Chapter Seventy-One: The Turks Carelessly Defeated The Russians Show Weakness to Tempt the Enemy

Sure enough, soon after the emperor asked him to turn on the radio, the radio station cut off all broadcasts, and each station broadcast important news at the same time. The announcer, with a voice that could not contain joy, trembled a little to announce the news of the great victory in the west.

At this moment, the emperor is in a very good mood, as if the tea in the cup is also extraordinarily fragrant.

Empress Zhou has always not asked about national affairs, and when she saw that the emperor was happy, she was also happy. Emperor Chongzhen, who never let the harem intervene in politics, introduced to Queen Zhou with great interest: "You also sit down and listen, General Ningde in the west defeated Yue, that is, others." Our biggest opponent in the westward march is nothing but that! Timur, the Khan of the Kipchak Khanate, claimed to be descendants of Genghis Khan, but in fact they were Turkicized Mongols. At that time, the cunning Timur also wrote to Taizu to pay tribute, and Taizu also misestimated the strength of the Timurid Empire, and we did not know how powerful they were until we sent an envoy to visit the country. At that time, Timur was already preparing for an eastward crusade against us, but later due to his grandson's defeat at the Indus River, he was forced to attack India first, and then clashed with Egypt and the Ottomans. After conquering India, the Timurid Empire was already the largest empire in the world, and in the future, he wanted to fight our Ming Dynasty in the east, but Timur died when he arrived at the Green Ridge. I see, that's providence too. Now Zhang Dongjia and they have also avenged the revenge of the year! ”

"Oops! I don't understand this militaristic matter! Empress Zhou said, "However, is the general Ningde that the emperor said the original Tongguan garrison?" ”

"That's this man!"

"When he lost Tongguan, the emperor scolded this person, but I remembered this name!" Empress Zhou said.

"Haha!" The emperor laughed and said, "Oops! At the beginning, Ningde, the old guy, lost Tongguan, and I felt that the sky was about to fall, so I wanted to kill him immediately. Thanks to Zhang Dongjia, he saved this person. Zhang Dongjia asked Ningde to pretend to be sick at that time, but he didn't enter Beijing, in fact, I also knew that this was their intention, and I didn't take it seriously! ”

"Yes! When he killed this person in the first place, he was really a great general! Empress Zhou said with a sigh.

"Zhang Dongjia will use people! Zhou Yuji and Jiang Ji are our original generals, and now they are all terrible! Emperor Chongzhen also had to say with admiration.

"Not really!" Empress Zhou was also very happy and said, "The agreement to demarcate the border with the Russians that Jiang Ji sent back, the emperor was happy for several days after stamping the big seal and signing it!" ”

"Huh!" Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "You don't know!" At that time, my hands trembled a little when I stamped the seal. My hand is still unsteady when I sign it! After signing, I saw that the signature was extremely ugly. But it can't be changed! I thought about it again, no matter how ugly the word is, it's worth a vast expanse of land! ”

"Huh! Didn't the emperor say that Zhang Dongjia's words are uglier, but people's words are also worth silver! ”

"Haha!" Emperor Chongzhen laughed out loud and said, "In this regard, I am definitely much stronger than Zhang Dongjia." When Zhang Dongjia wrote a letter to me in Zhangjiakou, I saw what kind of words it was? Not even a naughty boy. If it weren't for the content of the letter, I would have torn it up for him a long time ago! ”

"Haha!"

Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou laughed together.

At this time, the little princess, Princess Chaoyang, came in and asked, "Father, mother!" Why are you so happy? ”

Emperor Chongzhen deliberately said: "This matter must be kept secret!" ”

"The Queen Mother?" Princess Chaoyang is coquettish to Queen Zhou!

"Hey! "The queen mother told you," said Empress Zhou, "that your father just said that Zhang Dongjia's handwriting is really not very good!" Hehe! ”

"Oops! What's ridiculous about this, we kiln gang people all know about it! Princess Chaoyang said disapprerovingly.

