Chapter 1016 Hongwu Twenty-five Years

At this time, it has been 25 years of Hongwu.

Lu Qijun swept the Rus', and by the way, they also cleaned up Poland and Hungary that stretched out their claws to the north, both of them had some thoughts about the Rus', and now they saw that the Rus' people had poured blood mold, and they were going to take advantage of the fire to rob. But I never thought that the new owner of that land was so protective of food!

Not only were the claws they reached in to grab food severely, but Lu Qijun even stabbed them fiercely in the direction they came from.

Of course, that can't be compared with the actions of the Mongols during their second westward expedition.

But with the Lu Qi army as the core and the Rus' as a vassal, it also taught the Poles and Hungarians a hard lesson.

A large amount of goods and materials flowed into the Rus', and even a large number of captives, such as a rain in the middle of a long drought that gave the Rus' people a glimmer of life at the bottom.

It also gave a glimmer of hope to the Rus' nobles who reluctantly chose to surrender under the sword!

In many cases, what people at the bottom of the valley need most is not food and water for relief, but a glimmer of hope.

Now the Rus' people see a new opportunity for themselves, even if it is to follow the Chinese to fight for the tiger.

Mstislava's mother and daughter were sent back to Jinling very solemnly, but Rus, who was tens of thousands of miles away, started to fight Lu Yu, those princes and princes, and even the generals of the Lu Qi army, but who did not have a few outstanding Rus ladies?

Just like the Tianfang and Tianzhu nobles who knelt at Lu Qi's feet, sending their daughters to beautiful women is the most direct means of connecting bilateral relations.

But everyone understands that tangible benefits come first. Giving a woman is the most tangible expression, it represents an attitude. And the two sides have deepened their relationship, and the most direct reaction is that the person who sent the woman has a backer, doesn't he?

Mstislava's mother and daughter are the pinnacle of this behavior.

It's just that the operator changed from the Rus to the Lu Emperor.

Lu Qian used the majesty of imperial power to give her the most dazzling halo, this is to let the people have more and more direct cognition of Rus, and the other is to appease the Rus, satisfy their last trace of dignity, and make up for their long shattered face.

Look at the mother and daughter after such a trip to the mainland, did they immediately rise? This would go a long way towards appeasing the badly wounded self-esteem of the Rus' people.

Therefore, the status of Mstislava's mother and daughter is dispensable. In Lu Qian's eyes, they were just chess pieces, showing them to everyone, and when everyone saw them, their meaning had been achieved. And in return, Lu Qian will give that little girl a decent result, she will first become the princess of the prince, and then the concubine of the Great Qi Emperor.

In other words, whoever can marry her will be the heir in Lu Qian's mind.

Therefore, the glory and wealth that awaits Plemislava's mother and daughter will only be greater than they imagined.

As for Rose, because it is Lu Qian's focus place, all the information of the latter is in his control. Hungary and Poland also appeared in front of him, two countries that had been severely beaten by Lu Qijun, like two white chickens, it seemed that they could be eaten if they were caught!

But the cabinet told Lu Qian that his Great Qi Empire had really reached its limit.

The Rus War had been going on for more than two years, and Lu Qi had not sent any material supplies to it except for the army that Shi Wengong had brought with him.

Even if they had gained a lot of benefits from Ross, the Transporter still had more than enough to do.

Because the "running cycle" is too long.

It was too difficult for the weapons and armor to be produced in Anxi, sent to the arsenal, and then sent to Tianfang and Rus by the Transshipment Division by simple land transportation.

Not to mention the question of whether the road is easy to walk, it is the road that can easily travel thousands of miles and tens of thousands of miles, and the fragile load capacity of the carriage is a great tragedy.

A piece of armor is dozens of catties, a big sword and spear is more than a dozen catties, how much can a two-wheeled carriage hold?

The four-wheeled carriage is not used because it relies more on flat terrain and roads than the two-wheeled carriage, and is far less durable than the two-wheeled one. Although its weight is far more powerful than that of a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, the Transit Division can only use two wheels for long-distance overland transportation.

Thinking about the huge number of two-wheeled carriages, as well as the entire logistics and transportation, even with Lu Qi's national strength, it is exhausted to support it until now.

And don't look at the enemies of Tianzhu and Tianfang, even in Asia Minor, counting the support of the Crusader States and the Byzantine Empire, the Seljuks have not been able to withstand the attack of the Lu Qi army. But they have delayed this war until now, a 'world war' that lasted for three years, and really squeezed out all of Lu Qi's family funds.

