"Peter, Peter, good news!"
Peter the Great was looking at the black Petrograd just drawn with a quill on the map, imagining in his mind the beautiful streets, the spectacular seaport, the bustling business district, the schools full of knowledge, the sunny beaches and countless When the sailing ships were coming in and out, bringing countless wealth to the Rakshasa Empire, the voice of his dearest sister Sofia suddenly rang in his ears.
Peter looked back and saw a round, hill-like Sofia, wearing a rather gorgeous robe of purple fabric, coming panting.
Sofia's purple robe is very particular - it can only be worn by Rakshasa nobles with the purple flag, and ordinary Rakshasa nobles are not allowed to wear it!
By the way, this Rakshasa Zhengzi Banner is of course one of the Rakshasa Eight Banners!
In addition to the pure purple flag, the Rakshasa Eight Banners also have seven colors: pure purple, pure white, bordered white, pure blue, bordered blue, pure red, and bordered red. However, the Eight Banners of the Rakshasa are different from the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and the Great Mongolia. The Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and the Eight Banners of the Great Mongolia are national groups that integrate the military, government and civilians. The children of the Eight Banners are the ones who truly hold power. The Eight Banners of Rakshasa are used to deceive and divide the old nobles and the shooting army.
Although this Peter I has not experienced the shooting army rebellion instigated by his sister Sofia, nor has he been an empty puppet czar, his political wisdom is still very high - in history, although Peter I relied on the Youth Army coup to seize power , overthrowing the rule of his sister Sofia. But after that, he did not take power personally immediately. Instead, he first let his mother and some big nobles who supported him take power, while he, the young tsar, took a back seat and continued to learn Western knowledge. It was not until he was completely clear about how he should reform that he started pro-government.
It is not surprising that this kind of patience can be found in a middle-aged politician in his forties or fifties. But it is rare for a young monarch or a young ruler with real power to overthrow the regent and seize power to do this.
Peter, who returned to the Rakshasa Kingdom from Kang Mazi, was also not in a hurry to reform. And he didn't regard his brother-in-law Kang Mazi Khan's approach as advanced experience... If Kang Mazi's approach was advanced, how could he be expelled by Zhu Heji?
Obviously, practice has proven that Zhu Heji's "original monarch, original ministers, original law, and original Confucianism" is more progressive than Kang Mazi's Five Eight Banners nation! Emperor Zhu is the current king on the top of the mountain, a role model for emperors. Emperor Zhu’s Ming Dynasty is the beacon of civilization!
So after careful consideration, Peter I decided resolutely... to imitate Louis XIV and become a Peter the Great who said "I am a Rakshasa"!
Well, the Great Rakshasa has its own national conditions here!
Following Kang Mazi's example of setting up the Eight Banners, the nobles and the shooting army will be happy, but the solidification of Rakshasa society will be more serious, and it will be more difficult for the serfs below to stand up. It will also be very difficult for Rakshasa to develop industry, commerce and maritime trade. .
In addition, Peter also discovered that the combat effectiveness of Kang Mazi's Eight Banners troops was actually very unreliable. If it were reliable, Zhu Heji would not be expelled from China. As for the subsequent improvement in the combat power of the Eight Banners soldiers, it was actually because they absorbed the military technology of the Ming army, coupled with the improvements brought about by years of battlefield experience.
In fact, Kangxi Khan himself also knew the weaknesses of the Eight Banners military system. Therefore, after he entered northwest India, he did not bring the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Qing Eight Banners, and the Confucian Eight Banners to enjoy the blessings. Instead, he allowed them to stay in Central Asia and Afghanistan to maintain combat effectiveness.
Therefore, Peter I did not intend to really rely on the Eight Banners of Rakshasa to govern the world.
But he also discovered an advantage of the Eight Banners military system. It could control the nobles and the soldiers of the Shooting Army, making them think that they were great nobles, and allowing them to attack during the war.
However, Peter did not start to organize the Eight Banners as soon as he returned to Rakshasa. He still left all national affairs to his mother, grandfather and Sofia's grandfather to jointly govern. He devoted himself to using the "pocket money" given by Kangxi to invite Luosha. A German wandering military strategist who worked as a part-time job, and then used the "sugar and medicine military science" he learned from Kangxi to start training his own young guards.
