In fact, many generals had guesses in their hearts about the Ming Dynasty to launch an expedition, but the difference was that because the imperial court had been making preparations, no one knew how far the imperial court was going to march.

It is not even known whether it is the west or the north that will be levied.

They only knew that the emperor was constantly urging the Beiyang Quilt Factory to produce winter uniforms with all its might, and with the feedback of the soldiers and horses after the Wulianghai garrison had survived the whole winter, the winter clothes were further thickened.

The latest winter armor can no longer be called cotton iron armor, and even large pieces of tanned fur bear skin are used to keep warm in parts that do not interfere with movement.

Even Wanli didn't know, but Qi Jiguang knew.

Because Wanli asked the eunuch to sit in the Qinglong Army Column and sent him a few maps of the world from the Ottomans, Safi Persia and other countries, these maps are inaccurate and full of loopholes, basically only after the Great Celestial Circle and Europa are basically accurate, even if it is only the most marginal ...... This edge is in the perspective of Emperor Wanli, and in his eyes, the Celestial Empire is in the middle, so no matter how these pictures are drawn, their places are all on the very edge.

Even if it is only at the very edge of the world, the location of each country on the map is different.

Qi Jiguang didn't have time to pay attention to the hodgepodge of maps marked as 'Qinstan' in Xi'an, 'Khitan' in Luoyang, 'Song' in Hangzhou, and Ming in Guangdong and Fujian.

He only noticed that there was a place called Moscow on the map, and Wanli drew a circle at this location on each map, with a few sentences from the first chapter of the Emperor's ancestral teachings, and a short letter: I can figure it out that the prince of the northwest who was sealed out by the Northern Yuan is here, and Qi Shuai should report to me what he needs to plan, and he can't levy it in five years, and he can't levy it in ten years.

The sentences in the first chapter of the Emperor's ancestral training attached are nothing more than about the countries that are not conquered, and Qi Jiguang feels embarrassed when he looks at these countries that are not conquered...... But all those that Emperor Taizu let him levy were not levied, and those that Emperor Taizu did not let him levy were all levied.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's country of non-conquest and the place of contention are easy to understand, the so-called country of non-conquest is to draw a big circle overseas, the original words: all the four directions are limited to mountains and seas, and they are secluded in a corner; The land is not enough to supply, and the people are not enough to command. If it doesn't think about it and comes to disturb me, then it is ominous. He is not a problem for China, and it is ominous for me to raise troops and attack lightly.

That is to say, there are geographical advantages and natural dangers, and they are all poor like ghosts, so if they don't weigh themselves to find trouble, let him be unknown; Anyway, they are not our henchmen, and beating them will always kill people, so there is no need.

There is also a second half of this sentence: But Hurong and the northwest border are close to each other, and in wars for many generations, generals must be selected to train troops, and be careful when they are prepared.

In fact, Emperor Taizu's words are very cautious and practical, and there is no arrogance at all at the age of the little emperor today, what is the core meaning of this whole paragraph? It's destiny.

If Emperor Taizu had the arrogance of a little emperor, most of them would like to add: If you can hit it, swallow it all.

But this is too unsafe, and it has no meaning to sound the alarm for future generations.

What is Destiny? It is the territorial succession of the previous dynasty.

The Eastern Han class is beyond the Western Regions, why? Navigating the Western Regions is the inherent national policy of the Western Han Dynasty, inherited.

The Tang Dynasty basically ignored the northwest, as long as Hami, because this was the martial arts of the Sui Dynasty, there would be a dead knot in his heart, and he had to inherit it.

The Song Dynasty caught the sixteen states of Yanyun and stumbled for a lifetime, and Yunnan simply didn't care, because the Song Dynasty didn't have to think about the Han Dynasty and had to inherit the Tang Dynasty.

What should I consider when I arrived in the Ming Dynasty? The territory of the Yuan Dynasty, the Emperor Ming Zuxun just means this, the overseas Yuan Kou have tried to do it again, it is indeed not very easy to do, let's not mess with them, and the descendants of the future generations can get a little bit of the land opened up by the previous dynasty, and it is enough.

The problem is that the Yuan Dynasty is too big.

What is the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate and the like, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty can't find anyone who knows this concept all over the world, and not many people in Mongolia know where it is.

No, Qi Jiguang kicked Tumen Khan's Khan court, collected a lot of materials and sent them to the Beijing Division for translation, the emperor summarized the knowledge of the world, and finally figured out where the eldest son went to the west, but the concept in his mind was not this, it was not the Golden Horde, it was the Great Yuan Emperor who canonized a northwest vassal king there.

When Qi Jiguang received the letter, his troops were underground on the Mongolian plateau.

It was 700 miles east of the north of the Naturalization City, and it belonged to the place called Yilin of 30,000 households on the left wing of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and there were no trees.

In order to find some firewood for cooking, his troops marched twenty miles beyond plan, and his troops had been camped in the wilderness in the spring for many days, and the wind was very strong, and more and more invincible iron troops were sick by the spring breeze, and there was still a lot of baggage, and the soldiers were very tired, and they urgently needed a camp that would protect them from the wind for a few days before advancing to the city of Guihua.

This has exceeded the land of the Daming Jin Kingdom, it is not safe for them, and no one can do anything when there are not enough trees, so the soldiers can only spend more effort to dig out the barracks that are sunken in the ground, supported by stone pillars at the four corners, and the board of the box car and the tent cloth are put on top of it - the living effect is very bad.

The damp air from the ground will come back.

Even after receiving the emperor's letter in this situation, Qi Jiguang did not have any complaints about the impossible task assigned by the emperor.

He only thought of some other things, first of all, the underground barracks he dug this time were used in the wrong place, this thing should be used in battle, the concealment effect is excellent, the whole army seems to disappear, if there are enough trees, the planks are covered with turf, only a head above the ground, the flag army can observe the enemy situation in the gaps, and from the outside it looks like a slightly higher grassy slope...... The cavalry who delivered the letter did not find it, and ran around the camp before being captured by the banner army that had been put on guard.

The person who sent the letter didn't notice it, so the concealment must have been excellent.

Another point is that Qi Jiguang should have been in the state of mind after the emperor found out that the vassal king of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the northwest was so far away from them.

He expected...... It should be like a thunderbolt from the sky, I have passed on the Ming Dynasty for so many generations, and it is actually the Northern and Southern Dynasties?

So it's normal for this letter to be angry for a while.

Psychologically, Qi Jiguang did not take the order sent by the emperor to let him dig through Moscow as true, and had a premonition that when the emperor was discouraged from the shame brought by the Northern and Southern Dynasties, he would withdraw his fate; Therefore, before this, Qi Jiguang still had to maintain the identity of the emperor's most loyal and hard-working military minister, and patiently made this plan.

For example, send people north to find out where mines, salt pans, and forest sites are, and then explore west to find valuable land.

To the north, it is certain that the land for no reason is worthless, there are not even many living people, and it cannot last long without value, and it is empty talk that no matter how exquisite the plan cannot be made for a long time.

If there is no mine, then it will simply be pulled down, and it will not work.

With the mines, the railways were built along the line, and miners and herdsmen were brought in to work, which was valuable and profitable, and the rest of the matter was a matter of course.

Not to mention, it is precisely because Qi Jiguang himself thinks that this report will not be implemented, but there is no psychological pressure, and he is very serious and reckless in his plans...... As he did it, he actually had the illusion that he believed it.

If there is a mine in this place, maybe it can really be requisitioned?