This Wu Youcai!

Glancing at him, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of the scene that pulled him out of Zheng Chenggong's camp at the beginning, and now in the cabinet, the first assistant is Zhang Huangyan, the second assistant is Gu Yanwu, Zhu Daxian, Qian Lei, and Wang Zhongxiao are group assistants, and the cabinet vote is proposed, but the three of them can restrain Zhang Huangyan and Wang Zhongxiao.

Now Wang Zhongxiao is over 70 years old, and he has proposed to Zhishi several times, if the cabinet is vacant this time, it is almost time for Wu Youcai to enter the cabinet, after all, he is also an old minister of Jiangyin. Thinking like this in his heart, but seeing that his subordinates threw the problem to him, Zhu Mingzhong naturally couldn't sit on the dragon chair anymore and not express his thoughts. He smiled slightly, and then said.

"Siberian ......" he pondered for a moment before continuing.

"Although it is desolate and nowhere to be cultivated, it is the fundamental solution to the problem of the northern captives violating the border, as long as my Ming can control Siberia, there will be no more northern captives for thousands of years......"

Of course, Zhu Mingzhong will not talk about the resources of Siberia, let alone the Ming Dynasty people of this era, that is, the Japanese three hundred years later, when he mentioned the march into Siberia, he still said, "What are you doing there?" Is it for the emperor to hunt bears? The vision of the times restricts people's insight, so he turned his attention to another group of people - the Tartars.

"Siberia is actually the" Xianbeilia ", in the Jin Dynasty, the Xianbei people started there, in the case of the North Captives, every time the Central Plains is strong, even if we sweep the grasslands, they can also recover their strength in the grasslands and forests of Siberia, recuperate, for them, it is a natural refuge, and because of this, the Central Plains can not completely solve the problem of the North Captives, so it is necessary to control Siberia, of course, in the future, there should be our northern land, our northern borderland, You have to get a firm grip on it. ”

"I see, Your Majesty meant to control the Northlands and deprive the Tartars of a place to recuperate, and in this way, coupled with the Mongol strategy. If you want to come to the northern border of my Celestial Empire, you will enjoy peace forever. Your Majesty. ”

Shen Quanqi suddenly realized that he was a sycophant. As soon as his words fell, the surrounding ministers also echoed and praised. However, Zhu Mingzhong himself seemed quite unimpressed. But I saw him get up and go to the window, look out the window through the glass window, look at the northern sky with his back hand, and say meaningfully.

"It's not enough to just occupy it. Those Tartars are all cruel and cunning, if we are not careful, they will turn against us, how to domesticate them into sheep, this is the root of forever occupying there, and only the north of our dynasty can get real peace! ”

Turning around, he looked at the ministers and said.

"So, at this point, we have to learn from the Russians, learn how they established their rule in Siberia, in the eyes of many Tartars, those Cossacks are man-eating demons, maybe, but don't forget that they brought hundreds of thousands of Tartars under their rule, they defeated and occupied the Siberian Khanate with only a few hundred people, they controlled the whole of Siberia with only a few thousand people, and this is exactly what we need to learn!"

Learning the skills of ruling from the Russians is not a joke, the reason why Zhu Mingzhong said this is because he knows that Russia has successfully occupied there, and learning from the successful experience is the best shortcut. The price of that is to become a demon yourself. After all, there, the rules of the game in the Central Plains themselves don't make any sense.

"Learn from the Russians?" All the ministers in the imperial study said in surprise. Maybe they don't know much about Russia, but through the internal information of the imperial court, they naturally know what role the Russians play in Siberia. Man-eating demons, this is the most common evaluation, they kill the local Tartars in the north at will, and whenever they occupy a land, the local area must be covered with corpses, and the blood of the Tartars stains the land there. Do you also have to learn this? Judging from His Majesty's attitude, it seems that ...... Learn too.

"If a sheep wants to defeat a wolf, there is only one choice, and that is to become a wolf! Otherwise, it can only be the meat in the mouth of the wolf, and the wolf preaches benevolence, righteousness and morality, but it is just playing the piano to the cow! ”

Regardless of whether they had any discomfort, Zhu Mingzhong directly expressed his attitude.

"Siberia must be occupied, but by no means by military occupation alone......"

With his back to the ministers, Zhu Mingzhong stared at the north and then said.

"In the case of military occupation, we need to face not only the hundreds of fortresses along the way, but also the fact that every time we march from Bei'an (Yaxa) to the west, it is 100 miles away from the interior, and in Bei'an, we can transport food and supplies from the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, and we can also use the rivers there in Siberia, but this distance is getting farther and farther, and eventually, when we reach the ...... of Ukraine."

