Burma launched the Cursed Water Rebellion and killed more than 30 Ming officials, which angered the Ming court and the whole country.

On July 18, in the wave of national condemnation, Tianwu Emperor Zhu Cihong officially issued an edict, ordering the Southern Military Governor's Office, the Nanyang Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Ming Royal Navy to fight against Myanmar and destroy the country!

Just after the edict on the conquest of Burma was issued, a piece of bad news reached the Forbidden City.

Qi Guangyang, the protector of the Western Protectorate, sent a military report: The Great Khan Sangha of the Jungar Khanate was assassinated by his half-brother Chechen Taiji and Zhuot Babatur.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia in the north allied with the Kazakh Khanate and formed a coalition army under the banner of supporting Chechen Taiji and Zhuot Babatur, taking the opportunity to invade southern Xinjiang, with no less than 100,000 men!

They first sent the vanguard Cossack cavalry to invade the areas where the Dzungars lived, bloodied several tribes against Chechen Taiji, burned villages, and slaughtered and plundered nearly 1,000 Dzungars.

The Protectorate of the Western Empire immediately sent troops to Jungar to relieve the siege, and engaged in a fierce battle with the army of the Kazakh Khanate in the Tianshan Mountains, and under the powerful firepower attack of the Ming army, the Kazakh Khanate was defeated, killing thousands of people on the spot.

However, the army of Tsarist Russia suddenly attacked the Ili River valley where the Ming army was empty, and the main force of the Ming army could not return to help, and the Kazakh Khanate and the Junggar rebels jointly counterattacked, so they had to retreat to the Turpan Protectorate camp.

After receiving this military report, Zhu Cihong immediately woke up, and the polar bear really took the opportunity to reach out to the Ili River Valley!

Not only Tsarist Russia, but the coup d'état in Burma, the sudden booby-trapping of Ming officials, must be supported by the British.

Thinking about it carefully, Zhu Cihong was keenly aware that this was the beginning of Western countries to join forces to contain the Ming Dynasty!

First the British supported the coup d'état in Burma, and then the Tsarist Russia supported the coup d'état in the Jungar Department, got rid of the king and the Great Khan canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and took the initiative to show the border of the Ming Dynasty, showing the echo of the north and the south, which must not have happened by chance, but a conspiracy that has been brewing for a long time!

The Ming Dynasty has developed rapidly in recent years, deployed around the world, strengthened its influence, and seriously shook the hegemony of several Western powers in their respective regions, posing a threat to them. had to join forces to fight and weaken the Ming layer by layer.

Tsarist Russia and England? Blatantly demanded that the Dzungar tribe break away from the Ming dynasty's suzerainty with Burma and become an independent state.

Da Ming once lost one of these places? Will international standing plummet? Zhu Cihong categorically will not let them succeed!

In the previous wars against Russia, it was the conquest of the northern capital that was fighting, and the conquest of the western capital had never encountered Maozi.

A Russian soldier is tall, brutal, brutal and belligerent? In particular, his personal hand-to-hand combat ability was quite strong, which left a deep impression on the Ming army.

Although the current mode of war? Not many opportunities for hand-to-hand combat? But the Russian army is still not to be underestimated.

The Western Regions are vast and inhabited? Lots of deserts and harsh environments? The conquest of the Western Protectorate is limited? Scattered to defend Kashgar and other important towns, facing the combined forces of Tsarist Russia and Kazakhstan, it is somewhat difficult.

Qi Guangyang realized that the situation was complicated? The enemy is menacing? A great threat to the Western Regions? So he immediately asked for reinforcements from Nanjing, regardless of face.

After receiving a request for help from the Protectorate of the Western Empire, Zhu Cihong began to seriously think about the problem of Moxi.

Although he attaches great importance to the sea, it does not mean that he does not attach importance to the land, even the barren land of the Western Regions.

For a country, the land is the foundation, a country's land, naturally the bigger the better, only with a vast land, can the country remain strong!

This point has been proven in the development of history!

Britain used to be known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and Japan also established ***** circles, but because the area of the mainland is too small and the foundation is unstable, it eventually weakened.

The countries that have always remained strong are those with vast territories, and even if they decline temporarily, they can still rise again after the strength has eased.

The vast land area is their biggest bottom!

Zhu Cihong hopes that in his lifetime, he will try his best to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty and lay a solid foundation for the development of future generations!

In the Wuying Palace, Zhu Cihong held a pre-imperial meeting, which was attended by all military aircraft and cabinet ministers.

The Ministry of Intelligence gave a routine briefing on the situation in the northwest, as well as on the situation in Tsarist Russia.

Since the Battle of Yaksa in the 11th year of Tianwu, the Russian army was defeated, and the commander of the Nebuchu garrison asked Moscow for help, asking the country to send at least 50,000 troops to the east, so that he could fight with the Ming army and recapture the Far East.

The then emperor of Tsarist Russia, Alexei, was so distracted by domestic affairs that he did not take the advice of the Far Eastern Army and simply abandoned Siberia.

Alexei was the second tsar of the Romanov dynasty and the father of Peter the Great.

This guy is the same age as Zhu Cihong, and even his birthday is only about ten days away, and he ascended the throne only one year later than Zhu Cihong (Tianwu ascended the throne in the second year).

Alexei received a good education from an early age, becoming literate at the age of five, learning to write at the age of seven, studying in a church choir at the age of nine, and saving up the books he had read at the age of twelve to build a small family library.

His life trajectory can be said to be very similar to Zhu Cihong, both of whom like to read.

Such Alexei was nine years old when he was a teenager, the most learned man in Russia at that time, ascended the throne as Tsar, and was even more ambitious, trying to strengthen Russia.

Coincidentally, the situation in Russia at that time was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, and it was generally a chaotic era of malaise and hidden dangers.

Externally, there was also Sweden, a powerful enemy in the north, which firmly controlled the trade routes to Europe; To the west are the feuding kingdoms of Poland and Lithuania, occupying a series of important towns led by Smolensk, threatening Moscow at all times;

To the southwest is Ukraine, which is a vassal of Poland, and the Cossack cavalry that comes to the Ukrainian steppes is also a serious threat to Moscow; To the south is the Crimean Khanate, a Turkish vassal state that invaded Russia countless times over the centuries;

Only in the southern steppes were the Don Cossacks, who were under the orders of Moscow, but remained independent of Tsarist Russia.

It was in this environment that Tsar Alexei quelled the peasant uprising at home, carried out religious reforms, and conquered Poland and Ukraine abroad, and finally formally incorporated Eastern Ukraine on the east bank of the Dnieper River into Russia.

After calming down internal and external troubles, Tsar Alexei began to look to the situation in the East.

The re-emergence of the Ming Dynasty in the Far East made the Russians suspicious, especially since the Silk Road re-established by the Ming Dynasty in recent years, which posed a huge threat to Russian interests in Central Asia.

And England and France don't want to see a Ming Empire that grows big alone!

Therefore, several countries began to establish consulates with each other and conduct political consultations.

The envoy's campaign finally achieved some results, and began to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, and Russia first sent a tough letter to the Ming Dynasty: "The Ming army must withdraw from the Far East and return the Russian castles such as Nebuchu and Yaksa, otherwise they will bear great responsibility!" ”

At that time, after the Russian letter was issued, the Ming Dynasty not only did not bird them, but sent troops to continue westward, so that the Russians did not even know their own mother.