Chapter 804: Happiness is Contrasted
A fart plan...
The Polish cousins wanted to lead Tsarist Russia into the European war situation was an accident. Until now, the Governor's Office of the Five Army and the Jinyiwei have not figured out what the Polish cousins were thinking, let alone making a series of plans for Tsarist Russia.
Seeing that Zhang Zhiji hesitated and did not speak, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "What's wrong? Haven't you made plans for Tsarist Russia yet?"
Zhang Zhiji bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I forgive my crime. The original plan of the Governor's Office for the Five Army was to expand directly westward from north of the North Mountain of Nurkandus, and then use troops to Tsarist Russia. I never thought about using troops to Tsarist Russia in Europe."
Emperor Chongzhen nodded, knowing that what Zhang Zhiji said was the truth - when he forced the remaining Dorgon and other Jiannu to go north, he planned to force Jiannu to commit crimes and continue to move westward from there, and then let them fight against Tsarist Russia.
Emperor Chongzhen did not have any respect for the big brother at all, but instead felt that a dead hair bear was a good hair bear.
But I never expected that Jiannu was really unable to support the wall. Even if Daming secretly supported the arms and equipment, he still never confronted the Russians. Instead, he was tortured to death and was not allowed to turn around and find trouble for Daming.
God is pitiful. If this was the Tianqi period, the grandsons of the Donglin Party of the eunuch party could beat the human brain into a dog brain in order to compete for the right to speak, Jiannu's retaliation might have succeeded.
Unfortunately, he met such an unreasonable flat-headed brother as Emperor Chongzhen, and Jiannu ended up being destroyed.
Of course, there are fifty-six ethnic groups and fifty-six flowers. Although Emperor Chongzhen was not satisfied with his own scores in the exam, he did not regard Jiannu as an outsider at least.
Because of the fact that his dog was beaten by someone, Emperor Chongzhen sent out Liu Xingzuo and Xia Ezhe to kill him in a blink of an eye and crossed the North Mountain to find trouble for the Russians.
Influenced by Emperor Chongzhen, Liu Xingzuo and Xia Ezhe adhered to a strange idea - regardless of whether you hit my glass or not, since you have this idea, I have to smash your glass and vent the fire.
It was precisely with this arduous and simple idea that Liu Xingzuo and Xia Ezhe, with the cooperation of the North Sea Fleet, directly planted all the lands from Ardan to Diksi and eastward to the Bering Strait with the national flag of the Ming Dynasty, confirming that these places have been the inherent territory of the Ming Empire since ancient times.
The fucking situation is that before Liu Xingzuo and Xia Ezhe continued to lead troops westward, a lot of messy things happened in Europe. The Ming Dynasty's eyes turned to Europe and had to temporarily give up such a large area as Central and Siberia.
There was no way. Although Emperor Chongzhen could do anything, the Governor's Office of the Five Army wanted to immediately plant the Ming Dragon Banner all over the place, but Wu Laozuo, who was in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, did not agree to allocate a large amount of silver for military expenses.
Wu Ganlai is not stupid. Now the Ming Dynasty is building a lot of construction everywhere. One of these projects is counted as one. It is all of which large-scale projects that are in the present and profits are in the future. Where can I do without money?
Besides, even if the weather has improved over the years, it is finally no longer as cloudy as before. There is a terrifying dragon turning over at any time, but what if?
It is said that you have food in your hands and you are not panicked, but the premise of having food is that you have to have money to buy food. The Ministry of Revenue, who has long been poor, will not spend all the money on military expenses in any case, and must leave a part of it for spare.
Even if there is no large-scale project to build a garden for Emperor Chongzhen, even if the territory it occupied was too large, how many people from the Ming Dynasty could be placed.
If he said he would not approve the money, he would not approve the money. Wu Ganlai, who insisted on the three aspects of law, reason and emotion, did not care about Emperor Chongzhen's various explicit and implied suggestions. Anyway, it was just one word and he had no money.
If the Ministry of Revenue does not pay, the Governor's Office of the Five Army will naturally not focus on Tsarist Russia. Anyway, it is all meat on the chopping board, so it is no difference between getting a knife one day or one day.
