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Hearing Nalan Xingde's words, Zhu Heqi and Zhu Tianwang father and son who were playing chess put down their chess pieces at the same time.The two father and son have probably stayed in Beijing and Nanjing for a long time, and they are not used to the hot climate in Guangzhou. Now they are wearing sweat jackets and waving big cattail fans.
Zhu Heqi beckoned at Nalan Xingde with a cattail fan and asked him to bring up the two memorial boxes.One of the two memorial boxes is unsealed and the other is sealed.Zhu Heqi opened the unsealed box first, and found two inscription books inside, so he took it out to have a look.One is from Wu Guogui, and the other is from Tu Hai.
So he first opened Tu Hai's question book and read it. After reading it for a while, he let out a contemptuous laugh.
Zhu Tianwang who was sitting opposite him was drinking a bowl of herbal tea, when he heard his son's voice, he asked with a smile, "Saizi, who are you kidding?"
"Father," Zhu Hechi laughed, "my son is making fun of Mongolia, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Pope."
"What are you making fun of them for?"
"They have formed an eight-nation coalition to deal with us Ming!"
When Zhu Tianwang heard this, he raised his thick eyebrows, "The Eight-Nation Allied Forces, it sounds very powerful... Shanzi, should we join hands with Osman and Tianzhu to make a three-nation agreement?"
Zhu Hechi shook his head and said with a smile: "Da Ming doesn't need allies, Da Ming can be honorably isolated!"
"Glorious isolation?" Zhu Tianwang asked, "Wouldn't it be one against eight?"
Zhu Hechi nodded with a smile: "Yes! It's one against eight...but Daming will win!"
Chapter 779 Open your eyes and see the world!
Yuexiu Palace, go to the study room.
This study in a palace located on the hillside of Yuexiu Mountain is where Zhu Heqi worked in Yuexiu Palace and summoned ministers and foreign envoys.
On the morning of the second day after Zhu Heqi received the memorial from Tu Hai and Wu Guogui, he held a meeting here to discuss the international situation.
Since we want to discuss the international situation, of course we must have a globe that can let everyone intuitively feel what the international society looks like!
So Zhu and Qi asked Nalan Xingde to find someone to move an extra-large globe that could rotate.At the beginning of the meeting, Zhu Heqi first led the left and right prime ministers, left and right military advisers, six ministers, and others to look around the globe.Zhuge Zhengyang, the military commander on the right, was still holding a stick, and while turning the globe, he was explaining the situation on the earth... The situation seems to be quite serious.
"In today's world, there are many powerful countries and great countries are rising together! Although our Ming Dynasty is big, but in terms of land area alone, it cannot be ranked first in the world!"
While talking, Zhuge Zhengyang pointed out Daming on the ball to everyone.
Daming is of course big, but it is not the biggest country.
The Ming Dynasty on the globe roughly includes all the territories of later generations of China except the Yeerqiang and the Snowy Plateau, plus Khalkha Mongolia, part of the Ili Grassland (part of Kazakhstan), and a large area around Lake Baikal. A large area in the outer northeast, as well as the eastern coastal area of East Siberia, and the Korean Peninsula... All of the above are directly subordinate and internal domains.That's almost [-] million square kilometers.
In addition, Ming also owns Japan, Ryukyu, Luzon, and Burma, which have a total area of more than 100 million square kilometers... Among them, the Luzon Islands have not been completely suppressed by Ming's Japanese mercenaries.Although the city of Manila has been breached, the Spaniards and local aborigines still occupy some forts and islands and continue to resist.However, since the Kingdom of Spain is simply unable to assist its Philippine colony, it is only a matter of time before the entire Luzon is completely controlled by Ming.So on this globe, the Luzon Islands have already been marked with the color of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why it is a foreign vassal is because Zhu Heqi does not plan to expand the Ming Dynasty endlessly. In his plan, to win Xueyu and Yeerqiang, 400 million square kilometers is enough .After all, telegrams and telephone calls will not appear in the visible years.If you make the country too big, it will be difficult to govern.
