After the banquet, the Ming ministers who participated in the banquet did not leave, but stayed, and Zhu Youxiao's words at the banquet shocked them very much.

"Your Majesty, if you want to seize the area east of the Volga, the Great Army needs to cross the Ural Mountains, and this battle will undoubtedly become the most difficult battle for the Empire." Hong Chengchou said softly.

"I won't be so reckless, what does it mean to cross the Urals, I know in my heart that I want a complete Sipol east of the Urals." Zhu Youxiao explained.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is better to spend such a huge amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to conquer Xipol, and it is better to set his sights on other places, but to achieve twice the result with half the effort. When he heard that His Majesty's defeated generals and Jurchens, after being driven out of the empire, had conquered cities and lands elsewhere and established their own states, the minister felt that every penny invested in Sipol was far less effective than that invested elsewhere. Sun Chuanting said.

There have always been voices within the empire against sending troops to Siberia, and if the conquest of Indochina and Luzon and other places can bring huge benefits to the empire, then sending troops to Siberia is a completely money-losing business.

"The Russians called Sipol Siberia, a name derived from the Mongolian language, in history, during the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Emperor set up a county here, which nominally had the right to rule, and by the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols directly ruled the whole of Sipol. The empire overthrew the tyrannical Yuan, and in theory, the empire should have the right to inherit the territory of the Yuan dynasty. Zhu Youxiao explained.

"But Sipol belongs to the land of the Outer Transformation, and for the time being, the land is extremely barren, and everything needs are supplied by the Empire, which is an extremely heavy burden for the Empire."

"Geographically, the Empire was closer to most of West Pol than the Russians were to West Pol, and more than a little bit more. If the Russians can rule here, then the empire should also be able to rule here. Judging from the garrison of Tsarist Russia in Siberia, I found that the Russian garrison in Siberia was very small, and before the war between Tsarist Russia and the Empire, the garrison in the entire West Pol was only one or two hundred thousand, which made their consumption in West Pol extremely low, and I decided to first reduce the army in the province of East and West Pol, and reduce the number of garrisons in East and West Pol to less than 10,000. ”

"As for the Imperial people in Xipol, I believe that they will be able to survive, the ability of the Imperial people to adapt to the environment is no worse than that of the Russians, even stronger than the Russians, the ability of the Imperial people to grow crops and earn a living is unmatched by any other country, and I will be exempt from agricultural taxes for the entire West Ball forever."

"But most of the people of the empire are reluctant to move north?"

"I wonder if you know about the Russian conquest of Sipol? In the Russian conquest of Sipol, the Russian civil forces played a strong role. If Russian expansion in the West was an act of government, then Russian expansion in West Pol was mostly a private act, which was not taken over until the later Russian conquest. ”

"In order to obtain the fur of Sipol, Russian merchants spontaneously expanded to Sipol, and Russia was able to gradually occupy most of Sipol, and the ordinary people of Russia are still like this, which shows what a terrible country Tsarist Russia is, and the expansion and aggression have penetrated into their bone marrow, I will not allow another powerful empire to appear in the north of the empire, and I must nip the whole country in the bud in my lifetime. Once the country develops, the empire will need to spend ten or even a hundred times more manpower, financial and material resources than it does today. ”

"The people of the empire are reluctant to move north? This should be something that the imperial court has to find a way to solve, but as long as Sipol is still in the hands of the empire, the immigration to Sipol will not stop, just like today's Leng Zhou, even if it is fifty years, a hundred years, this is something that must be done. ”

Although many people in the court did not understand Zhu Youxiao's insistence in Siberia, Zhu Youxiao unswervingly moved forward on this road. Geopolitically, the entry into Siberia was not only for the sake of territory, but also to prevent the emergence of a vast empire. According to incomplete statistics, by 1945, the empire had occupied and forcibly stripped off the territory of our country, totaling more than 5.8 million square kilometers, accounting for more than half of the country's area!

British Foreign Minister Hammerston in the last century said: "There are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies between nations, only eternal interests!" This has become a basic norm of international relations.

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After the Ming Dynasty reached a peace agreement with Tsarist Russia, the two sides withdrew to the agreed border line according to the agreement. But both sides knew that this peace was short-lived, and both sides began to build new lines of defense along the border.

Mangazzeya was renamed Zuti City. With the strong support of Zhu Youxiao, this city, which was gradually declining, became prosperous again. After the Ming Dynasty occupied this city, Zhu Youxiao reopened the port and became the most open city. Although the largest commodity in Zuti City is still fur, silk, ceramics, tea and other items of the Ming Dynasty have appeared here.

Several Western powers have long wanted to open new routes from the north to the East, and Zhu Youxiao's decision undoubtedly caters to several Western powers. The city quickly became the economic and trade center of Northwest Asia again, and goods from it were sold to Scandinavia and the Hanseatic League. Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Scotland, and England were the main trading partners.

The development of Zuti City led to the prosperity of the entire region, the arrival of merchants, attracting a large number of workers and peasants, and a new Silk Road was being formed.

The short-lived peace between the Ming Dynasty and Russia also bought time for Zhu Youxiao, and the great expansion of Manchukuo in the Americas made Manchukuo once again enter Zhu Youxiao's sight, and Zhu Youxiao decided to send troops into Alaska to deter Manchukuo.

Considering the supply and other issues, Zhu Youxiao decided to send only 1,000 people to an expedition to Alaska in the early stage, and Zhu Youxiao's purpose was to establish the first stronghold in Alaska and prepare for the later crusade against Manchukuo.

At the end of August, the Ming Dynasty's Beihai Navy arrived at Sansheng Bay with these 1,000 men, although these 1,000 people could not threaten Manchukuo, but they were a nail planted by Zhu Youxiao in the Americas. The arrival of the Ming army caused the entire Manchukuo to fall into a panic, but the Manchurian army had no way to take the Ming army, and without a navy, the Manchurian army could not threaten the Ming army with naval support.