Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 483 To mine in Siberia

At the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, Zhu Youxiao was lying in front of a huge map at this time. This map was the famous Kunyu Wanguoquantu, and the area Zhu Youxiao was focusing on at this time happened to be North Asia, that is, from The entire area east of the Ural River and the Greater Caucasus all the way to the Bering Strait.

According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, this time, the Ming Empire will no longer passively resist and expand like any previous Central Plains dynasty, waiting for the active invasion of foreign forces.

But this time, it is the first time that Ming wants to take the initiative to launch an attack on Raksha before the Raksha country has fought against the Cossack cavalry because of the imperial guards and the Cossack cavalry, and to realize the most important step in the expansion of the primitive capital accumulation of the empire. Challenge the powerful countries in this world.

In the original history, the Huaxia Dynasty was a fat cow slaughtered by these empires at will, but at this moment, this giant bear in the north will become the most attractive prey in front of the Ming Empire.

Although most of the Raksha Country and Siberia are severely cold places, production and life are not very convenient, but fortunately, there are abundant products, such as coal, iron ore, oil, natural gas and other resource reserves are extremely rich.

This is undoubtedly a huge temptation for Daming, which has entered the era of steaming. After all, in Daming, resources are limited, and especially the iron ore is too high in sulfur content, so the cost of refining high-quality steel has always been high. No more.

In addition, due to the extensive use of steam engines, the scale of domestic coal mines is getting larger and larger, and there are more and more large and small coal mines. Many local officials have reported that Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places have been black for several days. The sky is filled with the sky, and some officials even claim that a large number of coal mines have damaged the foundation, the tombs of countless emperors and generals have been affected, and even affected the dragon veins and destroyed Fengshui and so on.

Considering that it is necessary to vigorously develop the steam industry of the Ming Dynasty and maintain the original green mountains and green waters of the Ming Dynasty, and that domestic resources do not need to be exploited in a hurry at the strategic level, Zhu Youxiao adopted most of the local resources. The advice of officials, especially relatively conservative local officials, stopped the mining of many coal mines, especially small coal mines, and issued orders to prohibit mining of some famous mountains that so-called affect important dragon veins.

It is not that Zhu Youxiao is really ignorant and superstitious, but to avoid the irreversible damage to the ecological environment of Daming due to industrial development, which will undoubtedly be a huge disaster for a country and nation of poetry. It will cost more to recover.Instead of this, it is better to relocate these extensive and environmentally destructive factories and mines to the outside world from the very beginning.

In this way, a sparsely populated place like Siberia is undoubtedly a good choice.

In fact, at this time, Zhu Youxiao had ordered Jiao Lian’s Department of the Second Army of the Imperial Guard to escort the explorers of the Royal Industrial Company into Siberia in the name of chasing down the remnants of Lin Dan Khan’s troops, and entered the area in the current Kemerovo State. The Kuzbass Coalfield was found in the Tom River Basin in the south of the Yangtze River. The second largest coal base of later generations has tens of billions of tons of coal reserves, and the coal is high-quality and easy to mine because most of it is an open-pit coal mine.

Now, this coal field has been officially occupied by Daming, and a large amount of coal has been mined and transported back to Daming since the autumn of Tianqi 16.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao also specially named this coalfield Tianci Coalfield to show that this coalfield is bestowed by God, not the Raksha Kingdom, although the Raksha Kingdom has already occupied this area in a sense. Territory, but this does not prevent Daming from developing this treasure land.

In order to transport a large amount of mineral resources from Siberia back to Daming more conveniently, Zhu Youxiao also specially ordered the Ministry of Industry to plan to build a road between the Tianci Coalfield in Siberia and Lincheng, and prepare for the direct conversion to railways in the future.

A few months later, not only in the Tom River Basin of Siberia, but also in other parts of Siberia, other mining areas of the Ming Dynasty were established one after another, not just mining coal mines, as long as the minerals that could be easily mined were almost all taken by the Ming Dynasty one by one. The vanguard were nibbling.

And every time the Ming Dynasty established a mining area in these places, a large number of military, government and company employees and workers would station here, and directly establish residential and commercial areas in these places, and gradually formed some small market towns, which also Even if it is a way for Ming Dynasty to gradually encroach on the Siberian territory of the Raksha Kingdom, just like the polar bear encroached on the Outer Xing'an Mountains later.