The more feasible mode of returning to the Celestial Dynasty divides all the lands controlled by the Ming Dynasty into three levels: straight provinces, inner vassals, and outer vassals, and adopts different governance models.
"The largest country in the world today is the Kingdom of Spain...the one with red and yellow stripes on the globe is the Kingdom of Spain! Including the mainland of Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, the Spanish territory of Italy, and the so-called New Spain The kingdom, which is centered on Mexico City, stretches for more than [-] miles from north to south!"
After Zhuge Zhengyang finished introducing Ming, he pointed to the map of the Spanish world empire and introduced the country with the largest territory in the world!
Although Spain has long gone downhill, its territory is still vast, with a total of more than 2000 million square kilometers of land.Moreover, there is the largest silver mine in the world today on the land of New Spain, which is also rich in gold and brown sugar that has become the ultimate military material!
"The second largest country in the world today is the Kingdom of France! It is the big white area on the map... the whitewashed land in the southeast of Tianzhu is also the territory of France." Zhuge Zhengyang finished talking about Spain, and then put France Take it out!
France is now an awesome era!
French King Louis NO.14 is called the Sun King. France has the most powerful army on the European continent and the largest population among European countries. At the same time, France has a large colony!
On the North American continent, apart from the territory in the south that belongs to New Spain, the territory on the east coast that belongs to England, and the territory on the west coast that is blank.The rest are colonies of France—although the population of this colony is small, its area is huge, at least over 1000 million square kilometers, definitely larger than both Ming and Raksha!
"The third and fourth largest countries in the world today should be the Raksha Kingdom and the Great Mongol Kingdom... The territories of these two countries should be on the same level." Zhuge Zhengyang said, "Although the Raksha Tsar accepted Kangxi Khan's The Golden Horde Khan was donated, but it did not submit to the Great Mongol, so the Great Mongol and Rakshasa are not the same country. And the relationship between the two countries is very close now. Kangxi Khan’s new queen Sophia is the sister of Raksha Tsar Peter. It is reported that Sophia is also very powerful in the Raksha Kingdom, and the relationship between Peter and Kangxi Khan is also very good. Therefore, although Raksha maintains a neutral position on the surface and is not one of the eight countries, its actual position must be pro-G[-] alliance !"
Zhuge Zhengyang paused, then pointed to the two red islands on the edge of the European continent on the map and said: "This is the Kingdom of England... Although the land area of England is not as large as that of Spain, France, Great Mongolia and Rakshasa, only The British Isles, the Irish Islands, and the east coast of the New World have also seized a lot of territory in the southeast of Tianzhu. But when it comes to national power and navy, they are enough to rank among the top three in Christian Europe, even a little stronger than Spain."
Then Zhuge Zhengyang pointed to the purple Portugal next to Spain and said: "This is Portugal... Although the country's territory in Europe is not large, it also has some territories in the southern continent of the New World and the southwest of Tianzhu."
"This is the Republic of the Netherlands... The country's territory is not large, but it is a rich place. Its local industry and commerce is known as the number one in Europe, and its overseas territories are rich in spices. It also controls the throat of the Strait of Malacca. The strength cannot be underestimated."
After Zhuge Zhengyang finished talking about the Netherlands, he pointed the wooden stick at the area in the northwest of Luocha Kingdom, "This is Sweden... the land is not small in Europe, but it is a place of bitter cold and the population is not large. Elite soldiers! Their army is still very capable of fighting, and they can also be ruthless. This time when fighting in South Tianzhu, they did a lot of burning, killing and looting, and also robbed a large area of land."
After talking about Sweden, he pointed to the yellow area in the middle of the Apennine Peninsula on the map and said, "These are the so-called Papal States...the territory is small, the population is small, and there is no army. But all Western countries believe in Heavenly Father Brother's religion, this pope is the one who speaks about things in the world, so he is very good at inciting and bewitching!"
After Zhuge Zhengyang finished talking about the situation of the countries in the Eight-Nation Alliance, the ministers in the study room of Yuexiu Palace were speechless for a while... It seems that Ming's enemies are many and big!
These eight countries, together with Rakshasa, almost occupy most of the land on the globe... And what does Ming need to be "gloriously isolated", is that okay?
