In the summer of the 35th year of Tianwu, the Caucasus region.

By the Volga River, a cannon sound, a ball of fire, and a black smoke soared into the sky, and a four-star golden sun flag of the Ming Dynasty was blown to pieces!

The horse's hooves were flying like a cup of horses, the Cossack cavalry raised their swords and roared, sweeping over like a sea of ​​storms, and the Ming army surrounded on all sides responded in a hurry.

This Ming army with more than a thousand people was chopped down by the Cossack cavalry and fell in large numbers.

As the sun sets, countless war corpses were floating in the Volga River, including Ming and Cossack rebels, and the river water turned red.

On the shore, General Guangwei of Beiting Protectorate, Song Daocheng, with a blood-faced head, looked east from afar, sighed to the sky, raised his sword and crossed his neck...

On the post road leading to Yili, a Bai was equipped with a military newspaper and led four personal soldiers to gallop. They were covered with black smoke and damaged clothes, which seemed to be from the battlefield.

Looking at the towering and winding city walls of Yili, Mr. Bai whipped a whip with excitement, and the four personal soldiers waved the whip together, and the horse team ran even more anxiously.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Garden of Dongyuan, Bishui Pavilion.

Zhu Cixuan sat on the chair with his eyes closed, and several cabinet ministers and bachelors of the Hanlin Academy sat on both sides, performing three monthly lectures.

The imperial lecture is a special classroom for the emperor. The masters who are full of knowledge give lectures to the emperor. The main purpose is to advise and advise the emperor's words and deeds, and to use a strong sense of ritual to reflect the emperor's dignity and responsibility.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was particularly important. In addition to the emperor, the prince also set up a lecture banquet after he left the cabinet and formed a system.

It is stipulated that two periods will be held in a year, called "Spring Lecture" and "Autumn Lecture". Each period will be held for three months, and during this period, three lectures will be held every month.

As a top student who likes to study, Zhu Cilang did not take this thing seriously in the past. Later, due to the heavy national affairs, he spent less time reading books, and began to enjoy the feeling of listening to classes very much.

Outside the attic, Wu Zhong ran over with a panic holding a rushing military newspaper.

"The Emperor."

Wu Zhong rushed to Zhu Cixuan, called out softly in his ear, and submitted a military newspaper with both hands. This was a military telegram from Yili.

Zhu Cixuan opened his eyes, took the military newspaper to see it, and then his face turned gloomy and his eyes closed again.

Everyone below knew what was going on, their faces were gloomy and they were holding their breath.

"The Cossacks in Russia rebelled and set up an ambush by the Volga River. The entire army of my Ming Dynasty was wiped out!"

Zhu Cilang suddenly stood up and said, strode outward.

Upon hearing this, the ministers who were attending the court changed drastically and hurriedly stood up and chased the emperor.

The entire army was wiped out by more than a thousand people in one battle. Although it was rare in the Tianwu Dynasty, it was still acceptable. After all, there were only more than a thousand people, and the other side had several times more troops, so it was still an ambush.

What shocked everyone was that the Russians rebelled!

You should know that the Ming Dynasty conquered Russia and pushed it all the way to the Holy Roman Empire. His Majesty the Emperor set up the frontier tent in Vienna, the former capital of the Holy Roman Empire, and used the founding Duke Xu Qingshan to conquer Europa.

Vienna is four thousand miles away from Moscow, and Moscow is an important node of the Ming army's supply line. Once a rebellion occurs in the rear, what should the 80,000 soldiers on the front line be?

Moreover, the Ming army, which has the ability to destroy a thousand-man team, must have been quite large in scale. Has it developed to tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people? or even more!

Half a month later, the cause of the Russian rebellion was found.

After the Ming Dynasty occupied Russia, the Beiting Protectorate began to reform by changing the living customs of the Russians.

In order to make the Russians look more like Oriental people, the Protectorate ordered the former Tsarist Russian nobles to cut off their long beards, and soon announced that this was the obligation of all subjects to launch a "shaving order" within the original Tsarist Russian range.

The Beiting Protectorate also abolished the long-standing calendar used by Russia and replaced it with the Daqing year name.

Even the currency was changed, and the Dragon Yuan circulated in the Ming Dynasty.

The most prominent thing is the development of local education. The Protectorate set up schools everywhere in Russia to teach Chinese and practice Chinese rituals.

Although this series of operations by the Beiting Protectorate was conducive to the Ming Dynasty's rule over Russia, it also made the conflict between the Tsarist Russian remnants and the Ming Dynasty even more acute. The Cossacks, who loved freedom, launched an uprising in order to fight for the right to survive.

The Cossack leader Stepan led the uprising team to the north of Hebei. Wherever he went, the Russians responded, forming a huge uprising team and winning some battles. The Battle of the Volga River was his masterpiece.

