A country that is complete and not a system of boiling oil always reacts quickly to aggression and eliminates mites.

Mites Qing is in line with the spirit of selling the cub not distressed, measuring the material resources of China to form the favor of the countries, or the mentality that those who dare to offend the Qing Dynasty will pay for it even if they are far away, and they are very calm, even if it is to declare war on the powers, it is just because the faces of the old ladies can't hang it.

Tsarist Russia is not like a mite, and Alexei I Mikhailovich is not the old lady who eats the old girl, after being slapped in the face so blatantly, even if he knows that he can't beat it, he still chooses to fight back.

The most important thing is that now the situation has forced Mihajlovic to fight back, even if Mihajlovich is reluctant to face Daming now.

In fact, it is not a good thing for the whole of Tsarist Russia to exchange a wave of anger with the Ming Dynasty now, and even the Patriarch Nikon, who wants to suppress the monarchy with divine power, knows it.

So in this matter, Nikon rarely sided with Mikhailovich, and even repeatedly advised Mihailovich to endure the calm for a while.

Mikhailovich also wants to endure, but what about the consequences after enduring it?

If a country has a will, then the common voice of everyone in the country, from the court to the common people, is the most direct manifestation of the will of a country.

When the low-level commoners and the officials in the court were extremely disappointed in the king, the country basically came to an end, just like after the mite Qing completely lost the hearts of the people, the speed of collapse was extremely fast, and the court at that time was still very rich!

I have to say that Mites Qing did all kinds of riot operations, planting big tobacco on their own land, and even later being able to sell and re-export, although the people were forced to die, but the court was so rich that it was completely opposite to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Mikhailovich will not dare to bear it, once he swallows his anger, whether there is money in the treasury or not is secondary, and the influence of the people alone is enough to affect his rule.

After coming to the Kremlin again, Nikon's attitude was still as resolute as ever: "Now is definitely not a good time to clash with the Ming Empire!"

In my personal opinion, there is nothing to give them the meaningless lands in the Far East, and since the damned Cossacks are looking for their own death, let them die.

Once there is a full-scale war with the Ming Empire, whether it will affect the European strategy of the empire is secondary, and the most important thing is that the entire empire will face a full-scale attack by the Ming Empire! ”

Mihailovich nodded and said, "As you said, as long as we counterattack, we will face a full-scale attack from that monster of the Ming Empire."

But what if we don't fight back? Will they stop encroaching on our land and stop plundering our civilians? And what will the civilians of the entire empire think? ”

Nikon shook his head and said, "It never matters what civilians think, you think too highly of the role of civilians." In fact, not the civilians of any country are the same as the civilians of the Ming Empire, and they will not be concerned with these things.

What you are worried about is that this concession will cause the civilians of the Empire to lose confidence and trust in the Empire, but you must understand that once a full-scale war starts, if we can win, what if we lose?

If we fail, we will lose not only the confidence and trust of the common people, not just a little land in the Far East, but the whole of Tsarist Russia.

From the previous wars of the monster of the Ming Empire, we can find that they are like never having enough to eat, devouring the land and population they want, and this time it is the same.

If we give them a chance, like those idiots in England, the Ming Empire will happily rush up and tear the whole of Tsarist Russia to pieces and swallow it.

If we avoid them for a while, even if the commoners are dissatisfied, it is only dissatisfied, and it will not actually affect anything, and the nobles will not do anything else.

Believe me, if we go to war with the Ming Empire, there will be many nobles who can't help but surrender or stand on their own, and then the blow to the empire will be too heavy to be repeated. ”

Mikhailovich sighed and said: "I know what you said, but the current form is like this, there is no way to turn back."

Theoretically, the center of gravity of the empire must have been Europe, even if it abandoned the Far East for this purpose.

But in reality, the center of gravity of the empire was Europe and the Far East, and neither part could be abandoned.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the empire is now willing to give up the Far East, can it really be said that it will let go? What happens in case the European strategy fails?

Don't forget, now that the Ming Empire has intervened in the whole of Europe, otherwise those damned Poles would not have invited us into Europe, and what if the European strategy fails, and the Empire abandons the Far East?

Therefore, the Far East must compete with the Ming Empire, even if it is a temporary abandonment of the European strategy, it must continue to compete with the Ming Empire until the Ming Empire abandons the Far East. ”

Nikon nodded first, and then shook his head: "For so many years, you should also see the style of the Ming Empire, when did they give up easily?" ”

A wry smile appeared on Mikhailovich's face: "Give up? They never gave up their thirst for land even when the war was going on two fronts, and now they are even less likely to give up.

Sometimes I can't figure out what they want so much land for. I heard that they occupied the mainland on the other side of the Bering Strait and left it alone, and now they want to occupy our land? ”

Nikon said, "Who knows about them? With their current strength, the land area is far more than their population needs, and who knows what they are thinking? ”

Mihailovich said: "If you don't understand, don't think about it, anyway, now that you are directly facing them, it is better to have a good fight with them." ”

Nikon, who was already about to be persuaded by Mikhailovich, nodded and said: "Well, what about Europe? What to do on the Polish side? Do you want to notify them? ”

Mikhailovich said: "Tsarist Russia and Poland have never been good brothers, they have not coveted Tsarist Russia for a day or two, and now it is only because of the chaos in Europe that they invite us to Europe.

Besides, we only promised them to send troops to Europe before, and now we have to confront the Ming Empire head-on, where can we take care of them?

