The second assistant of the cabinet, Kong Zhao, was not so polite, he analyzed from a military point of view, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty should take the incident of the Gaoliang River of Song Taizong as a warning, and you can't easily march again!" ”

The so-called Gaoliang River incident is an allusion to Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, who drove his own car to overturn.

Zhao Guangyi drove the Northern Han Dynasty in person, and led the Song army directly into the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Zhao Guangyi, who likes to mention the military merit medal, is heroic, looking up to the sky and roaring, under the fluttering immortals, a goal flashes in his mind - dry Khitan, recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and achieve the dream of "Emperor Wu of Song" and "Heavenly Khan".

As we all know, Comrade Zhao Guangyi, who has perennial profound wisdom on paper, overturned, the sorghum river was defeated, the donkey cart drifted, and he single-handedly turned the "iron-blooded strong Song" into a "weak Song".

Fang Kongzhao mentioned the matter of the Sorghum River of Taizong of the Song Dynasty, which was to remind Zhu Cihong not to swell, two major battles in succession, just like the Song army back then, and the soldiers had not been rewarded, in case morale was low......

Cabinet minister Yang Shicong's words were the mildest, he said that the Qing court had been seriously injured, and there was no strength to march into Liaodong again, and it would take at least twenty years for them to recover the national strength in front of the station, and His Majesty did not need to spend national strength for this group of small characters, and it was not too late to cultivate for two years before they did.

Li Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Education, also suggested that His Majesty should come back to conduct scientific examinations to select talents and govern the locality......

After reading these suggestions, Zhu Cihong gradually fell into contemplation, deciding how to deal with these anti-bone cubs in the east and west.

At this time, Yang Qili reported to Zhu Cihong that Long Xiang had found a group of strange creatures near the Mingtong River (Heilongjiang) at night.

According to the intelligence agency, those strange creatures are called Rakshasa ghosts, all of them are blonde and blue-eyed, with reddish beards, ghost-like shapes, and extremely vicious and aggressive temperaments.

It is said that the Rakshasa ghosts were very arrogant, and the places they passed were comparable to those of the Eight Banners Army going south, and they forcibly demanded that the surrounding tribesmen pay their goods and mink.

According to the reaction of the local tribesmen, these Rakshasa ghosts appeared in the Lena River valley (eastern Siberia, about 2,000 miles from Heilongjiang) ten years ago and established the city of Yakutsk as a base for their southward journey to Liaodong.

In the summer of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, a group of Rakshasa ghosts invaded south along the Lena River, crossed the Outer Xing'an Mountains and invaded Liaodong, and arrived at the jurisdiction of Doptiur, the head of Daur in the middle reaches of the Dajing Qili River, in November, they plundered everywhere and killed and preyed on the Daur people in their inhumanity, and were called "man-eating demons" by the people in Heilongjiang.

Just last month, the Rakshasa ghost took advantage of the Ming and Qing dynasties to fight in Liaodong and directly broke into Heilongjiang after the Jingqili River thawed.

"Maozi?"

Zhu Cihong knew that this Luo Na ghost was a Russian, but as far as he knew, Mao Zi crossed the Ural Mountains from the 34th year of Wanli and invaded the Siberian Barabin steppe.

In the following decades, Maozi encroached on Siberia again and again, built castles in various key places, and constantly sent missions to lobby the Mongol tribes in Mobei, trying to persuade the Mongols to submit to Russia, and at the same time collecting information about the Mongol tribes and the Ming Dynasty.

The southern part of Siberia is the Mobei steppe of the Khalkha Mongols, and the various tribes have a large population, and there is strong resistance to Maozi's various intentions, and the Khalkha Mongol Chechen Khan has also sent people to Moscow many times to negotiate.

The Mongols' aftermath seemed to have played a role, and Mao Zi's southward intentions were thwarted, so he targeted the Liaodong region to the east.

