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897 Manpower is sometimes poor

In addition, the occupation of Persia and the Arabian Peninsula is not enough for the troops currently stationed there.

Although Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui are currently reorganizing the army of the Mughal Empire, if they want to eventually become directly under the Ming Dynasty, they have a strong sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and they still have to send troops from the local area. Even their descendants are definitely stronger than the army reorganized by the indigenous people.

Based on this idea, Emperor Chongzhen began to dispatch troops and generals again. Both the army and the navy allocated some troops to go there.

Sometimes, Emperor Chongzhen was speechless. Unexpectedly, the matter between men and women was very attractive. After the order was carried out, all the troops actively signed up to go overseas territory. Especially the northern grasslands, the northwest, southwest and other places, compared with the entire Ming Dynasty, it was not a particularly developed place, and that was the most enthusiastic. Well, let you spread branches and leaves for the Ming Dynasty!

The Bukhara Khanate finally failed to escape.

After Hong Chengchou had no pressure from Tsarist Russia's counterattack, he began to turn his attention to the south. Whether it was to appease the original heart of the Ergut tribe or the fertile land in the Volga River Basin, Hong Chengchou had no intention of letting the Bukhara Khanate go from the beginning.

After the ice and snow melted, Hong Chengchou sent troops to attack the Bukhara Khanate, attracting a large number of troops from the Bukhara Khanate. Subsequently, Wu Sangui's troops, who were notified by Hong Chengchou, stabbed the Bukhara Khanate from the back with a knife, and under the attack from the north and south, they destroyed the Bukhara Khanate.

In this battle, it was true that even if they had revenge and revenge, the Turkut soldiers who had been bullied by the Braha Khanate had put in great strength. After attacking the Bukhara Khanate, they were the ones who hated the most. In the end, they actually left women and children in the area.

Basically, when Zheng Zhilong arrived in North America and wiped out the main force of Spain with Sun Chuanting, the Bukhara Khanate was destroyed.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care much about these things. He had the power to give Hong Chengchou, otherwise, if he asked for instructions back and forth, everything would be delayed at such a distance.

There is one thing that Emperor Chongzhen did not expect was Tsarist Russia.

According to the situation that Hong Chengchou finally found out, Tsar Alexey was indeed a capable person. Faced with the situation where Sweden and Poland attacked the empty rear, after signing the Treaty of Minway, he did not go back to fight with the troops of the two countries, but led his troops into Poland.

In other words, he doesn't care about his own territory. If you kill you and I kill me, it's completely a desperate situation.

Or because of the sorrow of the soldiers, it may be that Poland has too few troops left in the eastern part of the country. Unexpectedly, Alexey would use this move. After the Tsarist Russian army entered Poland, it was unstoppable, making Poland unable to bear it, and immediately returned to the country to rescue. Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by the Tsarist Russian army halfway and the main force was crippled.

But no matter what, the Russian army of Tsarist Russia was first defeated at Fort Minway, and then rushed back day and night to attack Poland. Finally, the main force of Poland was in a decisive battle, which never stopped. Therefore, after this battle, the Russian army of Tsarist Russia finally used up all its strength.

In the end, Tsarist Russia and Poland were in a standstill, and the treaty was signed again.

Poland did not get any benefits at all. Instead, it mobilized many troops to cause disaster in the country, which was a huge blow to Poland.

The army was dispatched and there were countless money and food. The people were originally very dissatisfied. After suffering from military disasters, many people did not want to be oppressed by the Poland and Lithuanian Federations again, and learned from Khmelnikki that he began to rebel.

In history, the Great Flood Era, which began with the rebellion of Khmelniksky, eventually happened in the Poland and Lithuanian Commonwealth.

After hearing the war in Poland, the Swedish army did not go to rescue Poland, but was worried that Alexey, the lunatic, would fight to the death. Therefore, after capturing Moscow, it burned Moscow for three days and three nights, and finally burned Moscow to white ground, and then led its troops to retreat.

However, the towns near Sweden still occupied them. From then on, the Baltic Sea became the inland sea of ​​Sweden, and there was nothing wrong with Tsarist Russia.

It can be said that in this melee, the Ming army was not included, but the one who gained the greatest benefit was Sweden. Their new king, Carl X, also used this war to consolidate the royal power he abdicated from Queen Christina.

One thing Hong Chengchou didn't find out was that after Sweden heard that the chaos in Poland was in chaos, he began to pay attention to Sweden. It was like a hungry wolf, hiding aside, waiting for the best time to pounce over and take a bite.

Of course, Tsarist Russia is not much better.

