Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 380 Expansion, population is the key.

Not all nations are as sharp as this era of dramatic changes in weapons and tactics.

Such as Austria and other countries.

When the wire crouching had begun on the eastern battlefield, the Austrian Army was still using flintlock guns and queuing up to shoot them down.

Therefore, Kutuzov's proposal has room for manipulation.

But fighting with European countries will affect the whole body.

The relationship between European countries is complicated, and Tsarist Russia has always wanted to integrate into Europe and be recognized by European countries—whether it is Tsarist Russia in the 18th century or Tsarist Russia in the 21st century.

But unfortunately.

Whether in the 18th century or in the 21st century.

European aristocrats all called Tsarist Russia a Slavic barbarian.

And it must be portrayed as fierce and aggressive.

What a pity.

Whether it is the tsar in the 18th century or the foolish tsar in the 21st century, they are all quite pro-Western.

However, everyone went into shock on their own initiative.

Not only did the West not accept it, but it directly stabbed Crimea, right under the soft belly of the new Tsarist Russia.

Helpless.

The new tsar had no choice but to cry and find a certain big eastern country that he didn't like very much to hold a group for warmth.

India: Exactly below.

However, the greed of the Slavic nation for land still made the new tsar of the 18th century have the idea of ​​​​taking risks.

"Your Majesty, while the Austrians are still using weapons and tactics more than ten years ago, give them a hard time. Maybe we can take down the two territories of Galicia and Rodomelia. In this case, Even if there is an explanation to the country.”

Petrovich made some calculations in his mind.

Lost the barren Eastern Siberia, got Moldavia in the Balkans, annexed half of the Caucasus, and tore off a mouthful of Galicia and Rhodomelia from the Habsburg fool emperor, although in terms of area Nothing compares to East Siberia.

But these are all lands obtained near the core territory of Russia. No matter from any aspect, the value of these lands far exceeds Siberia.

"But we don't have many troops on hand." Petrovich frowned.

"I think we can evacuate 4 to 4 people from the Caucasus battlefield, and then [-] to [-] people from the eastern Balkans, and then [-] to [-] people from the military districts, so that we can get [-] troops to catch the Austrians by surprise. Already!"

'Wait, withdrawing troops from the Caucasus?Isn't this spitting out the swallowed Caucasus territory to the Turks? '

Petrovich said,

"My lord, times have changed. We don't need to maintain too many troops on a battlefield that no longer tries to attack. With the current defense system, 1 people are enough to defend against the Turks' attack!"

Kutuzov said.

"In addition, the Turks also know that they cannot break through the defense system composed of barbed wire and trenches! This is our only chance!"

The Tsar was silent.

More than a year of fighting has proved one point: defense is omnipotent!

Both sides of the war, no matter who is the main attacker, will suffer heavy casualties, while the defensive side will win at a very small price.

"Okay, then take 10 troops and trouble the Habsburg fools! But they are the allies of the Britons."

"It doesn't matter, the Britons have no power to use on the European continent now, and the bad relationship between the French and the Habsburgs also determines that the Austrians are unlikely to receive the support of the European powers."

"Where are the Prussians?"

"Prussia? We'll be fine if we don't bother them,"

said Kutuzov, spreading his hands.

Although I have been fighting fiercely in the Balkans for more than a year, there has been no major breakthrough.

But Kutuzov also knows how modern warfare is fought.

Neither the Austrians nor the Prussians have experienced the baptism of "modern warfare".

and so.

He believes that the Russian army can make progress on the Central European battlefield.

But for the Ming Empire.

The Russians' movements are no secret either.

Large-scale troop transfers take time to prepare.

When the Russians dispatched troops from the Caucasus.

The intelligence system of the Ming Dynasty passed the new trend of the Russian army to the Jiangbei palace in the capital by speeding up the horse.

"The Russians are going to attack Austria."

Dagong Lin, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, made such a judgment in the imperial conference room.

Peng Jun frowned slightly.

Compared with Lin Dagong, who came back from Europe to "know Europe".

He, a native of Hunan, is really a little confused about the complicated relationship with European countries.

