Daming Military Empire

Chapter 444 Ming's Strategy

On the third day, Bi Maokang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, gave a lecture. He talked about a lot of content, and each of them was a blockbuster decision!

Although these are basically introduced in the books that have been handed out, after he personally said it, the representatives of various countries present are still full of enthusiasm.

Why do you say that?Because what he said, every decision made by the Ming Empire is enough to change the world situation.

First, the Ming Empire decided to build a telegraph network across Europe and Asia within the next five years.

Now, the telegraph network of the Ming Empire has reached Kandahar, an important town in the northwest of South Asia. Next, the Ming Empire plans to cross the Persian Safavid Empire to send telegrams to the Ottoman Empire. Then, a branch road goes north, passing through the Ottoman Empire, and connecting To the Holy Roman Empire, a branch road goes south, passing through the Eurasian Canal, passing through the North African colonies of the Ottoman Empire, passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, and connecting to Spain and Portugal.

Once this telegraph network is completed, the Ming Empire will realize real-time communication with the four allies in the European continent. Think about it, originally it was necessary to transmit information back and forth by sea, even if it was a ship of the Ming Empire, from Daming to the European continent. It also takes almost a month. If you use sailboats from the four European countries, you won't even get a reply for two or three months!

And after the telegram network is connected, whether it is Spain, Portugal or the Holy Roman Empire, the Ming Empire, which is thousands of miles away, can immediately reply to a telegram, and it doesn't take an hour before or after!
The benefits brought by this communication speed are immeasurable. In the future, both in the military field and in the economic field, the Five-Nation Alliance will be a few blocks away from the Habsburg Alliance!

Then, the Ming Empire also decided to build the Eurasian Railway in the next ten years!
In other words, the Ming Empire wanted to build railways from Kandahar to the Mediterranean coast, to the Holy Roman Empire, and even to the North Sea coast of Europe!
This is even more incredible, you must know that the speed of the train is more than twice as fast as that of the ship.

Moreover, trains are basically unaffected by the weather. Unlike ships, they have to dodge quickly when encountering storms. It is even very common for a sea storm to swallow a fleet in this era. It can be said that trains are much safer than ships. .

In addition, the construction speed of trains is much faster than that of ships. It is not a problem to build ten trains in the time it takes to build one ship.

Once the railway across Europe and Asia is completed, the economies of the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire will make a huge leap forward, and Spain and Portugal will also benefit from it, because it does not take much time for them to cross the Mediterranean Sea. On the Mediterranean coast, they also use it.

Of course, the train also has a flaw, that is, the transportation cost is much higher than that of the ship, but coal in this era is not as valuable as in later generations. The five-nation alliance occupies nearly half of the world's land, and you can have as much coal as you want!

However, both the telegraph network and the railway have to pass through the Persian Safavid Empire, and the Persian Safavid Empire has not joined the Five Nations Alliance. Moreover, they have economic ties and military cooperation with Britain, France and the Netherlands , It can be said that they are countries that are biased towards the anti-Habsburg alliance. Will they agree to the telegraph lines and railway transit of the Ming Empire?
Zhu Cijiong has naturally considered this issue. Judging from the attitude of the Persian Safavid Empire, they do not want to intervene in the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the anti-Habsburg alliance. Moreover, they are a little afraid of the Ming Empire, because once the Ming Empire joins hands with the Ottoman Empire They couldn't stand the pincer attack at all.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong was not worried at all about the attitude of the Persian Safavid Empire. He first sent an envoy to talk to see if they were willing to allow Daming's telegraph lines and railways to pass through the border.

If you want, you can give them a hand by the way, build a few railway stations for them, and pull a few telegraph branch lines, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

If you don't want to, then fight. It may be a bit difficult to destroy the Persian Safavid Empire, which also has gunpowder weapons, but it is still very simple to seize the small piece of land between the South Asian border of the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

How would the Persian Safavid Empire choose? It's very simple. If they disagree, they will be beaten. Will they fight desperately with the Five Nations Alliance in order to support the anti-Habsburg alliance?
This possibility basically does not exist. The most likely choice for them is to remain neutral, and neither side will offend, so that they can still get a little benefit from it.

After talking about the telegraph network and the idea of ​​the railway, Bi Maokang dropped another super-heavy bomb: the Ming Empire will sell machine tools to the European allies, help them establish a military industrial system, and let them produce advanced guns and artillery by themselves!
This point is not recorded in the book. When Bi Maokang said this, the representatives of the European countries all blushed with excitement. Machine tools, advanced guns and artillery, these are the things they dream of having. Said to fully open to them!
Is Zhu Cijiong crazy?Once they have mastered the manufacturing technology of advanced weapons, if one day they turn against Daming, they will shoot themselves in the foot!
In fact, Zhu Cijiong is not crazy at all, because he has received a secret report from Europe that the Netherlands, Britain and France have jointly overcome the technical difficulties of the steam engine, that is to say, they will soon manufacture machine tools. They can also mass-produce advanced weapons!
In fact, Zhu Cijiong had already expected this point, because even if he did not travel through time, and did not build the steam engine ahead of time, British and French scientists would also build the steam engine in more than 20 years. That is to say, they already have such a technical foundation. It just needs more than 20 years of exploration. Now he directly provides people with a successful model, and it will only be a matter of time before they create it.

Fortunately, the development of precision machine tools by Daming has come to an end. As long as the precision machine tools are manufactured, Daming will still be dozens or even hundreds of years ahead of them in terms of technology.

As for selling machine tools to the four European allies now, that is a very helpless thing. If you don’t help them and let them master the production technology of advanced weapons as soon as possible, once the anti-Habsburg alliance develops machine tools, they will be finished. Well, you must know that Britain and France have a terrifying population base, and the Netherlands has terrifying manufacturing capabilities. Once these three countries break out, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire will not be able to withstand it at all.

Once the four allies in Europe can't stand it anymore, Daming still has to take action, and go so far to fight with others, it is better to train your own allies to fight with them, so that not only will Daming not suffer huge losses, but he will also be able to win. Lee, why not do it?

Drive away tigers and devour wolves, this is the current strategy of Ming Dynasty. As for a country dominating the world, or a country overthrowing the world, that is all wishful thinking. Meng Yuan is a good example. How powerful they were at the beginning. To destroy someone seems to want one country to overthrow the whole world, but in the end it was overthrown by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang!

(End of this chapter)