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After hanging a map of the Great Chongqing Kingdom on the east wall, Xiao Ming hung another world map on the west wall.

Both maps are brand new, and they were painted by the best artists in Qingzhou City.

Compared with his own graffiti work, these two paintings are of a very high level, and it can be said that they are almost no different from the sophisticated maps of the day.

On the map, minerals, mountains, and rivers are all available, and Xiao Ming also marked the world colony information he currently has on the world map.

Generally speaking, the current Southeast Asia is almost occupied by Western powers, among which the Netherlands occupies Luzon, which is the modern Philippines, but because of the exhaustion of national strength, the Dutch only own a small part of Luzon, and most of the area is still occupied by Spain, and in general, Spain is the ruler of Luzon.

To the southwest of Luzon, Indonesia, the largest Dutch colony in Southeast Asia, had occupied Jakarta two centuries earlier.

Malaysia, west of Indonesia, was also a Dutch colony, but after losing the war at sea, it was ceded to the British.

In addition, Britain also has two colonies in India and Burma, while France owns the so-called Indochina, which is the three places of present-day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the current Dayu country is called Annam, Vientiane, and Chenla respectively.

Looking at the map, Xiao Ming looked at Australia again, according to the information provided by the Dutch, this also belonged to the United Kingdom, and similar to history, it was also a place of exile for prisoners.

Moving his gaze from the southeast corner of the Great Chongqing Kingdom to the north, Xiao Ming looked at the three cities that were still in the hands of the barbarians.

For him, after the loss of Jinzhou, the barbarians were already greatly weakened, and it was impossible for them to have the ability to wage a large-scale war with him.

The reason is simple, the barbarians have lost their supply of food and grass, and it is idiotic to send cavalry to attack the occupied city at this time.

At present, the smartest thing for the barbarians to do is to return to the grassland, and after recovering, they will live a life of raiding and plundering again, but he obviously will not give the barbarians this opportunity.

He will not give the barbarians a chance to breathe, and now he has issued a ban that no merchant shall sell any goods to the barbarians.

He would rather lose some silver to make it impossible for the barbarians to live on the grassland, and at the same time, Qi Guangyi will also be stationed in Raozhou, leading the cavalry to continuously compress the barbarians' living area.

Sweeping Raozhou City, Xiao Ming looked at Yingzhou, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Compared with Raozhou, Xiao Ming attaches more importance to Yingzhou this time, because this place has been a pain in the family and country in later generations, maybe many people don't know where Yingzhou is, but they will definitely understand what the Tumen River estuary means.

It can be said that in the northern Kanto region, this location is the only outlet to the sea, and from Yingzhou, you can reach the Sea of Japan along the Tumen River for fifteen miles.

As long as a military port is established in this place, he can use the navy to attack the Japanese mainland at any time.

In modern times, the Qing Dynasty signed the Sino-Russian Treaty of Aihui in 1858 and the Treaty of Beijing in 1860, which ceded the adjacent territories between the Kantoku and the Sea of Japan to Tsarist Russia, which was not regained until after the founding of the country.

After World War II, in order to curb his country's use of access to the sea, Russia even teamed up with North Korea to build a so-called Russian-North Korean friendship bridge over the Tumen River.

The bridge spanned the Tumen River, and the piers were so low that no large freighter could pass through it, thus completely cutting off his country's road to the sea from the Tumen River.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming picked up the pen and drew a circle in Yingzhou.

After the occupation of the Northern Expeditionary Army, he would carefully manage the city, and now the east of Yingju is Goryeo land, and he will forcibly occupy the land from Yingzhou to the sea after this war, and establish the second navy of the Great Chongqing State here.

Looking up, Xiao Ming saw Jianzhou, the Jianzhou of the Great Chongqing State is equivalent to the contemporary Harbin, the north of Jianzhou is the Heilongjiang region of the later generations, and the north is the Siberian snowfield.

According to the information provided by the Dutch, the Muscovy of what is now Europe was established as a monarchical Russian empire forty-seven years ago, and the current ruler of Tsarist Russia is Ekarina, after the first Russian emperor, Alexander the Great.

It is said that the Empress of Tsarist Russia and the Empress of England were about the same age, having taken over the country at the age of 18 and 20 respectively, and have now ruled the country for four or five years.

Although these two monarchs are sisters, Xiao Ming does not mean to despise them at all, because modern history proves that European empresses are very strong, and often the reign of empresses is the time when the country is at its most powerful.

Elizabeth of England, not to mention Victoria, the reign of Catherine the Great of Tsarist Russia coincided with the seizure of Siberia and Alaska.

Although Catherine the Great and Catherine the Great in this era are only one word apart, their abilities do not seem to be weaker than those of the contemporary Catherine the Great.

Now she has extended her tentacles to Siberia and Alaska, but thankfully the Russians are still focused on Europe.

The conquest of Siberia and Alaska was nothing more than a spontaneous act of the people, just as Britain used armed merchant ships to expand its sphere of influence at sea, and Tsarist Russia pursued the expansion of civil power on land.

"Polar bears can't be given a chance to grow." Xiao Ming hugged his arms and groaned.

The country was extremely dangerous and capricious, both in this era and in contemporary times, and it would be a nightmare for the Great Yu Kingdom to make him stronger, so it was impossible for him to let Tsarist Russia take up the land around him to his heart's content.

However, although he thought so, Xiao Ming understood that he did not have the ability to extend his sphere of influence to Siberia now, and the Kwantung was still full of chicken feathers, and he had no way to provide grain and grass for the army from Qingzhou to Siberia, this route was too long.

Before marching into Siberia, he had to at least stabilize the Kanto.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming's gaze turned to Central Asia, and then to Europe, Africa, and the Americas, on this huge world map, the area he now controls is only a small area, and Europe has expanded its sphere of influence to the whole world.

"We have to step up."

Xiao Ming turned around, how could he be absent in this most glorious Age of Discovery? Now steam warships are already under construction, and shipyards are undergoing industrial transformation.

His ultimate goal was to build ironclads, so that his navy would be able to sail the seas with a generational advantage, and his fleet would be able to bury the British ships in the sea, no matter how experienced they were.