In fact, if it weren't for the great significance of destroying the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Ci would not need to drive the expedition at all. Vertex updates are the fastest

Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been destroyed, the Persian Gulf and North Africa, which contain a huge amount of 'liquid gold', have also been captured by the Ming Dynasty.

In this war, in addition to the European part of the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also intended to coerce European countries and make European countries understand once again the price of provoking the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether he will invade the hinterland of Europe and destroy European countries after defeating the coalition forces of European countries, and go on the road to a unified world, Zhu Ciji has no such plan.

It's tempting to unify the world, just saying it is enough to make people's blood boil, and Da Ming definitely has the strength to do it, the difference is only whether Da Ming wants to do it or not. As an emperor, Zhu Ciji has never had such thoughts, and even once very strongly.

However, after a long period of careful consideration, Zhu Ciji had to give up this seemingly extremely grand plan, he would never take the Ming Dynasty to the road of unifying the world, which he was extremely determined.

The unification of the world may be grand and unprecedented. But in this way, it also means that the Ming Dynasty has no foreign enemies, no competitors, the development of the military seems meaningless, and the development of science and technology will inevitably slowly stagnate because there is no object of competition, and even more, the entire Ming court will be from the inside out, rapidly decaying and collapsing.

Although the Ming Dynasty assimilated all ethnic groups, unified language, and unified script, it really wanted to achieve assimilation, which could not be done in a hundred years.

Maybe when Zhu Ci was still in power, he could guarantee that Daming would never collapse, and even his next generation would be cultivated by him, he could guarantee it, but what about the next generation? There are no competitors, no foreign enemies, and in the face of unity and prosperity, ** and decay will inevitably follow.

At that time, let alone maintaining the unity of the world, the Ming Dynasty will not even be able to maintain the territory it occupies at this moment.

Especially in European countries, the development so far, European countries have begun to breed nationalist sentiments, if the Ming Dynasty destroys Europe now, unify the world, and even a hundred years may not be able to assimilate Europe, as long as the Ming Dynasty has a little turmoil, Europe may rebel, countries recover again.

In fact, the situation in the Middle East is not much different from that of Europe, because of religious beliefs, all ethnic groups in the Middle East have bred nationalist sentiments earlier, and they are more stubborn.

And what about the continent of south-central Africa? There may be no less than hundreds of millions of blacks there, and if the Ming Dynasty wants to unify the world, will it also be occupied? Assimilating blacks as well? At this point, Zhu Ci felt incredible when he thought about it, he didn't want to do it at all.

As for the destruction of humanity? To put it nicely, in the face of hundreds of millions, or even more blacks, how many troops will the Ming send to destroy, and how will the Ming explain to the soldiers of these armies, and even explain to the billion people of the entire Ming Dynasty, that when the time comes, because of the excessive killing, the atmosphere of the entire society of the Ming Dynasty will be polluted.

If it is still a situation of continuous war, this 'pollution' may be able to bear it, but if such a thing is done under the condition of great unification, the impact on the people's hearts and social atmosphere is too huge, and it will only accelerate the entire decay of the Ming Dynasty and cause more serious consequences.

If there is another system that can maintain unity for a long time after unification, it can only be the so-called 'democratic' system, where the supreme ruler is no longer hereditary, and the number of people in power from the highest level will be reduced as much as possible.

Zhu Ci may not be able to force the Ming imperial family to give up the supreme power before his death, retreat into the background, and only be the nominal monarch, the so-called constitutional monarchy.

However, you let the Ming Dynasty, who had just unified the world, engage in so-called 'democracy'? Not to mention the ethnic groups in the Middle East and Europe, at that time, maybe Southeast Asia, India and other places could not be completely assimilated, and 'democracy' will only become more chaotic and will not last long.

'Democracy' requires the spontaneous understanding and pursuit of ordinary people at a certain time, and only in this way can 'democracy' be useful.

Since reunification cannot last long, and may not even be able to maintain the existing territory, so that the territory of China may also be retracted to the Central Plains because of a turmoil, then what is the point of reunification?

Even if the Ming Dynasty is extremely strong, it still needs enemies, and it needs competitors, and it is precisely for this reason that Zhu Ciji gave up his plan to destroy Europe early on in order to unify the world.

Unifying the world and stagnation, Zhu Ciji chose to stagnate.

Of course, even if the Ming Dynasty does not intend to unify the world, at this stage, it is inevitable to crush the European teams through this war and convince the European countries. Dare to organize an anti-Ming alliance army to the Ming Dynasty, this is a very serious provocation, to make European countries pay the price, play the majesty of the Ming Dynasty!

By 20 October, all 430,000 Ming troops had moved east of the Strait of Constantine to confront the European anti-Ming coalition forces in Constantinople to the west of the strait.

In the end, 300,000 soldiers from European countries were transferred to Constantinople, and the anti-Ming alliance army reached one million, of which 550,000 had rifles and new cannons, and the seven countries of Britain, Spain, Netherlands, France, Portugal, Holy Rome, Austria and other seven countries almost all the remaining new armies in the country were transferred, and the remaining 450,000 were flintlock pistols, even if the entire European history, Never before had there ever been such a large number of Union troops.

In the final analysis, it was the Manchu Qing that perished too quickly under the attack of the Ming army, which frightened the European countries.

The strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at the time of the war, was known to the European countries dominated by Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal, the Holy Rome, Austria and other seven countries, two million Qing troops, of which 520,000 had rifles, 160,000 flintlock pistols, and more than one million cold weapons troops, but they were not the opponents of the Ming army.

European countries may be able to think that it is Manchurian barbarism and is not very good at using thermal weapons to fight, but countries dare not underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, whether it is the two super sea battles or the battle of the American continent, or the expedition of 30,000 Ming troops to France, they all clearly show how powerful the Ming army is, and countries have to overestimate the combat effectiveness of the Ming army as much as possible, so countries dare not have reservations.

This great war is a matter of life and death in Europe, one million allied troops against 430,000 Ming troops, the number of allied troops is more than twice that of the Ming army, and only such an absolutely superior number can bring the confidence that the coalition army will be able to win.

Regardless of whether the Ming army took the initiative to attack or the European anti-Ming coalition forces to attack, they would inevitably cross the Strait of Constantine, with an average width of two kilometers.

The side that seized sea supremacy will undoubtedly be the attacking side, and the Aegean Sea and the Strait of Constantine will be the key points of contention for sea supremacy.

On 22 October, after more than half a month of sailing, a Ming fleet consisting of 100 steel battleships sailed from the port of Panama on the American continent to the waters near Europe, 100 kilometers west of the Strait of Gibraltar, aiming directly at the Mediterranean.

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