Although Peter was young at that time, he already knew the hard truth that political power comes from the barrel of a gun! And we also know that if the barrel of the gun in our hands is not strong, not only will the reform not be successful, but we will not even be able to save our lives.
After having three regiments of young soldiers, Peter launched the "Eight Banners Military System" that was loved by a group of old nobles and shooting army soldiers. Due to the marriage between Sofia and Kangxi Khan and the subsequent exchanges between the two parties, the nobles and the shooting army soldiers in Moscow all knew the benefits of the Eight Banners military system... The Eight Banners disciples in Kang Mazi were all very wealthy. , the Eight Banners nobles among them are even richer!
Moreover, the identity of a bannerman is hereditary, and you will have a hard-core crop when you are born...How wonderful!
Therefore, the Rakshasa nobles and the shooting army all welcomed the young tsar's first reform after taking office. Since they are very welcome, of course they are more cooperative. With their cooperation, Peter I easily integrated hundreds of thousands of shooting troops and a large group of old nobles into eight banners, forty shooting regiments, and 200 shooting regiments without using any weapons. camp.
The shooting army, which was originally a whole, was split into eight parts, and the two most elite flags became the two purple flags led by Peter himself. Then, Peter gave the two purple flags higher treatment than the other flags, thus turning them into "noble soldiers among noble soldiers." After firmly controlling the Two Purple Flags with special treatment, Peter reorganized the ten regiments of the Two Purple Flags according to the standards of the youth league.
With three elite new youth groups and ten more groups with two purple flags, Peter finally became stronger and could carry out more substantial reforms. The focus of Peter's reforms is of course military reform!
However, he did not immediately touch the other Six Flags Shooting Army. Instead, he recruited tens of thousands of young men, trained and equipped them based on the three youth regiments, and gradually expanded the number of the new army to sixty regiments. Coupled with some Cossack cavalry who are most suitable as light cavalry, Peter I had a new army of nearly one hundred thousand... Although the size of this army is not comparable to that of the Frank Empire and the Ottoman Empire, it ranks first in Europe. The third is no problem.
The battle on the northern shore of the Black Sea that just ended not long ago seemed to have verified the combat effectiveness of the new Rakshasa army!
Now that the northern coast of the Black Sea, except for the Crimean Peninsula, has become Peter I's possession, can Peter not be complacent?
The northern shore of the Black Sea has been reached, and Constantinople is in sight!
"Sofia, what's the good news?" Peter I saw his fat sister as happy as a child, and he immediately began to look forward to the good news.
"Peter, Peter..." Fatty Sofia entered the room and stood there to take a few breaths before she said cheerfully, "Good news, good news arrived from India by express delivery of four hundred miles." , the Ming Emperor has agreed to persuade the Ottoman Turkish Empire to accept the reality of defeat!"
Peter I exhaled and smiled. Philip, the leader of the Freemasons standing next to him, immediately showed a joyful and flattering smile, and said to Peter: "Your Majesty, congratulations to you and the Rakshasa Kingdom, you have won the future for the Rakshasa Kingdom!"
"There's more!" Sofia said with a big smile, "The Ming Dynasty also proposed a plan to dig the Suez Canal... This plan will connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea with a canal!"
"Connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?" Peter was just surprised, but he didn't understand the meaning for the moment. But Philip had already made the sign of the cross on his chest: "Thank God, Your Majesty the Tsar, we are going to get rich, and the Rakshasa Kingdom is going to take off! With the Suez Canal, the distance between Black Petrograd and the port of Diu in India is only It’s three to four thousand nautical miles away! Black Petersburg will become a trade center that can radiate Eastern Europe! Ukrainian wheat and livestock can be continuously sold to India, and then exchanged for Indian cotton, spices, sugar, Ming Dynasty silk, porcelain, Tea, Japanese lacquerware... Soon, Black Petersburg will become a very prosperous city, and the northern shore of the Black Sea will also prosper along with it!"
Sofia smiled and added: "That's not all. Great Mongolia has also gained control of the Mongolian Ocean, which is the Indian Ocean! Our merchant ships can go directly to India for trade in the future!"
The trade route to the East is so profitable! Before the Industrial Revolution, the rise and fall of those European powers was directly related to whether they had control of the East-West trade line!
