The information Hong Chengchou received and the situation analyzed were indeed correct.

At this time, the Tsarist Russian emperor was Alexei Mikhailovich, an emperor who wanted to be a man. After the famous Khmelnitsky uprising in history, when he was about to be suppressed by Poland, Khmelnitsky thought of Tsarist Russia, wanted to hold Tsarist Russia's thighs and demanded that the Tsar agree to incorporate East Ukraine, centered at Zabaroje, into Russian territory.

Alexey was of course happy with this and started negotiations with Poland for this, but the negotiations collapsed. So Alexey led his troops to fight in person and began to attack Poland in May.

In Tsarist Russia, after the Tsar led his troops to fight, Father Nikon, the Orthodox Patriarch, became the actual ruler. As soon as he took power, he immediately began to promote church reform. The main direction of the reform was to reform the various rules and regulations of the Orthodox Church in the Moscow Church in accordance with Byzantine methods and unify religious activities in churches in various places.

The Old Liturgy opposes this reform and splits out of the Moscow Orthodox Church. As a result, the Patriarch Nikon began to persecute these people on a large scale, and judges and executes the leaders of the Old Liturgy. However, the believers of the Old Liturgy still did not obey Nikon. They fled from Moscow to various places to avoid persecution.

Of course, at this time, some things have not happened or are happening. But one thing is certain, that is, Tsar Alexei is leading his troops to fight Poland in a fierce battle.

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Hong Chengchou was very moved by this. In order to ensure the success of the westward advance, he sent a large number of people to the west to inquire about the movement. At the same time, he also began to prepare for the war.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was already on the way back to the capital, he grasped the situation immediately by eavesdropping on the seeds.

As he told before leaving, he would not mind Hong Chengchou taking action immediately as long as he had the chance.

Just conquering the Caucasus region, Emperor Chongzhen believed that this matter was not difficult for Hong Chengchou to do. However, the most difficult thing is whether Hong Chengchou can successfully block the counterattack of Tsarist Russia after conquering the Caucasus region.

As Emperor Chongzhen, who traveled through time in later generations, of course, he knew that Tsarist Russia was very difficult to fight in history. The most important reason for the failure to attack Tsarist Russia was that it was defeated by the severe cold.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen knew that Hong Chengchou had plans, he immediately issued an order to sew a complete set of military uniforms in Shaanxi and Sichuan. The other one is still very important, that is, the reinforcements he promised Hong Chengchou would also select from the Mongolians to reinforce. After all, now, the most cold-resistant Ming soldiers are the Mongolian soldiers.

In addition, although Emperor Chongzhen has been away from the capital for almost three years, he knows clearly the domestic affairs and the situation far away in the Americas.

As for the Americas, Sun Chuanting drove the remnants of Jianlu to expand the strength of the Ming army and recruited local Indians for his own use. However, after about half a year, Anders of Portugal finally couldn't help but nagging all day long. At this time, the Ming army had a large sphere of influence, and there was not enough manpower to expand, so he had to give up chasing the remnants of Jianlu, and instead rectify the troops. After training the Indians for a while, the army headed south.

In fact, less than 10,000 Spanish people in the Gulf of Mexico were less than 10,000. They were led by more than 20,000 Ming troops and indigenous Indians. With the cooperation of the Portuguese, they quickly defeated the Spanish in Mexico.

What surprised Sun Chuanting was that he actually discovered Ming people in the place ruled by the Spanish. Although not too many, it supplemented his scarce local manpower well.

However, after the Ming and Portuguese coalition forces drove the Mexican Spaniards into the sea, they were a little powerless because the Ming and Portuguese warships were both on the west coast of the Americas. The Gulf of Mexico were docked with the Spanish warships. They used the maneuver of the warships to counterattack several times, which also caused some losses to the dispersed coalition forces. ::

Therefore, in the end, Sun Chuanting led his troops out of the coastline for dozens of kilometers and gave up these places, which was somewhat similar to the strategy of blocking the sea area in the Ming Dynasty. Then, he concentrated his troops and began to fight south along the land.

However, because the Ming army had already divided its troops to occupy Mexico, the troops went south were only more than 10,000. On the other hand, Spain drew troops from all over the Americas to reinforce, and some warships were sent from South America to resist the attack of the coalition forces. In the end, it formed a tug-of-war with the Spaniards on Panama, and did not complete the plan to capture South America according to the pre-determined goal.