Now the Ural River should not be called the Ural River, when the words came to his mouth, Zhu Mingzhong changed his words.

"When we arrived at the closest region to the hinterland of Russia, one after the other, our advantage became a disadvantage, at the beginning, because of the proximity, we had an advantage in troops and materials, but after 5,000 miles, 10,000 miles? At that time, our disadvantage became the advantage of the Russians, and if the isolated expeditionary force was defeated in Russia by their superior forces, the military catastrophe would turn into a diplomatic catastrophe, so ......"

Zhu Mingzhong's voice paused slightly.

"So, my plan is that to the west, we can only build one railway, that is, a railway to the Western Regions, where we will defeat Jiannu, and then attack the Western Regions, where we will inevitably collide with the Russians, and when the time comes, we can defeat them there, and then, through military victory, force the Russians to recognize our rule over Siberia, instead of marching on both sides, after all, the fundamental decision on the belonging of Siberia is whether Russia recognizes, not whether we directly send troops to SiberiaYou know, they control most of it. ”

In other words, to defeat the main forces of Russia on the battlefield, and then let the Russian tsar cede the land. This was the most common practice in the nineteenth century, and it was also the way in which Russia cut the flesh from China, and as for sending expeditionary forces, fortress by fortress, it was only the most stupid way, because in the end it was inevitable that it would be impossible to avoid facing Russia from the front, and it would be impossible to avoid facing the main forces of the Russians near the Urals. In this case, whether to choose the sparsely populated Siberia as the main battlefield, or the Ural River or the Kazakh steppes in Central Asia as the main battlefield, is a matter of opinion. Of course, Zhu Mingzhong chose Central Asia because of the railway, and the railway to the Western Regions will continue to be built. As for the "hard Kyushu Railway", this can also promote the development of the ironmaking industry.

Moreover, as early as three years earlier, he had already designed the early nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace, which had succeeded in more than doubling the cost of ironmaking, despite the stone furnace body and the hydraulic blower. Cheap pig iron is enough to support the construction of railways, and the construction of railways will also drive economic development. The rapid development of American railroad construction in history has also led to the rapid development of the American economy and created the rise of the United States. However, it can give the Ming a chance to control the Western Regions, regain control there, and let it once again be bathed in the shroud of Chinese civilization, instead of being ruled by ignorance, darkness and barbarism.

Siberia!

Western regions!

Central Asia!

These statuses are all rich lands, they were originally the promised land of Chinese civilization, the land pioneered by the Han people, which was once the land of the Han people, but after being lost more than 800 years ago, it has fallen into barbaric slavery, and it is necessary to regain that land. It's just that...... Zhu Mingzhong, who was silent in thought, naturally thought of the interior, and now, the internal problems have not been solved. Li Dingguo of the Jin Dynasty was also entrenched in Guangdong, and even together with Li Laiheng, he was also in Chongqing, they all had heavy troops in their hands, perhaps, in Zhu Mingzhong's view, their so-called heavy troops were just a joke, but Zhu Mingzhong did not want to solve them by military means, and because of this, after they expressed their submission, he very generously agreed with them to defend Guangdong and Chongqing, but this is by no means a long-term solution. It's time to solve their problems. Turning around, he left the ministers, and after the other ministers left, Zhu Mingzhong asked.

"Recently, is there any news from Guangzhou and Chongqing?" His Majesty's question made the ministers immediately realize that His Majesty's patience is always limited, and His Majesty cannot sit idly by forever while foreign vassals occupy the place and have a heavy army. It is impossible for any great unified dynasty to sit idly by. Jianwen will cut the domain, Yongle will too, and so will His Majesty, not to mention, they are foreign domains.

"Your Majesty, Guangzhou and Chongqing have also been stable recently, and the local officials in the two places are all from the ministry, and the two feudal domains have not reacted much to this, just ......"

Zhang Huangyan's voice paused slightly, and then said.

"It is not a long-term solution for the two feudal feudatories to support the army, in the opinion of the ministers, to remove the soldiers and guards of the two feudatories and transfer the two feudatories to Beijing, it is really a matter of due, but it is just ......"

"It's just that they may not be willing to hand over their military power!"

Zhu Mingzhong said directly.

"This soldier ...... It is the foundation of life-saving, and who will give it up until it is forced to do so? Besides, Hong Shiming, Xian Guoan, and Li Guoan all died in accidents, so naturally they didn't dare to hand over their military power."

sneered, for the "accident" of Hong Shiming and others, Zhu Mingzhong can be said to be undisguised, he ordered someone to kill him! These people must be killed. However, the price is that Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng did not dare to hand over their military power easily.

"However, this military power always has to be handed over, you can tell me, how can you make them hand over the military power!"