The reason why the Europeans were able to seize the opportunities of the Age of Discovery is directly related to this matter - for those countries, trade between the East and the West is simply a matter of national destiny!
Almost as important as agriculture to the rise and fall of the Chinese Empire as a great power!
Peter now has a feeling that happiness has come too suddenly - he was originally the monarch of a poor country in Eastern Europe, how could he become a wealthy country overnight?
"Peter, there is good news!" Sofia was also very excited!
"Anything else?" Peter became anxious to each other, "Sister, is there any other good news?"
Sofia said: "Louis is going to be in big trouble soon!"
"Louis' big trouble?" Peter was stunned - this is indeed good news!
The dominance of the Franks alone was a "huge pressure" for the Rakshasa Kingdom!
Because from the map, the largest country in Europe (not counting territories outside Europe) is the Rakshasa Kingdom, not the Frankish Kingdom. If we count the population, according to the latest statistics, there are 16 million Rakshasa people...the second largest in Europe! In addition, Rakshasa also has the support of a super-rich Mongolian. Although the economy is not doing well, there is absolutely no shortage of money.
If Louis wants to find a "second person" in the Christian camp to deal with it, Rakshasa must be one of the candidates!
Sofia continued: "The Ming Dynasty instructed the Aztecs to cause trouble with the Kingdom of England on the grounds that the Indians in the twelve colonies of British North America suffered genocide. They demanded that England cede territory and pay compensation, and they also kowtowed to King James II to apologize. !”
"What? You want to kowtow?" Peter was stunned, "That's not right, sister, what you just said was Louis' big trouble, how could this be..."
"This is Louis' big trouble!" Sofia laughed, "England is a member of the North Atlantic Alliance. If England is in trouble, can Louis not come forward to defend it?"
Peter I nodded, "But what can the small Aztec country do against the Frankish Empire?"
"There is a Ming Dynasty behind the Aztecs!" Sofia said, "And the Aztecs' national power is not weak... There are millions of Indians in the Aztecs and the second largest silver mine in the world. , and this country is now the common motherland of all Indians in the Americas!”
The rise of the Aztecs greatly inspired the confidence of the oppressed American Indians in their anti-colonial struggle - even the Spanish emperor was in Mexico. How could the Indians in the Americas who were ruled by Western colonists not have high hopes for the Aztecs? Woolen cloth?
Therefore, the Aztec Kingdom is definitely a difficult opponent, and behind it stands the invincible behemoth of the Ming Dynasty! Although this Aztec will not defeat the Frank Empire in one fell swoop, it can drag the Frank Empire into a protracted war... And once Frank falls into a quagmire in Aztec, Rakshasa will The good days are coming.
"Emperor Louis might stay out of it," Peter I thought for a moment. "After Leopold was defeated and killed last time, didn't he also stay out of it?"
"The situation is different this time," Sofia explained. "The last time Leopold went to war with the Aztecs, the North Atlantic Alliance had not yet been established...and Louis had not yet conquered Vienna. And now The North Atlantic Alliance has been established for several years, and Vienna has been captured by the Frankish army. After this battle, the Ottoman Empire was unable to recover for ten years. If Louis continues to ignore it, the Frankish Empire's prestige in the North Atlantic Alliance will be gone. . But if he sends troops to fight the Aztecs... In short, no matter what Louis chooses, Louis may lose his prestige in commanding Europe!"
Before anything happened on Peter I's side, the Freemason leader Philip beside him couldn't help but speak. He saw the old man saying to Peter sincerely: "Your Majesty the Tsar, this is a historical opportunity for you and the Rakshasa Kingdom. ... We, the Freemasons, are willing to support you in becoming the future leader of Europe, as long as you are willing to fully cooperate with us!"
The cooperation between Peter and the Freemasons has begun, but it is only preliminary and has not yet reached the level of full cooperation.
In fact, Peter knew that the background of this Freemason was not simple... but the European leader's bait was too tempting. Peter I took a sharp breath and nodded heavily: "Okay! Mr. Philip, then I wish us cooperation. Pleasure!" He said to Sofia again, "Sister, do you think it is possible for me to replace, no, become the leader of Europe after Louis's death?"
"Yes! It must be possible...because Rakshasa is the third Rome, and that is the mission given to you and Rakshasa by God!"
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