897 Manpower is sometimes poor
In addition, the occupation of Persia and the Arabian Peninsula is not enough for the number of troops currently stationed there.
Although it is said that at present, whether it is Li Dingguo or Wu Sangui, they are all reorganizing the army of the original Mughal Empire, but if they want it to eventually become a direct territory of the Ming Dynasty, they still have to have a strong sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and they still need to send troops from the mainland. Even their descendants are certainly stronger than the armies that have been reorganized by the natives.
Based on this idea, Emperor Chongzhen began to dispatch troops again. Both the army and the navy have transferred some troops to the past.
Sometimes, Emperor Chongzhen was also speechless. The matter of men and women, I didn't expect it to be very attractive, and with a will, all armies enthusiastically signed up to go to overseas territories. Especially in the northern grasslands, as well as the northwest, southwest and other places, compared to the entire Ming Dynasty, not particularly developed places, that is the most enthusiastic. Okay, let you go and spread the branches for Daming!
The Bukhara Khanate, in the end, did not escape.
On Hong Chengchou's side, after losing the pressure of the Tsarist Russian counteroffensive, he began to turn his attention to the south. Whether it was to appease the hearts of the native Erhut tribes or for the fertile land of the Volga River Valley, Hong Chengchou had no intention of letting go of the Bukhara Khanate 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 subordinates, who had been notified by Hong Chengchou, stabbed the Bukhara Khanate in the back again, and under the attack from the north and south, the Bukhara Khanate was destroyed.
In this battle, not to mention, there is revenge and revenge, and the soldiers of the Turghut tribe, who have been bullied by the Braha Khanate, have made great efforts. After attacking the Bukhara Khanate, they also killed the most. In the end, there were women and children left in the land.
Basically, when Zheng Zhilong arrived in North America and eliminated the main Spanish force with Sun Chuanting, the Bukhara Khanate was destroyed.
For these, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care too much. He has the power to give Hong Chengchou, otherwise, he would ask for instructions back and forth, and everything would be delayed from such a distance.
There is one thing that Emperor Chongzhen did not expect, that is, on the side of Tsarist Russia.
According to the information that Hong Chengchou's side finally discovered, Tsar Alexei was really a capable man, and in the face of Sweden and Poland's sneak attack on the empty rear, after signing the Treaty of Mingweibao, he did not go back to fight with the armies of these two countries, but led his troops into Poland.
In other words, he doesn't care about his own land, you kill yours, and I kill mine, which is completely a posture of a fish dying and a broken net.
Either because of the mourning soldiers, or because Poland had too few troops left in the eastern part of the country, I didn't expect Alexei to use this trick. After the Tsarist Russian army entered Poland, it was like a bamboo, so that the Polish side could not bear it, and immediately returned to the army to rescue the country. As a result, he was ambushed by the Russian army halfway, and the main force was disabled.
But in any case, the Tsarist army was first defeated at Mingweiburg, and then rushed back to attack Poland day and night, and finally fought a decisive battle with the main Polish force, which did not rest for a moment. Therefore, after this battle, the Russian army finally ran out of strength.
Eventually, Russia and Poland ceased war and signed a treaty again.
On the Polish side, there was no benefit at all, and the country was robbed again and again under the mobilization of labor, which was a very big blow to Poland.
The army was dispatched, and the money and food were innumerable. The people were already very dissatisfied, and after suffering from the military disaster, many people did not want to be oppressed by the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, and learned from Khmelnitsky when he began to rebel.
Originally, the era of the Great Flood, which began with the Khmelnitsky rebellion, finally took place in the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth.
When the Swedish army heard about the fighting on the Polish side, they did not go to the rescue of Poland, but they were also worried that Alexei, a madman, would fight desperately. Therefore, after capturing Moscow, it burned for three days and three nights, and finally burned Moscow to the ground, and then led the troops to retreat.
However, the towns near Sweden were occupied. Since then, the Baltic Sea has become the inland sea of Sweden, and there is nothing to do with Tsarist Russia.
It can be said that in this melee, it is not on the side of the Ming army, and it is the Swedish side that gets the biggest benefits. Their new king, Karl X, also took advantage of the war to consolidate the power he had ceded from Queen Christina.
There is one thing that Hong Chengchou did not hear, that is, after Sweden heard about the domestic turmoil in Poland, it began to raise Sweden's attention again. It's like a hungry wolf, hiding to the side, waiting for the best time to pounce and bite hard.
Of course, Tsarist Russia was no better.
The polar bear was also scarred, and had no strength to do anything but go back to his den to lick his wounds. At this time, Alexei not only did not dare to tear up the Samararaburg Agreement, but was worried that the Ming army would not abide by the agreement and tore up the Samararaburg Agreement.