Everyone turned their attention to Zhu Heqi, Zhu Heqi just smiled and said: "The Eight-Nation Alliance is not weak, and with my Ming Dynasty's strength, it is impossible to destroy them one by one... And I can't allow it. Is there any country that dominates the European continent! It's like I don't allow anyone to dominate Tianzhu!
Because Europe has a large population and prosperous business, once a powerful country that can dominate, it will surely join forces with Europe and become China's eternal enemy... As for whether the country is Ottoman or France, it is actually the same.Therefore, I will not support and allow any country to unify Europe, nor will I support and allow any country to unify Tianzhu.I am very satisfied with the current state of division between Europe and India!This is why I disagree with the alliance between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire and the Hindustan Empire.
And I also feel that New Spain and New France are too big. Now because of the small population, their strength is limited, but given time, the future is bound to be bright!Therefore, Ming's national policy is to enter the New World and destroy New Spain and New France! "
Chapter 780 Stupid people, rich money, hurry up!
This is the first time that Zhu Heqi explained the national policy of the Great Ming Dynasty to his ministers.
It’s not that the previous Ming Dynasty had no national policy, but everyone knew the previous national policy, that is, expelling the Tartars, restoring China, equalizing land rights, and establishing an empire—everyone knew about this, so naturally there is no need to say more.
But now, except for Yarkand and the Snowy Plateau.The land inherent in the Ming Dynasty, even the land inherent in the Han and Tang Dynasties, has basically been recovered, and there are even a lot more!
The next task is to regain the snow-covered plateau of the Yarkant River... Maybe it can also control some key nodes of maritime traffic.
In addition, the land equalization system has been implemented in most of the provinces of the Ming court, and the provinces that have not implemented land equalization are only Liaoning, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou...these four provinces have too small populations to be There is no need to equalize the fields.
And in order to speed up the development of those areas and encourage immigrants from other provinces and agricultural capital to enter, the land policy will naturally be different from other places.
But on the whole, the national policy of "expelling the Tartars, restoring China, equalizing land rights, and establishing an empire" is basically completed now.
And because the new national policy is more complicated, it is necessary to have a good discussion with the subordinates.
We have to unify everyone's thinking first, and then we can handle things easily!
The main task of Zhu Hechi's new national policy is to enter the New World, but the new national policy is not limited to entering the New World.
In addition to marching into the New World, it is also necessary to prevent the emergence of intercontinental countries that may threaten the hegemony of the Great Ming Dynasty.
Whether it is the Ottoman Empire that dominates the European continent, the Rakshasa that swallowed the entire Eastern Europe, or the British Empire that dominates India or other countries, as well as France that unifies Western and Central Europe, it is possible to grow into a country that can be used in the future. An intercontinental country that rivals the Great Tomorrow Dynasty!
And the one who will grow into the fateful enemy of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty in the future...of course, is the United States of America!
That's why entering the New World became the most important task in the new national policy of Ming Dynasty.
And as long as Europe and India do not have the possibility of unification or most of the unification... Da Ming does not need to deeply intervene in those areas to avoid falling into a quagmire and excessive consumption of national power.
As for the Eight-Nation Alliance to contain Ming Dynasty, it is not worth mentioning in Zhu Heyi's view!
Because the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty is booming, it cannot be contained by those eight countries with their own ghosts.
In addition, as long as those eight countries don't fight Daming together, Zhu and Qi won't bring them out together to fight... let alone form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire and the Hindustan Empire in order to oppose the Eight-Nation Alliance.
Because forming an alliance is tantamount to turning the enemies of the Ottoman Empire and the Hindustan Empire into enemies of Ming, and Ming has to help them defeat their enemies.
But this matter is not good for Da Mingchao.The Ottoman Empire and the Hindustan Empire are also the objects of Ming's defense... For Ming, as long as they can maintain it, it will be fine.
Therefore, Da Ming only needs to give some assistance and sell some arms to achieve his goal.Why put too much effort into it?
Wouldn't it be good to run the United States Kingdom and the United States Khanate if you have the spare energy?
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New World, Fortune Bay.