After breathing a sigh of relief, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Think about how to drag all the Tsarist Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Mughals and other guys into the water and let them fight together, the more chaotic the better."
Zhang Zhiji instantly understood what Emperor Chongzhen meant, and immediately bowed to Emperor Chongzhen and went back to summon people to figure it out.
If this routine is really realized, the four parts of Mughals, Ottoman Türkiye, Tsarist Russia, and the entire Europe are basically known in the world, except for the Ming Dynasty.
After these countries and forces fought, the labor problem was solved, and the arms that had been accumulated in the past were sold. After the money was available, the remaining problems were no longer a problem.
The only problem is how to make the Mughals and Ottoman Türkiye fight each other.
It’s not that the Ming Dynasty did not support Ozelangbu. Judging from Ozelangbu’s actions over the years, the Ming Dynasty has penetrated many people to influence Ozelangbu from all aspects. If we say that these people did not have the help of Ozelangbu openly and secretly, they would not believe that Zhang Zhiji would be killed.
However, what is desperate is that Ozerab is a little overwhelmed...
Although Ozerab himself was not a piece of mud, the Mughal he took over was no longer the Mughal Empire under Shah Jahan, but a country that barely bonded together after being broken.
In this case, even though the Ming Dynasty had already supported him openly and secretly, after Shah Jahan's death and Ozerab's killing of his two brothers, the entire Mughal had begun to become disinterested. Although the various states did not have the independence of open fire sticks, they actually did not take Ozerab too seriously.
In fact, many people are already secretly looking for other ways out, such as hooking up with the nearby Ming garrison to express their admiration for the Celestial Kingdom...
Zhang Zhiji asked himself that he could not solve the current dilemma of Ozelangbu. Unless he replaced it with an emperor as talented as Emperor Chongzhen, he would probably be helpless.
Of course, whether Ozhelangbu is saved or not, is it a bad day or tomorrow? Obviously, it has nothing to do with the British Duke. What makes Zhang Zhiji upset is the question just now, how to make Mughal and Ottoman war?
Apart from this problem, there is nothing left. The Tsarist Russia sent troops to Europe was almost a foregone conclusion. Although Orkin had already died, before he died, Orkin had told Mikhailovich all his views on Europe.
Regarding Mihailovic, Zhang Zhiji can also be regarded as having a deep understanding of Mihailovic through the news channels of the Five Army Governor's Office and the Jinyiwei. He is definitely a heroic figure.
Although this guy is only in his teenage years now, Mikhailovich's ability to tolerate Zhang Zhiji had to look at him. In order to paralyze the emperor's teacher Morozov, Mikhailovich even gave up his favorite girl Yevrimiya Yeshevolajoskaya and married Maria Miroslavskaya, who was born in a noble family, as the queen.
If it were just like this, it would be fine. Later, Mikhailovic's performance was excellent.
Morozov, who became his brother-in-law with Mikhailovic, took charge of the government affairs as a national relative and placed his confidants in the court. No matter how you look at it, it is very similar to the last emperors of the Liu family.
However, Mikhailovic is obviously more tolerant than those from the Liu family. Even in this case, Mikhailovic still chose to endure and continue to let Morozov go, until the great noble Duma passed the new salt tax law.
The purpose of this decree was to increase treasury revenue, and stipulated that high taxes were charged to salt merchants, with a tax rate of 1.3 times higher than the market price of salt.
Moscow salt merchants were already quite dissatisfied with Morozov, and later there were rumors that the main reason for the tax increase was that the Tsar's future father-in-law, Grand Duke Miloslavsky, embezzled a large amount of public funds in the state.
Under such circumstances, Mikhailovic still stood firmly on Morozov's side and even ordered the arrest of residents who expressed their dissatisfaction.
The consequences were that a large number of people took to the streets, attacked the homes of the great nobles and robbed property. Some officials were lynched or executed by the people. The rioters ransacked Morozov's residence and killed Duma clerk Chist and the imperial courtier Pleseev.
It was not until this time that Mikhailovich came forward to clean up the mess - Morozov, who could no longer hold on to the situation, was exiled to a monastery.