This is probably the case in Eastern Europe as a whole.
After Hong Chengchou learned about it, he didn't really tear up the Mingweibao agreement and then lead his troops westward. It's not that he doesn't want to expand his territory anymore, but his forces are really limited, and if he occupies more territory and his troops are scattered, he is afraid of accidents.
After all, in this strange Europe, he has too many unknowns. He was not as confident as the emperor that he could win an absolute battle, so he thought about running Mingweibao well, and then slowly encroaching on the Eastern European Plain adjacent to Mingweibao, which was his plan.
To sum up, at this time, it was not the strength of the enemy that limited the pace of the Ming Dynasty's expansion of territory, but the limited manpower of the Ming Dynasty.
In this regard, the practice of the Ming Dynasty is completely different from that of Genghis Khan.
In the era of Genghis Khan, it was a frenzied expansion, although the territory occupied was extremely extensive, but the occupied places were not well managed, and they quickly collapsed and divided into many khanates.
Daming's side is steady. Next place, near, migrated the Ming people to become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, such as Annam, Dongwu and other places.
Far away, they will divide the feudal kingdoms and rule the local areas with the situation of the same clan and clan, such as Tianzhu, as well as the Americas and so on.
Whether it is the way of Genghis Khan's era or the way of the Ming Dynasty is better now, in the end, it will have to wait for the test of history. However, one thing is certain, that is, even if Genghis Khan wants to learn from the Ming Dynasty, he will not be able to do it. Because his population is less than that of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many times, and he can't learn at all.
Of course, although the Ming Dynasty has a population of nearly 200 million, it seems that the population is not enough under such a territorial expansion, otherwise, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty now, it will definitely be one step closer, such as the Mingwei Castle side.
In addition, there is another place where there is an even greater shortage of population, and that is Australia in the future.
This place, although in its original history, was more of a place where Western colonists exiled criminals. But, I have to say, this place is actually a good place. The whole world is in a world war, and Australia's direction is rarely affected.
If it weren't for the fact that this place was too far away from Europe, and Europe's population base in the past was too poor, it would definitely be easier to bury its head in development than in North America.
This place, the Ming Dynasty also wants to occupy it, but just like the Americas, it is too far away, and the traffic is too inconvenient. Therefore, on the Australian side, it is better to divide the vassal king.
If you kick a few more in the Americas, the other vassal kings will all kick to Australia, and the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty will basically be done.
But at the moment, I say a thousand, I say 10,000, and the most important thing is infrastructure! There is no developed transportation, the territory is too wide, and it is really powerless. This is also why the territory of China in the past dynasties is only so large, not that the previous emperors did not want to open up the territory.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen did not think much about it, and devoted himself to domestic construction.
Although he has an eavesdropping system in his hands and does not leave the Forbidden City, he can still know the world without being deceived by his courtiers. However, for Emperor Chongzhen, he obviously didn't like to stay in the Forbidden City.
As a result, all parts of the Ming Dynasty left the footprints of Emperor Chongzhen.
Take the train directly to Guihua City, inspect the Hetao Plain, meet with the Mongolian people, listen to the people's feelings, and instruct the Mongolian officials on how to do things better.
This is unmatched by any other emperor. With Emperor Chongzhen's insight, every instruction can hit the nail on the head.
In this Mongolian steppe, the first thing is to vigorously develop agriculture on the Hetao Plain, and the cultivation of potatoes has been raised to a higher level, so as to fully ensure the food rations of the people under natural disasters. Second, Emperor Chongzhen also went to Baotou to inspect the iron ore and iron smelting here.
In addition, he also inspected the Yellow River to find problems, solve problems, and ensure that the Yellow River does not overflow and is not diverted.
Subsequently, after the weather turned cold, he took a train to the south to inspect the Yangtze River basin, which is also the most important patrol for river defense. In the case of infrastructure construction in various localities, he had to listen to the reports of the local officials whenever he went, and if there were difficulties, he would vigorously do a good job in infrastructure construction if there were no difficulties.
As the railway of the Ming Dynasty's transportation framework, it is almost built to Guihua City in the north, Guangzhou City in the south, Tianshan Luntai in the west, and Kunming in the southwest.
Originally, according to Emperor Chongzhen's plan, the southwest railway was to eventually reach Dongwu's port in the Indian Ocean. However, the terrain of the southwest is too difficult for the construction of the railway, and the cost is too high to repair. I can only look forward to the results of the research and development of yellow explosives, and fight against nature.
Emperor Chongzhen inspected by train, and also demanded that on the basis of this train traffic, the construction of railways and highways should be continued, and it should be spread throughout the country like a net. No matter what you leave for future generations, it is better to leave these things as the most realistic.