Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 558 The Ming Empire Expands Near Ottoman
After the occupation of Southeast Asia, the next thing that needs to be re-examined are the two places of Uzang and Yilibali.

In name, Uzang already belonged to the Ming Dynasty. Although the actual control was no longer in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, this area was a plateau with an altitude of more than [-], and its industrial use value was not great. Even if there were mineral resources, it could not be exploited and transportation.

Therefore, there is not much need to carry out land reform and industrial development.

However, this does not mean that this place is useless, but it is an extremely important place in terms of strategic location, and it is the highland in the belly of Asia. The south can overlook South Asia, and the north can be controlled. Even if Da Ming is not here To develop industry in a place where the birds don't shit, it is necessary to station troops here in case they go south or north in the future.

Different from the Tang Dynasty, U-Tsang in this era is not the Tubo of the past. Under the pervasiveness of Buddhism, they no longer have the desire to expand. They just blindly love Buddha and chant scriptures. The upper-class nobles are even occupied by monks. Since then, the Ming court does not know how many Dharma kings and living Buddhas have been conferred.Zhu You also didn't intend to carry out land reform here, after all, except for highland barley, this area is not suitable for agricultural and industrial production.

Of course, from a military point of view, since the garrison must send troops.

Fortunately, more than ten years ago, that is, in the 16th year of the Apocalypse, the Mongolian Heshuo Special Department entered Uzang from Ili and occupied the four guards of Xining, which was originally located in the Ming Dynasty. When foreign countries launched a colonial war, they brazenly occupied the U-Tsang area. In this way, it gave the Ming Dynasty an excuse to attack U-Tsang.

Therefore, in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's instructions, when the Ministry of Rites dispatched a commissioner to inform Uszang Fan King Daming that he would send troops to clean up the Tartars and would station troops for a long time to protect the local security and help local residents build, the Ministry of War dispatched the Fourth Army's Second Town From Lijiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province to Wusi Tibet, the troops were divided into two groups, one to Lhasa and the other to Xining Siwei.

Whether it is the cavalry of the Mongolian and Suote troops or the Uzbek Tibetan soldiers attached to the Hesuote troops, they are naturally not the opponents of the Ming Army. The real test of the Ming Army is the marching and stationing life in this polar environment, as well as the construction of transportation. and other public facilities.In the future, there will still be many places with harsh climates that will require the Ming garrison, such as the islands in the Arctic Ocean. These places are rich in resources, and it is natural to occupy them first when the ownership of this area is not clear.

Although Daming's steam chariot is not bad in power, it is still not as good as Wuling Hongguang. Although its trump card is higher than that of Ferrari, it does not have good constant temperature equipment. Liquid water and steam gas cannot resist severe cold, so the chariot cannot enter In Uzang, the cannons cannot be transported because there is no National Highway 318, so they can only enter Uzang with guns and small Ming version mortars, but even so, they still easily defeated Heshuo after trekking into the snow area The special department, and the direct garrison was successful.

In order to ensure the safety of Uzbek, Ming decided to rule the area directly, implement local autonomy but be appointed and dismissed by the central administrative method, but cultural and economic construction was led by the Ming army, the reason was to help the people of Uzbek get rid of poverty and make them more prosperous. If you have the energy to study Buddhism, of course, this is also cultural input in a disguised form.

For Yilibali, it is also effortless. So far, except for the large area of ​​Asia from the east of the Ottoman Empire to the west of Yilibali, the other areas have become the territory of Ming Dynasty.

A few years later, a war operation code-named "Oriental Hurricane" turned this vast area in the heart of Asia into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. However, it is said that in those few years, not only the water of the Caspian Sea turned red, but also the water of the Persian Gulf. famous.In the 40th year of the Apocalypse, when Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty was approaching his sixtieth birthday, the super empire of Ming Dynasty finally became close neighbors to the countries of Europe. Only then did the Ottoman Empire realize that the ancient eastern empire was actually very close at hand, and also Began to be dissatisfied with some policies of this super empire.

However, the current Ming doesn’t care what the Ottoman Empire and other countries in Europe think. As a super empire whose land area is the sum of several civilized countries in the world today, what Ming now only thinks about is how to better unify the world and rule the world , to build a harmonious and beautiful new earth home.

Now, in the whole world, only the Ottoman Empire and the European countries such as France, England, and France still have the strength to fight, but Ming Dynasty still doesn't have the energy to destroy them.

After all, after occupying the Asia region, the area ruled by Ming Dynasty has expanded too much, and it will take a long time to digest it, because the military methods of Ming Dynasty are too harsh, and these places are not in the Han cultural circle like Southeast Asia. , so there will always be local sporadic rebellions after occupation.

The funds for maintaining stability have been increasing, and Zhu Youxiao can't use these two-legged labor directly to refine oil. After all, people are the most valuable these days, so they can only try to maintain stability and establish a new civilized order as much as possible. Thick blood rule balance.

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That's right, Zhu Youxiao is almost sixty years old now, but because he has been well maintained and Daming has nothing to worry about in recent years, he still looks like he is only in his forties or fifties, his hair is still black and blue, and his teeth are still intact. Not loose.

However, Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cirong, the two princes, have already grown up. Zhao Wang Zhu Cijiong has become the governor of the Caspian Sea, with full power to manage the vast land from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, and has become the new commander-in-chief of the First Army of the Ming Dynasty, Chang Yanling. Already dead, he was conferred the title of Marquis of Qingyang by Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not hereditary.

Zhu Cirong has been an intern in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Household Affairs for three years, and now he is working as a member of the Ministry of Officials' Anthology Department Wai Lang in the Ministry of Officials. Such a real official position is held by the current prince, which is the only one in the Ming Dynasty. However, everything has changed these years, and the emperor insisted that the prince must be familiar with the practice because of this, and the officials could only accept it.

Of course, people in the Ming Dynasty today can also understand. After all, the current emperor is no longer the simple one who just needs to be worshiped by the officials and be a symbol of etiquette in the kingdom of heaven. Although the emperor is not good at handling daily affairs, he still has to make decisions However, the affairs cover a very wide range, and the various industries that need to be understood are also very wide. In the past, the emperor only had to deal with the scholar class and the common people class, but now the social status quo that has to be dealt with is much more complicated than before.

From officials to citizens to slave labor, from the army to localities to religions, from the native land to the colonies and then to the Jiji district, there is nothing that is not complicated, and there is no day without conflicts. Sometimes even Zhu Youxiao is worried. , Can the Eastern Civilization System really maintain a super empire for a long time?

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