"What?" Emperor Chongzhen asked, "You have also become a kiln man?" ”

"Hmmm! I'm a kiln guy now! None of my classmates could tell that I was from the capital! Princess Chaoyang said seriously, "The kiln gang people are a very glorious title!" It means that you are educated, thoughtful, polite, hygienic, and rich! Outsiders can see it at once when they arrive at the kiln! ”

Before Emperor Chongzhen could react, Empress Zhou smiled and said, "Hehe! You've only been here for a year, and I don't even know you! ”

"You are a student of Yaogang, you feel terrible, if you are like your sister, you can't go to heaven if you become an official in Yaogang?" Emperor Chongzhen said deliberately angrily.

"Of course, it's glorious to be a kiln man," the little princess said proudly, "and the things we produce in the kiln have been sold all over the world." Our output value is more than dozens of times that of other places in the Ming Dynasty. Our goods are sold every day by cars, trains, ships, and ships in exchange for a lot of real money, and then we build schools, hospitals, and many high-rise buildings. Father, you say, aren't we Yaogang people glorious? ”

"Ouch! It's really convincing your little mouth, I think you will be able to toss more than your sister in the future! Emperor Chongzhen was convinced from the bottom of his heart and was happy for his little daughter.

"Oops! I said what have you learned this year, and nodded straight at what your father said? Queen Zhou's eyes were full of joy.

"Oops! I'm not even close! There's so much to learn this year! There's a lot more, I'm not as good as my classmates! "But I am confident that it will not be long before I catch up with them!" ”

"Do your classmates know as much as you do?" Emperor Chongzhen asked.

"Of course, the teachers in our school are not ordinary people! Our knowledge structures are carefully studied, which ones must be learned seriously in the classroom and those that are read outside the classroom. We also learn scientifically! ”

"Oops! In the future, you will all be adults, and this world will not be able to let go of you! Empress Zhou said.

Emperor Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "When they all grow up, what will the world be like?" The people cultivated by the kiln gang people are all incredible people, I really don't know, what is the world like? ”

"When our Yaogang students grow up, they want to be the masters of the world!" Princess Chaoyang said openly.

Empress Zhou hurriedly stopped and said, "Don't talk nonsense!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "It's okay! Let the child talk! The people cultivated in the kiln can have the world in mind, if these people work together, our Ming Dynasty will always be invincible in the world! ”

Empress Zhou sighed and said, "Yes! Let's just say Changping! Now it's like a different person who is exercising with Anping, and they are building many movie theaters in various places every year. Now there are color movies again, and movie theaters are even more popular! ”

"Changping is not young, and you don't have to worry about Changping's marriage!" Emperor Chongzhen said with some dissatisfaction.

"Huh! How can I take care of this?" Empress Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "It turns out that Changping is a hundred unwilling people who are engaged. Now Changping is different, the wings are hard, I can't control it! ”

"I don't know how thick the sky is, I want to find someone like Zhang Dongjia?" Emperor Chongzhen was very angry, "No matter how old you are, you can't get married!" ”

The little princess didn't want to listen, "Why do you have to get married?" My sister earned enough money for her own use. In the future, the kiln gang will also implement the pension system, and the pension will be paid when it is old, what are you afraid of? ”

"This kid, don't talk to your father like this!" Empress Zhou hurriedly stopped Princess Chaoyang.

Emperor Chongzhen listened to Chaoyang's words, and his heart was very complicated. That is, I am happy that my daughters can stand on their own, and I can't say that I am a little disappointed. The child can be self-reliant, and without this fart protector who is the emperor, he can live very well, and the loss is that the children can not rely on their father at all.

Ningde and the others were dealing with Yue Ji and others here, and Jiang Jian was busy sending people and a team of Russian soldiers and officials brought over by Count Petrov, and they had already begun to survey and survey the border together.

Ningde used the winter to transport stone carving machines and processed a lot of large stones. A lot of cement was also shipped. This is used to build boundary posts.