The rebels divided into several groups to fight in a large area, and all major issues were decided by the military conference. Fortunately, they, like all the leaders of peasant uprisings in the feudal era, had no clear political program and no intention to advance into Moscow.

Or, they were afraid of the main force of the Ming army stationed in Moscow!

Even so, the Ming army did not let them go. The Beiting army launched heavy troops, eliminated the Cossack rebellion in three battles and three victories, and killed 50,000 Russians!

In the 36th year of Tianwu, the Beiting Protectorate delivered a good news to the court: Stepan, the head of the Cossack thief, had been executed by Lingchi in Red Square in Moscow, and the Russian territory was settled!

Although the rebellion of the Russians was quelled, Zhu Cilang was still worried.

In recent years, due to the excessive territory of the Ming Dynasty, conflicts and disputes among ethnic groups, and improper management of local officials, waves of anti-Ming have been set off in various parts of the Ming Dynasty overseas.

Tsarist Russia was just the starting point, and then the remnants of the former Safi Dynasty and the Womore Empire all rose up.

After the Safi Dynasty, the powerful Central Asian country, was destroyed by King Zhu Heqi of Han, it was still relatively quiet at first, but then the eastern border was robbed many times. First, the Baloch tribe robbed Kerman, and the Iraqi region was constantly robbed by Arabs on the peninsula.

These were originally small-scale fights and did not pose a threat to the Western Protectorate.

What shocked the Ming Dynasty was the rebellion of the Gilchai tribe, who took the lead in rebelling and resigning from the rule of the Ming Empire.

A few years ago, with the Han King and the Western Protectorate's expedition to the north to attack Russia, the Ming army in Central Asia was empty, giving the tribes of all races of the former Safi Empire a chance.

After the Gilchai rebellion, the Abdari tribe also broke away from the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Indian Peninsula ruled by Prince Zhu Hebi was turbulent.

The nobles of the former Mughal Empire took advantage of the absence of the king Zhu Hebi and the Nanfu Army in India to support the original royal family to cause trouble and have a strong attitude of restoring the Mughal Empire.

In that year, Governor Hussein of Khorasan rebelled and was beheaded in half.

Jahandar, the grandson of the last emperor of the Mughal Empire, pulled the flag and restored the country, and was wiped out by the Ming army. The Mughal royal family sat together with the plot, and all were executed.

In April of the summer, Wang Hong, the former crown prince's general, killed the governor of Siam, and defended himself in Dacheng. The emperor ordered the Duke of Qian, Mu Tianbo, to send troops to attack him.

Before the troops arrived, the governor Wang Hong abandoned his weapons and surrendered, and was sentenced to death in the big city.

The land of the Ming Dynasty was peaceful and the people were prosperous, but the people were rich, but the overseas land was filled with smoke, which was a sign of the collapse of the Mongol Empire.

Zhu Cixuan has been considering this issue. When civilization has not yet entered the era of global communications, it cannot defend its global territory.

Several ministers in the cabinet have also submitted memorials, saying that history is used to learn from it, it is easy to conquer the country and difficult to defend the country. Too large countries will cause many contradictions and often fall apart after decades.

Even the ministers with visionary times proposed that they should learn from the European thieves, establish colonies, use local indigenous people to govern the local area, or change the protection fee to force the other party to open the country's doors for business.

For weak countries, Daming tried his best to consolidate its national power and secretly supported their reactionaries in the process of state decomposition and warlord separatism.

For a great power like the Ottomans, the Ming Dynasty launched a war directly and directly attacked the capital, but did not kill the lives of the princes and nobles. The Ming army plundered it for a while before withdrawing from the capital, and then proposed various compensation treaties, which dragged down the national government and finances and prevented them from recuperation.

This routine was easy to play with by Europeans in the 19th century, and the lambs to be slaughtered were the Qing Dynasty, such as the British and French coalition forces, the Eight-Nation coalition forces, and various unequal treaties, both indemnities and open trade ports.

As for the methods targeting small countries, Americans in the 21st century are still playing like this.

To put it bluntly, this is the essence of colonialism. Capitalist countries enslave weak and backward countries, nations, and regions through military and political control, economic plunder, etc., turning them into colonial semi-colonial policies.

Its characteristic is that it is unreasonable at the beginning and engages in naked plunder.

Later, I paid attention to my eating habits and began to plunder under the free trade brand.

At the last stage of the highest level, more implicit capital exports begin, using labor in other countries to make profits in the country.

Zhu Cilang knew these routines very well, and the Ming Dynasty was also using them, but Emperor Zhu acted decisively and preferred to be arrogant and to directly take them into his palm!

(End of this chapter)
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