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Chapter 1454 Legend
Qi Jiguang on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains made every effort to plan to entrust the most extensive land to the soldiers participating in the Western Expedition under his command with more advanced means.

Of course, it is not enfeoffment. In fact, the method of allocating land is to establish command and envoys.

The land waiting to be allocated is not the barren wasteland west of the Ural Mountains. Few people will look at the land of the Siberian Khanate. The Ming army is more concerned about the border between the Siberian Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate. zone.

There is more arable land than the deserts in the south, warmer than the swamps in the north, and the climate is more suitable for human survival. More importantly, there is a road trodden by thousands of Ming troops. You can master the two major khanates in the north and the south.

What's more, it has an incomparable convenience. The hardware, fur, timber and other resources of the two Khanates are most conveniently transported from this narrow strip.

Nine commanding divisions, only nine commanding divisions are needed to connect the Ilidu Commanding Division with the Siberian Khanate. Although they seem to take great risks, this risk will not last for one generation.

In a short period of time, the general trend of the Ming army's westward expedition will engulf the entire area and achieve unprecedented peace and tranquility.

As for the long time, Qi Jiguang believes that one generation is enough time for the Ming Dynasty to build the railway here, and when the railway is built here, all problems will be solved.

Trade is a magical thing. In the past, the Silk Road supported the prosperity of this land, but today, trade means the world.

Just like Qi Jiguang occasionally worried that the overseas military mansion would be too big to lose, and then he was amused by this thought-no one can abandon Daming.

Dongyang, Xiyang, and Nanyang are nothing without Daming. Even though there are many hardware resources, they are still nothing without Daming.

On the contrary, together with Daming, they own the whole world.

The markets of the whole world, the ports of the whole world, the cities of the whole world.

In Qi Jiguang's eyes, the railway on land means these, which even changed Qi Jiguang's strategic thinking to a certain extent.

They don't need to frequently attack every country and every tribe they pass along the marching route in a sweeping manner, and they don't even need to do it themselves. Only trade is needed, and the general trend will destroy everything that rejects them.

Then change the whole world.

Qi Jiguang believed that it was only necessary to ensure the safety of the marching route, and build a railway on it, building an arc-shaped railway from Liaodong to the Ural Mountains, enveloping the entire north.

All that needs to be done in the future is to continue to immigrate and encroach on the north through the railway, while the countries along the southern railway can be wooed, suppressed, and supported by means of trade, that is, to establish a permanent foundation.

So what he wanted to give to the Mongols was to set up fifteen commanders on the west side of the Ural Mountains as the front line against Tsarist Russia.

It's just that Qi Jiguang never imagined that he and Chenbu Ural Mountain's sides, stretching for hundreds of miles, an army of millions in ancient times, would be used by people three thousand miles away.

This man is Boris Godunov, in Moscow, the brother of the daughter-in-law of Ivan IV, and one of the five regents of Tsarist Russia.

On the morning of March 12, the 28th year of Wanli, Ivan IV died in Moscow.

His most outstanding and more brutal son, Ivan, was accidentally killed by himself three years ago, leaving only two heirs, one is the mentally handicapped son Feordo, and the other is the illegitimate youngest son Dmitri.

None of them were satisfactory. Therefore, Ivan set up a regent council, and the five most powerful nobles held the power of the regent. They were all powerful nobles for a while.

In the Central Plains, these five people should be called Minister Gu Ming... It's just that there is no such thing as loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness here. Ivan IV died on the front foot, and the five regent queens were fighting for power and profit.

Uncle Godunov and Grand Duke Belsky supported Feordo's succession to the throne and advocated the continued strengthening of centralization, which can be called centralization.

Grand Duke Mskislavsky and Warlord Shuisky supported the young Dimitri and advocated the expansion of the power of the nobility, which can be called the abolitionist faction.

Fyordor's uncle, Zakharin Yuriev of the Romanov family, stood in the middle, hoping for mediation between the two parties.

The opinions of the five regents were different, and the czar's stupid son Feordo was naturally unable to succeed to the throne. In the face of such a major event, the fact that the Ming army helped Kuchu Khan in Siberia to wipe out the Cossacks of the Yermak Department became meaningless.

In April, the fortress in the Ural Mountains sent news of the encounter with the enemy to Moscow. The five nobles were busy dispatching troops, but none of them was serious about dispatching troops. Both factions were thinking about how to attack each other and mediate The Zakharin tried his best just to reconcile the relationship.

They planned to assemble [-] troops to fortify on the west side of the Ural Mountains, but just as the troops assembled outside Moscow, they were instigated by Shuysky of the abolitionist faction, and followed the agitated nobles and people in the city to surround the Krem Palace, holding torches Demanded the execution of Grand Duke Belsky of the totalitarian faction.

This is a very terrible thing, not because of the siege, but because of the torches.

Although Moscow has solid stone walls, the Krem Palace is still made of wood due to tradition. It is not a wooden building like the Forbidden City, with civil and stone walls, but is made of wood from the inside to the outside.

Klimt originally meant wooden fortress.

Although Grand Duke Belsky was not executed, he was also demoted from the center of power after this incident. After being mediated by Godunov in many ways, he was finally appointed as the general of this assembled army and set up a line of defense as the Ural warlord.

At least on Tsarist Russia's side, Godunov's move made a dead game alive.

After a large-scale reduction of vassals, the massacre of Novgorod, and the 25-year Livonian War to seize the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, Tsarist Russia has been severely damaged, and most nobles agree that they can no longer send troops to the west.

There are also people who disagree. For example, Prince Ivan, who was beaten to death by Ivan IV, did not agree. Killed.

For the current plan, they can only go east in a big way.

Godunov's plan was to let Grand Duke Belisky lead the army to repel the "Siberian Kuchu Khan" who invaded the Ural Mountains, and further invaded eastward, making him a hero of Tsarist Russia, so that he could return to the court again.

At the same time, he also used Qi Jiguang's army to exaggerate the threat of 'Kuchu Khan of Siberia' in Moscow, claiming that they had an army of [-].

As the uncle of the state, Godunov knew that although he had the support of the Janissaries, the source of all his power was still his nephew Fyordor, who was about to succeed to the throne, but this nephew was a fool, and he could use any method to control him. He stepped down.

Once the nephew can't succeed to the tsar, all his power will come to naught.

Therefore, he clearly grasped the key point of the contradiction. The other heir, the illegitimate son Dimitri, who was still in his infancy, appointed his mother and Dimitri as the supervisor, and went to find 'Siberia Kuchuhan' together. .

As long as this heir is dead, isn't there only one heir to the Tsar?

To be honest, Grand Duke Belsky was very grateful to Godunov when he left Moscow with his troops.

Until he heard that the number of enemy troops in the Urals was too large to be counted. According to legend, there were 30 giants.

(End of this chapter)