According to Zhu Cihong's understanding, these Mao Zi should be the adventurous Cossacks of Tsarist Russia, they have the quality of modern soldiers, with excellent armor, sharp firearms, horses and foot combat, dozens of powerful characters who can overthrow thousands of local aborigines.

In the historical Battle of Yaksa, Kangxi used seven times the force to gnaw the Yaksa Castle defended by the Cossacks, (450 Russian troops, 3,000 Qing troops in Chinese historical materials, and 15,000 Qing troops in Russian historical materials).

After two battles, a seemingly equal, but in fact confessional treaty was signed, and the vast land from Nebuchu to the eastern part of Lake Baikal was ceded, which also meant that the occupation of Siberia was voluntarily relinquished.

Zhu Cihong put aside the information about Maozi and wrote an edict to send cavalry stationed in Ningguta to the Ming army to continue northward and drive those hundreds of Maozi to Khalkha Mongolia in the west.

Mobei Mongolia has always had contact with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they did not submit to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong had to solve them sooner or later, it was better to let them eat the dog with Maozi first, and fight to the death.

In addition to the Rakshasa ghosts in the north, Zhu Cihong recently received another cabinet transcript, and the Hongyi ghosts on the sea are doing things again.

Zheng Hongkui, the chief soldier of the Ping Fan Fleet of the Ming Royal Navy, reported to the imperial court that there had been a skirmish between the Ping Fan Fleet and the Dutch at sea.

At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Britain jointly signed the "Five-Power Trade Treaty", the first article of the treaty was that all soldiers armed with weapons in the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal must be withdrawn from the territory of the Ming Dynasty for a period of one year.

Three years later, however, Spain and Portugal withdrew from the colony, but the Dutch still refused to leave.

During the Northern Expedition, the Intelligence Department discovered that the Dutch were transporting firearms to the Qing through the route of Ryukyu, Kyushu in Japan, and Pusan in Korea.

Yang Tinglin, the first assistant of the cabinet, immediately ordered Zheng Hongkui, the chief soldier of the Pingfan fleet, to issue a final notice to the Dutch people, demanding that all the Dutch people must withdraw from Dongfan!

However, this request was rejected on the spot by the Dutch people, who believed that the Ming army was in a predicament of the northern expedition, and the increasingly powerful Jinghai fleet was also heading north, and there was nothing to fear.

The notice was ignored, Zheng Hongkui couldn't get over the face, and then ordered troops to be dispatched, and a small naval battle broke out between the two sides in Penghu.

The Pingfan fleet is adapted from the remaining Zheng family sailors, and the newly built warships in these years are used by the Jinghai Fleet, and the Pingfan fleet is still a small boat, and it suffered a small loss at the beginning, asking for help from the imperial court, and the Dutch people also asked for help from the Batavian headquarters.

Due to the undecided war in the north, the cabinet did not dare to easily decide whether to officially start a war with the Netherlands, so it had to consult Zhu Cihong.

With these factors, Zhu Cihong gradually tended to end the war against the Qing, after all, the Manchus were driven out of Liaodong, and only the peninsula with a larger palm was left, so there was no need to gnaw at them so hard, it was better to slow down.

At this time, Niu Jinxing, an envoy sent by the Qing court, arrived in Shenyang and formally proposed peace to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cihong was now in a high position, and the envoys of the Tatar Qing Dynasty were not worthy of being summoned by him, so he ordered the appointment of Chen Zhenhui, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, as the ambassador for negotiations, with full responsibility for negotiating peace with the Qing court.

Zhu Cihong summoned Chen Zhenhui and said to him: "I have only one condition, no matter what conditions Tatar Qing opens, I will not let an inch of the country I have conquered!" ”

He said to Chen Zhenhui again: "Not only will you not let it, but you also have to be stronger, and make great efforts to put forward conditions, so that Taqing will be a minister, cut land, pay compensation, send women, and compensate me for the capital of the army!" ”

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