Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 572 Unifying Eurasia
This time, the Stuart dynasty no longer naively ignored Ming's military strength. Although it had adopted a policy of appeasement before, its vigilance was still there.

As early as a few months ago, when the Ming Dynasty launched an offensive against Italy, Charles I successively transferred a large number of previously expanded troops back to the vicinity of London, especially the nearest area of ​​the Isle of Wight, to prevent the troops of the Isle of Wight from landing in this area. .

Therefore, now that the Ming Dynasty has successively increased its troops in the Daming Concession in London and the Isle of Wight, the English authorities have not shown too much panic, and have even begun to plan how to deal with the upcoming offensive by the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Daming wanted to launch a war against England on the grounds that the Meisheng Company’s opium cargo ship was sunk by England and the Stuart Dynasty increased its troops near London, but it was unexpected that Charles I of England would attack Daming first. The army in the London Concession intends to drive out the Ming army in the London area before the Ming Dynasty makes a large-scale attack, so as to fully control various strategic locations.

The British army took the lead, but the Ming army stationed in the London Concession also resisted tenaciously, and successfully defended the bridgehead where the main force of the Ming Dynasty landed in London.

It was also because Daming had troops stationed in London and the Isle of Wight before, just like keeping two daggers between the necks of England, it was almost a breeze for Ming to seize the core area of ​​England in one fell swoop.

Charles I thought that he could take back Ming's control area in London with a pre-emptive strike, but things backfired, so he could only abandon the city of London and evacuate towards Scotland.

In the autumn of the 45th year of the Ming Dynasty, 20 troops of the Ming Dynasty began to enter the city of London, starting from Manchester, Birmingham and other cities, and advancing towards the northern part of England.

On the contrary, Charles I organized a decisive battle with Ming in Maringa, and the result was that Ming won a big victory. England, which is not very spacious, did not have enough strategic depth, so naturally it could not resist Ming's attack.

By the time Zhu Youxiao set foot on English soil, Charles I had already been captured alive.

Zhu Youxiao was not very interested in seeing the English king, just like he was too lazy to meet the French king Louis XIV, so he simply ordered his subordinates to shoot him dead.

When the English Stuart dynasty fell, it meant that the entire western Europe had been completely occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

Next, only Rakshasa and Ottoman need to be pacified.

For this reason, the Ministry of War also debated whether to fight the Rakshasa or the Ottoman Empire first.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao decided to attack at the same time, going north and south, and there was no need to worry about whether to attack the Ottomans or the Raksha first. After all, this conquest of Western Europe left a lot of free labor and plundered a lot of raw materials and ore resources. It would be better to increase the scale of the war.

Li Dingguo's northern front group, an army from Jiao Lian's department, and an army from the Mobei area of ​​the country formed a northward group to attack Luocha country from east to west.

The Eastern Front Group, an army of Jiao Lian's Department, and the Ming Navy formed the Southward Group, which went directly south to attack the Ottoman Empire.

These two so-called world powers have nothing to parry against the super empire of Ming Dynasty. Although large-scale wars can be organized, due to the backwardness of weapons and equipment and combat thinking, no amount of troops can be more than a meat grinder. of fillers.

By the 47th year of the Apocalypse, Ming had pacified the Ottomans and the Rakshasas successively, and then in the 48th year of the Apocalypse, Ming had entered South Asia. So far, there is no civilized country other than Ming in the entire world.

There are only some primitive tribes or aborigines in places such as the Americas and Africa.

However, Zhu Youxiao never thought of letting go of the original land of America. After the end of the Eurasian War, he immediately sent an advance army across the Bering Strait to explore the Americas.

But now, Zhu Youxiao has no plans to move a large number of soldiers and civilians to reclaim the Americas on a large scale. After all, the war has just ended, and Ming's territory has expanded rapidly to twice the size of the previous territory, which means that it will take longer to digest. In particular, we must strictly eliminate these non-Han civilizations that have newly occupied hell.

From Greenland to the Cape of Good Hope, from the Bering Strait to Mount Kosciusko in Australia, two-thirds of the world's territory is controlled by Ming. This will be an unprecedented problem for the management of the empire.

At this time, many newly occupied places are almost only military areas, and no one even manages them. The army just brutally massacres those in power, and then the local area has been in a state of chaos and lawlessness, and even if millions of troops are thrown It is also impossible to achieve the effect of effectively managing every castle in various places, and there is even a phenomenon that one Wu manages tens of thousands of square kilometers of land.

In addition, although Daming now has telegrams, there are indeed difficulties in communication for the central court to manage such a large territory, so it can only adopt the method of centralization and enfeoffment. Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to directly adopt the vassal system, but had no choice It is found that although there are many capable people among the children of the royal family, it is not enough to let the Zhu family take full power to manage the newly occupied area.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao still adopted the governor-general responsibility system, dividing the area except the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Xing'an Mountains to Java Island, according to geographical boundaries, and the governor-general controlled the military and political power in the area.

First of all, Zhu Youxiao's own heirs and other capable members of the royal family were appointed, followed by senior officials or generals with administrative skills in the army. For example, Zhu Youlang became the governor of Australia in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Dingguo became Governor of England.

The implementation of this system of governor-general responsibility has caused a lot of criticism from many officials in the DPRK. After all, everyone can see that this is similar to the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty. thing.

Zhu Youxiao is also worried about this. No one can predict whether the political outcome after many years will be that Daming will be replaced by these governors. Management occupies two-thirds of the earth, and it can only be managed in this way.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao has always firmly grasped that the power to appoint the governor is in the hands of the court, and the power to mobilize the army and the power to appoint and dismiss generals is still controlled by the court. It is just that an additional public security (public security) force is set up to be led by the governor. It is said that military power is still controlled by the imperial court.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao also deliberately divided the major governor-generals in a more detailed manner, and the officials of the prefectures and counties in these regions also monopolize the power on one side like the governor-general, which is equivalent to a large vassal state. There are many minor vassals, which can further avoid the emergence of strong regimes outside Ming Dynasty in the future.

However, just as no one can predict how the situation will change in the future, just as human life cannot last long, the fate of the Ming Dynasty cannot last forever. There is no most effective policy in the world to keep the Ming Dynasty alive, and All Zhu Youxiao can do is to let the Chinese civilization unify the world, so he doesn't dare to hope that there will always be only one country in the world, but he believes that he can do his best to make the world have only one mainstream civilization.

(End of this chapter)