Before, Sun Chuanting had already sent an iron-clad warship back to the Ming Dynasty, brought back news and requested reinforcements. However, Emperor Chongzhen was not there and no one could make the decision, so he had never sent reinforcements. This time, Emperor Chongzhen rushed back to the capital from the Mughals, and one important thing he had to deal with was to support the Americas.

Because he is the only one who knows the situation in America best, the news brought back by the armored warships is all news that has been delayed for a long time. Of course, the most important thing is that even the prince cannot overtake his duties in large-scale military mobilizations.

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In mid-July 27th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen finally returned to the capital with more than 4,000 cavalry camps. This time, the number of soldiers brought back by Emperor Chongzhen during his triumphant period was the smallest. However, everyone knew that those people were staying on the map they had just set up to enjoy their happiness.

There is no doubt that the emperor who had been away for three years and returned with the record of conquering a huge empire, it is conceivable how sensation there will be in the capital!

Even the soldiers of the Cavalry Camp returned to the camp, they were warmly welcomed by the soldiers of the Cavalry Camp who were left behind in the capital. A soldier was besieged by multiple soldiers, and the soldiers who returned asked them to tell them about the things that happened on the Mughal land!

If you have heard of how to win a battle, it’s all for them to forget about it. What they care most about is whether the women in Mughals are beautiful? Who stayed there, how many wives did they marry? How much land did they have, etc.

Although the Mughal Empire is located, although it is 108,000 miles away from the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still has some understanding of it, because it is the legendary Western Heaven, where Xuanzang went to seek Buddhist scriptures, and the legendary Buddha land.

Although some soldiers said that the women in Mughal were ugly and not as beautiful as those in the Ming Dynasty, they always thought that they were the best if they had never seen them. Many bachelors were itchy and felt that these soldiers could not stay there for various reasons, so they belittled the women there.

After the Ming army soldiers returned, the matter of the Mughals being able to marry many wives at a very low cost, firmly occupying the first topic in the military camp and streets. In particular, the first group wedding hosted by Emperor Chongzhen was discussed many times.

What Emperor Chongzhen did not expect was that not only the soldiers in the army became enthusiastic about expanding territory. Even among ordinary people, more and more people wanted to sign up for the army, which invisibly improved the status of the Ming soldiers and made the Ming soldiers more and more popular.

Unlike the soldiers who come back, they can enjoy relaxing things such as taking a vacation, Emperor Chongzhen came back and experienced the warmest welcome, but he was busy with government affairs.

The imperial meetings in Wenhua Hall were held one after another. The six cabinet ministries, eunuchs from the Silijian, etc., almost never left Wenhua Hall, reporting on what they have done in the past three years, the implementation of the decree, etc.

Although Emperor Chongzhen had a wiretapping system that could grasp the domestic situation, he still had to listen to his ministers in person and ask in time to truly grasp the situation. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen could not skip such a meeting.

The most important thing is the treasury income and expenditure over the past three years. This is related to the imperial finances and cannot be tolerated. It must be controlled by the emperor himself. Let the emperor make decisions on the future financial and taxation and national policies of the empire and provide necessary basis.

The second thing is that in the past three years, the infrastructure construction situation of the Ming Dynasty, including the construction of railways and highways, can better understand the situation through maps and grasp the construction details of each place, so that he can make future infrastructure planning for reference.

The third thing is naturally related to the reorganization of the Ming army. This is military power, and of course the emperor needs to understand and give instructions.

The rest are achievements in science and technology and the situation in the Americas.

After five days of meeting, Emperor Chongzhen probably passed the situation. He was still satisfied with what his ministers did during the three years he was not in the capital.

Then, he made the first personnel transfer.

Cao Huachun, the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor, was too old to be in charge of the affairs of the Sili Supervisor, so he was allowed to retire and return home to live in his old age. Without any accident, Wang Chengen took over the position of eunuch in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor.

The admiral of the East Factory was personally trained by Chen Baoting, who was personally trained by Emperor Chongzhen, and the eunuch in the Imperial Horse Supervision was personally trained by Lan Tianbao, another Emperor Chongzhen. These were mainly personnel changes in the palace.

As for the outer court, Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, also retired and returned home, and Zhang Fu was replaced by the chief assistant; as for Lu Xiangsheng, he was still in charge of the position of Minister of War, responsible for the national military affairs, including the naval affairs. In this position, except for Lu Xiangsheng who led troops to fight, Emperor Chongzhen was not at ease with others.

In addition, if Emperor Chongzhen is not here, the transfer of officials above the fifth rank will be temporary. Now, after review by Emperor Chongzhen, he will be promoted to the official position.
Chapter completed!