Daming 1805

Chapter 55 The Lucia Empire of Minghua
On the eighth day of the first lunar month in the 34th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, when it was noon in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, the sky in the Taixi mainland was still dark.

But for Daming, the strongest empire in the world, and a hostile empire that makes everyone feel powerless, the countries of Tai and Western dare not relax in the slightest.

They have exhausted all means to arrange a large number of meticulous works and informants in the Ming Dynasty and the feudal kingdoms.

The real dignitaries and elites of the Ming Dynasty, under normal circumstances, no one would act as a spy for foreigners, and the information of the imperial meeting could not be leaked directly.

However, they can buy off a lot of ordinary people, they can try to arrange some Tatars to obtain residency, and they can send very restricted official ambassadors.

In most cases, espionage is not as thrilling as it is in the film and television series, but hidden in the completely unremarkable daily life.

Information that is very common to ordinary people at home can be very critical information to other countries.

For example, the imperial court newspaper, news and articles in various newspapers, these public information may keep the high-level officials of the Western countries awake at night.

Taixi Continent, Lucia Empire, Moscow House.

Paul, the fifth emperor of the Lucia Empire, was called by his maid at dawn.

Several urgent secret reports from overseas intelligence agencies were sent to the Emperor of the Empire.

"The news confirmed that Fengyuan Kingdom, a vassal of the Daming Empire, announced the reform announcement, and Daming officially began to withdraw from the vassal. The details are as follows..."

Paul, who is 60 years old this year, looked at the content and analysis of the detailed report, and his expression became more and more ugly.

Asking the servants to summon the prince Nicholas, whom he values ​​most, and the ministers of the imperial cabinet to come to a meeting, I fell into a long period of contemplation.

How did the situation get to where it is now.

The first direct contact between Lucia and Ming was the Battle of Yaksa more than 100 years ago, which Ming called the Battle of Longjiangbao.

Because of the years of war between Daming and Qing Dynasty, Daqing, who theoretically owns the outer Heilongjiang, has no time to look north, which makes Lucia's expansion in the northeast more in-depth.

However, Zhu Cifeng made a plan in advance. After the Ming Dynasty reunited the whole country and completely solved the Jurchen and the Mongols, he started to fight Lucia.

Lucia's manpower in the northeast is more "adequate" than in history, and she has participated in more troops than in the battle of Yaksa in history. Lufang's total military strength is as high as thousands.

As a result, they were completely wiped out by the more well-prepared Ming Dynasty, and most of the Lucia troops were captured except for a small number of casualties.

Among these captives, only a small number of generals redeemed themselves with money, and most of them were castrated and sent to the Liaodong mines as coolies, becoming white slaves in the Ming Dynasty.

After the Battle of Longjiang Fort, Zhu Cilong immediately began to prepare for a new battle, taking the initiative to contact and integrate the local indigenous people.

The "people of the forest" in the outer northeastern region, as well as the Mongolians known as "buliyatick", including the "savage Jurchen" Sauron, were trained to become the northern jungle hunters of the Ming Dynasty.

Daming provided them with living materials and firearms, allowing them to investigate and attack in the north and west.

After that, Daming and Lucia fought three small-scale battles in the Dongxianbei and Beihai areas.

In places like the Xianbei Wasteland and Mobei Mongolia, before the railway was connected, both sides were unable to carry out large-scale military operations. Relatively speaking, Daming had a slight advantage.

All three battles of Lucia were disastrous, and she had to surrender completely, and asked to sign a peace treaty with Daming.

In the peace treaty, Daming clarified the ownership of the entire Dongxianbei, the area around the Beihai, and all the land east and south of the Beihai.

Lucia promised in the peace treaty that she would never again explore and expand eastward, and never seek an outlet in the Pacific.

Lucia originally regarded the peace talks as an expedient measure, and planned to secretly accumulate strength to move east again.

But with the industrial revolution in full swing, after Daming built the railway to the shore of Beihai Lake, Lucia completely gave up that unrealistic plan.

In about the same time, Daming defeated the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spaniards one after another at sea, and became the only absolute controller of the South China Sea.

