"What do you mean by pushing and arching?"
Kangxi didn't quite understand what Zhang Ying and Zhang Da's military advisor said - Zhang Da's military advisor was also a military advisor who was familiar with "Anti Classics". When he was in the Central Plains, he didn't have much inspiration. When he got to the Western Regions and India, he seemed to have read "Anti Classics" well. The bad water in his stomach started to take effect, so he could always come up with some good strategies for Kangxi. Otherwise he would not have been ambassador to Madras.
"Your Majesty," Zhang Ying said, "This 'push' is of course trying to push Ming's power towards the New World."
Kangxi frowned: "Push to the New World? How?"
Zhang Ying said with a smile: "If what I have predicted is correct, Emperor Zhu asked the Mongols to pretend to be the Shang Fang Kingdom, just to create the illusion that merchants have been in the northwest corner of the New World since ancient times, and then use the shell of the Shang Fang Kingdom to circle the northwest corner of the New World. The land. The Westerners had not explored the northwest corner of the New World well in the past, and they could not figure out the reality of the Shang Fang Kingdom. They were afraid of provoking this big country that had been in the northwest corner of the New World since ancient times and had flintlocks and cannons, so they would not dare to act rashly. In this way, Zhu Heji will be able to transport Mongols to the New World in waves. In a few years, if one or two thousand households arrive in the New World, the New World will be lively."
Kangxi nodded: "Zhu Heji was so happy about his success and wanted to open up new territories. He must have felt that the northwest corner of the New World was vast and sparsely populated, and the Westerners had not occupied it. It was an unowned land and could be easily captured, so he did not consider the cost. Transport the Mongols over there.”
"Your Majesty," Zhang Ying said, "I suggest that we don't expose Emperor Zhu's conspiracy now. Not only should we not expose it, but we can also help him deceive the foreign devils and make them believe that this Shang Fang Kingdom really exists. In this way, Emperor Zhu There will be opportunities to continue sending Mongols to the New World... He only has so few Mongolians under his command. If more go to the New World, there will be nothing to do in the Western Region. This is the so-called push!"
Kangxi nodded: "Okay! This is a plan to divert disasters to the east. As long as Zhu Heji's disasters in Mongolia have gone to the New World, I can concentrate on governing my world."
Now he has found a new world. However, this new world is very chaotic, and it is basically a loose world. If we don't manage it well, sooner or later in the future, "Emperor Kangma will die and be divided"!
So the top priority before Kangxi now is how to turn the scattered Great Mongolia into a somewhat centralized new Qing Dynasty!
To achieve this goal, Kangxi needed a relatively stable external environment. And now the only enemy that may threaten the Great Mongolia is the Great Tomorrow Dynasty.
If Ming Dynasty did not come to trouble him, he could rule his world with peace of mind, and maybe even rule a peaceful and prosperous era.
Thinking of this, Kangxi asked again: "What does arch mean?"
"Gong means arching fire." Zhang Ying said, "I think what the Westerners are most worried about is that the Ming Dynasty and the Shang Fang Kingdom colluded, and the Ming Dynasty paid and armed the Shang Fang Kingdom to compete for territory with New Spain and New France. We can help the Ming to deceive the Westerners; at the same time, we can release the news that the Ming is sending guns and gunpowder to the Shang Fang Kingdom, with the purpose of seizing the entire New World. In this way, the Westerners will definitely send troops to the New World to oppress the so-called Shang Fang Kingdom... ..In order to maintain its territory in the New World, Ming Dynasty will definitely increase its bets on the New World.
Moreover, once the Westerners and the Ming Dynasty confront each other, the battlefield will not be limited to the New World! At that time, we, Mongolia, will be able to profit from it, and maybe even be able to unify Northern India! "
Kangxi nodded, Zhang Ying's plan had indeed reached his heart!
If he can govern a peaceful and prosperous age in Great Mongolia, then he will definitely march eastward along the Ganges River, conquer the surviving Hindustan Empire, and capture the entire North India... That is an income of 300 million rupees a year. ah!
"Then how should we help Zhu Heji deceive the foreign devils?" Kangxi then asked how to deceive the foreign devils.
Zhang Ying said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I can create some ancient books that record the Shang Dynasty's eastward journey to deceive the foreign devils. Perhaps I can also create some tribute products from overseas Shang Kingdom and show them to the foreign devils."
Tuhai added: "Your Majesty, I suggest that some memorials from the Korean Kingdom reporting on the situation of the merchant kingdom in the Oriental Overseas be reproduced and sent to the Westerners."
"Is it possible?" Kangxi asked, "Don't let anyone see it!"