A city of Jinshan has risen on the Jinshan Peninsula at the entrance of the Fuguimen Strait!
By the way, the so-called "Jinshan Peninsula" was named by Zhou Peigong... because the natives in this area gave him and Li Guangdi a lot of gold!
So he called it Jinshan Peninsula, and set up a "Jinshan County" on the peninsula.He also commanded the three thousand villains under his command to build a mountain city with wood and soil bags according to the dangerous mountain situation, and named it Jinshan City!
Of course, the Oron people living around Fugui Bay don't know about gold and silver mountains... They only know that a group of Sun God and Sea God's subordinates came to them, looking for "God's shit" to eat!
Moreover, a huge wooden house was built... I don't know if it is the toilet of God.
Therefore, in the language of the Oron people, Jinshan City has become "God's toilet"!
Although the name is indecent, the Oron people headed by the big shark still welcome the subordinates of these "gods" who "eat poop"... keep looking for "god shit" for them, and provide them with a lot of food Fish and some other prey.
In addition, the Aolonglong people also contacted people from several nearby tribes for the subordinates of the gods.
Also let them come to the "God's toilet" to worship the hot air balloon and contribute "God's stool"!
During this period of time, the people living in the "toilet city" have "eat god's shit" a lot.Everyone who "eats" enough to be full will make a fortune!
Of course, Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing themselves would not take the native gold for nothing.
Every time a native came to give them gold, they would take out fine wine and salt transported thousands of miles from the Ming Dynasty as a reward.
Over time, the natives around Fuguiwan all knew that here came the subordinates of God who were willing to exchange a magical "divine urine" for worthless "divine shit".
After learning about the magical effect of "divine urine", all the locals around Fuguiwan sent "divine excrement" to not accompany the workers... By the way, we also visited the "little man" floating in the sky. sun".
In addition to building castles and exchanging wine for gold, Zhou Peigong and Chen Anping, the admiral of the Daming Eastern Fleet temporarily stranded on the New World, also sent the Mongols who landed with them to find a large grassland suitable for grazing... By the way, look for it Traces of the Westerners.
However, these Mongols found neither the prairie nor the Westerners.We just found a small piece of pasture in the south of Fugui Bay—about the area of Los Angeles in history.
"Admiral, it seems that the name of Fuguiwan is really correct... There is really gold here!"
"And the Jinshan natives here are still very weak!"
"Not only weak, but also a little stupid! Not only did you give us gold for nothing, but you can't do anything, even the wheels... To open up new territories, this opportunity must not be missed, and it will never come again!"
On the wharf of Xinjian City next to Jinshan City, Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing were saying goodbye to Chen Anping.
Chen Anping's mission is to escort the "villains" to the New World.
He could have returned long ago, but the plan couldn't keep up with the changes... He and his naval officers and soldiers never expected that the New World is actually a good place for stupid people and rich money!
So everyone was reluctant to leave so early... Why should they all get a little more gold before leaving?
But no matter how reluctant, there will always be a time to leave, after all, the supplies they brought are limited.
Even the Mongols exploring around Fortune Bay brought them plenty of beef - bison meat!They can also get food by fishing and hunting, and now it's time to leave...
At the same time, the villains who landed in the New World have almost figured out that the natives around Fugui Bay are false...it is too false, there is no truth at all.
The natives here are so weak that it's shocking that they don't even have the most basic tools like wheels.
And they don't have any other metals except the gold they pick up from the ground.Stone tools are usually used for hunting, and they can't hurt the villain wearing this armor at all.
Also, they had few animals to drive, neither horses nor cattle.
Although they can grow a little bit, their main source of food is hunting and fishing.
With such a level, it's no wonder they were easily conquered by the Spaniards... and what the Spaniards can do, the villains of Ming Dynasty should also be able to do it!
Chapter 781 Mongols on the New World
The fleet led by Chen Anping finally set sail, and under the watchful eyes of Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, Chen Tingjing, and a group of beaming villains from Ming Dynasty, they slowly sailed out of the Fuguimen Strait and disappeared into the vast Pacific Ocean.