At the beginning, the Russians were very serious about surveying the boundary posts, and they were also careful about it, and they did not give up an inch of land. But after a long time, they and the Chinese are too far apart. I am afraid that this gap is even greater than the gap between the two weapons.

When they surveyed separately, the kiln gang people brought a lot of canned wine, as well as snacks made of instant noodles and other things. There are also things like small flashlights and even semiconductor radios. These temptations for Russians are simply deadly. Soon, the Russians became very good friends with the officers and soldiers sent by Jiang Ting. Of course, the Russian officers and soldiers, who are drunk every day, don't care how Jiang Jian's officers and soldiers determine the location of the boundary pillars, as long as they give a reason. In the minds of Russians, these desolate places, more or less, are not interesting. As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty are satisfied and happy, they will at least have wine to drink when they go back, although in the wild, there are delicious canned beef to eat, delicious instant noodles to eat. If you're happy, you might even get a magic flashlight and a small box where you can hear the sound of songs.

Count Petrov got very good weapons, and when he walked in the Kremlin, his head was held high. The tsar also held him very seriously, and invited him to participate in the study of major events. Now Count Petrov represented the Tsar plenipotentiarily and was responsible for trading with them. This is a semi-official trade, and many things that Russia needs, they will make a list for ginger, and they will send it home, and the family will quote a price, and the tsar agrees, and it will be shipped to the Ural Mountains to trade with Count Petrov. In this way, the transaction is much more efficient, and a lot of fresh tea can be shipped to Moscow in time.

Under the influence of the tsar, many noble merchant groups crowded into the Ural Mountains. The simple wooden inns they built were often full. Soon, where Jiang Pai and their camp were, there was a name known to both China and Russia, called Daying. The Russian aristocracy knew that as long as they bought goods from the Ming Dynasty on the Ural Mountains, they could sell them for several times the price when they came back. Many poor people just got a few things from the Ming Dynasty on the side of the Ural Mountains, turned them up a few times, and now they all start doing business in horse-drawn carriages. At this moment, the Russian businessmen were red-eyed.

There are already several Chinese restaurants, Russian restaurants, and even half-dark brothels in Daying, and there are more and more merchants.

The shop built by Lu Chengxiang was also expanded several times, and the personnel were insufficient, so he had to ask Jiang Jian's soldiers to change into men's clothes and follow suit.

The biggest problem is transportation. As long as things are shipped here, they don't have to worry about selling. Therefore, Jiang Jian also sent a lot of soldiers and prisoners to build roads. Jiang Jian's idea was that if a road to automobiles could be built, then the kiln could be sold to the whole of the West through the Russians. In exchange for a large amount of gold, silver, food and other materials.

Now almost every day there are caravans of horses and camels coming in and out of the camp. The castle they built was also being built in a hurry. Jiang Jian knew that now the Russians were going all out to deal with the Ottoman Empire, and when they finished fighting, they would devote their energy to this side. Therefore, it is necessary to try to build several castles as support points in the Ural Mountains as soon as possible.

Another benefit of the development of commerce and trade that I did not expect before is that the logistics and transportation problems that I was very worried about are now much simpler. What do you need, make a list for Count Petrov, and it will be shipped over quickly, which is much cheaper than shipping it from Hami to this side. Count Petrov still earns a lot of money, and every time he sees Jiang Ting, he can't close his mouth.

They were busy in full swing, and the Russians were also fighting the Ottoman Empire.

Although the Russians had always regarded the Ottoman Empire as an old enemy, the Ottoman Empire had never looked at the Russians squarely. In the eyes of the Ottoman Empire, a bitter cold place like Russia is only worthy of barbarians like the Russians barely living there. For 200 years, the Russians have vowed to be enemies of the Ottoman Empire, but it has never been a place for the Great Ottoman Empire.