Therefore, when encountering foreign affairs, Grand Duke Lin, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will definitely attend.

And at that time, Dagong Lin will definitely be a prime minister.

In addition, the various changes made by Emperor Zhu have completely broken through the "middle school-based" framework.

Regardless of Chinese and Western, now it is used as long as it is suitable.

Although Peng Jun is a Confucian scholar of the Xianghu School, he is still a little uncomfortable about it.

Fortunately, the Xianghu faction is essentially bureaucratic.

They are not the present sages who "continue to learn from the past sages".

Therefore, even if the idea does not completely agree with Emperor Zhu, he can seek common ground while reserving differences, and be an official with tolerance.

For example, many Xianghu faction officials opposed the previous war against Russia.

It's not that they don't think about the national interests of the Ming Empire.

The main reason is that the war is protracted and the front line is too long, which will be dragged down by the Russians with protracted war.

But look now.

This kind of worry is really unnecessary.

And now Daming has started a large-scale reclamation in the Northeast, and now the Northeast has a population of more than 300 million.

More than half of them are young and middle-aged, and even if they draw one out of ten, they can form an army of nearly 20!
not to mention.

The social structure of the Ming Dynasty in Northeast China was based on the structure of large and small collective farms.

There is no local gentry class in the Han area.

The ruling power of Ming Dynasty can be implemented directly to everyone!

It has a strong force in the vast Northeast Plain, the Heilongjiang River Basin, and the inner and outer Xing'an Mountains.

Another benefit is that the tribes of the grassland are also unprecedentedly obedient—is it possible not to obey? In the past, the Ming Dynasty had to send troops from the pass to control the tribes of the grassland. Bu Tu more than once.

With the support of the various tribes in the grassland, the loyalty of the Zhengxiying camp adapted from the surrendered Manchurian Eight Banners is also guaranteed.

With the establishment of collective farms in the Great Northwest, there was a great deal of emigration from both the East and the West.

Fighting in the northern grasslands and northwest, the logistics supporting an army of 10,000+ is no longer a heavy burden that can crush any Central Plains dynasty.

So ever.

These Xianghu faction bureaucrats are now all supporters of war.

"Tsarist Russia wants to attack Austria? How will France react?"

Emperor Zhu asked with interest.

"The emperor of the Habsburg dynasty was the monarch who opposed the French Republic most fiercely. Their relationship with France was not harmonious, so I think France will wait and see what happens in the early stage, but they will not let Tsarist Russia gain too much territory in Central Europe. After all, places such as Galicia, Rhodomelia, and Bulgaria are the most fertile land in Central Europe, and the value of their land far exceeds that of Eastern Siberia. They lost Eastern Siberia, and if the new tsar wants to gain domestic support, he must win some territory."

Grand Duke Lin said.

"Lost in the east, made up in the west." Emperor Zhu couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"Since Tsarist Russia is going to expand to the west, the westward camp will have to be relocated. This time, let's use the Yenisei River as the border between the two countries. Anyway, the Russians don't have many strongholds in Siberia now. As long as they are in Yenisei The few remaining strongholds east of the Nisei River are uprooted, and the land east of the Yenisei River belongs to my Daming."

Zhu Daohua's hand slipped on the map.

Fingertips follow the Yenisei River all the way north to the Arctic Ocean.

Don't look at the map, the map of Russia is so big.

But in fact, their control over the eastern territory is not strong.

Especially in the huge tundra in Western Lia, it is still difficult for human beings to survive in these places, not to mention the need to station large troops.

Therefore, it is also easy for Daming to win these sites.

As long as the series of Tsarist Russian strongholds established along the Yenisei River are expelled, the large area of ​​land east of the Yenisei River and west of the Lena River can be declared on the map to belong to Daming—as for the local indigenous people.

Well known.

In the world of the 18th century.

Indigenous people have no human rights.

This world is the hunting ground that belongs to those few "civilized countries".

"In this way, the Ming Dynasty finally became the country with the largest territory in the world."

Emperor Zhu joked.

Although it is said that the map opened up borders.

But he is the founding emperor.