It's not that there's not a dime left in the finances. In the current domestic atmosphere, if Lu Qian is short of money, he can directly issue war bonds in the bank, and he dare not say more, there is no problem with three or two hundred million and a half. Even the royal family already has a lot of wealth in their hands, so how can Lu Qian be reluctant to vote?

But in today's environment, no amount of wealth can double the country's productivity and explode infinite power. It's not the industrial age yet!

The continuous war has made the logistical pressure on the Lu Qi court more and more huge, not to mention, the reserves of swords, guns, armor and various firearms in the arsenals have also bottomed out, and the application of firearms in the Tianzhu Tianfang region is also clean, and the war of conquest has gradually become a little sour.

Fortunately, Tianzhu and Tianfang 'woke up' too late. Sanjar was bent on stealing Lu Qi's muskets and artillery, but he didn't know how limited the latter was. It's not about getting more simple and crude earth-shattering thunderbolts and rockets.

So much so that they made wedding clothes for the Europeans in vain.

You can understand with your ass that some of the information that Sanjar got from Lu Qi at any cost will definitely be included in Byzantium with the complete defeat of the Seljuks.

And now, with the Byzantines going into battle shirtless, and even the complete intervention of the monotheistic world, the battle situation in the heavenly world is far more complicated than Lu Qian had imagined before.

Before the war, he never thought that the Byzantines would carry out the war to this extent, and with the defeat of the Seljuks, the Lu Qi army began to face the Byzantine Empire. The latter had already fought with Lu Qi because of the Seljuk war, and the Crusader knightly state had also burst out with all its strength in the face of death. One by one, they went all out to 'defend' their own territory, and at the same time, they also started to summon **.

For example, the Duchy of Antioch and the Duchy of Italy and Aquitaine.

Bohemond I was a cousin of Roger II of the Kingdom of Sicily, although there was no deep friendship between them, but after Bohemond left the Middle East, the contradictions between them no longer existed, and there was always a family relationship between the two.

And Raymond, who is now the Grand Duke of Antioch, is the son-in-law of Bohemond II, and Bohemond has no male in his line. Raymond is the uncle of Eleanor, the Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess de Poitiers, the richest woman in France, and the current Queen of France.

And the Kingdom of Jerusalem also summoned France, the difference is that the object inside is different, not the royal family of France, but the Count of Anjou, one of its largest feudal states. The latter can also dominate the nearby counts: Nantes, Vendôme, Mann, etc., and the true strength can never be described by a count's title.

During his lifetime, Baldwin II [King of Jerusalem] had no sons, so he decided to pass the throne to his son-in-law, Fulke, from France, and his daughter Melisander. Although Fulk was forty years old at the time, and his sons were married, he was happy to find himself another crown of the king of Jerusalem in order to obtain the throne for his descendants. After Baldwin II's death, the couple were officially crowned kings. Jerusalem enters the period of the joint government of King Fulk (Jerusalem) and Queen Melisende.

Now that his own interests are mortally threatened, it is only natural that Fulk will write to his son in his hometown and ask for help. Not only that, but he also wrote to England. Because his daughter-in-law was the second daughter of King Henry I of England. Henry I's eldest daughter, Euphemia, and eldest son, William, died in an accident, and the second son, Richard, died young, without a title. Only the second daughter, Matilda, was married to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, who was made heir to the throne of England by his father after his death, but failed due to the opposition of the English nobility, and then married to Godfroy V [son of Furk] of France, Count of Anjou.

After the death of Henry I, Matilda's unsuccessful quest for the throne of England was unsuccessful, but she also made an agreement with his cousin, Stephen. In Stephen's time, the throne was inherited by Matilda's son.

In this case, Fulke felt that Stephen was very necessary to express it.

Amid the cries of the Europeans to defend the Holy Land, and the resistance of the Celestial People from time to time, the war in West Asia is becoming more and more impossible to stop for a short time.

In this case, Lu Qian really didn't have the heart to open the second battlefield - to conquer Central Europe and Western Europe.

Even though the war in Tianzhu was largely over, the Chola Kingdom and the Western Chalou Dynasty, one became history, splitting into small sesame states with indigenous princes in charge, and the other subjugated to Lu Qi. The transshipment envoy was also able to transport military supplies to the heavens by sea.

But now is not a thousand years later, even if it can be transported by sea, from Zhongtu to Tianzhu, and then from Tianzhu to Tianfang, is it really easy?

This is the main reason why Lu Qian appeased the Rus' people!

Lu Qi has really reached the extreme.