However, constant expansion is a tradition of the Ottoman Empire, and the black soil of the Ukrainian plain is a very fertile granary, and the Ottoman Empire has been thinking about it for a long time, and now it can finally free up its hands to eat Ukraine. The Ottoman Empire felt that taking Ukraine was as simple as digging something out of your pocket.

It was suggested that the Russians would make a move to annex Ukraine, but it was ridiculed by many people.

However, to the surprise of the Ottoman monarchs, the army sent to Ukraine was blocked by the Ukrainian Cossacks and Russians who believed in Orthodox Christianity, and they were defeated with heavy losses. This was a great shame for the Ottoman Empire.

In fact, this reaction of the Ottoman Empire is understandable. At this time, the Ottoman Empire was strong, they had the most advanced military system at that time, swept through Europe and Asia without encountering opponents, and defeated at the hands of the Cossack savages and Russians that they had never paid attention to, they really couldn't accept it.

The Ottoman Sultan summoned his ministers and said to everyone: "Everyone knows that our army has returned from defeat in Ukraine. This has disgraced our empire. For the sake of shame, we will use the best Praetorian Guards in our empire to fight. This battle must be completely defeated by those Ukrainian Cossacks and Russian infidels! ”

In fact, there is no need for the Sultan to say this, and the ministers know that this must be done in order to undo the impact of the last defeat. Otherwise, the news that the Ottoman army could be defeated would be disastrous. The conquered countries, as well as the surrounding ones, were not afraid of the Ottoman Empire.

The Sultan's Praetorian Guard was the absolute elite of the Ottoman Empire. This army was drawn mainly from boys selected by the conquered Christians of the Balkans, which was known as the blood endowment, and the nobles were not exempt from the blood endowment. These children were brought back to the Ottoman Empire to receive the ideas of the Ottoman Empire, and received military training, relying on strict organization, excellent tactical qualities, fanatical beliefs, the Guards became the elite unit of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The Guards were required to be celibate and abstinent, to have the army as their home and the Sultan as their father, and one of their characteristics was that they had only a mustache and two moustaches. After training in a military school until 24 or 5, they will officially become a member of the Praetorian Guard, and the training period will last for more than ten years, so their combat effectiveness is very strong. However, they taught everything in the schools, and Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers were often sent out to serve as local military governors. Some have also become scholars. If they retire, they will receive a pension.

This time, the Sultan used his own elite, and he was determined to defeat the Russians once and for all.

Just as the Ottoman Empire was preparing for war, it got good news that the Russians and the Ming army far east were fighting in the Ural Mountains.

Although the Ottoman monarchs and ministers did not know how the Ming Dynasty would fight with the Russians in the Ural Mountains region, they knew that it was still very beneficial for the Ottoman Empire for the Ming Dynasty to contain the Russians from that direction.

But what they didn't know was that the Russians had already negotiated peace with the Ming army, and that the Russians had purchased advanced muskets from the Ming Dynasty.

When the Russians sent letters to the Ottoman Empire asking for peace talks, the Ottoman Empire felt even more that the Russians were suffering from the enemy and were already timid.

Although the Ottoman Empire was not fully ready for war with Russia, when the vanguard advanced towards Ukraine, the Ukrainian Cossacks and Russian troops retreated far away and did not dare to contact them. This strengthened the confidence of the Ottoman Empire to destroy the Russians in one fell swoop.

However, the Ottoman Shudan is also a little worried, is this a conspiracy of the Russians to deliberately show weakness, and now the elite of the Ottoman Empire has not yet gone to the front line, but those local armies, it is absolutely undesirable to let the Russian army retreat like this. However, their own generals gave a different opinion, saying that the Russians and Cossack cavalry had taken advantage of our carelessness and did not prepare for a sneak attack, and we suffered a loss. But in a dignified formation, the Russians knew their own pounds. Didn't they want to make peace with us a long time ago? That's cowardice. There was no army that was the match for our Ottoman army.

The Ottoman Turkish sultans were persuaded by the generals and laid the groundwork for their even more disastrous defeats.

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