Because he valued Morozov's talent, Mikhailovic took Morozov back from the monastery in a low-key manner. Morozov, who had lost his foundation, no longer had the ability to monopolize the power, and Mikhailovic was able to rule.
Just because of Mikhailovic's slutty operation, Zhang Zhiji did not dare to underestimate him. He also concluded that Mikhailovic was definitely unwilling to lie dormant in Moscow and would likely send troops to intervene in the chaos in Europe to gain benefits for Tsarist Russia.
Zhang Zhiji is even less worried about the remaining two major forces, Ottoman Türkiye and the entire Europe.
Ottoman Türkiye is not a kind man and a man. It is impossible to put a large piece of fat meat like Mughals without thinking about taking a bite, and it is even impossible to march towards Europe at the same time.
As for Europe, it was already in chaos, and it was nothing if it continued to be in chaos, because the main force of the European war was the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy Church.
It can be foreseeable that the vassal states in Europe are definitely unwilling to return to the era when the Holy Roman Empire ruled the entire Europe, and everyone wants to preserve their power.
The Holy Church not only faced the chaos in Europe with the Holy Roman Empire, but also had to deal with the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia and the True God Church in Ottoman Türkiye.
Pagans themselves are already very troublesome, and heresy should be sent to the stake, especially heresy who want to compete with the Holy See for orthodoxy, which is even more damn!
Let’s be in chaos. When everything outside the Ming Dynasty started to be in chaos, it became more and more happy for the people of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the capital, the entire Ming Dynasty curfew has been abolished, and many local officials have even written letters to demand the demolition of the city walls.
Shuntian Prefecture is the capital, and the prefectural prefect does not have the courage to write a letter. Nanjing is the capital, and the entire set of complete imperial teams are backed up in Nanjing City. Xu Hongji, the leader of Nanjing City, naturally did not have the courage to write a letter.
Many remaining states and prefectures have written books, and the demands expressed are almost the same - there are too many people pouring into the city and too many new people. The current city wall has seriously hindered the development of the local area. Can the city wall be demolished?
As for the consequences after demolishing the city wall?
They are all talented people in the court. There is an example of Tianjin City demolishing half of the city walls. In addition, they all learned through newspapers that the whole world was in chaos, and the Ming Dynasty was suppressing frictions from other countries. There was no need to consider too much about urban defenses. So what else should I consider?
In fact, after discussing countless times by Emperor Chongzhen and the cabinet, as well as the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Hall and the entire court, he had also approved several cities' requests to demolish the city walls.
Isn’t happiness a thing coming through this comparison?
The world is in chaos, but I am not in chaos in the Ming Dynasty. I don’t know if there is a tomorrow after living today. But the people of the Ming Dynasty have to consider whether they should buy an extra pound of meat to go back for extra meals at night.
What is happiness? This is happiness!
Happiness is desirable. Through the conscious or unconscious spread of the merchants in Europe, many Europeans know that the true paradise is in the Ming Dynasty.
There are not no disasters there, but whenever there is a disaster, there will be troops rushing in front and keeping all the civilians behind. Even if they use their lives to exchange for the lives of civilians, they will rush in front without hesitation because they call themselves the emperor's lords, because the emperor said they are the soldiers of the people.
There is not no oppression there, but whenever someone is oppressed, you can always find a place where you can complain, and even civilians can complain to the emperor because they believe that the emperor is a herdsman of the Heavenly Heaven.
There are also diseases, but even a pauper who doesn’t have a penny can get medicine to cure the disease first, and then repay it through their own labor, because they believe that human destiny is at stake.
As for Europe?
Whether it is natural disasters or man-made disasters, who has truly cared about the lives and death of civilians? The big man’s wife, lover, and illegitimate children have countless children. Who cares about civilians when they starve to death?
This contrast made Europeans increasingly yearn for the Ming Dynasty. When this yearning reaches a certain level, it turns into dissatisfaction with their own politics.
Then, as the book "The Story of Gangsters by the Swamp" became more and more widely circulated, many people chose to rise up.
Chapter completed!