There are a total of 25 New World sailboats that followed Chen Anping to the New World, and now there are 23 sailboats that followed him.Another two sailing ships were damaged by storms during the voyage. Now they have been dismantled with rocket launchers and sub-cannons. After simple repairs, they are left in Fugui Bay to serve as ferries.The dismantled eight ten-mounted rocket launchers and twenty sub-cannons were placed in Jinshan City and the Yinshan City under construction on the peninsula north of the Fuguimen Strait (called the Yinshan Peninsula) to block the narrow Fuguimen. strait.
The more than 300 sailors on these two ships also stayed in the New World and became the defenders of Jinshan City and Yinshan City.In addition, four assault boats and mother-and-child boats (belonging to the two New World ships) were also deployed near the Fuguimen Strait to undertake security tasks.
After watching the mighty fleet leave, Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing looked at each other. Although they were a little helpless, their expressions were full of hope.The three of them already understood that the New World has a vast land, stupid people, and a lot of gold... This time, the thousands of sailors who followed Chen Anping back to Daming each got a small piece of the New World's "native product"—gold!Although each of them only got one or two pieces of gold, everyone knew that the gold was a gift from the silly natives of the New World to the visitors of Ming Dynasty.
And they also know that the natives here in the New World did not intentionally mine gold at all, they did not have the technology, nor did they have such a need.Although the native tribes in the New World also do some business, most of them use barter, and sometimes use shells left over from eating as currency.For them, gold is just a shiny stone picked up by the side of the road... There are so many golds just picked up, what does this mean?This shows that Fugui Bay has a large gold mine!
This place is a holy place for gold panning!
With gold, this rich bay where the villains are exiled will become very fragrant in no time!
The three of them hoped that a large number of gold diggers would come across the ocean to Fugui Bay, which would make Fugui Bay develop rapidly; while riding horses, they returned to Jinshan City slowly.Before the three of them entered the city, they saw a group of Mongolians flying on horseback.The leader was none other than Ge Erdan's general Danjin Omu.
These Mongols also landed in Fugui Bay, but they did not stay long in Fugui Bay, which lacked pastures. After recovering a little energy, they split into two groups and went north and south to nomad.Among them, Dugar Alabutan led a thousand households to the north and entered a river valley with fertile water and grass.And Danjin Emu led another thousand households all the way southward, spent a month walking thousands of miles, found a seaside grassland, and then stayed there temporarily.
According to the original plan, two thousand Mongolian households will “explore the map” while living on the north and south sides of Fugui Bay, restoring and expanding their herds.After the next batch of Mongols arrive, they will expand north and south along the coastline.The next batch of "villains" will find land suitable for farming on the territory explored by the Mongols to establish two new settlements.The Mongols will continue to explore while nomadic, while growing their herds, while looking for suitable settlements for the next batch of migrating "wicked groups".
If all goes well, in the next few years, a group of villains and a group of Mongols will arrive in the New World every year... and each batch will be larger than the previous batch!
Within ten years, the number of Han Chinese and Mongols in the New World will reach hundreds of thousands, and by then the United States Kingdom and the United States Khanate will be truly established!
"Danjin Emu'an, what gust of wind brought you here?" Zhou Peigong knew Danjin Emu very well, and he could speak Mongolian, so he rode forward to meet him.
Wearing a bulging Mongolian leather robe and wearing two big braids around his ears, Danjin Omu, a big Mongolian, also reined in his horse, then clasped his hands together and said, "Mr. Some objects belonging to Westerners were found in the tribe!"
"Something from a Westerner?" Zhou Peigong was taken aback, "Did you bring it?"
"Bring it!" Danjin Emu hurriedly beckoned, took a Western sword and a cross from a Mongolian knight beside him and handed them to Zhou Peigong.
Zhou Peigong took it over and looked at it, and it really was a serious Western product!That western sword looks very sharp, it is made of high-quality crucible iron, and there are inscriptions on it.Zhou Peigong looked at the inscription and read out in a low voice: "Netherlands, made by the House of Brussels... It really is a famous Western sword!"
"Why did the sword from the Netherlands come to the New World?" Danjin Omu didn't know where the "Netherlands" was, so he just asked casually.