Healthy businessmen in Thailand and Western countries generally understand the truth that in the east of Malacca, all life follows the will of the Ming emperor, not the will of God.

Ming's wealth, power, and unreasonable ferocity greatly shocked the little Tsar Peter of Lucia.

As a result, the Westernization reform of Peter in Lucia's history disappeared, and it became the "Easternization" or "Minghua" reform of this world.

Peter took Zhu Cirong as an example, first ascended the throne himself as emperor, and changed Lucia into an empire.

Efforts should be made to strengthen the centralization, establish the Lucia royal family consortium, cultivate the royal family group by elites, and gradually implement the eastern-style imperial examination system.

Gradually transform serfs into eastern-style tenant farmers, continue to learn from Daming to develop handicrafts, and continue to mine and build factories.

Lucia has been fully developed, and Peter's own destiny has also changed.

He did not move the capital to St. Petersburg, because the capital of Ming Dynasty was not a coastal city, but built a special railway to the nearest coastline.

So he didn't catch the wind and cold in the sea, and finally lived to be more than 70 years old in Moscow.

And at the age of 60, he learned from Zhu Cihong to abdicate early and guided his son to become emperor.

Peter's eldest son, Alexei Petrovich, did not go to Europe when he was young, but was sent thousands of miles to study in Daming.

This changed the crown prince's thinking and further changed his destiny.

Alexei ascended the throne while his father was alive, became the second Lucian emperor under his father's guidance, and was more oriental than his father.

This smooth intergenerational transfer of imperial power laid the foundation for Lucia's subsequent stability.

Originally, the successive palace coups in history were eliminated as much as possible by two generations of emperors who had mastered oriental skills.

Catherine the Great in history naturally disappeared.

The current emperor of Lucia, Paul, is not the hapless son of Catherine Paul I, but the direct great-grandson of Alexei and the great-great-grandson of Peter.

The Lucia of this world, although she did not have the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, and her territory was far inferior in size, her strength was stronger than in history.

Lucia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain were the first Western countries to be directly beaten by Daming, the first to learn the techniques of Daming, and then to industrialize.

Lucia, in particular, has always kept in touch with and learned from Daming, and has not fallen behind in the second industrial revolution.

By the 34th year of Ming Taiping, the degree of industrialization of the Lucia Empire was already very close to the level of the original time and space at the end of the nineteenth century.

Lucia also got access to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and more than the European coastal lands controlled in history, and completed the partition of Poland ahead of schedule.

However, with the deepening of Minghua reform, Lucia's centripetal force began to decline.

Especially in the eastern territory of Lucia, most of the Asians living in the area are very interested in the Ming Dynasty, which makes Lucia's control over the East always unstable.

At the same time, the rising Lucian nationalist forces also generally believe that only by defeating the Ming Empire can we truly get rid of the shadow of the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, under the contact and coordination of the British, Lucia joined the anti-Ming alliance as the main force of the land war.

As a result, after the war lasted for more than ten years, although some victories were achieved on the battlefield, the anti-Ming alliance was almost unable to last.

The battle of attrition is all about national strength, and the farther away from the mainland, the smaller the advantage, so after the failure of the Beihai operation, Lucia will try to go to Anxi.

The Mongolian Plateau battlefield is [-] kilometers away from the Daming capital, Anxi is more than [-] kilometers away from the Daming capital, and the starting point is changed to Moscow, which is completely reversed.

Anxi's battlefield is closer to Lucia's mainland, but the local people around the battlefield are more interested in Da Ming, which makes this battle still look very difficult.

Obviously, the Ming army, who had been prepared for a long time, quickly prepared the barbed wire trenches and transported those steel monsters by rail.

Neither Napoleon nor Kutuzov saw any hope of a quick victory, and a war of attrition continued.

Now that the news of Daming's withdrawal from the clan has been confirmed again, Emperor Lucia's heart is even more gripped.

To withdraw the feudal lords to treat the colonies as locals, is this to squeeze the war potential and completely consume it with the anti-Ming alliance?

(End of this chapter)