The polar bear was also covered in scars and had no strength to do anything. He could only go back to his nest to lick the wound. At this time, Alexey not only dared not to tear up the Samara Fort Agreement, but was worried that the Ming army would not keep the agreement and tore up the Samara Fort Agreement.

This is probably the case in Eastern Europe.

After Hong Chengchou got to know, he did not really tear up the Minway Fort Minway Agreement and lead troops westward. It was not that he did not want to expand his territory, but that his troops were really limited. If he occupied more territory and his troops were dispersed, he was afraid of accidents.

After all, in this strange Europe, he had too many unknown things. He was not as confident as the emperor to win an absolute victory. Therefore, he wanted to manage the Minway Castle well and slowly erode the Eastern European plains near Minway Castle. This was his plan.

In summary, at this time, it was not the enemy's strength that restricted the Ming Dynasty's pace of expanding territory, but the Ming Dynasty's own manpower was limited.

In this regard, the practices in the Ming Dynasty were completely different from those in the era of Genghis Khan.

During the Genghis Khan era, it was a crazy expansion. Although the territory occupied was extremely wide, it would soon collapse without a good management of the occupied areas and split into many Khanates.

The Ming Dynasty was a steady and steady approach. The next place was to migrate the people of the Ming Dynasty and become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, such as Annan, Dongwu and other places.

In the distance, they were divided into vassal states and ruled the local states with the same clan and clan, such as the Indian, the Americas, etc.

Is it better in the era of Genghis Khan or the current method of the Ming Dynasty? In the end, we have to wait for the test of history. However, one thing is certain, that is, even if Genghis Khan wants to learn the way of expanding territory, he cannot do it. Because his population is many times smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty, and he cannot learn it at all.

Of course, although the Ming Dynasty had a population of nearly 200 million, it seemed that the population was insufficient when it expanded its territory. Otherwise, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it would definitely be one step closer, such as the Ming Fort.

In addition, there is another place that is even more short of population, that is Australia in later generations.

Although this place, in its original history, was more of a place where Western colonists exiled criminals. However, it has to be said that this place is actually a good place. The whole world is in a world war, but the direction of Australia is rarely affected.

If this place hadn't been too far from Europe and Europe's population base in the past was too poor, it would have been better than North America.

The Ming Dynasty also had to take over this place, but just like the Americas, it was too far away and the transportation was too inconvenient. In addition to having a strong control over there, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty in later generations would be powerless to the other side. Therefore, it would be better to enfeoff the vassal kings in Australia.

If you kick a few more times in the Americas, all the other vassal kings will go to Australia, and the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty will basically be handled.

But now, one thousand words and ten thousand words are the most important thing, infrastructure! Without developed transportation, the territory is too wide, and it is really powerless. This is why the territory of China in all dynasties is only so large, rather than saying that the emperors in the past did not want to expand their territory.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen did not think much and devoted himself to domestic construction.

Although he had a wiretap system in hand and could still know the world without leaving the Forbidden City without being deceived by his subordinates, for Emperor Chongzhen, he obviously did not like to stay in the Forbidden City.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen's footprints were left across the Ming Dynasty.

Take the train to Guihua City, inspect the Hetao Plain, meet the Mongolian people, listen to the people's sentiments, and guide the officials here in Mongolia to do better.

This is something that no other emperor can compare with. With Emperor Chongzhen's insight and every instruction can hit the nail on the head.

On this Mongolian grassland, the first thing is to vigorously develop agriculture on the Hetao Plain. Potato planting has reached a higher level to fully ensure the food for the people under natural disasters. Secondly, Emperor Chongzhen also went to Baotou to inspect the iron ore, iron smelting and other situations here.

In addition, he also inspected the Yellow River and found problems, solved them, and ensured that the Yellow River did not flood and did not change its course.

Later, after the weather turned cold, he took the train to the south to inspect the Yangtze River Basin. The river defense was also the most important patrol. The infrastructure situation in various places was that whenever he went to a place, he had to listen to the local officials' reports. If there were difficulties, he would do a good job in infrastructure construction.

As the transportation framework of the Ming Dynasty, the railways have been almost completed from Guihua City to Guangzhou City in the north, Tianshan Luntai in the west, and Kunming in the southwest.

Originally, according to Emperor Chongzhen's plan, the southwest railway was to finally reach Dongwu's port in the Indian Ocean. However, the southwest terrain was too difficult for the construction of the railway. If it could not be repaired, the cost was too high. I could only look forward to the results of the yellow explosives research and development, and then I was fighting against nature.

Emperor Chongzhen took a train to inspect and asked that on the basis of this train transportation, the construction of railways should be continued, and the whole country should be spread out like a net. No matter what is left for future generations, it is better to keep these things the most realistic.
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