches in various places.
However, some scholar-bureaucrats, whether they are officials or scholars, hope that the future world will be dominated by the products of the masses, especially the rich and warm Golden Continent and Europe. In their view, they should serve as new dividends for all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. In a civilized place, this can ensure that policies that benefit the people continue, the country can continue to be prosperous, and even reach the point where people not only have more freedom to choose what to buy materially, but also have more freedom to choose their lives spiritually.
In other words, you can go overseas to live a traditional life guided by old rites, or you can enjoy a new life at home guided by new rites.
Because many scholar-bureaucrats have now discovered that the new rites and the old rites are not contradictory. They can enjoy being respected by those in power and the freedom to express freedom of speech and study knowledge at home, and they can also enjoy the feeling of being superior to others in a certain overseas vassal country. I feel that it is undoubtedly possible to freely jump between new and old rituals.
But seeing that the newly opened land in the world was about to become royal property, they couldn't help but be anxious, worried that the land that allowed them such freedom would disappear in the future.
Therefore, many scholar-bureaucrats hope to stop expanding the imperial property and stop pursuing the unity of imperial power, and instead pursue freedom in etiquette and law.
As a result, some scholar-bureaucrats founded the Free Society, and gradually there was a tendency for the Unification Society to compete with each other.
However, because the prince supported the Unification Society, and the conflicts between the two sides were not serious, and the emperor Zhu Yijun was still in office, no one dared to have a sword fight because of the dispute over ideas. Therefore, there was still a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere inside and outside the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yijun himself also asked Liu Quexian, the chief assistant, to try his best to resolve the conflicts between the two societies and do things that are in the common interests of the two societies, such as going to Europe for mediation, and using this as an excuse to intervene in the European political situation. This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. Really doing something.
Because in Europe, starting from the forty-sixth year of Wanli, the so-called European Thirty Years' War broke out in history, with the Czech uprising against the Habsburg dynasty as the trigger.
Therefore, at this time, the Ming Dynasty also chose to mediate in the name of maintaining the new ritual order, and to liquidate and hold accountable the atrocities committed by these European monarchs in the Ming Dynasty and around the world.
According to the Ming court, these European monarchs violated the etiquette and laws of the Ming Dynasty and needed to be punished.
The strategy of the European expedition was huge, and there were many participants. Not only the native Han people of the Ming Dynasty, but also Jurchens, Mongols, Koreans, Japanese, etc. participated in various names.
The mighty warships kept sailing westward every day.
At the same time, the Ming royal family also continued to advance towards Northern Europe.
After becoming an official, Li Rusong also took the initiative to choose to become the new strategic officer, and began to lead his mercenaries to formally advance to the Ural Mountains, and finally used a torrent of steel composed of a large number of tanks transported by railway to open up the Ming royal industry to the Baltic Sea coast. .
Zhu Yijun also chose the Zen position in the 71st year of Wanli when the various strategies of the European expedition ended and the royal industry was opened to the Baltic Sea coast.
Because next, the people of the Unification Society who created the imperial property and the people who created the free market will meet in Europa and the Golden Continent, and conflicts will arise, and there may even be conflicts.
At that time, the emperor will face the question of whether to end the development of imperial property or the end of the development of free markets.
No matter which choice you make, the other party will be dissatisfied.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun decisively chose to meditate at this time and left the problem to future generations.
What's more, he was already eighty years old and lacked energy, so he retired early.
On New Year's Eve of the 71st year of Wanli, there was another day of heavy snow.
After the Zen throne, Zhu Yijun, leaning on a dragon-head crutch, and Queen Du Shi, accompanied by Wang Shizhen, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, staggered to the former dynasty. This was the last time they came to see the subjects of the foreign dynasty.
Just because this day is New Year's Eve, they plan to celebrate it with all the people.
After the celebration, and after a while, Zhu Yijun spoke to Emperor Zhu Changjun and Chief Assistant Ye Xianggao with emotion:
"The Wanli Dynasty is over, and the future Ming Dynasty belongs to you. I hope you can help all people in the world continue to live in this peaceful and happy world."
"yes!"
Zhu Changjun and Ye Xianggao replied, and looked at the snow-covered land. Zhu Yijun and Queen Du Shi staggered back to the newly built Emperor's residence, Taizhang Palace.
Then, Zhu Changjun and Ye Xianggao looked at each other with complicated expressions. (End of chapter)