However, the thick black smoke from the coal smelting base in the coal mining area still attracted the attention of the Raksha country. At first, these Raksha people thought it was a forest fire, so they rushed over, but they didn't expect that the people in these jungles had been destroyed. So much clearing was cleared, and so many forts and houses were erected.

This surprised and annoyed the army of the Raksha Kingdom, which is also armed and expanding to the east. Although they know that there is a powerful Ming Empire in the east, it will be an opponent that they have to pay attention to in the process of expansion. , but they did not expect to meet these orientals in this already considered their hinterland.

"That's right, they are all from the Ming Dynasty!" A Raksha Cossack named Guo'erian said, and then he punched the thick leaves in the forest, as a person from the great battle in the Outer Xing'an Mountains. He was particularly impressed by the Cossack cavalry brought back from China, and his hatred was naturally deep. He still remembers the scene where his own brother was burned to death by these Ming people's incendiary bombs.

"Then what are you waiting for, order to go down, outflank them, and wipe out all these hateful Ming people, who dare to enter the territory of our Raksha country without authorization, and even destroy the forests of the Raksha country, build camps without permission, and mine ore! It is the dignity of the Rakshasa kingdom without self!"

The leader of the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom raised his saber and rushed towards this side first, and the cavalry behind him hurriedly followed behind, and the entire sparse coniferous forest sounded clattering horseshoes in an instant The sound shook the entire forest to rustle of fallen leaves.

Seeing this, the sentinel standing on the high platform immediately beat the giant drum, and in an instant, the sound of the drum resounded throughout the forest.

"The enemy is attacking! Fight now!"

The soldiers of the Imperial Guard who were taking a lunch break in the camp rushed over in full armor and quickly passed the factory and mining area. Seeing that the long-haired cavalry had rushed into the minefield, Jiao Lian first shouted: "Larry! "

In an instant, countless landmines drawn by long wires exploded from the shallow soil layer, and these long-haired cavalrymen were immediately thrown upside down, and their speed couldn't help but stagnate.

The Janissary cavalry took advantage of this and leaped over directly, shooting and interspersing the Cossack cavalry in teams.

The Janissary cavalry had already used rifled cavalry guns, which greatly improved the shooting accuracy, the initial velocity and the penetrating power. These Cossack cavalry who still rely on bows and sabers to fight are naturally not opponents. Before even meeting each other, most of the Cossack cavalry rushing over were defeated.

The biggest advantage of the Cossack cavalry lies in their fast speed and sharp slashing, but at this time their galloping speed is obviously not as fast as that of the Janissary's muskets, so when they charge the Janissaries, they only have The reaped wheat generally fell in batches.

However, the imperial guards did not dare to leave the industrial mining area directly and pursue these Cossack cavalry who retreated immediately after suffering some losses. After all, they were outside the country. The Cossack cavalry sneaked into the mining area while the guards were chasing the remnants of the enemy, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Therefore, Jiao Lian of the Imperial Guard can only try to keep these mining areas that contain huge wealth first. As for the arrogance of chasing down the remnants of the enemy and further attacking the Raksha Kingdom, he can only plan in the long run. possible.

As Jiao Lian and other Imperial Guard officers expected, the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom, under the command of their leader, really chose to sneak attack on the mining area of ​​Daming by taking advantage of the maneuverability of their cavalry.

Without any suspense, these Cossack cavalry were beaten back again.

As a result, the Cossack cavalry in the area had no choice but to withdraw and told the administrative officials of the Siberian Federation. After knowing that the current force could not expel the Ming army, these Siberian Federation officials sent a letter to Tsar Miha Il I, I hope that the founder of the Romanov Dynasty can quickly mobilize more troops to drive away the Ming army, and send envoys to negotiate with these people in the Ming Dynasty. The current Romanov Dynasty is Tsar Mikhail The newly established dynasty was at the peak of its national power, and the officials in Siberia who were newly attached to Tsarist Russia had reason to believe that the Ming army would be intimidated by their own Raksha country.