"Okay, it will definitely work!" Zhang Ying patted his chest and said, "I'll take care of it. I'll go to Beijing. There are several masters of making ancient objects in the Shenggong Mansion in Beijing... I also know a little bit about this. .”
When Kangxi heard Zhang Ying mentioning going to Beijing, he couldn't help but frown... He was thinking of his son Yinreng and the Queen Mother Bumu Butai.
These two have been very dissatisfied with Kangxi since the Qing Dynasty disappeared. Kangxi wanted to invite the old lady to Beijing to enjoy the blessings at Kaitian Mansion, but the old lady preferred to stay at Qitian Mansion in Shangjing. Recently, there was news that the old lady's health was deteriorating and she could no longer support her for much longer. Therefore, Kangxi had long thought about going to the capital of the Western Qing Dynasty... On the one hand, he could pay his last respects to his great-grandmother, and on the other hand, he could stay away from his beloved wife Sofia.
Well, a little separation is better than a newlywed!
In addition, Kangxi also wanted to connect with his legitimate son Yinreng.
Although Kangxi did not intend to hand over the most valuable "industry" he owned, the Mughal Kingdom (also known as the Indian Empire), to Yinreng for inheritance, he still liked his legitimate son very much. And he also planned to let Yinfeng inherit the throne of the Western Qing Kingdom and Great Mongolia!
In the future, the co-leader of the Great Mongolia will still be Yin Reng!
But the child Yinreng was also very close to Kangxi. On the pretext of taking care of his great-grandmother, he refused to come to Beijing to open Tianfu. At the last time the Kulitai Conference was held to elect the crown prince of Mongolia, Kong Shenggong was asked to act as his agent. He was unwilling to show up.
With this attitude, does he look like a filial son? Will he be able to govern the Great Mongolia well in the future?
No, you must take him with you and educate him well. What if I become an unfilial son when I grow up?
Thinking of this, Kangxi could only let out a long sigh and said to Zhang Ying: "Let me go to Beijing with you... The Empress Dowager is dying, and I have to go and see her death!"
In addition, I haven't seen Yinreng for a while, and I don't know what his knowledge is? What about being in charge of politics? "
Hearing Kangxi mention Yinreng, Zhang Ying sighed in his heart.
Zhang Ying is a Confucian elder, and most of the people who assisted Zuo Yinreng in the capital of the Western Qing Dynasty were Confucian high-level officials. Of course he knew that there were some "true and false Kangxi" legends circulating in the capital of the Western Qing Dynasty... This There are two versions of the "real and fake Kangxi" rumors. The first version is that Kangxi who was beheaded by Zhu Heji in Jiangxi was actually true. And the current Kangxi is actually Kangxi's brother Fuquan pretending to be!
The second version says that the Kangxi who surrendered in Beijing was the real Kangxi, but the current Kangxi is actually Chang Ning pretending to be!
The cold attitude towards Kangxi Khan in the past two years by Empress Dowager Bumubutai, who originally doted on Kangxi, seemed to prove that the current Kangxi was a fake.
And Yinreng, who is only fourteen years old this year, must have heard these two rumors...
Of course, Kangxi Khan himself did not know these two rumors.
No one dares to tell him! Even the little devil's father-in-law, the leader of Sticky Rod, didn't dare to tell Kangxi about this! After all, the old lady's attitude towards Kangxi is very cold now, which can be described as cold.
And Yinreng probably believed these two rumors, otherwise why would he be so cold to his Ama?
What do you want Xiao Guizi to say about this kind of thing?
Just pretend you don’t know!
Zhang Ying, who was familiar with "Anti-Jing", would not ask for trouble. He did not answer Emperor Kangxi's words, but was thinking about himself in his heart. What good stuff does that Baron Churchill have?
I'm afraid it's difficult to forge this bamboo slip from more than 2,600 years ago. How about getting some bronzes and carving some bells and tripods on them!
What kind of bronze is good?
It’s probably impossible to build a Western Zhou bronze muzzle-loading smoothbore cannon, right?
...
Yingtian Mansion, Forbidden City, Nanjing, Ming Dynasty.
While Zhang Ying was thinking about what kind of bronze he wanted to forge to deceive John Churchill, Zhu Heji, the grand duke of the Ming Dynasty, was talking to the Supreme Emperor, Zhuge Military Advisor, Yang Qilong, Zheng Jing, Qiu Hui, Mr. Yu, and Chen Shangchuan. , Eunuch Pang, Su Yong, Zhao Zhongyi and several other elders discussed the matter of Shangfang Kingdom in the New World together.
In fact, he only got the news more than a month ago when he was returning to Nanjing from Guangzhou.