Send someone to support them, and they can do whatever they want, as long as we don't give us back, we can secretly give them some support. ”

Nikon nodded and said, "The supplies that have been transported to the border, and the army?" ”

Mikhailovich said: "Except for those who remained on the defensive, all the rest of the army were transferred back and sent to the Far Eastern theater, and at the same time began to recruit soldiers.

As for the supplies, of course, like the soldiers, except for a part left for the defenders, the rest was transferred to the Far Eastern theater, and staying there would probably be cheaper for the damned Poles. ”

After finishing speaking, Mikhailovich stood up again, saluted Nikon and said, "Please, this time the conscription of soldiers still needs the support of the church!" ”

Nikon also got up and said, "Please rest assured, the Church will not drag Tsarist Russia back at this time!" ”

This statement comes from Nikon's sincerity.

The world is so big in total, and even if the speed of information transmission is slow, several years are enough time to travel around the world - the Orthodox Church led by Nikon certainly knows how the Ming treats the Holy See.

The current Orthodox Church is in Tsarist Russia under the rule of Mikhailovich, who believes in Orthodox Christianity, and it is not bad to say that it is prosperous, and if it falls into the hands of the Ming Empire, I am afraid that only Hua Zong or Ye Zong will know what it will look like.

Therefore, Nikon supported Mikhailovich from the bottom of his heart, and he did make up his mind, this time, no matter if anyone on the side of the Orthodox Church opposes it, he must suppress it and try to create a stable rear for Mihailovich.

However, things never go on the best terms one might think.

After Nikon left, Mikhailovich ordered people to prepare a conscription order, intending to recruit men of appropriate age who met the conditions to enter the army and fight against the Ming Empire.

To the disappointment of Mikhailovich and the entire Tsarist Russian military, however, there were very few responders.

There are no fools at the top, and ordinary people have never had fools, the difference between the two is nothing more than the difference in knowledge or information and resources mastered.

It's not that the civilians of Tsarist Russia haven't heard of the style of the Ming Empire, and they are naturally clear about the great reputation of the Ming Empire, and now they want to go to war with the Ming Empire?

Sorry, not interested.

Not only did a large number of civilians begin to flee, but even some nobles in Moscow began to panic, after all, no one is really afraid of death, and everyone is afraid that Tsarist Russia and the Ming Empire are really head-on.

What made Mikhailovich and Nikon want to vomit blood even more were the troops that were ready to be transferred back.

At the beginning, those armies didn't know that they were going to fight directly with the Ming Empire, and they didn't have to go to Poland to fight the Holy Roman Empire.

But when these troops knew that they were transferred back to directly fight the Ming Empire, everyone suddenly became interested.

In addition to maintaining the normal speed of the army's backward movement at the beginning, deserters began to appear continuously, and even formed deserters began to appear later.

The only army that did not have deserters, and even managed to maintain the normal pace of marching, was probably the main Cossack force led by Khmelnitsky, a full ten regular cavalry regiments.

The Cossack army was very combat-ready, this is a fact recognized throughout Europe and tsarist Russia, as Napoleon said - if I had Cossack cavalry in my troops, I would have swept the whole world with them.

In the same way, the Cossack army did not have any military discipline, plundering and killing the enemy at the same time plundering the civilian population of their own side, using everything they could use, eating everything they could, and even constantly rebelling.

Khmelnitsky naturally heard about the great military might of the Ming Empire, but he didn't pay much attention to it - when it comes to murderous names, the Cossack cavalry in Europe and the areas ruled by Tsarist Russia can stop children crying at night!

Therefore, Khmelnitsky did not believe in evil, and planned to take the main force of the Cossacks to the Far East to have a good look at the Ming Empire, which was touted to the sky by the Europeans, and to see how many catties and taels they had, which could give Alexei the Great a headache in Tsarist Russia.

However, Khmelnitsky soon discovered a problem that caused him a lot of pain.

No matter how he thought about it, Khmelnitsky did not expect that there would be problems with logistics and supply, after all, he was still on the territory of Tsarist Russia, and he did not think that logistics would not be able to keep up.

But that's what the hell is.

In the beginning, Tsarist Russia's focus was on increasing troops in the direction of Poland, and all the troops and supplies began to lean in the direction of Poland.

Now Mikhailovich suddenly had to transfer supplies and troops to the Far East, and other armies except the Cossacks were unwilling to go to the Far East to fight the Ming Dynasty, which created a situation in which supplies were slower than those of the Cossacks.

No matter how awesome the Cossacks are, they are still the structure of normal people, and the structure of normal people means that the Cossack cavalry also have to eat, and the key to the cavalry is the war horse, and the forage and food required by the war horse are in a sense more refined than that of ordinary people.

The Cossack cavalrymen of ten regular cavalry regiments once again showed their disorganized and undisciplined side.

When the local supplies were not timely or insufficient to supply the entire army for consumption, the Cossacks did not mind obtaining them locally in their own way.

The only improvement over the previous was that this time the Cossacks only grabbed things, and did not kill people together.

If it had not been reorganized into a regular cavalry regiment, the Cossacks would not have minded killing people and setting fires while robbing things, so as to gain more benefits.

Mikhailovich in the Kremlin is simply mad.

In any case, it was unthinkable that just when he was almost desperate, the Cossack cavalry regiment led by Khmelnitsky brought hope to himself.

And what is even more unexpected is that the Cossacks did not even spare their own country and civilians - they knew that their discipline was poor, but no one expected that they would be like such birds!

Nikon pushed the glasses that were on his nose and said, "Is there anything you want to say about what these Cossacks are doing?" ”

Mikhailovich froze, and after a while he spoke: "What else can I say? ”

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