His map Kaijiang is different from other people's map Kaijiang.

His hand slipped on the map like this.

That means that Daming will really have several million square kilometers more territory!
Although these sites are now some seemingly worthless frozen land.

But Emperor Zhu knew.

In the future, these resource-rich areas may be met but not sought after.

It is said that China has a vast land and abundant resources.

But the earth is real.

Wu Bo is not necessarily.

For example, the most important black gold in the industrial age: oil!

Later generations of China will be out-and-out oil-poor countries.

It takes a lot of foreign exchange to import oil from abroad every year.

And under the permafrost of Siberia.

Coal mines, oil, metal mines and other resources are quite abundant.

Now just by sending out a partial division, you can cut a piece of it when Tsarist Russia wants to attack the Central European countries. Why not do it?

I heard Emperor Zhu's joke.

A strange look appeared on Peng Jun's face.

Emperor Zhu was probably different from all other Chinese emperors in history.

He is not the emperor of the Central Empire.

It is similar to a monarch in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

just.

The five days of Qixiong's hegemony have changed from the Central Plains to the whole world.

Qixiong is no longer Qin Chu Han Zhao Wei Yan Qi.

But Ming, Britain, France, Tsarist Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain.

before.

For the Chinese scholar-officials.

They don't need to study Europe, America, world situation, diplomatic balance and so on.

After all, these places are too far away.

China does not need to spend too much experience on them.

The Chinese only need to do a good job inside themselves—as the saying goes, if the Chinese are safe, then the barbarians will be subdued.

However, Emperor Zhu obviously had a different idea from those scholar-bureaucrats.

He even criticized this kind of "isolationism" thinking.

He thinks this kind of thinking is completely outdated and totally unrealistic.

The world is no longer a time to live by yourself behind closed doors.

And this door can't be closed.

If you don't open it yourself, you will be violently opened by others.

Now is not the time of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

At that time, China did not have a population of [-] million, and there were still a large number of lands in Jiangnan, Lingnan, and Sichuan Basin in China that could be developed and utilized.

So there is absolutely no need for blind expansion.

But now, in Han China, basically all the places that can be reclaimed have been reclaimed.

Too many people and too little land.

The average cultivated land is less than three mu.

And it is calculated together with various dry lands with low yields.

The per capita grain is only three or four hundred catties per year.

Let alone the whole country is full.

It's not bad if you don't starve to death.

The country has a population of [-] million.

At least half are malnourished.

In this case, if there is no external expansion, how can the dynasty be maintained, and how can it be maintained for a long time!

and so.

External expansion is the basic national policy of the Ming Empire at this stage.

In this regard, Emperor Zhu had already communicated with the senior cabinet officials.

This is not negotiable.

This is the big principle.

And under this general principle.

How to expand.

In which direction to expand.

These are of course negotiable.

Expansion is not simply about sending troops to fight.

It also requires a combination of rigidity and softness.

If the force is expanded, it will be too much, and it will easily stimulate the Europeans to unite.

If the Europeans unite, then the expansion of Ming Dynasty in certain directions will not be too smooth.

and so.

Now Emperor Zhu is adopting rigid expansion in the west and north.

Fighting the Russian Empire - on the one hand, this country does have a lot of territory, and secondly, this country is aggressive. With the advantage, Emperor Zhu will not let this country have a chance to breathe.

One battle gnawed down a large piece of land.

At that time, it may not be a fantasy to drive the Slavs back to Europe completely-with railway transportation, it is no longer difficult to transport thousands of miles.

Also in the New World.

The Ming Empire would not send a large army to take the initiative in that direction - it would be pointless.

Because you may not even find your opponent.

and so.

In the direction of the New World, the strategy of encroachment is adopted, and through continuous immigration, first gnaw a piece of land in the New World.

On the one hand, ease the pressure on the local population.

On the other hand, it is also accumulating strength in the New World, waiting for the time when the war is ripe!
Now even if Ming Dynasty sent a large army to the New World to defeat Spain, Britain, and even the United States, what's the point?

There is not enough population.

It is difficult to occupy such a vast territory.

Population is the key.

(End of this chapter)