However, what these Siberian officials of the Raksha Kingdom would not have imagined was that just when they were about to send envoys to negotiate with Jiao Lian, Jin Yiwei had reported that the Raksha Kingdom had brazenly attacked Daming's mining area in Siberia with a price of [-] li. He quickly brought him back to the capital.

After Zhu Youxiao heard the news, he immediately summoned Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang, who were in charge of the Ministry of War, to discuss and formulate a crusade to launch a war against the Raksha Kingdom.

The Raksha Kingdom is the closed "Qing Dynasty" at this time. When he naively thought that his national prestige could make the Ming Dynasty fear, he didn't know that the Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty could launch a colonial war against the Raksha Kingdom. Excuse how long you waited.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao ordered Lu Xiangsheng to draw up a crusade. They were originally the people of the Ming Dynasty, but now the Erluocha Kingdom is just a small country in the west, but when the Ming Dynasty had no time to take care of Siberia, it invaded Siberia and killed the local ethnic groups such as Daur and Ewenki in Siberia.

However, Daming thought that a light war would not be conducive to the exchanges between the two countries, so he endured it and allowed the two sides to put aside their disputes and develop together. Unexpectedly, the army of his country brazenly attacked the mining area of ​​​​Daming and attacked the civilians of Daming. At the request of the local exploited serfs, Ziminji specially mobilized [-] troops to crusade against the Raksha country. If your country realizes that it has made a mistake, please surrender immediately without any deductions, and cede Siberia Tomukes and other [-] Give the rest of the city to Da Ming, and Da Ming will stop fighting!
As soon as the proclamation came out, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the Ministry of War to dispatch the army and organize the supply of money and food. In addition, out of the principle of war before the soldiers, Zhu Youxiao also sent a translator to deliver the proclamation to the people of Luocha Kingdom.

At this time, the officials of the Raksha Kingdom in Siberia thought that these people from the Ming Kingdom were just playing around to mine minerals in their own territory, deliberately provoking, and did not think that a big war would break out.

Therefore, they did not make any preparations before the war.

Qi Changguo and Jiao Lian's two imperial guards who had entered Siberia's mine protection mission earlier had been directly ordered to capture the two important strongholds of the Raksha Kingdom in Siberia, Tomux and Yurga.

Qi Changguo's Imperial Guard Army is a special force composed of light chariots and rifles. Unexpectedly, he touched the city of Tomux.

And Jiao Lian's Third Cavalry Brigade participated in the Cossack cavalry battles in Outer Northeast Asia in the early years, and had rich experience in fighting cavalry, so it only took a few days to quickly penetrate to the vicinity of Yurga.

It turned out that after the Raksha State expanded eastward and occupied Siberia, on the one hand, it forced the local residents to register as citizens of the Raksha State, and on the other hand, it built a large number of cities and strongholds, among which Tomux and Yurga The two important points are also the center of the transportation hub. It can be said that as long as these two places are occupied, the supply line of the Raksha Kingdom in Siberia can be cut off, so that Ming can easily expand its control over West Siberia.

At the same time, other armies from various walks of life also began to march towards the Luocha Kingdom from the three directions of Mobei, Monan, and Liaodong, and Zhu Youxiao gave them the order to "drink the Ural River!"

However, at this time, Tsar Mikhail I of the Raksha Kingdom and the officials he appointed to manage Siberia did not realize that there was a super empire in the far east that had stretched out its claws to him.

Officials in Siberia of the Raksha Kingdom still believed that the Ming people's mineral products were just to make a fortune, and they didn't realize that Ming had already planned to swallow his Siberia directly.

Therefore, these Siberian officials of the Raksha State still let his Cossack elite continue to expand, and did not gather troops to prepare for Ming's attack.

It wasn't until Qi Changguo's special forces climbed up the city wall and used rifles to repel many long-haired ghosts that the officials of Rakshasa Siberia realized that the war seemed to have come.

But after a loud bang, the city gate was smashed open by a chariot, and a large number of imperial guards had rushed into Tomux. At this time, the administrative officials of the Raksha Kingdom surrendered, and some even ran away .

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't know whether just occupying a Tomux would arouse the vigilance of the Raksha Kingdom, so Zhu Youxiao still ordered the imperial guards to expand the results of the battle until the Raksha Kingdom fully agreed to cede the land to Daming. .

(End of this chapter)