The reason why his information was not well informed was, of course, that the transportation on both sides of the Pacific was really inconvenient—not only was it far, but it was also subject to climate and seasonal factors, and it was necessary to avoid the windy and turbulent winter in the North Pacific.
At the same time, the traffic between the mainland of Ming Dynasty and the northwest coast of the New World is still a "confidential route". There are no regular ships, only about twenty New World sailing ships that go back together. It only takes a few months to travel!
When Zhou Peigong designed the fake Shangfang Lake to attract foreigners, the last wave of the New World fleet had just left, so Zhou Peigong and others had no way to report the matter to Zhu Heji on the other side of the Pacific. They could only wait patiently for the New World fleet to arrive the next year. return. By the time the New World Fleet arrived again, several months had passed. Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, Chen Tingjing and others handed over the drafted title and secret key to Chen Anping, the admiral of the Eastern Fleet, and Chen Anping handed it over. More than a year had passed when this memorial was brought back to the Ming Dynasty and handed over to Emperor Zhu.
In comparison, the speed of delivering news from the Kingdom of New Spain is much faster. Less than two months after Bishop Raul Torres visited the Merchant Kingdom for the second time, he had returned to Spain on the order of the Marquis of Mendoza.
Subsequently, the news of the discovery of the ancient mysterious Eastern country Shangfang in the New World shocked Western Europe!
The news spread to India as quickly as possible...so John Churchill learned about it almost at the same time as Zhu Heji.
When Zhu Heji received the report from Zhou Peigong and others, he was touring Fujian and Zhejiang while slowly rushing to Nanjing. Therefore, it is not convenient to discuss this matter with the important ministers below, so I can only think about it myself.
He was actually quite surprised by Zhou Peigong's clever trick of using Shang Fang Guo to deceive Westerners. To be honest, he really didn't expect that this "losing money strategist" would turn around when he arrived in the New World, and his mind would become much more flexible, and he would be able to come up with such a clever plan.
However, he also knew that Hu could not survive for a long time with a false Shang Kingdom... If the Ming Dynasty could not transport the Mongols and the "evil group" to the New World as soon as possible, once the Europeans figured out this Shang Dynasty, If they know the details of Fang Country, they will definitely launch an attack in order to drive the Ming colonists away from the land of the New World before their power grows... or even eliminate them all!
In the map room in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Emperor Zhu Da was standing in front of a huge topographic map of the New World spread on the map table with his hands behind his back. He stared at it for a long time before exhaling and saying: "The chosen country. Our rise and fall depends on it, and there is no room for failure!”
"Your Majesty," Prime Minister Zhuge came up and shook his goose feather fan and said, "Although this new continent is vast and has a lot of gold and silver stored in it, it cannot be called the Chosen Country... If there is a Chosen Country, it is not mine. Tomorrow belongs to none other than the dynasty!"
Yang Qilong also said: "Yes, I also think that the only one in the world who can be called the chosen one is the Ming Dynasty. But Your Majesty... you must feel that New Spain poses too great a threat to our Ming Dynasty, so why not come early?" Make plans to send troops for a crusade. I heard that although New Spain has a vast land and a population of more than 10 million, there are only a few hundred thousand whites among them. This number is not too many. As long as we can send tens of thousands of troops, we can defeat it in one fell swoop. The possibility of defeat."
Defeat Mexico in one fell swoop?
Zhu Heji shook his head. Although he had always claimed the "Mexican threat theory", it was just a cover... He couldn't talk about the United States threat theory! This country won’t open for another eighty or ninety years!
Neither Zhu nor Ji could live until then. He can't regard a country that doesn't exist yet and will appear in a long time as the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty, right?
If he really said that, people below would think he was crazy!
"Of course we must prepare for war with New Spain now," Zhu Heji said, "but there is no need to station an army on the other side of the ocean for a long time... Stationing tens of thousands of troops there for a long time will cost a lot, and most of the soldiers will not I will be stationed in the New World with peace of mind.
So I think we still have to scare people with the sign of Shang Fang... we have to make the Spaniards believe that there really is Shang Fang, and if they believe that Shang Fang is still a great country! "
As he spoke, he looked at the big guys with burning eyes: "Everyone, do you have any other good ideas?"
"Your Majesty, I have a plan." Zhuge Sanhe said, twirling his beard, "If you want to make Westerners think that Shang is a big country, the only way is to strike first!"
Zhu Heji was stunned, "It's better to strike first. Do you want to start a war?"
Zhuge Sanhe nodded and said: "Only by attacking first can Spain overestimate the strength of Shang Fang... Even if our troops in the New World are relatively weak, we should take the initiative to attack as much as possible. Only by taking advantage of the new Only by putting Spain in a position of being passively beaten can we develop the golden vassal state in the New World with peace of mind."
